Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1981-1982 Student Newspapers 10-9-1981 College Voice Vol. 5 No. 4 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1981_1982 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 5 No. 4" (1981). 1981-1982. 6. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1981_1982/6 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1981-1982 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. 3'61 Connecticut College's Weekly Newspaper October 9,1981 Vol. V, No.4 Reagan's Cuts Threaten Conn Students By Carly Rand many students, whether they need it or not, have been participating in the GSL. The passage of the omnibus Budget Consequently, because of such misuse Reconciliation Bill by the House and the the government has spent over $10 ' Senate will cut Federal expenditures by billion on this program. It has been more than $35 billion between October estimated that without the necessary 1,1981 and September 3, 1982. cuts, the fiscal 1982 deficit will increase President Reagan signed the bill into law up to $80 billion. this July. Its effect on various colleges Because the government hasn't yet and individual students on financial aid revealed how flexible the test for is still ambiguous and somewhat eligibility will be, it is difficult to predict frightening. To understand the change, the effect. One student with a GSL the present programs must be claimed that without the loan her family understood. would have to give up their Ch:r'\stIT\as There are five Federal Financial Aid vacation and put the IT\one-y'\nto tne pre.grams in which Connecticut College tuition. Another stud.ent wi.th a grant participates. 'Two of these are 'The Basic \the SEOG), a loan and on a College Educational Opportunity Grant which Work-Study Program claimed that not ranges frOIT1 $200 to $1,750 and the being eligible would mean she would Supplemental Education Opportunity move frOIT1 Connecticut College to a Grants which range from $200 to $1,500 state college. It is possible that this may and is supplemented with some other be the case for many students. An fonn of aid. Two other programs are estimate made from the applicants of the loans. The National Direct Student Loan 1985 class indicated that 50% of those is offered to students enrolled at least on financial aid had families with half time and have financial need. It incomes over $30,000. Although the The Perils of Peer ranges from a total of $3,000 for 50% is a rough estimate and established students in their first two years of from applicants, not students, it is very undergraduate study, to $6,000 for large. Presently about 35% of this which he stated was the "highest honor students having completed the two years school has some form of financial aid. By Robin Lynn Waxenberg the college can bestow on an alumna by toward a Bachelor's degree or up to The cutbacks in Federal and state aid "Energy, stamina, curiosity, paying public tribute to an individual of $12,000 for graduate study. The interest to students may cause colleges and intellectual honesty." These ale the most distinguished achievement ... Ms. Peer in repayment is 4 % until October 1, universities to try to compensate for the important qualities for a journalist to is one of America's most accomplished, 1981 when it becomes 5o/d. The second reductions of government aid. It would have, according to Newsweek senior experienced journalists today. She has loan is the Guaranteed Federally Insured be a help if Connecticut College could writer Elizabeth Peer. "You have to be covered a range of human experiences, Student Loans. Students under this loan increase its financial aid; however, willing to be resourceful, to be a gypsy and has the energy, insight and sense of may borrow up to $2,500 a year for chances of this are slim. Macalester .. If you like independence, if you're humor which makes her a writer's undergraduate study or $5,000 a year College of St. Paul, Minnesota for a self-starter, if you like going off on writer." Ms. Peer was to receive the for graduate study. The interest in example, claims that they can afford to your own projects and not being too award at Commencement last spring, repayment is 7% (9% for new increase their financial aid by $200,000. closely supervised, journalism can be but due to illness, could not attend the borrowers) but because the loan does It will make $3 million available to tremendously interesting and very ceremony. not have to be repaid until after students during the 1981-82 school year. satisfying. " Ms. Peer has also been the recipient of graduation, the government pays the Macalester's President, John B. Davis, Ms. Peer is certainly a woman of such the 1978 Overseas Press Club Award for interest until the repayment period. The Jr. noted that other universities and independent means. She was the first Ogaden War Reporting, a 1975 Page fifth program is the Work-Study colleges probably would not have the woman foreign correspondent and One Award for feature writing, a 1973 Program to ensure students with the money to make up for the Federal aid foreign bureau chief for Newsweek. A Lincoln University Award for political greatest need priority for employment. loss, forcing some students to choose 1957 Conn. College graduate, Ms. Peer reporting and a 1972 Penney-Missouri The government supplies 80% of the between continuing college education or recalls her graduation as a time when Award from the University of Missouri money for this program, while the dropping out. "middle class women were not meant to Journalism School. But behind these employer supplies the remaining 20%. have careers," but rather to marry and awards lies Ms. Peer's interesting history Although most changes aren't clearly raise a family. Yet, as an independent of experiences as a forerunner in the defined yet, the individual Grants woman, she attended the theater world of professional female journalists having already been cut $80, and may program at Columbia Graduate School, at Newsweek. be cut more. Higher Education groups ran out of money and went to an While she found her own social world are urging the appropriation of the full employment agency which suggested she in the late 1950's quite restrictive, $2.65 billion into the Pell Grants, apply for a job as a copy girl at "journalism was opening all these doors. Federal aid for the neediest students in Newsweek. Thus, in 1958, she "shuffled, I was talking to the kinds of people I the omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act stumbled and backed" her way into a could never meet in my appropriate of 1981. This would enable the Grant to car~er she found very interesting. social life." In 1962, Ms. Peer was given include a maximum of $1,800 and Fdday, that stumbling, "quite by her first writing tryout doing "back of maintain the average of $950. Along accident" has resulted in her coverage the book work-neither politics nor with the diminishing amounts for of political, diplomatic, economic and foreign affairs." At Newsweek, field Grants, the eligibility for receiving a feature stories of nine European corresRondents file reports which are loan has adopted a policy in which cauntries for Newsweek, role as a rewritten as stories by New York students with a family income over Washington correspondent, general editors. These functions are combined in $30,000 must prove the financial need. editor and writer in New York City for a newspaper. By doing non-political They must take a test to detenmine if the magazine, and work as a freelance articles for Newsweek, Ms. Peer could they are eligible. writer. both write and report her own stories, This new regulation on loans is >~'\~~;;-f;~~;::';:;~rJ:L/./__~, On October 2, Oakes Ames presented as she still does today. probably the most significant change in ',,-~ -rh~ A~'C4" '"" ,lit 1i'~ Ms. Peer with the Conn College Medal, Continued on Page 4 the financial aid programs. Apparently, ------CAMPUSNEWS------ Page 2 ..~ CAMPUS FORUM: Reality of Sexual Assault .J:) ~o U o By L. A. Christiano in the same area. Women can be sexual The Electric On September 30th at 8:00 p.m., an assailants themselves or can be used as informational meeting entitled 'The decoys to aid men in getting victims. Reality of Sexual Assault" was held at There is also the fallacy that some Unity House. The meeting was women want to be raped. Dressing for ~ Government sponsored by Unity, the Office of attention does not give anyone else the .2! right to commit a degrading and violent -0 Volunteers for Community Service, and the Women's Center of Southeastern crime. ~ By Ken Gotlib the bookstore-over a month after the Connecticut. The speakers stressed the need to stay ~ Enthusiasm and devotion seem to be start of classes; SGA was clearly upset The meeting was hosted by Ms. alert and be aware that rape can happen the key words of this year's SGA. about it. One member commented that Grissel Hodge, Administrative Assistant to anyone. It is important to be aware This council tactfully executes the bookstore makes an enormous profit of Unity and Office of Volunteers, and that in the past, rapes have occurred on authority and law under the guidance of on textbooks and saves even more temporary Acting Director of Unity.