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Aid Program Helps Foot College Bill
WASHINGTON—(CPS)A major source of student financial aid a work-study program was passed by Congress this summer and is scheduled to go into operation this fall. When in full swing it will help up to 150,000 students a year pay their college bills.
The work-study program was passed as part of the Administration's $947.5 million anti-poverty bill, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It provides federal grants to institutions of higher education for on and off-campus student employment programs during the school year and vacation periods.
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The federal program will pay up to 90 per cent of the cost of the programs for two years and 75 per cent thereafter. All but 5 per cent of the federal funds must be used for student salaries. The rest may be used for administrative expenses.
A TOTAL OF $72.5 million has been requested to run the program this fiscal and academic year. Action on the appropriation is expected toward the end of September. 125 institutions have already expressed interest in the program.
Two Grants Boost KU Drug Research
Both graduate and undergraduate employment will be supported by the program. Average undergraduate earnings are estimated at $500 during the school year and double that if summer employment is offered. Estimated graduate earnings under the program would be twice the undergraduate figure.
The search for drugs potentially useful in mental health and for the treatment of cancer is continuing here under United States Public Health Service support.
Continuation grants of $11,160 and 99,390 have been awarded to KU or projects directed, respectively, by Edward E. Smissman, University distinguished professor, and Mathias P. Mertes, associate professor. Both are in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Prof. Smissman's project is on plant compounds, called pyrones, in an effort to synthesize depressants which do not have harmful side-effects. Prof. Mertes hopes to develop an anti-cancer agent in his project.
There are no restrictions on the kinds of on-campus jobs that may be supported. They may range from "raking yards to tutoring," according to James Allen of the Office of Education's work-study task force. Off-campus jobs, however, must be related to the student's academic program or long-range vocational goal or else must be in the public interest, he said.
A LARGE NUMBER of off-campus jobs are expected to be related to other anti-poverty programs. The Job Corps and Community Action Programs of the anti-poverty Act are two areas where work-study student employment is anticipated. No work may involve facilities used for sectarian instruction or religious worship.
Students employed under the program may work a maximum of 15 hours a week while in classes but may work 40 hours during the summer.
Although the work-study program will be coordinated with the National Defense Student Loan Program (NDEA), which last year helped support an estimated 265,000 students, it will be harder to qualify for aid under the work-study program. Students who get aid under the work-study program will have to be from low-income families. Great emphasis will be given to recruiting and aiding students who without the program could not afford to attend college.
The work-study program is expected to attract fewer institutions than the NDEA loan program. Government officials explain this is because not as many colleges and universities have enough eligible students to make participation worth-while.
Europeans Appreciated KU Players
Thirteen KU theater students, touring to Strobl, Austria; this summer, found European audiences appreciative of the Jayhawk's "professional" ability.
Generally audience reaction to the KU players was more favorable than that given European students.
Tom P. Rea, instructor in drama and director of the troupe, attributed this to the fact that European university students receive less supervision and instruction than the American collegians.
Most European universities do not have an organized theater department, leaving students to their own initiative, Rea said. Another difference is the demand for shows of political or social significance in Europe.
At the International University Theater Student Festival, in its 15th year at Erlangen, Germany, the KU students witnessed and participated in what Rae described as "a bloody critique . . . kind of like a little United Nations, a beneficial and very exciting experience."
THE STUDENTS had the opportunity to study at the University of Vienna, which has a summer session at Strobel, to perform in several international drama festivals, and to judge representative work of other countries.
Leaders in the speech and drama department at KU believe students should have opportunities in international theater because of the rich variety of training available.
REA DOUBTS THAT any other American University has provided its drama students so many international opportunities over the past two or three years.
The group performed two one-act plays: Albee's "The Zoo Story," and "The Tiger" by Schisgall; scenes from "A Taste of Honey" by Delaney and Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad" and 45 minutes of "Songs from the American Musical Theater" at Utrecht, Holland, and the Reinhardt Seminar at Salsburg, Germany, as well as at Strobl and Erlangen.
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