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Page 8, The News Argus, April 1983 Editorials: continued A Reprive From The Draft And Law Dear Students: By now each of you has probably heard on on the evening news and read in your local or university newspaper about President’s Reagan’s proposed changes to the Federal student financial assistance programs sponsored by the Department of Education. I would like to take this opportunity to explain the budget we have requested. The chart below compares the 1983 student aid budget with other proposed budget for 1984. Because over 1 billion dollars has been saved as a result of declining interest rates, the total funding proposed for 1984 is level with 1983. The difference in the two budgets is where we have to put the dollars. We are proposing to consolidate the current six pro grams into one loan, one work-study, and one grant. F'^deral iggs ^984 Appropriation*; (Cont. Res.) (Request) Work-Study 540 850 GSL (&PLUS) 3,101 2.047 NDSL 193 4 Pell (Self-help) 2,419 2,714 SEOG 355 ~ SSIG 60 — TOTAL 6,668 5,615 Minnesota students - and perhaps students nationwide — have gotten temporary reprieve from a federal law that would make all male students prove they’ve have registered for the draft before they could get federal financial aid. Judge Donald Alsop of the Federal District Court of Minnesota last week temporari ly enjoined the govenment from enforcing the law, which is supposed to become effec tive on July 1, 1983. Alsop, ruling in a case brought by the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG) and the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union on behalf of six local students, said Congress may have interfered with court duties and required students to incriminate themselves in passing the law. The temporary injunction will last until Alsop makes a final ruling on the constitu tionality of the law. Observers expect the ruling sometime this spring. Other observers aren’t sure if the injunction applies nationwide or just to Minnesota aid applicants. “We believe (the injunction) is in force nationwide,” says MPIRG attorney James Miller. “But that is a metter of dispute right now.” The U.S. Department of Justice, which argued the case on behalf of the U.S. Dept, or Education and the Selective Service System, “has no comment on our position right now,” a spokesman says. But Boston University, the only school in the country to say it would voluntarily withhold both federal and university aid from non-registrants, believes the injunc tion’s scope is limited. “As far as we’re concerned, the temporary injunction only affects Minnesota,” says BU spokesman Bob O’Rourke. Since the law doesn’t formally go into effect until the summer, though, students don’t have to show proof of registration now anyway. Though a number of other schools have begun to prepare for enforcing the law when it goes into effect, a great many financial aid officers are oposed to the law. They complain it forces them to discriminate against male applicants, that it makes them into police agencies, and that it puts an added paperwork burden on them. A few colleges - Earlham College, Haverford College and Swarthmore among them - have announced they’ll make private aid available to male students denied federal aid because of reasons of conscience. The University of Minnesota originially filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Min nesota case, but school officials say they probably couldn’t afford to provide private aid to nonregistrants. The suit was filed for six Minnesota students. “Each of the six students receives financial aid currently, needs to continue receiving it, and can’t certify that they have complied with the draft registration requirements,” Miller says. The key principle behind this proposal is that a simplified and consolidated student aid program will benefit both the student and the American taxpayer financing the student aid programs. Simplification will also dramatically reduce the administrative burden which your institutions now face in administering the six Federal aid programs. Reduc ing this burden will improve your institution’s ability to delivery student aid. We have asked Congress not to provide new funding for the State Student Incentive Grant Program (SSIG), the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program (SEOG), and the National Direct Student Loan Program (NDSL). We’ve asked Congress to increase funding for College Work-Study (CWS) and Pell Grants. Under the new budget we expect a higher loan volume and a higher loan average for the Guaranteed Student Loan Progam (GSL). The chart below compares the total amount of aid available to students through the Department of Education under the 1983 and proposed 1984 budgets. Aid Available*: 1983 1984 Work-Study GSL (&PLUS) NDSL Pell (Self-help) SEOG SSIG TOTAL 587 6,593 684 2,419 355 120 10,758 924 7,198 550 2,714 11,386 Edward M. Elmendorf Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of Education College grads earn more College graduates earn about 40 percent more over a lifetime than non-grads but men continue to earn about twice as much as women regardless of educational attainment a new Census Bureau study shows. Male college grads can expect to earn from $1,2 to $2.75 million over a lifetime, accor ding to the study, while male high school grads will take in only $860,000 to $1.87 million. Women, on the other hand, will make from $520,000 to $1.2 million if they have college degrees, and between $380,000 and $800,000 with only high school diplomas, the study reports. We have to caution, however, that the main purpose of the study was to show average expected lifetime earnings based on educational attainment,” notes Cenus Bureau statistician John Coder. “A lot of people would like to say the difference (between men’s and women’s earn ing) IS due to discrimination, and some of may well be,” Coder explains. “But to at tribute it all to discrimination would be very unfair,” For one thing, he points out, “women tend to have more interruptions in their lifetime work schedules. And the occupations they go into may be lower paying than traditionally male-dominated job areas.” Nevertheless, Coder adds, the ratio between what women with college degrees and men with college degrees earn has changed very little since the early seventies.” Things may be changing (for women in the workforce),” he says, “but they are changing very slowly.” * Dollars are in millions.
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