BSU Now 11,241 Wilson Rebuts U-1 Ratio
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Volume I, No.2 The Monthly Newsmagazine Of Boise State University Boise, Idaho October BSU Now 11,241 After a month of signals from crowded Two signifigant figures led the data list: classrooms, waiting lines for dorm facili BSU total student headcount for fall ties and longer lines at food concessions term is listedat 11,241 compared to 10,002 and the bookstore, Boise State University at the same point last year. confirmed the obvious-enrollment for fall When those totals are computed in term, 1975 has leaped again to top the terms of the "Full Time Enrollment" eleven thousand head-count mark for the formulae used by the state board to first time in its history. BSU enroUment weight student numbers by the credit has increased 12 per cent over the fall hours they carry, the theoretical total for term of 1974, the figures show. fall 1975 is 7,417. That compares to 6,806 Still rated "unofficial" until final audit FTE students last fall. ing by the state board of education, the Thus, FTEincrease for BSU amounts to historic figures were turned over to that a 9 per cent jump. agency by Registrar Leland Mercy The figures confirmed incre!lseclaims of Monday. the school's department heads who have been dealing with BSU's overflowing classroom headache daily since early September. Department breakdowns of the enroll ment data had not been completed by "Focus" press time. Other figures are as follows: Full-time academic students, on campus, total 5,381. Part time students by Bob C. Hall taking regular academic spequences to Armed with a $41-thousand offer from talled 3,939. The Balance of the enroll the Department of Health & Welfare, m�nt total i:. made up b) stuo::mts in tt;e experts at BSU's Schoolof Business are set school's vocational-technical division and t'> c;tart ., .,., .. j0r .nanagement develop· various continuing education cour�es, ment project for that agency, this week. both in day and night schools, says Mercy. Set to run from October 1 of this year Mercy cautioned that no enrollment until June 30, 1976, the project will bring figures from any state higher' education BSU's business experts together with institution are to be considered official H& W's statewide management team, says until verified and announced as such by as School of Business Dean Charles Lein. the state board of education. LOOKOUT DINING ROOMopened on third Door of Student Union September 22 Most veteran of the initial surveyors He expects the board to make final new table-service restaurant for campus. Open for luncheon only, it proved attrae· who plan to spend the next month inter enrollment figures official at its October tive to faculty, staH and students, under management of Gary Ribe.rio, ARA Food viewing H&W officials statewide is meeting this Thursday and Friday in �ervices Director on campus. Coordinator AI Ferguson. Moscow, Idaho. He has coordinated similar, smaller projects for the Department of Employ ment and the City of Boise Police depart ment. Silver-haired, low-key conversa Wilson Rebuts U-1 Ratio tionalist Ferguson is a former Colorado hospital administrator with 35 years in the In a column written for the current He thus rebutted midsummer news the state institutions in equal function business consulting field. issue of "Focus", BSU Faculty Senate stories quoting the UI spokesmen. areas) worth $151,207 last year while UI While Ferguson acknowledges the pub President Monte Wilson accuses Univer In a story headlined "BSU State-Board �ot $144,099. lic relations hazards of analysis work in Favorite", the Moscow "Daily Idahonian" sity of Idaho student and faculty spokes The Orwick Argument the controversial Health & W elfare.world, newspaper quoted Professor Meldrum as men of "irresponsible treatment of fact" in For his part, UI student John Orwick he sees the project as a positive linkup charging the Board with favoritism that is statements and articles the latter issued attacked the State Board on its record of between BSU and H&W. "dangerous" to UI's "struggle for sur about faculty-student ratio comparisons student-teacher ratio financing for the To verify his hopes, Ferguson displays a for BSU-UI staffs, this summer. vival". two universities. strong "thank you" letter from the As an example, Professor Meldrum He thus became the first BSU staff Department of Employment. It cites pointed to what she called "light" treat He supplied a figure-backed request to member to publicly respond to midsum major management gains that agency ment of the Ul request from library funds the State Board in August that UI get a mer news articles appearing in several thinks it has made, after a similar BSU-led though UI's library holdings are now special $865-thousand allotment in 1976-77 Idaho media that quoted UI student John project. below the national standards rating for budget that would add 56.5 new faculty Orwick, Professor Barbara Meldrum and While his H&W survey will stick with Lewis-Clark State College, "the worst in positions there. to data furnished the State Board by the interviews among management people, the state system". Orwick's figures, he claimed, proved Ul administration. Ferguson likens his approach to the one he Another "sore point" with Professor BSU is already at "a better student used to discover problems and possibilities In his editorial page column (Page 11, Meldrum, reported the ldahonian, is that teacher ratio level than the Ul," reported for better organization among Boise's this issue), Wilson offers his own analysis BSU got resource modifications (a phr.ase the Lewiston Morning Tribune. police personnel. used to describe equalization of funds for of the faculty-student ratio debate. Orwick based that request on getting In that one, he logged long shifts cruis a 19-1 student teacher ratio. He ing with the cops, watching their daily Idaho to was the ratio the Board work habits, jotting notes that recorded $36 Million to Replace claimed that shoots for at Boise State. complaints, hopes, suggestions and small talk, as it developed along the beats. Who Pays for BSU Buildings? But Orwick drew immediate sniffs of In H&W's case, Ferguson and the "erroneous assumption" from the State School of Business will be working this Board's fiscal expert, Dr. James Todd. He year on the first phase of a project that For BSU building watchers, some athletic fans are the campus buildings claimed that 19-1 ratio was an "obsolete" may extend beyond next June, if results figures listed in a thick accounting volume backbone. figure never actually used by the Board in call for added work and funds. kept in the school's financial office vaults To replace all BSU buildings today, the recent budget discussions. Orwick then Dean Lein sees the program as "a provide insight into a constant question experts estimate, would cost about rebutted that it was, in fact, used as a cooperative effort between interdepen about the university's fast-filling campus. $36-million. If it were possible to remove justification last year when BSU got a dent agencies (BSU and H&W), typical of The question: "What's all that worth?" every structure built with bonds based on 23-teacher emergency approval from the a healthy relationship between ourselves A sub-query: "Who pays for it all?" student fees, housing payments or athletic State Board. and the communities of business and If the subject is only about structures revenues, that value would be cut roughly Until Professor Wilson's remarks this government." (leaving fixtures, furniture, library vol in half. week, BSU spoke,'i,mf'n had let the State Board dn u.cat Comp.t••.;r.. t.. -',..,t£�'"';n9!'� .. __ ...:�� . euor Thus the project will be subject to umes, etc. aside) the answer is in the Of the remaining half, over two-thirds BarCff ofDimes, College Entrance Ex&• regular review of how well the $41- financial office ledgers. of the value was put here by taxpayers of �Then Chu k L e·u "ri;ion Board, Potlatch Foundation, A � thousand from H&W is being spent. It shows that, based on a "new replace the old Boise Junior College district. uare l y on ISb d es k. In· t N uc1 ear Company' Bora h H'1g h Sch ment cost" value for each university . that is reall� <1. S. Tobacco Company, "And page 2 building, the generations of students and Continued on page 2 M1ss lola Wei, Continued on ucatiOn. t od ay • "h e cott, and Mrs. �is R. Sexty. � I •• • �2 Values. Tell Building Story AKPMay Continuedfrom page 1 (Boundaries of that district were almost New Replacement Lose BSU exactly the same as those of the City of Building Cost Estimate Boisetaxing district.) Thus if buildings plit here with the Administration 1,510,317 Chaffee 1,535,758 funds of Boise taxpayers were also Music Auditorium 450,267 Morrison 630,593 suddenly pulled down the BSU campus Heating Plant 639,387 Driscoll 631,265 Permit would lookbarren, indeed. Pump Houses 7,855 Towers 1,979,522 BSU President John Barnes, with Someone standing on Capitol Boulevard Maintenance Shop 161,856 College Heights 646,407 others in his administration, will seek -' would then look across 150 acres of trees Health Science 183,342 College Manor 1,000,094 State Board of Education actions on a and blank lawns, the skyline punctuated Subal Theatre 352,809 Stadium 3,966,601 variety of finance and policy matters early with the round vo-tech building, the new Liberal Arts 1,321,878 Gym-Pool 1,191,936 this month when the Board of Trustees vo-tech mechanics shop addition and a Library (half) 1,955,339 Varsity Center 734,803 convenes at the University of Idaho couple of tiny maintenance structures.