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TODAY, INSIDE TODAY, EDITORIALLY • Negro Athletes •· Stadium Seating • Campaign Speeches ""i Nixon Speaks au • Negro Athletes • Refrigerator Monopoly ·' * * Best Newspaper In The Two Carolinas VOLUME LJV * ·* * Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North carolina, ·Tuesday, October i!2, 1968 NUMBER 6 Bowman Gray Tuition To Increase Bv $200 el The University Board of Trustees Fri. iness. medical schools on a per student basis.'' day endorsed the efforts of Bowman Gray "The· problem is not only at Bowman A number of schools have spent the School of Medicine to secure state finan. Gray, but at every medical school and cial aid. and approved a tuition increase principal of their limited. endowments. teaching hospital in the country," Meads is not the case with Bowman Gray, of $200 ·for the medical school 1or the This told an Old Gold & Black reporter. according to Meads, but there isn't enough 1969- 70 scliooi year. "This is a very complex problem that The action came in response to re. money left to bail the school out of trou. has two compi>nents -- a medical school ble for an extended period of time. quests by Dr. Manson Meads, dean of the and an alfiliated teaching hospital," he school of medicine. About two weeks ear. said. Serious Crisis lier Meads had presented a report on the · Baptist Hospital, BowmanGray"steach school's financial Uls to a legislative ing hospital,· already bas severely cur. Meads describes the problem as"com study commission in Raleigh, requesting tailed its charity care. plex'' and the "most serious crisis in state aid to put Bowman Gray back on a At least 20 of the nation's 44 private medical history." · sound financial basis. medicai schools are in serious financial A complex of problems has led to the PHOTO BY HUX Bowman Gray"s tuition currently i_s trouble, Meads said. "Before we made financial crisis, he said. 'Pi' In The Sky $1,600 a year. Friday Meads told the our ·report to the state commission, we --Since World War llthecostofmedical trustees the 44 private medical schools had to find out what other schools were education bas risen enormously. The in the coimtry have an average annual As the Apollo spacecraft orbited around the earth, ground-based Sigma Pi's went to work on a monster sign com doing. In the majority of the cases, sub. teaching staff at Bowman Gray is seven memorating the exploits of a fraternity brother, astronaut Walter Schirra. It did take some aerial acrobatics, how tuition of $1,930, higher than Bowman sidies were given by the states to the times as large as it was during the war. ever, to attach the sign to the side of the house. Gray"s tuition with the proposed hike. In addition, the school employs more Earlier last week Meads said the school than 100 part. time facUlty members. The of medicine must have "a minimum of budget is now $7 million a year. $300,000 new income for next year. ·--The federal government has not tra. " "This wiD just maintain an absolute Board Adds ditionally helped with financing private minimum of expenditures withoutincreas. medical schools but has poured vast sums Is The Semester Plan The Only ing the facUlty or expanding our building · programs," he said. · of"money into medical research. • 2 Business --Administrators of medical schools "If something is not done, in five years have come to rely· on this money to pay the annual deficit will be over $1 miUion. regUlar operating expenses. Bowman Gray We just must have assistance " Meads Solution For University Classes? continued. ' · has used more than $1. million of these Departments federal stipends to pay faculty salaries • Meads said without state or federal aid in recent years. By Barry Robinson the school would be unable to stay in bus. The University Board of Trustees Fri. --The federal government now has cut ASSOCIATE EDITOR examine how these plans are supposed There are three main methods of di.vid. day re- elected officers and created two back on grants for medical research and to work, and next week will examine ingthe school year, andallplansaresome FIRST OF A SERIES how they really do work • both positive . departments within the Charles H. Bab. a_ major source of support has been taken Imagine having a one- month vacation in variation of these. They are: cock School of Business Administration. from the schools. and negative aspects - at the schools --Semester system. This is the tradi. January, or a Christmas vacation with which have tried them. · The board unanimously re-elected Leon -.Inflation has caused an increase in exams already behind you. Or imagine tion method of dividing the school year and " L. Rice Jr. of Winston-Salem as chair.' supplies, salaries, and construction. being able to graduate in three years The applicability of one of these me · is the system Wake Forest uses. Under · man. Other officers, also re-elected u.. -·The cost of educating an undergrad. rather than the traditional four. · thods to Wake Forest, as expressed this plan, the school year is divided into nanimously, are: Dr; George W. Paschal uate student for one year is about $4,300. These are just a few of the. possibi through students, faculty, and adminis two semesters: one running from Sept. Jr. of Raleigh, vice- chairman; Mrs. Eli- The tuition has lieen $1,600. The school lities with which many colleges and uni tration, will be the subject of a third ember to mid- January, the other from zabeth s. Drake of Winston-Salem, se- . lost $2,800 on each one of its 214 under. versities throughout the country ,are ex. article two weeks from now. (Continued on Pag~ 5) cretary; Jol!Q G. Williard Of Winston. graduate stud!IDtS l;lSt year. ~he deficit perimenting, in some cases, ·qulte sue. \7~'""'''•. treasurer and assistant . secre... is even greater per student for re$i.dent cessfully. Brewer of Ralei~ •. treasur~~~~~'-A!J¥l~·r~~~;~1jppP~~~·~~ ·All of thesepossibilitiesandothershaye Meeting Nov. 11 - 13 ·~'111Mtiit1Bi'-"ttlH.-:11e Bro'fider"·vf .Win..:-~~~ and ·fol"·~ng·~in· ·post. dOc. .'Jacome realities through adjustments 41 . stan-Salem, general counsel. toral areas. the school year - rearranging semesters r. On the recommendation of Provost Ed.. The main financial stress on Baptist to make innovations possible. Win G. Wilson, the trustees approved es. Hospital is more serious, Wages, which Almost 30 combinations of attending tablishment of departments of. econo_uUcs comprise about 70 per cent of the has classes, doing research, working, andhav. Baptist Officials· Are Silent and accounting. within the business school. pital's budget, have increased more than: ing vacations have beendevelopedbysome Dr. Jeanne OWen, acting dean, said later $3 million in the last three years. schools as a replacement for the tradi. !Jlat chairmen· for the new _departments · Also, the federal Medicare program tiona! eight semesters of school work in LAWRENCE R. CHANDLER had not ~n selected. Wilson said.crea::" does not reimburse the hospital for the four yearl?· On Issues At Convention ... New Security Chief ... tion of the departments woUld not result services the hospital provides, and many For Med Students in any significant changes in operation of other public agencies don't pay Ml costs By GRAY LAWRENCE MANAGING EDITOR state's seven institutions of higher learn. the school. (ContinUed on Page 5) Each of these combinations was de. ing will be made by the committee of 20 Former· FBI vised to meet a specific need. For ex. As usual, officials of the Baptist State The only motions which are scheduled .ample, graduation in three years is es Convention, scheduled to meet in Raleigh to be brought up, excluding the spon. pecially appealing for pre. medical stu. Nov. 11-13, are unWilling to speculate taneous trusts that sometimes rock the 1 :Ients who still have years of schooling on issues which might arise. Agen_t .Named ahead after graduation. The state's Baptist hierarchy is typi The principal reason most schools have cally silent on such perennial issues as NEWS ANALYSIS converted to different patterns, however, trustee control, state and federal aid to is to use the school's equipmentonayear Baptist institutions and dancing or on the Police Head round basis rather than having it lay University's new student responsibility Convention, will be a proposal to change dormant or be used only partially for policy formulated during the summer. Gardner. Webb College from two to four. A man who has been a special agent three months each year. According to Dr. Perry Crouch, gen. year status and a measure to provide with the Federal Bureau of Investigation In this way, the school can admit more eral secretary. treasurer of the conven. loans for Chowan and Gardner- Webb Col for 34 years will become the Univer. students .• which means more tuition tion, no recommendations concerning the leges. sity's special·services supervisortomor. money- without a corresponding increase A preliminary meeting last week ap.. row, two days after his retirement from in facilities. since not all students will proved a $1,715,000 budget for the state's the FBI. attend year- round. Baptist higher institutions, in c 1u ding He is Lawrence R. Chandler, who has $411,725 for the University. The Rev. been the Winston-Salem FBI agent for the Most Used Plan Rascals Conce-rt · Ben Fisher, general secretary of the Coun. past 12 years. Currently, most major colleges, about cil on Christian Higher Education, said Harold S. Moore, superintendent of the University's share amounted to 24.5 1,800, are still using the semester system Is Still Planned· buildings and grounds, said Chandler will for organizing their school years, but many per cent of the appropriations to Bap have charge of the campus security fore.