Brown and White Vol. 91 no. 20

              lehigh university brown and white vol . 9 1 _ na » bkthlbhat fa t tumtmv novptbge u it7f 2l|-btl-41m sac loses money on starship power failure mars concert by ed white thursday's jefferson starship concert held in grace hall did not sell out as originally expected according to laura schrier 80 student activities council sac president i'm not really sure how many people there were at the concert schrier said the number of student and off-campus ticket sales were about even she added the concert did not sell out partly because grace slick and marty balm are no longer with the group and partly because last week was a really big test week schrier said schrier admitted that the concert did lose money but refused to say exactly how much money was lost i would consider the money more spent than lost schrier said the people who went enjoyed the show the original budget for the show was not to exceed 22,910 according to the minutes of the oct 10 sac meeting the original break-even point was somewhere around 2,600 seats figuring an average ticket price of 8 sac concert chairman john nersesian 80 told the brown and white last month we considered the fact that they would not sell out schrier said i know that along the line we cut a lot of costs and we did lower our break-even from the original one we advertised at a discount through the agent so we cut down a little on ad vertising we work on a zero-based budget for concerts schrier said any loss even one dollar is considered a loss in the event that an sac concert loses money the university runs a deficit and we slowly take funds from other activities we make money on to make up the loss schrier said we'll hopefully be making money on future concerts if we do a totally promoted show because the agents will be paying us instead of us paying them schrier said in this case the agent will have the financial liability she added for the starship concert the promoter was paida flat fee to book the act according to nersesian i think more than underestimating the importance of grade slick and marty baiin we overestimated student demand for a concert schrier said we were under the impression that the students really wanted to see a concert and jef ferson starship was the best available schrier also explained the power failure which occurred during the middle of april wine's opening act basically grace hall didn't have the power april wine put put schrier said they went beyond grace hall's limitations between all the lights and all the sound it probably was too much true fans bfcw ptwto'by youngentob engineer fans start at a young age — and these two show above average persistence hi braving both wet mats and wet peanuts harmony bfcw photo by you ngentob jefferson starship vocalist mickey thomas left harmonizes with lead guitarist craig chaquico at the starship's concert thursday at grace hall for a review of the performance see page 7 new arts requirements proposed by ju etiljsr the object of the proposed change in distribution requirements for the bachelor of arts ba degree in the college of arts and science is ' not to restrict students but to offer better guidelines for their education according to donald ryan professor of geology and chairman of the arts and science college policy com mittee our feeling ryan said is that the present program of three distribution areas does not give the students advice needed in certain academic areas he claimed the proposed change would represent a real improvement in terms of the students needs 1 *- a final draft of the proposal dividing the distribution requirements into seven academic areas is expected to be sub mitted to the arts college faculty within two weeks for their recommendations and approval ryan said if approved the proposal will be evaluated by the university policy committee and then by the university faculty because of the amount of time involved final approval is not foreseen until this spring the proposed program outlines a set of recommendations that will not only serve also expose them to a traditional liberal arts education ryan said we want to do more than just hold out the catalogue to the students seven academic areas to achieve this goal the arts and science college policy committee developed a distribution framework that includes seven academic areas from which students can choose the proposed areas of study are foreign languages western cultural heritage non-western tas call stipend insufficient air other gripes at meeting thirty-five graduate students voiced their complaints about the university's stipend pay scale for teaching assistants tas and research assistants ras thursday . night at a meeting of the graduate subcommittee of the forum teaching assistants receive free tuition in addition to a base stipend of 3,800 over a nine-month period research assistants also receive free tuition but their stipends depend on the research project they are working on the tas claimed that the 3,800 stipend they receive from the university is not sufficient to live on several also said according to subcommittee chairman david evans a graduate student in the mechanical engineering department that inequalities existed from department to department in the workload of tas another complaint raised according to evans was that the same 3,800 stipend is achievement or experience the stipend is also considered taxable income last year the graduate subcommittee submitted a report to the forum detailing the living expenses of graduate students the average living expense of the 88 graduate students responding to a survey was 396 per month while the average income of a ta and ra was 370 and 376 respectively stipends to tas were raised this year to 3,800 from last year's 3,500 evans said but inflation has outstripped the pay raise the graduate students have become more vocal recently following comments made by provost albert zetttemoyer to parents committee a month ago at flit meeting zettlemoyer said use of tas used to be the cheap way of teaching multi section courses nowadays tas aren't see traditional page 4 ■ starship rev.ew p.7 bearscaged p.12