r -- - -" - -11 ,a - op- --,% WEDNESDAYi FEBRUARY 26 1975 Statesman Stony Brook. New Yo - Volume 18 Number-55 i Distributed free of charge throughout campus and community every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday V - - ,dF-~~~ ^ Protest Today New Add/Drop Guidelines Today's scheduled cil demonstration, endorsed by the Poli Council, incorporates the attempts i Rejected by Faculty Senate SUNY students to prevent tl s ^ X t- I proposed dormitory rent increaw By RUTH BONAPACE tdspoided-that the sUtudnt -has the "We have a good chance The Faculty Senate Executive dgnature of the instuctor to add the Committee has overruled a recent courE and p that it- does nt succeeding," claimed Polity Preside decision by the Arts and Sciences cae oner."ad/. Manginelli (right). Oth Gerry Committee on Academic Standing (CAS) 2. CAS autoacally acpt all Council business included t] ,which would have streamlined the petitioin to oP acoune if a note is evaluation of recent club allocatio procedures employed for reviewing late submitted by" he instructor and thi made by the Program and Servic add/drop requests. does not create an Council. Executive Committee Chairwoman Mobey sadd that he had interpreted Stor v on Page Estelle James doesn't see the ruling as a the actions oftt e CAS to be a _ l - of policy. She said that the matter designed to reduce the woIdlo - - revesal - decision of the CAM- on Flfy to pettioof the CAS;aprvas aid INaqaI fiiec in Marathon Dance liberalize late add/drop restrictions was Last Friday night, Hand College inconsistent with Faculty -Senate - He' idicaed that publicity wMc sponsored a Dioce Marathon to raise guidelines. alertd PFaculty Senate a to th* funds for the Hand College "The correct procedure is that if the CAS add/drop of i mwy ha led Commisary. The marathon was heldin CAS wants to recommend this chapg, to th ceAWtie committee's decs and the Tabler Cafeteria with a few they should formally recommend it to may threaten fuer ainin said James. "It is a eff unud po-ii le _dd----o by competing contestants and close to the Faculty Senate," change." She added that the the CAS. with the various major policy 500 observers. Along two and five-week limits of adds and But James said, "I tbink we [the dance contests, Hand College, which drops, respectively, was originally Faculty SenateI would'bae found out cosponsored the event with the established by the Faculty Senate, and eventually s it is smmthich Student Activities Board, sold beer for that "Faculty Senatelegiation can onlyr affecttxO faculty; h i mid "ot fd the crowd watching the contestants.- be reversed by the Faculty Sate." out after the at/L Mobw d that eve; if- he Story on Page 7 James said that the action by the CAS should hae been fit dsssed wil "a Exec t eWe e e Facvlt _*- lot of other goW goWWwd to b __att se *dwc1-:,=6 involved" including the Fculty Senai Swim-a--thonMone) Ad-Hoc Committee on s and te CBciduS at my tdie vote sote tw Sw1mming Coach Kett Lee has said Add/Drop Procedures and e revmr to the methdw etoftla Id/np In that he plans to use $1,000 out of the Oevrew committees of the School at wbb * Bs peslefo& approximately $3,000 he expects to Engineering and the Health Scimes w be judged -t tby CMS. raise from pledges from last Sunday's Center. - Te Faulty S8at L m et 0MM& Swin-a-thon to send both swimmer Cosderable Debate 18, aid wll dhmm the CAS a-cfam *I Leah Holland and himself to the Committee on Academic Standyg thaf_ , ta. tisd* *I d t--- me scum stated that being eni at _eWg _ * women's National Competition at Acting Chairman Max Mobley considerable debate" the fola'wIg pOliy and _do not oane Ow Arizona State University. "after ad/dop motions were passed by the CAS Frida: Fault Sena tertltati s* eladm Story on Page 16 1. CAS automatically approe ale at my odwr fme di te _ I%- - N.- - ~~~~~~~h- F -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pp, 61 FinancialA id Gets 3 Million Fedteral Dollars By DAVID GILMAN economy than borrowing their way through." additions) $112,000 wast soved for w sudy Pending the approval of the U.S. Senate, House of This projected breakdown of financial aid funds for program; the Eduaio p G t wa Representatives and President Gerald Ford, the funds next year significantly far exceeds that of the total given to qualifg en or or n, allocated this year to Stony Brook's financial aid $745,000 allocated for this year, Whitlock said. Of this funded $12,000 and the Continuitg Gc - program will represent a $1.5 million increase over last sum, $546,000 represented the basic governmental mainly for uppe n, was gie $7300. l year's federal allotment, according to Financial Aid allotment (this does not in the --Gil .r^ Director Bache Whitlock, Jr. The federal allocatlon for doea ming year- bee Brook amrl t . Only 50% Seen *S- . of ' .s. +:tr: appealed by Stony For the 1974-75 academic year, the national government turned us down initially beca they government added $1.6 million to Stony Brook's wanted to keep us at the Sla that w ha* financial aid till. Of that sum, however, the financial this year," said Whitlock. "So we req e ted alloetion aid department has received only $745,000, in check in October which was accepted in Octobe, but only form. This year's federal allocation, in contrast, is for this yea's level," he said. $3,100,000. After Washington refused to grant an ineaew in However, effective July 1 of this year, Whitlock financial aid funds, the University app0aled the cm to anticipated that the amount he will actually receive is New York, to the Department of Health, Educon approximately $1.5 million. "We expect, based on the and Welfare. Rejected in December, a final was last couple of years' allocations, to be given around 50 subsequently sent back to Washington and, according what we've been approved for," he said. to Whitlock, "this is the appeal that wa w ." percent of Staeet Reuie Increase Breakdown Contingent upon Washington approval, the following As a result of the sharp increase of a aid- are the individual increases comprising the entire funding, work study opportunities will coneot financial aid allocation: National Direct Student Loans rise. However, Whitlock says that "the only way the will be increased by $636,000; the general loan department can use these newly ancted funds w increase was kept low, according to Whitlock, because any given student is baed on the preseice of a 'most students shy away from loans"; the work study financial statement." program was increased $623,000, which represents a Work-study jobs will be granted to a qualifying 600 percent hike due, in part, to the temporary service applicant with the provision that he work tor a jobs cutbacks that students are now facing. nonprofit organization. "We can employ a studet According to Whitlock, the sharp increase in work anywhere," said Whitlock, "and I would baad a gum study funding was also a factor of "our impression that woiK-Suay JOUS win greasy incirsws oaf July 1, UUm that we could employ one in one of the United States students would rather work their way through this to a sharp rise in financial aid funds. dominions, even though we haven't done it yet., ^^-___. __.^ ^______-_-.--,^--------------------------------------------------------------------vsf^wr r Black Muslim Leader Dies Chicago, . (A P)-Elijah until today. preached austerity; yet Muhammad, a sharecropper's Herbert Muhammad, one of Muhammad lived hi a 19-room Fares Increase? son who became the leader of Elijah's sons and manager of mansion in the Hyde Park of Will Transit the Black Muslim religious sect world heavyweight boxing Chicago, near the University of The head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that preached black supremacy, champion Muhammad Ali, said Chicago campus heatened April 1 fare increases on New York City bus, subway and died yesterday after a month through a spokesman he may Other aspects of Muhammad commuter lines at a kgislative hearing yesterday, unless state and long illness. He was 77. issue a statement later. In an appeared contradictory. While local germents provide a $290 million subsidy. Muhammad, a millionaire and interview with The Associated preaching black supremacy, the MTA chairman David Yunich said the 35 cent bus and subway leader for more than 40 years of Press a week ago, the younger man he followed, Fard, was fare would go to 40 cents without state help, and the commuter the Nation of Islam whose Muhammad declined to discuss white. Muhammad had fares would go up 30 percent. The average fare of $1.41 per members were popularly known the future- of the Black Muslims denounced whites at times as commuter ride would go to $1.83. Without additional increases in as Black Muslims, had been in the event of his father's death. devils, yet he got along well with state aid in 1976, Yunich added, the bus-subway fare would rise to hospitalized since Januay 29 Muhammad All, one of the best many of them and employed 60 cents, and the averap commuter fore would have to go to $2.35 and listed in critical condition hknown Black Muslim members, them in his economic per ride. In his oposed 1975-76 budget, Governor Hugh Carey did since February 8. He died of was en route to Chicago. enterprises. not renw last year's $200 million bus subsidy, including $180 congestive heart failure, said Born as Elijah Poole Tiny and light-skinned, often million for the MTA.