Second Class Postage Paid WIN PLACE SHOW Help your candidate win, at least in our Just what place is alcohol eoing to have in As promised. Marat./Sade has straw Doll. Mark your choice, detach the our university in the days ahead 7 Paul Droved to be more than a ballot, at the bottom of this nagp, and drop Bonovich has the latest news on oage 2. little unnerving. Leale it in our hox in the SPO. Results: Nov. 2. and Bill Gage offers comments on paee B, McCall reuorts. Page 15. PurpleThe Sewanee The Universitv of the Volume 1 5g, Issue 3 South Sewanee, Tennessee 37375 October 19, 1984 Budget runs in black, but tuition rises BYPAULBONOV.CH EXPENDITURES. 1983-1984 ™SJf£& j££ SS™ i>ii.Tn..>n>»i „„,.,„ of the revenues, would have to be increased INSTRUCTION 28.4% »„„„ ,u_. « „.„. P S m P6f IN THE Report of the Treasurer for the year ' ° ' ^ AUXILALIARY SERVICES 23.2% «»7nn ending June 30, 1984, the University of the '° ?' INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT 16.0% ,;? , i. , "Again I would like to pomt out that , Us South showed an excess of revenues of FINANCIAL ^ 94% . St ,alr , 1 clu e| a tu, ''° ' U not ° ex V n - $3,013,063, marking the seventh straight year STUDENTSERvicEs"...::::::.::!!:::^ ?,^ « , u f^ Alvarez asserted We should consider the tu- of budget surplus. Lawrence Alvarez, the Co- LIBRARIES 4 5% '"° n (hke r °0m l ordinator of Programming, Planning, and ATHLCTICs"'.l"..lll"'.lli.lllllllll"."l.'.".3l7% Budgeting, said he was pleased with the year's outcome. Alvarez suggested that the room fee for the dormitories the board fee for food serv- But 1984-1985 also saw anolher raise in tu- tions," he noted. "The task when preparing a and ices do not represent a money making scheme ition, despite the surpluses. | budget is to minimize those errors." here at Sewanee. Therefore, while tuition has "I do not think it is fair for anyone, when The excess of revenue for the 1983-1984 fis- increased, board fees have re- considering our excess of revenue last year cal year had a lot to do with hard work and a room and mained stable; fees the per- (1983-1984), to look at tuition as the sole rea- stroke of good luck, Alvarez asserted. and these keep centage of increase of all of the expenses of a son for the excess in revenue," Alvarez said. The good luck was manifest in the fact that ' ear s education lower than the percentage Alvarez attributed the budget surplus as a the University received not 1.85 million dol- V of increase of tuition, product of good management endowment in- lars in gifts but rather 4.5 million dollars in come, and gifts. gifts. Alvarez admitted, however, that the prepa- The projected operating budget for 1983-84 From the excess of revenues, approximately ration of the budget has its darker moments. was $18,625,337. 1.7 million dollars was transferred to the En- In order to prepare a budget, he must make Given these expenditures, Alvarez consid- dowment fund, another 1.7 million dollars was projections as to expenditures and revenues, ered the four areas of income and realistic transferred to the plant fund (in order to re- for juggling variables until projected revenue expectations from each: that is, from tuition new, maintain, and purchase facilities the meets projected expenditures. and fees, 48.5%; auxiliary services, 27.9%; en- University), and the remaining money was "Error necessarily accompanies projec- dowment, 13.4%; and gifts, 10.2%. transferred from the Plant fund. ELECTION '84 Mark your ballot, detach and put in appropriate box BfD Rash of thefts hits the dorms BY JOHN SOMERVILLE fore able to aet a descriotion of the burglar Secondly, both stressed that, when some- soon after the theft. Through a network of thina is stolen, students should go directlv to contacts around Sewanee thev had identified the police. STEALING has once anain emerned as a and arrested a suspect that evening. The problem at Sewanee. In the nast two weeks jewelry was comDletely recovered. "The sooner that we can be notified the students have reoorted several hurnlaries, nart- better," Cheif Waggoner said. He Dointed out icularlv in Gorgas, Hunter and Renedict dorm- the fact that "a lot of times the burglar is still itories. in the vicinity," Earlier this month, an area resident who POINTED out that had the according to Police Chief Waggoner was pos- WAGGONER locked the robbery would probably ing as a maid, searched through the first floor door been avoided " 'Type hurolars' are not of Hunter Dorm and then stole SB50 worth of have heen disconnected force," he said. "In twenty- Detectors jewelry from a room on the second floor. ones that will use rarely force used on a Waqgoner said that fortunately the rob- five vears, I have seen bery was promptly reoorted to the police He- locked door." THE SEWANEE volunteer fire department Dartment that afternoon. Police were there- extinguished a chimney fire on Faculty Circle on Sunday, October 7. The damages were not The problem apnears to he the same at serious. The department also answered three University hosts Benedict and Gorgas dormitories Several false alarms at Courts, Hunter, and Trezevant. rohberies have been reported in which je- Uganda Bishop welry and other valuahles have been stolen In response to the costly and inconvenient Of these thefts, onlv two rooms had been This past week the University hosted the frequency of false alarms in the dorms, smoke locked, and in one of these instances the Right Reverend Festo will disconnected in Gailor, Kivengere, Bishop of burglar aained entrance throuah the suite- detectors be Kigeze, Uganda. Bishon Kivengere Courts Trezevant, said Fire Chief Dan received mate's unlocked door and came in through and the degree of Doctor of Divinitv, honorais the adjoining bathroom. Rather. Disconnection was hegun this week. causa , from Sewanee in 1983 in recognition of his work as an evannelist and humanitar- Also, selected floors of Cannon, St. Luke's, smoke de- ian. He Dreached last Sunday at All Saints Both Chief Wagaoner and Dean Cushman Hunter and Benedict will have the pulled alarms Chapel and spoke to various grouns during stressed that students should always bear two tectors disconnected. AH hand in Rather said. the week including the Sewanee Student things in mind. KeeDina a locked door was will remain oDeration, Christian FellowshiD. the first and most emphasized point- Measures added to comply with law developments de- BY PAUL BONOVICH "THE STATE IS very serious about the new "THESE RECENT LEGAL mand careful and responsible control of alco- drinking law," Clark commented. "It is a pain Responding to the state law, the University to enforce (the University's policy on alcohol hol use on our campus," Seiters said. has is found "sick or upgraded its policy on alcohol use. Fra- use), but we will continue to listen and take If an under-aged person ternities and sororities have become "respon- measures to change." passed out", Seiters said that he will attempt sible for locate provided alco- upholding state laws", placing such In a letter to all fraternity presidents, Seiters to the source which the organizations If fraternity or fraternity in direct responsibility for the wrote that "all of you should work diligently hol. the source was a obeyance of state laws on their own property to support the University's position on the party, the Deans will require the fraternity to or at their own functions. No such emphasis legal drinking age. make a case that they acted "responsibly". was made in the University policy on alcohol You must not serve minors and must take "A fraternity needs to demonstrate that they use in last year's handbook. responsible actions to prevent minors from have responsibly advertised a party in which Dean of Men, Douglas Seiters said that to drinking on fraternity premises." abusive drinking is not encouraged, ID's are date there have been no fraternities that have Seiters has proposed two measures to checked, and non-alcoholic beverages are pro- been closed for violation of the University pol- fraternity presidents for the responsible con- vided," Seiters added. icy on alcohol use, although "If, in efforts, the one fraternity was trol of alcohol at parties. One is the stamp spite of the fraternity's closed for one weekend after a beer slide that procedure in which identifications are checked individual becomes inebriated, we take up the it sponsored at the door and a stamp is used to distinguish issue as it is an individual problem." between those of legal drinking age and those who are not. The second is the visible supply The University has also added in the stu- of non-alcoholic beverages; this measure has In another letter to fraternity presidents, dent handbook that "hosts who do not com- a two-fold purpose. First, it offers a beverage Seiters encouraged fraternities to do other ply (with the new policy concerning alcohol to those who are not of legal drinking age. things with their pledges which did not re- usel will be subject to severe fines and punishment." Secondly, it encourages those who are of le- quire the consumption of alcohol. gal drinking age to intersperse the consump- In the same letter, Seiters considers the tion of alcoholic beverages with non-alcoholic "traditional" forms of celebration on frater- These new regulations have put a strain on beverages. nity shake day—when bids are accepted by fraternities, noted Bryan Sox, president of the "Fraternities have an absolute obligation to freshmen to a particular fraternity by a hand- Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.