The Lumberjack, September 6, 1990.

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Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona
Vblume 85, Issue 16 O COPYTUGHT1990 Thursday, September 6,1990
Administration caps enrollment at 16,000
Minority recruitment
continues despite cap
By Amy Nevitte
The Lumberjack
For the first time in N AU ’s 90-
year his tory, un i versify adrr i n i stra­ti
on has capped enrollment
When it appeared that 16,500
students would be attending the
Flagstaff and sa te lli te cam puses this
fall, an increase o f 700 to 1,000
students over last year, officials de­cided
to acL
“As o f Aug. 5, we decided we
would process completed paper­work
but would notaccept any new
applications for full-time, under­graduate
students,* NAU President
Eugene Hughes said. The univer­sity
accepted applications for part­time
and evening students until
theAug.31 deadline, Hughes said.
The enrollment cap comes as a
result o f the findings o f a special
task force assigned by Hughes to
evaluate the needs o f students and
the availability o f resources to fill
those needs, said David Markce,
chairman o f the Enrollment Plan­ning
Task Force (EPTF).
“Wewere reac hing the maxim um
o f how far we could go with the
resource! we have,” Markee said.
Markee and the other members
o f the EPTF, which included deans
o f some o f the different schools
and adm inistrators, advised
Hughes to cap enrollment after
examining the availability o f full­time
faculty members, classroom
space and support services. These
services include housing and din­ing
facilities, the library, the ad­visement
center and the learning
center.
Both Hughes and Markee said
they were concerned about losing
16,000 mark next year. This year
the number of student* in Flagstaff
will total approximately 15,000,
Hughes said.
Markee said that funding allot­ted
the university for enrollment
growth in the next few yeans will be
enough to accommodate the addi­tional
1,000 students. Markee
points out projects such as the
fWe were looking for a reasonable number of students to
effectively provide a quality education at this institution.-
— David Markee
Chairman, Enrollment Planning Task Force
the one-to-one learning atmo­sphere
that is a trademark o f NAU.
“We were looking for a reason­able
number o f students to effec­tively
provide a quality education
at this institution,” Markee said.
Hughes has proposed a plan to
the Arizona Board o f Regents, call­ing
for a permanent enrollment
cap o f 16,000 students on the
Flagstaff campus, to become effec­tive
in two or three years. Un iver-sity
o f Arizona President Henry
Koffl e r has also proposed a perma­nent
cap o f 38,000 at UA effective
Fall 1991.
Markee predicts the Flagstaff
campus of NAU could reach the
transfer o f Babbitt Hall to faculty
and the renovation of the Social
and Behavioral Sciences building
as preparations for past enrollment
growth.
Students had difTering opinions
on the enrollment cap.
Albert Khasky, an incoming
freshman, opposes the enrollment
cap because he was only accepted
on a part-time basis. Khasky had
taken a test necessary for enroll­ment
and was wailing for the test
results when the universi ty capped
enrollment
“I had asked i f there would be a
problem with my getting accepted
and the administration told me
that there would not The deadline
for appl ication was Aug. SI ," he said.
Associated Students of NAU presi­dent
Sue Sisley was supportive o f the
enrollment cap but also was upset
because students were not included
on the EPTF and subsequently were
left out of the decision process.
“We (the students) are experts in
higher education issues because we
are the consumersof the product this
university is selling; higher educa­tion,"
she said.
“Student input enhances the in­tegrity,
credibility and validity o f ev­ery
decision the administration
makes.”
Markee said that it was an oversight
that no students were on the EPTF.
“We had heard so many concerns
o f students over the past few years
that we just put together an adminis­trative
and academic committee to
analyze their concerns,* he said.
Many students support the cap.
“One o f the advantages o f N AU is
its small size," Rob Dietel, senior,
said. “I'm all for the enrollment cap
because the quality o f education is in
direct correlation to size, where less is
better," he said.
Dan Pena, junior, agrees. "The rea­son
1 came to NAU is because of the
close-knit, community atmosphere
and more personalized education.*
University use of travel agency
possible in face of investigation
u-Sr atwrtii Phil Sampaio
T h e Lumberjack
Despite an ongoing state investiga­tion
into alleged improprieties in­volving
the NAU athletic department
and its use o f Grand Canyon Travel
agency, top university officials remain
uncertain if the departmen twill con­tinue
to use the agency this season.
The mixup occurred after the
opening o f the fall season.
An Aug. 12 issue o f The Arizona Re­public
reported a potential conflict-of-
interest case involving Athletic Di­rector
Tom Jurich and Assistant Ath­letic
Director Rick Smith and the
athletic department's use o f Grand
Canyon Travel to book travel ar­rangements.
Both were co-owners o f Grand
Canyon Travel for 14 months until
Jurich divested himself from the
business in March 1987. Smith is still
a co-owner of the travel agency.
Immediately following The Arizona
Republic article, N A U President Eu­gene
Hughes asked officials from
the office o f the Arizona attorney
general to conduct an investigation
regarding a possible conflict-of-in­terest
At an Aug. 24 faculty address,
Hughes said that the university will
be bypassing travel agencies by going
directly to airlines for travel bids.
And on Friday, Hughes clarified
that statement by saying that between
now and December, NAU will be
accenting bids from travel agencies.
*We will ask for bids by Dec. 1,-
Hughes said.
Though the president stated that
all travel for this season has been
booked through a charter service,
he did not rule out the possibility o f
Grand Canyon Travel being used
for the current football season.
*1 would assume it was possible,”
H ughes said. “ J u rich’s office would
know.”
Butdespite the pending investiga­tion
and the faculty address, jurich
and Smith remain unclear about use
of the travel agency for this fall.
Regarding the athletic department's
possi ble use o f Grand Canyon Travel
for this season, Jurich said that all
travel arrangements for the fall sea­son
were “already done.”
"We probably won’ t have any n eed
to (use Grand Canyon Travel),”
Jurich said in a telephone interview
Thursday.
But Jurich was still unsure if travel
arrangements would be conducted
through Grand Canyon Travel for
this season.
“Don’t really know yet, "Jurich re­sponded.
‘ Probably n o t”
Jurich declined further questions.
Smith also was uncertain about
any possible use o f the agency for
athletic department travel this sea­son.
"I have no idea," Smith said.
"That’ s something we will know af­ter
the investigation."
o f Grand Canyon
agency has not booked any travel
for any o f the athletic teams for this
season.
ButClark said he is not surprised
with the current confusion that ex­ists
with the athletic department's
immediate travel plans.
“3 think everybody is Treading
lightly and they’re afraid to
things right now," Clark said. "We
don rt know what they are d oing. We
are all confused."
Clark said he is also angered by
the lack of direct communication
between the university and local
travel agencies.
“It's aggravating and angering. It
affects the entire community of
Flagstaff," Clark said.
University spokesperson Steve
Stem said a likely reason forju rich’s
misunderstanding concerning the
travel plans for this season was the
athletic director’s possible absence
from the faculty address.
"This decision was just recently
made, and I ’m not sure Tom was
actually there when the decision
was made at the annual faculty ad­dress
for the semester,* Stem said.
Assistant state attorney general
Michael Cudahy refused to com­ment
on the case, citing that the
investigation was still incomplete.
If both Jurich and Smith are con-
See ATHLETICS, Page 6
By Cindy Young
The Lumberjack
Despite the proposed enroil-mentcap,
NAU will continue to
actively recruit all prospective
students including minority or
“underrepresented" students,
said Molly* Carder, director o f
NAU Admissions.
All three state universi tiesarc
operating under a mandate
from the Arizona Board o f Re­gents
to increase enrollment,
retention and graduation o f
“underrepresented*stu den ts by
10 percent over a five-year pe­riod
that began in the fall o f
1989, Carder said.
The “un de rrep resen ted ” stu­dents
are the Asian, black, I His­panic
and Native American stu­dents.
N AU met the goal o f a 10
percent increase last year and
will probably do so again this
i year if the increased number o f
minority students attending
Previews, a summer orientation
program for new students, is an
in dication o f enrollm ent,
Carder said.
Ethnic composition o f the
student body was considered
before finalizing the decision
to stop acceptance o f applica­tions
early from full-time un­dergraduate
students. Carder
said. : •
It was determined the deci­sion
would not affect any one
group more than another, she
said,
Nodccisjonshavc been made
on how to implement the pro­posed
en rollcnen t cap o f 16,000
students because recommen­dations
from all of the groups
involved areseil! incoming, NAU
President Eugene M. Hughes
said.
“What we wa n t to do is assure
that we are able to maintain an
See RECRU IT, Page 9
David RipUyrThe Lumberjack
Sam Hanna moves into Mountain View Hall. The sophomore said his new dorm room is a little smaller than
his old room in Tinsley Hall, but is batter over all. See rsistmd storks below, Page 2 am/ Pag* 15.
O verbooking o f residence halls f o r fo u rth year
creates close conditions in tem porary housing
By Jennifer Do:
Tnee IL um b e rja c k
Imagine five girls living in one
room the size o f two small dorm
rooms, furnished with three bunk
beds, one small mirror, one sink
and one tiny closet Sophomore
undecided major Connie Clark and
junior engineering major Christy
White both live in this room, called
temporary housing or "expended
occupancy,9 with three other
Clark and White, both transfer
students, said fhey have spent most
of their first week at NAU visiting
Residence Life to see when and if
White."We were even thinking
about posting times for people to
use the sink and mirror. W e’re
desperate."
"It is so frustrating sharing one
mirror and sink with five girls,"
Clark said.
"We have all been sent letters
telling us to search for oflkampus
housing and it probably costs just
as much with one other person,
but we ifl want the convenietfce of
living on campus but not with five
people to a room," she said.
Each of the residents
regular dorm rooms.
"We get a different story every
time we talk to them," said
phlet that states, "Furnishing* in­clude
a twin bed, closet space,
dresser, chair and desk."
T h e only thing we have ■ one
tiny closet and one dresser for five
people,” Clark said.
"We have nowhere to study or
keep our clothes."
Rick Brandel, director of Resi­dence
Life, said there are approxi­mately
2S0 beds placed around
campus.
"We usually let *00-300 extra
people sign up for housing because
for the pest three years there have
lations that everyone can be
bowed.* Braodd said.
"This is the fourth fear in a row
chat NAU bam been overcrowded,*
he mid.
Students pieced in temporary
homing live with RAs, in lounges,
in family housing or in rooms that
about the overcrowding situation
are the former residents o f Bab­bitt
Hall. These residents were
placed in Raymond Hall when
Babbitt was turned into offices.
"We were promised three-per­son
roomsbecause we were moved
out at such short notice, and now
they have placed tem porary
housing students with us, "said one
former Babbitt resident
"It is not only unfair to us, it is
Other students who are upset
us. Most of them
l^ing to deal with college life and
they don’t even have permanent
places to live," he mid.
Another Raymond resident
said,"It was stupid for Residence
See HOUSING, Page 2
I n s id e
News 2 Feature 13
Commentary 10 Entertainment 17
Sports 23
In this issue:
A form er NAU
student from Kuwait
tells how his family is
affected by the Iraqi
invasion. (Page 13)