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By The Associated Press
Former USC president James Holderman
will complete his sentence at cramped prison
headquarters rather than a resort in Florida.
The change, which starts next week, followed
reports Wednesday that Holderman
was doing much of his community service
work from his Dosh beach home in Ponte
Vedra Beach, Fla., south of Jacksonville.
Solicitor Dick Harpootlian's office worked
out a plea agreement that resulted in Holderman's
sentence of 500 hours of community
service for tax evasion and accepting extra
compensation.
"We didn't have a mental image of him
lying around a beach house in a Hawaiian
shirt, pecking on a computer," Harpootlian
said.
How much time Holderman has spent at
his Ponte Vedra Beach rental home in the
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By The College Press Service
Students soon may find more grants in the
cial aid packages.
Higher education associations have been fig
expand grant eligibility while simultaneously
that a decade-long trend toward loan-based ai<
end. Their battle will climax this fall when C
rewrites the Higher Education Act, the blue]
all federal aid programs.
4National student leaders say the battle can
students are willing to join the fray.
"It is going to be an incredibly tough battle
need to call your congressmen," said Selena E
gislative director of the United States Student
ation (USSA).
The House Postsecondary Education subcc
led the reauthorization effort, holding more
hearings during the past two years.
The subcommittee has finished its hearing
expected to begin marking up the bill early
MarK-up is me crucial pnase ior an dius. i nai
congressional representatives go over the bill
proposing new rules to replace ones they do n
with.
When the subcommittee finishes, the House
condary Education and Labor committee will
the bill before it goes to the full House for
Any section of the bill can be amended at any
the process.
The Senate also will begin later this fall ma
its version of the Higher Education Act. W
House and Senate pass their versions of the ac
ference committee will try to combine the t
into one, which must be approved by both hou
Dong said this mark-up process gives sti
chance to fight for proposals they favor,
switching financial aid emphasis from loans tc
"A lot of people say, 'What difference does
to call your congressman?' But a lot of chanj
to be made and congressmen do read thei
Dong said.
USSA, the primary student-run lobbying c
tion, has been pushing to expand Pell grant e
to families with incomes up to $49,000 and to
the Stafford loan program to all students, rega
income. It also wants to increase Pell granl
and to make them an entitlement, which wouli
them from budget cuts.
The group included these recommendatii
25-page proposal that it submitted
subcommittee.
"We want to make sure that middle income
get Pell grants and are eligible for Staffon
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past month was in dispute Wednesday.
For the most part, Holderman has b
working out of his home in Columbia, s
Tom Hudson, a spokesman for the state
partmcnt of Probation, Parole and Pari
Services.
Holderman has occasionally been allo\
to travel to Florida on weekends, howe1
and might have done some work there
well.
Hudson said a reporter with The CharU
Observer misunderstood him when he s
Holderman was working out of his hoi
Hudson said he meant Holderman's Colt
bia home, not his Florida home.
The Observer stood by its story Thursdt
In any event, Hudson said, allowing soi
wiiv IVJ au a iiuiiuiuiy vitg aisiiUsiiv^
his home is very rare.
Meanwhile, Circuit Judge John Hei
Waller said he is bothered by the percept
grant refi
passed sc
Dong said. "We don't want to c
: I only the very poorest and the ver
ir finan- ?' .. '?
go to college.
The Education Department <
;hting to njstratjon are proposing more m
arguing recommendations, delivered to
i should summer> would expand the maxi
ingress $2 400 ^ $3,700, but it would
Drint or neediest students.
The administration, however,
be won programs for middle-class studei
, limit would go to $3,500 for firs
and you students and to $5,000 for th
ong, le- fjfjh?year stu(jents. Graduate sti
Assocl- $7,500 annually.
Also, the limit for Supplement
immittee wouid increase to $6,000 for
than 45 $10,000 for graduates.
The administration plan would
h f 1? ment scho,arsh'Ps for Pel1 8r:
,1S . would expand outreach progi
Lswhen communities,
section, Dong said she believes that r
lot agree aye lQ slucjents will make it into
Charles B. Saunders, a senio
5 Postse- American Council on Educ
e*a me makers were looking for ways
debate, families afford college without
P?intin loans.
"Where the punch comes is t
g up onjy faVOrs grants for the needie
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wo bills wjtj1 }ncomes Up to $45,000.
ses. The American Association ol
jdcnts a which represents more than 300
such as he|d ils j99o national conferenci
t grants. reauthorization process bej
it make lobbied Congress for the day,
ges have f,ces to tell them how importa
r mail, ^ was tbe average student.
AAUS president Daniel Lab<
>rganiza- tion's big push now is to incre
ligibility registering students to vote,
i re-open g0 out and vote, thei
rdless of chance of getting listened to," 1
t awards don't vote then you are not reall
d protect Labovitz said all students
representatives,
ons in a Saunders agreed that student
to the opinions known.
"Students in general need to i
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j loans," press support," he said.
to aid vete
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>aid sent somebody to a real plush place to ser
Dc- community service," Waller said,
don The Probation Department supervises
person sentenced to community service ai
ved determines what work will be required,
ver, Because of the publicity about Holderma
as the department issued an edict that Holdt
man would be required to work out of
otte prison office.
;aid Deputy Corrections Commissioner Milt*
me. Kimpson said his agency had not been giv*
lm- guidelines until Wednesday.
Mike Cavanaugh, director of the Probati*
iy. Department, said standard operating proc
me- dures would require Holderman to work o
^ at of a prison office.
"From now on, we'll know where he w
nry be ? at an office in Columbia," Cavanauj
ion added.
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COLLUM, STACEY
CRINION, TRACY
DOUGLAS, BETH
FLETCHER, AMY SUZANNE
FRANCISCO, KRISTINE VALERIE
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taking out too many dence hall on the I
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y a constituent. Educational Services,
need to write their offers a wWe range Q
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mental disabilities,
nomtor what the com- Some activities th
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i. Holderman will report to main off
I the prison system Monday or.Tuesday.
ve First, Kimpson said, he's got to find
fice among the crowded facilities whei
a derman can work.
id After pleading guilty in May to ac<
extra compensation and no contest t
in, income-tax evasion, Holderman wa
ir- tenced to the community service. He i:
a loping a course for motivating
inmates.
Dn Waller would not comment Wednes
en the appropriateness of Holderman's
assignment.
3n Harpootlian said Holderman's comi
e- service gives credibility to the perc
ut that white public officials get prefe
treatment.
ill "They all should be fed out of the
*h spoon," he said, "and here's Holderm;
ting the silver one again."
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int exits through the automatic door in tl
apped accessib
. last semester, 75 percent <
buildings on campus are pai
? or totally accessible to dis
rian Eshel- students,
ipted resi- Partial accessibility may
iorseshoe, that while a student can enti
eople open building, access to other flo
an usually restricted because the bui
his tray in an elevator. And no 1
ing may be classified "full
jar, Eshel- cessible" if it does not
[orized cart Braille markings on elevato
impus, was visually impaired students,
duled biol- According to Rosvelt Ma
was to be Director of Educational Su
:h, because Services, USC is "probabl
t, he could most accessible higher instil
in the state." For that reason
ter changed ablcd students at other staU
t>le to take ]egCS and universities are
referred to USC, where, in
tions is the tain's estimate, 98 percent i
ces, a divi- academic buildings are pai
Dpment and or totally accessible.
The office jw0 academic buildings >
f programs are inaccessible are Sloan
lately 160 McMaster Colleges. Sloi
jhysical or scheduled for renovation i
future and will be made full
ey partici- cessible, and the new n
academic school, set for construction
ousing and the Koger Center, will b
counseling quired by law to be l
adaptation, accessible.
>n and re- That law is the Ameri
>nal atten- with Disabilities Act of
interpreters which requires that any ni
constructed building providi
is are help- accessibility for disabled pei
sabled stu- Several residence halls ar<
lifficulty in inaccessible, including Mcl
e buildings Quad, Maxcy, NADA A
ly this past ments, Sims, McClintock
mps were Wade Hampton. At present
sidewalks. are no plans to renovate
/ conducted _ halls because the housing i
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ility growing
af all for disabled students can be met
rtially in Capstone, Douglas, the
aoiea riorsesnoe, Laoorue ana ratterson
Hall.
mean These halls are equipped with
zr the wide doorways and roll-in showors
is crs. Martain said the University
lding is required by law to provide
i>uild- housing that is mainstreamed and
y ac- integrated with the rest of the
have University population,
rs for At the University of Georgia,
buildings are not simply classiirtain,
fied as "accessible" or "inaccespport
sible." According to Dr. Karen
y the Kalivoda, Director of Disability
tution Services at Georgia, a five-point
i, dis- rating system is employed to inj
col- dicate accessibility levels,
often A building rated one is
Mar- equipped with Braille markings,
of all ample doorways, timed elevator
tially doors and other such amenities.
Students in wheelchairs cannot
vhich even enter buildings rated five,
i and For the past three years, the
in is Board of Regents at Georgia has
n the allocated $200,000 to fund varily
ac- ous projects on campus. Renovalusic
tions and improvements are made
near based on suggestions from stue
re- dents, with the eventual goal of
fully updating all buildings on campus
to a rating of one.
icans Georgia also has a new Kurz1990,
weil Reading Machine, a com;wly
puterized device on which
s full printed material is placed and
sons. "read" aloud by a synthesized
5 also voice. Priced at $12,000, the latiryde
est model is about the size of a
part- suitcase,
and The Thomas Cooper Library
there also has a Kurzweil machine, but
these some students have complained
needs about the age of it.
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