1975_02 The Daily Collegian February 1975

              4-THE DAILY COLLEGIAN        Friday, February 21, 1975
Guide to Black financial aids for college students
By Louis C. Young, J
Journalism, graphic arts, nurs¬
ing,    architecture    and   library
Since the age of computers Is
here, It is not surprising that
prospective college students may
turn to one when scouting finan¬
cial aid. Scholarship Search, a
New York-hased scholarship as-
funds in addition to BEOG. Con¬
tact the director of financial-aid
at the college ln which you expect
to enrol for more details.
The CoUege Work-Study Pro¬
gram Is another part of a flnan-
cial-ald package. The federal
government grants money to Indi¬
vidual colleges to aid students
through part- and full-time em-
from other sources Money Is
available, but there are thousand;,
of   college   hopefuls,   black   and
visor - he Is only a guide. Be¬
gin by realizing that the cost of
going to college escalates each
year. The average yearly cost
(1974-75) at a four-year private
school Is $3,850 (the Ivy league
Is practically double); al an In¬
state public school, the figure
Is $2,025;  and $1,680 at a local
never knew existed. The com¬
puter hank contains sources (or
$500 million In financial aid. A
dollar   fee   for a questionnalre-
ploymi
Colleges   may a
colleg
Tultt
earned cash will  be  refunded If
up at least five sources Through
Scholarship  Search,   one   sister
eligible  ror 21 scholarships, one
grant,  two loans and one award.
than $11.000
■> package a
;olng to college means you'll
i small sacrifice ln relation to
least costly loan a
the National Direct Student Loan
NDSL). NDSL loans ar^adminis¬
tered hy the participating college,
hut come from  the government.
■    Rare
aggressive alwut looking
d and should start looking
i much sooner." Barclay
thai although money will lie
•i Inorlty   students   should
•■   NS.SI- N.S also
should '-omplle a list of all Ir
scholarships for
Today,  and Tomorrow" h;
chosen for the festival  The fes-      Arts   Fesl
tlval will coincide with other na-      431-8877.
rial fields IT you are headed
ard nursing, look Into the
sing Student Scholarship Pro-
ools. write: Division ofNurs-
e. Beihesda. Ml) 20014.
on may Horrow up to $2,500
ear through the Nursing Slu-
t Loan Program. Hepavmenl
i 22 from poetry, creative dance, and vocal schedules are similar toguaran-
ii the ivy selections to name only a few of teed student loans (which Is nor-
1350    E        the presentations mally nine to twelve months after
erday. For   further  Information con-       you leave school). Partial or total
Black Art* Festival is scheduled
n of the E
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Black    History   \
KATE' SCHOOL CLOVIS
Married couple witn no
children to be surrogate
parents to emotionally dis¬
turbed children. On the job
training, transportation with
children, house plus ex¬
penses all furnished. Salary
plus benefits. Opportunity
for couple interested in this
field to continue college ed¬
ucation. Call (.70S) 299-0241
Monday through Friday. -
STORAGE
PROBLEM?
s5
DISCOUNT
on 1st month's rent
• WITH   THIS   AD-
mim u stcfoqe
has the answer...
labv^rsjmos
PH: 291-5335
If you're between 18 and 22, and
one of your parents ls disabled,
retired or deceased, you may be
eligible for monthly social se¬
curity checks. You qualify If you
are a full-time student at an
accredited public or private col¬
lege or university. You continue
to receive checks during your
vacation period If you were a
full-time student before the break
n full-tl
:. Be
the Railroad Retirement
Act provides monthly annuities
for children of deceased or re¬
tired railroad workers. You must
be 18 to 22 years old, unmarried
and attending college full-time,
payments consist of higher bene¬
fits for the retired worker, or
direct monthly checks to children
your local Railroad Retirement
Boarc-', or write: Railroad Re¬
tirement Board. B44 Rush St.,
Chicago, 1L 60611.
i.-liitod aid i.s contained in -Need
a Lift?*, published by ihe A merl-
t-ati  legion    Ask   ihe counselor
[f   you are disabled, you may
ot    vocational   rehabilitation
exist. An example Is the Pickett
and Hatcher Educational Fund
1800 Buena Vista Road, Colum¬
bus, GA. If you qualify, you may
borrow up to $1,200 per year,
with a four-year limit of $4,800.
Interest on the loan ls two per
cent while you are ln school and
six per cent after graduation.
Write for an application. Other
loan funds are listed In the read-
Scholarships ror Blacks are
sponsored by the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation. Its Na¬
tional Achievement Scholarship
Program for Outstanding Black
Students has financial gifts that
range from $1,000 to $6,000 for
four years of college; and ap¬
proximately 300 scholarships are
awarded annually. To be eligible,
you must take the National Merit
Scholarship qualifying test dur¬
ing your Junior year In high
school. Your counselor can tell
Grove St.. Evanston, IL 60201.
Another boon for black students
Is the NAACP's Roy Wllklns
Scholarship, which offers seven
$1,000 scholarships. You should
show   academic promise,  flnan-
ershlp potential Apply to: James
Brown, Jr.. National Director,
NAACP.    1!90   Broadway.    New
secure It.  Happily
e of v
1  Rehabilitation Counsel-
HOME FOR SALE
1 MILE EAST OF CSUF
477 W. Twain, Clovis
40 ft. Swimminq  Pool
3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Den,
S650 Down Payment
$274 per monlh
Full Price: $29,950-As Is*
Call  BOB McNAB, Qroktr
227-6966 Evenings
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-^•Leavenworth runs
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, t975    ^
feb zsH on county needs
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CALIFORNIA  STATE  UNIVERSITY,  FRESNO
ARY
Collegian Managing Editor
The time has come lo solve
the problems facing the Fresno
County Elections Department,
according to Ann Leavenworth,
l for supervisor In Dls-
Loan applications to VA
currently being processed
FRANCISCO - The Veter-
dnlnlstratlor. has begun
ising applications for new
* the GI BUI.
school ui
one academic year were
hed by the Vietnam-era
s Readjustment Assls-
;l of 1974. enacted by the
•s in December last year.
new law also provided a
- cent Increase In month-
entsforl.Smtlllonveter-
: .icing under the Gl Bill.
'.-i .ins now recelve$270
A veteran with two de-
- receives $366. Students
>: an undergraduate de-
nc exhaust their 36 months
.-hard L. Roudebush said
t-tive   date   for  the loan
e added that all eligible
anticipated
for the entire 1974-75 academic
year. This ls considered to have
started about Sept. 1, 1074.
Under the new law, those
granted loans will bo required
to execute promissory, notes
agreeing to repayment of princi¬
pal plus eight per cent tnterest.
Repayment of principal and Inter¬
est will be deferred while the
student Is attending classes at
least on a half-time basis.
Installment payments must
start nine months after the stu¬
dent ceases at least half-time
enrollment, with full payment
within 10 years and nine months
after that date. Part or all of the
loan may be prepaid without pen¬
alty interest will not accrue on
the loan balance until the required
beginning date of repayment.
A three per cent loan fee will
be  deducted   from the approved
considered overpayments and re¬
covered ln the same manner as
other debts due the government.
The new measure provides that
applicants must have exhausted
all efforts to obtain student loans
administered by the Department
or Health, Education and Welfare.
The student must list all lenders
applied to, with dates notified of
final decisions. If denied a guar¬
anteed student loan, copies of
denial statement from each lend¬
er must accompany the VAappIl-
Electtons Department has •de¬
moralized public confidence* ln It
and that citizens ai
about Its operation.
about the operations of the Elec¬
tions Office,* she said. *! think
that all the people who Tan for
sheriff feel mistreated."
Tha *maJor Issue" facing Fres¬
no County is the type of govern-
government
reported hy Ihe student. Including
other educational loans, grants,
scholarships, VA educational as-
whlch Ihe. loan applica-
jbmltted will be the base
reportlfig Income.
'A also said the school
certify the student's course
study and tuition and fees ftfr
The
r the
1% be approved tor
3T other enrollment
ss than 10 weeks.
A wooden canoe? CSUF is building one
By Jim Denman
ulleglan Staff Writer
0 foot  cement canoe may
perfect for back packing
build one anyway. Berkeley, Cal Poly, CSUF and
The cement canoe race ts an other schools will attend Call-
annual event at the AmertcanSo- fornla's convention during April
clety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Sacramento,
student chapter convention. 'Almost eve
from  Stanford, U.C.
•tight, elitist oligarchy" of tha
recent past
Tha -tight" group of the past
consisted of tha big developers
who left tbe county to foot,the
bill for their projects, aha aald.
1 have a strong conviction
about government being open,*
she said. I've been stressing
the extreme Importance of our
county government. A Wg budget
means big responsibilities.•
Open government also applies
to the college community,
Leavenworth said. "1 think that It
should he true of college politics.
Students     should     control   the
Development can lead to jobs
without being conducted on a
grand scale, Leavenworth said.
■Do It In little steps instead of
grand ones."
She wants Fresno County to
encourage home owned business¬
es and long range planning. The
county can encourage more home
building by reducing the time
prospective home builders have
to spend on Environmentallmpact
"There Is no reason why they
(the reports) should be time con¬
suming,* she said. "It's to all
our Interests to have morehous-
ANN  LEAVEtsWORTH
inf.*
Daring tl
Inflation, tha Board of Super-
vtaora can take actions to help
tha people, aba said. One step
tha board can take ta to reduce
tbe amount ot money lt spends.
Tha   Board  should  "hold  tha
Una on taxes'
axes* and "be careful of
and dimes,* aha (aid.
nlcklea   I
•No Board member should, it
tax money to go to conventions.*
Leavenworth advocated more
cooperation between the city and
the county. Ideally' she would
like to see one government for
metropolitan Fresno.
With one government the city
would take over urban services,
which would 'be more econom¬
ical," she said.
Older neighborhoods, such aa
Ftg Garden, would develop their
own plans for annexation and
then be annexed.
•With one unit of government,
all can be heard,* she said.
•Practically," Lei
said she would "rr
operation - from- grand plans t
the small.* There would be tem¬
porary arrangements of coopera¬
tion ln areas such as fire pro¬
tection and planning.
On election day, Leavenworth
said she expects a 'majority*
to be supporting her.
conform  I
chool makes
canor* which must
certain regulations,
Therapy session for women
to be conducted by author
CSUF CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS, Bill Rape, Robert Rod-
'iflu' •> and Robert Edwards sit on their oement canoe built for the
''3 contest. In the center is tha canoe built for this year, and on the
r'9M Mike Cates, Richard Roquemore and Dave Clark are In last
year's entry. Photo by Jim fjerrman.
cement," a very strong concrete
without rocks, Rapp said.
Ferro- cement can withstand
around 6,000 pounds per square
Inch pressure, though the canoe
was designed lo require only
about 3,000 pounds per square
Inch, said Rapp.
With all that strength their
canoe ts only one-fourth to three-
eighths of an Inch thick, rein¬
forced with "two layers of chicken
wire,* he said.
It was designed wtth help from
Bud McRae, president ot the
FMsno ASCE chapter, to support
Regulations say lt must 'float
when filled with water,* said
Rapp,' and so styrofoam blocks
are attached Inside. The blocks
provide the rowers with padding,
They won't need the padding
very long Tor the race Is a quar
ter mile, with a 45 degree turn.
The turn was made part of the
course to discourage people from
using a stabilizing rudder
boat's   botton.
one schoot an unfair advantage
last year, he said.
One of the hardest parts ol a
cement canoe race la getting
started, he saUVexplalnliig the
boat usually rocks back and forth
instead of going loreward.
•Once you gat going, It's easy,"
By Phyllis Wild
Collegian Staff Writer
• Feminism as Therapy* will be
the theme of a two-day workshop
for women to he held at the Uni¬
versity Religious Center March
The workshop will be led by
Anlca Vesel Mander and Nina
Winter of Alyssum, a center for
feminine consciousness ln San
Francisco. Mander la;
with Ann Kent Rush of
•Feminism as Therapy," which
was published In November.
The session is a social work
thesis project of graduate stu¬
dents RoseSarklsian and Deborah
Stein and will be an attempt to
clarify misconceptions of what
feminism Is and how lt relates
to women. Specific ^areas to be
covered are 'The Changing Roles
of Wqmen,* "Sex Role Identity"
and  "The Relationship Between
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WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
I.D. CARDS - Frances C Knight, director of the State Depart¬
ment's passport Office, has proposed that every American dtiren
should bo required to carry a government identity card —.complete
with fingerprints - In order to cut down on fraud and other related
END NEAR? - Followers oi Jehovah's Witnesses who hsve been
preparing for the world's end next fall ara now finding It Isn't all
that certain. F. W. Franx, tha sect's 81-yaar-oleV,chlef "thaologian,*
satd It could be yeara before Armageddon. The Watchtower Bible and
Tract Society, official name of the Jehovah's Witnesses, have bean
saying since 1966 that autumn 1975 would mark the time of the
world's end.
_ More than 9,000 sick coots were killed by
Wildlife authorities at tha Black Bay wlldiue refuge near Virginia
Beach, Va. this weekend. Using a spray plana, a helicopter and 11
boats authorities begta to kill the diseased water birds Saturday ln an
effort to prevent an lavian. cholera epidemic from spreading to a
quarter-million migratory fowl expected to arrttw ln the i
rudder   gave        BIRDS FIND END
AT A SNAIL'S PACE - LlgWnlnf, a British snail owned by Chrla
udson of Brighton, won claim to the world's fastest snail Sunday
after out-trudging *3 coropetittora ta a world championship snail
(Continued on Page 4, Col. 1)        „,, rt Falmouth, England.