RECEIV 3 Silver Homecoming Lady 'Runners school NSU In tune with mu^k^rr——• -^ UTSA celebrates 25th Anniversary with Lady 'Runners snap losing streak as From Van Helen to PbulM»£i!!!i a variety of events throughout the month Angel Singleton leads team's first SLC Nicholas Gunn: new tunes Features, page 5 w'" Sports, page 8 Arts & Entertainment, page 7 9A9mt February 7,1995 Volume 18, Number 4 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY iStudent government holds in-house elections again By Ryan Lambrecht "Editor-in-Chief SG president •: UTSA's student govemment (SG) will hold an in-house election today to fill vacant positions for vice-president, resigns graduate representative, and sophomore By Ryan Lambrecht representative. These new elections are Editor-in-Chief being held due to the resignation of SG On Jan. 17 Student Govemment president Andy McManus and a lack of president Andy McManus resigned, candidates to fill the vacant positions citing falling grades and a desire to during the Jan. 24 in-house elections. participate in other student activities. McManus resigned as SG president "My grades have just been going Jan. 17, citing problems with his studies.- <Jown, and I've been in the spotlight Vice-president Kristi Hall was sworn in for nine months, so it was time for me as acting president Jan. 24. McManus is to take a break and maybe look for a still part of the Govemment Aides Pro­ job because I'm U7ing to graduate by gram in SG, and he plans to advise Hall December," McManus said. "I wanted so she can get used to her new position. to keep myself sane, go back to where As acting president. Hall's first prior­ I was at the Greeks and the UTSA ity is filling the vacant positions in SG Ambassadors, and still hang out with through the in-house elections. For in- that, but have a little more fun and house elections, candidates do not cam­ concentrate on my grades a littie bit paign among the student population. more. Instead, candidates give a speech to SG - "I feel I'm getting more involved in on why they are capable of fulfilling the campus activities because when you're responsibilities of the office they are president you're in the inside of things running for. After all of the speeches, but you don't have a lot of time to SG votes on who should fill the vacant enjoy it." positions. Tuition climbs, students struggle with debt Even though the vice-president posi­ By Judy Braginsky school at a private dents), fellowships million struggle to pay off a collective tion is the second most important SG more office. College Press Service university could and scholarships $41.9 billion worth of college debt, one post, SG decided to hold an in-house Besides in house elections, SG will leave a student ow­ (averaging $2,467 16-year-old Illinois high school sopho­ election due to the time constraints and be coordinating other activities this The $25,000 that University of ing almost for 12 percent), col­ more sought, and received, the notice of possible confusion among students about month. SG is conducting a student sur- California-Davis seniorCorrine Walters $100,000, plusinter- lege work study (av­ President Clinton. Arthur Orkisz, an holding two SG elec- —^•——— ^^——i^-^ vey to find out figures she will owe after earning a est. BdCJ eraging $1,560 for A-plus honor student ranked number tions in one month. "There wasn't enough whether students master's degree in plant biology scares With college 4 percent) and the one in his class in Elk Grove, feared he "Our general elec­ want beer and wine her. She says she has no clue how she'll costs doubling over 01 Bill or other pro­ wouldn't be able to attend a high-priced tions are going to be time to do J big, gen­ to be offered again in pay it all back and that school debt could the past decade and grams (averaging university such as Harvard or Stanford. about a month away, eral election. It would the UC game room. eat up a quarter of the income she might' increasing at $2,503 for 2 per­ In letter given lo Clinton in October, he but we need these [va­ be really weird to Last year ARA food expect from an entry-level laboratory roughly twice the cent). urged the president to find a way to cant] positions filled services stopped job in biology. rate of overall infla­ Assistance allow students with good grades to at­ right away and there have two big elections serving alcoholic Hillary Wicai, newly graduated from tion, the Census Bu­ from employers was tend the colleges of their choice. The wasn't enough time to right next to each beverages and food in Northwestern University's Medill reau reports that the most popular reason, he wrote, is that his father, a do a big, general elec­ that space since sales School of Journalism, landed her dream more than half of the source of income for machinist, and his mother, a mainte­ tion," Hall said. "Plus, other—I think it might did not eam enough job as a TV reporter with WLFI in West 20.6 million students enrolled in col­ students ($3.6 million or 18 percent) bul nance worker, can't afford the tuition. it would be really be more confusing to for ARA. SG is con­ Lafayette, Ind., but can't afford the leges or vocational and technical schools averaged just $979 per student, the re- Cligton quoted a paragraph from weird to have two big the students." sidering approaching clothes to look professional on the air. obtained financial help from at least one fiort found. Orkis/'s Ictlcr at a press conference and elections right next to John Everett, man­ Wicai struggles with a $21,000 debt source. Borrowing in the Federal Fam­ TTie Census Report al so revealed men cited his elTorts to improve the educa­ each other—I think it —Kristi Hall ager of ARA, about from the yearat Northwestem that helped ily Education Loans Program increased averaged $2,953 in assistance compared tional loan system so far. including a might be more con­ Acting SG President reintroducing alco­ her land the job. "Every single thing I by more than 40 percent in the 1993-94 to $2,891 for women. Men also received student loan program enacted by Con­ fusing to the stu­ holic beverages to the wear to work was given to me by my school year alone, says Donald Stewart more in terms of scholarships, averag­ gress in 1993 that has helped more than dents." I —• •"^"^"•1^^"'" UC game room once mother and grandmother who shopped of the College Board. ing $2,971 compared to $2,068 for 330,000 sludcnls. Thc program extends During the in-house elections Jan. it has enough petitions from students for bargains," she says. "For many students, finding a way to women. African-American students, college loans lo studenis and gives stu­ 24, several vacant SG positions were which support reoffering alcohol at Despite their collective college sticker finance their education may be as much meanwhile, had the highest proportion dents more options on paying back their filled. Michael Godelia was selected as UTSA. shock, Walters' and Wicai's plight is not of a challenge as the academic training ofstudents getting some sort of financial loans. In addition lo paying a fixed-dollar recording secretary, Michael McGalin SG is also working on plans for spend­ an uncommon one. The American Coun­ they'll have to master," wrote Census help (58 percent and averaging $2,527). amount over 10 years, now students also as historian, Marcus Springer as junior ing an unexpected gain in fund<ng this cil on Education forecasts a student at a researchers Rebecca Sutterlin and Rob­ Fifty percent of white students obtained have the option of eaming loan repay­ representative, Steve Laskowski as semester. SG received an extra ji5,000 public university will spend $9,876 this ert Kominski in a report released in aid averaging $2,927. ment money with a community service sophomore representative, and Wendy in its budget due to unspent money from year (up 5.8 percent from last year) on October. Loans were the source of the Despite the burgeoning need, federal job or can choosc to kick in aperceniage Armsti-ong and Chris Sily as freshman SG's 1993-94 budget rolling over into tuition, fees, room and board and sup­ largest amount of aid, averaging $3,155 loan programs have remained flat in Of their income over the loan's life. representatives. this year. SG has not made plans on how plies. At private universities, costs are for just more than 3 million students recent years, with studeats receiving less "1 feel we've made it easier for stu­ Currently the office for vice-presi­ to spend the windfall. projected to rise by 5.6 percent to an borrowing to attend class. Other sources in Federal Pell Grants and other aid. dents. by reorganizing the student dent is vacant as well as three graduate To contact SG, call the SG office at average of $23,700. In fact, borrowing of aid included Federal Pell Grants (av­ As millions of students face whop­ loan program, enabling studenis lo re- representative offices and one sopho- 691-4597. to pay the entire bill for four years of eraging $ 1,375 for 14 percent of stu­ ping college costs, and another 12.5 cont on pg 3 Colin Powell speaks like a candidate By Sara Hawkins was identified for me." During this cern of other nations that America does Contributing Writer period the United Stales buill 30,000 not become acounlry of isolation.