Happy
Thanksgiving
Special
Basketball Issue
VOLUME 21, NO. 6
NOV. 18, 1982
Budget Committee Slices Funds
By TONY PARKER
The Student Government
Association’s 1982-1983
School budget process is
complete. The By-Laws of
the Inter-Dormitory Senate
outline this process.
It begins “The Budget
Committee shdl consist of
five appointed Senators, one
of whom shall be appointed
chairperson...” The five ap
pointed Senators were
Margaret Parks, Connie
Bowes, James Farmer and
Tony Parker, with A1
Perkinson holding the chair.
First the Budget Commit
tee received Treasurer Bill
Etchison’s budget proposal
This proposal is in no way
binding on the committee’s
decision but only serves to
give the committee members
an idea of what areas the
Treasurer considers impor
tant.
“After receiving the
Treasurer’s budget proposal,
this committee shall hold
open hearings with officially
chartered organization’s
representatives...” Prior to
meeting with each organiza
tion, members of the com
mittee were allowed time to
examine the itemized budgets
submitted by the indivdiual
organizations. A criterion
was set to aid in determinig
who would receive more at
tention.
This criterion was as
follows:
1. How does your club or
organization benefit the
members?
2. How does your club or
organization benefit the
other students campus wide?
3. What fund-raisers or
methods of generating
revenue do you plan to
employ to supplement what
will be allocated jyou?
4. How well do you
publicize your events?
5. In what ways are you
considering integrating with
other clubs?
As the budget committee
tallied all the original re
quests it became overly ap
parent that the figures re
quested were somewhat exag
gerated. This coupled with
the scarcity of available
funds led A1 Perkinson to ap
peal to the club presidents to
edit and revise their budgets
in order to attain a more
reasonable sum.
With their cooperation the
sum total requested by all the
clubs markedly fell from
$63,078 to $46,738. This was
a whopping decrease of 36
j>ercent.
Funds the Budget Com
mittee distributes come from
the Full Time Equivalency
figure of $65 which is paid in
each students tuition. Of this
$65, $12 automatically is
allocated to the Lamp and
Shield along with $3 to the
Lance. The remaining $50
constitutes the entire budget.
This year’s FTE figure was
$34,200.
Each club or organization
president was given a specific
time to meet with the budget
committee to present and
justify their request. Follow
ing their presentations there
was a period for discussion
and questions.
“The Budget Committee
continue to page 3
The 1982-83 Budget Committee
Foreign Student
Enrollment Increases
The handbook committee: Renee Portorsnok, Drew
Hayes, John Pait, Jim Wheeler, Nora Zbieranski, and
Global Glance
Soviet Premier Leonid
Brezhnev died last week of
heart complications from a
long term illness. He was
buried Monday in Red Squad
in Moscow. After much con
templation, Y^uri Andropov
was named Breznev’s suc
cessor. Andropov, the
former head of the KGB, was
chosen over Konstantin
Chernenke.
Polish Union leader Lech
Walesa was released after an
11 month internment forced
upon him by Poland’s mar
tial law government. After
his release, Walesa said that
he would not give up his fight
for the Polish people. Walesa
was greeted by a large group
of cheering polish people
after his release. Walesa was
surprised by his release.
Former CIA Agent Ed
ward Wilson went on trial
this week for his alleged sell
ing of weapons to Libya m
the late 70’s. Wilson who
has been silent before the
trial , was caught in a trap by
federal agents in a South
American airport last year.
Korean boxer Duk Koo
Kim remains in critical con
dition in a Las Vegas hospital
after suffering massive brain
damage in a boxing match
with World Lightweight
Champion Ray “Boom-
Boom” Mancini. Doctors
say that it would take
nothing short of a miracle
for Kim to fully recover.
Foreign student
enrollment at U.S. colleges
and universities has hit a
record high of 326,300
students this year, despite a
25 percent decrease in the
number of Iranian students
now in this country, a recent
report by the Institute of In
ternational Education (HE)
reveals.
The total reflects a six per
cent increase over last year’s
foreign student enrollment,
the report says, with signifi
cant increases in students
from OPEC (Organization
of Petroleum Exporting
Countries) countries, Mex
ico, and emerging Asian na
tions.
But a drastic decline in the
number of Iranian students
studying in the U.S. also has
slowed the overall growth of
foreign student enrollment.
In 1980, the report points
out, Iranians represented 20
percent of all foreign
students here. This year, Ira
nian enrollment slipped from
47,550 to 35,860, accounting
for only 11 percent of all
foreign students.
“The Shah of Iran had a
lot of money and was trying
in his own way to modernize
the country by sending and
encouraging Iranians to
study here,” says Douglas
Boyan, editor of IIE’s an
nual “Open Doors” report.
“But since the .evolution,
the governmfent isn’t giving
money for students to come
here,” Boyan explains, “and
the general upheaval in Iran
has made travel to the U.S.
more difficult.
“We’re seeing a 10 percent
annual increase in students
from all other countries, if
you take away the Iranian
factor,” he says.
Taiwan, with 20,520
students here, has the
second-largest delegation
next to Iran, with Nigeria
coming in a close third with
19,560 students here.
The U.S. is still “looked
upon as the center of educa
tional and technical ex
cellence,” Boyan says, and
attracts more foreign
students than any other
country.
But foreign students repre
sent only 2.6 percent of total
student enrollment in the
U.S., compared to 20 percent
in Switzerland and equally
high ratios for countries such
as France, Britain, and Ger
many, Boyan says.
The USSR also is rapidly
becoming an international
education center, Boyan
points out. He estimates as
many as 100,000 foreign
students are now on Russian
campuses.