http://breeze,imu.edu Knowledge it Libert. VOL. 7 _ TODAY'S WEATHER INSIDE Mostly Cloudy, M E N p. 5: Quorum call results high 52°F, low 39°F. in inability to conduct business at SGA meeting Extended forecast on page 2 p. 24-25: Behind the scenes at Grafton-Stovall fDow JONES p. 35: Three Men and a Lady: The Final Four 4.99 close: 9666.84 B R Z E picks of the POTW Gang u N V E R THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1999 Minority Faculty funding falls short student Legislators allocate $925 ,000 for new Busting at the Seams positions; JMU requested $1.7 million Exploring a Growing Student Population numbers Part 1: Defining the Resource Problem over $15,000. RIAN WESTLEY & LISA ROSATO With increasing student population & student-to-faculty ratios, However, the Gen- there is only funding for 25 new faculty positions next year. lowest in I! senior writers eral Assembly dictat- An administrator shares his opinions on why. ed that an average 2: Finding Solutions This is the first part is a three-part series salary of $45,000 be Academic departments across campus are scrambling to find 5 years exploring increasing student-to-faculty ratios. ways to manage an increasing student population. Explores given for each new one school's efforts, with a brief look at others. The university needs funding for about faculty positional IIRIS CARTER 100 new positions to bring student-to-faculty received, Brown Part 3: Looking Forward How will JMU deal with growth & lack of funds in the new staff writer ratios to where they should be, a JMU admin- Even this am century, and how will growth affect the university's reputation? istrator said last week. below the The number of minority stu- MICHELE JOHNSTONto/uw anisl However, despite a budget increase of dents and faculty at JMU is the nearly $1 million to fund faculty positions salary jtvera "There are too few faculty per student," lowest in five years. next year, JMU will only be able to create 25 The university Kji'd originally requested Brown said. "There are only a few depart- Despite the common belief new positions, Vice President of Academic $1.7 million for new faculty. ments where I feel it's adequate." that low minority enrollment can Affairs Douglas Brown said. "We are currently experiencing some diffi- The nursing program is one of the pro- be attributed to a lack of minori- The distribution of the new positions by culty in recruiting and retaining faculty in grams that does have adequate student-to- ty student recruitment, Assistant department has not been finalized yet, he certain disciplines, especially those in high faculty ratio, Brown said. He said depart- Director of Admissions Vanessa said. technology, business and certain professional ments such as nursing require a certain stu- Evans said this isn't the case. While the percentage of The Virginia General Assembly allocated areas," Brown said. "The rate of increase in dent-to-faculty ratio in order to be accredited. minority students who are $925,000 for next year specifically to fund faculty salaries nationwide exceeds the rate at Brown said the number of faculty com- new faculty positions and gave JMU permis- which our funding is increasing." pared to students at JMU is not as low as the sion to hire 61 new faculty. JMU's lack of funding for faculty has given University of Virginia and the College of If 61 new faculty were hired with the way to student-to-faculty ratios that are high- The percentage $925,000, the average salary would be just er than they should be. see FACULTY page 7 of minority Speaker shares students of JMU s total population Holocaust has decreased. Vanessa Evans experiences assistant director of admissions ARA HAFER T staff writer enrolled at the university has decreased in the last five years, Charlene Schiff spent three years of her child- the percentage of minority stu- hood completely alone in a forest, eating small ani- dents who are accepted and mals to suivive and barely escaping near-death actually enroll at the university experiences. Schiff, a Holocaust survivor, spoke to a has risen, Evans said. nearly full Wilson Hall auditorium on Tuesday "The percentage of minority night. students who get accepted and Schiff's presentation was part of Holocaust actually enroll has increased," Remembrance Day at JMU, whose events included Evans said. "However, the per- a reading of names of Holocaust victims and their centage of minority students of poetry, displays in PC Ballroom and a candlelight JMU's total population has vigil. decreased." Schiff began her speech by giving a brief history Since the 1994'95 academic of the events that led to the Holocaust and the vari- year, the minority population ous areas it took place. She then illustrated the hor- has dropped from 13 percent to rific ways her family and friends were affected by / 11 percent in fall '98. There are the event. currently 1,817 minority stu- "In order to comprehend the incomprehensible dents out of the 14,414 students we must go back in time," she said. enrolled here, according to the Schiff vividly explained the various changes that JMU's Institutional Research occurred in her homeland, Eastern Poland, during web site (www.jmu.edu/instres- the rules of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. She said rch/home.htm.) during Hider's rule her family was forced to turn "Our battle with enrollment over all their possessions to the government, leav- is competition outside of JMU," ing them destitute. Schiff then faced one of her Evans said. "For students, there LINDSAY MANN/ouuftwif photo editor most traumatic experiences when she was only Students hold a candlelight vigil to remember victims killed In the Holocaust. The activity was only one part of Holocaust Remberance Day. see SPEECH page 13 see NUMBERS page 7 JVBr 2 Thursday, March 25, 1999 INFORMATION TABLE OF CONTENTS BREEZE 27 I acrosse "To the press alone, chequered as • pg. 14 — Spotlight: Is the US • pg. 17 — Zirkle House • P8- "" - it is urith abuses, the world is NEWS • pg. 29 — Men's Tennis ready for a woman president • pg. 19 — Bookstore Top 20 indebted for all the triumphs • pg. 3 — Camp Heartland: • pg. 31 — Club Baseball • pg. 15 — Female candidate • pg. 21 — Robert Bradley concert which have been gained by Journey of Hope 31 — Tom lt & • pg. 3 — Centennial Commission could sway votes • Pg- ° reason and humanity over error Adam Wynegar • pg. 5 — SGA News • pg. 15 — Darts and Pats FOCUS and oppression." . pg, 35 _ Rnal Four predictions • pg. 5 — Shorts Hall residents • pg. 16 — "The Oscars for non- • pg. 24-25 — Grafton Stovall — Janus Madison get priority housing watchers" projectionists LIFESTYLE FYI OPINION SPORTS 37 — STYLE • Pg- 'Scopes The Breeze is published Monday and • pg. 14 — House Editorial: US • pg. 17 — Children's Choir Fes- • pg. 27 — Mickey Matthews • pg. 41 — Comics Thursday mornines and distributed Involvement in Kosovo tival Concert • pg. 27—Athletic director search throughout James Madison Universih and the local Harrisonburg conimuni ty. 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