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THE CLUSTER. MARCH 6, 1989-PAGE 13
SGA passes revised
revision of Constitution
The Student Government
Association passed a new Constitu
tion Feb. 20, but passed a revised
edition in its Feb. 27 meeting. The
student body will vote on this Con
stitution Thursday.
The revised Constitution, pass
ed on the 27th, contains amend
ments that had been taken out of the
Feb. 20 edition and placed in the
by-laws. The amendments original
ly called fro 250 signatures from a
senator’s class to call that senator
for a vote of confidence. 500
signatures were necessary for
Education
however, would drop to 58.8
billion, down from 1989’s $8.9
billion. But those who need it most,
according to the administration,
still will get federal help to go to
college.
He’s getting the money for “the
disadvantaged." as the budget
book calls poorer students, by tak
ing it from other programs, critics
contended.
"He’s taking from the back
pocket to give to the front pocket,"
Lieberman said. “That’s not
kosher with us."
Like all eight of Reagan's
budgets. Bush’s budget proposes
killing the State Student Incentive
Grants (SSIG) program, letting the
students who currently get SSIGs
apply for Pell Grants instead.
The Pell Grant program, in turn,
would get $4.74 billion, up from
1989’s $4.48 billion The ad
ministration also would i.?t pan-
time students get Pell Grants,
something they’re prohibited from
doing now.
"That’s good," said Lieberman.
"It's an encouraging move. This is
a step in the right direction."
But a National Association of
Student Financial Aid Ad
ministrators spokeswoman, who
said her organization couldn’t of
ficially comment on the budget im
mediately, argued almost $100
million of the Pell Grant increase
won't do students much good
because it will be used to cover
1989 shortfalls.
Bush also seeks to slash funding
for Perkins Loans from 1989’s
$205 million to $22 million. Fun
ding for Stafford Loans, formerly
known as Guaranteed Student
Loans, would also be reduced,
from 1989’s $3,174 billion to
$2,962 billion.
Work-study funds would remain
senators-at-large and 600 for a
president or vice-president. After
much debate, the amendments were
taken from the body of the constitu
tion and placed in the by-laws.
The debate came about again last
Monday and the amendments were
added back into the Constitution.
The amendments now call for 50%
of a senator's class to sign the peti
tion for a recall vote (50% of the
student body for the president, vice
president and senators-at-large),
30% of that class must show up to
vote in the vote of confidence (30%
of the student body for the others
and % of the vote "taken must be
against the senators, president, or
vice president for that person’s
removal from office.
Also in the Feb. 27 meeting, it
was decided that the results of
SGA's financial status question
naire. taken Feb. 1, will be releas
ed as soon as possible.
$500 will be donated to AIDS
research in the names of SGA and
the high school students who per
formed the play "Deadly Silence."
lobbyist
at 1989 levels, while Supplemen
tal Grants funding would increase
from 1989’s $438 million to $452
million.
The president also proposed in
creasing funding for a new kind of
student loan, called Income Con
tingent Loans (ICL), from $4.9
million to $20 million.
With ICLs. which are now
available on a test basis at 10 cam
puses. students repay their college
loans in amounts that depend on
how much they earn after they
leave school.
Continued from page 2
The government loves them
because they are harder to default
on than Stafford Loans, but they
have been a bust so far on the test
campuses.
"I encourage students to borrow
from the (Stafford Loan) program
first because the interest rate is
lower and interest does not ac
crue," said financial aid director
E.F. Hall of Wheeling Jesuit Col
lege in West Virginia, one of the
test schools. "Theoretically, you
could be paying this loan off for 30
years."
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When Mercer was founded by Georgia Baptists in Penfield, Georgia, in 1833. the school's
assets consisted of a red day farm and two log cabins valued at $1935. The enrollment was
a total of 39 students and tuition was $35 per year with board an extra $8 per month. Each
student was required to bring his own bedding, candies, and furniture.
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