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LO-- G \.l 0--" d\ ~ (1,. " \~ c Lo \\ e.q e... r cJ L~· 1ioreIIo' s lIate Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College 28 Pages February 14, 1980 The Flute Salutes LaGuardia's Sweethearts page 19 Flute Charged With Ethnic Slur page 9 New Registration Procedures page 13 Sports Commentary page 26 Rock Quiz - Free Tickets page 18 10· THE FLUTE. February 14. 1980 POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIE POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIE POunCAL VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POunCAl VIEWS POunCAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIE POUTICAL VIIiWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIEWS POUTICAL VIE Tuition "ilce may "urt students By Kevin Hui senior colleges of the state universi I have some distressing news to ty system. report to the student body of Fellow LaGuardians may wonder LaGuardia. Mayor Koch, in his plan why the propoSals would only affect to tighten the fiscal budget for 1981, the community colleges and not the hu proposed a ten percent increase senior colleges of CUNY. The in tuition for the nine community answer lies in t.he agreement made colleges of the City University between City HaU and the officials System. In addition, a nine million in Albany. It has been a long· dollar cut of New York City's allot standing wish of Governor Carey ted budget for the tWlTyear colleges t.hat CUNY should be incorporated will likely take place over the next into the state univesity system, but two years. City Hall and the Board of Higher Education have adamantly resisted I n order for these proposals to be this notion on the premise that enacted. they must first be approved CUNY is in itself a distinctive and by the City University's board of an identifable symbol of New York trustees. From recent events and City. Because of the fiscal mismag& past experiences. the board of ment of prior mayoral administra· trustees liLs members are appointed tions and the rising costs of main· by Governor Carey and Mayor tainig and upholding the academic Kochl will in all likelihood give their integrity of CUNY, City Hall sycophantic approval for" the two recognized the need for financial proposals. assistance outside its boundaries, The approved increase will boost It was under this compromising the tuition rate from $900 to $990 mood that an accord developed bet. per year, whereas tuition charges at ween CUNY and the governor. The the senior colleges of CUNY and the state assumes the majority of the There is a recurring theme in aU of stand powerless and mute. If the colleges of SUNY will remain at senior colleges' budget in return for this naivety. Whenever there is a current stale of affairs remain as $900 per academic year. This would the right to appoint the seven tightening of the fiscal budget, the they are. and the continuance of the then, in effect. make LaGuardia the members of the fifteen member decision makers always assume financial burdens of which they most expensive public college of board of trustees, while the city upon themselves what the proper place freely on the community col· higher education in t.he State of New assumes the major portion of the remedy is. The pre-conceived notion leges nourish; then t.he incipiency of York in comparison with the senior budget for the nine community col· is that the community colleges can decadence of this fine educational in colleges of CUNY and the junior and leges. always function adequately with stitution will mark a shameful much less and then even some more. blemish on the City of New York STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI And we the students and faculty with the closing of this century. STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDENTS SPEAK OUT STUDI continued from page 9 and self-aggrandizement. you have ing is a valuable eeonomic factor read over it. I can say to all LaGuar Mr. Mayor: because it is the cheapest way of dia students that. I apologize that By John Oowd selling goods, particularly if the William Cross has belittled himself Yvonne Cannon is a representative of a student coalition of voters that will goods are worthless." and the college by resorting to his be used to insure t.he continuation of student needs. I urge every student to The "Godfather" comic strip was Richard Nixon type of antics. register to vote and keep informed on the issues so the delinquent politician not intended to offend anyone and. I f he attempts any other such has others' needs in mind and not t.hose that serve himself. in my opinion, I feel it has DOL. distortions he wiU be met with a Joe Trp lawsuit. It is hard to believe that the As you know, the Mayor is trying to balance the budget "on the backs ot whole of the student council has the poor." For the city colleges it means a 9 million dollar cut in aid and in Fire three gone along with this, do t.hey think creased tuition. He also plans to layoff 600 sanitation men and 7,000 staff the paper is a tool and its writers members in the city school systems. Fire-engine crews. usually manned by Dear Mr. Cross: puJ1pets to support t.hem toward five men will be cut to four. Concerning your reply to my t.heir petty pursuit of power? Do I Nick Mancuso, President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, accus· editorial on the Irish, you are correct have to tell them what their opinion ed the Mayor or "endangering the lives of its residents and firefighters" with in saying that 1 have done very little is worth? Let the battle die away in his cuts. The Mayor it seems, is not living in the real world; a balanced research on Irish history: rat.her it is this issue so t.he council may tum budget means nothing when the human misery it causes is overwhelming. the news coverage over the past itself to more local problems and decade that has angered me the Economists and conservatives don't think about people, they only feel prevent the nowering of student dis· alive when they see a set of figures evenly balanced on a city budget record. most. I remember the "bloody Sun· sension. day" of 1972 when British soldiers Austerity wasn't the Mayor's theme when pay raises for himself and Sincerely, legislature were introduced. Forcing sacrifice upon others outside the secure murdered 13 innocents because they John Dowd dared to stand up for an Ireland free gates of government is the soul of the American political system, and Mayor from English C'ppression. No, I have Koch is its most notorious practitioner. not done any deep research but then Special (rom Christine North President Carter recently pledged over 400 million in aid to the city, a everyone can see on television what. Student. Counci l measure used to win votes and influence people; routing political hackwork brutal oppression is like. I desire 8 correction on for a president seeking re-election. About 60 million of that will go to close I n your second observation you something printed in The Flute the budget-gap. the rest is obliged to the rest of city government_ This is a have misleadingly omitted two which implied "Christ.ina North gift for Mayor Koch's behind·kissing of the Carter administration; and a words important to the statement. was evicted. from a SFA meeting clear signal to all that federal aid depends upon their loyalties, Mayor Jane In full it reads, "I DOUBT the Irish because she said the room was Byrne of Chicago learned this when she declared her support for Ted Ken· have a built·in mechanism that bugged:' nedy and found that admnistration henchmen cranked back millions of creates an inherenUy unforgiving 1 stated that I had discovered dollars in funds for transportation. nature: rather it is decades of discrepancies in the budgets. Political budget· restraining tends to sag near election time and probably English domination, oppression and Because the former Vice-Chair, when election day arrives for Mayor Koch he will change his fiscal tune like bullying that causes generation who was an accounting major, President Carter and plead for a second chance to redress his wrongs. after generation of Irish hearts to be and myself would not be a "rub If we are stupid enough to do so it will be through our own voter apathy, hateful" ber stamp vote" on any of the the friend of every insincere politician in the country. It kept alive our inept Whether you have omitted the I SFA budgets, we were never per Albany Legislature and our own local curses; Ed Koch, Pat Moynihan and a DOUBT purposely to discredit me. mitted in a budget meeting. host of other less recognizable shysters. A strong student lobby will treat or in your quenchless thirst for glory these politicians to what they're most deserving of, political oblivion. February 14, 1980. TH E FLUTE . 11 Minority programs benefit all In high school, A change in attitude toward ethnic of being involved on campus and were says. Programs include: dances, perfor· less pot, studies must. be made if such programs aware of organizations, but didn't join mances, dinners and speakers, all with are to survive in the 19808, says the because Lhey felt more comfort.able in ethnic themes: an annual cultural director of a 8uCC4!ssful maticultural organizations that deal just with blacks reLreat.; a newsletter fOCUSing on minori· more coke center.