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Show THE THL'NDERBIRD 4 PACE TUESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1986 ' EXPENSIVE: BUT WORTH THE COST ADD-DROP- S With all this talk about budget cuts and tuition hikes, we bet the average student feels he's been squeezed about as tight as he can be squeezed. Right? So what is this about paying a dollar in classes? One dollar seems pretty hefty for every especially if a person isn't quite sure which direction he wants to venture, regarding a degree. There has been much controversy concerning what exactly this money is being used for. Some say it's to teach a lesson to those who are indecisive. Others say that it's feathering someone's nest somewhere. The truth is: The monies collected ' go for many purposes. Supplies and salaries take up much of the money. Also a big chunk of the money is allocated to simply run the computer. The office is currently running in the red, as a matter of fact, and officials are wondering where they're going to come up with some $2,900 to pay student help hired to aid in the crunch. Not many students realize the many services the registrar's office offers. The major service lies in All adds and drops must be recorded in case a student needs to verify that information. Transfer students take heed: It is extremely time consuming and expensive to maintain a catalogue of every college or university in case a student wishes to transfer credits from his former college, so if you take advantage ol this sei ice, the register's olhce is x e worth every pennx. So although we don't see the moVv d.iectU, we see the benefits it renders. Without the record !. epiug, most of us would be in a bind at sometime in our lives. If we went through our entire educational experience without the need of verifying lecords, we would most surely need them when we set out in the real world to find a job. Students at SUSC still pay less than those at most other schools for this service. Brigham Young University, for instance, charges ' tcces is a recurring column through which $10 for the same service ol the campus community may address members It takes a lot of money to run a college. Less than 25 percent themselves to topics of concern andor interest. This of the tuition and fees money pays for your education. Most week's column is a cumulative effort of the faculty students don't realize that federal and state money is still paying of the behaioral and social sciences division. for the majority of ou" education. seem like a big deal when you are forking over The faculty of the division of behavioral and social another five or so dollars for another class change, but if the sciences is deeply concerned about the effects of student realizes that the money is helping to maintain his records lecent decisions taken by the administration in the wake of the budget cuts mandated by the governor. and accuracy, then maybe the squeeze will not feel so binding. We w'ish to make our concerns a matter of record But above all comes our suggestion: If you feel you are paying for something that doesn't seem fair investigate it. You will they are of both an immediate and nature. find have what we found with the probably expense: First, in the immediate sense: As of June, 1986, The money is well spent. at the request of the'college administration, we add-dro- p add-dro- p record-keepin- g. Luts disturb SUSC division's faculty Add-dro- long-rang- e add-dro- p VOLUME 81, NUMBER 4 Editor Delsy Kr.imer Associate Editor Ann Hoilmyer Copy Editor Crei Prince Photo Editor Rithard Enpleman Sports Editor Greu Miles Entertainment Editor Pmc White Senior Staff Writer Kris Johnson Production Manager G Kin Mte:l Advertising Representative he lie Jt ns. Faculty Adviser Lorr H imt T'f. Tnundon rd is published eat h Monday ot the acadt mic yoar ir and tor the student bodv ol southern Utah State College and is not artihated in an marine! w ith t'u LolleRi s The views and opinions entires. eC ,n jt)r 1 hundcrhird department ot communication are the opinions ot the publication s indiv idual v riters and do not nee essanK rc tlec the views and opinions ot the institution, faculty shift or sti dent bodv in i;eeoful The unsigned editorial directly above is the opinion ot he wi ih u as a Mne enhtv Letters the editor must be typed and in hide the name and pin nr number 'ily the name will be nr in ted Names will not be withheld un- ier any m nm-- mi is .ji'or resery es mv tor the iMow mi. euilmpriy ileyes I utters must re submits d in noon j. )e HK-- I ii (( th"d ediluii.i a d adverb sin non 5 H6-- ; Citv, UT h 17 m W sc Library !u .it SL sl Ho eliminated our division's program in anthropology. The ettects of the loss of this program are now being felt in the curriculum of our division, and they are serious. In theaieas of sociology, history, political science, and psychology we are now training majors and minors v ho w ii! g'aduate without a total perspective of the soda1 sciences. These students will be lacking the important perspective of anthropology, an inherent pait of the social sciences; thev have no opportunity to gain that perspective at this institution Thus, we are, in effect, graduating students deficient in a fundamental field of the social sciences. This not dissimilar to graduating physics majors who have had no exposure to calculus. Again we are threatened with the elimination of another piogram from our divis:on's curriculum. The immediate ettects of the less of the social work program are a source ot senous eoncetn: First, many ot our social woik major1- are also psychology majors 01 minors; they will nr.v gravita'e to upper division courses in psychology These courses are already 1 eiy o ercrowded ;somo of them 5 students anove the maximum capacity). The additional sin n of numbers and the limited supply ot equip'. : w in these specialized upper division come will adversely affect the quality of the 'earning experience in our psychology program. Indeed, such a situation may require an additional faculty member in the near future. Further, many of these double majors me not planning to go on to graduate study. Instead, they are moving into areas of social w'ork for which there is a large demand at both the local and national level. The elimination of the social work program, in effect, denies these students the critical opportunity to receive their training and apply their a fact that knowledge in a rural community contradicts one of the stated roles of this institution. Beyond these immediate concerns, we are e troubled by the implications ot the sudden elimination of these two programs in our division. As the division of behavioral and social sciences, we have created a highly respected, academically sound, interdisciplinary' cuiiaulum. None of the within our division are islands unto themselves. The elimination of two programs within our division drastically undeicuts the curricular, academic, and research integrity of our entire program. We are aware of the reality of budget cuts. And we are aware of the criteria used to aire at the painful decisions that must be marie Nevertheless, even the most objective criteoa am implemented through the perspective of the people making the decisions. And, as a faculty of concerned professionals, w'e wish to state that the tact that our division has been faced with the elimination of a second program within the aenod of one year is a matter of grave ccmcc i for every member of the division of behavioral and social sciences. long-rang- |