Scholarship Aid Forms Are Lost

Two hundred scholarship application forms mysteriously disappeared from the Financial Aid Office in Holyoke Center, sometime after it closed for the day, March 1. Unable to locate the missing forms, the office has written the undergraduate applicants to ask them to file new ones.

Overnight cleaning personnel may have mistaken the forms for trash and carted them off to be burned, according to Seamus P. Malin '62, director of the office. Secretaries had piled the forms in a cardboard box inside the locked office, after collecting them from students during the day. March 1 was the deadline for filing applications.

One disgruntled applicant called his parents to break the news. "How can they do this to me again?" his father asked. "To fill out those forms right you'd have to be a human computer or an absolute simpleton, and I'm neither!"

Malin said the incident would "slow us down some, but not disastrously." The office usually informs students of financial aid decisions in July.