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Independent Collegian IC The
www.IndependentCollegian.com 92nd year Issue 19
Monday, October 31, 2011
Serving the University of Toledo since 1919
UT $3.8 million in debt Bleak job market affects students’ ability to repay loans By John Gumersell IC Staff Writer
Photo Illustration by Nick Kneer/ IC
Ohio universities are asking state collection agenices to help them recover $140 million in unpaid tuition and fees from the last three years. The unpaid fees include unpaid student loans, library fines and tickets.
UT is relying on state assistance in recovering $3.8 million in uncollected student tuition and fees. Tax-supported universities in Ohio are seeking $140 million from state collection agencies in unpaid tuition and fees generated in the last three years, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. UT is seeking the second largest amount of uncollected student expenses below The Ohio State University, who is attempting to recover $10.8 million. Youngstown State comes in third place, asking for state assistance to recover $3.3 million of debt in unpaid student expenses. This includes unpaid parking tickets, library fines and unpaid student loans that
students use to cover their law student. tuition and general fees. Abbas has accumulated One in four college gradu- debt from his bachelor’s deates are delaying paying off gree in political science, their debt due to lack of job masters degree in criminal a v a i l a b i l i t y, justice and according to a first year of recent survey law school. He by Generation expects this Opportunity, a Yeah, I plan on paying figure to reach non-profit orit off — just find me a $200,000 by ganization the time he job that pays me a graduates. which ad$100,000 salary. dresses issues “I’m not related to worried about “young Amerifinding a job, I cans on the Brian Abbas just can’t pay c h a l l e n g e s First-year Law student off all of my facing our loans right nation.” away once I graduate,” AbPaying back loans was list- bas said. ed after buying a home and Other students, however, retirement plans in things said they worried about how students delay saving for. they would pay off student “Yeah, I plan on paying it debt due to the bleak job off – just find me a job that market. pays me a $100,000 salary,” — Debt, Page A2 said Brian Abbas, a first year
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Holocaust SG tries to bring USA Today back on campus survivor shares his story By Sura Khuder News Editor
Kaitlyn Miller For the IC
In 1945, German Nazis killed two-thirds of all European Jews in their “Final Solution” plot. Irving Roth was one of the lucky who survived. Roth, an eighty-two year old Holocaust survivor, spoke at the Student Union Building last Wednesday night. Roth is the director of the Holocaust Resource Center at the Temple Judea in Manhasset, N.Y. and the former education director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Roth recounted his life living in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, losing family members in the camps and reuniting with loved ones at the end of WWII. He grew up in Humenne, Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded and occupied the Western region of the country in 1929. Roth said he was oblivious at the time to what was occurring on the other side of his country. — Holocaust, Page A2
Empty USA Today newsstands around campus may be refilled if a resolution is passed by Student Government in the coming weeks. Last month, SG surveyed students in the Student Union Building to see if the initiative to bring back the newspaper was worth pursuing. Four hundred signatures were collected in three hours, convincing SG President Matt Rubin to move forward with the initiative. “It’s not worth finding the money for the program if students are not interested,” Rubin said, who was looking for 300 to 500 signatures indicating students wanted the paper back on campus. In the next SG meeting, student senators will vote on the resolution. SG will then pursue ways to fund the papers for spring semester. Rubin said they will see if the Health Science Campus, which already has a contract with USA Today, would accept the funds. Rubin said they would issue a referendum for the money to be allocated from student general fees next year. If the resolution passes, 450 newspapers will be delivered to campus daily. Rubin said the average consumption for the newspapers in the past
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Street Journal covers national news, so I don’t think we really need [the USA Today],” Alhana said. Paul Brandt, a sophomore majoring in construction engineering technology, said he doesn’t currently pass any of these stands so he believes he wouldn’t read the paper every day. He said, however, he would read USA Today if it featured something interesting. “I don’t like the IC, that’s why I read the other stuff we have,” he said. Brandt said the cost of bringing the paper on campus is nothing compared to the $30,000 students pay to go to UT. Matt Muha, a junior majoring in pharmacy, said he wouldn’t read USA Today because the Toledo Blade located around campus is enough to inform him on current events. Other students interviewed, however, were in support of bringing the paper back on campus. “Last year, I would pick up the USA Today every day before my calculus class,” said Brian Thompson, a junior majoring in pharmacy. He said USA Today is a far better paper than the Toledo Blade. “You can add perspective when you have something that encompasses the nation-
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USA Today was brought to campus by Student Government in 2007, but External Affairs could not fund the paper for the 2011-12 year. al level versus just local,” Thompson said. Rubin said, as a political science student, he has seen many conversations in his classes go in circles because people don’t read the news, and this initiative could get more students informed on
current events. While the availability of USA Today may encourage more students to read the news, Kirsten Keller, a junior majoring in exercise science, said she would definitely pick it up — but only for the coupons.
What are your plans for Halloween?
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I don’t have any plans, but whatever comes up comes up.
Andrew Thomas
was 350 to 370 copies each day. The initiative would cost students roughly $20,000, which would come down to students paying $1 from general fees, Rubin said. “If a student were to pick up only one paper, once for the whole year, they would have gotten that value back,” he said. In 2007, SG passed a referendum to support a readership program making copies of USA Today available on campus to students, with funding coming from the student general fees. The university was able to hold copies of the newspaper on campus, though funding came from the Office of External Affairs budget since tuition and fees were frozen at the time. External Affairs was not able to fund the initiative for the 2011-2012 academic year due to their own budget constraints. There are about 10 USA Today newsstands located throughout the major academic buildings on campus. Rania Abu Alhana, a junior majoring in accounting, pays $20 per semester for The Wall Street Journal on campus. She said another newspaper would be unnecessary on campus. “The [Toledo] Blade covers local news, the IC covers university news and The Wall
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I’m going to try and find an awesome costume party.
I’m raising hell around campus.
Paige Price
Fresh., integrated lang. arts ed.
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Jared Manning
Fresh., computer sci., and eng.
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I have an exam coming up, so I will probably be studying.
Wonjoon Yang
Junior, pharmacy
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Check out our Halloween costume spread in the Arts and Life section on page A6!
Julie Taylor
Halloween run in ROTC, then a scary movie night with friends.
Fresh., undecided business
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