The Carolinian [October 1, 1981]

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Miller Takes
Leave
By SCOTT PITTS
Suit Writ*
Student Government President
David Miller informed the Senate
Tuesday night that he will take a
month's leave of absence from his
elected position. Greensboro police
arrested Miller and Darius Davis,
another UNC-G student, last Thur-sday
and charged the pair with
"false pretense" in relation to credit
card fraud. Miller and Davis appear
in District Court today for a
preliminary hearing.
Speaking before the Senate,
Miller issued the following
statement: "Due to (he gravity of
my present situation, I feel that it is
in the best interest of the student
body and myself that 1 temporarily
disassociate myself from Student
Government until my situation has
been reclined. thus 1 am taking a
leave of absence, effective Wed-nesday,
September 30, 1981, to last
throughout the month of October."
Miller's and Davis's arrest stems
from an incident which occured
earlier this month. The two 21-year-olds
stand accused of attempting to
use a stolen credit card to make a
purchase at the Sears department
store on Friendly Avenue.
Police report that Davis, a par-ttime
sales clerk at the Sears Service
Center on Industrial Avenue, rang
up the bill for the repair of a
customer's lawnowner September
10 and apparently pocketed the
credit card when the customer left it
behind.
According to police. Miller and
Davis appeared at the Friendly
Avenue Sears store on September 22
and attempted to buy two sweaters
and two pair of slacks. Davis
presented the stolen card and
pretended to be the customer, police
said.
Police say that Miller and Davis
fled from the store when the sales
clerk began to run a credit check on
the card. Several employees
recognized Miller, a part-time em-ployee
in the Friendly Avenue Sears
paint department, and called (he
police.
Once contacted by officers, Miller
and Davis turned themselves in at
the Greensboro Police Department
on September 24. Both were
released without bond after
promising to appear in District
Court today. If convicted of credit
card fraud, Miller and Davis face
maximum prison sentences of ten
years.
Miller, on the advice of attorneys
Herman Taylor and Joe Webster,
declined to comment on the police
accusations. The announcement of
a one month leave of absence stands
as Miller's lone public comment.
Student Government Vice-president
Rusty Weadon will
assume Miler's presidential respon-sibilities.
"I'll be making a lot of
decisions that he (Miller) normally
would be making," said Weadon.
Noting that a few student positions
still remain unfilled, Weadon said
that he and Jonathan McNeil will be
making any necessary appointmen-ts.
McNeil serves as Miller's
executive assistant,
"I'll try to keep my office run-ning
normally, while filling in for
David at required appearances,"
Weadon said. "Jonathan will try to
keep David's office going."
While Weadon serves as acting
president, Senate Pro Tern Diedra
Smith will assume Weadon's normal
role of chairing the Senate. "We're
still running," Smith commented.
"We're not going to touch it until
he (Miller) gets his day in
court,..We can't reprimand him.
That would be like saying he's
guilty. Every U.S. citizen has the
right to be presumed innocent until
proven guilty...We can't do
anything but wait and sec."
More Education
Cuts Coming?
Colktc Prew Service
At a meeting with educators,
U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel
Bell predicted the Reagan ad-ministration
would soon ask
Congress to shave another SI.5-
billion off the federal education
budget for this year, and to approve
a plan that would leave federal fun-ding
two years from now at a bare
40 percent of the current budget.
In various speeches around the
country. Bell was warned of further
cuts for the October 1, 1981 to Sep-tember
30, 1982 fiscal year as part
of the administration's effort to
balance the federal budget by 1984.
Last year, Congress authorized
federal education spending of $15.7
billion. The Reagan administration
earlier asked for cuts that would
bring the budget down to S13.I
billion. The additional cuts Bell an-nounced
would further cut the
budget to $11.53 billion.
Bell added that even more drastic
cuts would be requested soon. He
said he aims to cut another S9
billion from the programs by 1984.
If he succeeds, tne 1984 federal
education budget would amount to
less than 40 percent of the total 1981
budget of $14.9 billion.
Bell did not specify how much ot
those cuts would be from college
programs (as opposed to the
primary and secondary education
programs administered by the
federal government).
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Record Number Seek Aid
College Press Service
The rush to apply for Guaranteed
Student Loans (GSLs) before Oc-tober
1, when new regulations for
qualifying for GSLs go into effect,
produced a record number of
students seeking aid, and even
drained some school treasuries of
aid funds before classes began.
Financial aid advisers around the
country tried to reach students
during the summer to apply for
GSLs early to beat the new rules.
The rules include a new "needs
test," in which families earning
more than $30,000 per year have to
demonstrate how much they need
the loan to put their children
through school.
To evade the new rules, th«
University of Idaho processed more
GSL applications by August 25th
than it did during the entire 1980-81
academic year.
GSL applications at Notre Dame
were running "about 10 percent
over last year," according to cam-pus
aid director Joseph Russo.
The rush got so bad that the Nor-th
Carolina College Foundation,
which administers GSLs in (hat
state, ran out of GSL money the fir-st
week of September. About 7000
students were left without loans,
though the agency subsequently
arranged loans for them elsewhere.
The University of Texas placed a
"moratorium" on processing GSL
applications between Sept. 15 and
October 1 because of the overload
of applications.
The reason, of course, is that
students who got GSLs before the
October I deadline did not have to
demonstrate need.
The U.S. Dept. of Education's
new rules allow students from
families that make less than $30,000
per year to get the maximum $2500
loan with having to pass the needs
test.
The "test" itself is a set of tables
laying out what families of different
income levels must spend on their
children's education from their own
pockets before becoming eligible for
a loan.
The standard need in the tables is
set fairly generously, however. Even
those families with incomes over
$100,000 may still be eligible,
depending on the cost of the school
and the number of students in the
family.
For example, at some of the more
expensive private colleges -- where
costs can exceed $11,000 per year --
loans are available for families with
incomes up to $110,000 a year with
one student. For families with two
students, the income limit goes to
$130,000.
Some observers estimate the im-pact
will be greatest on public
college students from families in the
$30,000 to $45,000 per year range.
Public colleges, of course, charge
less than private schools. Their costs
would represent a smaller percen-tage
of family income, and thus
disqualify some families from
GSLs.
"The thinking here has been that
an income ceiling could discriminate
against middle income families and
leave a potential for abuse among
those automatically eligible," says
John Phillips of the National
Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities.
The needs test, however, is in ef-fect
only during the 1981-82
academic year ending June 30. Ad-ministration
officials have said they
hope to extend the test to lower in-come
groups at that time.
Those aren't the only new GSL
rules. All grace periods for
repayment - with the exception of
the first six months after graduation
- have been eliminated.
The Dept. of Education has also
increased the minimum annual loan
repayment amount from $360 to
$600.
Other changes went into effect
earlier. As of August, the loan
origination fee for GSLs was in-creased
from one percent to five
percent of the total amount of the
loan.
Students Default
On Loans
CoucaePrtu Service
A slightly higher percentage of
students defaulted on their federal
student loans in 1980 than in 1979,
according to statistics released by
the U.S. Department of Education,
The numbers, incorporated in the
department's annual report to
Congress, show 1,800,000 students
failed to make payments on some
$828 million worth of National
Direct Student Loans (NDSLs)
during the school year ending June
30,1980.
The year before, 875.000 students
defaulted on NDSLs. The default
rate in both years was around 16
percent of the students who took
out loans.
Students using Guaranteed
Student Loans (GSLs) have a better
record. The default record was just
under six percent of the total num-ber
of loans issued, an improvement
over the 8.1 percent rate in 1979.
But though the percentage of
loans that aren't paid back has
stayed the same, the amount of
money lost and the number of
students in default are much higher
because there are more GSLs being
distributed than ever before.
The report points out that the
$4.8 million handed out in GSLs in
1980 equalled 25 percent of all the
GSL money issued sinces GSLs star-ted
in I960.
Skce Smith, a Dept. of Education
spokeswoman, also noted at a press
conference that olhers did a belter
job collecting GSLs than the federal
government. The default rale
among GSLs administered by the
government was 8.2 percent.
But the default rale among GSLs
administered by state and private
loaners was just 4.2 percent in 1980.
Carpool Info Mailed
Albanese To DeliverFounder'sDaySpeech
IgaaW to TWCBNMBB
Dr. Naomi G. Albanese, dean of
the School of Home Economics,
will deliver the annual Mclver Lec-ture
on Monday, in observance of
UNC-G Founders' Day.
Dr. Albanese, who has been dean
of the school since 1958, is a past
president of the American Home
Economics Association. As an
educator, she received the 1971 O.
Max Gardner Award, which is the
highest honor the UNC System can
bestow on one of its faculty mem-bers.
She is scheduled to retire as
dean at the end of the 1981-82
academic year.
She will deliver the Mclver Lec-ture
in Cone Ballroom of Elliott
University Center following a 6
p.m. dinner. Her address, entitled
"Decade of Decision," will focus
on some of the issues facing higher
education in the 1980s.
Chancellor William E. Moran will
preside at the Founder's Day obser-vance
and will introduce Dean
Albanese.
Also scheduled is the presentation
of the first two Gladys Strawn
Bullard Awards, which recognize
leadership contributions made by
UNC-G faculty, staff and students.
The $300 awards were established
by the family of Gladys S. Bullard
of Raleigh to honor the past
president of the UNC-G Alumni
Association, who is currently vice
chairman of the university's Board
of Trustees.
Recipients of the awards, an-nounced
last spring, will be Mrs.
Paula Andris. university ad-ministrative
manager in the Office
of the Vice Chancellor for
Dr. Naomi G. Albanese
Academic Affairs, and Gaye M.
Barbour of Benson, who graduated
from UNC-G last May.
As part of the Founders' Day ac-tivities,
the Alumni Association is
sponsoring a leadership developm-ent
conference on Monday and
Tuesday for alumni and other per-sons
involved in university projects
and programs. Approximately 100
alumni are expected to attend.
The alumni will visit sites around
the campus to hear presentations on
UNC-G's graduate degree programs
and on research by faculty mem-bers.
The program will commemorate
the opening of the institution which
is now UNC-G by its first president,
Charles Duncan'Mclver, on Oct. 5,
1892. The institution was then
known as the State Normal and In-dustrial
School and that year had an
enrollment of 223. Now, 89 years
later, UNC-G's student body has an
enrollment of 10,201.
Approximately 2800 UNC-G
students who commute to campus
from outside of Greensboro
r ceived carpool match lists this
week. Over 550 students commute
to UNC-G from Winston-Salem;
over 100 from Burlington; over 100
from Asbeboro; over 100 west of
Salisbury; over 100 east of Graham;
and over 50 from Virginia. This
group of commuting students was
selected for carpool matching
because of the long commuting
distances and the opportunities for
substantial gas savings. Many of the
other advantages of carpooling and
an explanation of the program were
included in a brochure which ac-companied
each individual's car-pool
match list.
Most match lists provided tlu
names of at least IS other students
who live within four square miles of
each other. Many match lists in-clude
50 to 100 names. Often, many
students live on the same street or in
the same apartment complex and
are not aware that someone else is
driving to the campus.
Students were reminded the mat-ch
lists are of no value if no effort is
made to telephone fellow students
to form a carpool. Those students
who organize carpools may realize
substantial gasoline savings and the
value of making their commuting
lime more productive.
This carpool service is provided
by the City of Greensboro Carpool
Program in cooperation with the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. If commuting students
have questions, comments and/or
suggestions for the service, they
should call 373-2632.
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