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Show CM pes - Volume 50, Issue 6 Weber State College Tuesday, July 25, 1989 College student earnings barely eclipse poverty level (CPS) College students earn an average of more than $6,000 per year, a study of 1,200 full-time students found. CollegeTrack, a market research and consulting firm, surveyed students at 30 campuses and found that the average student has $155 spending money each month. Some 65 percent of those surveyed have savings accounts, 19 percent own bonds, and 14 percent have certificates of deposit The average is barely above the national poverty line of $5,980 as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nevertheless, the survey found that 5 1 percent of all students have a credit or charge card. CollegeTrack did the survey for American Express, which has recently begun to extend its once-elite credit line to junior and senior collegians. Pam Knox of American Express, for one, sees nothing odd about such students having credit cards, reasoning that, proportionately, they have "more spending money" than most people. 'Now where did we leave that screwdriver ?' 3 St 1 RENNOVATIONS ARE UNDERWAY in the Union Building. Workers change ballasts in the light fixtures in the lobby as part of the overall improvements being made to the twenty-year-old building. The ASWSC offices were recently re-painted as the first step in the redecorationrennovation process. New carpeting for the entire building is yet to come. Additionally, the south steps were resurfaced last week. Funding for the rennovations was allocated last spring by the Student Fee Allocation Committee, and approved by the Student Senate as part of the Union Building budget, which is derived mainly from student fees. (Signpost photo: Clark Hurd) WIC representatives to visit Weber State Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Weber-Morgan Health Department will be on campus Thursday, August 3, in the Womens Educational Resource Center (WERC), to offer WIC services of supplemental food, nutrition education, and health programs to women who are pregnant or nursing infants under one year, and children up to five years old. This program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered by the Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Family Health Services Branch through local health department clinics. Professional staff from the WIC clinic will screen applicants concerning their health status regarding medical andor nutritional risk criteria. After eligibility certification o on is completed, women, infants, and children are issued food vouchers which prescribe supplemental foods high in iron, protein, calcium, and Vitamins A, C, and D. To be eligible, infants, children, and .pregnant or lactating women must be residents of Weber or Morgan County, meet financial eligibility, and nutritionalmedical risk criteria. For more information, or if interested, RSVP by Wednesday August 2, to Campus Coordinator Sherry Burkes at 626-6090, or WIC Coordinator Valerie Bymes at 625-3880 to make an appointment. Service will be offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. Chinese students reject Bush visa offer to stay longer (CPS) Most of the Chinese students enrolled at U.S. campuses apparently have rejected the Bush administration's offer to delay their return to China, where the government is still arresting and even executing pro-democracy students. The students generally want to stay for now, but under different terms than the administration outlined. "We're looking for more help from Congress," said a student at the California Institute of Technology, who asked that his name not be used. Several bills that would allow indefinite stays by the 40,000 Chinese students and scholars in this country are pending in Congress. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, has introduced a bill that would help the large number of Chinese students whose visas require them to return home for at least two years after receiving American degrees. The bill, which has 158 co-sponsors, and a similar measure submitted by Sen. Alan Dixon, an Illinois Democrat, would remove the return-to-China requirement. The June 4 massacre of "pro-democracy" students in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and subsequent executions of student dissidents in China have led to widespread concern for the fate of U.S. -educated students forced to return to China. President George Bush, for one, offered to extend the students' visas for a year, but the plan, as it turned out, would prevent students who adopted it from extending their visas for much longer periods under other available programs. Many students also feared that, if they accepted Bush's offer, they would invite retaliation from the Chinese government. Bush's plan, many visa experts said, would help only those about to be deported. "A lot of people it doesn't affect because their visas don't expire until after" the June 5, 1990, deadline for returning home Bush set, said Jerry Ficklin of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C., who said interest in the offer is slim. Even those facing deportation are hesitant. "I know of some students whose visas expire within the year, but they're still reluctant," observed the Cal Tech student. Pro-democracy demonstrations recently were reported at a number of schools, including Iowa State, Ohio State, Louisiana State, Indiana, Florida Atlantic and Western Michigan universities, and at the universities of Chicago, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. Inside... 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