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Show March 14, 1986 Forum Page 2 news h - Library. Promotes Cumeimt Event Interests by Dave Pinnick Currently, our library carries eight different areas of materials media types, from The Westminster Library is concluding a related display of ar e books and other items this week. three-wee- k ms-rac- matebooks to sound recordings, audio-visurials to maps, just to name some," he stated. al The display features several new books and other materials that inform the reader about various aspects of the topic. Included in the display are posters against war, done by several local elementary children and cloth banners that were an actual part of the Peace Ribbon strung around the Pentagon last year. The library features this subject on an annual basis in addition to other yearly displays on things such as life in Utah, (for students unaware of Utahs resources) pottery, women writers, government publications and careers, just to name a few. Wunder said that the services offered by the library were indeed numerous and varied, anything from requesting an article copied from an obscure journal to references from the latest research journals, with indexes available for the humanities, sciences and general bibliographiesindexes. One of the biggest resources that is overlooked, Wunder explained, is the assistance that I can provide students in locating specific materials. I have very few students that ask questions or for help in researching out-of-sta- te These are, according to Dick Wunder, li brary director, just a few of the things the library does to promote interest in current events, topics and literary works. a lot to offer students, but unfortunately many are unaware of just what resources we do have or can get access to, explained Wunder. We really have He explained that the campus library is tied into a natinal computer system with access to approximately 13 million different records or data files, owned by over 6000 libraries across the country. We have access to many materials and publications or we can locate them by title or author. In about six weeks we will have limited access by subject as well, but only about a million records Wunder. that way, said specific topics. We are always open to suggestions for magazines or other materials that students feel would assist them in their work and research. I wish more students would make their needs known. We have a lot to offer, more than most students are aware of. I hope that they will come in and ask us, they might be surprised just what we can do for them, said Wunder. books, Currently, Wunder stated, the library has over 400 different publications, periodicals and indexes. Though they have requested additional funds, Wunder said that they are always updating subscriptions, adding new ones, dropping unused or no longer requested ones. Nations Colleges Announce Tuition Hilke: by Jessica Snyder (CPS) Stanfords trustees last week said they were raising tuition next year by only seven percent. Iowas tuition, regents announced last month, will rise by 6.5 percent. Duke students will shoulder an 11 percent hike, while California public college students will pay 7.5 percent more next year. In coming weeks, colleges from coast to coast will be announcing tuition hikes for next year. And in spite of a booming economy and a low' general inflation rate, the increases appar- ently wont be minor. In all, students total college costs are due to rise an average five to six percent next year, an American Council on Education (ACE) report released last wreek forecasts. And a group of economists studying w'hat makes tuition go up or down says students are in for more of the same big tuition hikes beyond nex t school year, regardless of how healthy the national economy may be. College costs for the 1985-8- 6 school year are an average of seven percent higher than last year, while the Consumer Price Index the national inflation rate is only 3.8 percent higher. Perhaps most consequential for students, experts agree, is that students not governments or aid programs will pay a bigger share of those higher costs. State legislatures would rather have students pay higher tuition than raise taxes to help colleges meet their higher costs, says Cathy Henderson, an education consultant who authored the new ACE report College costs arent like roads, where everyone pays and everyone uses," she says. People see the student as the primary beneficiary. Some states have explicitly decided to shift more of the burden onto the student adds Terry Hartel of the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. Experts concede they dont fully understand why tuition keeps rising faster than the general inflation rate, but most agree colleges need money from somewhere to make overdue where 44 percent of the buildings are more than 50 years old recently estimated it needed $600 million to While most other industries managed to repair and renovate its campus buildings. maintain their buildings and salaries during But the federal government in recent years the economys wild swings of the last 16 years, ended or dismantled many of the programs has higher education is too bureaucratic to keep up that gave direct maintenance subsidies to with inflation or adjust to its aftermath very colleges. quickly, other observers note. Consequently, colleges are turning more to Colleges, in fact, always have been slow te students to provide the money for salaries and adjust to economic swings, says Patrick Melia, a public policy specialist at Georgetown upkeep. University. (Students) demands in our country are for high-codisciplines, and so the cost of educais to be higher, Aaron says. tion going Most business decisions, he explains, must be submitted to regents and state legislators as Many campuses, of course, are finding ways much as two or three years in advance. to loan or grant money to help students pay those higher costs. The dramatic increases of the early 1980s when tuition jumped as much as 14 percent in a Alan Wagner, a State University of New year on some campuses are probably best understood as responses to the economic realities of the late seventies, he notes. The next several years will feature still more increases, Henderson predicts. building repairs and raise staff salaries. The University of Illinois st I dont see (annual) tuition (hikes) dropping below six or seven percent before the end of the decade, she says. Salaries have a lot of catching up to do. generally stalled granting real salary increases for faculty and staffers during the last decade. But giving people raises has an enormous impact on the cost of higher education, Henderson says, because salaries constitute between 65 and 75 percent of most colleges budgets. Schools Moreover, more than half the buildings on U.S. campuses are 25 years or older, and are badly in need of repair, according to testimony given to a House committee last year. Were not talking classrooms, where you abut (fixing) history just have to replace a map and maybe a blackboard, adds Bob Aaron of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. by f Bill Godwin Westminster College lowered its flag to half I mast Monday in honor of past president Dr. I Frank Edward Duddy Jr. Duddy, 69, died on f March 6, 1986 in Salt Lake City. J was a of DePauw UniverDuddy graduate sity in Indiana and received his masters degree and doctorate degree in modern European history in 1940 and 1942 from Harvard University. Westminister experienced considerable growth while Duddy served as presidentof the college. During his seven years of leadership a million dollars worth of buildings, including Hogle and Carleson Halls, were added to the campus, the budget was tripled, and Westminster went from a small parochial, d school to an accredited, community-oriente- d liberal arts college. While serving as president of Westminster Duddy also became the founding president and executive director of the Intermountain Colof the leges Association and Utah Committee on Children and Youth. Duddy left Westminster College in 1963 to become the president of Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. vice-chairm- an Its the cost of renovating a chemistry classlab work that really hikes room to do the cost of instruction, he says. up-to-da- te ve Westminster Marks Passing of President Duddy church-supporte- t y economist, figures that if such institutional aid is subtracted from the tuition hikes assessed during this decade, higher eds inflation rate would be about the same as the general economys. In any case, Henderson says theres no evidence the big tuition increases and student aid decreases have priced colleges beyond many students. Enrollment, in fact, has stayed roughly stable i n recent years, despite N ational Center for Education Statistics predictions of a precipitous droR in the student population. But to stay in school, students probably will have to go into debt. Were going to see more dependence on loans," Henderson predicts, and many people colleges. may start shifting to York-Alban- |