Brown and White Vol. 93 no. 43

              lehigh university brow ii and white vol 93 — no 43 bethlehem pa tuesday april fi 1982 215)861-4184 financial aid office figures show more than half aid cut by randy bknfkk i can't help but think thai they stu dents are not aware austin gavin executive consultant to dem ing lewis said about reagan's proposed budget cuts for financial aid considering the attendance at last tuesday's open meeting at other institutions he continued stu dents do seem to be concerned gavin said that one reason for the lack of inter est may be that lehigh has a smaller proportion of students on financial aid " president reagan's proposed budget lor fiscal year 1983 will result in i 57.6 percent reduction in the amount of pell grants supplemental educational opportunity grants seogs and col lege work study funds at the university according to figures compiled by the university office of financial aid this is a cut of 38.6 percent from the amount for 1982-83 which is itself a cut of 30 9 percent from the present school year n addition guaranteed student loans gsls which have been cut by 55.7 percent for 1982-83 would be cut by an additional 11.1 percent for 1983-84 william stanford director of financial aid said most people feel they can limp through next year but additional cuts would cause problems further reductions would follow the proposed elimination of the federally funded state student incentive jrants program according to the figures this will result in a 35 percent reduction in pennsylvania higher education assist anee agency and other stale grants over the next two years stanford said he financial aid offi ce's alternatives are relatively limited one possibility isto meet a smaller part of students demonstrated need stan ford said we just have to expect more out of everybody " he added those who are still eligible for aid would have to take both a gsl and some other type of fooling around htw pholo tjv honnif rhgf-li prov ost arthur humphrey looks on at thurs day's april fools student/faculty coffee hour as a costumed man greets faculty and stu dents the coffee hour was sponsored by the kiichen cabinet second opi employee in 6 weeks resigns by scott cagan today will be the last day of work for vk-ki steedle public information asso ciate who will become the second person in less than a month and a half to resign from the university's office of public information ol'li she informed me that she was leav ing lor personal reasons '" sam connor director of ol'l said according to steedle however the phrase personal reasons was never used she refused o elaborate on her rea sons for leaving i gave no reason stated steedle adding that she had informed connor of her resignation on march 23 thus giving the office two weeks notice steedle who was in her second year working for opi said that she has no definite plans for the future on feb 22 hoy foster former assist ant director of opi said he was given the choice to resign or be fired " by con nor and robert holeombe assistant vice president of development as reported in the march 5 artk.'lein the brown im whitr foster elected to resign which accord ing to connor in the article left the opi operating with great difficulty the opi is currently interview ing can didates to lill both foster's and steedle's vacancies according to connor mean while bill armold a lehigh alumnus is filling foster's position on an interim basis connor added armold has been on the opi stall before as well as having done similar work at other colleges we also hope to uciti un interim for steedle connor stated there are several hundred appli cants and we hope to have the vacancies filled as soon as possible — by june 1 at outside connor said dear abbie ropj phoio political activist abhie hoffman will speak in packer memorial chapel at 8 p.m on wed april 14 the free program is spon sored by the visiting lecturer's committee and is open to the public damage cost plan defended by residence operations by llkltlt fisciikk discontent oxer residence opera t ions damage hilling procedures were expressed by a sampling of residence hall students according to one student of mcconn damage that was done five years ago is being charged to us now such as cracked ceiling tiles in the poolroom in addition he noted that his hall was charged for normal wear and tear an item in which he believes funds should be set up for general building maintenance kurt salsburg assistant director of residence operations replied that cur rent residents are not charged for past damages we only assess student dam ages when we are sure it has occurred at present he said we send npcs notice oi pending charges after the work order comes back to our office to show that the work is completed this gives residents time to respond as to who's responsible if it was caused by wear and tear or if the damage was done prior to arrival we honor all requests a student of taylor e-2 noted that in february guys came into our hall breaking tiles and ripping phones off the wall if our floor didn't do it we shouldn't have to pay for it a student of taylor w-2 complained that his hall had to pay for a phone apparently stolen by someone outside his hall last semester the same student complained his hall was charged for a damaged ceiling panel that took work men three hours to repair salsburg noted that gryphons on the floor where the vandalism occurs get npcs if residents are not knowledgea ble as to who did the damage they should report that then we follow upon it " he stated we would not bill residents of taylor for damage to other areas if that floor or hall isn't responsible that infor mation should come back to us from gry phons or area coordinators he added that residence operations would always absorb the damage cost if it was clear somebody outside the hall was responsible salsburg said that if the damage occurred in a lounge area residence operations prorates the cost among all residents of the building he noted how ever that all res idents have access to the see residence page 3 see financial page 1 last issue this is the last brown hind while before pacing break the next issue will be april 16