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Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU The Quill Student Publications 3-14-1975 The Quill -- March 14, 1975 Roger Williams University Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Roger Williams University, "The Quill -- March 14, 1975" (1975). The Quill. Paper 106. http://docs.rwu.edu/the_quill/106 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Quill by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE QUILL March 14, 1975 Students, Too, Are People by Verkuilen Ager nuts and bolts of the financial The announcement of re bargaining process. In short, trenchment plans at Roger let's keep the machinery func· Williams struck me initially as tioning and try to forget how cutting and slashing of a rather many people get ground up in arbitrary kind. I'd seen "Young the process. Frankenstein" the week before Transfer Credit, Cost and visions came to mind of a c.razed Dr. Gauvey - nee Specifically, how are people Frankenstein - saying to his hurt by the retrenchment de faithful assistant Igor Rizzini, cision. Anyone who is forced " Das ist ein experimental to transfer will probably lose kollege, Igor. So let us ex credit. Most colleges require one or two years on their periment!" Then I realized that campus before they'll grant a Administration members on way to Quill sponsored student rally of March 5th they were removing the heart of the living victim, and with· degree. You can't go tromping into Harvard with six or seven out anesthetic. semesters of credit from Roger It is not the amputation of Williams, attend a semester or certain divisions and the crip two, and depart with a degree. Gauvey Answers Quill pling of the Liberal Arts Col It's bad for business. So juniors lege which I find most disturb· (Editor's note: on Tuesday, transfer will be aided as much personally enjoy fund raising. and seniors could lose one, ing, but rather the callous way March 11, President Ralph E. as the administration and fac It is complicated and personal two, or three semesters of in which the administration has Gauvey submitted answers to ulty can to transfer into other involvement and I enjoy it very credit, money, and time. questions submitted lo him programs or to other insti· much. You have to believe in chosen to ignore the impact of Underclassmen could Jose one weefl before by the Quill. tutions. what you are raising funds for the retrenchment decision many credi ts also, particularly Both questions and answers are and I certainly believe in Roger upon the lives and futures of if they haven't been con reprinted below in their Why weren't the programs Williams College. I need help, students at Roger Williams. It centrating on their core re was not administrative blunder entirely.) allowed to be phased out? however, to build a fund rais-· quirements or their grades All the information is not in, ing attempt in any financially ing which provided retrench· haven't been up to snuff. What is the educational aim ment letters to faculty mem and we will not know if the significant way at Roger People with grants, loans, of Roger Williams College? two or three programs affected Williams and this would cost bers and press releases to the veterans entitlements, or The educational aim of are actually phased out until the College a minimum of media but which left the stu scholarships could find they've Roger Williams College is set such time as pre-registration $40,000 the first year, and this dent body to obtain the news wasted all or part of them forth in the catalog. There has occurs. In general, out of forty is only to detennine what through the grapevine. That because of set-backs in the been, however, some recent majors at this College, four prospects we might have for retrenchment plans were not transfer process. For those who presented simultaneously with developments that are related could possibly be cut from the fund raising to identify po cannot afford to transfer but a.ltemate plans or options for to this question. I refer spe program. It is still possible that tential donors and the causes have not been given the con affected students is no acci cifically to the information I they could be phased out. The and in essence to build the sideration of a phase-out dent. As President Gauvey gave J. Mahoney Monday, question, I believe, is pre ground work for what could period, the only option may be explained at the student rally, March 10 relating to the report mature unti.1 pre-registration become significant fund raising to drop out of school. For the impact on students has of the President's Long-range occurs. efforts after that. This more than one student who Planning Committee which was been considered but emotion passed unanimously by the If the Marine Biology pro (continued on page 4) alism must be put aside for the (continued on page 5) Faculty Senate Wednesday, gram is to be scrapped, as we March 5. (Editor's note: the know now, March 1, why did report referred to will be pub the college spend hundreds of lished in its entirety in the next dollars in November on a bro· Swanson Asks Collegialty Quill.) chure extolling the fu ture of the program? To the Roger Williams College tution, but a society or guy in first, before he gets a Community: Are you going to lower the The College spent money on "body . .. invested with special chance to do you in. We stop academic standards for courses, a brochure concerning Marine I write to express a few powers or rights, performing talking to each other - quite now that required courses for Biology in the hope that it thoughts on the present crisis certain duties .. engaged in 1i terally. Factions develop maj~rs have been cut? could remain a financially at Roger Williams College. I some common employment or within the faculty and within I really do not understand sound program. write not as a faculty member, pursuit." For our purposes the the student body. Ideas or this question the way it's or ombudsman, but simply as key elements in this definition plans for concerted efforts and stated, however any courses or Does the Administration myself, and I claim to repre are the metaphor, " body," and actions go by the boards, be required courses for majors have a maximum deficit figure sent no other person's opinions the concept of things done in cause of our suspicions of the that are placed on the pre for 75-76? What is it? but my own. common, or together. The persons suggesting them. registration material in April of The budget for the 1975-76 It is common knowledge that relative theory is collegialism. "Watch out! It's a trap!" 1975 will obviously not be fiscal year is still in prepa private liberal arts colleges are A college is an organization Cannot we remind ourselves lowered to my knowledge. This ration. There is no such thing living in perilous times. Econ "with its highest authority rest of our collegiality - our col is primarily a faculty matter as a maximum deficit figure for omic conditions are bad, social ing in its entire membership." lectivity? Is not an injury to and in all probability should be this budget. In fact, there values which have long sup Thus, to think of Roger one an injury to all? Return to referred lo the proper com should be no operating deficit ported humanistic ideas as the Williams College as merely a the metaphor of the body. No mittee which 1 suspect could for the budget involving the keystone and mark of higher collection of programs or per one amputates as a first resort. be the Committee on Aca year which begins July 1, education seem to be changing, sons, isolate and expendable, is Amputation represents no demic Status or possibly the 1975. and the portion of the national to do violence to the concept cure, but rather failure to cure Curriculum Committee. At this population which has tradition of college itself. A college is - failure to arrest disease in college the faculty is respon Deficit accounts in accredit· ally gone to college is on the not so much an expression of a one of the body's members. No sible for academic standards ation. How much deficit is decline. Forces such as these thing, as it is an expression of one pretends that the body, and therefore I think it is needed to hinder ac buffet institutions like our own relationship and interrelation severed of one of its members improper for the President to creditation? continuously. ship. Lose that sense of inter is not diminished by the loss. react in an area which is pri The only people who can Yet these forces seem to me dependence, that basic belief in And no one excises healthy marily faculty prerogative. answer this question are the to be the agents of our greatest the value, or rather the neces· tissue. Doctors have stopped individuals who represent the peril, rather than that peril sity of each part to the whole, letting blood to cure disease. What exactly is the college New England Association. I itself. The continuous battle and the college ceases to exist, The "cure" all too often kiJled.

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