THE EVENT OF THE YEAR! ligh t and dark beer Benefit of Relay Center Tickets: 55.50 Campus Ministry 53.50 students Tickets at bookstore On the Mall or call 247-4033 Sunday, Oct. 12 1-6 pm Coffee House Friday, Oct. 10 I Drama "The Independent Eye" 8:00-1 :00 a.m. Ii at the Relay Center Beer on tap and refresh men ts .~ October 22nd Doug Puis & Tom Lucas German style cooking, . 7:30 p.m. "Cheshire" concluding with jam session singing, auctions, contests, Directions: till ... ~ Wilkens Ave. to Rolling Road Left 2 milt;~ to first light Cedar Ave., right .2 mile Shuttle Bug games, dancing, and /'. fhe Center is located on left. :' phone: 247-4033 . leaving Dorm III at 10:45 a.m. live music • l Every Sunday-Folk Mass- II a.m. Sunday for Folk Mass t Contemporary Worship - 6 p.m. Page 2, Retriever,6 October 1975 COlDlDent A Look at the Tuition Hike­ Battleground The promised tuition hike for the university next fall has elicited enough concern to prompt the first stirrings of a tuition fight. Last week, the Socialist Party workers, who feel fortunate when they sell fifteen copies of "The Militant""by weeks end, drew over thirty persons to a meeting which was billed as the beginning of a "Stop the Tuition Hike" fight. Despite the comments of some attendants that the meeting was "forty minutes of socialism and ten minutes of tuition talk" , the turnout demonstrated that there is potential concern for the rising cost of education at UMBC. The Student Government Association also announced its own plan for fighting the in­ crease. Vice President Jack Neil told the RETRIEVER that initial student response was The. Changing Employment Scene promising. It should be pointed out to those who expect a near immediate overturn of the tuition Last Wednesday morning, Alan Jones had a job with the student government which paid ruling that they are in for a long, tedious, and likely unrewarding battle. We hope though, $90 per month. ~y no?n of the same day, the job was suddenly worth only $50 per month. An that this does not diminish their enthusiasm. hour later, the Job paId $70 every month and by mid-afternoon Alan Jones had no job at all Protests of tuition hikes have become common in recent years. In many cases the efforts What did Alan Jones do to deserve that?' . have proved fruitless, in others, gains have been made. J?nes was the film series coordinator for the SGA. He spent many hours on his own time At George Washington University, students in the medical school have brought officials durmg the summer planning the series. His planning was evidently well done as the film into the courts with a lawsuit charging breach of contract, citing an implicit promise in the seri~s is the most consistently popular program on the campus. Several tim'es, potential catalog that the tuition jumps would be reasonable. When tuition rose 56 percent, G.W. of­ mOVIegoers have. had to be. turned away when the seats and aisles were filled. ficials found themselves in D.C. Superior Court faced with a class action suit filed by 500 Jones to_ok the Job early m th.e summer on the assumption that he would be paid $90 every students. mon~h when school began agam. He was appointed to the position by Student Government At nearby Georgetown University however, students found they had no grounds for a Presl.dent Harry Johnson, w~o trusted Jones to put .together an acceptable series, not to court fight because the college catalogue contains a disclaimer that stated provisions are mentIon an expended one WhICh would feature two fllms per week instead of the previous subject to change at any time, a statement identical to the one on the first page of the UMBC one. catalogue. Jones delivered as promised. The series was planned by the first week in August and The governing boards have their adv~ntages. Administrators have much easier access to announced to the public on the first day of classes. legal help and can stick around for lengthy court fights, when students, of course, cannot. Bu.t last .week, Jones was told he would not receive the money he had expected. Upon Additionally, the University of Maryland has a few aces in its band. The hike was hearmg thIS, Jones .threaten~d resignation. Harry Johnson found an additional $200 in the moderate, and the first one in several years. Even with the increase, the cost of education is SG~ budget to entIce the ~sgruntled Jones into staying on. It was ' not enough. Jones in line with most large state universities across the country. reSIgned Wednesday.' chargmg the SGA administration with failure to keep promises and Still, the trend in higher education today, at least in the more progressive states, is to extreme uncooperabveness. " provide easier financial access to education, such as has been done in New York and This is an unfortunate resignation for the students of UMBC as it means they can't be California. There are few today who will contend that people should be denied an education certain about what to expect in the film series. Nor was it quite within the bounds of fairness at a state university because they can't pay the required fee. to suddenly cut off the financial legs of the person who spent the summer planning the Yet with the recent increase, some Maryland students will be denied access to the series~ If the SGA is in financial trouble, no mention was made of plans to cut all officials University of Maryland, just because they can't meet the payments. salaries by a like amount. Jones was singled out for a cut in salary and it is no coincidence Students who have undertaken to fight the increase should be commended, and we that the bulk of his work is already done. The series will likely go on without him. And while congratulate them. The battle could be long, if indeed they can force a confrontation at all. a savings may have been made, the justice of that approach is open to question. But the initiative that was in evidence last week showed that there is still some spark in Alan Jones is not the only person who would have left the student government at that students, even in the "somber seventies". point. opposition to the budget. Therefore, the University is headed toward private university tuition rates at Co-sponsor Ommission Letters state institution educational level. Secondly, it concerns me that no particular regent seems to take an interest in the University of Maryland, Dear Sirs, Baltimore County. Besides the excellent effort on your The printing of corrections for the film series in the part to inform all major University leaders of the ac­ September 22 edition of the Retriever was indeed an in­ tivities of the Board, UMBC is left "in the woods." There valuable service rendered. However, in identifying the Amazing Lectures is a committee for UMES ; UMAB and UMCP are film series, the bulletin failed to mention the Hillcrest represented, but who represents UMBC? This is a Student Center as a co-sponsor of that series. tremendous oversight, but moreso, it is an insult to treat For the record, the Student Center sponsored the Dear Sir: this suburban institution as a step-child. showing of "The Harrad Experiment" on Wednesday, Your zip code is consistently wrong. This is not the I have attended both UMBC and UMCP, and I feel that September 17 , and has scheduled to show "Thomasina reason for this letter, but it makes for a good start. Look UMBC, although smaller, deserves all the rights and and Bushrod" on Wednesday, October 8; Papillon on on page two of any back issue. privileges of any other section of the University. Saturday, October 25, "The Mack" on Saturday, Novem­ The real reason for this letter is to express my Hopefully a student regent will represent UMES and ber 8. amazement at the pathetic lecture schedule at UMBC. UMBC, although smaller, deserves all the rights and Though the error is minute, it is necessary to keep the Probably the only one I will go to is Dick Gregory. -The privileges of any other sect.ion of the University. records straight. Hoping for a successful semester. rest are grammar school material, regardless of their Hopefully a student regent will represent UMES and Edward Daniels, Manager; credentials. One Gore Vidal, Art Buchwald, Jack An­ UMBC one day. As of yet, I regret to mention that this has Hillcrest Student Center derson, Elderidge Cleaver, John Dean or Dr. Shockley not hapened. would be worth a dozen Euell Gibbon's (who, rumor has it I appreciate your effort to inform students of the actions ,.. is hospitalized with food poisoning>. The apathy that of the Board of Regent. Hopefully the npws will be more exists at UMBC is astounding. Topics such as racism take optimistic in the future. From: Harry Johnson a back seat to parking spaces. Is there any hope? I sin­ SGA President retriever cerely hope so. I would like to see the University grow up. Respectfully, The RETRIEVER is published every Monday ex­ T. J. Wilkinson Jl·. 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