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KITZHABER Continued from Page 1 versify education Ballot Measure 15 will have the most dramatic effect on higher education, stabi lizing funding for K 12 to the possible detriment of other state programs. He also said that measure# r> and H will influence the Quality of education at the University If they go the wrong way. we re oil s. revved." Khinard said. Later Khinard said. "This fair is not to tell you how to vote, to tell you which way to vote, it's to tell you to vote ” Today marks the last day to register to vote in the Nov Helii time ASUO State Affairs Coordinator Rvan Cooncrtv said he was disappointed with the numlier of stu dent# in attendance, lie said that it sends a contra dietary message to the candidates when the Uni varsity sets national records registering 7.000 stu dents and then draws only a few hundred students to the rally "We re happy when people showed up, hut 1 was kind of disappointed that more people weren't there,” said Aiyssa Gibson, who was with the group Students for Kit/haher Gibson said the event was not publicized enough Bight ballot measures had booths where students could get information, stickers, posters, etc But not all students wanted to he bothered as they walked past the tables University student Chris Stringer said there are no moderates in Fugeno "You've got Bible Jim and then you vs got the drag queen show Most pen pie don't identify with either one We just want to go to school and not have to deal with all the rad Hjils." LOAN Continued from Page 1 Oregon school to offer the loans All other four-year public schools in the state, except Ore gon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, will offer the loans next year. Lane Communi ty College expects to offer them in 1998-97. The program is designed to save students money by cutting private industry out of the stu dent loan business by the end of the decade. Instead of government serving as a guarantor on student loans — which ended up costing tax payers $42 billion in 1992 to cover defaulted loans — it would loan the money itself on a nonprofit basis. Such a system cuts out com mercial banks and their profits, thereby lowering loan costs. The government also could offer less-stringent repayment plans. ideally lowering default rates Util the new optional repay ment plans will end up costing borrowers more money in increased interest And some borrowers could find them selves victim to what's celled capitalization Capitalization occur* when monthly payments ore too low to cover interest, so the unpaid interest is added to the prim ipal and the borrower ends up pay ing interest on interest It's a sit uation most commercial lenders won't allow to happen on per sonal loans Laura McClintock, legislative director for the United States Students Association, a student lobbying group, says it's wrong to offer income-contingency loans available to people who can afford the standard repay ment plan. "A lot of students are going to jump on the option because lower monthly payments are so attrm tivn without oven thinking about how expensive it is going to lie 20 years down the road," stu* said A student with $10,000 who takes a |ob paying $15,000 would make monthly loan pay ments of $72 Only S l 25 of that would go toward principal, $08.75 would pay interest it would take nearly 15 years to pay off the loan at that rate at a total ( list of $ 17.840 Clinton's advisers say broad offerings of optional repayment plans are necessary now that more students are financing their education with personal student loans than with federal grants "Sure, we'd rather offer more grants for college students, but that's not going to happen," said Lynn Mahaffie of the U S Department of Education. "There isn't the money or the public will ” RELATIONS Continued from Page 8 nitios or sororities, however, she was unable to do so. (.ritics of multiculturalism and diversity tm col Inge campuses might argue that programs such ns ethnic and racial student organizations (there are 11 such organizations at the University) segregate minorities from the rest of the campus. Scott Futomoko, president of the Asian/Pacific American Student Union, disagreed He said he did not believe that his organization separates the races, but that it does just the opposite. "We don't get together and say wo hate white people or go around saying we are different, but it s more to bring Asian-Americans together os a group." Futomoko explained that by organizing video and slide presentations, speeches and con ferences, his group is educating people about Asian-Americans and is, in fact, bridging the gap between the different groups of people. What dews this all mean for the University, which often takes pride in its multiethnic student population' Kenneth Liberman, professor of sociology in race and ethnic relations, said he thinks international students will return to their home country with unfavorable feelings of the United States As for minorities, he said, they don't really care liecauso minorities don't value social interaction with whites — they think the social interiu tion habits whites practice are flawed. "Whites don't even bond well with other white people," Liberman said. "They have lots of friends but the bonding of lifelong relationships are con tinually being severed by moving from one state to another and living ns individuals or living in homes with only one or two people. They make choices for themselves and by themselves and don't want to bo bothered, and the result is loneli ness. 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