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Here is a relatively easy way to get rid of student debt: 1) work for the government or a non-profit, 2) keep up with student loan payments for 10 years and 3) apply for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, a federal government program that many former students currently rely on to solve their debt troubles. But the Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it may cancel the program in an effort to cut $10.6 billion from federal education funding. The Washington Post said in an article that it acquired budget documents, which are supposed to be released to the public next week, mentioning the cuts. There are no further details provided. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program began in 2007. The Washington Post reports over 550,000 people are “on track to receive the benefit.� Ashley Coleman, assistant director of the Financial Aid The Emerald is published by Emerald Media Group, Inc., the independent nonprofit media company at the University of Oregon. Formerly the Oregon Daily Emerald, the news organization was founded in 1900.
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and Scholarships office, is one of those people. She said if the federal government denies her the program, she may not be able to fulfill her dream of buying a house. Coleman, who is $44,000 in debt, is shocked by the possibility of the federal government denying her the debt relief, particularly after she is halfway through the 10-year-long commitment. Coleman graduated from University of South Dakota in 2010, and her employment here makes her eligible because UO qualifies as an employer to offer eligibility for PSLF. Coleman is frustrated because she would have chosen a different payment plan if she knew the program would fall through. Michelle Garibay is also a UO financial aid counselor, who graduated from Western Oregon University. Like Coleman, she is relying on the program to allow her to buy
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a house instead of paying off student debt. “It’s kind of scary,� Garibay said. “It just puts a lot more pressure on budgeting your money every month and trying to pay down your loans.� Garibay and Coleman both counsel students on the program, which number about 200 per year, they said. The two hold workshops every term, but they tell students to be wary of relying on the program because of the turnover in the federal government. “Administrations change all the time; rules change,� Coleman said. Coleman said Oregon has 1,614 employers with people submitting paperwork for the PSLF program. “It’s a scary time to be in higher ed,� Garibay said. The Trump administration plans on releasing the documents next week, supposedly detailing the future of the PSLF program.
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Betsey DeVos, the Secratary of Education, might cut a student debt forgiveness program in announcement set for next week. (Creative Commons)
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The “infamous� Shasta 2016 cooler left after the annual UO Greek student trip. (Jennifer Vick Cox via Facebook)
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University of Oregon students remember the infamous purple cooler from last year’s Shasta Weekend emblazoned with the phrase, “Do You Wanna Do Some Blow Man?� and the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity letters. The image was just an example of the mess created by University of Oregon students on Slaughterhouse Island during the annual Shasta Weekend trip. The Facebook post with the image of the cooler went viral and garnered national attention. It was shared over 71,200 times. Slaughterhouse Island in Lake Shasta was labeled a biohazard, and 25 workers in the forest service were called in to clean up the mess left by the students, including trash, tents and human waste. The UO Lambda Chi Alpha chapter was temporarily suspended by its national leadership. The fraternity issued an apology, but the volunteers from the fraternity sent to help with the cleanup were turned away because the site was deemed too hazardous due to the human waste left on the island. The fraternity is no longer suspended, but it refused to comment on whether any of its members are attending Shasta this year. At Lake Shasta, students rent houseboats and party all weekend. Photos and videos of the trips show students drinking alcohol, swimming, smoking and dancing on boats at the lake, as well as partying on the shore. The sheriff’s boating safety department at the lake has been working with the
National Forest Service and the resorts in the area to keep students safe and prevent littering as much as possible. Shasta County Deputy Ray Hughes explained that this year the resorts in the area will be providing receptacles for trash. “If kids don’t want to keep their tents, they can throw them away,� he said. Marina manager for Jones Valley Resort Ricky Villanueva confirmed, “We provided a dumpster there and apparently the kids would see the dumpster and take in their trash. It made a big difference. We plan on doing it for years to come.� According to UO sophomore Dani Gomez, who attended Shasta Weekend for the second year in a row, “Everyone was kind of trying to make a bigger effort to not create a situation like last year.� Gomez said many students attempted to clean up the landscape. “By the time I packed up onto my boat, there was nothing left on the island. All the tents were gone and boys were walking around with trash bags,� she said. The Division of Student Life from UO and Oregon State University worked together to send a joint letter addressed to fraternity and sorority chapter advisors at both schools. The letter stressed safety and declared that the trip is not endorsed by either institution. “Their decision to attend is not condoned by their chapter, their international organization, or by UO/OSU.� According to the letter, “Students may in certain instances be held accountable
On May 19th and 20th, the Phi Psi boat DJ repeatedly stopped the performances throughout both nights asking everyone listening to clean up their trash. (Benjamin Green)
Pictured, Rachel Rozenfeld, Freshman, cleaning up trash before the boat left on Sunday, May 21st. (Benjamin Green)
individually and organizationally pursuant to the UO and OSU Student Conduct Codes and local laws.” The annual trip includes students from many different universities, including UO and OSU. Not all students who attend are members of fraternity and sorority life, but many are. Although UO and OSU officials don’t approve of poor behavior from students at Lake Shasta, the schools have difficulty identifying specific people whom may have violated the student conduct code, and therefore holding students responsible can be difficult. The schools have made efforts to advise students about safety measures. OSU students visited Lake Shasta during Mother’s Day weekend. UO students were at Lake Shasta last weekend and are expected next weekend as well. According to Hughes in an interview on Friday, UO students began arriving Thursday and no arrests had been made. “So far it’s been all right, just kids out here having a good time,” he said. UO student Bowen Krause said he never saw students get arrested but did see police officers issue tickets to his peers. “It did seem unusual the number of officers that were there and the seemingly minor things that they would stop people for,” he said. The mix of a large body of water and copious amounts of drinking has annually brought concerns of safety from UO and OSU, as well as the local Sheriff’s office. “There’s really not anything the university can do to stop the event from happening,” said UO spokesman Tobin Klinger. Klinger
Trash outside of Phi Psi on the morning of Saturday, May 20th. Photo was taken at 5 a.m. before the police arrived and all trash was cleaned up by 10 a.m.. (Benjamin Green)
explained that it can be difficult to enforce the student conduct code off-campus, and that the university would penalize the students if they could. Often it is too difficult to pinpoint which students did what damage, said Klinger. According to Klinger, an informational session about water safety and personal safety hosted by the Substance Abuse Prevention Program was scheduled to take place on May 18, but was cancelled due to low registration. SAPP has since been shut down entirely due to budget cuts. In an email from ASUO president Quinn Haaga and ASOSU president Rachel Grisham, the presidents stressed safety and environmental consideration. “Please remember to be good stewards of the environment if you do choose to visit Shasta -which is a national forest,” the email stated. UO junior Teddy Burnette, a Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity member, said last year made fraternities and sororities look bad and this year was a chance to make it better. “Everyone didn’t want to do that again, and it’s so easy to clean up, so I think everyone really felt obligated to do a much better job this year and make up for it,” he said. In order to continue the legacy of Oregon students partying at Lake Shasta every year, Bowen Krause, who attended this year, said cleaning up is important for the students who enjoy the trip. “We go and have a really good time and we want to continue doing that,” said Krause. “So it’s in our best interest to make sure everything is clean so that we don’t get the spotlight again.”
“BY THE TIME I PACKED UP ONTO MY BOAT, THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT ON THE ISLAND.” DANI GOMEZ UO sophomore and 2016/2017 Shasta attendee
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The inherent racism of our education system In the state of Tamil Nadu, India, lies a small village of less than a thousand people: Perumbai. Children from Perumbai participated in the 10th grade exams, a test taken by a state of nearly 100 million people. With the odds against them, the children of Perumbai managed to come in second place of the entire state, topping millions of other children in Tamil Nadu. What sets the children of Perumbai apart from the rest of the state? They don’t follow the western standard that the British have implemented in India and have instead learned through the ancient Indian Vedic style of education: a pedagogy based off of listening, questioning and memorizing. Dating back to pre-western colonization, the ancient Indian style of education is absolutely unheard of in modern society. Instead of following the western K-12 system, children enter school at the age of 3 and are taught to learn Sanskrit, the ancient primary language of Hinduism. By age 5, they are taught French because linguistic experts agree that learning one of the romance languages gives you access to learning all of the romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. By age 6, they are taught English and their mother tongue. With nearly two billion fluent English speakers in the world, the children of Perumbai are able to communicate to them before they are out of first grade. By age 7, the children are able to read, write and speak four languages. Learning multiple languages is beneficial for your cognitive development and is proven to make you smarter than those who don’t. This was the ancient Vedic way of education. It existed through India’s Golden Age in the fourth and sixth century, where they made large achievements in mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. But because of Western colonialism, this pedagogy was destroyed after lasting for thousands of years. When western colonialism thrived in the 18th century, nearly everything from eastern culture had either changed or was destroyed. That
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included the ancient Indian education system as well as systems from other eastern countries. White men came to destroy the cultures of Black and Brown people, forcing them to adapt. A concept that isn’t far off from our modern society. Surendra Subramani, senior instructor and diversity coordinator at the College of Education, is an expert on colonialism and its impact on systems of education. “If you don’t understand colonization, you don’t understand America,� Subramani said. “Every field of study is basically put forth by how the West looks at the world. If we study somebody else, we don’t study from their perspective, we study from how the west has viewed them.� Not only did colonialism change the culture, it essentially erased the history of the old world. When we learn about discoveries, we learn that White men did them, regardless of whether they actually discovered it. When we learn about the founding fathers of subjects such as literature or philosophy, we learn about the White men who did them, but there is evidence that these discoveries existed before them — they were just erased through colonialism. For example, we think of Galileo when we think about the discovery that the Earth revolves around the sun, and the moon revolves around the Earth. We don’t think about Aryabhata, a 6th century Indian astronomer who recorded this same discovery. When we think of literature, we believe that Shakespeare was king of the subject and influenced all of literature. We don’t talk about the Tale of Genji, the first novel ever written in 11th century Japan, predating Sheakespeare by 500 years. Of course, colonialism is also the reason why those students in Perumbai are learning English and French. While these Indian students are practicing and absorbing languages and acculturating themselves to the West, the West is actively closing off students to different languages and cultural contexts. For example, French and Japanese were cut
Because of Westernization and colonization, many students feel disconnected from their cultural roots and communities through their schooling. (Alec Cowan)
almost entirely from the curriculum. The University of Oregon is dealing with the same issue: Romance Languages are expected to get a huge cut next year. When schools face budget cuts, languages are among the lowest priority. Not to say that I am ungrateful for the education I was given, but understanding that the world is bigger than the west is key to understanding the world at large. This is especially important to people of color or people who aren’t White Americans. When people of color feel their roots in their education, they are more likely to participate and succeed. A study from Johns Hopkins University shows that low-income Black students are 29 percent more likely to graduate if they have at least one Black teacher in grade school. For very lowincome Black students, the chances of dropping out fell 39 percent if they have one Black teacher in third-fifth grade. In Oregon, 36.6 percent of K-12 students were culturally or linguistically diverse, but only 10.2 percent of teachers were culturally or linguistically diverse. There is an obvious gap here that could be detrimental to diverse students. In 2014, Oregon saw a 52 percent graduation rate of nonnative English speakers and a 54 percent graduation rate of Native American students. “The best defense for a country is a highly educated populace,� Subramani said. “But when that becomes out of reach for everybody, the American dream becomes the American nightmare.� What Oregon needs to do is to invest in diverse students trying to become teachers. In the past 30 years, Oregon has increased its minority population from 6 percent to 22 percent and it’s only getting bigger. The state needs to offer opportunities to diverse students because the opportunities have always been limited. Offer scholarships, state funding and investment to people of color. It’s time to invest in diversity.
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With summer just around the corner, the weather is starting to heat up. This means making the switch from hot to cold drinks, and for those over 21, celebrating the sunshine with alcoholic beverages. This list has cold drink recipes that will keep you cool in the hot days on the horizon, whether you are at a barbecue, an end of the year party or just spending a casual Saturday afternoon in the sun.
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