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Tuesday, October 22, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local WA working out revision details Dorm visitation hours may change staff restnt wain ihci phone nui made met elpful Ajs Jse thougli iselvesAji, e any infon identity oli By TAMMY KIRK Stuff Writer A special task force, chosen by the Residence Hall Association External Allans Committee, has begun con sideration of the extension of dormi- ftQ! '> visitation hours. The committee was formed to discuss what changes Mould be made and problems that uld arise from those changes. An informal resolution passed ednesday night by RHA set the hours for 9 a.m. to midnight Sunday through 1 hursday and 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, JysCaila Carey, co-director of the Aterrial affairs committee. I But, RHA President Michele Fisher says, so far the only definite anaver about extending dorm visita- |ti(iii hours is that there is student in terest. Fhe visitation hours are currently 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. During the Spring 1985 semester a survey was given to 10 percent of dorm residents and all the head resi- dents. The survey asked what the in terest in extending the hours was and also what individual preferences for the time change were. Marya Knoj, co-director of exter nal affairs, says 12 people are on the task force and some oppose the change. Cary says the committee’s job will be to consider possible security prob lems, roommate conflicts and how quiet hours will be affected as a re sult ofany change. Knqj says, “The two problems the R.A.s (resident advisers) ttre con cerned with the most are what hours to lock the girls’ dorms and the roommate conflicts.” Carey says one solution to a secu rity problem would be to continue to lock the girls’ dorms at 10 p.m. This would mean non-residents could not get in without an escort, she says. Also, those residents with guests would then be responsible for their guests' actions, Carey says. —— After assessing the problems the task force, along with the directors of the external affairs committee, will write a handbook explaining the visitation times, rules and regula tions that will accompany the propo sal, Carey says. propc by the mately be revised by the student af fairs department. She says if visita tion hours are extended, the change probably won’t be implemented un til next /all. Knoj says the process for chang ing the visitation hours is slow and the committee wants to avoid loop holes that may cause problems later on, so there’s no rush job. Carey says, “It’s like writing an English paper for class and having your mom, your sister and your dad read it before the teacher does. It’s the same principle with our propo sal, several people have to read over it before anything can be decided.” Idineii Funding for out-of-state students short Ficulty oli siudenis ethattfc* immonsl ■ Despite higher (uition costs and By CYNTHIA GAY Sui/f Writer luring an e Conn an entr« sweep ted sorat ■e resultant increase in needed stu- ■nt financial aid, Texas A&M has Biergency money available for Tlxasstudents. But the University is slortbn these emergency funds f or ojti-of-state and international stu- ■nts, says Taft Benson AK-M finan- Fritopn jl 1 aid director. , rJWBenson says A&M ran out ol these j jJIBprial funds for non- Texas resi- ‘tl I ISWlBnts a few weeks ago, but they can i, sheexptHlI receive money from state grants chili dogst I or short-term loans, hat all 1 not a cli ■d her foi that she ihe refused is for This is the first semester incoming students could apply for short term loans. In the past, students had to at tend A&M for at least one semester and maintain a 2.0 grade-point ratio. When the Texas Legislature de cided to triple tuition at state univer sities for the fall semester, it simulta neously provided emergency tuition and fee loans to help students cope with education costs. But several universities are saying the state didn’t provide enough funds and are now turning students away who apply for financial aid. Officials at the University of Van de Walle to discuss goals of Corps Wednesday .tlkmg to: , frustratri ier ili dog, ail nk." This referred Corps Commander Curt Van de Walle will be this week’s speaker at Sully’s Symposium Wednesday. The program starts at 11:50 a.m. in f ront of the Law rence Sullivan Ross Statue by the Academic Building. Stacey Allen, Sully’s Sympo sium chairman, says Van de rs. Even at Walle will discuss the goals he set theymadeBlast year for the Corps o( Cadets mply scrapB an(1 their progress. r aL “Van de Walle set a lot ol goals as the saititT asdng m iod reason. last vear for the Corps when he was named Corps Commander,” she says. Allen said Van de Walle will speak for about five minutes and then will answer questions from the audience. Lambda Sigma, a national honor and service society for sophomores, sponsors the sympo- siurii as a question-and-answer session on issues that concern stu dents, she said. l exas, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Houston and Pan American University have re ported a shortage in emergency fi nancial aid. An A&M official from financial aid who asked not to be identified says these universities — in contrast to A&M — are probably harder hit because they have more interna tional and out-of-state students. Fifteen percent of in-state tuition and 5 percent of out-of-state tuition was set aside, Benson says, adding that the funds from Texas residents are to be kept separate from non resident funds. Of these amounts, no less than 20 percent goes toward emergency loans, while the remain ing amount is used for the Texas; Publication Grant program. This grant program has been around for several years, but May’s state legislation macle it significantly larger to handle the higher tuition costs. Benson says the University gives out its grant money as it comes in, while money for emergency loans is distributed to students before A&M has this money in hand. “We estimate how much tuition money we’re going to collect,” Ben son says. “We loan up to what we ex- 1 pect to have.” A&M operates on a revolving loan fund, he adds, and students should pay back their loan money within 90 days. Benson says a shortage of loan money at this time of the year is not a major problem because most stu dents have paid their tuition, and the fund will be replenished in time for the spring semester. The state provided A&M with $333,895 for Texas students, and $76,003 for its international and out-of-state students. Also, Texans are paying an average of $180 per semester for tuition, while non-resi dents are shelling out $1,800. This caused a predictable shortage of non-resident loan funds, Benson says. “The only area Tm a little con cerned about is the international and non-resident (student area),” Ben son says. He adds that he was more concerned with the international students because their costs for at tending A&M in the ’85 school year is estimated at $9,060. “Internatio nal students do not qualify for any other financial aids than the Texas Public Education Grant and regular campus jobs, (under the work study program),” Benson says. Benson adds that these grants and emergency loans were made avail able to international students for the first time last week. He says the state has now found a way to determine the needs of these students in terms of differing international currencies and incomes. ays previoi 1 spoken k ut their nuggets fotj dtoti" : rule as ^ 0 cut I diner tM mon" sensfj ke this mm against Ddtlil unity while aiitij versus I if that" ■ bottom. 1 , did noidij in that i« brownM traten#! bad1 eatmentP was wofifj orrectM ^et collect^ jate andn -ociousffl rk in H in theresi*] al vanda advantage udly i shoe | was notu a ring AP| gg e( ^ indnunf. . bed! Uni 5ear “rescued 1 Agswhol nd get ui 1 Station show tru^ - e would 11 i-goin’m L n bears ii | _jjne whatjj j have b| 3red. ! vv 7 ’ '' • •. '' -T -. . v- •: ■ • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Majors, It’s Time to Put Your Theories to Work. i V.v ■ . Ah vf? Freshmen and Sophomores... 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