GENERAL INFORMATION 17

The following classes of graduate students who are candidates for
higher degrees shall be entitled to exemption from the non-resident tuition
fee but shall pay such other fees as may be required of graduate students
who hold no official appointment: members of the teaching and research
staffs of the University, graduate fellows, graduate scholars, members
of the State Geological and Natural History Survey, members of the
technical staff of the Forest Products Laboratory, staff members of the
United States Department of Agriculture stationed at the University and
engaged in research, technical experts employed in any department of the
state government, and officers of the United States Army detailed as
students by proper authority. However, when any such person shall
have paid to the University as a graduate student seven semester or sum-
mer session fees, he shall be exempt from further payment of general fees
or summer session fees. In the administration of this rule, one, but only
one, nine-week summer session fee or its equivalent may be counted as two
of the seven fees above mentioned; also, the full amount of any prescribed
fee shall be charged.

Graduate students who are not residents of the state and who are not
members of the University staff of instruction or research, and who in
any semester pursue studies in amount less than half the normal amount,
may have their fees prorated in proportion to the amount of such study
upon securing the recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School to
the Registrar that the case comes under this rule and that he regards it
as one of more than common merit. However, the prorated fee shall not be
less in amount than the general fee for the semester.

SELF-SUPPORT

The University Student Employment Office is maintained to assist in
finding employment for those men and women students who are partly or
wholly self-supporting during their attendance at the University.

Students who have good health, reasonable ability, and a real desire
for a college education can make part or all of their expenses by saving
what can be earned during the summer vacation and by working part-
time during the school year. Students should realize that to do this re-
quires hard work, the sacrifice of some good times, constant application to
studies, responsibility in whatever outside work they undertake, close at-
tention to physical fitness, and careful management of funds. Many work-
ing students carry a reduced schedule of classes; the number of credits
depends upon the ability of the student and the number of hours of out-
side work.

Students coming to the University for the first time should have
enough to pay all necessary expenses for at least the first semester ($225
to $275), exclusive of tuition fees, clothing, and traveling expenses, so that
they may have time to get well started with studies and to find the work
i suited to their needs and abilities. See also summary of expenses

elow.

It is not practicable to make definite arrangements for a position be-
fore coming to Madison. In the first place, the employer usually requires
a personal interview; in the second place, changes may occur in the plans
of either student or employer, so that arrangements made in advance often
do not materialize and disappointment results. Neither is it a good plan
to come a long while in advance with the idea of finding work, as most
employers do not know their needs definitely until a week or ten days
before the opening of the school.