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Bill may alter distribution
of grant funds to students
■ Some argue House Bill 2927
would hurt students the
Oregon Opportunity Grant
is intended to help
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Low-income students who have
at least a 3.0 grade point average
and have obtained the state’s Cer
tificate of Initial Mastery will have
priority for the Oregon Opportuni
ty Grant under a bill the Oregon
State Legislature is considering.
Each year, the grant program
gives $17 million to more than
17,000 students who come from
low-income families, and the only
criteria for applicants are financial
need and full-time school atten
dance. If House Bill 2927 is rati
fied, it would drastically change
the way this money is distributed.
“It became clear to me that there
is no accountability required of
those who qualify for the grant,”
said state Rep. Kurt Schrader, D
Canby, who sponsored the bill.
“There should also be an age crite
ria, where those who are just com
ing out of high school have the
best chance of receiving a grant.”
Schrader said he is currently in
the process of rewording the bill.
The bill previously read that all
those applying for the grant had to
have a 3.0 high school GPA, which
Schrader said would have elimi
nated 75 percent of those eligible.
John Wykoff, the legislative di
rector for the Oregon Student As
sociation, said the current wording
of the bill discriminates against
low-income students.
“This bill is well-intentioned,
but the result would keep low-in
come students from attending a
college or university,” Wykoff
said.By adding a GPA requirement
for all applicants, fewer students
can be helped, said Tom Turner,
the director of special services for
the Oregon Student Assistance
Commission.
“This bill will limit the number
of high school seniors who could
apply for this grant,” Turner said.
“Even those who do meet the high
school GPA requirement have to
keep a 3.0 GPA all through col
lege.”
Both Turner and Wykoff agree
that high school students with a
3.0 GPA and above come from
middle and upper-middle-class
families that don’t need the finan
cial aid as much as the lower in
come students.
“Merit-based scholarships tend
to go to kids who already have the
means to go on to higher educa
tion,” Wykoff said.
The University already requires
a 3.0 high school GPA for students
to gain admittance, so the students
who receive the grant and apply to
the University already need at
least that GPA. But they are not re
quired to maintain a 3.0 to keep
the scholarship.
“There are plenty of students
who may be continuing at the Uni
versity who have a GPA some
where between a 2.0 and a 3.0 who
will lose their grant if this bill
passes,” Turner said.
Schrader said he listened to
what both the OSA and OSAC said
when deciding to reword the bill
and is trying not to cut anyone out
of receiving the grant.
“There should be a way to en
courage accountability without
cutting anyone out,” Schrader
said. “By giving first crack to those
who have a B average and who are
just coming out of high school, that
will make the students who have
the need more accountable.”
State Rep. Vicki Walker, D-Eu
gene, agrees with the changes
Schrader is making to the bill, but
she still wants to get student feed
back before voting. She said she
was able to go to the University be
cause of the grant, and without it,
she would not have had that op
portunity.
“There are a lot of kids who
come from disadvantaged families,
but they have great minds,” Walk
er said. “It’s important to know
how to get this grant to those who
need it the most.”
Iran’s president tours factory
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia —
The president of Iran on Thursday
toured a Russian factory that
makes nuclear reactors, amid U.S.
protests that the plant is helping
Iran develop nuclear technology.
Dressed in flowing robes, Presi
dent Mohammad Khatami visited
the Izhora factory in St. Petersburg,
trailed by aides and Russian offi
cials. He stopped to admire work
ers polishing a huge, cylindrical re
actor core for Iran’s Bushehr
nuclear power plant.
The core will be shipped to Iran
in the third quarter of this year,
state-controlled ORT television
news said. Khatami told plant di
rectors Iran will sign a contract for
a second reactor core once the first
is delivered, ORT reported.
Russia signed a contract in 1995
to build the first reactor at Iran’s
Bushehr power plant. It is to be
completed by 2003 for an estimat
ed $800 million. The United States
has strongly objected to the project,
fearing the technology could be
used to develop nuclear weapons.
Moscow and Tehran maintain the
plant will be used only to provide
energy and will remain under in
ternational control.
In the past, Washington has im
posed sanctions against Russian
companies accused of providing
missile technology to Iran.
Earlier this week, Khatami and
the Iranian delegation toured Russ
ian space mission control in Ko
rolyov outside Moscow and ex
pressed interest in buying both
military and civilian aerospace
technology.
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