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the uwm post vol. 19, no. 17 Student publication of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee sept. 27, 1974 * Officials here support lower tuition plan The University administra to be passed by the legisla apply to undergraduate stu tion here is in general support ture and signed by Governor dents who live in Wisconsin. of the. UW-Central administra Lucey, who has said he is re It would not apply to graduate tion proposal that would have luctant to burden taxpayers and out of state students. resident undergraduate stu with any tax increases. The proposal would be put dents pay 12 1/2% of the total into effect in the 1976-77 school cost of providing their edu Charge less year. The reduction would be cation, a school official said. Walters said most other part of the UW-System's 1975- Students now pay 25% of the '77 budget request, if approved total cost of providing their by the Regents. education. William L. Walters, vice chancellor here, said the UWM Committee Favors administration would like to Robert Jngle, chairman of see the proposal. which may the University Committee result in lowered tuitions, here, said the Committee fa adopted by the UW Board oi vored any proposal that would Regents and the state legis help students as long as it did lature. not in turn, lower support for the university system as a Regents to consider whole. He said the University Com Beertown U \ The Regents will consider the proposal, which was dis mittee favored the present pro cussed by UW Central offi posal and noted that repre cials at a news briefing ear sentatives from the UW- lier this week, at their meeting Walters Central and the UWM and UW- An 'under the table' I next Friday. public universities charge less Madison University Com "We're in an age when people than 25% of the cost of in mittees had tried unsuccess are forgetting the value of an struction that Wisconsin fully to get the Regents to a- look at drinking education," Walters said. "I charges its students. dopt a :system-wide tui by John Fauber tion change in July. still hope people recognize the "Just as cars sales go down of The Post staff value of low-cost education." when the prices are raised, Mike Delonay, president of enrollment in universities will the Student Association here, How much alcohol is consumed on the UWM campus? The | Walters said he was uncer fall with the higher tuitions," praised the proposal. figures are staggering, along with some of its consumers. tain how the Regents would Walters said. "And there is "We're very positive about The Gasthaus, known throughout the UWM community for |- act on the proposal. If ac no used car in education." the idea," he-said. "We hope making significant contributions to. Milwaukee's famed title-- | cepted, the plan would then have The UW-Central plan would (Turn to p. 3, col. 1) Beer Capital of the World, draws about 125 half-barrels a week. 1 Pitchers rather than glasses of beer are the most popular. % And Pabst is, by far, the best seller. Five different kinds of | tap beer are available at the Gasthaus: Schlitz, Pabst light and | dark, Miller, Special Export and Schlitz Malt Liquor. Early start All serious drinkers know the advantages of getting an early f start on the weekend--such as warning your bloodstreams of | the molecular change that will take place on Friday and Satur- f day. UWM is no exception. The Gasthaus does its greatest | volume of beer business on Thursday. f The Kenwood Inn also offers UWM drinkers more than ample | opportunity to do a little nipping like the "HaDDV Hour"(4:30 to \ 6:30 Monday through Saturday) when all drinks, excluding the top- shelf brands, are 50 cents. For those continental types who like to dine and drink,there | are dinners served, at the Kenwood Inn starting at 5:30. And | if you get there early enough, you can pass out and fall asleep | with your face in your food. | There are also several special promotion nights such as: | Tequila Night, when shots of the mind boggling liquid are only f 35 -cents (the last time this event was held 28 quarts were f downed in three hours ); Rock 'n Roll 50's with a band and dance; f and 10 cent beer and malt night. | 260 quarts | The Kenwood Inn goes through about 260 quarts of booze a | month. Brandy Old Fashioneds and Brandy Manhattans are the | most popular drinks. A good portion of that volume is done on | These members of the Hare Krsna movement participated in Thursday's festival on the Friday night and Saturday night between 9 p.m. and midnight, f Mall. Several hundred students watched as devotees of the movement distributed free food, There is usually entertainment, and a nominal cover charge _! Incense and literature. The festival was held from 9 a.m. to dusk, and included chants, music, on those nights. discussions and requests for donations. One rather disturbing fact is the lack of any significant wine | consumption on campus. The Kenwood Inn does stock Almaden 1 wine and the price isn't too high. But only one case per week I is sold. That's too bad. Krsnas seek purity No college is complete without a few resident winos expound- | ing their world-is-a-pile-of-crap philosophies while taking hits I Sri Govinda Das, former so guished by their chanting of name was Kevin Barber. The off a bottle of Ripple in a brown paper bag. Besides, winos,' § ciology student here,, touched their mantras. succeeding orders are "brah- who have, baffled psychiatrists for years, would make great f his forehead to the ground and A mantra is a spiritual chant mana" and "sannyasa." research projects for psychology grads. f offered the food before him to ing device whose repetition sup Krishna. posedly leads the chanter to a Cow or cauliflower? Affect performance? "It's very purifying to take higher level of consciousness, Sri Govinda Das, formerly You might think that with all the vast amounts of alcohol | this food,", he said. Even if the explained Tom Palarzyk, whose Robert Lindberg, illustrated being consumed on campus by students, that classroom perform | eater later led an evil life, the master's thesis in sociology the purpose of vegetarianism would be impaired. One student, when asked if he thought drink- | food contained^ enough power here studied Eastern religious with a story. A man who had ing before class affected his performance, replied, "No, I | ** to reincarnate' him in human groups. to choose, he said, between cut just don't go to class." form, he explained. "There are people who have ting off the head of a cauli- But another student said: 'Ya, I drink before class. But my f Sri Govinda Das is presi said they really get off, they ting off the head of a cow or instructor is usually a little blitzed himself. This way we're f dent of the Chicago area chap really get high on use of man cutting off the head of a cauli both on the same level and can understand each other better." f ter of the Krishna Conscious tras," Palarzyk said. He added flower in order to obtain food ness Movement. About 20 that it had never worked for would certainly choose to kill Post Reporter John Fauber visited the drinking establish- | members of the chapter, called him. The most frequently the plant. ments in the UWM Union to write this personal "under the ta- f an ashram, filled the Mall with heard chant is called the Maha He said society hides dis ble" account of campus drinking. chanting and distributed food mantra, but as members ad tasteful things, such as but yesterday. vance in grade, they are taught chering animals, but anyone The chanting was free. personal mantras to be chanted who eats meat is also respon Pieces of watermelon and cups alone, Palarzyk explained. sible for the killing. of strawberry-lemonade drink Kailasa Chandra Dasa, for The way of pure service Index were free, although some re mer student and sports editor is the- only path to God, but ceivers were asked for dona of the Daily Cardinal at Madi many different religions "have Appointment rift ... p. 2 tions. Incense and books were son, explained the levels in members who travel that path, for sale. the group. Members are first according to Govinda. Communal living "devotees." They then advance He has a low opinion of Guru John Downey ... p. 6 Followers of Krishna Con to "first initiate" status, which Maharaj Ji, however. The sciousness live communally, is when they receive a spi Guru is the teenage head of are vegetarians and are distin ritual name. Kailasa's former (Turn to p. 3, col. 3) Committee appointments cause rift by Jeff Huth lenged by Chancellor Werner In a letter dated Sept. 18, 36.09 (5) of The Post staff Baum. First challenged Baum's po The first visible form of dis DeLonay said Thursday that sition on the matter, contending This is the controversial student rights section of the Mer agreement over the role of he would meet with Curry that state law including the ger Law. The JJW Board of Regents is expected to give its the Student Association here First,' a lawyer representing merger bill legislation has interpretation of the section at its Oct. 4 meeting in Madison. under the student rights section SA, on Monday to determine precedence over university "The student of each institution, subject to the responsi of the merger has surfaced.

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