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New law could deny
draft registration resistors ai
This is the season for hope.
All over the country, students
are filling out their annual
financial aid applications, and
sending them off, fervently
“hoping” they’ll get the same
amount of money this year they
received last year, despite the
diminishing funds.
For most, it’s merely a mat
ter of making sure the right in
formation is on the right form,
and then signing one’s name to
everything. This year, however,
some students will have to sign
their name to one more form,
or forget about applying for
financial aid.
As a result of new federal
legislation, male students bet
ween the ages of 18 and 22 will
have to prove they have
registered for the draft before
they can receive aid for the
1983-84 academic year. The re
quirement takes effect July 1,
and will affect numerous aid
programs such as the PELL
grant, GSL, SEOG, and the
NDSL, according to recent in
formation put out by the Penn
State Financial Aid Office.
One state has already reacted
negatively to the new law. A
Student input new facet for bookstore planning
Joseph Guberman
Spring term is just around the
corner, and so are some badly
needed changes in the Capitol
Campus bookstore.
What they have in mind can
only be described as daring. Dr.
Dwayne Smith, Assistant Pro
vost, feels: “We can be more
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Minnesota judge ruled the ac
tion unconstitutional two weeks
ago, but for Pennsylvania and
tiie other 48 states, the law still
stands.
‘‘What we’re homing for is a
domino effect,” said Capitol
Campus Financial Aid Officer
James Lane.
“Action is currently pending
on another law introduced in
Congress to repeal this but until
'something definite happens, we
have to assume everything is in
effect and proceed according
ly.”
“I’m told we have about 1,000
men attending classes here,”
said Lane. “Probably about
half of those, 500 or so, will be
affected by the ruling, but
that’s a ballpark figure.”
The real problem, though, lies
with how students are going to
prove their compliance with the
new law. According to Lane,
neither the Department of
Education nor the Selective Ser
vice System has published
anything regarding the method
of certifying compliance.
“Possibly we’ll attach an ad
dendum to the Statement of
Educational Purpose all
students must sign when they
apply for aid,” said Lane.
Another suggestion would be for
insistent now.”
He plans to coordinate a bi
partisan group, made up of
students, faculty, and Bookstore
officials, that will look at four
areas of concern: The store’s
product mix, the need for a us
ed textbook buy-back system,
underordering of texts, and the
physical set-up of the store.
students to present the
Acknowledgement Letter sent
to them after they registered
with the Selective Service
System.
In the meantime, financial
aid forms at Capitol will have
information attached to them
and financial aid officers will
be making sure students af
fected know about the require-
Some good news for students
is that as early as the Spring
term, used books will be in
troduced on the shelves
alongside new textbooks. But
the selection of used books will
be a little slow in coming,
because faculty members order
a variety of texts.
Assistant Provost Smith,
however, says “once the order
ing system is smoothed out, I’d
be willing to turn over informa
tion on texts, so we can know
what to accept.”
Smith also thinks an effective
Bookstore committee is needed.
He felt the previous committee
“wasn’t representative.” He
wants to get undergraduate and
graduate students involved.
And he has personally invited
William Kistler, Bookstore
Manager, to sit regularly on the
committee.
Another problem they will ad
dress is the store’s product mix.
Tom Halley, SGA President,
sent a letter about this to the
Bookstore Committee. In it he
requested that the store stock
everything from bestselling
paperbacks to racquetball sup
plies.
Other students have com
plained about such things as
“why the Bookstore sells
stamps at & 25% profit, and not
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ment, unless the law is repeal
ed, or action is taken on a bill
introduced to Congress earlier
this year, to abolish the draft
registration in peacetime. This
bill, sponsored by a bi-partisan
coalition of House members,
would advocate a return to the
mass on-day registration
system used during World War
11.
at cost and in quantities.”
With the procedural changes
being addressed, Campus of
ficials haven’t forgotten the
space problem in the bookstore
Indeed, Smith thinks “We’re in
a position to take more
calculated risks.”
One of those risks being con
sidered is moving the
Bookstore. “Without wanting to
“We have had plans for a
couple of years to move
the bookstore to a more
spacious location outside
the main building.”
Duane Smith
Assistant Provost
step on any toes,” Smith said,
“we have had plans in the
works for a couple of years to
move the store to a more
spacious location outside the
main building. This would allow
more room for products, it
would open it up more to the
community, as well as pro
viding more space between the
bookshelves.”
Most of these changes, accor
ding to Smith, are 10 to 12 mon
ths away.
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