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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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