Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 1971-03-03 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (1971). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 2247. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/2247 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. \\/' ~ -" TH'£ NEWS VOL. LY XAVIER UNIVERSITY, CINCINNATI, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1971 N0.18 STUDENT FEES UP· $50 Shearer Memorandum Reveals Increase; ·Senate Committee Seeks Alternatives MIKE. by KING . The present $50 fee pays for aU Students Staff (50%), University Rod Shearer, Dean of Student costs of Health Services, Center Theatre (20%), University Affairs has revealed a possible . Center Director (30%), Band $25 hike in the student general fee Placement, Financial Aid, .. Campus Ministry, Intramural· (30%), Library (25%), and the XU per semester. ·The indication Players (30%). came last Wednesday in a Athletics, Clef Club, Athenaem, memorandum· released to the students for a Christian Also included in the costs are Student Senate. Community, Xavier News, and part of the principle and interest Meramid Tavern. on the University Center, The report claimed that the physical plant costs to maintain university could no longer The fee also pays a percentage of various other student services facilities used for student maintain the present programs activities and services, and ·a with previous budget aJlocations and activities: Psychological services (20%, urban and share in the general without risking a $1 miHion administrative overhead deficit for the '71-'72 academic University Affairs (30%), Dean of Student Affairs (75%), Dean of President, Provost, Business year. Manager etc.) 1 The report added that efforts will be made to increase the r:The M;;;o;;;·~r' A;':d"''I income in these areas by 1) increasing Health Service The· Musketeer, the Xavier University yearbook, will be charges for those who do not pay discontinued after this year. The decision to terminate the Annual the general fee; 2) charging a tix was based on economic facts. The publication cost the University on all tickets sold for revenue­ producing events held in the between $15,000 -$16,000, paid for by student fees. theatre, fieldhouse or armory. In a questionnaire distributed to the Senior class, Roderick Shearer, The memorandum was Dean of Student Affairs, stated that "The continuation of the presented to the Student Senate publication of the Annual may necessitate an additional increase in in hopes that theSenate could the General Fee over and above that which may be necessary because offer alternatives to the of other activities which benefit the entire campus on a regular and ongoing basis." recommended increase. A senate committee was set up last JULIAN BOND, controversial state representative from The Musketeer is a student edited publication. Intended as a Wednesday to discuss such Georgia, will speak this Sunday at Xavier. Mr. BQ.nd's topic permanent record of student life at Xavier, The Musketeer presents a alternatives. Their report was is "What's Ahead?" panorama of the various school events, social functions, athletics, incomplete at press time but it is and campus organizations. slated to be revaled at today's Student Senate meeting. Black ~Legislator Julian Bond Speaks. at XU This Sunday / Julian Bond, controversial· rights drives and voter MR. BOND won a third election black Jigislator from Georgia, wiH registration campaigns in in November, 1966, and in speak this Sunday at 8:00 P.M. in Georgia, Alabama, • Mississippi December, 1966, the United the Fieldhouse. Admission to and Arkansas. States Supreme Court ruled Bond's speech entitled "What's He was first elected to a seat unanimously that the Georgia Next?" will be $1.00 without a House had erred in refusing him Xavierl.D. · created by reapportionment in the Georgia . House of his seat. On January 9, 1967, he .. JULIAN BOND was born in Representatives in 1965, but was took the Oath of Office and Nashville, Tennessee, , on prevented from taking office in became a member of the Georgia January 14, 1940. He attended January, 1966, by members of the House of Representatives. primary school at Lincoln legislature who objected to his In the Georgia House, MR. University, Pennsylvania, and statements about the war in Viet BOND serves as a member of the was iiraduated from the George Nam. After winning a second Education, Insurance and State Schoo), a co-educational Quaker election in February, 1966 - to Institutions and Properties preparatory school, in Bucke fill his vacant seat - a special Committees. County, Pennsylvania, in June of House Committee again voted to He is a member of the Advisory' Above is a scene from the upcoming Xavier production, · 1957. He entered Morehouse bar him from membership in the Board of the proposed Martin Shakespeare's Twelfth Nig/lt. The comedy will be presented College in Atlanta in September this and· the following weekend in the University Center legislature. (Continued on page 3) ofl957. Theatre. Tickets are available across from the Grill. BOND was a founder of the Committee on Appeal for Human RightS (COAHR), the Atlanta' Academic Proposal Passes, ROTC Dra~s Senate Fire University Center student organization that · co-ordinated by JIM GRUENWALD considered in allocating the the criteria established in the passed a constitutional three years of student anti· amendment for the treasurer to Finances continued to be· the funds, as their very existence 'lroposal. segregation prot.ests in Atlanta is neither eHential nor Several amendments were have a fund of $500 at his beginning in 1960. He served for major item of contention at last offered which only watered-down disposal to allow emergency week's student senate meeting. ·peculiar to a university. three months as Executive Further, we do not wish to the original wording. disbursements without specific Secretary of the COAHR. Several senators engaged in legisla!!_on. spirited debate with . Student promote the art of killing or Coffey questioned .the make-up In April, 1960, BOND helped to Body President Mark Thiron in murder; depending on. yq~r of the Academic Committee Dean Roderick Shearer found the Student Nonviolent Co­ the longest government session of point of view. The principle of which will screen the presented an information ordinating Committee (SNCC). the year. objectivity or fairness may be applications. He charged that the memorandum to the senate That summer, he joined the staff overlooked in this · case predominately H.A.B. constructed concerning the proposed increase of a newly· formed Atlanta weekly. The final proposal on the because we feel no principle is board would create an intentional in the general fee. (see related agenda was the consideration of Negro newspaper, the atlanta worth the. sacrifice of a single discrimination. story). · inquirer, as a reporter and feature Thiron's Student Government human being: ID addition, it Thiron reminded Coffey that The senators welcomed Rita . writer. He Jilter became Grant of $2500 for promotion of can be pointed out that ROTC "the president has · the Bontempo who fills the void left Managing·Editor. academic excellence on campus is the only academic prerogative to appoint the by Tom Kusen's resignation. · (see page 4). The senators quickly department that does not In January, 1961, BOND left committee members just as he drew their swords to trim some of offer a major." Tom Lux of the Speaker's Morehouse to join the staff of the Thiron's personal bias from the does his cabinet members." Committee related the details of Student Nonviolent Co­ proposal. The senators · objected to Coffey retroted, "It is your the Jane Fonda concellation. He ordinating Committee (SNCC) as Thiron's personal bias, charging feelings imposed on this Senate told the senate that the tentative Communications Director, a Costello and Stevens expressed. that he was "pereonnally and all future senates." date for her return engagement position he held until September, general agreement with Thiron stabbing the department in the The senators passed the motion was sei for March 8. 1966. While with SNCC, BOND on the ROTC department back." ·after Th iron urged them "to allow directed the organizati~n's participation in the grant. Lux mentioned that the loss for ten more minutes to settle this photography, printing ·and The original proposal publicity would be covered by a Mike Coffey pointed out that now." publicity departments. His work stated: "The . ROTC the ROTC department would be probable decrease in Fonda's with SNCC took him to civil department will 1~ot be unlikely to receive funds due to In other action,· the Senate (Co11ti1111ed 011 pagt• 6) \ t Page 2 XAVIER UNIVERSITY, CINCINNATI, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1971 Backs Nixon Policies EXAMS - DEADLINES Taft Talks to Small Kelly Crowd DON'T PANIC! by PHIL MULLIN Taft pointed to major changes method for selection until that Senator ~obert Taft (R-Ohio) in Republican policy formulated time. He implied he would Professional Typing addressed a crowd of by President Nixon. He cited the support a two year extension of Service Available for approximately 40 people in Kelly Nixon Doctrine in the area of the draft. ·, . Auditorium last Thursday night. foreign policy and social welfare The senator likewise backed TERM PAPERS, RESUMES, Taft discussed a variety of and housing reforms on the President Nixon's policy in Laos foreign and domestic issues and domestic front. He especially and Cambodia, referring to it as LETTERS & THESIS revealed himself a firm supporter praised Housing and Urban "sound stategy which I believe is of President Nixon's policies.