THE PEOPL’E’S VOICE VolumeV Number 2 Universityof California,San Diego March 1982 IIII I I I Budget Cuts put the Squeeze On A Time To Prepare by Robyn Broughton These reports have prompted an are filed and if the necessary the federal government will investigation by the UCSD informationis completed.This garnisheetax returnsto obtain FACT: Studentswho cannotafford RegistrationFee Committeeinto the necessitatesthat we getour financial paymentfor theseloans. We mustbe basicnecessities (i.e., rent, food, management of SFS. This aid information in as soon as carefulin acceptingloans so as to clothing),cannot afford to be possibleto insurereceiving some preventfalling into a spiralof debts students. investigationis presently underway. formof aid.Applicants should have oncewe graduate. FACT:By 1984,students dependent The People’s Voice talked with theirfiles completed no laterthan on governmentmonies alone will not Thomas Rutter, the director of The numberof studentsapplying StudentFinancial Services, to get April I, even though the final be ableto affordbasic necessities. forfinancial aid is increasingalong some clarityon the financialaid deadlineis notuntil July l. withthe highercosts of education. FACT: It is estimatedthat more pictureat UCSD. Thetype of awardsgiven will be of The Reagan Administration, than70% of the Blackstudents here While there are still some a lowerquality but of equalquantity, however,is benton cuttingstudents at UCSD are receivingsome form of unanswered questions over the meaningstudents will probablybe downto size. financialaid moniesto providefor managementof SFS,there are plans offeredmore loans, and there will be theirbasic living expenses. Targetedfor fundingelimination loomingin Congresswhich threaten increasesdistributed among the in Reagans1983 proposal are mostof Tlaedevasting impact of recent to sweepstudents under the budget expected parental and student the forms of financialaid that changesand proposedchanges in cuttingcarpet. The reality is thatfor contribution.In the 1982-83fiscal students have relied upon for federalassistance to post-secondary whateverreason, there will not be year,students will be requiredto take supportand survival at universities educationmake it crucialthat we enough money to fund needy out a Guaranteed Student and colleges.This legislation, if increase our knowledge of the students. Loan (GSL),repayment begining six passed,represents a cut of more workingsof financialaid. months after graduation at an In talkingto Rutter,TPV learned than$2 billionin federalaid for interestrate of 9%. In theJanuary 4th issueof thenew thatapplications forfinancial aid are highereducation. indicator,recent budget cuts were catagorizedon a time scheduleas Although loans do provide a lhis proposal would require attributedto mismanagementwithin eitherbeing "late" or "on time."in sourceof financing,they are the least undergraduatestudents to pay a 10 UCSD’s Student Financial th’efuture, they will be prioritized desirableform of aid. They cannot percentfee to securea GSL loanand Services(SFS) administration. accordingto when the applications be erasedby filingbankruptcy, and continuedon page 14 January 15, 1982: A Day to Remember by Alma Key under$30,000 would be ableto pay It was slated as a day of the GSL betterthan theywould the celebration,but the atmospherewas NDSL.The financialrisk wouldbe not one of a celebration.Positive, less, Knight claimed.A student consciousraising, and thought responded,that it seemedthe risk provokingwould best describethe wouldbe evenless if peoplewith a activitiesin the NorthConference higher income were allowed to Room on Friday,January 15, 1982. acquire these loans. Knight That date was the fifty-third responded’that people who made anniversaryof the birth of Dr. abovethe $30,000could get the loan Martin Luther King, Jr. With if theyshowed need but the cap was DeniseLong serving as the Mistress justa safeguardso thatthe son of J, of Ceremonies,the programbegan at PaulGetty or Gene Klinewould not about l:15pm. be ableto takeout the loan any more. Interestedstudents listen intently to speakers at the Martin L. King A short Welcome Address was celebration Afterthe paneldiscussion, there givenby AlmaKey, former President Programaegan by mentioningthe very importantto students.At one was a break during which time of the BlackStudents" Union(BSU), financialopportunities that are still point,vigorous discussion occurred refreshmentswere served. Upon which was proceededby a dynamic availableto students despite all of the when Knightencouraged students to reconvening,Regina Anderson, poetryreading recited by Stephani¢ cuts that have occuredbecause of try to be objectivewhen reviewing Robin Phillips, and Kathy Muldrow,1981-82 Historian for the Reaganomics. Susan F.orney, casessuch as the,one concerningthe Washington,members of the trio BSU. The selected poem was Counselor in the UCSD Business strictcriterion placed upon incomes group Heaven’s Connection, entitled,"Black People," written by Officeinformed students of exactly for the GuaranteedStudent Loan. renderedtwo selections, one entitled DarylEllis, former Vice-President of whatto expectas a resultof those Knightsaid that the $30,000income "The Stormis PassingOver," which the BSU. This was followedby a cuts.Mrs. Forneyspoke of program capwas a logicallimit because those was inspirational and quite panel discussionon The Economic and process changes for the aboveit arenot in as touch,need of appropriatefor the occasion. Crisisin BlackLife. The discussion upcomingacademic year and warned the GSL as thosebelow the limitand The keynote speaker, Sondra was led by panelistsNorman Knight studentsof theirpossible pitfalls. sinceit haslower interest rates than. O’Neal,visiting professor in the and Susan Forney. Knight, the Much discussion came from the for example,the NationalDirect continuedon page 14 Directorof the UCSD Partnership audienceas this wholearea was/is StudentsLoan (NDSL).then people 2 3" COMMENTAR Y NA TIONA L NEWS HAITIAN necessarycushion of comfortin REFUGEES: harnessingand channelingour oft exampleof sucha problemwould be ILLEGAL ALIENS? A CALL FOR UNITY times unexpressedanxieties and in the case of rising student questionis as follows;for power first needfor complementaryrelations. by Ken Overton by Kevin Brooks registrationfees. As an alternativeto Jackson said, "we found very and foremost.Secondly, such an haphazardlyrioting, dropping out of Finally,the call for unification at There has been much news inhumaneconditions. The stenchis entitywould serve as a sourceof At this juncturein Americathe schooland/or protesting, we could this university,if for no other coverageover the plightof Haitian repulsive. Men and women are collectivedecision making. Thirdly, inevitablecall and untriedsolution haveseveral fundraising activities reasons, would assure certain refugeeswhom havefled conditions separated.Husbands and wives are for the purpose of providinga to Black people’s unfortunate that wouldbe for the purposeof advantages to be derived from of extremepoverty and dangerin separated.Some of the men said supportgroup. Fourthly, it could conditionboth here and abroadis acquiringmonies to be putaside for sharingacademic experiences and Haitiby ridingon thehigh seas to the theirwives are in Virginia.Some of serveas a way of assuringacademic unity.The conditionto which1 am studentshaving problems paying for developingthe type of decision coast of Florida. The story of the men cried.There is no planned skillsand success.Lastly, a unified referringis one that reflects the total suchfinancial increases. This money makingskills that all of us must Haitianswashing upon the shoresof activity."Jackson also pointedto associationof this sort would turmoilof overfour hundred years of wouldbe for thosestudents in good developin orderto be successfulas residentshomes in Miami brought the racistdual natureof American providethe experiences,skills and covertand overtracism faced by standing,according to the criteria individualsand as a peoplein the nationalattention to thesituation. immigrationpolicy when he stated senseof unitythat will be requiredof Blacksin all formsand fashions.In whichwe as a collectivewhole decide future.We could structurestudy Now more than 2,000 of these that America has no problems us as futureleaders,servants of our Haitianrefugee battered by guardsat detentioncamp my opinion,it is by designthat we as upon. Must i say that such a groupsdesigned to tap in on each refugeesremain locked up in one of welcomingPolish refugees but when America’spolicy play to make the people and role models in the Therehave been different forms of a peopleare stillsubjected to that measure would be putting our other’sexpertise. We couldinform seventeendifferent detention centers it comesto the blackrefugees from treatmentof the Haitiansso harsh reconstructionof a worldrevolving protestwithin the campson the part sameracism in 1982,and are forced educationalsecurity, to a greater eachother on a collectivebasis which in the UnitedStates..Their status as Haiti,it is a differentstory. of the refugees.Last December, 600 thatthey will not want to cometo the to struggleon allfronts for the basic aroundour beauty. extent,in our own hands., coursesat thisinstitution would best illegal immigrants is part of Members of the Congressional of the Haitians in the Krome United States’ shores anymore. needsthat are systematically denied Unification at UCSD among America’spolicy of discouragingthe In accordancewith all the other