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Invasion of the cheerleaders
No, it's not another summer horror flick, it's a parade of cheerleaders on
campus. The teenagers strolled down State St. yesterday while spending
time at the University for a training program.
Senate votes to supplement
student aid by $217 million
The Michigan Daily-Friday, August 13, 1982-Page 11
Nuclear war won't stop
mail, post office says
WASHINGTON (AP)- While con, ded to maintain an organization
ceding there may not be many people capable of moving essential mail and
left to write one another after a nuclear assisting other government agencies
war, the Postal Service is promising after a war.
that "those that are will get their IT ESTABLISHES a chain of com-
mail." mand under which the five regional
The Federal Emergency postmasters general could take control
Management Agency told a if the Washington headquarters was
congressional subcommittee yesterday destroyed.
that the same people who are un- Assuming Memphis still exists after a
deterred by rain, snow, sleet, and nuclear war, it would become the new
gloom of night intend "to make the best headquarters. If Memphis is
of a lousy situation" should a nuclear devastated, San Bruno, Calif., would
war occur. become the headquarters.
Retired Rear Adm. Gene La Rocque, Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Texas), the
however, called the Postal Service's subcommittee chairman, questioned
nuclear war contingency plans the need for the plan, saying that even
"fraudulent and deceitful" and "an in, its existence leads to an assumption
sult to the American public." that the nation could survive a nuclear
exchange.
"PLANNING for life after a nuclear Joseph Moreland, assistant associate
war is like planning to live in hell-no director of the Federal Emergency
one has the foggiest notion what it will Management Agency, responded that
be like," La Rocque told the House Post Leland was assuming "the worst
Office subcommittee. possible scenario with the worst
Postal officials conceded that they possible result."
cannot predict conditions in the wake of The nation needs emergency plans
a war, but they defended their plan as a for the full range of possible disasters,
means to function to whatever extent including nuclear war, Moreland said.
proves possible. He described the task as trying to
The contingency plan, developed in "make the best out of a lousy
the 1950s and revised last year, is inten- situation."
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Thomas Butts, an aide to the University
vice president for academic affairs. "It
adds $48 million more to the $29 million
that the House passed."
ACCORDING to Butts, the bill would
bring the total federal Pell Grant
allocation to almost $2.5 billion and
would increase the maximum BEOG
award for University students from
$1,674 to $1,800.
If the additional $77 million is awar-
ded to the SEOG Program, it would
bring the federal SEOG allocation to
more than $307 million and could
provide the University with an ad-
ditional $250,000 in funds.
The University originally expected
its 1982-83 allocations to drop more than
$260,000 from the SEOG Program, a 25
percent reduction. In the BEOG
Program, the University was scheduled
to lose $600,000, a 12 percent cut.
BUTTS WAS hopeful the entire $77
million would be approved in the con-
ference that took place last night. "Ob-
viously the hopes are they (Congress)
would go with the full $77 million," he
said. "It would obviously relieve some
of the strains we're under this year," he
added.
Although the University has not
finished sending out student aid award
notices, Butts said the increase in funds
might alter the amount of aid a student
receives.
"It would mean revisions in packages
for both Pell Grants and Supplemental
Grants," he said.
STUDENTS in lower-income brackets
will probably benefit the most from the
additional University SEOG funds.
"The purpose of that program is to sup-
plement the Pell Grant Program so I'd
expect it would first be targeted to the
neediest students," he said.
"It might help a few (middle-income
students)," he added, "but it will also
help students who have exceptionally
high costs." These would include
students whose families perhaps have
more than one child in college, accor-
ding to Butts.
The additional funds for Pell Grants
make the program distinct from other
federal aid programs because its total
allocation is now higher than it was for
the 1981-82 academic year. Last year,
the BEOG total was $2.346 million, $73
million less than has been allocated for
1982-83.
This increase, however, is not sur-
prising in light of students' needs, ac-
cording to Butts. "It's not a significant
increase," he said, "but it's certainly
going to help students more
realistically in that program."
Although President Reagan vetoed a
similar bill last year, Butts said he is
optimistic the funds will be approved.
"You still have the pending threat of a
presidential veto," he explained.
"I'm not a betting man," he said, but
added, "I'm optimistic about it."