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FEBRUARY 26,1988 — THE DECREE — PAGE 3 ISYMPOSIUM TEA — Students, faculty, and staff gather at the President's Home for a Symposium Tea on Iwednesday last week. The tea was one of many activities during the two-day 1988 Spring Symposium, including {addresses, panel discussions, and films. ond tax breaks proposed Seizing what has become a trendy fdoa, the Reagan administration is expected to propose giving federal ax breaks to parents who buy savings onds for their children’s college tui- lions. Administration officials hope the lax breaks will encourage parents to save money for college, lessening lieir needs for federal loans and grants. The president is expected to an- [lounce details of the plan when he nakes his formal federal budget pro- bosal soon, and college officials — vhile expressing reservations — |cem to approve. “The higher education commu- lity supports the idea, but if it com- Ictes with funding of need-based aid, le can’t support it,” said Charles launders of the American Council of I'ducalion (ACE). “If it’s designed to lomplement need-based aid, we sup- lort it.” “It’s a modest proposal, and if it encourages savings, that’s good,” said Art Hauptmann, an ACE con sultant. “But I wouldn't fund it over basic student aid.” The Reagan plan — also proposed be Vice President George Bush in his presidential campaign — will be in cluded in the fiscal 1989 budget the administration will soon send to Con gress. The government now taxes the interest people earn on savings bonds, and people have to pay the taxes when they cash in the bonds. Under the president’s proposal, the government would not tax the interest if it’s used to pay for educa tion. The idea “has political appeal,” said Hauptmann. The idea, in fact, isn’t new. Illinois and North Carolina have state “education bond” programs de signed to encourage parents to start college tuition nest eggs. Last week, Kentucky and Nebraska legislators were debating starting similar plans in their states. More than half the nation’s state legislatures considered them in 1987. Six states now have “prc-paid” tuition plans in which parents pay a flat fee lo cover future — and pre sumably higher— tuition costs at tlie school of their choice. Several private companies, in cluding Boston’s Fidelity Invest ments and New Jersey’s College Savings Bank, now offer college sav ings plans. In early January, Illinois families snatched up $93 million worth of College Savings Bonds in just days. Campuses facing increase in crime By MIKE O’KEEFFE In Philadelphia, some 200 angry urban residents march to protest in adequate police protection. In Buffalo, people meet with their landlord to demand he improve secu rity. In Kalamazoo, Michigan, others petition for police reassurance their area would be safe from rapists. The people demanding better pro tection were, of all things, students reacting to campus or near-campus crimes since September Their emergence as a force seems to indicate that “law and order,” once an issue largely among middle class property owners, has become a stu dent political priority in recent months. “Ln recent years, there’s been a greater awareness of crime issues than in the past,” said Dan Keller, the director of public safety at the Uni versity of Louisville who helps train campus police departments around the country. “Students are more con servative, and they want more anti crime programs.” “Students — and the campus community in general — are more attuned to things going on around them than in the past,” said Univer sity of Georgia director of public safety Asa Boynton, who also serves as president of the Intemational As sociation of Campus Law Enforce ment Administrators. ‘They’re a more informed public that wants things addressed.” Some are so upset, that they want to make colleges tell prospective stu dents how bad crime is on their cam puses. Largely at the urging of the par ents of a student murdered at Lehigh University, the Pennsylvania legisla ture, for one, is considering a bill that would force all schools in tlie state to make public their crime rates. The issue’s emergence was prompted by a new reality, Boynton noted: that crime is moving onto campuses. Boynton theorized that, as police become more effective in tradition ally high-crime areas, criminals move to nQW territories — including suburbs, rural areas and colleges. “The situation has gotten worse,” said Wayne Glasker, a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, where scores of students have been robbed and attacked in surrounding Philadelphia neighborhoods in re cent years and where the fall, 1987, stabbings of three athletes provoked the protest for more police protec tion. It’s a significant change from the recent past, said State University of New York at Buffalo public safety Director Lee Griffin, when campuses were viewed as “Fantasy Islands” that were immune to crime. Thanks to that heritage, more over, campuses are hard to secure. “A university is not meant to have a fence around it,” argued Sylvia Canada of Penn’s Department of Safety. “We’re an open campus.” Boynton added that student insis tence that residents be free to come and go complicates security efforts. A Michigan State student, for example, was attacked in her dorm room Jan. 9 by a man who was signed into the building by other residents. And when students victimize other students —- the source of most property crimes, Boynton said, al though “most of the major crimes are committed by p>eople not part of the campus” — schools sometimes are reluctant to treat it as a criminal, as opposed to a disciplinary, problem. Seniors work for pay The senior class is offering their time to work for you. The minimum wage is $5 an hour. We will do yard work or house work. We will wash cars or ba bysit, anything you can think of that will help us raise money. The money will be used to help pay for our senior class banquet at Rosehill. All faculty, staff, and ad ministrators will be invited. The banquet will be held April 23. For more information, contact Kim Murphy, Cam- Ipus Box 3517; Ted Burke, Campus Box 3615; or Lori Lees, Campus Box 3302. The North Carolina Wesleyan College Players Coltrane Theatre Feb. 25,26,27 at 8:00 p.m. i
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