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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 11, 1961
National Defense Act Loans Help 484 Students to Continue Studies
The training of 484 students with vast potentials of service to the state and nation in critical specialities continued without interruption this year because the University of Kansas was able to make $200,600 in National Defense Education Act student loans.
Philanthropy working through the KU Endowment Assn. made available $32,222 so the University could qualify for the $257,378 from the Federal government on $1 for each $8 formula during the past 12 months.
"This is investment, not charity," explained Bob Billings, director of KU's aids and awards office. Repayment may extend through 10 years at 3 per cent interest after the student leaves school. Elementary and secondary school teachers may earn up to 50 per cent "forgiveness" on the principal by five years of full-time teaching.
"Most of these students could not get significant financial assistance from any other source." Billings said. "Without the National Defense loan they would have to abandon or indefinitely delay their training."
Eighty-five per cent of the loam are to students in the preferred—as specified by law—categories: prospective teachers, science and medicine, mathematics, engineering, and modern foreign language.
One-fourth of the total, $73,200, went in 101 loans to medical students while 152 prospective teachers borrowed $86,100. Engineering students received $53,925.
The six-member NDEA loan committee, headed by Herold G. Regier of the School of Education, and Billings first scrutinize all applications to determine need. Then they demand proof that the applicant can make satisfactory progress toward graduation. If an applicant has need and is a satisfactory student in one of the preferred categories, he or she gets the loan.
"This is the strong investment feature of the program," Billings explained, "There are scholarships for the most brilliant students but neither KU nor any other school has the resources to assist the large numbers who will make solid contributions to society in the future.
"And while we still know little about how to predict creativity, I'm
Fine Arts Recital Scheduled Tonight
A recital by faculty members of the School of Fine Arts will be given for the public at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Performers will be Mrs. Miriam Stewart Hamilton, soprano; Reinhold Schmidt, bass-baritone; Joseph and Marie Wilkins, tenor and soprano; Raymond Stuhl, cellist; and the Apollo Trio, comprised of Karel Blaas, violinist, Margaret Ling, harpist, and Max Walts, flutist.
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confident that among these borrowers are some who will make great contributions."
The ceiling on loans is $1,000 in one year and total of $5,000 to an individual. Last year 74 students borrowed $1,000. There were 159 loans in the $400-590 bracket.
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At KU 3.8 times as many men as women were borrowers, although the men-women ratio is only 2 to 1. The average loan to men of $611 was $50 higher than the women's average.
Nearly three-fourths of the money was lent to seniors, graduate students and those in post-graduate professional schools.
"The older students have demonstrated their academic soundness, they are apt to have greater need and when within sight of their educational goals, they are willing to go into debt to speed attainment of those goals." Billings explained.
However 50 freshmen — 32 men and 18 women, borrowed $24,800 in the year.
Without a continuance of an extensive aid program like that of the National Defense loans, Billings for-
"Some people have criticized the program because borrowers are studying music or art and many other subjects the critics consider to be unimportant," Billings continued. "A student takes one-third or less of his academic work in his major department. He is encouraged, even required, to diversify his electives so that he will be more than a limited specialist."
"A few years ago men could get summer jobs from which they could save enough to pay for a half year of college. Try and do that now. During the school year the working student — and we've got lots of them at KU — finds that with today's high academic standards he can't earn more than a minor part of his expenses without curtailing his course load.
Billings is equally convinced there must be continued financial assistance to help those willing to help themselves.
Caroline's Experience at Pool May Change Parents' Views
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President and Mrs. Kennedy may have a somewhat changed attitude toward the proximity of Secret Service agents to their daughter, Caroline as a result of the little girl's recent experience in a Washington swimming pool.
The three-year-old slipped from a paddle board in the pool of some friends and a pregnant mother leaped fully clothed into the pool to rescue Caroline. The secret service agent who usually accompanies Caroline was, at the time, some distance away watching the entrance to the yard. Caroline's nurse also was busy, getting into her own bathing suit.
Mrs. Kennedy since the inauguration has not wanted Caroline shadowed constantly by federal agents and they have maintained a discreet distance in deference to her wishes.
The incident was the sort that occurs many times every summer around every pool and beach, a small child getting in over her head and having to be fished out by a grownup. Sometimes, however, these incidents end tragically if a grownup is not close by.
The past weekend, however, an agent was included in the group when Caroline went sailing with her aunt, Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy. Ethel Kennedy had 10 relatively small children, including Caroline, with her in the sloop Victura. The boat remained in relatively calm waters behind a breakwater in front of the Kennedy house, but the first lady consented to having an agent go along.
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sees an immediate and significant drop in the number of persons preparing for careers in the critical categories.
Whether by design or by miscalculation, the sleop wag around in shallow water not far from the compound of homes that house a horse of Kennedy's during the summer. The water was less than two feet deep and the children were wild with joy, boiling over the side of the sleo and splashing in the surf. Ethel Kennedy and the accompanying agent finally got their brood back together in the boat which was pushed into deeper water. The Vicura promptly sped back to her home mooring in front of the house of the President's father, former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy.
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I would like you to publish my letter about the arbitrary traffic regulations used at KU. I live in GSP and they told me I can park my car there. Thursday, I bought a car and I parked it in front of the dormitory. On Friday, I got two papers on my front window and I went to the traffic office to find out why.
They told me I had to pay $4 for parking in front of my dormitory and anywhere on the campus. This is the fare for one year and I will be here only until the last of July. I complained about this but I paid the $4.
Dear Sir:
But I believe I should be able to park near Bailey where I have a class once a day. It seems this is not possible either. If I want to go to the class with my car, I need to pay $4 more for three weeks. The persons in charge of the traffic
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regulations should go to the Law School and take some class in making better rules or they should go to some department and take classes where they teach common sense. I think either of these moves would be feasible because under the present setup, KU students are going to be forced to pay and pay.
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