Reagan Aid Cut Would Affect Most Students Here Black History Month

Wat Satlg OlamwuB "Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896" VoL LXXXVIIINo. 65 The University of Connecticut Monday, February 4, 1985 Reagan aid cut would affect most students here By Colin Poltras If accepted the president's limita- "There will be a different type of stu- receive in one year. According to dent coming to UConn. They will be Newt Editor O'Dette undergraduate students with tions on aid will inevitably push higher About two-thirds of UConn students income students who may have opted coming here instead of going to private a family income of less than $25,000 a institutions," O'Dette said 'Usually will be denied financial aid if President year and almost all graduate students for more expensive private colleges Reagan's proposed cutbacks in col- before into public universities state schools should have a cross sec- would be hurt by this. tion of students, but that's going to be lege loans to families with a yearly "The $4,000 ceiling would be devas- Vlandis said income above $32,500 is accepted by "It's the private sector which is more of a problem now." tating to all our graduate programs," The average middle-income family Congress, a spokesman for the univer- John W. Vlandis. UConn director of going to suffer the most and the public sity said sector is probably going to absorb earns about $30,000 a year, and many "If he (Reagan) does propose a ceil- those students," Vlandis said "It's UConn students fit in that category. ing of about $32,500 it will be devastat- unfortunate because students should With five in a family and two children in ing to most students who receive a News Analysis have access to choice The whole pur- college, the money doesn't go that far. Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL)," pose of Financial aid is to allow ODette said Veronica O'Dette UConn director of students to have a choice regardless of Student reaction to Reagan's pro- Financial aid said "Now, if students admissions said "Grad students for financial cost" posals reiterated the fears stressed by show need they can still get a loan, but the most part are dependent and don't Undergraduates living on campus at UConn administrators. "I don't think this won't happen if the new proposal have the support from their parents Storrs pay about $4350 in yearly fees, it's fair. They're forcing us into a posi- gets passed" like many undergraduates." Graduate which is the highest for public univer- tion where if you don't have enough In his budget plans for fiscal 1986, students are currently allowed up to sities in the state The average cost for money you can't go," Mary Ellen Barry, Reagan also asked for a $4,000 limit in $5,000 in aid a year, nearly double the attending private institutions in Con- a sixth semester student here said total financial aid students could maximum figure for undergraduates. necticut is about $10,000. See page 4 Black History Month begins By Laura Ullasz ashamed of their blackness. George Benson's 'Everything Life/Style Editor We want America to itself not must change' UConn" s sixteenth obser- be ashamed of a vital part of State Treasurer Henry vance of Black History Month its heritage which is black- Parker, who appeared on began Friday with a celebra- ness,' Travis said behalf of Governor William tion at the Afro-American During the month of Feb- ONeill stressed the impor- Cultural Center. This is the ruary, the A-ACC will attempt tance of educatioa He said 59th year that Black History "to reacquaint black people that an educated person will Month has been celebrated in with their history and try to achieve more affluence and the United States. February is introduce the majority of the live a more comfortable life chosen as the month for re- population to the vital aspects than an uneducated person. membrance because the birth- of black culture," Travis said He said that in a technical age days of Frederick Douglass Along with guest speakers, people must be able to master and Abraham Lincoln are in the opening ceremonies fea- technology in order to pre- February. tured a dramatic presentation vent themselves from falling Artie Travis, director of A- by the New Heritage Drama victim to it ACC said that Black History Collective They performed a Parker ended his talk by Month is a celebration here humorous narrative of the life quoting Martin Luther King, aimed at introducing people of Madame Alberta K. John- No man has learned to live State Treasurer Henry Parker spoke at the opening to the realities of the black son. Joeleen Elliott, Miss until he can rise above the ceremonies of Black History Month here Friday (Mark Cas- culture 'We want black stud- Black UConn 1985, performed narrow coti'.ines of his indh- well nhoto). ents themselves n«» to ht» a modern dance routine to SeeP**e6 Woman is rescued from Mirror Lake By Colin Poltras News Editor A quick-thinking grad student who pulled a young woman from the middle of Mirror Lake last Thursday still doesn't know who he rescued Glenn Daigon, a 26-year-old student in UConn's Masters of Public Administration program crawled across the cracking ice of the lake to reach the girl who was immersed up to her neck in the cold water. But after pulling her free, Daigon said the embarrassed young woman thanked him and left "The whole thing took place in well under.a minute" Daigon said "I told her she should go to the infirmary after I pulled her out but she just thanked me and said she was going back to her dorm to get cleaned up. She seemed really embarrassed" - "• ML. While he was walking along the east bank of Mirror Lake at 10:00 am. last Thursday, Daigon heard a scream for help "I Y looked out at the lake and in a small por tiori of water about 20 feet from the island I saw a head bobbing just off the solid ice," A mob of students ecstatic over the arrival of Saturday night* s snowfall run through Daigon said See page 4 South Campus looking for snowball fights (Mary lyAngclls photo). Inside Today: Weather Forecast: •The Redman down our Huskies 97-64 see back page Mostry sunny today with tem- • Community college students may find It easier to transfer peratures In the 20s. Tonight clear and here see story on page 8. cold temps dipping into the single digits. b. Page 2 The Dally Campus, Monday. February 4, 1985 Morning Comment Andy Rooney News Digest The real cost of bills In the College inequality revealed NEW HAVEN (AP)— Unkmed ident of the union chapter at State faculty, administrators and pro- South Central Community Col- is a function of time fessional employees are "at the lege "We're at the bottom of the bottom of the higher education higher education barrel" Paying a bill isn't just a matter of liaving the money. Like writing a barrel," says one union official Jackson Poley, chief negotiator letter.there's moreto paying R bill than just thinking y< m ought to do it Towns argue who believes, like many others, for the board of trustees, ack- Paying a bill is easy to put off even if your bank account is in that wages and working con- nowledged that the community reasonably good shape. I suspect 1 pay my bills now a little slower ditions won't improve until there's college system, as the youngest than I did when I was broke. eviction costs more leverage at the bargaining branch of the higher-education If you've ever talked to a small-businessman or if you are one, you table system, is "still building" Some know how slow people are to pay. Most slow payers aren't dishonest "The difference in salaries bet- regional colleges do not even or broke. They just don't get at it That doesn't make it any easier for HARTFORD —Several Con- ween us and the other colleges have cairipuses. the small-businessman of course. necticut communities are press- and universities is symptomatic But he denied the system is a Doctors always have a lot of unpaid bills. They often have so many ing the state to help them provide of the treatment the whole com- poor cousin to the University of deadbeats that they overcharge the patients that do pay what they funds for people displaced by munity college system has re Connecticut the state univer- owe, to make up for those who don't. I personally don't like a lot of housing code violations. ceived," said Robert Miles, pres- sities and the technical colleges. talk about money when it involves a doctor. I think of doctors as Several towns, including being above the idea of money. I'm crazy, of course. Hartford Vernon, Norwich and A lot of people pay the doctor last and this strikes me as strange Bozrah. are paying such reloca- Insurance policy saves geese because you have a first person relationship with a doctor that you tion damages so tenants can SIMSBURY (AP)-A gaggle of moved to a farm. don't have with the power company. It would be difficult to rush into leave condemned apartments. geese has been saved from a "Our legal department was the doctor's office in an emergency if you still owed him for the last But officials in those towns say threat of eviction by a major Con- concerned about potential liabil- two visits you made a year ago that because the state requires necticut corporation, with a $1 ity if the geese injured someone You and I may live with a vague kind of guilt over bills we haven't such reimbursement it should million insurance policy to cover or damaged something saic paid that are more than 30 days old, but not paying bills quickly is a help foot the bill, which could their misdeeds.

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