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University Daily Kansan Friday, Feb. 9, 1962
Citizens Aid Students With HELP-KU Program
By Walt Blackledge
Lawrence citizens have helped KU students with loans amounting to nearly $23,000 in a unique program called Lawrence HELP-KU (Higher Education Loan Program), now entering its second year.
Students have borrowed amounts ranging from $40 to $400. At the present time, all the $15,350 in the fund is in use.
The size of the fund and the amount loaned last year show how the short-term HELP-KU loans do extra duty. Maurice Barker, executive secretary of the Greater University Fund (GUF), said each dollar was used about one and a half times this year.
(Note: GUF, the Endowment Association's "right arm", promotes donations of all amounts, which provide immediately available funds for such things as scholarships, loans, fellowships and educational
"WE TRY to turn the money over as rapidly as possible in order to make it available to others," Mr. Barker said.
SMOP Tickets To Extend Hours
March 3 will be KU Women's Memorial Scholarship Late Night. The purchase of a 50 cent ticket will extend women's closing hour to 2 a.m.
Scholarship Money is Our Purpose (SMOP) is the theme of the scholarship drive.
Late night tickets will go on sale Feb. 19 at all organized women's houses. Tickets will be available at unscheduled times after Feb 19 in men's organized living groups.
The proceeds from the late night ticket sales will go to the KU Women's Memorial Scholarship Fund. The money raised for the fund, which was founded in 1957, will go toward scholarships for KU women in honor of women who died while enrolled at the university.
The Associated Women Students conducted a campaign earlier within individual organized women's houses, to raise money for the scholarship fund.
facilities. It helps the Lawrence committee of HELP-KU in its campaigns.)
Loans are increasingly important to KU students. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has said at least 2,500 students now at KU would not be here if it were not for scholarship and loan funds.
TEN YEARS AGO, student loans amounted to less than $100,000 a year. More than $600,000 has been borrowed so far this year, and Chancellor Wesco predict it will amount to $800,000 by the end of the year.
Lawrence HELP-KU leaders hope to more than double the size of their loan fund with this year's drive. However, Dolph C. Simons Jr., chairman of the program, said that the group hoped for another, equally important result.
Mr. Simons said they wanted "to get as many people as possible to contribute." to give more Lawrence people a feeling of participation in the University.
THE COMMITTEE was very pleased with the enthusiasm generated by last year's campaign, Mr. Simons said. According to Mr. Barker, the HELP-KU campaign more than doubled the number of Lawrence residents giving to the University.
Mr. Barker also said that other cities were interested in similar
Engravings of Rome To Be Used in Union
The Museum of Art has lent a series of Piranesi engravings to the Kansas Union for use in decorating the Forum Room.
Piranesi was an 18th Century artist who wished to record ancient Rome in two series of engravings. The series, "Roman Antiquities" and "Views of Rome," represent the "greatest pictorial biography ever done of Rome." Gerald Bernstein, curator of the Museum, said.
Among the engravings in the Forum Room are views of the Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Greek Temple at Pacstum, the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoll, and a Neroian Aqueduct.
programs. Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, underlined the importance of the Lawrence example to alumni in other places.
"The alumni living away from Lawrence feel that the people of Lawrence are close to the situation and know what is needed. The fact that the people of Lawrence support on a broad basis our student loan program encourages others away from Lawrence to give for the same purpose." Mr. Youngberg said.
"I have the feeling that we at KU get the kind of support from the Lawrence community that all colleges and universities would like to have from their respective communities," Mr. Youngberg added.
Japanese Film Shown Tonight
"The Mistress," a feature-length Japanese film, with English subtitles will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Bailey Auditorium. This is the first in a series of four Japanese films to be shown during the semester under the sponsorship of the Committee on East-Asian Studies. Admission is free.
MARYVILLE, Mo. — (UPI) — An 18-year-old Northwest Missouri State student today claims the world record for twisting.
Mike Joe Clancy, of Roseville.
Missouri College Student Establishes New World Twist Record
Mich., stopped last night after twisting 25 hours, eight minutes, and 50 seconds. The record was 22 hours. "I wasn't tired," Clancy said after finishing the twist. "It's a good way to keep in shape."
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