Faculty to Decide Interim's Fate Cha~Rman Cha.Rles Allen, Professor Chapman Uanagement the of Btology, Sa1d
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Vol. LXIII ... Wake Forest University,. W.inston·Salem, North Carolina, Friday, Aprilll,l~. No.22 Women'·s teams granted Light slows traffic, ,57 percent budget hike creates longer lines Margaret Kerfoot still approve the budget at their Candy Hatcher by President Scale's house, by the Anislu.t EdJ1or May meeting. Sial! Wri!er Scales Fine Arts Center, behind the The university's proposed budget The traffic problems created by parking lot and the soccer field, In compliance wi~. Title IX for the 1980-81 year is $77,575,517. Winston-Salem residents using WF and connecting ·at Wingate Road regulations, the 1980-81 budget for The budget for this campus is campus roads as a thruway to and Polo Road. women's athletics will reflect a 57 $28,020,000, a 14.6 percent increase. other city areas is no closer to Several problems were involved percent increase over last year.· Tbe proposed budget for Bowman being solved than it was a year ago, with this plan, however, and the Next year, the women's athletic Gray is $49,~,577. Ronald Noftle, chairman of the committee, . composed of faculty department will be allocated Tuition will account. for 50.3 institutional planning committee, members and administrators, $329,350, John Williard, vice percent of the tOtal revenues for said. rejected the proposal. president and treasurer, said. 1980·81. Gifts and grants are "This has been a problem for "We talked to President Scales "Athletics will be closing its fifth projected at $3,367,000 and will four to five years," Noftle said. and through him asked the city to year in a row in the black this year, make up 12 percent of revenues. "The problem most people don't consider alternate plans not in· . but it will require a transfer from Endowments of . $3,235,000 will realize is the roads on the WF volving the campus," Noftle said . tuition next year in order to satisfy provide 11.6 percent of the 1980-81 campus belong to the city. The city "We want relieffrom traffic, but the requirements of Title IX. Next revenues. maintains them and we can't ar· the proposed connector is not a year will be the first year that bitrarily close them, he added. reasonable solution," he said. · There was not as great an in· The traffic light behind Wingate athletics will get tuition benefits," crease· in utilities as earlier ex· Another plan which is being Williard said. Hall was approved by the city, and considered is a proposal to widen pected because of both the. use of it has helped in slowing the traffic The Board of Trustees' Finance natural gas, which is usually Reynolda Road north of Silas Committee has approved this cheaper than oil, and conservation down, but the lines of cars have Creek, from Reynolda Manor to budget but the whole board must on campus, Williard said. increased at the intersection Bethabara Road, eventually because of the light, Noftle said. connecting with University Park The traffic buildup in the late way. afternoons has been the subject of David Middleton, SG president several committee meetings, he and a member of the WF traffic said, but there is nothing the · commission, said the problem is Survey shows lots university can do without the city's that Wake Forest is in the middle of 1 approval. Winston-Salem and citizens are "We discussed the possibility of using campus roads as short cuts. putting bumps on the streets but "We have recommended that have many vacancies the city said no," Noftle said. nothing be done as far as alteration The city's plans for alleviating of our landscape," Middleton said. the traffic problem incll.\de con The city has not come back to his Tbe Village has four ·major Betsy Wakefield struction of a medium speed committee with a specific alter· parking lots which hold between 20 connector through campus from native to the connector proposal, to 50 cars. Silas Creek Parkway to Polo Road. An Old Gold and Black survey of Th 1 t behind th Vill The flow of city traffic on campus has not decreased in the past year Noftle said, "The traffic situation arking space in Reynolda Village e 0 e age Book The connector would be a two is about the same as it was this P Shop has 21 spaces, yet in despite the traffic light behind Wingate Hall. lane highway going down the hill has shown that during what tenants February it averaged three cars time last year," he said. consider to be peak business hours , during peak business hours and in 47 percent of the spaces were April it averaged 2.8. empty February 8-18 and 38 per- When tenants' three·year leases Committee. majority opposes term cent were empty April 4-9. b 'will · The six-member Reynolds run out, McGill said e . reqwre Village committee wants to create shop owners to·park farther away from their businesses. additional parking by paving ·the But only the shop owners in the lar~e field below the two barns, lower comer of the Village (at Faculty to decide interim's fate cha~rman Cha.rles Allen, professor Chapman uanagement the of btology, sa1d. · ""• · · • ... The pr.oposed parking lot ~s. ., Village Fram~. ~ho~, the .Village _ - ',. ,.,•, ·, '; : ' .. ~:·;_,, . -:.·.' . ·',...,;..,.:. ·.. been on the master plan since it Book Shop .and :A'l't"""'Gallery · more· eleven.~~k. courses, enrollment _has still year experimental basis. When brought up for was drawn three years ago. Original~) are or will be equipped . SlaffWrilu dropped dramatically. reevaluation, faculty members decided to do The parking lots were surveyed t6 park m the usually empty 21· Tbe proposed three-week interim scheduled "It's a matter of individual decisions by away with the four-week interim program. once or twice daily during 1 p.m. to sp~·if-J0~nreansuc to expec~ wem for a faculty vote on April 21 had only minority students. There is no real grasp as to why Wake "Faculty members were asked to teach a four· 5 p.m. (the tenants in Barn No. 1, Bam support .from the Academic Planning Com Forest students haven't supported four-week week course with no compensation, in addition to In February an average of less No. 2 and the cattleshed) tq park mittee, chairman James A. Steintrager said. courses," Steintrager said. their regular course load in the fall and spring," than 85 of the 180 spaces were there," McGill said. Though . the majority of the committee is Support has been a major problem throughout Steintrager said. e~pty as compared to less than 96 In F b th lot behind th against the proposal, the committee felt strongly the history of mini-course options. Other problems with the four-one-four in· bemg full. e ruary e e that the faculty at large would have a chance to "From the early 1970s to 1980, we have had a eluded the argument that the courses offered An average of 66 spaces out of 174 mam complex of ~hops, the cattle vote and decide for itself, Steintrager said. period of experimentation with schedule options were not academically competitive with the were empty in April and 108 were shed, averaged ~7 spaces full and "If the faculty accepts the idea, the mini and are now coming back to where we started," regular curriculum. full. Due to construction in front of 23 empty.ln April the lot averaged proposill will be implemented through the said Donald 0. Schoonmaker, associate the old Village Frame Shop there less than 25 spaces full and more Curriculum Committee," he said. professor of politics. Initially, the courses were only offered pass were six fewer spaces in April. than 24 emp~y. "If they don't accept it, we will be back to two The reason the original four-one-four failed is fail, which was another point of disagreement There is a need for about 30 more The lot which lS consistently the fifteen-week semesters. Someone could move an because the faculty did not support it, Schoon Schoonmaker said. spaces, Allen said, because 3,000 fullest is located in front of Barn amendment for things to stay as they are but I maker said. The current winter term policy resulted from square feet in Barn No. 1 has not No. 1. An average of less than nine don't think it would _carry," he said. "It was a very narrow vote. When the four-one· student protest over the decision to abolish the yet been rented to tenants. spaces out of 30 were empty !0 Students and faculty are meeting this af· four was defeated, 55 percent of the faculty was four-one-four. Paul McGill, manager of the Feb!uary and less than seven ~ ternoon for the second consecutive day to bear against it," Schoonmaker said. "The basic philosophy behind winter term as a Village, has been negotiating for A~f!l. both sides of the proposed three-week interim The four-one-four consisted of a regular fall whole is generally felt to be the intense ex six months for possible tenants but The VJ!la.ge lS not . at .. the option. ' semester followed by a one month period of perience of immersing all or almost all of one's has signed no contracts yet. ~oment hectic, ~en satd. ~e The discrepancy between theoretical and intense short courses and a regular spring time in a subject, becoming absorbed in it " "Those who have to work with biggest problem With the Village lS actual student support for winter term is one of semester.