Patfe Q K eerietl I I Page lOis ghoulish! Page 9 is eerie. fPage n is creepy, IS 6 norma]! f//f ENJOYABLE BUNNY COMIC MANIFESTS A BUNNY! SPORTSI THE POPEI LETTERS! CD REVIEWS, MOVIEREVIEWS, EVEN BOOK REVIEWS - OOOOO SCARY! CAVEAT LECTOR: MANY SHOCKING THINGS INSIDE IF YOU DARE TURN THE PAGE NEWS October 30, 1997 The UWM Post The Conference goes on Mongolian victory Seen & int seminar last April. The Post, however,, still can be distingished from either paper by The State of Wisconsin's isn't This iver the wire: Mongolian PSE made up birthday bags for the fact that it is actually in opera­ the only legislature to slide behind students don't like high tuition ;hildren staying with their moth­ tion, a useful quuality in a newspa­ and let higher ed budgets linger in and fees any more than most UWM ers at the Sojourner Truth House Heard shelter for battered women; per for all concerned. limbo. The Feds are doing the students do. A report from Reuters FOCUS holds an annual sum- same, in a sense, taking their time says Mongolian students fear Compiled by the Post staff to settle what will happen with fi­ "higher costs threaten to kill uni­ ner camp the week before school An odd sort of victory nancial aid appropriations. versity education...by putting uni­ or incoming freshmen. Months ago, we reported the Last week just after we went to versities beyond the reach of many The most intense debate within possibility that U.S. tax laws would press, the Congress passed a Con­ Mongolian families." Sounds fa­ now the csd is being cast aside. Try he committee was over who would be changed to eliminate the tax tinuing Resolution (H.J.Res. 97) miliar. In Mongolia, thousands of sending mail now to •ecieve third place. benefits of tuition waivers for gradu­ to extend government programs students marched despite laws [email protected] and it'll Winners receive framed certifi- ate assistants. Those proposals were an additional two weeks while con­ against public protest, boycotted probably get there. ;ates and money awards of $300, defeated, and grad students receiv­ ference committees strive to rec­ classes, and succeeded in winning $200 and $100 contributed by the ing such benefits still are not taxed oncile House and Senate versions the intervention of the prime min­ "Friends of \lumni Association. on them. of various segments of the Federal ister. After the PM threatened to Higher Education" Also on November 7, a variety But the National Association of Budget that remain out of align­ terminate the posts of a dozen pub­ faculty and staff awards will be given, Graduate and Professional Stu­ The official position of the UWM and a reception held. ment. lic school heads and pull the li­ Student Association is that having dents is now relaying reports from The Labor, Health and Human censes of private institutions, some around the country that colleges to go to a private bank for a student Whither spring break? Services and Education Appropria­ important Mongolian institutions loan that will charge extra fees and are withholding taxes from fee tions Subcommittee is meeting as of higher ed have acceeded to low­ interest oyer what the government APC needs input waiver benefits. NAGPS suspects we go to press in effort to work out ering tuition and fees by anywhere would charge is a bad thing. Direct Word has it that the Academic thatthe extention of some benefits funding levels for important finan­ from 25 to 50 percent. lending is simpler, more efficient, Policy Committee here at UWM is of Section 127 of the tax code to cial aid programs including Pell and cheaper for students. discussing changing the timing of undergraduates may have con­ Grants, State Student Incentive No more "csd." But that's not how the banks that spring break. Currently, break is fused some colleges into thinking Grants (which fund Wisconsin's While there are still some cir­ make their money off origination held in March, somewhat bisecting graduate rules had changed. TIP program), andjavits Graduate cumstances when students have to fees and high interest like to see it. the semester. The proposal is to Fellowships. At issue is $35 million give their full e-mail address To protect the cherished institu­ hold spring break in line with many Search and for SSIG and Pell Grant eligibility @alphawhatever.csd.uwm.edu, it's tion of the private college loan in­ of the Milwaukee-area public Screen Process for 175,000 additional students been getting easier to get by with school systems, by beginning Eas­ dustry; they and their friends have , The.selection.of a .new. UWM nationwide. less and less when simply sending ter weekend and continuing for formed a political action commit- chancellor is underway. The com­ mail.Firstthealphawentaway, and the following week. i tee called the "Friends of Higher mittee is empaneled, its char se­ Proponents of the policy change Education" striving to preserve lected. A variety of meetings have suggest that this will make spring those life-giving student loans, i.e. already been held to solicit input break more "family-friendly," in the protect them from being replaced from different parts of the campus words of Professor George Davida, by loans that students find cheaper community. And the A.T. Kearney The UWM Post a member of the APC. However, a and easier. search firm has been employed to Established 1956 recent survey by the Student Asso­ How much money has this PAC help generate a pool of candidates ciation suggests that student opin­ lavished on federal legislators wran­ for the job. ion is strongly in favor of maintain­ gling over the future of direct lend­ Stephen Percy, Director of the STAFF ing? Our agents are looking into it. ing the spring break where it is, rather than risk having it just a Center for Urban Initiatives amd Research and a prof in the Poli Sci Editor in Chief Gary Grass Student Service Awards couple of weeks prior to exams. The Student Association recently Department is the S&S Chair. On November 7, the University In addition to Percy and student Managing Editor vacant Business Manager TheresaFlynn took a position against changing Legal Clinic, Pi Sigma Epsilon and News Editor Bryan G,. Pfeifer Office Manager Babette Grunow the timing opf spring break, and is committee members Jessica Angus Freshman Orientation Committee Mosaic Editor Sue Gronemus Ad Manager Theresa Flynn recommending that committee and Sachin Chheda, the following Arts Editor for University Students will receive Pete Menting Classifieds Manager KristaKinnius members vote against. individuals are on the committee: Editorial Editor Babette Grunow Advertising Rep. Rochelle Bernard awards for exceptional service to The APC will be debating this Margo Anderson (History), Sports Editor Andrew J. Wagner and hiring more reps if you like! the university community. They policy change at their meeting on Rene Gratz (Health Sciences), Photo Editor Nick Olig Designer. Michael Diedrick were actually selected as recipients John Koethe (Philosophy), Julio Copy Editor November 5. Sue Gronemus Delivery Jon Hendrichsen during the end of this summer. Input can be given to the sa by e- Rodriguez-Luis (Spanish and Por­ Staff Writers (news and mosaic:}EnkVOiey, KristaKinnius, Robert Conway, Also nominated for their service mailing [email protected], or to the tuguese), David Petering (Chem­ Steve Staedler, Rochelle Bernard, Steven Buchholz, Lawrence Skorton (arts:) were the Free Burma Coalition, istry), Larry Martin (Administrative Ami Blachowiak, Scott Boisvert, Adam Qualler, Lee Krecklow, Jim Hanke, APC at [email protected]. WISPIRG, the National Society of Mark Ledesma (sports:)Ste\e Koenig, Francoise Marie Parker, Greg Bump, Or see if it really works to leave Leadership), Reinhold Hutz {Bio­ Black Engineers, the Adult Stu­ Pat Collins, Michael Altmeyer, Karen Janka (editorial:)]e££Reynolds. out the csd. logical Sciences), Robert Staff photographers, designers and artists: Paul Berge, Kerri Feilen, Gary dent Alliance, Phi Sigma Kappa Greenstreet (Architecture and Grass, Theresa Flynn, Michael Diedrick, Pete Wagner and the College Republicans. Urban Planning), Laura Peracchio Members of the Selection Com­ More nonnewspapers and T.J. Jeske (Business Adminis­ mittee, including a current Post One does not need a license to tration), Victoria Boswell (Office publish in this country, butifyou're The UWM Post staffer, said that NSBE would have of Diversity/Compliance), Marcia 2000 E. Kenwood Blvd., Suite EG-80 been a front runner for a starting up a student newspaper, it Bromberg (UW-System>, H Carl P0 Box 413, Union Box 88 highschool tutoring program, ex­ helps to get recognized by the SA. Mueller (Alumni Association) and Milwaukee, Wl 53201 cept for a rule that made them The SA has already recognized Richard Cox (Milwaukee County Phone: (414) 229-4578 Fax: (414) 229-4579 ineligible for having won the year two new student newspapers this Corrections). e-mail: [email protected] before. year, the Leader and the Free Press, For information on the http://www.uwm.edu/StudentOrg/post The Legal Clinic won for serving respectively the nonpartisan suc­ committee's next open forum, cessor to the Times and the conser­ One copy free, additional copies $.75 each. The UWM Post, Inc. is an independent nonstock corporation. the legal needs of 1500 students, internet reflector address and wb- All submissions become the property of The UWM Post, Inc. Published Thursdays throughout the school recovering nearly $ 15,000 in money vative successor to nothing in par­ page, see the bulletin board item year, except for holidays and exam periods. FROM THE UNIVERSITY: The UWM Post is written and published by the students of UWM.