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Columbia Chronicle Volume 14 Number 11 March 18, 1985 Columbia College, Chicago In this Issue: Slash! Cuts will hurt By Rick G uasco tion wants to reduce that amount lion. The two would be combined into an $850 million program for A Chronicle Chronicle Staff Writer next year, to $7.5 billion. Biggest of all aid programs is next year. About fifteen percent of Co the Guaranteed Student Loan, However, if the budgets of Dating lumbia students who receive fed with an estimated budget at Work Study and Supplemental eral aid may be hurt by $400 $3.7 billion for this year. The Grants were totalled, they Service? million in proposed cuts and GSL would be slashed to $2.7 bil would amount to more than $1 changes in student aid pro-' lion for 1986, according to U.S. billion meaning that over gr~ms. Education Dept. spokesman, Dun $150 million would be trimmed Page 5 While changes wouldn't go into can Helmrich, in Washington. from the two erograms for effect until the 1986-87 school Funding for PELL Grants would 1986. year, they have already be cut from $3.3 billion this year "When you add these sparked loud criticism as col to $2.7 billion for next year. The (numbers) up, it' s not an even leges try to assess the impact federal contribution to the Illi trade-off, " Pranske said. " It 's such cuts would have. nois Guaranteed Loan would vir- going to mean considerablj "It could be devastating," said . fewer dollars for the work study Columbia financial aid director and grant program." Ray Prans ke . "Students are See Graphics on Page 2 In addition, there would be re going to find themselves severe strictions in getting financial aid. ly pressed." tually be eliminated. According All aid applicants would have to Pranske gave a rough, "ball to Pranske, Columbia received pass a " financial needs" test. park" estimate that 10 to 15 this year about $3 million each Families would have to have an percent of Columbia students re from the PELL and IGL programs. annual adjusted gross income of ceiving federal financial aid The two make up Columbia's big no more than $32,500 to get a could be hurt. gest sources of financial aid. GSL. There would be a $25,000 The proposals affect virtually Work Study and Supplemental family income limit for students New column every federal student aid pro Grant programs would be com to get work study-supplemental gram. An estimated $7.9 billion bined. This year, Work Study is grants. will be spent on student aid this funded at $593 million, and Sup year. The Reagan Administra- plemental Grants at $413.8 mil- Lotto may help Columbia By Rudy Vorkapic Chronicle Staff Writer colleges and universities next versity of Iowa, Iowa State and year. Northern Iowa have asked their Colleges throughout the na California voters recently legislators for $40 million of the tion, including Illinois, may soon passed legislation, known as $43 million the state expects to benefit from the profits of state Proposition 37, which requires make on their upcoming lotte ry. run lotteries as never before. lottery funds to strictly supple The three Iowa schools have Lotteries have been more and ment existing state funds and requested the $40 million in lot more profitable to the 17 states not replace them . tery funding for non-recurring that run them and as a result, California' s Governor, George expenses such as, equipment and 'Rhythm & colleges and universities have Deukmejian has suggested that technology purchases, research been seeking the advantages of new programs be set up with lot programs and professorships . those profits. tery funds instead of the tradi In Illinois, th e state lottery Views' Columbia, which is a private in tional revenue sources that continues to reap huge financial stitution and does not receive higher education officials want benefits for the state, the re Page 9 state funds directly, could still ed in the first place. quests for lottery funds towards benefit from a lottery funding in However, opponents of lottery higher education will become crease. " If lottery funding is money used for educational pro more heated. directed to the illinois State grams warn that lottery reve In 1984 the state lottery, with Scholarship Commission, for ex nues are subject to wide swings, help in large part to th e success ample, students would benefit particularly after the initial in of the relatively new Lotto and, in effect, that would benefit terest of the game is over. game, is now th e fourth largest Spring Columbia," said Columbia Vice These same people also point source of income to the state. President of Finance John Shei out that if lottery revenues do In a statement issued last bel. " An ything that benefits stu not " come in " for whatever rea year, Gov. James Thompson Training: dents (such as scholarships), son one year, the state is not li said, "The lottery is now the benefits Columbia." kely to replace the funds unless fourth largest source of revenue California and Iowa, which are it has a large amount of revenue for the general revenue fund, So What! expected to begin lotteries soon, available. providing support for programs have been asked to give most, if College officials in Iowa share that benefit millions of Illinois not all, of their lottery revenues similar concerns but continue citizens, including education, Page· 12 to higher education. their efforts for lottery fund- health, human services, public California's budget calls for ing. protection, justice, natural re $56 .7 million in lottery funds for Representatives from the Uni- sources and recreation." MONDAY , MARCH1~19~ PAGE 2 Columbia Chronicle NEWS Cuts in financial aid may cost students " The ch'anges and cuts in stu By Rick Guasco dent loans would throw Chronicle Staff Writer hundreds of thousands of stu dents out of school," said an aide to Sen. Paul Simon (0-111.) Simon The Education Dept. says it is a member of the Senate's wants students to pay a bigger higher education subcommittee. share of their own college ex " Th ey would return economic se penses, but some educators say gregation in higher education." proposed cuts in federal student While Pranske gave a "ball aid mean a change in who can go park" estimate that 10 to 15 to college. percent of aid reCipients here " We're making a major philo would be affected, Dwyer fig sophical shilt on student aid," ured about as much as one-third explained U.S. Education Dept. of Loyola's student aid is in jeo spokesman Duncan Helmrich. pardy. About 75 percent of " We want to encourage parent Loyola students receive some and student responsibility in form of aid . Guaranteed Student paying for college, and eliminate Loans there amount to $15 mil aid to higher income families. " lion. Up to $5 million of those But some colleges charge the loans could be e ndangered by plans mean more than just mak ing the system efficient or mak cU~6st hurt would be students ing sure only needy students get going to medical an.d law schools. money. One proposal would limit to " It's fostering elitism," said $4,000 the amount of grants stu Loyola University financial aid dents could receive . While basic director James Dwyer. "I agree undergraduate tuition at Loyola to reductions in (who gets) eligi is $5 ,090, medical school tuition bility, but not on this massive a is $11,100 a year. The $4,000 scale." limit would mean only students "I think it is an effort by the who could afford to pay $7,000 Reagan Administration to make a year for college out of their education, specifically private own pockets could afford to go to education, directed to the elite school. of society," said Columbia Col Dwyer attacked the proposed Slash! lege financial aid director Ra y family income limits for GSLs and Pranske. PELL Grants. Some large families Students from middle-income have more than one child in col or large-size families, as well as lege, said Dwyer. But the those going to private law or $32,500 income limit for GSLs That hurts medical schools, will be most hurt doesn't take that into account. by the proposed $400 million in "Mr. Reagan is calling them a Also, students wouldn't be Young students living on their aid cuts. middle-income family," said able to get more than $4,000 a own may also be affected. Under Members of Congress are also Dywer. " I don't think they year in aid, and every student one proposal, any student who is - up in arms about the c uts. are. " receiving a grant or loan would not yet age 22 by July 1 (the be expected to provide $800 in start of the government's t986 "self-help." budget yea,), would be classi Admits Education Dept.