Tuition Hike: Round Three by Jacklyn S
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MNDDR-fSBCX Vol. XXVII, No. 6 York College of the City University of New York Jamaica, Queens February 17,1984 Tuition Hike: Round Three By Jacklyn S. Monk additional revenues at senior col- Melvin Lowe, University Student A $200 resident tuition in- leges, and the $25 computer fee is Senate Chairperson. Lowe crease, a $700 non-resident in- designed to raise $2.2 million. charged that Cuomo had become cease and a $25 computer fee for The tuition hike is the third con- the "Ronald Reagan of higher ed- all, have been proposed in Gov. secutive proposed City University ucation, launching tuition missiles Mario Cuomo's $35.3 billion state of New York increase, the second in a direct attack on public college budget for the 1984-85 academic- since Cuomo took office as gov- students." year. ernor in 1983. "This budget is downright ter- The tuition increase, is ex- "The tuition proposals are un- rible for CUNY" said Leonard pected to generate $24.1 million in acceptable and unnecessary," said Shrine, executive director of the Committee for Public Higher Ed- ucation. "Cuomo says he's going York's Haitian Club to increase spending in four agen- cies, two being CUNY and SUNY Stays Involved and it's all coming out of student By Jean Rameau clubs in the school. pockets." For the past two months, the The club celebrated Christmas According to Cuomo's pro- Haitian Club has been involved in in a very typical manner. Thus, on posed budget, CUNY would re- several activities at York. On De- December 23, room 002, of ceive approximately $839.1 mil- cember 22, eight of its members the Main Building became the lion in state money, an increase of were hosted by the Afro-American center of cultural and theatrical $73.1 million over the current fis- Club. The audience was delighted events, attended by about two cal year, but $50.2 million less to hear the Haitian chorus per- hundred people. Among the than Chancellor Joseph S. Mur- forming a Christmas song in guests were many students from phy's budget, approved by the French. The singers were warmly other colleges and universities. Board of Trustees in December. applauded and proud to demon- Some of those students were so Though Cuomo proposed an in- strate the willingness of the Hai- enthusiastic and so moved by the crease of $15.7 million in the Tui- Melvin Lowe tian Club to cooperate with other chemistry of friendship between tion Assistance Program (TAP) the spectators and the actors that awards, the number of TAP recip- they decided with our blessing, to ients is scheduled to decrease. Biomedical Program Aids climb the stage for also entertain- Cuomo called the TAP awards ing the public. It was an unforget- ' 'money for the people at the bot- table and a very relaxing evening tom of the ladder." Minority Researchers where people were laughing, The proposed budget claims dancing, eating and getting that the computer fee would "be By Jeremy L. Goldberg signed the program that is now acquaint minority students with acquainted. used to provide students with mi- "We want to advertise this op- MBRS. The project is an attempt the possibility of careers in Finally, on January 9, before a crocomputers and other related portunity as widely as possible," to increase the proportion of mi- biomedical research," said Lewis, large audience of faculty mem- equipment for academic pro- said Dr. Leslie A. Lewis, chair- nority representation in biomedi- "and to get those to graduate bers, American and foreign stu- grams." The statement resembles man of the Department of Natural cal research. According to Lewis, school who otherwise might not dents, the club presented: "Bitter the $25 computer fee proposed for only about 1.6 percent of Ph.D.'s Sciences, responding recently to have thought of going.'' Cane!" This movie, projected City and State Universities last inquiries about the Minority in this field are held by minorities. He named several recent York basically for documentary pru- year which was incorporated into Biomedical Research Support Pro- The program funds biomedical graduates who majored in the nat- poses, drew nonetheless mixed SUNY's $300 tuition increase. gram at York College. Lewis is research in primarily minority in- ural sciences, saying he could comments and emotional reactions SUNY administration conceded acting as project director of the stitutions, which NIH defines as "state with certainty" that they (continued on page 7) that the revenues would be used MBRS program while biology colleges whose minority enroll- would not have gone on to gradu- for central computing and not on professor Dr. Deirdre A. Cohn is ment exceeds 50 percent. South- ate school except for their experi- Haitian Club computers for student use. on sabbatical. ern black colleges were the first ence in MBRS-funded Cuomo feels the proposed tui- "This includes freshmen, those MBRS participants, followed by experiments. Presents Books tion hike "will be marginal for whose major is undecided, and southwestern schools with a high Lewis noted, as compared to needy students receiving financial proportion of Hispanic and Amer- to York Library any serious minority students at biomedical research Ph.D.'s, the aid." "I'm very comfortable with York," continued Lewis. He ex- ican Indian students. In 1976, even greater absence of minorities Some 100 books published in what I've done for the disadvan- plained that in this case "minority York became the first college in in the world of academic medi- Haiti and France on Haitian liter- taged," Cuomo told state media students" included Blacks, His- the northeast to benefit from the cine, the field of M.D./Ph.D.'s. ature, culture and history have during his initial budget presenta- panics, and Asians, among others, program, and has had the project's "The objective of MBRS is not been presented by the York Col- tion, citing his proposals for part- and then outlined details of the three-year grants renewed in 1979 to put people into medical lege Haitian Club to the college's time TAP awards and child care MBRS program and its relevance and 1982, school," Lewis said, but he con- library. facilities for CUNY students. to York students. Grant proposals are reviewed ceded that' 'the best students in bi- The books are now being cata- Lowe called for a university- by NIH, and require the research ology and chemistry generally logued for the library by Alyce A. The National Institutes of wide mobilization against the Stiegelbauer, the cataloguing li- Health (NIH), part of the federal assistance of at least three minority have their focus on medicine. We Cuomo proposals, and asked the brarian. A list of them follows: government's Department of students. Currently at York, 14 encourage them to go into M.D./ leadership of the state legislature Health and Human Services, over- students participate in experiments Ph.D. programs." Nationally, Alleluia pour une femme-jar- to repudiate the tuition hikes. sees biomedical research in the conducted by five faculty mem- fewer than 100 people a year enter din, Rene Depestre Cuomo's budget proposal antic- United States. In 1972, NIH's Di- bers under MBRS grants. such programs, but those who Amour, colere et folie, Marie vision of Research Resources de- "The idea of the program is to (continued on page 3) (continued on page 7) (continued on page 3) Pandora's Box February 17,1984 Taking the assessment test Poem By Ronald M. Raye By Jennifer Grant take the assessment test, if the stu- shocked at the end of your first se- I remember what you once said to me '"The assessment test presents dent received an incomplete or an mester if you are placed in English You said that bread is every man's right too much pressure," said Antoine ABS grade. Students receiving 115. The test you will be taking is And to die giving bread to those in need Brooks a freshman at York Col- these grades do not repeat English the assessment test. If you fail this Is God's most lege. ""That test is unfair," said 115, but must pass the assessment test at first, don't drown yourself Holy creed another student. "If you fail it. test in order to take the next Eng- in worry. You will have other you can not go on to the next Eng- lish class in succession, English chances, but failure a second time You were right lish class—English 120—and you 120. Upon completion of English should cause one to jitter in the And to die with such a heart, I might add, can't repeat English 115, so what 120 at York the English require- brain to some extent. If you should Is rather rare in the world that we are living in do you do?" ment is fulfilled. find yourself uncertain and ques- Bread must not be wasted Calm down, fellow students, tioning your ability to write, seek And no man should have more than this share On the other hand, there are York College makes it possible for help at the writing skills center; other City University colleges you to take the assessment test find yourself a tutor. Yes, I know The earth embraces you where the rule is: if a student has again. If you should fail again, you thought only ignorant students And petals leave their shadows taken English 115 and failed the some one-on-one tutoring is need to be tutored. You're wrong. On the earth for you to follow assessment test, that student will recommended. Don't let pride stand in the way of The yellow seeds of the wind and rain repeat English 115.