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First year Inez White learned last Monday, Nov. 5 that she owed Illinois Wesleyan University $800 by Thursday, Nov. 8, or the ad-ministration would put a hold on her registration. White, who had received a book voucher to pay for her ex-pensive chemistry and Spanish textbooks, knew she had to pay back the money eventually. What surprised her was that she had to do it so suddenly. “On Monday morning, I got a call from my mom. She told me that she had called the Business Office for an unrelated reason, and they told her that I owed the school $800 by Thursday” White said. “I didn’t receive any notice beforehand that I had to pay the voucher back so quickly.” IWU had sent notices to the Chicago address they had on file about her need to pay off the voucher. There was only one problem: all of the mail was sent to the wrong address. “I changed addresses due to a family situation and went to go live my mom” White said. “IWU sent nearly all of my mail to the new address, but they were send-ing the financial mail to my old address.” White did not receive any email notification of the fact that she needed to pay back the voucher. A search of her email account turned up no notices from either the Fi-nancial Aid Office or Business Of-fice on the matter. But that’s not what mystified White the most. “I handle everything about my finances” said White, a first-generation college student. “Why would they send information to Chicago when they could have sent it right to my mailbox in Dolan? I mean, it’s right across the street.” At the root of the problem, says White, isn’t the fact that she need-ed to pay back the voucher sooner than expected. It was the lack of information she received regard-ing her financial aid package. “A good majority of students on financial aid who I talked to don’t understand their package, especially first-years,” White said. Junior Josefina Banales is fa-miliar with White’s situation. “What’s frustrating is when no one can explain to me what’s hap-pening with my account” Banales said. “One time, I was up $2000, then next time I checked, I was down $800. No one in the Busi-ness Office could articulate to me what happened.” Banales, like White, is also a first-generation college student, and she feels IWU needs to pay more attention to this growing de-mographic. Though IWU does not keep official statistics, the Admissions Office asks incoming students to mark whether or not they are first-generation college students on their IWU application. Accord-ing to Dean of Admissions Tony Bankston, 19 percent of the Class of 2013 marked that their parents had not attended college, while 26 percent of the Class of 2016 did the same. “While this question does not guarantee that each of these stu-dents is truly ‘first generation,’ I think it is safe to assume that we have seen an increase in both our number and percentage of likely first-generation students,” Bankston said. Associate Dean of Student Af-fairs Darcy Greder also noticed the rise in number of first-gener-ation college students. “For the first time this year, Resident Assistant training in-cluded a seminar on first-genera-tion college students” Greder said. “We’ve done a good job diversify-ing our campus along ethnic lines, but we’re still working on diver-sifying it along socioeconomic lines as well. And with that comes growing pains.” Another first-generation col-lege student, a junior who wished to remain anonymous, understood. “Sometimes I get an email that tells me I need to pay more mon-ey. When I go to Holmes to figure out why, I bounce back and forth between the Financial Aid Office and the Business Office with no real resolution. This has happened every semester I’ve been here.” Much of the frustration stems from students feeling shuttled be-tween the Business Office and the Financial Aid Office. Though the two departments communicate, they handle dif-ferent aspects of IWU finance. The Business Office deals with the billing of a student, while the Financial Aid Office tries to find ways for students to acquire loans or a work study position. FEATURES, P. 8 SPORTS, BACK PAGE Miscommunication hinders financial literacy Fall sports round-up Two viewpoints on Obama’s victory OPINIONS, P11 SEE FINANCIAL AID P. 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF MARC FEATHERLY blogs.iwu.edu/argus/ Volume 119 | Issue 9 November 9, 2012 World champion Judah Friedlander NICK DESIDERI NEWS EDITOR The Student Awareness Events Commission is present-ing two major events on campus next week. On Monday, Nov. 12, the Commission and Feminism: Equality Matters (F:EM) are bringing nationally-recognized speaker Jaclyn Friedman to Hansen at 7 p.m. Friedman is a founder and the Executive Di-rector of Women, Action and the Media, as well as an advo-cate for women’s rights on cam-puses across the country. The event is entitled “What You Really Really Want: How to Pursue a Real Sexuality in the Real World.” It includes an introductory talk, Q&A session and meeting with campus lead-ers. F:EM member Christina Palutsis points out the impor-tance of hosting discussions about consent on college cam-puses. “This isn’t an issue that a lot of people address, so I think it is important to have someone on campus who will talk about these issues,” Palutsis said. Friedman’s talk kicks off a busy week for the Awareness Events Commission, which is also hosting the second annual IWU Next Talk on Thursday, Nov. 15 in the Hansen Student Center at 7 p.m. In a similar format to TED talks, IWU Next gives speakers a platform to address issues fac-ing our campus. TED is a national conference promoting “ideas worth spread-ing,” and IWU is putting its own spin on the event through IWU Next. The speakers are drawn from various groups around campus and will each deliver an original five to 10 minute speech. “I think IWU Next is a phe-nomenal event that lets stu-dents, faculty, and staff come together and discuss topics they are truly passionate about,” Stu-dent Senate President Rachel Paturi said. The event includes speeches from Senior Class President Teddy Delicath, Professor Mi-chael Weis of the History De-partment and Director of the Wesleyan Fund Jeff Mavros, as well as from various student leaders. Because of IWU Next’s open structure, speakers have a lot of flexibility to talk to the campus. Event organizer and Aware-ness Events Commissioner Danny Kenny said, “I am re-ally excited about IWU Next as I believe it is going to offer the exact kind of liberal arts education that IWU prides itself on. We have a diverse group of speakers that are all experts in their own right, and I hope our campus takes advantage of what is sure to be an enlightening ex-perience.” Speakers seek to raise social awareness KATIE ROSE BROSNAN STAFF REPORTER “It’s convenient that the Financial Aid Office and the Business Office are both in Holmes” said Seibring
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Full Text | First year Inez White learned last Monday, Nov. 5 that she owed Illinois Wesleyan University $800 by Thursday, Nov. 8, or the ad-ministration would put a hold on her registration. White, who had received a book voucher to pay for her ex-pensive chemistry and Spanish textbooks, knew she had to pay back the money eventually. What surprised her was that she had to do it so suddenly. “On Monday morning, I got a call from my mom. She told me that she had called the Business Office for an unrelated reason, and they told her that I owed the school $800 by Thursday” White said. “I didn’t receive any notice beforehand that I had to pay the voucher back so quickly.” IWU had sent notices to the Chicago address they had on file about her need to pay off the voucher. There was only one problem: all of the mail was sent to the wrong address. “I changed addresses due to a family situation and went to go live my mom” White said. “IWU sent nearly all of my mail to the new address, but they were send-ing the financial mail to my old address.” White did not receive any email notification of the fact that she needed to pay back the voucher. A search of her email account turned up no notices from either the Fi-nancial Aid Office or Business Of-fice on the matter. But that’s not what mystified White the most. “I handle everything about my finances” said White, a first-generation college student. “Why would they send information to Chicago when they could have sent it right to my mailbox in Dolan? I mean, it’s right across the street.” At the root of the problem, says White, isn’t the fact that she need-ed to pay back the voucher sooner than expected. It was the lack of information she received regard-ing her financial aid package. “A good majority of students on financial aid who I talked to don’t understand their package, especially first-years,” White said. Junior Josefina Banales is fa-miliar with White’s situation. “What’s frustrating is when no one can explain to me what’s hap-pening with my account” Banales said. “One time, I was up $2000, then next time I checked, I was down $800. No one in the Busi-ness Office could articulate to me what happened.” Banales, like White, is also a first-generation college student, and she feels IWU needs to pay more attention to this growing de-mographic. Though IWU does not keep official statistics, the Admissions Office asks incoming students to mark whether or not they are first-generation college students on their IWU application. Accord-ing to Dean of Admissions Tony Bankston, 19 percent of the Class of 2013 marked that their parents had not attended college, while 26 percent of the Class of 2016 did the same. “While this question does not guarantee that each of these stu-dents is truly ‘first generation,’ I think it is safe to assume that we have seen an increase in both our number and percentage of likely first-generation students,” Bankston said. Associate Dean of Student Af-fairs Darcy Greder also noticed the rise in number of first-gener-ation college students. “For the first time this year, Resident Assistant training in-cluded a seminar on first-genera-tion college students” Greder said. “We’ve done a good job diversify-ing our campus along ethnic lines, but we’re still working on diver-sifying it along socioeconomic lines as well. And with that comes growing pains.” Another first-generation col-lege student, a junior who wished to remain anonymous, understood. “Sometimes I get an email that tells me I need to pay more mon-ey. When I go to Holmes to figure out why, I bounce back and forth between the Financial Aid Office and the Business Office with no real resolution. This has happened every semester I’ve been here.” Much of the frustration stems from students feeling shuttled be-tween the Business Office and the Financial Aid Office. Though the two departments communicate, they handle dif-ferent aspects of IWU finance. The Business Office deals with the billing of a student, while the Financial Aid Office tries to find ways for students to acquire loans or a work study position. FEATURES, P. 8 SPORTS, BACK PAGE Miscommunication hinders financial literacy Fall sports round-up Two viewpoints on Obama’s victory OPINIONS, P11 SEE FINANCIAL AID P. 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF MARC FEATHERLY blogs.iwu.edu/argus/ Volume 119 | Issue 9 November 9, 2012 World champion Judah Friedlander NICK DESIDERI NEWS EDITOR The Student Awareness Events Commission is present-ing two major events on campus next week. On Monday, Nov. 12, the Commission and Feminism: Equality Matters (F:EM) are bringing nationally-recognized speaker Jaclyn Friedman to Hansen at 7 p.m. Friedman is a founder and the Executive Di-rector of Women, Action and the Media, as well as an advo-cate for women’s rights on cam-puses across the country. The event is entitled “What You Really Really Want: How to Pursue a Real Sexuality in the Real World.” It includes an introductory talk, Q&A session and meeting with campus lead-ers. F:EM member Christina Palutsis points out the impor-tance of hosting discussions about consent on college cam-puses. “This isn’t an issue that a lot of people address, so I think it is important to have someone on campus who will talk about these issues,” Palutsis said. Friedman’s talk kicks off a busy week for the Awareness Events Commission, which is also hosting the second annual IWU Next Talk on Thursday, Nov. 15 in the Hansen Student Center at 7 p.m. In a similar format to TED talks, IWU Next gives speakers a platform to address issues fac-ing our campus. TED is a national conference promoting “ideas worth spread-ing,” and IWU is putting its own spin on the event through IWU Next. The speakers are drawn from various groups around campus and will each deliver an original five to 10 minute speech. “I think IWU Next is a phe-nomenal event that lets stu-dents, faculty, and staff come together and discuss topics they are truly passionate about,” Stu-dent Senate President Rachel Paturi said. The event includes speeches from Senior Class President Teddy Delicath, Professor Mi-chael Weis of the History De-partment and Director of the Wesleyan Fund Jeff Mavros, as well as from various student leaders. Because of IWU Next’s open structure, speakers have a lot of flexibility to talk to the campus. Event organizer and Aware-ness Events Commissioner Danny Kenny said, “I am re-ally excited about IWU Next as I believe it is going to offer the exact kind of liberal arts education that IWU prides itself on. We have a diverse group of speakers that are all experts in their own right, and I hope our campus takes advantage of what is sure to be an enlightening ex-perience.” Speakers seek to raise social awareness KATIE ROSE BROSNAN STAFF REPORTER “It’s convenient that the Financial Aid Office and the Business Office are both in Holmes” said Seibring |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |