ALUMNI NOTES Vacations are overlLeaves are fall- inglWinter is just around the corner! This is the time to start on programs and activities of the Alumni Associa tion for the coming year, and winding up those for the rest of this year. The Board of Directors will hold their monthly meeting on November 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the conference room of the Administration Building. Our Annual Alumni Meeting will be held in December. The date will be decided at the board meeting and notices mailed. We hope to have a large attendance of alumni present at this important meeting. Plans are being formulated for the U.S. Air Force Band to come here in the spring. More information will be forthcoming on this when we get con firmation on this scheduled event. Homecoming will be February 16, 1980, at The Inn On The Plaza. Plans are being made now. The Student Government and Alumni Associations will be working together on this. Reminder: Fruit cakes are here for our Annual Fund Raising Sale. Get yours to sell. Now is the time to sell these before the holiday season. They are in the Alumni Office. Call or come by from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to pick up your carton. Also for sale by the Alumni Associa tion as another fund raiser are the license tags “I Like Calling North Carolina Home." These are attractive tags in the school colors of blue and white. They sell for $2 each. Support your Alumni Association and at the same time promote your state by pur chasing one of these tags. Volunteers are needed to help in the Office once or twice a week for one or two hours. Call Chris Royall in the Alumni Office, 258-0200, Ext. 306, to arrange time. This is very important. Chris Royall UNC-A Alumni Association IT'S BASKETBALL SEASON AGAIN FOR "MIDDLE" INCOMES (Information from Financial Aid Office) Early in November of 1978 President Carter signed the Middle Income Stu dent Assistance Act. This is the most sweeping piece of legislation concern ing student aid since the Gl Bill of 1946. With the signing of this Act, sud denly millions more students are eligible for Federal help. Until August 1, 1979, generally only students from families with total in comes under $16,000 were eligible for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG). After that date, almost all students coming from families with in comes under $25,000 will be eligible for Basic Grants. In fact, some students whose families earn up tr $30,000 per year will be eligible. The formula for eligibility has been drastically changed to benefit an enormous number of students from middle income families. The other change in financial aid programs because of this Act is that now all students, regardless of family income, can borrow through the guaranteed Student Loan Program and have the interest paid on the loan until the repayment period begins. If you have heard from family or friends that you will not qualify for financial aid because of your parents' income, don't believe it. The rules have changed. Apply for financial aid. Another thing, because you are turned down for one specific program does not mean that you don't qualify for financial aid. Different programs have different re quirements. Examine all the programs. Don't give up easily. (Note: Eligibility is based on your in dividual family's financial strength and will vary from family to family.) For sports fans, November is the month when basketball becomes the center of attention for the frantically fanatical future. At least for the follow ing three months. At UNC-A, it will be Ladies first. Bob bie Quinn's Lady Bulldogs have first bite, taking the floor against Catawba College at Salisbury on Saturday, Nov. 17. Jerry Green's Bulldogs play Carson Newman College at the Asheville Civic Center on Tuesday, Nov. 20. The men play a 27-game regular schedule that ends Feb. 26. It includes 12 home games. The NAIA playoffs are scheduled Feb. 29. The women play a 23-game regular schedule ending Feb. 18, with the North Carolina AIWA tournament scheduled Feb. 20-23 at North Carolina A&T University. The women's schedule includes 13 home games. Published Bi-weekly by The University of North Carolina at Asheville Asheville, NC 28804 The Paper Editor; William M. Mebane, Jr. Director of Public Information Assistant: Sandy Ochsenreiter Secretary, Office of University Relations Student Editor: Mike Ochsenreiter Vice-president, Student Government Sports Information Director: Bob Terrell, Jr.

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