'Student Aid Reduced by $2 Billion by TOBIAS NAEGELE Probably Dip to About $15,000
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The Revie ' Vol. 106 No. 33 University of Delaware, Newark, DE Friday, February 12, 1982 'student aid reduced by $2 billion By TOBIAS NAEGELE probably dip to about $15,000. not necessarily mark the end Supplementary Educational of the program. Although the Over the next two years Opportunity Grants (SEOO) federal budget funds the federal support of student The SEOG, which offers aid loans, Rogers said, the financial aid will be reduced on the basis of need and sup university is responsible for by about 35 percent, cutting plements the Pell Grant pro both the allocation and collec back from $6.1 billion in 1981- gram, received $370 million tion of NDSLs. The money the 82 to only about $4 billion in 1983-84. dollars in funding for this university collects from academic year, but according students paying off their According to statistics com to NSAC figures, will be ex loans is used to fund other piled by the National Student tinct by 1983. NDSLs. Aid Coalition (NSAC), con National Direct Student Loan Last year, for example, the tributions through Sup (NDSL) federal government con plementary Educational Op The federal government tributed $400,000 in new fun portunity Grants, and State will stop supplying this pro ding which, coupled with Student Incentive Grants will gram with new funds after $800,000 in repayment funds, disappear by the 1983-84 the current fiscal year, but combined for a $1.2 million academic year. In addition, according to Rogers that does (Continued to poge 11) the Reagan budget has pro posed that no new funds be obligated for National Direct Student Loans. Pell Grants, State colleges to ask for College Work Study and Guaranteed Student Loans have all been cut extensively. great~r budget allocations What follows is a detailed By RODNEY K. PAUL explan~tion of how each pro gram has been cut. While Officials at all three of the state's higher education institu-· Associate Director of Finan tions plan to ask the state legislature for appropriations which cial Aid Jerry Rogers said it exceed the governor's budget recommendations. - is too early to predict the ef The university is seeking additional funds to finance seven fect of the cuts on the univer percent pay increases for all university employees. In the sity, he emphasized that they governor's budget proposal, the university received a five per are still only proposals and cent increase for all operating expenses, including employee have not yet been approved salaries. by Congress. Luna Mishoe, president of Delaware State College, said PellGrants he would ask the state for an additiona) five percent in ap Formerly called the Basic propriations for operational expenses. Like Delaware Educational Opportunity Technical and Community College (DTCC), Delaware State Review Photo by Leig h Clifton received a seven percent increase in salaries for employees, Grant, this program accounts THE SEMESTER RUSH BEGINS. Before classes start, students for more than one-third of all and a five percent increase in operations outlays. According to Mishoe, the governor's budget recommenda search through stacks of textbooks. The bookstore will be federal monies targetted for closed beginning March 15 to initiate the transition to the new student aid. More than $2.3 tions "were just enough to pay expected increases in energy billion in Pell Grants were bills." He said under the present proposal, Delaware State building, and the change. should alleviate the crowded condi· distributed nationally this (Continued to poge 15) tions. year. Over the next two years the program will be cut back by more than 40 percent, to Phone fraud: the view of the phone company $1.4 billion. · Rogers said the average By MARY LEE SCHNEIDER ed a sophomore at the univer Ed Spencer, associate Fraudulent " third-party sity and a former fraudulent director of housing said the billing" calls are easier to family of four with one child The telephone company in college is currently eligible caller, who used a paper clip phone company can tell if a detect than calls made with notices an obvious increase in to make phone calls without bill has been paid by a large an outside devise, Williams for the program if its net in fraudulent phone calls at the come is less than $25,000; but paying. This student had used printout sheet. One half of the said. To track down the beginning of every fall the outside device 15 to 20 printout shows· where the call caller, the phone company once the proposed cuts take semester, according to Bob effect, that salary figure will times before she and the was made from and its cost notifies the ·person who was Williams, public relations other girls on her hall were and the other half indicates called, asks if the person !.-------------~, . manager for the Diamond caught tampering with the that the money has been col knows anyone who lives in the State Telephone Company. phone. , lected. Therefore, if an out city in which the call was on "It's really not fair to Many girls on the same side device is used, the made, and if that individual generalize or point the finger floor were involved in the righthand column will in called them on a certain date _at college students, because it telephone fraud, and a dicate that no coins were at a certain time. The com . the would be like classifying any representative from Dia deposited. pany will then ask the name other group of people, but col mond State came to in People have always used of the caller, Williams said. inside lege students are often involv vestigate the problem. Any paper clips to get around the After the calls have been ed in telephone fraud," he girl who had been involved coin mechanism, Spencer thoroughly investigated, the said. was encouraged to give her said. The telephone company suspect is notified. There are many different name to the R.A. on the floor. now installs a more vandal "The telephone company Cadavers debut types,of telephone fraud, but Then the university billed resistant phone. actually came to my dorm most occur on public pay each p~rson. "There were The second type of phone room last year," said another at Delaware phones because the caller is about 20 of us that did it," ooe fraud is termed " third-party fraudulent caller, a junior at anonymous, Williams said. caner said. " but none of us billing," a fraud in which the the university. "I had ran There are two major types of imagined that we would get caller charges calls to domly picked the number of a Physical therapy students study pay phone fraud. The first in caught. I kept thinking 'It's another party, Williams said. flower shop, and when I made dead bodies on campus ...... .. p.3 volves the use of an outside only a 20 cent call, so the The caller can either charge long distance calls to my device to deliberately cir- phone company will never the call to an individual, a friends, I would just charge . cumvent the billing process. bother.to look for us,' but they business or a false credit card them there. After the flower "It's really easy," explain- did." number. (Continued to page B) f \ '- '" \ ., " t if' .. \ .1 \ il' # ... ......,.., .. ··. February 12, 1982 • THE REVIEW • Page 3 ca·davers to be kept at university this fall By DAN PIPER spection and approval of &he Cadavers will be· kept in facilities was fulfilled. McKinley Lab next fall as a "One of three groups had part of the physical therapy to: apt1fove the organization department's human which was to receive the anatomy course, HLS 301, a cadavers, inspect the course which involves the facilities, and insure their · section of human bodies, proper use," said Cossoy. ccording to department "This is a professional mat irector Barbara A. Cossoy. ter. You must treat the Housing the cadavers on cadavers with respect." ampus required the revision fa state law and the installa The three groups which can 'on of $37,290 worth of equip approve the facilities are: the American Medical Associa ment for the storing, tion, maintenance, and handling of the American Associa the cadavers. tion of Anatomists, or the Until 1981, Cossoy said, American Society of Clinical physical therapy students Pathologists. None of these traveled to either Union groups, however, are current Hospital in Elkton, Md., or to ly in the business of approv the A. I. du Pont Institute ing facilities in this state, (outside Wilmington) to work Cossoy said. with cadavers. In 1981, The law was changed so Review Photo by Leigh Clifton however, a legal technicality that the Delaware Medical CADAVERS WILL REST HERE this fall, when for the first time in the history of the physical involving transportation of Society was the organization therapy department, students will not have to go off campus to perform cadaver dissections. the bodies made this practice that approved the recipients Facilities for the cadavers cost the university ·$37,290. impossible, and students of tte cadavers," Cossoy said. ty and university lobbyist cadaver dissection and ed to increase ventilation, were not able to perfonn The people who "reviewed JohnBrookalsohelped." storage lab. According to and two stainless steel tanks dissections. and revised the law," Cossoy The revisions, which were Cossoy, the floor had to be til were installed, as well as To remedy this, the univer said, were Dr. Frank South · presented to the state ed, and an independent ther eight stainless steel tables. sity allocated the necessary and Dr. Mark Rollag, both of legislature last spring, "pass- mostat installed.