TCU DAILY SKIFF Vol. 87, No. 5 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1986 Fort Worth, Texas Budget cuts reduce student financial aid TCU tries to ensure that all those who need aid will still get it mistry major, is one of the many stu $1,204,000 from last year's one," Ricketts said. etts' PELL grant is "an unusual and professors and the pre-med By Kathryn Fuller dents affected by the change. His Staff Writer $1,414,000, Munson said. However, Munson said the finan- dramatic case." He said most students program." PELL grant, a national U.S. Depart- cial aid office sent out student book- are facing aid reductions of about $200 ment of Education grant for which eli- "Since TCU had committed money Despite the cutbacks, Munson said New classes, new books, new hills. that was now being cut, the university lets last spring to inform and prepare to $400. everything is going well. gibility is determined annually, was students of possible budget reduc- The cycle repeats itself each helped cover the mid-year reduction It is not the university's goal to Munson said the number of stu- decreased by $1400 this school year. tions. semester. by appropriating approximately make TCU a school for the elite; the dents receiving aid has really not The state allocated $18 million to all "Only an elite group of people will But national and state budget cuts $140,000,'' Munson said. attempt is just the opposite, Munson dropped-just the dollars. private Texas colleges and universi- be able to attend TCU unless aid is said. interrupted the cycle for many stu- ties last year, said Leo Munson, '•'CU National budgets have suffered as Munson agreed that students are increased," Ricketts said. "If TCU suffering from the budget cuts this dents receiving financial aid. director of scholarships and student well as state funding. Ricketts said he hopes Congress would only learn how to manage year and said that next year may bring This interruption is partly because financial aid. Surprisingly enough, According to a report by the will not make even more severe cuts money a little better and stop spend- even more cutbacks. of cutbacks Congress made in finan- Munson said, TCU received a letter National Student Lobby and the U.S. next year. If it does, he will be forced ing money on planting flowers around He said almost all students receiv- cial aid to help balance the federal from Gov. Mark White in February National Student Association, to enroll at a less expensive universi- budget. campus, it could help make up some ing financial aid are affected by the stating that there would be a reduc- Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs) ty, he said. of the difference in cutbacks. reductions. "We want everyone to Texas was forced to reduce budget tion in financial grants. will have to be cut by $836 million "I can't see getting myself into debt absorb a,id suffer the loss and not just allocations to colleges and universities over the next three years, and stu- "But I will say, I wouldn't be here if This year only $15 million was allot- for my education," Ricketts said. let one person feel the strain," Mun- because of lost revenue in the oil in- dents will receive only half of their it weren't for the help of the financial ted because of the governments cut- "Yet, I want to stay at TCU as long as I son said. dustry. total GSLs this fall. aid office. I just hope Congress votes back on state budgets, he said. can afford to because I really like the Sean Ricketts, a sophomore bioche- "Congress just redid the budget and gives us more money," he said. See TCU FINANCIAL AID, page 3 TCU's funding was cut this year to and never stopped to prepare any- Munson said the $1400 loss in Rick- Ex-hostage talks of kidnap ordeal NEW YORK (APKThe Rev. Lawr has a heart ailment, but he said Thurs- ence Martin Jenco said Thursday he day his health has improved since re- believes that the Lebanese Shiites turning home. who held him hostage for 19 months Again ?~>d again in the interview, want to release three remaining the white-bearded cleric expressed American hostages, but first "they sympathy for the young men who im- would like to get some benefits from prisoned him and the three others in a this whole thing." 12-by-15-foot room, jenco has even Jenco, in his first news interview proposed that Catholic Relief Ser- since being freed July 26, also said he vices, the U.S. church agency he fears that tough rhetoric from U.S. headed in Beirut, eventually establish officials might block progress toward a scholarship fund for young Shiites. the trio's release. In the 90-minute interview with He recounted "kindnesses" shown The Associated Press, the 51-year-old by his guards-making and sharing Jenco-weary, quiet, but. quick to popcorn with him, providing neces- smile and laugh-said he was hear- sary medicine, occasionally allowing a tened by a recent communication, not glimpse of the sun or moon. authenticated, purporting that the A two-page letter delivered to the kidnappers had scaled back their de- AP bureau in Paris last Sunday said mands. And he told of long months in Anderson and Jacobsen would be tight quarters with his fellow captives, freed if food aid was delivered to the during which they recited poetry, ex- poor Shiites of southern Lebanon. ercised, worked jigsaw puzzles, But the source and validity of the argued, prayed and cried. communication could not be deter- The remaining hostages are Terry mined. A. Anderson, 38, chief Middle East Asked whether he believed the correspondent for The Associated U.S. government was doing all it can Press; David Jacobsen, 55, adminis- to free the hostages, Jento said, "I trator of Beirut's American University have a sneaking suspicion something Hospital, and Thomas Sutherland, is going on. I hope something is going 55, the university's acting dean of on." agriculture. The day he was released, he said, The Moslem kidnappers, who call he was separated from the others and themselves Islamic Jihad, said they thought he was going to be killed. freed Jenco because he was in ill "I told them, 'If you are going to kill health. The Joliet, 111., priest, who has me, please tell me.' They said, 'Np, worked as a missionary since 1974, you are going home.' I cried." How N't don* - Department chairperson Stephanie Woods instructs by example during a beginners' ballet class Thursday. Twelve TCU dance majors will perform three numbers choreographed by instructor Lisa Schieffer to speak Fusillo Saturday during TCU Ciy at Hulen Mall. at fall Convocation Hot wocfc - Amy Uiiiard works up a sweat during oailet class with Fernan- Photos by do Schaffenburg Thursday. Joe Williams By Kevin Marks Staff Writer Fort Worth native and TCU alumnus Bob Schieffer, who is in- ternationally known as chief Washington correspondent for CBS TCU Christians gather for fun, news, will be the guest speaker at next Tuesday's annual TCU fall Convocation. The Sept. 9 Convocation cere- fellowship at weekend retreat mony will begin at 11 a.m. in Ed Land re th Hall Auditorium led by and have fun together," Slezak said. retreat will be" $15 per person. come together and learn about each the academic procession of faculty "Each denomination differs from By Jerry Madden Planners are still not quite sure how other." in full regalia. Students are encour- Staff Writer the others in the way it worships, the they will transport everyone down to So far planners Eng, Rodenberg, aged to attend this public event that services it holds and in what it stres- Athens, which is 100 miles southeast and Shannon Maddox haven't come traditionally marks the opening of The TCU Campus Christian Com- ses," Slezak said. of the metroplex. up with a definite schedule for the the new academic year. munity, which is comprised of repre- Bob Schieffer "However, we are basically the "We're trying to get some of the weekend. Schieffer, anchorman of the sentatives from various campus During last spring's commence- same in most ways," Slezak said. local churches to donate some buses," Saturday edition of the "CBS Even- church denominations, plans to hold Slezak said that right now they plan ment, he was cited for his "truth- Slezak added that one of the main said Ray Eng, one of the retreat's ing News," joined the network's its first ecumenical retreat Oct. 3-5. on having games and activities Friday telling in a free society" for which reasons for ecumenism is to get more planners, "but so far we haven't had news staffin 1969. He has served as CCC president Ellen Slezak said and a worship service Sunday morn- he was awarded the honorary doc- individuals involved in denomination- too much success." its Pentagon, State Department, that ecumenism, the bringing ing. Other events have yet to be de- tor of humanities degree. al groups. Only the University Christian national and White House corres- together of different denominations cided upon. Announcement of the third reci- "Each of the denominations meets Church has donated a van for trans- pondent. for joint purposes, is important to pient of the Chancellor's Award for different needs of the campus. Some portation so far. The Rev. John Butler will be mak- In addition to traveling through- help keep the differences of de- Distinguished Teaching will be the are more socially oriented, and some The retreat was first planned last ing the keynote speech at the retreat out the woriJ on various assign- nominations from preventing their highlight of the formal assembly.