The Cord Weekly (September 19, 1974)
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1 ora ~ee~ly .Board approves higher grad fees The university's board of governors has approved a plan For slow suggested by WLU controller Tam Giesbrecht that will see arts graduate students paying a $50 learners student council fee beginning in The board of governors September 1975. approved a new fee schedule for This will be an increase of 100 graduate students which will mean percent. a more costly MA for any student The $50 fee will be divided who takes longer than one year to equally between the Student complete his degree. Council activity fee, and the Under the current system, a Student -Union Building operating master's candidate pays $585 basic fund. tuition fee in his first year and, for Arts graduates will thus be thesis students, $150 every year required to pay fees Identical to until the degree is granted. undergraduates. \. Thus a degree earned in one year At present the $25 building fund Neale Taylor cost $735, in two years $885 and in fee is voluntary for graduates .... examining the options. three years $1035. not bad enough, maintenance has decided to add while the activity fee is discussions with Wagnar about the Under the new system passed by II you attend any classes in the portables you will, compulsory. legal right of graduate students to the board, Sept. 10 a grad student that you are blind, have noticed the garbage deposit University accountant Garry enter the new Turret pub, since will pay a one shot $300 basic fee in the portables. There is one place that they could Lambert has projected a $6,000 they have not contributed to the his first year plus $100 for every uses it as a parking lot, so· until they deficit for 1974-75 in the operation upkeep of the building. four month term until the degree is be disrupted by the boxes being emptied, the smell of the building. The SAC president suggested earned. Enrollment in every term irea and we'll have to look at them. The $25 paid by each graduate students pay a $5 is compulsory. undergraduate at the time of membership fee to cover Thus the yearly term payments registration is taken by the maintenance and upkeep, but the amount to $300. university and used to meet dean said it would be difficult to Under this new system, a one mortgage payments and to cover get such a motion passed by· the year masters will cost $600, a two refuses SUB maintenance cost. board. year degree, $990 and a three year In the past there has been money Wagnar then informed Turvey of degree $1200. to cover both costs. However, Giesbrecht's $25 proposal which The restrictions on the 5-year inflation has lead to higher was presented to the board at a limit on a student's candidacy will ntenance bill maintenance costs and thus the meeting that afternoon and still apply, however, the new Turvey rejected Bilyea 's request deficit. accepted. system will remove the distinction stating it came too late in the year Phil Turvey, president of the Turvey said Tuesday Neale between part-time and full-time to be included in the SAC budget Student Administrative Council Taylor, WLU acting president, is students. and that such a large unbudgeted said he was surprised when dean of examining the board's action to All "part-time" candidates will expenditure could put SAC's graduate studies Norman Wagner assess the intent of the motion. be forced to pay fees according to capital projects in doubt, including told him of the Geisbrecht Turvey said there is a possibility the same schedule, which the new Turret pub in the SUB. proposal. the fee could be withdrawn by essentially means an end to part Turvey said the capital Turvey said he was carrying on another university body. time graduate studies at WLU. expenditures for the pub have already amounted to more than president of the $5,000 and because of notices from The Cord, Tuesday, the Liquor License board, further expenditures may be necessary. Campus pub now open August the school's The request by the university to Cliff Bilyea told by Fred Youngs deficit and have SAC cover the $6,000 could The long awaited fulltime pub at the money to put the operation of the pub in WLU finally opened for business jeopardy, he said. on Monday, September 15. "We've already gone past the The pub was a long time coming point of no return as far as the pub due to the immense hassles is concerned", he said, "but there encountered in working through may come a day when the pub the different levels of the simply becomes too expensive for bureaucracies that the two us to operate." working committees had to If the university continues in its demands to have SAC pay the contend with. The most opposition came from the hotel owners, who deficit in the maintenance bill, the day of reckoning for the pub may felt that both the pub here and the be very soon. one at U of W would infringe on At this point, he said, SAC would their business. These owners felt that their major source of business had either have to close the pub, or would have to ask the university to are the student bodies of both take over the operation. schools and with the definite advantage in both proximity and beverage prices, the students would tend to not leave the campus area, but stay on and drink there. en's Place The committee has been working through the entire summer towards the opening of house the pub. Phil Turvey, Mark Fletcher, Cliff Bilyea, Jim Craven literature, and the political nature and Carol Arnold worked with the nmversary Open of the women's movement. government and LLBO officials 's Place to be held On Open House night towards the final licence. Marshal Jtember 24th from representative members of the Spegel, Mike Strong, Blair Hansen .m. will emphasize different interest groups will be and Rick Cropley wotketl in the pation in the present. The early part of the decoration end, setting it up to ·The student council's Turret Pub opened Monday and, as can be women's role in evening from 7:00 to 8:30 will be meet only the preliminary expected, the administration promptly shuffled offices up there. devoted to informal discussions requirements for the licence. banquet licence for each Friday supervisor in the person of Jim centering around the Educational As of yet there has been no has to do with the image of this Craven. Craven has had extensive Collective, the Writing Collective, fulltime licence issued to the university as a "suitcase experience in hotel management, the Research Project and Staffing university, so the Turret is university." In talking to the Cord, owning his own establishments Group. operating on a banquet permit. Blair Hansen said that SAC will and working at the same positions At 8:30 two other interest groups Banquet permits must be run on this basis until Friday night in the Faculty Club at U of W. As will be introduced: a feminist reapplied for each day, and when operation proves profitable. One of yet, his position has not been theatre group and a Health the fulltime licence comes the hopes of Hansen was that the ratified by SAC, but they expect no Collective. through, probably before Fridays would go because of problem with it. As it stands, the Music by local women and November, a banquet licence will entertainment being provided on pub will operate on seemingly refreshments will be part of the be requested for each Friday. both Thursday and Friday. shaky legs that are solidifying evening's activities. The reasoning behind the SAC has hired a full time lounge more each day. Page 2 BOOKSTORE We h~ve calculators for students, teachers and businessmen. Anyone who needs lightening-fast solutions to mathematical problems will find the answers in these ingenious pocket models. 5% discount on all calculators Sept. 18,19,20. 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