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Show 2 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 26, 2001 MONDAY. FEBRUARY i The fact that the Board of Regents opposed the bill was enough to persuade me of its virtue. IIS SCOTT LEWIS, OPINION EDITOR C CHhOWClC NEWS EDITOR L08IM FISCHER LFISC HER SCHRONiCLE.U' AH.EDU CHRONICLE UPDATE EDITOR LISA K. MANWiU LMANMILLSCHPONICLE.UTAH.EDU ON THE TRUTH !N TUITION' BILL OHIO STATE Student Gov't Officials Testify Parental Notification Against students of Debt Study on Student Credit-Car- d Prompts Eocperts to Seek Solutions Wilson said. rights protected Stoll testified in front of the Senate committee in favor of the bilL "The issue really isn't between the parents and the students," Stoll said. "It's really more about the role of the institutions of higher education; these institutions are here to educate and to serve their constituenciesnot to play the role of a parent." Emily Barron, Associated Students of the University of Missouri lobbyist, said parental notification would make students fee less like responsible individuals. "It should be the policy of the state to make all people responsible for their actions, including students," she said. Barron said ASUM is looking at other ways to curb drinking, such as programs and alcohol-abus- e and drugcounseling. ss THE MANEATER U Wire ing countries met to discuss to their , ways strengthen AROUND THE- - economies. ORLD summit brought The one-da- y together a predominantly Islamic bloc of countries known as the D-or developing eight nations of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, ' 3, Kuwait Kuwaitis raised their flag and performed a traditional victory dance Sunday to mark the ioth anniversary of the.end of the Guif War and freedom from Iraqi occupation. Gulf War heroes including former President George Bush, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and Secretary of State Colin Powell watched men in robes perform the arda, the Gulf's traditional dance depicting the "joy of victory," with, swords and rifles. Cairo, Egypt Egyptian Presi- dent Hosni Mubarak declared war on poverty Sunday as he and leaders of seven other develop ' and Turkey. Sampit, IndonesiaDriving past butchered bodies and the remains of their burned-ohouses, thousands of refugees flocked Sunday to a port to try to escape ethnic violence on Indonesia's Borneo Island. ' At least 270 people have "been slaughtered on the island in the past week, spreading fears that Indonesia could be headed for an ; economic collapse unless the government stops the killings and restores political stability. ' ut THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Editor in Chief Managing Editor DmIuUtah. chronicle News Editor Asst. News Editor Update Editor News Writers THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is an inde- pendent student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during Fall and holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and staff are University of Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Sports Writer Feature Editor the newspaper's content. Funding comes from advertising revenues and a dedicated Feature Writers Council. Subscriptions by correspondence, including change of address, to the Business Manager. To or visit chronicle.utah.edu (801) industry deny that student debt is really a "problem" at credit-car- d all. one prominent researcher believes student credit-car- d debt is more than a problem-i- t's an epidemic. a senior Robert Manning, research tellow at the Institute for Higher Education, Law and Governance at the University of Houston Law Center, has conducted what some consumer advocates call the most comprehensive research in However, the nation concerning student debt. Manning's study found that marketing tactics aimed toward students are partly to blame for increasing student debt, something Manning himself began to notice as a professor. "As tuition escalated and student loans jumped sharply in the 1990s, several undergraduates began to discuss with me their mounting credit-car- d debts," he said. Manning's subsequent research found that college students are vulnerable targets for credit-car- d solicitations. "From freshman orientation hand-out- s and bookstore inserts to applications strategically placed in dorm corridors, classrooms and credit-car- d over-aggressi- ve cafeterias, credit-car- d advertising campaigns are designed to condition students to accept the use of credit cards as the social norm of college," Manning said. Additionally, some universities now indirectly benefit financially from the use of student credit cards, according to Manning's report. "The tuition inflation rate in colleges has been two to three RED Editor Asst. RED Editor MATT CANHAM LISA MANWILL EMILY FULLtR Web. , 334, Cr-drim- Henry EyrJng Building, Room credit-car- d debt, but their efforts have been largely in vain. On Jan. 3, Rep. Louise Slaughter, York, introduced H.R. 184 "The College Student Credit Card Protection Act," which includes provisions that aim to curb student credit debt directly. The bill would limit the amount of credit any lender can extended to a college student to 20 percent of the student's annual income, or between $500 and $2,000, depending upon how long the student's account has been open. Ben Cecil, a senior, said he thinks Slaughter's bill is a step in the right direction. "Creditors take advantage of the weakness and ignorance that students have about credit debt," Cecil said. "They market students in the same way that cigarette companies used to market younger teenagers." DAILY TEXAN Writers RED KATHRYN COWLES Turn to the Dark Side: A ' T3;s of Apoptosis," a lecture fry Cnlng-Kan- g Jason Chen, will be neld at 4 p,m in the i? Light-depende- U Art Director Asst. Art Director Production Mang. Production Asst. ASAY WYNNE PARRY JENN HENRY JARED WHITLEY BROOKE JOHNSON rnedia Powers Research ' Building, Room 501 NATHAN DAVE Christepher Cummins from the Massachusetts Institute cf Technology will pe k on "Molybdenum and Uranium Functional Oroups, s at 10;4S am. WYNNE Religion main building. : Wilms Tyner, adviser for Center for Ethnic Student Affairs- - will speaK on "Pre- - HOWELL RORY 6RUNNER BRENT OLSON RANDY HARRINGTON MARIANNE RASMUSSEN Editors MARK CGDEN Accountant Asst. Accountant KERSTEN SWINYARD ROBERT McOMSER KAY ANDERSEN STEPHANIE SCOTT LEWIS Photographers CAVE HANCOCK HiXSON MARZULLI-VARGA- Advertising Manager Advertising Reps , DL'IDRE HUGHES JASON COOMBS VANNA TRAN PETER CHUDLEIGH CHAU H. 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Ma.'ilyrt Chief Photographer BEN BIBEE Assoc. Photo Editor GABRIEL RUTHERFORD . CV5 - LISA K. MANWILL , titled "Eliciting Information fromChlitf SexAfeusVk tims" at noon in tm X WUlftrd Marriott Library audi- tcrfum, ; 'v moting Native American Cul- lura! Awareness In the Com" , iriunJty"6tnoorti.V union STEPHANIE GEERLINGS Copy i 4 . merit will present a fecture PARRY JEREMY WOJCIECHOWSKI Business Manager ' Michael Larnor from tha National Institute of Chad Health and Human Develop- - PETER ESKO Online Editor ' - ASUU debates at noon in the I atter-da- y Saints institute of JESSDALTON DAVE 2006 gyring. dent Association wilt host STACY MEYER Typesetters In HATCH KATHERINE MARLOWE HARTLEY , " HOWELL JEREMY MATTHEWS XAZMIN GARZA . The Lesbian and Gay Student Union will hold a meeting at , 7:30 p.m. in union 411. Wire ERIC WALDEN JAMES GARDNER nt D-N- JACOB STRINGER JEREMY - 2006. card," Manning said. "The only reason you are getting it is because you are in college." In the wake of Manning's study, some concerned members of Congress have authored legislation intended to help students avoid . Hector Abruna from Corned ; Ortwersity wsis spe?x o srs "fte-iojand Prsctoactft.'e in Solution end ?n Surfaces" ai 4 p,m. m tne "The reality is that banks discriminate. If you are 19 years old and you make $18,000, you would normally get rejected for a credit BRITAIN C. MORRIS JAIME CLARK LOU on the World Wide Place" with Chrisoula Andreou from trie Utisvsrsity of Pittsburgh, st 3 p,rn. In Orson Spencer Hatf, Poom work- and moderate-incom- e ers, Manning added. ASHLEY PINGREE BOBBI PARRY KRISTIEN 1 The philosophy depanimt will hold a colloquium on "Putting Desires In Their receive major credit cards than low- - h the A. Ray OSpIn University Union Bzll'.oora. JAMES SEAMAN LAURA BISSETT WEISS Opinion Editor Opinion Columnists debates si p.m cards." Some colleges encourage students to charge escalating tuition or fees on licensed "affinity" cards, from which some organizations collect payments cn a fraction of each student purchase, Manning said. The prevalence of such credit-car- d solicitations has made it easier for unemployed college students to ALEX LEE respond with your questions, comments or complaints call problem. Ia fact, many in the banking Editorial Cartoonist For- ward all subscription person- . LGSIN FISCHER CASSANDRA the Publications must be prepaid SHAKE McCAMMON BRIAN WATTS d host Associated Student of of Utah the University times the national inflation rate," Manning said. "Colleges know that people are going to have to make up the difference with their credit LEGRAND ROGERS Utah students and are solely responsible for student fee administered U Despite recent studies that show a rise in student credit-cardebt, there is little agreement in the al-finance community about who or what is to blame for the Illustrator Spring semesters (excluding test weeks and j . Trie Daily Wish Chronicle will " alcohol-awarene- ! FEB. 26 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Missouri University and state politicians teamed up in front of the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate higher education committees Wednesday to testify in favor of bills that would prevent parental notification. The two bills, sponsored by Rep. Vicky Riback Wilson, and Sen. Steve Stoll, are identical in their wording. They state: "An institution of higher education shall not disclose to a parent or guardian of a student who is 18 years of age or older any information regarding a violation of any federal, state or local law or rule, or any rule or policy of such institution." The bill would only apply to students who violate a drug or alcohol rule on campus and arc financially dependent. "We want to make sure that students' privacy rights are protected in the same way that their peers, who arc not students, have their CAMPUS EVENTS Tartly cioaof showers Hi:50 10:28 Hl:48 10:35 ADDJTIOMAL EVSKTS'ON WWW.WTAHCKiJOWiCLE.C0M ; |