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- Thursday, July 24, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 Group matches students, lenders A&M students abroad facing few problems ‘Bank’ helps locate financial aid By Bob Grube Reporter Students having trouble fi- reasuj Students having trouble getting nancial aid can find private lenders with a little help from The Schol arship Bank in Los Angeles, Calif. The Scholarship Bank, founded in 1978, is not a typical commercial bank but an information bank for college and high school students about private lenders, according to Steve Danz, director and founder of the bank. The group of lenders includes professional organizations, private and public corporations and private individuals, he says. “I started this service because I agreed with President Reagan’s pol icy of turning the financial burden of higher education over to the pri vate sector,” the California lawyer says. Since the federally-funded Guar anteed Student Loan program be came based on financial need in 1981, many college students have had to turn to other financing alter natives for their education. These alternatives include high- interest rate loans from commercial banks, part-time jobs and withdraw ing from school for a semester to earn the money to go back to school. Danz says lenders look at several qualifications including academic major, year in school, ethnic heri tage, activities and occupational goals. Academic ability and perfor mance also play a part in every deci sion, he says. The bank processes information about an applicant’s personality, in terests and personal history and matches the information with qual ifications set by the private lenders. Danz also says that three areas of study — business, law and health ed ucation — receive the most grants and scholarships, but liberal arts are showing a resurgence. The lenders also benefit from this program, he says. First, a corporate donation to a student is tax exempt. Corporations and trade associa tions looking for possible employees can find qualified students through the bank, Danz says. Personal lend ers also get satisfaction out of help ing needy college students, he says. Some of the lenders include the Ford Foundation, the Exceptional Student Fellowship, Clairol and the Allstate Insurance Co. Interest rates for the loans are not set at a certain rate — like Guar anteed Student Loans — and the in terest rate and payment schedule must be worked out with the individ ual lender, Danz says. L'diversity AVze.v Service A university administrator who coordinates overseas study pro grams for A&M students reports few' problems for Americans traveling abroad this summer. Mona Rizk-Finne was among offi cials representing over 800 study- abroad programs who met recently and reported that the majority of summer programs w'ere operating as scheduled. “We have already sent several of our groups abroad and the reports that they sent back show that every thing is running very smoothly,” she said. Leaders of the National Associa tion for Foreign Student Affairs ex pressed concern over media exag geration of the risks related to international travel. "Of the 6.6 million Americans who visited Europe last year, ten were killed by terrorists,” said Joe Lurie, executive vice president for Open Door Student Exchange. Although there have been no problems with terrorism affecting study abroad programs, Rizk-Finne admitted the changing political cli mate has led college and university officials to increase monitoring of programs and to develop guidelines for both administrators and students in the unlikely event that an interna tional incident should affect them directly. Despite the fears that many Americans have had about foreign travel this year, Rizk-Finne urged a renewed commitment to interna tional educational exchange. “Cross-cultural exchanges in large numbers began as a response to w'orld conflict 40 years ago,” she said. “In times like these, they re main a critical vehicle for lessening world tensions and improving mu tual understanding.” Common Cause protests ‘PAC-ecT Texas House AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas House is “PAC-ed” with lawmakers who are increasingly reliant on con- tributions from political action com mittees, the slate director of Com mon Cause said Wednesday. The public interest group re leased a study that showed political action committees accounted for 49.8 percent of all donations to House members in 1985. That is up from 26.5 percent in 1983, the pre vious non-election year. At a news conference, Common Cause director John Hildreth said, “It reflects a Legislature PAC-ed with contributions from the coffers of special interest political action committees. PACs, with their narrow special interest lobbying objectives, have replaced the individual as the dominant force in financing political campaigns.” The group’s report showed that 98.4 percent of Speaker Gib Lewis’ contributions came from PACs in 1985, the highest percentage among House members who received at least $10,000 from the committees. Lewis said there is nothing wrong with PAC money. “What a PAC is is a large number of small contributors combining their effort,” he said. “It’s the guys who work on the assembly line, it’s office personnel, people giving $5 and $10 and $20 who on their own formed a PAC to be involved in the political process.” But Hildreth said the PACs can wield too much clout. “When PACs dominate the fi nancing of political campaigns, our concept of representative govern ment is mortgaged to the highest bidder,” he said. “It discourages can didates or officeholders from raising money back home from constitu ents. bat stiii ud, Cci hat stud uestioi! indents (ecoine leased e to sto: lie? r jour® r The IS eedoiwj nist ff :ause itj Jnion < ot beat: ii am* { try, limply! he intf'l rain t | ’ o! | ,ve har ( r Syndic 111 ^4 Thursday KANM RADIO: KANM 99.9 FM Cable has corrected its technical problems and is broadcasting again. Program guides are available at several local businesses. For more in formation call Georgette, 693-0513. COMMODORE BRAZOS USER‘S GROUP: will hold a dem onstration of current Commodore software at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Veterinary Medicine Complex. For more information call Jerry Cooper, 696-3963. Friday BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will have an international dinner at 7 p.m. at the BSU (next to Kinko’s on Old Col lege Main). For more information call 846-7722. STUDENT GOVERNMENT: applications for External Com munications and Public Relations will be available through the summer months. Please come by 221 Pavilion from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to pick up applications. For more informa tion call 845-3051. Saturday TAMU SAILING CLUB: will have a work party at Com mander Campbell’s. For more information call Tim, 696- 8642. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. Class trains women for jobs in construction of highways By Shanon Rust Reporter Dressed in blue jeans, loose-fitting shirts and heavy boots, several women who want to be construction workers arrive for class. Women in Highway Construction, a course offered by the Texas Engi neering Extension Service division in San Antonio, acquaints women with the opportunities in construc tion work, program coordinator Ca sey Riley says. The course instructor, Anne Cuenzel, says the course, funded by the Federal Highway Ad ministration through the Texas Highway Department, is designed to help the industry by training the women and referring them to area contractors. Riley says the course trains women how to handle situations on a construction site — everything from how to dress to how to develop the necessary skills for construction work. The program also tries to psycho logically prepare women for the long hours, the hot weather and dirty environment, she adds. “We tell the women what the real world is like,” Riley says. “This is no glamour job.” Mary Anne Chandler, an appren tice electrician for Britt Rice Electric Co. in College Station, says construc tion workers are like a family. She says a feeling of camaraderie exists among the co-workers. Although the construction work ers are a tight-knit group, breaking into the job can be difficult. “Employment is not guaranteed,” Riley says. “It’s whoever is on the job site when heads are counted — and if you’re standing there then you’ll get hired.” Women don’t realize they need to walk onto the site to get the job, she —— Taco Bell's Star Attractions at Out of this World Low Prices says. Workers can’t apply at the site and wait for the telephone to ring expecting to hear they have the job, Riley says. 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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 SOUTH TEXAS AVE-SUITE 101 D COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS 77840 1 block South of Texas & University Dr. Waste (continued from pagel) working ponds — the concrete slab bases for the training fires — were scraped and flushed when the pond system was revamped in 1981. Walls also wer built around the working ponds to better con tain fire-fighting water and foam. In addition, two of the drain age ponds were lined with clay to prevent seepage, Donovan says. But the permitted discharges are only a part of the problem. From 1982 throughout early 1985, the school released waste water immediately after use on training fires without passing through the three-pond system, Edwards says. The waste water, released into White Creek at the south side of the school, tends to contain higher levels of contaminants than water released at the per mitted location. 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