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Campus Pulse How would you be affected by financial aid cuts?
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“If I lost my financial aid I wouldn’t be in school anymore. All of my education is paid for with
scholarships and grants. I’d have to take out some major loans if I wanted to stay in school, either that
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or join the Army. That would make me so angry.”
— Julianna Weldon, biochemistry freshman stealing
“I’m currently not receiving any financial aid because I’m able to afford my first two years. After those two
years, if I couldn’t get any financial aid don’t know how I would be able to pay for school. I don’t want any
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scholarships or grants to be cut.”
— Kassie Shanafelt, pre-communication disorders sophomore
“I’d have to find an alternative way to pay for school if I couldn’t get financial aid. Right now I’m receiving
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loans, so the only other way I could possibly be funded would be for me to ask someone else. If I couldn’t
afford to pay for school I’d probably just have to wait to enroll until I could.”
— Courtney Lueders, exercise and sports science senior By Caitlin Clark
Assistant Opinions Editor
one laughed.)
This initiative to lower costs
to life after graduation Don’t mind if I do.
A Feb. 10 University Star ar-
ticle brought to my attention
is due to expected cuts to public By Amy Degnan sics of our free market system. that a simple Firefox plug-in
university funding. An article in Guest Columnist The FINRA Investor Education Foun- called Firesheep can give
The Austin American-Statesman dation found that 36 percent of respon- someone the ability to take
reported public university’s
budgets would be cut 7.7 percent,
and the House’s proposed budget
I t’s no secret that money is tight. Ask
any student at Texas State, or any
university. Ask the legislature. Ask the
dents did not know the interest rate on
the credit card they used most. A simple
request by phone can lower your interest
control of another person’s
social media site over unen-
crypted wireless networks.
would cut spending on the TEXAS federal government. rate by up to 3 percent if in your account My first thought: Time to
grant, the state’s main financial One of the biggest problems facing is in good standing. In the Gallup-HOPE shine.
aid program, by 41 percent. Americans at all levels involves financial Financial Literacy Index, Gallup suggests The prospect of being able
The Statesman reported Perry literacy. Did you know that more than that although government statistics pin to stalk to my heart’s content
suggests including “online class- half of all Americans are living paycheck- the unemployment rate above the 10 on the Facebook and Twitter
By Chip Wozniak es, classes at no-frills campuses, to-paycheck? A total of 24 percent of all percent mark, the real percentage of un- profiles of students using Tex-
Opinions Columnist credit for prior learning,” and oth- Americans in the last five years are en- employed Americans is probably closer as State’s open wireless net-
er elements as a means to achieve gaged in some form of higher cost, non- to 20 percent. work sounded great at first.
what do
results could be life-ruining.
To prevent this from hap-
pening, anyone and everyone
?
using wireless Internet on
64% D
Overview” webpage on the
university website.
Becoming aware of the
Which Wi-Fi network do you problem and learning how to
use the encrypted network
use on campus? will help, but it is not enough.
The risks of using the unen-
crypted network need to be
made clearer. A simple flier
campaign around campus
could alert users to the dan-
gers of Firesheep. Or even
better, university officials
should send out yet another
18% 18% campus-wide e-mail to get
the word out. Granted, most
students probably don’t read
98 percent of the university
e-mails flooding their inboxes
every day, but it would be a
TexasStateUniversity TexasStateWPA I don’t use Wi-Fi start until the IT Department
can implement or secure
NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION: more of the wireless network
across campus.
What type of financial aid do you receive?
— Caitlin Clark is a
pre-mass communication
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Vote online at UniversityStar.com freshman