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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Monday, September 30, 185 U. Page Seventeen students should lash out at loan defaultfraud Thev say one bad apple won't spoil the whole bunch, but when the situation involves students who cheat to get financial who default on aid and loans, I have to guaranteed government ex-stude- nts disagree. Instead, I believe that continued abuse by the greedy and the negligent could destroy the financial aids system for all college students. Not when you Sound realize that some of the destruction has actually begun. Evidence of fraud has already made Congress mad enough to demand more thorough investigation on the validity of aid applications. d? This means thousands of college students will have to wait as late as the third week of fall quarter to receive their grant money while aid administrators conduct a patj of Bengal... I 'fu, hS work It's regrettable that this degrading student loan defaults each year aren't exactly happy either. But, instead of their anger on those of us currently struggling to survive in the higher education programs. Then, when it's time to consider increasing funds for aid in higher education, taxpayers and their legislative counterparts seem to forget the hardships and sacrifices many people bear while receiving a college education. Instead they remember hearing about loan defaults and fraud on the news. And they think about deadbeat students laying around listening to loud music on expensive stereos. They remember taking trips to California during spring break when they were in school. tidal wave strikes, xnousanas ait Buenos Aire... depiction of the average aid recipient has had such influence on the voting public because the image is basically false. Most people who receive government grants probably need the money for strictly fine V supporting efforts to crack down on abuse of student aid, students and especially student government bodies could at least send out the message that all college students aren't liars or potential defaulters. At the very least students who rely on government money could help create a misrepresentation unbelievable and even ridiculous. Most students have heard stories about people w ho have beaten the financial aids system. (People who have used government money to buy sportscars, new wardrobes or stereos without getting caught. And people who have invested their loan money to make financial killings.) Vet few students publicly scorn such actions or speak out against loan default. This is strange because students are the arave of Kat M&n vAo speaking out in favor of government actions to collect on GSLs and by corruption to make student claims of I in rat on their fraudulent friends or manhandle loan defaulters. But by educational purposes and in most cases (95 percent of the time, in fact) guaranteed student loans are repaid. Unfortunately there is just enough med.n saw only group of people whose futures are actually jeopardized by the mistakes (or crimes) of a few bad apples. I'm not suggesting that students should spending" grant money on cocaine. And they vote no. financial aid system. Taxpayers who read about the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs the federal government to pay off ex-stude- nts Shauna Bona They think about college students Congress isn't the only group that's angry about waste and corruption in the striking out at deadbeat (an impossible task, after all), taxpayers vent OPINION BY far-fetche- That's no small inconven ience for those who really depend on their Pell grant for tuition, books or food. double-chec- k. "ne ... J campus atmosphere in which cheating for financial aid is a form of treason rather than a funny trick. Instead of ignoring or applauding the bad apples, college students should help end the corruption against financial aid programs before that corruption destroys the system for everyone. Shauna Bona is a sophomore studying communication and is assistant editorial editor for the Chronicle. Want to voice your opinion? Read on Welcome back! For those of you unfamiliar with the policies of the Chronicle's editorial section please read on. The Daily Utah Chronicle Editorial Board hopes that the f ... Just pel editorial pages in this year's Chronicle will offer fWasr7neton, lcovered bc7.TcrLV Mvs&phsp..w " on Keaaans nose, ColanJ-- w7 ) stimulating discussions of issues that arc important to students and the community. To do so, the Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor and opinion columns from responsible students, faculty, staff and community leaders and members. However, all such editorial submissions must meet certain guidelines: All letters and opinions must.be typewritten, double-space- d on 8 12 by 11 inch paper. The letters andor opinions must also be accompanied by a verifiable name, address, telephone number along with the writer's year in school and maor. If the writer is not a student then please give your relation to the university or your profession. 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Contrary to some conservative opinions, OPINION BY Shia Kapos that's the way it should be. Social Security is alive and well and will be for a long time. Some conservatives are trying to create a private company that would do what Social Security does. This, they say, would keep the government from going in the red. Social Security The Depression-bor- n has seen system rough times, but not rough benefits enough to resort to a business-ru- n system that would probably only benefit the big-busin- ess man. lot has changed since the system was first introduced to the distressed country. In 1950 there were about 16 workers for every retiree. In the '60s there were five for every one. And now that ratio has dropped to three workers to every one senior citizen. Under the present system that ratio will more likely than not drop again. A That however, is no reason to abandon the system brought about by our parents and grandparents. Social Security came to their rescue when they had lost all they had in their savings and bank accounts. In just 50 years it has become an institution in itself. There is no reason to change it. But it can be altered. That may require changing the age of retirement. That may sound cruel to those already approaching the current retirement age. But, as scientists are proving, Americans are healthier and living longer and for that reason, can work longer. If that alteration isn't enough then the government should resort to taking more, that's right more money from our checks or adjustments. cutting that would solutions a of lot There are Social squash the calls for abolishing the Security System. We continually boast to other nations that the United States is a country that takes care of the elderly. There is no reason to stop doing that. They are the ones that have created this system and have kept it going. It is now up to our generation and the cost-of-livi- ng generations that follow to continue building the Social Security System. Shia Kapos is a senior majoring in and is editorial editor for the journalism Chronicle. ..,.. . - Notes make literature easy diversion doubt if there I is a shouldn't be of bother to you. There are other works, resting upon their respective shelves at your nearest bookseller, that are more important. They have been dubbed, quite unpretentiously, "Notes." Some students refer to them as blankets, night-lighor even mommies. What kind of notes are they? I realize I must nip the as delightful and rapturous with a few exceptions as the perusal of a great book. I use "great" here with understandable timidity, as we are so cautious nowadays of the entanglements of judgment. ts OPINION BY suspense and dally no more: Cliffs Notes. These notes are the most gregarious and celebrated among students. And if Cliffs don't don't have it, Monarch's Notes and Barron's Notes probably will. Nye Thuesen But let's take "great" to adject, loosely of course, the quality of "not trashy," the now fashionably lost ideal of "beautiful," the What charitable riches these three complex documents disclose! Cliffs has been the overall preference of scholarly kids (I'm talking first hand), curious though there are those upper-clas- s who take Monarch's to be monarch. types Barron's has had to struggle, and thus, by way of remedy, has reissued their delights of spanking, new and improved style. Cliffs has splashed into the audio market with Cliffs Cassettes, billed as "Your personal, guided learning experience universal denotation of "brilliantly executed." Accordingly, I consider War and Peace the greatest book created since the dawn of man. Vast in territory, verily a sizable workbook of genealogy, weight in theme, unquestionably enormous, comprehensive, gorgeous and bloody, not to mention a bit tiresome to hold up, War and Peace then has classic household familiarity. This, however, is just one product of one of my many friends. There's Mark Twain, leads you through exciting action, fascinating background and selected and names like Romeo, Juliet, David (Copperfield), Don (Quixote), Moby (Dick). I do suppose a heavy percentage of folk have heard the story of a testy prince called Hamlet (or was that good Bill Faulkner?). Bill Shakespeare is as commonly regurgitated as Steven King. And Plato, I reckon, is a name pocketed by everyone. But . the words written by these names . dramatic moments. Listen while you drive, work, relax." And Barron's has not only recast their notes, but has supplied the ravenous crude public with a host of new and improved titles. At last! Shakespeare is made plain and understandable. Nye Thuesen is a senior majoring in . English..... ... |