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              lehigh university brown and white vol 92 — no 41 bethlehem pa tuesday april 7 1981 215)861-4184 reagan's budget proposals effects may be wide-ranging by brian blaser the reagan administration's plans to cut grant programs and student loan subsidies could have wide-ranging effects on the economy accordingto wil liam stanford university director of financial aid in the i'nited states we have used higher education as an alternative to creating jobs stanford said we've oversold college now the methods used lo pay lor it are becoming less attaina ble so when these people who can no longer afford higher education get dumped into the job market right out of high school it will create more prob lems i hope everyone in washington sees how these things are interrelated the targets of reagan's budget cut proposals are two particularly costly problems basic educational opportun ity grants beog and guaranteed stu dent loans gsi basic grants from 200 to 1,800 per year are awarded ent irely on the basis of need at the university 677 of the school's 4.400 undergraduates are in the basic grant program involving a total of 88,000 the federal government though has temporarily suspended the processing of basic grant student eligibility reports the suspension will continue until some decision on the methodology to be used is reached by congress some high levels of debate should take place in earnest it late april or early may stanford said the house budget committee is con sidering a wide range of alternative proposals from several influential edu cational groups he added according to stanford if there are a lot of major differences that aren't resolved some aspects of the proposals could conceivably be in limbo until late summer ." talking about the effect of this delay stanford said the good news is that it improves the likelihood that once we not ify the students of the beog award we won't have to contradict ourselves this was the case last summer when basic grants were reduced after student notification . the bad news is that considering the volume of beog applications and reports the backlog becomes enor mous stanford said he predicts a seriously disruptive and unneces sarily expensive chain-reaction effect in award announcement delays due to soaring an airborne ranger from the university's army rotc lands al a field at fort indiantown gap to reinforce fellow rangers on the ground see story page 8 computerized lottery proposed by diana wall the residence halls subcommittee of korum xi has proposed a new computer ized lottery system which would take effect forthe fall 82 lottery accordingto michael podd assistant director of resi dence operations res ops . the proposal will be voted on at the next forum meeting the new system would be very sim ilar to the old one podd said the only change being that instead of students drawing their own lottery numbers a computer would assign a number to every student eligible for the lottery the big thrust for the new system is the convenience for the student podd said adding that it would also lessen the risk of a careless error such as a student drawing a number from the wrong bin or missing the drawing altogether from our perspective the new sys tem would save students time and worry over missing the deadline and it would save res ops man-hours by eliminating the drawing previously held in grace hall the only problem with the computer ized system podd said is that it would eliminate any student participation and some students feel superstitious about actually drawing their own number . some students feel they will get a better number if they pick it themselves there would be two options for assign ing student numbers under the new sys tem 1 every student eligible for the lottery would automatically be assigned a number by the computer or 2 stu dents would fill out a questionnaire stat ing whether or not they wish to be assigned a lottery number guitar man this art class took advantage of the balmy weather for some springtime sketching angelo spinosa provided a patient model and everyone had mm fun listening to his guitar strumming former ugandian to attend university next semester by herbert fischer a moslem of indian descent . who eight years ago fled uganda s former dictator idi amin will be a i niversity student next semestei ali hassalani a lowering articulate young man of 22 came to the united stales in l!)7.'i lie is one of a group of 80 lehigh valley-area moslems belonging to the organization ol the faithful fol lowers of the twelve disciples ol mohammed llassanali's group like most moslems in india are shiites followers of mohammed's son-in-law alt shia which means party of ali gradually developed into a religious movement and comprises one tenth of the world's islamic people llassanali said however that their quest for a mosque site has been com pleted he said a woman from the jehov ah's witnesses offered the organization its facilities on 13th and chew sts in allentown llassanali presently a student at kutz town state college will transfer to the university next semester to work towards a business degree hassanali responded to a march 24 article in the globe times which slated that the hopes of llassanali faithful followers to open a mosque in allentown were dashed the article staled the group had proposed the site in a 60-by 20 foot building at ihib greenleaf st in northwest allentown according to the globe times the zon ing board unanimously ruled against the group's request for a variance from parking requirements it said the board was influenced by 30 neighbors who turned out to protest the location of the mosque in a building that has functioned through the years as the west end youth center and social hall of the keystone fire co see zoning page 13 see parents page 12 correction a story which appeared in last tuesday's brown and white con cerning the stabbing of a university student was incorrect the article reported that campus police received a call about the inci dent at 7 52 p.m and arrived on the scene at 8 p.m the article should have stated that the incident occurred at 7:52 p.m but was not reported until 8 pm police arrived on the scene within 30 seconds a police spokesman said since they were only two blocks away at their webster st office