Did y° u knoui? College Enrollment Up Despite Stable High School Population The Census Bureau says a 10-year decline in total school enrollment may forecast slipp ing college, but returning adult pushed up college populations 45 percent between 1970 and 1981. PROFITS THROUGH EXPORTS Export Seminar for Small Business and Presented by Senator John J. Shumaker 15th Senatorial District Continuing Education Conference Center Pennsylvania State University Capitol Campus, Middletown, PA 17057 College enrollment went from 7.4 million in 1970 to 10.7 million in 1981. At the same time, student’s median age climbed from 27.9 years to 31.2 and the number of students younger than 22 slip ped to 48 percent. Agribusiness October 4, 1985 Women’s club to give By Alice Martin The Capitol Campus Facul ty Women’s Club voted Sept. 11 to award a $5OO grant to a Capitol Campus student in memory of Regina Susskind, wife of Jacob Susskind, assis tant professor of social science and education. Mrs. Susskind died on Aug. 8. “Any full-time undergraduate or graduate stu dent working toward an ad vanced degree is eligible,” said Mary Heindel, club president. “The student must have a grade point average of 3.0, must show financial need as determined by the financial aid office, and must be of high character.” Students interested in the grant should apply to the finan cial aid office. Graduating students are not eligible. The grant -- eleventh since the club’s founding in 1970 -- will be presented at the May 1986 commencement. Award applicants will be screened by the financial aid of fice and selected faculty members. it 4* Jacdife. • • # *# _•* • <4 * ** w * •* 0* » #* 0* * The Women’s Club also sponsors a revolving loan fund, said Joanne Smith, scholarship chairman for the club. Students may borrow $lOO for up to 90 days, or $l,OOO per academic year, repayable after graduation, Smith said. “Short-term loans are used for such things as books,” said Smith. “Long-term loans are for tuition, repayable in accor dance with university policy in effect at the time.” To fund its scholarship and loan program, the club will sponsor a bake sale Oct. 9, 10:30 - 4 p.m. outside the Lion’s Den, and a Tupperware and Amway products sale in mid-November. “Orders will be taken from the Tupperware and Amway catalogues,” Smith said. “The products will be delivered to your home. The money from these sales will go to the student awards and loan programs.” According to Smith most students don’t know these loans are available. “They can get a loan from us when they can’t get it anyplace else,” she said. OFF ALL 10K GOLD W !/ I i One week only, save on the gold ring of your chi details, see your Jostens representative at,: Oak': Oct. 14-15 Plate: Lion's Pi ZBI-H I’ii.vnu'nt plans available. ©1985 Jostons, Inc JOSTENS A MERICA'S COL LE GE RING™ Graduated Savings. | OFF ALL 14K GOLD Time: 9am-7om award The objects of the club are to promote sociability among its members and to coordinate a program of activities beneficial to the university communtiy. The club currently has 46 members. BSU to have speaker at Capitol by Ken Stlggen A socially mixed Black Stu dent Union has announced plans for a speaker on Vietnam, two fundraisers, a dance and an Ethiopia fund drive. BSU of ficials made the announcements at their meeting last week. Last spring the club solicited funds outside the Capitol Cam pus community for Ethiopia. “Now the need is great enough again to solicit funds from the Capital Campus com munity,” said BSU president, Juanita Singletary. The club has planned another fund drive and has designated October as “Africare Month.” The funds will be presented to the Har risburg area Red Cross, BSU officials said. (continued on pg. 5) OFF ALL 18K GOLD ice. For complete lX'|X)sit Req.: $lO.OO
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