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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 83
Four percent tuition increase expected
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
For University students, death and
taxes aren’t the only inevitables. The
University System Board of Regents is
expected to increase tuition by 4 percent
at its April 11 meeting.
The regents’ agenda for the meeting
calls for the approval of the recommenda
tion from the Committee on Finance and
Business to increase matriculation and
non-resident rates for all University
System institutions.
The increases will take effect summer
quarter.
Matriculation fees for most University
schools will increase from $528 to $552.
This increase, combined with a $4 in
crease in student health fees, will raise
the tuition of most students from $639 to
$667.
Roger Mosshart, the regents’ acting di
rector of fiscal affairs, said none of the
other outside fees such as student activ
ities and athletics fees will be increased.
Non-resident rates for most schools
will increase from $1,056 to $1,104 a
quarter resulting in a total tuition in
crease to $1,771 from $1,695 for out-of
state students.
The four exceptions are the School of
Forest Resources, the School of Law, the
College of Veterinary Medicine and the
School of Pharmacy.
Matriculation rates for full-time stu
dents in the School of Forest Resources
will rise from $624 to $648 a quarter and
non-resident rates will go to $1,296 from
$1,248.
The School of Law matriculation fee
will increase from $982 to $1,020 a se
mester and from $1,964 to $2,040 for non
residents.
The College of Veterinary Medicine
will see matriculation rates for full-time
students increase to $750 from $721
Matriculation rates for the School of
Pharmacy will increase to $636 from $612
and non-resident rates will go to $1,272
from $1,224
Mosshart said next year’s total Resi
dent Instruction costs for the University
System, including student fees, should be
more than $1 billion.
Mosshart said, “The increase in stu
dent fees tends to mirror the increase in
faculty salaries from the year before Fac
ulty received a 4 percent salary increase
last year and this year fees are going up
by 4 percent.
“Students in this fiscal year are having
to bear the costs of improvements made
last fiscal year,” he said.
The increase in fees and costs for im
provements are due to inflation, he said.
According to figures supplied by Joe
Marks, a researcher at the Southern Re
gional Education Board, tuition increases
have actually been going down since
1985. In 1985, University students saw
an increase of 13 percent but the figure
dropped to 10 percent in 1986, 7 percent
in 1987, 6.5 percent in 1988 and 4 percent
in 1989.
Portion of student s Student artworks stolen from recently
thesis project stolen exposed work area on Thomas Street
Art students continue to use exposed area
Independent study sculpture student Lance Kencht sculpts at the sight of a recent rash of art thefts. The
area, outside of the South Thomas Street Art Complex, recently became visible to passerbys because o
nearby construction work.
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Recent thefts of irreplaceable
student artwork from tne South
Thomas Street Art Complex have
upset art students and left one
without a portion of his thesis
project.
Graduate sculpture major
Matthew Fine would’ve used his
six-foot granite sculpture stolen
from the area outside a studio at
the complex as part of his thesis
requirement. He said he wanted
to make an emotional plea tc
whomever stole the granite piece
to return it.
“It’s ironic," he said. “I think
the strangest thing is that the
people who really appreciate art
wouldn’t steal it, the people that
like it the most know how much
work went into it and appreciate
that fact.
“I need the piece for my thesis
show," Fine said. “Someone likes
it and takes it in a moment and
they don’t understand what went
into it, they just want it as some
thing neat for their house."
Jim Knecht, head of the sculp
ture area of the art department
with an office in the complex,
said, “Since the trees have lx»en
cut down out here and they
started to make a parking lot, we
have been exposed.
“Students from the commuter
lot pass by and we’ve become
more visible. It’s enticing and at
tractive to see the stone and
sculptures,” he said.
Knecht said he began to notice
Davit O’Keeffe/The Red and Black
an increase in thefts from the art
complex and began to keep notes
on the incidents. He has recorded
the following thefts:
• March 31, Sheri Klein, a
graduate sculpture major, re
ported her studio had been en
tered and two bronze sculptures
were stolen.
• March 19, Fine reported that
a granite sculpture was stolen
March 14, from an outside work
area.
• March 9, Alan Wilson, a
graduate sculpture major, re
ported that a marble sculpture
was damaged after someone tried
to remove the heavy piece from
the complex in a wheelbarrow.
• In February, Terry Breaux, a
graduate sculpture major had
her car window smashed while
parked at the art complex and
several items removed, including
a sketchbook containing a year’s
worth of work.
By MICHAEL McLEOD
Staff Writer
Recent Physical Plant construc
tion work near the South Thomas
Street Art Complex has led to a
new class of art collectors — one
that doesn’t pay for its newly ac
quired pieces, according to art de
partment faculty.
The construction has left the
area exposed and encouraged the
theft of several works of art from
the complex, art department fac
ulty said.
Interim Art Department Head
Calvin Hasbrouck said he sent a
memo to Physical Plant on March
21 stating that the occurrence of
theft and vandalism at the complex
has increased since fall 1989.
The memo reads, “Until recently
they were considered random inci
dents. During the past two weeks,
however, the number of incidents
has increased and the items being
taken threaten the instructional
program.”
The memo mentions the theft of
two students’ sculptures March 9
and 14.
It states that the construction
near the complex has exposed the
area and that a great potential for
future loss remains.
It also states that Associate Art
Professor Horace Farlowe said a
perimeter fence will be installed as
a part of the South Thomas Street
project and if a permanent fence
isn’t among the first items built,
some sort of temporary fence is
necessary.
Hasbrouck said that he hoped
the recent increase in thefts would
drop to zero with the cooperation of
Physical Plant and University po
lice.
Physical Plant Director Jim Ten-
Brook said he hadn’t seen the
memo.
think it’s a good idea, but
having an idea and having the
funding for it are two different
things,” he said.
“I think it’s somewhat specu
lative to say there is a connection
between construction activities
and thefts, but then again maybe
there is a connection,” TenBrook
said.
He said he would provide an es
timate to Hasbrouck on the cost of
a fence and ask if he has any ideas
for funding.
The memo reads, “All incidents
have been reported to Campus Se
curity and they have agreed to in
crease patrol of the area,
particularly between midnight and
7 a.m.”
University police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said the area was regu
larly patrolled and officers are
paying specific attention because of
the incidents.
Student Association ticket
wants increased awareness
Misty Lathem and Ian Henyon: running for S.A. vice presi
dent and president, respectively
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Student Assocation Junior Sen.
Ian Henyon and University junior
Misty Lathem have announced
their candidacy for the offices of SA
president and vice president. The
election will be April 17.
Henyon said he nnd Lathem
want to increase student partici
pation and awareness in SA
through newsletters, dailv press
releases and increased advertise
ment of projects.
Improving communication be
tween executive officers and sen
ators is a goal, he said.
‘There was a big lack of commu
nication between people in the ex
ecutive committee and the rest of
the senate this year,” Henyon said.
One of the problems was a void
in informal communication, he
said. SA suffered from an absence
of focus this year which he said
isn’t unusual for this type of orga
nization, but contributed to in
ternal strife.
Lathem said she’d like to see the
entire SA work on large projects to
provide unity.
“We don’t want to be separate
from the senate, we want to be
right in there working with them,”
she said.
Henv on said he and Lathem
started planning to run at the end
of fall auarter and they developed a
friendsnip as well a« a working
relationship.
“It's hard to provide leadership
for an organization when the upper
level leadership can’t get along,”
Henyon said.
The two also listed increasing
communication with the state leg
islature. the University Council
and Athens City Council as a
priority of their platform.
Issues they will address include
parking problems on campus and
in the city, possible changes in the
drop-add system and complaints
from students about the Univer
sity’s computer testing policies.
Both candidates plan to be in
Athens this summer, spending
time in the SA office and attending
freshman orientations to inform in
coming students about SA, Henyon
said.
Henyon said one of the pair's
best qualifications for election is
experience.
This year Henyon, a telecommu
nications major, co-authored a pro
posal allowing any student to
become a general SA committee
member; investigated strip
searching of students at Sanford
Stadium during football season;
helped lobby against drug bills in
the state legislature; and traveled
to Washington, D.C., to participate
in National Student Lobby Day.
He is also the only student
member of the Environmental
Task Force appointed this year by
University President Charles
Knapp.
Lathem, a political science
major, served aB a general member
of the SA’s Student Life Committee
this term. She has represented the
state as a student ambassador on a
tour of seven cities in the Soviet
Union and worked as a public rela
tions intern for NATO at its
London headquarters.
Her activities include serving on
the All-Campus Homecoming Com
mittee and the Wesley Foundation
leadership team of the Methodist
Student Center.
Olympic bid
organizer to
speak at
graduation
A lawyer who is leading the
push to bring the 1996 Olympic
Games to Atlanta will speak at
the University’s 187th under
graduate commencement cere
mony June 16.
University alumnus William
Payne is president of the orga
nizing committee behind At
lanta’s bid for the Olympics.
He received a bachelor’s de
gree in political science in 1969
and graduated in 1973 from the
University’s law school.
A former University football
player, Payne was named to the
All-SEC team in 1966 and was
chosen the university’s out
standing senior athlete.
Lockhart Rogers, the Graham
Perdue Professor Emeritus of
Chemistry at the University,
will speak at the graduate stu
dent commencement ceremony.
A pioneer in chemical re
search, he is the author or co
author of 258 publications and
holds three patents.
University President Charles
Knapp chose the speakers from
recommendations by the under
graduate and graduate com
mencement committees made
up of student and faculty rep
resentatives.
Branch Howe, associate dean
of the graduate school and a
committee member, said for the
past few years the graduate
school ceremony has featured a
retired, distinguished professor.
• Anne Marie Fanguay
Tracy Stenberg/' *e Rea ana BlecK
An angle wrangle
Jennifer Maslyn, a sophomore journalism major, is getting all the an
gles on this sundial behind Old College. Her photography assignment
is to get 36 different shots of the piece.