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_|T«<as»M JLi^. I ! A. M in© Battalion WPajI y27,J ik January 27, 1983/Page 1B inancial aid: How nuch is available? sligtl s froint^ Jch Press International NSsiom College students can expect said no-esident Reagan to renew to reduce the amount xe d,oi,{money available for educa- 'id to i)u expenses in the 1984-85 tp frocBpt.l year, financial aid ex- ;rt^ say. nanpqjBnt high school students 1!U j ( ! rep ning for college entry lovedfo ;xt s h° u l ( l not be scared dll noifly la ^ of such efforts, says 1 theIdl Hall, dean of admissions jjjd id {inancial aid at the Uni- irsity of Chicago. He also is g sateliB-man of t he (College Scho- )r igimlBhip Service Assembly of 111 Junt etollege Board. 'd fligkHbrhese recommendations 'ovideuliiot affect the school year, •ti com383-84, beginning in Sep- dlenge; mler, which has an esti- Fourth aged $ 1 (i billion available for bandarnp with college expenses. sixastmBga Financial Aid Form as said non as possible helps a stu- theSepwit get a bid for a share of ab. But tat money. is critiBie forms, available at gui- “layinCiBe offices in high schools also nilad colleges, are processed by p’s set te Board’s College Scholar- lip Service. “The funds are set for fall.” fjiB said. “And there’s still ■ if* save them for subse- ueiit years.” /■he Financial Aid Form, ; Hired as the initial bid for H by most post-secondary :hoolsnationwide, helps offi- to determine a student’s iigibility for aid. ■udents and parents pro- ide information on the form ■it family si/e, income, .■ts and expenses. At the College Scholarship Service office need for aid is determined by the financial circumstances of a family. “Costs ought not to defeat any applicant at this stage of the game,” Hall said, “because money is available to help stu dents defray tuition and living expenses while at college.” He said, however, that a major battle lies ahead if fed eral financial aid to needy stu dents is to continue at a suffi cient level for the academic year beginning in 1984-85 and subsequent years. “We tell students and fami lies to react but don’t over react when the Administra tion’s budget proposals finally are sent to Congress,” Hall said. Programs for post secondary education include: — PELL GRANT PROG RAM. Provides grants based on need to undergraduate students. Congress annually sets the dollar range. The Col lege Board said in a recent year the grants ranged from $200 to $1,670 per year. SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPOR TUNITY GRANTS. The SEOG payouts range from $200 to $2,000 a year. This federal program is adminis tered by the colleges to pro vide need-based aid to under graduates. — COLLEGE WORK- STUDY PROGRAM. Typic ally, the CWSP students work 10 to 15 hours a week during the school year and more dur ing vacation. They earn at least the federal minimum wage. — NATIONAL DIRECT STUDENT LOAN PROG RAM. The NDSL provides loans of up to $3,000 for the first two undergraduate years and up to $6,000 for the total undergraduate program. Re payment doesn’t start until education is completed or li mited periods of service in the military; Peace Corps, AC TION, or comparable organi zations are completed. Repay ment also may be waived, par tially or wholly, for certain kinds of employment. — STATE STUDENT IN CENTIVE GRANTS. Funds awarded by the federal gov ernment or state governments to encourage establishment and for expansion of state grant programs. — GUARANTEED STU DENT LOANS. This prog ram lets students borrow money for education ex penses directly from banks and other lending institu tions. Dependent students may borrow up to $2,500 an academic year and up to $7,500 for the total undergra duate program. Students from families with an adjusted gross income in excess of $30,000 per year must de monstrate need to qualify. The federal government pays interest while student is in col lege. Repayment need not be gin until completion of educa tion. — Floriculture-Ornamental Horticulture Club I Plant Sale! [Saturday, Jan. 29 Floriculture Greenhouse 10 a.m.-2 p.m. ibOMMONS Quad Lubbock St. L A A^*"* 1 Held (SLAB) Lamer 10-2 Is *3 . ■*. y :■ v- . : Abused monkeys get help United Press International LEON SPRINGS — In the rolling ranch country northwest of San Antonio, amid dusty rocks and gnarled live oaks, three men live with more than 100 monkeys and birds that have been rescued from death. The animals, most of which are loud and neurotic, are not pets and some of them hate peo ple. All of them were rejected by zoos, used up in laboratories or mistreated as pets before find ing a permanent home at Pri marily Primates Inc. “There’s never been any real alternative to death for many of these animals,” said Wallace Swett, one of the founders. “But many of them could live another 10 to 20 years.” Swett had worked in zoos for 20 years when he and two friends, Gregory Miller and Kenneth Oberg, decided in 1978 to set up a non-profit, per manent sanctuary for rejected animals condemned to death. They now have about 60 monkeys, mostly mistreated be cause of their owners’ ignor ance, about 50 birds and an occasional goat or horse. “A baby monkey is charming, a little surrogate human being,” Swett said. “But they grow up. They get aggressive and they get tossed around from pillar to post until they bite somebody se verely. The owners feel bet rayed and usually the animal is killed.” Others would have been kil led at the end of laboratory ex periments, he said, or when zoos felt they were not suitable for display because of some disfi gurement. The stone house that Swett, Miller and Oberg bought for their project is pretty ordinary — except for the cages in the kitchen that contain tiny squirrel monkeys. On the acres out back are strong cages that hold the larger animals, most of them screaming for attention as the men walk by. One is Sammy, a woolly monkey who was fed nothing except sweet breakfast cereal for eight years. He developed rick ets and now every bone in his body, including his skull, is de formed. Bo, a capuchin who lived with an Arizona family, was kept in a parakeet cage and finally grew too big for the door. The cage had to be cut away before he was brought to Texas. “He hates people,” Swett said. “I don’t blame him.” Bobby, a white-handed gib bon, had his teeth removed and was castrated when he became too aggressive for the family that owned him. He still has fits of temper. “Castration doesn’t work with primates,” Swett said. “It only frustrates them.” Because most of the animals were raised alone, they do not know how to relate socially or sexually toother monkeys, Swett said. They relate to human beings instead. Violet, for instance, a weeper capuchin, flirts madly with Mil ler when he walks near her cage. But she ignores the male monk eys who live with her. GiGkAtJFiii Thurs. 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