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Volume 72 Number 5
Samford University
Birmingham, Alabama
October 29, 1987
Students can expect less aid
By Dee Fowler
Staff Reporter
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Students can expect more cuts in
federal financial assistance, Steve
Danford, director of the Samford
financial aid office, said.
Danford said a number of pro¬
grams from the state were cut this
past year. He said a $100,000
decrease in Alabama Student
Assistance Program and cutbacks in
the work-study program are some
of the most hard-hit areas.
The number of Alabama State
Grants awarded could also slightly
decrease next year because all
upper-division colleges will share in
the state grant funds, Danford said.
However, students receiving a Na¬
tional Direct Student Loan had a
small increase for this school year.
Danford said, “Federal funds are
the main source of available funds.”
He blames the cutbacks on the
general attitude of the Reagan ad¬
ministration toward student finan¬
cial aid programs.
Seventy-five to 80 percent of Sam¬
ford students receive some type of
financial assistance. Many of these
students depend on the grants, loans
and work-study programs from the
federal and state government to at¬
tend school.
“I’m really dependent on having
financial aid," said freshman
Michelle Matthews. “It would be a
great hindrance to me in trying to
find a way to meet financial costs if
my assistance was cut.”
Don Belcher, dean of admissions
and financial aid, said that financial
aid changes each year. “It’s hard to
know exactly what the picture will
be for next year,” Belcher said.
He said that he expects some
moderate changes, but feels the
overall outlook is pretty stable.
Belcher looks for students receiv¬
ing financial aid now to continue get¬
ting the same amount, although
more students and their families will
have to pass a “need test.” Belcher
said that approximately $8-10
million dollars were given out for the
1986-87 academic year, much of
that coming from federal, state, in¬
stitutional and private funds. “We
will do our best to meet the need of
students who apply for aid,” Belcher
said. One program that Belcher
recommends for students to look at
as a means of financial aid is the
cooperative education program
which is administered through the
Career Planning and Development
Center.
Belcher said, “I can say that any
student that applies early and
qualifies for aid can have much of
their needs met.”
‘Students need to realize that the
majority of decisions of who gets
what and how much are mandated
by outside sources. We are ad¬
ministrators who administer so¬
meone else’s policies,’ Danford said.
photo by Bob Blake
Pat Eddins, a junior pre-med major from Hueytown, makes a tackle
in the Oct. 24 football game.
Winning SU football team
ineligible for NCAA title
By Mike Manning
News Editor
After dashing off to a 5- 1 start, the
Samford University football team
has run into a brick wall of sorts. The
brick wall being the National Col¬
legiate Athletic Association
rulebook.
No matter how well the Bulldogs
do this season, the team cannot
compete for the Division III national
championship. The team, for that
matter, cannot contend as long as
it is classified as Division III.
“If I were somewhere else I’d say
it’s a good rule,” Coach Terry
Bowden said.
Bowden said the rule was design¬
ed to protect the make-up of Divi¬
sion III and the smaller school’s in
the division.
“We have known about this rule
for four years we have never had any
reason to worry about it until now,"
Bob Blake, assistant athletic direc¬
tor, said.
According to Bylaw 10 of the
NCAA Directory of Rules and
1 Regulations that was adopted in
January 1984, “A member of Divi¬
sion 1 that is classified in Division III
in football shall not be eligible for the
National Collegiate Division III Na¬
tional Championship.”
The regulation also states “an in-
Please see Football page 2
Having it "maid"
“Econo Dorm" residents have fringe benefits
By Trea Johnson
Staff Reporter
“I wouldn’t move back on cam¬
pus unless they put me in Beeson
Woods,” Garry Rhett said. Rhett is
a freshman who is currently
residing in Samford’s newest
dorm— the EconoLodge on
Greensprings Highway.
For the second consecutive year,
Samford housing facilities have
been unable to accommodate the
overflow of students wishing to live
on campus— and for the second
year in a row, students have been
housed off-campus in a hotel.
“We have grown much more
than anyone has expected," Tim
Henson, housing director, said.
This unexpected growth has
made many of the 24 men living in
the “Econo-Dorm” happy in¬
dividuals. With cable television,
wake-up calls, a daily continental
breakfast and maid service, the
short drive to campus does not
'We never had
maids or cable on
campus.'
Steve Martin
"< Econo Dorm" resident
seem so bad.
“The rooms are nice and
everything works,” “Econo- Dorm"
resident Mark Busby said, “and the
maid service makes up for the gas
I use going to and from campus."
A shuttle service was offered by
the university at the beginning of
the year, but due to lack of riders,
it was canceled. Now, those few
students who live at the “Econo-
Dorm” and do not have cars car-
pool with others who do.
Scott Yurchuck, a sophomore
business major and a member of
the football team, does not have
many complaints. “The only bad
thing is not being able to walk to
class.”
Unlike those students who lived
in the Quality Inn last year, “Econo-
Dorm” residents don’t feel they
have been jilted by Samford.
This year, everyone who was go¬
ing to be put in temporary housing
was notified before school began
and was given the options of stay¬
ing at the EconoLodge, living off
campus or waiting until the spring
semester to begin class.
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All students who opted to stay at
“Econo-Dorm” were given a $100
rebate on the cost of housing, Heb-
son said.
Senior Steve Martin said he is
satisfied with his present living ar¬
rangement. “We never had maids
or cable on campus.” The hotel is
patrolled nightly by Samford
security and a resident assistant is
there most of the time. Samford
students take up about 12 rooms in
the EconoLodge which is across
from Zayre on Greensprings
Highway.
Fall Carnival raised funds for summer missions
By Rachel Hawks and Mike Manning
Staff Reporters
For three hours Tuesday night, Samford students, faculty
and administration, as well as members of neighboring com¬
munities, joined to help a program that most know little
about.
Campus Ministries held their 1987 Fall Carnival to help
raise the necessary funds that would allow students to take
the gospel of Jesus Christ across the world. Carnival co-
chairman Beth Taulman said the majority of people have no
idea the money raised is for summer missions.
“The thing that I keep wanting to put first is the idea that
the whole carnival is for summer missions. That’s what the
money goes for,” Taulman said. “But there’s a lot of people
that think that fall carnival (money) goes for each individual
organization.”
The Fall Carnival is the largest fund raiser for Campus
Ministries, raising close to $2,000 each year. The money rais¬
ed is sent to the Home Mission Board, through the Alabama
State Baptist Student Union, to help finance summer
missions.
Under the direction of Taulman, co-chairman Mark
Thomas and Ginny Bridges, the director of Campus
Ministries, many campus groups and organizations, frater¬
nities and sororities, and local churches participate in the
Fall Carnival, sponsoring a booth to raise money.
Those who visited this year’s carnival, which was held on
the tennis court parking lot and in Bashinsky Fieldhouse, saw
workers in almost 45 booths conducting everything from bake
'This is the one time that all the
organizations can come together and
work for a common purpose and not
be in competition.'
Beth Taulman
Co-chairman of
Fall Carnival
sales to slave auctions.
Booths were run by groups like Alpha Phi Omega, Gam¬
ma Sigma Phi and Circle K, the campus service organiza¬
tions. A mudwrestling “arena,” a pizza booth and others were
sponsored by various fraternities and sororities.
While students rappelled off Seibert Gymnasium with the
Outdoor Recreation team, the freshman class sponsored a
booth from which a student could win a trip to Acapulco or
a trip to Gatlinburg in a raffle. The trips were donated by
Adventure Travel.
After all of the fun, games, prizes and good food were gone,
the benefits from Fall Carnival were not seen by all who par¬
ticipated, but for those who serve as summer missionaries,
the evening produced many blessings.
Thomas said last summer, Samford sent more than 50
summer missionaries all over the world. The ones the car¬
nival helps support are the ones that go through the Home
Mission Board and the state BSU.
Taulman and Thomas have both served as summer mis¬
sionaries, but could not have made the trips had it not been
for events much like the Fall Carnival to help meet expenses.
“They spent $700 alone on me in travel money,” Thomas
said, “so the total cost of a summer missionary could be as
much as $1,500.”
Two years ago, Taulman worked as a summer missionary
in the Pacific Northwest for 10 weeks. ^
“I was part of a four-member revival team that traveled to
10 different cities, a different city each week.”
“Summer missions requires a lot of giving of yourself; a
lot of flexibility,” Taulman said, “and it requires you to be what
that area needs you to be— what those people in that par¬
ticular state need you to be at that time. You can’t really
measure what it is you get back from that."
“I think summer missions is one of the best programs that
a college student can get involved with for their own personal
growth,” Thomas said.
Taulman said she hoped everyone realizes the long-term
effect that the money raised at the Carnival will have on others
as it helps send a college student to someplace so that 20
kids might hear the gospel of Christ.
“This is the one time that all the organizations can come
together and work for a common purpose and not be in com¬
petition with each other," Taulman said. “I think that sum¬
mer missions is a very worthwhile thing to bring us together
like that and this year we’ve done a good job of publicizing
that this money is for summer missions.”
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