European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes March a coif pinpoints flaws in student Loans is it needed How will it be spent will it be repaid Washington a medical and dental students have received a half billion dollars in government backed Edu cation Loans with Little concern for whether they need the what they spend it or whether it will be an audit besides the repayment the program has faced abuse at the borrowing end As according to the students have borrowed thousands under the program for such no educational purposes As airline tickets to new car divorce lawyers and traffic emergency management reforms have eased the immediate possibility that the loan program will go bankrupt this according to the internal released wednesday by the health and human services but further reforms Are needed by Congress and by the department to ensure the programs continued the audit the audit by has inspector general Richard Kusserow covers the health education assistance loan heal pro Gram of the Public health under which the government guarantees up to in education Loans for students in the health that Means the government promises to repay the Money if the student does College financial officers have shown Little concern for whether the Money is needed or whether it will be treat ing a loan As virtually an absolute right of medical Kusserow our work showed that students Gener ally could get a heal loan in any amount up to at any Kus Serow financial Aid officers told us they Felt they did not have the Legal right to deny a loan if a student requested loan officers also take Little interest in whether the loan is Likely to be Kusserow the application pro Cess does not consider the students total indebtedness or How much the student might earn following he for the audit a student borrowing at 12 percent interest and deferring payment for a year of medi Cal residency after graduation would face 25 years of payments of a but in Many students in the program carry or More in govern ment Loans from undergraduate school As Loans that were not even asked about when the medical loan was Mak ing it questionable whether payments can be Loans Are being approved even As Stu dents Are ready to the audit at one 74 of 529 borrowers obtained their Loans within three months of of the borrowed by those the audit Only was owed the in another the audit a Stu Dent was Given a loan Only two weeks before he dropped out of school and subsequently defaulted on Loans Bear Little relation to the audit at one a Check of 50 borrowers showed that 29 borrowed More than they spent and pocketed at the end of the school after their Tui fees and living expenses were de Loans were approved regardless of the academic status of the the audit of 50 Loans checked at one the audit 20 students got Loans of even though they carried less than a c average and were attending Only in one the audit a fifth year Sophomore borrowed to repeat his Only course one he had failed the previous the same student received in Loans the following year to re peat two courses which he had after Ivi years of flunking the student was dismissed from medical he now refuses to repay the the audit Secretary wish you were Send money7 Washington a education Secretary Wil Liam who recently took a swipe at extravagant student is getting some funny postcards from collegians spending Spring break on Florida Bennett told the National press club on wednesday that to Date Hes gotten a dozen postcards from Stu dents in fort with a typical message read ing dear Secretary Bennett wish you were the Sun is Send preferably not one of those things that takes six months from your depart stereo broke would appreciate you sending a bureaucrat Down with a said the education shows students not Only respond to their government and Are not intimidated by their government in the least this continues to be the freest of countries they even have a great sense of last a few Days after he took Bennett suggested some students could accommodate the billion in Aid cuts president Reagan is seeking by divestiture of certain sorts stereo Auto Mobile  divest that remark Drew angry responses from scores of College presidents and judge will reconsider rape Case because victim7 admits she lied the Odd couple a photo that not a Texas Flea perched atop the head of Scooter the its a Mississippi the Terry Cox family of Gulfport adopted the named after it was used in a school Bra face and the 2 year old family Pooch have become fast the coxes Chicago a a judge agreed wednesday to reconsider the Case of a Man he sentenced to prison for rape six years because the alleged victim now says she lied and never was the a new Hampshire Mother of has signed an affidavit stating that she lied when she said she was raped in 1977 by Gary this is the first time this has Ever happened in my circuit court judge Richard a judge for 17 told reporters shortly before Dotson Warren requested that the Case be recon Samuels in 1979 sentenced now to 25 to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of aggravated rape and largely on the testimony of the whose Maiden name was Cathleen then of suburban she is now and her attorney has declined to make Public her married Samuels agreed to consider new evidence in the including the woman at a hearing april Dotson who sat in the courtroom As the judge announced the hearing said her son says he still cant believe whenever we talk of he says the Way the system i dont know if ill Ever get out of she Dotson said her who never finished High would probably be working with his hands some possibly As a if he haunt been sent to Samuels said there was an awesome possibility that of suburban country club was wrongly he said i suppose no system is we have As Many safeguards As is humanly and priced rely Dotson accuser recently told her minister that she lied about the according to her John Mola in her the woman said that when she was she had sex in mid1977 with a teenage she said she was concerned about the consequences of my promiscuity and thought i was pregnant and therefore decided to claim i was i ripped my buttons off my scratched my body with a piece of pinched and bruised and did other things All to make it appear that i had been violently she she said she later identified Dotson As her attacker even though i had never to my knowledge seen him before in my Lupel and Mclario said investigators had talked with the Man who really had sex with the woman and he con firmed her new there is no Way he could have been convicted without her testimony and now he should be found innocent with the same Lupel after the Dotson told reporters she and her son have no animosity toward the Only toward the criminal Justice in just grateful Shes doing what Shes she but she said that Dotson is very angry with the system that went that Dotson said that when her son gets she will just talk to him All Day and just hug him and kiss writer of fedaration of War against Japan Dies a Edith Helene who wrote the declaration of War against Japan in has died she was Parker was working for Senate foreign relations com Mittee chairman Tom Connally of Texas when the Japa Nese attacked Pearl when the White House could not reach Connally to handle the Parker wrote using a world War i declaration As a Parker also worked for the Washington Herald and other