The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 02, 1982, Image 3

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November 2, 1982
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uart Taylor talks with Jeff Danuhger, a sophomore
history major from Houston, before his speech.
by Shellee Bratton
Battalion Reporter
The jury found Hinckley not
guilty of shooting President
Ronald Regan and three other
men by reason of insanity, but
Stuart Taylor, the legal corres
pondent for the New York
Times said they should have
found Hinkley guilty but men
tally ill.
Taylor, who spoke Monday
night at Rudder Forum, covered
the Hinckley trial from begin
ning to end and still entertains a
correspondance with him. He
explained that although Hinc
kley was obviously mentally ill,
he knew the difference between
right and wrong and made a
conscious decision to shoot Pres
ident Reagan, and thus was not
insane.
“Hinckley’s mind was as
much evil as it was sick.” Taylor
said. “He had knowledge of
what he was doing no matter
how bizarre his motives were.”
The ambiguousness of the in
sanity clause was a major factor
that contributed to Hinckley’s
acquittal, Taylor said. Although
the insanity clause is so broad
that it “undermines the idea of
free will that the legal system is
based upon,” he doesn’t think
that it should be abolished. In
stead, he offers three alterna
tives that would prevent it from
being so manipulated again.
First, the burden should be on
the defendant to prove his own
insanity. It is now the duty of the
prosecution to prove that the de
fendant is sane and responsible
for his own actions. The prob
lem with this, Taylor said, is that
it is difficult to prove that
anyone is sane beyond a reason
able doubt.
Taylor also recommended
that the legal definition of insan
ity should be narrowed and
made clearer. He called the pre
sent definition a “linguistic bowl
of mush,” and added that he
didn’t think that thejurors in the
Hinckley trial understood it
when they passed their verdict.
Taylor said that the jurors
were limited by the three possi
ble verdicts of guilty, not guilty,
and not guilty by reason of in
sanity. He suggested that the
verdict of guilty but mentally ill
should have been added to the
choices. Under this verdict, as
proposed by Taylor, a defen
dant would be subject to
psychiatric treatment, and
would face a prison term after
being “cured.” Under the not
guilty by reason of insanity ver
dict, a defendant can be allowed
back into society once he is pro
nounced cured.
Taylor said if Hinckley acts
normal, he could probably be
out of the institution and back in
society in five years. If that is the
case, Taylor said, Jodie Foster
will constantly have to have body
guards with her.
Program ups student loans
by Jennifer Carr
Battalion Stall
R.M. Logan, director emer-
of student financial aid at
exas A&M University, has
itarted a program which will
mble local banks to finance
note guaranteed student loans.
The Southeast Texas Higher
Education Authority purchases
ban notes from local banks,
mabling the banks to use that
noney for more loans, said
xigan, who directed the student
financial aid office for 18 years
lefore he retired.
Through die Guaranteed
itudent Loan program, the fed-
:ral government assumes re-
tonsibility for paying student
nans interest until the student
leaves school.
Banks receive only the in
to on the loan until the stu
dents begin to repay the princi-
In the new' program, the
federal interest goes to the Au
thority to cover interest on
kinds used to finance the prog
ram. A student can borrow
money his freshman year and
gin to repay it until after
his doctorate, Logan said.
Most local banks are small,
igan said, and do not have the
funds to finance all the long
term student loan applications
they receive. When banks sell
loan notes to the Authority, the
money becomes available for
more student loans, Logan said.
The Authority, which is gov
erned by eight members of a
board of directors, then notifies
the student and continues to ser
vice the loan until the student
pays in full.
The program operates
th rough sale of the bonds,
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Logan said. Although the group
was authorized two years ago,
market conditions and changing
government rules have made
bond sales unfeasible until this
year.
Logan said the group sells the
bonds to an underwriter, who
sells them on the open market.
The money from the first 5,000-
bond issue at $5,000 each
totaled $25 million. It will fbe
used to purchase notes over the
next three years, he said. 1-
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Logan said the Authority is
not involved in the loan applica
tion process. To receive a loan, a
student must take an applica
tion, available from the student
financial aid office, to a lending
institution which participates in
the GSL program.
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