NEWS & NOTES
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► Uncle Bill wants
you and your service
Planning to repay college loan* through President
< iinlon's < ommunirv service program.- Keep saving.
While officials in tire new administration are working
to ensure the program will begin this fall. Clinton has
scaled hark his campaign promise to let students pay
off tliett i ollcgr loam though two-year community ser
vice jobs such a* teaching and working with the elderly.
In a speech last month at Rutgers U., Clinton out
lined a plan for a national service initiathe. The press
dent's proposal, which must hr approved by Congress,
unhide* a 1,000-siudettt summer pilot project that
would begin this summer.
The president has requested $7.4 billion over the
nest four sears fra the tuitkin-for-servke program He
said he hope* 25,000 Modem* will be able to partici
pate in dir fitst sear. Funding lor the fust seat is $400
million H* 1997, the White House expects more than
100,000 students mil pay for theti education through
the program Funding for the ptogram is expected to
i tw eat h year to $S. 4 billk>n in I997
'Ttus will tie a substantially huger ptogram titan the
Peace Corps and will have the same blend of idealism
and practicality,' saw Kli ) Segal, assistant to die presi
dent and director of tlte Office of National Service.
'I Itelteve legislation will lie introduced in the spring
time,' he savs. 'll Congress moves expeditiously, we
could we students |>at tic ipatitlg in the tall *
In die meantime, die program is garnering a lot of
attention on ( apttnl Hill and in the media
I dunk. in general, students around ihr country arc
very, wry cxninl about the program and have been
tincr Mr Oinion proposed it," says Derpak Pateriva,
executive director of the U.S. Student Awxuiiiin. *1
dunk there'* going to be some disappointment from
students dial it has been sealed hack, but the student*
support it. and the sense we get from people in the
White House is that Clinton is still serv committed to
this program *
Despite the two-year commitment to a position with a
stipend that would cover only basic living costs, stu
dents like lasa Lay, a senior at the U. of Mississippi, arc
enthusiasm about the program. *1 have loans mvsrtf.
and I think it would be a nice option to have if I
couldn't pav back tnv loans,* lav says. 'Giving to the
«ominuniry would be a great wav to feel like I was doing
mv part to pay something luck.*
And joe Dorman, a senior at Oklahoma State U.,
says the program fills a gap in (he work force. "It'll take
a lot of the burden off l»>th students and their parents
to pay bark loans, and it’ll also provide educated peo
ple to fill a lot of the important johs in the work force
that we need filled,* Dorman says. ■ Janet Marshall,
Mart WaMmgkm Bullet, Mary Washington College
► The high
cost of caring
for the planet
Whrn n ' )UM .1 penny - the
difference In-tween regular Hole
txMik papei and invited iiolr
(xNik papei the eo*t of bring
an environmental comumn fit'
into a i nllegr uudrnl'i budget
When that prnnv. though,
bn iinin }!l ihc <fif lereni c
lirmrrn niganu . all-natural
peanut butter and the regulai
kind — Mudrnts concerned
about the environment bare to
think abcMit thru finance'
\nd that < leatev a bit of a
dilriiiuia lot mam vtudenLv
Eco-shopping; ft's hard to put your money where your mouth la on a student's budget
Sprmri ( root It. a member <>l (hr f nvironmeiital
•Mians lhi.itit .11 (hr I of ( ahlurnia, Santa Barbara,
spends mm li of Ins spare time Hoiking to improve (he
environment His lommitment to the environment
doesn't stop him from liuving only environmentally
friendly piodtnts, but his wallet does.
"I don't haye the money,” savs (Irouih. a senior. "I kind
ol Irel like a hv)XX ntr sometimes, but in reality I just don't
have the money
I h ull I'aiitsh. a juntor at Montana State l . saw tollrge
students who air loss on tash have a haul lime buying
environmental produc ts “If it's only like 10 tents more,
then I'll go for what's environmentally sale.” she saw, "but
not if it's mote than a dollar diflrirnt r .”
Jon Miller, an rtonomits professot at the l of Idaho,
savs piodiu ets < an gel away with i bulging those extra |>rtt
mrs anti dollars lot no-fnrndly pioduits Ix-tausc of the
market ”Therr aie people willing to pay mote for so
i ailed green prod m is, v> prodnt eis ilunk this < an t barge
mole.” he says “111 olhei eases stub as in orgamt agtuuk
tine, piotlin is |usf t ost mote lo make
t>ieg Hill, niunugei of Strawlx-rrv fields, a natural IikkI
More near tlir t' oi Illinois < ampus, savs despite the cosl,
jieople who lieliest- in pnilriling tin- rnvnoninrnl should
[nil (hen mono where their mouth is. "People have to lie
willing to pay lor thru (willties," Hill saw
Hut at the same time, Hill savs only about two-thuds o!
the protluc e at Strawberrs Fields is organic bet arise of the
cost to the pindut ets anti seilets “It's cost-prohibitive. Hut
once the market interest pit ks up. mganit (aiming will
start taking oil," Hill says
11 the manufatHirers ol eco-friendly products tan get
lollt-ge students hooked on then products while they are
forming their busing habits, then college students
liei nine liable consumers in the lutuie
lauta Boyce, a spokeswoman foi Scott Paper, which
makes several recycled household pa|K‘t products, sais
the eco-friendlv products Scott ollets are not marketed
s|iec tiii alls toward college students or am other group "I
think students m college, and even in high si hool. aie
mole i onsi ions aliout the ellei ts on the environment,"
Bone says “II theie is a bigger benefit to target that mar
ket. mavtie we will in the lutuie " ■ Jenni Spinner, Daily
III on, f. of UliiuiLs
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ri» Ihc survey, uuului ml in January at
the- American honthall (!iuihn
\ssoeiation meeting |>< 111 <-<1 M coat ties
and auiiuni nut Im and ir|xnrnts near
ly halt t»l the-107 l-.\ v hoots.
" I lie- piohleui is the-v base- net walk,
around inone-v," sin (irotge Welsh. hr ad
liHilhall eeiae h at the- l ol Virginia. “It's
hard to Ik- in thr sen tal pan ol c olle-ge- You
should Ik- able- to go srr a movie a couple
titlirs a semrslct ol go lot pizza nine a
week
N( A \ regulations piohibit stnde-nl ath
letes on lull v holaiship Ire mi rt-< rising any
aelditional mono 01 holding |ot>s
|■ m l-ppv. intrrini athlrtie dnoioi lot
Kansas State- l . sass nereis athlrte-s do
► coaches want
to pay over the table
II Miilir ron tin had thru s*.i\, football plasrt s .it
Division l-A m bools would Ik- given (ctv-vs, helmets and
past hrt ks.
An Atlanta Journal Constitution [Kill ol NCAA Division
I A !•«it lull ui.ii lies t r (Mitts 71 pen rut think sonic suit
ol tiMMilhlv payment should Im- piovidcd for then plus
havr hjimiI getting monn ' Athlelrs lh.il imrt federal
<iHr11.1 .nr eligible fin I’rll grants \1m>. athletes havr
thiec months timing the Minimri w hr n (ties t an Ik
gain! nils employed "
licMtlrv unCluflfi Ihnrnmn. alhU-tii director of
Arkansas Stale l , it would Ik- hard to draw the line lot
paving plains “It we pay loothal! players, what about
other sjxirts? What about women’s ha.skrtb.il!, volleyball
and the others"' I feel lot the athlete As an administra
tor, 1 don’t think the time has come for that set " •
Vince Rhodes, The Breeze. James Madison U.