The New Hampshire, Vol. 65, No. 37
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Financial aid requests going up...resources going down By Jackie Gagnon and at least 80 per cent of the .College faost Effected by the current recession fund as of June 30, 1974 was The University will probably have less Work-Study Program. and‘dcsclyie in business. $4,003,700. There are about 120 separate money available next year to meet ex University funds include resident fendtr&|nents are grants awarded to the scholarships and prizes in the pooled in pected increased demands on its financial non-resident tuition grants, a hoist •bfe-y u/ivarsitp to be invested in stocks and vestment fund. aid resources. specified grants, annual gift scholarships^ jabni m M that the interest and dividends Smallidge admits the income gathered Despite continued increases in applica and endowments as well as -sev&^l Univer^, / th g p tg m n can be used to provide annual by the fund has decreased and will prob tions for financial aid and increasing edu sity loan funds. \ —' settohifships in the donor’s name. ably decrease again next year. cation costs, the student aid budget will Many facets of the financial ,a\dsystem- > Ml funds are pooled together in a Uni He said much of what happens with the not show any increases and may, in fact, will be affected by both*the nailoiial bcof ’versity investment fund which is manipu- pooled investment fund next year will de decrease. nomic situation and University policies as lated by the Board of Trustees and their pend on how the investment committee UNH financial aids can be roughly divi set down by the Budget and Finance financial advisors from a brokerage house manipulates the stock shares owned by ded into University and non-University Committee of the UNH Board of Trus- in Boston. th e fund. funds. Non-University funds include fed tees. University controller Ralph Smallidge FINANCIAL AID, page 4 eral grants and scholarships, federal loans Endowment scholarships may be the said the market value of the investment the new hampshire Volume 65 Number 37 Tuesday, March 18,1975 Durham, N.H. Trustees up out-of-state bill $400 No word yet on next year’s in-state tuition I > * By George Forcier the actual cost of education so that non limits out-of-state enrollment to a 25 per I • P" resident students would pay their full cent maximum. But state law allows the The University Trustees unanimously share, as mandated by state law. board to waive the limit, which it has - m approved Saturday a $400 out-of-state tu The trustee action will also raise non done repeatedly in recent years. This year ition increase for UNH, raising non-resi resident tuition at Keene and Plymouth out-of-state students compose about 34 mm. H dent tuition here for next year from state colleges from $1,550 to $l,800-a per cent oT the student body. $2,200 to $2,600. Plans for in-state in $250 increase. According to a report by the trustee Fi f | m creases have yet to surface. nance and Budget Committee, “projected Recently seated Student Trustee Frank admissions on the three campuses of the I % «% ■ tal A . Carter III voted for the increase, al For a closer view of Frank University System indicate that all quali though he told the board about argu Carter’s experience at his first fied New Hampshire students who make f e e .. U ments against the increase relayed to him timely applications can be admitted and Friday by concerned out-of-state stu trustee meeting see story page that there will be room within the capaci dents. 3. ty for non-resident students in excess of Carter said he wasn’t “advocating or 25 per cent of enrollment.” not advocating” the argument, but want There seemed to be a clear understand ed" to express the student viewpoint to The increase here will generate roughly ing among the trustees and observers pre the board. $1,32U,UUU in additional revenue next sent at tlie monthly trustee meeting at Most of the opposition expressed at the year, according to rough estimates Vice Plymouth State College that the board meeting came from student leaders from Provost for Budget and Administration would vote for the increase. “There is no way the legislature in this the Plymouth and Durham campuses. Allan Prince gave the trustees earlier. Paul Holloway, a member of the power- state will tolerate subsidizing out-of-state Trustees, Carter included, repeated sev In related action the trustees formally students.” - Trustee Paul Holloway. eral times the increases were pegged on waived a restriction which technically T U IT IO N , page 13 MUB budget INSIDE Caucus refuses to give SAT Budget crunch criticized, The number of out-of-state stu money to C.A.R.P. for film dents is expected to decrease, By Lynne Tuohy quest last Sunday. making the System’s budget crunch The request was presented at the meet even worse. Story page 3. others pass The Student Government Sunday night ing by C.A.R.P. vice president David Pel- refused to give C.A.R.P. (CollegiateAssoc ton, a freshman biochemistry major. WOW iation for the Research of Principles) Pel ton’s composure seemed out of By Lynne Tuohy WOW (Wipe O ut W aste) is cam $109.50 to show the film “Siddhartha” place in the midst of fast-paced debate. Student Government approved unani paigning to reduce the $1,500 on cam pus. He calmly explained C.A.R.P. had never mously the operating budgets for WUNH weekly food waste figure at Hud C.A.R.P. will still show the film Tues intended to request SAT money for their radio and Granite yearbook and also ap dleston Hall. See story page 4. day at 7 and 9:15 p.m. in the Strafford activities, but unexpected debts had aris proved $4,370 in programming fund loans Room of the Memorial Union Building, en. at Sunday night’s meeting. free of charge. Pelton added that there is a rent dis The Memorial Union budget, presented Reviews A major factor in the overwhelming re pute with their landlord who “claims we by Recreation and Student Activities Di jection of the programming fund request haven’t paid certain bills.” C.A.R.P. is lo For reviews of the movie “Len rector Michael O’Neil for consideration was C.A.R.P.’s ambiguous relation to the cated in the old Unification Church head ny” and the Jethro Tull concert in and suggestions, was strongly criticized Unification Church. Senators also re quarters at 2 Strafford Ave. Boston last Thursday see page 15. by many of the senators. ceived numerous complaints from stu Pelton said C.A.R.P. receives “no direct The $28,148.12 WUNH budget repre dents following the government’s initial sents a 6.7 per cent increase over last “approval of concept” of the C.A.R.P. re C.A.R.P., page 8 year’s $26,377.'60 budget. Of their total Spring sports budget request $28,072 will be SAT Spring sports previews appear on funded. pages 19 and 20. CAUCUS, page 7 Calculus won’t be offered credit-fail next semester By Mike Minigan in their work, and, they are just not re taining the material as well as they Beginning next fall,the mathematics de should. This worries us fairly seriously.” partment’s -calculus program will be of Calculus 427-428 each consist of five fered on a grade basis, and tests will in examinations which currently require an clude review material to eliminate what 80 percent passing grade. Five attempts at department chairman M. Evans Munroe each exam are allowed-, in order to pass. terms “spot learning.” The new system will still require an 80 The present credit/fail program which percent passing grade, but the final letter has come under fire recently from stu grade will tentatively be determined by dents and faculty is being revamped for the number of attempts needed to pass two major reasons. “We see two undesir each test. C.A.R.P.’s vice president David Pelton, at left, answers questions before the Student able aspects in the system,” said Munroe. Government Sunday night after Student Senator Edward McDonald, at right, led the “Students now seem to get too far behind CALCULUS, page 5 government to reconsider C.A.R.P.’s earlier request for a Student Activity Tax g ra n t.' PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY MARCH 18, 1975 Volunteer Center acts as liaison rently thirty students participat ing in volunteer work at such Students can explore various agencies as the Green Acres Sta areas of interest through the bles in Dover where students do Volunteer Action Center being grooming and tacking of horses, sponsored by the Assistant Dean writing advertisements and com of Students Office in Huddles mercial copy atWDNH- FM on to n Hall. Middle Road in Dover, typing Assistant Dean of Students and receptionist work at the Mariam McCarthy said last week Theater by the Sea in Ports the center was formed last sem mouth and many others. ester for students who wish to The purpose of the center, ac volunteer their time working for cording to McCarthy, is to pro nearly thirty mostly non-profit vide “volunteer opportunities” agencies in Dover, Durham, and “experience working in a Newmarket and Portsmouth.^ com m unity.” McCarthy also The center serves as a listing cited “career options” and the agency for these organizations “chance for students to develop and McCarthy said that “if a stu some skills.” McCarthy said the dent is interested in volunteer center “hopes to run a half page ing, we set up an appointment ad in The New Hampshire” be between the student and the cause “it pays to advertise” so agency.” more students will learn about McCarthy explained that the and become interested in the center does not “recruit” stu center.