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Volume IX, Number 22
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, March 31, 1983
Inflatioii forces 1983-84 tuition hike
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Mitchell: expected leveling off in enrollment is factor
by Doug Norwood
Managing Editor
Elon students’ tuition,
room and board costs will
be increased by 10.4 percent
overall next year due to
rising costs in education and
utilities, according to the
collie’s vice president for
idininistrative services.
John Mitchell said that
Elon students will have to
W $4,900 to attend the
school and live and eat on
^pus next year because it
is costing more to educate
students and a S2 million
five-year grant to the school
kas expired.
Mitchell said that while
4e inflation rate has dropp
'd in the past year, the costs
M books, periodicals and
other material essential to
tducation have continued to
at a high rate. He also
“This winter we’ve
^ lucky because it’s been
»irmer than normal, but at
same time, natural gas
'Stes have continued to
increase. ”
Tuition will be $3,000 next
year, an increase of 11
percent over this year’s
$2,700. Board will increase
from $1,060 this year to
$1,160 next year, a 9.4
percent increase. And room
costs will go up $740 from
the present $680, an 8.8
percent increase.
Elon’s staff and faculty
members did not receive a
cost-of-living raise in
December as they have in
recent years because the
inflation rate had gone
down. Mitchell said that a
study showed the Higher
Education Price Index is
several points higher than
the Consumer Price Index.
The college and the faculty
were plagued by different
rates of inflation he said.
Mitchell said that the
increases will absorb some
of the lost revenue from the
expired Advanced Institution
Development Program
(AIDP) grant that helped the
school establish the Learning
Resources Center, Academic
Advising Department, the
administrative computer sys
tem and strengthened the
college’s academic programs.
Mitchell said that the
increases in students’ expen
ses would help to ensure that
the progress made with the
grant money would continue
now that the grant has run
out.
Mitchell said that the col
lege could not receive anoth
er AIDP grant. Elon “is no
longer a developing school;
it is now a mature school,”
said Mitchell.
Possible lower enrollment
figures are also a considera
tion in boosting education
costs.
Though last fall’s fresh
man class was the largest
ever at Elon and the school’s
enrollment has continued to
increase while other private
schools have seen their
enrollments drop off,
Mitchell said that he expects
to see enrollment level off or
decline next year. He said,
however, that future enroll-
good time to make the rounds
^»iel Thore, Elon’s All-American golfer, knocked in this short putt on the 18th green to
ro Monday’s first-round action of the Hon invitational. The Christians finished the
““0 In second place behind Guilford. They could not overcome the Quakers in the second
Tuesday. For full coverage on the defending natiional champions Christians’
onaance, see page 7. Photo by Ron Kruppa.
merit figures are unpredict
able. He said the college
would graduate; more stu
dents this spring than ever
before and that would also
hurt next year’s enrollment
figures.
Mitchell said that Elon is
continuing to look for alter
nate sources of revenue such
as other grants and gifts
from friends and alumni in
an attempt to divert some of
the students’ expenses.
Among the other cases for
the increases is an anticipat
ed rise in telephone costs
because of the American
Telephone and Telegraph.
“We have a big telephone
system that’s being used all
the time,” he said.
Mitchell said that educa
tion costs to students have
risen at Elon every year that
he has been here, as they
have at most colleges he is
familiar with.
He said, however, that
Elon’s prices are still low
compared with other private
schools in North Carolina,
John Mitchell
“and those are essentially
the groups that we compare
ourselves with.” But he said
that Elon is still considerably
more expensive than state
schools with which Elon
competes for students.
Mitchell said that if infla
tion continues to level off or
decline, he could not see
why Elon’s tuition, and
room and board wo^d be
increased again.
Students seeking
SGA post positions
must file Friday
by Loukia Louka
News Editor
The deadUne to file applications for executive, class and
senate offices is Friday. All candidates for elected offices
shall have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better.
All candidates for elected offices must not have been
found guilty of a violation of the Elon College Honor Code
within a 365-day period prior to April 1.
Persons wishing to rim for president, vice president,or
treasurer of the SGA must be sophomores or juniors in terms
of hours. To qualify for the ballot, these people must obtain
at least 175 signatures from any full-time students.
Candidates for class offices must be rising members of the
class for which they want to be officers. They must obtain at
least 125 signatures from students who are rising members of
the same class as the candidate themselves.
Candidates for senate offices must be residents of the
voting precinct for which they want to be senators. They
must obtain at least 75 signatures from students within the
same voting precinct.
The campus is divided into three precincts. The first
precinct consists of Carolina, Smith, Phi Mu House, Zeta
House, Hook, Brannock and Barney. The second precinct is
West, Virginia, Sloan, Kappa Sigma House, Sigma Phi
Epsilon House and the Sigma Pi House. The third precinct is
Staley, Moffitt, North, the Oaks, TKE House, Sigma House
and the New Dorms.
cont. on p. 5