2The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, January 23, 1986
By RACHEL STIFFLER
Staff Writer
Large reductions in student financial aid could occur
as soon as March 1 if a budget-balancing measure
recently passed by Congress takes effect, said Eleanor
Morris, UNC director of student aid.
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings plan is designed to
balance the federal budget by putting a ceiling on the
deficit every year until 1991. If it passes a constitu
tionality test in federal court, North Carolina could
lose $200 million of funding over the next two years.
Morris said she expected a 4.5 percent to 5 percent
cut ia student aid programs for the fall semester, 1986,
although she had not received any official notice of
how much reduction there would be. .
The Pell Grant Program, which is for students with
the greatest financial need, could be cut by as much
as 30 percent by fall, 1987, she said.
Morris said any federally-funded financial aid
programs would be affected by the law, including
graduate assistantships and research grants. Students
receiving the Guaranteed Student Loan would have
to pay a 5.5 percent service charge instead of 5 percent,
she said.
Except for Pell Grants, the Student Aid Office would
decide if the available money would be awarded to
fewer recipients or if the same number of students
would receive less money. Pell Grants would be reduced
in both areas, Morris said.
She said the 4-5 percent to 5 percent reductions that
could occur next year were more serious than they
sounded.
That's not a lot of dollars, but if we don't have
the money to go around, itll be felt by everybody,
she said.
The law is already affecting the hiring of state
workers, said Tim Pittman, Governor Martin's press
secretary.
The effect of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is still being '
evaluated but in preparation for when it does take
effect, the governor has ordered a slowdown in hiring,
Pittman said. "As employees leave their jobs due to
retirement and job changes, their positions will not
be filled.'
Marvin Dorman, deputy state budget officer for the
N.C. Office of Management and Budget, said an
analysis has not yet been done on how much the law
would affect business and private education.
"It may be midnight on March I before we get the
final figures,' he said.
One-third of the reductions would probably be in
the state highway program, Dorman said. Public
education funding for vocational programs and
handicapped students would be particularly affected,
he said. . .: :
Jim Woodall, director of budget and analysis for
the N.C. Department of Human Resources, said his
department would be "significantly affected by the
law. ; ' .
"If 50 percent of the reductions come in domestic
programs, a lot of the (federally-funded) health and
social services we provide will be cut," he said.
Five state programs would each receive a 5 percent
reduction in funding between March 1 and the end
of September, Woodall said. They include: social
services; programs for low-income families who cannot
heat their homes; maternal and child health programs;
preventive health services; and alcohol, drug abuse,
and mental health programs.
Woodall said budget cuts could be much more
serious the year after the law takes effect, possibly
reaching 15 percent to 20 percent.
By (CATHERINE YOOD
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
agreed Tuesday night to endorse a study
of merger possibilities between Chapel
Hill and Carrboro.
The study will be funded through
private donations collected by The
Chapel Hill Newspaper, according to
the board's adopted resolution.
Mayor James Porto Jr. said he
wanted the board to "endorse the idea
of the study itself with no
commitments."
Alderman Doug Anderson proposed
adding a clause to the original resolu
tion that would say: "This endorsement
is in no way a commitment of public
dollars or an endorsement of merger."
After agreeing to add Anderson's
proposal, the board adopted the reso
lution with a vote of five to two.
Alderman Hilliard Caldwell, who
was opposed to the resolution and the
study, said before the meeting, "I will
never support a merger of the two
towns. They are two distinct, different
communities, and Carrboro wants to
remain Carrboro."
Caldwell said the major emphasis in
Carrboro should be revitalization.
"Carrboro.Avhich was once a budding
community, has been dying off," he
said. "However, nobody wants to bite
the bullet to say . . . what we need to
do."
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A representative of Carrboro's Down
town Development Committee agreed
with Caldwell. Carrboro should focus
on improving traffic circulation, mak
ing parking spaces more accessible and
reviewing the progress and needs of the
Farmers Market, the representative
said.
In addressing parking and traffic
concerns, Caldwell said before the
meeting that making Roberson Street
one-way is a possibility.
"I would like to set up scenarios of
what a one-way street would look like,"
Caldwell said. "Also, businessmen in the
downtown area would have to agree to
(making Roberson Street one-way)
before this effort at revitalization would
work."
Although the board did not discuss
the Roberson Street issue Tuesday
night, it did adopt a revised budget
ordinance that would provide funds for
the reconstruction of Old Pittsboro ,
Road.
According to the meeting agenda, the
Old Pittsboro Road project needs
$10,180 before it can meet the $71,980
reconstruction bid by the Nello Teer
Asphalt Plant. This was the lowest bid
presented for reconstructing the road.
The board adopted this ordinance
and agreed to let the Nello Teer Asphalt
Plant do the reconstruction.
In other action the board adopted an
ordinance, suggested by Diana Wool
ley, to allow private land owners in
some cases to have cars towed that are
parked on their property without
permission.
Reagan asks for contra aid
From wire reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan has decided to request $90
million to $100 million in aid for the
rebels seeking to overthrow the
government of Nicaraugua, a White
House official said Tuesday.
At least $60 million of the pro-
posed aid would be used for military
aid to the rebels, generally called
contras. The remainder of the aid
would be used for food, medicine,
clothing, boots and other non-lethal
supplies, the official said.
Reagan reportedly told several key
Republican senators that the Soviet
Union's perception of U.S. strength
depended largely on congressional
approval of aid to the Nicarauguan
rebels, among other factors.
Ghandi sssasslns sentenced
NEW DELHI, India A court
sentenced three Sikhs to death
Wednesday for the June 1984 assas
sination of Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi. ;
Satwant Singh, Kehar Singh and
Balbir Singh were sentenced after
being declared guilty of murder.
Hanging is the established form of
capital punishment in India.
The defendants showed little
emotion as they heard the verdict.
All three pleaded innocent when the
trial began last May.
GNP growth slows
WASHINGTON The Gross
National Product grew only 2.3
percent in 1985, far short of the
Reagan administration's goal of 3
percent, the Commerce Department
reported Wednesday.
The figure, indicating a sluggish
economy and a growing trade deficit,
was far less than the 6.6 percent
growth in 1984.
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White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said the report indicated
that Congress needs to approve
President Reagan's proposed budget
for 1987, which involves a smaller
deficit.
Congress threatens tax hike
WASHINGTON The second
session of the 99th Congress opened
with warnings of a coming tax hike
and calls to repeal the Gramm-'
Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing
law.
' President Reagan, in a meeting
with GOP congressional leaders
Tuesday, said his fiscal 1987 budget
would meet the law's deficit target
of more than $50 billion without
raising taxes, hurting the needy or
cutting into national security.
But Senate Budget Committee
.Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M.,
said budget cuts alone would not be
enough to meet the requirements of
the law and predicted tax hikes in
fiscal 1987.
Walesa charged with slander
WARSAW, Poland the Polish
government said Tuesday that it
would put Lech Walesa, Nobel
Peace Prize winner and founder of
the outlawed Solidarity trade union,
on trial for slander.
Walesa faces slander charges for
saying voter turnout in an Oct. 13
election was 60 percent instead of
the 79 percent claimed by the
government. He called for a boycott
of the election because communist
authorities controlled the selection of
candidates.
Croup sponsors lip sync contest for the record
Members of Students Against Mul
tiple Sclerosis will be in the Pit from
1 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday
to recruit students for a lip sync contest
to be held March 1. The winner will
go on to national competition. Regis
tration forms will be available in the
Pit.
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Special
Projects Committee
presents
THE LAST LECTURE SERIES
This 4-part series gives professors the
opportunity to appear before an
audience as if it were their last lecture.
Richard Richardson of the Political
Science department will be the speaker
at the first lecture on Monday
January 27.
7:30 PM 106 CARROLL HALL
Informational Meeting
UNC YE ACS HM
MOOTPELOEE
Tuesday, January 28
3:30-5:30 in Toy Lounge
(4th floor DeyHall)i
A quote in Tuesday's story "Wheel
chair access improved in SAC but still
limited" should have quoted Cindy
Neville as saying, "We saw a lot of cars
with handicapped tags being turned
away." The Daily Tar Heel regrets the
reporting error.
Also Tuesday, in the candidate roster
for February elections, senior class vice
president candidate Jane Miskavage's
name was misspelled. The DTH regrets
the editing error. Also, the listing of
DTH editor candidates did not mean
to imply that Guy Lucas and Jim Zook
were running as co-editor candidates.
Thursday's story "N.C. law schools
seeing no decline in enrollment" should
not have said the UNC Law School
recruited practically by invitation alone.
Law School Dean Kenneth Broun said
the school went on several recruiting
trips annually. The DTH regrets the
reporting error.
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