Students Start Their Own Fund to Improve Financial Aid

Some students at North Carolina State University want to supplant the work of fund raisers there, at least to a small extent. The students are starting their own endowment, to provide more financial aid.

Harold B. Pettigrew, a senior political-science major who was the student-body president last year, says he got the idea after watching friends drop out because they could not afford to continue.

It is not a first: A student group five years ago established an endowment that now

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