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65 Years of Campus Coverage at Its Best in important decisions By ROCHELLE DURBAN currently going on with student on all loans. After talking with news editor aid. Congressman, Bill Paxon, repre• According to Multari, one of sentative of suburban Buffalo, Joseph Multari, secretary of the topics discussed was direct Multari found that Paxon agreed legislative affairs for Student Gov• lending and its future in the US. that the banks need to clean up ernment, attended the National Direct lending is a program in their act. "Because of all this YSU Association of Students for Higher which student loans go directly to will not have as many options on Education (NASHE) conference the Department of Education, in• financial aid as before," he said. in Washington DC Oct. 13-16. stead of going to a guaranteer. Other issues discussed besides NASHE is an organization "This is beneficial, because direct lending were loans, schol• consisting of students from Ohio, the student does not have to go arships, grants and graduate-aid Texas, Arizona and California. through a bank. Instead they can programs. "The biggest cut in stu• The purpose of the organization is obtain their money up front," dent aid will be dealing with sub• for students to get involved with Multari said. sidized loans," said Multari. political issues that affect students According to Multari, al• Originally a subsidized loan directly. though direct lending is benefi• included a six-month grace period NASHE was started in Octo• cial, the program it will not come where an accumulation of interest ber of 1994 to create a national to YSU. Multari added that direct would not occur until after gradu• body for the sole purpose of lob• lending might not be in existence ation. This will now no longer per• bying for student aid. "The main anymore."The Congressional tain. An accumulation of interest duty of the organization is to talk Budget Office scored it [direct will now occur after graduation. with the elected board of directors lending] as a loss to the federal Multari explained that and people from the Department government," he said. changes will not affect student aid of Education on the importance of Multari explained that the this year; however, in the next few aid to students," said Multari. federal government wants to do years he does not know what will PHOTO BY AMY WINGER This year's conference in• away with getting involved in happen. He adds that the main fac• Joe Multari, active in the National Association of Students for cluded electing a board of direc• people's lives and that includes tor in its [student aid,] future will Higher Education, works hard for student aid. tors for NASHE and talking with students' lives. depend on whether students get in• representatives from the Depart• As a result of this philosophy, volved and voice their opinions. ment of Education about what is the private sector will take over more than many with much longer tants and giving them opportuni• but I thought of her as a friend. careers. Joyce served as president ties to present research at confer• When she interviewed for her po• of the Biofeedback Society of ences. She went to extraordinary sition at YSU, I was more inter• Ohio in 1983-84 and was later efforts to obtain financial support ested in what kind of a person we appointed to the Board of Direc• for students who needed assistance might be hiring than in official tors of the Applied Psychophysi- to get to conferences. Sometimes credentials (most of the candidates ology and Biofeedback Society, an she was appropriately thanked, had excellent credentials). We ap• international research organiza• sometimes not. Our students re• peared to have much in common Opinion tion. Joyce was on the editorial ceived a richer education for Joyce from an interest in nonviolence to -Proposed bulk rate change board of that organization's jour• having been with us for 10 years. a lack of interest in wardrobe. may hit students hard. nal, Biofeedback and Self-Regula•Many will remember her as an ex• is ) When she arrived on campus, tion. She was chair of the psychol• emplary teacher and scholar. she settled into an office across ogy department at Muskingham Joyce had a fierce commit• from mine and later into a home -Halloween is disturbing College in Ohio, but we were able ment to the community of Young- on the street behind mine. We did holiday. to attract her to YSU in part be• stown. Again there is public evi• very little in the way of academic PAGE 4 cause of her commitment to her dence of this: her work on the work together, but she was a con• mother and brother in Cleveland Youngstown National Priorities stant supporter of my efforts in the after her father's death. Task Force. The rest of the story is classroom. She was also a valued Joyce Segreto In her almost 10 years at less public, evident again in the confidant as we talked about the Entertainment YSU, Joyce distinguished herself day-to-day kindnesses she dis• commonplace events that made up Editor's Note: After the death of in many ways. Her first priority played to those in the North Side our lives. We shared stories about ~Former Bunnymen get Dr. Joyce Segreto, psychology, was always her students. The pub• neighborhood where she lived for children and celebrated her electrifled.- early this month, a sense of loss lic evidence of this is a record of eight years. Her small favors (giv• daughter's and later her son's wed• was felt on the campus of YSU. distinguished awards including a ing a neighbor a ride to work, giv• dings. Later her grandson Stuart The following is an article submit• Distinguished Professorship in ing money to a neighbor's child for arrived, and I was entertained with -Penguin Review examines ted by Dr. Jane Kestner, a friend Teaching and the Libra Award for milk) and large favors (finding jobs daily "Stuart reports." By the time "rocky" past. and colleague of Segreto. outstanding advisor of the Sub• for neighborhood kids, offering to Phoebe arrived five years later, stance Abuse Awareness and Sup• pay for a college education to a Joyce was too ill to be in Colum• PAGE 5 Those involved in Peace port Group (a former student or• neighborhood boy suspected of bus for the birth. We had to have Council activities are well aware ganization). shooting a hole in her front win• the birthday party here instead. dow) were part of the obligation Despite her declining health, of Joyce's contribution to the What was not as publicly evi• Sports cause of global peace. Her world dent was the day-to-day. dedica• she felt to those who had relatively Joyce continued calling me daily, travels to Russia, Germany and tion to and concern for students less privileged lives. She infre• always upbeat, always interested "YSU hosts cross country quently received thanks, some• France brought new photos and that I witnessed from the office in what was going on with me. championship atAvalon. fresh insights into other cultures. across the hall. I was always im• times she received hostility. It was Her last days were "quality" You may remember her best for pressed with the amount of time not always an easy place to live: days just as the rest of her life that. she took with students. As a pro• some of us moved away out of fear, had been. Her last "comment" to -Penguins look to Indiana You may also be aware of her fessor, there is always the tempta• but Joyce remained. I hope some me was an optimistic thumbs-up State., many other accomplishments in tion to spend more time with the of those she helped will remember as I left to run in the Peace Race. her all-too-brief professional ca• brighter, more promising students. her as a good neighbor. It should be noted that Joyce's reer. Joyce received her Ph.D. Joyce certainly devoted more than Although I knew about death occurred shortly after the PAGE 6 from Ohio University in 1983 as ample time to these students, but Joyce's public service and aca• conclusion of the race com• a nontraditional student who had she also repeatedly took the risk demic accomplishments, I didn't memorating the cause of world raised a family. In her 12 years in of taking in marginal students, think about them often. Her ac• peace. academics, she accomplished training them as research assis• complishments were formidable. THE JAMBAR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1995 Retirin^BursjH YSU community after 27 years Homecoming King and Queen Gerald Fox, Bursar, retired this of by the staff," said Fox. week after 27 years at YSU. Fox was eligible to take his re• As Bursar, and assistant Bur• tirement in July through the Uni• sar, Fox, a YSU alumnus, has been versity buy-out plan, yet he de• responsible for billing students cided to stay until the newly in• and collecting their money. stalled computer system was up "In 1968 we became a comput• and running. erized-billing system, yet all the "The old system was archaic, computer did was calculate the but there was always a paper trail student's initial bill. We've been a to fall back on. With the new sys• manual operation for a long time. tem, you relinquish that control All changes were screened and and have to rely on the computer," typed physically, so all add/drop and any refunding was taken care See BURSAR page 8 Gerald Fox Mark McDonough and Katie Etheridge were crowned YSU's king and queen at last Saturday's Homecoming game.

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