TJ5JNJTY COLlECt UDRARVf RECEIVED TRINITY COLLEGE • HARTFORD • CONNECTICUT April 16, 1985 Vol. LXXXIII, Iss Tuition Increase Slated For 1985-86 At its meeting on March 23, the College's Board of Trustees ap- Tuition Increases proved thje operating Budget for fiscal 1985-86. It is in balance for This Next Year Year Increase the sixteenth consectutive year. Next year's budget will total Tuition $8,620 $9,370 $750 • $29,722,000, an 8.5% increase over the present year, and reflects a Gen. Fee 60 60 0 number of underlying forces that continue to dominate our environ- Student Fee 320 320 0 ment: higher personnel costs, Room Rent 1,730 1,820 90 staffing requests, computer needs and financial aid. Board Fee iff^u 1,530 60 Perhaps student fees are the place to begin. They define the first figures on the budget schedule, but they are one of the last items to be determined. Tuition remains the largest single variable and will to- There is great concern over the tal $9,370 — an increase of $750. proposed cutbacks in federal aid Room and board fees will rise $150; programs. Although most of these • the general fee will remain the cuts would become effective dur- same. Student fees (tutition, room, ing the 1986-87 fiscal year, some board and general fee) will total reductions, especially in the area Photograph by John Shiffman $13,100 in fiscal 1985-86, an ag- of Guaranteed student loans, could Father John discussed "Changing Values" on his new television show taped last week. Father John is the gregate increase of $900 or 7.4%. affect some students in 1985-86. Catholic chaplin here at Trinity and his program will be rebroadcast on Hartford-area TV sometime in the This is obviously a large jump, but The College also feels it can "ae- near future. it is by no means excessive when comodate" students through con- compared with increases with our tingency line and/or other loan sister institutions. Because infla- funds. tion has moderated considerably Porticms of the College budget and in the last few years, the College a study of the proposed federal cuts Residential System Change Proposed is "reluctant" to raise the tuition appear on page ten of this week's at all. newspaper. tion to perform t^sics normally un- by Ellen Garrity der the . administration's j y it would probably start off with two mentor at Trinity must be well de- Deans Back ConnPIRG unions and "see how it goes." If fined so students won't turn to their faculty mentors to handle an adviser just to maintain consist- Since last fall the Trustee Com- the mentor system was successful by Ellen Garrity maintenance problems. ency among student organizations. mittee on Student Life and the on an experimental basis, then it News Editor Students might fear that under According to the.Budget Com- Board of Fellows have discussed would gradually be phased into the the mentor system their rights and mittee, ConnPIRG s adviser various ways of bringing the Col- remaining three unions. privacy would be limited by the awards academic credit for its in- lege's residential system closer to He added that whatever type of presence of faculty in the dormi- Vice' President Thomas A. ternships. The Budget Committee a "house system." system does develop would be "home grown." A system similar tories. "Some students are suspi- Smith, Dean of Students David argues that funds for the Student After meeting with students, cious that we are trying to Winer, Assistant Dean of Students Activity Fee should not be used for faculty, and the administration, the to those at other colleges would not be implemented. introduce discipline into the Joe Tolliver and Professor Diane academic credit. Students pay Trustee Committee on Student dorms...We don't Want to revert Zannoni spoke about ConnPIRG at their tuition to receive academic Life has recommended that a fac- "We don't want to develop something that exists somewhere to the roles of the 40s and 50s" last Tuesday's SGA meeting. credit, according to the Budget ulty member be assigned to each when in loco parentis existed at Last Tuesday's discussion of Committee. of five residential unions (similar else," Smith emphasized. residential colleges.. Students ConnPIRG was the most recent in Smith said that who awards stu- to the existing five residential Smith insisted that the mentor might fear that their privacy and a year long debate about how dents academic credit for their in- zones) as a "senior mentor" and system be "defined before hand." rights would be limited by the GonnPIRG's adviser is funded. ternships is a "red herring" and "some quantity of other faculty It will have a better chance of suc- presence of faculty in dorms. The Budget Committee has two the paid staff is "irrelevant." The would be assigned as junior men- cess if "all functions are well de- "Students are not getting main arguments against funding real issue is "whether students at tors,"'according to Vice President fined," he said. enough of what they should be get- ConnPIRG through the Student Trinity and,other colleges need Thomas A. Smith. At other colleges, faculty in- volved in similar systems "have ting out of college," Smith said. Activity Fee: such an organization." He told the These faculty mentors would not become supernumerary adminis- With a mentor system at Trinity, If the Budget Committee funds SGA that "if you are interested in live in the dormitories; however, trators,"'according to Smith. Stu- students could get more of what ConnPIRG's adviser, then they your own welfare, then organiza- office space in the dormitories dents might turn to faculty they're supposed to get out of a could not deny funding for any stu-: would be provided for them. mentors instead of the administra- Trinity education. dent organization that requested continued on page 3 "This recommendation an- swered something we have heard from students for five years: They want more contact with faculty Ten Years Later... members," exnlained Smith. Smith said that this system would help "improve the tone of Vietnam Revisted: -A Black Perspective intellectual and. cultural experi- American Revolution. In the Civil forces. He found .that the forces ence" that should exist in colleere. by Bridget Me Cor mack War 250,000' blacks fought in were totally integrated in every To the Trustee Committee on World Outlook Staff Northern armies. In World War I, area — on the line, in field hospi- Student Life's recommendation for although no blacks received the tals, everywhere. After returning faculty mentors, the Board of Fel- Congressional medal, they were to the United States, his story fin- lows has suggested that a residen- among the frist American soldiers ished, Terry was asked to return tail component be added to the Last Tuesday Wallace ' Terry to receive the highest French to Saigon and do a much closer mentor system. The Board of Fel- spoke at Trinity about Blooda — award. ' • • study of the topic. Terry did and lows has recommended that two An Oral Hiutory of the' Vietnam • ..White generals often wanted stayed'in Saigon, until 1969. graduate or post-doctorate stu- War by Black Veterans, his new nothing to do with black troops for .Since Terry was a reporter, he dents reside in each union. These book. Terry's book was deemed fear of "denting their career." In was undercover. He dressed as a residential mentors would teach "one of the? 10 best books of the . 194S Harry Truman ordered that soldier, went on ambush control, one course at Trinity each semes- year" by Time Magazine. Terry the armed forces be fully inte- and did everything soldiers did to ter. spoke to an enthusiastic audience grated. "Today," says Terry, "the hide his identity. "Of course' I was about his stay in Saigon, Vietnam, armed, forces are just aborganiza- scared/' said Terry. Under this system, the residen- and the black soldiers' experience • tion in our country except for the - Terry chose to study the black tial mentors would "supplement in the Vietnam War. ' NBA." soldier because he felt that the the faculty mentors not living in "Hollywood told- me that white According to Terry, Hollywood black .soldier carried far greater the dorms," according to Smith. soldiers were invincible and black _ continties to maintain that black burdens than any other soldier. Smith said that the residential soldiers were invisible. As far as I soldiers were invisible. In the 23% of the soldiers killed in Viet- nam were black at a time when mentors.would serve roles similar knew John Wayne and Errol Flynn movie "Patton" there was one only 11% of the American popula- , to those of RAs "but more exten- won World War II." Terry began black — he shinod the generals' by noting the misconceptions about shoes. tion was black. Blacks were also sive.". It would "graft onto" the attacked by communists. Rumors already successful RA program. photograph by Tara Tracey black soldiers in American history. Terry went to Saigon in 1967, to Terry pointed out that there were flo a story for Time Magazine on 5,000 blacks who fought in the 1 "We want to improve the RA sys- Wallace Terry the integration of the armed continued on page 12 tem through the mentor system,"" Page 2, THE TRINITY TRIPOD, April 16, 1985 NNOUNCEMENTS Calendar Personal Cinestudio To God, Demi-God and the Incredible Mortal: Have a Divine season! electronic spreadsheet before Who's the kind of gut that likes to studying further applications in the roam around? Tonight Only finacial industry.