THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1979
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By LEIGH MCLEROY
Battalion Reporter
iiere’s good news for students who thou
ich money for them to receive financia
! undergraduate students at Texas A&M University will
Basic Education Opportunity Grants for the 1979-1980
[The Basic Education Opportunity Grant is an open-ended account
[ith no limit on funds. The Federal Government is required to pay
ase students who are deemed eligible for the grants by way of a
aancial report.
[The ceiling for the BEOGwas raised in 1978 by the Middle Income
Isistance Act, making nearly 17,000 Aggies eligible for aid.
[Last year, for example, the grant ceiling for a family with two
jiildren, one of whom attends college, was $13,500. For the ’79-’80
al year, that figure will increase to about $25,000. The ceiling rises
families with more students in college and a greater number of
^pendents.
ibility widened
To apply for the BEOG students must submit a financial report.
That form is available in room 310 of the YMCA building.
Once it is completed and mailed, it usually takes 30 to 40 days for a
reply. A student’s application is accepted or rejected, or more infor
mation is requested. There is no fee for filing the application.
The amount of each grant ranges from $200 to $1,800, depending
on two variables: the student’s eligibility index, which indicates the
amount his parents can be expected to contribute for that year, and
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no? S ' WASHINGTON — The Senate,
,ne ipparontly unable to defeat the
ssue of allowing prayers in public
ichools, has taken the long way
round to avoid a showdown on the
Motional issue.
The winner, if there was one in
e two days of skirmishing, was the
18 to 19 proposed new education depart
ment to nent leaders indicated it stood
nts and wicaiaiKr of passage if the prayer
imejidment were attached to it.
In one of its last actions before
a 12-day recess over Easter
assover, the Senate attached
duntary prayer amendment to
bill that has little chance of enact
ment, then eliminated it from the
ducation department bill, which
he administration did not want
Jmiardized by the controversy.
Thr issue came up suddenly last
Thursday when an amendment by
ie«, Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to the
education department bill was
idopted, 47-37. It would have over-
!umed the Supreme Court ruling
jutlawing all voluntary prayer in
lublic and buildings.
The leaders succeeded in getting
onsideration of the vote and
oning it until Monday. But
end head counts apparently
howed they lacked enough votes to
ivertum it.
So after a series of procedural
rotes, Democratic Leader Robert
Jyrd — with Vice President Walter
Mondale orchestrating the maneu
vers - led the Senate out of a polit
ical thicket that threatened to bring
r eside or the other to its knees.
Bis solution permitted a “yes”
vote on attaching the amendment to
i bill dealing with Supreme Court
urisdiction on other matters before
deleting it from the education de
partment bill, thus allowing some
members the opportunity of voting
both ways on the issue.
‘ Ap irate Helms called it “the
surest way to kill the prayer
amendment,” because Chairman
Peter Rodino, D-N.J., of the House
iidiciary Commitee will bury the
court jurisdiction bill “so deep it will
take 14 bulldozers just to scratch the
Surface.
Helms promised to keep trying to
overturn the court on the prayer
issue “no matter how long it takes,”
Home state
campaign aid
for Connally
United Press International
ASHINGTON — In the 66
since former Texas Gov. John
(jjpnnally announced his candidacy
H the GOP presidential nomina-
tion, he has raised $1.27 million in
campaign contributions with the
bulk of the funds coming from his
pome state.
lonnally’s national campaign
Bairman, Winton Blount, Monday
said the Connally for President
Committee report to be filed this
week with the Federal Election
Commission will show financial con
tributions of approximately $1.27
million for the period ending March
31.
■Tt is particularly significant that
more than half the total funds re
vived during this first period came
||>m John Connally’s home state
nds and neighbors,” Blount said.
These are people who know him
jst, who are most intimately famil
iar with him and his record of integ-
rity and service over a long period of
e. I think that says a great deal
ut the man.”
Blount said Connally had re
ceived more than 10,000 individual
ftfBbntributions from residents of 49
, <pt aid said those
figures have not been revised for several years. Because of infla
tion and higher tuition, the figures are low. He said the only way that
will change is if students complain about it to their congressman.
Logan says the average grant issued is about $950, made in two
payments, one each semester.
There is no deadline for filing for the BEOG, but Logan advised
applicants to file as quickly as possible to insure that grant payments
are made early next fall. ,
Handgun safety program
for women starts today
Women can learn how to handle
firearms in a training program that
starts today at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
The classes are for women who
have handguns for personal protec
tion. They are being held at the Re
search Annex by personnel of the
Law Enforcement and Security
Training Division of the Texas En
gineering Extension Service.
“In offering this training, we are
not implying a person should or
should not own a weapon for protec
tion,” Bill Cooksey, division train
ing,specialist, said. “We do feel that
if she decides to (use a gun for pro
tection), she should learn to handle
it properly, for her safety and the
safety of others. ”
The 20-hour course includes four-
hour sessions today through Friday.
and an eight-hour session Saturday.
The Saturday session will be de
voted to firing on the weapons range
at the Texas A&M Research and Ex
tension Center off Highway 21.
The cost is $30 per person which
includes practice ammunition for
.38-caliber to .357-caliber pistols.
A course for men will be consid
ered if interest is shown. Chief Ira
E. Scott, head of the police training
division, said.
and demanded to know of “one child
who has been harmed by being ex
posed to prayer.’’
And Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa,
argued for the amendment, speak
ing “not as a constitutional lawyer,
but as a Christian and a concerned
American,” and proclaiming “this
was founded as a Christian coun-
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WiH^Hmorc than $100 each.
jConnally, campaigning Monday
‘n San Antonio, made no reference
tQ the campaign report but con-
tbiued to criticize the Carter admin-
.J gtration for blaming inflation on the
°l companies.
JConnally told 1,400 delegates to
Be International Petrochemical
nference that the Carter adminis-
tion finally was deregulating the
B industry, but it still continued to
Jame that industry for the nation’s
■onomic woes.
I The American people know the
Jo. 1 problem in America today is
■flatten, Connally said. “They (the
■ministration) still put the blame
l^evr] P companies.”
try.
But Sen. Edward Kennedy,
D-Mass., said overturning the Suvj
Court’s 1962 ban on classroom
prayer would “establish a precedent
for all types of mischief’ with the
Constitution, which he said was
coming under its greatest assault in
200 years.
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