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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1978)
r opinion A L CAFETERIA SPEC IA L bean SOUP Breath of life What could have been a tragedy in the library last week was averted because trained personnel were nearby, ready to give the needed first aid immediately. But what if you had been the only one there? Could you have saved Barbara Frantz' life? Do you know what to do if the person walking down the hall beside you suddenly has a heart attack, an epileptic seizure or some other medical emergency? Last week, at Oregon StateAJniversity, a student drowned in the college pool in the presence of 30 other people and a lifeguard. Would you have been able to help? If you are answering "no" to these questions, maybe you should find out what to do and be prepared in an emergency. Don't say, "it won't happen to me or mine so why should I care?" You and yours could be next. With the availability of cardiopulmonary resusci tation (CPR) classes, the fact that the physical education department offers classes in first aid and the prevalence of Red Cross first aid classes in this area, there is no excuse for anyone not being able to help out a fellow human being in trouble. Human life is a very frail thing and passes so quickly. A person suffering from a heart attack who has stopped breathing has only four minutes before brain damage occurs. Four minutes is not a long time when you are enjoying yourself,but four minutes is a lifetime when you're standing there watching someone's life slip away because you don't know what to do. sprint 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B -- Telephone: 656-2631, ext. 259 or 278 editor Happie Thacker * news editor Cyndi Bacon * arts editor Marlene Clark * sports editor Ann Breyne * copy editor Scott Starnes * photo editor Brian Snook * assistant photo editor Lor raine Stratton * staff reporters Hallie Brown, Randy Frank * photographer Sam Baer * production staff Mary Cuddy, Jack Tuck er * business manager Paul Byers * professional adviser Randy Clark * office personnel Tommi Davidson, Crystal Tompkins Opinions expressed in The Print do not necessarily reflect those of the CCC administration, faculty or the Associated Student Go vernment. Editorials, columns and signed letters reflect only the opinions of the editors and the persons signing them. Correspond ence should be addressed to the above address. The Print, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium cov ering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. We en courage participation through letters, free lance articles and story ideas and suggestions. Deadlines are the Friday of the week prior to the Wednesday publication date. Pap4 I ft i wia Y tpe row BE MTU W BAKEP BEANS CHILI Other viewpoints OSL plans loan payment Editor's note: This article was - loan default rate of one-half of an editorial printed in the Jan. 5 one percent, someone is going to issue of the Oregon Daily Emer step up soon to suggest severe ald, the student newspaper at the restrictions on the student loan University of Oregon in Eugene. programs — unless, of course, some one steps in with an excellent suggestion on howto make student The Oregon Student Lobby, a loans more easily repayable, which group representing the student would greatly reduce the amount governments of seven state coll of defaults. The OSL has done eges and universities, appears to be exactly that. making some headway in its plan To examine one program, the to make student loans repayable as National Direct Student Loans, a percentage of the student's in assume that a student borrows the come after graduation. OSL exec maximum allowable: $5,000 for utive secretary Dan Garner travel an undergraduate. The minimum led to Washington D.C. to present payment is $30 per month, and the plan to a conference on student the entire amount must be repaid financial aid, as well as other within ten years with three percent education specialists in Washing interest. So $5,150 would be cal ton. The conference, in turn, has culated to an average monthly recommended the plan to the U.S. payment of $37, which doesn't Office of Education. seem like a whole lot, unless you're The initial rumblings for reform trying to live on paltry wages. of the student loan program began In another program, the Guar* long ago, and they were aggravated anteed Student Loans, a max by news reports of a $400 million imum of $6,000 may be borrowed loss to loan defaulters between for a twelve-term program. At 1968 and 1976. About six percent seven percent interest (after a of the total amount of money nine-month grace period) the stu dent would be payingabout $6,420 loaned to students in those eight over the ten years, or $53 per years was lost to default. At the month. University, the National Direct Student Loan program has shown If the student loans were com about a 24 percent default rate bined, and the student paid a per since 1975, according to State centage of his or her income on the Scholarship Commission statistics. total of the loans, these figures With these default rates, which would be reduced to. a payment are far above the normal bank that the student could afford over the term of employment,! ter what the position■ point is that the loan £ rightly justify a guarant® for the loaners, but guaM" student no security whatB graduation. No student kni much that all importar^ will pay, or even how long i take to find a first job in ad ■ profession. In effect, the st is gambling by takings loan:! ling with his or her with his or her ability to repa loan. The OSL plan would ti gamble out of the studeifl programs. If such a plan is i mented, and it surely s® the student would knowfroa one that the percentage of ini could be affordable - easily affordable than a flat doll mount. The worst-case possibility sented here would most like a student from lower-midi come brackets, who are most li to need these kinds of loans, poor can get grants, the rich afford the price of an educa but these lower-middle in people are hurting moresthar^ other group. The OSL plan might just the kind of relief that is d ately needed. If all goes well, OSL plan won't get lost in bureaucratic shuffle in Washin Let's hope it doesn't. I Clackamas Community
