Western Front - 1975 October 24

              Up goes enrollment and back goes the money
bySUKIDABDAKIAN Program Planning and Fiscal Management
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Although fall enrollment is 600 students higher
than state predictions, it will not necessarily
result in more money for Western.
In the past, when enrollment exceeded state
projections, extra local revenue would have been
available for Western's instructional budget.
But because of a new funding contract with the
state, Western's ability to use any additional
local funds is restricted, according to a memo
released Tuesday by President Paul J. Olscamp
and acting Vice President Loren Webb.
In the past, when Western's enrollment
exceeded projections made by the State Office of
KUGS resumes
normal schedule
Last Friday KUGS resumed normal schedule
following a temporary shutdown of six days.
A station official reported the shutdown was
due to malfunctioning equipment. The needed
parts, valued at under seven dollars, could not
be obtained at local electronic supply houses
causing the delay in repairs until last Friday.
Officials say now that the malfunctioning
equipment has been replaced, KUGS's signal
(89.3) is greatly improved.
(OPP&FM), the college could have kept the extra
revenue. If enrollment was below projections,
the college would have a reduction in revenue.
Western contracted with the OPP&FM for
8,393 students and ended up with an enrollment
of 9,198 students.
This year's enrollment was projected by the
OPP&FM using past trends and demographic
data. According to the new contract, this year,
Western was funded at this projected level,
leaving a 1.5 per cent margin of error.
This means if the college's enrollment is at the
projected level, give or take 1.5 per cent, then
the terms of the contract will have been met and
all funds received may be kept.
But if enrollment exceeds the marginal
allowance, as it did this year, Western must
return the additional money to the state. If
enrollment goes below the margin, its revenues
would be cut accordingly.
Local revenue (from tuition and fees) available
from the enrollment increase would total
$33,000, and Olscamp and Webb are requesting
permission from the state to retain the revenue,
to suopport the increased number of students at
Western.
In their memo, Olscamp and Webb said that
student enrollment above the contracted level ia
of little immediate financial advantage to the
institution."
The new contract may also be a disadvantage
to the faculty in the way of Full Time Equivalency
(FTE) positions.
Using estimated annual average student credit
hours, FTE positions generated at 100 per cent
formula would total 614.2. At 72 per cent
formula, this year's mandated level, 442.2
positions, would be generated.
Present enrollment would normally entitle the
college to assign 15 more FTE positions to add to
the present 428. But because of marginal limit of
the contract, money will not be available for the
additions.
For now, Olscamp and Webb are planning
negotiations with OPP&FM for next year's
contracted enrollment, and say this year's -
enrollment increase may be beneficial in the
future.
They said they intend to go to the Legislature in
January to request a supplemental budget
increase for next year.
Monday, the new contracted enrollment was
discussed at a meeting of the All-College Senate.
There, Olscamp said he wouldn't comment on the
effects of the contract in relation to Reduction-in-
Force, until he spoke with the Program Study
Committee. [gee nMed atmy Qn ^ 2]
Western
K. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975 VOL.68 NO. 9
Dorms go artsy-crafty today
A flea market and arts and crafts fair is being held today from
12:00 noon until dark. The fair, sponsored by the office of
residence hall programs is located on the upper campus Ridgeway
tennis courts.
Western students and individuals from the Bellingham
community may bring used or new household items and arts and
crafts to sell that would be suitable for residence hall or
apartment living.
There is a $1 registration fee for all vendors. Those interested in
selling items should call 676-5045 or 676-4049 for reservations.
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From cons to inmates to clients-locked
in changeless garbage cans
by ERIK MAGNUSON
A one-time prosecuting attorney, businessman
and convict spoke forcefully for prison reform
and more open hiring practices for ex-offenders
on campus Tuesday.
John Armore, national director of the Ex-Of­fender
Program of the National Alliance of
Businessmen (NAB) spoke as part of a seminar
held in the library presentation room. The NAB is
a federally funded organization to help the
disadvantaged, including the ex-offender.
The seminar, on "Hiring the Ex-Offender in
Whatcom County," featured Armore and State
Senator H.A. "Barney" Goltz. D-Bellingham as
speakers, as well as a panel made up of local
businessmen and state officials.
"We in the righteous business community say
that a person who is a convicted felon is not good
enough to stand beside us; he'll molest our
children or rape our wives," Armore said. "And
invariably he goes back to prison."
Armore blasted the prison system nationwide.
"We cannot afford a system that has resisted
change for 100 years," he said. "We've changed
their names — first we called them cons, then
inmates, then residents, and finally clients — but
we still put them in those garbage pails. Look at
Walla Walla, look at Monroe, and see what's
going on there.
"We could do the job as well and at less cost
with a cage and a dog out front," he said. "We
correct them, then recorrect, and recorrect, and
they end up with a life sentence on the
installment plan."
Armore criticized the way states have spent
funds for corrections.
"How many billions have we poured into cor­rections
— and there's not a damn thing
happening," he said. "We come up with a pilot
and a study, then restudy the pilot and the study.
We stagnate and never figure out how to change
the system."
Washington state, offers, a "ray of hope" in its
community based corrections programs (such as
Western's Project PERfect), he said.
Armore startled his audience midway through
his speech when he spoke of the time he served in
prison.
"I was a prosecuting attorney in the early
1950s, a vigorous prosecutor, seeking headlines,
looking for cases that would get me into the
paper," he said.
Later he was a businessman, and he said,
"eventually I found my way into prison. I saw
teachers who didn't give a damn, vocational
programs that were useless."
He said he can often talk more easily with an
ex-offender.
"If I get a commitment from a square, it
doesn't happen. If an ex-con tells me he'll do
something, it happens."
Goltz said society is going through a "mean
period," where punishment is favored over
rehabilitation.
Goltz, who opposed Initiative 316 which would
reinstate the death penalty for certain crimes,
said the initiative probably will pass but that it
will be "a step in the wrong direction."
"The public thinks we're after Ted," he said.
But the person responsible for the murders of
young women in this state would not receive the
death penalty under Initiative 316, he added.
Goltz, who is a member of the Social and
Health Services Committee in the state senate,
which originates legislation concerning cor­rections,
said there is often community resist­ance
to work release programs such as
Western's Project PERfect.
He criticized vocational education programs
within the institutions, some of which he said are
obsolete. More than just vocational training
should be offered to inmates, he said.
Goltz suggested massive prison reform in
Washington, including' the closing of Walla
Walla State Penitentiary and Monroe Reforma­tory
and "starting over on another basis."
PRISON REFORM - Senator H. A. "Barney" Goltz [left] and Mark
Lehmann [right], facility supervisor for Bellingham Work/Training
Release. Goltz called for massive prison reform during a Tuesday
seminar on the hiring of ex-offenders in Whatcom County.
Stronger efforts should be made to involve the community in the
hiring of ex-offenders, he said.
First offenders should be segregated from "hard-core" inmates
within the prisons, Goltz also suggested.
The seminar was sponsored by a number of state and private
organizations.
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AS candidates make statements
Preparing for next Wednesday's AS elections, six
candidates for AS Board - Rep. At Large positions and
one candidate for Second Vice President state their
views on pages three and six. J