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Regents propose $6 fee to increase financial aid By Chris Fiscus. Robert Allen news editor, production manager A preliminary report from the Arizona Board of Regents Student Financial Aid Task Force approved the initiation of a surcharge on registration fees to be matched by state legislative funds, to improve financial aid programs at the three state universities The proposal calls for a $6 fee to be charged to fulltime students and a $3 fee for part-time students during registration. . “ The main thing that students need to know is there is a dire need for a new financial aid program in Arizona,” said Karen Hardy, Associated Students of Northern Arizona University president. “ Our financial aid (in Arizona) is so deficient, we have to start somewhere. “ It’s a good start,” Hardy said, referring to the proposed assessment fee. The yearly total received through the surcharge will be approximately $2 million, with 51 million coming from the students and the additional $1 million coming from the Legislature, she said. O f the money matched by the Legislature, 50 percent will be used immediately and 50 percent will be placed in an endowment fund to earn interest. “ O f the 50 percent to be used immediately, half of that will be useid as gift aid,” Hardy said. It has been specified that at least 25 percent of the money will be used for gift aid, and it will be up to the' individual financial aid offices to use the money as they see fit, she said. The assessment fee will be contingent on yearly legislative matching funds, and Hardy emphasized that if the matching funds are not established by the Legislature, the fee will not be charged to students. Also, the use o f surcharges should not become a trend, she said. “ We have to make sure students don't get charged for every social program in Arizona,” Hardy said. She said lobbying efforts will take place in the Legislature when a lawmaker introduces the assessment fee as a bill. There are two avenues the Legislature can take, she said. ‘ ‘They could say 'no way’ because the Legislature doesn’t have the money to spend, so why give it to us to put in the bank,’’ Hardy said. “ Or they could say if students are willing to pay out of their own pocket, it must be important.” The next step is to find a legislator to propose the bill. Hardy said it is likely that will occur at a legislative luncheon Feb. 3 at The state capitol building. “ At that time, we will bring it up and find someone to introduce it (the bill),"* she said. “ It is a good idea to have a plan for the future,” Hardy said. “ This is a whole new program, rather than enhancing an old one.’’ Frank Besnette, vice president for administration and finance, who was involved in some of the initial discussions on the assessment fee by the Regents’ Academic and Student Affairs Committee, said a $5 fee was considered at first, but was later rejected in favor of the $6 assessment figure. He also said the concept of the assessment fee was first brought to the attention of the regents nine months ago and, at that time, Molly Broad, the board’s executive director, formed a task force to study the proposal and make recommendations. The task force also stressed the “ vital need’’ to increase the recruiting and graduation rates of minority students at Arizona State University, NAU and the University of Arizona. The 16-member task force concluded “ it is imperative that the state develop a student assistance program which can supplement federal aid programs and provide stability for planning and awarding of student aid. It is also imperative that this program address the relationship of gift aid to self-help and keep it in the proper balance.” Nanni, Strobel resign C ouncil members q uit positions By Lesley Mitchell entertainment editor Arizona Student’s Association, a lobbying activist group on campus, reports to the Board of Regents and state legislature, working to facilitate the issues of NAU students, said Frank Cordova, ASA delegate Founded in 1974, ASA has been involved in many activities aimed at increasing student involvement with the legislature. Board of Regents and university administrators, said Cordova. ASA is comprised of three delegates: Karen Hardy, Brenda Smith and Frank Cordova. “ ASA if funded like ASNAU,” said Cordova. “ We are also approved by the regents, but we are not held accountable to the regents.” “ We represent student voice,” said Hardy. “ We are also a recognized group. The regents often ask for our opinion on critical issues.” Currently, ASA is dealing with a $6 surcharge, which would be placed on each student, each semester, or one percent of current tuition. Part-time students and students attending summer sessions would pay S3. “ The surcharge was originallv $5,” said Cordova “ But now it is proposed that it remain one percent of tuition at all times.” The surcharge is contingent upon a legislative match. In this way, students only pay if the legislature agrees to offer the same amount of money to match, said Cordova. Cordova said 50 percent of the funds would go into an endowment fund and 50 percent will go into immediate aid. “ We have also worked on the quality o f undergraduate education and an increase in student involvement,” Hardy said. The task force on Efficiency, Excellence, and Competitiveness among the three state universities recently-asked ASA to distribute questionnaires to 45 classes to aid in research of the quality of undergraduate education, she said. ASA agreed, and in Teturn were allowed to include questions exclusively for NAU. “ We asked mst what we wanted to find out,” Hardy said “ We drew up questions about the food service, residence hall life, library and tuition issues.” a SA is also involved in creating a state relations department. This will involve more students in the issues concerning students today, she said. Cordova said ASA would like to have a 22/1 faculty to student ratio formula. This means for every 22 students enrolled at NAU will be one instructor. “ A professor shouldn't have to handle much over 22 students,” Cordova said. ASA also supports plans to improve primary and secondary education. To provide quality college students, Arizona must have a quality K-12 program, Cordova said. “ ASA supports these programs.” he said. OveT the years, ASA has fought for student’s rights concerning financial aid, tuition and quality of education. Cordova said ASA has really made a difference. ASA now focuses on more campus-related issues than ever, C o rd o v a said. Issues such as substance abuse programs, legislative activity and minority recruitment and retention have been recently addressed by ASA, he said. ASA also has proposed a recreation center for all three state universities and obtained it. Cordova said he defines ASA as a group which ‘looks out for students'. “ We want the stuaents to know thar somebody is making an effort :n fight for them.” Student lobbyist group combines efforts to back peers N O R T H E R N A R IZ O N A U N IV E R S IT ) Vol. 82, No. 2 Jan. 28, 1988 By Devin La very news reporter Two members of the Associated Students of Northern University’s Executive Council resigned last week, citing unrelated reasons, said ASNAU President Karen Hardy. John Nanni, vice president for student affairs, resigned for what he referred to as academic reasons. Nanni expressed regret over having to ieave but said that his commitment to his education was more important than extracurricular activities. Karen Strobel. sophomore coun-cilperson, also resigned last Friday. Strobel, the mother of twin girls, said numerous family demands and a work environment that was “ too intense*’ caused her to resign. Ironically, the two executives who resigned were elected only this fall in a special election after those positions were vacated over the summer. The office of vice-president for student affairs became vacant last summer when Hardy became president following the resignation of p*esideni-ekct Watson Gan, Hardy said. The sophomore councilper-son’s seat was also vacant prior to the special election when Steve Westerhoff resigned due to illness, Strobel said. ASNAU had been examining the possibility of avoiding a special election to fill the vacancies because it is so late in the year, Hardy said. Larry L ’Heureux, vice-president of administration and finance, said anyone elected to either of the positions would have only a few weeks to hold the office before regular elections take place this April. “ I really can’t see the point of bringing someone on for that short a period of time,” he said. “ It wouid just be a waste of the student’s money.’’ However, Dean of Students Anthony Ross said ASNAU’s current constitution states that a special election must be held to fill all vacancies, regardless of the time of the year. ASNAU is currently planning to hold a special election Feb. 16, according to Senior Councilperson Felicia McGinty. Two information sessions will be conducted next week. Anyone interested in running for an office should attend at least one of these meetings Feb. I, and Feb. 2, McGinty said. Both meetings will be held at 6 p.m. in room 200 of the North Union. Petitions for candidacy will be due at 5 p.m. Feb. 8. Candidates for vice president foj student affairs and sophomore councilperson must have completed 45 and 15 credit hours, respectively, and have been enrolled at NAU one full semester by the end of the term during which they shall have been elected. McCaigue urges constitution change By Devin Lavery news reporter While Associated Students of Northern Arizona University is currently working to write a new constitution, one student is pushing consideration of an earlier one. Ryan McCaigue, 1985-86 ASNAU liaison councilperson, said he is hoping to see a constitution developed by ASNAU during his year in office brought before the students of NAU for a vote. McCaigue said eight members of the 1985-86 ASNAU Executive Council spent a year-and-a-half, including portions of their summer and winter breaks, drafting a new constitution for student government at NAU. “ We felt the final document was very strong,” said McCaigue. The completed constitution failed to gain support under the 1986-87 ASNAU Executive Council, however, and the matter was left unattended until this year, he said. McCaigue said he believes a revised constitution is needed by the end of the year and is afraid ASNAU might not be able to do so. “ Student government under the current constitution is running with an inferior system of representation,” he said. “ The only option available is to get the old one on a ballot,” McCaigue said. According to the current ASNAU constitution, any full-time student may bring an issue to an election through the use of the initiative process. This would involve collecting signatures for 10 percent of full-time students, which would then be turned in to the ASNAU Elections Council. If enough valid signatures are collected, an election would be called to allow the student body to decide the issue. A simple majority would cause the initiative to pass. McCaigue said he understands all the work ASNAU is putting into completing a new constitution, but believes if they can’t complete it this year, the students should have an opportunity to get involved in the process. “ The students could get involved by being given the option of deciding whethei a constitution developed two years earlier is adequate,” he said. “ It would give everyone a chance to voice an opinion.” McCaigue said any attempt to push such an initiative would be delayed until mid-February when ASNAU either completes its revision or tables it until the following year. “ We don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, we just want to see some positive action taken on this issue,” he said. Scraping By Arm ed with brooms, shot els, hatchets and hummers, electrical engineering freshman R ichard Farad and crim ina l justice senior Scoit Johnson (le ft) work to clear the icy path between A lie n H a ll and the U niversity D ining H a ll M onday. Se\eral Sechrist H a ll residents helped to clear the ice o ff nearby sidew jlk*. NAU budget cut of 10 percent possible for 1988-89 school year By Lori Myrland editor This year’s 2.9 percent cut in NAU’s budget may look like a drop in the bucket if the 1988-89 budget takes a proposed 10 percent decrease. Vice President for Administration and Finance Frank Besnette said Joseph Smith, Executive Budget Office director, sent a letter to NAU asking what the university would do if it was asked to take a permanent 10 percent budget cut. Besnette said because he and NAU Budget Director Bob Nicol are dealing with a hypothetical situation, there’s no need to panic yet. “ It’s like anything else, it’s not fun, and it’s not pleasant, but we’ve learned from our experiences,” Besnette said. It is generally believed that Arizona’s three state universities have taken disproportionate shares of cuts in legislative budgets in past years, and Besnette said he and the Arizona Board of Regents hope this will not happen when the next state budget is approved. Nicol said in the last 10 years, NAU has been asked to cut its budget four times. Nicol said NAU received $55,203,500 from the Arizona State Legislature this year, and revenue generated by tuition and fees brings the current fiscal year’s budget to 566,903,300. He said there has been some belt-tightening this year to cut the current budget by 2.9 percent, but NAU is not yet dealing with an across-the-board cut. Besnette said Nicol has worked with a committee of representatives from different departments at NAU, including Academic Affairs and Student Services, to work out a series of hypothetical alternatives if the budget were cut 10 percent. Nicol said specific cuts could be made in amounts spent for salaries, and more frugal use of operating monies would also become increasingly important. He added that when cutting the budget, the university would have to continue to be sensitive to “ crisis areas” such as the library, where budgets would likely not be cut as much or not at all. With regard to salary cuts, Nicol said rather than predicting mass firing, positions left vacant would simply not be filled as fast, and non-critical faculty and staff positions could be eliminated. In response to the state’s call for projections regarding the possible 10 percent cut at each university, the University of Arizona recently compiled a report detailing the effects that a S22.4 million, or 10 percent, budget cut would have there. The report states that the cut would, among other things, reduce enrollment by almost 2,700 students, impose maximum enrollment levels for lower and upper division courses, close the UA library on evenings and weekends, impose or BUDGET, see page 5
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Oral history transcripts | Regents propose $6 fee to increase financial aid By Chris Fiscus. Robert Allen news editor, production manager A preliminary report from the Arizona Board of Regents Student Financial Aid Task Force approved the initiation of a surcharge on registration fees to be matched by state legislative funds, to improve financial aid programs at the three state universities The proposal calls for a $6 fee to be charged to fulltime students and a $3 fee for part-time students during registration. . “ The main thing that students need to know is there is a dire need for a new financial aid program in Arizona,” said Karen Hardy, Associated Students of Northern Arizona University president. “ Our financial aid (in Arizona) is so deficient, we have to start somewhere. “ It’s a good start,” Hardy said, referring to the proposed assessment fee. The yearly total received through the surcharge will be approximately $2 million, with 51 million coming from the students and the additional $1 million coming from the Legislature, she said. O f the money matched by the Legislature, 50 percent will be used immediately and 50 percent will be placed in an endowment fund to earn interest. “ O f the 50 percent to be used immediately, half of that will be useid as gift aid,” Hardy said. It has been specified that at least 25 percent of the money will be used for gift aid, and it will be up to the' individual financial aid offices to use the money as they see fit, she said. The assessment fee will be contingent on yearly legislative matching funds, and Hardy emphasized that if the matching funds are not established by the Legislature, the fee will not be charged to students. Also, the use o f surcharges should not become a trend, she said. “ We have to make sure students don't get charged for every social program in Arizona,” Hardy said. She said lobbying efforts will take place in the Legislature when a lawmaker introduces the assessment fee as a bill. There are two avenues the Legislature can take, she said. ‘ ‘They could say 'no way’ because the Legislature doesn’t have the money to spend, so why give it to us to put in the bank,’’ Hardy said. “ Or they could say if students are willing to pay out of their own pocket, it must be important.” The next step is to find a legislator to propose the bill. Hardy said it is likely that will occur at a legislative luncheon Feb. 3 at The state capitol building. “ At that time, we will bring it up and find someone to introduce it (the bill),"* she said. “ It is a good idea to have a plan for the future,” Hardy said. “ This is a whole new program, rather than enhancing an old one.’’ Frank Besnette, vice president for administration and finance, who was involved in some of the initial discussions on the assessment fee by the Regents’ Academic and Student Affairs Committee, said a $5 fee was considered at first, but was later rejected in favor of the $6 assessment figure. He also said the concept of the assessment fee was first brought to the attention of the regents nine months ago and, at that time, Molly Broad, the board’s executive director, formed a task force to study the proposal and make recommendations. The task force also stressed the “ vital need’’ to increase the recruiting and graduation rates of minority students at Arizona State University, NAU and the University of Arizona. The 16-member task force concluded “ it is imperative that the state develop a student assistance program which can supplement federal aid programs and provide stability for planning and awarding of student aid. It is also imperative that this program address the relationship of gift aid to self-help and keep it in the proper balance.” Nanni, Strobel resign C ouncil members q uit positions By Lesley Mitchell entertainment editor Arizona Student’s Association, a lobbying activist group on campus, reports to the Board of Regents and state legislature, working to facilitate the issues of NAU students, said Frank Cordova, ASA delegate Founded in 1974, ASA has been involved in many activities aimed at increasing student involvement with the legislature. Board of Regents and university administrators, said Cordova. ASA is comprised of three delegates: Karen Hardy, Brenda Smith and Frank Cordova. “ ASA if funded like ASNAU,” said Cordova. “ We are also approved by the regents, but we are not held accountable to the regents.” “ We represent student voice,” said Hardy. “ We are also a recognized group. The regents often ask for our opinion on critical issues.” Currently, ASA is dealing with a $6 surcharge, which would be placed on each student, each semester, or one percent of current tuition. Part-time students and students attending summer sessions would pay S3. “ The surcharge was originallv $5,” said Cordova “ But now it is proposed that it remain one percent of tuition at all times.” The surcharge is contingent upon a legislative match. In this way, students only pay if the legislature agrees to offer the same amount of money to match, said Cordova. Cordova said 50 percent of the funds would go into an endowment fund and 50 percent will go into immediate aid. “ We have also worked on the quality o f undergraduate education and an increase in student involvement,” Hardy said. The task force on Efficiency, Excellence, and Competitiveness among the three state universities recently-asked ASA to distribute questionnaires to 45 classes to aid in research of the quality of undergraduate education, she said. ASA agreed, and in Teturn were allowed to include questions exclusively for NAU. “ We asked mst what we wanted to find out,” Hardy said “ We drew up questions about the food service, residence hall life, library and tuition issues.” a SA is also involved in creating a state relations department. This will involve more students in the issues concerning students today, she said. Cordova said ASA would like to have a 22/1 faculty to student ratio formula. This means for every 22 students enrolled at NAU will be one instructor. “ A professor shouldn't have to handle much over 22 students,” Cordova said. ASA also supports plans to improve primary and secondary education. To provide quality college students, Arizona must have a quality K-12 program, Cordova said. “ ASA supports these programs.” he said. OveT the years, ASA has fought for student’s rights concerning financial aid, tuition and quality of education. Cordova said ASA has really made a difference. ASA now focuses on more campus-related issues than ever, C o rd o v a said. Issues such as substance abuse programs, legislative activity and minority recruitment and retention have been recently addressed by ASA, he said. ASA also has proposed a recreation center for all three state universities and obtained it. Cordova said he defines ASA as a group which ‘looks out for students'. “ We want the stuaents to know thar somebody is making an effort :n fight for them.” Student lobbyist group combines efforts to back peers N O R T H E R N A R IZ O N A U N IV E R S IT ) Vol. 82, No. 2 Jan. 28, 1988 By Devin La very news reporter Two members of the Associated Students of Northern University’s Executive Council resigned last week, citing unrelated reasons, said ASNAU President Karen Hardy. John Nanni, vice president for student affairs, resigned for what he referred to as academic reasons. Nanni expressed regret over having to ieave but said that his commitment to his education was more important than extracurricular activities. Karen Strobel. sophomore coun-cilperson, also resigned last Friday. Strobel, the mother of twin girls, said numerous family demands and a work environment that was “ too intense*’ caused her to resign. Ironically, the two executives who resigned were elected only this fall in a special election after those positions were vacated over the summer. The office of vice-president for student affairs became vacant last summer when Hardy became president following the resignation of p*esideni-ekct Watson Gan, Hardy said. The sophomore councilper-son’s seat was also vacant prior to the special election when Steve Westerhoff resigned due to illness, Strobel said. ASNAU had been examining the possibility of avoiding a special election to fill the vacancies because it is so late in the year, Hardy said. Larry L ’Heureux, vice-president of administration and finance, said anyone elected to either of the positions would have only a few weeks to hold the office before regular elections take place this April. “ I really can’t see the point of bringing someone on for that short a period of time,” he said. “ It wouid just be a waste of the student’s money.’’ However, Dean of Students Anthony Ross said ASNAU’s current constitution states that a special election must be held to fill all vacancies, regardless of the time of the year. ASNAU is currently planning to hold a special election Feb. 16, according to Senior Councilperson Felicia McGinty. Two information sessions will be conducted next week. Anyone interested in running for an office should attend at least one of these meetings Feb. I, and Feb. 2, McGinty said. Both meetings will be held at 6 p.m. in room 200 of the North Union. Petitions for candidacy will be due at 5 p.m. Feb. 8. Candidates for vice president foj student affairs and sophomore councilperson must have completed 45 and 15 credit hours, respectively, and have been enrolled at NAU one full semester by the end of the term during which they shall have been elected. McCaigue urges constitution change By Devin Lavery news reporter While Associated Students of Northern Arizona University is currently working to write a new constitution, one student is pushing consideration of an earlier one. Ryan McCaigue, 1985-86 ASNAU liaison councilperson, said he is hoping to see a constitution developed by ASNAU during his year in office brought before the students of NAU for a vote. McCaigue said eight members of the 1985-86 ASNAU Executive Council spent a year-and-a-half, including portions of their summer and winter breaks, drafting a new constitution for student government at NAU. “ We felt the final document was very strong,” said McCaigue. The completed constitution failed to gain support under the 1986-87 ASNAU Executive Council, however, and the matter was left unattended until this year, he said. McCaigue said he believes a revised constitution is needed by the end of the year and is afraid ASNAU might not be able to do so. “ Student government under the current constitution is running with an inferior system of representation,” he said. “ The only option available is to get the old one on a ballot,” McCaigue said. According to the current ASNAU constitution, any full-time student may bring an issue to an election through the use of the initiative process. This would involve collecting signatures for 10 percent of full-time students, which would then be turned in to the ASNAU Elections Council. If enough valid signatures are collected, an election would be called to allow the student body to decide the issue. A simple majority would cause the initiative to pass. McCaigue said he understands all the work ASNAU is putting into completing a new constitution, but believes if they can’t complete it this year, the students should have an opportunity to get involved in the process. “ The students could get involved by being given the option of deciding whethei a constitution developed two years earlier is adequate,” he said. “ It would give everyone a chance to voice an opinion.” McCaigue said any attempt to push such an initiative would be delayed until mid-February when ASNAU either completes its revision or tables it until the following year. “ We don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, we just want to see some positive action taken on this issue,” he said. Scraping By Arm ed with brooms, shot els, hatchets and hummers, electrical engineering freshman R ichard Farad and crim ina l justice senior Scoit Johnson (le ft) work to clear the icy path between A lie n H a ll and the U niversity D ining H a ll M onday. Se\eral Sechrist H a ll residents helped to clear the ice o ff nearby sidew jlk*. NAU budget cut of 10 percent possible for 1988-89 school year By Lori Myrland editor This year’s 2.9 percent cut in NAU’s budget may look like a drop in the bucket if the 1988-89 budget takes a proposed 10 percent decrease. Vice President for Administration and Finance Frank Besnette said Joseph Smith, Executive Budget Office director, sent a letter to NAU asking what the university would do if it was asked to take a permanent 10 percent budget cut. Besnette said because he and NAU Budget Director Bob Nicol are dealing with a hypothetical situation, there’s no need to panic yet. “ It’s like anything else, it’s not fun, and it’s not pleasant, but we’ve learned from our experiences,” Besnette said. It is generally believed that Arizona’s three state universities have taken disproportionate shares of cuts in legislative budgets in past years, and Besnette said he and the Arizona Board of Regents hope this will not happen when the next state budget is approved. Nicol said in the last 10 years, NAU has been asked to cut its budget four times. Nicol said NAU received $55,203,500 from the Arizona State Legislature this year, and revenue generated by tuition and fees brings the current fiscal year’s budget to 566,903,300. He said there has been some belt-tightening this year to cut the current budget by 2.9 percent, but NAU is not yet dealing with an across-the-board cut. Besnette said Nicol has worked with a committee of representatives from different departments at NAU, including Academic Affairs and Student Services, to work out a series of hypothetical alternatives if the budget were cut 10 percent. Nicol said specific cuts could be made in amounts spent for salaries, and more frugal use of operating monies would also become increasingly important. He added that when cutting the budget, the university would have to continue to be sensitive to “ crisis areas” such as the library, where budgets would likely not be cut as much or not at all. With regard to salary cuts, Nicol said rather than predicting mass firing, positions left vacant would simply not be filled as fast, and non-critical faculty and staff positions could be eliminated. In response to the state’s call for projections regarding the possible 10 percent cut at each university, the University of Arizona recently compiled a report detailing the effects that a S22.4 million, or 10 percent, budget cut would have there. The report states that the cut would, among other things, reduce enrollment by almost 2,700 students, impose maximum enrollment levels for lower and upper division courses, close the UA library on evenings and weekends, impose or BUDGET, see page 5 |
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