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Show GREGORY LAYTON Staff Writer ri Dining ofDixie State Col- ,c0nstantly seeks to oVe, but without stuoput it can be diffi- - x- - Serv-1-O- J0lpus Peterson, direc-j- f campus services, students need to be involved in letting tedata )Chool services know diago. they are doing, few j'e do not get a lot of ,estions and comment tate back, Peterson lns a, i bet we get less j20 a year. So it is ill jjrtin , can js j step make changes to stu-i- the comments upon i(l jo receive. I wish it. ,s would do system is in place to to more easy for students it iole their concerns, and ideas deal-mt- h .press ury ke and nents suggested what g that Jges. lent yan id. tty ludents at - of Students Del said there are sug-slo- n boxes all over which are weekly. The from the boxes compiled and given to opus, ,ked on him and others for review. If students feel like they want something major done, and dont know what to do, they can put it in there, Beatty said. With student input lacking, Campus Dining Services plans on going to students since students dont come to them as often as desired. Peterson said Campus Dining plans to take comment cards to every table and pass them out to students with hope of getting more comments. When we are doing 1,000 to 1,500 transactions a day for 34 weeks of the year, thats nothing, Peterson said referring to the 20 dining services comment cards received per year . We definitely wish we had more suggestions coming back to us, good or bad. Regardless of the small amount of comment cards, students do have opinions about the dining services. The food quality was fair at first, but now Im just sick of it, said Ashley Russell, a freshman criminal justice major from Oak Hills, Calif. I like how they have healthy options like salad and fruit, but I wish they had more fruit. Changes have been made to the personnel at the Red Rock Cafe. Dining services recently hired a new chef, and his influence has already been felt. The quality of the food has gotten a lot better, especially since the new cook was hired, said Andrea Klann, a freshman elementary education major from Boulder City, Nev. I have talked to the chef a couple of times. He will come out and talk to us now and ask our opinions. Peterson said dining services staff members are constantly looking at competing restaurants for ideas on menu choices. He said they recently conducted taste tests on potential menu additions to see what students thought. Out of 50 students, only three did not like the tested item. Peterson said they will continue to work on new menu items. Apart from changing menu items, dining services have been known to cater to special student needs. I think they have done a great job, Beatty said. A student came in last year and had some super, super specific dietary needs. They went out and provided rice milk specifically for her. That is pretty amazing. In addition to the food, the dining hours of operation is a concern for students. I would be happy if they opened earlier because I have an 8 a.m. class, said Heather Calder, a freshman nursing major from Salt Lake City. I would like the cafe to open a half an hour earlier because I dont have enough time to eat before class. Nighttime hours are a concern for other stu dents. It would be nice if it stayed open till around 0 p.m., said Gabby Holbrook, a freshman business major from Salt Lake City. That is when the Testing Center and everything else stays open, and why not that too? Peterson said operation hours have been extended this semester to see if students would attend those hours, especially at night. We are finding that the last half hour to last 15 minutes of the 9 p.m. time they are just not coming in, Peterson said. Cash is king, and it tells us no one is coming in those last 15 minutes so lets utilize our services better. Peterson said they will continue to play with the operation hours to see how students use them. I dont think we will ever be open 24 hours, but if the demand is there, and we have the students for that, we would definitely consider that, Peterson said. 1 While not every student can have every need met, administration is open to any student input. Students should make their feelings known, Beatty said. Whoever the person is that the student feels they have the best relationship with, talk to that person. If they have a good relationship with a club adviser, talk to the club adviser. If they have a good relationship with a faculty member, talk to the faculty. If students want to talk to students, the DSCSA are the students in position to make positive change, Beatty said. DSCSA has open meetings on Tuesday. In these open meetings major decisions are being done there, and major things are being talked about student fees, and the price you pay for tuition. Nobody cares. Nobody comes. Beatty said, Get involved so you can make a difference, and so you can know what is really going on. liajovernment cuts nearly $22 billion from student aid HERB JACKSON IV ficates MCT students will for loans taken aduate more ive t0 t0 and recent pates will lose rebates July, next repayment era Congress ed this summer to keep ederal deficit in check Je protecting Pell Grants law income students, Congressional lie estimates changes will save lovemment $21.6 students id pay that much more mow less over the Office !get .the 1 10 years. change that a key committee voted to jde in the 2012 federal Jget would "save" an al nother ate ad-on- $6. 1 billion by grace period get-mdo- fa XMPOUT ( atinued from page 1 l f 'i have to do jevery night, just to jeawarm dry place to wouldnt be very tge. To !P, Doing it all would be just fun. time 41. or the 1, M students who the experience understand it would be like for eless people in those them 1Jt Nations. subsidy for undergraduate Student Financial Aid Ad- loans. ministrators. "It is a pretty significant blow." rowing the federal maximum of $65,000 could end The elimination of repayment rebates and loan subsidies for graduate students was included in the bipartisan deal reached in July known as the Budget Control Act, the law that set spending caps while raising the federal debt ceil- option of deferring payments until they finish ing. school. Financial aid departments at colleges and universities are now starting to notify graduate students that Stafford loans they take out next summer will no longer include a subsidy that keeps interest from accruing while "They can defer it but it adds to what they owe, and we always encourage students to pay as they go so in the end its not so expensive," said Ivon Nunez, financial aid director at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Exactly how much the subsidy is worth depends on how much a student borrows and how many years he or she is in school. Nunez said a student bor smaller amount, however, students are worried about Care and Share spoke to students about the reality of the homeless situation in town. One student said she has taken notice. Stuff like this, people think you dont see it in St. George, said Maria one would ever do this, but it is there. It is families and not just individ- 10-ye- ar they are in school. "This was one of the few federal subsidies provided to graduate students," said Haley Chitty, communications director for the National Association of It went from like ya lets do this' to screw it I want to go home,' said Mitchell Hancock, a junior business major from St. George. I think the biggest thing is trying to imagine doing this every night. You probably would go through the same type of emotions of getting really mad and breaking down. I bet it would be a rollercoaster of emotions. Billie Acheson, a case manager, from the Dixie Under the new law, students seeking advanced degrees will start owing interest immediately on loans issued after July , though they will have the 1 medical Barrett, radiography major from St. George. Behind the Home Depot by the a junior Wal-ma- rt in Washington I saw a little cardboard town. The stuff we built with you would think no ENROLLING NOW! BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in up owing an extra $200 a month over 10 years. Chitty said an analysis by NASFAA found that a medical or dental student taking out the maximum subsidized loan of $8,500 a year for four years got a $4,624 subsidy while in school. Even if it's a much the impact. "Students can barely make it now," said Jacqueline Velastegui Kearny, who's seeking an advanced degree in industrial engineering at NJIT. "We don't live. We survive." Evan Toth is working full time as a teacher at the Community School in Tea-newhile pursuing his master's degree in English ck ual people. Even though the event was hindered from the weather, the affect of the weather had a good influence on students. Melysa Christensen, a sophomore general education major from St. George, said: "I defi- nitely appreciate my home more. I hate being cold. I loathe being cold." at Rutgers University in Newark. He said he's borrowed nearly all of the roughly $20,000 in tuition and fees, and "it was really helpful" not to have to pay interest while studying. "I looked at that as being a great benefit," Toth said. "An extra $1,500, or whatever it would end up being, would be a great financial burden." He expects to finish his coursework next semester, so the change in the law won't hit him. But he said that in the future, it will hurt student "the self-drivwho lacks independent wealth." "This is exactly the kind of student that our country must encourage to stay in the classroom," Toth said. Congress also voted to en end subsidies, starting with loans issued next July, that reward graduates who pay back their loans on time. Under the program that is ending, borrowers who signed up for automatic debit repayment got a bonus equal to half the loan origination fee they paid, said Vincent Tunstall, financial aid director at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Bor- rowers could keep the rebate if they made their first 12 payments on time. 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