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University Daily Kansan, March 9. 1983
Grad student attends aid rally
By JENNIFER FINE
Staff Reporter
Student lobbyists in Washington, D.C. this week told congressmen they would continue to fight proposals to cut financial aid.
About 2,000 students from across the nation gathered at the U.S. Capitol Monday for National Student Action and Lobby Day to oppose further budget cuts in student financial aid programs.
A student representative from the University of Kansas was among the group attending a rally on the steps of the Capitol.
Tom Berger, executive coordinator of the KU Graduate Student Council, who returned from Washington last night, said he met with legislators, including those from Kansas, congressional aides and members of student organizations to discuss financial aid proposals.
HE SAID THE MAIN concerns he addressed were a proposed $900 million cut in Guaranteed Student Loans, and the Solomon Amendment, which requires males to verify their draft status when they receive financial aid.
Burger, who also attended National Student Day last year, said other issues discussed were proposals to institute a processing fee for Guaranteed Student Loans, to double interest rates on the loans, and to begin assessing interest when a loan is granted instead of assessing interest after graduation.
Miriam Rosenberg, national director of the National Coalition of Independent College and University Students, said congressional staff members and higher education jobbists explained how the 1,864 budget proposals to the students.
Rosenberg said the students wanted to tell legislators that they opposed the change.
begun their attempt to regain lost aid money.
STUDENTS ALSO ATTENDED a panel discussion between the Commission on Student Financial Assistance and the student groups that organized the event, which included independent college and university students, the University of Pennsylvania, the University and College Students and the United States Student Association.
The day ended with a rally on the Capitol steps, where Sen. Gary Hart, D-Dolo.; Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Dolo.; Rep. Robert Edgar, D-Pa.; Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass.; and national student leaders spoke.
Rosenberg said Schroeder and Edgar offered the students hope by opposing the Solomon Amendment.
Rosenberg said that this was the third annual National Student Day, and that it would continue as long as financial aid programs were threatened.
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