THE TUFTS DAILY Where You Read It First Thursday, February 27,1992 Vol XXIV, Number 27 IMALE FRAUD I Tuition raise, budget discussion lanticipated at Trustees meeting- by PATRICK HEALY Total charge for the 1991-92 us less competitive.” Daily Editorial Board year was $22.479. Meserve charged the US gov- The agenda for Tufts :Board of William Meserve, chair of the ermnent for slashing funding for Trustees meeting Saturday will Trustee Finance Committee, said colleges and universities, senti- focus on two main goals: to ap- yesterday that he could not corn- ments that have been echoedover prove a raise in undergraduate ment on the recommendation re- recentmonthsby University Presi- tuition that is less than previous garding a tuition raise until after it dent Jean Mayer and other ad- years, and to review proposed ministrators. State and federal university budgets that will !nark funding for scholarships, finan- little change in existing schools, cial aid and loans have been re- departments. and programs. duced over past years, and many Tufts Provost Sol Gittleman universities like Dartmouth, said this week the raise in total Stanford, Yale, and Brown have photo by Anni tuition and fees for next year will made several cuts to balance their Stealing letters or mailing a card to Mom -- you make the call. be lower than last year’s raise, budgets. which was 6.6 percent. In recent Chair of the Board of Trustees years the University has raised Nelson Gifford could not be Tufts, Theta Delta Chi students’ tuition as much as nine reached for comment yesterday. and ten percent, but administra- Although the budgets will not release new settlement tors and trustees have pledged not be given final approval until this hy CHRIS STRIPINIS sion of bids for membership; and to continue heavy increases in spring, the Trustees will examine the various university budgets and Daily Editorial Board 4. Initiation of new members.” tuition. The University aruiounced its All sanctions on Theta Delta GittlemansaidtheTrusieesand make recommendations to the new settlement with the Theta Chi will fully end Sept. 1, 1992, Administration would like to keep Administration. For the Tufts’ Delta Chi fraternity on Tuesday. when the fraternity will “be rein- the raise in tuition below six per- undergraduate colleges, Aca- cent, but he couldnot say whether Daily file Photo demic Vice President Melvin outlining the terms by which the stated to full membership in the Trustee William Meserve fraternity will be re-organized on Greek Community.” thc increase will be under the Bernstein hassaid there will beno the Tufts campus. Yet, while the fraternity will target amount. is made to the Board this week- major funding shifts in the fiscal The new settlement, the sec- be allowed a formal rush period “People are working very. very end. He added the University, 1993 budget. ond this month, statesthat certain of 10 days this spring and a pre- hard to stay under our goal. to though fiscally sound now, may Search committee to make sanctions imposed upon the fra- ceding week to organize the rush, bring ‘any raise in under six per- face problems in the near future. report ’ ternity in 1990 will end immedi- theseevents willbecarefullyover- cent.” Gittlernan said. He noted “It‘s fair to say that over the According toTrustee Overseer ately. The sanctions now ended seen by a group of alumni to be the University is “in much belter next several years it will be very Joe Lambert, several trustee com- difficult for all higher education include: “ 1. The use of the frater- appointed by the Theta Delta Chi shape than last year.” referring to mittees will make reports at the nity name in public advertising; Graduate Corporation. the fact that the Administration to come in with balanced bud- weekend meeting. Among the 2. Restrictions on participation in The University had released a wasrequiredcut$3.6millionfrom gets.” Meserve said. “Clearly annual committee reuorts will be formal and informal rush activi- the fiscal 1992 budget to balance tuition‘s going up at a clip that is ties [with exceptions]; 3.Exten- seeRUSH, page2 costs. unsustainable, and it could make see TRUSTEES, page lo Three Peter-Paul subcommittees Senator to raise issue investigating new revenue sources of eliminating ROTC by CAROLINE SCHAEFER in its early phases, this sub-com- Daily Editorial Board mittee is chaired by Child Study by GRACE TALUSAN Technology’s Navy ROTC unit. The Budget cand University Professor Fred Rothbaum. Contributing Writer While Field said he could not Priorities C~iintnittee.also known “We’re looking at differenl Eliminating the University’s comment on the issue, he ex- as the Peter-Paul Committee, has cost-cutting measures which policy of accepting Reserves Of- plained that Tufts accepts ROTC divided into three subcommittces would save the University ficer Training Corps scholarships scholarships from the Department this semester in an effort to focus $100,000, but we have not con- from the US Defense Depmnent of Defense througha“cross-town” on key budget issues, committee sidered any specifics; as of yet,” will be discussed at the Tufts agreement with MIT and NROTC, co-chair David Walt said Tues- said Joe Swimmer, a sub-com- Community Union Scnate meet- which allows Tufts students to be day. mittee member and trustee repre- ing Sunday. accepted to ,and participate in Walt, chair of the first ‘sub- sentative. TCU Senator Andy Salzer. a MIT’s NROTC program. committee, said his group will The third sub-group will re- membcr of the Tufts Lcsbian. Gay Field said that ROTC is sub- concentrate on securing “revenue view the issue of Operations and and Bisexual Community, will ject to regulation by the Depart- from non-traditional sources of Maintenance, said Walt. raise the issue to discuss discrimi- ment of Defense. According to education” for the University. “Issues of construction, sup- nation occurring from the De- Field, admitting homosexuals to “The goal of this sub-commit- port for building and grounds. partment of Defense’s policy ban- their scholarship program is not tee is to fmd ways the University ROTC’s decision to make. It is -- and custodial concerns are em- ning homosexuals from partici- can utilize its resources to do bodied within this committee. The pating in the military ‘and there- the Department of Defense which Daily file photo “really feels at the mercy of Con- some non-traditional things,”said TCU Senator Allison Feiner focus will deal with cost-effec- fore ROW. Walt, a biology professor. tiveness and capital fund needs,” Becauseofhis concern that the gress in this policy,” said Field. Thesub-committeemet for the the more humanistic aspects Walt said. ROTC discriminates against gay TLGBC coordinator Donna second time yesterday, and is in which aren’t tapped into as often Each of the three sub-comnit- and lesbian students in awarding Penn expressed that “as long as the “very preliminary stages,” as the more technological areas,” tees will produce a “two to three scholarships, Salzer is proposing the Univesity hasan anti-discrimi- Walt said. Feiner said last night. page brief report’’ representing that Tufts discontinue accepting nation policy that includes sexual TuftsCoinrnwiity Union Sena- The group will look into such the sub-committee‘sgeneralfeel- ROTC scholarships. While he will orientation, there is an inherent tor Allison Feiner, a member of forms of continuing education ings concerning their area of fo- suggest that current ROTC stu- contradiction between university this subgroup. said she believes through night programs, though cus, and release the reports to the dents be permitted to keep their policy and. the Department of the main goal of the committee is they have not made any concrete Tufts community. Eachreport will scholarships, Salzer will recom- to“deve1op a report which would decisions yet. suggest specific steps that the nend Tufts not accept any more see ROTC, page 13 state ways that Tufts could en- The sccond sub-committeewill University should take to improve ZOTC scholarships. h‘ance its educational atinosphere explore methods of re-organizing the budget. In Fall 1990, former TCU and revenue.“ Arts and Sciences to save the The ideas of focus for the three Senator wall; Pansing raised the Inside “We’d like to focus on some of University $100,00Oormore. Still sub-groups generated from three ssue of banning ROTC from the sources. First, Academic Vice :ampus. Although the Senate Viewpoints ...................... 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