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Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 9-19-1984 The Guardian, September 19, 1984 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1984). The Guardian, September 19, 1984. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Daily Guardian "Twenty years serving the students of Wright State University" Number 7. Volume XXI Wednesday, September 19. 1984 SOPP financial policy under review dress the concern with a view toward making a change." The policy that requires all School "We will have a first hand look at of Professional Psychology students to that situation (and) see whether the re- submit a parental financial statement quirement stands at other universities to qualify for assistance might be and what impact any change would changed, said W. Rodney Hammond, make," Hammond said. assistani dean of student affairs for the The department is currently seeking school. student opinion through the Student On July 9, the SOPP Student Coun- Affairs Committee, Hammond cil sent a letter to Hammond, express- concluded. ing concern over the policy. SOPP Student Council member Gayle Griffin had said earlier, "The Elsewhere policy tends to harm the very students our school seeks, which is the more Compiled from UP1 wire copy mature, more independent student." DAYTON.OHIO --The limited United Auto "The requirement has been Workers Sirike has meant the layoff of 311 recognized as a legitimate issue," United Rubber workers at General Motors In- Hammond said. "It has always had ex- land Division in Dayton. A CM spokesman' says the giant automaker is considering reduc- ceptions on an ad hoc basis," he ing overtime hours at Delco Products rather continued. than laying off workers. "We feel it's important to address About 100 workers from the Inland Division any unreasonable requirement," Ham- signed up for unemployment benefits. JOHN SVAHN. presidential advisor for policy development, spoke on Title IX legislation mond added. "There are plans to ad- A Federal Appeals Court in Washington to- at the White House Collegiate Press Conference Monday. Pioto try Scott Kltje) day upheld the Abscam bribery conviction of former Congressman John .lenrette. His lawyers had argued that the FBI entrap- ped ihe congressman when they posed as rich Reagan discusses new civii rights act Arabs trying to buy influence in Congress. Officials now expect five Alaskan seamen to be released soon by Soviet authorities w ho have By MARJORIE KNUTSON held them since Wednesday. The seamen say and DREW DIXON announced John Svahn, assistant to financial aid was not allowed to they refused to sign confessions that said they the President for Policy Development. discriminate," Svahn explained. "And deliberately entered Soviet waters. In Monday's meeting with his aides. The Grove City case was a Supreme you all know how big the financial aid President Ronald Reagan discussed the Court decision handed down in March office is on most campuses." Secretary of State Shult/ says President future of the Civil Rights Act of 1984 Reagan wants to convince Soviet Foreign of this year. The justices ruled that President Reagan is concerned with Minister Andrei Gromyko that the United intended to eliminate discrimination Grove City College in Pennsylvania the current piece of legislation being States is not threatening the Soviet Union. The from all U.S. college and university could discriminate in any collegiate discussed in Congress, because it two meet later this month. programs. programs that did not directly involve "would extend...the rules to every seg- COLUMBUS -Stale Representative W. "We are attempting to get the Grove federal funds. ment of society that comes into con- Bennett Rose of Lima wants the State Highway City case overturned with legislation," "That meant only the office of tact with federal money (from Title IX Patrol to investigate political contributions by programs)," Svahn said. Deputy Motor Vehicle Registrars. The Lima Republican says he wants to find out if his "We're working out the details with VA changes program verification suspicions are true that the donations to the Congress to try and work out the Democratic Parly are a condition for getting logistics which would expand (protec- or keeping a deputy's job. The Veterans Administration has He said this change will affect tion coverage) to those areas, but A spokesman for Governor Celeste says that announced it has changed the way it veterans and beneficiaries in farm would not approach (non-related that is not the administration's policy. The verifies attendance of veterans and spokesman says the Governor will not call for coooerative management programs, areas)," he continued. the patrol investigation unless Rose furnishes beneficiaries in GI Bill non-college vocational technical schools and other "I do not think that in solving the a specific example. degree programs. non-col. ge degree certificate problem the neighborhood grocery AROUND OHIO -Autoworkers at the Bernard D. Duber, acting director programs. store and every place that touches a General Motors Corporation Plants in Ohio of the VA Regional Office in Payments for each month the federal dollar will need to get in- arc hoping negotiations will produce a contract Cleveland, said that effective veteran or beneficiary is in school will volved," said Secretary of Education before the ripple effects of a partial strike hits September 1 the federal agency will be made only after verification of at- Terrel H. Bell the Ohio plants. A union official in Parma says verify school attendance on a monthly morale of workers is good and attendance is tendance, justifying payment, has been Bell mentioned that Grove City has normal. basis instead of quarterly. received. Duber said this procedure never applied for federal funding, A similar situation is echoed at a transmis- "will significantly reduce the over- preferring to remain a private college, sion plant in Toledo. payments that the Veterans Ad- independent of federal guidelines. COLUMBUS -Vice President George Bush Your favorite feline ministration has experieced in the However, under the new funding headlines the list of speakers at today's Ohio past." law, any college or university which ac- Republican Convention in Columbus. It will The VA director said advance cepts a student receiving work-study or be the Vice President's second appearance in is coming payments will continue to be process- Pell Grant aid w iii have to comply with the capital city in three weeks. Bush will attend a fund-raiser for top ed as in the past, when such payments all federal non-discrimination Republican contributors late tomorrow after- ar requested by the veteran and the guidelines. noon,then keynote the G.O.P. meeting at the to Wright State school participates in the advance pay- If colleges such as Grove City want Alladin Temple Shrine. Also speaking is Con- ment program. to continue their discriminatory gressman Phillip Crane of Illinois He urged students in the program policies, Bell said, "They'll have to WASHINGTON --President Reagan rejected October 1 who may experience payment pro- prohibit even one student with a Pell a Steel Industry request to restrict U.S. steel blems to call the VA on its toll-free Grant from coming there." imports. Instead, the President will ask steel- lines. Numbers are available from "If they do that, we'll have to be on produting nations to voluntarily hold down so- J called "suijics" in their steel exports. directory assistance. their campus reviewing them,'" he stud. 2 The Daily Guardian September 19, 1984 Campuses curtail overnight visitations GAINESVILLELE. FL (CPS)-(CPS)-- representatives was reartino ™ _u representatives was reacting to an the changes. University of Florida students soon alleged rape at a fraternity house and a.m. on weekends, with the curfew en- Students themselves are the ones may find their indoor nocturnal ac- a campus hearing into a student's com- ding at 8 a.m. tivities curtailed by a ban on members asking for the stricter housing policies, Botterman claims the change plaint about being disturbed by late- claims Paul Jahr, research committee of the opposite sex spending the night night visitors says Hugh Cunningham, violates the student constitution, ap- chairman of the American Association with them in residence halls and frater- director of university information. proved by the university's Board of nity houses. of College and University Housing Of- Governors, which specifies that "Currently, overnight visitation is ficers (ACUHO). And if Florida and other colleges are not permitted," Cunningham notes. students will be consulted in every level "The nature of college students in any indication, student!; everywhere "But 24-hour visitation is, so obvious- of policymaking. may soon be facing tough new restric- general is changing," he explains. "The administration brought out ly overnight visitation probably "They are making an economic deci- tions on what they can do in campus exists." the policy with no debate," he says. housing. sion to go to college and they want to Among the suggestions were in- "The students protested. The current Florida decided to think seriously make the best use of their time." policy has been in effect since about house monitoring by students and staff Dorm visiting policies were a ques- about joining the growing number of of individual residence halls, and live- 1969 and dorm residents vote by floor colleges that restrict visiting hours tion "way back when,"Jahr adds, but on visitation hours." in adult supervision in fraternity as society has changed in the past two when a university task force suggested houses.