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Show Students Establish King Fund "It was a movement of conscience," con-science," he said. SEEK has received permission to solicite funds both on and off campus. cam-pus. As a result, the committee will set up a booth to gather donations dona-tions as soon as possible, said Israel. Is-rael. Spontaneous Support "We found almost spontaneous support for it," he stated. Other groups "considering this fund are the Intercollegiate Knights, Spurs, sophomore women's service organization, organ-ization, CWEAN, junior women's scholastic honorary, and ASUU. According to Israel, the ASUU officers will consider a resolution calling for a $75 donation from student funds this Friday. "In a token way, we want to demonstrate that there are students stud-ents and individuals that believe in social change, but, through methods meth-ods such as education," he explained. ex-plained. Trust Fund SEEK hopes to raise funds to make the endowment more than a one or five year program. They hope to raise enough to put into a trust fund, Israel said. When the endowment is fully developed, de-veloped, Israel continued, "We hope to involve at least four students stu-dents a year in the program." The scholarship funds will eventually even-tually be given to Financial Aids and Scholarships,' who would administer ad-minister the scholarships. "We'll soon be soliciting funds," Israel stated. "SEEK welcomes any contributions from the students and community members. We'll be collecting at a booth starting Thursday." By DARRELL LEO Chronicle Staff Writer Moved by the violent death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., University Uni-versity students organized a special fund raising project to provide a scholarship to outstanding student leaders of minority groups. According to Kay Israel, member of the committee, the College Republicans, Re-publicans, Young Democrats, Pi I Sigma Alpha, the political science honorary, Intercollegiate Knights and the Hinckley Institute joined forces to sponsor Student Educational Educa-tional Endowments for King (SEEK). "We want to raise a scholarship or grant that will be given to a student stu-dent within one of the major noted minority groups, who has demonstrated demon-strated leadership ability within his high school," he said. Social Sciences "It will go to a person," he stated, stat-ed, "who wishes to continue his studies in the social sciences at the University." He continued that SEEK started because of the concern of many individuals in-dividuals who were moved enough after Rev. King's death, to try to make a positive step to try and counter racial hatred and violence. |
