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The B G News Thursday Bowling Green State University Nov. 20, 1980 University not alone in hiking fees to offset state cut by Diane Rado because of the budget cut. the verge of laying off certain that it (Cincinnati's fee) will settle $360 to $370. And this came after the and a decision may be made then to still reporter seasonal employees, such as those back to where it was before the cut." school hiked last year's fees from $335 raise fees. IN OCTOBER, KSU hiked tuition who are hired for snow removal, Mc- He added that if there is another to $360, Conger said. Miami University's board of When the University Board of $35 for spring semester, Dr. Robert Coy said. cut, he is certain that another fee in- He added that the school has decid- trustees will meet Dec. 6 and probably Trustees boosted student instructional McCoy, vice president for information Although it has planned no layoffs, crease will be imposed. ed not to fill any vacant positions take action on the cut, Charles Auer, fees $15 last Thursday, they were not and communication services at the the University of Cincinnati has in- because of the cuts. budget director at the school, said. alone. school, said. stituted a hiring freeze, said Ken Ser- "There's no way we can absorb "We feel certain that there will be Some state schools already have The school had anticipated the addi- vice, assistant vice president of public these kind of cuts without a fee in- OU also is not replacing vacanted an increase, and $50 is a figure quite raised their fees to offset the addi- tional cut and took early action, he ad- affairs there. And Tuesday the college crease," Service said. employee positions and is delaying frequently heard," he said. tional 3-percent state budget cut that ded. hiked fees $10 a quarter beginning And administrators of Ohio State allocation of funds set aside for Miami students paid $685 in fees this goes into effect Dec. 15. Other schools By boosting the fees from $587 to Jan. 5. University, Miami University and the special projects and capital im- fall and the increase probably would are veering toward this action, $622 a semester, Kent will raise The school already had raised fees University of Toledo feel the same provements, said Chuck Harrington, go into effect this spring semester, although they have not yet imposed in- $400,000 to offset the $2 million it lost $9 after the June cut, and had hiked way, although fee increases have not associate provost there. But raising Auer added. creases. by the cut. them 10 percent before this academic officially been announced at these fees still is up in the air, he said. Any fee increase imposed by the And still recovering from Gov. Also, an extra 1,000 students this year even began, Service said. schools. University of Toledo would not take Rhodes' 3-percent slash in June to off- semester generated $1 million to help BECAUSE STUDENTS already effect until spring, Fred Mollenkopf, set the $400 million state deficit most ease the loss, McCoy said. CINCINNATI STUDENTS will pay SUFFERING A $4.5 million loss have pre-registered for winter director of public information at the college administrators feel that only a $388 both winter and spring quarters from the recent cut, OSU is consider- quarter, an increase could not be im- school, said. tuition increase will ease their finan- THE REST of the money will have in fees, rather than this fall's $378 ing a $15 hike in fees, Thomas Conger, posed until spring, Harrington said, No decision has been made yet to cial troubles after the most recent cut. to be made up by not buying certain charge. And while the University's assistant director of the university but the hike then would be larger than raise fees, he said, but the school's Both Kent State University and the materials or not filling vacant Board of Trustees said the Universi- budget at OSU, said. if it was imposed winter quarter. board of trustees is meeting Dec. 10 University of Cincinnati already have positions, he added. ty's fee increase probably is only tem- When the first cut was imposed in He added that the school's board of and action probably will be taken raised student instructional fees If another cut is imposed, "We're at porary, Service said "it is unlikely June, OSU raised quarterly fees from trustees will be meeting in January then. Column one. Student breaks school's code TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - High school senior Joel Synder Blowin' cracked the Tucson Unified School District's computer codes guarding student records with only six months of com- puter training. in the So he went to a meeting of school district trustees and told them. Snyder recommended that wind passwords guarding confiden- tial information be changed more frequently. The password he used to get the student data apparently had been in effect For now. University for years, he said. employees are using leal "I tried something I didn't blowers, In a lew weeks they think would work - and it work- will be using snow blowers. The ed," he said. employees gathered the leaves "Most of it was self-taught," in the Union Oval into piles, and he said of his computer skills. then collected them. "I just fooled around before and after school and whenever I had time, and picked up what I could." Inside Opinion Student Government Associa- tion Sen. Steve Elchert responds to a recent News criticism of how SGA handled a closed meeting last week. Page 2. stall photo by Mark Oberst News High Society may be the top local band, but its members SGA tables vote on proposed cultural affairs position still concentrate on their by Kathryn Coil vote on the proposal, it "would be voting on something that had no THE PURPOSE of the new organization, he explained, was not studies as full-time students. staff reporter Page 3. responsibility." only to coordinate programs related to crime prevention, but also SGA President Dana Kortokrax reiterated several times that to act as a mediator between different organizations. The saga of the Student Government Association's controver- the intention of the proposal is not to undermine certain campus Today is the Great American "We don't want to step on anyone's toes or have a duplication of sial proposal to create a cultural affairs coordinator will be con- organizations, but rather to improve communications between all duties. We are only trying to, right now, feel things out about what Smokeout. But is kicking the tinued next quarter. organizations. habit all that easy? Page 6. needs to be done." After more than half an hour of discussion on whether to pass or Davis said he feels that there is a rift between the Black Student table the proposal, SGA could not call for a vote at last night's Kortokrax said she sees the coordinator sitting down and talk- Union and SGA and that CCPU could help. meeting because there was not a quorum. Discussion on the pro- ing about specific concerns of the organizations "before they Weather posal was then tabled allowing it to be brought up at the next become demands." CCPU is a totally volunteer organization comprised of 55 Increasing cloudiness. High meeting. SGA should not allow other organizations to define SGA's inten- members from residence halls, off-campus housing units and five 45F(7C), low 25 F (-4 C), Yolanda Johnson, senator from Founders, was in favor of tabl- tions of the proposal, she added. members who are not students but are interested in the affairs of 30-percent chance of precipita- ing the proposal because there had not been enough time for input Von Regan Davis, co-chairman of a new, but unofficial campus the University that affect the city, Davis said. tion. by other groups. organization. Communication and Crime Prevention Union of Kortokrax said that SGA might be interested in working with Johnson also said that the powers that would be assigned to the BGSU, proposed that SGA table the proposal until the new CCPU on crime prevention, but that SGA would rather handle the coordinator were not clearly defined andthat if SGA moved to organization "could get off its feet." cultural affairs coordinator position. 'What they are doing is expressing views and using moral influence. This is a technique that has been used since we've been a country.' Clergy criticize, defend religious group's step into politics by Kim Van Wert The group backed certain can- in opposing strategies arms limita- church can't speak out on issues," powerful as they say." faith in terms of political goals. ■ stall reporter didates with campaign funds and tions and supporting tax cuts. Bacik said. "But I am critical of the "They say that people who don't Whether they know it or not, people made use of the media to publicize its But the group's outcry aroused in- way they (members of the Moral Ma- THE MORAL Majority only "made believe the way they do aren't Chris- have been exposed to a nationwide endorsements.