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The Department of Higher cludes an approxi~ate 2 per nancial aid at Mesa, said he Proposals for budget cuts to Education received a cut of 2.2 cent cut to student aid, accor was told earlier in the year to state government currently The state legislaturie, in an percent, one of the smallest ding to -Tilman Bishop, state expect an approximate 2 per awaiting the governor's signa· effort to prevent a forecasted cuts of any department. An senator and Mesa's director of cent cut, so that amount of ture w·ould have a minimal $89.5 million-state deficit, cut amount budgeted for capital student services. Statewide, . funds was held in reserve and effe ct on Mesa because col- various parts of the state's construction was cut 23.4 per- the amount of the reduction not distributed to aid-seeking --------------------------- -----------------------------~ students. Smock estimated the follow ing amounts would be taken from aid programs: Colorado grants, $4 ,413; Colorad·o scholarships, $2,500; athletic scholarships, $1,000; Colorado Work Study, $5,000. Those amounts, he noted, represent about 2 percent of each of the programs at Mesa. Students should not be af fected by the cuts because the budget reductions, if signed by Governor Richard Lamm, would affect only the amounts placed in reserve in anticipa tion of budget cuts, Smock said. Smock also said he hopes there will be no more state cuts because more reductions would affect students who have already received finan- . cial aid. ''I've been assured (further budget ·cuts) are not going to happen. But on ·the other hand, last January it did happen, " said Smock. Smock was referring to a 2 percent cut in the state budget last January which was made Criterion photo by Christine Kennedy to head off a state deficit in fiscal year 1982-1983. A parachutist descends to the grand opening of Grand Bishop said the legislature'·s Junction's Hilton Hotel last Saturday. package of budget reductions and tax increases should be sufficient to get the state More budget cuts due through this fiscal year (July, 1983 through June 1984) with after Elm Hall closure out further financial woes. By Shola Babalola retires at the end of Octo-ber cuts, Seebo said, "With the Criterion Staff Writer an:d we will not be rc::placing exception of the students in Inside that position this year, " Seebo Elm Hall many of the other The closing of Elm Hall said. · students are not going to this week .. -. is not going to be the only According to Seebo,, capital notice anything, because the step· the housing department outlay budgets was sp1ent dur things that are going to be will be taking in cutting down ing the summer for te:levision needed to be done to keep the Bill Monson on their spendings, according sets, washing machines, desks students comfortable and to escapes a sack, to Housing Director Lee and chairs for the use of the keep the halls operating effic Seebo. ~tudents in the halls, and the iently will continue to func aruiMesa Seebo said there would be remainder of this budget will tion.'' some savings in professional be frozen to certain extent and She belived a cut in pro defeated salaries budget, for example, only used in case of emergen gramming budget would be there would be some savings cy. quickly noticed by the stud Western State on the difference between her Seebo said some budgets, ents and hoped there would be· salary and that of her prede which are not vitally im_por no cut in this particular bud 31-7 last cessor's, who was on a higher tant, such as hall program get. Saturday in salary base than she. ming and travel budgets will Seebo said, other areas they ''There will also be some only be cut if it became were looking at was closely Gunnison. savings on classified salaries necessary. monitoring the various sup budget, basically, because the When asked what she plies budgets, like office sup current secretary for the hous thought reactions of s,tudents plies, residence-hall supplies SEE PAGE SEVEN ing department, Hazel Fiegel, would be concerning a.11 these and maintenance suppMes. PAGE TWO, The Criterion, October 14, 1983 News Math book sells best at Mesa By Bob Kretschman of Excellence: Lessons From "I wouldn't have expected "Jane Fonda's Workout are also sold to students who Criterion Editor-In-chief America's Best-Run Compan it to go," said Moore, but the Book" seff at Mesa, which is send them home to younger ies." According to an article in bookstore has sold about 20 consistent with the national siblings as gifts, she added. the Oct. 6 Wall Street Journal, copies this year. It is a book trend outlined · in the Wall ''There is definitely a market If book-buying habits can be that book was No. 1 on the which details math for the Street Journal article. for children's books here," used as an indicator, then Chronicle of Higher Educa layman, according to Moore. Different majors available Moore concluded. interests of Mesa College tion's campus reading list. at Mesa seem to dictate students differ a bit from the Moore said about five co- The Wall Street Journal students' choices of books. A The bookstore has ordered interests of other students . pies of "In Search of Excel article mentioned that self popular subject with Mesa some literary titles from Mo around the country. lence" have been sold at help books are popular on readers is computers, accord dern Library, a publishing The best-selling books in Mesa, but she expectedl more campuses. There are no block ing to Moore. "In addition to company. Moore said the the Mesa College Bookstore sales when the book com.es out buster titles at Mesa in this our western :books, books on books are a series of the are those which deal with in paperback soon. area, but Moore said the computers s~ll well here," she complete works of such au Colorado and the West, accor A business-oriented book books sell "slowly but sure said. thors as Mark Twain. She ding to manager Susan which has sold better here is ly.'' Sales are usually a result Another popular genre is noted some students had in Moore. "They're the books "The One-Minute Manager," of exposure; people eventually children's books, probably be quired about literary titles for that deal with travel, hiking, · Moore noted. She said about find out the bookstore carries cause of the college' s early general reading, and these history, wildflowers, plants eight copies have been sold, .such material, she explained. childhood education program, books are an attempt to fulfill just all aspe.cts of Colorado and sales may go higher Fitness books such as said Moore. Children's books that need. and the western U.S." she because the title has just come said. out in paperback. That contrasts sharply with The best-selling book at the nationwide best seller on Mesa now is "The Mathemat Buys addresses college campuses, "In Search ical Experience." Wednesday Club By Frank Tagader research," was brought about Buys, whose background is Special to The Criterion by his experiences in Guate in anthr.opology, sociobiology, m?la as a young man. Buys and theoretical psycholo.ev. At its regular Wednesday related that he has seen and maintained that the phenom club meeting, members and smelled poverty throughout enon is not merely culturally visitors listened to Dr. Chris the world and ''we don't do limited to the United States, Buys assert that human be anything (to remedy the situa but is worldwide. ings are unable to feel sym tion), and I don't know why." pathy for more than an im He reported that two thirds mediate group of of between His findings state that hu of the world's population is 15 and 30 people. This find man evolution over the past starving and yet nothin2 is ing, he said, was brought three years has seen the done about it. about by his investigation into people spend 99 percent of th~ the nature/nurture argument time in average group sizes of in which psychologists em 25 people. "We don't have the ability, phasize one or the other as the psychologically, to identify basis of human development. Buys emphasized, "Human with this." people have evolved to feel Buys serves as vice presi Buys' address was on "hu about few people, short dis dent of academic affairs at man sympathy groups." tances, and short periods of Mesa College. He was named The Wednesday Club is a times." to the position this year. series of faculty and adminis trative lectures given approx He relayed that humans The · next Wednesday Club imately every other Wednes have the minds of hunter/ lecture has been scheduled for day afternoon of the academic gatherers much the same as Oct. · 26, and Dr. Gordon year. the past three million years of Gilbert, professor of physics, which only one percent of the is.slated to offer new informa Criterion photo by Greg Sweeney . His investigation, which he time has includ,ed the whole of tion on "the big bang" theory Dr.