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. •»—r- Friday, March 7,1906/The Battaiton/Page 7\ - ■ re 1 ‘ *• ■ r. 1 »n/s use various options cover rising tuition costs most college costs By RUTH COCHRAN * Reporter | With the rise in tuition and the seemingly endless rise in the cost of living, more and more students have to think twice about |>aying for their college educations. The Texas A&M Student Fi nancial Aid Office calculated that it will cost each student $5 t 820 to attend school this year. That fig ure includes tuition, room and board, books and entertainanent. It estimates that the cost for the 1986-87 school year will increase to $6,100 for each student. So how do students pay for their educa tions? < Some receive money from home while others depend on financial aid. such as grants, loans and sc holarships. Others use their sav ings or hold down jobs, and a few participate in the work-study pro gram. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, 66.2 percent of college students receive some money from their parents. The Chronicle figures also show that 42.4 percent of students use savings from summer jobs to help meet costs. However, more than half of these students have savings of less than $ l .OCX). The Chronicle reports that 1 1.8 percent of students participate in work-studv programs and 56 per cent of all students are employed outside the university. . Many students, though, depend at least in part on other financial aidprograms. The March 2 issue of America magazine reported that the Amer ican Council on Education esti mates that federal aid underwrites 50 percent of the cost at a public college and 56 percent at a private college. , The Chronicle notes that a large * number of studenu receive grants, loans, scholarships or some combi nation of those. It reports that 24.7 percent of studenu receive Pell grants. 8.6 percent receive supplemental edu cational grants ana 15.6 percent receive state scholarships or - grants. The Chronicle also reports that 22.6 percent of students re ceive guaranteed loans and 8.4 percent get national direct student loans. Taft E. Benson. A&M director of student financial aid. says a sig nificant number of of the Univer sity’s 55,000 students applv for and receive financial aid. Benson says the number of fi nancial aid applications has risen from 7.206 last year to 7.425 this year, probably in response to the increase in tuition. For this school year, Benson says 4,295 students or 12.5 percent of the student body received Photo by RANDY MERRILL Andy Richardson, a Texas A&M junior, works at KBTX-TV. grants and 8,961 students or 25.6 percent received long term loans. Benson savs 8.312 students or 2.3.H {>ercent got short term loans. Benson savs 462 students or only 13 jrercent participate in work-study programs and 8,894 students or 25.4 percent are em ployed by the University. Benson says graduate assistants are in cluded in that number Benson savs 5.155 or 14.7 per cent of the student population re ceive scholarships in some amount. Although Benson's of fice keeps no statistics on the number of stu dents who work off campus, he savs he assumes there are more students looking for jobs than there are available jobs. Benson savs that an informal survey of area businesses revealed that for everv available job there were six student applicants. Although a significant number of students reteive some form of financial aid, the majority of stu dents depend on their parents to pav for theii college educations. Changing values mirrored in collegi decisions, prof saysl By JULIA COKER Reporter Today's men and women attend college not only for monetary rea sons but also to gain an appreciation of new ideas and to enhance their knowledge and self-esteem, a UCLA professor told an audience at Rud der Tower Thursday. Dr. Helen Astin, associate provost and professor at the University of California at lx>s Angeles, -said that articles stereotyping college students as self-serving and too material- minded bother her. “Children today look upon a col lege education as a way of self-im provement . . ." she said. “'£he de scriptions in these various articles ignore how much students achieve and learn through education.” Astin. participating in the College of Education’s lecture series, gave examples of college freshmen’s goals to illustrate the trends in goals that mrfke voung jveople attend college. Freshmen todav have increased self-esteem and feel more adequate intellectually than those who entered ( ollege in the 60s and 70s, she said. And young fjeople are less inter ested in the meaning of life than their predecessors. Astin said. She added that they have acquired material goals but haven’t lost their humanitarian values. Students still are interested in helping others and value the family Man acts as IRS agent to aid dad’s campaign Associated Press DALLAS — The son of a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives said he saw nothing wrong with impersonatiiw an Inter nal Revenue Service agent to gain financial in formation alrout his father’s opponirnt. After all. he said, he got the idea from watching a rerun of the “Rockford Files” tele vision series starring James Garner. Mike I^iwshe — whose father, George Lawshe. is challenging State Rep. Alvin Gran Neither his father. Granoff, nor the IRS consider'ed the action entertaining, however. A federal law enforcement official, who asked not to be identified, said the IRS is looking into the incident to determine whether Mike Lawshe broke any laws. Sissy Day, a political consultant for Gran- off, said someone identifying himself as “Dan Jackels" of the IRS called her on Feb. 24 and told her the IRS was doing a prelimarv audit on her client. The younger Lawshe — who himself is on oR in the Democratic primary —, told The . the ballot as a candidate for precinct chau .i Morning News it was “an eid college man — said.campaign finance refK»rts for mischievous prank ” *CirAhoff indicated he spent more money than he raised. He said he had heard rumors that Granoff owed Dav money and used the sub terfuge to determine if that was true. "We didn't find out anything out that we didn't already know, and it was a prettv dumb thing to do now that I look bat k at it." said L-iwshe. 24. Dav said she became suspicious of Jack- els.” and after calling him bat k at an east Dal las office numbei he gave, she notified the IRS Agents traced the telephone number to a Lawshe family business in Pleasant Grove, a southeast Dallas suburb. f-ivvslie smd agents latei x^Uestioned him at the office and that he got a “good chewing out't n >m his father. 1 he elder l-awshe, who lost to Granoff in the 1982 Democratic primary, said he regrets the incident, but doesn’t believe it will affect his campaign “I certainly hope it wasn’t George's idea and 1 don't have to worry about nonsense like this in the future," he said. Granoff said he didn’t know what cam paign figures Mike I-awshe was trying to ob tain “Every penny" of campaign contribu tions and expenditures had been reported under the law, he said. though they may postpone having family them»elves, she said. The trends in goals that lead pie into college are reflected in" th« changing makeup of college cam] puses, she said. Astin pointed ouj that four of 10 students attendinf college are the first in their famili to do so. She said for the first time in his-| tory, 51 percent of the entering freshmen are women, and the numj her of minority students has creased substantially.- Street vendors to be allowed in Houston parks HOUSTON — A woman who once chained herself to a push cart because she was prohibited from selling New York's Sabrett’s hot dogs on Houston streets may soon be able to set up business in a downtown park. “I think it’s great.” Shirley Rubenstein said after the Hous ton City Council voted 12-1 Wednesday to authorize the city Parks ana Recreation Depart ment to license vendors to oper ate in four downtown parks. Councilman L^arry Me Kaskle voted against the measure, dubbed the "hot dogs in the park” ordinance, but did not voice his objections. 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