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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-2-1970 The BG News December 2, 1970 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News December 2, 1970" (1970). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2535. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2535 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Regents request more state educational aid By Glenn Waggoner A small-scale student rebellion 1966." greatly increased to meet the stated goal in part by direct or indirect financial Under the logic of setting ceilings, Managing Editor against higher fees broke out two years Without defining the nature of these of the national per capita average. support from the state. those institutions who have reached their ago, when the Regents proposed an advances, the Master Plan calls for an It will be up to the legislature to The plan fails to clarify how the ceilings would likely find themselves It has been charged that in the past across-the-board fee increase for state immediate goal of an increase in state decide how the load is divided among taxpayers will save money through assigned a low priority when state money decade, the state of Ohio spent huge sums universities. funding of higher education equal to the individual and corporate taxpayers. expanding private education, when they is passed out. on highway construction so motorists Students in the state organized action propose to carry out this expansion Bowling Green's ceiling as assigned could have a smooth, safe ride to a run- groups to combat the raise. A result of through the use of tax monies. by the Regents is 14.900 students. There down rest home or crowded university. the clamor was the decision by the The proposed ceiling on state are 14,788 students here now, not coun- A fact used often to illustrate this Regents to temporarily freeze fees at university enrollment may also backfire. ting branch students point is that Ohio, sixth among states in existing levels. Students who desire to enroll in a four- If the Regents' proposals are carried population, ranks 42 in per capita ap- Despite dissatisfaction in university News analysis year institution may not gain admittance through, the coming decade may well see propriations for higher education. communities with state support of higher if the institution's ceiling has been Bowling Green stagnated ■• ■." ••nde»t And it ranks twelfth among the nation's education in recent years and the low reached. growth, little ph>siral ,;■.■*. , u • 15 largest states. ranking of the state in per capita support, national per capita average. The Regents have also proposed a His recourse would then be to pay programs and ex'.r- (._ih nan' lr fin; Advocates of increased state ap- the Regents have a different view of doubling of the enrollment in Ohio's more for a private school, or enroll in one Some big ii"-..y i1' at spei. propriations for higher education dump Ohio's educational progress. How will this be done? private universities, with the goal of of the two-year community and technical higher <"'.ucation :.. Ohio In the 1 much of the blame for the state's low In the new tentative draft of the Board From tax appropriations and student easing the educational burden from the colleges also proposed by the Master Tin- Master rian reveals that nev ranking on Governor James A. Rhodes. of Regents Master Plan, it is stated that fees. "Both sources of income may have taxpayer. One of the stated means of Plan. portance, and probabl''.. nv My, \ to be enlarged in the decade of the Their charge is that to attract new "the current operating support and achieving this goal is placing enrollment Also, the individual state university be assign"*! I r..«ate institutions and industry to Ohio through lenient cor- capital improvement support of Ohio's 1970's," states the Master Plan. ceilings on the state universities. may find the going reugn when at- RUM lytttrn of two-year colleges. porate tax laws. Rhodes has short- public institutions of higher education Although the Regents use the word But the Regents then state in the tempting to get funds to improve and Exactly who will pay how much for changed the universities in funds and has made notable advances during the "may," there is no doubt that tax ap- Master Plan that the enrollment increase expand its programs after lit enrollment higher education ,i ill depend largely iM hiked student fees too high. decade of the 1960s, and especially after propriations, at least, will have to be for private schools will be accomplished ceiliP" has been reached. who makes the most noise in Columbus. An Bowling Green. Ohio Independent Wednesday, December 2, 1970 Student Voice me BG news Volume 55 Number 59 Laird sees efforts Move to free POW's WASHINGTON <AP> - Secretary of kind of effort to free our prisoners of cerned about the POW issue, I jinl said, Ambassador David K. E. Bruce, chief Defense Melvin R. Uunl said yesterday war." and he intends to take il up at a meeting U.S. envoy to the Vietnam peace talks the United States "will make further The Pentagon chief made this of North Atlantic Treaty Organization there. Bruce told a news conference the efforts to free our prisoners" in North statement when reporters asked if there defense ministers in Brussels. United States will continue to seek the Vietnam, and this includes possible might be another commando-type raid Laird talked to newsmen at Andrews early release of American prisoners in military action. like the dramatic but fruitless descent on Air Force Base before taking off for the Vietnam "by all means available to us." "I would not rule out any action," Son Tay ten days ago. three-day NATO meeting. "Hanoi and the Viet Cong must un- Laird said. "We are going to make every The Nixon administration is con- His words were echoed in Paris by derstand, in unmistakable terms," Bruce said, "that their past and existing attitude on the prisoner of war question is intolerable. We will continue to pursue the twin objectives of humane treatment and early release of our men by all Senate endorses means available to us." Bruce said the Communists' reaction to President Nixon's Oct. 7 proposal for immediate and unconditional release of all POWs on both sides "has been totally negative." "They show no concern for their own Kent code men and flout our concern for ours," he said. By Kathy Fraze instructed the Committee on Faculty resolution instructing Ohio Faculty North Vietnam's Premier Pham Van Issue F.dltor Personnel and Conciliation to draw up its Senate and individual institutions to Dong, in an interview published in the own statement on academic respon- discuss these issues "directly and per- French newspaper Le Monde, said the Responding to the possibility that the sibility to be presented first to Faculty sonally" with Governor-elect John prisoner issue could be resolved only state legislature may take action cur- Senate and then transmitted to state Gilligan, Speaker of the House Charles after Washington decides to withdraw all tailing academic freedom and tenure at legislators. Kurfess, and the president pro-tem of the of its troops from South Vietnam. state-assisted colleges and universities, However, a third resolution aimed at State Senate. Meanwhile, in Indochina, Cambodian Faculty Senate yesterday endorsed a eliminating the possibility of using In other action, members tabled a troops launched a new drive yesterday 20 Faculty Code of Professional Ethics tenure as a protection for academic resolution to accept a committee report miles north of Phnom Penh and pushed Nrwiphoto by Do drawn up last summer by the Kent State incompetence was sent back to com- condemning the Campus Riot Act. enemy forces from their blocking A BREAK IN the cold, gloomy weather Bowling Green University Senate. mittee. positions. Although the endorsement did not The resolution recognized the The report blasted the bill on seven experienced during the past week brought maintenance points, particularly the provision that a leading the drive was a batallion of crews out in force yesterday to finish "winterizing" the bind the BG faculty to act according to questioning of the practice of using Cambodian troops recruited and trained student or faculty member may be the Kent code, it did uphold the faculty tenure to cloak incompetence, and would in South Vietnam. University. view that the University should "police" have instructed the University to work suspended from the University without a its staff from within. through departments to bring in- public hearing. The Kent code covers aspects of the competent faculty members up to Action will be delayed until legal instructor's responsibility to students, standard or "terminate their tenure advice on the constitutionality of the bill course, University, profession and through existing procedures as outlined is obtained. Citizens oppose split community. by the American Association of In addition, members urged the The resolution was presented as a University Professors (AAUP)." faculty to honor existing arrangements result of the Interim report by the state The Senate voted to send the measure for final examinations by giving tests at legislature's committee on campus back to committee because several the times specified.