FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2000
Student funding caught up in
Congressional deadlock
by Caryn Rousseau
TMS Campus Washington ( orrcspoiulont
November 02, 2000
WASHING TON - Just da\s be lore
the presidential election. Washington
politics is hitting college campuses
where it hurts - the pocket book.
Education spending has created a
deadlock in budget negotiations leav
ing both parties packing home Tor the
election without an agreed upon La
bor, Health and Human Services
spending bill, which funds higher
education.
Funding will be frozen at 2(100 lev -
els until both parties come to an
agreement. Earlier this week Repub
licans killed sections of the bill's con
ference report, or House and Senate
compromise, because of non-higher
education issues including school
construction funding. That move
threatens the solvency of the entire
bill, which included a $5OO increase
in Pell Grant funding. Current Pell
Grants are issued up to $3,300 with
total spending at $7.6 million, accord
ing to a U S. Department of Educa
tion report issued this week The
House and Senate agreement would
li df Illinois students
urge university to
cancel Eminem concert
by Billy O'Keefe
TMS Campus
November 01,2000
1 Eminem's coming to town. And
like a devoted groupie, controversy
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A group of students from the Uni-
Tversity of Illinois is asking the uni
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Ipfeome under constant fire for
lyrics depicting acts of violence
against women and gays.
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however, is that the university is
sue a public apology for hosting the
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raise total funding to $9 million.
"It's to the students' advantage to
get this done now,” said Corye
Harbour, legislative director of the
United States Students Association.
“They are talking about a lame duck
session after the election and that
would be had for education funding.”
Barbour believes that leaving edu
cation funding in the hands of a lame
duck congress, which will occur
when the Senate meets November 14,
will hurt student interests.
“People who have influence and
pow er in Congress in ways other than
voles can wait,” she said. “That only
student pull is to withhold votes.”
After the election student interests
won't he as influential for congress
men, Harbour said.
Other threatened higher education
spending initiatives include GEAR
UP funding, which will be frozen at
$200.()()() when it was agreed upon
at $325,000. GEAR UP program
ming provides financial assistance
and mentoring opportunities for low
income middle and high school stu
dents to help them get to college.
versity is simply dragging its feet
until the concert ends, and that
profiting from the concert, whether
administrators admit it or not, is
the school's only priority.
“Gene Barton signed the con
tract,” he says. “ He can also break
the contract. [The administrators!
have so much political clout, but
they won't stand behind anything.;
It's always ‘we'll schedule, more,
meetings, we'il have more talks,’”
“The profit issue is probably the
most important issue, but the uni- ;
versity is trying to divert from that
and turn it into a freedom of speech
issue,’’ he continues, “But free
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Penn State
by Andrew Bagnato
Chicago Tribune
November 02, 2000
CHICAGO - Penn State's faculty
recently took time out from the
consuming business of instruc
tion and research to tackle a truly
important issue: fan decorum at
Beaver Stadium. Seems the Blue
and White faithful have been jeer
ing the Nittany Lions as they have
stumbled to a 4-5 mark this au-
In response, the faculty has
passed a resolution against “nega
tive cheering” in the stadium. For
those unfamiliar with profspeak,
that means booing. The move has
generated snickers among stu
dents and made the school a tar
get of barbs from the national
media.
“I think as soon as they make
that announcement there's going
to be a chorus of boos,” senior
Matt Brinker told the Associated
Perhaps not surprisingly, Penn
State coach Joe Paterno supports
the resolution.
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resolves to have Boobirds take flight
“I'm glad to see that they would
come out tor that, hut it may he a
little hit of overreaction in the sense
that I don't know' that there has been
that much (booing),” Paterno said.
“Once in a while, you're going to get
some booing ok your own team.
We've had a little of that. but not v ery
much even with the lousy start we
had".
"I think it's admirable as a resolu
tion. I think we all ought to be aware
of the fact that this is a college game
and that respect for everybody who's
trying out there should be part of the
whole game experience."
Still, the resolution seems an el
fort to evoke a time when college
sports were an innocent diversion in
volving real students - a time that
probably never existed, at least not
on Penn State's level.
The truth is that Nittany Lion fol
lowers are exactly like most big-time
college football fans. They're pas
sionate. They're obnoxious. They
jeered quarterback Kerry Collins
when he was a junior, then cheered
him when he won the Tribune's Sil
ver Football as a senior. Win or lose,
they converge on tiny State College
in their multitudes every Saturday.
It's heartless to heckle college
athletes, especially given the fact
that they aren't seeing a nickel of
the profits generated by their ef
forts. But the notion that big-time
college sports fans should behave
differently than a crowd at an NFL
game is at best quaint. Perhaps
that's why it lingers in (aptly
named) Happy Valley.
Sidelines: Paterno and his wife,
Sue, telephoned Washington's
Rick Neuheisel to offer support for
Husky senior safety Curtis Will
iams, who remains in intensive
care at Stanford Medical Center
after sustaining a spinal cord in
jury Saturday. The Paternos and
Penn State w ent through a similar
experience with Adam Taliaferro
this season. Taliaferro is in a Phila
delphia-area rehabilitation facility.
Purdue won't reap the recruiting
benefits of its superb season until
February's National Letter of In
tent signing day. But head coach
Joe Tiller said he already can see
a difference.
"We re in the hunt for a lot of
really good football players right
[tu
now,” Tiller said. “We need to find
a way to win another football game,
because it seems like each week that
you win. that player continues to
answer the phone and continues to
have good things to say about your
program."
Wisconsin's 13-7 rout of lowa last
weekend may save the Badgers the
ignominy of becoming the First Big
Ten school in 40 years to go from
first to w'orst. The last Big Ten
school to go from first to worst was
Wisconsin, which finished first in
1959 and last in 1960.
Badgers coach Barry Alvarez
said the two-time defending cham
pions never recovered from the
mass suspensions handed down by
the NCAA a few hours before the
season opener Aug. 31.
“The fact that we have rarely
started the same group two weeks
in a row has been a problem,”
Alvarez said.
“That never leaves you. That’s al
ways a distraction, just the fact that
I'm talking about it now and we're
in the 10th week of the season.”
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