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ST. MARY'S RATTLER
February 17, 197
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Many individual attempts have been made to correct the
situation but have met with no success. We are, therefore,
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we are still in the program this semester! Costly certify
mail was used to track down borrowers who had moved b
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The primary step in preventing the loss of the private
school system in America is to take action on the individual
state level. In the next sessions of the Texas legislature,
Texans will have the opportunity to take this step. House
days :
ary 1
All letters, articles, and literary material submitted to
the RATTLER must be signed by the writer. Use of
initials is possible upon the request of the writer. In
accordance with current RATTLER policy, material
unsigned will not be printed.
FEATURES
NEWS.....
in the American society will also eliminate the freedom female population with its needs,
of choice that parents and students now exercise--the choice
of public or private education.
SPORTS EDITOR...........
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
agree that she, along with any other aid seeker, is not treat
ed as an individual by this office; we must, however, operat
within Texas law.
The crux of the problem is this--“old timers” have for
gotten that their loans are legal, fiscal, and moral, and the
Dear Editor,
We like the Rattler this year!
John Thompson, Ed Karam, George Hernandez,
Gary Sides, Oscar Orta
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Diane Abdo, Pony Traugott
.........Regina Weynand
Did you know . . .
Dear Editor;
I have been reading your little column “Did you know . . .”
and have found much humor in several of them. Here is one
which I am sure will merit great recognition from the dor-
mitory students;
Did you know that “Beany” (Tom “Reindeer” Cox) and
“Cecil” (Cecilia Drescher) finally got it together last week.
They are officially pinned--or whatever a little boy and a sea
dragon call it!
rower obtain the signature of a co
linquent borrowers from this office, as well as from Fathe 8onti
CONCERNEl
A.T,
Dear Editor;
It is common knowledge to all that the needs of a woman
are very, different from those of her male contemporary.
This important fact, however, has seemed to have escaped
ADG’s request help
Dear Editor;
Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity has started its tutoring
program. The brothers are helping youngsters in the West-
side of San Antonio with their schoolwork. What is being done
is mostly basic English and Math. It is a good thing going,
but every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 4 to 5, the
Alphadelts realize that they need help. Any fraternity, so-
rority or person interested in service can help the ADG’s
with materials or manpower can contact Chairman Ted
Guitierrez at 432-2065, Co-Chairman Mike Puente at 433-
5151 or ADG Moderator Bob O’Conner at the Theology De-
partment Office.
ties.
Because of a “communication breakdown,” two student
were turned away from our library. This should have neve
happened. No telling what simila r other actions by uninform
ed persons have taken place. Do the door-keepers real!
know their job?
who had not notified the Board. (A good point for you to
member C.E.D.--you have moved and have not notified
Dear Editor;
Recently much has been said concerning one student’s lac
of acknowledgement as to his identity in his letter to the edi
tor. I’m sure he has a good reason and I’d like to stand up i
his defense.
Teachers sometimes fail to realize where they are goin
wrong and the only way they can ever discover how bad the
are is for someone to say something. Well, one student di
and now you--the teachers--slice him to pieces. And novi
wish to ask you something--who is being more fair--you
him?
pay public school taxes, the individual may never receive
any benefit from this money. Other reasons maybe cited for publicly asking Dr. Dora Grossenbacher to review the
the re-evaluation of the present distribution of educational Ladies’ lounges and rest areas for thelackof proper facili-
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Aid office agrees
Education
inflation
Since the end of World War lithe re has been a tremendous
surge of growth in the field of education. The number of stu-
dents attending institutions of higher learning increasedata
phenomenal rate (with a proportional increase in facilities
and personnel). Education has become, in its own right, an
industry in itself. Its “products” were at one time in great
demand both socially and economically. Now, as a result of
a type of mass production almost all of society’s “markets”
have been flooded by college graduates. In a recent news-
paper report, a statistician predicted that it would be some-
time in the 1980’s before the present number of Ph. D.’s
in physics can be assimilated. There are even worse pre-
dictions for the less technical or non-scientific graduates.
There is a despairing lack of demand for most liberal arts
majors and an over supply of those in the teaching profes-
sion.
The present state of affairs in the field of education (and
the educated), might easily be compared to pre-Depression
era prior to the 1929 stock market crash. For some years
now there has been such an overemphasis of higher educa-
tion that we now find ourselves faced with a future similar
to that which followed the wild speculation of the ‘20s.
Consequently, education as a national institution has over-
extended itself. Massive development programs were ini-
tiated across the country on thousands of school campuses
to accommodate students in ever-increasing number. De-
velopment and maintenance costs for these mammoths have
been passed on to the individual student; a burden which he
cannot bear without help from parents and/or loans. In order
to relieve some of the monetary burden of learning costs
from the student, funds are being sought in increasing a-
mounts from both the state and federal government. This
method of cost distribution is justified in that education’s
“products” aid society as a whole. Of particular concern in
this area is the plight of the non-public school.
Since most non-public schools have some sort of religious
affiliation (origin, faculty, or ownership), public funds from
tax monies have long been denied on the basis of separation
of church and state. This “separation” may have been valid
before accreditation, but now as the public school standards
must be kept by the private school for equal education, the
“separation of church and state” has become outmoded. In
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“lose” the Texas Coordinating Board. We were on suspen Ind
sion during the month of November 1970 solely becase on heir
rate of delinquency exceeded an arbitrary figure establisht lctp,
by the Board. A frantic series of communications to de
happened. She said, “He (door-keeper) was getting a littl
mad, so I left. He said I couldn’t use the library.”
Just because our library is filled with many books ma
Bill 301, “NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION ACT OF Dear Sir;
1971” will be introduced for legislative approval. In order (For C.E.D. “TOP loan appeal.”)
for this bill to be passed which would allow tax funds to be Hopefully, it will not surprise C,E,D that this office agrees
allocated to private schools for secular courses, Texas law- with her, at least in part, on her analysis of the problems
makers must be informed of their constituents’ views. The currently surrounding the TOP loan program. That this of-
Rattler, therefore, encourages all who are interested in the fice has not been acquiescent in accepting the changes in
longevity of private as well as public school education to policies adopted by the Texas Coordinating Board is evi-
write your state legislator asking for his support of this denced by the fact that I was “fired” from the Board’s fi-
“Top Secret” and just because the library floors are car
peted with gold, no reason could ever justify the turnin
away of those two students.
Filled with question marks and confusion about the librar 4-9,
them the name of the school they attended. “Southwest” wa
the reply. The door-keeper informed them that they were nr
allowed to use the library.
Outside the library, I asked one of the students what ha Blvd
eign” (foreign to St. Mary’s community, that is) student ed
entered. Upon entering, one of the keepers of the door aske Chair
One night I was grooving in the library and enjoying th ter
awesome atmosphere of book-filled wonder when two ceforFebr
REPORTERS. . . Martha Atiee, Liz Conrad, Cathy Lan-
de, Noeli Lytton, Linda Sue Mills,
Pony Traugott, Roger Leverette, Tom
Politte, John Marek, Mary DeCock,
Bill Wood, Regina Weynand, Gloria
Estraua, Jim Seifert, Pat Lincoln,
Lemoyne Scott, Ralph Domas, Sandy
Adams, Louis Benavides, Bob Ellison
CIRCULATION...............Ed Karam
LAY-OUT......................Barbara Abbott
ARTISTS............ Liz Conrad, Richard Suter
ADVISOR.....................Mr. Dave Roberts
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policy.
EDITOR..............................Rick Noll
MANAGING EDITOR................Diane Abdo
BUSINESS MANAGER...............Lupe Lopez
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR............ Mike Swaim
PHOTOGRAPHERS......Cathy Lande, John Marek
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said that high school students were discouraged from usin,
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tax funds. If the private schools in America close for the ties and feminine needs.
lack of needed funds, taxpayers will have to pick up the It seems a pity that a University that can afford to spend
bill for accommodating the influx of those students now at- thousands of dollars for paving the area in front of the ad-
tending non-public schools. The loss of the private school ministration building could not afford to adequately supply its
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fact, it is an injustice to those taxpayers who attend private the attention of our Dean of Women for the past nine years.
repay your loan, and we are very “up-tight” over the ad o.m,
ministrative minutiae involved in the requirement that a boi
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nancial aid officer advisory committee for my outspoken
R.N. disagreement to their about face in procedures. We will not
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however, and will remain the law until we interest our Stat dard;
representatives in modifying the l a ws and procedures gov gicai
erning the operation of the TOP loan program. ’ 1i
This office will not cut off financial assistance just be Vr
cause an applicant complains; we would hope, however, th tw t
complaints be accompanied by well thought out suggestion side
for program improvement. To this end, the Texas Associa ExNe
tion of Student Financial Aid Administrators is in the pro 0oin
cess of developing a study complete with detailed recon soto
mendations, to be submitted to all Texas legislators to enabl dardi
them to put the program back on the right track. (Our ow ion (
meager efforts to enlist the support of a local legislate Ise Q
went for naught--we had not spelled it out in writing for him mica
All interested TOP borrowers are encouraged to contat tion
their representatives with positive recommendations, andi cuit‛
exhort former borrowers to repay their loans on schedule a
Sincerely ------
Travis A. Gerrells, Director- ■ ।
Office of Student Financial Ai II
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menders must agree to bring “moral suasion” to get you! ures
repay your loan, and we are very “up-tight” over the ad Im
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St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.). The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 1971, newspaper, February 17, 1971; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547453/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library.