Minority Students Offe Redp Rogram Room, Board Increases Due to Rapid

Uaaison College Library Zumwalt Room, board increases to speak due to rapid inflation An increase of $77.50 per allow Madison to maintain its under the new budget for new semester in charges for room, high standards in services computer equipment to Thursday board, laundry and fees offered to students and to support Madison's programs, brings the total charge for provide needed new services he added. Admiral Elmo "Bud" tuition and fees next fall to as well as expanding the vHe said the additional Zumwalt, the former chief of $1,048 per semester for academic areas," Carrier revenue created by the new naval operations who Virginia students and $1298 said. fee structure will also enable liberalized Naval policies, will per semester for out-of-state the college to provide more speak next Thursday, April 29 students. He pointed out that the new funds for recreation, in- at 7 p.m. in Miller 101. Charges for room, board fee structure, coupled with tramurals and other student Zumwalt, who is running and laundry will be $682 per increased appropriations activities, to upgrade parking against Sen. Harry Byrd in semester for both Virginians from the state's General facilities on campus, to in- November for the U.S. Senate, and non-Virginians. Fund, will allow the college to crease on-campus shuttle bus at age of 49 was the youngest hire some 50 new faculty service for students and to chief of naval operations ever Dr. Ronald Carrier an- members this fall and an nouncing the decision, said the improve furniture and other appointed. He served for four additional 30 in the fall of 1977. furnitures in dormitories. years during the Nixon ad- increase is necessary because barracks and civilian clothes Carrier said the use of ministration and was in- at shore installations. of rapid inflation in virtually These additions in the strumental in approving Zumwalt's sppeech is being all areas of the college's faculty will come at a time college facilities by students beards for naval personnel sponsored by the Young operation, additional services when student enrollment will has increased rapidly in neat long hair, beer in Democrats. that will be offered students remain virtually what it was recent years, as has the cost of and additions in various this year, Carrier said, maintaining the facilities. academic areas. resulting in smaller class "The college believes it is sizes and the opportunity for vital that the facilities and Minority students Inflation has hit the college more individualized learning services for students be kept particularly hard in the costs experiences for students. at a high level," he said. of fuel, power, food and equipment. Carrier said. New funds generated by the The new fee structure will fee structure will also allow also assist in funding the offe redp rogram "These adjustments in fees the college to further enrich construction of an addition to and charges for room and the library, Carrier said. the Warren Campus Center, By LINDA McCREADY regular summer session of the board are absolutely vital to A request will also be made he said. hosting institution. Minority students who are Students will be required to juniors at the undergraduate enroll in a maximum of two level may enroll in summer graduate level courses within graduate study and special their fields of interest. seminars at the University of Weekly seminars will be Virginia or Virginia held to inform students about Polytechnic Institute and careers in higher education State University. and to discuss issues per- The summer program, taining to graduate study. l$e cBt&eze established by the State Participants may transfer Council of Higher Education, credit only with the approval Vol. LII Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. Friday, April 23, 1976 No. 42 is designed to increase the of their undergraduate in- number of minority students stitutions. in graduate school and to Students may not transfer increase the number of as undergraduates to the Cataldi loses suit over access minority persons employed in hosting institution under this Virginia's state-aided colleges program. A Richmond Circuit Court from sociology Department Persons eligible for Cataldi contended that the and universities. judge has ruled that Madison Head Jack H. Williams to memo was not part of An educational stipend of selection to the program must College is not required to show Madison President Ronald E. be minority students enrolled Carrier's "working papers" $90 per week will be paid to the a college sociology instructor Carrier. Cataldi filed the suit since it was in the hands of participant. Funds for tuition, in the final quarter or against the College, Dr. semester of their junior year a confidential momorandum Dean John Sweigart when books, room and board, concerning the non-renewal of Carrier, Dr. Williams and Cataldi asked to see the memo laundry and other fees at a state-aided institution in Vice President for Academic Virginia. his contract to teach at and because the memo had directly associated with the Madison. Affairs William R. Nelson. ' been passed from Dr. program will be paid to the Minority students include The College contended the those persons of American Donald A. Cataldi, an in- Williams to Sweigart and host institution by the State structor in the Department of memo was excluded from the Nelson before reaching the Council of Higher Education. Indian, Alaskan Native, Sociology, Anthropology and FOI Act because it was part of president The summer session will Asian, Pacific Islander, Black the files of President Carrier. or Hispanic origin. Social Work had filed the suit, In a letter to the attorneys operate in alternate years at claiming he should have ("Memoranda, working in the case, Judge Richard A. UVA and Virginia Tech. The Eligible students must access to the memo under papers and correspondence" Williams said he had con- summer programs, usually show an interest in pursuing a Virginia's Freedom of Inn- of public college and cluded the memo was part of including a five to six-week career in higher education, be formation (FOI) Act. university presidents are term, will be held during the Continued on Page 6 The suit concerned a memo excluded from the act.) Continued on Page 6 Madison graduates open Melrose Playhouse By MARY RICHARDSON ensemble. "Shenandoah Song," a play "It's a company-derived containing folklore, legend play," Cooper said. "The and songs from the Shenan- theme is the Shenandoah doah Valley's history, will Valley, the final project will transform the former Black- be along the lines of "God- friar Dinner Theatre into a spell", with elements of summer playhouse. "Hair "-pieces put together to But the Melrose Caverns make a whole." Playhouse, as the theatre is "Shenandoah Song" will be being called by the two performed Tuesday through Madison students who are Sunday nights from June 20 to organizing the tourist at- August 29. traction, will not limit its Cooper, a 1975 Madison entertainment to a play. graduate, and Dailey, who "What we have in mind is a will graduate this May, are kind of summer en- both communication arts tertainment package, in- majors who have participated cluding theater, a small crafts in several Madison College museum, and the caverns," theater productions. said Denise Cooper, -who, Last summer, the two were along with partner Jeff involved in an outdoor drama Dailey, is working toward the in Ohio called "Tecumseh," opening of the caverns in the which represented their "first Harrisonburg area. exposure to non-equity, Cooper and Dailey are tourist-oriented theater," seeking a cast of ap- Cooper said. proximately six to eight Continued on page 9 people, who will function as an Commentary Page 2. THE BREEZE, Friday. April 23, 1976 GPB concerts Myths at Madison By CYNTHIA CARNEY the state so they give the students alcohol and not all that bad sex. I was twelve years old, it was 9:30 p. m. and I The professors want to keep their jobs so was lying in bed yearning to go out in the living they cater to the students''uwhims so the In all the controversy currently being raised concerning room to watch the Beatles' first appearance on students won't complain to the administration CPB concerts, there are a couple of things that seem to have ' the Ed Sullivan Show. But my bedtime was 9 so the students are not pushed into receiving a been forgotten. p.m. Sharp. good education. First is the fact that human beings are not predictable That was probably the first time that I The students go to college to get a job but animals, despite B.F. Skinner and the rest of the behaviorists. wished I had been at least three years older. they know they can't get a job and they have No one can tell why humans do some of the strange things they There have been many times since. I was too beer and sex so what the hell why not goof off do. Concert booking is always a matter of chance: trying to young to be able to attend Beatle concerts and for four years before facing the big, bad world. predict the shifting and often incomprehensible moods of 7,200 faint. I was too young to iron my hair. I was I think about ten years from now I will say college students is not easy. too young to join the student revolutionary again that I wish I had been three years older. Despite the fact that no Elton Johns, Bob Dylans or Rolling movement. That situation will arise when someone asks Stones have appeared here this year, it is an overstatement to When I arrived at Madison in 1972, the last me what were the burning issues on campus say the concerts have been completely terrible.

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