Budget Blues Spring Carnival This ---. Who Will Lose? by Doug Taylor By far the largest chunk of money goes to sports. In all, $78,905.00 is sup­ Weekend-Stick Around You know the school year is quickly plied to Varsity Athletics. screeching to an end when budget time While looking over their 1979-.s0 rolls around. Each year the battle goes allocation, I noticed SQmething quite on between hungry organizations and unusual. While other organizations the student government for more of nev-er get what they ask for I the athletic your money. supporters were blessed with only a I'd like to ask the question, why do $1 ,500 reduction. Whil~ clubs such as some organizations receive such a the " Little ~ Theatre " suffered. a $2,000 large proportion of funds, while at­ cut back. Their budget ended up with Meal Plan Going Up??? tracting such a small percent of the only $3,234 anyway. student body? The next largest swn of money went In the following article we'll take a to the College Union Board. From a look at the 1979-80 budget. Keep in mind requested $38 ,312 , they received Featured In the activities you participate in, care $27,925. Of course they also take $23,688 for, think about, or know of. in revenues. At the beginning of each semester, Other Big Bucks winners are along with tUition, room & board, and C.A.F.A.C. $16,950, The Voice $20,895, your medical fee, you shell out a quick The Music department, including the Our Next Issue ••• forty bucks for a student activity fee. jzzz ensemble and Music $8,130 , The story behind Utis expense, dales Brickyard P oint $8,640 and Radio 56 at back to the birth of the S.U.N.Y. $7,015. system. If one looks at all the figures you • When the state opened up the state might ask why do some organizations wide college netowrk, it was designed get so much money, yet they don't -' to provide a good, no-frills, education. affect that many students. Politics? Because of a rule that no sports nor Tradition? False Infonnation? Lets clubs would receive tax payers money, lake a close and serious look at whert the student activity fee was initiated. our money is being funneled. Wh) This year the fee was boosted for shouldn't organizations, long in need OJ each student, bringing the total amount growth, be given the financial backinf of money collected by the student to expand, to serve the students wht government to $204,600JXI_ Where does really use them. it aU go? .;... -::. Well, last year 29 'dependents' were listed to jockey for their fair share of the funds. In March the S.G. treasurer (this year, Paul Townsand) demands that each or ganization submit a " Budget Request". Then the Financial Committee of the Student Government questions each or ganization and deliberates over the amount of precious, economic fuel, each should get. ' ..........~ .. &ergy , We Can't Afford To Waste It '. , Coming To Your Town . - , Enjo¥:ing The 55 MPH Speed limit - • '" • ••• WHIRLWIND, April 23, 1980, p. 2 Folks At Coby by Mickey Huxley taught photography aA How to study" courses until th-~r when Almost everyone in Cobleskill knows last year there was an increase in tuitIon and a long with the extra work. made doing the courses Cherie Stevens, Pearson Hall dorm impossible. Four years ago she formed increase of inflation, students are finding it hard to meet the cost s director. If you don't know her, you Coby Singers, whom she has taken out of college. Some may not even be able to attend. It's estimated should. This indefatigable lady seems on the road a ' iot (approximately 20 that a student can spend over $3000 per year in school. ~ be e~erywh ertl: at once, doing at least times this past year), to perform for five things at once, and doing them a ll area groups such as Rotary clubs­ Many students ·here in Cobleskill rely heav ily on some kind of well. She just doesn't seem to know clubs that provide scholarships to financial aid. Sources of maior f inancial aid come from Tuition when to quit. students here at Cobleskill. Assistance Program ( TAP). the Regents Scholarshi p Awards and When Cherie was only 15, she was In adition to eve rything else she has the Basi c Opportunity Gr ant ( BEOG)" accepted as a full-time student at been doing, Cherie recently formed a college during the swnmer, and earned Country & Western band with some Many students w ho do receive financia l a id get a llowances from a degree in journalism. After her students. playing at the recent Country home. Some have work st ud y programs. Other students receive gradUation from high school, Cherie & Western Jamboree. Although she no money f r om hom e and declare them seh es financially in· went to Oneonta State College and did can 't r~ad music,. Cherie plays banjo, rour year 's worth of work in 2'1,i years. I dependent. m ~ ndohn , elect ~l c guitar, 12.string By the time she was 19 years old, Cherie gUItar, and 6-strlng, all by ear. This In some cases, a student's ed uca tion is b ei ~ g pa id by a student had ~arn ed her Bachelo r's degree in past year, Cherie has been advisor for En~hsh speech and theater education. C.U.B., substituting fo r the club's loan. T hey are not granted free and m ust be .aid back by the first Wh ile at Oneonta, she was editor of the nine months after a student graduates. Loans are an ever· regular advisor, who is away for the yearbook every year she was there yea r. Sh~ also taught swnmer theater I increa Si ng subSidy for the student's edu.:at ion budget. SUN Y then she was advisor of the year book workshol;lS, whi ch were open to the • students are in debt to a sum of S145 m illion.' for one year. She was also president of community, and has done numberous her sorority, president of the Friend­ benefit sh0v.:s for the Cancer Society . • l:ber e is no average or norm" to describe the student w ho applies ship .Committee, all while taking 24-27 for aid. But it's the m idd le income fa m ly which is affected by The one thing that Cherie is probably credit hours per semester. Cherie best known for is Pearson Presents. She inflation and t axes. There are some m isconceptions about worked during college in nightclubs and started the production in her fi rst financ ial aid, such as, it is only for low hcome m inor it y students. cofeehouses doing di fferent acts and semester here, and has continued it That isn't true. ' stand·up comedy. She had a ever since, with one performance each professional singing group called the semester. So far she has had 14 per­ There are m an y financial aid prog'ams in proposal for SU N Y "Front Porch Singers." The .group formances of Pearson Presents. students. One is called the Par e(fal Loan Program (wher e :!lade an album and competed in the In her Spare time, Cherie enjoys parents take a loan out to help su .por t thei r son or da ughter 's New York Slate Fair three years in a pai.n?ng, drawing, photography, and guaranteed student loan). It then oecom es the parents' r espon­ ro w, winning all three years as the top wrltmg. She has a darkroom in her sibility to pay It back . talent in New York. Slate. apartment, where" she can often be Cherie came to Cobleskill a~ age 21 , • fo.und in the ar~y hour~ of the IJl(lrning. ,• With the continuing rise in inflition· and college costs, it w ill be and some of the students in her dorm Right now she IS workmg on writing an interesting to find out who can .bCTUALL Y afford college w ithoul ve re olde r than she was. Soon after she anthology, which she hopes to have financial aid in y ears to come vas hired, she was asked to be advisor published. I G' the Whirlwiod, which had been non­ For most people to accomplish as , e.dstent for 5 years and which didn 't much as Cherie Stevens has, they would J.e. e \ ~ n have a place to meet. Cherie has have to wo rk at it for a lifetime. But he!n the yearbook advisor for the past f?1erie has only ~n at Cobleskill for , th ee years, and is very enthusiastic Sll[ years. No wonder she was named to ablllt this year's book. She was Gamma Outstanding Young Women of America S i ~;na advisor for 4 years, and she last year !!! Letter To The Editor . A Oose·Up Of • • . Gerie Stevens , To the Editor: effort. , I am writing to congratula.'e you for Despite all the effort, the batUemay our -successes so far in restJring funds not be over. The budget, passed I>' both to the SUNY Budget, to Uank you lor houses, includes restoration of IU but Legal Way your efforts, and to urge TOU to keep up five million of the carey cuts, Jut the the good work becaase we must budget has not been approved by the by E .J.