Fed funding 'shafts' Idaho students: Upchurch b) RJi. Hollingsworth NIC students and other ldllho college studenu are forced 10 carry hea1'Y eduC:t111onal loans because campus• balCd federal aid is not dimibuted JUSt· I), according 10 Jim Upchurch, director of financial aids. In 1977 when 11 cc»t S2. 700 a year 10 attend an Idaho college, students re(C11 · ed S9 million in all t)'~ of federal financial w»1ance. It now costs about S4,800. and although finantial aid has increased 10 S30 million. over S20 million of that assistance is in the form of loans, Upchurch said. ·'Idaho tupa)trs send money 10 the federal government." Upchurch said. "The federal government sends 11 10
Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire 10 support John Affluent :11 private institutions like Danmouth. · • Upchurch said that an 1972 ld.lho, Mn.inc, Vermont and :Sew Hampshire rccci•ed about the same amount of campus-based funding because the money "'as alloeated b)' the state allotment formula "'hich factored the num~r of pose-secondary students based on populauon and income l~el. From 1972 10 1982, while Idaho's campus-based financial aid increased 42 percent from S2.4 million 10 S3.4 millton. Maine's grt"' from S2.6 million 10 Sl 2.3 million. a 369 percent mcrcase. Over lhJlt s11me period. aJd to Ver-
mont incr~ 3S5 percent. Crom SI.million to S8.J million. and the amount of assmance g11 en 10 'le" Hampshire incr~ from S:!.3 million 10 SS 9 million, a :!89 percent incre=, Lpchur.:h \aid The uojust distribution ~gan in 19i! "hen 90 percem oi the (und\ ""35 di<,ribu1ed b~ the \Late allotmeni formula and 10 percent "as left 10 be dist.nbutc:d at the dis..,ction of the comm1ss1oner of education.
The discrepancies 1ocrc apparent as early as 19""8 when \laine. Vermont and Ne"' Hampshire "'ere rccci\ing t'-'O and three times more aid than Idaho.
The Dtpllnmeot of Education admn· red that inequiti~ c,isted after they ,omplcted a ~tud> of the program, but the> IH·re un1111ling 10 come up "llh a nc11 iormul:i. Lpchurch ~aid. L .S. Rep. Paul Simon. 0-lll .• chairm:in of the Commintt 01 Education and labor, has propo<ed 1h:11 the state funding formula be eliminated and th~ money~ di.sb~ed on the basis of "'hat 1ns111uuons recci1ed l:i.st )ear. Upchurch said.
··He "ants e,·el') institution 10 r~1vc 90 percent of "hat they r«ei,cd last continued on page 16
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Friday, April 27, 1984
Creature featu re A photo of a deep-sen jell) nsh known ss Peripb) Ila pcriph31111 is part or n tra, cling f'hlbit or color prints called ··t:ofamiliu Ftluna of 1be Open Sfa." The Smilh<on.ian lnsti1u1e exhibit Is on di,pb) in lbt lobby of the UB Bonner Room until \la, 13.
Carol King to appear Monday ('--_ _ in_s_i_ d _e_t_h_e_c_r___) Carol King. "OCalist and political acth·m. wiU perform at IC Monda) :11 11 a.m. m the Bonner Room. King is making a num~r of appearances in the area on behalf of Democratic Prcs!dcntia.l candid1u.e Sen. Gary Hart and aarttd 10 be a poi>-"Orn forum guesL Kmg rose 10 fame an the late 1960s and is best known for her album, ..Tapcslr) ...
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