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Show Vernal Express Wednesday, June 18, 2008 A7 Panel: Bad economy means less access to college By Rose French Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The struggling economy is likely to make it tougher for college students to obtain and pay for loans this fall, members of a federal education panel said VERNAL THEATRE Now Showing Friday & Saturday 7:00 & 8:40 Sunday - Thursday 7:00 THE HAPPENING R Cinema 5 Now Showing 6:50 & 8:50 THE INCREDIBLE mm PG-13 Starts Fri 7:20 & 8:50 i The Love Guru PG-13 Now Showing 7:00 & 8:50 YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE PG-13 Now Showing 7:10 & 8:45 KUIIG FU PANDA PG Starts Fri 6:50 & 8:40 Get Smart PG-13 Sunset Drive In Show Begins at Sunset NOW OPEN FRI & SAT Sun Carload Nite $12Car ron Man PG-13 MiQflQ MBS And the Kingdom of The PG-1 3 Crystal Skull Show Times Cinema Summer Hours Mori -Fri Sat Sun Hulk 4:00-6:50-8:50 1:15 6:50-8:50 Get Smart 4:00-6:50-8:40 1:00 6:50-8:40 Zohan 4:15-7:00-8:40 1:30 7:00-8:50 KungFu 4:30-7:10-8:45 2:00 7:10-8:45 Love Guru 4:45-7:20-8:50 1:45 7:20-8:50 Evening Ticket prices for Vernal & Cinema Adults (12-59): $6 Child (2-1 1): $4 Senior (60): $4 Matinee Prices Adults (12-59): $5 Child (2-11): $3 Senior (60): $3 Length of movie to pick -up Children KungFu ' IronMan Indiana Jones ' Get Smart Love Guru Hulk Happening Zohan 92 min. 126 min. 122 min. 110 min. 90 min. 114 min. 90 min. 110 min. Friday. The panel, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education's Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, said students stu-dents face higher interest rates onloans issued byprivate entities like banks or may not qualify for loans at all as lenders tighten their requirements in light of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and other economic factors. Over the years, panelists noted that colleges have seen state funding dwindle, changes to student loan programs and economic challenges such as high gas prices in the 1970s and 80s. "What's unique about today is we're facing all of these things simultaneously, and they all have an impact on our institutions as well as our students," said panelist panel-ist Donald Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. The committee, which meets about twice a year to discuss issues involving college access for low and moderate-income students, held the daylong panel discussion at Vanderbilt University Univer-sity in Nashville. Some panelists said they believe be-lieve the current economic downturn down-turn is different than previous ones because financial markets are having a bigger impact on higher education. "The wealth that's generated (from financial markets) flows to higher education partly through philanthropy from private donors. do-nors. And we would expect to see some negative effects from the decline of the financial markets because of that," said panelist panel-ist John Nelson, a managing director with Moody's investor service. "Then there's the impact ... on the financing of private lenders for student loans. The financial market disturbances have really re-ally shut down the student loan market." Nelson said students who attend large universities with low default rates shouldn't have problems getting private loans, while students at community colleges and other small institutions insti-tutions will likely have trouble qualifying for loans. All college students will probably pay higher interest rates on loans, he said. "This is peak borrowing season for students, they're just applying for loans for the fall now," Nelson said. "So nobody really knows how bad this impact is going to be. We don't know the scope of this yet." Based on recent data compiled by the committee, millions of college-qualified high school graduates face financial barriers - including ever-rising tuition and securing loans - that could get much worse over the next decade. The committee estimates that between 1.7 million and 3.2 million people won't be able to at tend colleges and earn bachelor's degrees because of those financial barriers. Panelist Brett Lief, president of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, said state and federal governments need to increase funds for higher Canada apologizes to indigenous peoples By Mary Bernard Express Writer Prime minister Stephen Harper offered a Statement of Apology on June 11 in Canada's House of Commons to aboriginal peoples. Tribal representatives were on hand to listen to the official apology. Harper's comments are part of official efforts toward reconciliation rec-onciliation with the country's indigenous population for "a sad chapter in our history of forced assimilation at residential schools." Noting that past policies of assimilation "which sought to eradicate languages, cultures and traditions," the prime minister min-ister recognized that they have left a tragic legacy on modern populations. Harper's comments were directed toward both the "policy and also the unintended consequences conse-quences caused to so many young lives." Children in boarding schools were sometimes subjected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse intended to break their spirit. . In a separate news story in Thursday's Salt Lake Tribune, DeNeen L. Brown stated that "children were ripped from their families and sent to boarding schools, where many were abused as part of official government policy to kill the Indian in the child." Harper's statement admitted that "there are aboriginal people for whom any apology, no matter mat-ter how abject, is unlikely to be enough." In addition to the official apology, apol-ogy, Canada has paid more than $1 billion in reconciliation. The money is the result of class action settlements provided to tribal peoples in 2006. Subsequent investigations into boarding school abuse led to the official statement of apology offered by the Canadian government. In the U.S. Congress, Sen. 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