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While 85 percent of the budget cuts will already affect student financial assistance, Reagan's budget also proposes to shift many grants to loans, and will eliminate work-study and reduce the Pell Grant program, O'Leary said...
...drastically reducing grant programs for college students. So we should hardly be surprised that the new budget proposals would slash crucial student aid programs and would actually increase college students' dependence on loans. The budget would eliminate the $592.5 million federal work-study program and would tighten eligibility for Pell grants, forcing 1 million students--a third of the program--off the rolls...
Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell, new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will set up more thorough investigations into the Administration's dealings in Central America. These could include probes on the way the CIA is funneling money to the contras and might result in stricter requirements that diplomatic efforts be part of any U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. A Democratic- dominated committee, especially one with members as outspoken as Delaware's Biden, is likely to debate the President's policies far more vigorously than the Republican-controlled panel headed by Richard Lugar...
Veteran singles-men--1, D. Challinor (age 66), Potomac Boat Club, 19:56.94; 2, J. Welchli (age 57), Detroit Boat Club; 3, S. Pell (age 55), Princeton University...
...making it more difficult for students to claim financial independence from their parents. These provisions will remove some students from the aid rolls; however, for those who remain the level of aid available will increase, with cumulative guaranteed loan ceilings rising 40 percent and a small increase in the Pell Grant ceiling. Taken together, the changes in the new law--and the unchanged level of funding--are a welcome sign that the Congress has not forgotten the importance of higher education...