Healy Wants $40~OOO Minority Aid Increase

58th Yea;, No.8 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Friday, October 14, 1977 Healy Wants $40~OOO Minority Aid Increase by Tracey Hughes present financial aid funds to minor School's tuition is the highest in the In a recent budget message to the ity students. country. University President Healy called for However, the admissions and Student MCFC member Chris a $40,000 increase in finacial aid tuition subcommittee in their report Graham and Schoppert speculated earmarked especially for minority to the Main Campus Finance Com that the hold on med tuition will students. mittee (MCFC) for fiscal year '79 has indirectly affect the main campus The message states, "Another recommended that all incoming stu· budget. "McNulty (Chancellor of priority for the Main Campus ought dents for the fall of '78 be levied a the Med Center) will fight to keep to be an increase in the amount of tuition increase of $200, specifically overhead costs down by pusing for funds available for financial aid for financial aid, above the across lower increases for staff and union particularly in the area of Minority the· board hike for the Main Campus. employees, which would lower over students. It has been estimated that If this proposal were to be approved head costs for the main campus" our minority enrollement goa! of by the University it would generate Graham explained. Overhead costs 10% could be achieved with an the needed funds to pay for the amount to approximately 25% of the additional $40.000 in financial aid. mandated minority increase. total Main Campus budget. These funds must be made available Another portion of Healy's mes John Greenbaum, Med Center in the 1979'financial plan." sage has generated controversy at the Finance Officer refused to comment Currently minorities at George. Law Center. It calls for the law on the Med Center's plans. town receive 20% of the financial aid center to buils a reserve fund of Healy has also decreed that the awarded at the University through a $1,000,000 for student aid, over a Main Campus must reduce it's The MCFC received Library, Physical Plant and Athletic subcommittee reports. special Minority Deans financial aid period of ten years, out of current dependence on undesignated funds; fund. fund budgets. they will receive $600,000 for FY Earmarking of scholarship funds In an interview in the Georgetown '79, $300,000 in '80 and zero in '8I. MCFC Subcommittee Proposes for minorities was called into ques· Law Weekly, Chancellor of the Law According tp Schoppert this money tion last year when District Court Center Dean David McCarthy said will have to be made up through Judge Oliver Gasch ruled that the GU that it would be impossible for this tuition increases, a reduction in Main L,n'; Center's practice of setting aside Law Center to generate this fund Campus expenditures or an increase $694,000 Boost for Library 60% of its scholarship grants for unless they raised tuition, drastically in alumni contributions. by Tracey Hughes funds." Subcommittee chairman Rosalind minorities was illegal. cut expenditures or removed present To combat the rising cost of The library's lack of funds has COWie expressed the committee's In his opinion Gasch noted that, scholarship money from circulation library books the library subcom- also affected the audio-visual equip· feeling fo frustration in allocating the «the question of finacial need ... cuts and placed it into an endowment Foul Play mittee of the Main Campus Finance ment, said Irwin. The dial-access athletic budget because "The cimmit· across racial, cultural and social lines. fund. Committee has recommended a 20% system, which consists of films, tape tee found it difficult to discuss the There is no justification for saying McCarthy contends that he tryed increase for library materials and a players and other interconnected priorities indicated by past and that a 'minority' student witha to discourage Healy from making the demonstrated need of $200 requires proposal, in a memo which he de Mars SFS 150% increase for equipment. audio visual equipment is "rapidly present budgeting pattprns without In other subcommittee action, the deteriorating" according to Irwin. discussing policy issues:' more scholarship aid than a non clined to disclose. subcommittee {or Planning and Included among the Planning and However, Chairman of the MCFC minority student witn a demon Father Healy was unavailable for strated need of- $3,000. comment. Election Physical plant recommended measur- Physical Plant recommendations was Dean Donald Herzburg commented, by Val Reitman es to gradually decrease physical the suggestion to replace 10% of the "I have Fr. Kelly's and Fr. Healy's According to student MCFC mem In regard to the Med Centers ber Doug Schoppert the financial aid budget Healy announced, "It is of a The freshman SFS Academic plant expenditures over a period of current housekeeping force with assurances that a revitalized AAB will Council election has been blemished years by $411,000 from a budget of work·study student labor. examine questions about basketball, increase would have to be funded by matter of extreme importance that if tuition, which at the present time indeed there is any tuition increase it by a series of charges, counter 9.5 million dollars. Other personnel reductions in track, women's sports and minor charges, and one candidate's con The Athletic subcommittee called physical plant were also urged by the sports raised by this SUbcommittee." makes up 83% of the Main Campus be held to the lowest t'easable level." Budget, or by shifting more e[ the Currently the Georgetown Med tested disqualification. for. no increase in men's basketball committee, including 10% reductions Council Chairman Mark Lutes and a 5% cost of living increase for in the areas of construction, the tated that on Wednesday night the entire Athletic Department citing Vice-presidents Office and Securitv. Academic Council voted to disquali . special need in the area of woman's The Athletic subcommittee has Henle Charges Sex Planners fy Kleiman because they felt that sports. been the center of controversy in "thl're were violations." According to library subcom- past weeks when discussion of The charges stem from what Lutes mittee chairman Professor Wallace halting track and drastically cutting terms as a "confession" which was Irwin, the recommended library basketball funds drew fire from With Corruption ofMorality signed by Kleiman and his campaign increase, totalling $694,160 "is students, administrators and the manager Bil! Mumma. According to necessary to take us back to the Athletic Dept. However any possible by Greg Kitsock justice at St. Louis University, "teenage sexual activity is normal" The Planned Parenthood Federa· attacked the PPFA in the October and that "50% of all people under 10 Kielman and the "statement" said purchasing power of 1972·73. If we recommendation cancer. ling these that Mumma had destroyed 25-30 of spend somewhat less on books we sports was sidetracked \ 'hen Vice tion of America (PPl"A) should be edition of the Catholic League have engaged in sex." condemned for "wanting to remove Newsletter, a publication of a Mil· When contacted by The HOYA, the opposition's posters on Sunday will simply be standing still. PreSident for Administrative Services and replaced them with Kleiman Irwin contends that at the present Daniel AI to bello informed the all moral scruples from sex" and for waukee·based group called the Cath· employees at Planned Parenthood's its "complete and total support of olic League for Religious and Civil local office declined to comment, posters, as well as another charge time "The library has to reject a committee they had no authority to that in a conversation outside Darnall substantial amount of material advise cuts in these areas because abortion," former Georgetown Uni· Rights. directing the HOYA to PPFA's versity President Fr. Robert Henle Planned Parenthood has yet to National Information Director Robin cafeteria Kleiman had pointed out a requested by professors which is they would be in effect, policy large, opposing candidates poster and really needed, because of lack of recommendations. has charged. reply to the harsh criticism. Elliot. As of press time, Elliot was Henle, currently professor of Excerpts from the Catholic attending a conference in Atlanta Mumma had told Kleiman not to League Newsletter were reprinted in and could not be contacted. worry about it and it would be down Documents Show According to Kleiman, Rob Plejd last Friday's Washington Post. Henle Planned Parenthood is asking for rup, an opposing candidate's cam· was quoted as saying the PPF A plans $410 million in federal funds for paign (Chris Hob's) came to his room to use federal funds to support Fiscal Year '79, according to a while he was out, leaving a not Bakke Rejected byGU Med "massive immoral social change, to booklet the agency has published According to Kleiman, Rob Plejdrup, impose on our society their own titled "Planned Births, the Future of an opposing candidate's campaign by Chuck Ariom As reproted in last week's HOY A, Davis reserved 16% (PPF A's) ideology, and to establish the Family and the Quality of (Chris Hoh's) came to his room while Allan Bakke on August 7, 1974 revealed that he was of its entering Medical School class for minority students secular humanism as our civil and American Life." he was out, leaving a note which he rejected from the Georgetown University Medical School in 1973. The entering class of Georgetown that same social religion." Regarding abortion, the booklet signed "Jay Greenberg", with the as well as the University. of California at Davis and 11 Although The HOYA was unable states the government should "insure year had 4% minority representation, according to pseudongm instructing him to call other schools, in a sworn statement to the California to obtain a copy of the newsletter, that all pregnant women have full figures supplied by the Institute for the Study of him" as soon as possible" regarding Superior Court.

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