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For more information, please contact [email protected]. / Delinquent loans montana inhibit short-term Kaim in lending program UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA • STUDENT NEWSPAPER Friday, Jan. 23, 1976 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 78, No. 49 By LARRY ELKIN In some cases, the loans constitute Montana Kaimin Reporter “an act of pure charity,” he said. He said he is willing to lend money Delinquent student loans are to students who wish to "go home” "inhibiting" the Financial Aids Of­ and added that some donors have fice's short-term loan program, UM specifically requested their money Financial Aid Director Don Mullen go to such “hard luck cases.” said yesterday. A survey taken last year had drawn Mullen cited a 50 per cent rate of a profile of students likely to default default on loans his department on a loan. offers to students pressed for time A "high-risk” student, Mullen said, and money. The loans, he said, are would have a grade point average for a period of 90 days and are worth below 2.2, would be a freshman or up to $200. recent transfer to UM and would Mullen said the loans are made have had poor high school grades. from funds donated over the years to Of 43 such students included in the UM. survey, he said, 33 did not repay their TIM FRANCE, BUNDLED IN sweat pants and mittens, escapes the early morning smog as he jogs down Mt. Sentinel. A problem is caused when donors loans within 90 days after they (Montana Kaimin photo by Glenn Oakley) attach stipulations to their gifts, such became due. as requiring that a loan be made in These students, he said, are con­ “honor" or "memory” of an in­ sidered “seriously delinquent.” dividual, he said. A delinquent student, Mullen said, Separate Accounts is not allowed to register again until The only way these demands can he repays it. He added that if the Students donating fees be met is for his department to keep student does not return to UM, his such funds in individual accounts, he transcripts are withheld and the debt continued. He said his office main­ maly be added to his Montana income tains about 10 such accounts in the tax if he is a Montana resident. UM Business Office. to defunct MontPIRG ‘No Discrimination’ One problem with maintaining By LESLIE OLINGER checked the MontPIRG box and During 1974 there was $263 ad­ separate accounts, he explained, is Mullen said he does "not dis­ Montana Kaimin Reporter donated their dollars. ditional income, totaling a $762.41 that they may be depleted when criminate” between residents and No money from the fund has been balance. students fail to repay loans. non-residents or against seniors who University of Montana students spent since July 1, 1975. During that year, $694.05 was He said he tries to "evaluate" loan will be leaving UM when approving donate money each quarter to an Nils Ribi, ASUM business spent by the Student Action Center applicants and assign those who will loans. organization that has not functioned manager, said he would not allow the to reprint a landlord and tenant “probably default" to “general" loan The only guarantee a loan will be for the past two years. money in the fund to be spent until booklet. accounts. In this way, loan funds es­ repaid is "the student’s integrity,” he Last quarter 461 students donated Central Board makes a decision tablished "in memory” are not said. one dollar each to the Montana SAC Expenditures about the MontPIRG organization. depleted. But it strains “general” “The kids are already hassled Public Interest Research Group In July 1973, the MontPIRG ac­ fund accounts. enough,” he claimed. (Mont PIRG). SAC Director Dave Hill said he count totaled $1,083. During the As an example, Mullen cited the He said he has neither the time nor MontPIRG was formed as a con­ thought the money spent on the following year $583.59 Was spent, Dean of Students Loan Fund. the desire to run rigorous credit sumer relations organization about handbook was justified because it leaving a $499.41 balance. The Dean of Students account, he checks on short-term loan ap­ three years ago. The organization served the students’ interest. Those items included: said, is $1300 overdrawn, but the plicants. Such procedures merely has been defunct for the past two The budget had a $68.36 balance Business Office “has not complained ensure that "the students who do not years. • $390 for non^student hourly in July 1975. to me yet.” need the money, get it,” he said. MontPIRG has appeared on the fee wages So far this year, $468 has been Some loan funds may have already Mullen said he had $4,500 to lend card used during registration for the • $22.82 for Social Security collected leaving the current balance been “wiped out” by students who do at the beginning of Winter Quarter, past three years. Students can • $99.95 for equipment of $536.36. not replenish them through compared with $9,000 at the start of donate a dollar to the organization. • $11.59 for telephone and ASUM President John Nockleby repayments, he added. Fall Quarter, adding that he expects ASUM still has an account for telegraph services said that he heard through second­ He defended the practice of lend­ "some” of the outstanding debts to MontPIRG which has a current • $44.36 for consumable supplies hand information that fee cards were ing money to students who are be repaid by “around March .1 balance of $536.36. Ribi explained that he did not printed two to three years in ad­ likely to default, saying “the The $9,000 was about $3,000 less This balance may be larger know exactly where the money went vance. University is not a business; we are than the amount in the loan funds, because some students who because he was not business manager at the time. He said he thought the fee cards not out to make money." "two or three years ago," he noted. registered this quarter may have would have been destroyed because they had MontPIRG printed on them. However, William Cushman, Business Office treasurer, explained that if Ribi or Nockleby asked him Smith: Women tired of living within the next two weeks to take MontPIRG off the fee card, it could be done in time for Spring Quarter. By SHELLEY IMMEL Ed McLean, deputy county Personnel Problems Montana Kaimin Reporter attorney, said that Missoula Women are tired of living in in fear of rape citizens "won’t tolerate any Nockleby also said that he heard fear of rape and are saying “no, slight-handed treatment of there were personnel problems in we don’t want to be vic­ Annie McClay of Women’s on the panel, told the audience rapists.” revitalizing MontPIRG. timized,’’ Judy Smith said at a Place said rape victims come that the man who raped her He predicted that Montana Hill, who is running for ASUM rape forum Wednesday night. from every social class and said that this was the way he courts will treat rapists more president, said SAC was trying to Smith, director of the race, and range in age from 14 "got to know women." severely in the future. renovate MontPIRG before Fall University of Montana Quarter. to the mid-40s. She said she was treated Defense Women’s Resource Center, well by the police and that her Tellers at Fall Quarter registration was one of six panelists who Press Charges friends were very supportive. Another panelist, Bruce were informed about MontPIRG and participated in the rape forum, Elwood from the Sheriff’s were capable of explaining the "We do encourage women to Guilty, Paranoid which about 150 people Department, said defense at­ organization to students, he said. press charges if there is any attended. After the rape, she said, she torneys for the rapists will He added that there were chance of succeeding in get­ Women are beginning to felt very guilty and was usually claim that their client is personnel problems in reorganizing ting a conviction,” McClay say, "if a man attacks me I don’t “paranoid of everything.” The a clean-cut, all-American type MontPIRG, but said he could not added. i have to consider him or his man who raped her was con­ who “surely has been charged elaborate on the problems. rights; he has violated my Women’s Place often acts as victed. with the wrong crime." Tellers at this quarter’s regis­ rights,” she said. a third party and will report the "I am still afraid, especially It is important for the rapists tration, he said, were not informed of Some women, she con­ time and location of the rape, at njght, when I am alone," she to be apprehended as soon MontPIRG.