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UNIVERSITY
USSA starts lobby
for federal support
By Eric Buckhalter
fr* Orpffan I ■Jt.fy l •W.J'iJ
The nation’s only student-run
lobbying organization for educa
tion convened at the University
this past weekend and kic ked off
its campaign calling for more fed
eral support of education.
The United States Student
Association, the oldest and
largest student organization, had
its hoard of directors meeting at
the University to discuss its
action plan for the "Re-cut the
Pie — 1 Pen ent More for Educa
tion” campaign.
For the 1994 fiscal year. Con
gress allotted 1 M percent, or $30
billion, of the federal budget to
finance primary, secondary and
post-secondary educ ation The
USSA will lobby Congress and
President Bill Clinton to increase
education's slice of the federal
pie by another 1 (lervent. or nlxwt
SIS billion, for the 1995 fiscal
year.
Ste phan ie BI oom i ngd ale.
USSA’s field director, said the
time is right to capitalize on the
"Re-cut the Pie" campaign
"As a nation, we can't afford a
mere 1 H percent spent on edu
cation. it is too important; we
have to spend more." she said.
Bloomingdale said the cam
paign will support the progres
sive amendment introduced by
Sen (aines Jeffords, R-Vermont.
wine h will iru roase the educa
tion budget by 1 percent every
vear until it is 10 perc ent of the
entire federal budget
As the* ( old War threat dimin
ishes Bloomingdale critic iml the
large amount ($240 billion) the
nation continues to spend on
defense
"We spend more on defense
than Russia. Libya, Cuba. Iran.
Iraq. North Korea and China com
bined Of course vve don't want
to get bombed, but we must he
more reasonable about w here w e
put our money." she said.
"With another $15 billion we
could send HOO.213 students to
Harvard, or 3,355,714 students to
Me higan State University, or
53,571,42H students to West Val
ley Community College in Cali
fornia. she said "Or we could
buv Centurian Attack Sub
marines at about $1.3 billion a
piec e."
Looking to the future. USSA
members are pressuring elected
leaders to make educ ation one of
the nation's top priorities Bloom
ingdale said that battling crime
and unemployment begins with
a solid educational system, one
which she said deserves more
federal interest
"It's been too long since the
nation has concerned itself with
education." Bloomingdale said
" We’re not asking for higher tax
es; we're asking that more tax dol
lars be spent on education. We
want a bigger pie< e of the pie
"I think it's important that we
as students work on (lettering this
nation's system of education,"
she said.
USSA President Tchiyuka Cor
nelius said the organization's
opponents depend on the issue
at hand USSA members noted
that one opponent of cutting
defense spending is Sen. Sam
Nunn. D-Georgia. who USSA
Vice President Stephanie Arel
lano said is looking for other
areas to cut.
Nunn said that some students
take advantage of the govern
ment's Pell Grant Program and
are often fraudulent in repaving
educational debts. Arellano said.
"Few students commit fraud."
Arellano said, "and this is not an
excuse to cut the program, it is
an excuse to reform it.”
One federally implemented
program the USSA scrutinized is
the Direct Lending Program,
which would cut out the role of
hanks, which charge lending fees.
The government would loan
money direi tly to students, and
repayment of this loan would he
hased on a fixed percentage of a
recipients income after gradua
tion.
Arellano said that graduates
who don't make a lot of money
could have a difficult time pay
ing off the loan as a percentage of
their income
The USSA will send a negoti
ating team of five students to take
part in the Direct Lending Pro
gram's rule making process
which begins this month.
USSA members will take part
in the National Student Lobby
Day Mart h 22 in Washington.
D C . where they will hold a vari
ety of meetings and rallies in sup
port of its "Re-cut the Pie — 1
Percent More for Education"
campaign Students interested in
taking part were urged by Cor
nelius to t all (2U2) (47-1 SSA for
more informal ion.
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