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October 12, 1983
House Cuts Student Aid Progra.Ills (CPS)ln recent weeks, House of Representatives committees have cut money out of virtually all student aid programs. Although the full House restored some of the money, its most recent version still is less than the student aid budget it passed provisionally last June. Senate committees working on the student aid budgets also made cuts, though they were less dramatic than the House's. "It's a very strange political situation," says Kathy Ozer, lobbyist for the U.S. Student Association in Washington, D .C. "We have a Democratic House coming out with lower figures than a Republican Senate." The Senate subcommittee that goes over education spending produced its version of the budget after direct negotiations between subcommittee Chairman Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) and David Stockman, director of the Office of Management a Budget, a committee staffer reports. Stockman reportedly thought spending for College Work-Study, National Direct Student Loans (NDSLs) and the Trio programs for educationally and economically deprived college students was too high in the June provisional budget, the staffer says. Weicker then proposed cutting a total of $130 million from the three programs, got Stockman's approval, and pushed the cuts through his committee. The full Senate will vote on Weicker's package sometime during the first weeks of October.
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"While funding has remained at the same level since 1981, because of inflation there has in fact been a 23 percent cut in federal funding." But as the figures now stand, Ozer says all the federal programs - Pell Grants, Guaranteed Student Loans, State Student Incentive Grants, NDSLs, Trio and College Work-Study-will suffer during the 1984-85 academic year, when this budget would take effect on campuses. The funding levels recommended in both houses are nearly the same as the college budgets of 1981-82, 1982-83 and 1983-84. "While funding has remained at the same level since 1981," Ozer says, "because of inflation there has in fact been a 23 percent cut in federal funding (of college ,µd pro0 grams)."
Where will you be on October 15? From a distance, the broad, rolling plain that stretches east from the base of the foothills looks bland and nondescript - the beginnings of the flatlands, a firm dividing line between eastern Colorado and the High Country. Up close, it's tough terrain gullied, scraped, ankle-snapping geography. The wind blows often. On Saturday, Oct. 15, this sparsely populated patch of Jefferson 'County between Boulder and Denver, is expected to draw some 20,000 people to form a human chain around the 17-mileperimeter of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weaoons Plant. in protest of the role the plant _plays in the production of nuclear arms.
'The nuclear freeze campaign has been a vehicle for bringing together many people who have never been involved in political action before."
Tom Rauch, director of the Rocky Flats Project, will speak at St. Francis noon to 1 on Monday. photo by Jack Affleck
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The Encirclement of Rocky Flats is scheduled to be a peaceful demonstration, sponsored by nuclear freeze groups across the state and endorsed by a growing number of Colorado religious, environmental and citizen's groups. Its purposes are to demonstrate grassroots support for a U.S. Soviet freeze on the testing, production and deployment of all nuclear warheads and their delivery systems; a _halt to U.S. deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Europe; a reduction of Soviet intermediate range missiles in Europe, and a transfer of funds saved by these measures to concerns of jobs, food, housing, education, and the environment. The demonstration coincides with the beginning of a week-long series of anti-nuclear activity taking place across the country to support the western European peace movement and the U.S. nuclear freeze campaign. Tom Rauch, of the American Friends Service Committee, one of the sponsors of the encirclement, says the idea was inspired by a group of British women at Greenham Common, near a U.S. Air Force base in England. Last December, their vigil at the base drew 30,000 women in protest to the expected U.S. deployment of missiles on British territory. Continued on next pap