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The Red and Black
Athens, Qa. Thursday, March 11, 198a Vol.B9, No.77
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia eommunity
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Tuition may jump 15 percent in fall
By SUSAN BRANDT
Rr4 and Black Stall Writer
University students may be faced with a 15 percent tuition
increase if the state Senate passes Gov. George Busbee's pro
posed 1983 budget. Regent Lloyd Summer said Wednesday
This would raise in state tuition from the current $248 to
$285 and out of state tuition would jump to a total of $852 — up
from $741.
When Busbee had to revise his revenue estimates earlier
this month and cut $45 million from his proposed budget, that
forced legislators to incorporate a larger tuition hike into the
budget to meet the University System’s needs.
In his original budget message delivered to a joint session
of the House and Senate in January. Busbee called for an 8
percent tuition increase for next year.
Tuition is going up to raise the total percentage students
pay toward the cost of their educations, Summer said. Tax
payers must pay the balance of educational costs.
"The general rule of thumb is 25 percent," he said As state
funds increased over the past several years and tuition in
creases remain low, the percentage of student contribution
dropped. Student tuitions now constitute approximately 19
percent of the total costs.
"The University System will probably get to 25 percent in
three to four years," Summer said
Summer said the regents wouldn't be able to assess the
other possible effects of Busbee's proposed budget on the
University System until their next meeting. However, some
programs will have to be restricted due to lack of funds, he
said.
“I feel like we’ll still be able to offer an excellent pro
gram," he said. “Vital programs will be diminished, but not
cut."
System Chancellor Vernon Crawford, in his report to the
regents, said “It’s going to be a very austere year."
Crawford reported that recent budget hearings revealed a
need for $57 million in additional funds but said the regents
are only expecting to receive about $6 million extra.
"If we don’t get some major increases in funding, we will
have to look closely at the missions of our institutions —
especially Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia,"
Crawford said.
Haskin R. Pounds, vice chancellor for planning, summariz
ed reports presented by representatives from the University,
Georgia Tech, and the Medical College of Georgia at the
Research and Extension Committee’s meeting Tuesday.
The reports outlined the impact of federal budget cuts on
research at their respective institutions.
"In terms of funding at the University of Georgia the
outlook is really optimistic,” Nathan Dean, assistant vice
president for research at the University told the committee
"This administration does understand and does support
basic research in the universities."
Dean said that although the overall research budget will
decrease, the cuts are not in areas in which the University is
strongly funded. The "hard sciences,” like chemistry and
physics, are receiving increased funding, while social
science and education research funding is decreasing, he
said.
Moreover, Dean said that some discrepancies exist in
salary and equipment areas. “The equipment problem is get
ting serious," he said
Agriculture Dean William Klatt presented the committee
with a report on agricultural research. Although the overall
picture for agricultural research funding at the Unviersity is
bright, he said, some programs will suffer. Forestry
research, animal health research and the cooperative
fisheries and wildlife programs have all had their budgets
reduced.
“President Reagan's fiscal year 1983 budget is generally
supportive of agricultural research and extension," Flatt's
report said. He pointed out, however, that prolonged budget
cuts could result in the consumer's paying more for
agricultural products.
In other business. Regent 0. Torbitt Ivey was elected
chairman of the board for next year, and Summer was
elected vice chairman Traditionally, the vice chairman suc
ceeds the chairman for the following year.
In addition, Crawford, Vice Chancellor H. Dean Propst,
Executive Secretary Henry Neal and Treasurer Shealy Mc
Coy were all re-cleetcd to their current positions for the com
ing year,
— Red and Bloch Assistant News Editor Sylvia Colwell
assisted in preparing this story.
Students poor, study says
By SYLVIA COLWELL
Krd and Black Aaalaiant Nrwa Kdttor
ATLANTA — Lack of money is a
serious problem for many students in
Georgia’s post-secondary schools,
members of the Governor's Committee
on Post-secondary Education told the
Board of Regents Wednesday.
Staff Director David Morgan and
Charles Nash, education dean at Arm
strong State College, presented the
committee’s report. The report also
concluded that there are deficiencies in
the ability of Georgia's institutions to
meet the needs of the changing com
position of their student bodies and to
provide educational and career
counseling services.
Post-secondary institutions include
private and state colleges and
universities, vocational-technical in
stitutions and proprietary or profit
making institutions
Financial aid figures show an unmet
Inflation: Devaluation of the scholar
First of two articles
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Rrri and Black Stall Writer
He is. in many ways, a typical
University professor.
He is 47, married and lives in a
subdivision on the outskirts of town.
He’s a professor of philosophy, and he
views the teaching profession as
something special — a “calling” with
important intangible rewards,
however infrequent they are.
His salary, among the highest in his
department, is $33,000 this year. That
might seem like a comfortable living.
But Frank Harrison doesn't see it that
way.
"I just feel bad when my wife says
about every two years, ‘Gee, I sure
would like a couple of new dresses.' I
have to say, Well, maybe next
month.’” Harrison says. "To me
there’s something awfully bitter
about that."
Although Harrison is still solidly
middle-class by almost any standard,
he has nonetheless seen his salary
lose steady ground to inflation. Since
his promotion to full professor nine
years ago, his pay has gone up 99
percent, while the cost of living as
measured by the government’s
Consumer Price Index has risen 120
percent.
That translates into a noticeable
decline in the material well-being he
and his wife enjoy. And Harrison isn’t
alone The average University faculty
member has been caught over the
past 10 years in a ruthless spiral of
nationwide scope, with salary in
creases failing — sometimes by large
margins — to keep up with increases
in the cost of living.
While many other groups in society
have kept up with or gained on in
flation, college and university
professors have fallen way behind
The upshot, many academics argue,
is a severe crisis in faculty morale
and an increasingly serious "brain
drain" whose effects could rever
berate through society for decades to
come.
Consider:
• A 10-year analysis of average
faculty salaries, as computed and
published by the University, shows
that professors’ pay has increased 105
percent since 1971-72. By contrast, the
CPI jumped 126 percent over the
same period The average salary at
the University now, not counting
administrators, is $28,316
• Faculty in the lower grades have
fallen further behind than the
average, with salaries over the 10-
year period rising 87 percent for
assistant professors and 94 percent
The Professor’s
Shrinking Salary:
A crisis in
Even at $86,200a year,
Davison feels the pinch
for associate professors. Inflation's
bite is particularly severe for those
groups, because they are by necessity
the most mobile faculty members If
they wish to buy homes when thry go
to new schools, they must — unlike the
older colleagues — accept mortgages
with double-digit interest rates.
• There is little prospect for
meaningful salary improvement this
year, as Gov. George Busbee and the
state legislature have tentatively
agreed to cost-of-living pay raises of
4,75 percent for teachers
• Nationwide salary surveys show
faculty members all over the country
in a similar bind. Indeed, the situation
in many states is much worse than in
Georgia, with college-enrollment
declines forcing wholesale layoffs of
tenured and untenured faculty, and
tightening the academic job market
considerably.
“There are things other than pay
for us to worry about now," says
Virginia Meehan, an English
professor at West Georgia College in
Carrollton. “Getting a job at all, for
one."
• Time Inc found in 1979 that many
workers in society were keeping up
with inflation or actually moving
ahead. Discounting for inflation and
higher taxes, the income of the
average Social Security recipient had
risen 59 percent since 1967. liie figure
was 32 percent for steel workers, 14
percent for truck drivers, and 4.5
percent for plumbers.
Corporate lawyers, beginning
accountants and welfare recipients
had all lost ground — and University
professors were at the bottom of the
stack, with a loss in income after
taxes and inflation of 17.5 percent
To be sure, teaching has never been
a lucrative profession, and many
faculty members would do it all over
again because of intangible rewards
like the satisfaction of contributing to
new knowledge and of educating
students. “I love it," Harrison says.
“I am one of these old-fashioned
people who believe in the sanctity ol
the classroom. That's where my heart
is.”
But he and many others feel a
growing bitterness toward a society
that seems to value their talents and
contributions less and less. "There’s
been the assumption that the
professor lives the life of the mind and
doesn’t care about material things,"
says Art Waterman, a professor at
Georgia State University who is ac
tive in the American Association of
University Professors. “That is just
not true."
Please See FACULTY, Page 5
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Knl anil Black Stall Writer
At a salary of $86,200 a year, with a
free house thrown in to sweeten the
pot, Fred Davison isn't poor
But the University president isn't
rich either, at least not in relative
terms. Davison has, over the last 10
years, lost ground to inflation more
rapidly than the average faculty
member The Consumer Price Index
in that period went up 126 percent and
the average faculty salary was up 105
percent. Davison's salary went up
just over 100 percent, from $43,000 in
1971-72.
Davison's assistant, Albert Jones,
has done better — from $21,000 to
$45,500 in 10 years, or an increase of
117 percent,
Davison's secretary, Connie
Penley, has been quite successful at
battling inflation — her salary was up
129 percent over 10 years, actually
ahead of the increase in the CPI. At
$23,500 this year, she is paid better
than many junior faculty members.
Vice President for Academic Af
fairs Virginia Trotter’s salary is
$75,500 this year, just ahead of law
school Dean J Ralph Beaird's $74,500
Beaird is the highest-paid of all the
deans The lowest is Dean Robert
Nicholls of environmental design, who
will make $49,500
High administrative salaries, which
as a rule are well ahead of faculty
salaries, raise the hackles of some
professors.
"I'm puzzled by the magnitude of
some of those salaries," said Walter
O'Briant, the local American
Association of University Professors
president "I just find it hard to
believe that the skills and the
responsibilities involved in some of
those high-salaried administrative
posts are that much different in their
demands from those that arc placed
on faculty members.”
Davison is among the better paid of
University presidents in the South.
For example, Davison makes about
$12,000 a year more than Auburn
University President Hanley Fun
derburk, though Auburn has about the
same number of students as the
University.
Such comparisons can be hazar
dous, however Not only do in
stitutions vary in quality, but the
fringe benefits that administrators
get can also vary. For example,
Funderburk's perks Include not only a
house but a car.
Faculty Salaries vs. Inflation
$30,000
$25,000
$20,000
$15,000
1972 73 1973 74 1974 75 1975 79 1976 77 1977 7$ 1979 79 1979 90 1990 91 1991 92
The red line shows where faculty salaries' would be had they kept pace with the rise in the Consumer Price Index over the laat
10 years. The average faculty salary for 1991 92 would be %31,151. The black line represents actual salaries. This year’s actual
average is S29.316. Such an analysis does not take Into account the effect of higher taxes, which would further weaken
salaries. Though the average salary appears to run ahead of Inflation for 1972 73 and 1973 74, the figures actually reflect a
one time salary increase that helped make up for lost ground early In the decade.
Mike Ray: raising a ‘racquet,’ having a ball
By KEVIN WALL
Rr4 tad BUrk» ontribsitmg Hrnrr
At noon Stegeman gym is quiet It is the only
hour of the day when there are no classes and the
floor is not crowded with students playing basket
ball, badminton and racquetball
At this lunch hour there are only six guys in the
gym, playing a game of half-court basketball
They play hard: cutting, passing, shooting A
bearded fellow calls out the score after every
point The three shirtless players glisten and
sw eat dots the floor and the ball
The players pause for a moment as the door at
the end of the gym clangs shut and a tall, lanky
fellow walks toward them He looks as if he might
want to get in on the game, but he is carrying a
racquet and he passes on toward the racquetball
courts The game continues
Two more baskets are scored, and before the ac
tion can begin again one player asks, "What's that
noise’'' The other five stand motionless and listen
It's a sudden, sharp "pop" which echoes in the
rafters of the gymnasium It pops again, a
rhythmic sound which vibrates through the wood
floor and bounces off the walls It pops again,
slightly louder, and still the player listen It pops
again and again, quickening in pace until it
becomes like a pulse beating every four seconds
"It must be that fellow with the racquet," the
bearded player said "Let's play, it's 12-11." The
game continues
Mike Ray has been playing racquetball for five
years He began when he was 14, when Courtsouth
Racquet Club opened in Marietta He got a job
washing towels in exchange for free court time
When the club was not busy he would play for
hours at a time After a couple of months he
played in his first tournament, winning the junior
division easily He moved up to C division, but
struggled for a year-and-a-half before winning
He never took a lesson although working at the
club was a constant lesson He got to watch Allan
ta's finest racquetball players Then he would
enter a court alone and try to duplicate what he
had seen.
He entered B division but remained only two
weeks, winning two consecutive tournaments
After two years he had reached the rank of Open
competition, but it took another year of solid prac
tice and competition before he proved himself But
that he did, winning the 1980 Georgia State Rac
quetball Championship at the age of 17.
In 1981 he won 11 of 25 tournaments, finishing se
cond five times, and taking his second state title
With a partner, he also won the state doubles title
He has traveled as far as California and New York
to compete and has played against some of the
pros He is one of the two best racquetball players
in the Southeast, losing only to Florida teenager
Sergio Gonzales.
Please See RAY. Page II
need in Georgia of about $17 million for
the 1979-80 school year, the report said.
This means a lack of $400 per recipient
for that academic year. In addition. 73
percent of all student financial aid was
from federal sources, the report said,
making financial aid programs “highly
vulnerable" to federal policy changes
The report also said that student aid
is unevenly distributed. Black students
had higher levels of unmet need than
white students in 1979-80, the study said.
Part-time students had more unmet
need than full-time students.
Financial aid recipients from
families with incomes over $18,000 got
more aid than necessary, the report
said. The committee recommended
that financial aid programs be adjusted
so that students get only what they
need, and that the savings be used to
meet the needs of students not getting
enough aid.
One committee recommendation —
that students attending nationally
accredited proprietary schools be
eligible for state Student Incentive
Grants (SIG) as are students attending
other types of institutions — drew fire
from some regents. Said Chancellor
Vernon Crawford: “If an organization
is earning a profit it should have its own
aid program ... and not depend on the
state."
Regent O. Torbitt Ivey asked if the
"bottom line" of thi^ proposal was that
money would go to proprietary schools
at the expense of public schools.
Morgan said that was so but added that
although enrollment at proprietary
schools was taken into account in
determining the level of total SIG
funding, students at these schools do
not now receive state aid.
Please See REPORT, Page 5
Student prices
for football tix
likely to double
By DAVID NELSON
R*4 ■ltd Black Bull Writer
Student tickets for next year’s
Georgia home football games are
almost sure to cost twice what they did
this past season, but it looks like there
will be about 1,000 more of them to go
around.
Robert Bowen, chairman of a
University Council subcommittee of the
Intercollegiate Activities Committee,
told the council at its Wednesday
meeting that his subcommittee was
working on a plan to raise per-game
ticket prices from their present $1 to $2
effective next fall,
"It’s nearly certain that we'll see a
proposal to raise the fee to $2,” Bowen
said. He said the proposal would
probably come up for approval at the
University Council's spring quarter
meeting
The subcommittee's recom
mendation follows a study of ticket
pricing, allocation and distribution
policies at 13 other universities across
the nation Bowen said those in
stitutions, which included North
Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma. Penn
State, Michigan and Ohio State, were
chosen for the study primarily on the
basis of the quality of their football
programs, the capacity of their
stadiums and the size of their student
bodies
Bowen said that even with the in
crease, ticket prices here would remain
in the lower fourth of the institutions
surveyed.
The subcommittee will also present a
recommendation to increase the
number of available student tickets by
1,000, which would provide enough
tickets for 70-75 percent of the students,
Bowen said.
Doubling the cost of student tickets
would "eliminate any possible need to
increase student athletic fees," he
added
Wednesday's meeting of the
University Council, the University’s
official governing body which meets
once a quarter, began at 3:30 p.m. and
was over by 3:40.
There was no agenda for the meeting,
which consisted only of hearing reports
of seven of the council's eight standing
committees The faculty affairs
committee made no report