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Student cor Buffalo, N.Y.-(I.P.)-Scholastic Housing Company, Inc. at the State University of New York at Buffalo is a corporate organization whose job is to develop housing for stu dents in Buffalo. It is a unique com pany because it is run by students. A "not-for-profit" corporation, Scholasitc Housing Company grew out of Sub-Board I, another not for-projit corporation that is a dis bursing agency for the State University at Buffalo's student gov ernment association. Buffalo, and its metropolitan area have a notori ously low vacancy ratio - less than 1% which is far below national aver age of 3%. Finding adequate housing for the University population has always been a job. By seeking out private financing and federal monies, the corporation's new board hopes to be an anyor The Equitatale Life Assuranoe Socletyt of .For a free 18" x 24" poster of poration dev able to re-vitalize existing dwel lings and provide new housing units. Jennifer E. Washburn, vice chairman of the company's Board of Directors and- a sophomore in environmental design, describes the company in terms of its goals. "We are trying to provide fair cost housing for students which is in reasonably good condition, and as well, free up the existing low cost housing market for use by families. Though student initiated, the cor poration is not thought of as merely a "learning experience" for those involved in it. A Board of Directors will guide the corporation in its policies and will consist of eight stu dent members, two tenant mem bers, two University faculty or staff members and three members of the Buffalo business community. "We hope to manage the corporation in NeexaoUy the Unfted States. New York, N.Y. An Equal Opm.tunity Ernployer, MI this advertisement. write: The Equitable. Det. J. elops housing the co-operative spirit rather than in the legal (co-operative) sense," Miss Washburn adds. The University has no official connection or responsibility for the organization since it is incorporated by the New York State 402 Not for-Profit Corporation Law. In a let ter to the student chairman of the corporation, Mr. James W. Beall, President Robert L. Ketter expres sed confidence in the goals of tthe organization. "To the extent that their efforts (Scholastic Housing Company, Inc.) are directed toward providing sup plementary and additional housing at reasonable cost for students and others identified with the Univer sity, their activities represent a worthwhile activity by Sub-Board I of benefit to the students of this University." g. o l be Iike you THE EQUITABLE G.P.O. Box 1170, New York. N.Y. 10001 Sorcery "The sorcerer's world is one of weird and unexplain able phenomena, of incredi ble mind-shattering psychotropic drug experi ences, of eerie psychological powers, evil forces, spirits, and mysterious ritual." "Only as a warrior can one survive the path of know ledge. Because the art of a warrior is to balance the ter ror of being a man with the wonder of being a man." So speaks Carlos Cas taneda, next to Margaret Mead, America's most fam ous Anthropologist. A shy, retiring U.C.L.A. PhD can didate in Anthropology, Cas taneda met an ancient Yaqui Indian Sorcerer named don Juan Matas in a southwest ern bus station ten years ago. He was adopted as a spiritual apprentice by don Juan and exposed over ten years to the secrets of Indian magic and a perception of reality not contained in any of his Anthropology tex tbooks. Castaneda has recorded his apprenticeship in three successive books, and the publication in December Penthouse of the profile of Carlos Castaneda coincides with the publica tion of his third book. It is fact that Carlos Cas taneda has impressed the youth of America to the extent that he is their new spokesman in the area of consciousness and reality. Gl Bill pays for tutoring GI Bill students with academic problems can get Veterans Administration financed tutoring more easily under the provisions of a law that became effective October 24. The new law, which also Increased educational benefits, removed the requirement that a stu dent must be failing a course to be eligible for a VA-paid tutor. It also made tutoring available for the first time to wives, widows and children studying under the agency's Depen dents' Educational Assistance prog ram. Tutorial assistance first became available in March 1970 under Pub lic Law 91-219. It was designed for veterans and servicemen studying on a half-time or more basis at post secondary level who needed help in passing courses essential to their programs of education. For this help, VA paid tutors up to $50 for each month or portion of a month they tutored, up to a max imum of nine months. Under the new law, however, VA pays tutors for the actual time they tutor, up to a maximum of $50 a month. This tends to "stretch" tutorial benefits which elIgible per sons may continue to use until a total of $450 Is exhausted.