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Prairie View A&M University Digital Commons @PVAMU PV Panther Newspapers Publications 4-1-1985 Panther - March 1985 - Vol. LIX, NO. 14 Prairie View A&M University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-panther-newspapers Recommended Citation Prairie View A&M University. (1985). Panther - March 1985 - Vol. LIX, NO. 14., Vol. LIX, NO. 14 Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pv-panther-newspapers/257 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at Digital Commons @PVAMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in PV Panther Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @PVAMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Convocation ^ f Talent Show ^ f Winnihg Tradition Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Prairie View A&M University Volume 59 OA AIT LICO Number 14 IfF' r II MV # March 27-April 1,1985 Proposed cuts threaten PVU Lobbying effort planned by SGA, Housing By Rayford Outland Needy students would be the Those students' families also S.G.A. President Kevin Dennis hardest hit under the proposal be could borrow under the Parent Loan and Assistant Director of Housing cause it would reduce their choice of for Undergraduate Students pro Ell-roy Stevenson traveled to a college substantially. Graduate gram, but they would pay prevailing Washington, D.C. to lobby against students would also be greatly affec market interest rates. Loan limits proposed cuts in student financial ted. aid. under that program would be raised Income Ceiling on Pell Grants from $3,000 to $4,000 per year and "This is a lobbying effort," Stev The grants which provide students from $15,000 to $20,000 altogether. enson said, "To tell the Congress with up to $1,900 a year would be Those loans now carry a 12-per-cent men in Washington to please not cut available only to students from fami interest rate. student financial aid and loans." lies with annual incomes of $25,000 Change in the interest-rate calcul Several S.G.A. members have or less. Pell Grants would receive been circulating petitions against ations. The basic interest rate for $2.69 billion in fiscal 1986-down from new Guaranteed Student Loans is financial aid and student loan cuts. $3.5 billion. The budget would also The petitions will be given to now 8 per cent. The budget would restrict Work Study funds and Nat set the interest on new loans at the Representative Mickey Leland and ional Direct Student Loans to stu Senator Lloyd Bentsen. rate of 91-day Treasury bill, to reflect dents from families earning $25,000 more closely the cost of money. According to Stevenson, "if stu annually or less. Reduced payments to lenders. dents don't start lobbying the Texas Income Ceiling on Loans Lenders now receive interest subsi Senate and House of Representa Guranteed Student Loans would dies of up to 3.5 per cent beyond the tives, to vote against cutting finan be restricted to students from fami basic 8-percent interest allowance on cial aid. Prairie View A&M students lies earning less than $32,500 annu Guaranteed Student Loans. Reduc may very well be affected in a ally. The American Council on Edu ing the rate to 1.5 percent would negative way because 95% of the cation said that at least 460,000 discourage may lending agencies UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT DR. PERCY A PIERRE, speaks to guest. students here are on Financial Aid or students now eligible for the loans from making Guaranteed Student students and faculty at the University Convocation held recently in the I a grant of some sort." will be prevented from receiving Loans and could threaten the future Dome. Dr. Pierre was officially sworn in as president during the] The following information reflects them in the future. stu of the program. ceremony. The occasion also marked the 107th anniversary of the[ how Prairie View will be affected if dents from families that make more Restrictions on independent stu University. Photo by Antwon Williams Financial Aid and Student loans are than $32,500 would be able to obtain dents. New rules would make it cut: Guaranteed Student Loans, but the harder for students to declare them Ceiling on All Aid government would not subsidize any selves financially independent of No student could recieve more of the interest on them. their parents for the purposes of University dining hall than $4,000 a year from all federal receiving federal aid. Under the sources, including work study, loans, and grants. mandatory for most students By Sharon Hodge At Prairie View A&M University, To be exempt from the plan you must follow these steps: 95% of the student population re ceives some form of government aid 1. Bring a special diet signed by a and is required to pay for the use of physician to the Service and Support. the dining hall facilities, whether used or not. 2. Office reviews it and then gives "The university should offer more it to the ARA director, who goes over types of meal plans for students it to make sure it cannot be prepared receiving government assistance," in the dining hall. said Michael Glass, from Boston, 3. If it can prepared by the dining who eats in the dining hall because he chooses to eat there. hall, the student is responsible for, paying the meal card charge. Rayfr.rd Outland from Waco, Tex as, who eats in the dining hall, "only 4. If it cannot be prepared, the because I paid for it." Lockett, student is exempt for the year. another student from Houston,'Tex 5. Each year the student must as, who has not picked up her meal present a new diet sheet. card this year said "I feel that I'm being treated unfairly if I have to pay And exemption from the meal plan for something 1 don't even use." may effect levels of financial aid, Mrs. Sandra B. Davis (Director of says Debra Nash. She was required IE SCOREBOARD reflects the final score of the Panther's last game against Texas Services and Support), says that it is to get her grant reprocessed this uthern University. See the Panthers and Pantherettes final statistics on page 6. a university policy for all students to year when she was exempted from loto by Charles Crump eat on the meal plan. the meal plan. March 27-April 1,1985 Prairie View Panther THREE TYYO Prairie View Panther March 27-flpril 1,1985 NROTC begins new program Editorials and Comments The Department of Naval Science has announced a new program, the Editorial Naval Science Institute (NSI). This is Letter to the editor VisionQuest to recruit at PVU a six-week program at the Naval Many students at Prairie View Education and Training Center in A&M University do not realize that Newport, Rhode Island (CNET). the University has spent over one Can you see yourself riding on a The NSI has three objectives: half million dollars on landscaping STUDENTS at Prairie View A&M The wagon train, perhaps the best I am happy that the Panther has wagon train or sailing on a tall ship? 1 known of VisionQuest's programs is * To provide candidates with train and campus beautification within the University. Without STUDENTS invited students and faculty to com Are you looking for an outdoor ing equivalent to the first two years last year. there would be NO reason for our a visual revival of America's pioneer municate their interests and con past. The train, recreates a vanished of on-campus NROTC training. The reason I am bringing this to being here at all. lifestyle? cerns on its pages. It provides me It's not as strange as it sounds. * To evaluate candidates and the attention of the students, is So, why are STUDENTS here? culture, a culture that was of neces and members of my staff with a The train, the ship, and the lifestyle select the most highly motivated for because you just do not seem to care One reason that I know that the sity built on cooperation, self-disci means to convey messages that may are part of VisionQuest, a unique the advance NROTC program. about campus beautification. Instead State should provide and support pline, and the work ethic. As it takes you choose to litter the campus be helpful to students and faculty child care agency with programs in cooperative effort and hard work to * To motivate candidates who opportunities for higher education carelessly. alike. Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania move the train each day, this new complete the program and are re that my office exists is to provide for the youth of this state and for commended for advanced NROTC, Did you know that about 80 per others who wish to take advantage of | and California. VisionQuest actively frame of reference is extremely high quality academic programs and seeks hardworking young men and to join an NROTC unit upon their cent of Prairie View's main campus those opportunities. They have char successful in working with these services to students through the women who are interested in treat return to college. is littered daily, with a stronger ged the state legislature with the youngsters, according to Bob Bur efforts of a dedicated and competent ing troubled youth, who are seeking The major training areas in NSI concentration of litter in front of the responsibility to see that this is done. ton, co-founder of VisionQuest. The Memorial Center Student, Alumni faculty and staff. I consider that a rugged lifestyle, and who look for wagon train rapidly points a youthful are: academic training, naval orien charge to be an interesting, exciting Prairie View A&M is part of an Hall, Drew and Banks Hall.

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