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By LLOYD WOODS
Opinion Page Editor
TI i C Q CO/) ?.
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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
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?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
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due notices from
though almost ev<
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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
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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
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proficient in ford to.
$45 million. The federal go
that if the justified in stickin
government students who refuse
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ontinue to drop. I would like to No
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^novations which will work to req
meliorate this problem; the uni
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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
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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
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iciu in urtt'K.
ly proposal will allow freshn
students to receive credit
1 valuable experience,
ch they might otherwise
rived, in both classical
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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
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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.
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,u mc in ?i ui many
nulating and suggestive
is which I have for conring
the improvement of
onna's young men and
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