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Milner vandalized
Before Thanksgiving break
the large screen television and
a drink machine in Milner Hall
were destroyed.
The damage was discovered
during a 6 a.m. fire drill early
Wednesday morning.
The student who committed
the vandalism is no longer en
rolled at Guilford.
Hostage crisis over
The U.S. hostage crisis in
Lebanon came to an end
Wednesday with the release of
Terry Anderson, the last Ameri
can hostage.
Much attention is now being
given to the torture inflicted
upon the hostages during their
captivity.
Duke enters race
Former Ku Klux Klan leader
David Duke has indicated that
he will run for president in 1992.
He plans to challenge Presi
dent George Bush in several
southern republican primaries.
Duke's platform will include
controversial stances on affir
mative action, U.S. immigra
tion and U.S. foreign trade poli
cies.
Rape trial continues
The William Kennedy Smith
rape trial will continue next
week and has prompted intense
media coverage.
Sen. Edward Kennedy may
testify this week in his nephew's
defense.
Vol. 76, No. 9
Senate proposes
three percent cut
Peter Smith
Special to The Guilfordian
The Guilford College Commu
nity Senate has proposed a manda
tory three percent cut in all student
organization budgets for the spring
term in an effort to account for a
$27 thousand unpaid Quaker year
book bill from last spring.
The Senate has also instituted a
33 percent reduction in all student
leadership grants during the spring
in an effort to further accommo
date for the unexpected budget
debit
According to current Senate ex
ecutives, the previous Senate trea
surer, Gilbert Bailey, failed to ac
count for the $27 thousand bill when
he closed out The Quaker's budget
at the end of the spring semester
last year. Bailey then allocated the
remaining surplus balances of all
student organizational budgets into
a Senate "general interest" account
which was to be used to help bud
get for leadership stipends, or
grants, for this academic year.
The current Senate executives
proceeded to include the surplus,
which totaled approximately sl6
thousand, into this year's budget
allocations. The Senate was then
forced to cut back on both grants
Tuition increases hitting colleges nationwide
Scott Thornhill
Staff Writer
Institutions of higher learning
around the country are experienc
ing financial difficulties. Tuition is
rising for students while financial
aid isn't keeping pace. This situa
tion faces Guilford College as well.
The Strategic and Long Range
Planning Committee has recom
mended to the Board of Trustees
and Budget Committee that an in
crease of no more than 9.5 percent
for total costs be instituted for 1992-
93. The comittee also set 8.5 per
and budget allocations when it re
ceived the unexpected $27 thou
sand bill from Jostens Inc. in Oc
tober.
Due to the large debit, the Sen
ate will be unable to pay the bill in
full during this academic year, ac
cording to Senate executives. In
stead, the Senate was successful in
negotiating with Jostens in receiv
ing an interest free payment defer
ral plan. The Senate hopes to pay
for approximately half of the bill
this spring and then budget for the
remainder of the debit in next
year's budget allocations.
Susannah Street, the current
Senate treasurer, expressed frus
tration over the budget debacle
but does not hold any ill-feelings
toward Bailey or last year's ex
ecutive. She also believes Senate
will recover and that student orga
nizations will still be able to ac
complish many of the activities
which they had originally included
in their fall budgets.
"There really aren't any hard
feelings about last year's mistakes,
although it has been pretty frus
trating in trying to solve all the
problems," said Street. "When we
received the bill in October I was
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cent as the minimum for cost in
crease.
After doing extensive research
and hearing recommendations
from the Enrollment Management
Committee, the SLRPC set the
8.5-9.5 percent guidelines.
Community Senate Secretary
Brian Piatt, who sits on the com
mittee, said, "If we went below the
8.5 percent number, faculty
wouldn't receive any increase next
year, not even inflation costs."
The cap of 9.5 percent allows
the college to remain diverse. The
research indicated to a decrease in
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photo by Joan Malloeb
HMlel Secretaty Hara Glasser prays while lighting one of
the menora's candles In celebration of Hanukah.
racial diversity and quality of stu
dents if the cap was exceeded. The
cost increases are only recom
mended at this point pending ap
proval by the college Budget Com
mittee and Board of Trustees.]
Provost Dan Poteet said that the
9.5 percent cap "means that the
Budget Committee is to make ev
ery effort to do better than this
figure, although it might land in
the final analysis on such a figure."
The cost increase is not unique
to Guilford. Other schools in the
area and nationwide are increasing
costs for students.
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Greensboro College is looking
at an eight to nine percent increase
for next year. UNC-Greensboro's
increase will not exceed six per
cent Even some of the nation's
wealthiest institutions are hurting.
Paul Santee of The Crimson,
Harvard University's studentnews
paper, said, "We're looking at just
over a ten percent increase for next
year's costs." The increase will
take the total cost of tuition and
room and board to $24,432 at the
Cambridge, Mass., campus.
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