Retriever, November 6, 1978 15 ~ ~@UIT©rnl~£!\[l ~@[MJ[MJ~~IJ======Red tape cheating UMBC students

Eighty-eight students were denied defernnents on their tuition and housing bills after there was still some delay in processing federal financial aid requests. That means they have been deregistered and are officially no longer stu­ dents at UMBC. What can they do now? They have attended classes for two months, all the time assuming they would receive financial aid. They've been thrown out of UMBC with bills ranging from $380 to nearly $1,200 for residence that they must pay. This doesn't even include all the other expenses they have had, such as books, gas, bus fares, parking registration, pens and paper. To top it off they have 90 days to pay their bills before the state central collection agency begins collecting. If these students had known they were ineligible- which isn't necessarily true -they could have spent the past two months earning enough to pay the spring semester tuition or to find an alternative source of income for this semester. Instead, they've spent the past two months toiling away. And for what? Nothing, apparently. They are to be taken off class lists and they can start packing. They can't pay their bills because of a snag in the federal bureaucracy. It just doesn't seem fair. Federal bureaucracy fouls things up, a "thinking" computer delays the procedures and the victims, UMBC students, must pay for it. The 88 students in this predicament should be allowed to continue attend- bureaucratic red tape. Aren't there emergency funds in some account to ing classes. It isn't clear yet that these students are ineligible for financial loan, if not to invest, in 88 futures? Can't the university be the good guys aid and it certainly isn't clear they can pay the bill for a semester they can't this time? complete. ~ The returns on such an investment could, in the long run, be beneficial. Every year at· this time., financial aid funds at UMBC are pretty scarce. ·These students shouldn't be made to suffer the consequences of a "thinking" But there must be a way to help these students who h.ave become victims of computer's delays. [l ~II 1r ~ rru ~ ======mentality is apparently capable of for such a deserving group of musicians. The article, by Paul Koons, spoke very handling is an exchange of mocking Admin and insults designed to eliminate any Yes· heads highly of the album and all of their past accomplishments. exchange of ideas. I'm sorry, but I'm I'm sorry to say that Mr. Koons has pissed. How anyone could have the criticize managerial audacity to actually write such an In your Oct. 30, 1978 issue (Vol. 13 No. done a very poor job of journalism. At infantile letter amazes me, and I can't 10) of the Retriever I came across a first glance, I sympathetically thought it Students currently enrolled in or see how anyone could take that slop revjew of the new Yes album 'Tormato'! was a typographical error, but upon planning to sign up for one of the seriously. I was very pleased to see the exposure further reading I realized my intelligence Certificate programs in Administrative was being insulted. Mr. Koons take and Managerial Sciences, should fill out John Cary note. ''On the first album, no track was a short form in the Administrative shorter than eight minutes .... '' shall I Sciences office (601 Administration) This will be the last of a series of UMBC list them. between 9:00 and 12:00 daily. letters on fusion. Beyond and Before (4:50) Information about your special inte­ Yesterday and Today (2:37) rests will help me let you know about Support for RETRIEVER Harold Land (5:26) changes in the program; opportunities Sweetness (4:19) for internships and cooperative educa­ The Retriever is the weekly I see You (6:33) tion positions: talks and lectures useful UMBC NAACP student newspaper of the Univ· Looking Around (3:49) to students planning career::; in business The Brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Frat., ersity of Maryland, Baltimore Everylittle Thing (5:24) and management; and job opportunities. Inc., Zeta Upsilon, and their Sisters of County, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Survival (6:01) Yours truly, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Theta Eta Baltimore, Md. 21128. Offices located at ''This trend continued until William H. Becker, Director are working in support of the NAACP 116 Hillcrest are open 9 am. to 4 p.m. "Fragile," the fourth album, which Office of Administrative and Membership Drive. We extend support daily. contained tracks of shorter length .... '' Managerial Sciences to the UMBC NAACP Chapter, by The Retriever publishes ev.ery Monday The second album "Time and a Word" promoting membership on campus, but during the regular semester except during contains one- song 'The prophet' (6:32) our efforts involve also, to reach the holidays and exam periods. which even comes close. masses of people in outlying communi­ Opinions expressed herein are tho~e More debate ties. We have pledged to the Baltimore of the authors and are not necessarily It is on ''The Yes Album'' and Branch NAACP Chapter, to reach a goal those of the students, faculty, or admini· "Fragile" that the tracks get longer. on fusion in pledging 200 members. For the stration of UMBC. Yours is No Disgrace (9:36) purpose of educating · the community For further information, call 455-2224 All Good People (6:47) It seems to me that a fusion club about the struggles for political, or 455-2226. Heart of the Sunrise (10:34) should be discussing how fusion will aid economic, and social rights, in th.e mankind, and what detrimental side Editor-in-Chief ...... Mary K. Tilghman Starship Trooper (9:23) "Fight For Freedom." Be concem•Mi Mlflaging Editor ...... Tricia Hopkins Perpetual Change (8:50) effects may be produced; perhaps and committed. The NAACP needs News Editor ...... Denise Spence South Side of the Sky (8:04) Gerald Berg should rename his club the YOU. Sports Editor ...... Kathleen Warnock and your ''Fantastic Single Round­ UMBC ConFusion Club. Last week, Mr. Sincerely, FeatUJes Editor ...... •. larry Norton about'' (8:29) Berg declared that I was an anarchist Ronald Hawkins Business Manager ...... Joe Kelly because, he said, I was antifusionist. Not Phi Beta Sigma Ad Manager ...... M. Jean Tilghman At this point you thoroughly confuse once in my letter of two weeks ago did I Sovella Miller the reader by stating ''The group claim to be antifusionist, and in fact I'm Zeta Phi Beta STAFF evolved further. After the addition of not. As a biology major interested in Sharon Adamitis Pete Kerzel Steve Howe in 1970 .. .. Rick Wakeman research and/or medidne, I support the Co-op Pete Allen Paul Koons joined ... with the addition of Alan sincere effort to increase man's standard Cindy Beck John Markus White, Yes reached its present of living, including the investigation into Ed Bunyan Deborah Miller complement of five musicians.'' Steve Annie Callahan Tim Moreland the use of nuclear energy. day care Tom Callahan Paul Mountcastle Howe has a solo cut on ''The Yes What I do not believe, however, is that There are several parents who want to Steve Chandler Alex O'Brien Album'' entitled ''The Clap,'' Wakeman one can label a person with palitical and establish a cooperative daycare here on · Pat Deignan Ibrahim Olorogun also has a solo cut on "Fragile" called religious beliefs simply because that campus and are willing to take measures C.A. Dickinson Mary Ann Pater "Cans and Brahms." So you see both person believes that nuclear energy may to make it happen. But we need your Rai Douglas Mary E. Peiterson are already in group. This leads the be dangerous. Mr. Berg has apparently support. We need volunteers who are Dawn Fairchild Cathy Powell reader to ponder how Yes put out four misinterpreted my dislike for him as a willing to give their names and phone Debora Fajer Mike Aitken albums in one year. dislike for fusion: and has maliciously numbers so that we can have them as Steve Farrell Gussie Scardina Mr. Koons. better luck next time. My twisted that misinterpretation with a resource sitters or helpers on an Pam Ferguson Anne Marie Scheile advise is to take a refresher course, occasional basis. Mark Fulco Mark Schenerman series of maniacal arguments, finally Research 100. concluding that I am an anarchist! How Any parents who think they would use Mike Gooden Sandi Steele this service or anyone interested in Richard Gough Kathy Stewart the hell anyone could be so blinded by Kim Keller Paul Strohl Sincerely, his own fanatical effort to make everyone pitching in, please contact me at Joe Kerger Ellen Udell Mike Adams meet his own standards is amazing. The 761-8590 or leave a message Juana Wilson President Catonsville Yes Heads only debate of which Mr. Berg's Josephine Pizarro