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STATE VNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, LL NY.
VOLUME 55 NUMBER 9 FUNDED BY YOVR MAiWATORYSTUDENT A C T l i m FEE MAY 9, 1985
' i m r iiSNATIONAL RALLY AGAINST
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AilSll3AiNn ILViS
On Monday, March 18, app-roximately
1,000 students from
virtually every state in the union,
gathered in the nation's Capital to
lobby members of Congress ag-ainst
the Reagan Administration's
proposed cuts in financial aid for
college students.
This lobbying action, organiz-ed
by the United States Student
Association (USSA), sought to
persuade Senators and Congress-men
that the proposed budget cuts
in educations would devastate
many college students both in the
present and future.
The cuts proposed for the
1986 fiscal year calls for massive
cuts and a recontruction of the
entire student aid program.
The budget requests a25% cut-in
student aid, a cut of
$2,300,000,000 from the 1985
level of $8,800,000,000. This
drastic cut will effect almost all of
the 5.3 million students who re-ceive
student aid through a com-bination
of caps, limits, and new
eligibility guidelines.
Later that day, students from
EDUCATION CUTS
by Cohoes and Carol Calavetta
as far away as Colorado, Ohio,
and California marched from the
White House to the Department of
Education, chanting * Students
United Will Never Be Defeated'
and *They Say Cut Back, We Say
Fight Back'. The march was also
organized by USSA.
*We want to send a clear
message to the Department of
Education...to raise awareness',
said Greg Moore, president of
USSA, on the steps of the De-partment
of Education. *It's time
the students of this country stand
up and say No More Cutbacks.'
The chanting increased to a
deafening roar when Thomas
Moore, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Public Affairs from the
Department of Education, came
down to address the 600 students
who had gathered across the de-partment's
lawn.
*We are interested in hearing
your concerns and then we will air
our views,' the Deputy Assistant
Secretary said. He continued that
this action (the march) was not the
proper way of addressing the
issue. * We would rather meet with
a few of you instead of everyone.'
The students answered this
with more chanting, *We Want
Bennett' and 'Bennett Must
Apologize'.
The reason that the students
were demanding an apology was
because of Secretary of Education
William J. Bennett's remarks
about students and the proposed
cuts. Bennett is defending the
Hnancial aid cuts because he
claimed that the majority of stud-ents
abuse their loans by buying
stereos, cars, and taking beach
vacations over their spring breaks.
*No one has a tan here. This is
our spring break,' said Jeff
Johnson, president of the Student
Association at the Massachusettes
.College of Art
'I'm sure, as in any system
which involves money, that there
are some abuses, but to say that
the iiwjoniY of college students
abuse their loans by buying
stereos and taking vacations is
ludicrous,' said Betty Kane, a
freshman from San Antonio
College in Texas. *If these cuts in
financial aid are passed, a great
many students, including myself,
won't be able to receive a college
education. That's what we are
talking about here, not stereos and
vacations.'
Although disappointed in not
being able to meet with Bennett,
the students did agree to send a
delegation of 20 student leaders
into the building to discuss the
cut-backs with the Assistant
Secretary of Education, Ed
Elmendorf.
After the meeting. Sue Wray,
presidenkof the Student Associa-tion
of the State of New York
(SASU), said that in the meeting
the students made statements and
the represenatives from the
Education Department smiled
and sympathized.
*We met with Bennett's top
assistant and it was a joke,' said
Wray,*They kept telling us that
Education was changing in the
United States and that we have to
Continued on pg. 14
WHO WILL BE NEXT YEAWS
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
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RESULTS OF SGA ELECTION ON PAGE 8
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