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Thursday, February 11, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Pav as You Earn
RV WALTER 'STROMQUIST
BY WALTER BROWN
(Edition) in a 1970 graduate of the University of Kansas who is now doing graduate work at Harvard University.)
Yale and a few other schools have come up with a new idea, as reported in TIME magazine. It is a student loan program, with a new twist: the student doesn't repay the same amount back each year. Instead, it keeps a certain percentage of his income (probably 0.45 percent for each thousand dollars of the original loan) for the next thirty years.
On the average, this works out even (if you include a fair rate of interest). If a person makes an exceptionally high salary, he repays more than his share, up to a limit of twice the original loan plus interest. But if the person's income is exceptionally low, his obligation is still low enough that he can easily afford it. And if the borrower dies or is disabled, the debt is canceled.
The name of the program is "Pay As You Earn," or PAYE.
There are two advantages for students. First, funds will always be available for student loans. Because the program is self-supporting and charges a fair interest rate, it will never be a victim of anybody's budget-cutting (as the NEA loans have been). Second, because the repayment is based on a percentage of the student's future income, the burden will never be unmanageable. Presently, a large student loan hangs like a "sword of Damocles" over the borrower, because if his income is low, his debt will overwhelm him.
The need for this plan is obvious. All college expenses are going up, and tuition, especially, is skyrocketing all over the country. Many qualified persons are unable to afford college, and many more must eke their way through on starvation budgets. It is tempting to ignore the problem and hope that it will go away, but if we look at the facts we will see that it is bound to get much worse.
Since 1955 the number of college students in the U.S. has gone up 225 per cent. In the same period the population has grown 25 per cent and the GNP (not counting inflation) has increased 60 per cent. The costs of operating the
universities are governed by the first figure, while state appropriations and alumni support tend to follow the latter figures. It is inevitable that a gap develop, a gap that can only be filled by tuition and student fees.
Can state and alumni contributions expand to fill the gap? So far, at KU, both have done a tremendous job. But this condition is too good to last. The state limit may already have been reached, as shown by the one per cent salary increase for KU faculty now being considered. Because of the negative impact—at least the regents—the are already so sensitive to state and alumni contributions that they seem more responsive to these groups than to the students they are supposed to serve.
Can the gap be closed by limiting expenses? That means limiting enrollment. And that means giving up the American dream, so near to being realized, of educating everyone to the limit of his ability. And that means perpetuating the class differences that have plagued us for too long. No, that is no solution.
But doesn't high tuition limit educational opportunities to the affluent? This is the importance of PAYE. Anyone can borrow the cost of a college education, and the repayment will be something he can afford, no matter how poor he is before, during, or after his graduation. But you have one link from the "poverty cycle," as the cost of education will not be an obstacle to anybody.
It is probably too soon to bring PAYE to Kansas. Like any new program, this one will have bugs in it, and the initial experiments will be risky for all concerned. Yale has already volunteered to take the risks.
But now is the time to think about it, talk about it and decide who should have the responsibility for doing it. Because it is an idea whose time has nearly come.
So tuition will keep growing. There is justice in this—the cost of education is being placed on those who benefit from it. It is also good politics, because the larger the bill paid by students, the greater the voice they can demand in running their schools. But regardless of these issues, tuition will grow whether we like it or not.
Chile Under Allende
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In business, new investment is at a standstill and unemployment is up.
Rv PHII. NEWSOM
To protesting land owners and to the construction industry, the government replies that this is a "people's" government. The government also promises that owners will be recompensed but when is left vague.
in the countryside, impatient peasants stirred up by young student extremists have occupied more than 250 farms. The government refuses to evict either them or their supporters who have seized newly constructed but still unoccupied buildings.
Although the early panic that greetees Allende's election has subsided and many of the businessmen who first fled the country have since returned, government action has been both confusing and contradictory as it began Allende's "march toward socialism through democracy."
Unfortunately for Chileans, the first three months under Marxist President Salvadore Allende Gossens have gone about as could have been predicted.
Equally unfortunately, the apprehension among businessmen, the confusion in government and the opportunities afforded young radicals to enter into politics, the side life that parents is to be a way of Chilean life for the foreseeable future.
It has decreed a price freeze for all consumer and industrial goods and is exercising strict controls over credit.
At the same time, without saying how it is to be financed, either by the government or private business, the finance ministry has obtained approval for wage increases ranging up to 40 per cent in private employers and also has been gained for sharp increases in contributions from private employers for social security.
Perhaps offering a clue, Finance Minister Zakaria Rojas, a Communist, had declared:
From this, businessmen see the end of all private enterprise in Chile.
"We will not finance the wage increase out of any new taxes on workers."
On the question of nationalizing American-owned Chilean copper interests, Allende has said he will try to avoid action which would draw a reprisal from Washington. Yet the terms so far cannot be considered favorable.
An official of the government-owned Chilean Copper Corporation which is associated with mining operations in Chile placed total investment of the three companies at $724 million.
But there is strong opposition to another Allende plan, nationalization of private banks.
the three complaints. The nationalistic left is united in support of the copper nationalization program.
Opposition to presidential plans has a long tradition in the Chilean parliament and it remains an unknown quantity in Chile's future. Another unknown is the Chilean army which could elect to draw a line on Allende's ambitious schemes.
The BSU; Pro and Con
LETTERS
To the editor:
Now that the new semester is well underway, it is interesting to observe the conspicuous lack of books in Mr. KU's black students. The silence certainly just for lack of a cause has been palpable. Recent demands have been met. Why. Are things so quiet? Perhaps the answer is too objectionable.
Once again the University community has reaffirmed to its black members its basically wrong stance. We strike last semester was successfully ignored by the Board of Trustees, but because the white students didn't support it. Most of us realized that what the BSU asked for on campus was quite reasonable. Why didn't we react in the same way as we did to what we had been taught, please last spring! In view of Gary Jackson's extensive legal pursuit of his rights and numerous apologies, the KU staff, it would seem very necessary and reasonable to call a strike. (We were much less aggressive than we should have accepted to be to class? What was yours?) Wasn't the real black men and women instead of whites? Is it really that hard to admit to rationalize some discrimination acceptable to be to class? (What was yours?) Wasn't the real black men and women instead of whites? Is it really that hard to admit to rationalize some discrimination acceptable to be to class? (What was yours?) Wasn't the real black men and women instead of whites? Is it really that hard to admit to rationalize some discrimination acceptable to be to class? (What was yours)?
unprejudiced as our liberal intellect would have us believe? If we're truly honest with ourselves I think we'd discover the reason why blacks don't trust any lawyer simply don't deser't their trust.
Kent Smalter
Stamford, Conn. Junior
To the editor:
Here is some food for thought. According to the budget requests published in the Feb. 5 Kansan the BSU and the Black Veterans on Campus have asked for $95,885 from the entire budget of the entire budget. Several questions arise that need answering:
(1) Why should so few get so much from so many?
Do these organizations meet the requirements for student assistance for students funds under the student code? The Black Veterans on Campus organization is by its nature a volunteer organization in violation of the statute which prohibits the giving of financial aid to organizations that seek membership to members of a particular race. The same rule would seem to be applied to the Senate prefers to ignore this requirement. It seems unfair that the students of the University of Kentucky K-State are not supported an organization which 93 per cent of them cannot hope to participate in because of a difference in skin color.
(3) How does the Student Senate rationalize this apparent violation of the organizational
requirements for financial
support.
Senate elects the red, white,
yellow students and various
choices in between an ex-
pansion.
4) Why has no one ever spoken up before? We have all thought about it at one time or another.
5) Now for the big question—will the Kansan print this bill? The Kansan has shed away from any racial controversy.
We have thoughtfully provided a cop out for the staff of the Kansan. We are not going to sign up to it and we are not editorial policy of the Kansan. Our reasons are the unequal power the are uncommon possibility to us is more probable when questioning the BSU than, for instance, the Folk community should easily substantiate our claim. Anyway why should we stick our necks out any further university? Or should black University population?
Several KU LAWS KU Law School, Green Hall
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Lost in Space
By DAVID PERKINS
If Apollo flights 11 and 12 proved once and for all the American genius for wasting money, the same thing is happening. wasting money can be a bore. on something over that latest intergalactic threat of the moon (what 'probe of the moon' (what submilation?) is the greatest challenge who couldn't care less about it.
The American people—you just can't trust them anymore. It used to be that when the government and the fiercely independent free press "communists are threatening the Aleutian Islands: to Vietnam, quick!"! every motherson would rush down to the induction chamber, they still're rushing down, but they're carrying bombs.
It used to be that when they shouted "it's bigger; it’s faster!" we couldn't wait to see it. Now, the lobbyists are successful in getting the SFT flying, the Army building a new airplane, expect a run on anti-aircraft runs.
Though the American press has done their usual public relations efforts, it has been that if NASA had to pay for that advertising, they'd blow the entire federal budget in a week. The agency said that public interest is flaging.
Poor Walter Cronkite. He can't people don't get turned on by these shots into the sky. He still futuristic, rather than just a wet dream from the forties, en-acted to old and weary by a show jets.
It used to be that when we saw that flag on the moon, supported by a rod (what else?) we, it used to set up, but it is to turn off the set.
It looks bad. Every white elephant that ever stumbled into a drunkard's dream has been told that it can be helpful. Can it be? Is it possible that all that money, all that material, all that engineering and mathematical skill will be used—be used—to satisfy human needs?
There must be a way out. If the organization exhausts why not to help the people? Surely in one of our 200 project managers' jobs, we will require millions workers, billions of dollars, tons of material, and be guaranteed
But, as we said, just when we need them, the people can't be impliciable concerned about reality that they're liable to suggest things like secondary and tertiary plants, public transit systems, massive manufacturing programs, for making predators (already developed on a minor scale) so that DDT and other chemicals could be
One thing could save us from all these horrors. If only one of them can save us, then favorite—the millionaire, or the Johnny Cash fan? "found" something on the moon that would make it feel like 1948 but COMUNIST LIFE.
Think of all the missiles, the guns, the planes, the fifty-foot-ton tanks and the soldiers the soldiers we would have to build. Imagine Christmas with Bob Hope on the moon! Imagine the bombings and the resurrection of the Jacobite speech." Imagine the beacon is the fire with the Fifth Dimension!
Can we hope? We can do more than that.
The Lighter Side
By DICK WEST
Let's Rename Our Minorities
WASHINGTON (UPF)—I believe it is accurate to say that one of the main causes of friction in America is racial and ethnic discrimination.
It is plain that if anything approaching true brotherhood is ever to be achieved there must be religious, moral and ethnic renaming convention.
Consider a passage Iran across in a publication by the Southwest of Washington, a young Indian is quoted as saying: "Even the name Indian is not ours. It was given to us by some who thought he had landed in India."
Therein lies the rub, of course.
Too many racial and ethnic groups have been formed or other racial and ethnic groups. And even the groups that were privileged to have named themselves didn't do too good a job of it.
After all, an individual citizen who doesn't know his name can easily be changed. He can't regularly changed. So why shouldn't a student group have the same opportunities.
Then the name would be formally ratified by all of the other ethnic and racial groups attending the convention.
Each such group could caucus and decide, either by direct vote or through appointment of a leader, what it would like to be called.
Out of this would come some only splendid riddle, but I don't miss my guess. Names likely to command others even awe, from other groups.
"Rename the Eskima! Win
$10,000 plus a new automobile,
20 color television sets, 10 minibikes
and hundreds of other prizes!"
Or, if it preferred, a group might sponsor a contest.
Griff & the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, University Daily Kansan"
Eskimos, for instance, might vote to change their name to "Nature Noblemen. Indians paragons," and so on.
Do you see the beauty of this? By adopting a name in which they can take pride, members of a company can express their name and be better persons for it. And there would be no problem with anti-defaultn organizations.
These examples are purely instructive, but they can also suggest what any group, other than my own, should call itself. As for my group, I intend to give the best possible advice selfs "Mr. Nice Guys," which he describes as a great deal better than "bony."
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Those Were the Days
50 Years Ago Today—1921
The KU basketball team trounced Winstonburg in Missouri Valley league play, 48-17.
A large number of women's rooms in a residence halls were vacant because many women left school at the end of the fall semester. Bryant, assistant adviser of women, said.
A summer Session board, headed by Chancellor Lindley, decided to increase the number of summer courses available to graduate students.
25 Years Ago Todav—1046
William A. McKeever, professor at KU, was directing an Oklahoma better city contest.
Chancellor Lindley, speaking at a banquet, praised the religious campaign of George Sherwood Eddy. Eddy was coming to Lawrence that weekend.
25 Years ago Today—
You could eat your pancake and have your
sleep too. The Union cafeteria breakfast line
open until 10 a.m., for the spring
amester.
George Sauer, the new football coach,
has won the first game would be
attempted Texas Christian at #1.
Total attendance at basketball games was
breakfast for 5,000 so far viewing
games by Audiotron.
10 Years Ago Today—1961
Seven students, including four blacks, were refused service at a local tavern. The students planned to file a complaint with the county attorney.
At a Current Events Forum, Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, uphold the morality of sit-in demonstrations that protested discrimination.
Nebraska's slow-down tactics on league-leading KU failed, 38-33, in Lincoln.