The Carolinian [April 16, 1975]

              The Carolinian
April 16, 1975 Iniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro Volumn LIV Number 39
Frasier believes not binding
a5j Students veto pay;
Referendum held
Staff Photo by Paul Braxton
Stiff Photo by Paul Braxton
The picture to the left is the scene from the ground floor of the new
administration building. The spacious new building is expected to be completed in
September of this year.
The picture above was taken from the second floor of the new building looking
over the first floor. It is still unclear whether or not money will be available for
the completion of the first floor.
The second and third floors will be completed by September and in the event
the first floor is unable to be completed, the university has made plans to
continue using parts of the old administration building.
Fees are determining factors
University budget process explored
BY BOB HAMILTON
Staff Writer
It takes the intuitive cunning of a
Sherlock Holmes to trace down the
elements of UNC-G's financial
framework.
In an effort to perceive the
intriguing web which surrounds the
budget making process. The Carolinian
talked to Vice Chancellor of Affairs
Jim Allen.
The two factors determinging the
amount of money taken in by the
university are tuition and activity fees.
Allen stated that fees are determined
by the individual university's needs.
Rape reported
Reprinted from tha Graansboro Daily News
An unidentified coed at UNC-G
was abducted at gunpoint at 12:55
a.m. Monday on the UNC-G campus,
knocked down and forced into a car
before being raped, according to the
Greensboro Police Department
reports.
Police said the girl was taken in an
older model two-door white car with
rust spots on it and driven to Dan's
Road near the sewage treatment plant
where the assailant tied her hands and
sexually assaulted her.
The police report also said that the
assailant, wearing a nylon stocking
over his face, was a black man in his
20s described as six feet, one inch tall
and weighing about 200 pounds.
He reportedly released the UNC-G
coed after raping her and she went to a
nearby home and used the telephone
to notify police.
Allen revealed that starting next
year, fees would be determined during
open public meetings. Until now, fees
have been determined during closed
meetings of students and faculty.
The amount paid for turition at
each public university depends on the
school's academic status. "If the
school is a doctorial granting
university such as UNC-G, tuition will
be about $40 more than a school with
just a masters program," said Allen.
The tuition of a school granting only
four year degrees would drop about
another $40.
If a school has a large athletic
program the students of that
institution will pay a higher athletic
fee than a school with a small program
and subsequent fee, such as UNC-G.
As Allen commented, "The fees of
public universities are not the same
because they have different needs and
circumstances."
Each of the 16-member schools in
the university system is funded on a
projected enrollment figure. The
university is granted $2200 for each
in-state student minus the amount of
tuition he pays as set by the state.
Because of this budgeting process, a
slight error in projected attendence
figures can mean a major loss to the
university in funds. Allen said, 'This
year the UNC-G Board of Governor's
projected a 4-5 per cent increase in
enrollment while actually it was about
11 per cent." He added, "We're
suffering already."
"It's tough to decide a cut off in
enrollment," said Allen. He explained
the university must accept more
students than it can financially
WF offers Murrow show
Winston-Salem - An Edward R.
Murrow Retrospective will be shown
at Wake Forest University tonight.
H number of Murrow's better
known television interviews and
documentaries will be shown at 7:30
p.m. in Room A of Winston Hall. They
are open to the public without charge.
Murrow was a native of Guilford
County and the 10th anniversary of
his death is April 28.
Wallace Carroll, former editor and
publisher of the Winston-Salem
Journal and Sentinel, arranged the
retrospective in connection with the
course in constitutional rights he is
teaching ?t Wake Forest. "It seems to
me to be an excellent way to show the
students something about the civil
liberties issues of the 50's," Carroll
said, "and to honor a conscientious
and talented journalist."
Carroll, who knew Murrow and
worked with him during the German
blitz of London during World War II,
will make brief remarks before each
night's showing. There will be
different films shown each night.
The films will include the famous
documentary on Sen. Joseph
McCarthy of Wisconsin and
McCarthy's reply; the case of
Lieutenant Radulovich who was
forced to resign from the Air Force
because his father and sister read
allegedly subversive publications; a
documentary on Annie Lee Moss, a
black woman who worked in the
Defense Department and was accused
of being a communist; and interviews
of musician Louis Armstrong, artist
Grandma Moses, and J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the scientist.
Carroll said a number i of
documentaries, including one by the
British Broadcasting Company, are
being prepared in commemoration of
Murrow's death.
accommodate because a number of
them don't register after being
accepted or because they drop out. "It
just turned out this year where they
(accepters) decided to come and stay."
The university budget is decided by
a number of priority decisions at
different levels. Here the confusion
begins if not studied closely.
Initially the head of a department
(history, math, etc.) submits a budget
request to the respective deans of their
schools. The deans then propose their
budget to the vice-chancellors.
Each vice chancellor submits his
own budget based on past
recommendations to Chancellot
Ferguson. Ferguson then sits down
with the vice chancellors and in a
cabinet type operation draws up a
budget to be submitted to the Board
of Governors of the Consolidated UNC
system.
The Board of Governors trim the ,
budget requests of the 16 member
UNC system and submits its
recommendations to the N.C.
Legislature. The legislature acts on the
budget request and sends it back to
the UNC Board of Governors.
Finally the Board appropriates
funds not exceeding the amount set
forth by the General Assembly. These
funds are allocated in close compliance
with the guidelines set forth by the
legislatures, although the Board is not
committed to do so by law.
Elementary Watson!
BY KEVIN KILMARTIN
Managing Editor
The Salary and Wage Referendum
held last Tuesday and Wednesday
resulted in an overwhelming defeat of
paid positions. Only four positions are
to be paid according to the
referendum.
Of the 44 positions on the
referendum, the four which passed
were SGA president, Carolinian editor.
Pine Needles editor, and WUAG
Station Manager. Also approved in the
referendum were wages for the SGA
secretaries.
There is now some confusion as to
what the effect of the referendum will
be. According to the Constitution of
Student Government, the referendum
should become law. The last
referendum, which was held first
semester, was determined invalid by
the Senate. Though the Constitution
has no provisions for the Senate to act
on a referendum which has been
submitted to the voters some
Senators believe the referendum is not
binding on the Senate.
Barry Frasier, president-elect of the
Senate, said he believes the Senate
' could choose to do what ever it
wanted" in considering the
referendum. Frasier believes the
referendum is not binding on the
Senate because of the precedent set
earlier this semester by tne Senate in
not considering the first salary/wage
referendum.
Included in the many positions
which would not receive monies
according to the referendum was that
of the internal auditor. The auditor is
responsible for keeping the books for
student government in proper order
for the state auditor and is usually not
a student, but a person with
accounting training.
Also included among the salaries
defeated were SGA vice president,
attorney general and the editor of
Coraddi. Wage deletions included
Carolinian managing editor, news
editor, and advertising manager. The
business managers of all the
organizations, including SGA, will be
denied wage according to the results of
the referendum.
Run-off today;
Cole vs. Webster
BY CHUCK HOUSKA
Staff Wr,tar
A run-off election is scheduled for
today in Cone Ballroom from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. to elect next year's Eillott
Hall president.
Dave Cole and Debbie Webster are
in the run-off after they received the
two largest number of votes cast for
the office of Elliott Hall president.
Mary Maxwell and a write-in
candidate, Catherine J. Hughes, were
on the first bailor, but neither received
enough votes to be put on the run-off
ballot. Election Board rules call for a
candidate to receive at least "50 per
cent plus one" of all votes cast for the
office.
Candidates elected to serve next
year will be officially sworn in on
Tuesday night, April 22. The
ceremony will take place at the
Student Activities Banquet sponsored
by Elliott Hall.
S.G.A. President Jim McAbee will
swear in president-elect Sean O'Kane,
who will then swear in the other
elected offiers.
At the April 23 Senate meeting,
Vice-President-elect Barry Frasier will
be sworn in as president of the senate
by this year's Vice President Cathy
Krinick.
Fall tuition increase expected
Vice Chancellor Jim Allen
BY BOB HAMILTON
Staff Writar
In response to an expected $232
million deficit in the state's budget,
the North Carolina Legislature's
Higher Education appropriations
sub-committee has recommended an
increase in state university tuition
rates.
Under their proposal, tuition will
be raised $200 for in-state students
and $300 for out-of-state students.
The same committee proposed that
subsidies to private universities be
increased from $200 to $400 per
in-state student.
Before these measures can be
approved, they must pass a vote from
the full bodies of the appropriations
committee, the state Senate, and
House.
Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
at UNC-G Jim Allen told The
Carolinian that historically, the
appropriations committee has made
few changes upon legislation proposed
by the higher education sub panel.
"Saturday night and everything's all right..." Two UNC-G students pass the evening serenading the stars and night flora in
the quad.
He added, "It's very likely
something akin to the present
recommendation will pass the N.C.
General Assembly."
State Senator McNeil Smith, who
represents Greensboro, is a member of
the appropriations sub committee. In a
telephone interview, he said that the
full committee's approval would be
based on the amount of tax revenues
the state receives after April 15, the
tax filing deadline.
Senator Smith voted for the
increase in tuitions. He justified his
vote on the state's projected $232
million deficit.
To help balance the budget, the
sub-committee recommended a raise in
tuition and a halt in enrollment
increases. These two proposals would
save the state $36 million and $26
million respectively.
At the same time. Sen. Smith said
over all spending on higher education
would increase from approximately
$444 million to $471 million in the
next two years.
He also mentioned that the
restoration of the North Carolina
Central University Law School is a
higher budgeting priority than either
the East Carolina University Medical
School or the North Carolina State
University veterinary school.
Currently public universities are
subsidized $2200 minus the tuition
costs of the individual students as set
forth by the legislature.
Sen. Smith voted not to increase
subsidies to private colleges for in-state
students. His proposal was to raise
funds for private universities up to
$350 per student instead of the $400
passed by the sub-committee.
Dr. Cameron West, director of the
N.C. Association of Independent
colleges has been quoted as saying the
raising of the subsidy fund "would
make the difference between the
opening and closing of a number of
universities."