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Page 2—The Wayne Communique, WCC, Goldsboro, N. C., Oct. 12, 1971 THE WAYNE COMMUNIQUE The Communique is published monthly for the students of W.C.C. under the sponsorship of the Student Government Association. Any student interested in helping with the publication of the paper should see Mrs. Gurley or any member of the staff. The staff for this month’s publication was as follows: Acting Editor: Peggy Desse Assistant Editor: Cathy Clear Business Manager: Rosmary McCullen Sports Editor: Reese Helms Photographer: Craig Smith Reporters: Gene Shambough, Cynthia Langley, Francis Johnson, Roma Mason, Barbara Best, Toni Hermann, Gary Smith, Jean Edgerton, and John Barden. Treasure Untapped Have you ever dreamed, especially when it is time to pay for tuition and books again, of finding a hoard of hidden treasure? Well, for the strong of heart and persons of perseverance, your dream just may come true. The key to the whole thing is knowing and planning. Many facts to help you to know and to plan have been set forth here from an informative booklet Everybody’s Mwiey. Scholarships Available Among the wide variety of financial aid available to the student is the ever-present scholarship. The shame is, though these are popular, many go unused because people just are not aware of all of them. They are sponsor^ by all types of organizations and private persons and range from $100. to $3,000 to ^,000. Find out if the groups you are affiliated with offer scholarships. Of course most college catalogs, as well as WCC’s, offer information on scholarships. Check with these sources and send a scholarship application along with the admissions application. Tliere are other sources, but these must be ferreted out by the student. Federal Grants Many federal grants are also available, particulary for low-income families. Some offer an added bonus to those who graduated in the top half of their high school class. There is a free booklet for the asking that describes these grants. Write to: FEDERAL AID FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, Division of Student Aid, Office of Education, Washington, D. C. 20202. Aid to Children of Disabled Veterans Besides the usual GI Educational Benefits, money is available for children of deceased or totally disabled veterans. Studies have shown that less than half of eligible students apply for this aid. Benefits are for a maximum of 36-months’ training or education at a business, trade, technical school or college. And students do not have to be in full-time attendance. Contact your local Veteran’s Administration Office for further information. Students also can apply for Social Security benefits if the major family breadwinner is retired, disabled or deceased. Full-time students between the ages of 18 and 22 can collect up to $110. per month if they attend an accredited school. Many students are eligible for retroactive payments. Contact your local Social Security office. Similar benefits are available to children of deceased or disabled parents who worked under the Railroad Retirement System. Contact the nearest office. Also check with your state educational office about grants for children of disabled or deceased veterans. Some states even have benefits for widows of veterans. Loans at Low Interest Loans are an excellent source of financing too. Many credit unions have educational loan programs. Investigate them first. Banks, savings and loan associations, as well as federal and state agencies, may also have educational loans. National Defense Loans are probably the cheapest. An undergraduate can borrow up to $1,000. per year for a total of $4,000. No interest accrues while the student is in school. When repayment begins, interest is only 3 per cent per year on the unpaid balance with 10 years to repay, kudents who enter teaching receive a write-off of 10 per cent per year for up to 5 years of teaching. the LfTTLE RED HEN Who'll tielp tne ^ p pa-trto for dflllCC. For those teaching in low-income areas, the write off is 15 per cent per year and the whole loan may be cancelled. The Guaranteed Loan Program is another possiblity for financial aid. In many cases, the school makes the loan directly to the student. Check with the school catalog and apply for whatever funds are available. Similar loans are available to vocational students. For more in formation, write to Office of Education, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D. C. 20202. Many loans are available to students in terested in the health professions. Numerous financial aids are also open to people entering special education. Check with these departments at your school to see what financial aid they have. The largest of the nonprofit loan organizations is United Student Aid Funds, Inc., with 8000 colleges and 6000 banks participating in the program. The usual loan involves repayment beginning 5 months after graduation at 6 per cent simple interest. For details, write United Student Aid Funds, Inc., Box 444, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. Aside from scholarships, many local organizations also have loan funds for students from the area. The local organizations, high school or college counselors are the best source for information. Work-Study Programs Another form of financial assistance is the work-study or cooperative education program. The major source of funds is the federal govern ment. More than 95 universities and colleges belong to the cooperative education program. For example, some programs permit students to spend six months in study alternating with six months full-time employment. Although the program may add an additional year onto the college stay, many students under this program have found that by working half the year they do not need additional help. For a complete list of schools offering co-op education programs, write The National Commission for Cooperative Education, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York 10018. Mr. Siler of WCC has a list of all available scholarships and forms to fill out for application to these. See him. Getting financial aid for college is no easy task. It takes a lot of digging and filling out of application forms. And then you may not even qualify. But there are a lot of programs available, so check them all out. One of them may be your very own ’pot of gold.’ SMILE The SGA urges all returning students to welcome the new students with a friendly smile. Offer them your help in ad justing themselves to WCC. Let’s make a WCC a warm and friendly campus. SGA^ BRIEF The S.G.A. meeting will be held at 9,10 or 11 o’clock either on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Times will be stag gered and days staggered. This way no student will miss more than two classes per quarter. The Student Union The student union is for anyone and everyone. It offers food and drink machines, pinball machines, television, a juke box, a pool table, and lounging areas. All this action calls for a certain amount of housekeeping. Conscientious helpers clean tables, sweep floors, and answer any questions they can. Suggestions about the food and drink machines should be taken up with the supervisor, Mrs. Virginia Lancaster. She will check on these matters. The new union opened in March, 1971. Appropriations came from student solicitations, faculty and staff members, and gifts from area townspeople. Mrs. Lancaster remarked that it took “blood, sweat and tears.” What Is A BMOC? Between the time you enter college and the time you graduate, you’re bound to come across what is known as a BMOC. A Big-Man-On- Campus is really not so very different from ordinary people in college — except that the Homecoming Queen does his research paper, library assistants write his book reports, and cheerleaders save him a place in lunch lines. A Big Man On Campus is a natural bom leader. He leads girls to dark country roads, the faculty to distress, and the Student Council to anarchy. The BMOC stands out from the crowd. He’s the one who appears in the annual with groups he doesn’t even belong to. He’s the one who sends newsletters to the school paper about his social life. And he’s the one member of the class of ’69 who still hasn’t graduated. A BMOC is never a concert violinist, math major, or the president of the F.F.A. In stead, he is an all-conference athlete and admires Joe Namath. He is the captain and or- co-captain of every sport the college has to offer, from football to ping pong. A BMOC is the football star whose uniform is washed only once a season because he never gets it dirty. The BMOC has all the qualities that make men rich and famous; the humility of Mohammed Ali; the tact of Don Rickies; the quiet charm of Johnny Carson, the emotional stability of Fidel Castro; the simple tastes of liberace; and the morals of Hugh Hefner. But all the hard work that goes into the creation of a BMOC is all worthwhile. Along the way, he learns to influence and persuade; to see his plans become reality; to sway the girls by his oratory; and triumph in having his way be the one and the only way. By graduation, he has worked his way to the local draft board, classified 1-A and is ready to go! Intramural Football Stan dings College Transfer Sigma Tau Sigma Fish and Wildlife Delta Chi Omega Forestry w L 3 0 2 0 2 1 1 2 0 3 The Right Of Protest I am convinced that the majority of our high school and college students earnestly seek an education that is free of strife, agitation, and in terference. In short, I believe that the overwhelming number of them are being victimized by a small minority of trouble makers in their midst. I wish to emphasize that no one is more conscious of the basic right of peaceful protest than those of the law en forcement field. However, once the peaceful protestor turns to criminal acts he must suffer the full weight of the law. And fol lowing his convictions, his punishment should be swift and severe. Only then can we deter others from similar criminal acts. There are, in this country today, vast numbers of silent Americans. These silent Americans are solid law abiding citizens. But when they are aroused, they become vocal and will not tolerate the excessive abuses of the hardcore agitators. This is not to imply that we are against change. Rather, we favor change. But change must promote progress, and not be a step backward. Our task today is to see that change occurs with order rather than disorder. We must accept only those changes achieved trough peaceful, orderly means. The American people must not be panicked into actions detrimental to our national interests. And these national interests should be topics orderly discussed over con vention tables by rational people. PEGGY DEESE President’s Corner I hope all of you have settled in school and in your new home by now. Classes have begun and so has the SGA. The first meeting of the SGA was held on September 30, 1971. Representatives from each of your departments will be telling us the way you want us to act for you. So it is up to you to tell your re|M-esentatives how to vote on matters. Some of the issues that will be coming up before the SGA in the near future are the WCC, yearbool^ basketball, and student activities. If you want the SGA to try something, just tell your representatives. If he does not represent the student as he should, he can be replaced with someone who can. Intramural football is going strong now. Let me take the time to ask everyone who can possibly attend to please do so. Your team needs your sup port. In the complaint depart ment! It has been brought to my attention that some students are abusing the use of the Student Union. The Student Union is yours. The SGA and the school have done their best to make this a place you can relax for a while and be proud of at the same time. Our Student Union is one of the best in the state.
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