Loans
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Today about 1,600 educational
institutions have direct lending
programs.
The first group of direct loan
recipients from the class of 1996
97 carried an average debt of
$15,288, and its graduates will
have to pay a minimum of $200 a
month over ten years, Vignoul
said.
A recent survey of 1,098 uni
versity students found 79 percent
reported student loans were ex
tremely important in allowing
them to continue their education.
The survey was conducted by
Nellie Mae, a private non-profit
provider of student loans.
"Our survey confirmed that
while student loans have helped
r
millions of students gain access
to a post-secondary education,
higher debt is becoming more of
a burden for some students,” said
Lawrence O'Toole, president and
chief executive officer of Nellie
Mae.
Most students successfully
handle their debt burden, said
Diane Saunders, vice president
of communications and public
affairs at Nellie Mae. But for
those that don’t pay off their stu
dent loan payments, Vignoul has
a warning: “you ruin your cred
it.”
Peter Breaden covers student gov
ernment, student groups and the
EMU for the Emerald. He can he
reached tia e-mail at jhreaden®
gladstone. uoregon.edu
News Briefs
Frohnmayer given
leadership award
President Dave Frohnmayer
received the 1998 Tom McCall
Leadership Award on Friday,
sponsored by Bank of America
in conjunction with its support
for Stop Oregon Litter and Van
dalism.
The Tom McCall Leadership
Award was established in
1994. Past recipients are Ken
Harrison, Arlene Schnitzer,
U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield and
Brian and Gwyneth Gamble
Booth.
Workshops provide
computer training
A series of free workshops
that provide computer and In
temet training are available be
ginning today.
The workshops include
learning how to use the basic
software systems, including
Windows 95, Pageniaker and
UNIX. The workshops also of
fer introductions to the Inter
net, e-mail and research re
sources.
The Information Technology
Curriculum, a joint program of
the Library System and the
Computing Center, is offering
the workshops to enrolled stu
dents, staff and faculty.
No advance registration is
necessary, but prerequisites
should be met for each class.
Training videos are also
available on request for those
who can't make it to the sched
uled workshop.
For schedules and more in
formation visit the library web
page at libweb.uoregon.edu/it/.
Oregon author to
present slides
Oregon guidebook author
William L. Sullivan will be
giving a slide show tour of 15
newly developed hiking trails
in the Cascade Range on
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in 110
Willamette.
Sullivan explored new trails
in the Willamette River area
while preparing the complete
ly revised book “100 Hikes in
the Central Oregon Cascades,”
published in March.
For more information about
the free slide show, call the
Outdoor Program at 346-4365
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