~~'N COl[('~ APR 3 73 LIBRARY November 6, 1969 Volume 1, Number 5 Published by Students of New College, Sarasota, Florida Fees, Enrolment Increase Black Studies Necessary for Financial Stability Proposal by Bob Beaird & Mary Trimble yearly per student. This expenditure is &tch prominence has been achieved New E::ollege must expand to 500 stu­ expected to decrease to about $6000 next only through spending large amotmts of by Charles Kinney dents, retain the same number of faculty, year, but which is still, well above a nat­ money. But each year the college has and increase tuition and room charges next ional average of about $3, 500 for private failed to raise all needed ftm.ds; each year institutions. year. These immediate effects of New the college has Qp~ated under deficit However, faculty salaries, which are Rationale College's attempt to break out of a finan­ spending. Barcroft explained this as oc­ currently below a national average, will cial rut were discussed at several meetings curring in a 5-5-3 pattern: Presently six blacks are enrolled at New held this week, led by President John El­ be raised slightly, entailing total expen­ --The college must annually raise a­ College: Allan Richards, Wilbur Moore, mendorf, Provost JohnBarcroft. Vice Pres­ diture of about $40, 000. bout $1. 3 million to finance its budget Due to expansion some 70 students will George Mosley, first year students; Monte ident Robert Norwine and Dr. Arthur Mil­ (set this year at $2. 83 million). Knight, Marguerite Bryan, and Ira Piercy, notliveoncampusnext year. This should ler. Directorof the Student Policv Office. be met three ways: area students can -- Three hundred thousand dollars are upper class students. A fourth first year The result of strict necessity, these commute; two co-ops, which may expand, usually assured from pledges from the col­ student, Joseph Kendrieks, left because measures come as the school has exhausted lege Associates. there were "JUst not enough black students should provide additional space; and, if one particular line of financing, liquida­ needed, arrangements will be made with --Five hundred thousand dollars are here. 11 tion of specific assets such as real estate on raised annually from varying sources. Enrollment of another black has been motels within walking distance to house Longboat Key. Past plans for New College) students at nominal or cost-based rates. --Each year the school acquires a deferred until January, pending comple­ !tav~ . \. anticioated expanded ebl'9ll.tn ent deficit of about $500, 000 ($417, 000 this tion of admissions requirements. and increased costs to students and the Almost certainly, current procedures dealing with scholarships and off-campus year). As revealed in individual statements present situation demands that such plans This pattern is neither good financially by five of the students, the propG>sals sub­ be adhered to. living will be reviewed. All available ftm.ds will continue to be applied to stu­ norconducive to good education and must mitted to the SEC were arrived at by a Approximately students will 225 - 230 dent scholarships. be broken. In the past, rough arrange­ process of general discussion and agreed be admitted next year. With projected Tacitly acknowledging that running an ments were made to meet immediate fi­ upon by consensus. attrition rates enrollment is expected to institution of the New College type will nancial :el'5'blems, such as scrambling to Each contributed significant points con­ increase by about 100 as originally plan­ meet October and Novemoer payrolls. always be expensive, Barcroft briefly out­ tained in the reasoning behind the propo­ ned. Student payed costs will in ere ase Now that negotiable assets have been sold sals: by $350 per year, split between room lined the history of the school to d:plain the immediate acts of increased enroll­ MONTE KNIGHT: As presented by ($160) and tuition ($190). the need for new financial policies. ment, a "freeze"onf:culty, and·increased Knight, the statements below represent the Essentially the same budget as last year New College, he said, has achieved student fees are necessitated. ma~ points or views outlined by the blacks will be in effect for the next. Measures fantastic, dramatic success within the short Such "sacrifices" are necessary to pre­ twhich show the need and desirability of taken now will allow a period of finan­ time since its inception. Within 5 years serve the nature of New College as an in­ minority admissions and studies: cial C??Solidation. It was stresseq though, the school has gained national recognition ovative institution. Unless the committ­ Faculty and Program that the quality of education will not be based upon innovative educational processes ment to origin a ideals and goals is main­ 1. We see the cultural heritage of black sacrificed. and superior quality of faculty, students, tained the commtm.ity must face possible people worth preserving and perpetuating. This school1>resently spends about $7000 and progi .. tlJ<>. dissolution and close its doors to students. 2. It is the responsibility of the black intellectual to continue and perpetuate it. 3. As members of the black intellectual U.ite, we .. t. New College recognize our duty and accept it. Faculty Defers 4- year Option Issue 4. In order for us to perform this duty we with the EPC proposal to restructure the must make the study of black culture an The faculty resolvea some- mi.JD;u' poi~ts option program. Mike Smith, brmdishing term and weak student support for the Oc­ essential part of our college education. at a brief meeting yesterday. The main the petition signed by 260 students opposed tober 15 activities as factors. item of business, ERO's I!l.emo on four­ 5. We cannot give this study the priority ~o the ERO plan on his hip looked disap­ Lichtenstein also betrayed the contents it deserves bee a use there is no one here to year option was put off tm.til the Educa­ pointed when the matter was temporarily of a confidential phone call he received lead us in such study. tional Policy Committee could hold open dropped. from the White House yestef!:l;v afternoon. 6. Therefore, we demand faculty who hearings on the matter Wednesday, time Pressed by Alan Lichtenstein, the fac­ "No, Spiro won't come," he crowed: "J:Ie can teach us what we wish to learn. and place to be annotm.ced. ultyvolted to endorse the November 13-15 sends his regrets." Well, there 1s thiS ?:-"Furthermore, we insist that a heritage Jim Feeney clarified that the ERO re­ moratorium. Several members hedged on consolation if Spiro won't come to the is not merely abstract and impersonal but commendation was only one way to deal :::losing the school, citing the end of th,e motm.tain. New College will go to him. involves a way of life that can be trans­ mitted effectively only through personal contact; and we stress that a tradition can EDUCATIONAL be acquired andcommtmicated in its full­ ness only through a sympathetic --more exactly, an empathetic --understanding CONFERENCE PLANNED of it. 8. Therefore, we demand black faculty to teach us our heritage. After reviewing the school's current financial status President Elmendorf, Vice Minority Admissions President Norwine, and Provost Barcroft 1. New College is an institution of higher introduced SEC Chairman Michael Smith learning in a troubled society. and the January Educational Conference. 2. We deem it self-evident that such an Mildly reprimanding those present at institution has a duty to that society; and the town meeting, Smith declared that that that duty is to contribute to the bet­ New College's problems are not all finan­ terment of the society. cial in nature. Pointing out that, in a.i.s 3. It is our belief that education brings opinion, the school has never used its re­ about a liberation of the spirit: that is to sourses to its or their best ability, Smith say, knowledge is freedom. proposed that the Educational Conterence 4. A college thus has a tmique contribution can deal with the total status, direction, to make to society, to mankind, and to and goals of the New College community. the cause of freedom. Earlier, Elmendorf had praised New 5. Moreover, a college that claims to be College as "something special ... which experimental has an even more tm.ique has grown out of the nature of the com­ contribution to make to the oppressed and munity ... (which) can .>e preserved and thus, an even greater responsibility. strengthened, reinforced and t>uilt upon, 6. For these reasons we demand that New even in a crisis. " College institute a minority admissions Referring to the Southern Association _p~gram. of Schools and Colleges' requested self­ study, which New College is about to be­ ALLAN RICHARDS: The blacks' re­ gin, Barcroft stated that the school is "af­ quests are intended to allow, within an ac­ ter a future, not an exercise" and called tive educational process, countering of for the students to set the direction in the feelings that "blackness is not always nat- forthcoming January conference. ural." After Smith named the eleven mem­ Pointing to a seeming dichotomy of bers of the steering committee the meet­ "good white middle class values" and ac­ in~ broke up into small discussion groups ceptance of a black culture, Allan ex­ led by the eleven: Professors Hallin, Car­ plained that because of a great inclina­ son, Culbertson, and Dykstra, studentsMtm.­ tion to accept such "white" values "to ger, Carter, Pini, Herman, Ra .>inowitz, make it is to se,p,arate,yourself from vour 1 and Smith, and Richardson Wood repre­ community' ; conflicts in finding yourself senting the administration.