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South Carotna'aBast CoMvgoNawapapa* |\/| QHCJgy Volume LXX, No. 83, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. May 4,1981 Irro; will IStal About 3,000 USC students proposals to reduce federal f are approved in Washington aid director. John Bannister said out-o significantly hurt" because < Student Loan eligibility. He said middle income stud reduction in funds. William Mackie, director c Corp., a private non-profit c 5 J ? i residents loans. expressed cc MACKIE SAID President 1 that eligibility for Guarantee [ on financial need. Interest tli the time a student is in sch | government. Reagan wants tl Mackie said Congress has reduction by imposing an in< eligibility. Students from fai ceiling would not be eligible f< The Senate suggests a cei family income, while the H $35,000. Congressional com problem, but no legislation he Mackie. "OUR PROBLEM is in kno requests right now,'' Mackie s "At this point, we are tak family income below $25,00 i loans. But we're making tl possible legislation which 1 award." For students whose family i is holding applications and v ai c iiiuuc cuucvnuii(j uie man Mackie said it is possible st June as to whether they w semester. Bannister said that in May returned their completed Educational Opportunity Gr nffipp "however, this year on the forms because of gover: 2 soi I i By Tom Coyne Staff Writer A man and a woman are | being sought by the Richland \ County Sheriff's Department j in connection with shots fired at-the Saluda River rapids at 4 p.m. Wednesday. No injuries were reported s but one female USC student l ^ T/>? Co/.? ?/. i ? iio uaiuua ntvor rafj/i Wednesday. ^ man ?/?a //I connection with the im I. pos< hur ' McCarthy tWrkw will be adversely affected if unding for student financial aid i, according to USC's financial f-state students will be "most if proposals to cut Guaranteed lenta filftn will hp hnrH hU hw fha >f South Carolina Student Loan irganization dealing with state incerns similar to Bannister's. Ronald Reagan has proposed ;d Student Loans be based only Lat builds on these loans during ool is now paid by the federal lis procedure eliminated. i been considering a means of come ceiling to determine loan fit - ?< mines wun incomes above the )r loans. ling of $25,000 a year adjusted ouse leans toward a figure of mittees are working on the is been introduced, according to wing how to respond U). student ing students with an adjusted ) a year and approving their hese approvals contingent on -night force us to cancel an income is above $25,000, SCSLC all notify them when decisions program. udents will not be notified until rill receive loans for the fall 1980, about 5,000 students had eligibility reports for Basic ants to USC's Financial Aid ly two students have returned nmental delays in application Light said the man, who was firing a .44-caliber pistol, was shooting at her. According to the student, she and four USC male students were getting out of their car when a man with a long black ponytail approached the group and said, "Hey,can I beat you guys up and take ds, where many USC stui 1 women are being sough ?I dent. (Photo by Chip Lowt eda ; 8 I IP*** ^'r* The financial aid buildini cuts, students such as tl processing. Banister said BEOG payme until June. "It's goingto kill us," Bann would hurry the process of dec word out to students." According to minutes of t meeting, the nnivf?i*?itv nnn students now receiving full gn in rai your girl?"The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons, said tne group began walking down toward the river when they heard what they thought was a firecracker. "We were lying on the rocks and telling a group of tents sunbathe, was the s t by Rich/and County She m s Tjfe-S:' IB ? flWBH St ? ^mS5 IB m HH j,..' -" H/ ' x.;:;. /n ?p|gl BP? |L ^ BBSll '' Jj y^l|? 7 on Colleges treet (1) and * iese (r) will have their loam. int schedules may not be set up ister said. "We iust wish th*?v ? J nding up so that we can get the he April 1st Faculty Senate expect the total number of mts to lose $1,201,200 if federal nirlic < IT""***' ' girls about the man when we saw the same man holding a pistol aimed at us," she said. 44We thought they (the shots) were blanks until we saw a bullet ricochet off some rocks." tup wniua\i nou i iii/?rrTTmrm aaiu uu it people who had been sun cane of a shooting riff's Department duel tuck }ohn Bannister (inset). Becai > cut (Photos by Jose Pang reductions are approved. ALSO HURT by the reductic National Direct Student Loan I are approved, 600 fewer USC s that program. Faculty Senate meeting mint of $287,951 in National Direct St program is reduced by 38 perce; shoo bathing nearby called the police. The three witnesses pointed out the man to two police officers. The student said she later heard the gunman referred to as "Angel." As the police approached Angel, he had his girlfriend put the pistol in her purse. The student said Angel began to wave, splash the officers with water and yell at them. When one officer pulled out a billy club, Angel jumped into the river, waded across and ran into the woods. The woman said police made no attempt to stop Angel. 1 At the Richland County Sheriffs Department she was told she didn't need to ~ i i I me a ic|jui i ucvausc uuv iiuu already been filed. Police said there were j already 14 charges of assault and battery against Angel. ( They told the woman her i report of the assailant j aiming at her would affect ( the charges against him, j but they still said they did not need her statement. j tion >nt<Q y SSWISH , ' -&$ < ; >.< +:<& rV^- J - " V % ": ' "^ - z. WMm .^. j r y * " Jl f :fl rse of the Reagan budget aniban and John Parnell) ins would be recipients of the *rogram. If the proposed cuts tudents will receive aid from ites revealed projected losses udent Loan funding if the loan nt as proposed. L1J.1H rnnTl^ THE WOMAN went to Investigator James Edwards of the sheriff's department and asked why the six officers had allowed the man to wade away. Edwards said, "Well ma'am if I was in that nnsitinn I wouldn't want to get wet either," according to the USC student. She said the police didn't search for the girlfriend s purse containing the weapon but it was found by the three people who had called the police. The purse contained a ,44-caliberpistol. the girlfriend's driver's license and other personal items. Edwards told the woman the rapids is a place people go to blow off steam. She said she got the impression the police were not taking the incident seriously. Friday, she went to Di?U 1 uo^miii muiuiiii jonnson 01 the sheriff's department to file complaints against the officers for what she called incompetence, but she said Johnson would not let her file a complaint.