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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspoper serving the University of Georqio community
Athens. Go. Volume 91, No. 1 Thursday, Sept. 22, 1983 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Tuition once again to rise 15 percent
B> 8FSAN LAtTETTI
H.-.I and Mark Mall H rllrr
Taking a seat in a University classroom will get
more expensive during the next two years and
University otficials say the prospect ot continuing
tuition hikes may be an untair burden to students
Unless the General Assembly complies with the
Board of Kegents' binding formula when ap
propriating the University System's fiscal year 1985
budget, students will he cheated out of the
educational benefits they are paying for. officials
said
"I am always sorry to see something happen that
hits the students' pocketbooks every year,” I.ouisc
McBee, associate vice president for Academic Af
fairs, said this week
The IS percent tuition hike that will take effect
summer quarter, if incorporated into the University
System's 1985 budget, would raise resident tuition to
$476 a quarter — excluding other possible fee in
creases Resident students now pay $414 per quarter,
a result of two previous 15 percent increases
The tuition hikes are an effort by the regents to
have student fees finance 25 percent of the system's
budget as outlined in the 1982 funding formula
Out of-state students will pay $1,230 per quarter,
excluding other possible fee increases They now pay
$1,1170 per quarter.
The regents approved the 15 percent tuition hike
last week and, just minutes after the action, system
Chancellor Vernon Crawford said tuition would
continue to rise indefinitely
Another 15 percent increase is probably for the
summer of 1985, with a few smaller tuition hikes in
the following years, Crawford said
The funding formula, the method by which funds
are distributed throughout the system's budget, puls
a cap of 15 percent on the extent to w hich fees can la 1
raised every year
Crawford last week said the tuition hike should
fund 24 percent of the system's budget
But McBee said the tuition hikes are fair only if the
General Assembly lives up to its part of the funding
formula.
laist year, the General Assembly, complying with
the recommendation of Gov. Joe Frank Harris,
passed a $586 million budget for the system. And
the only aspect of the funding formula the legislators
complied with was raising tuition by 15 percent
"In our opinion, it was unfortunate," McBee said
"We’re asking again that if tuition goes up, that it
(funding formula) be put in effect totally."
Cynthia Dollar, state at-large representative to
the Student Advisory Council, the organization that
represents students to the regents, said she hopes
legislators will not only raise tuition but apply the
other parts of the funding formula as well.
"We’re hoping they (regents) will apply more
pressure to the legislature to do us better this time,"
Dollar said
Dwight Douglas. University vice president for
Student Affairs, said that, although students should
pay for 25 percent of the system’s budget, more
money should be allocated by the state as well.
“1 find it ironic the only portions being im
plemented is the students pay more, and not in places
where students see results," he said “There has been
no equitable application of items within the funding
formula."
Crawford said he doesn't want the same situation
happening again this year
"We (regents) thought we had a gentlemen's
agreement and an acceptance with them
(legislators),” Crawford said. “And they should give
preference over other agencies to us,"
Because legislators virtually ignored the new
formula, budget items such as the Quality Im
provement Program rocievcd no funding last year
As a result, the equipment shortage the program
would have alleviated "has grown io lie even more
acute," Crawford told Harris in a Sept. 2 letter
outlining the system’s 1985 budget request,
"I would hate, for two years in a row, the only thing
to be funded is student fees," Crawford said.
Said Douglas: "The frequency of the 15 percent
increases are pretty abrupt in terms of the collegiate
career of any individual here "
To ensure the formula is funded fully and that
students see results from the larger tuition checks
they write, the University and the regents have
organized a statewide public relations campaign to
inform legislators just how serious they arc about the
funding formula.
The Board of Visitors, a University lobbying
organization, will relay to legislators just how im
portant complete funding is to students, McBee said
“It's partly a matter of understanding the needs
here," she said.
The regents appointed an aide to Crawford at the
monthly regents meeting in Carrollton last week to
“educate" legislators about just how important full
funding is to the University System.
"We’re trying to show and stress we are the place
for the investment, " Tom Daniel, the chancellor's
legislative aide, said last week. "Our aim will be full
funding ”
But whether or not the General Assembly complies
with other aspects of the funding formula, tuition will
continue to rise until 25 percent of the system's
budget is financed by students
As the system’s budget grows, the tuition increases
make less impact on closing the gap of 25 percent
goal, said Roger Mosshart. assistant vice chancellor
for Budgets
Mosshart said the 15 percent hike would support
only 21 5 percent of the budget About 23.5 percent of
the current budget is supported by student tuition
fees
But Vice Chancellor Dean Props! contends that the
tuition hike may close the gap on the regents’ funding
goal
“It would depend on the size of the budget that we
get," Props! said, "It might shrink if we don't get
what we want."
Well, finally ...
Student
center to
open today
By WILLIAM SMITH
After 14 years of planning and two
and a half years of construction and
delays. University officials finally will
unveil the new Dean William Tate
Student Center today
The 100.000square-loot building,
across from Sanford Stadium and next
to the University Bookstore, will
replace the obsolete Memorial Hall,
future plans for which haven't been
made
Several organizations already have
moved into the Tate Center, and the
main lobbies, study and TV lounges, art
gallery, game room, information
center, auditorium, printing and
copying center, and lounges already
have opened, said University Campus
Planning Director Dave Lunde
But while the construction is 17
months past due. the project still isn't
finished
A 500-seat cinema, a post office,
meeting rooms, a cafetena and Student
Activities offices remain unfinished
All but the cafetena will open next
week, Lunde said The cafetena, which
will probably be named the Bulldog
Room after its Memorial Hall
predecessor, will open in late October,
he said
Bob Nettles, the University’s Student
Activities director, said delays in
shipping bulky, custom-made kitchen
equipment have pushed back the
Bulldog Room's completion date
“Once we get the equipment, it
should only take three weeks for in
stallation." Lunde said "But until it’s
delivered, we don’t have much con
fidence about when we can finish ”
Nettles said the University Union, the
office of Student Activities. Business
Services, student clubs and a van-
rental office eventually will move into
the Tate Center
Nettles added that the new cinema
when it is complete, will be a vast
improvement over the old South PJ
auditorium, where the University
Union screens reduced-price movies It
boasts an improved sound system and a
35mm projector, and admission prices
will remain $1 to $2
Please See TATE. Page II
Carole Wheeler straightens up some of her information leaflets in the Tate Center. One of the center’s prime attractions is badly needed open space.
Staff photos by Sam Walton.
Desegplan on hold as officials argue over it
For an analysis. See Page 6
By BRIAN BRA.SWKI.I
Ked »m4 Mart Huff HrHer
As the latest desegregation plan submitted by
Gov Joe Frank Harris awaits the approval of the
Department of Education s Office of Civil Rights,
the plan already is drawing mixed reviews from
state and University officials
The plan, which has the tentative approval of
the OCR, now must be sent to the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund for its approval As the plaintiff in
the original lawsuit against the University
System, it has the final word on any settlement
reached betw een the system and the OCR
Even if the plan is approved, some University
officials think the plan will have mixed results at
best
“I doubt that it will make a great big difference
as long as we have three schools in the state that
are predominantly black." said Louise McBee.
associate vice president for Academic Affairs
"Why would minority students come here when
‘We are doing everything we
know how to do to recruit
more minority students’
— Dwight Douglas
they would probably be more comfortable
somewhere else’ It s a considerable expense, but
we re going to do it and hope it works ”
Dwight Douglas. University vice president for
Student Affairs, also said the plan would have
little impact
"We are doing everything we know how to do to
recruit more minority students," Douglas said
"We do not want to admit minority students who
will not be able to exit - that is foolishness
"The new plan can’t create more minority
students, and everybody is after those who are
available." Douglas said
Included in the plan submitted by Harris are
measures to establish minority recruitment of
ficers. minority advisement programs, recruiting
trips to other regions of the country and training
programs to produce minority administrators.
Harris also will ask the Legislature to spend
$21 4 million at four schools alone: Fort Valley
State College, Albany State College, Savannah
State College and Georgia State University to
improve facilities
Joining the protest over Harris' plan were state
Rep Billy McKinney, D-AUanta, and state Sen
Julian Bond, D-Atlanta Both criticized the plan
as vague, and said it would affect only five of the
system’s 33 colleges — the University, Georgia
State, Albany State, Fort Valley State and
Savannah State
In a letter to Education Secretary Terrell Bell,
McKinney and Bond urged the Department of
Education to only accept a plan that had "clearly
defined Affirmative Action goals and recruitment
procedures for each college in the system ”
McKinney also expressed concern that Harris
drew up the desegregation plan without consulting
black leaders in the state Hams earlier brushed
aside such criticisms, saying that all state
legislators were welcome to provide suggestions
for the plan
While overall reaction to the plan was
lukewarm, one University official was optimistic
over its eventual impact here
"1 think it will help," said Anthony White,
associate director of Admissions "It's not going to
have any immediate impact, but in the next three
or four years we will increase the number of
minority students by a small percentage each
year
"Once we can bring in some who are
academically successful, and have a good ex
perience here, then they will go out and recruit for
us Minority students who do wel here would be the
best recruiters," White said
According to the OCR, the plan now rests with
the NAACP Legal Defense Fund State officials
expect an answer sometime next week on whether
they will accept the plan
Red and Black Managing Editor Susan Laccciti
contributed to this story.