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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1974-1975 Student Newspapers 2-13-1975 Courier Vol. 61 No. 3 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1974_1975 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Courier Vol. 61 No. 3" (1975). 1974-1975. 11. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1974_1975/11 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1974-1975 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Two new trustees named Margaret Morgan Lawrence, York) Hospital. assignment she enhances with M.D., a practicing child A graduate of Cornell her ear lier successes in enlisting psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of University and the College of broad support for worthwhile Pomona, New York, and Frances Physicians and Surgeons at projects. Gillmore Pratt '50, a prominent Colwnbia, Dr. Morgan is a She has beer. Cambridge-area Boston-area civic leader, have director of the American Or- chalrman of fund-raising for the accepted membership on the thopsychiatric Association and Boston Children's Hospital and Board of Trustees of the college. an executive committee member organized two successful benefits Their election hrings the govern- of the New York State Committee for Action for Children's ing body's total s1rength to 15 'for Children. She is a fellow of the Television, Inc., a persuasive women and 12 men. American psychiatric movement developed' and .Dr .. La wrence at present Association and the American directed by her sister alumna, directs the developmental unit in Academy of Psychoanalysis. Peggy Walzer Charren '49. the division of child psychiatry at . She has written extensively on Mrs. Pratt chalred the Boston the Harlem Hospital Center' in children's mental health and now Zoological Society's drive for New York City and is associate has in press her most recent funds to purchase a rare African clinical professor ofpsychiatry at study, Young Inner City bongo, an endangered species of Margaret M. Lawrence, Frances G. Pratt '60, Colwnhla University College of Families; the Growth and , antelope. She works actively for Physicians and Surgeons. She Development of their Ego the Junior League of Boston and M.D. of Columbia. Chairman of the Library also serves the Rockland County Strength under Stress. the Shady Hill School in Cam- Fund Committee. (New York) Community Mental Mrs. Pratt is a Connecticut bridge. Health Center as director of its College alwnna who last year Dr. Laurence and Mrs. Pratt I child development center and is a asswned the crucial position as will attend their first Board of consultant in pediatric volunteer chalrman of the library Trustees meeting here on Feb. 14 Margolin on JB !-,sychiatry {or Nyack (New building fund committee, an and 15. by Bill Looney decision, to pass or fail, though he JudicIary Board Chalrperson need not disclose the grade Leslie Margolin met with given." • representatives of the Courier When asked what she had done The this week to answer questions to improve communication related to her activities as third between JB and the campus, ranking member of Student Margolin replied by saying that Government during the past her administration had been year. Ms. Margolin, a candidate "open and candid." "We invited fOT re-election, responded with an faculty members to meet with the Ol.lI'l.Cloverview ci her administration, whole Board a number of times, claiming that her announeed and this is the first time its evet Connecticut College Volume 61 Number 3. 13 February 1975 goals had largely been realized in really been done." Ms. Margolin the course of her tenure. concluded by referring to the Ms. Margolin scoffed at rumors present system of dispensing that JB had become "irrelevant" justice as ''too structured, with 11 million proposed budget for 1975-76 and "silly." "U anything, cases few alternatives for disciplinary before the Board Rave been more action besides outright 6 % across the board wage Increase senous this year tban \n the past. susipens\on." \lb. lAat'%Q\\n and they represent fairly serlouS suggested the Institution of a infractions of the honor code. We work program to partly replace $5000 comprehensive fee had two suspensions this past 'lelters of censure leading to year, Before, suspension was threats of suspension. "We need by Walter Palmer practically unheard of as a something in between." sbe A balanced budget of $1l,230,OOO will be submitted this disciplinary action." Margolin remarked that h':1' proposal had weekend to the Board of Trustees for approval. The also referred to a development received lukewarm reception budget represents an increase of $675,000or 6.4 per cent which.has given JB a freer hand when she visited dorms to discuss over last year's budget. Rising costs lind inflationary to expedite those cases of a more JB activities, hut she still holds to pressures contributed to the 6 per cent across the board serious nature. "House Councils the belief that some cir- have been able to take care of cumstances dictate something wage increases and a $400 increase in comprehensive simple social prohlems and other more lenient than suspension but tuition costs (tuition plus room and board). However, matters involving purely per- more punitive than threatening student aid was increased by $82,000,equaling the 8.7 sonal concerns." letters. percent overall increase in comprehensive tuition. Margolin further stated that The main components of the proposed budget for 1975- academic infractions had Final change? 76 break down as follows: become Uie Board's most pressing concern, and 1isted the Proposed Budget 1975-76 institution of a regulation designed to guarantee that the by NaDcy Heaton In the faculty meeting on Income Revised PrelimlDary Board will hav-esome leverage In January 29, 1975, the general 1974 Eductional and General Budget 1974-75 Budget 1975-76 $ Percent dealing with the faculty in calendar was a topic of Student Tuition and Fees 5,444,000 5,979,000 535,000 9.8 matters related to cheating and discussion. It was voted and Endowment Income 580,000 580,000 0 0 plagiarism as her most Gifts 820,000 850,000 30,000 3.6 prominent achievement. approved to keep the existing Organized Activities-Ed. 327,000 327,000 0 0 calendar not only for next year, "Before, when the Board ren- ,hut also through 1978. Sponsored Research 175,000 175,000 0 0 dered Its decision, guilty or not Other Sponsored Programs 165,000 165,000 0 0 The calendar was not sub- guilty for academic Other Sources 43~2,:::000~~__ ----,382~,~000~,- ---f(50~,OOO~) -rr(1l.6) mittedinto the agenda as a result Total Educ. and General 7,943,000 8,458,000 515,000 6.5 malfeasances, we had no of numerous and unfounded guarantee that our ruling would Auxiliary Enterprises ;2,!."-61~2~,000~,--.c.__J,2 £Tl~2.:'JOOO~ -!I~50!,:,OOO~ --;;6''71 rumors that have been cir- Total Income 10,555,000 ll,238,OOO 675,000 6.t be adhered to hy the teachers culating around campus that involved. Now the faculty has to final exams would be scheduled accept a verdict of JB, and the after Christmas break next ExpendItures faculty handbook further states Educational and General that an instructor must tell us semester. Instruction 2,269,800 3,265,000 295,200 9.9 continued on page eleven whether he ahided by our Organized Activities-Ed. 371,000 371,000 (600) (1,6) Sponsored Research 175,000 175,000 o 0 Other Sponsored Programs 165,000 165,000 o 0 Ext. and Public Service 36,000 42,000 6,000 16.6 In this issue Library 382,000 403,000 21,000 5.5 Student services 553,000 593,000 40,000 7.2 CONN PIRG survey p. 5 Physical Plant 947,100 1,027,000 79,900 8.4 Gen. Administration 296,900 316,000 19,100 6.4 Gen. Instructional 1,060,000 1,081,000 21,000 2.0 SGA pLatforms p. 6 Total Educ. and General 6,956,400 7,438,000 481,600 6.9 Student Aid 943,000 1,025,000 82,000 8.7 Ames budget snslysis p. 10 Auxiliary Enterprises 2,654,600 2 767 000 112 400 4.2 Total Expenditures 676,000 6.4 coutinued on page ten • Fiscal Frugality and the Sacred Cow One of the more pressing dilemmas native: a vote of no confidence, an approved till the end of October, but six presently confronting institutions of elimination of funds and the demise of weeks and 1600dollars to boot rather higher learning lies in the extent to Conn PI RG as a campus organization. obviates the necessity to be charitable. which the desires of its students can be But it is also a fact that the monies One wonders whether the campus accommodated to the realities of allocated to the Conn PI RG chapter chapter serves only to support a economic hardship. Purely out of constitutes a rather large chunk of the broader statewide constituency. While necessity, the present period of total student budget. Courier wants to the Courier does not object in principle recession requires a firm adherance to know what Conn PI RG is doing with its to the funding of an organization whose the doctrine of fiscal frugality, and funds. Is it spending them wisely? Is it thrust is above and beyond the more perhaps nowhere is the importance of sPending them at ali? Do the programs localized needs of this college com- cost consciousness more vital than in and the goals Conn PIRG espouses munity, we hope that, this semester, the allocation of Student Org.