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Thuraday.. February 9, 1984 Volume LXIII Number 32 The UnWariitr of North Carolina al Grecnaboro Hare a atory Idea? Call ua at 379-5752
Senate Delays Passage Of Revised Constitution
By SANDY ALVIS
N«W1 Kdil.:r
Senate voted against the proposal
to allow the student body to be
allowed to vote on whether or not
they wanted a new Student Govern-ment
constitution.
Senators elected to vote on the
revisions at next week's Senate
meeting. The reason for the delay
ia that many senators felt that they
had not had sufficient time to read
the new constitution.
Advocates for the revised con-stitution
fear that the delay will
result in a smaller voter turnout
when or if the revised version is
brought before the student body.
The revised constitution had
originally been scheduled to be in-cluded
on the ballot with the senate
candidates. This combination was
devised to increase voter response
which has been weak in the past. A
group of proponents for the new
constitution began circulating a
petition soon after the decision was
made. They hope to collect some
900 signatures from students who
want the chance to vote on the new
constitution. By 11:00 a.m. yester-day
the petition included over 800
names.
The change that induced the most
debate among senators was the new
School of Business and Economics
celebrates Black History Month.
By LEIGH TRAPP
AMlrtut N«wi Editor
In conjunction with Black History
Month, the School of Business and
Economics will be sponsoring two
programs designed to promote
equal opportunities in the business
world. These programs will be held
February 22 and 23 and wilt feature
several prominent business ex-ecutives
and personnel who will
speak out on various topics related
tojheir field of work.
"Opportunites for Blacks in
Business" is the title" oT the
February 22nd program. From 3-5
p.m., students, faculty, and the
public are invited to come and listen
to three speakers: Florence Ben-nett,
an Equal Opportunity
Specialist with AT&T, Ronn
Wilson, Section Chief Supplier of
Relations Development at AT&T
and Thomas Johnson, Assistant
Vice-President at Wachovia Bank
and Trust.
The second program, entitled,
"Minority Business Interprises:
Problems and Rewards" will be
held Thursday, Feb. 23 from 3-5
p.m. WC Parker Jr., President,
Chief Executive Officer at Pied-mont
Development Company, AJ
Howard Clement, Assistant Vice
President of NC Mutual Life In-surance
Company and James Page,
owner of Alpha Data Services will
be speaking about the "pros and
cons" of business for minorities.
way of qualifying senators. Cur-rently,
the requirements for
senators is limited to one senator
per dorm and commuting students
representatives. The new constitu-tion
would allow five dorm
representatives and seven com-muting
students representatives. In
addition each class would be
represented by two senators and
the different schools on campus
would be represented by twenty
senators divided among the dif-ferent
schools. The new constitution
would also allow for four at large
seats.
Other changes include academic
requirements for executive officers,
This is the first year the Business
School has done such a program on
a large scale. All the programs and
material was provided by the
school.
The school has also put together
a bulletin board which provides in-formation
about each of the
speakers and their businesses.
Another bulletin board, concen-trating
more on financial issues can
be found in the library.
The programs will be held from
3-5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thurs-day
in Room 160 of the Business
and Economics Building. The pro-gram
is open to everyone and facul-ty
and students are encouraged to
attend. More information can be ob-tained
by calling 379-5928.
States Cut Education Funds
(CPS)-An analyst of how state
legislatures fund colleges says
states nationwide are cutting back
on their support of higher educa-tion,
that the long-term outlook is
gloomy, and that they ought to con-sider
closing some state colleges in
order to save others.
Tax cuts and the recession have
forced many states to slow the
growth in the amount of money
they give to colleges, says Steven
Gold, who analyzes government
financing for the National Con-ference
on State Legislatures.
As a result, Gold foresees ongo-ing
cutbacks on public campuses,
schools charging students higher
tuition to help compensate for fun-ding
cutbacks, and even some
"small private colleges" who will
ask state governments to contribute
money to help keep them alive.
"With the number of college
graduates expected to decrease in
most states and with the fiscal
outlook fairly gloomy," Gold says,
"I think higher education will con-tinue
to take its lumps in most
states."
But the man on whose research
Gold bases his prognosis disagrees
strongly.
"The implication that (state fun-ding
of colleges) is about to fall on
its face is simply wrong," says Dr.
M.M. Chambers, an Illinois State
University professor who compiles
higher education funding statistics
from all the states.
"There has been no cutback," he
says. "The rate of growth (of fun-ding)
has declined by two percent,
compared with the prior two-year
period. But we've always had gains.
The net gain has been 11 to 12 per-cent
in the past two years."
Chambers points out that the rate
of growth in state funding of higher
education has been slowing since
the 1960s, when state funding in-creased
by 40 percent in one period.
But Gold insists the long-term
decline will continue "partly due to
the fact that most states cut their
taxes in the wake of the tax revolt"
and "the depressing effect" of the
recession on state revenues.
Although many states have pass-ed
increases in the last year, "the
tax increases of 1983 in general are
less than the tax cuts that preced-ed
them," he says.
He says the relationship between
taxes and personal income is "still
lower than it was five years ago."
As a result, "the prognosis is not
very bright," he concludes.
With less money to Bpend, Gold
thinks "school closings is an option
that ought to be considered. In
many states, we don't need the
nubmer of institutions that we have
now by a long shot." .
States, he says, "will have to
choose whether they want a small
number of strong institutions or a
large number of somewhat-weaker
institutions."
He predicta that students will be
paying more to go to them, no mat-ter
how many there are.
"States are going to be scrapping
for funds," he says. "There's going
to be more reliance on user charges.
So students will pay a higher
percentage of their costs."
having appropriation requests
handled by an Appropriations
Board, and holding spring elections
in February.
Kim Theriault, Student Govern-ment
President, intelligently brav-ed
an assault of questions and com-ments
during the debate. Senator
Lorie Tyson commented that the
new constitution would reduce
dorm representatives and would not
be in the best interest of students.
Theriault responded, "This is a way
to break down representation."
Representation is broadened so the
number of student representatives
will be increased. Academic
senators will act just like regular
senators .. . they will set office
hours, and take the oath of office so
they will receive the same trust that
senators are given now."
Supporters of the revision see it
as a way to show students that Stu-dent
Government is willing to
change and is attempting to suffi-ciently
represent students. Senator
Wendell Carter said that, "It's a
good constitution. Students in-volved
in the academic departments
will now be able to get a feel of what
their department needs. Student
Government is on an uprising, they
are not set in their ways. The
changes will make Student Govern-ment
more cohesive and will unite
departments."
Many senators were reluctant to
approve the new constitution
because they said that they had not
enough time to examine the docu-ment.
New senators said that they
had not even heard about the revi-sion
and also wanted time to better
understand the changes in the con-stitution.
These are the reasons that
the senators gave for delaying their
decision.
Members of the committee that
created the revisions debated that
the senators had had adequate time
to read the document. Davis Swaim,
President of the North Carolina
Student Legislature, (NCSL), at
UNC-G, debated that, "It's not in
the best interest of student* to
delay it a week. The group that
made the revisions carefully looked
over it." Former Student Govern-ment
Vice-President, Tom Franklin
rhetorically asked, "Where were
these questions while it (the revi-sions)
was being worked on for five
months?"
Theriault attempted to eliminate
some of the myths about the
revised constitution. "The senators
will still be elected by students, by
no means will this be going into the
hands of the faculty. I think we are
definitely going to bring more
people to vote by because of this
new representation," reported
Theriault.
Senate also decided to allot $600
to the Outing Club for their trip to
Florida over Spring Break. Half of
the money is to be used for
emergencies and the other half will
go into renting a U-Haul or to pay
for using the UNC-G van.
The Judicial Committee ruled
four senator's seats vacant due to
absences. Corey Hudgins, a consul
for Hawkins was approved as a
senator. The Current Concerns
Committee discussed the new com-puter
for handicapped students
which will help people with sight,
hearing, and mobility handicaps.
Freshmen Choose Private Colleges
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS>-
The great migration of private col-lege
students to less expensive
public schools apparently is not hap-pening,
according to a new study of
some 1200 private colleges by the
National Association of Indepen-dent
Colleges and Universities
(NAICU).
After losing about 20,000
students last fall, full-time freshman
enrollment at private colleges na-tionwide
rose by 1.17 percent, says
NAICU's Julianne Thrift.
"The picture in general is quite
uncertain,' explains NAICU Ex-ecutive
Director John Phillips, but
"the overall trend is at least more
stable than last year, with a
generally positive tilt to the data."
Last year's decline was the first
for private schools since NAICU'
began keeping track in 1977.
It was not supposed to be the last
either. Many college observers
predicted the first round of federal
student aid cuts made in 1981 would
begin driving students to Jess-expensive
public campuses by 1983.
The cuts "will most likely cause
a shift in enrollment patterns from
more expensive private schools to
public colleges," Dallas Martin of
the National Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators
predicted in August, 1981.
Martin's and others' worst fears
appeared to be coming to pass last
fall.
Thrift now attributes last year's
enrollment decline to uncertainties
about the long-term prospects for
federal student aid, to the poor
economic climate, and to a small
demographic decline in the number
of 18-year-olds in the population.
But in light of this year's growth
in the number of freshman at
private colleges, Phillips says, "I
think we've passed through the
worst of the political downdraft."
Congress kept aid funding intact
for 1981, and even increased it this
year in some areas.
But "it is still too early to draw
any conclusions" about long-term
private college enrollment trends,
he cautions.
Regionally, the South* private
schools' freshman class increased
by 4.01 percent. Freshman class
enrollment in midwestern indepen-dent
college rose by 2.39 percent
and on mid-Atlantic campuses by
nearly one percent.
But private colleges in the Nor-theast
lost 1.31 percent of their
freshman enrollment, while
western schools lost .17 percent.
The effects on individual schools
of the enrollment fluctuations may
not be very dramatic. Marquette's
increase of 42 students, for exam-ple,
amounts to "just a drop in the
bucket," says Registrar Dr. Roman
Gawkoski.
Congress Focuses On Student Aid
Congress reconvened last week
for what some college lobbyists say
will be one of the most important
student aid sessions in years.
Though Congress is not expected
to pass many bills during this
election-year session, it will do a lot
of work toward shaping laws that
will be enacted next year.
And the laws they consider are
important ones. Lobbyists say it's
essential to alter the Reagan ad-ministration's
emphasis on cutting
college aid programs during this
election year, when education
seems to be a hot political topic.
Of even more importance, they
say, will be the new Higher Educa-tion
Reauthorization Act, which will
set limits and ceilings for aid pro-grams
for the next five years.
"For the next six months well be
focusing on both the 1986 financial
aid budget and the reauthorization
act," says Kathy Ozer, legislative
liaison for the United States Stu-dent
Association (USSA) in
Washington, D.C.
The Higher Education
Reauthorization Act is a congres-sional
master plan, renewed every
five years, which will set guidelines
for future Congresses in forming
aid budgets.
For financial aid officials who last
year finally were able to increase
several aid programs— following
two years of cuts and level funding
by the Reagan administration-
1984 is the year to catch up and
make long-awaited amendments to
the nation's student aid system.
"This is the year in which, for a
change, we won't be totally oc-cupied
just defending programs and
will have the opportunity to get
some funding increases," Ozer
explains.
President Reagan, however, has
hinted broadly he intends to request
more aid cuts this year.
"Our top priority is better fun-ding
of existing programs," insists
Charles Saunders, legislative
analyst with the American Council
on Education (ACE).
"We're expecting Congress will
reject further cuts in the 1986
budget, as they did last year," he
says. "But there are still manypro-grams
which need more funding
and issues which need to be
addressed."
Aid experts' wish list for 1986
and for the Higher Education
Reauthorization Act includes in-creased
funding of virtually all
financial aid programs, along with
implementing programs which ad-dress
the mounting long-term debt
many students are incurring.
"The most centrally-important
issue we've got to face is to bring
back into focus that there can be
some reasonable combination bet-ween
grant assistance and student
loans, says Dallas Martin, ex-ecutive
director of the Nation*'
Association of Student Financial
Aid Administrators (NASFAA) in
Washington, D.C.
"Grant assistance in the last few
years has not grown," Martin
points out
While grant* made up over 80
percent of all student aid funding in
1975-76, grants now comprise only
48 percent of all student aid
funding.
Consequently, more students are
taking out larger loans to finance
their educations. And for many, aid
officials fear the burden of repaying
those loans after they graduate will
be too great.
"Some kids are borrowing
substantial amounts of money to
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