The Banner - May 15, 1981

              May 15, 1981
California Baptist College
Riverside, Ca.
Grubb Clarifies New
Financial Aid Cuts
by Willie Tinsley
A special meeting was held
Monday for CBC students to
inform, explain, advise, and
encourage them on what to
expect and how to cope with the
cuts in financial aid.
Walt Grubb, presented factual
highlights of President Reagan's
proposed cuts in government
spending for education. He
pointed out that some 75,000
college students will be effected
in the first phase of the cuts, and
675,000 will be phased out by
1983.
Pell Grants, NDSL, GSL and
SSL are targeted for cuts. Loans
will be based on the needs of the
applicant.
Reagan's proposed cuts will
total a savings of 636 million,
however, the budget is still under
consideration. Grubb said that
students are looking at a 10-40
percent cut equaling approximately $250 per individual.
The maximum award will be
$1,750.   GSL interest rates may
begin 60 days after the loan
instead of six months.
Change in Verteran's Insurance loans will be repaid with
5 percent interest.
Parent loans, will be cut and
the present interest rate invoked.
Note, this system is not yet in
California.
Those 225,000 students
receiving Social Security benefits
will be cut 25% next year, and
the same for the next three years.
What can you do? Apply for
guaranteed student loans this
summer, get summer work, and
spend less. Prioritize, Grubb
added.
Applicants for the Guaranteed
Student Loans should have their
application in to the Manhattan
Bank by June 1 and Bank of
America by July 1.
For possible help, write a letter
of petition to Congressman
George Brown and other
legislators.
Allen, Swartz To Address
CBC Graduation Exercises
Dr. Jimmy Allen, head of the
Southern Baptist Radio and
Television Commission, will be
keynote speaker at the CBC
Commencement excercises,
Saturday, June 6.
Dr. Allen heads a commission
that is the world's largest
producer of religious
programming for broadcast on
public service time. "It is a rare
privilege to have a man of such
high caliber and such far-
reaching influence to challenge
the minds of the California
Baptist College graduating
class," states CBC President
James Staples.
Dr. Allen assumed the
leadership of the commission
after 12 years as pastor of the
historic First Baptist Church of
San Antonio. Dr. Allen has
committed himself to leading
Southern Baptists to accelerate
the total evangelistic and ethical
issues ministry through the
.media.
The exercises, open to the
public and free of charge, will
begin at 6 p.m. on the front lawn
of the campus located at 8432
Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.
Dr. Jimmy Allen
John Swartz
Baccalaureate services at
California Baptist College will be
held Friday, June 5 at 7 p.m.
John Swartz, pastor of the Bethel
Baptist Church in Escondido, will
be the keynote speaker, according
to Dr. James Staples, college
• president.
The services to be held at
Magnolia Avenue Baptist
Church, 8351 Magnolia Avenue,
are open to the public.
According to president Staples,
Swartz has attended Rice
University and Texas A&M. He is
a graduate of Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary
where he earned his bachelor of
divinity, master of religious
education and a master of
divinity degree. He is currently
completing the requirements for
the doctor of ministry degree to
be awarded by Golden Gate
Baptist Theological Seminary.
Swartz has distinguished
himself in several areas of
Southern Baptist life. He has
served as pastor of churches in
Texas, Minnesota, Missouri and
California.
Howard Is New
PIC Director
RIVERSIDE—Charles Howard
will join the staff of the Office of
Public Affairs early in May according to Dr. James R. Staples,
President of California Baptist
College in Riverside, California.
Howard will direct the newly
created Public Information
Center. His primary duty will be
to coordinate news releases and
information distributed to the
media and to work on
publications generated on
campus. He will develop a public
relations strategy for the college.
In accepting the position,
Howard stated, "I feel God has
been preparing me for this
position for most of my working
career." His first day on campus
will be May 14.
Mr. Howard will bring a wide
variety of experiences related to
public relations and communications to his new post. He
has taught public secondary
school as well as extension courses
in communications to
professional educators through
Cal Lutheran College and the
University of California at Santa
Barbara.
Mr. Howard, a graduate of
Oklahoma Baptist University,
will be working closely with Dr.
Jay Chance, Vice President of
Public Affairs. Howard obtained
added schooling in various
California     universities     and
colleges after he was released
from active duty as a commissioned officer in the U.S.
Marine Corps.
Howard is a member of the
Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers and the
International Animated Film
Society (ASIFA Hollywood).
Mrs. Howard will join her
husband in Riverside in late June
after their son Mark, 16 years of
age, finishes the school term.
Tim Howard, their 20-year-old
son, will remain in Ventura to
replace his father as Director of
Howard Visuals.
Creosote To
Pup Fish
by Margaret Thackeray
Mr. Roth's Ecology class spent
the weekend of May 1 in Death
Valley witnessing for themselves
the amazing contrasts God has
created in this area. The purpose
of the trip was to see the various
communities, from creosote bush
to pup fish, that the students
have been studying.
On Friday at 9:00 a.m., four
vans loaded with passengers, cots
and supplies left CBC campus.
They returned with passengers
exhausted, cots dirty and supplies
diminished on Saturday at
midnight.
The group's first stop of Friday
was Randsburg, an almost
deserted town near Death Valley,
where they ate sack lunches
packed by the school's cafeteria.
They then drove on toward the
campsite, Mesquite Springs,
stopping along the way to see
such sights as the Sand Dunes,
Devil's Cornfield, and a 3000
year old volcano called Ubehebe.
Camping that night included
things such as eating canned stew
for dinner, sleeping on cots out
under the stars, and a bird
mistaking the hair of a sleeping
student for its nest.
Saturday included visiting a
castle in the middle of the desert
that was built in the 1920's,
stopping at Badwater, the lowest
point of elevation in the Western
Hemisphere and walking over the
1000 foot deep, jagged salt of
Devil's Golf Course.
"The drive home was long and
I got really sleepy," said Avis
Young, one of the drivers, "but
I'm really glad I went. Death
Valley is beautiful.''
"The trip was well worth it,"
says another student, "I would
like to go again next year.