Marriage-no problem
Financial worries of campus couples are few; can be overcome with the help of loans and jobs
can be overcome with the help of
By Janet Hamilton
If you are a student considering marriage, don't let a fear of financial problems stop you. Almost anyone can get married and still go to school today, if he has a little imagination and know-how.
Almost 1,620 married students enrolled at KU last semester, making up about 10 per cent of the entire campus population. The number is increasing every year. Several factors are making this increase possible.
IN THE FALL of 1950, the National Student Defense Loan Act was passed. The fund makes sums up to $1,000 available each year to students demonstrating sufficient need. About 3,250 KU students have made use of the loan in the last seven years.
The loan is particularly convenient for married students, because it does not begin to collect interest until one year after the borrowing student completes his formal education. If a male enters the service after finishing school, the interest is postponed for three more years.
Married students also often work at part time jobs. About 50 per cent of the employment is provided by the university. The
other 50 per cent work in Lawrence. Some husbands do odd jobs for pay or for a reduction in rent. One student painted apartments for his landlord to take care of the first month's rent.
ONE COUFLE, both seniors at KU. manage an apartment house for graduate women.
Married women students are often in demand as baby sitters. Some couples "live in" and baby sit for the landlord's children whenever they are needed. A sophomore couple lives in a cottage behind the landlord's house. They live rent-free and, in exchange, are available to baby sit at any time.
Those students with a little more time and imagination go into business for themselves. A married woman student baked 60 dozen cookies and 30 dozen cupcakes each week. Her husband took weekly orders and distributed the pastries to the dorms. They charged $1.50 for two dozen cookies and one dozen cupcakes.
PARENTS ARE often a major source of income. Many of these parents began married life during the depression years when a combination of marriage and school children would have been nearly impossible. They are very
loans and jobs
aware of the financial struggle in early marriage.
The usual agreement is that the parents will give their son or daughter the same amount they would have spent if the student had stayed in the hall, sorority or bachelor apartment.
In the university community, two can often live cheaper than one. A student living in an organized living group will spend from $1,300 to $2,000 yearly. The combined expenses of two students would be from $2,600 to $4,000 each year. Most married students without children live on less than $4,000 a year.
IN THE FIRST place, students save on expenses that plague married couples outside the university community. Few couples have an income of more than $6,000 a year. Their salary is virtually tax free. Medical insurance is provided at reduced rates and university hospital privileges are always available at little expense.
The majority of KU married students do not find the double role of student and spouse a burden. Many are sentimental about leaving the university community where other counties have common interests and problems.
Canadians to oust minister who exposed sex scandal
OTTAWA — (UPI) — Parliament acts today on a move to oust a cabinet minister who removed the lid from a five-year-old sex scandal rivaling Britain's Christine Keeler case.
Justice Minister Lucien Cardin charged yesterday that "several" ministers in the former government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker were romantically involved with Gerta Munsinger, a blonde East German beauty queen with a background of espionage in Europe.
CONSERVATIVES IN Parliament immediately launched moves to force the American-born Cardin to resign. The furor could topple the government of Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson who took power when the Conservatives were voted out in 1963.
Cardin, a Liberal, levelled his charges at an unusually candid news conference, saying he wanted a judicial inquiry because of a "bona fide security" that in ways was "worse" than Britain's 1963 scandal involving party girl Koeler and Defense Minister John Frefumo.
Cardin said that while he was an associate defense minister he learned of the relationship between Miss Munsinger and several cabinet ministers. "Ministers?" asked newsmen who had heard reports of only one cabinet member involved. "Ministers—plural." Cardin replied.
HE SAID ALSO THAT earlier rumors of the girl had classed her only as a "security risk," but it was now known she had once been an espionage agent.
Geologist, director returns from data processing meet
Hambleton also presented a paper about the demands on geological education at a seminar sponsored by the American Institute on Mining and Metallurgical Engineering in New York.
William W. Hambleton, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey and professor of geology at KU, has returned from Denver after consulting with the Petroleum Information Corporation about the data-processing project he directs at KU.
In a Washington, D.C., meeting he joined representatives of other college commissions supported by the National Science Foundation as chairman of the Council on Education in the Geological Sciences.
Flash flood hits Jordon
Hambleton also joined other geologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians in El Paso, Tex., who were exploring problems and laboratory exercises for introductory courses in their fields.
BEIRUT — (UPI)— At least 45 persons were reported killed and more than 100 injured early today when a flash flood virtually wiped out the southern desert city of Mann in Jordan. Prime Minister Wasfi Tel was rushing to the scene from the capital of Amman, 120 miles to the north.
area was announced by Amman Radio.
A state of emergency in the
Freelance journalist William Carter told UPI the town appeared to have been nearly wiped out.
"We know she had been engaged in espionage work previously," Cardin said. "But we don't know whether she was spying while in Canada."
A concrete bridge was washed out, cutting the sole road link between Aqaba, Jordan's only seaport, and Amman.
The justice minister said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has investigated the case and learned Miss Munsinger had returned to East Germany about 1961 and since died of leukemia.
Cardin did not name ministers allegedly involved with the girl. And Conservatives, in demanding later that he resign, said he had placed the reputations of all cabinet members of the time "under suspicion."
Kenya ousts Red diplomats
NAIROBI, Kenya—(UPI)—The government Thursday ordered the immediate deportation of four Communist diplomats and two Communist newsmen. The four
Heads for approval
WASHINGTON — (UPI) President Johnson's $6 billion tax package for the Viet Nam war today was headed for final congressional approval.
were identified as two first secretaries at the Soviet Embassy, a clerk at the Chinese Communist Embassy and the second secretary at the Czech Embassy. The newsmen were a Russian and a Czech.
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