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Page 2 the full MOON More Reagan Proposals April 15,1981 Money For School May Be Harder To Find By CHRIS FREEMAN During the last decade, the cost of a college education has risen sharply, and continues to do so every year. Nearly every college student, even those from middle and higher income families, re ceives some form of financial aid. Past presidential administra tions have increased the types and amounts of funds available to students seeking higher educa tion. However, in the interest of reducing the federal budget, the present administration has pro posed cuts in both the total amount of money available and the number of students eligible to receive financial aid. Financial aid is given on the basis of a student’s need. The ac tual need is determined by sub tracting the money the student’s family can provide for education from the cost of the student’s chosen institution. The amount a family can be ex pected to contribute is figured from the information reported on the Financial Aid Form which every student must prepare. Cur rently, fourteen percent of a family’s assets is considered to be expendable income. A portion of this amount is figured as the family’s expected contribution to the student’s education. Presi dent Reagan’s proposals would raise the expendable income of a family to twenty percent of its as sets. Therefore, the family would be expected to pay a larger amount of money for college from this expendable income. This move would especially hurt students from middle income families, who might have many assets in the form of houses, boats, and cars but actually very little money saved for the stu dent’s education. Many students have used the Guaranteed Student Loan Pro gram to help pay college costs. Under this program, the family can borrow money at an interest rate of 9 percent, far below that charged by commercial banks. These loans do not have to be re paid, and interest is not charged until the student finishes college. This money can be used at pres ent to pay both the student’s fi nancial need and the family’s ex pected contribution. Proposed changes in this pro gram include an end to the in school interest subsidy, meaning VA J) FEDERAL BUDGET chainsaw.” THE FULL MOON Albemarle Senior High School Albemarle, N.C. 28001 Kenneth Russell, Co-Editor, and Feature Editor Lydia Williams, Co-Editor and Sports Editor Tammy Dwight, News Editor Paula Cox and Maria Dennis, Business Editors Chris Hortsock, Exchange Editor Miss Sandro Pollard, Advisor SENIOR STAFF Janet Efird, busan McDonald Don McKeithen, Jenny McIntosh Greg Underwood JUNIOR STAFF Tracy Morgan, Ann Novak David Smith Photographers Chris Freeman, Joey Walters The Full Moon is published nine times during the school year by the journalism class of Albemarle Senior High School and is printed by Press Printing Company of Albemarle. that repayment of the loan and the charging of interest would be gin about six months after the loan was taken. Also included is a new rule which would not allow the family to borrow money for its expected contribution at the interest rate of 9 percent. The most widely used form of financial aid is the Basic Oppor tunity Educational Grant, or the Pell Grant. This grant is an award of up to $1,750 which does not have to be repaid at any time. Nearly every student receives some money from the Pell Grant Program. The Reagan Administration has introduced legislation which would trim the amount of money funded by the government into this program. If this legislation passes, students from higher in come families would become in eligible for money from the Pell Grant Program. At first, these proposed fi nancial reductions seem so dras tic as to prevent some students from attending the more expen sive private, non-state supported schools, or even attending college at all. However The Full Moon contacted Dr. Jim Olliver, who deals with financial aid at nearby Pfeiffer College. He had some slightly encouraging observa tions on the proposed budget cuts. Accoring to Dr. Olliver, Pfeif fer should have enough available money from sources not affected by the budget cuts to permit those interested in attending Pfeiffer to do so. Pfeiffer College is current ly working with computer print outs of each enrolled student’s needs to determine how much money will be required for next year. Every year, the cost of operat ing a college rises with inflation, so tuition charges to students must go up. President Reagan hopes to curb inflation by curtail ing government spending in pro grams like financial aid to stu dents. Although budget cuts in education look harsh now, if they reduce inflation as much as is ex pected, college costs could actually come down enough to offset the loss of financial aid. Dr. Olliver expressed hope that students would not be dissuaded from seeking a college education by financial aid worries. Many fi nancial alternatives are avail able, and most students can ob tain funds to further their educa tion. Beth Efird looks at part of the new careers lab in the library. With financial aid more scarce many students will be carefully considering all options before embarking on the pursuit of in creasingly expensive college education. MUS CAL FORUM NEW WA VE ROLLS IN A new style of Rock n’ Roll has been developing during the past few years. It’s more radical than the traditional Rock music, but at the same time it lacks the outrageousness of the punk music. It’s call New Wave. New Wave bands have developed from three major cate gories: those formed as punk rockers that receded into the New Wave scene (The Police and Elvis Costello), and those that de veloped out of traditional rock or disco groups (Blondie), and those that came onto the scene designated specifically as New Wave band. Devo falls into this third category. Devo has emerged over the past two yeas as the New Wave group of the 80’s. The name is a derivitive of the word “devolu tion”, which is the message behind New Wave music. Devolu tion IS the movement to a simpler way of life. This is in essence what was behind the antiestablishment movement of the sixties- yet, it comes in a more subdued form. ’ Their first two albums, Q: Are We Not Men, A: We Are Devo and Duty Now For the Future, hold true to the message of devo lution. Devo s latest release is no exception. It too encompasses tiiG radical message and futuristic sound commonplace in their music. For the most part, the album is good listening; however the lyrics often border on the eccentric. Several of the songs combine the beachy sound of the Cars with the sixties sound of the Knack, resulting in odd but pleasing melodies ( G^tes of Steel” and “Don’t You Know”). Others con- tam remnants of genuine Rock n’ Roll (“Freedom of Choice”). All in all it s a super production. However, the album can only be musk appreciation for the New Wave Pop music’s irreverent, irri- descent and irrepressible Bette Midler comes to the big screen once again in a delightful com pilation of concert footage. In ad dition to several numbers from her Oscar-nominated debut film “The Rose”, Bette performs hits made famous by the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seegar, and Joan Baez, as well as some of her own standards such as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “My Mother’s Eyes”. When she’s not singing, she is engaged in the wonderful monologues for which she has become famous. Her barbs touch upon everyone from Queen Elizabeth (“Oh, kids, she is the whitest woman in the world . . . there can be no doubt that woman is a protestant — she’s got the wardrobe and every thing”) to Princess Caroline (“Weren’t you shocked to find out just what little tart she was?”) to Joan Crawford (“I never laid a r! hand on those kids!). Bette proves once again that there is only one Divine Miss M!
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