1992_08 The Daily Collegian August 1992

              August 31,1992
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saying it failed to recognize a $ 1.4
billion budget shortf al 1 in the Pell
program until this summer.
m "I can only repeat what my
colleagues have said—this is the
most difficult year I can remem¬
ber,** said Rep. William Natcher,
D-Ky., who chairs the House*s
education appropriations subcom¬
mittee.
Although the bill seeks to
address key problems in educa¬
tion, health and human services,
"we don't have
the resources that
should be in¬
vested in these ar¬
eas,** Natcher
said.
Mitchem said
the gap between
the HEA bill and
current budget re¬
alities was strik¬
ing. "Both Re¬
publicans and
Democrats are
quite uncomfort¬
able with what they*ve done," he
said.
Mitchem blamed Congress for
not transferring more money from
defense to domestic programs,
given the current economic con¬
ditions. Lawmakers defeated such
a move last spring.
"Once Congress decided to
value defense spending and de¬
fense jobs over educations, it
became difficult, if not impos¬
sible, to achieve any gains,** he
said.
Overall, the Pell shortfall will
drain $704 million from the edu¬
cation budget in 1993 and a simi¬
lar amount in-1994.
The Pell Grant shortfall took
many lawmakers by surprise dur¬
ing the past two months. Previous
estimates had pegged the short-
Gnce Congress
decided to value
DEFENSE SPENDING AND
DEFENSE JOBS OVER
EDUCATION,   IT BECAME
DfFlCULT,  If NOT
IMPOSSIBLE,  TO ACHIEVE
ANf*GAINS.
Arnold/ Mitchem
fall at about$332 million, Natcher
said. The Education Department
now blames such a large shortfall
on higher-than-cxpected use of
the program in 1991 and 1992.
"The shortfall is a direct result
of the recession,*' Mitchem added.
With young people unable to find
jobs, many are returning to school
and seeking additional aid.
Mitchem and other advocates
had hoped Congress would pay
for the shortfall through a supple¬
mental spending
bill or by delay¬
ing the costs un¬
til 1994, when
lawmakers again
could-transfer
funds from de¬
fense to domes¬
tic programs.
Either scenario
would free up
more money for
education pro¬
grams next year.
House leaders,
however, said they wanted to
address the problem before it
reached dire proportions. "We
have faced up to the shortfall now
rather than confront a crisis in
1994," Natcher added.
In addition to the Pell reduc¬
tions, House leaders cut 1 percent
from many other education pro¬
grams, including supplemental
education grants, aid to histori¬
cally black colleges and univers i-
ties and programs for disadvan¬
taged youth planning to attend
college.
In some cases, these cuts meant
that the House set lower funding
figures than those proposed by
the Bush adrninisuation last win¬
ter. Still, lawmakers noted that
they did protect some* programs
such as Perkins Loans and work-
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"I went out running one night,
and my parents called the cops
and reported me missing."    -.
When asked where ^ slept
that night, he refused to answer.
Lori Ashmark canoed down
the bayou in Louisiana this sum¬
mer. She said she was at first
"really scared** because alligators
live there, but later calmed down.
But, as she and her friends were
rowing back to shore, an alligator
did swim toward them.
"I just froze. And then it
stopped, and we rowed like crazy,"
Ashmarksaid. "We were just in a
tiny canoe that could tip over very
study from deeper cuts proposed
by the White House.
Specific funding figures in the
House bill include: $608 million
for work-study, a $4 million cut
from current funding; $571 mil¬
lion for supplemental grants, a $6
million reduction; and $375 mil¬
lion for disadvantaged youth pro¬
grams, a cut of $3 million.
The bill allocated $6.5 billion
for Pell Grants, including $704
million to help cover the shortfall.
The House also set funding of
$2.86 billion for new subsidies
under the Guaranteed Student
Loan program, an increase of $426
million.
House members approved the
spending bill by a 345-54 vote
and sent it to the Senate, which is
just beginning to hold hearings on
education funding issues and is
not expected to act until Septem¬
ber.
Mitchem and other education
advocates say they will press for
restoration of cuts during the de¬
liberations.
Feds soy almost 60 percent
of undergrods receive aid
easily, and we were far from civi¬
lization. \
?  "No one could have saved us
if that 'gator wanted us."
Tracie Hicks of the Philoso- V
phy Department went to Austra¬
lia where she went scuba diving,
hang gliding, and parasailing.
"Then we went into the moun¬
tains to go skiing-^real ly weird in
July—but we were driving too
fast arid crashed into the side of a
mountain after hitting some black
ice,**'Hicks said. "You couldn't
sec it on the road and there were
no barriers, so the rest of the trip
was pretty nerve wracking.**
WASHINGTON (CPS)—
Nearly 60 percent of full-time
undergraduates receives some
student financial aid from federal,
state or other sources, the U.S.
Department of Education re¬
ported.
More students in private' insti¬
tutions received financial aid than
in public schools, and in private,
for-profit institutions, nearly nine,
out of 10 students received some
form of aid, said the 1992 report.,
"We report on tht condition of
education as a way of alerting the
American public about the prog¬
ress that has been made, arid the
progress that still needs to be made
in the future,** said Diane Ravitch,
assistant secretary for educational
research and improvement.
The 1992 edition contains 60
measures of preschool, elcmen-
tary, secondary arKl rjostsecondary *
education.
Among the findings related to
college students:
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• Federal support for educa¬
tion rose 19 percent from 1983 to
1991 »to an estimated $54^ bil¬
lion.
• The number and percent of
bachelor's degrees earned i n the
natural sciences, computer sci¬
ences and engineering dropped.
during the last half of the 1980s.
Between 1980 and 1990, costs .
for tuition, room and board rose
more rapidly at private colleges N
than at public institutions—49
percent vs. 26 percent. Although
the rate of increase for college
costs continues to outpace infla¬
tion, in 1990 tuition, room and
board at public institutions as a
proportion of family income was
lower than in the mid-1960s.
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