THE ■IT IS ITAIL January 27, 1983
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Vol. 81, No. 31
Regents unanimously up fees By Mark Spears Staff Writer
Vista photo by Glenda Jackson
A mist monster (maintenance worker) blocked the doorway to the
Communication Building Wednesday as the Maintenance Department steamcleaned the campus in 23 degree temperature.
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday that could increase tuition and fees by 10 and 15 percent for the 1983 fall semester. The resolution, which will raise $7 million in revenues for Oklahoma universities, will now go to the Legislature for approval. The tuition and fee hike was approved shortly after the announcement of a $6.4 million cutback in allocations due to state revenue shortfalls. In-state student's fees will be raised by 10 percent and out-ofstate student's fees will be raised by 15 percent. CSU's lower division fees for in-state students would increase from $16.57 to $18.22. Upper division fees would rise from $17.67 to $18.43 and graduate credit would go from $19.87 to $21.85.
Non-resident tuition would increase from $41.32 to $47.52 for lower division courses. Upper division courses would increase from $44.97 to $51.72 and graduate courses would go from $51.52 to $59.25. The increases will continue at a rate of 10 percent a year until students are paying 25 percent of their educational costs. Students now pay 17 percent and the state pays the remaining 83 percent. Regents Chairman Eugene Swearingen, of Tulsa, stated that the regents want to be fair to the taxpayers in regard to the amount they pay as compared to what the students pay. David Blakeman, Assistant Chancellor for Communications Services for the Board of Regents said that the resolution will now go to the legislature and they will have to change the fee law. He also said that if the legislature passes the resolution he believes the regents will have to
act again to set the fee rates. The new rates will take affect 120 days after a public notice. Also on the agenda at the Regents meeting were allocation cuts to the colleges and universities in the state. Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University will both get about $1.9 million dollars less than they had anticipated. CSU will lose $366,000 from their budget over what the had received last year. Swearingen commented that the Regents don't like to cut budgets and that is probably the first time that they have had to do it. Most schools have already cut back on travel, supplies and utilities and some school administrators said that they may not fill vacancies raising the student faculty ratio.
Congress unable to say no
State of the Union address unclear Clouds were hanging low at President Reagan's State of the Union address Tuesday night. "It's not perfectly clear what Reagan meant in his address," said Tom Guild, associate political science professor. "The State of the Union address is a broad outline of general goals, and usually, the specifics follow in the budget message Reagan will send to Congress in a few days." The freeze that Reagan is proposing is to give Congress the option of cutting some programs and increasing funding for others. "At the same time, he wants to keep total spending to the same amount spent last year for all those programs combined but compensate for inflation," Guild added. However, Reagan didn't include defense spending and social programs in the freeze. These two items make up about 75 percent of the budget, so Reagan is actually including only 25 percent of the budget in the freeze. "Some in Congress will argue that, in the interest of fairness, these items should go along with the freeze," he said.
Based on these percentages, Reagan predicts that there will still be a $185 billion deficit for fiscal year 1984. "That's one of the problems with getting the deficit under control. Politicians treat certain programs, like social security and defense, as 'sacred cows' - programs that, for political reasons, they dare not touch," Guild said. "They just don't seem to have the political will or courage to deal with the problem at all. It's out of control and no one seems to want to do anything about it. No one can say no." The stand-by tax Reagan covered in his address is actually a trigger tax, according to Guild. "There are two conditions. If these two conditions happen, Reagan is proposing a $5 per barrel oil import tax which would raise the gasoline 12 cents per gallon. This tax will not be triggered until 1986 and only if — a. Congress adopts the spending freeze that Reagan recommended and — b. if the economy is out of the recession by then; in other words, when we're back into prosperous times with the economy
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growing, unemployment down and the whole bit. Guild said he thought there is a possibility the conditions could be met, but then the argument has been for a long time if more people go to work, people are paying less unemployment compensation and less in welfare benefits, then it will cut down on the deficit considerably, which would make the tax irrational. "Also, I don't think there is any support around the country for raising the gasoline taxes 12 cents per gallon. We've already
had the 5 cent per gallon increase and a lot of people are unhappy about that. "Gas prices are low now because the demand is much less than the supply. There have been new oil finds in Alaska and the North Sea around Great Britain. Iran is fighting a war in the Mideast and they're desperate for hard currency. The only way they can get it is to sell oil. " OPEC is in disarray; it can't decide on quotas or price. It's just a combination of things, plus we have decontrolled gasoline in this
Replacement hiring i By Larry Miller Capitol Bureau Reporter
Three faculty members have been hired on a temporary basis to fill vacancies in the school of business and the school of special arts and sciences. The hirings were approved last week by the state Board of Regents for Oklahoma Colleges. Two other personnel matters were also approved, along with some equipment purchases and reports on two Central State University construction projects. State agencies are under a hiring freeze, but CSU president Bill Lillard said faculty replacements were not included in the freeze. Hired were Darrell Nasalroad, 35; Joseph Grzybowski, 34, and Karen Waganer, 29. All were hired for the spring semester with salaries ranging from $10,750 to $13,425. Nasalroad will teach marketing, filling a vacancy caused by the extension of professor Vincent
Orza's leave of absence. Nasalroad has four years experience at Star Spencer High School and four years professional work as an art director and medical illustrator. Grzybowski will be an assistant professor of funeral service, filling a vacancy left by Geneva Murray's extended maternity leave. Grzybowski has taught at the University of Oklahoma and worked three years as a data analyst with the state Department of Wildlife Conservation. Ms. Waganer has been appointed instructor of nursing, replacing Barbara Henthorn who is on sabbatical leave. Ms. Waganer has three years professional nursing experience and two years teaching experience at CSU. In other action, regents approved: —The resignation of Kenneth Roth, instructor of oral corn-
country as one of Reagan's first acts when he took office." Guild said that the freeze will change the priorities within the programs, but when it gets down to deciding those priorities, the fighting is going to start. "No one has the courage to say — no, your programs are gone. Sorry, but we've got to have priorities. The old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune — 'I'm just a girl who can't say no' — that's just like the federal govenment. They just can't say no to anybody or anything."
not frozen munication, effective May 6. —An unpaid leave of absence for Vincent Orza, associate professor of marketing, to extend through the spring semester. —Purchase of a $4,880 piano for the music department, a $10,500 curtain gym divider for the physical education department, a $3,400 accordian door for the safety education department and materials valued at $2,600 for the public relations office. —A status report on the housing fire safety project. The report showed work is progressing on various renovation projects to upgrade fire protection in campus buildings. —A preliminary drawing for the 20,000-square-foot Life Science Building. The move clears the way for final plans to be prepared and resubmitted to the regents. Lillard said the final plans for the $1 million project would take another 45 days.