New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 089, No 147, 5/6/1985." 89, 147 (1985)

University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1985 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 5-6-1985 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 089, No 147, 5/ 6/1985 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1985 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 089, No 147, 5/6/1985." 89, 147 (1985). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1985/72 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1985 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fastballers' fade Impressive improvisors Thf;) baseball team's .the Phantasmagoria hopes for a .conference Improvisational group championship took a wants to carry on · .step backward in fall the tradition of ing to UTEP. ~econd City .. See Sports for ResQits See Arts Vol. 89 Monday, Moy6, 1985 Hearing focuses on VNM employment Farer backs By Camille. Cordova co-op funds Employment discrimination at the By Ben Neary University of New Mexico was the focus ;()f a h.:aring Thursday called University of New Mexico Pre:li by the New Mexico Advisory Com dent Tom Farer sUpports increased mittee to the U.S. Commission on funding for the Skills Center and the Civil Rights. Child Care Co•op. The committee, chaired by for Farer spoke before administrators mer New Mexico Lt. Governor and members of student government Roberto Mondragon, heard pre Friday at a meeting to discuss the sentations Thursday morning by structure and allocation of manda Un.iversity President Tom Farer and tory student .fees. other UNM representatives. Testi Student fees accounted for about mony from various community $176 of the $408 paid for full-time groups filled the afternoon session tuition this semester. of the hearing. the purpose ofthe hearing was to During the meeting, ASUNM update a study done in 1980 on the President John Schoeppner said. status of affirmative action and em ''We need a way to get student input ployment opportunity at UNM con into how student fees are altocatcd.I cerning salaries, race and gender. have a real .Problem with the debt• l\1ondragon stre<;~<;(l that the data ,$el'\!'iCC. {~." being presented lias not been con- · About40 percent of student fees, firmed by the commission and was $2.5 million this semester, is allo bcing.aired publically in order to in cated to debt-service. Debt-service Jorm the respondent (UNM) and pays off bonds that the University solicit corrections, if necessary. issues to pay for new buildings on Current data was provided to the campus. committee by the state Human UNM President Tom Far• and alflrmative-action repr~~HntatiVe Bernie S._,.z speak at a •• At the last Board qf .Educational Rights Commission. meeting of the New MeKit:t:l Advisory CommittH to the u.s. Commlaion on Civil Rights. Finance meeting," Schoeppner Many of the presentations ac said, ''they re~flnanced the bonds cused the University of "institution above the national average in hiring secondaty schools in New Mexico, Farer, in tum, called Anderson's and UNM's debt went from $30 mil al mcism," a charge that was dis and admitting ·.to study Hispanics and inadequate preparation of stu statements "slanderous." lion to dose to $20 million. So why puted by Farer. and Native Americans. Of course, dents for higher education. Ac:cordio.g to the data ·(rom the shouldn't that savings be passed "We feel that we hav~made gains we do not show these groups at their George Anderson, .of the New Human Rights Commission, the tot along to the students by cutting their · over the past several years, and we demogmphic level in the state." The Mexico Rainbow Coalition, said al employment increase in the past fees?" are detennined to continue to make reasons for this, said Farer, are the that the University had a system of five years is less than S percent. Farer responded 1 "That's a mis gains," h~ said. "We are, of course, high dropout mte. in the primary and "apartheid." When broken down into the diffe conception, John. To think that any "The University of New Mexico rent ethnic and gender groups, the time we reduce our bonding costs we is a racist, se~tist, ethnocentristic, increases are distributed in the fol ought to refund the money to the Hillerman latest to resign biggotted institution,'' said lowing manner. (All catagory labels students is a non-sequitur. If we rc- Anderson. · eonrlnued on (Mge B continued on paje a By Stacy Green bos, Jose Martinez and George Triandafilidis, professors of civil 1 An award-winning author and engineering~ Anaya backs bare minimum' tuition journalism profeS.'IOr, Tony Hiller • Ahmed Erteza, professor of elec man is the latest in a succession of trical and computer engineering; By keUy Richmond distinguished University of New • Robert Evans, director of the hon· Mexico faculty to announce their ors program; Gov. Toney Anaya spoke on a resignations this year. • William Huber, dean of Universi wide tange of educational issues Fri Among the faculty and adminis ty College; day morning at a forum with stu trators leaving UNM this year are • Harold Meier, associate professor dents on the University of New the following: of sociology, and Charles Wood Mexico campus. • Clinton Adams, .co-founder and house, professor of sociology; Among the issues discussed were director of Tamannd InstitUte; • Beaumont Newhall, visiting art fu11Cfing, tuition rates, financial aid, • Richard H. Clough, Comic Huls- professor: Tide XX, affirmative action, centers • Loren Potter, professorofbiolog• for technical excellence, the possi· y; and · bility. of a stUdent member on the • GlennWhan, professor and chair· Board of Regents, problems ofNa man of the chemical and nuclear en• tive AmerittiR'i, investments in gin~ring department. South AfriCa ·arid .the recent con UniversitySecJetary Anne Brown troversy at KtJNM•FM. said the number of faculty resigning ASUNM President Juhn ot retiring this year •'seems like a lot Schoeppner begafi the meeting by to me, but I don't have any figures." reading a resolution passed by the Br~wn attributed the turnover to student Senate stating that UNM stu retirement. "We've got a lot of peo· dents "commend and thank Gov. pie reaching the retirement age who Anaya'' for his efforts on behalf of are leavhtg, '' she said. the University of New Mexico. But .several retiring faculty and Anaya began the forum with com administrators attributed their de ments on funding levels and tuition partures, in part, to frustratiott with tatcsf snying, "Philosophically, I the University attd LegislattJtc. come from a background that I feel "The attitude of the Legislature th~ best tuition level is n free tuition toward education and futtding level. "Realistically, we'll never education in New Mexico is vety get there, so r•m litltadvocating that depressing~" said Hilterman, who as an alternative here tOday. But J Sandra Tatum ends his 22-year association with say that in terms of a benl!hmark of Gov. Toney Anaya addresses que$tions lrom student body UNM June 30. leaders across the state on Friday in the SUS Ballroom. Tony Hillerman continutld on page 6 continued on page 5 Page 2, New Mexico Daily Lobo, May 6, 198S Pllge 3, New Mexico Daily Lobo, May 6, 1985 l'lreRCpOn By United Press International Company will pay cash for textbooks By ,Ben Neary Jackson s:~id that Nebraska Book Nebraska Book also buys books pays stu<;fents as much as the Book the Bookstore is stuck with at the end It's the end of the .semester and store would wl\en it buys books th~t of the year. most University of New Mexico stu will be used at UNM again. "The Jackson said there are "four or Opus relocates to N.M. dents are broke, There's nothing in student is going to get exactly the five used book wholesalers around the fridge and nothing on your ,, same price whether we buy them or the country and we use them all. We lOWA CITY, Iowa-The comic by 700 newspapers. The biggest I, shelves but textbooks. The solution? they buy them," deal with them because we want to strip "Bloom CountY" i$ moving growth came when Garry Trudeau Sell the books. Both Nebraska Book and the buy used books from all of them." from Iowa to New Me~tico later this took 11 hiatus from '' Doonsbury ,' ' The Nebraska Book Company Bookstore pay students about 50 ''The service actually saves stu month, but e~tcept for Opus the pen .. .Breathed said 200 newspapers wants to buy them . for less than percent of the price of a book when dents money," Jackson said, "Of guin riding an occasi.onal cactLJs for added Bloom County in that period, you paid for them, of course. it'sgoing to be used again, Nel>raska course, they wouldn 'I be here if they fu~t, cartoonist Berke Breathed says but more importa!llly, none of them They're at the UNM Bookstore this Book then sells the books that will be weren 'I going to make a buck, It readers won 'I notice any difference, dropped it when Doonsbury re- week and they pay cash .. used at UNM to the Bookstore for doesn't make the pul>lishers h~ppy Breathed is taking his wry, satir turned. · exactly what it paid the students for but it saves the students about 25 ical sense of humor to Albuquerque, BreatlJed populates his strip with Cy Jackson, bookstore director, them, percent of the cost of a new book." N.M., on May 16, accompanying a host of critters and people, all of says the Bookstore uses Nebraska Nebraska Book makes its money There are books lh!lt Nebraslm his !;irlfriend, Sylvia, who will take them with some (<ind of hang-up, Book to avoid baving to ring up a bill on the books that won't be used Book Won 'I buy.

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