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Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1974 Campus Briefs Israeli librarian Dr. Roy M. Mersky, former versify of Texas at Austin School Yermont college asks voluntary tuitioi Anonymous mail payments save bureaucratic costs director of the Jewish National and University Library in Israel, will speak Friday at Texas A&M University. Dr. Mersky will appear here through a TAMU Library Lec ture, at 2 p.m. in the Library Conference Suite. The lecture on the Jewish library is a public- free event, announced Henry Als- meyer, acting director of TAMU libraries. Mersky is a distinguished American law librarian, Alsmeyer noted. He is professor of law and director of research at the Uni- of Law. Dr. Mersky was interim direc tor of the Jewish National and University Library is Israel dur ing 1972-73. The TAMU speaker has been at UT since 1965. He earlier served at academic and state law libraries across the U.S. A native New Yorker, he has bachelor, jurisprudence and library science degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Mersky has also studied at the London School of Economics, the Faculte de droit of the Sorbonne, Oxford and Yale Universities. Aggie heads SWTSU An A&M graduate, Dr. Lee H. Smith, has been named president of Southwest Texas State Univer sity. Smith, 39, received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from TAMU in 1957 and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1964. He also holds a master’s in engineering adminis tration from Southern Methodist University. He succeeds Dr. Billy M. Jones, who resigned from the San Mar cos school last August to become president of Memphis State Uni versity. Dr. Smith is currently vice pres ident at the University of Texas at Dallas. Computer course The department of Industrial Engineering has announced that it will offer C.S. 458—Introduc tion to Digital Computers—the first summer session. The course was originally go ing to be offered the second sum mer session only. The proposed time and place of C.S. 458 is 1 p.m.-3 p.m. daily in Room 104C, Zachx-y Engineer ing Center. The instructor will be Don Warner. proved by President Jack K. Wil- Smith is currently vice pres- adult fitness program for univer- Introduction to the program and issuing of lockers and cloth ing is set for 7 a.m., June 3 in the Letterman’s Lounge in G. Rol- lie White Coliseum, for a fitness evaluation appoint- Summer fitness A non-bureaucratic voluntary approach to tuition is being tested at the Community College of Ver mont, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. At registration time, students are advised that the college needs money and that $30 per course is the target, but it’s up to the individual to decide how much he or she can afford to pay, The Chronicle says. Along with this information, each student receives a bank-by mail envelope for sending in the payment, anonymously, to the col lege’s bank account. “We save ourselves a lot of bureaucratic hassle,” said Peter P. Smith, director of the college. The voluntary and anonymous system doesn’t bring in a lot of money, but it’s more than the previous tuition collected, which was nothing. However, when the college didn’t charge tuition it didn’t pay its faculty, either. The Community College of Ver mont is not any ordinary college. It was established in 1970 with a grant from the federal anti poverty program and nursed along with later grants from founda tions and the U. S. Office of Edu cation, and with some small state appropriations. The college has no campus, no buildings, no permanent faculty, and 1,500 students scattered around the state. For most of those students, any other college is economically or geographically out of reach. More than half of them are learning new or improved job skills, taught in their home towns, in community buildings, by part-time instructors who are sharing the skill by which they earn their own living. Two-year degrees are awarded on the basis of individually con tracted learning programs and demonstrated competence. The board of the Vermont State Colleges system decided last year that the Community College of Vermont should start charging tu ition, The Chronicle says. Smith said that, based on the income level of the college’s stu dents, it was estimated the college could get about $100,000 in tuition, which would be about 15 per cent of the yearly budget and would provide some money to pay the part-time instructors. The question, said Smith, was how to get the $100,000 without spending $40,000 or more collect ing it. There would be offices to rent in multiple locations around the state, records to keep, record- keepers to pay, people to nag students who didn’t pay, and so on. The board approved, on a one- year trial basis, the non-bureau cratic approach. The theory was that if they could collect $60,000 without spending any money to collect it, the college would be as well off as if it had collected $100,000 at a conservatively estimated cost of $40,000. “I know for sure that more than half of the students sent in money,” said Smith. “A few—not many, but a few—paid more than $30.” A lot of bank-by-mail envelopes have come in with $10 or $15, but there’s no way to tell whether Applications for TAMU show increase (Continued from page 1) rejections as freshman enrollment limitations. • Other reasons mentioned less often included: Financial re straints, greater retention of cur rent students and the admission of transfer students. A long-range look at applica tions for freshmen since 1963 (the first year NASULGC conducted a freshman survey) shows sev eral years of large increases, fol lowed by a leveling-off period and then several years of a steady drop in the rate of change, start ing in 1970 with a new upswing in 1974 (see graph). The only decrease in applica tions, according to the survey, was in 1973 when NASULGC re ported a four per cent drop. However, the 31/2 per cent in crease in 1974 applications is the largest since 1971. these are full payments or in stallments on larger amounts. For the fall session, Smith said, the college received $18,000 in tu ition, compared with $33,000 bud geted as tuition income for each of the year’s three sessions. For the spring session, col lections so far are running ahead of the fall figures, the director said, but whether it will be enough to make the voluntary system worth continuing has yet to be determined. Not all of the tuition income comes from voluntary payments. Part represents accountable, re corded payment of tuition from student-aid funds. Some repre sents tuition paid for on-the-job training programs. Smith said that after two full terms of experience with the vol untary and anonymous tuition sys tem, the college will try to sort out the figures to see whether students who could afford to pay the $30 per course are taking un fair advantage of the system. Even if the voluntary sft should bring in sufficient m«( it should not be continued ifi unfair, Smith said. “It was a reasonable idea try,” he said. “If it doesn't*i< it was still worth it.” Ex-vet dean dies in Temple Dr. I. B. Boughton, former^ of veterinary medicine at Tq A&M University, died Tiiesi morning in Temple. A member of the Texas A( faculty five years, he waj years of age. Services are pa ing at Callaway Jones Fun Home. SOSOLIKS TV & RADIO SERVICE INf Authorized Zenith Sales aij Services 713 S. MAIN 822-111 The Health and Physical Educa tion Department will offer an adult fitness program for univer sity personnel and residents of the community June 3-Aug. 23. An extensive fitness and body composition evaluation in the Hu man Performance Laboratory and aerobic calisthenics and jogging will be included in the program, noted Dr. George Jessup, program director. Men are scheduled to meet each weekday at 7 a.m. and women at noon. Babysitting will be avail- £ £ : t ^ T'** able. Before entering the program, a registration/health evaluation form must be signed by the par ticipant’s private physician. A registration fee is $25. Introduction to the program is suing of lockers and clothing is set for 7 a.m., June 3 in the Let terman’s Lounge in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Prospective participants should contact Dr. Jessup at 845-6841 for fitness evaluation appoint ment. Suicide service checked READ BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS (Continued from page 1) floor of the Sid-Richardson Build ing on the Rice campus. At this time he promised to set up the suicide plans. Time was to prove, however, that Linnenman would break his promise because his “moral con science just would not permit it.” Awed that I had not backed out of the meeting and still had firm resolutions to go through with the suicide, Linnenman admitted at the meeting, “I never expected anyone to take this seriously. Cbe Battalion We’ve had some calls, but it was always just a joke. I kind of talked my roommate, Mortez, into going along with me on thi$ be cause I can understand how frus trated the students get around here during exam time. It was sort of like a happy spot in a crying time. “You have to understand that here at Rice, we have a perverted sense of humor,” said Linnenman. Then, with tears welling in his eyes, he asked me again to think it over and reconsider before tak ing the final plunge. 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