Carter Program Will Aid Middle-Income Students
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X The Doily Skiff Texas Christianicn University,University. Fort Worth,Worth. Texas " ^Wednesday. February 8. 1978 Vol. 76, No. 64 Carter program will aid middle-income students WASHINGTON (AP) - President raising the maximum grant from Democratic congressional leaders, groups but to high-income taxpayers Carter will announce a major $1,600 to $1,800 He also has proposed who learned about the upcoming as well: program Wednesday to provide at making more students eligible announcement during breakfast with "We cannot afford poverty least $700 million to college students Between 1967 and 1975, Powell said, Carter at the White House told programs for people who aren't poor," from middle-income families because college costs have increased by about reporters the program would be Califano said. he fears a 71 percent jump in college .7.1 per cent, putting the average cost of substantial. The student aid program was first costs has put their chances for higher tuition, room and board for each Health, Education and Welfare mentioned by House Whip John education in jeopardy student attending private school at Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr , has Brademas of Indiana, who called it "a Hoping to stave off a move in more than $4,000 a year. said that families in lower and middle- major student national assistance Congress to give a $250 tax credit to income brackets need federal program." the parents of all college students, For each student attending a public college or university, the cost has assistance in sending their children to Brademas said Carter would an- Carter will propose a combination of climbed to about $2,000 a year, Powell school but that tax credits would nounce the program Wednesday at a grants and loans using $700 million he said. provide benefits not just to those news conference. set aside in his fiscal 1979 budget, said White House Press Secretary Jody Powell Powell said the program, to be announced personally by the president and explained in detail by Joseph A TCU costs reported Califano, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will be targeted mostly at the middle class. University comparisons made The press secretary did not specify what families Carter would include in By SKIP HOI.LANDSWORTH total, $5,030. lower costs, the report found Some of the middle class Under the govern- News Kditor Rice University—tuition, $2,714; these were: ment's current $2.2 billion program, The yearly cos! of attending TCU is residence hall and food, $1,950; total, • North Texas State University— most basic grants go to students from about average in comparison to other $4,664. tuition and fees, $412; residence hall families earning less than $10,000. private universities with similar and food, $1,477; total, $1,889. • Southern Methodist University- , The grants drop to a minimum of $50 enrollments, according to a Board of • Texas V&M University—tution as income and assets increase. The Trustees report obtained by the Skiff tuition and fees, $3,138; residence hall, $700; food, $924; total, $4,762. and fees, $128; residence hall and food, cutoff point for a family of four with The cost of attending TCU for 1977-78 $1,300; total, $1,428. one child in college is roughly $17,500 • Trinity University—tuition and is $4,1B0, of which $2,790 goes for • Texas Tech University—tuition in income. fees, $2,352; residence hall and food, tuition and fees, $590 for residence hall and fees, $397; residence halls and At present, some 2.4 million students $1,500; total, 3,852 expenses, and $800 for food The Board food, $1,176; total, $1,573. attending college next fall are ex- of Trustees' Fiscal Affairs Committee • Tulane University—tuition and pected to receive basic grants expects next year's cost to total $4,546 fes, $3,350; residence hall and food, • University nf Texas—tuition and IT AIN'T FIT OUTSIDE FOR MAN NOR BEAST—Two giraffes took one look averaging just under $900 apiece. per student, of which $3,056 will go for (900; total, $5,500. fees, $434; residence hall and food, outside yesterday and decided enough was enough. As far as they were con- For fiscal 1979, Carter has proposed tuition and fees, $640 for residence hall Public institutions in Texas had $1,916; total, $2,350. $4 billion for existing programs to help cerned, the north could keep its cold and snow. (Photo by (hues Ault) expenses, and $850 lor food. college students and has proposed The bulk of the increase was due to New prof Instructs the jump in tuition to $88 per semester hour beginning next fall. With this new rate, TCU's tuition will have Increased Government grants aid study 120 percent within the last decade, according to the report, but thai is ;i Aspects of leisure , By CECILIA WONG plained. Until 1968 and 1969, the "So far we've interviewed more smaller increase than the probable 135 Staff Writer problem of drug abuse "exploded in than 3,000 patients Another 2,500 who percent rise in the national per capita Two government grants have been this country and became a very major were in treatment between 1972 and income over the current year. now taught at TCU issue, "something like an epidemic," given to the University's Institute of 1974 will be interviewed in 1978 and The report was part of the Fiscal he said. •, Behavioral Research (IBR) to renew 1979," said Sells. i Affairs Committee's presentation to the study on persons treated for drug By JOHN CREED They want to open the field up and "The then called National Institute Referring to a conclusive data on the the full Board of Trustees last fall in abuse between 1969 to 1974, Dr. SB. of Mental Health (NIMH) requested recommending higher tuition for TCU Staff Writer make people more comfortable with it studies. Sells said, "We break them because, as Slivken said, "People Sells, the director of IBR, has an- us to expand the study. So the study students. Leisure—a subject familiar to nounced. down by the type of drug use, by the should enjoy their leisure." Crandall went from a scale of six clinics, type of people, by the type of treat- Comparing other institutions, the everyone, yet never really taken He said the $667,104 grant from the mainly in the Northeastern states to report listed these costs: seriously by anyone Except, that is, was quick to point out that they are not federal government is for a third ment, and the period when they were trying to dictate how one should spend about 52 all over the country including • Austin College— -tuition and fees, for the Psychology Department series of follow-up studies on people in treatment A report on the earlier their leisure time. They are only Puerto Rico dealing with a population $2,950 residence hall and food, $1,350; who have been in treatment and are group has been published, but the new Now a course called "The attempting to broaden student's of 44,000 patients." total, $4,300. back in the community. set of data will not be ready in a couple Psychology of Leisure" has been knowledge of what is available Sells said these patients under the • Baylor University—tuition and And the second, $156,000 grant, he of years. added to the University's curricula Crandall said the course introduces study are respected for their privacy. fees, $1,900; residence hall, $510; food, which acquaints students with the added, is for a special study know as He explained that these grants are the multidisciplinary research in "We must get their informed consent $760; total, $3,170. Research Archive. Its purpose is to do personal and psychological aspects of leisure to students and then examines to be interviewed," he said. from the National Institute on Drug •Duke University—tuition and fees, a secondary study on data that has leisure. several specific topics such as leisure Abuse, which is part of the Depart- $3,530; residence hall and food, $1,950; been collected by other researchers on "Our records here do not contain the ment of Health Education and Welfare The course was developed by Dr attitudes, work and leisure and others. the epidemicology of drug use. identity of the patients. They are only iHEW) in Washington DC. "We are Rick Crandall, who joined the TCU Although the course was not ad- The inception of this special study identified by numbers. In this way we doing this research for the govern- staff this year after three years at the mitted to or approved by the originated from a small group in- can protect the patients' con- ment and the government uses the University of Illinois where he was a University until after the end of last volving only six clinics, Sells ex- fidentiality " results to set policy," he said. Writing member of their leisure studies semester, it still managed to get the t program. maximum of fifteen students enrolled. contest forms Although he is working on drug The class meets Wednesday nights treatment organization in the Institute from seven to ten o'clock in Winton News briefs, of Behavioral Research here, he has Scott Hall. now available taken extra time to teach this course southeastern Ethiopia's disputed acknowledged that nearly two- with Karla Slivken, who is finishing Sadat gets tough Ogaden Desert on the Somalia thirds of the voters boycotted the her Masters degree in leisure study at border nationwide municipal elections. The 1978 Writing Awards Contest, Resident the University of Illinois. Together, WASHINGTON (AP) — The sources said most of the Protest demonstrations and a featuring events in poetry, shon Ihey define leisure as any intrinsically Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Cuban troops are believed slated general strike have beset Somoza stories, non-fiction prose and literary motivated, freely chosen activities said he made an unabashed appeal for a major role in Ethiopia's long- since the assassination a month criticism, has been announced by the and explained the importance of Injured to Congress yesterday for arms expected counteroffensive to drive ago of one of his leading opponents, English Department studying leisure.