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OPINION ACCENT SPORTS INDEX Opinion ........................... 8 'AID'ing education Testing talent Last hurrah Accent .......................... 11 Classifieds .................... 16 College correct in condom Bureau of Concerts to hold Senior swimmer shines at Comics ......................... 17 distribution plan 8 battle of the bands 11 nationals 22 Sports ........................... 18 Thursday, March 23, 1995 The Volume 62, Number 23 24 pages ITHACAN Free The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community - ~ ' - -..... Application DEAR GOV. PATAKI ... numbers rise Downsizing plans are unaffected By Alex Leary "I don't see anything in Ithacan Staff the numbers to be Downsizing plans will remain overly optimistic in relatively unchanged by a projected upswing in the amount of first-year terms to exceed our '>tudents for fall 1995. target." Despite an anticipated increase -Larry Metzger, in the size of next year's entering director of institutional class, Ithaca College's downsizing research and enrollment plans are on target as a result of planning <.:ompound declines in previou~ year~. 1991. In addition, subsequent To date, thc~asreceived classes have experienced an increas­ approximately 6,936 applications, ing decline since 1991, in which up 94 from last year. That number there were over 300 more incoming could increase, however, because students than in 1994. the College has a rolling admis­ As a result, the College initiated ~ions policy, said Larry Metzger, a downsizing plan last October to The Ithacan/Scott McDermott director of institutional research and scale down the school in accor­ Brian Evans '96, Michell Sylvester '97 and John Dicker '95, got together on Tuesday to write enrollment planning. dance with the decrease in enroll­ letters to State Senators in protest of the Pataki budget cuts to education. Metzger said the targeted class ment. for next fall is about 80 students Enrollment projections are based higher than this year. Forty of those on an average number of people students are a result of the new who remain enrolled from their first occupational therapy program. year until they actually graduate. Staff cuts spelled out But although the number of in­ These numbers are compared over coming students· may be up from a three-year period. Confusion over numbers prompts specificity last year, Metzger said the number Downsizing plans were based of targeted incoming students is on the number of incoming stu­ By Amy Desson down 233 from the same class in See APPLICATIONS, next page "In order to show that we were obviously going to Ithacan Staff downsize our administration and staff, we showed Confusion over the exact amount of staff and administration cuts to in the first year 5 percent and people were inter­ Faculty votes on occur over the next three years has preting that that was all there was going to be, prompted the administration to pro­ which was the wrong interpretation." vide more specific figures. -President James J. Whalen role in planning Whalen said when people started to assume that the 5 percent cuts in the first year5 percent,and people tion cuts are a controversial topic at originally announced at the Open were interpreting that that was all Faculty Council meetings and have By Amy Desson The deans are going to Budget Meeting in December were there was going to be, which was prompted much discussion within Ithacan Staff hand in recommenda­ all that would take place, it became the wrong interpretation," Whalen the faculty. As the April I deadline for com­ necessary to put the plans on paper. said. "The faculty's concern has been pleting the faculty, staff and ad­ tions [for cutsJ to the In a series of memos addressed "People jump to conclusions here 'will the downsizing on the non­ ministration downsizing plans ap­ provost, regardless of to the faculty and Faculty Council very rapidly, so I put out another faculty side be equitable?'" said proaches, faculty members are vot­ whether the faculty between January and March 1995, statement indicating the second 5 Warren Schlesinger, chairman of ing in a referendum which will de­ participate or not. " Whalen further spelled out the plans percent and the third year we would Faculty Council. "The concern is termine the faculty's view about regarding future cuts. have some restructuring and re-en­ 'will the administration and staff participating in the downsizing pro­ -Warren Schlesinger, "In order to show that we were gineering in the administration." share in this downsizing effort')' cess. chairman of Faculty obviously going to downsize our As The Ithacan has previously We will learn about that after April The ballots, which faculty mem­ Council and associate administration and staff, we showed reported, the staff and administra- See STAFF, next page bers received on March 20-21, are professor of accounting due Friday, March 24. In the referendum, faculty here is 'are these plans going for­ members are asked whether they ward with any kind of formal fac­ Health professor dies agree or disagree that President ulty input, or are these plans going James J. Whalen's response to the forward with a formal faculty dis­ torate de­ athletic director at Texas By Bridget Kelly Faculty Statement of Principles and avowal of involvement?'" grees tn Lutheran College until he moved Policy is adequate. Whalen said he thinks all faculty Ithacan News Editor physical edu­ on to coordinator of graduate Second! y, the ballot asks whether should participate in the planning William B. Koch, 66, profes­ cation from studies in health, physical edu­ the voter recommends that the fac­ process since statistics will still be sor of exercise and sport sci­ Indiana Uni­ cation and recreation at Western ulty participate in submitting staff­ turned in with or without faculty ences and chairman of graduate versity in Kentucky University. ing plan revisions, which are due on participation. programs in physical education, 1955 and In 1972, Koch joined Ithaca April I. "If the faculty don't want to do died March l O at his home. 1960, respec­ College as dean and professor of Warren Schlesinger, chairman it, then I expect the deans will do it Koch was born March 21, tively. the school of health, physical ofFaulty Council and associate pro­ and give it to the provost," Whalen 1928, in Benton Harbor, Mich., Koch education and recreation and in fessor of accounting, said the final said. and graduated from St. Joseph William B. Koch began teach- 1988 stepped down from the results of the referendum will be "I hope that most of the people at High School in St. Joseph, Mich. ing at public deanship to concentrate on teach­ reported to the faculty, but regard­ least will have participated in it, He received a bachelor's degree schools in Michigan and Illinois. ing. less of the results, staffing plans because there will be plans there for in political science form West­ He became chairman of the depart­ In addition to teaching and will be turned in. the Board of Trustees to review. I ern Michigan University in 1950 ment of health, physical education administrative work, Koch "The deans are going to hand in do want to make it clear that one and a master of arts degree in and recreation, and athletic director served in the military during the recommendations [for cuts] to the way or another there will be plans guidance and counseling from at St. John's College in Kansas. Korean Conflict and later retired provost, regardless of whether the on the Trustees' table in May." the University of Michigan in He went on to work as chairman as a Commander in the U.S. faculty participate or not," The two-question referendum 1954. of the department of health, physi­ Coast Guard Reserve. Schlesinger said. came about at a March 7 Faculty He earned master's and doc- cal education, and recreation _and See KOCH, next page_ "Whatwe'rereallytalk.ingabout See REFERENDUM, next page 2 The Ithacan March 23, /995 APPLICATIONS Continued from previous page Metzger said. "We're planning a dents in fall 1994, Metzger said. bit more conservative this year, but INCOMING STUDENT ENROLLMENT Last fall, the College, respond­ that may bring us in right on target." ing to "serious erosion" in the num­ ''There is virtually no change in 1900----------------------------- ber of incoming students as a result the plan whatsoever, he said. "We • Figures for '95-'97 are projected. of financial aid cutbacks in 1993, expect [applications] to be up any­ 1800 _______________. • Figures for'95 also include 40studentsto put money back into the program. where from one to three percentage be enrolled in the occupational therapy pro­ But the yield did not increase to the point over last year," Metzger said. 1700 --------1 gram. College's expectation, Metzger "I don't see anything in the num­ said. bers to be overly optimistic in terms 1600 The College put additional to exceed our target," he said. money into the aid program again The College will evaluate the 1500 this year, but did not reflect antici­ program's impact on the freshman pated enrollment increases in the class before it decides to commit to 1400 plan.