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Volume CVI, Number 29
University of Southern California
Tuesday, February 23, 1988
MEG EISENBERG DAILY TROJAN
DANCIN’ MAN — As his hat tumbles to the ground and music blasts from a nearby boom box, rap performer “Mr. Animator” dances Monday before a Hahn Plaza crowd of about 100 people.
Financial aid eligibility changes as university costs hit $20,000
By Karen Denne
Staff Writer
Changes in the financial aid process this year will likely lead to more state and federal aid for students, said a financial aid official who spoke Monday in a workshop titled, “Worried About Paying For College?"
Mary Hausauer, an assistant director of client services of financial aid, explained several subtle changes in this year's state aid application that will help students who are California residents receive more Cal Grant and federal Pell Grant funds.
When interviewed after the workshop, Hausauer also revealed an estimate of the university's projected price tag for the 1988-89 academic year — including a total cost that for some students will eclipse the $20,000 mark for the first time.
The Office of Financial Aid will base packages
for the 1988-89 year on the following projected undergraduate budget figures, according to Hausauer: for students who commute to the university, $16,676; for students who pay for university housing and meals, $19,568; and for students who live in private apartments, $20,032.
Hausauer's program detailed how the new' aid eligibility guidelines, which are currently in effect, will influence how much government money that students are granted for this fall's studies.
One change this year is that the university has abandoned its own guidelines that determine a student's state of dependency and has adopted more lenient federal guidelines. This change should allow more students to be eligible for aid, Hausauer said.
"In the past, USC had more stringent requirements," she said.
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Life extension foundation says death can have a ‘chilling’ effect
By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
Death is not final. At least that is the hope of the nearly 100 members of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside.
Alcor is a group involved in cryonics, the freezing of human bodies in the hope that scientists will someday have the technology needed to revive them and cure them of the ailments that killed them.
There are currently seven heads and one body frozen at the Alcor facility'.
Foundation members pay yearly dues of $200 to attend monthly meetings and receive the foundation's newsletter. Students receive a $100 discount.
When members die, they are frozen in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius, in hopes that they can be revived by advanced scientific techniques in the future.
The actual freezing or "suspension" of a body costs $100,000 and the suspension of only the head costs S35,000. The fee can often be paid through agreements with life insurance companies or through special trust funds established in advance.
Max O'Conner, a graduate student in philosophy, has been an Alcor member for two years. He said most people react to the idea with "bewilderment as to (Continued on page 17)
Local magnet school offers arts education as option for students
Jackie Ching
Staff Writer
Manv of the children who attend 32nd Street School — located in the shadow of Shrine Auditorium — say they are there by choice, because at their young ages they already have a strong sense of personal goals.
Eighth-grader N’eia Banks says she wants to pursue a career in dance. In fact, she knows exactly w'here she would like to go to college — and it's not here.
"USC is expensive and I hear you don't get the kind of education you pay for," she said.
Her top choices are UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, both of which she has visited. She likes Berkeley because "it has a strong academic program.''
Eduardo Becenil, a Spanish teacher who is a graduate student a*t USC, said, "Our students know they want to be here and they know they have to behave to stay here. We have no drug or gang problems."
The children's maturity may stem from the school's reportedly progressive methods of teaching and their teachers' philosophies about learning. The magnet school follows a program of integration and emphasizes the visual and performing arts. The arts are a central part of the students' curriculum, not just a supplement.
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GILMORE MARA DAILY TROJAN
Derrfth Young, a fourth-grade teacher, has a one-on-one reading session with student Jessica Hutton. The 32nd Street School offers personal instruction in topics from music to computer art.
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