At Lombardi, The Fees Stay High by Mary Murphy by Mary Murphy / %*J A computer breakdown in April may have cost Forham covering Lombardi operating costs with membership fees. graduate students fee reductions for membership at the The greater monetary burden placed on graduate students Lombardi Center. has caused bitter feelings. Keith Schwam, a Fordham law According to Dean of Students William Crawley four such student said that having to pay $50 for Lombardi breakdowns last spring prevented the university from membership in addition to $3100 in tuition was unfair. He distributing a questionnaire he had asked a graduate also said the fact that the Student Bar Association at Lincoln student to prepare. Center rents out Power Memorial High School Gymnasium The student, James Lazos, was asked by Crawley to draw one night a week to meet the athletic and social demands of up a survey to be given to 200 undergraduate and graduate students is a "testimony of the short-sightedness" of the students, professors, and alumni. According to Lazos, it administration. was hoped that the survey would give some indication of whether lowering the $50 graduate fee would induce more Dean of Students William J. Crawley students to join Lombardi. Despite the fact that the survey was never distributed, Crawley said in an interview Tuesday that there would be no \ increase in graduate memberships if the fees were lowered. \ The source of income for the Lombardi Center is based strictly on membership fees. The operating costs for heating, lighting and electricity, not paid by fees collected, is made up by the university budget. According to Crawley, the university will never break even THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6,1977 U.S. Postage VOLUME 59 PAID Bronx, N.Y. M ,v. Permit No. 7608 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK J NonProflt Org. $7,000 Bromberg Loss Might Be Last Straw by Jim Dwyer and No one counted the number of tickets f Sold, but Letizia thinks the-total was between The concert committee's presentation of 1200 and 1300. Cash receipts amounted to David Bromberg and the Commander Cody $5,000, she said. Barid at the Rose Hill gym last Monday lost Assistant Dean of Students,Peter Fazio "around 7,000 dollars", chairperson Arlene attributed the early reluctance to the Letizia reluctantly announced on Tuesday. committee's embarrassment at the high Letizia originally resisted disclosing the cost of the event. Fazio said he was satisfied cost of the event during Ram interviews in with the management of the event, but the days following the concert, saying bills questioned the validity of running a major for miscellaneous expenses hadn't arrived concert operation at an urban university. and that she couldn't make an estimate for "The availability of concerts in the New the total cost of the concert until then. York area plus advertising restrictions make However, a balance sheet was drawn the me wonder if we should be in this business, Bromberg and Letizia: concert lost Nance Pulichene night after the concert, using figures from It's beginning to look like this kind of show $7000. last year's concerts for estimates. isn't what we're going to be able to put on The two bands each received $4,000 and profitably." sound and lighting equipment cost $1700. The contract signed with the booking In addition, estimated expenses for miscel- agency prohibited advertising off-campus, a laneous items like security, ticket printing, fairly standard clause in the New York area. McCarthy's Next and maintenance, and lesser items, pushed Promoters of concerts in major public arenas the tab for the show over $12,000. usually have priority booking and, conse- by Angelo Gonzalez Johnson for the Democratic Party's nomina- quently secondary promotions at colleges Former Senator Eugene McCarthy, twice tion in the 1968 Presidential election. and small halls are restricted from publicizing a Presidential hopeful in 1968 and 1976, Although he eventually lost the nomination their events. comes to Fordham this month as the second to Hubert Humphrey, McCarthy was espe- But Fazio pointed out the concerts are not speaker in the American Age 1977-78 cially noted for his unpopular opposition to Homecomin' put on for people outside the University, series. the war in Vietnam and for the strong since they are funded by student activity McCarthy first came to national attention support he received from many young fees. The problem seems to be a majority of when he challenged President Lyndon people. Homecoming, the annual weekend of students on campus are not interested in the The former United States Senator was good feeling and good fundraising, has ben shows. selected by American Age because "he's a pared down to a Saturday aftemoonm and The type of music presented does not popular campus speaker available at a evening with student activities limited to the seem to influence campus ticket sales Jr. reasonable cost," said Paul Cothran, vice- 1:30 football game against Seton Hall, and a positively, said Fazio. chairman of American Age. serniformal dance later in the evening. "In the past, we've had every conceivable McCarthy is being paid $1500 while Mike Last year, the big news of the day was the type of music 1 know of, and we've never Wallace was paid almost $4000 for his official dedication of the Lombardi Memorial sold more than 2,000 tickets. It doesn't appearance here last month. Again, Coth- Center. This time, it looks like the major seem to be a problem of not picking the right ran stressed, the objective of American Age interest will be the football team's excellent groups." is to present the best speaker availabe while chance for a winning season, unless rich The Concert Committee is open to all taking financial considerations into account. alumni start throwing wads of money onto students, and there was input on the American Age has been allocated approxi- the playing field. selection of the two bands, he said. mately $20,000 this year—a nominal The semiformal dance begins at 8:30 in Letizia plans to conduct a survey of increase over last year. the Campus Center ballroom, one of the few student opinion to determine popularity. American Age, which has had speakers times during the year that anything close to a However, those surveys are limited by such as Sam Ervin, Dick Gregory, F. Lee ball is held in that room. Maroon Key distribution problems as well as negligible Bailey (soon after the Fatly Hearst case), Society, sponsor of the event, hopes to returns. She has already taken a and Julian Bond in the past 2-3 years, has accomodate 270 people.Tickets at $18 per small sample at last week's Cincvents movie, already gotten Frederic Storaska ("How to couple and $10 per person have been on and plans to expand on it before the next act Say No to A Rapist and Survive"), and sale for about a week and a half and will be is booked. Vladmir Bukovsky (Soviet defector) to available until the remaining 70 are sold. During the last several years, groups appear hen.1 this year. Public figures arid representing most of the spectrum of celebrities such us Frank Gifford, Robert The tab, up $7 from last Homecoming, popular music have appeared on campus, Klein, Billy Martin and Andrew Young are include a hot and cold buffet that Maroon including the Beach Boys, Patti Smith, the all being sought (or this year. Key president John Carberry promises will Kinks. Charlie Daniels, and Steven Stills. be an improvement on last year's freshly Eugene McCarthy: will lecture October One element of the concerts that dis- As of now, no conference or luncheon defrosted hors d'ouvres. 11 iuis been planned after the appearance. continued on page 2\ The Ram Page 2 Thursday, October 6,1977 New Election Spirit: Frosh by Mark Hoffman "no reason to believe we'll be involved later "I want to do something more than just if we're not involved today." come here and then go home." Perhaps most importantly, the candidates This statement made by Charles Di are interested in specific action. Senatorial Maggio, a candidate for Senator in this candidate Sharon Rollman of the Nucleus week's United Student Government elec- Party feels that "we cannot come in here and tions, reflects a common attitude among his start making big changes; we have to start fellow students seeking office this year. with the small things." She and other party DiMaggio is typical of the new freshman members are trying to get a new ram for because his ideas are not limited solely to the Fordham, in order to muster "school spirit." election itself. "Involvement" is the key word The parties were told by U.S.G. officials Cody(l) and Bromberg backstage Nance Pulichene in his electioneering. that platforms would be rather "useless" in Concert Although many cliches are also heard the elections, so none were included on any (such as "U.S.G. is the voice of the student of the parties' flyers, even though some had practice could be held. Fazio asked that the body."), a genuine interest in solid contribu- organized party principles. continued from page i trucks be moved, and the consternation that tions to Fordham life is evident in the The parties were arranged by the stu- pleases Fazio is the servile attitude he says it caused in the road troupe made him feel activities of the contesting parties. dents, most of whom had not met before this performers and their entourages expect from "almost guilty." There is very little talk of getting elected.