,58th Year, No. 24 Friday, April 21, 1978 Contractor Chosen for Village .Construction by Andy Carter are given under the condition that an with a saving of about $50,000. The Equitable Construction Com· audit will be conducted annually, • pine wood instead of redwood, pany, which submitted Monday according to Lasnier. with a saving of $30,000. afternoon a low bid of $7,188,000, The Equitable offer come in the • different sliding doors, with a was awarded the contract for con· second round of bidding in which saving of $30,000. struction of GU's new residential three contractors competed. The first • greater area for the contractor complex, according to William Miller, round produced a low bid of to store materials and equipment, VP for Planning and Physical Plant. $7,597,000, which University of· which Miller hoped would save the Physical Plant. ficials decided was considerably over contractor $25,000. With the contract awarded, con· the budget allocation, according to Other changes included material struction "hopefully will start in late Miller. With the hope of cutting costs changes for joints, a different roof May," Miller said, "and we're shoot· and thereby encouraging lower con· design, cheaper paint, a cheaper ing for a completion date of tract bids, several design specifica· construction site fence and other September, 1979." tions were changed after receiving miscellaneous items. The changes Before construction can begin, suggestions from the contractors. were anticipated to reduce the Miller said, the U.S. Department of Miller, Director of Residence Life, project's cost by $500,000, but the Housing and Urban Development, Thomas Ritz and University Archi· low bid was only $409,000 less than which is to provide a $6.2 million tect Dean Price made the changes. the previous low bid. guaranteed loan at 3% interest, must Chief among these changes, ac· The large saving for the founda· give final approval. "We'll get the cording to Miller, were: tion resulted from giving the contrac· papers down to HUD this week, and • a different foundation struc· tors the option of using more pilings the prospects for final approval are ture, which Miller hoped would save for support rather than the broad good," he said. Miller cautioned, $150,000. foundation walls which the original however, that he was "not too • less exp.ensive kitchen cabinets, plans specified, Miller explained. optimistic" about the chances of HUD giving approval quickly. ]\1f..r. Rudolph Bertrang, a HUD School Size May Shrink loan official, said that "the prospects for final approval are good provided that Georgetown is complying with GUNS Applications Down current loan obligations to HUD." Bertrang said these obligations in· by Chuck Arian develop into a trend as anticipated, cluded loans for the library and other The small pool of applicants for but that the school has remained the dormitories. He declined to estimate Admission to the Nursing School same size as it was when there was a when the loa~ would be approved. may cause the school to reduce its larger and consequently higher· George Lasnier, University com· size in the future, according to a quality applicant pool. ptroller, said that Georgetown was school official. The low number of Mrs. McGarrity maintained, how· Approximately 200 hard·core New Yorkers shined the Big Apple's image Wednesday night in Copley Formal complying with all obligations to the applications has caused the Ad· ever, that the current nursing school Lounge. See story on 3. federal government. All HUD loans missions Office to accept 72 per cent student body was still of high of applicants for the nursing class of quality. "I think our criteria for 1982. admissions are valid. Motivation can't Director of Admissions Charles be measured quantitatively, and that University Investments Committee Deacon said that the Nursing School can overcome other factors," she has "not shown the same increase in said. applications as the other schools have Asked if the Nursing School might in recent years." He attributed the reduce its size in the future, Mrs. Says-Resolutions Are Unreasonable situation to the "questionable pay· McGarrity said "ye", that's what off" a nursing degree has when we'll probably do. We can't reduce by Russ Schumacher The committee, according to a Board accepted the recommenda· too extreme and not reasonable so compared with degrees in other our standards to the level where our In its first action, the newly· 52.page report, rejected the share· tions last Friday and also recom· we couldn't endorse them. fields. He added that nursing stu· students can't perform. We'll have to formed University Committee on holders' resolutions and recom· mended University President Rev. Church groups made the share· dents lire turning more often to the adjust our budget accordingly, and Investm~nts and Social Responsi. mended the Board of Directors vote Timothy Healy S.J. write Citicorp, holders resolutions for all three less expensive public institutions, and cut the faculty through attrition.'{ bility has voted against four share· for management because it felt the J.P, Morgan, and First Chicago. banks, calling for public dicIosures of said that prospective nurses are Figures compiled by the AD· holder's resolutions which call for proposals' demands were unreason· requesting the three banks to con· loans. The committee report sup· showing a tendency to remain in missions Office show that 180 of 250 scrutinizing the South African busi· able, but also expressed concern over sider loans as a "matter of ethical ported the banks' positions "that the their home areas. "They don't want nursing applicants were admitted, ness practices of Citicorp, J.P. the corporations' operations in S. policy" not just as "financial risks." disclosure of loan recipients could to travel from California to Washing· while the College accepted only 1150 Morgan, First Chicago, and Eastman Africa. The three banks have maintained result in violations of personal ton for nursing SChool," Deacon said. out of 4500 applicants. "We wanted Kodak. The Executive Committee of the their right to make loans in South privacy." an entering nursng class of 110," said Africa and said they would not The vote was unanimous in the "The Nursing :)001 has a lower Deacon, "and we normally have 60 consider loans on ethical standards Citicorp case while Purcell and quality than othr, Georgetown per c,ent of those accepted entering pools," Deacon said, adding that alone. Williams abstained on the votes on the school," explaining the 180 "This is mirrored in other selective Georgetown Press The investment committee, com· J.P. Morgan and First Chicago. "My acceptance figure. posed of faculty and students, was reasons for abstaining were that I universities." He said that, since the beginning of the decade, "the The Admissions figures show that appointed in February after the don't think J.P. Morgan and First the average nursing admittee had a stUdent senate and faculty members Chicago have taken stands strong Nursing School has grown, and the applicant pool doesn't support it." elass rank in the 80th percentile (top Not Always Free questioned GU's holdings in apar· enough," Williams remarded. "Citi· 20% of the class), and SAT scores of Deacon said that the Admissions therd South Africa. corp has also endorsed the Sullivan 534 for the verbal test and 548 in Gregory Kitsock Office has noticed an upswing in the anti·hish factions. The latter cele· Although Committee Chairman Principles (affirmative action em· math. This compares with an overall Last week's article "Hippie Hoyas number and quality of applicants for brated St. Patrick's Day in 1832 by the Rev. Theodore Purcell S.J. ployment practices) while the other undergraduate profile of a 91.4 Raised Havoc" concluded a series on graduate programs in nursing, how· hanging the effigy of an Irishman, refused to comment on any of the two haven't." percentile and SATs of 611 verbal student protest at Georgetown. This ever. complete with a string of potatoes committee's actions, Diane Williams, Willjams added, "The other two and 625 math. The College showed a issue we switch from scrapes between around his neck and a botUe of the undergraduate student member banks haven't made public state· Rose Ann McGarrity, Associate 93.2 percentile, verbal scores of 611 radicals and the lawful authorities to whiskey, on the door of one of the of the committee, explained its ments that they won't make loans to Dean of the Nursing School, said that and math scores of 625. Deacon said an issue which flared up as recently resident Jesuits. "Paddy's Com· actions. the South African government. But if the application rate is back to what it the scores of Foreign Service ad· as last semester when THe HOYA ran plaint" was a satire poking fun at the "I'm totally against what the didn't feel in the position to vote for used to be before we accidentally ad· mittees are "similar to those in the an abortion ad- namely, censorship perpetrators of this deed. A typical corporations are doing in South the resolutions because of the reo mitted a large number of students." College, while the Businpss and and the campus media. verse goes: Africa." Williams said. "But the quest to make all loans public." She explained that a sudden jump in Language schools are moving closer Back in the nineteenth century, " These graceless rogues of :gro· resolutions by the shareholders were applications several years ago did not to that level." before the campus had any student tesque figures, publications, Jesuit prefects exer· And worse than that, for they cised a tight control over the were niggers, ' literature their charges were per· Did try with rags and aid of mitted to read.