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  • 2 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Thursday, April 8,1971 Financial aid: Athletic vs. Academic By MIKE BAKER AND SUELLEN WIDEMAN PART II or It's Your Money. . .What Do You Want To Do With It. . .? "Why, when student fees are increased, do we increase them for a new football stadium, when we could as easily do it for academic scholarships or other academic pursuits." Dr. Lovin (AssU Dean of School of Arts and Sciences) "I would be in favor of the students voicing an objection to the heavy funding of their student fees to the athletic program." Dr. Eberly (English Department) "A large majority of the thinking faculty members appear to believe that the Pow Administration, so far, has witnessed an increase in the influence of the athletics department. . . Compulsory professionalized Athletics have as much place in an institution of higher education as Judas had in the twelve Apostles!" Dr. Walton 01 is tor y Department) Did you read Part I of this article last Thursday? If you did, then you would certainly have noticed the rather staggering set of figures regarding scholarships. (In case you wrote that off as a misprint, that was approximately $119,000 funded for Athletic Scholarships against $0.00 funded for purely academic scholarships.) And, ot course, if you read Part I a bit more closely, you realized, probably for the first time, that we, as students, fund approximately 61% ($130,000) of the entire Athletics budget, from which those Athletic Scholarships come. All that makes the $8.00 addition to student fees on behalf of Athletics a bit harder to stomach, doesn't it, . .? (or have you forgotten the $5.00 increase for the proposed stadium and the $3.00 increase for general athletics?) Just wliat the hell is coming off? This is supposed to be a university (that's UNIVERSITY, students), not an institution Poll shows Nader wanted as speaker Forty-percent of the WCU student body recently participated in an SGA poll concern concerning entertainment, lectures, and art exhibits. Of the 600 students polled, 173 stated they had never attended a lecture on campus. Political speakers were highest in demand followed by environmental, athletic, literary, and. religious, respectively. Other desirable types listed were women's rights, civil rights, and economical Ralph Nader was the most sought after lecturer by the polled students. Others, in the order of their popularity were Spiro Agnew, Jane Fonda, Billy Graham, Rod McKuen, and Edmund Muskie. The poll determined that controversial lecturers were in the highest demand with speakers such as Richard Nixon, Margaret Meade, Jean Dixon ranking lowest. Approximately half of the students polled have attended art exhibits at WCU. One hundred and four have not. One hundred and thirteen would not. Classical music seemed to be a favorite type of entertainment followed by ballet and opera. meant to be governed by a pseudo-intellectual administration that pushes athletics so we can grow, grow, grow. Grow into what? Is it a big name in a larger sports conference that they're after? Bird Building can vomit cliche after cliche justifying an aggressive athle tics program as being beneficial to our campus, but this reasoning is absurd. How many times have you heard the one concerning all the publicity that new million and a half dollar stadium will produce? Why, all we have to do is get in a larger sports conference and more and better students will be enticed to come to WCU. . .Now do you believe that? Do students enroll at Chapel Hill, Duke, even Yale or Harvard because of successful (hence, expensive) athletic programs? Of course not And what about growth, anyway? Do we want a student body so large in number that WCU will suffer the disadvantages obvious in the largest campuses today? I, for one, would be saddened to witness WCU emerge into an era of lecture halls crowded with 100 or more students, of students standing in line for an hour to see a professor in his office, etc., etc., etc. And the absurd thing about it all, peers, is the fact that WE'LL PAY FOR THIS OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS. I am appalled that our administrators, supposedly men of intellect, have adopted proposals that will most assuredly send WCU rolling down a foolish money-spending gutter In which we, as students, will do the most wallowing. (Are you interested now? Read on..) "The figures I've seen on athletic vs, academic scholarships seem to be a pretty good indicator of the real philosophy of this university. . .If I were a student, I'd be — (extremely disturbed) at the seeming reversal of priorities of favor of athletics." Mr. Anderson (JForeign Language Department) "The spending of money for a new stadium does not seem to me to be necessary." Dr. Huguelet (Chairman of the Division of Humanities) "If the facts I've heard concerning scholarships are true, and we're supposed to be academically oriented, then priorities around here are misplaced, and I'm against it." Mr. Morgan (Foreign Language Department) Students, open your eyes. Administrators will be administrators, and it's obvious that ours are adhering to a philosophy not in keeping with the primary goal of the university, which is the pursuit of academics. What graduate schools are going to be Interested in WCU's athletic program? Are prospective employers going to be more Interested in the weight that degree carries or the number of people your stadium can hold? Some of the statements made about our administration may sound rather harsh,butthe facts support those statements. All that is required to come to that realization is a glance at those scholarship figures, those student fee figures, or that stadium proposal. What must be realized is that if anything at all is attempted to remedy the twisting of priorities, we, the students must make that attempt. The concerned members of our faculty are not in a position to do much about this for fear of throwing their jobs into jeopardy, which is an interesting observation in itself. No, it's up to us. What can we do? We can demand a rerouting of some of that $130, 000 athletics "tax." How many purely academic scholarships could we fund, how many scholars could we bring here to lecture, or how much could we Improve our ailing library with 60 or 70 thousand of that $130,000? (Actually, a greater slice than that should be asked for since the athletic department would still be getting a good deal more than befits this priority.) What else can we do? We can oppose the proposed stadium as too expensive and demand a less expensive proposal, since a new stadium must be built in order to provide room for Stillwell and the library to expand. If no one listens... ? Well, what would happen if even 1,000 of us refused to pay that $5.00 stadium fee or that $3.00 general athletics fee. . .? We certainly wouldn't wantthatsituation to develop, but.. . Think about all this. You'll hear more. Tennessee business dean to speak at dedication Dr. Arthur E. Warner, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, will be the principal speaker April 16 as Western Carolina University dedicates its new W. Frank Forsyth School of Business Building. Dr. Warner's speech will begin at 11 a.m., and will include participation by university officials and members of the Forsyth family. The late W. Frank Forsyth, for whom the building is to be named, was bank official, state senator, and WCU trustee. The dedication will be followed by the memorial lecture, and then by a tour of the handsome, four-storied building. Three business-oriented seminars will constitute the afternoon protion of the program. Forum I, "Trends in Financing for Small Business," and Forum II, "Trends in Office and Business Education for the 70*s ," will be held concurrently, beginningat 1:30 p.m. Dr. Harold K. Charles worth, president of the National Council for Small Business Management Development, will conduct forum L Forum II will be led by Dr. Mary Ellen 01- iverio, author and lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. Forum ID, "The Place of Computers in Business Education," will start at 2:45 p.m., under the direction of George R. Watts, director of data processing for the State of Indiana. Both morning and afternoon events will be open to the public. N.C. Symphony to appear Tue. The WCU Lecture, Concert, Exhibition Committee will present the N. C. Symphony in concert on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 1971. The program will be held in Reid Gymnasium on the University campus. The program time is 8:15 p.m. and Is open to students free, to N. C, Symphony Association ticket holders, and to the general public at a nominal fee. The N. C. Symphonj', under the direction of Benjamin Swa- lin, is currently in its 26th season of statewide tours. The symphony in its quarter century history has provided unique musical experiences for hundreds of thousands of school children and adults throughout North Carolina. Two solo artists will be heard during the performance here. Cynthia Mechem, pianist, will be featured in the Macuowen concerto No. n, for the piano and orchestra. Sixteen- year-old Miss Mechem earned the featured role as soloist with the N. C. Symphony by being named finalist in the Symphony's annual auditions for Junior performers last spring. Alexander Lesueur, flutist, will perform "NightSoliloquy," a work for flute and string orchestra. Dr. Lesueur, associate professor of music at Western Carolina University s is well known throughout the southeast and has presented many recitals in the area. Lesueur is principal flutist with the Asheville Symphony and has appeared with them as soloist. He has also been a member of the Atlanta Symphony and pla= yed with the Dallas Symphony. Dr. Lesueur holds degr-es from North Texas State Un v- ersity and the doctor of musical arts from the University of Michigan. He has studied with leading flutists, including William Kincaid, who was first flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years. The N. C. Symphony will also perform works by Dmitri Sho- stakovitch and Richard Wagner. Contact FOR SALE: 200 watt Kustom Bass Amp, 2 15" speakers, excellent condition. Retailed for $600, my price - $350. Call 586-2664 after 7 p.m. Ask for Mike. RESTAURANT A SPECIAL £ACH Alf&fTff - OPCM- io:oomo*-sat It-3:00 SUNDAY SYLVA, PHARMACV ^* 6E.tvvAaNST%S*LVAc PApeR AllXOUR CWWCALS PHOTOGRAP
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