Tuesday, May 11, 1976 Presidents of UDCC, RSA Set Goals for COming Year . By SUZANNE BANKS explained, and direct that "We just took office on· opinion to the administration. l\{ay 1, and there are still "If that doesn't work,, he many things that we have to added, "mass student action find out about. But there are can possibly be organized. some specific goals I would He conceded that, "Nothing like to see worked on,, stated will probably be done about Martin Knepper. the building this year. No one "It takes time to see has actually come before the change, even if it is UDCC and asked about the frustrating," commented possibility of reopening the Barbara Stratton. building." The newly-elected The RSA will get involved presidents of the University by seeking exact figures of Delaware Coordinating concerning the building, Council (UDCC) and Stratton said, to determine if Resident Student Association the university is . actually (RSA), respectively, saving money through the Knepper and Stratton were closing. talking about future goals for Although the university is their administrations. spending less money on Knepper said he would like electricity, Stratton noted, to make the UDCC "more the revenue lost by Food effective,'• · while Stratton Service since the closing of cited the improvement of the Rathskellar is dormitory government as the substantial. Stratton pointed RSA's major goal. The two out that~ ... The university Committee to Study Activities Fee organizations will ·also ~e claims it wants to build a working together on some new building for the foreign Student, Administrative Members to Report· to Knepper by June 3 projects; both will be students. They already have working to obtain specific one ~hat's not being used in By KAREN FILl She added that the implement the fee. Its first information concerning Daugherty Hall ... Possibilities of committee must formulate a meeting will be held in the Daugherty Hall (Greystone The reform of student implementing a voluntary way to identify students who Reed Room of the Student Building). government will be one of the $10 student activities fee for pay the fee so they can be Center at 3 p.m. tomorrow "In my opinion, the UDCC's major tasks. next fall are being admitted to activities free of and is open to the university building was not closed for Knepper said a committee investigated by a committee charge. Methods now under community. ~easo.ns the administration that any student can join will composed of students and consideration include coupon According to Hinderhoffer, gave (utility costs), but be established to look into administrators. booklets and identification if 50 per cent of the freshman because of the Rathskellar," this next fall. If this The group, which was cards. class, 25 per cent of the Knepper stated. Although the committee decides that appointed by Martin The biggest task sophomore class and a small building is officially being reform is insufficient or Knepper, president of the immediately facing the percentage of upperclassmen used as vacant storage impossible, the UDCC will University of Delaware committee is determining were to pay the voluntary space, Knepper said he has work toward forming a new CoordinatinK Council whether the 54.7 per cent of fee, there would ·be enough heard of classes and tests form of student government, (UDCC), is headed by junior students who voted approval funds to support and increase being held there. The UDCC he stated. Donald Hinderhoffer. It is for the idea in the UDCC the quality of student will gather student opinion on· charged with determining if referendum constitutes activities. the subject, Knepper Studenti absenteeism· fromh the fee is necessary, if so, -strong enough support to (Canttnued to Page11) comm ttee meetmgs as finding viable ways of been a big problem in the implementing it, and also 1 seeking other methods of Ri.sing Cost.s Cause_Board Hikes ~:!;lo~uta ~~:r:~r l~ :tnsw~ll funding student activities. keep track of attendance. Hinderhoffer, controller of the Budget Board, will be Volmi Explains Steps Taken to Trim Food Service Budget lo;·weo~avec~o;::r:!so~ero: working with four other By KAREN SCHOFIELD and ROBERT DUTTON increase ov.er the current $746 figure for the campus," Knepper admitted, students and four Editor's note: This is the second of a seven-day, 20-mea! plan. This represents a 29 "but we can remove any professional staff members. two-part series dealing with the increases in cent per day jump ovet the present rate, student who isn't doing the A final decision is expected the university's room and board rates. from $3.57 to $3.86. The purchaser also loses a job from his position on the to be submitted to Knepper Today's article concerns board increases. meal in the process. ~acuity Sen~te." The YDCC by June 3. It was not very long ago that you could It would be unfair, however, to blame the IS currently m the process of According to Patricia walk into a supermarket and purchase a increases in board rates of the past several ---.. appointing a new Wray, UDCC secretary, if the gallon of milk for about a dollar. Today that years on food purchases alone. That simply nominations chairman, he group decides to recommend isn't the case. Wages and salaries represent said. This chairman and his the fee, it will become part of 34 per cent of the Food Service budget, and committee will accept next fall's tuition billing increased expenses in this area have also nominations for the student form . "However, if the analysis helped to push the board rate skywards. positions on the Fauclty committee is unable to meet Other expenses have also increased, but' Senate, in addition to various the (June 3) deadline,'' primarily the jumps in food prices wages, administrative committees. explained Wray, "they will same gallon costs $1.50 or more. Costs of and salaries have necessitated meal ticket According to Knepper, the have to look for alternatives other food items have reflected similar price price hikes. · position should be filled by for collecting money next increases and that, in a nutsheU, explains the Food Service is self-sufficient. This means sometime next week. year." · university's 36 per cent increase in board that the money to pay its expenses must The UDCC is also working Wray said the $10 fee would rates since 1972. come entirely from the revenue. it on a voluntary student be used for programming Experts expect food -prices to continue to generates- of which 84.9 per cent comes via activities fee, Kneppf:!r noted. concerts and first-run climb. Gilbert Volmi, director of Food semester board contracts. (See related article, at left.) movies, as well as other Sen•ice, says the expected increases are one Is there anything being done to help Unless more money is campus activities. This of the major reasons behind the university's keep the board rate stable, if nothing raised through this fee, would leave university latest board rate hike of eight per cent, slated else? Volmi points to the service's Knepper asserted, next subsidies free to be used for the fall. budget cut's, saying, "We didn't walt year's expected 10 per cent exclusively for the support of In September, it will cost a student $79~ for for the university's current budget budget cut could have clubs. a seven-day, 19-meal plan. This is a $50 (Contln.-.1 to Pege 81 (Contln•d to Pege 4) Poge2 REVIEW, Universit of Delaware, Newark, Delaware May 11,1976 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM,- CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE COURS!SFORFALL 1976 COURSES FOR FALL 1976 Core Courses for Fall1976 Core Course OHerlngs for Fall-1976 HLS _240/E267/Phl 240 "Critical Thinking, Biomedical ' Ideas, and Culture" HLS 242/SOC 267 "Society and the Health Professions" An interdisciplinary course studying historical and contemporary ideas of biomedicine to develop capacities for An interdisciplinary study of the health care profession in critical thinking. The analysis of texts in literature, philosophy, terms of their psychological, political, historical, and and the history of ideas is undertaken through lecture and humanistic aspects of professionalism in these fields. discussion. Focusing on the question of how causes and Attention will center on the origin's development and origins are explained, the course will analyze a variety of maturation of the health and biomedical profession. Group explanations in theology, science and social theory. O.scussion and vlsiting lectures. (3 credits) Arts and Science Group I credit No prerequisite (3 credits) Arts and Science Group I credit No Prerequisite Team-taught by Ronald Martin and Heyward Brock, Dept. of Team - taught by Paul Durbin, Dept. of Philosophy, David English, Lucia Palmer, Dept. of Philosophy, Stephen Barnes Ermann and Robert Rothman, Dept. of Sociology, Ronald and Rivers Singleton, Biological Sciences. Martin, Dept. of English. Meeting time: .................... _...... T R 9:30-11 :00 Class meeting time: ....................... T R 4:00-5:30 Elective Course OHerlngs for Fall 1976 Elective Course oHerlngs for Fall1976 HLS 467, Sec. 11/ E 465/B 476 "Creative Process In Science and the HLS 446/PHL 447 "Philosophy of Medicine and Technology" Humanities'' (Seminar) A multidisciplinary study of the creative process as exemplified by the A study of the contemporary research community using the al:'proacn of methods, insights, and techniques of analysis and discovery in selected social and political philosophy. Who makes the major decistons about areas of the scientific and humanistic disciplines. The particular ways that research? What rights to individual researchers have? What control does a writers, philosophers, scientists and artists generate perceptions of man, democratic society have over research? The biomedical research nature and society will be a primary focus of the course.