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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
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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 $30 per course are taking un
fair advantage of the system.
Even if the voluntary sft
should bring in sufficient m«(
it should not be continued ifi
unfair, Smith said.
“It was a reasonable idea
try,” he said. “If it doesn't*i<
it was still worth it.”
Ex-vet dean
dies in Temple
Dr. I. B. Boughton, former^
of veterinary medicine at Tq
A&M University, died Tiiesi
morning in Temple.
A member of the Texas A(
faculty five years, he waj
years of age. Services are pa
ing at Callaway Jones Fun
Home.
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Suicide service checked
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floor of the Sid-Richardson Build
ing on the Rice campus. At this
time he promised to set up the
suicide plans.
Time was to prove, however,
that Linnenman would break his
promise because his “moral con
science just would not permit it.”
Awed that I had not backed out
of the meeting and still had firm
resolutions to go through with the
suicide, Linnenman admitted at
the meeting, “I never expected
anyone to take this seriously.
Cbe Battalion
We’ve had some calls, but it was
always just a joke. I kind of
talked my roommate, Mortez, into
going along with me on thi$ 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.
Then once again this reporter
asked if he was going to “chicken
out” or live up to the trust that
I had placed in him. Then for
the final time he refused because
he “could never live with himself
afterwards.” Admitting that it
had all been a very bad joke in
very bad taste, he walked me to
the elevator.
As the door closed he heard,
“I’ll do it alone—just watch for
my name in the newspapers.”
Then under the surveilling eye
of my two incognito bodyguards,
Ted Boriskie and Greg Moses, he
watched the door close and walked
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