Soviet Lawyer Urges Democratic Reform Financial Aid Awareness
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VOL. XXIII NO. 77 MONDAY , JANUARY 29, 1990 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY'S Soviet lawyer urges democratic reform By SANDRA WIEGAND open political discussion for the News Writer public, Volkov said. The asso ciation was formed in 1987 Reformation of the single mainly by young scientific peo party system in the Soviet ple; Volkov joined the same Union is more likely to be ac year. complished empirically than The group has been gradually through legislation, said Leonid accepted by the public, he said, Volkov at a press conference as well as by the authorities, Friday. who criticized it, but also qui etly applied some of its ideas. • Volkov's lecture I page 3 In his campaign for the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, Volkov is a Soviet lawyer and Volkov plans to go beyond the a member of an association realm of Western campaigns, called Democratic Perestroika such as public gatherings and which he plans to represent as debates, and include efforts at a candidate in the election of reform right from the begin the Soviet Congress of People's ning. Deputies in March. He is "It's necessary to do some presently doing a lecture tour thing; not only talk," he said. of universities in the United Volkov said that Democratic The Observer/Kevin Weise States. Perestroika is not an official Leonid Volkov, an analyst for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, held a press conference and gave a lecture Democratic Perestroika was Friday on the topic of political opposition in the Soviet Union. one of the first entities to have see VOLKOV I page 4 Financial Aid Awareness Week gets undeiWay today By JANICE O'LEARY South Bend Public Library from ceive $21 million in federal aid, cutting back on aid to students, Assistant News Editor 2 to 5 p.m. to help students and Financial Aid Breakdown which does not include ROTC but rather has placed restric members of the community programs. tions and qualifications on 1:"£/itor's note: This is the first learn to fill out the FAF. Total ald from all.sources: ROTC is a large source of as those who app~y for financial in a five-part series. As part of Financial Aid $60 million sistance for many colleges, in aid where none had existed in Awareness Week, the Notre $21 million cluding Notre Dame. The Uni the late 70s, said Russo. In an e!Tort to encourage Dame Financial Aid office Federal funds versity's students receive a total This change occurred because students to get their Financial would like to inform students of $7 million in aid through many people who did not need Aid Forms (FAF's) in on time, about the n:J.ain types of aid ROTC, according to the Finan aid were receiving it. Notre Dame's Financial Aid of available, both University-re cial Aid office. Notre Dame's "Those who needed money lice has declared this week Fi lated and through the federal large ROTC program is made were paying for those who nancial Aid Awareness Week. government. up of all branches: Army, Navy didn't," Russo said. Three types of federal aid ex Marine Corps and Air Force. Beginning with Reagan in ist: loans, grants and work Some of the substantial ROTC 1981, people had to prove they Financial study. aid is being cut, due to the needed money. This was based The majority of aid given to Gramm-Rudman bill. It created on income, but in later years Aid Notre Dame students, as well the Federal Deficit Reduction has come to be based on many as all college students in the Act of the early 80s, which calls other factors including family U.S., is in the form of loans. for the government to reduce size and the number of children The 3 loans students may re the deficit by a certain amount in college. Tlw deadline for students to ceive are the Perkins Loan, lhe each year through cutbacks. During the 80s, Russo said, turn in their FAF's is Feb. 28. Stafford loan, also. known as Part of cutting back includes there has been an ever-increas Signs have been posted in the the Guaranteed Student Loan decreases in defense spending. ing trend toward borrowing. dorms as a reminder. (GSL), and the Parental Loan This results in a cutback in This is due in part to the fact The awareness week will for Undergraduate Students/ money given to ROTC pro that grant programs did not culminate on Feb. 4, "College Supplementary Loan for Stu grams. increase. It wasn't that the fed Goal Sunday." This unique dents (PLUS/SLS). "Some ROTC scholarship eral government wasn't sup event will be celebrated Two federal grants are avail third program offered by the programs have been capped" as porting grant programs. it throughout Indiana in various able: the Supplemental Educa government. It is funded par a result of Gramm-Rudman, "just didn't keep up. People other cities. Notre Dame and tional Opportunity Grant tially by the institution and par according to Joseph Russo, di were forced into borrowing." Saint Mary's Financial Aid (SEOG) and the Pell grant. tially by the government. rector of financial aid. staffs will be present at the College Work Study is the At Notre Dame students re- The has not been see AID I page 6 Crash could prove to be Colombian Jet Crashes on Lon Wing span: fault of air traffic controllers 145ft. 91n. Length overall: COVE NECK, N.Y. (AP)- The Transportation Safety Board. 152ft.111n. crew of Avianca Flight 52 told When the New York Center high-altitude air traffic con controllers turned over control trollers the plane was low on of the flight to local controllers fuel and needed a priority land at John F. Kennedy Interna ing before it crashed, but that tional Airport, they apparently information wasn't relayed to failed to mention the plane was local controllers, officials· said low on fuel, Dickinson said. Sunday. The conversation between the Plane·s route crew and New York Center came after the aircraft had • Jet travel safe? I page 7 been in a holding pattern for 46 minutes, Dickinson said. At that point, controllers asked The Boeing 707 crashed on the pilot if the Boeing could Long Island Thursday night, safely land at Boston's Logan killing 73 people and injuring Airport. The pilot said he Arrived 2:02 85. lacked fuel to get to Logan, p.m. The pilot of the Colombian said Dickinson. Departed jetliner told controllers at New Shortly afterward, control of 5:30p.m. York Center, who handle high the aircraft was transferred to BOGOTA altitude traffic, that he was low local controllers - Terminal • on fuel 50 minutes before the Radar Approach Control, or plane crashed, said Lee Dickin see CRASH I page 7 son, a member of the National AP page 2 The Observer Monday, January 29, 1990 INSIDE COLUMN WEATHER Forecast for noon, Monday, Jan. 29. Thinking at the Lines show high temperatures. gaming table is 40 a big gamble Yesterday's high: 39 Las Vegas Is widely -------- Yesterday's low: 20 recognized as the City National high: 83 (Alice That Never Sleeps. and Presidio, Texas) But after a recent National low: -14 gambling fiasco (Gunnison, CO) there, I found a more suitable name: the Forecast: Paradiso of Idiots. Clearing in the afternoon Vegas Is the only "' today, with a high in the pl~ce where a person Kevin Reisch upper 30s. Increasing w1th the brain activity . clouds tonight, lows in of a turnip can strike Asst. V1ewpo1nt Ed1tor the mid 20s. Mostly it rich overnight. cloudy and windy with 40 I knew something was terribly wrong with FRONTS: percent chance of snow this city when I first felt the agony of showers Tuesday, with defeat. While I was playing blackjack, a • • • highs in the mid to upper man joined the table and made his gambling COLD• • WARM STATIONARY• • 30s during the morning. ©1990 Accu-Weather, Inc wizardry apparent by asking the dealer, Pressure Temperatures falling to "So, tho maximum In blackjack Is 21, {! ) around 30 by late Tues right?" ®© ~~§ ~ IT] EZJ ~ '---' day afternoon. This man further Impressed me with his HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT CLOUDY CLOUDY techniques, such as adding up the total on V1a Associated Press Graph1csNet his fingers following each deal. If it was less than 21, he invariably shouted, "Hit me!" As the game wore on, I saw that my original $20 investment had dwindled away while his OF INTEREST profits kept Increasing. That night, my friends and I estimated The Music Commission will have a meeting at The South Bend Community School Corpora our collective damage at $130 and decided 5:30 p.m. today in the SUB Oflke for old and nnw nwm tion /\dull Education is looking for voluntPPrs to tutor to play it safe by watching TV. On Late bnrs. Pizza and soft drinks will be served. adult basic l:dUI:ation and /\dull l·:nglish as a second lan Night, Omar Sharif, a high-stakes gambler, guagP classes. Thesp classroom hours may count as part told David Letterman that he collected his A Mass of St. Thomas will bn cdebrated in Alumni of 100 pre-student tpaching hours of liPid expPriPn~·p rl' biggest winnings during a state of drunken llall chapel at 5 p.m. today to commemorate the fnast of quired for Saint Mary's l·:ducation majors and_ llllllo~·s. ness.