Western Front - 1993 May 11

              Tuition, financial aid, enrollment grow in new state budget
By Karl Schweizer
campus government editor
Western students will see higher tuitions,
more enrollments, and a leaner university
budget starting fall of this year. They will also
see higher state financial aid.
Al Froderberg, the Vice-President for
External Affairs, said resident undergraduates
will pay $ 1,971 for tuition next year under the
state budget that passed the S enate and House
of Representatives last week. They will pay
$2,256 in 1994-95, he said. This year
undergraduates paid $1,785 in tuition.
Froderberg said students were being asked
to pay a greater percentage of the cost of then-educations.
Student tuition pays 25 percent of
the cost now, but it will cover 27.7 percent of
the cost beginning this fall and 31.5 percent
fall 1994.
Froderberg beamed about the higher
financial aid, however. The legislature put
$55 million into the state need grant program
— enough to fully fund everyone who is
eligible for a grant, he said.
"Financial aid is going to be terrific. The
state need grant is going to more than double.
That's the flip side of the increase in tuition,"
he said.
Slightly more than half of the tuition
increases will pay for financial aid,
Froderberg said.
Next year, a student from a family of
four with an income of $27,000 will be
eligible for up to $1,050 in state grant
money, according to an estimate provided
to The WesternFront by Kathleen Sahlhoff,
director of Student Financial Resources.
But Sahlhoff said her numbers would be
estimates until she gets exact figures at a
Higher Education Board conference this
week.
The legislature also increased
enrollments at Western. Western now has
9,001 full-time-equivalent (FTE) students,
Froderberg said. This fall it will have 9,216
FTEs, and 9,360 in fall of 1994, he said.
The cut to Western's budget will amount
to a 7-percent cut when hidden items are
figured in, Froderberg said. One such item
is the state's refusal to pay for utility
inflation, he said.
AS candidate
cut from runoff
By Karl Schweizer
campus government editor
Ken Wood has been disquali-
^ fied from participating in the Asso­ciated
Students presidency runoff.
AS President Erin Middlewood
disqualified him after he failed to
comply with an AS Board order
that he remove his Campaign signs.
The disqualification means that
I James Walsh, last week's third
place candidate, will face
frontrunner Keith Boyd in
Wednesday's runoff election.
The board forbade Wood from
campaigning for the Wednesday
I election after finding him in viola­tion
of the AS election codeon May
10.
It gave him four hours to re­move
his campaign signs. Wood
said in a telephone interview that
he had already scheduled his after-
* noon, and he didn't have time to
get a ladder and remove them.
Wood was accused of cam­paigning
within 25 feet of a polling
place during last week's election.
Election Board Chair Tiffany
\ Gerrish filed a complaint stating
she saw him at the Miller Hail
polling station at 9:15 a.m. .May 5.
And Jennifer Howenstine, a
worker at the Legal Information
Center, said in a separate complaint
she saw Wood close to the Arntzen
Hall station at 10:53 a.m. the same
day.
The Election Board deadlocked
last Friday on Gerrish's and
Howenstine'scomplaints. Although
Gerrish, as Election Board Chair,
voted in favor of her own complaint
as well as Howenstine's, the final
vote on both complaints was 2-2.
But Gerrish and Howenstine
appealed, so their complaints went
before the AS Board Monday.
Wood admitted he had been
within 25 feet of the Miller and
Arntzen Hall polling stations. He
said he had spoken with a friend
who owed him money at the first
location and that he'd been talking
with his girlfriend on the the way to
his class near the second location.
He said he had read the election
code and didn't think talking to his
friends constituted "campaigning."
"I don't think standing near a
polling place for three minutes is
going to affect the outcome of the
campaign," Wood said.
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The code states "On election
days, there shall be no campaigning,
candidate signs, or campaign
literature within 25 feet of any
polling station."
But AS board member Jennifer
Kang said Wood should have
known that his presence near the
Arntzen station constituted
campaigning because Gerrish had
warned him an hour before to stay
away from the Miller Hall station.
The AS board voted only on
Howenstine's appeal. It refused to
hear Gerrish's complaint because
she had filed it more than 24 hours
after the incident.
Kate Debelack, the vice-chair
of the Election Board, accused
Gerrish of altering the date on the
complaint after getting her to sign
it. Debelack said in a letter to the AS
Board that she signed the complaint
form for Gerrish at4 p.m. on May 6,
31 hours after the incident. Her letter
stated Gerrish then altered the date
to read 9 p.m. on May 5 —12 hours
after the incident.
After Debelack presented her
letter to the AS board, she resigned
from the Election Board.
Gerrish said she had written
the complaint before the 24 hour
deadl ine, but couldn 't find another
election board member to sign it.
She said she thought it would look
bad to sign her own complaint.
But Debelack angrily denied
Gerrish's explanation. Debelack
said she had been with Gerrish the
entire day of May 5. She said
Gerrish had several hours worth
of opportunities to ask her to sign
See ELECTION, page 3
Presidential candidate talks about fundraising experience
Photo by Todd McGee
Melvyn Schiavelli and wife, Jean.
By Todd McGee
staff reorter
Melvyn Schiavelli, provost of the Col­lege
of William and Mary, answered ques­tions
Monday from students, staff and
faculty aboutwhathewoulddoas Western's
president.
Schiavelli is from Williamsburg, Va.
and is the firstof three candidates toaddress
questions and concerns of those affiliated
with Western. The forum is a required part
of the hiring process and gives the com­munity
an opportunity to participate.
Schiavelli's humor and thorough ap­proach
to answering questions made him
appear comfortable and relaxed throughout
the forum.
"If you plugged in the College of Wil­liam
and Mary's mission statement to
Western's, you'd have to do very little
editing," said Schiavelli.
His visions for undergraduate education
are:
•To serve students better on arrival
having more classes taught by senior fac­ulty
members.
•Create a faculty that cares about stu­dents,
and has concerns outside of the
classroom. He wants to develop a faculty-mentor
program.
•Implement an academic-advising and
career-planning program.
•Change the contents of the core cur­riculum
every decade.
•To put an emphasis on oral and written
communication skills, critical thinking and
See SCHIAVELLI, page 2