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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ©tie latltr (Simr&tau March 1978 Volume XIV Issue Wright State University Dayton, Ohio Tuition rise set for fall quarter By GABY FLOYD committee sources say. will be Guardian Editor Emeritus needed to offset proposed pay increases to WSU faculty, admin- Tuition will increase at Wright istrators and staff, and to allow State University next academic the University, according to one year, according to members of committee source, to "retain our the Steering Committee of Aca- current level of student servic- demic Council. es." And though the Committee "We might as well be as members will not vet predict the honest about this as possible." exact amount of the tuition hike, said WSU Vice-President and they contended the rate hike Provost and Steering Committee should be ready for approval by member Dr. Andrew Spiegel of the WSU's Board of Trustees at the tuition hike, "we will probab- their quarterly meeting in June. ly need the increase next year." In meetings which commenced "We feel that faculty salaries in January, the Steering Com- are of primary importance." mittee has been reviewing the Spiegel continued. "Most state University's proposed operating schools have already increased LReflection* of springtime. Guardian file photo. budget for next school year. their fees, and our (state) sub- AND THE TUITION increase. sidy just isn't sufficient tfor the Foilowinq 'no confidence' vote salary hikes)." "FACULTY SALARIES just haven't been able to keep up with inflation." said yet another Pruis resigns as Ball State prexy committee source, "and it's be- By CHUCK MCCORMICK against the president was 72-60, ber and currently a professor of run more like a business and less coming increasingly difficult for Guardian Staff Writer according to the Ball Stale Daily English at Wright State, elabor- like a university. The restructur- them to remain members of the News. ated on the effect of the Hayes ing and dropping of several basic middle class." Two weeks ago the resignation Lindblatt said the vote of "no Study at Ball State. courses left many students out in The committee, as part of its of President John Pruis of Ball confidence" included a "Bill of "Some deans were receiving the cold This, coupled with the historical role as watchdog of the State University was accepted by Particulars, drawn up by the less money than the bookstore university's recent tuition hike, University budget, has heard a the university's board of trustees state which listed the inad- manager because the pay scale bolstered the student dissent." number of proposals to keep a lid after a controversial vote of "no equacies under the former pres- was determined by hierarchy in Jom Mendenhall. vice pres- on spending, including one pro confidence" by the Ball State ident." He asserted that "the the number of people a person ident of the Student Association, posal. which reportedly is not University Senate (faculty) and primary inadequacy was the lack had working under him." asserteu, "The action precip- receiving serious consideration. the Student Senate in December. of communication between the Wetmore. who refused to par- The proposal would have all president and the faculty." allel the Ball State action with determined, inside movement in- departments cut back on person- William Lindblatt. Bail State the "no confidence" resolution volving people who were dissat- nel by ten percent. faculty member and spokesper- He attributed the faculty dis- passed by WSU faculty against isfied with President Pruis' sel- "BUT I DOUBT whether we son for the faculty, said, "The sent. which culminated in threats Andrew Spiegel, said, "the facts ection as president and most of will have tr. lay off any personnel faculty was primarily behind the of iob action, to Pruis' implemen- should be examined for thetr the discussions were carried out next year." Spiegel said. "To pressure against the president." tation of the Hayes Study, a similarity." behind closed doers with the begin with, we don'f have any- UNDBLATT DESCRIBED the comprehensive restructuring of SUE CLARK, president pro- Board of Trustees. The students one we don't need urow." Pall State Senate as a heter- administrative and faculty jobs tem of Ball State's Student Ass- did Slave an input to the board's The committee sources say, ogeneous body of approximately and pay scale. ociation. said, "One of the prim- inquiry. Students who showed up has asked department heads to 140, of which approximately 110 THOMAS WETMORE, former ary objections the students Had tit the meeting without a formal review their budgets for the are faculty. The tally of the vote tenured Ball State faculty mem- was that the university was being invitation wete invited before the possibility oi internal austerity board So air their views." cuts. Wetmore, in his recollection Like Spiegel, committor mem- ICC blasts Caucus report of :he controversy at Ball State, bers ure undecided on .h« actual BY HEATH MCALPINE ICC Chairer Linda Henry is get a copy of it today. I wonder If said. "Pruis has bu£f a univtr- dollar amount the increase Guardian Staff Writer also dissatisfied with the re- even the date is correct oa it." *it> that *i! top >-av;< sm} he Rv't The Daily Guardian has port. "h's not what 1 was hoping Both Pierce and He nry oS»iwj- didn't reaJi?* the distance that barne^ that the committor will probably consider "cost of liv- Student Caucus has issued its for. but 1 guess it's what I ed to the ftthat Caucus was in had grown between himself and ing" increase); from amttt* si* to report concerning the practices expected. That's why we asked charge of the review of Budget the faculty." used by Student Activities Bud- from the very 'beginning for Board. Henry pointed out that CHASiACTXRKlNG THE co- eigfc percent for faculty and get Board in allocating funds, it someone else to /jo it." since Caucus appointed members hesive factor, lie said. "Th* staff. (vr.u if the wage hikes are has left some dissatisified mem- Henry disagrees with some of of the beard, it was natural that faculty gained strength by be- absorbed by tuition increases bers on the Inter-Club Council, the material contained in the Caucus wouldn't wsnt »o con- lieving in democratic principles (See TUITION,' page 5) the organization which originally report, pointing out a section demn them. and following them through." requested a review of the 'board. which said that Budget Board "I CAN SEE where it's going "1 don't recognise it as a Member Nclda Martinez sought to be very diffVuh for those who viable document." said David to explain the board by attendit-g appointed thera so *J>e first pi»ce Wednesday fVrse, ICC director of special a meeting of ICC. to go against themselves." said projects. HENRY CLAIMS the state Henry. weather "THERE ARE statements ment is not true, and that Beth Graham, a member of made in this report that are not Martinez wanted to explain the both Caucus and Budget Board, substantiated, not backed up." use of the rotary fund, not disagrees with ICC. "It seems Mostly sunny south and central Wednesday with partly cloudy said Pierce. "I don't understand Budget Board itself. The rotary that in most government situa- skies north. Highs wiK be in the uppe.' «0s north and upper 50s why this seems like a defensive fund is available to ccmpus tions the appointing body does south. Fair Wednesday night sad Thursday. The low Wednesday thing from Caucus. They can see groups on a loan basis. the reviewing. ! doit'.' think ihe sight will be in the low or mid 'Os wish high temperatures there are problems, but they Henry also questioned the date fact we issued a favorable iep.itt Thursday in tht SOs north and cevttral and low 60s south. don't want to do anything about oh the report. "It's dated the reflects in any way oa our them." sixteenth of March, but I didn't (Sac 'BOARD,' pajfo J) V. 2 THE DAILY GUARDIAN Mmh 29, l«T8 Carter aids the ties that bind Qfye Daily (fcuarfcian CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI)-Pre- as Carter waved and 'hen came bean development, human rights sident Carter arrived today in down the stairs, embracing Perez and Venezuelan inpatience with Venezuela on the first stop of a Latin style. an alleged U.S. soft line on seven-day. four-nation trip to Mrs Carter and their daught- Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio The World South America and Africa during er. Amy. 10. followed Carter Somoza. The two leaders will which he will begin a n.ajor effort down the steps. also discuss the stalled North- from Unrted Press International to strengthen U.S. ties to devel- Pere* conducted Carter to the South dialogue on aiding Third oping Third World Nations. slightly raised, red carpeted plat- World countries, the Panama Venezuelan President Carlos form for the playing of the Canal treaties and Perez' concern Andres Pere?, who has become a national anthems.