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City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works The Reporter Archives 1983 The Reporter, November 14, 1983 How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_arch_reporter/272 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Segall holds sixth Fall Baruch College's most favored alumnus At age 14, Bernard Mannes Baruch BY RAJ BHASIN leadership reception entered the College of the City of New York located at 23rd Street and Lexingtor.i BY BE ERLEY DOUGLAS Avenue, the site of today's Baruch College. Al his s1 th Fall leadership reception, To the contemporary student, the revela held in the Faculty lounge of the 24th tion that the man for whom the coll e is G{l St,reet budding, President Joel Segall be named was attending college at 14 may gan, as is his custom, with Baruch's seem an astonishing feat. But, in Mr. budg t Baruch's words, "it was simply that in The budg t for 1983-84 started out as those days there were no public schools a true disaster, according to Mr. Segall, and one could go directly into college from a the ollege was faced with the pros grammar school if one met the entrance re pect of reducing its total positions in quirements." e cess of 80, most of whic.h would be of City College charged no tuition fees th facult The only faculty that would then. The only demand made on the stu President Joel Segall be dismissed, however, would be those dent was that he study hard and meet the ithout tenure. In other words, members soon thereafter, the Department of the academic requirements. The curriculum of the faculty most recently hired, includ budget in Albany imposed a hiring freeze was rigid and few electives were allowed. ing the staff of the popular courses such on CUNY." The general education program focused on as computer science. Then the Budget Off ice of the City the classics, sciences, hl:Jmanities and Bernard Mannes Baruch Mr Segall was happy to point out, University "dropped the other shoe.'' In political economy. Emphasis was more on (photo circa 1889) ho e er, that because of student involve August of this year, the Governor's of ment wherein students went to Albany Commemorating 30 years as Baruch College fice issued a directive that 350 positions and talked to legislators individually, in at the senior colleges, the central office, Part Two of a Three Part Series addition to writing letters, and meeting and the graduate center be ei'iminated by a universal education and the student was subjects were drawing and science. ' with members of Governor Cuomo's ad June, 1984. As a result, Baruch College trained to think rather than become "quiz "Almost my only memory of the chemistry ministration, the legislators restored must cut 31 positions. Administrators experts." class was of making some sulfuric acid into some of the funds to Baruch. "We ap were not advised where to cut, but ac In the 1880's the City College student a foul smelling concoction and dropping it pear to ha e escaped the very serious cording to Mr. Segall, non-professorial read and spoke Greek and Latin and every into another student's pocket," he said. cuts," Mr. Segall said. He continued, Continued on Page 7 morning, attended an assembly provided Ge0rge B. Newcomb who taught "we didn't ceall y escape because very over by Presidenll. Alexar.ide-r Stewart Pelitioial Ecomormics made the deepest im Webb, a Union general in the Civil War. pression on Mr. Baruch. As described by Each morning, one student gave an oration Mr. Baruch, "'he vvore geld-rimmed glasses at the assembly. According to Baruch Col and looked like an old-fashioned Chemistry laboratories renovated lege's most distinguished student, his worst Continued on Page 70 BY DENISE JOHNSON About five years ago, the need to deterioration of facilities in the old Higher Education Services Corporation cracks renovate the chemistry laboratories was laboratories, "less than one-half of the recognized and initiated by Professor Mor vacuum lines were not working. With the ris Winokur, the retired chairman of the addition of the renovated laboratories, down on .students who default on loans Natural Sciences Department. Three years there is an increase of involvement in the BY WAYNE YU later, Marilyn Mikulski, Director of Campus chemistry courses and, therefore,'' he con The New York State Higher Education automatically forwarded to the HESC as Planning, the Provost, Phil Austin, and tinued, "offers of chemistry courses will be Services Corporation, funder of the part of the payment toward the defaulted Dean Martin Stevens, put in a request for extended." According to Professor Guaranteed Student Loan and T·uition l_oan. the major project. Finally, after construc Malerich, "there is in the plan, a chance to Assistance Programs, has enhanced their Within the HESC, they are currently in tion which lasted two years, the chemistry offer students an MBS in Chemistry to ex laboratories were completed. pand our offerings. Further action has to be abilities to collect student loans in default creasing the collection personnel of its staff status. Dr. Walter Scharf, deputy chairman of taken by the School of Business and Liberal and are also computerizing its claims and About $1 billion is anticipates to be in the atural Sciences department Arts before the plan becomes official." collection units to decrease the number of default nationwide and in this state, about elaborated to THE REPORTER the reasons The full-time members of the chemistry loan defaults. 10,000 judgments will be broJJght against for the renovation of additional faculty had input in the designing of the When a person fails to start paying back students this year. Zaida Mejia, Baruch Col laboratories. laboratories. Four laboratories were con the loan, the bank which served as his · lege's Loan Coordinator, feels that it's "go "The old laboratories were inadequate to structed. lender will try to contact the person. If the ing to get (more difficult) to get loans in the handle the fumes," Dr. Scharf said, "and "The renovated laboratories have more bank is unable to do so, it will·turn the case future." This is due to extensive efforts to many of the materials were unsafe. We efficient hood space," Malerich said. ''Fur over to the HESC for further actions, such insure a loan repayment through additional anted to limit breathing in, and exposure ther, all utilities are functioning properly. as decreasing the student's credit rating procedures to process a loan request. to chemicals and fumes." Dr. Scharf said There are steam lines and additional and letting a collection ;igency handle the Several changes enable the HESC (Higher that many experiments that were normally utilities and services available. 'There is an case. "It's treated as any unpaid bill would Education Services Corporation) to be done could not be done. 'We wanted to unobstructed view from any point in the be,'' said Steven Goldberg, Director of more effective in their collection efforts. ha e a modern functioning laboratory to laboratory, which is most important for Financial Aid of Baruch College. On the federal level, one amendment per teach a modern science," he elaborated. safety purposes. There is also wide aisle Some defaults may arise from transfer mits the corporation to search through In Associate professor of Chemistry,Charles space." students who are not follow to prevent ternal Revenue files for addresses of Malerich added that there was an obvious Continued on Page 9 their loans from becoming due. "Transfer. students who "skip" accounts. students should come to the Financial Aid On the state level, the HESC is now able Office to fill out their deferment forms,'' to collect tax refunds due to New York said Miss Mejia. The necessity of deferment State resid_ents who are in default status. forms is to notify the student lenders that After a judgment has been obtained against the student is still attending school. the person, the tax refund will be Last year, $5 million in Guaranteed Stu dent Loans were taken out by 2,000 students in Baruch College, and "More people (volume-wise) will be borrowing money in the future,'' said Goldberg. Shirley Milazzo, a Baruch student said, "I believe that the students who are working and refuse to pay should have appropriate actions taken in order to have the loans paid back." Another Baruch student said that he The beauty of the Autumn season - the brilliant reds of the maples and the yellow hues of thought the HESC changes should have the birch and elm, been made '-'a long time ago." -• Novem�er 14, 1983 Page 2 THE· RE.PORTER _ Evening Session Student Organizations Evening Session Student ESSA Elections Sigma Alpha Delta induction drive recogniz Julias Walls was elected Vice Pres es Assembly Ne�s ident Internal Affairs by acclamation at student achievement BY LINDA S. Ll,JKAS our October 17, 1983, meeting. Julias Sigma Alpha Delta, is the only evening MARIE SYE-President · tackled his .first two• projects success Friday, October 21, Sigma Alpha Delta. student honor/service sodety at Baruch. Legal Services fully. -held its New Candidates' Dinner in the Membership requires that a student have at The Free Legal Services Program, co - Evening recreation hours were est Oak lounge of Baruch's Student Center on least a B mihus grade point average, as sponsored by Day and Evening, govern ablished ·again for thi,s semester.