Originally Posted by janmcn (Post 900212)

One possible solution suggested has been to lower the interest rate to the same as what banks are paying or the same rate as mortgages and allow students to refinance their loans at the lower rates. This would allow students to pay off their loans quicker.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 900070)

Most of the Philosophy fellow majors I knew while at the University of Nevada, Reno went into Law or something related to Law (like me AS A VOLUNTEER though with my 613 224 project) or wanted to get a Ph.D and teach Philosophy to college students. One around 1980-1981 got himself into some very serious trouble by attempting to seduce a married woman. The jealous husband stabbed him in the heart area about six times and THEN the jury sided with the jealous husband in terms of crimes of passion. He was back attracted to married women the last I encountered him so I kind of wanted to keep my distance. Never did find out what happened to him but he sure had a great laugh when I was sitting with him at the Raiders of the Lost Ark R.I.P. stuntman Terry Richards, the swordsman from Raiders Of The Lost Ark · Newswire · The A.V. Club and Indiana shot the huge knife welder. Some of the Law Students at the University of Minnesota were Philosophy majors. More were Accounting or Business majors though.

I did feel like I had to get a MA and a JD to find work though. Too bad I faced such problems trying to be honest about problems I found in the accessibility of practical materials for survivors of crimes! I had the Law Librarian of Congress-- M. Kathleen Price-- as a Reference in 1990 and early 1991. Then I got hit with the response from the U of MN Law Library that I should see a University of MN psychologist for my wanting to be honest with EMPLOYERS OTHER than the U of MN about my experiences looking for practical materials in libraries from February 1976 onward. I am just trying to paint the picture of why I have had such problems using my 4 degrees and possible give people an idea of how they can help. I wrote ALL the sitting State governors in 1991 as well as half the US Representatives, ALL the US Senators, some Law Librarians, some Law Professors, and a few others. All of this done from Dinkytown near the U of MN and then from Rohnert Park, CA in late Summer through December of 1991. This was about my experiences with trying to do something about this niche basically just going from my personal experiences with the Michelle Mitchell investigation (2-24-1976 murder-Google it). The U of MN and some other institutions seemed to make the whole problem of this niche about my mental health, rather than addressing the actual issue of this niche in practical information. Since, I could not find employment after all this, I tried to do it through enlisting an army outside of the institutes of higher education as well as some within it. One of these resources was Hollywood and people connected to it as I thought there were a lot of people in Hollywood who could step into the shoes of other people. This complete lack of empathy seemed be the huge problem with many in the troubles I faced.

Again, I hope that this will help with getting people to help themselves. Do some research on the web. If you became a survivor/victim of violent or other kinds of crimes, what would you like to see accessible in libraries of all kinds? What would you like your grandkids to have access to if something happens to them? Of course, there are various victim/witness programs in place, but what about someone thinking of reporting a crime, affected by crimes in some way like me and the 2-24 murder investigation, etc.

The University of Minnesota Law School professors did teach me to get anything important in writing and carefully document everything.

And, I hope you see why this in still important in June 2014 with the various shootings, stabbings, etc. at schools and elsewhere. They will and have created people trying to navigate through the same kind of feelings, emotions, etc., that I had with the Michelle Mitchell investigation back around 2-24-1976. From my experiences, I doubt seriously if much has changed in these institutions. I could be wrong though. I would not have lasted this long in this fight without being a rather blind optimist.

Incidentally, I ran into a Philosophy professor from the University of Nevada, Reno-- Frank Lucash-- after I played hooky from the American Association of Law Libraries AALL 1989 convention in Reno, Nevada. I had been introduced as the cataloger of all the WESTLAW files as of a certain date by the University of Minnesota Law Library staff. I wanted to take a long walk around Reno, NV and found myself at the same theater where I had seen Raiders of the Lost Ark back in 1981. This time I was going to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and walking out of the theater was Professor Frank Lucash. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Rotten Tomatoes

I saw the 2nd Indiana Jones movie in Denver in 1984 while at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management with an adorable Chinese-American female MA Librarianship program colleague who just about crushed my hand from watching the movie. I believe she married her long time friend from the University of California Santa Barbara who was a budding screenwriter. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Rotten Tomatoes I always check the screen credits for his name whenever seeing a movie.