Tuition
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Although OSL recognizes ed
ucation investments end salary
increases are necessary. Hoyt
said. "We don't think the stu
dents should pick up the major
brunt of it and to percent is
pretty high."
in addition. Hoyt said state
funded financial aid will not
increase equally with the tui
tion costs
"For example, from 1!)72 to
1UH7. the state cost of educa
tion has gone up 172 percent
while state-need grants have
only risen 37 percent.” he said.
According to Doug Collins,
the Stale Scholarship Commis
sion deputy director, the com
mission has requested an in
crease in funds from the Legis
lature for next year's need
based grants.
"We have built into our
budget a (i percent increase
which assumes . costs of edu
cation including books, tuition,
etc.," he said
Although the commission's
budget is scheduled to lie re
viewed by the Ways and Means
Committee in April. Collins
said no definite amount will be
determined until May or )une.
"In the past, they (the legis
lature) have given us additional
funds to counteract the tuition
increase so really needy stu
dents won't suffer." Collins
said. "Hut we don't know if
that will happen this year or
not."
The University's Office of
Student Financial Aid has
planned for the increased cost
of education in next year's
loans and grants, said Financial
Aid Director Edmond Vignoul.
"Fart of it will lie covered by
grants and state funding, but
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probably <i significant portion
will be in increased loans,” he
said "We will continue to cav
er students at 100 percent of
their eligibility
However, many students still
will find it more difficult to pay
for college when the tuition is
increased, Hoyt said.
"The largest sector of stu
dents that's growing at the I Uni
versity are part-time and non
traditional students with jobs
and children," he said, adding
that financial aid is often not
available for these students
Hoyt said OSL is lobbying the
legislature for increased need
Itased grants and financial aid
for part-time students.
Moreover, non-resident stu
dents also would be hard hit by
the tuition hike.
David Mason, a freshman
psychology major, said the tui
lion Increase would make his
life more difficult because he is
not eligible for financial aid
“I'm an out-of-state student
so that (increase) puts quite a
bit more strain on mv financial
situation," Mason said. "I'd
probably have to get another
job or so met King."
However, some additional fi
nancial aid may lx- covered by
the tuition increase, according
to Dave Quenzsr. associate
vice-chancellor for budget and
fiscal policy.
"That's one area that they've
talked about, but it's a little
more complicated, because by
state law the only state agency
that can give financial aid
through state appropriated
funds is the Stato Scholarship
Commission," Quenzer said,
adding that the commission has
its budget approved by the leg
islature along with the state
board's tuition increase.
The legislature's Ways and
Means Committer* usually de
cides the actual tuition in
crease, Quenzer explained
"Although by statute, the
state board determines tuition,
for the last 15 to 20 years, the
board has never gone against a
request by the legislature," he
said.
Students’ letters to legislators
can make a significant differ
ence in the tuition increase.
Hoyt said. "If legislators get
five or six letters on an issue,
they consider it a landslide.”
he said. "Writing and calling
your legislators is probably the
best way to get involved be
cause the legislators really re
spect hearing from students."
Photo by Andre Kanirn
Assistant Professor fames Imamura and a small group of astronomers have been commuting to
Chile to study the birth of a pulsar star, occurring 170.000 light years away.
Pulsar
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would arrive soon after a super
nova explosion
"Before, this was all theoreti
cal." Imamura said "We theo
rized that we understood
supernovae, we theorized that
they did all of this stuff, we
were pretty certain that we
wen- correct, and everything
seemed to fit together But it
wasn't until BIB7A came along
that we were actually able to
observe a supernova up i lose,
study it with all of our modern
tei hnologv, and really help to
confirm many of our ideas
He added, however, that ini
tially -in instrument on the
t'hilean telescope used to col
let t light from 1U87A revealed
none of the variable light that
would have pointed to the exis
tone e of a pulsar
"It you just looked at tin
data, you couldn't see any vari
ability of the light, .it least any
regular variability." he said
"It looked pretty rattv
"You have to check your in
formation a hundred different
ways to make sure you're not
fooling yourself," said Muller,
who designed the instruments
that collected light from tin
pulsar "The signal we saw
was so unexpected it made us
very' cautious."
Because the LMC and its su
pernova can be seen only in the
Southern Hemisphere, mem
bers of the group took turns
making trips to Chile every
three or four weeks. Imamura
said, adding that he was in
Chile in the summer of 1087
and will make another trip this
July.
Members sent data to
Middleditch at l.os Alamos,
where analysis by the Cray 11
supercomputer revealed the
neutron star was indeed spin
ning at the fantastic rate of
l.titiH 470 times per second. A
pulsar hud been found, and the
scientists announced their find
Feb. 8.
Most physical phenomena
in the world might he periodic;
they look like they're going to
happen every hour or some
thing like that." Imamura said
"But il you actually measured
the time between these events,
it would he i lose to periodic,
hut usually there's a little hit of
variation But pulsars, they're
just very regular You can
count on these things hitting a
pulse . They're probably the
best clocks in the world. They
just don't change
The pulsar is small about
12 miles in diameter — but
massive. Imamura said
"It's probably more massive
than the sun, but it's just com
pressed into a much smaller
area,” he said A commonly
quoted figure states that a tea
spoon of matter from a pulsar
would weigh hundreds of thou
sands of tons on Karth.
Ordinarily, atoms in an ob
ject are far apart, but they have
been compressed in a neutron
star to the point where they are
almost touching. Imamura said.
In addition. tremendous
forces generated in supernova
explosions all over the universe
have, over time, transformed
the simple elements of hydro
gen and helium into more com
plex elements that compose the
planets and living things.
"The question is: Where did
all of these heavier elements
come from?" Imamura said.
"And the answer is that all of
these heavier elements were
produced, or probably pro
duced. during supernova out
bursts So supernovae are actu
ally producing the kinds of ele
merits that make us up. "
While the discovery of I'IH7A
proved many theories astrono
mers hold about the deaths of
stars. Imamura said some theo
ries had to be reworked
"The first problem with this
supernova was that the ideas
we had were that big, giant red
stars were the things that be
came supernovae — near the
end of their lives they would
explode." he said. "This star
turned out to be a hot star,
which meant it was blue,
which was somewhat different
than what our current ideas
had been.