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Students support A survey conducted by the Student Foundation Would you be willing to prepay for your i yearbook program is to "put together a proposal" showed ten to one that students are in favor of the at Fall registration - Including the possibility of a and submit it to the student body. Office space and hardbound yearbook proposal. send home bill? Yes: 131, No:27, Don't know:5. staff members will then be located and selected. The survey, supervised by senior business major Would you be willing to have your picture made Linda Robinson, polled 350 students, with 38 per at no extra cost to you at Fall registration by a Taylor Publishing Co. has offered to come to the cent responding. professional photographer? Yes: 141, No: 10, Don't University and supervise the yearbook program. The questions included in the survey were an- know:0. swered as follows: The Student Foundation will not be sponsoring A faculty advisor has reportedly been verbally Would you like to see TCU publish a yearbook? the yearbook but it will help with the public committed, but nothing definite has been arranged Yes:136, No:14, Don't know:0, Don't care:l. relations campaign, said Lynn Segall, Director of at this time. Would you pay between $10-$15 for a yearbook the Student Foundation. of approximately 400 pages? Yes:125, No:24, Don't Anyone interested in helping with the yearbook know: 10. Segall said the next step in developing the planning is urged to call ext. 511. THE DAILY SKIFF Volume 75, Number 84 Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Friday, April 1, 1977 i money? See financial By Ed Thorns The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant The cost of living continues to rise in the United (BEOG), is awarded on the basis of need. States, and the costs of going to college are keeping "Generally a student is eligible if his parent's in- up with that rise. come is less than $15,000," Ware said. But if there About 50 percent of the undergraduate students at are other children in the family, especially other TCU already receive some form of financial aid, children about to enter college, it can be more. said Director of Financial Aid Logan Ware, and Awards range between $200 and $1,400 depending that percentage is likely to increase. on need, and do not have to be repaid. The Supplemental Educational Opportunity But in order to receive financial aid, whether it is Grant (SEOG), is also administered by the federal in the form of a loan, a scholarship or a grant—"it's government and does not have to be repaid. It is important to get the applications in n soon as awarded to students' who show exceptional possible," Ware said. financial need, above what can be provided by the Students applying for financial aid first need to BEOG. fill out a form provided by the financial aid office The National Direct Loan, created by the Higher which lists biographical information, academic Education Act of 1965, can provide up to $5,000 to a standing and the type of financial aid the student is student while in college. No interest is charged applying for. while a student is in college. Nine months after This form should already be in for students who graduation, a student must begin paying back the are applying for financial aid this year, Ware said, loan, at an interest rate of 3 percent, with 10 years but late forms are still being accepted. Application to pay back. forms for scholarships, loans and grants are the Federally Insured Student Loan Program, is available in the Financial Aid Office. offered by commercial banks and savings in- Many grants, loans and scholarships winch are stitutions. The federal government pays the seven based on need require access to a Parent's Con- percent interest rate while a student is in school if fidential Statement (PCS). This form, ad- the family income is less than $15,000. Nine months ministered by the College Scholarship Service of after graduation, payments on the loan begin and the College Entrance Examination Board, provides the student begins paying the interest. information on the economic status of the student. The Nursing Student Loan is available to nursing The information a student reports on a PCS is majors who can borrow up to $2,500 a year. The 7 confidential—it is sent only to the organizations or percent interest rate is not charged while the programs the student specifies. nursing student is in school. The College Scholarship Service of the College Cutting out federal loans "would affect a great Entrance Examination Board suggests that the many people" at TCU, said Ware. But he noted, PCS be filled out at least one month before the Congress has indicated that there is little chance ' earliest financial aid deadline inquired by in- the federal loans would be cut out of the budget. stitutions and programs the student lists en the "We think well have about the same amount this form. year," be said. "But then we never seem to have Several federal programs can college expenses, Ware said. Please tora to page 3 THE DAILY SKIFF Friday, April 1,1977 Apple pie and journalism Editors need Skiff dares TCU imbeciles a face slap I think this semester's readers You're all semieodabsts, and the pun) to throw empty beer you guys don't just think about wiU agree that this semester's This whole business about that includes the religion bottles at us. Well supply the sex and booze; we're sure you Skiff and Image editors and getting bit with a pie makes department, who couldn't teach ammo from the latest dormitory think about new cars, too. writers richly deiirvs to sit in perfect sense. You see, from 2-4 about Christianity if their lives beer bust, which you silly people And let us pause for the House the SDX Campus Chest Revenge today, in front of the Student depended on it. Those guys are Center, the Campus Chest people never think happens. of Student Representatives, God Sooth'today from 2 pm to 4 Libby Proffer, you righteous rest their souls. They've been all Zen Buddhists. p.m.'SDX members -win sell want us all to be demolished by A final word-the Stiff is the angry readers. woman, prove to us you don't dead ever since the new ad- whipped cream pies and water sole student organization with And so, what do the Skiff drink, and come out to the ministration has been ushered in. balloons to hurl at one's favorite editors do? Why Skip town, of revenge boom. We don't believe The President only stares at any power. The rest of you are hated staffer. course. Tbey left yesterday for a the rumor that you down two himself in the mirror, the vice- plain turkeys; and that includes bottles of wine every night just to journalism conerence (as usual, president tries to took like a boy, the black fraternities, the Tom TCU faB asleep. the newspaper staff is taking a tbe secretary takes dictation Brown-Jarvis program (those Seciey of Professional strong editorial stance). And what about the jocks? We wearing a short dress and the warped weirdos who try to act And so, sitting in the booth, will got rid of the Walden character, treasurer has such big feet, he intellectual), the Student be the nippies from the Image, a but we didn't get rid of our couldn't find a penny, much less Foundation and their half-wit of a few stupid reporters, the News beliefs. You all stink. Good a budget. president, and Programs and Editor and the fired Weekender winning season, fellows, we're The only two decent people in Services (what can one do with Election here real proud. But we don't want to an ex-minister who cant find any editor who is still bitter about the that house are the Student Af- "dry" your months out, because other Job). dismissal over Us attempt to fairs chairman and Denise no one wants to interrupt your Well be waiting for you, today write like James Thurber. Daniels. That's right, looks will over editors dinner tonight of cow chips and or Sunday. And that fired. Now the Skiff editors will be get you evaywhac in that Applications for editor and rat skulls. Weekender editor, well, see here, posing again Sunday from 1-4. So, funeral organisation. of tbe Daily To all the girts who wear he didn't have a thing to do with you have two chances, which is About our competitor, the Skiff and editor of Image for the gaucbo pants—your hairy knees, the same policy the Skiff uses— Raven. Their beat writer is the this editorial. faU semester are being accepted are awfully ugly. Jt is in- they give their reporters two one who sends in the letter to tbe in the Journalism Department conceivable why the sororities Editor's aste: The objective of chances to write a story. Tbe first editor; the rest of them act like office, Dan Rogers Hall room lie. chance will be all facts, and the the editorial hi not to hurt or put those Hitler pants on, except they've taken courses in TCU's ridicule anyone or any group, but Deadline is 4 p.m., Friday, April second chance will be all fiction, if they have a brain that thinks in journalism department. g. .and everyone knows which to raise money for the Campus only these terms: "make-up, .