>.50 I. 99 > Over the wall THE BATTALION Page 9 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1975 Give the Valentine Gift that spells L-O-V-E. The high cost of being smart - . ^—» _ . , _ _ , ^ ii i . • i • ^ _ i-i i. u _ ... a diamond from / ^Carl Bussells x^Oiamond Room 3731 E. 29th Town & Country Center 846-4708 By CINDY MACIEL Staff Writer This week’s column is about money. You know what that is, you never have enough of it but now there’s even more of which you don’t have enough. Perhaps striking most closely to home is the rising cost of education. It’s the same education you would have gotten last semester, just more costly now. At NORTHEASTERN UNI VERSITY in Boston, Mass., it ap pears almost inevitable that tuition will rise ffor the fourth time in three years. However, Daniel J. Roberts, their vice president of business and finance, said that a definite deter mination to raise tuition has not yet been made. He assured students that the probable tuition increase would be announced as quickly as possible. Roberts Said, “There will be no holding back of the informa tion. Our big objective will be to hold it down as low as possible.” At least eastern seaboard universities give their students some advance notice of increases . . . accom panied by explanation. Closer to home, the UNI VERSITY OF OKLAHOMA newspaper reported that a State House (Okla.) committee has begun consideration of a bill that would allow college aud university stu dents or their parents to deduct tui tion from their state income tax. The representative who authored the bill said the bill would aid those parents who can only afford to send their children to college by saving every possible cent. He added that Oklahoma students pay about $50 million in fees and tuition annually to both in-state and out-of-state schools. Not everywhere is education on the increase, however. TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY has lowered the tuition rates for the Master of Liberal Arts (M LA) by $35 per three hour course. The decrease in tuition is from the normal $210 to $175 for the same three-semester- hour course. The decrease was for the MLA program only and will in no way affect rates of other graduate prog rams. The MLA program does not give a professional or specialized degree, but is designed for the col lege graduate who wishes to enrich his knowledge. Dr. Frank Reuter, dean of the Graduate School atTCU said, “The MLA is designed as a community service to offer new in tellectual challenges and we felt the costs defeated the purpose of the program. Ah yes, well. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY will not raise tuition next year, although it does expect a $25 increase in board. Dr. William B. Heroy, Jr., vice-president and treasurer for SMU, said the decision against raising tuition was made to keep SMU in the market for stu dents. SMU trimmed (yes, trimmed) approximately $800,000 from this year’s budget in November to keep it balanced. ^rt0K“-S*T T'OO am - ^ PH |:SUNPAY KT0OAH-fe’-OOPH WE ACCEPT US.DA-i LOOP GOUPOKs' Dorm room and board rates are expected to increase at TEXAS TECH next year. Although no deci sions have been made, reports the campus newspaper, the speculation is that the dorms face another in crease in room and board to com pensate for price raises in food and utilities. Clifford Yoder, assistant vice president of auxiliary services for Texas Tech, said the University will be sending out questionnaires to the dorm residents asking what additional sevices the students would like and which ones they think could be discontinued. Those answers will be taken into account. Many students are eligible for FOOD STAMPS and don’t realize it. The ground rules are simple. Basically, eligibility to receive the stamps is determined by the amount of income available to the particular household, minus certain deductions. These deductions, said the TEXAS TECH newspaper, can include tuition, medical expenses, child care expenses and infrequent expenses such as funerals. A person who uses food stamps must be living in an economic unit with a kitchen or in a situation where that person must do the cook ing. If the student is sharing an apartment with other people and decides to apply for food stamps, he must indicate that he is going to maintain a separate household from the rest; he can still live in the apartment, but he must pay for all his own things. The stamps are not free unless the recipient has no income. The allot ment of stamps always remains the same, only the price varies. Net in come of the individual, after deduc tions, determines the price for the stamps. As income goes down, prices go down. As you may already know, the only stipulation attached to using food stamps is that they must be used to purchase edible foods, fit for human consumption. Alcoholic be verages, tobacco products, soap ar ticles, or pet food cannot be purch ased with food stamps. Don’t get too excited, the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AR LINGTON pointed out that if you receive at least half of your support from your parents, and if they are ineligible for food stamps and claim you as a dependent, then you are ineligible for food stamps too. This rule is intended to prevent students from receiving food stamps when their parents sufficiently sup port them. This column appears weekly with a summary of news received from newspapers we exchange with other universities. l Ives festival in Austin /^LL SPECIALS INTHIS AD ARE TO THUT^gPAY Rgg.l3--THTgOUC^H w*. C pon < •MMIT1 WITH COUPON • ONE COUPON Pfr FAMILY . 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Dr. Robert Lytton, recently returned from Australia, will speak on soil quality and the culture there. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 112 of the Plant Sciences Build ing. AIR FORCE STUDENT WIVES CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Sandra Nielsen. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL EN GINEERS meets at 7 p.m. in room 103 Zachry Engineering Center. A&M WHEELMEN meet for their Wednesday night bicycle ride at 5 p. m. by the RudderTower Foun tain. AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY meets at 8:00 p.m. in Rm. 308 of the Rudder Tower. TAMU WILDLIFE SOCIETY will show the film “Bighorn” in Rm. 224 of the MSC at 8 p.m. Non-members will he charged 25c. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE AR CHITECTS meet in the Barcelona party room at 7:30 p.m. LONGVIEW HOMETOWN CLUB is to meet at Triangle Bowl at 6:30 p.m. TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB meets at 7:30 101 Church St. CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT will sponsor a collo quium on Patchoulane Sesquiterpenes headed by Dr. William Erman. The colloquium meets in Chemistry Rm. 231 at 4 p.m. THURSDAY TAMU FLYING CLUB meets at 8 p.m. in room 229 of the Chemistry Building. Maj. Alton Meyer, Aggie P.O.W., will speak. ISSH1NRYU KARATE CLUB meets at 6:30 p.m. in room 256 of G. Rollie White Coliseum. New members now accepted. IQ BRAZOS ORTHINOLOCICAL SOCIETY meets at 7:30 in room 112 of the O&M Building. Enter North door between 7:15 and 7:45. Dr. Larry Walkinshaw will speak on “Cranes of the World. “ EAGLE PASS HOMETOWN CLUB meets at 8 p. m. in the MSC Student Lounge. TAMSCAMS meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 112 of the O&M Building. Prof. Griffiths wifi speak on "Some Modem Day Problems in Climatology.” CEPHEID VARIABLE SCIENCE FICTION/ FANTASY COMMITTEE meets at 7:30 p. m . in room B of the StudentPrograms Office. Plans for the Aggie Con will be discussed. UNITED PENTECOSTAL SERVICE to be held in the All Faiths Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING presents an M E. senior seminar featuring W. L. 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