•I—The Daily Collegian Monday, July 23, 1973
Hijakers order jet re-fueling
DUBAI Air pirates holding a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet
for a third day ordered the plane re-fueled yesterday. A
released crew member said the hijackers claimed to have
rigged the plane with explosives.
The 122 passengers and 21 crew members, meanwhile,
sweltered in the 110-degree heat as the plane sat on a runway
of this Arab shiekdom on the Persian Gulf.
The plane was refueled after the hijackers rejected an
appeal for release of the men and women issued by President
Sheikh Zaid bin Sultan al -Nahyan of the United Arab
Emirates.
The hijackers did-not indicate where they might head if they
took to the air again, an airport security officer said.
Japan Air Lines President Shizuo Asada arrived early
yesterday to help in the negotiations. His plane landed at an
airport 86 miles southwest of Dubai “because we feel the
hijackers might be excited at seeing another JAL plane,” a
spokesman- said.
Soviets launch Mars 4
MOSCOW A Soviet space probe hurtled toward Mars
yesterday on a six-month journey expected to increase the
Kremlin’s lead in research on the red planet.
The Mars 4 probe was launched late Saturday night from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The mission was
announced by the news agency Tass yesterday morning after
the craft blasted out of earth orbit for the 76-million-mile trip.
Later the agency reported the vehicle had been sighted 21,748
miles from the earth by the Soviet observatory in Kazkhstan.
Tass said the equipment aboard Mars 4 was functioning
normally but gave no indication what it included.
A British expert who talked with Soviet scientists in Moscow
earlier this year said Mars 4 may be followed by one or two
more Mars probes before Aug.- 9.
Europeans begin meeting
BRUSSELS, Belgium Common Market foreign ministers
prepared for separate meetings in two cities today to discuss
economic and political matters with a single theme: relations
between the United States and Western Europe.
The meetings were scheduled in Copenhagen and Brussels.
The session here was to be a regular meeting of the Common
Market Council. The ministers are going to Copenhagen
because of French wariness about U.S.-Western European
relations.
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The Common Market Council discusses economic matters.
The French refuse to let the Council discuss anything else
- because the 13-man Common. Market Executive. Commission,
a supranational body, plays a key role in council deliberations
and all proposals for the council must originate with the
commission.
Nixon popularity at low point
PRINCETON, N. J. President Nixon’s popularity with the
American public has plummeted to the lowest point in his
presidency, according to the latest Gallup Ppll.
In a nationwide study published yesterday, 49 per cent of
those polled expressed disapproval of Nixon’s handling of the
job, while only 40 per cent said they approved.
This represents a 28-point drop from his high ranking of 68
per cent approval-in January, the sharpest decline ever
recorded for a six-month period in Gallup polls on presidential
popularity since the mid-1930’5.
The high mark was-recorded following the Vietnam peace
settlement, and Nixon’s popularity has dropped steadily since
the Watergate issue has come to dominate the American
political scene.
The President’s current rating was based on a survey taken
July 6 to July 9, after John Dean 111 testified before the Senate
Watergate hearings but before former Atty. Gen. John Mit
chell appeared.
Invalid pot laws charged
NORRISTOWN, Pa. 4- Attorneys defending persons
charged with marijuana possession say state laws may be
invalid because they ban only one of the three species of
marijuana.
Once marijuana is processed to the smoking stage, they say,
there is no way to tell from which species it derives. So the
attorneys are preparing cases on the grounds that since
possession of only one type is illegal, and possession of the
other two types is not, no one can be convicted under the law.
But in one such case in Montgomery County Court here, a
state police chemist testified that all marijuana plants are the
same despite claims to the contrary. However, the chemist
did concede that some botanists disagree with him.
Some botanists claim that there are two other species
Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Ruderalis. Recent claims note
that it is impossible to distinguish the species when the plants
are dried as they are when smoked. It is argued, therefore,
that it is impossible to convict someone of the charge.
Students find funds
HARRISBURG, (AP)
College costs are up and
financial aid is tighter. That’s
the grim prospect that
thousands of loan-dependent
Pennsylvania students,
especially those with .middle
income backgrounds, will
face this fall.
“The general financial
picture for students is bleak,
compared with previous"
years,” said Jim Mulhair,
director of financial aid at
Duquesne University, a
private Catholic college in
Pittsburgh.
“We’re having fantastic
problems with the state
guaranteed loan program
because of new federal
guidelines that are very
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director of financial aid at
Geneva College in Beaver
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program’s new restrictions.
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the federal requirements for
the program deal with a new
procedure to determine how
much each family can afford '
to pay for a student’s
education.
Meanwhile, spokesmen for
many colleges throughout the
state have reported hikes in
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rates because of increasing
operating costs. }
At the same time, these
officials also reportjthat state
grants generally are being
maintained at last year’s
levels while federal!money is
being shifted i between
programs and •in some
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The result: .students
caught in a crunch of hi|
fees, with less aid to'* help pay
for their education, j
At Drexel University, in
Philadelphia, for example,
tuition was raised from $1,900
to $2,100 and room and board
increased from $1,225 per
year to $1,300 per year
because of increased costs.
“Money does have to come
from some source,” a Drexel
official said, and that is why
the cost increases ;were
passed on to students.
I At Lafayette College in
Easton, tuition is going up
$2OO for the coming year/ “It’s
costing us more each year to
provide the same services,”
.said Herman Kissigh, dean of
students.
s}: ‘‘Tuition has gone up every
Jyear for the past three or four
/years,” he said. Although
Lafayette has not been forced
to cut back programs, the
school has not been able to
expand existing programs,
Kissigh reported.
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repeated by officials from all
types of higher learning in
stitutions in the state—from
small church-related cam
puses to the largest univer
sities.
And because so many of the
state’s college students
depend on guaranteed loans,
school officials appear ap
prehensive as to the effects
the new guidelines may have.
From March to July of this
year there were $6.9 million in
loans issued to 4,798 students.
During the same period last
year, 22,242 students obtained
$25.6 million in loans.
{The Pennsylvania Higher
Education Assistance Agency
also bjames the drop on the
new federal requirements.
Under the loan program,
students can borrow up to
$1,500 per year from banks
with the state guaranteeing
payment.
In the past, students whose
families had incomes of under
$15,000 per year were eligible
for federal interest subsidies
until nine months after the
student graduated.
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Now, because of the new
federal guidelines, many
students are finding that they
no longer can qualify for the
interest aid.
At the University of Pitts
burgh, a state-related
school, some 3,000 of the 6,000
students who apply for the
loans may not qualify for the
interest subsidy, according to
Charles R. Deese Jr.,
associate dean of admissions
and student aid.
The very rich can afford to
pay for'their education and
the very poor have no trouble
in getting aid, Deese said. It’s
the students Lrv the middle
who are left outfhe added.
Students can still get loans,
said Walter Cathie, director
of student aid at Meadville’s
Allegheny College, but some
banks are unwilling to ap
prove the loans because the
federal government is not
providing the 7 per cent in
terest subsidy.
The change in regulations
requires all students applying
for loans and federal interest
benefits to submit to a “needs
analysis,” a complex formula
which is supposed to deter
mine how' much each family
can afford to pay for a
student’s education.
In the past it was between
the banks and their
customers to decide on a loan
amount, but now it is up to the
financial aid officers in the
schools to recommend the
loan figures based on the
needs analysis system.
Some lending firms in
dicated they would not make
loans unless the interest was
paid by the federal govern
ment, but others said they
would continue loans to
qualifying and non-qualifying
students alike.