THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1977 Page 3 'rogram has grants, loans &M financial aid available By LISA COTROPIA Across the nation many students lon’t take advantage of the grants, ans, jobs and scholarships avail- ible to them. At Texas A&M University, it’s the ipposite, said R.M. Logan, director if student financial aid. The Student Financial Aid Office, MCA 303 helps students who can- ot attend A&M without financial iclp. In applying, a student must com- ilete a parent’s confidential state- ent or the student’s financial tatement. These forms contain questions related to the student’s amily including income, depen dents, debts, assets and property. Ml are used to determine the stu dent’s actual need. It costs the average Texas resi dent approximately $2,800 per year to attend A&M. This covers tuition, ew ^ fees, rooi board, books, supplies 1 on i ti and traveling expenses. Personal costs also are included in the budget. fil her ol ige ie t room How pi A California research firm re- atertk dews the student’s financial report, isideiil which is used to determine the amount of money the family is able to provide toward the student’s )newi{ education. ^ Ce j A letter informs the student if he e ' ar " is eligible for financial aid. roon, 6 Financial aid includes: or Grants-in-aid. They are gifts of money to assist deserving under graduate and graduate students. More than 5,000 grants were awarded last year at A&M. Grants available are Basic Education Op- KAMU-TV to show 60 Minutes’ segment pens d at coulc will sp f becoa appean n doM -espoE before : before John Henry Faulk, Madisonville or P“[i oik humorist and television person- i e j ility, will “replay” his recent visit to an ra Texas A&M University next week, ing it Qgg recorded Faulk’s journalism they® ilassroom appearance last October or its “60 Minutes” Sunday evening ews program. But the scheduled retwork showing was pre-empted )y a late-running regional football 'ame. Faulk, who is a regular on the ‘Hee Haw” television hour, per- uTj Wily is delivering a videotape of Pie “60 Minutes’ segment to portunity Grants, State Scholarship Incentive Grants, Texas Public Education Grants and a grant made up of funds generated by student deposits paid during registration. Loans. More than 8,000 Aggies received loans last year. Students applying must have at least a 2.0 grade-point ratio. Available loans are long-term, medium-term and short-term. Most Aggies appear to be trustworthy, according to loan re payment figures. The national aver age for students who do not repay their loans is approximately 18 per cent, but at A&M it is only 2.3 per cent. The state default rate is 16.6 per cent. Part-time employment. Approx imately 4,500 students are em ployed each day. Most of them work as clerks, typists, library re searchers and graders in the de partment of their major field of study. More than 10,000 Aggies ask for jobs each year. Jobs are not limited to the campus. Offers from em ployers in other cities are posted in the financial aid office. Students contact the employers themselves. Few students at A&M take ad vantage of the financial aid made available to them. One reason may be the red tape. To apply for and receive a Hinson-Hazlewood Col lege Student Loan (a long-term loan), the student and his parents must complete a large number of forms. If laid end to end those forms would make a twenty-foot long sheet of paper. a N onl1 be tec ut not l KAMU-TV, Channel 15, the cam pus educational television station. The 15-minute production will be shown on closed circuit at 10:30 a. m. next Wednesday in Studio A of the educational television building one block south of Kyle Field, across the street from the floral test gardens. The showing will be open to stu dent members of the original audi ence and their friends. Others will be admitted to the limit of the studio capacity. Faulk will be on hand for the giant-screen, full-color showing. led club, e P.E.i ng their :s and m A&M essary t resent M Benefit dance helps animals, t shelter wanted as ultimate goal tial art' nse issful. meet rktbePi d to tudenti. ■ The “Slim Pickin’s” will be play ing country-western and rock-n-roll music at the Lakeview Club on Wednesday, Feb. 9, in a benefit dance for the Humane Society of Brazos County. The dance will have a Valentine’s Day theme, and drawings will be held for free door prizes, which in clude a Sears toaster-oven and coffee-maker and two free dinners Henldii at the Western Sizzlin’ Steakhouse. The dance lasts from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $2 per person at the door, and table reservations can be obtained by calling 846-6960 or 846-1031. Tickets can also be purchased at Court’s Western Wear and Saddlery in Culpepper Plaza, The Western Wearhouse at 100 S. Main in Bryan, and Gibson’s Dis count Center. All proceeds from the dance will go to the Shelter Fund of the Humane Society of Brazos County. - UNBELIEVABLE SAVINGS CALCULATORS, STEREOS Enclos* payment In full with order, or remit 20% with order, balance C.O.D. 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STEREO RECEIVERS PIONEER SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE REG SALE SX-1250 S900 $584 SX-10S0 $700 $469 SX-950 $600 $402 SX-850 $500 $347 SX-750 S400 $279 SX-650 $300 $213 SX-550 $250 $178 SX-450 $200 $149 PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED ONLY WITH CREDIT CARDS 814-237-5990 (Add 3% (or Credit Card Orders) RECEIVERS Add 4% for Handling and Shipping STEREO WAREHOUSE 307 W. BEAVER AVE., STATE COLLEGE, PA. 16801 Some loans are refused because it is a family custom not to borrow money. Misinformation from friends and high school counselors is found to be another reason for not taking ad vantage of the financial aid oppor tunities. Unlike grants and loans, schol arships are given to students in rec ognition of some achievement. Ap proximately 2,000 are awarded from A&M funds and an additional 2,000 are handled by the financial aid of fice each year. Scholarships available to freshmen are President’s Scholar Awards, Opportunity Awards, Academic Achievement Awards and Valedictory Scholarships. Upperclassmen are eligible to re ceive Spring Award Scholarships. “Other scholarships are available through the different colleges and some departments,” Logan said. “Students are encouraged to check with the offices of their depart ments.” All types of financial aid are ad ministered on an individual basis, regarding the particular circum stances of each applicant. No person is denied financial as sistance because of his race, creed, color, sex or national origin. Top of the News Campus TEXAS ATTY. GEN. John L. Hill leads off Political Forum spring programs Monday at Texas A&M University. Hill, who will speak at noon in 601 Rudder Tower, plans to express his views on “The Corporate Outlaw.” The public is invited. Texas SEX EDUCATION FILMS and materials will be examined more closely by State Education Commissioner M. L. Brockette, who has been favorably recom mended to the full Senate for re nomination. Sen. Betty Andujar, R-Fort Worth, complained one film was unacceptable because it promoted extramarital sex. RAMSEY MUNIZ, who twice ran unsuccessfully for governor on the La Raza Unida ticket, yes terday switched his plea to guilty of marijuana trafficking, an ar rangement with federal prose cutors. National YELLOW NO. 5, a dye used in pain relievers, antihistamines, cough-cold remedies, anti asthmatic drugs and oral nasal decongestants, was proposed to be banned today by the Food and Drug Administration. The dye is the country’s most widely used food coloring and is said to be the cause of possible allergic reactions. It is proposed to be banned in certain drugs but not in food. A PROPOSED PIPELINE, running across Canada and into the Midwest, is causing some diplomatic problems between the United States and Canada in their efforts to secure energy supplies. The system would be entirely in United States’ con trol, David Bloom, deputy direc tor of the Energy Resources Board said today. He said Canada is a good neighbor, but has to look out for its own inter ests first. The pipeline, which involves an enormous amount of money, he said, will have to be decided by Congress. BILL TO DRAFT WOMEN will be only the first of several measures to bring Colorado state law into compliance with its Equal Rights Amendment, said first term Rep. Lee Jones, R-Boulder, who introduced the bill yesterday. FIREPLACES may hinder, not help, energy conservation, experts say. Old-fashioned fire places, the kind with no inde pendent source of fresh air to feed the flames, can pull cold air into a house and more than offset the warmth they provide. Factory-built fireplaces with glass doors and flues to draw in outside air were described as good sources of supplemental heat, but the traditional open fireplaces act like pumps that push hot air up the chimneys, creating a partial vacuum in the house, and sucking in cold out side air through cracks around windows and doors to fill that CHANCES OF ESCAPING an audit of your tax returns is better this year than last, accord ing to figures presented by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Fiscal 1976 saw 2.5 million re turns audited — the most in eight years, but cuts in the budget have forced the IRS to trim the number of auditors on the government payroll. As a re sult, it’s projected that 2.3 mil lion tax returns will be audited this year. EDITORS AND BROAD CASTERS in small groups will be invited twice a month to the White House as a way to keep President Carter in touch with the people, his aides announced yesterday. World WORST POLITICAL CRI SIS of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s career was brought on yesterday by the resignation of Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram from the government and the ruling Congress Party. Ram and five other influential mem bers of the Congress Party said they had broken with Mrs. Gan dhi over her refusal to lift India’s 19-month state of emergency, and will run in the March na tional elections as a separate party. I K INSTANT PASSPORT AND APPLICATION PHOTOS bprker photography THE AGGIELAND ’77 NORTHGATE 846-2828 Neither Bryan nor College Station has facilities for the temporary hous ing of unwanted animals, and the establishment of an animal shelter has been adopted as the ultimate goal of the Humane Society. Mon.-Fri. 10-8:30; Sat. 10-6 Manor East Mall Texas AVe. at Villa Maria brand { NAMES R(>ompior* 6 ro r 3 00 OFF! 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