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Volume 83, Issue 12 Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona Thursday, November 17,1988 I Students protest tuition increase By Robert Crook The Lumberjack TEMPE — More than 400 students, nearly 40 of them from NAU, filled an auditorium at Arizona State University last Thursday during a hearing on tuition increases for the 1989-90 academic year. Members of the NAU delegation, which included Associated Students of NAU President Larry L’Heureux, asked the six Arizona Board of Regents members present at the hearing not to raise tuition or to reduce the tuition increases they have proposed. The regents have proposed raising tuition for in-state students at the three state universities by $156. Non-resident tuition at NAU would be raised $546 and non-resident tuition at ASU and the University.of Arizona would be raised $508. N AU and ASU students would also have to pay a $50 fee for the construction of recreational facilities to open next fall. Members of Arizona Students Association, a lobbying group comprised of the three universities’ student government presidents and two delegates from each university, spoke to the regents first. They took turns presenting portions of a 36-page report on tuition they released to the regents earlier this month.” The ASA members addressed such issues as the availability of financial aid, rising enrollment at the universities, the rising cost of living and rising extraneous student costs such as text-bcch:, • slziznts' Uiiti jr. dollars are being spent. They also emphasized thatstudents from Tiiddle-income families are among those tuition increases would hit the hardest. After ASA’s presentation, several students addressed the regents. The hearing, which began at 2:45 p.m., ran past its scheduled 5 p.m. closing. NAU student Tio Shorty, who described himself as a member of the northeastern Arizona Navajo tribe, told the regents that in 1987 the tribe financially helped 470 NAU Navajo students. About 70 fewer Navajo students will receive that aid next fall if the proposed tuition increases are adopted, he told the regents. “I realize education can not be free,” he said, “but with a tuition increase we are taking a step backward.” NAU student Margaret Thomas told the regents that to fund her education she has applied for work-study and scholarships and owes $6,000 in student loans. “As a woman, as a minority, as a human being, in this country, you cannot make it without a higher education,” she said. Several Hispanic students, some of them from NAU, brought protest signs with them to the tuition hearing. Some pointed out that minorities have been given conflicting signals because the universities were granted $2.5 million for their recruitment and retention, yet another tuition increase will prevent many minority students from attending college. Students from ASU and UA said class sizes arc increasing while several class sections have been cancelled this semester. They told the regents they are paying more for less. Several students said they have had to work more hours to afford to attend college, which has made their studies suffer. Some said increasing college costs have forced them to go without meals. A few students who spoke took jabs at the regents’ financial well-being. “I live a simple, modest life, believe me,” said a former ASU student who said high college costs forced him to drop out o f col lege. “No condo, just a studio apartment that probably is no bigger than your kitchen. No BMW, just a bike.” Another student invited the regents over for dinner — with a menu, he said, of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Many of the speakers’ remarkselic-ited deafening applause. None of the regents responded to the speakers’ comments, but listened quietly. The regents will set 1989-90tuition rates at their Dec. 2 meeting at NAU. Photo courtesy of John Ziebell, University News and Publications! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... Gary Hendrix (left) and Chuck Premro, both of the NAU electrical Department, siring a tree with Christmas lights I on north campus. The lights will be turned on Thanksgiving night. Suicide attempts spark prevention programs By Debbie Boling The Lumberjack Suicide attempts by college students have risen, and in an effort to increase student awareness of the issues involved and warning signs often apparent, a suicide prevention program will be on campus next week. At least 12 suicide attempts have occurred this semester and is up over last spring, when one student’s death was confirmed, said Jeff Brzostek, a counselor at NAU. “It(suicide) is the third leading cause of death for people age 15- to 19- and has risen 300 percent in the past two decades for college students in the 18- to 24-age group,” he said. Seventy percent to 90 percent of the people who attend suicide prevention programs know of at least one person who has made an attempt on their life or considered it, Brzostek said. “Itisaserious issue and shouldr<ever be taken lig h tly h e said. “It isn ’ tour place as counselors or friends to judge someone for what has or will happen.’" “If someone says, ‘I don’t feel like living, or I wish I were dead,’ don’t come back at them with, ‘let’s go have a beer and you’ll get over it,” Brzostek said. He said sometimes an individual contemplating suic idc does not stop to associate it with the permanence of death. “It may sound very simple, but once you’re dead, your’re dead. It’s not like a soap opera on television where you can get a new script for next season,” Brzostek said. There are four types of clues that may indicate when a roommate or friend is in trouble, Brzostek said. They include: •Verbal statements, such as “I wish I were dead, or life isn’t worth living.” •Situational signs, which may involve family or relationship problems. •Behavior changes, such as giving away possessions or making a will. •Disorientation,depression and changes that makes one think a person is going through “a phase.” He said if someone says they don ’ t want to go on living, they should be taken seriously. “Any studentatany university can be at risk,” Brzostek said. “And you can’t know whai someone else is thinking” Loneliness, isolation, hopelessness, avoiding punishment, pressure from home and depression are some of the feelings thaL sometimes lead a person to make an attempt to take their own life, Brzostek said. Amy Dohm, a resident assistant at Campus Heights, said she believes it is important to inform students of what to watch for. She decided to sponsor a program that could provide the information to them. “It makes you wonder if you couldn’t have been a better friend or companion and sensed their need,” she said, referring to a personal experience. B rzostek described high -risk stud ents as those who arc high achievers, have few friends, tend to be isolated and people who havedifficulty accepting failure and disappointment. He said a multitude of circumstances are involved when a person begins to reach a point of despair, but almost always there are warning signals. He said the Counseling Center has someone on call 24 hours, and offers both individual and group counseling. If the situation calls for it and the individual is not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a counselor will come to the dorm to assist, he said. Occasionally, students havcencountcred problems with the ope ratorsor dispatchersafter hours, but attempts are being made to improve communications, he said. The suicide prevention program will be Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Heights community room. All students are welcome to attend. Brzostek said he intends to continue suicide prevention programs in other residence halls on a regular basis. The telephone number at the Counseling Center is 523-2261. University fails to meet goals for '88 By Robert Allen The Lumberjack A report submitted iast week to the Arizona Board of Rcge nts’ re sourc cs committee by the university’s Affirmative Action officer shows NAU failed to meet the majority of its 198788 goals to increase the percentage of its minority faculty members. According to the report, goals for Affirmative Action were met in only two o f the 32 targeted job groups, while progress was made in another seven job groups. The report states that missed opportunities were blamed for unfulfilled goals in 30 of the job groups, while goals were unattainable in an additional seven job groups. Among the 1987-88 goals aimed at recruiting minorities to the university’s workforce were: • Hiring minorities to account for 9.5 percentof the fine-artsteachers on non-tenured track. However, no minority appointments were made to the posts by June 30, when the 1987-88 academic year ended. • Increasing the percentage of minorities in professional counseling and non-faculty instructors from L0 percent to 20 percent. The university made progress in this area, raising its numbers to 15.5 percent during 198788. • Increasing the percentage of minorities in records-processing, excluding finance areas, from 8.3 percent to28.9 percent. However, the percentage figures in this category Tell to 7.5 percent during the last academic year. NAU Affirmative Action officer Normando DeHalle said he and his staff are planning to start a campaign aimed atrecruiting more minorities to faculty and staff positions to the university through a series of sttatcgies, including: • The development of an employment- services program to help get jobs for wives or husbands of minorities or women who work for the university. • The development of an exchange program among the three state universities to allow qualified minorities and women to attend graduate programs under scholarships covering tuition, books, room, board and stipends. • To forgive loans for minority and female graduates ofdoctoral programs who remain atone of the state univc r-sities or who find cm polymcnt in rural communities where a need is present forminority or female representation. Minorities made up 14.8 percent, or 348 employees, of the university’s total workforce during the 1987-88 academic year. The report shows women had better luck in finding jobs at the university. DeHalle said wo men accounted for about half of the 88 positions that were filled last year. Female employees currently make up 45 percent of the NAU workforce. According to the repoit, the percentage of women in the university workforce reflects the percentage of women in job markets in almost two-thirds of the 59 job groups. C o n t e n t s . , . News briefs............ 2 Police blotter.......... 3 News c o lu m n .... 3 C o m m e n ta ry .......... 6 Feature..................... 9 Entertainm ent....... 11 Movie re vie w .......... 11 Sports....................... .13 Sports co lu m n....... 13 Th e Dispatch......... 16 Com ics, E tc............ .17 Classifieds.............. 19 Look inside: Cross country teams nets Division 7 title at weekend meet. See Page 13 Issues force changes in recruitment techniques By Scott Tompkins Special to The Lumberjack Recent changes in the direcr on of minority recruitment and an enrollment cap have administrators in the Office of New Student Programs concerned. Victor Wilson, director of new student programs, is concerned with changes that will have to be made in the department and how it will handle the burden of minority enrollment. The Arizona Board of Regents has created a five-year program, mandating a 40 percent increase in the m inor-ity student population. Wilson said he believes this goal is too high and that new student programs, which handles recruitment for the university, is being held responsible for accomplishing this goal. “I just think we should be more realistic,” Wilson said. “Even if we could meet that 40 percent goal, every minority student in the state would have to be going here” Overall enrollment is expected to increase by a maximum of 2 percent next year, he said. The regents want minority enrollment to increase by 10 percent for next year. “However, some people are going to be (angry) if we cap enrollment, especially when we have to start turning away students.” -V ic to r Wilson “It’s like saying, ‘next year let’s have a class that is 10 percent blonde hair,’” Wilson said. "A lot of minority students want to stay close to home. Expecting them to uproot and move to Flagstaff is ridiculous.” He said he believes the burden of reaching a 40 percent minority population is falling on the NAU recruitment program when some of the attention should be focused on retention programs. “The retention programs should get more focus,” Wilson said. “Let’skeep the minority student we have so that we can at least try to reach that 40 percent goal.” He described the current recruitment system as a coffee cup with a small hole in the bottom and for every bit o f coffee put into the cup half of it leaks ouL “NAU is not committed to keeping minority studenis,” Wilson said.‘T he minority programs need to be beefed up, especially in the lines of retention.” Changes in the recruitment process of new student programs because of a proposed enrollment cap is another concern, he said. Wilson said two weeks ago was the final week for high school visitation days on campus. With this recruitment program, new student program s gives each student an interest card they can send back to NAU. A record number of cards have been returned already, about 25 percent more cards than last year. “We’re going to have to stop it somewhere if NAU is to remain a small school,” he said. “However, some people are going to be (angry) if we cap enrollment, especially when we have to start turning away students.” Unsure how an enrollment cap will affect his office, Wilson said recruitment procedures will have to change somewhere. It is possible that out-of-state recruitment will have tobe eliminated, he said. By eliminating out-of-state recruitment, $15,000 in travel funds could be freed up from the budget of new student programs and used for other areas, such as minority recruitment. “ I’m not really big on travel, but some people will miss it,” Wilson said. “The administration may eventually just say no more traveling. “We need the exposure now because m the future w e’re going to be turning people away,” he said. “We need to start talk i ng about these th i ngs right now.”
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Volume 83, Issue 12 Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona Thursday, November 17,1988
I
Students protest
tuition increase
By Robert Crook
The Lumberjack
TEMPE — More than 400 students,
nearly 40 of them from NAU, filled
an auditorium at Arizona State University
last Thursday during a hearing
on tuition increases for the 1989-90
academic year.
Members of the NAU delegation,
which included Associated Students
of NAU President Larry L’Heureux,
asked the six Arizona Board of Regents
members present at the hearing
not to raise tuition or to reduce the
tuition increases they have proposed.
The regents have proposed raising
tuition for in-state students at the three
state universities by $156. Non-resident
tuition at NAU would be raised
$546 and non-resident tuition at ASU
and the University.of Arizona would
be raised $508.
N AU and ASU students would also
have to pay a $50 fee for the construction
of recreational facilities to open
next fall.
Members of Arizona Students
Association, a lobbying group comprised
of the three universities’ student
government presidents and two
delegates from each university, spoke
to the regents first.
They took turns presenting portions
of a 36-page report on tuition they
released to the regents earlier this
month.”
The ASA members addressed such
issues as the availability of financial
aid, rising enrollment at the universities,
the rising cost of living and rising
extraneous student costs such as text-bcch:,
• slziznts' Uiiti jr. dollars
are being spent.
They also emphasized thatstudents
from Tiiddle-income families are
among those tuition increases would
hit the hardest.
After ASA’s presentation, several
students addressed the regents. The
hearing, which began at 2:45 p.m.,
ran past its scheduled 5 p.m. closing.
NAU student Tio Shorty, who described
himself as a member of the
northeastern Arizona Navajo tribe,
told the regents that in 1987 the tribe
financially helped 470 NAU Navajo
students.
About 70 fewer Navajo students
will receive that aid next fall if the
proposed tuition increases are adopted,
he told the regents.
“I realize education can not be free,”
he said, “but with a tuition increase
we are taking a step backward.”
NAU student Margaret Thomas told
the regents that to fund her education
she has applied for work-study and
scholarships and owes $6,000 in student
loans.
“As a woman, as a minority, as a
human being, in this country, you
cannot make it without a higher education,”
she said.
Several Hispanic students, some of
them from NAU, brought protest signs
with them to the tuition hearing.
Some pointed out that minorities
have been given conflicting signals
because the universities were granted
$2.5 million for their recruitment and
retention, yet another tuition increase
will prevent many minority students
from attending college.
Students from ASU and UA said
class sizes arc increasing while several
class sections have been cancelled
this semester. They told the regents
they are paying more for less.
Several students said they have had
to work more hours to afford to attend
college, which has made their studies
suffer. Some said increasing college
costs have forced them to go without
meals.
A few students who spoke took jabs
at the regents’ financial well-being.
“I live a simple, modest life, believe
me,” said a former ASU student
who said high college costs forced
him to drop out o f col lege. “No condo,
just a studio apartment that probably
is no bigger than your kitchen. No
BMW, just a bike.”
Another student invited the regents
over for dinner — with a menu, he
said, of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Many of the speakers’ remarkselic-ited
deafening applause.
None of the regents responded to
the speakers’ comments, but listened
quietly.
The regents will set 1989-90tuition
rates at their Dec. 2 meeting at NAU.
Photo courtesy of John Ziebell, University News and Publications!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...
Gary Hendrix (left) and Chuck Premro, both of the NAU electrical Department, siring a tree with Christmas lights I
on north campus. The lights will be turned on Thanksgiving night.
Suicide attempts spark prevention programs
By Debbie Boling
The Lumberjack
Suicide attempts by college students have
risen, and in an effort to increase student awareness
of the issues involved and warning signs
often apparent, a suicide prevention program
will be on campus next week.
At least 12 suicide attempts have occurred
this semester and is up over last spring, when
one student’s death was confirmed, said Jeff
Brzostek, a counselor at NAU.
“It(suicide) is the third leading cause of death
for people age 15- to 19- and has risen 300
percent in the past two decades for college
students in the 18- to 24-age group,” he said.
Seventy percent to 90 percent of the people
who attend suicide prevention programs know
of at least one person who has made an attempt
on their life or considered it, Brzostek said.
“Itisaserious issue and shouldr |
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