Brown and White Vol. 87 no. 48

              lehigh university brown and white vol 87 — no 48 bethlehem pa friday aprh 30 1976 215-866-0331 administration projections call for greater tuition hikes deficit by ken bandler current administration forecasts reveal that the university will increase annual tuition hikes and operate with a deficit budget after next year according to university vice president and treasurer elmer glick the projections show an annual tuition increase of 250 for 1977-78 and 275 for 1978-79 glick said the university would be running deficits m both years ac cording to the projections he said he emphasized however that when the budgets are actually made for those two years they may bear no resemblance to these projections the projections are part of a 10-year computerized plan compiled by vice president for planning eric ottervik s office ottervik was unavailable for comment the 1976-77 budget approved by the board of trustees last week is based on an anticipated registration of 4,000 un dergraduates which is the maximum undergraduate enrollment level set by the trustees m 1971 after next year enrollment will be stablized at 4,000 students thus no extra tuition will come m glick said if inflation and increasing costs continue to rise he explained the budget expenditures will grow likewise tuition increases are inevitable he said the 1976-77 budget of 28,385,735 represents a 12.23 per cent increase over the budget for this year a large part of the increase m next year's budget is due to higher salaries and the increased cost of employe benefits glick said salaries and employment benefits account for most of the cost of running the university fur thermore every time salaries are raised employe benefits increase glick ex plained to offset these significant expenditures glick says the university must turn to the students whose payments for tuition residence and dining account for ap proximately 80 per cent of the university's income to insure the financial stability of the university glick said the income received from students is continually increased in november 1972 glick an nounced that tuition would be increased annually by 200 one year later he an nounced a 250 annual hike m tuition which became effective for the 1975-76 academic year and remains current policy earlier this semester the trustees approved a 250 tuition increase and a 50 rise m the rates for both rooms and meals for the 1976-77 academic year sources have indicated that the projected increases are included m an 87 page budget analysis presented to the elmer glick eric ottervik administrators deny reports of expansion by ed bogucz four university vice presidents have denied reports that some administrators are considering increasing undergraduate enrollment to offset anticipated rises m tuition in interviews this week the of ficers agreed that although increases m enrollment would keep tuition hikes to a minimum the measure would be difficult to implement on this campus their remarks were made m response to statements made last week by bruce rosenthal 78 forum priorities plan ning and development pp&d com mittee chairman at a pp&d meeting last thursday rosenthal said he knew of some administrators informally considering increasing enrollment to check spiralling tuition hikes although he was called to confirm tuesday's brown and white story prior to printing rosenthal said wednesday that his comments as reported m the article had been aken out of context he said he mentioned informal administration discussions on enrollment only to support the establishment of a new subcommittee to study the matter albert zettlemoyer provost and vice president richard spriggs vice president for administration erric ottervik vice president for planning and elmer glick administrators may check horizons editorial content by john mahoney the editorial content of lehigh horizons now may be influenced by the news judgment of the overall ad ministration as opposed to representing as it has only the judgment of its editor said george beezer lehigh horizons editor though is is only a possibility beezer said he would not agree with it university administrators should define what is expected of horizons according to roger loeb assistant professor of psychology and member of the horizon's editorial advisory board he said it is somewhat unfair to the advisory board that no delineation of the purpose of the publication regarding its status as a public relations vehicle or a news oriented publication has been set down by the administration the horizons is a public relations journal not a newspaper according to joseph b mcfadden head of the jour nalism division and member of the horizons advisory board mcfadden said that for this reason it should not be evaluated as a newspaper samuel i connor director of public information and member of the horizons editorial advisory board said he does not view the horizons as public relations oriented regarding the destroyed march issue of horizons he said a publisher has the right to kill an issue or story m its publication as long as the editor was employed under these guidelines however george beezer horizons editor said at the time of his hiring as editor he was asked only to agree to the stipulation that both sides of a disputed issue be represented m any horizons stories beezer also said that before the march issue of horizons was published he had been encouraged by an unnamed university official to run an article dealing with sexual topics he said that since the trouble about the march issue's sexual revolution mostly just talk story he would now have university administrators preview sexually oriented articles before printing them m any future horizons issue he noted the quashed story was a good story and the dislike of the story by one or more university administrators only reflected an honest difference of opinion he said he is confident operations will b&w photo by clough greekers — contestants await the start of the greeker-eating contest tuesday the event is only one of many marking the traditional week of festivities leading into spring weekend see glick page 5 see beezer page 9 see small page 10 inside arts emerge p 8 house lost p 10 recruits p 7 7 three wins p 12