Faculty and Students Argue for Budget U.S. Senate Approves More Money
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Connecticut Satuj Campus Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol. LXXXV No. 79 University of Connecticut Thursday, February 11,198? Faculty and students argue for budget Bv John Berry William Shannon, vice said. "We are mortgaging lose its accreditation because able to give financial aid to Staff Writer president of the American our future." it lacks the money needed to needy students and make HARTFORD—UConn Association of University About 20 of the 50 studen- buy equipment, adding he loans to students at a nine students and faculty Professors, said O'Neill's ts clad in black armbands to thought he might-have made percent interest rate, which criticized the lack of funding protest inadequate state a mistake turning down would eventually make a for UConn at a Joint Ap- budget is grossly inadequate for UConn. "There are funding for. UConn echoed scholarships at Tufts Univer- profit for the school. propriations Committee Shannon's concerns over the sity and the University of W e d n e s d a y morni ng hearing last night. Gov. crowded classroom, dirty hallways, an under- UConn budget. Washington at St. Louis for President John A. DiBiaggio William O'Neill's recently Jeff Lewis, an Un- UConn. also spoke before the com- proposed $78 million budget developed library and a dergraduate Student Gover- Dave Targonski, an mittee. He said that the en- for UConn is $5 million less freeze on the hiring of 200 nment Central Committee engineering major at UConn's tire system of state gover- than what the University staff and physical plant member,said he feared that Hartford branch, said the nment has had to eliminate requested for 1982-83. workers we need," Shannon the engineering school will state wasn't fulfilling its 106 government positions. constitutional obligation to provide excellence in higher education when it underfun- See related story ds UConn. He read the following sec- tion to the five ap- on page two propriations committee members present at the 98 of those positions are at UConn." hearing. "The State shall DiBiaggio said that the maintain a system of higher Appropriations Committee's education, including the decision to allocate $5 University of Connecticut, million less than UConn's which-shall be dedicated to rescinded budget request is the excellence of higher "most distressing." "The education." areas we are being forced to USG Finance committee cut are some of the most im- chairman Rich McCaulley portant to the university Hartford: Rick McCaulley, [center] chairman of the USG finance committee testifies before told the committee that community." the Joint Appropriations Committee last night [Jim Loflnk photo]. UConn should implement "I must say I'm "creative financing." "If frustrated," he added. they (the state) can't give the "This pleading with U.S. Senate approves University more money, then legislators is getting to feel give the students the oppor- almost like an academic ex- tunity to make money for the ercise. It's simply more money for jobless school," McCaulley said. distressing." He cited a proposal from Last night, Democrat WASHINGTON (AP)—Responding to Presi- chopping that, cutting awav" the govern- Arthur Gillis, UConn vice Janet Polinsky, member of dent Reagan's urgent request, the Senate ment's domestic spending programs. president for finance and the Appropriations commit- unanimously gave final congressional approv- Such talk is similar to the "pre-Depression administration, where the tee , suggested that UConn al Wednesday to an additional $2.3 billion in mentality" of the 1920s, Maynihan said. state would allow UConn to raise its tuition. A tuition jobless pay and services made necessany by Unemployment was 8.5 percent of the work buy bonds. With this extra hike "is inevitable with a $33 the recession. force last month, far above earlier estimates money, UConn would be million deficit. The 95-0 senate vote followed by one day a by administration and congressional econo- lopsided House vote and sent the measure to mists. The Labor Department estimated that the White House for Reagan's signature. 9.2 million Americans were out of work in There has been virtually no disagreement in January. Congress over the need for additional money The vote in the House on the $2.3 billion bill to deal with the unexpectedly high joblessness for jobless benefits was 398-3. with only Reps. caused by the recession. Phil Crane, R-Ill.. Ron Paul, R-Texas and Nevertheless, Republicans and Democrats Larry McDonald. D-Ga.. opposing the plan. have used the measure to argue about which Reagan's request to Congress called for party was to blame for the recession. • $1.95 billion in new advances from the federal government to the states, whose own unem- Sen. Daniel Patrick Maynihan, D-N.Y.. said ployment reserves have run low. It is the state it was ironic to be considering such a measure governments that actually distribute unem- as legislators heard "talk of freezing this, ployment benefits to the jobless. Reagan still adamant WASHINGTON (AP)—President Reagan ent Federal Reserve Board, the nation's refused to retreat Wednesday from his plan central bank, will not waver from its polioy for reducing inflation in the years ahead even even if Congress tolerates deficits approach- though he acknowledged the nation must ing $100 billion a year. endure the highest unemployment in decades Reagan's new budget plan predicts record and a recession along the way. deficits averaging $91 billion a year from 1982 In an economic report to Congress, Reagan through 1984, but the figures assume Con- also held firmly to his record-deficit budget gress will approve savings averaging $80 and predicted that his tax-cut medicine would billion a year. nurse the nation back to a "vigorous economic recovery" this year. Volcker's comments appeared to bolster arguments by Reagan's critics that the Fed's At the same time. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker vowed to hold to an tight-money policy along with Reagan's anti-inflation course of slower money growth. loose-deficit policy will drive up interest rates again as the government and private borrow- And he warned Congress that without smaller ers compete for a limited supply of capital. deficits, "we would be on a collision course" between the need for economic growth and But Reagan's 215-page economic report the lack of money for lending to finance that ceded no ground to the critics' prediction that Sunny today with highs near 30. Tonight clear with lows 20 expansion. giant-sized deficits will keep the economy in to 25. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph today and tonight. Volcker told a committee that the independ- an ever worsening downturn. I Jim I xi fink photo]. P*0« 2 Connecticut Dally Campus, Thursday, February 11,1982 Students to live in studies, N. Y. Times guide to colleges triples if trustees agree has little good to say for UConn By Judy Benson M. James Almand unusual activity is 'cow tipping'. Pranksters i If the board of trustees agrees with a recommendation News Editor venture out at night to the pastures, sneak up a expected to be presented at today's meeting, about 470 on the unsuspecting cows, (which sleep "UConn, while adequate in many ways and standing up), and tip them over." students will be living in dormitory studies and tripled superior in a few, has a long way to go before rooms designed for two persons next fall. fulfilling its stated mission to become 'a great The guide considers UConn's stronger John Cunningham, chairman of the trustee's Institutional state university,'" states the New York Times Policy Committee, said Wednesday that "essentially the program offerings to be engineering, business Selective Guide to Colleges 1982-1983. administration, special' education, nursing, same number" of overflow housing should be used as last The" guide, which examines over 250 fall when about 200 freshman and 279 other students were pharmacy, accounting, social science, biology, American colleges and universities, rates and agriculture. UConn's cbmmuni- living in triples and studies. He said his committee found UConn as basically middle-of-the-road in all no other practical alternatives to the housing shortage in cations program, on the other hand, is aspects. described as "rather weak". their meeting Tuesday. Academically, the guide claims, UConn "We want to make access to the University available to as rates a 'three' on a one to five scale. The social The report goes on to say that while many students as possible," he said, adding that he feels life, according to the guide, also rates a three. administrators claim to look for professors UConn is fulfilling its purpose by admitting as many UConn's over-all quality of life, the Times who excite interest and evoke response in students as possible with the use of triples and studies for says, deserves again, a three. students , the students say faculty members overflow housing. I Mass, by comparison, rates a four in tend to be more interested in "research "We will provide 2,150 beds for freshmen," he said. "It academics, a five in social activities and a four and..^getting tenure," and that "academic is critical that we provide as many opportunities for in overall quality of life, while Boston advising is minimal." Connecticut residents as possible." He said the overcrowd- University sports a three, four, three, respect- ing problem was eased somewhat when about 90 beds were ively. The report even called attention to UConn's made available to members of fraternities and sororities in Edward B. Fiske, education editor of the much-publicized budget woes. "UConn suf- university-owned homes.