Collegian
February 6, 1986
the cam • us club report
Women Today
by Karen Ryan
Collegian Contributing Writer .
I am often stopped and asked—what is Women To
day and what do you do?
I am surprised to find that some students see us as
a bunch of women who sit around and trash men.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
We are women who are interested in women's
issues and how they affect our lives. Our goal as a
group is to support each other and to educate
students at Behrend. In the past we have sponsored
speakers on rape and the Cinderella Complex, held a
panel discussion on feminism and most recently
shown the film "How We Got the Vote" on the suf
ferage movement.
We have a bulletin board near the Student Affairs
Office kept current with clippings on women's
Chess Club
by Miles Van Tassel
Chess Club President
Now that a new semester has started and we all have new schedules to
follow, the Chess Club will reschedule its meeting time.
The Chess Club is asking that anyone who is interested in the club
make a copy of their schedule and present it to Student Affairs in Reed
115. Once the Chess Club has enough interested parties a meeting time
will be announced.
Last semester the Chess Club had an active membership with all levels
of play. There were no tournaments held. The club offered a place for a
member to relax with a game of chess and to forget about the problems
of college for a while.
We also had a series of lectures given by Dr. Cogley on the stratagies
of play. This semester the club will be looking for a new president to
take over because the current president will be going to University Park.
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issues.
This semester, Women Today meets Tuesdays at
12:15 p.m. in Behrend 117 to discuss issues and plan
events. In honor of National Women's History Week
(March 3-10) we are sponsoring a women's history
trivia contest. The winner will receive $25 in Susan B.
Anthony dollars. Check the next Collegian for
details. A film or speaker is also tentatively planned
for this event. In addition, our members have work
ed long hours putting together the symposium on
women and blacks to be held April 19-20 (co
sponsored by the Association for Black Collegians
and The Roundtable Society.)
So you can see that we don't have time to sit
around and trash men—even if we wanted to. Some
of our best friends are men!
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GARFIELD() by Jim Davis
THE POCTOKS NOT LOOKING.
NOW'S MY CHANCE TO MAKE
AN ESCAPE:
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tends Arnold Mitchem, director
of the National Council of Educa
tional Opportunity Associations.
As much as 80 to 90 percent of
the students in black colleges
receive some federal aid, Mitchem
says.
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ROTC
by Barrett Parker
Collegian Staff Writer
ROTC is holding their winter
carnival this weekend (Feb. 8) on
the slope in- back of the Behrend
Building. All ROTC students are
invited to attend and participate.
New Ranger Club members will
be meeting Monday nights at
5:30. Interested Cadets can con
tact any ranger or Cadre member.
for more information. Regular
rangers will meet Tuesday nights
as planned. The SCUBA club is
meeting Wednesday nights and is
still open to all certified divers.
This organization is showing
several entertainment films in-
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"It's another straw on the
camel's back, but how many
straws can the camel take?"
wonders Winston Brown, dean of
financial aid at Xavier University,
a primarily black school in New
Orleans. .
"We have seen a significant
drop in minorities applying,"
Princeton financial aid officer
Linda Ensor reports.
Ensor speculates, however, that
middle-income students ultimate
ly will suffer the most.
"If there are fewer and fewer
dollars, the pressure will be
greater to be more careful in needs
analysis," adds Tom Wolanin, an
aide to Rep. Bill Ford (D-Mi.).
Moreover, limited funds will
force Pell Grants into a
"statutory reduction" in which
students with less need will get
smaller amounts of aid.
But lower-income students may
have a harder time getting
Guaranteed Student Loans as
Gramm-Rudman's cuts continue,
says Bill Clohan, a lobbyist for
the Cons.umer Bankers
Association.
Gramm-Rudman will -cut the
"allowance" that banks get when
they make GSLs from 3.5 percent
interest to 3.1 percent.
' The initial allowance cut, which
applies only to the first year of a _
loan, "will have a minimal im
pact," Clohan says. `But cutting
the allowance further, as some
legislators want, will provoke
banks to make sure students are
good credit risks on their own:
eluding a Jaques Cousteau movie,
all are invited. Times and places
will be announced at a later date.
The rifle team is meeting Thurs
day nights.
Last Thursday the rifle team
competed against several other
universities including MIT, RPI,
University of Tampa, and about
30 others. Results will be com
puted at a later date.
ROTC will have a booth at the
Spring Open House scheduled for
Saturday, Feb. 15. Incoming
freshmen will have an opportunity
to question several cadets about •
ROTC in general and 13ehrend's
ROTC specifically.
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In banks' view, of course,
students from middle- and upper
income families are better credit
risks than students from low
income backgrounds.
"Making (loans) more - restric
tive will make loans available only
to the white middle class," he
adds. -
When the allowance on loans to
students was cut back in 1973,
"the program crashed" because
bankers refused to continue len
ding due to the squeeze on their
profit margin, 'Clohan
remembers.
As for the next few years, "it's
a very, tenuous program," he
adds.
'The cuts would hurt all the
more because Pell Grants, unable
to keep up with_ inflation, forced
low-income students in recent
years to borrow more under the
GSL program, observers say.
Others expect the current cuts
will hurt private schools with high
tuitions the most.
They could force still other
schools to eat into their en
dowments to get money to help
students who used to dependmore
on federal aid in school.
On the other hand, some com
munity colleges think the cuts
might actually help them.
"Students at other schools may
come to us," speculates Erling
Hjortedal, director of financial
aid at Spokane Falls Community
College.
"With us, their grant money
will go further," notes Myer
Titus, president of Denver Com
munity College.