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Initiate Work on Resource Center The contractor for Mundelein's learning resource center, M. A. Lombard, will begin 18 months of construction on the lakefront site within a few weeks, Sister Ann Ida Gannon, president, announced this week. The initial work will entail fill- Director Predicts Increased Financial Aid Opportunity, School Employment Program Financial aid opportunities for Mundelein students have increased during the past year, Mr. Paul M. Crafton, financial aid director, an nounced recently. This year the value of monetary assistance programs totalled al most 534,000, representing an in crease of approximately 127,000 over 1965-66 figures. For the student who needs fi nancial assistance to remain in school, Mr. Crafton outlined four types of aid available: scholar ships, grants, loans and employ ment. This year 517 Mundelein students are attending classes through these programs. According to Mr. Crafton, the college fully finances Mundelein liberal arts, fine arts and upper- class scholarships. All are honor ary unless financial need is dem onstrated. Utilized primarily by high school seniors who rank in the upper ten per cent of their classes, liberal arts scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to incoming freshmen each year. The Munde lein Scholarship Commission, Mr. Crafton explained, has already se lected 95 students from more than 160 applicants to receive Munde lein liberal arts scholarship offers next year. The maximum tuition flF*: hi al '''* 11 sC' m WWWm p a f sKsL*r* M H *' s ?* Vf-nTaHal aWV- i SkyHcraper Photo by Kathy Riley IN PREPARATION for the new term, Mary Lou Brady instructs student aid Mary Connelly how to type cards for new books. Mrs. Charles Stearns, reference librar ian, looks on approvingly. stipend for new freshmen will be 620; however, Mr. Crafton added, students may earn a maximum of 400 more through student employ ment. Two or more forms of as sistance, or packaged aid, is very common at other colleges, he con tinued. Next fall the stipend increase for liberal arts scholarship holders from other classes will equal the increase in tuition, Mr. Crafton asserted. Liberal arts scholarships are re newable annually to students who maintain a 2.2 average. A list of students eligible for renewal will be posted early in May. Another type of college-financed aid, the fine arts scholarship, was awarded this year to 24 students. Fine arts scholarships are usually awarded to high school seniors who show talent in music, art or drama, and may be renewed each year upon evidence of satisfactory per formance. Furthermore, the teacher who works in an economically depressed area secures a 15 per cent cancella tion of her loan annually. After seven years a teacher in such an area can have her entire loan plus interest cancelled. While the NDEA program will Skyscraper Photo by Kathy Riley ON THE SWITCHBOARD, student aid Trish Gallagher checks the sched ule cards for an incoming caller, while Marge Race keeps busy as the receptionist and the recorder of messages. continue next year, Mr. Crafton explained, it is gradually being phased out by state and feder ally financed Guaranteed Loan Pro grams. Under the GLP in Illinois, commercial lending agencies handle loans, while state and federal gov ernments guarantee the agency a six per cent interest rate while the student is in school, and three per cent when her repayment period starts. However, the recipient of an Illinois GLP loan must repay it within six years and is not eligible for any reduction for teaching. Providing state aid, Illinois State Scholarships are awarded pri marily to high school seniors in the upper half of their class. Upper- class awards are also distributed by the Illinois State Scholarship Commission to students who are in eligible for the freshman program. In the area of student employ ment more than half of all students receiving student aid work on cam pus through the federally financed Work-Study program or the college student employment service. De signed for the most needy stu dents, according to Mr. Crafton, part-time Work-Study employment can provide as much as 700- 800 per year. Monetary value of the Work-Study program has almost doubled since last year. ing in a section of the lake in order to extend the sea wall further east. The sea wall will also be extended behind the religious education cen ter to allow room for the resource center's air-conditioning units. SISTER EXPRESSED the need for the formation of a student committee to gather suggestions from other students on preferences in the arrangement of furnishings, the snack bar and informal read ing rooms. Present plans for the ground floor include a lecture hall and an audio-visual room with theater- type seating. An informal reading room where students may smoke, read or take a study break is an other feature on the ground floor. A pie-shaped science lecture hall with gradually descending rows of seats going toward the lowest point in front dominates the western end of the first floor. A complex of special rooms for discussions and meetings is also included. The major portion of the first and sec ond floors is devoted to book stacks surrounded by tables with chairs. The books for each department will be grouped together so that a stu dent can study in one area without interruption. PLANS ALSO call for 300 to 400 individual study carrels which will eventually be equipped with audio visual aids such as tape recordings and educational TV. Highlighting the first floor will be a patio running along the south side and continuing on the east side overlooking the lake. Sister Mary Clara Bormann, head librarian, has played a major role in gathering suggestions for the center from other library ex perts. The new building will have a book capacity at least eight or nine times as large as that of the current building. Nevertheless, students who fail to win scholarships as high school seniors may still benefit. Upper- class scholarships are presented to sophomores, juniors and seniors who maintain a 2.2 cumulative av erage and submit a parents' con fidential statement to show finan cial need. For students who do not qualify for scholarships, yet are worthy of financial assistance to remain in school, grants-in-aid are available through the financial aid office, Mr. Crafton explained. In addition, the federally sup ported Educational Opportunity Grants program initiated offers ranging from 200- 800 to needy students this year. To stimulate good grades, the EOG program will present recipients who rank in the upper half of their class this year with a 200 bonus next year. Loans also may ease financial problems. Since the college is in volved in the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) loan pro gram, Mundelein students may bor row a maximum of 1,000 each year for a maximum of five years to meet educational expenses, Mr. Crafton continued. The three per cent interest on an NDEA loan does not accrue until nine months after the student has ceased to be a college student. After the nine- month grace period has passed she is allowed ten years to repay the loan. Teachers are allowed a special advantage under the NDEA pro gram. For each of five years spent in teaching, the NDEA recipient gains a ten per cent cancellation of her loan, entitling her to a maxi mum 60 per cent deduction at the end of five years. Students Investigate Policy, Diverse Positions in Vietnam Day Conference Vietnam Day, a program to in form students of the varying view points in approach to the war, will be held tomorrow afternoon, April 13, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in Mc Cormick Lounge. The program is sponsored by the Vietnam Day Committee, a group of Mundelein students concerned about the war. We plan to have a well-rounded program with speakers represent ing positions both for and against the war, revealed Mary Pat Kel- liher, chairman. Students can at tend the program and form their own opinions on the war based on the comments of the speakers, she added. Clark Kissinger will take the pro-national liberation front stand. A former national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, Kissinger is a member of the math department William Stanmeyer, an attorney and night-school philosophy pro fessor at Loyola, will represent the American government's position in the war. Stanmeyer is also re gional head of Citizens for Edu cational Freedom. Gordon Zahn, a sociology pro fessor at Loyola, will take the Christian pacifist viewpoint. Each speaker will lecture for ten minutes explaining his attitude to ward the war, commented Mary Pat. Then the speakers will form a panel, commenting and criticiz ing each other's positions. A ques tion and answer period will follow for the audience. The discussion will attempt to answer some of these questions: What is a just war ? Is there such a thing as a just war ? How does Vietnam relate to our domes tic economic policy? What has happened in Vietnam since 1954? What possible solutions exist for the war? Vietnam Day will be held in con junction with National Vietnam Week (April 8 to 15), sponsored by the Student Mobilization Com mittee. This committee is orga nizing the Spring Mobilization of the anti-war movement in New York and San Francisco Saturday. In New York, students will march to the United Nations to protest American policy in Viet nam and to affirm their respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination. Judy Rzezutko and Mary Laukes will participate in the New York mobilization. In Chicago's 49th Ward, a march on the local draft board will take place Saturday. Marchers will meet on Sacramento and Devon at 1 p.m. and at Howard and Sheri dan at 12 noon. They will then meet at Devon and Clark, site of the draft board, at about 2:30 p.m. The march is sponsored by the North Side Committee for SANE Nuclear Policy, the 49th Ward Citizens for Independent Political Action, the North Side Women for Peace and JOIN (Jobs or Income Now). Pianists Impart Force, Vigor in German Music The Music Department of Mun delein College will present A Pro gram in German Music on April 12 at 8 p.m. in the College Theater. The recital will exhibit the ele ments of strength and power char acteristic of German composers. Various works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, high lighting Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Shu- bert, Schumann and Beethoven, will be performed by piano stu dents Sister Laverne Sevilla, Bar bara Seitz, Connie Manka and voice students Virginia Dooley, Maria Palella, Constance Svete and Pa tricia Turner. The program will feature piano sonatas from the different periods such as Beethoven's Sonata Op. 2, No. 1, Allegro and Mozart's So nata in b Flat, K. 281. Among the vocal selections, two of Shu- bert's art songs Du Bist Die Ruh and Geheimes will be performed in the 60-minute program.
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1967-04-12 (1)
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