Miami Hurricane, December 03, 1971

              Students Ask For Stable Tuition

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‘A student entering the University today has no idea of how much four years of education will cost him'
-Stable Tuition Plan worker
Eugene Cohen
... finance V.P.
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By TONY PASSARELLO
0* Th# Hurrleant Slid
Petitions are being circulated today in the residence halls and the Student Union to gain support for a proposal that may help put an end to the continuing spiral in the cost of college education at UM.
The petitions, circulated by a group of concerned undergraduate students, asks UM Vice-President for financial Af fairs Eugene Cohen to investigate the possibility of a new type of tuition payment at UM.
The proposed program, called the Stable Tuition Plan (STP), would guarantee each UM student a constant tuition rate for the normal period required to complete his degree program as a full-time student.
Under the STP proposal, a student would pay the tuition listed in the University's General Bulletin under which he entered school.
Representatives of the student committee working for STP cited continuous rises in UM’s tuition over the past few years as the reason for the action.
A student entering the University today has no realistic idea of how much four years of education will cost him,” one said. "This creates great financial difficulty for upper-class students whose tuition turns out to be more than they had
planned for,” she said.
“This discriminates against students from low-income brackets who simply cannot afford tuition hikes.”
The cost of UM tuition has risen to 220 per cent of its cost of ten years ago. It has risen 67 per cent in the past five years.
Committee workers also criticized the recent credit load
cut as a disguised tuition price hike.
“They didn’t want to raise the tuition outright,” one student worker said, “so they decided to let us take fewer credits for the same amount of money. That means we’re paying more per credit, and we had an outright tuition hike of $175 a semester only two years ago.”
The STP proposal operating revenues es passed on to each
"We’re not out to screw the University,” said one STP coordinator. “We just feel that new expenses should be passed on to each incoming class, since they’re the ones who usually benefit from the money.
"There’s no reason for students who are already a part of the way through school to bear the expense of constructing new facilities they might never get to use, or of hiring new faculty whose services they will probably never get a chance to use.”
The committee believes that STP would help the University by attracting more new and transfer students with its promise of a fixed tuition cost for four years.
The committee will go to the Student Senate on Monday to request funds to mail out a survey to the parents of UM students in order to get their reactions to the plan. From there, the student petitions, along with the parental questionnaire and the formal STP proposal, will go before the administration for consideration.
The Student Senate meeting is on Monday, December 6, at 4 p.m. in the Flamingo Ballroom on the second floor of the Student Union.
Exclusive
Reinaldo Weiner is bullish on America-Phase II, see p. 3
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Voi. 47, No. 19
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Friday, December 3, 1971
284-4401
Editorials
Eric Joice answers Al Sunshine’s column regarding freedom of the press, see p. 4.
AWS Formulates Visitation Policy
By JILL H. MOVSHIN
Hurricane Women's Editor
A women’s visitation policy comparable to the existing men’s policy of 12-hour daily visitation in UM dormitories has been submitted to the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees.
The new policy formulated by the Associated Women Students’ Organization, will be studied by the Student Affairs Committee and then be submitted to the Board of Trustees for a deciding vote.
The policy, which would allow daily visitation of men in women's residence halls, was written by two AWS chairmen, Barbara Pearl and Bette Shore.
A poil of women living on campus revealed a want for the” revfsîôn of the existing-policy which disallows men from all women’s dorms except the experimental apartments.
The policy was written in cooperation with James Grimm, director of housing and Dr. Nicholas Gennett, dean of students, both on record as being in favor of the policies’ inactment.
“The biggest concern of the board members is the
problem of security within the residence hall,” Dr. Gennett said. “Board members have tabled the policy until they are able to meet with the director of security, take individual tours of the dorms to familiarize themselves with security set-ups, and to speak to hall council members and students on an indi-v I d u a I and spontaneous basis.
The poll of 74 per cent of the women living on campus showed that 63 per cent wanted daily visitation with 28 per cent wanting only weekend visitation.
“Each dorm will have the option of running visitation in whatever way they want,” Barbara Pearl said, “since thetje was a significant amount of women requesting only weekend visitation we plan to set up one area on a weekend plan only.”
This would mean that women would have to change dormitories if they did not find the visitation policy in their dorm suitable.
Grimm is prepared to accommodate the girls who wish to change dormitories. “We are hoping that the board will act on the ninth so that we will have January to get publicity out and to rearrange the girls."
Could Beßin 1973-74
Christmas Ending For Fall Term?
Beginners
Like 25 miniature disk-jockeys, 25 G. W. Carver Jr. High School seventh graders took in the scene at the main studios of UM campus radio station WVUM.
The group, Interested in public speaking, sponsored by teachers Jan Christie and Donna Gowers, was given the grand tour by Bruce K 111 u p s, WVUM general manager, who explained the fine points of radio broadcasting and conducted tours of WVUM facilities.
By GERRY HOLLINGSWORTH
Of Th# Hurricane Staff
UM’s long awaited academic calendar revision which would end the fall semester before Christmas vacation has been completed and is now awaiting approval of President Stanford’s Ad-hoc Calendar Committee.
According to Dean Robert Bock of the School of Bust-ness and chairman of the President’s Ad Hoc Calendar Committee, proposals to change the calendar year have been made. After approval from the members of the Ad Hoc committee, the proposal will then be presented to UM President Henry King Stanford and the UM Board of Trustees for final approval.
The Committee started working on the Academic Calendar revision several years ago when a few interested students approached the Administration with the revision proposals.
Although the proposals have been made, the committee still can give no definite answers on the change.
“We do not know how the plan will work right now be-
Executive Stipends Also Considered
Students To Vote On Fieldhouse Fee During SBG Election On Dec. 9,10
By JOHN REILLY
Murrican# N.wt editor
Students voting in the SBG election next Thursday and Friday will de-c i d e whether their money will continue to be set aside for the proposed fieldhouse or be used now for various student needs.
Students will also be asked to approve of or
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Inside
Today's
•	Guest columnist Rocky Walters discusses species suicide, p. 5.
•	For the Thanksgiving ) Holiday football wrap-up, aae p. 12.
•	Editorials... 4
•	Gruber... 4
•	Hurricane Eye ... 7
•	Lang. . . II
•«Letters. . .5
•	Passarello... 4
•	Soccer... 13
disapprove of allowing freshman resident students to park their cars legally on campus. A 24-hour study center in the library during exam time will also be voted on as will an extension of library hours.
Student Body Government’s executive officers’ stipends will be on the line as students are asked whether the officers should have to demonstrate financial need before receiving any form of financial remuneration.
“The fieldhouse funds have been collected under a false assumption, we are not going to have a bubble and it would take us fifty years to collect adequate funds to build a fieldhouse. With many pressing needs facing us the entire fieldhouse fee must be redirected,” Sami Burstyn, Vice President of SBG, said.
“The Open Door appears to be growing in appeal to the students as the middle of the school draws near, to insure the continuance of the Open
Door and its future growth we will need continued sources of income and the main source of income is the students,” Dr. Mark Otten, of the UM Counseling Center and Open Door, said.
Dr Otten said the money, if sub-question F passes giving $0.10 to the Open Door per activity fee, would go toward furnishings, a library and upkeep of the Open Door’s premises. The Open Door is Apt. 49-K.
According to Dave Fischer, SBG Director of Electoral affairs the ballot is fairly complicated when examined.
If Question No. 2 receives a majority of “Yes” votes and subquestion A-H fails then the $3 in the Student Activity Fee reserved for the fieldhouse is removed from the activity fee and the $30,000 already collected will go to the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee to be distributed.
If Question No. 2 passes and if any questions A-H pass then only those
questions that pass will remain in the activity fee. The $30,000 already collected will be divided proportionately among those questions which pass.
STUDENT
If Question No. 2 fails to receive a majority of “Yes” votes and the subquestion fail then the money continues to go toward the fieldhouse.
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REFERENDUMS TO APPEAR ON THE S.B.O. PALL 1*71 »ALLOT
1. Da you favor requiring ».».0. Exoeuctva officer* (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary) having eo deaonstrate financial
l¥r* receiving any for» of financial remuneration? Yes______ Mi
favor revoking the $3.00 Student Activity Fee Pleldkouse Fund , and reapportioning it...	Yea	lie
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i^frOO to tip loVd of publica) S. $.30 to JfW^ation WVUM? C. $.4$ to tie del«lopnant of a
■ester of 1972, ae follows;
publication* (Hurricane, Ibis, Truck)?
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3. Do you approve of Freahnen, Reaidant students being f cars on canpus?
4. Do you fever the Unlverelty nelntelnUg a M hour study csnfcrin the library for the two weeks lsaudletaly prior te, end the ana weak of, i
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cause a change in the calendar will also bring a change in finances,” Dean Bock said.
Dr. Emmet F. Low, Jr., committee member and Associate Dean of Faculties, said that although he does not like the present academic calendar, the change would bring about some serious concerns.
“The break between semesters is a little longer than desirable. There will be a great security risk because the dorms will have to be protected with all the belongings of the students left in them between semesters,” Dr. Low said.
The Dean of Faculties also discussed the fact that ex-
penses to operate the University would still go on, whether or not students and faculty are here.
Dr. Low said that these were financial concerns to think about, although they were not over-riding ones.
The Calendar Committee chairman said that he could not give exact calendar dates for the beginning and ending of each semester.
Dean Bock said that the first semester would begin right after Labor Day and end just before Christmas. The second semester would be from the middle of January until about the end of May.
Here’s SBG Sample Ballot
... to Ite used in next week'» election
Non-Profit Store Gets Rejection
By MARK TARGE
Hurrtcan# tetortar
An on-campus record store Co-op proposal by Sami Burstyn, SBG vice president, has been rejected by the president’s committee in a letter from Eugene E. Cohen, UM vice president for financial affairs.
“If the Student Government can’t offer savings to the students then no one else can, that leaves us with a book store with a complete monopoly on sales with a guaranteed market of 18,-000,” said Sami Burstyn SBG vice president, commenting on the rejection.
Burstyn in a letter to W. F. McLaughlin, UM business manager, expressed his support of the proposal for a co-op record store on campus.
The record store would be a non-profit organization, aiding the students by lowering record prices. Thus allowing students to purchase more records for the amount of money they would normally spend on records; which many students consider a necessity.
The record store would not be some private business outlet on campus but owned by the Student Body Government, and since the SBG is an extension of the students, the store would actually be owned by the students
The record store purpose is not to make a profit, but the cost of such an operation will have to be met.
“To offer the maximum amount of co-op progress a very slight handling fee would have to be introduced, the fee would not affect the savings,” Burstyn said.
To meet this need a profit of $.05 to $.25 per record will be made. LP’s regularly selling for $4.98 would co-op sell for $3.00 while $5.98 LP’s would sell for $3.60.
The initial cost of opening the store would incur, stationary for billing, and equipment consisting of records, record racks, and security items, which will be paid for by the SBG.
Hopefully the University will provide free housing for the store so that any profit can be used to enlarge the stock as will any profits.
In the letter Cohen explained, “President Stanford asked that I advise you that the Administration does not look favorably on the establishment of a record store on campus since such a store would be in direct competition with the record operation of the Student Union Book Store.”
“The sale of records and, indeed, from all Book Store operations goes to amortizing the debt and supporting the operations of the Student Union. Thus the profits annually directly benefit all of our UM students.”
Although the Committee has been working on the calendar revision for several years, the proposal, If approved, is not expected to go into effect until the 1973-74 school year.
Student Body Government President Ray Bellamy said he wants to see the calendar change go into effect in the 1972-73 school year.
"I think Dr. Bock has worked hard and has done a fine job on the Academic Calendar, however l want to see it go into effect sooner," Bellamy said.
The SBG President said that the proposal was not scheduled for the 72-73 year because everything had already been computerized into schedules and bulletins for the 72-73 year under the present calendar year.
Bellamy said that after the proposal has been cleared with the Ad Hoc Committee, he will talk with Dean Bock and then to President Stanford about the revision going into effect in the 72-73 school year.
Dean Bock said that exact dates for the start and end of each semester will be scheduled after the proposals have been accepted by the committee, President Stanford, and the Board of Trustees.
Ray Bellamy
. .. impatient
SAFAC
Moves On Allocations
By ILENE ENTIN
Of Th# Hurricane Staff
The Student Activity Fee Allocations Committee (SAFAC) has taken a step towards alleviating the publications financial problems by allocating $6000 to Ibis, $5000 to Hurricane and $5000 to Truck magazine.
It was also decided, for the first time since SAFAC had begun operating, to allocate funds to student interest groups on campus, from the contingency fund.
Prior to this time, interest groups received a set allocation from the activity fee and did not receive any funds from the SAFAC contingency fund.
The interest groups to receive emergency funding were COISO (Council of international Student Organ!-
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