The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 4-22-1988 Maine Campus April 22 1988 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus April 22 1988" (1988). Maine Campus Archives. 2099. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/2099 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -411 The _y_ ,_ Maine cam us THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE NEWSPAPER SINCE 155 11.11 22. NU val. 1112. N. Student life fee: fiscal year 1989 iv lads swab st,” w te, Next.year's University of Maine students paY\tbe seine amount ts last year .for the mandatory student life fee, but the distribution of the fee funds has changed. - In fiscal year 1989. there will be a general increase in the replace- ment Of voluntary and optional student fees, and in the enrichment of student- life. Those increases, however,- will be at the expense of the replacement of education in general (E&G) funds. ii Although the distribution budget of student life fee fin ftscalyear 1989 is still in the working stages, tbe-Mandatory- Student 1..ifc Fee EvalUation Committee has been meeting for-several months.to:inaliie the figures. On Thursday, April 28, the fee evaluation committer will work toward a more completeversion to be submitted to President Dile Lick Charles Rauch, director of Financial Management for UMaine and member of the.evaluation committee, said that the 1989 changes reflect the committee's attempts to correct the problems experienced with last year's fee. According to the committee's Apnl 15 draft of the 1989 fee distribu- tion bOdget. $76,500 is allocated for the Maine Center for the Arts for ticket replacement moneys. This figure, which is $25,500 larger than I988, will not ong• com- pensate for last year's'underfunding of replacement monies, but should increase the reserved student seating from 20 to 30 percent. - For the athletic department, $263,000, or a $91,000 increase, has been allocated for the replacement of ticket funds. Of this $93,000 increase, S43,000 is targetted for a compensation of last year's underfunding and $50,000 will possibly provide an additional 400 student tickets for next year's hockey games. Rauch said the es aluation,committee is currently undergoing negotia- tions to determine what proportion of those 400 tickets will be for seaung. Both the Arts Center's and the athletic department's funding for ticket replacement is dependent Upon possible changes in the negotia- tions for increased seating Rauch also said that the committee was looking into Use possibilty of automatic student i.d. cards as a method of easing the ticket distribu- tion process SamneiSerak of Orono and his 80-year-old Day festivities attracted more than 70 bears furry Despite the claims of the Director of the Cutler Health Center Roberta friend Tomms grin and hear the news and their owners who competed in eight that they Berrien that last year's budget was inadequate for the increased ser- placed first in the "most like owner" categories such as best dressed and largest. category vices, the evaluation committee's proposed figures do not indicate an in the first year of the BOB (Bring_ Each winning bear and its owner were-award- increased budget for the health center. sour Own Bear) ledds Bear( ompetition at ed congratulators certificates as well as a new the I Cutter recieved $452,880 last year from the student life fee funds to niversits of Maine. teddy to accompans them home. 1 he cover the health care of alrfull-time, and many part-time students Contest, sponsored bs l Maine's Serak is a CMaine professor emeritus of I mon Board as part of V. edneulas (see FEE page 21 's Maine physical education and athletics. Legislature passes increased bond issue W Naked• Owe I h 15 million, of which urr the House defeated the UMaine System ( hancellor s,an wow UMai e would receive roughly bill 85-55, Rep. Ruth Foster. R- Robert Woodbury, said he was $2 m hon. was proposed in Ellsworth submitted the blanket pleasantly surprised with the A larger than expected ver- respose to_an'amentiment by S5 million -concept .as ti---added $5 million. sion of the Unisersity of Maine Rep. Patrick McGowan. D- compromise. He said the extra. money System's $31.8 million bond Canaan to add $1.8 million The concept, which was later could enable the UMaine issue swept successfully through specifically for UMaine at proposed as an amendment by System to restore full funding the Legislature yesterday. Farmington. Sen. John Baldacci, D-Bangor, to some projects on all seven After compromises between Rep. John Bon, R-Orono passed 33-0 in the Senate and campuses which were hurt after state 'Republicans and said House Republicans balked 127-6 in the -House. the original $60 million board Democrats os er proposed add at McGowan's amendment The $36.8 UMaine bond of trustees request was_decreas- ed monies tagged specifically calling it 'pork-barrel issue is expected to gain ap- ed earlier this year. fox UMaine at Farmington, a politics." prOval by- Gov. -John R. Bolt said UMaine stands to Senate-sponsored amendment "The amendment came from McKernan, and like all bond gain almost SI7 million from added a flat $5 million to be one lawmakel to benefit his issues, it will go before the the total $36.8 million in the split among all seven campuses A\ district only and did nothing for voters in November. -- bond issue if it passes Rep. John Bon, R-Orono referen- instead . the other campuses," he said. Kent Price, assistant to dum this fall. _ •••••••. Magazine Sports Points of View The Rad% N Alec weekend '('Maine sweeps. Hasson in Thin week'.. question: eelelwation will feature- four doubleheader. I-0. and 1-0. "Should the Maine Stein of his filnia..Page Nage 9. Song be changed?" Page 12. • • , 2 h.- Dor. Afaine Campus. 1- ridaV_ April ZZ. 191I professor pension The Dativ A Committee pro- beg plan Co: le Slim laps rnent, especially the retirement of pro- nutted a repon to the DOT in February. ed information and case studies The state, ssii..re, fessional recoaunen- Burr responded to a people.” 1981 which included seseral recent proposal 1111 NINO II submitted Jul) 1967, In '1961, McKay established the dations name's, that _pre-1975 retire- _ and other cgs. —6iait sioetter Most University of Maine professors rneiriti Retirement Committee. ment benefits should be brought to the muniques."by recommending a Ig will retire comfortably, but it -wasn't cent increase in all S5.0130 le% el for those who *forked over retirement benefits Sam Web long ago — 1974 — ss hen retired for the selected group. 20 years in the system In addition. dig Executive B academics lived on annual pensions of issue has been brought Reactink 'to the proposal. BOT before a IOT ty is tourin less than Si3.000. Some we as low at finance comrnittee members hired—;Tmanctal ads ISCT and for further study. The Mail S400 or S500. "This is apposed a plan *loch put these retirees realls differed “smpensa- Portland ot Edgar McKay, now 84, had retired in non." McClure said. at a Wars percentage lesel comparable "The net cons mate a ICC 1969 after 35 years in the UMaine of any to the •university's present retirement funding they do now is much monist Part system. Formerly an associate professor below hat program. TIAA-CREF. which began in it would hase been if they of his visit! of Modern Society, McKay felt ad- 1975. had done it at the proper time " Concord mIstrative action was best encouraged The plan as reasonable hut, didn't Haves, who has worked 011 the retire_ , pellet and through diplomacy, not criticism.. In account for the low &tries of ment issue for the last 16 years. said the "The Pal 1974 a Council of Colleges committee' academics who retired years ago. recent plan is a step in the ngtis that there a succeeded in getting the .Board of McKay said. -• direction Communiv Trustees to approve add'ilieiWliidrii-is . "Some teachers in the burr local The rittbiem we run into, II that this socialist aft for outstanding cases, but this was only high schools had better salaries than we (group) is a fixed pool of people capitalist a beginning. cKas said. who y (bd.': he said "Many people kit the . base been permanently disadvantaged corporatio The committee was chaired by systeml.'' by the retirement system," he %wit release Political Science Professor Ken Hayes. Melsin Nit-ClUre Is a professor of ac- _ very hopeful that the The purr "I think there's an image that univecti- trustee counting and the onls non•retired _ coinnuttee proposes a long term solution press ICICA3 ty faculty are, if not wealths, at least in 14111, McKaY, dolman of the member on the Emeriti commince to this In the past, the trustees gentile poverty. I found hase nat ion* ide this was not the Iltessj Retirement Cesiniesse. depended case. "We know bs instinct that their on the Council of (Olicses, Live in mass Retirees and ottierg working to effect salaries were lose. but unic -Ieesl- who havessorkad for number equality, p —From what I know t-M-trusteei - of Years are _thauses_said_The).