The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1987 Page: 2 of 12
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The Prospector February 19, 1987/ Page 2
Coleman to fight proposed cuts to higher education during committee meeting
Ry Deborah Martin
Dex ribing the Reagan alministr ation’s
proposal cuts to higher education as
"Draconian," Congressman Ronald Col-
cman aald Tuesday he inters to fight them
in the House Appropriations Committee
Coleman said the cuts would carry
* “devastating and serious k ing term come-
quences all acrons the nation "
lie said the Reagan administration is ap-
parently no longer as concerned about the
state of higher educ ation in this country as
when it created the National Commission
on Excellence in Education in 1981
The commission produced A Nation at
Risk, 4 study which unearthed deficiencies
in the 1 United States’ educ rational sy stem
The primary risk indic ators listed in the
report are lower standardized test scores,
high levels of functic inal illiteracy and large
numbers of Americans not competent in
basic skills ai reading, writing and spelling
Ihr report states one of the tools the na-
tion could use to rectify these problems is
If tentative plans hold. Vice President Bush may break commencement ceremonies tradition
By John Gutierrer-Mier
suit Wrer
UT El Pavo’s commencement
exerches may break tradition this
May it all goes according to plan.
‘ the traditional belief that paying for
education i» an investment in ever-
renewable human resrces . and the
availability in this country of sufficient
finance ial me am to invest in education "
Despite this apparent committment to im
prov ing higher educ ation when the report
was released in 1983, the administration’s
budget proposal for 1988 inc ludes drastic
cuts to financial aid
National Student News Service reported
a proposed 46 percent reduction in Iinan
cial aid, cutting out 3 million students
Fifty two percent of University students
currently receive some form of financial
aid, and many of them accept money from
more than one program
Richard Aranda, director of financial
aid, said 7,000 to 8,000 of those students
currently partic ipate in the work study pro-
gram, for which Reagan sought no funding
University President Haskell Monroe is
cspec ially tone erned about the program
“It’s not a hand out; they are working,”’
he said
Aranda said the students would he hard
said President Haskell Monroe
Vice President George Bush 1*
tentatively scheduled to address
the University’s graduating
seniors on May 17, 1987
"It was a pleasant surprise that
he accepted," said Monroe "I
look forward to hav ing bun come
to the University It will be good
for the entire community "
Commencement is usually
scheduled for Friday evenings, in
this case May 15. but Monroe
said the date may be changed to
accommodate Bush’s schedule
"We'll consider changing the
date It will have to coincide with
Mr Bush's schedule,’’ he said
pressed to find alternate employment
bee aine few part-time jobs can he schedul-
rd around clauses and labs
Losing the program would cost the
University man-hours and the expense of
tilling the vacancies left by the absence of
work-study students, he added
Coleman said Reagan’s motivation for
the cuts was his need to meet the Gramm-
Rudman’s law $108 billion budget deficit
"The issue is very simply this where are
your priorities? I suggest cutting educ atk m
is the last place we need to look to meet
the $108 billion," he said
Coleman speculated federal cuts would
have a greater impact on the University
than State Legislature cuts
Monroe agreed because he has "the im-
pression that we have far more students
receciv ing federal finance ial aid than on the
state level."
Ninety percent of the finance ial aid tun
ding the University receives comes from
the federal government, while 8 percent
come* from the state
if both the federal and state cuts were
Ronald Coleman
to pass, the results would be
“catastrophic," he said *.4
Aranda sided with Coleman'v assertion,
because such deep cuts to financial aid
would reduce enrollment. This would
translate into further decreases in state fun
ding, which depend* im enrollment
Monroe said he remembers
Bush as a congressman
"He'* a very interesting per-
son and I’m sure everyone will
find him an interesting speaker,”
he said
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