VOL. 93, NO. 1 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DELAWARE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1970 Activity Fee Rejected; SGA Gets $85,000 The Student Government McClafferty asserted that the Senate Association has not received university could reject a budget for "political" approval for a student activity fee for reasons since the SGA was a "political" this academic year. organization. Instead, the SGA has received In section "X" of the document, $85,000 to divide between 30 campus expenditures for travel costs, such as organizations and itself. The figure is conventions, are authorized. But at more than twice last year's $41,530 the end of the document, it states that budget. food costs will not be subsidized from An activities fee paid by students to SGA funds. allow students to fund their own However, McClafferty and Osborne activities, such as government, concerts. attended a National Student Association and course evaluation had been an issue Congress between Aug. 13 and 16. since last November, during the Student McClafferty said that while they bought Coalition for Change activities. food, this was allowed in the conference About 82 percent of students costs section of the guidelines. responding to a questionnaire at that He claimed the ban of food costs did time supported the fee, while less than not pertain to conferences. Psssst! two percent objected. When questioned about the annual In last spring's SGA elections, a "Senator of the Year Award," which referendum on a proposed $7.50 fee per has for years been presented to SGA semester was approved by 85.6 per cent Senate member chosen by his colleagues of the voters. for his exceptional work in the SGA officials said Monday night that organization, McClafferty said "I would there are so specific plans at this · time on assume" that no award would be continuing negotiations with the presented. university for the fee. The 1970-71 budget has not been approved in entirety yet, although Large Enrollment portions were acted upon at the Senate's Aug. 7 meeting. Other sections will be acted upon Causes Serious after the Senate's Friday meeting according to Mark McClafferty, AS1,· SGA president. Housing Shortage The Senate approved only three of Because of a greater enrollment than 39 different categories at the meeting, was projected two years ago, and more although there was no disagreement upperclassmen staying in dorms than with 11 other parts. Joe Osborne, EG2, had been anticipated, the Office of SGA speaker, said 11 were not approved Residence is faced with a serious because no one present called for a vote housing shortage, according to Stuart J. on them. Sharkey, director of residence. The Black Students Union, the Blue Over 200 students are still without Hen yearbook and the SGA Student rooms this fall. The residence office has Activities Committee received approval already found places for 300 other on their budgets at the meeting, students in various forms of temporary attended by a narrow quorum of 22. housing. There was much qissension over the Both men and women are living in budgets of the Association for the dorm recreation rooms. This has been Awareness of Women Students, the done before in women's dorms but Hi There Cheerleaders and the Pershing Rifles. never before in male dorms reported According to Cam Yorkston, AS1, Sharkey. SGA treasurer, the AAWS budget's They have located freshmen in allocation for a conference was fraternity houses and in Ivy Hall, a questioned by the senators. university owned apartment complex. McClafferty said "policital" Originally freshmen were not permitted objections were raised to the other two. to live in . off-campus housing. The Y orkston, who did the majority of Wright House, the temporary location the work on the budget, compiled a list of the infirmary last year, has also been of financial policies governing the utilized to house students. And, the old allocation.of funds by the SGA. He said stand-by, the triple is being used in this was to eliminate any inconsistencies several dorms this year. in the budget. Residents of New Castle County and In the past, no written guidelines others who live within a "reasonable have been prepared to show what is commuting distance from the funded and what is not. university" have been encouraged to The guidelines state that gifts, commute at least for the fall semester. awards, salaries, food costs, and Sharkey stated that as soon as orientation board fees will not be paid. vacancies are found students will be These were "accepted" by the senate immediately notified. at the Aug. 7 meeting. The reason students cannot be told McClafferty said Monday that the immediately when they might be guidelines are not binding. He said they relocated is because students who are are not policies, but general rules that not coming back have not notified his the senate may use in funding office. "Students are very inconsiderate organizations. when they don't let you know if they However, Yorkston's Finance are going to need their rooms." Committee has followed them in Students in recreation rooms will all Staff Photos by Gregg Clarke preparing the budget. be relocated in 2 weeks, those Yorkston explained that the requests in temporary housing will be relocated by Peace of the Pershing Rifles and Cheerleaders the end of the semester; Sharkey had been within the guidelines. But explained. PAGE 2 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DELAWARE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1970 ews Analysis---------~ Faculty Lifts Residency The Old School 1,.._--------By VIC LIVINGSTON----__. Requirement For Degree The Faculty Committee Robert Mayer, dfr:cior of the 20 years it would be unfair to "Taking a walk by the old ship out. school..•• nothing has changed, it's on the Academic Status of Oftice of Admissions and grant a degree to someone still the same, Several of the faculty who I've nothmg to say, but it's Undergraduates with the Records, there were over 100 who could not meet OK, good morning, good dared to exercise tradition~ morning, good morning. approval of 'the faculty, petitions received in the last contemporaty standards." academic freedom at removed the residency three years. .co~mentmg on how ~he ··The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper. Delaware, will be spending requirement for the Dr. Mayer sa1d, ''The. umvers1ty would deal w1th It's very chic these days their last year here. baccalaureate degree. comm.ittee made . some this typ~ o~ sit~ation, Dr. among administrators and Where does all this leave The residency requirement exceptiOns but tned to May~r ~~d, It wlll be up ~o even "student leaders" to quality educaiion on this stated that either the first 90 preserve the intent of the the mdlVldual department m speak of the vast changes that campus? For one thing, th~ or the last 30 credit hours ruling by either requiring the the college where the student have "come down" at old selection of faculty insures had to be taken as a full-time student to register for more is enrolled to decide whether Delaware in the past year. peace, tranquility and little day student at the university. tha~ a part-time lo~d or to grant. the de~ee. Of The "revolution", to these academic experimentation or The new ruling means askmg that the schoohng be course, this office wdl also be types, came with unlimited progressivism. Perhaps the students who have been taken in consecutive involved." visitation hours. What more faculty who had what it takes officially admitted to a semesters." To qualify for graduation could the students ask for? to make Delaware the great degree program may opt to He added, "We knew that a student must first be Of course, we now have a ceater of learning it could be take courses in the daytime, this was a problem for people admitted to a degree student court system, with a fell victim to the hiring and evening or whenever courses and we recognized that we program. He must then student-faculty committee on firing practices of this are offered. There is no time have an obligation to assist satisfy certain requirements this and a student-faculty university. limit for the accumulation of people who are unable to for graduation according to committee on that. Progress And what do our "student credits for graduation. attend school full-time." the particular college and and change at Delaware leaders" have to say about all In the past, those taking Dr. Mayer said he does not curriculum he has chosen. begins with a committee. The this? They're busy, of work on a part-time basis expect a deluge of students to problem is that many course ...with boycotts of (registered for less than 12 apply for their degree as a students interpret formation the bookstore, cars on credits during a regular result of the policy change. of one of these official-sound­ campus, drinking ...all the semester) could not complete He said, ''There might be an ing parleys as the end in gut issues. thei~ degree work unless they upsurge in applications from itself. What does our student included either the first six recent students who have Have things really changed government have to say about semesters or the last two worked to accumulate a lot around here? Well, you can academic freedom and semesters as full-time of credits but could not meet have your girl or guy visit your student review of faculty and students at the university. residency requirements and room, and you can live in a administrators? About the According to the Office of have stopped taking courses." "self-regulated" dorm.