Financial aid/draft bill nears approval stage
By Cort Fernald
Ot the Emerald
A law that would link financial aid
eligibility with a student’s draft
registration status has been approved by
the U S House of Representatives
If the law wins full congressional ap
proval financial aid applicants will have
to prove they have registered with the
Selective Service before they can
receive PELL Grants, National Direct
Student Loans, Guaranteed Student
Loans and other financial aid under Title
IV
The amendment, authored jointly by
Senators S I Hayakawa, R-Calif , and
Mack Mattingly, R-Ga , is a "rider”
attached to a defense appropriations bill,
Ed Vignoul, director of the University's
financial aid office, says he has "no idea
how to implement the program,” and has
no idea when it will become law
More than 8,500 University students in
1981-82 have used financial aid under
the Title IV program. Vignoul says that
his office has no way at present to deter
mine how many of those are males
required by law to register for a potential
draft
The federal government, according to
Vignoul, doesn't presently have a com
posite list of every student receiving Title
IV financial aid — only PELL Grants and
possibly GSLs
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield op
poses the amendment, calling it “one of
the worse forms of government
coercion.''
"I am outraged, shocked and apalled
by this amendment," Hatfield says.
Hatfield was not present when the
amendment was introduced into the
Senate
“They sneaked it through by voice
vote when the Senator wasn’t around,”
says a Hatfield aide
According to the aide, the senator is
opposed to draft registration on the
grounds it does not allow a registrant to
note — with a check-off box — whether
he is a conscientious objector.
Hatfield will not support the bill with the
registration amendment, when it returns
to the senate
"The Orwellian implications of this
type of action endanger the freedoms of
all Americans," Hatfield says
Congressman Jim Weaver echoes Hat
field's opposition and literary allusion
saying the amendment is "leading us
down the road to 1984 "
Yet Weaver agrees with certain
aspects of the amendment, specifically
that a student should be registered when
applying for government aid However,
he says he strongly objects to the
amendment on the grounds it “makes
the University the policeman ”
The University branch of the American
Civil Liberties Union is also opposed to
the amendment
"This law is the latest example of how
unworkable draft registration is and how
much it has invaded our lives,” says
campus ACLU director Doug Marker "If
financial aid js tied to draft registration
how long will it be before employment,
admittance to college and drivers
licenses are contingent on registration
with the government?"
Marker agrees with Weaver that the
defense bill, with the draft registration
amendment, is “almost law," and little
can be done to stop it
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GTFs, University may enter into dues arbitration
The Graduate Teaching Fel
lows Federation appears to be
headed toward arbitration to
solve a dispute with the Univer
sity over union dues
At a Thursday meeting, the
GTFF and the University failed
to reach an agreement con
cerning a mutually acceptable
method of handling a GTFF un
ion dues increase, according to
GTFF Pres Brenda Cochrane
"Essentially, the University
refused to pay for implementing
the dues increase," Cochrane
says.
The GTFF maintains the
University should pay the $675
to reprogram a computer so
more dues can be deducted
from GTF paychecks. The
University maintains the
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Federation should pay the
costs
At the heart of the conflict is
an interpretation of part of the
GTFF contract with the Univer
sity, says Shirley Menaker,
graduate school associate
dean. Article 4 deals with the
handling of GTFF dues
increases.
Both sides contend Article 4
is vague And both sides inter
pret the contract as holding the
other party responsible for pay
ing the cost of collecting more
dues
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The arbitrator will decide
which party prevails under the
existing contract. Under the
general rules of arbitration, the
decision of the arbitrator is final
and legally binding.
Last February the GTFF voted
to temporarily deduct dues of
$5.25 a month from GTF pay
checks, an increase over the
previous $4 80 a month
The GTFF wants a more in
volved dues structure — a type
of sliding scale — with varying
amounts deducted based on
hours worked The University
contends such a structure
requires costly computer repro
gramming
"We feel that we've tried to be
reasonable and we've offered to
adjust the structure of the dues
increase," Cochrane says
"We re left with no option other
than going to arbitration ’’
"When we parted (Thursday),
I was under the impression we
were seeking other means of
solutions I had a fairly good
feeling about it," Menaker says
But when Menaker talked to
Cochrane Friday morning, she
says she found out the GTFF
intended to file for arbitration
"It puts us once again in an
adversary position," Menaker
says
"The peculiar structure (the
GTFF) set up has the charac
teristic of being expensive,"
Menaker says of the GTFF dues
increase plan
The University offered some
alternate methods of handling
the dues increase, but appar
ently the methods were not well
received by the GTFF, she adds
The GTFF offered to design a
dues deduction system like the
University's classified em
ployees' system, but the
University didn't accept this,
Cochrane says
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