The Uwm Post Wednesday Vol

the uwm post Wednesday vol. XVII no. 35 november 22, 1972 First budget cuts: student activities severe budget constraints are. The office of Student Activities Lucey's 7.5 per cent budget here has undergone major sur decrease will be implemented gery, one of the first casual within the next biennium (1973- ties in what has become an 75), but Witt says the admin annual battle of the budget. istrative changes are being carried out now in order to Some sources said the office allow affected staff to be placed needed a good housecleaning in comparable positions within and that it was only the first other divisions of student af department of many to feel fairs. the effect of this year's budget restrictions. A major thrust of this reduc Due to Governor Lucey's aus tion program will be less de terity program the full time partment sponsorship of ser academic staff in the Office vice programs and the hiring of Student Activities will be of more students in order to reduced from six to two during carry on services previously the current fiscal year, which held by full time staff. ends June 30, 1973. The Student Rap House will no longer be sponsored by student Union moratorium fizzles The budget constraints, accor activities after July, 1973, but ding to Carmen Witt, director Witt expressed a desire that of student activities, will mean other university departments that priorities within the of will continue sponsorship. for abscence of quorum fice will have to be re-exam ined. A moratorium protesting what Student Activities, said the U- decision. ^^^^^^^^^^ Also in doubt is the future of student organizations term un nion follows a regent rule which The conflict, Hock said, lies the orientation and residence in making the Union accessible The offices of Financial Aids halls programs, which are pre just faculty and staff control prohibits use of the micro and Admissions and Records sently administered through the of the Union fizzled out Tues phones and public address e- to students and groups on cam have been deemed top priori student activities office. day. quipment during the day ex pus without interfering with the ties since there is a direct cept between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. rights of other students in the cost relationship between these Gary Dobbert, who formerly The moratorium was organized building. programs and enrollment in after a Union space allocations creases, according to Gerry administered these programs, An exception was made when has been switched to the of subcommittee decided to move A rally, scheduled for 11:30 Hock, assistant dean of Stu the Women's Center out of its Democratic vice presidential dent Affairs. fice of admissions and records. candidate Sargent Shriver came a.m. in the concourse, drew third floor office in the stu no more than 30 people at any The Student Information Of dent offices section of the U- here this fall. Both Hock and Witt explained fice and FOCUS, a freshman one time. It culminated at 1:30 that policy administration and nion and replace the group with p.m. when the students went to orientation group, will no long the Native American Students The authority to make excep interpretation functions could er receive financial assistance. tions belongs to Hock. He said a Union building committee not be eliminated—only Movement. meeting. streamlined—regardless how Witt says that FOCUS will still he granted permission to the be advised by the office, how The moratorium was scheduled moratorium leaders to have a ever. to begin at 9 a.m. on Tues microphone because it "was Among the speakers at the rally were Kathy Magayne-Roshak Tupperware The administration of resi day, but was delayed until the in the best interests of the dence hall programs will also students obtained microphones students to know about the is and Linda Majchzak from the be removed from the students for use of the p.a. system in sues in the moratorium." women's Center; Ken Marks, tiff stays activities office and will be the concourse. president of the Union Policy placed solely in the hands of Later, he confessed uncertainty Board; Mike Delonay, from the the Living Learning Center and Gerald Hock, assistant dean of as to the correctness of his Turn to p. 8, col. 3 flexible the Department of Housing. by GREG MELCHER of The Post staff Turn to p. 2 , col 4 Weaver holds The Cinderella success story of the Tupperware Party here phone briefing almost encountered its twelfth John Weaver, president of the headed responsible approach hour last week, when the stu University of Wisconsin Sys the University has taken to the dent activities office refused tem, spoke to 91 news confer governor's request for a real to let the party keep its name. ences in the state Tuesday. istic, barebones budget. The party is running three Weaver spoke to reporters in Weaver said the tax revolt is candidates for student senate court houses and University very real in Wisconsin and the positions in next week's elec extensions throughout the state University will have a prob tion. via the Educational Telephone lem defending any new pro Network. grams. But true to form, the party, claiming to "yield to no man," Reporters asked questions of In other areas Weaver made steadfastly defied the student Weaver in a telephone hookup these comments: activities decree, and backed with Van Hise hall in Madison its actions with a letter from and heard his answers over "I find the outbreak of racial a private attorney, which con several large speakers. disturbances on the Superior tends that the students could and Platteville campuses at not be legally barred from This was the first trial of a this time to be an irony. Wea- using the name. statewide news conference by this time to be an irony. Never the president. There will be before has there been more ac While the University reluc one every month if response is tivity in this area. We are tantly backed down, the Tup favorable. presently engaged in trying to perware Home Party fran serve the needs of minori chises became inflamed. Weaver told the newsmen are- ties," he said. port on the proposed law school One Tupperware executive, here will probably be presen He criticized the state voca who asked not to be identified, ted to the December meeting tional and technical school ad said the party's platform was of the Board of Regents in Mil ministrator for trying to pro "derogatory" and would be waukee. vide liberal educations which associated with Tupperware can be transerred to the Uni franchises. Weaver said there is no request versity System. for a second law school in the She added it could also detri next University budget. He said The availability of a liberal mentally affect sales. The ex it would be very difficult to arts education with full trans ecutive noted that candidates »rt any new programs in the ferability at one-third to one- for the student party were uear fu+ure because of the tight fourth the tuition of the Uni selected on the basis of "the budget. versity would remove students less qualifications thebetter." from the system and create The increase of 15 to 20 per unnecessary duplication at the The executive, however, would This student was hitting the sauce after he entered a gourd cent in state funds requested expense of the taxpayer, he not speculate if the company drinking contest sponsored by the Outing Club last week. As by the University for the next said. would sue either the univer you can plainly see, students who participated in the contest budget, is half that of other The conference was shown in sity or the students if the were out of their gourd. (Post photo by Nate Mecha) state agencies, Weaver said. Milwaukee at the Civic Cen Tupperware name was enter ter campus and the University ed on the ballot. This, he said, reflects the hard extension office. Turn to p. 3, col. 4 november 22, 1972 Disabled face many problems by DEBBIE HENLE ence complex as an example of of The Post staff the problem. To get from the Union to the science complex, How do you open a knobless the student can use one of two door over six feet tall when routes. He can go over the hill you are confined to a wheel next to Lapham Hall, Beaver chair? pointed out, but for students in wheelchairs this is almost im This problem and others like it possible and certainly danger must be faced daily by many ous. of the approximately 50 handi capped students attending clas The only other route is down ses here. Kenwood Blvd., around the cor ner and up a ramp. But, the According to Michael Beaver, handicapped student then finds advisor for the student handi himself facing heavy, tall doors capped information center that are almost impossible for here, "accessibility to build him to open, Beaver said. ings and the land mass set ting" on campus is one of the Another problem Beaver poin major problems of handicapped ted out is the inaccessibility STUDENTS CONFINED TO WHEEL barriers can be found on campus which students. of bathrooms. "What'sthe good CHAIRS find staircases such as this to make life hard for the handicapped if you can get in the building be insurmountable barriers. Many such student. (Post photo by Dave Gess) Beaver said there are about 18 but can't use the bathrooms?" blind students and 18 students he queried.

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