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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1993-94 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 2-17-1994 The thI acan, 1994-02-17 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1993-94 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1994-02-17" (1994). The Ithacan, 1993-94. 19. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1993-94/19 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1993-94 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Opinion Accent Sports Index Opinion ................................. 10 Opening the floor 'Haunt'-ing poetry Steppin' out What's Happening ................ 12 Accent ............................... 13 Students need more active 'Poetry Slam' sets the stage IC dance line prepares for f) i"'"_l for upcoming artists Classifieds/Comics ............ 20 role in free speech debates 10 13 basketball half-time shows ~ CJ Sports ................................ 22 The ITHACAN· The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 61, No. 19 Thursday, February 17, 1994 28 pages Free Board approves overall tuition increase Room and board fees also will Garden Aparuncnt on the five-meal quality and ~cope of programs that By Kevin Harlin • See tuition graph, next page increase by $380, making $20,841 pl:u1 will pay $I, 114 more for tu the College community has come and Marnie Eisenstadt the total fee for tuition, double room to students and their families and ition, room :md board. The current to expect and deserves," she !>aid. Ithacan Staff and full board - up 5.9 percent trying to keep ll1c College w; af S 18,497 will incrcw,e 6.02 percent 1l1e Board approved U1is incrc:t~c The Ithaca College Board of from this ycars's total of$19,679. fordable ~L<; we can, while still try to $19,611. suhmiucd hy President Jmncs J. Trustees approved a 5.73 percent Part-time undergraduate tuition ing lo keep the quality and scope of The price of a single r<X)m wit11 Whalen. tuition increase for the 1994-95 will rise from $426 per credit hour progr:uns," Gordon said. full hoard mid tuition will rncrca~c In a lcllcr lo be scnl to parents, academic year at its meetings on to $451 - an increase of 5.87 per She said Ithaca College's 1994- 5.93 percent. It will CO!',l students !>tudenL,; and College community Feb. 10-11. cent. Student insurance also will 95 costs arc lower ll1,m many com $21,299 - up from S20, I 07. members, Whalen said luilmn m1LI Next ycar·s full-lime under increase from $195 lo $225 - an parahlc inslllutions· tuition, room The tuition increase was part of fees were setaflcr llic BudgetCom graduate tuition will be $14,424- increase of 15.38 percent. and board for 1993-94. The Col an overall budget increa!',e of 0.2 miucc ex,unined mslilutional ncc<ls, up from $13,642 this year. Gordon said she docs not expect lege compares itself lo 20 regional percent - lhc smallest incrc,t,e 111 reduction of slate and federal aid, '1"'his is the lowest increase in 15 the total cost increase to have any private institutions, including more than 25 years. Gordon said. ini:reased demand for student fi years," said Bonnie Gordon, vice. significant impact on student en Cornell University, Syracuse Uni "We try very hard to he a!, mod nancial aid, and operational mid president for college relations and rollment versity mid Colgate lJnivcrsity. erate lwitl! tuition mcrcase!-,1 as we capital expenses, as well ,t,; lower resource development. "We were trying lo be sensitive Next year, sludems living III a can be mid ~till provide t11e level or enrollment. Sunset silhouette TAP funds uncertain Students face possible cuts in New York aid By Renee Solano Ithacan Staff Ithaca College may lose $639,088 1f pro posed cul<; in lhe New York State Tuition Assistance Progrmn (TAP) for I994-95 arc passed hy the Slate legislature. TAP is a stale-funded entillernenl pro· gr:un lhal grants money directly lo New York State students based on finmicial need. Cul<; 111 TAP will result in a $23 million decre,t<;c for students at mdependcnl colleges and univen,ilics, according to a rcix>rt 1ssucLI hy lhe Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (dcU). ClcU 1sanorg:mi111- lion repre~enling 112 non-prolil inLlependent colleges and 11111ven,11ics, In ll1e p,L<;l llucc years, TAP' s annual t111lm11 coverage for independent colleges has hcen cut from 60 lo 25 percent. 1l1e family income ceiling has been lowered to $42,500. Terri Standish-Kuon, associate director The Ithacan/Jeff K. Brunelle of communications mid research for tl1c com The springlike weather on Tuesday, Feb. 15 teased the Ithaca area with sunshine and picturesque skies. mission, said current sophomores were the lirsl to experience TAP award cut.!>. Current freshmen also saw a reduction. Current juniors ~md seniors have a maxi Education program approved for fall mum TAP award of $4,050. Freshmen anLI sophomores· maximum award is $3,575, faculty and administration, w:L<; cstahlishcd mid make decisions concerning U1e1r com Standish-Kuon said. By Jan Stephenson in 1990 to study problems wilh di~trihuuon munities, Berlinrood said. "Therefore, the neediest student can re Ithacan Staff requiremenL<; and suggest a new system. "ll IU1c human communities mis~ion I i'.- ce1 vc ll1c maximum and every oll1er ~tudent New students entering the School of Hu GERC found lhat the current system cm certainly not lhc only mission you could have who needs a TAP is b,L<;ed on a pcrcenwge of m:mitics and Sciences next year will find a pha-;izes separation between areas of study, for the general education program," U1at maximum," she said. new curriculum awaiting lhem. whcr~L<; lhe general education prognun would Berlinrood said. "While lhe percentages remam lhe s:une Beginning in the fall of 1994, lhe School be more appropriate for lhc School of Hu By focusing on an overriding tJ1eme, for sludcnL'-, lhc dollar amounts arc less, will implement a general education program manities and Sciences. courses arc more likely to be cohesive, because the maximum is lower," she said. lo provide a sense ofunity between the differ GERC, school faculty and lhe Academic Berlinrood said. "These courses, in a variety For lhc College, the cuts will mean find ent areas of study, said Martin Berlinrood, Policies Committee proposed lo replace of ways, will connect lo each other," he said. ing otl1cr resources to restore financial aid. assistant dean of the School of Hwnanitics the distribution requirement system wilh Currently, each major in lhe School is "It will mean lhat students will have a mid Sciences. a general education program, Berlinrood placed into one of four categories: Fine and greater need for financial aid, which will The general education program will re said. Performing Arts, Hwnanities, Natural Sci mean we will have a greater strain on our place the School's decade-old distribution The general education program differs ences and Mathematics, and Social and Be limited resources offinancial aid," said Larry requirement system, through which students from the current system in two ways, havioral Sciences. Chambers, interim director of the Office of had to complete courses in academic depart Berlinrood said. The program focuses on Next semester, these four categories will Financial Aid. ments other than their own. student choice and bas an overriding mission be replaced by three departments: Self and Two years ago, the maximum TAP award "It will be an expectation that students - human communities. Society, Science, Mathematics and Fonnal a student could obtain was $475 more than will be pursuing general education over four Following this mission, swdents will ex Reasoning, and Human Expression. today, Standish-Koon said. years," Bcrlinrood said. plore how communities function and what Self and Society will examine the "The effect of the $475 cut especially The General F.ducation Review Commit role lhe individual plays in a community. individual's actions and beliefs, lhe way in affects students attending independent tee, made up of members of the School's Students will learn how to formulate ideas See PROGRAM, next page See TAP, next page 2 THE ITHACAN Park gift to fund Proposed TAP cuts Governor Mario Cuomo has proposed the following cuts to the Tuition Assistance new endowment Program (TAP) for the 1994-95 year. Here is how some schools in Central New York guage of the bequest indicated that would be affected. · · By Marnie Eisenstadt the Board was responsible for find TAP cut to TAP cut to Phase-out of TOTAL and Kevin Harlin ing ways to use the gift to support all students TAP CUT Ithacan Staff the president's office," she said. freshmen only grad. TAP A new endowment, the Roy H. "What they've done is devel Cazenovia College $94,774 $315,547 0 $410,321 Park Presidential Leadership Flllld, oped a plan that will provide sup Colgate University 49,815 159,630 0 209,445 will be fonned from the money left port for the College through the Cornell University 152,220 503,941 216,669 872,830 to the Board of Trustees by former president's office now, and 100 Board chairman Roy H. Park. years from now," Gordon said. Elmira College 53,134 163,267 1,337 217,738 The Board approved the alloca "That's what endowments are all Hamilton College 42,838 133,677 0 176,515 tion of these funds, which will be about.