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Midweek 11/laine CampusVol 78 No-44 March 18 1975 Financial aid to rise next year The total amount of money available for go to UMO students. and Madigan financial aid to UMO students next year is estimated that this "has to go up at least expected to increase by nearly 11.8 million 5200.000- for next year. becAUSC next year user junior level students will be made eligible 1 this year. according to John E. Madigan, director of student aid. for the program. Previously. only "Brsed on information I have receised freshmen and sophomores were eligible. (tom the federal government.•• said Madigan also said that there is a small Madigan. •*sse are going to have a surplus in the funding for the program this substantial increase in our available year. so there is a potential for UMO's student aid funds... share to he .is high as S700.000." Madigan said Monday that as a result of By cornhin,uit t't• NDSL. CWS. and increased Congressional appropriations. SEOG program, funding with the Basic (lit' total amount of aid directed at UMO Grants amount and the aid provided by the students will increase from the current university itself, which will remain at its S4.0h1.000 to approximately $5.809.000. current S450.000 level. Madigan said Funding for the National Direct Student "we're making a new gain of almost 5I.8 Loan program (MDR is expected to million, hut it's not all gain." increase from S800.000 this year to The director noted that if tuition or room 51.10C.000 next year. Madigan explained. and board charges (or both) increase next The amount of money for the College year. it may "wash out" a substantial Work-Study program (CWS) will increase portion of the increase in aid, because born S1.184.000 to 51.540.000. and funds those approximately 1000 students foi the Supplementary Educational presently receiving aid will be compensat- Oppoitunits Grants program (SEOG) will ed for the increased charges. It seems the clenched fist-. which once symbolized increase from S1.22".000 this year to But, he said, an increase in costs of 5200 student power. has given way to an f aide/ leis ineaningtul SI .509.000 nest year. per student per year. regardless of what GESTURE Fano Whoever sculpted this heaurv that sits audaciously All three of the above programs are form it niight take, would only take about on the mull Iow irt R Hurt Hall ob$ mush placed more emphu SI• administered b) UMO's Student Aid Se00.000 of the increase, and would still on detail than message. Office. Madigan added that the remainder lease user one million dollars in new aid of the increase will occur in the Basic moues Madigan said the new money will Grants program, in which students apply be either used to increase the amount of dii, us to the federal goyernment for aid aid going to current recipients or to allow Smith declares candidacy ( •-otty $40'i.('N) i Ba,i, t;ra nts more students to receive aid, or both b. Dennis Bailey been done III the past.' Officials will stick by request Smith plans to run on a platform which "I believe I have the experience, the includes a higher activities fee for technical know-how. and a good idea of students. Asked if students would accept what student government should be like.•* such an increase. Smith replied. "1 think UM budgetfaces panel said student Sen. Louis Smith (York). as he that once the students see the programs declared himself a candidate for student that can be offered by an increased senate president. actisities fee, they will accept he Legislative hearings on the proposed proposals for the university budget fall far Smith. an executive board member, has increase." offer a resolution University of Maine budget. a, submitted short of required funding. been a senator for the past year. A native Smith said he will by Gin. James B. Longlcy. will be held this Herbert Foss le. vice-chancellor for of South Carolina. Smith is a junior oral Tuesday calling for an increase 55 next two Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Room 228 of the business and financial affairs, said the communications major and has used in sear with an increase of Si for the next State House in Augusta. The hearing will chancellor's office would approach the Maine for five years. years until the fee is S15 per semester. be before the Appropriations and Financial committee with the concept that "the elections will be held April 17. Past The "We have the lowest activities fee in Affairs Committee of the state legislature. requirements outlined in the Part I budget base announced their inten- candidates New England. MUAB (Memorial Union The Super-U administration will be at request are still the requirements of the weeks before the elections tions only a few Activites Board) can't function and offer the hearing in full force, in an attempt to universtty." adding that some of these feels an early start is necessar.. but Smith programs that we need at UMO. Dean cony nice the legislature that tongley 's requirements hay e actually increased since "I think there are many issues that the Rand (director of the Memorial Union is for the request was submitted last year. students need to know about,- said the the increase. It's badly needed." "We're going to push the legislature -old senator. "That is why I want to 23-year The budget for the Off-Campus Board is hard for a reconsideration of the governor's run a campaign based on the issues and not also going to another major Issue Smith feels is vitally budget." he said. "We're the personalities of the candidates. al has Funding sought outline what's going to happen if the important to the students. "The off-campus housing is pathetic. budget is approved as it stands." work Some of the adverse effects Fowle The senate should with the Bangor Members of the Memorial Union suggested were a drastic cutback in Tenants Union or form our own tenants Activities Board will go before the Student enrollment quotas. no pay raises for faculty union to meet this problem." Senate next week and ask that it be made a or staff, and cuts in research programs. Smith contends the senate has kept a low not sub-board under the senate as a solution to "In the end, the greatest empact will be on profile and has gained input from the body. budget cuts affecting MUAB. the students.•• Foisle added. student Tom Audet. chairman of MUAB. said "I have a personal feeling that the the specifics of the solution have not been legislature understands the problems of "I think that O.: senate should develop worked out, but will before vacation. The the university and will giye us a fair long range plans for the future and dcych Senate is expected to take action on the hearing." he commented. priorities that they should he uorking ' proposal at their meeting of the 25th. Fow le said most of the arguments that he said. According to Carl Pease. senate will be used Thursday have already been Smith has suggested the fraternities parlimen tarian. the MUAB proposal would put forward by acting Chancellor Stanley • have a member on the Orono town council contingent on an increase in the be Freeman at a University of Maine Board of „ • to alleviate the problem of property taxes activities fee. Trustees meeting Feb. 2b. 9.'1 le !,ir the fraternities, which Smith belieses 53 would give MUAB a • "An increase of Jeanne Bailey. student senate president. * budge of about $45,000." said Pease. said a bus will be provided to carry .144 t Theaittandidate has not chosen a "Whether the fee would be separate of the enough ice-presidential running mate, but he is students to the hearings, if • . • activities fee or whether the senate would students so desire. expected to announce his eh 'ice at an allocate MUAR•s budget will be resolved "If enough students want a bus." she • .irganizational meeting Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the senate floor." esLlaimed. -we'll have a bus." Louis Smith nu the York Hall lounge. March Page Two Maine Campus 18, 1975 .M11, ACTION to recruit here What's On Peace Corps recruiters are looking for economics and nutrition majors. Anyone volunteers in Liberal Arts fields this year. with a strong interest Or background in contrary to reports of previous recruiting home economics or nutrition may be TUESDAY, MARCH 18 sessions which suggested the demand was eligible. Alley said, since the need is IDB FILM—"The Virgin and th, tor more techically -oriented areas. world-wide and desperate. CAREER SYMPOSIUM—Student Gypsy." 130 Little Hall. 7 & 9:30 Personnel Educational Administra- p.m. tion. North Lounge. Estabrooke Hall. ITALIAN FILM 1-ES IIVAL - "Last Susan Alley and Todd Baumgardt.