Moving Day at the Dorms YSU H New" Loan System Is Expected to Run Smoother and Quicker
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WHAT'S INSIDE: PENGUIN STAR pAGE 12 Houseband launches new CD. VIOLENT FEMMES COME TO SPORTS PAGE 16 Penguins off to a great start. BEEGHLY CENTER PAGE 7 Special Orientation issue Volume 81, No. 1 Youngstown State University* Youngstown, Ohio Wednesday, September 23,1998 Moving day at the dorms YSU H New" loan system is expected to run smoother and quicker. Rowe, YSU graduate. "I stood in EMILY D. CRONK line forever and when it came time News Editor for my turn-it took an additional 30 minutes to get the process go• YSU students returning from ing." vacation received word in the mail The new loan system instituted there will no longer be emergency for fall is expected to run smoother loans distributed through the finan• for administration and students. cial aid department. And those stu• "It's a lot easier and it's quicker r^jtsL . Is/ dents who fail to pay their bills will for the students as well," said be held responsible for paying all Greaf. "The original way of doing fees incurred. loans was cumbersome for every• "The letters were initially sent one. It was based on a voucher sys• to those students here at YSU who tem, which was very manual and were receiving the emergency time consuming." loans within the last year and a Students can expect to be di• half," said Eileen Greaf, director vided into categories when apply• of Financial Aid and Scholarships. ing for loans. Anyone who needs "Wc have replaced the loans with financial assistance, such as stu• a more efficient process to help the dents who are not waiting for an students here at YSU." inheritance check or Stafford Loan The initial process for receiv• check to come in the mail, should ing an emergency loan was a always go directly to financial aid. lengthy process some students had "There are two types of loans no other choice but to take, if they available to students who need CHAD E. HOLDEN, THE JAMBAR wanted to attend this university. them," said Beth Ann Yeatts, Bur• "I've had to look into the emer• sar. "There's the annual plan al• MOM GETS HELP: Brent Moffitt, sophomore, business (left), and Troy Bornhorst, gency loans a couple of times and- lowing 10 months for repayment sophomore^ biology (right) help out a freshman's mother Sunday during move-in day at all it really was going to do was Cafaro House dorm. Freshmen moved into the dorms Sunday, and returning students defer my payment and cause some Loans moved in Tuesday. Welcome Week offered students an array of activities throughout the major headaches," said Chad Continued on page 23 week and heiped freshmen become familiar with the campus. Trek to new building will YSU offers weekend degree Special program will benefit nontraditional students. provide high-tech learning Collins said. There will be one Collins said there will still be • First day inconveniences will result in long- NICOLE TANNER class time offering on Friday eve• enough of a variety that students term benefits for education students. Editor in Chief nings, three on Saturdays and one will have a selection from which CINDY MILLER tance learning center. on Sundays. Advisement will also to choose their classes. She also The move to the new facility is Everyone knows college can be be offered on Saturdays. said students who need to take a Assistant News Editor about half complete, said extremely difficult — especially if Full-time faculty, as well as quarter off won't have trouble with McEwing. Most of the faculty you have to this program. When students enroll in the have moved with the exception of mm work full time ®' "* "In some pro^ College of Education and report to those from secondary education. while going to We won't offer the full schedule, but grams, if you fall Fedor Hall for the first day of The classroom furniture has been school. But off track, you classes, they will not be greeted by with careful planning students will moved and aside from some mi• beginning this won't be able to the smiling faces of professors. nor work to be.completed, the year, the still be able to graduate in the get back on," said Instead, they will observe signs building is ready for students, he Williamson Collins. "That informing them of their new room normal time. 99 said. College of won't be the case assignments in the college's new "The Curriculum Resource —Marge Collins Business Ad• with this pro• location on Rayen Avenue. Center is up and running and the ministration is WCBA Academic Administrator gram." The trek from Fedor Hall to the Reading and Study Skills Center trying to make i i i - Collins said new College of Education, which is here,J' McEwing said. things a little it's hard to indi• has been named the Beeghly Zack Griffith, sophomore, sec• easier. limited-service instructors will cate how many students are inter• Building of Education, may make ondary education, said, "The WCBA is offering students a teach the classes. Collins said most ested in the program, since WCBA some students late for class, but building is quite impressive. The chance to earn an associate's or of the faculty members volun• didn't start promoting the program Assistant Dean of the College of classrooms are larger. They've left bachelor's degree in business ad• teered to take classes on the week-• until the beginning of summer and Education Dr. Richard McEwing, a lot of room for growth. There is ministration entirely on weekends. ends. the classes didn't appear in the said, "Instructors know that this definitely room for more stu• Marge Collins, academic ad• Collins stressed that it is impor• Schedule of Classes. She said she will slow people down and that dents." ministrator for WCBA, said the tant for students to schedule expects many students to take ad• students will be coming in late." Plans are in the works to in• program was started to address stu• classes in order, due to the smaller vantage of the hew classes during If students can-deal with the clude a child care center in the dent needs. number of classes that will be of-, change of registration. slight inconvenience the move basement, which will be used as "We were receiving lots of in• fered on weekends. Collins said the addition of the may cause, they will be pleased an observational lab by students quiries from nontraditional stu• "We won't offer the full sched• weekend program also-allows with the new facility and the tech• majoring in early childhood edu• dents who work full time," she ule, but with careful planning stu• other students to compliment their nology it offers, he said. cation, he said. said. dents wil! still be able to graduate current programs. For more infor• Among the new technology at The program allows students to in the normal time," Collins said. mation on the weekend degree pro• students' fingertips is an IBM com• Education take up to 16 hours every quarter, Despite the limited offerings, gram contact WCBA at 742-3064. puter lab and an interactive dis- Continued on page 23 The Jambar Wednesday, SeptemOer 23, 1998 Moyxfamm 8 p.m. : •'• Thi^ay-.7;:|© &^i||l|ht iday- 7l30ra.m.- 3 Metro College expands to fill educational needs • Evening classes offer greater availability offsite but offer many of same benefits. CHAD E. HOLDEN, THE JAMBAR tending the Metro College are en• YSU WELCOMES PEABERRY'S: Anyone walking through Kilcawiey will notice the CINDY MILLER replacement of The Pub with Peaberry's. (From left toright) Chris Heston, senior manager titled to the same forms and types Assistant News Editor of financial aid as those attending of Arby's; Chris Cole, junior, business management; Erin Scull, freshman, undecided and the main campus." Julie Jacobson, freshman, art, help prepare for the Welcome Week opening of the cafe. Continuing its mission to ful• Ruse said Metro College stu• fill the educational needs of the dents follow the same application greater Youngstown area, YSU's procedures as main campus stu• Take your ease a Metro College has expanded to dents. The deadline for campus said Cole. "We want to be ready plan instituted here and we're still offer associate degrees in Business based aid was March 1, but it is EMILY D. CRONK for the start of school." working on getting our permit, to or Medical Assisting Technology, not too late to fill out a free appli• News Editor Peaberry's is not a new concept sell alcohol." Evening classes will be available cation for federal student aid. YSU students will be doing in Ohio, however, it is a hew con• The Beat Cafe will still offer a beginning this fall at the Upon the completion of this form, more than waking up to smell the cept to the employees of the Beat wide variety of foods, as well and Southwoods Commons branch of students may be eligible for Pell coffee. Their decision to drink cof• Cafe, already in business. an atmosphere most YSU students the Metro College. Grants or Ohio Instructional fee and eat breakfast, lunch and. "I found out about the opening are used to. Dr. John Loch, director of Uni• Grants. dinner has some new twists this on the news," said Annie Canter, "The hard-core coffee drinkers versity Outreach, said the courses Once this application is com• fall. junior, arts and sciences. "I was. , will continue to go to the coffee are already offered on YSU's main pleted and on file, students can Peaberry's of Boardman has shocked to hear another place like stops around the YSU campus," campus during the day, but surveys complete applications for Stafford come to Kilcawiey Center.