NEWS & NOTES «mi him mi carfoiii teiiii tii ration I ? j r i ► 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 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 $ ? 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 . 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.