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Silver Homecoming
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February 7,1995
Volume 18, Number 4
iStudent government holds in-house elections again
Serving the University of Texas at San Antonio Community
By Ryan Lambrecht
"Editor-in-Chief
¦: UTSA's student govemment (SG) will hold an in-house election today to fill vacant positions for vice-president, graduate representative, and sophomore representative. These new elections are being held due to the resignation of SG president Andy McManus and a lack of candidates to fill the vacant positions during the Jan. 24 in-house elections.
McManus resigned as SG president Jan. 17, citing problems with his studies.- Vice-president Kristi Hall was sworn in as acting president Jan. 24. McManus is still part of the Govemment Aides Pro¬ gram in SG, and he plans to advise Hall so she can get used to her new position.
As acting president. Hall's first prior¬ ity is filling the vacant positions in SG through the in-house elections. For in- house elections, candidates do not cam¬ paign among the student population. Instead, candidates give a speech to SG on why they are capable of fulfilling the responsibilities of the office they are running for. After all of the speeches, SG votes on who should fill the vacant positions.
Even though the vice-president posi¬ tion is the second most important SG post, SG decided to hold an in-house election due to the time constraints and possible confusion among students about holding two SG elec- —^¦——— tions in one month.
"Our general elec¬ tions are going to be about a month away, but we need these [va¬ cant] positions filled right away and there wasn't enough time to do a big, general elec¬ tion," Hall said. "Plus, it would be really weird to have two big elections right next to each other—I think it might be more con¬ fusing to the stu¬ dents." I —¦
During the in-house elections Jan. 24, several vacant SG positions were filled. Michael Godelia was selected as recording secretary, Michael McGalin as historian, Marcus Springer as junior representative, Steve Laskowski as sophomore representative, and Wendy Armsti-ong and Chris Sily as freshman representatives.
Currently the office for vice-presi¬ dent is vacant as well as three graduate representative offices and one sopho-
"There wasn't enough time to do j big, gen¬ eral election. It would be really weird to have two big elections right next to each other—I think it might be more confusing to the students." —Kristi Hall Acting SG President
SG president resigns
By Ryan Lambrecht
Editor-in-Chief
On Jan. 17 Student Govemment president Andy McManus resigned, citing falling grades and a desire to participate in other student activities.
"My grades have just been going <Jown, and I've been in the spotlight for nine months, so it was time for me to take a break and maybe look for a job because I'm U7ing to graduate by December," McManus said. "I wanted to keep myself sane, go back to where I was at the Greeks and the UTSA Ambassadors, and still hang out with that, but have a little more fun and concentrate on my grades a littie bit more.
- "I feel I'm getting more involved in campus activities because when you're president you're in the inside of things but you don't have a lot of time to enjoy it."
more office.
Besides in house elections, SG will be coordinating other activities this month. SG is conducting a student sur- ^^——i^-^ vey to find out whether students want beer and wine to be offered again in the UC game room. Last year ARA food services stopped serving alcoholic beverages and food in that space since sales did not eam enough for ARA. SG is con¬ sidering approaching John Everett, man¬ ager of ARA, about reintroducing alco¬ holic beverages to the ¦"^"^"¦1^^"'" UC game room once it has enough petitions from students which support reoffering alcohol at UTSA.
SG is also working on plans for spend¬ ing an unexpected gain in fund<ng this semester. SG received an extra ji5,000 in its budget due to unspent money from SG's 1993-94 budget rolling over into this year. SG has not made plans on how to spend the windfall.
To contact SG, call the SG office at 691-4597.
Tuition climbs, students struggle with debt
By Judy Braginsky
College Press Service
The $25,000 that University of California-Davis seniorCorrine Walters figures she will owe after earning a master's degree in plant biology scares her. She says she has no clue how she'll pay it all back and that school debt could eat up a quarter of the income she might' expect from an entry-level laboratory job in biology.
Hillary Wicai, newly graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, landed her dream job as a TV reporter with WLFI in West Lafayette, Ind., but can't afford the clothes to look professional on the air. Wicai struggles with a $21,000 debt from the yearat Northwestem that helped her land the job. "Every single thing I wear to work was given to me by my mother and grandmother who shopped for bargains," she says.
Despite their collective college sticker shock, Walters' and Wicai's plight is not an uncommon one. The American Coun¬ cil on Education forecasts a student at a public university will spend $9,876 this year (up 5.8 percent from last year) on tuition, fees, room and board and sup¬ plies. At private universities, costs are projected to rise by 5.6 percent to an average of $23,700. In fact, borrowing to pay the entire bill for four years of
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school at a private university could leave a student ow¬ ing almost $100,000, plusinter- est.
With college costs doubling over the past decade and increasing at
roughly twice the rate of overall infla¬ tion, the Census Bu¬ reau reports that more than half of the
20.6 million students enrolled in col¬ leges or vocational and technical schools obtained financial help from at least one source. Borrowing in the Federal Fam¬ ily Education Loans Program increased by more than 40 percent in the 1993-94 school year alone, says Donald Stewart of the College Board.
"For many students, finding a way to finance their education may be as much of a challenge as the academic training they'll have to master," wrote Census researchers Rebecca Sutterlin and Rob¬ ert Kominski in a report released in October. Loans were the source of the largest amount of aid, averaging $3,155 for just more than 3 million students borrowing to attend class. Other sources of aid included Federal Pell Grants (av¬ eraging $ 1,375 for 14 percent of stu¬
dents), fellowships and scholarships (averaging $2,467 for 12 percent), col¬ lege work study (av¬ eraging $1,560 for 4 percent) and the 01 Bill or other pro¬ grams (averaging $2,503 for 2 per¬ cent).
Assistance
from employers was
the most popular
source of income for
students ($3.6 million or 18 percent) bul
averaged just $979 per student, the re-
fiort found.
TTie Census Report al so revealed men averaged $2,953 in assistance compared to $2,891 for women. Men also received more in terms of scholarships, averag¬ ing $2,971 compared to $2,068 for women. African-American students, meanwhile, had the highest proportion ofstudents getting some sort of financial help (58 percent and averaging $2,527). Fifty percent of white students obtained aid averaging $2,927.
Despite the burgeoning need, federal loan programs have remained flat in recent years, with studeats receiving less in Federal Pell Grants and other aid.
As millions of students face whop¬ ping college costs, and another 12.5
million struggle to pay off a collective $41.9 billion worth of college debt, one 16-year-old Illinois high school sopho¬ more sought, and received, the notice of President Clinton. Arthur Orkisz, an A-plus honor student ranked number one in his class in Elk Grove, feared he wouldn't be able to attend a high-priced university such as Harvard or Stanford. In letter given lo Clinton in October, he urged the president to find a way to allow students with good grades to at¬ tend the colleges of their choice. The reason, he wrote, is that his father, a machinist, and his mother, a mainte¬ nance worker, can't afford the tuition.
Cligton quoted a paragraph from Orkis/'s Ictlcr at a press conference and cited his elTorts to improve the educa¬ tional loan system so far. including a student loan program enacted by Con¬ gress in 1993 that has helped more than 330,000 sludcnls. Thc program extends college loans lo studenis and gives stu¬ dents more options on paying back their loans. In addition lo paying a fixed-dollar amount over 10 years, now students also have the option of eaming loan repay¬ ment money with a community service job or can choosc to kick in aperceniage Of their income over the loan's life.
"1 feel we've made it easier for stu¬ dents. . . by reorganizing the student loan program, enabling studenis lo re- cont on pg 3
Colin Powell speaks like a candidate
General Colin Powell talked about North Korea, Deeert Storm, racism, the Cold War, and the American Dream among other toplce during hia lecture at Trinity.
By Sara Hawkins
Contributing Writer
"We are living in a time of hope and a time of promise." That message was. heard by an audience of more than 3,000 who gathered to hear Col in Powell speak at Trinity University on Jan. 30.
The standing room only crowd warmly welcomed the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who pre¬ sented, "The Management of Crisis and Change," the third address of Trinity University's 1994-95 Distinguished Lec¬ ture Series, on Monday, Jan.30.
Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Suff undei presidents Bush and Clinton. He served as the principal military adviser to the presideni, the sec¬ retary of defense, and a member of the national security council.
Thc first 28 years of Powell's career were spent in assisting in the contain¬ ment of communism. Powell said, "life was simpler in those days, 1 understood my job.  The enemy (the communists)
was identified for me." During this period the United Stales buill 30,000 nuclear weapions. Pouell staled, "This was dangerous, but understandable, ll was the strategy necessary to contain the Reds."
The dissolution of Communist power began with the Berlin Wall and the reuni¬ fication of Germany. On Christmas Day of 1991 the Soviet Union disappeared. Powell sal in awe of these happenings. ¦Ten years earlier who would have be¬ lieved that the grea! and mighty USSR would someday disappear! He watched in amaze it as the Palestinian Libera¬ tion Organization (PLO) and the Israeli govemment shook hands and agreed to seek peace between theirpeoples. Powell said, "We are living in a lime of hope and a time of promise."
Powell believes that nations can go down one of two roads. One is the road of democracy, which he described as noisy and full of pitfalls. The other road is of old religious and ethnic ways.
Powell went on to express the con¬
cern of other nations that America does not become acounlry of isolation. Powell said our country must continue lo do what il can lo help other countries as much as possible and that the world needs a leader, and America must be that leader.
Powell said, "Desert Storm is a suc¬ cess ofthe spirit. Il was a prime example of a match between means and objec¬ tive." Conceming Saddam Hussein. Powell said "like a kidney stone he'll pass in due course."
In reference to the suppoii troops recei ved during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Powell encouraged Americans lo keep supporting our soldiers like we did after Desert Storm, and to include Korean and Vietnam veterans within this support. As Americans, Powell stated wc need to compensate for the neglect thai was shown to Korean and Vietnam veterans afler they retumed home from war.
Powell concluded his lecture empha- con' on pg 3