Maine Campus March 30 1982 Maine Campus Staff

The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 3-30-1982 Maine Campus March 30 1982 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus March 30 1982" (1982). Maine Campus Archives. 1218. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/1218 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • The University of Maine at Orono the daily student newspaper aine since 1875 ampus vol. 90 no. 40 Tuesday, March 30, 1982 Students, administrators agree Proposed tuition hike inevitable by Tim Rice "The extent is difficult to predict. I "Combined with the proposed about keeping up the quality of their Staff Writer would assume that the raise will be Reagan budget cuts it will affect a professors. Students and administrators alike less than the 15 percent of last year, larger number of people. It will mean "I'm in engineering." Marcy said, are taking Chancellor Patrick but it will still be pretty hefty. a decrease in educational opportu- "and I see many of my professors McCarthy's proposed 12-16 percent "Even with an increase the Univer- nities for lower-income students," leaving to work in industry. Most tuition hike with a collective ho-hum. sity of Maine is still a bargain when Jordan said. people expected the increase anyway. "I think it was inevitable," said compared to other institutions around Student Representative to the board We should give our professors the David McAtee. a Resident Director the country," he said. of trustees Henry Marcy said he thinks raises they deserve...although 16 from Chadbourne Hall. It doesn't Brown said that ,the tuition hike, that most students won't mind the percent might be a little much." surprise me." coupled with the proposed govern- increases because they are concerned "I was talking with some friends ment cuts in financial aid would have a about it at lunch today, and we all had "very.very bad effect on enrollment." Protestors against U.S. a good idea it would be going up. We I hope Congress stands up on its sort of expected it. hind legs and opposes the aid cuts:* But McAtee said he doesn't think Brown said. "In a state like Maine, the increase will be that damaging. which is not a wealthy state, people in El Salvador number 200 "People will still manage to scrape have to scrape and sacrifice so they I. a udia I s.ounir nssIs ed. she said, uiih 581 can go it up somehow." he said. "As the to college. This is a serious Staff Writer million projected to be spent this year thing. economy goes. so goes tuition." on grenades, chemicals and other The proposal for 1982-83 will raise "In the future students may have to UMO professors and students join- weapons, she said. "All for a country opt for a tuition to 5I.410 for Orono and part-time program and ed with local labor and church groups that is not at war with another country. spread Southern Maine students. The rate at out their education. to march. about 200 strong, against icy It's a civil war." "The wealthy other campuses would go to 51.320. will always be able to winds in Bangor Saturday to protest Keremitsis also said the United pay, and the Room and board for all students would poor can often get by on United States involvement in El States is in violation of the United scholarships. rise an average of 7.5 percent. But the great middle Salvador. The march followed an Nations Convention on the Status of class is left to its "From the basis of the financial own means. And that ecumenical service held at St. John's Refugees and U.S. immigration policy means is shrinking picture in general. I would assume up." Catholic Church in memory of Salva- by refusing asylum to Salvadoran "The that the increase is a foregone increases are understand- doran Archbishop Oscar Romero. refugees. Of 6.000 who sought asylum able." said conclusion." said Trustee Francis A. senior political science Three speakers, including UMO in the United States last year. only one major Bruce Brown. Jordan Assistant Professor of History Eileen was granted asylum, she said. The Keremitsis, addressed the marchers United States is refusing asylum at Westmarket Square. cutting short because it is not admitting that El their talks due to the numbing cold. Salvador is fighting a civil war, she Also speaking were sister Miriam said. De% lin. of the Missionary Sisters of The United Nations Convention on the Immaculate Conception. and the Status of Refugees states that Charles O'Leary. president. Maine persons who have fled their country AFL-CIO. out of "well-founded fear of prose- Keremitsis, wearing a black arm- cution based on race, nationality, band for protest and mourning. membership in a particular social called for an end to deportation from group, or political opinion." shall not the United States of Salvadoran be returned. The United States has refugees and an end to U.S. assistance signed this convention, according to a to the military junta. handout provided at the service. The crisis in El Salvador is a "The United States immigration law domestic crisis, she said. It has provides for the safety of foreign nothing to do with the Soviet Union or nationals endangered by civil war or Cuba as the State Department and the catastrophic circumstances." she said Reagan administration claim. she later. said. "We can't believe what they O'Leary thanked marchers for their thi • milder sicaihur 1,511 1,11, 101111(1 ruTr r presence and said it means more to warmer dais in coin,(Kcal) phnin The United States is the only tsee March p.3) Mitchell tofight for student aid programs by Bruce Clavette among states in the percentage of 1983 that number could be two to Staff Writer high school students who go on four times greater, because aid to college and the proposed cuts will be 50 percent of current President Reagan's proposed combined with Maine's low per levels," he said. cuts in federal student aid capita income would have a But Mitchell said it is unlikely programs would be disastrous for "profound, adverse effect" that the budget cuts, including student thousands of Maine students, would be "tragic for them aid cuts, would go through in said Maine Sen. George J. (students) in Maine.' their present form. He said it's Mitchell Monday in a press Mitchell said through contact not likely they'll pass in the conference at Bangor with every college head in the House but they are "up in the air International Airport. state he has determined that by in the Senate." Mitchell said he opposes the fall of 1982 approximately 2,483, Mitchell said he will fight to proposed cuts because they or seven percent, of Maine's keep student aid programs at would force too many students 35.363 students. including 785 their present level of funding. out of school. "There is an out-of-state students attending He said Reagan's aid cuts are overriding national interest to Maine schools, will be unable to unfair because the burden will provide every boy or girl who has return to school. fall too heavily on the average the talent with an education,"he 'But that's not the most American family. "Those w•ith said, significant figure. The most incomes between $12,000 and State Senator Ceorge Mitchell Mitchell said Maine ranks 48th significant figure is that by fall of (see Mitchell p.2) (Storey photo) 2 he .Vame Campus. Tuesday, Was, ro. 1982 Keane acq-uaints audience with futurism Del by Connie McKenzie somehow so it wouldn't be as example of a foreseeable es ent is the elasileite perspeLtoes goes beyond the by David Staff Writer disastrous." postage rate hike, he said. short term, and it should be lateral, not Staff Write Keane gate examples of When introducing futurism into a vertical. unforeseeable events, including the corporation, Keane emphasized the "An example of lateral and vertical Expressi, Dr. John G. Keane, president of first Mount St. Helens' eruption, the importance of assigning it to relatively can be found in drilling a well," wide conce Managing Change, Inc. of Illinois, MGM Hotel fire, and the assassination new people. "Don't give it to someone Keane said. "Vertical is when you will come I lectured here Monday to a standing- of Egyptian President Sadat. An who's about to retire, who's set in his keep drilling deeper and deeper in the leaders of room-only crowd of business ways," he advised. "Futurism needs same place when you don't find the World administration students and faculty superior analytical abilities from a anything. Lateral is drilling a little in front of concerning the concept of futurism in future sensitive person." here, a little there, a little somewhere The gmu the business world. "If you're an economist and think . else." five similar "Futurism should not be confused only of economic forecasts, if you do a Keane said, "Futurism is no longer a now crossint with forecasting or predictions, it 1, good job at that you'll be all right--as managerial luxury, it is a corporate converge in rather the process, actions, and long as the times are very stable and necessity." support of t contemplations of possible alternative predictable," Keane said.

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