Students Should Be Aware of How Their Money Is Spent News Analysis
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Students should be aware of how their money is spent amount seems very affor- members elect a steward and the wide range of tasks that time cooks, assistance with By Jeff Denny dable when compared to the assistant steward from their go along with the feeding of food purchasing and Managing Editor average 1982 meal plan cost ranks to work with the upwards of 60 students when mediating complaints and College campuses are of $543. Looking ahead with Associated Student com- they assume the duties. suggestions from student usually rather idealistic vision altered by an inflation missaries, which oversees Jerry Weller, the director of members make for a difficult places to live, 'for they are rate of 10 percent, it will cost their operations. The ASC, says that the positions task which may require the removed from the hustle of each student about $1280 per University collects the fee* are a "learning experience," skills of a full-time mainstream life. But the cost semester in 1992 to eat on leaving open the possibilty management expert. of living on college campuses the University meal plan for inadvertant The stewards may not is not removed from the The private meal plans, News mismanagement. "We're have that expertise. Indeed, hustle of inflation. which about half of UConn dealing with an entire spec- Weller has just completed an The cost of food, yearly students have opted for, are trum here," Weller said, ex- investigation of meal plan increases of which are usually a little more expen- Analysis plaining that many students members' allegations at usually tied to the yearly rate sive, for they often offer a become stewards because Shakespeare, a dorm with a of inflation, makes up more diverse menu and from the students and turns cither nobody else would private meal plan. Weller roughly half of the cost of higher quality of food. They them over to the ASC, which take the position, or else said that there were com- living at the University of also offer each student a sets up a budget with the because they were the win- plaints that the assistant Connecticut. In 1972, the more democratic voice in the stewards. ner of a "popularity con- steward was not doing his average cost of a University cost and benefits of their But the stewards are test." Formulating a budget, job, questions concerning meal plan was $255. This food plan. Student meal plan usually inexperienced with hiring kitchen help and full- SEE PAGE 12 <E0tmertf cut laflg (Eampua Serving Storrs Since 1896 Vol.LXXXVNo. 102 University of Connecticut Wednesday, March 24,1982 House Appropriations: Committee approves bill to save student loans WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Appropriations Committ- ee approved an "urgent supplemental appropriations" bill Tuesday thai would prevent student loan. Social Security and other programs from running out of money before the fiscal year is out. "We're correcting mistakes as we go." said Rep. William H. Nauher. D-Ky.. referring to last year's budget cuts. The committee also approved by voice vote continued funds for some of the government's largest departments, including Health and Human Services, treasury. Labor and Commerce. Money for the departments is due to expire March 31. the date set by a stopgap measure passed last December. The supplemental appropriation includes money for student loan programs, sewer construction, housing programs. processing Soeial Security checks and other federal programs thai might run out of money before the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30. While the panel was resolving 1982 budget problems, there Space Center, Houston: A TV camera on the Columbia's robot arm beams back picture* of were hints that Congress and the White House may be edging missing heat tiles on the nose of the shuttle craft |UPI photo|. SEE STORY ON PAGE 3 | nearer to discussions to break the fiscal year 1983 budget stalemate. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.. D-Mass., told reporters that White House Chief of Staff James Baker asked his permission to contact the chairman of the Budget Yale rejects U.S. study grant Committee. Rep. James R. Jones. D-Okla.. and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski. K-111-.. chairman of the Ways and Means NEW HAVEN, Conn. work was being done in ac- regulations as "pretty com- Committee. (AP) — A professor's refusal cordance with the grant. The plex" and said other Yale to comply with a controver- rule, which reportedly is un- faculty members have sial reporting rule for der review, has been grumbled about the USGseeks to change federally funded research frequently criticized by requirement but complied. projects has forced Yale researchers. They say the "Many say, well, it's less present funding method University to turn down a time spent on research and than a perfect world. But $30,000 " grant from the teaching is intertwined and Professor Lang won't accept Donna Luginbuhl National Science Foun- cannot be separated in a it, and he's rather publicly Staff Writer dation, officials said. meaningful way and that the stated that." the deputy Deputy Provost Charles present procedure wastes provost said. A change in the Undergraduate Student Government's Bockelman said Tuesday the time. Bockelman said he's first-come-ffrst-serve method of appropriating funds to federal grant was awarded to Because of Lang's refusal "sympathetic" with Lang's student organizations, which caused the USG to run out of mathematics Professor Serge to comply, Yale said it could right to take a position on the money before all organizations were funded, was among the Lang, who "feels he can't not comply with the rule and noted the university issues discussed at a USG Central Committee meeting comply" with a regulation regulations and therefore had advised the National Tuesday. regarding how a researcher must refuse the grant. Science Foundation of the The USG Finance Committee attempts to distribute money must account for his time. Bockelman said. professor's stand before fairly among organizations, but because of this process, the regulation requires a The deputy provost ter- the grant award. fairness is not always the result, according to Cheryl Hayden. researcher to file detailed med the effort-reporting chairperson of USG. written reports on how much A new type of funding procedure, called Program Priority time is spent on the project, Funding was discussed in January, according to Steve teaching and various other Basehc. USG information chairman. The new method would academic-related activities. result, in a more equitable distribution of funds. Basehc said. The professor, who Today's weather Under the new program, organizations would be divided into couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday, was to six eatcgories; government, sports, eultural. social, service, loday sunny in ihe morning. Clouds increasing during the and publications. A special committee would then review the conduct a study of numbers theory with the grant. afternoon. High temperature in the lower 50s. Tonight needs of the clubs within each category. This procedure parth cloudy. Lou temperature 30 to 35. Thursday mostly would imply that one organization would be more worthy of Brockelman said Lang in- formed administrators that cloud) with a 40 percent chance of showers. High funding than another, at the discretion of the USG. temperature around 50. Southwest wind becoming south The Central Committee recessed before a decision could be he could not comply with the rule, although he was and increasing to 15 to 25 miles an hour today. Southeast made on this new program. USG has scheduled a meeting for wind 15 to 20 miles an hour tonight. Thursday. SEE PAGE 3 prepared to certify that the J Page 2 Connecticut Daily Campus, Wednesday, March 24,1982 Editorial li is refreshing to see that someone took the time to write a letter supporting the academic standards and faculty output at UConn. It is even more pleasing to see that it was Richard Brown, a former chairman of the history department. Vet Mr. Brown and others who so staunchly praise academics in Storrs ignore some facts which weaken their argument*. For example, in studies done by the American Council of Education and others where academic depart- ments were rated by college faculty only a few of UConn's deportment* made the top 25 in the country. Moreover, there are only a few FulbrightandGuggenheim recipients teaching here, and no Nobel Laureates. Nor arc there that many individuals who lead national academic societies. As far as students go. only the very top acadcmicalfy find themselves in America's most competitive graduate and professional schools. Students with less than 3.5 averages snuggle lor places in 2nd rate graduate and professional programs. While it's obvious that a course at UConn in any given subject could be superior to a course anyw here else. UConn doesn't have the elite reputation that it should have. Finally, we must admit that if the editorial's writer did FUNW...HE NEVER MENTIONED IT WAS 60/N& TO BE AClPRAtN. dare to take Mr. Brown's course he probably wouldn't be one ol the lucky ones to end up at "Harvard. Yale. Chicago. Stamford, Johns'Hopkins. Wisconsin, etc..." Historian defends Is Ronald Reagan logical? UConn's standards You cannot take from the rich to give to the To the Editor: poor, however. This is not the solution to the inequality. But the wealthy should realize that Your editorial of March 8th seems patently unfair to most Imagine that you are a psychiatrist, practic- they arc rich and that the poor are poor not University faculty members and students. Obviously if ing in the 60s and 70s. Your patient is because some arc more responsible for their there was only one who did not hold him or herself to suffering from an economically-induced men- lives than others, but because of a vast exacting standards and allowed students to slip by.