Major Notes Is an [ Attempt to Show How Millsaps Faculty Mem- of Roughly $90,000,000, and Enrolls 9,000 Students
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mm noT-ES millsaps college magazine winter, 1968 \ t I I I illsapsians Abroad: 0m Teachers and Learn Students •4 Through Travel k «» ight: Professor Howard ;nder at the Parthenon ', Presidential Views mfljofl noT-ES by Dr. Benjamin B. Graves A question frequently asked by parents, students, donors,, legislators, and others interested in higher education is "WhatI millsaps college magazine does a quality education cost?" This question frankly perplexes I even those of us in college administration. Nevertheless, it is ai winter, 1968 valid inquiry and one around which exists a great deal of confusion, if not misinformation. A quality education in a residential college or university today MERGED INSTITUTIONS: Grenada is apt to cost somebody at least $3,000 per student per year for College, Whitworth College, Millsaps basic costs, normally defined as tuition, room, and board. To many^ College. of us, especially those who live in Mississippi, where educational J costs, and perhaps quality, have been generally on the low side, MEMBER: American Alumni Council, American College Public Relations As- this figure perhaps sounds astronomical. Nevertheless, 1 shall stand sociation. on it. Let me try to put the matter into a Millsaps perspective. For the coming year we have established a basic tuition of $1,200, with CONTENTS room and board an additional $700, making the basic cost to the^ student approximately $1,900. The College, however, will supple- 'I More- 3 European Reaction to ment these funds with another $1,100 from other sources. Americans in Vietnam over, many of our students, through various aid programs, will pay to the institution far less than the $1,900 basic cost. We must, 8 Troubadours in the Tropics then, find ways to make up these differentials because we shall 12 to Europe: Seven Trips spend something in the magnitude of $3,000 on each student. Travels of Paul Hardin To give some other comparisons, a student in one of the better j 16 Events of Note will in 1968-69 in range of Eastern colleges pay basic costs the i $3,000 and $4,000. Bear in mind that basic costs are those borne 21 Major Miscellany ; only by the student. Additionally, these same colleges will provide, I 23 When Giving Can Save from their own funds and other sources, another $2,000 to $6,000. | For example, Yale University will operate on a budget in 1968-69 About this issue: This Major Notes is an [ attempt to show how Millsaps faculty mem- of roughly $90,000,000, and enrolls 9,000 students. This equates to' bers have increased their effectiveness about $10,000 in expenditure per student. The University of Chicago through travel abroad and how they, and reports that it spends about $13,500 for a graduate student in the students, serve as ambassadors for biology. Medical schools across the country frequently spend Millsaps. It by no means attempts to be a complete coverage. Many other students $15,000 per year per student. and faculty members have traveled abroad Now let's turn to the state in for system Mississippi another ; also, it is recognized. Students live abroad point of comparison. Students at one of the state universities next through .Junior Year Abroad Programs. year will pay a basic cost of $1,000 to $1,300 in room, board, and; But the people included have something to say — as would the others — and we think tuition. But look for the hidden factor! The state will subsidize! you will be interested. each student about $1,500 in operating and capital funds. Even ini! the state institution, we come back to this range of $2,500 to $3,000', Volume 9 January, 1968 Number 3 as being the amount spent for education of the student. j If the foregoing figures are disturbing, let me close with two j external but no irrelevant comparisons. The nation is spending! Published quarterly by Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Entered as second class matter on Oc- about $1,000 a year on an enrollee in the Job Corps, where per- tober 15, 1959, at the Post Office in Jackson, Mis- sissippi, under the Act of August 24, 1912. sons are being trained in such vocations as bakers, machinery operators, and barbers. It costs about $3,000 a year to keep a man in the federal penitentiary. college A education today is probably I Shirley Caldwell, '56, Editor worth $200,000 to the typical student. So, even in this era of ' James J. Livesay, '41, Executive Director, Alumni mushrooming prices and Association galloping inflation, higher education is still a bargain. As loyal | alumni and friends, you will, I believe, agree with me that Millsaps, Photo Credits: Cover, unknown; pages 4-6, Ronald | Davis; pages 8-11 and back cover, Leland Byler and considering its quality and using any broad scale of measurement, Bob Rldgway; pages 12, 17, 20, Charles Gerald; page 18, Ernest Rucker; page 19, Jim Lucas. remains one of the nation's best educational buys. Millsapsians Abroad European Reaction to Americans In Vietnam A first-hand report By Howard Bavender Assistant Professor of Political Science On the TWA seven o'clock night flight to London out development came to me in an encounter with a young of Dulles, what surprises you is the suddenness of the Laborite who, it turned out, had been in a Jackson jail dawn. By midnight, Washington time, a light blue band back in 1964. A Yale student then, he had come South in appears and hangs suspended on the horizon. As you a wave of Civil Rights workers. His reasoning about left wing. fly into this dawn, the hovering blue band slowly ex- Vietnam is fairly characteristic of Labor's pands with hght. Finally the charming young lady who Ho Chi Minh, this young man argued, is a Tito, i.e., he has been feeding you, on and off all night, gently pushes is his own man, a nationalist who would have defied a Continental breakfast in front of you with the word China and done so with the encouragement of Moscow. True, that London is an hour away. The war is a civil war, an insurgent movement. Hanoi has intervened to gain control of the movement, There is first a glimpse of the green fields of Eng- but nonetheless it is a civil war and for this reason we land; then, all at once, the buildings and runways of lack justification for our intervention. London's Heathrow Airport rise up, and you are there. With Laborites and Conservatives, the bombing is British courtesy, always a wonder to those unused to the most seriously disturbing issue. They agree they the likes of it, eases the formalities and confusion of want it stopped or at least narrowly restricted to crucial entry. On the way into London cars stack up—just like targets. Britons see the bombings on their television our traffic—but drivers light up a cigarette and assume sets, and many recall the experiences of twenty-five a calmly preoccupied look. These people are used to years ago. Laboring classes especially, a Party mem- waiting. ber said, do not understand the war and are the least Since I am in London to study politics, my first point sympathetic of all classes in this socially stratified cf contact is the American Embassy. There it sits, society to the American role in Southeast Asia. dominating Grosvenor Square, of menacing, elegant, By now many Americans are familiar with the flam- Georgian architecture, looking a little like an embat- boyant, rather kookish, Foreign Secretary, George tled fortress of concrete and glass topped by an im- Brown. Shortly before making this trip I had read in mense spread-winged eagle. the New York Times a background study of the For- I am particularly interested in the impact on other eign Secretary which dwelt on certain weaknesses in countries of American involvement in Vietnam, and 1 his makeup—alleged to be women, liquor, and a general soon learn that British political parties wish Vietnam tendency to just plain erratic behavior. Were the stor- did not exist. with the other politicians I As European ies true? 1 asked. A Laborite in a position to know in- talked with, they are sympathetic and polite, but equally sisted that the specific stories used by the Times were frank in telling you that this is our mess and they are not true, but added with a knowing smile, "I could tell not about to get involved in it. Between Labor and Con- you some other stories that are really good!" Conserva- servatives, it is the latter that furnishes more internal tives were more sober about Mr. Brown: "A security party agreement on Britain's support of the American risk!" exclaimed one. I watched the Foreign Secretary position. But not even the Conservatives would go be- in a major House of Commons debate on the Middle East yond Prime Minister Wilson's policy. Beyond this is a crisis, where under intense questioning from both sides considerable public apathy about it all. Parties simply of the House he maintained his "cool" and bore up, I will not commit themselves to an issue that is for their thought, in the style of a first-rate House of Commons people completely overshadowed by more immedi- man. ate and meaningful problems. If one accepts the valid- Throughout my conversations in Europe I often ity of the American role in Asia, Europe's current atti- heard expressed a longing for John F. Kennedy. The tude about Vietnam is not unlike that prevailing in the feeling toward President Johnson ranged from indiffer- heyday of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlin ence to respect for him as a politician's politician.