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TrufTinm~>mm Mi - 'I iimiiirriTTTri"iT~n~ii?mw 111>m in w w nrrmi ?m I B ?!! ! mi umbu?^. By LLOYD WOODS Opinion Page Editor TI i C Q CO/) ?. ?. iu u omu y un worthiness of college graduates th? government must hire a prival agency to collect on defaulted fede student loans. The conniving d some students may cause the tei federal loan programs for student! agency is no more successful defaulters than the government 1 few can hurt so many. The problem of defaulted loans ii one. The Department of Health, E< Welfare's Office of Education is re collecting such loans, but the defaulted loans is more than the handle. More than 49,000 claims vestigaied by HEW's Student Assistance Regicgi IV office, wh , | South Carolina. These claims in ? students and the money owed is \ Only a private collection agency such matters can hope to collect Too many people seem to think money comes from the federal they do not have to worry about pa <** They expect a free ride through s e Editor hark nf 5am EV??r ? v/uill. A VfT OVUUCIIlv) < = Specials] Aoore | JBL. ts Editor 11 To the Editor: n ci ?atrick In recent times there has ti )a9er j been a widespread p dissatisfaction concerning the r< ro? nilnlr* quality of higher education in ai withheld if this country. Likewise, as the fi se Include state legislators across >nt?nt, but America pour money into their b< >r?wer a, respective universities and hi f ; school systems, SAT and other aj P^^ncore due notices from though almost ev< notices from persii i the trust- you have got a colli it the federal you can also expe< te collection credit rating migh rally insured now, but trying to ishonesty of later with a bad c rmination of possible. s if a private There has been in catching Congress to curtail las been. So programs because UjnlllH nnl Kn fnii. C. ?vuiu ilVi WV X CI 11 I ' s not a small already reaped the ducation and to ruin the chances sponsible for Of course man} number of troubles after grt agency can government is not a must be in- for students who hi Financial really galling are tl ich includes other professionals volve 40,000 received their educ $45 million. but refuse to nav n - 2 ?/ proficient in ford to. $45 million. The federal go that if the justified in stickin government students who refuse yingitback. hoped that the prr chool on the cessful. Perhaps th can relate to prisons . . . low prop< ationwide diagnostic scores mc ontinue to drop. I would like to No ike this opportunity to sor ?vij/uac a acnes or educational p h ^novations which will work to req meliorate this problem; the uni rst is listed below. eai As more and more doubt has cei sen cast on the value of a pre gher education, the liberal the *ts have been questioned the poi \ edt ide imi wel / ex? ^ reh (_ oft? x r>? a n . nci ) > IV ; mei an^ vjcswt.. bv, py hbt e / WiVi s won _ P. r _________ l the federal government, iryone can relate to such stent collection agencies. If ection agency on your back ct a lousy credit rating. A t not worry most students buy a new car or a house rredit rating is almost im- ^ talk more than once in I or cut back student loan t of default problems. It ar those students who have benefits of these programs > of other students. r students have financial iduation, but the federal n ogre. It makes allowances ive trouble paying. What is le doctors and lawyers and I in well paying jobs who ation through federal loans ^ p even though they can afvernment is more than g collection agencies on to pay what they owe. It is vate aeenrips will 0 ? wv QMV." e reinstatement of debtors 080(1 ist trequently and severely, t only do the arts suffer, but ne watch in dismay as ysical education luirements are dismissed at versity after university. As iy as the seventeenth ltury John Milton, a minent Irish writer, made effort to point out the im*tance of a balanced ication which should consist ally of exercises for the movement of the mind as 1 as the body. As an \ imple of this proper itionship, Professor Milton ;n jogged while reciting the ^ 1 iciu in urtt'K. ly proposal will allow freshn students to receive credit 1 valuable experience, ch they might otherwise rived, in both classical .12 jies ana pnysical education, he University of South olina plays, on the average, en home football games a < r, each of which includes a ilf-time show." We should ke use of these optunities to allow the ients enrolled in all the cciOP-D XT' t ?A? " * iui sections me ortunity to march out onto field and form the first line great works, say The ssey. It would provide, not 1 valuable experience for students, but also provide the edification of the ience whose literary ex- 1 lence is almost certainly ited great moments in ature. The students would )me the poem, an exence as close to the actual iposition of the work as can magined. HtilK ic lllDl iVin ,u mc in ?i ui many nulating and suggestive is which I have for conring the improvement of onna's young men and icn. >antic P.E. Sr. <