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Show 'Many ways to qualify for money' "There are all kinds of weird ways people can't qualify for financial fi-nancial aids." This is where the Outreach Program comes in, explains ex-plains Nancy Monroe of financial aids. The Outreach Scholarship Fund was begun four years ago to help financially disadvantaged students regardless of race, creed, color, or place of national origin. What makes Outreach different from other scholarships are the few restrictions; re-strictions; there only has to be a need demonstrated. Other financial aids have various strings attached, which makes them unavailable to students. Miss Monroe told of one case of a nonresident non-resident student from a family with six children. The ' family made $9,400 a year which put them $400 over the cut off level for federal student aid. Although the student was doing well he didn't have the 3.87 GPA to qualify for a Utah Educational Ed-ucational Fund tuition scholarship for non-residents. The student was also in work-study but still did not have enough money to go to school and live on. Outreach funds were used to enable this student to remain re-main in school when all other means of aid were exhausted. Last year 66 students were able to go to school because of the Outreach Out-reach program. They received Outreach Out-reach Scholarships ranging from a few hundred dollars to a top of one thousand dollars. All money that is contributed to Outreach goes to help students, the cost of admnisitrating the program pro-gram is paid by the Financial Aids office. Outreach gets its support from many sources. University faculty and staff are being asked to donate a dollar a month. ASUU is having numerous activities to raise funds, the first being the city clean-up on Oct. 14. Salt Lake City businesses busi-nesses and the National Guard and the University Planning office and Engineering Department have also donated equipment and money to 'he program. |