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Draft • Press conference, review for NBA preview registration McCartney's 'BroadStreet' i PageS PageS Page 12 Vol. XIV Number 3 Monday, Oct. 29, 1984 Columbia College, Chicago Students displeased with garage By Kristine Kopp working. I don't see how they expect to complaints the garage manager denies " If they don't leave their keys then Long periods of waiting ... lost get the cars down with only one them all. we have no business," said Lee. "If cars •..and high prices. Students at elevator. If that's the case they need a When asked about the hazardous something is wrong with the elevator, Columbia can't think of any other way new building." conditions at the aaraae he defended say it is stuck, then they have to wait to describe the service they receive Toma sticks to his point. "If we the establishment. and it's not big deal. But I won't leave from the Harrison Garage, 60S S. have elevator problems then they'll "if any of that has happened it has to go home until all the cars are Wabash. have to wait. Some students complain been fixed, there is not plaster falling down." "One night I had to wait SO minutes that they pay for a good school and on the cars." For Lee it's no big deal, but it is a big for them to find my car," said Steve they don 't want to wait." Toma says that they rarely get com deal to Latting. Gassman, a junior at Columbia. The students are not only com plaints other than people aggravated "I'm putting up with it right now As for the long waiting periods, plaining about the long waiting or lost they have to wait so long. until I find something almost as close. Harrison Garage manager, Allen items but also the service they receive "Cars come in all the time a nd we the way they drive the cars is ridiculous Toma explains, "Sometimes they wait for the money they pay. have no other problems," Toma said. ridiculous." because we have problems with the It costs a student $4.00 a day to park Tony Lee has worked at the garage Lee says the garage doesn't have elevators," said Toma, who has been their car in the garage. That's a SO cen for 14 months and he said the only time people who complain, but they would the manager for four years. "How ts increase over last semester's price, they have problems is when people be willing to put up a suggestion box long they wait depends, I'd say not however students receive a S 1.50 don't leave their keys. for the commuters. more than IS minutes." discount. [ • But Gassman claims that he waited "I parked there because of the SO minutes. price," Gassman said. "It started at. "School finishes all at the same $3.25 and moved up to $3.60. Now I time and they all came together. We take the El because it's cheaper." can orily bring two cars at a time," said Latting parks at the Harrison Toma. Garage because it's so convenient. While the garage manager blames it "If I wasn't getting out of class at on the schools rush hour dismissals, 10:30 p.m. I would walk to a different Gassman, along with another student, garage. Th_e discount is not even a disagrees. discount. What's a quarter to a " I waited 50 minutes and it was Columbia student?" dead. It was at night ...around 8 to 8:30 Students also complain that the p.m . I was the first one and they told building is hazardous. me my car wasn't there. I went' up the Gassman describes an incident that elevator with them and I found it. occurred last semester at the garage. Then they claimed that I didn' t pay. ' " The building falls apart," The place is not run right. I've seen Gassman said. " Last semester bricks them drop cars." were falling and they blocked off the Another student, Tracy Latting, a sidewalk. That building is not safe." junior, agrees with Gassman. Latting says she notices the poor · " The longest time I waited would be conditions of the garage. about a little over an hour," said Lat " I was in there the other day and ting, "one of my classes gets out at there was plaster falling on people's 5:20 p.m. and around that time there cars. You can see holes in the are a lot of people and. thPn they only ceiling," Latting said. have two elevators. Lately I only see one Tile Harrlsoa Garaae oa 605 S. Wabub where maay Col•mbta atudeall park. (Pboto courtny of While the students voice all these BobDnla) Aid cuts result in loan increases, more debt most substantial increase of student Also defaulting of student loans is ex " The Reagan Administration takes a By Bridget Halford loans. According to Pranske the in empt from filing for bankruptcy. This dim view of financil aid," said Pran The escalating cost of attaining an crease from 1982 to last year in is why the default rate is less than three ske, "and you are going to see more education and the decreasing resources borrowed dollars was 44 percent, a dif percent, according to Pranske. reactions. What happens to that available from financial aid programs ference of almost one million dollars, "The emphasis has changed to the student graduating with a $12,000 have Columbia College students tur totaling S2,947,S31 borrowed. The processing of the student loans rather student loan debt? ning to the Illinois Guaranteed Student student loan recipients increased 42 than the individual student. It's turned This would almost devastate the Loan Program at a phenomenal rate, percent to 1,358 students. into paper pushing,'' said Pranske. middle income student, especially to resulting in eventual student loan in "An even larger increase is an According to the Chronicle of their future earnings." debtedness. ticipated for the current academic year, Higher Education, which is distributed According to Pranske, middle The Illinois Guaranteed Student but we will not know until the end of to financial aid departments, many income families are pushed into Loan Program showed a tremendous the academic year,'' said Pranske. schools are facing this crisis. As the student lo<>ns. "To deny them an increase in the past five academic years The federal guidelines for student cost of education increases and the educational institution that has at Columbia College with the increase loans have loosened up, allowing and financial aid resources decrease, something to offer them is a real from 1982 to 1983 being documented encouraging lending institutions to be student borrowing is inevitable. tradedy. If we are continually ham the most dramatic, according to Ray competitive for the student loan The Chronicle of H igher Education mered on by the Reagan Ad Pranske, director of financial aid. business. While the student is in also added, " In a competitive en ministration we will not have any Even a large increase is expected for school, the federal government is vironment, additional training has financial aid to offer the student." the current academic year, according paying lending institutions interest on become necessary for future em The financial aid department hopes to the five year summary of student the loan plus a bonus fee. However ployment. Twenty years ago borrowing to offer a budgeting work shop in the loans at Columbia College. this has existed for a long time. No; for an education was unknown, today near future to encourage the student to In 1979 at Columbia College 287 requiring the lending institution to hire it is a reality. The social implications of save more and not be forced into a students received student loans, a total collectors for the defaulted loans is the student debt as it relates to job choice, student loan. of $573,000 borrowed. Two years later new incentive to involve them in the marriage, children, and home buying "The student loan can be used as an the number rose 233 percent to 9S7 student loan program. The Guaranteed are enormous." investment in student's future-but it borrowers. There was also a 2.56 per Student Loan Agency pays the lending Pranske emphasized that the should only be used as a last resort. cent increase in dollars borrowed since institution and then goes after the primary goal of the financial aid depar Without lending institutions stepping the 1979 academic year for a total of student, leaving no risk to the lender. tment this year is to council the student in, students would really be suffering $2,041,632, said Pranske. If a student defaults on the loan they befvre they take on a loan they may since both federal and state aid is The last academic year brought the are no longer eligible for financial aid.