Thursday
April 9, 1981
Volume 64, No. 21 r Augustana
Co-Cuff surveys student opinion
By Janine Rew
On last Friday, April 3,
Augustana studefits were given
the opportunity to directly ad-dress
campus issues by par-ticipating
in a student input
survey.
The ASA Co-Curriculum
Committee sponsored the
survey, in which students could
voice their opinions in an
organized and collected way.
Students could volunteer
his/her views on specific issues
by simply filling out a short
survey. These issues aided ASA
in realizing student body feel-ings.
Co-Curriculum Chairperson,
Kay McMinn said, "Co-Curr
needed a voice—we needed an
exact poll of student sentiment
in order to correctly and ac-curately
represent the students."
A total of 257 surveys were
completed by interested
students. Of those polled, 40
were seniors, 79 juniors, 52
sophomores and 72 were
freshmen. The balance of the
surveys did not identify grade
classification.
"We were surprised and hap-py
about the turnout," said
McMinn. "We expected less
than 257. This really shows
students are concerned and I
think most all were basically
serious concerns."
The survey asked twelve
questions dealing with such
general issues as how happy the
students were at Augie to the
length of library hours.
Most students did feel library
hours needed to be extended.
Some suggested until midnight
on weekdays and longer on
weekends.
When asked about feelings on
proposed daily chapel periods,
most students didn't feel it was
necessary every day. "There
was a real concern about the
schedule changes that would
have to be made if ,chapel was
every day," McMinn said.
Sixty-nine percent of the
students felt ASA was "accessi-ble"
to them. Students felt ASA
should immediately concern
themselves with problems such
as food service, business office
relationships with students,
financial aid communication,
summer storage, intramurals
and campus unity, respectively.
Sixty-eight percent favored a
Parent Weekend, perhaps
similar to Mother-Daughter
Weekend, while 21 percent op-posed
the whole idea. The
balance remained neutral.
Relating to student activities,
the opinion was generally • split
over the question of more
publicity. Addressing specific
activities, students felt the need
for more activities along with
more publicity.
Once again votes were split
when looking at intervis
policies. 50% felt an extension
or even complete abolishment
of current intervis policies.
Students felt a need for revi-sion
- in the Edda publication.
Many recognized the need for
more student involvement, sug-gesting
more than one editor.
Some suggested a magazine
format merging Venture and
Edda on a semi-annual basis,
although 58% said they would
buy Eddas again if given the
choice.
Students listed the highest
need in building priorities in a
physical education facility
(38 %) and nearly as high a need
for social science building
priority (36%). 26 percent felt
the chapel should be completed
first.
Those polled were divided
upon the satisfaction with cur-rent
alcohol policies. 54 percent
felt the present policy should
continue, while 42 percent saw
a need for less stringent policy
revisions.
An overwhelming 85% felt
more student input was
necessary in making faculty
cuts.
McMinn said, "In-the future
we are planning as many as one
student input survey per
semester. If the students
recognize the need for more in-put
and are willing to give it, we
can all benefit."
McMinn went on to say that
the results of the survey will be
disseminated between respec-tive
organizational heads in-volved
with survey questions.
Financial aid spawns controversy
By Gail Eiesland
A not-so-new financial aid
policy has recently risen to the
surface in the Augustana com-munity
to create a clash bet-ween
the administration and
some students.
The policy focuses on the
financial aid package of
students and interrelates the
giving of Federal
monies—specifically, the Na-tional
Direct Student Loan
(NDSL), the Supplemental
Educational Opportunity Grant
(SEOG), College Work Study,
the Guaranteed Student Loan
(GSL), and the State Student In-centive
Grant (SSIG)—with the
earning of money through a stu-dent
activities job, such as work
on a campus publication, at
KAUR, on UBG or in ASA.
If such campus employment
results in a payment of $200 or
more to the student and this
same student has also received
one or more of the above men-tioned
Federal aids, the result
could be that the grant or loan
will be reduced by the amount
of payment. For example, if a
student had been allotted $1500
in SEOG funds and then was
selected to work as UBG Head
Governor for a tuition remis-sion
of $1500, the student
would most likely lose the
SEOG money. Or if, the student
had an NDSL of $2500, the loan
would be decreased to $1000.
Any students not receiving
Federal aid would not be af-fected.
According to Don Scott, Vice
President for Financial Affairs,
Federal guidelines dictate that
any employment on campus
that the college controls
budgetarily is assumed by the
government to be resources for
the student and therefore affects
his eligibility for aid. Scott men-tioned
that off-campus employ-ment
should also be considered
when composing a financial aid
package but that that part of the
procedure is almost impossible
to administer.
Some controversy on campus
has been created by the im-plementation
of this policy,
simply because the policy
before now has been relatively
unheard of.
Scott attributes the regula-tion's
sudden visibility not to
the fact that it is a new one (he
estimates it to have been in-troduced
in the early 70's) but
because more students are now
receiving Federal income
assistance than ever before.
Also, more Federal dollars are
going to middle income
students, who make up a large
part of the Augie population.
This all means that a larger
number of students may be af-fected.
In an attempt to facilitate
quicker knowledge of the
policy—before a student
decides to take on a campus
job—the Financial Aid Office
has drafted a model statement
that explains what may happen
and has distributed it to agen-cies
such as the Edda, Mirror,
ASA, etc. which pay some
students for their input.
Eugene Linton, Director of
Financial Aids, also stressed
that "any students who could
possibly be affected by the
policy are personally
contacted." If it appears that
any aid would be reduced by
campus employment, the stu-dent
then has the choice of tak-ing
the job and receiving pay-inent
or not taking the job and
receiving the unreduced aid.
Sophomore Janet Elliott,
however, feels that there is a
strong lack of communication
between the Financial Aid Of-fice
and the students concerning
financial assistance. .
Elliott was selected to be a
resident assistant (R.A.) in East
Hall for the 1980-81 school year
but claims she was never in-formed
at the time that the job
could have any bearing on her
financial aid. When she visited
Linton in the Financial Aid Of-fice
in February to discuss aid
for next year's term, she
discovered that $620 (the room
fee which is not charged to
R.A.'s in compensation for their
work) had been included in her
financial aid package as aid.
The result, said Elliott, is that
she had been "working for
nothing. I could have not taken
the R.A. position,gotten the
money anyway and then gotten
By Dirk Moore
After spending a year in
Bogota, Columbia, Brian Bonde
has returned to Augustana and
is resuming his position as
General Manager of KAUR.
During his absence, Matt Effkin
assumed Bonde's respqn-sibilities
until January, When
Doug Behrens took over.
Bonde returned from Bogota
Feb. 15, and started work at the
station April 1.
During the summer in
Bogota, Bonde was enrolled
with the HECUA program. An
independent research project
under this program allowed him
the opportunity to study mass
communications and literacy in
a developing nation. Brian ac-companied
his wife, Susan
Greeley, who was studying in
Bogota under a Fulbright
Scholarship.
Now that his is back, Bonde
hopes to promote KAUR more.
By doing this he hopes to "take
a good thing and expand on it."
a job off-campus to earn more
money. But money isn't the
primary issue here—I just wish I
could have made the decision
between the R.A. job and an
off-campus one."
Another issue spawned by the
mandate concerns its influence
on student participation in ac-tivities.
Tyler Asbury, ASA represen-tative,
has been engaged in an
attempt to get funding for such
positions as Viking Days
chairpersons, New Student
Orientation leaders and All-
Nations chairpersons, which are,
all presently unpaid.
Said Asbury, "Financial aid is
KAUR is unique in that it is a
noncommercial radio station
with a wide variety of entertain-ment.
Bonde suggests that
through promotion KAUR can
political. The policy inherently
destroys student initiative and
enthusiasm. The only way the
college is going to get good peo-ple
for those jobs is to offer
them remuneration. A lack of
interest in participating could
result if students see that the job
merely takes away from their
other aid."
Dave Stange, Personnel and
Development chairperson,
thinks likewise. "I see many
qualified leaders out there who
would do an excellent job in stu-dent
activities, but they hesitate
in taking the big step. These
jobs take a lot of time, but
Fin. Aid to p. 5
acquire more listeners to "take
advantage of different and good
programs."
"KAUR," says Bonde, "has
reached a new stage in its
maturity." One important
reason for this is the augmenta-tion
of its voltage by 380 watts
which has expanded its broad-casting
service to a radius of 25
to 30 miles. This increased area
has enhanced the station's
capacity as a vehicle in bringing
the community to the campus.
Hence, KAUR is important to
Augustana with respect to
public relations and recruit-ment,
Bonde said.
Bonde contends that KAUR
has great potential, due primari-ly
to its organization. Further-more,
commercial radio sta-tions
are supportive of KAUR,
and allow a good environment
for it to expand its potential.
According to Bonde, "As- a
low-powered, student-staffed
station, this is the best I've ever
seen."
Bonde returns to KAUR