Miami Hurricane, February 24, 1976

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Stanford Discusses Tuition Hike
Schimmel
Elected
Ibis Editor
Eric Schimmel, a junior journal-i»m major, was elected Ibis 77 yearbook editor Friday The Board of Publications chose Schimmel out of four candidates
Joyce Bauman, a freshman from Tennessee, was chosen assistant editor
Schimmel said he will try to make next year's Ibia "a visual book that appeals to more than a small minority."
Schimmel has been an entertainment writer and a staff photographer on the Hurricane newspaper and a photographer on the Ibis this year. He is also a free-lance photographer
Schimmel studied cinema at New York University for three years before transferring toUM.
He will have a one-man photog raphy show in March in Coral Ga-bles.
New Wurhook Editor Eric Schimmel
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Most of the monev from the tu-tion increase will hi- going to increasing salaries of f.icultv and sl.ill and increasing finani lal aid lor students, according to IJM President Hr HenrvKmgStanford.
Dr Stanford said. "The trustees have asked the Administration to raise $.t million as a planning guide lor compensation increases as the budget for 1976-77isdeveloped.
"It takes $333.000 of new funds to raise compensation (salary plus fringe benefits) of faculty and staff members by one per cent above the level In the current budget. he said President Stanford said about $33 million, 57 per cent of the budget, goes to salaries
As many answers to student questions as possible are currently being gathered for a meeting I hurs-dav between the President Student tiovernment Pre-adent Auhin Hill and key members of the Board of I rustees, he said.
The meeting involving Presidents Stanford and Hill will he at the I ai nity Club Thursday afternoon at l w ith the Student Affairs Comittee of the Board of Trustees and its ( hairmanof the Hoard.
I his purpose ill the meeting will he to answer the question as to where the tuition dollar i.sspent About 150(1 students gathered at the Km k for a |>rotest against the increase last week.
President Slanlord said the tuition money Is currently being traced for the meeting.
Neither the fat ulty nor stall have received increases since June 1074.
Due to tin- precariousness ot the present budget, the only sources nl additional funds are new revenues and decreased expenditures. Dr. Stanford said
¡lie new revenue will he ‘rom the tuition Increase, and cuts In administrative and clerical positions, which saved $764,000 Iasi year, will continue, he said
Dr Stanford said campus Improvements, sueh as library enrichment and repairs and renovations ol classrooms laboratories and resi-dence halls will be financed through unrestrit led gifts, other revenues, accumulated rrptiir and replacement funds, and additional expenditure reduction
I he unrestrit led gifts centers on “fonimltment 25,” whith Is a lurid raising campaign tr* raise $25 million In unrestricted donations
The purpose of "( ommilment 2.V is to raise the money over a j»e-rind of three years that would he payable in the five years
I he monev will he used to improve the rampus, reduce < urrent indebtedness and to provide for funds needed to maintain a steady cash (low.
I hi- repair and replacements funds have been set aside under trust indentures required by the I ederal (iovernment, Dr. Stanford said.
The money from the tuition In-< rease will he used for financial aid for students along with salary increases, he said
Dr Stanford said most of the revenues from the Medical School tuition increase will be used to off. set losses In support Irom the Federal government
Carni Gras
No one looking at the Intramural field Wednesday night would have believed it, but Carni Graa ’78 did get off to a start Thursday night, and went on Friday and Saturday for three night« of lights and noiaea and ride* and, generally, the bedlam that carnivals art made of.
Pliohts h\ Slei e 11si\
All Areas
Bachelor of Fine Artsdi gree
"This program Is murh more professionally oriented and has pul us among the top 10 programs in the country." Dr Diers said.
"Our students must now take tat instead of the old credits in drama and are more involved in performance courses
"Once they reach the perfnr-man<e level, they usually come through with good performance*.
Since our enrollment ha doubled in the last seven years, the good per-lormances have also Increased
Even in the traditionally difficult business and sc lent e courses, students markedly improved their scores
The courses with the smallest percentage ol A s are politics and public affairs (11 per cent,) physical science (12 per cent and civil engineering^ 14 percent )
Grades Increase In
virtually every department tinder the different schools saw the per-cc-ntageof high grades increase
The number of A s increased a maximum of seven per cent in the School of Arts and Selene es and a minimum of two per cent In the School of Education. The overall increase of A’s and B's was seven per cent.
In respective areas, the geology department was the University's greatest victim of grade inflation. Once one of the most difficult courses in which to earn an A (only eight per cent in 1971), the number shot up to 33 per rent in 1974
Geology Chairman Dr Cesare Kmillam credits the increase of good grades to better facilities, new equipment and materials and better instructors
"We had nothing four years ago," Dr tmiliani said "Now we have a new system of Instrumentation and as a result we have had a marked improvement In the students who have joined our department "
Dr Fmiliani said the rise of grades in his department is not a result of the lowering of requirements.
"As a matter of fact, we have stiffened them," he said "We compared the tests we give today with the ones of four years ago and they show how much our students have Improved. They are earning tHeir grades."
Also recording major iumps in the last four years were the drama deaprtment. where the percentage of A s doubled, and the military science and art departments, where the number Increased by 14 percent, cent
Drama Department Chairman Herman Diers said the Improvement of grades is a credit to students and recent change* requiring students to fulfil more requirements tfor a
Nursing; Students Receive Third Chance On Exam
By AL LEN/A
Humean#	Wrtttr
Forty nurs'ng students have succeeded in getting a third chance to pass an examination that determines if they can continue in UM's Nursing School.
The 40 were among a group of 60 w ho failed to earn the necessarv 90 or better grade in their Nursing 215 exam The course is a 10-credit requirement for all majors which previously offered the students two opportunities tomake the grade
But In a meeting with nursing faculty including Associate Professor* Darvl Nagel and Patricia Sea-.hrooks, the students asked lor modi'rat urnol the pre s«it s> stem.
"We didn't really want to change the selection process of the school," one student said “We just wanted them to make soiae changes to help relieve the pressuré "We (ace during theexam ”
The 215 course is the key course in l evel One of the nursing program It focuses on comprehensive health care and involves the knowledge of mathematics and its application
In the meeting, attended by more than 20 students last Thursday, the group requested
• The amount of time allowed for the 30-question test he extended from the present 90 minute*. Ac-
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By ALLF.N/A
Humean* ItaH Wrllar
Grade inflation at I'M is not v on-fined to any one academic area, records from the Office of Institutional Development Show
In a four-year period from (all 1971 to 1974, the number of A grades Increased in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Education and Business Administration. Only the Music School, where grades have been traditionally high, recorded a slight drop in the per-centageof A's.
“It's a problem that Isn't confined to one school," School of Education Dean Lou Kleinman said "We've had sonje inflation in our department, but we haven't been alone
Dr Kleinman's analysis is consistent with the figures, which show-
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