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Western Carolinian February 14, 1942

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  • & Thousands Trade Their Services to Uncle Sam DURING the 1941-42 school year about 500,000 different students are being employed on the NYA student work program. The wages they earn mean the difference between their being able to stay in school and continue their education and dropping out. These students are enrolled in 28,000 high and other secondary schools and 1,700 colleges and universities located throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. All of the participating schools and colleges are bona fide, tax-exempt, non-profit-making institutions. Some are publicly controlled while others are privately controlled. Educators in the various schools and colleges are mainly responsible for administration of the student work program. They select the students on the basis of proven need and demonstrated scholastic ability — no student being eligible for an NYA job who cannot perform or maintain satisfactory scholastic work in three-fourths of a normal curriculum. The school officials plan the projects on which the students work — care being taken to find useful jobs which are of value to the students and do not displace regular employees of the institution. Students are assigned, wherever possible, to projects that are in line with their major interests and aptitudes. Pictures on this and the opposite page illustrate the variety of jobs students perform. A Yale graduate student works at determining orientations of single crystals of brass by means of X-ray apparatus. Graduates are usually assigned to research work in their particular field. Under the supervision of his professor a Yale NYA student drafts plans for the construction of intricate scientific apparatus. NyAPhotoj Negro students at Jefferson College help with odd jobs at the school's farm. Here a cow gets a shower bath. \ \ This student earns his money by keeping the weather instruments in perfect working order. In bad weather this job requires steadiness and nerve. ^jrtsirsr"-^ l*ar£5K—— out library ness A future dentist removes plaster teeth from rubber molds. Late/he and his fellow students will use these teeth for classroom work.
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