The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 24, 1986, Image 3

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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-
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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.
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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
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ady to work, she explains.
Riley says that contractors receiv
ing $10,000 in federal highway con
struction funds attempt to have a 6.9
percent female work force. Contrac
tors on federally funded highway
projects are obligated to hire
women.
The extension service plans about
nine sessions per year, beginning in
March and running through Octo
ber. The three-day course includes a
short orientation that details the ad
vantages and disadvantages of con
struction work. The next class ses
sions will begin August 4 in San
Antonio and August 18 in Fort
Worth.
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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.
School officials explained to
Edwards that untreated waste wa
ter was released into the creek
strictly for reasons of ease and
economy.
“It’s easier to run it all down
into the ditch than it is to pump it
back into the system,” Edwards
says. “That’s the only reason they
ever gave me. Mr. Sterling told
me that back in ’83 or ’84.” Albert
Sterling was the school’s former
field manager.
But in the past year, Edwards
has seen no evidence that the
school is releasing waste water at
the unallowed location and cred
its the school’s current field man
ager, Donovan, with the im
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