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October'31, 1983 thb twiq . Pag^ ^ CampusA^em^&tes ALMOST 7 OF 10 AMERICAN^ CANT AFFORD COLLEGE WITHOUT HELP ANYMORE, A SURVEY OF "AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATION" FINDS. Almost 8 of 10 telleve college costs are rising so fast that the/l I be out of the average American'a reach, the survey of 1299 adults by a coalition of college groups found. IHuge majorities' fsn/ored Increasing federal student aid programs for needy and middle- income students. MED SCHOOLS STUDENTS' DEBTS JUMP TO AN AVERAGE S23.600 EACH BY THE TIME THEY QRAMATE. Three years ago, the average debt was only $17,200. It was $5500 in 1971, the Association of American Medical Colleges said last week. About a quarter of the med students who graduated last year had debts over $30,000, MOST WOMEN FEEL SCARED WALKING ON CAMPUS AT NIGHT. 51 percent of the Minn eapolis college women surv eyed In a U. Minnesota joumal- ism project confessed to feeling insecure alone on campus at night. 92 percent of the men sun«yed, by contrast, said they felt secure on campus at night. Only 32 percent of the women said they felt safe. But only 20 percent of the women said they'd ever used the campus escort sen/ice. NOT^S FROM ALL OVER: The "cripple" in James Watt’s description of his new appoint ments was Penn State Prof. Richard Gordon, who advises "EJon’t get angry at Watt”,..U. New Mexico College Republi cans chapter denies it's behind effort to strip the campus Public Interest Research Group of funding.,, lovra State union officials tell students they had to remove men's room stall doors to stop vandalism and homosexuality at the union... There were no candidates for a full 25 percent of the student government seats at U, Mass- Amherst. Service honors Mae Grimmer A memorial service honoring fvlae F. Grimmer, first executive secretary of the Meredith College Alumnae Association, who died October 1 as the result of an accident in Cameron Village, was held Octc^ 14, In Jones Chapel on the Meredith campus. Following the service, the Mae Grimmer Alumnae Hou^ was open to friends. Also In her honor, the Wake County Chapter of the Alumnae Association estab lished the Mae Grimmer Scholarship, interest from the scholarship endowment will be awarded to commuting stu dents at Meredith, said Barbara S. Massenburg, president of the W^e County Chapter. All un designated gifts to Meredith from alumnae In Wake County in the 1963-84 fiscal year will be applied to the scholarship. Of the approximately 10,000 alum nae of Meredith, 1,835 are res idents of Wake County. A Meredith graduate, Mae Grimmer held her post at Meredith from 1928 until her re tirement in 1964. McDonald starts campus tour ATLANTA, GA (CPS) - The son of the late Rep.- Larry McDonald (D-Ga.) - one of the- passengers aboard Korean Airlines Flight 707 when It was shot down by the Soviets last month - has dropped out of the University of Georgia to begin a speaking tour of U.S. and overseas campuses. Tyggvi McDonald, a 23- year-old senior In microbiology, plans to speak to college stu dents on "the growing Soviet threat," which he feeis is directly responsible for his father’s death, “1 believe there Is a very good possibility that my father was assassin^ed imd there were 268 innocent victims” onboard the Korean passenger plane, he says. 17% late Congressman McDonald was a noted ^it- communist and hawk regarding the Soviet Union, and served as national chairman of the John Birch Society, a right-wing anti communist organization. - /■ The TWIG wishes all the classes GOOD LUCK in Cornhuskin ^83 Support your classes!! “I have 16 carry on- my father's work because it was so important to him and I beiiei/e in what he was fighting for,” McDonald says. His speaking tour will be arranged through the National Consen/ative Political Action Committee and the Young Con- ^F^ive AI4iance; .he s^, aruj will begin sometime In mid- November-, "I think college students tsdce the Soviets seriously, but like everything else interest tends to die down (following the . Korean alillne shooting)." College students ^wuld be “arv int«gr8( part’' of the U,S, effort to buTId a strong defense and guard against word dwninatlon by the Soviet Union, he asserts. "And I think college stu dents can relate to me and iden tify with me because we’re in the.same age group," Kaceys Holiday Sale SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 . lO A.M. -4 P.M. CATE STUDENT CENTER MEREDITH COLLEGE I4K GOLD CHAINS, ROPES, BRACELETS, CHARMS, INITIALS, MONOGRAMS, EARRINGS AND PEARLS. > Door ?RizE Good bargains Master Charge Visa 821-4263 FOR INFORMATION
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