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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1983 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 11-30-1983 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 71, 11/ 30/1983 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1983 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 71, 11/30/1983." 88, 71 (1983). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1983/153 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1983 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEW MEXICO ___D_a_ily Lobo Vol. 88 No. 71 Wednesday( November 30, 1983 BEF Approves Tuition, Compensation Hikes By Eric Maddy Dwayne Matthews said would give tion by the Albuquerque Technical Perovich .. ''I think it would be self Technology - paid the percentage it a good chance for passage if funds Vocational Institute calling for a def~ating to raise tuition." increase while the thr~c "regional" SANTA FE -:- The state Board are available from the Legislature. change in the Vocational Institute universities - Eastern New Mex "Quality spins out of accessibil of Educational Finance approved a UNM officials said they could come Act that would allow T-VI to offer ico, Western New Mexico and New ity," said Dr. John Aragon, NMHU $243 million appropriation request up with one-third of the funding for two-year associate degrees. Mexico Highlands- paid the president. • 'It is our job to be respon · in the instructional and general area the proposed $4,8 million project. The BEF has no authority over actual dollar increase of the larger sive, not to place an additional bur of the higher education budget at its The funding package, approved T-VI but encouraged the institute to schools. den on our young people." meeting here Tuesday. by the board with only minor altera seek $68,400 to study the plan. For example, in fiscal 1982-83, The request will go to the state tions, also includes restoration of UNM and the University of Albu The board approved the 5 percent UNM students paid an additional Legislative Finance Committee 100 percent funding of the BEF for querque offer some two-year de tuition increase ''across the board,'' $20.40 in tuition, a 5 percent in Dec. IS for discussion. Final deter mula, return of much of the Land grees, but UA has announced it will as opposed to past three years when crease. Students at New Mexico minations on the higher education and Permanent Fund for discretion drop its associate program in the fu the three doctoral-granting institu Highlands also paid $20.40 more budget will be made during the 1984 ary use by the institutions and almost ture in favor of a four-year concept. tions- UNM, NMSU and the New tuition, but it represented a 6.6 per Legislature's 30-day session. $54 million in special projects, such Tuition was the biggest topic of Mexico Institute of Mining and cent increase. The package includes a 16.64 per as the UNM Medical School, which discussion on the ·instructional and cent increase in the faculty and staff received more than $19 million. general proposal, as NMSU Presi compens<ttion package and a 5 per "It seemed like a reasonable dent Dr. Gerald Thomas advocated a cent tuition increase. Both increases approach for meeting our needs," higher tuition hike. "I'm very happy would take effect July 1, 1984. said Dr. Leonard Napolitano, UNM with the proposal, but the problem is Correlation Between The board also approved a staff School of Medicine dean. • 'We will going to be selling it to the Legisla recommendation of $46.8 million have to go back and look at some of ture," said Thomas, who is com for capital outlay projects. A prop the projects that we want to fund." pleting his last year at NMSU. • 'The Education, Pay Seen osed building to house social scien UNM had originally requested more first thing that is going to be flagged ces and the school of management at than $25 million for the medical is tuition. By Steve Shoup The state also ranks very high in the University of New Mexico was school. ''Our students have said. they general per-pupil expenditures and placed in the "significant need" A special $LS million appropria were willing to pay an equal share of SANTA FE- The quality of has for at least 35 years, Delayo category, the highest rating given by tion was approved to cover a pro the burden so they can get a quality public education in New Mexico is said. Textbook expenditures per the BEF. jected shortfall in the Land and education," Thomas said. "Stu directly related to teachers' salaries, pupil rate 1Oth in the nation, he A proposed parking structure near Permanent Fund for the current fis dents should make the sacrifice.'' although the quality and pay is not as added. the UNM Computer Center was cal year. UNM stands to receive Other university presidents dis bad as some say, the head of state In other business, the LFC also placed in the "needed" category, $293,000 of the request. agreed. "Public education is for the public education said Tuesday. discussed compensation changes for which BEF Capital Budget Director The BEF also .approved a resolu- public,'' said UNM President John Speaking before the state Legisla state employees. Leo Griego, state tive Finance Committee, Leonard personnel director, presented to the Delayo, state superintendent of committee a package which would education, said he believes there is a reinstate 5 percent annual merit in Forum Evokes Contrasting Views on strong relationship between salary creases to productive employees, in and attracting and retaining quality crease starting salaries, increase sal teachers. ary ranges for each classification Dangers, Advantage_~ of D~ployment Delayo said he wished to ·'lecture and make the state sole contributor . and admonish 11 those who take a to employee retirement benefits. By Sharon Comiskey mas Kielinger, Washington corres among European nations who fear negative view of state education, Employees currently contribute half pondent for the Hamburg-based dai separation from the United States. and pointed out several statistics. the total money to their retirement Deployment of nuclear-tipped ly Die Welt. In defense of Euro-missile de New Mexico public school teachers' funds. Pershing-2 and cruise missiles in Kielinger opened the forum with a ployment, Kielingcr claimed that salaries rank 20th in the nation, Proposals submitted Tuesday will Europe was the subject Tuesday of brief synopsis of NATO's 1979 medium range Pershing-2 missiles averaging $20,600 this year, he be considered by the executive an open forum sponsored by the Dual Track decision, which advo in Germany filled a void between said, and the increase in New Mex branch when it puts together its University of New Mexico Euro cated Euro-missile deployment American intercontinental missiles ico teachers' pu1·chasing power appropriations package for the 1984 pean Studies department. while negotiating a reduction in the and front base short•range missiles. ranks second in the country. Legislative session. A similar pack The forum featured four UNM NATO and Soviet arsenals. He emphasized that the Euro Delayo said he favors increasing age will be assembled by the House faculty members: Edwin Hoyt, pro ''The idea· to link the need to mod missiles were not "first strike'' teachers' salaries, making$25,000a Appropriations Committtee in fessor emeritus of political science; ernize nuclear weapons and negoti weapons but ''weapons of hope be goal for starting wages. January. Andel Lee, assistant philosophy ate reduction was extremely imprac tween surrender and global war· professor; Charles McClelland, pro tical," said Kielingcr, who said he fare." fessor of history; and Philip Roeder, felt the threat posed by Soviet SS-20 Speakers commented on the political science professor. The missiles undermined the equality -of ambiguity of public opinion in guest speaker for the event was Tho- NATO security and led to unrest Europe regarding missile deploy Police Arrest Protesters; ment in Germany, Britain, Italy and other NATO nation~. Despite the Demonstrations Persist European Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement, recent BONN, West Germany (UPI)- Police arrested protesters blocking a national elections in both Britain and U.S. base Tuesday for the fourth straight day, hauling demonstrators from Germany yielded conserVative gov the path of a heavily guarded truck convoy believed to be carrying parts for ernments supportive of the deploy nuclear missiles. ment. The arrests came as West German military experts told a parliamentary Hoyt objected strongly to Kiclin committee the nuclear arms race was dangerous and threatened to run out of ger's comment on the NATO choice control. between ''surrender and global Four of the 27 protesters were arrested, bringing to 46 the number arrested holocaust,'' advocating defense at the U.S. artillery base at Mutlangen, ncar Stuttgart, since Saturday. without nuclear weaponry. A police spokesman said 27 protesters sat and lay in a road leading to the Lee described the danger posed main gate at 3 a.m. in freezing temperatures as a military convoy of 14 huge by accidental war through miscal truck transports escorted by 10 police cars tried to enter the base. culation and said, ''Anyone who The protesters .said the vehicles carried components for new U.S. Per talks about winning a nuclear war shing-2s arriving for storage before being made operational by the end of the with the loss of so many lives is a year.