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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.
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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
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