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Page 6 • The Battalion
Friday • September 29,
Hit-and-run driver damages two parked cars
□ The owner of a red
Ford truck was driven
off Wellborn Road.
No one was injured
in the accident.
By Kasie Byers
The Battalion
Rob Greene, Special to The Battalion
The victim's vehicle was damaged
by a hit-and-run driver Thursday.
Two parked cars were dam
aged and a road sign taken
out in an accident at 5 p.m.
Thursday on Wellborn Road
near Parking Area 30.
A 1966 red Ford truck was
traveling northbound in the
far right lane of Wellborn
Road when a small white Ford
truck cut across the road,
causing the red Ford truck to
jump the median between the
road and the parking area.
The victim’s vehicle was
wrecked and towed from the
scene.
The owner of the truck,
Brandon McElroy, a junior
business administration ma
jor, suffered no serious in
juries, but complained about
soreness in his left hand.
“There was a crack in my
windshield,” McElroy said, “but
I don’t know if that was from
the road sign or my head.”
McElroy walked to the A,P.
Beutel Health Center fora
check-up and X-rays.
UPD officer Morgen
Harkrider said eight witness
es’ statements were taken, but
none could give the exact idem
tification of the vehicle or the
license plate number.
“We had eight great wit
nesses who all stuck around to
give statements,” Harkrider
said. “With the information we
have now, this guy probably
won’t be caught, unless the
person comes forward or there
is a witness who saw his li
cense plate number.”
Two parked vehicles, a
1989 Ford F-50 Ranger and
1992 Chevy Cavalier, were
damaged. Harkrider said the
F-50 Ranger appeared to be
totaled as well.
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Loans
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Madeleine Kunin, deputy secre
tary of education, said most direct
loans eliminate the middlemen.
“Loans serve students, not
guarantee agencies,” she said.
“What we see here is turned
around where the burden is go
ing to the students.
“When banks continue to
make a profit of 8.1 percent on
students and 8.6 percent after
graduation, it goes precisely
counter to the intent of the pro
gram. We started direct lending
because the present system was
not working properly and need
ed competition.”
Leo Kornfeld, senior adviser
on direct lending, said the pro
gram, which was created in
June 1994, has grown signifi
cantly, and eliminating, or even
capping it, would negatively af
fect many students.
“More than 2 million persons
who are in the program or want
to be in it will be denied,” Korn
feld said. “What the cap would
do is get the banks back in
the situation.”
Joel Bacon, spokesman for
Senator Nancy Kassebaum, R-
Kansas, who sponsored the bill,
said the change will not cut stu
dents off from any funds.
“This in no way affects the
amount of loans to students,” he
said. “There’s absolutely no ef
fect on the ability of a student to
get a loan.”
Kunin said other loans may
still be available, but this
change would make the process
more complex for the students
and the schools, reducing inter
est in loans.
“The fact that costs are being
shifted has a chilling effect on
students getting a loan,” she said.
Bacon said direct loans are
new, and cutting them will not
hurt students that much.
“The guarantee program has
worked in the past,” he said.
“One thing about making a 20
percent cut is that we can see
the advantages of both.”
The plan also includes charg
ing universities a fee of .85 per
cent for each student loan.
Marshall Smith, undersecre
tary of education, said this
sure would hurt state schools
the most.
“This is a dis-incentivetn
schools to tell students to tab
loans,” Smith said. “It’s ironit
with all the talk about senfe
money back to the states, tha:
this is also a tax on the states.’
Bacon said the fee was addei
to spread the costs of cuts around
“It’s to minimize the costt:
students and to spread the pair,
around,” he said. “It’s a diffidi
cut to make. Sen. Kassebam
made the cut without great
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“Four billion crafted in the
right way, I think, would make:
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for academic integrity could be lacking at A&M,
and he is pleased to have the chance to address
the issue with other schools.
“Academic dishonesty is a concern at A&M,
like it is at other schools,” he said. “We know that
we have students in classes who know other stu
dents are cheating and don’t do anything about it.
“These institutions are making a statement
that they are concerned about this issue enough
to invest the time and money to discuss it.”
Sandi Osters, assistant to the vice president
for student affairs, who is involved in the coordi
nating the teleconference, said this teleconference
will serve the A&M community well by “bringing
the issue into focus.”
“1 don’t know if it is policy that needs to be
changed as much as we need to understand the
problem and decide what it means to A&M,'
Osters said.
University policies on academic integrity are
often not well-defined, Osters said, and standards
are not clear.
“Students and faculty don’t even agree aboul I
what those standards should be,” she said, point
ing out that activities such as note-trading and;
group study may be acceptable to some students j
and considered dishonest by some professors.
Participants in College Station can watch the
teleconference and call in with their own ques
tions or comments on a toll-free line. A fax num
ber and e-mnil address will also be available to
supply greater access to the discussion. .
The event is today from 12-2 p.m. in 292 MSC.
Participants are asked to check in by 11:45 a.ffl.
A&M students who are interested in becoming
involved in the issue of academic integrity at
A&M can join additional discussions that will be
coordinated by the Office of the Vice President for
Student Affairs at a later date.
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