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PAGE 2 1 THE TWIG APRIL 9, 1934 EDITORIALS/ LETTERS EDITORIAL There’s a place for, you Oetting involved in college is som^hing most people want to do but often don’t. Students are afraid to make a comrrtitment they can’t J^reep. they are afraid too much time v»iU be demoded of them If they do make a commitn)ent,and their time is too valua ble to waste on something ttiat may not benefit them. The organizations on the Meredith campus offer every stu dent a chance to gel involved. Whether you want a major or minor role, the o{^>ortunity awaits you. Next year The Twig is going to acpantf. There will be a spot for every interested individual. There are unlimited positions to be filled and TTw Twig needs your participation. For those of you interested in writing, there are writing posi tions to be filled. The Twig will need reliable reporters to cover local and campus events. If you don't like to write, you c&j proof read the paper and correct the errors the writers overlooked. These /o£ts would be ideal for English majors. For you political science majors. The Twig would like for you to brief the students on the coming elections. You could cover' local debates and speeches and could write strong editorials sup porting your famritecandi^te. Of course, you do not have to be a politics major to handle this /ot>. If you like sports, why not exercise ^r interest by covering Meredith’s sports? The Twig will need weekly coverage of every game and will also need someone to interview The Twig's “Athlete of the Week." We need someone to interwew our coaches and players and help support Meredith’s athletic program. Hey, Joe Photo, we need you, '■ too. The Twig rte^s pftofo- graphers to cow ^yery ei/ent en campus. We need you tp- Qover the sportt, features, hard news arid entertaihment. If you have your own camera, great! If not, The Twig will supply one to share among those without a camera. If nothing -interests you so far, maybe advertising will. The Twig needs students to help interest places around Raleigh to advertise in our paper. You could even design your own ads and have the companies, eating establlshments,^c., purchase your ad to run in the next issue of The Twig. You oould benefit from this in several ways. Entertainment, if all else fails, may graft your attention. The Twig needs you to wr/fe l)ook, movie, corKert and restaurant re views. This page will inform every reader ^3out what to read, what to see, who to see and hear and where to eat. The Twig alio rjeeds artistic students to draw cartoons for the various pages. Such cartoons would be sports, feature and editorial. We could use your help. Once Ttie Twig is complete, it is necessary for the paper to be delivered. We need students to distribute The Twig to various buildings on campus and need you to spread the won/. THE TWIG uoca^iui uuicgp RALEIQH, NC^TH CAROLINA 2761T1 Editor-in-chief Cynthia L; Church Ivlanaglng Editor Amy James Staff Reporters Anne White Julia Smith Lee Eggleston Business Manager Columnist Michele Cherry Kelli Falk Layout editors Anna Clark Sally Woolanl Sports Editor Sports Reporter Linda Cheek Allyn Turner Exchange Editor Photographer Beth Madren Becky anith Advertising Manager Advertising Staff Amy James Sheila Grady Circulation Managers 0len Austin, Laura Payne Circulation Staff Patty Atkinson Proofreader Amy Avery Advisors Dr. Thomas Ranamore Ms. Rhoda Sowers The TWIG welcomes commentsand will give prompt consideration to any criticisnrts submitted In writing and signed by the writer. 1 i m m ft i OLD TWlfr Ihfi Imcr il 6rrt>win^ ... H&lp, Ou"^ 1 (jtc Tuition on the rise {CPS)-Tultlons at many schools ne)ct year promise to go up much faster than the infla tion rate, according to scattered recent announcements by administrators around the country. Schools as diverse as Loyola of Maryland, Metropoli tan Community Colleges .of K^sas City, arvJ the univer sities of Missouri and Rochester have already an nounced price hikes for next year that are n>ore thevi double the current annual Inflation rate of 4.6 percent. New Hampshire, the State Univereity of New Yortt system, Syracuse, Lehigh, the Georgia State system, Miami, Kentucky, Dtf’aul, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Bismarck Junior Coliege, Stanford, ar>d the Cali fornia community college system, among many others, recently have unveiled plans to raise tuition for the 1984-86 academic year by more than 7.5 percent. The hikes, moreover, fol low years of double-digit in creases for students. For example, it costs 12 percent more to attend a four- year public college this year than It did tast year. accoitJlr>g to the Cdlege Board's annual college cost sun«y. Four-year private college tuition went up 11 percent, while two-year campus'tuition increased by nine percent, the survey found. Though national averages for 1984^ school year tuition hikes won’t be compiled until next fall, recent announce ments by individual colleges suggest the upward tuition spiral will continue. Administrators say the in creases are r>ecessary to com pensate for tt)e federal and state budget cuts of the last four years, to make long-delayed salary increases to faculty members, to restore and build facilities put on hold during the budget crunches, and to trv to recover frt>m the sky-high in terest rates of the recession. “Colleges got killed when Interest rates were 18 percent,” explains Dr. Gary Quehl of the Council of Independent Col leges In V\ftishlr>gton, D.C. “We have not caught up with tsudget cuts," adds Dr. James Quann, Washington State’s registrar. “W^ve not yet recovered." Ponderir>g why tuition rates should exceed the infla tion rate, Merideth Ludwig of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities says "speculation is that (the increases are) to take care of things that have t>een put off for a long time.” One long-delayed piece of housekeeping is faculty com pensation. Recent studies illu strate college teachers’ buying powers are now lower than they were in 1972, tf^ks largely to a decade of high Inflation touched off by the Arab oil em bargo of 1973. '‘Faculty salaries haven't kept up wfth inflation,” Quehl obsenres. “^'re playing a catdvup game.” “Our salaries are basically in the cellar by national stand- anjs,” says Richard Rhoda of ttte Tennessee State University and Community College System. To bring them up, Tennes see colleges hope to hike tui tions by as mu(^ as 10 percent for n«(t yev, while the state legislature ponders increasing state higher education funding by 12 percent, Rhoda notes. Nationwide, state support for colleges has risen 14 per cent over the last two years, ac cording to Dr. M. M. Chambers of Illinois State's periodic sur veys of state higher education funding. But those average in creases apparently have not been enough to compensate for severe cutbacks In ttie amount of money campuses received from the federal govwnment since 1960. Consequently, many schools are now asking their students to pay a higher per centage of what it costs to edu cate them. Administrators figure It’s “reasonable" for tuition to cover ^xwt 25 percent of the cost of education, with state, federal and private monies paying for the rest, explairrs Joseph Marks of the Southern Regional Edu cation Board. But recent audits in 14 southern states, for instance, found tuition covered only about 19 percent of a student's annual education costs, Maries says. The study convinced many southern schools to raise tui- tkMi rates rapidly. West Virglnlastudents now pay 73 percent more in tuition thai they did three years ago, although their rates were relatively low at the time, l^rks says. The University of Georgia has imposed 15 percent tuition hikes for three straight years, Marks reports, and Louisiana State has hiked tuition 38 per cent over two years to bring student contrit^ions up to near the 25 percent mark. Yet at VMshlngton State, students already pay 33 percent of the costs of their education. “You can really look at this In two ways,” suggests Dennis Martin of the National Associa tion of Student Financial Aid Administrator. “You can look at It as raising tuition at tv/o or three timestfwinflation rate, and you can wonder how people figure wfut the Inflation rate Is," he says, “or you can see that the percentage (tuition) increases for next year are much lower than last year's." But no one Is predicting Irv creases will stop altogether in the future, even when faculty salaries are improved and budget cuts are mended. “I don’t think that’s going to happen,” says Robert Lytle, comptroller of f^orthem Arizona University. “The costs of edu cating students are continually going up."
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