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MOSCOW MISSING BANNER: A banner welcoming students to the city of Moscow was stolen the weekend of Sept. 6. The crime was considered a grand theft due to the cost of the banner, but no arrests were made. CAR WARS: For nearly 8 weeks in the fall, members of the ASUI Senate discussed the purchase of a new ASUI van. While money had been alloted for the automobile, President Gino White vetoed the expenditure. However, under a compromise agreement, a used van was purchased.
MILESTONES: Prominent university physics professor Lawrence Davis, Jr., committed suicide Jan. 29.
LEGALLY BINDING: The 1988 residence hall contract included no fee increases and three changes advantageous to hall occupants. The new contract provided up to IS percent fee discounts for upperclassmen, transferable room and board charges, and lowered cooperative residence hall service charges.
PROGRAM CUT: Citing tight budgets and decreasing student enrollments, administrators cut 18 graduate programs for fall 1988.
FIGH11NG RACISM: The Faculty Council passed a resolution April 14 that declared their position on racism. The council felt an urgent need to take a stand against racism in Northern Idaho.
Students help bust MS In February, students had a cause. According to campus organizer Debbie Kivioja, February was ''Students Against Multiple Sclerosis Month." The month also marked the beginning of UI student participation in the program. SAMS was conceived under the assumption that students would want to help fight MS, the major disabling disease which "short circuits" the central nervous system of more than 200 additional young adults weekly. Kivioja said the program encouraged college students to both
raise money for MS research and raise awareness of problems associated with the disease. "If we can help by raising some money on campus and at least getting people aware that MS exists and who it effects, then we're helping," she said. MS should be a big concern in Idaho, she said, since the Pacific Northwest is the highest risk area in the United States. It is also the second highest risk area in the world, Kivioja said. In cooperation with MTV and the Ford Motor Co., SAMS sponsored a threephase fundraising
event. Kivioja said 80 percent of the money raised on campus stayed in the area, while the other 20 percent was spent on national MS research.
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IN a colorful burst, campus organizer Debbie Kivioja releases nearly 200 bal¡ loons in front of the UCC to raise money for SAMS. (Jones)
Taxes levied on financial aid Congress' Tax Reform Act will books," he said. "The university reach college students through has no record of the amount their wallets, at least those that paid." receive financial aid or are taking However, Davenport believes out student loans. "a majority of the students According to Dan Davenport, won't be affected that much" director of university's finacial under the new tax law since an aid office, the act made scholarindividual has to earn more before he or she is taxed. ships, fellowships, stipends, grants and other forms of finan- • According to Jerry Reynolds, cial aid taxable income. The act university controller, his departalso removed interest paid on ment planned to track the student loans from the list of amount of aid students received authorized tax deductions, on federal 1099 forms. But as of Davenport said. June 15, financial aid officals Students will be required to said that they may not have the start reporting such aid on their staff needed to process the forms 1987 tax returns. for more than 2,500 students Tuition, fees, textbooks and receiving aid. supplies will be deductible, but Without 1099 forms, students room and board will not be, may be left on their own to Davenport said. : figure out the exact amount of "It is important that students financial aid they must report. keep their receipts for tuition and
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