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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (1970s) Student Newspapers 1-22-1976 Current, January 22, 1976 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, January 22, 1976" (1976). Current (1970s). 169. http://irl.umsl.edu/current1970s/169 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (1970s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. January 22, 1976 Board rejects optometry Lynn O'Shaughnessy plained. Young left the door open for an optometry school in The Coordinating Board tor the future by adding, " The pro­ Higher Education in recent posal can be submitted again at meetings has struck blows to any time." UMSL's hopes of establishing an The second set back for UMSL optometry school and purchasing came at the Coordinating the Marillac campus. Board's Jan.5 meeting. The Co­ The establishment of an op­ ordinating Board passed a reso­ tometry school on UMSL's cam­ lution supporting the University pus was unanimously disap­ of Missouri's Board of Curator's proved at the board's December capital improvements priority list meeting. The high cost of estab­ for this vear. , The priority list places Maril­ lishing the school, 1.2 million dollars, was cited by the board lac purchase fifth behind the as its primary reason for the Kansas City law school and the negative recommendation. school of nUfsing and journalism "The state's poor fiscal situ­ ,school addition to Columbia. ation is the main reason for 'the -"By approving the curator's HAPPy TO BE BACK?A smiling Barb Flemlna stroUs across campus with other UMSL students on priority list, the Coordinating their first day of class. (Photo by Romondo Davis) disapproval at this time," Edith Young, the' b04rd president ex- Board places itself in direct con­ tradiction with' its own priority list which ranks the Marillac purchase second in importance Bond slashes requested budget for the entire state. Behind the Marillac purchase The requested $19 million Coordinating Board of Higher lion need is now faced with a 1) Expense , and equipment on the Coordinating Board's list increase for the University of Education was made to provide $5.6 million state recommenda­ inflationary adjustment. of priorities is the journalism Missouri operations appropria­ for increased enrollments and tion. $2,907,600 school addition, nursing school tions for 1976-77 was reduced to some inflationary impact. This A fundamental objective in 2) Fuel and utilities adjustment. and the law school which aro a recommended $5.86 million, $1,924,900 formula generated approximately each of the five previous bud­ ranked 10. 11 and 12 respec­ by Governor Bond after bud~et 3) Opening new UMSL build- $11 million for the university. gets requested by C. Brice tively. The Coordinating Board's hearing on Dec. 9. In November, a recalculation ings. final priority list was sent to In August, the Board of Cura­ Ratchford, university president, was made which changed the has been to provide for salary $226,000 Governor Christopher Bond in tors approved and submitted a inflationary estimate from eight 4) Staff benefits adjustments. October. budget which called for an and wage adjustments. per cent to six per cent. The To achieve that objective, stu­ $1,436,927 At the December meetin2 of increase of apprnximately $20 formula still generated some $9 5) Position evaluation ad­ the Coordinating Board, Eugene million, with $19 million coming dent fees have been increased million. and reductions in budget items justments-except staff. Strauss, a Kansas City member from state revenue and $1 According to state budget $449,000 proposed changing the board's million from local revenue. have been made. Ratchfor, how­ guidelines, set up by the govern­ ever, now feels the best course 6) Salary and wage market priority list and reverse the The curators at the time felt or, approximately six per cent deficiency adjustment for skilled -Marillac and law school ranks. that the state could not afford to take is to reverse this philos­ can be added for slary and wage ophy and establish the following and semi-skilled tradesmen. This would have resulted in the the requc;st, partially because of increases and selected opera­ S:lno OM Marillac priority plummeting to the state tax structure, but he philosophy for the 1976-77 bud­ 7( Accepting 6th year class tional items can be increased to get: the sixteenth position and the felt that such an increase was ease the inflationary impact. School of Medicine, UMKC law school advancing to 'the needed to sustain the quality of 1) Eliminate salary and wage $10.5 million would be gener­ 'adjustments for all categories of $265,000 second position. The proposal the university. ated for the university. ' was. defeated by tlfe board. A formula developed by the staff unless state appropriations A state-calculated $10.5 mil- exceed the $5.86 million recom­ Total $7,570,127 The ' Coordinating Board, ac­ mended by the governor. The $7.6 million estimation is cording to Chancellor Arnold 2) New programs and program based on an eight per cent Grobman, compromised with Dance moratorium ends improvements should be ap­ inflationary rate, which, ac­ Strauss at the January meeting Debra Cunningham per cent of the staff would rule proved only if a campus or cording to Ratchford, "could and passed the resolution fa­ out dances or be in favor of administrative unit can show a indeed be a conservative estima­ voring the Board of Curator' s The dance moratorium, which heavily armed guards. Ninety­ comparable adjustment in im­ tion." priorities while still retaining its was the result of the shooting of eight or ninety-nine per cent of provements of productivity or According to Ratchford, the own original priority list. The seventeen year old Michael Isaac the parents would feel the same reduction or elimination of lower university can meet the $7.6 consequences of the resolution is after a dance given by the way if faced with the realization priority programs, or the genera­ million through a combination of somewhat cloudy, observers UMSL Modernaires last October that a son or daughter could be tion of funds from other sources. the $5.86 million recommenda­ feel. 21. has ended. shot. We don't anticipate trouble 3) Funds resulting from in­ tion by the governor, increased The question now is which New guidelines have been with UMSL students and their creased state appropriations and charges for some services and a holds more weight, the Coor­ few program reductions. Nothing established in order to prevent guests, but rather with high additional student ' fees, genera­ dinating Board's priority list future violence at UMSL dances. school aged students." ted as a result of increased is left for salary and wage which places the Marillac pur­ Those groups desiring the use of Donham stated that tension increases. chase second, or the board's the snack bar for dances will l'8e can be felt at the dances among enrollment, will be used to "The possibility of an increase support of the Board of Cur­ required to adhere to the follow­ the younger people, and that maintain and improve our pre­ in student fees has not been ator's priority list which ranks in2 2uidelines: this makes the jobs of the sent level of operations. eliminated," said Ratchford. [continued on page 2] . -Only UMSL students with security officers an the organi­ valid ID's and one guest per ID zation's monitors more difficult. will be admitted. Cause of disturbance - Any pUblicity will have to The main problem at the state the admissions policy. dances appeared to be that there - All publicity is restricted to were too many high school aged the UMSL campus. youths attending. The size of the - On a trial basis, three crowd also became a problem security officers will be required because dances were opened to for at least the first three anyone. Trouble started primar­ dances. ily after the dances and because Stephan Broadus, operations the campus is poorly lit and manager for the University parking areas scattered, it was Center felt that under these difficult to know where trouble guidelines, "We definitely will would break. Possibly the nature not need three security guards of the campus made trouble­ for a dance limited to UMSL makers less fearful of being students only. caught. •• Any organization using these Another solution guidelines would not be able to Eric Banks, a member of the afford to pay three security Minority Students Service Co­ guards," he said. alition, said, "I don't feel that According to Dennis Donham, the proposed dance policy for acting dean of student affair~, UMSL will be as effective as te restrictions of this sort are one that proceeded. neccesary when the safety of Before there was a mandatory • young people attending 'the price differentiation between VETERAN UMSL commuters await the green Ught at the the new signal on the Florissant Road exit dances is threatened. students who could show a whlcb was Installed during the break. [Photo by Romondo Davis] He said, "If a poll is taken 99 [continued on page 3] . Page 2 JUIUU'Y 22, 1975 UMSL CURRENT; the dances, such as fll'es being firm to help the regularly started.' Even though they're scheduled campus police. only pranks we are taking them seriously. Fo~tbonne CoUege - "Dances will be suspended for Dances at Fontbonne College a month while some sort of _ are open to the public.

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