*1932* TIle Stlldeats' Voke for Over 50 Yean *1987* Vol. 55 ·Ne. 7 Baruch College, CUNY December 8, 1917 COMPUTER REGISTRATION Fee Increase SYSTEM ARRIVES Passes Board of Trustees On-Line Registration for Spring By LINDA ZUECH By SUSAN ROBERTS The proposed student fee in- z crease was passed by the City ~ A new computer system which minaI operator who will input the Z University of New York's Board of ~ has been in developmental stages information into the terminal. Mc­ ~ Trustees at their November 23 for about four and a halfto five years < Carthy said, "The major change ~ meeting. The increase will go into - and had ~ ID ;-which beeP.. ntJed Baruch (with the new system) will be that effect for the spring '88 semester. i students since the Summer '87 < full-time students will not be re­ - The increase will raise the Day quired to pay first. All students will Session Student fee from 536.35 to =:~g~ I~~~~ :~rt':: pay after registration has been com­ $50. The increase was voted on in a ': the registrar. 1 pleted." In the past, only part-time student election which took place McCarthy said, in person students were required to pay after Slee. GIl-era, .... of the IIItenIa­ f~ on Oct. 13-1S. The measure passed ..........tsolllce.. registration can take anywhere' their registration procedure was Jules AdienBM ESSA presi­ dell•• 664 in favor, 634 against, from a period of half an hour to completed. When the process is John Richards, president of the three hours depending on each in­ completed, the student will be given Day Session Student Government dividual's luck. However, with the a confirmation right on the spot ACKERMAN said, "I just want to say thanks to which will include a bill and all the introduction of the Baruch On Line I the 1308 students who came out to Student System, registration for the financial aid that the student is en­ RESIGNS ESSA exercise their right to vote. It was a Spring 1988 semester will undergo a titled to. reassuring statement to the fact that major change at Baruch. With this . Commenting about the On-the­ PRESIDENCY apathy is not alive as peopleseem to system, if everything goes Spot-Confirmation, McCarthy think." By KENNEI'H BROWN Complaints against the services smoothly, registration should not said, "In the past, being able to tell He went on to say, "To the 664­ of the Foreign Students' Office take more than ten minutes from a student that a particular course that brought it up, we say thank the beginning to the end. was closed or that there was a pro- The President ofthe Evening Ses­ have been launched by various sion Student Assembly, James you doubly, and to the others, as time goes by and they see the in­ students who claim that the office Ackerman, resigned his post ·on ~::onIy With the BOLSS some of the ­ crease in activities and services they One person who is ~es of regist.J:ation .~ -ee- •. November 19, 1987 for "personal -~ fC)f aD 1,600 intema- win begin to feel comfortable with .~- reasoas." the· ..1" '. -.' () m8in the Same. ACCOrding to ~ •• .: , .. - ... --Levy~--"'~eeI_~.-RGOm--nlt1i'oJl!tlbt-1~~IJ"~""­ .:---- u -=-_:_H-«rt1Yi&". CO J)o£oa foreign stUdent and- an upper am not coming back to Baruch next senior, Steven Goldberg is the in­ Samuel Johnson, the dean of semester." students, for his recommendation: diVidual responsible for running the H. Kwasi Donkor was elected to Johnson's recommendation was entire office. Besides the help he replace Ackerman as president at receives from two student aides, for the same November 19 meeting. Ac­ about 20 hours per week, he is on cording to the ESSA meeting his own. Said Levy, "He answers minues "the usual practice of (Continued on Page AB. Col.L) separating nominations and elec­ tions by at least one meeting" was suspended in order "assure the con­ tinuity of the presidency." We felt we didn't want a lame duck president," said Donkor. Falling Bottle According to the current ESSA 1110II1II5 McCarthy, the registrar. Constitution, in the event of a vacancy in an executive office, "a replacement shall be elected from Injures Student blem with a student's registration within the Student Assembly at the took an inordinate amount of time. next scheduled meeting." Under the new system, the student Besides Donkor, Julian By LINDA ZUECH should be able to be notified of any Aronowitz was nominated for the problems that had been en­ ESSA presidency. According to the countered with the registration in meeting msmtes, Donkor won in a An unidentified Baruch student initiated the first aid. I believe he five minutes if not less than that." closed voted counted by Mark JeIIII•••• standing in front of 17 Lex. Ave. refused to go to the hospital." Early registration (which will be Spergel, assistant director of Even­ PresIdeIIc of tile DSSG. was struck in the head when several Dr. Ronald M. Aaron, the December 7-10 for the Spring ing/Graduate Student Services. bottles were thrown from a window associate dean of students said, semester) will also be affected by the Previously at the ESSA's given to Joel Segall, president of abov.e him at 2:39 p.m. on Tuesday, "Based on what on of the students new system. Students will be dropp­ September 8 meeting, Aronowitz Baruch. - Nov. 24, according to Mr. Vincent who was present said, it appears to ing off just the registration card in­ had been defeated in his bid to Segall, Richards and Johnson Iannaco, assistant director of have been thrown from a Baruch stead of induding the pink master­ become president by Ackerman, went before the CUNY Board of security. window on the Lexington Avenue card and the payment invoice. The (Continued on P02e A 12, Col.2J (Continued on Page A 12. Col. /) "We have people saying three or side." students who receive a complete four bottles were thrown from the '" HIt did not come from one schedule will be mailed a confirma­ top of one of the windows, "said cafeteria. It must have come from a tion and a bin. A deadline by which Iannaco. He went on to say, HWe classroom whose windows faced the to make payment of the bill will had witness that said it came from Lexington Avenue side.: However, also be included.. Commenting on our building. The witness we con­ this is one students assessment," the present system. McCutby said, tacted said it came from approx­ said Aaron. "Tbe students had to make a a:xn­ imately the seventh floor. He mitment with no guarantees that his wasn't sure." According to Aaron, Dr. Helen Isarrov-Andonedis did the stitching or her classes would be accepted. According to Iannaco, "The stu­ of the wound, which was an inch to The students who did not get a dent was hit in his head and he was two inches long. The student' was complete schedule would have ac­ brought to the nurses office by one later picked up by his mother and tually paid for a complete of the guards. " schedule." Students entitled to ear- Iannaco said, "The nurse's office (Continued on Page A /2 Col. 4,J (Continued on Page A 10, Col. 3) . OLD: SEASONS GS* TheT.icker Deeember~l;1917 DeceDiber'I•.;1tI1 'p':":U ; ." ..... ... - ... - .. , . ..•.... EDITOR'IALS LETTERS·· OP-ED PLAsMA DE STdIUU / CHlUSTOPHER A. WARD WORDS ON WELFARE BLACK HIGHER EDUCATION An Unwelcome .Reception 'To The Editor: Workable Welfare 'poorest of the poor' Christopher Ward's article category - those with in­ By GLENN PALMER "Welfare Warfare," published in comes below half the pover­ The Foreign Students' Office is another example of the administration's total lack of concern for Last issue I presented my views on the must bere-established. First, welfare tenure your 1l/17/1987 issue of Ticker ty line ($5,600 for a family welfare cJJhilosophy'" which has had a the students. The Office, run by Steven Goldberg, and Goldberg alone, has ceased to be an effective must be taken away. Nobody should be on The position of black people in the were denied equal resources with these in­ deals polemically with welfare. If I of four) reached its highest detrimental effect on the country. I felt I unit for the 1,600 international students it supposedly represents. As reported in this issue, Goldberg welfare for' life. Secondly, the criminal stitutions. Consequently public black col­ am not misled by his polemical level in more than a decade. could not leave it at that..•..Here my United States has improved when con­ has been operating the office without a receptionist since last June and the small amount of is elements must-be taken out of the public leges never provided the same number or tone, the thesis is the following: Some 39.2 percent of all sidered in terms of the actual gains achieved assistance he does receive comes from two student aides who work approximately 20 hours per week. solution to the present we/fare projects. Crime must not pay, because if it although a welfare system is people who were poor in in the economic, social, and educational caliber of educational services to the black This leaves Goldberg the rest of the time, to do all the paperwork, typing, telephone answering and "condition. " does then why should anyone obey the law? sometimes necessary, it is a 1986 (or' 12.7 million peo­ arenas. The average level of income for a community as have their white counter­ dealing with the students.