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lehigh university brown and white vol 86 — no 13 866-0331 bethlehem pa friday october 18 1974 tuition room and board costs to go up 350 glick announces by jeff bodenstab a 250 hike in the annual tuition for undergraduate and graduate students will become effective at the beginning of the 1975-76 academic year the increase in tuition in addition to increases of 50 in both dining service charges and room rentals was announced wednesday by elmer glick vice president and treasurer of the university the total increase in charges amounting to 350 adopted by the board of trustees at their oct 14 meeting is an eight percent in crease over last year's costs according to glick glick also announced an increase in the volume of financial aid and an endeavor to include more middle-income families in the financial aid program in a letter mailed to parents of uiiiversity students glick blamed the increases on spiraling costs a national financial crunch and double-digit in flation glick told the brown and white that the most important cause for the increases was salary adjustments for faculty and other employees he said this is due to the fact that salary and wages combined with fringe benefits account for more than half of the university's total expenditures operation of the power plant an area where costs have skyrocketed was another major factor glide said although most universities have not announced tuition increases for next year according to glick the university's in crease is about the same as most other universities that have already hiked their tuition he pointed out that franklin and marshall college recently announced a tuition increase of 8.9 percent compared to the eight percent increase planned by the university glick attilwl that an eight b&w photo by malik elmer glick . bb.w photo by conner y gov milton j shapp on p 7 college deans to discuss overcrowding problems by george now ack albert c zettlemoyer university provost will meet with the deans of the three colleges monday to decide what actions should be taken to solve the current overcrowding problem in the business college said nan van gieson assistant to the provost the business college presented its problem to the provost at an oct 7 meeting van gieson said at that time zettlemoyer asked brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics to prepare two models to be considered at monday's meeting one model will contain the minimum improvements needed in the college and the other the most desirable conditions the purpose of the meeting will be to see how the proposed changes will affect each college van gieson said she also said that she would like to see as many people involved as possible to insure the fairness of the plan attending the meeting with zettlemoyer and brockway will be john hunt dean of the college of arts and sciences and john karakash dean of the college of engineering samuel missimer director of admission robert stout dean of the graduate school and john stoops dean of the school of education will also attend concerning the hiring of more teachers for the business college van gieson said that three have already been hired she added that adjunct instructors have been hired to temporarily fill the positions of professors who are on leave of absence the gap left by the professors on leave is impossible to fill with an adjunct she said they just are not rounded enough she added according to van gieson any further hiring will evolve from suggestions presented at the meeting van gieson said the overcrowding in the business college is a rather delightful problem it shows the success of the college she added that it is just a matter of what can and must be done mayor seeks contributions by university by scott p en n im an the most significant step the university could take to help the south side com munity would involve building or helping support building in the fourth st central business district according to bethlehem mayor gordon mowrer in an interview wednesday mowrer also suggested that the university make a financial contribution towards the planned performing arts center in downtown bethlehem mowrer said the fourth st business district is planned to be a super block and needs new buildings the university could either construct or rent space in new buildings he said university support of the south side would reap reciprocal benefits mowrer said the university would have con venient office space and possible residential space he added the planned super block would offer an attractive area within easy access of the university and the south side businesses he said the university community represents an untapped resource for south side businesses mowrer said there is a great opportunity on the south side for businesses that would interest students he said businesses like clothing stores a bookstore and perhaps a restaurant have a good opportunity on the south side if the owners are creative enough to attract college students mowrer said the donation of two hillside a ve houses was a good first step toward better university-south side relations mowrer said the city wanted those properties and plus-minus drop period to be debated by forum by dave klucsik a motion to assess the value of the faculty decisions adding and minus categories to grades and reducing the limit for dropping courses to seven weeks will be debated at monday's forum meeting the motion states it is the feeling of the forum that the two faculty decisions were not discussed or debated with sufficient input from students the changes were passed by the faculty in late may when students were not on campus the motion continues such oversights by the university faculty must be recognized as not in the best traditions of an educational institution concerned about its students the motion then recommends that the university faculty and all other decision making bodies should invite the par ticipation of interested parties for open discussion it also asks that all parties affected by any such action be consulted and have an opportunity to express their opinions before implementation of such action the motion is signed by forum vice chairman janet scagnelli 75 david shakes 75 rich petigrew 76 and mike maskeleris 75 shapp says state funds unlikely for building a law school here by jeff bloom pennsylvania governor milton j shapp said in a brown and white interview aboard his campaign train wednesday that it is doubtful that the state would-^ffer aid to lehigh for the purpose of building a law school at this particular point in time said the governor i do not think that there has been enough data furnished to us by lehigh to justify state aid for another law school in the state shapp also said that the state is taking steps to help private pennsylvania colleges out of their financial plight the premise that private colleges are approaching a situation in which they will be attended only by very rich and very poor students is wrong he said adding that pennsylvania college-bound students will benefit from an increase in the state's student aid program p.h.1 regardless of economic class shapp said that funding to the private schools will lag behind funding for the state colleges and other state related schools for a while but although he said he didn't want to make any predictions he added maybe the private school funding will be stepped up too pittsburgh mayor peter flaherty democratic candidate for the u s senate was also on the train and was briefly in terviewed by the brown and white both interviews took place on the shapp-kline campaign train which was making whistle stops along the eastern part of the state the interviews were held between the quakertown and bethlehem stops shapp said that the reason he decided to campaign by train was to demonstrate the need for rebuilding the nation's railroads he said that he has been talking to railroad officials about bringing back new york city train service to the lehigh valley on the question of pollution control shapp said that he has spoken to heads of the 50 biggest industries in the state and informed them of the state's en vironmental laws he said he told these industry leaders that the state means business with regard to these laws en forcement asked about the gleason committee see university page 4 see plus-minus page 8 see 250 page 5 see state funds page 5
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Date | 1974-10-18 |
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FullText | lehigh university brown and white vol 86 — no 13 866-0331 bethlehem pa friday october 18 1974 tuition room and board costs to go up 350 glick announces by jeff bodenstab a 250 hike in the annual tuition for undergraduate and graduate students will become effective at the beginning of the 1975-76 academic year the increase in tuition in addition to increases of 50 in both dining service charges and room rentals was announced wednesday by elmer glick vice president and treasurer of the university the total increase in charges amounting to 350 adopted by the board of trustees at their oct 14 meeting is an eight percent in crease over last year's costs according to glick glick also announced an increase in the volume of financial aid and an endeavor to include more middle-income families in the financial aid program in a letter mailed to parents of uiiiversity students glick blamed the increases on spiraling costs a national financial crunch and double-digit in flation glick told the brown and white that the most important cause for the increases was salary adjustments for faculty and other employees he said this is due to the fact that salary and wages combined with fringe benefits account for more than half of the university's total expenditures operation of the power plant an area where costs have skyrocketed was another major factor glide said although most universities have not announced tuition increases for next year according to glick the university's in crease is about the same as most other universities that have already hiked their tuition he pointed out that franklin and marshall college recently announced a tuition increase of 8.9 percent compared to the eight percent increase planned by the university glick attilwl that an eight b&w photo by malik elmer glick . bb.w photo by conner y gov milton j shapp on p 7 college deans to discuss overcrowding problems by george now ack albert c zettlemoyer university provost will meet with the deans of the three colleges monday to decide what actions should be taken to solve the current overcrowding problem in the business college said nan van gieson assistant to the provost the business college presented its problem to the provost at an oct 7 meeting van gieson said at that time zettlemoyer asked brian brockway dean of the college of business and economics to prepare two models to be considered at monday's meeting one model will contain the minimum improvements needed in the college and the other the most desirable conditions the purpose of the meeting will be to see how the proposed changes will affect each college van gieson said she also said that she would like to see as many people involved as possible to insure the fairness of the plan attending the meeting with zettlemoyer and brockway will be john hunt dean of the college of arts and sciences and john karakash dean of the college of engineering samuel missimer director of admission robert stout dean of the graduate school and john stoops dean of the school of education will also attend concerning the hiring of more teachers for the business college van gieson said that three have already been hired she added that adjunct instructors have been hired to temporarily fill the positions of professors who are on leave of absence the gap left by the professors on leave is impossible to fill with an adjunct she said they just are not rounded enough she added according to van gieson any further hiring will evolve from suggestions presented at the meeting van gieson said the overcrowding in the business college is a rather delightful problem it shows the success of the college she added that it is just a matter of what can and must be done mayor seeks contributions by university by scott p en n im an the most significant step the university could take to help the south side com munity would involve building or helping support building in the fourth st central business district according to bethlehem mayor gordon mowrer in an interview wednesday mowrer also suggested that the university make a financial contribution towards the planned performing arts center in downtown bethlehem mowrer said the fourth st business district is planned to be a super block and needs new buildings the university could either construct or rent space in new buildings he said university support of the south side would reap reciprocal benefits mowrer said the university would have con venient office space and possible residential space he added the planned super block would offer an attractive area within easy access of the university and the south side businesses he said the university community represents an untapped resource for south side businesses mowrer said there is a great opportunity on the south side for businesses that would interest students he said businesses like clothing stores a bookstore and perhaps a restaurant have a good opportunity on the south side if the owners are creative enough to attract college students mowrer said the donation of two hillside a ve houses was a good first step toward better university-south side relations mowrer said the city wanted those properties and plus-minus drop period to be debated by forum by dave klucsik a motion to assess the value of the faculty decisions adding and minus categories to grades and reducing the limit for dropping courses to seven weeks will be debated at monday's forum meeting the motion states it is the feeling of the forum that the two faculty decisions were not discussed or debated with sufficient input from students the changes were passed by the faculty in late may when students were not on campus the motion continues such oversights by the university faculty must be recognized as not in the best traditions of an educational institution concerned about its students the motion then recommends that the university faculty and all other decision making bodies should invite the par ticipation of interested parties for open discussion it also asks that all parties affected by any such action be consulted and have an opportunity to express their opinions before implementation of such action the motion is signed by forum vice chairman janet scagnelli 75 david shakes 75 rich petigrew 76 and mike maskeleris 75 shapp says state funds unlikely for building a law school here by jeff bloom pennsylvania governor milton j shapp said in a brown and white interview aboard his campaign train wednesday that it is doubtful that the state would-^ffer aid to lehigh for the purpose of building a law school at this particular point in time said the governor i do not think that there has been enough data furnished to us by lehigh to justify state aid for another law school in the state shapp also said that the state is taking steps to help private pennsylvania colleges out of their financial plight the premise that private colleges are approaching a situation in which they will be attended only by very rich and very poor students is wrong he said adding that pennsylvania college-bound students will benefit from an increase in the state's student aid program p.h.1 regardless of economic class shapp said that funding to the private schools will lag behind funding for the state colleges and other state related schools for a while but although he said he didn't want to make any predictions he added maybe the private school funding will be stepped up too pittsburgh mayor peter flaherty democratic candidate for the u s senate was also on the train and was briefly in terviewed by the brown and white both interviews took place on the shapp-kline campaign train which was making whistle stops along the eastern part of the state the interviews were held between the quakertown and bethlehem stops shapp said that the reason he decided to campaign by train was to demonstrate the need for rebuilding the nation's railroads he said that he has been talking to railroad officials about bringing back new york city train service to the lehigh valley on the question of pollution control shapp said that he has spoken to heads of the 50 biggest industries in the state and informed them of the state's en vironmental laws he said he told these industry leaders that the state means business with regard to these laws en forcement asked about the gleason committee see university page 4 see plus-minus page 8 see 250 page 5 see state funds page 5 |
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