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Columbia Chronicle Volume 20, Number -l Monday, March 21, 1988 Columbia College, Chicago Cost· may Lack of participation exceed plegues proposed benefits of student government additional By Victoria Pierce other schools students governments and how they are structured is done by The "desperate" need for student in the research committee. Once all the volvement is causing major problems security other phases are completed by the other for this year's attempt at forming a stu sub-committees. the petition committee By Lee Bey dent government. will start circulating petitions fo r signa "Lack of student participation is Students and library personnel are tures of students who support having a holding us back." said organizer Pa becoming increasingly vocal about put student government. trick Riley, at the March 17 meeting at- ting an extra guard near the school li tended by only nine students. Despite the organization. students brary, but the cost ~ no1 outweigh the " We're almost at a standstill.·· Ryan arc not giving much support. Even benefits the executive vice president of Daniels. another organizer. said. some of the sub-committee directors the college said. In the past two weeks the govern- were absent from Thursday ·s meeting " ltcould cost$40 .000ayea~" Exec ment has completely reorganized itself which was supposed to be a progress rc utive Vice President Ben Gall said. into a formal structured body. port of what the sub-committees had ac " And you need a guard and a half, actu "We could not build a house on a complished during the week. ally... because the library has a four weak foundation. ·· Riley said in an car- The research committee did find that teen hou; day." lier interview. St. Xavier College. a school half the "I say people should practice caution Currently. there is a nine member size of Columbia. has a student govern here," Gall said. "The same way they committee forming the backbone of the mcnt receiving a budget directly from do when they're out on the street, at a government while still in its planning the school. St. Xavier's 13-memberdc concert or at a ballpark, ·• Gall said. stages. The nine members will not be cision-making body plans dances and Thefts of students' personal items 1illowed to run for elected offices to as- sets up charity evcolts ., well as being • have been a problem for the two-floor sure people involved now are not just voice for the students. library located in the Michigan build publicity seekers, Riley explained. The consensus of those at the meet- ing. The committee is broken into four ing was if a school the size of St. Xavier " There's been at least a half-dozen sub-committees: communication. has an organized governing lxxly then thefts this semester," Charles Elfuronn, Simon takes lllino'Is···--·""'···" agenda planning. research and petition. Columbia should be able to do the library circulation coordinator said. Last week's Illinois primary left a good taste in the mouth of victor Pa ul The communication commiucc is in same. "There should be more security in the Simon. The senator won 137 of the state's 173 de legates and virtually charge of advertising and passing the "This is not the fir.;t time a student building.'' breathed new life into his faltering campaign. Bu t he may not be out oft he word about government meetings. The government has been attempted here.·· Elftmann helped nab a man who at woods. The Michigan prim ary is this week and Simon is not expected to agenda planning committee sets goals. said Dean of Student Services. Her tempted to escape the library after a do as well. plans meetings and organitcs a calendar mann Conaway. who said he would be foiled theft attempt Nov. 17. of events. Background re>earch on Tyrone Washington, 21. who is not a Continued on Page 4 Columbia student, allegedly took a purse from a woman's book bag on the library's second floor, carried it to a high Reagan budget to boost student aid bookshelf and rifled through its con tents. By Mike O'Keeffe eluded in the proposal, which the presi summit locked things in.·· Ro,chwalb common. a~ mo~t cc.unpus Jobbybt!o, The woman's friend saw the incident dent sent to Congress in mid February. said. ·· obody is moving. The atmo gmdgingly appmvcd of the propo"'" and alerted her, according to a security CPS- About250,000 more college stu " We welcome the nine percent in sphere in Washington i' pamlyLCd.'' fmm a prc, identthcy 'till couldn't bring report. When the woman approached dents will receive grant money from the crease in student aid," said Becky Tim He had hoped for a budget that at them~clvcs to pmi!o,C . Washington, he threw the items at her, federal government if Congress ap mons of the American Council on Edu tacked loan defaults- which Ros ·· 11 rcprcscnb congrc~~ional priori pushed her against a wall and fled, said proves President Reagan's 1989 budget. catio n. "Last year the administration chwalb says arc fueled by loaning t ic~ more than the admini!-.trJtion \ pri security officer AI ltson, who caught The Reagan administration·s pro sought to cut student aid by 46 percent. money to unprepared students and a orities.·· 'aid Mary Prc, ton of the Washington after he broke Elftmann ·s posed 1989 budget includes a four per This is a nunarl<able election year turn lack of adequate postsecondary tutor United States Student A;sociation grasp. cent increase in U .S. Department o f around." ing- but got one he feels throws good (USSA). " It's the fir»t time the prcsi- " Washington was arrested and sen Education spending, a dramatic tum The administrntion. which for seven money after bad. tenced to 90 days in jail for battery,·· It around from past funding proposals that years has sought to cut Education Dept. Yet Roschwalb's objections were un- Continued on Page 3 son said. sought to decrease it. spending, agreed to increase funding ltson echoes Galls statements about The Education Dept., of course, ad during December's budget " summit" ministers most federal school and col with Democratic congressional leaders. ~ The llew Hl1her Ed lud1et Prepesal lege programs. " We have an agreement with Con Continued on Page 4 WNI lhePrtwet\1 A hefty jump for student aid was in- gress," said James Miller, head of the 1917 1911 PrllOO\eS S(Iendlno ll'l Office of Management and Budget, FUNDING • FUNDING • 1919• which wrote the proposal. "Our num Student Aid 8,215.50 8,124.21 8,835.22 Inside -'! bers are their numbers, and their num Grad Student bers are our numbers. That removes a Support 18.95 36.20 25.40 An election night New image for point of contention." Direct campus Aid 241 .37 251.10 190.40 Also, amendments to last year's Bilingual Ed 37.30 39.20 35.60 look at Springsteen's Gramm-Hollings-Rudman deficit re library Programs 7.00 6.40 0 "runnel of Love" duction law canceled a low fiscal 1989 Aid to Jackson's deficit ceiling that would have required Disadvantaged Students 184.10 214.30 213.00 tour supporters deep cuts. Education Research PAGE9 The 1989 fiscal year will begin on & Stats 63.60 67.50 81.00 PAGE4 Oct. I. 1988. and end Sept. 30. 1989. Education for - Although most observers applauded the HandiCapped Students 170.20 170.50 170.50 Sports proposal- which Congre" no" must Miscellaneous Programs 1,144.80 1,209.69 1,241.09 High grades approve-Jerry Roschwalb of the Na Total of College NCAA tional Association of State Univcl"\i tic ~ Programs within !; go unnoticed and Land Grant College> ""1d the · U.S. Dept. of Education 10,012.12 10,119.10 10,792.21 player of tjle year budget rcnects a president "ho i> ' In Molhons ot Dollars "treading water." ' PAGES PAGE 12 COLLEGE PJIESS SEAVICE . "Nothing will happen this year. The J PAGll March 21, 1988 COLUMBIA CHRONICLE '\f\\ ~ News Briefs College promotes intensified Hokin Center invites all to student board meeting writing to enhance learning Additional help for students, who The student advisory board of the Hokin Student Center will hold an open By Letricia Riley In an informal survey, some students meeting in the cente r March 23 at 4:30p.m .. This is your chance to meet the said they shied from the writing inten may experience writers' block because board and discuss issues. For more inforn1ation. call 663-1600 x696. Photography and dance majors, sive courses, but the enrollment was not of the increased writing assignments can be found in the Writing Center lo Hispanic student's coalition to host orientation among others, may be wondering how negatively affected according to KJu writing intensive courses crept into their koff.