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Drug czar wants to cut student aid
Following up President George Bush's Sept 5 declaration of a "war
on drugs," William Bennett, Bush's "drug czar," threatened to cut off
financial aid to students who go to colleges that don't have "tough"
anti-drug policies.
Concerns about students' privacy as well as a sheer shortage ot
campus manpower, however, led some observers to believe a big national
crackdown on student drug users probably won't happen in the
near future.
Colleges already have to have anti-drug programs in place. Bennett
said he wants them stiffened.
Bennett, head of the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan
administration and now director of the National Drug Control Policy
Office, said the goal of the program was to prevent straight students
from slipping "down a slippery slope of drug use" and, for
others, "to get them to stop."
Colleges should be like businesses
Tuition would not go up as fast if colleges were run more like businesses,
a panel of 19 "education specialists" contended in midSeptember.
"What needs to happen in American higher education is no different
than what needs to happen in American industry, and is in fact
happening: becoming meaner, a little leaner," said Robert Zemsky,
director of the Higher Educaton Research Program and head of the
panel.
Zemsky's group, for example, suggested closing campuses that
havp. low enrollment which it likened to "outmoded militarv installa
tions, both a drag on the general economy and a misuse of scarce
public funds."
The report also recommended reversing the 30-year trend toward
campuses offering a wide variety of courses. Zemsky wants schools to
scrap their smaller programs, and invest in their most successful ones.
For example, a small liberal arts college may decide to cut its graduate
programs. A university might invest more heavily in its science
courses while abolishing less popular curricula.
College professor shortage expected
Campus will suffer a shortage of at least 6,000 professors by the
end of the century unless they start luring more students into grad
schools now, a new Princeton University Press report predicts.
Half the nation's campuses already don't have enough teachers to
lead courses this fall, the American Council on Education estimated.
Princeton said the new report, by William Bown and Julie Ann
Sosa, is the first statistical confirmation of the trend.
Bowen and Sosa see the worst shortages in humanities and social
sciences courses, rather than in the science classes previous studies
have highlighted.
Most students work, study shows
More than half of all "traditional age" college students work at least
part-time, the American Council on Education (ACE) estimated Sept.
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ACE, the umbrella group for the nation's college presidents, combed
through 1988 employment statistics to find that nearly 54 percent
of students work between 15 and 29 hours a week, although 10 percent
worked at least 35 hours a week.
Even more older students are juggling work and school. Of the 5.3
million colleges over 25, about 74 percent had a job in 1988. They
worked an average of 37 hours a week.
Most, it seems, work to avoid big bills in the future.
"Rather than face a large debt burden when they graduate, many
needy students have chosen to work their way through college," ACE
President Robert Atwell said.
Doctoral student receives fellowship
Keith Mize, a doctoral candidate studying nuclear physics at the
University of South Carolina, is one of the four Ph.D. students in the
Southeast to receive a graduate fellowship award from the Southeastem
Universities Research Association (SURA).
Mize, a Columbia native who earned his bachelor's degree in physics
from USC in 1986, received a $10,000 research stipend based on
his academic achievements and the quality of his research at Brookhaven
National Laboratory in New York.
Security Continued from page 1
"(Today) when our officers are Marie Louise Ramsdale, is mad
hired, they go through a great deal up of a panel of students, facult
of training," he said. In addition to and staff who address the campus
the regular force, the police are safety problems,
supported by Reserve Police Of- "We are trying to pool our re
ficer Program, a group of criminal sources to achieve the safest possi
justice majors who have gone ble campus," Ramsdale said,
through two weeks of intensive "Anyone can come and addres
training and are full officers com- concerns before the committee,
missioned by the governor. she said. The body meets ever
"We don't want people to be in three weeks on Tuesday,
fear here," Baker said. "We just
want them to use sense and cau- One of the main concerns of th
tion. We are happy we have sup- group this semester is the ca]
port from other groups here on boxes placed around the campu?
campus. The safety committee has "We want people to know wher
been very helpful." they are, and we want people t
The safety committee, started in know that anyone who vandalize
the spring of 1988 and headed by them will be prosecuted to the fu
Student Government President extent of the law," she said.
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resolution concerning the visitation
freshmen center-style residence halls
The resolution states that Douglas
two residence halls under the fresh
have made a reasonable request to be
the traditional-style visitation plan.
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allowed in any areas other than the 1
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noon until 11:30 p.m. Sunday throi
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dorses the adoption of the tradition
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to the Board of Trustees.
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dents, as college cost goes up, financial
need for unmet expenses
also increases, she said.
A student's contribution to his
education is compared to average
college cost per year, which results
in a determination of need, Davis
said.
Students are given an estimated
figure on research done by financial
aid. This is basically done to
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the things he will miss the most. Most
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