Serving the University of Texas at San Antonio Community
TUESDAY
April 26, 1994
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Volume 17, Number^
Texas' ONLY Independent Student Newspaper
Tuition and fees increase 5-7 percent for next year
Rachel Dupnic
News Writer
For Fall 1994,fieeincieasesaresched- uled in many areas. Nofeesaredecreas- ing, and all fees will either increase or remain unchanged.
The cost for a full time resident stu¬ dent taking 12 semester hours (not in¬ cluding additional lab fees or parking permit) is projected to increase from $680 to $728, a seven percent increase. A part-time resident student taking six semester hours (not including additKMtal lab fees ot parking permit), rose from $376 to $396. a 5.3 percent increase.
Not all fees will increase, however. Emest DeWinne, associate vice presi¬ dent for business affairs, said. The gen¬ eral fee doesn't change, the University Center (UQ fee doesn't chwge, and the publication fee doesn't change."
DeWinne also pointed out that bodi the general fee and the UC fee are at their maximum amounts.
Students should expect a $2 an hour tuition increase. "That is mandated by the legislauiie; it is going up $2 for all state institutions," DeWinne said.
The automated services fee is in¬ creasing $1 per hour from $S to $6. However, DeWinne slated that the mini¬ mum and maximum amounts will stay at $25/$75 respectively.
A student services fee increase also is planned. However, DeWinne said, "The regents still have to tq^irove the student service fee increase, Init it is being rec¬ ommended tliat the hourly rate stay the same at $ 12 per hour and the maximum per semester go from $ 118 to $128."
A student service fees committee is set up to review budget request. This committee is comprised of five students
and four staff, and they review the budgets of the various offices that are funded from student servkes fee.
The student services fee for UTS A is expected to be approved at the regents' meeting in June. "The student services fee, at least at our campus, has been approved at the meeting of the regents where they approve the budget because it gets tied into our budget {Heparation," sakl DeWinne.
The medical servkes fee is also sched-
"We are not like an airline; when you buy the advanced ticket the fare is set.  The catalog says these fees can be changed." —Ernest DeWinne, associate vice president for business affairs
uled to increase from $10 per semester to$12persemester. However, DeWinne said that the medical services fee will be addressed at the June regents' meeting. DeWinne stated, "The medical services fee shouldbe on the regents'June agenda. It is part of the budget process, and the budget gets approved in June."
The medical servkes fee committee provides input on the setting of that fee. "Last year when it was set up by the legislature, we got notke of the medical service fee in May '93. Theie was some involvement, I was not involved in it, but I know there was some committee ^^'iewofit. It was actually submitted at $12. The initial set up was only done at $10, so we did not have to go back fot approval when it (the fee) went from $ 10 to $12. It is anticipated that it will be increased down the road as the health clinic grows. We would have to submit
that increase for system and regknial approval," said DeWinne.
The resident tuitkm will also see an increase from $162 to $171 per hour. "That is set by the coordinating board and they have been dictated to do that by the legislature. They do it evory even year. They calculate the cost of educa¬ tion, and Uiat's their calculation, that it cost $171 per hour," said DeWinne.
DeWinne said that there are a couple of mimn* incidental fees that are chang- —— ing, and there is a new inci¬ dental fee for archi¬ tect majors. "It's an ar¬ chitect stu¬ dio use fee ' of $25 per student, per course. The educational field instruction fee, which is tied into student teaching, is going from $25 to $45," he said.
DeWinne sakl the process for ap¬ proving the fees is more complicated than it appears. "The compUcation that occurs sometime is when the legislature is in session. They passed the medical services fee. We elected to use it to fund the health center, but it depends on what they do. A problem that we had some years ago is when the legislature came in and raised the statute of limitations on student services fee, and it happened after ourclass schedule was printed. We needed to do it (change the fee) so we raised it, and we caught it in time to change the billing. We got system £4)- proval and we were given authority to change it in time to assess the students' properly for the fall semester," he said.
We ate not like an airline; when you buy .the advanced ticket the fare is set. The catalog says these fees can be changed."
When asked if the regents make the final decisKMi on fee changes, DeWinne stated, "Yes and no. The president ap- ptoves the request (fiom the committee) and he concurs with the committee or he approves Ihe committee's request If he does not concur, he will make changes. He has to notify the committee if there are changes and then that is approved at the regents' meeting where they qiprove the txidget. The incidental fees are sent through the administration, they go through the provost offke and vice presi¬ dent for business affairs. These requests are reviewed, and they are then sent to system administration to the vice chan- cellOT for academic affairs. The regents have the final approval."
Formal approval for the changes to the incidental fees occurred in March. "The incklental fees were submitted to system administration for ^proval back in December. They were approved on theFebruary2,1994 at the regents'meet¬ ing. System notified us of the approval in March."
At this time, no fees increased to the point that a student vote was required. "The student services fee, if it were to increase above 10 percent, has to be approved by student body election. It did not. It was kept at the 10 percent level," said DeWinne.
Since iSx Recreation and Wellness center vote failed, students will not be seeing that fee (up to $30) this fall. "The earUest it could be effective would be September 1995, if a student vote ap¬ proves it."
Newspaper takes heat for Holocaust ad
By Jason Zdahbwicz
College Press Service
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Jewish OTganizations have protested a decision by the University of Miami's (UM) stu¬ dent newspi^ier to publish an ad that questions whether gas chambers were used at Nazi concentration camps.
A petition containing 202 signatures was ivesented to The Miami Hurricane the day before publication. Students, alumni and residents ofthe Miami area, whkh is home to many survivors of the Hokxaust, asked the newspaper not to
run the ad, which they said was "bla¬ tantly anti-Semitic, hurtful and offen¬ sive to all of us."
The quarter-page ad, purchased by Bradley Smith on behalf of the Commit¬ tee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODH), ran Apr. 12, just days after HokKaust Remembrance Day, estat>- lished to remember the six million Jews and others who died in the Holocaust. Prayers, vigils and the continuous read¬ ing of names of Jewish victims maiked the intematk)nal occasion.
Meanwhile, the Central Florida Fu¬ ture, an off-campus publkation distrit>-
uted to University of Central Florida (UCF) students, also came under fire for publishing a similar ad.
"The First Amendment is not ques¬ tionable—the paper has the right to run the ad. Many people, however, have questioned our decision to run the ad," said Editor Lynette Malinger.
That deciskm was made by Julio Fernandez, the Hurricane's business manager. Fernandez said it wouldn't have t)een responsible for the newspa¬ per to pretend that the Holocaust revi¬ sionists didn't exist. The $288 charge for the ad will be donated to the Holo¬ caust Museum in Washington, D.C, he said.
"We don't want people to think that we're doing this just for the money," Fernandez said. "We have a lot of stu¬ dents, faculty and alumni that are suffer¬ ing right now. We're really sorry about that. The reason we're running this is to educate people."
A number of UM alumni and sup¬ porters threatened to withdraw financial suppoit because of the ad. The most prominent donation put in jecqrardy was from Dr. Sanford Ziff, who had planned to donate $2 millkMi to an art museum and cancer center. A bomb threat also was telephoned to the [Resident's office, although no evidence of explosives was found.
UM President Edward T. Foote con¬ demned the ad, but supported the newspaper's right to run it.
"As a student editor, I would not have run the adveitisement. As president of a univeniity, however, the standard for my decisk>n must be different... I con¬ cede that the question is close, and that others will disagree with me, but at a university, of all places, we shoulderr, if at all, on the side of freedom of thought," Foote said.
UCF administrators, on the other hand, were critical ofthe Central Florida Future's decision to run the ad. "The First Amendment does not confer a re¬ quirement that any newspaper publish any ad that it receives," UCF spokesman Dean McFall told The Orlando Sentinel.
According to the story, 12 members ofthe Central Florida Future staff issued a statement condemning the decisk)n to run the ad. Editor David Bauer told the Sentinel that publishing the ad was con¬ sistent with the newspaper's goals of "the free flow of ideas, regardless of their popularity."
The CODH, located in Visalia, Ca¬ lif., has purchased similar ads in college newspapers for the past few years. Al¬ though some newspapers have rejected the advertisements, others have agreed to run them, citing First Amendment reasons.
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McManus elected president
Student Government election results are in with the new president winning with less than one half of one percent of the student population.
Andrew McManus won the presidential race with 82 votes. Robert Cuda, the only competing presidential candidate collected 37 ballots.
All remaining officers were elected unopposed: Kristi Hall, vice president; Cindy Mikeska, parUamentarian; Danielle Bush, treasurer; Dina Estrada, recording secretary; James Pinkard, corresponding secretary; and Sean Lebeau, Historian.
No officer candidate received more than 128 votes.
Class representatives elected were Andrew Hodges, Sridhar Vemparala, John Ramirez, graduate representatives; Robyn Jaynes, Michael Harrington, Thomas Brown, senior representatives; Lisa Lott andChris Delgado, junior representatives; Trista Dubose, Timothy Farr, and Miles Sims, sophomore representatives.
No representative received auxe than 32 votes.
The three remaining freshman representative positions will be elected in the fall as well as the unfiUed junior rqiresentathre positkm.
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Youth Crime Commission brings San Antonio colleges together to fight crime
By Maura Cunningham
News Editor
Concemed with the impact that crime is having on society, business leaders in San Antonio have started an initiative to involve college -students in preventing high school students from becoming part of the criminal element.
This initiative. The Youth Crime Commission, is a spin-off OTganization of the San Antonio Business Crime Council.
JeiryBrantley.BusinessCrimeCoun- cil president, said, "Our purpose is to form an inter-collegiate board of direc¬ tors and fot this board to determine the goal and objectives. The Youth Crime Commission would address the juvenile crime problems in the greater San Anto¬ nio area."
Participating in the joint conference to discuss forming the Youth Crime Commission are students from UTSA, Palo Alto College, Trinity University, St. Mary's University and San Antonio College, most of whom are majoring in sociology and criminal justice.
The students proposed several ways an intercollegiate task force could attack teenage crime including, education, gang workshops, mentoring, and counseling.
Beth Aldridge. educational chair fOT the Youth Crime Commission ftom Trin¬ ity University, is responsible fOT design¬ ing a mentoring program. "It starts with the college age students mentoring a high school kid," she said. "It would be activities like tutoring and ...just kind of like a buddy system, so that they have a way to get around to make education easier."
Although the programs have nOT yet staried, Aldridge plans to make initial contacts this summer. "[I'mgoingtotry] to see what school districts are inter¬ ested in it," she said. She also plans to develop contacts within the universitks "and kind of get it organized so that
when school starts up we can start re¬ craiting the college age kids and the high school age kids to see who's interested in the program."
Another project involves bringing together other OTganizations who are already established and are trying to reduce crime. "This gives us a big picture of what programs are working and what programs aren't and how we can reform them to make them better," Aldridge said.
One unique aspect, though nOT a ma- JOT focus of the conference, was the gathering of several presidents of colle¬ giate criminal justice clubs from around the city. According to Bart Cabriales, temporary chair of the Youth Crime Commission, the commission is trying to gather members from many different OTganizations.
"This was the first time an intercolle¬ giate alliance was ever proposed for criminal justice and sociology majors in San Antonio. Thebenefitsofthistypeof coalition could be tremendous," said UTSA Criminal Justice Forum presi¬ dent, Brian Wheeler.
Charles Shields, president of a local McDonalds franchise, is one memberof the businesscommunity who is involved with the Youth Crime Commission. "I think it's an opporiunity for a better line of communication from the kids that are involved. I wanted todevelop this youth crime committee started from the colle¬ giate level because the kids in college have a better means of communicating back to their peers. I figure that has been one of the biggest deficiencies between the relationship of the kids today, that is a lack of communication and a lack of understanding," he said.
"I guess I'm like the pioneer getting you guys together. It sounds like it's going to be an exciting challenge and I'm hoping that you guys can really steer this thing and really get something go¬ ing," Shields sakl.
College of Business inducts students Into Honor Society
Thirty-two students fivm the College of Business at the University dTTexas at San Anionio woe recently faiducted into B^ Gamma Sigma, an inlema- tiMial business hooOT socioy.
"Hie audents are chosen fw Ufirtiffie membership in Beta Gamma Sigma based on theiracademk nude JoniofBiii tiKlopfivepeicentandsenionmAetcv 10 percent of Aek ctesa ttte digfl^.
Junnrs inducted into the honor soci¬ ety include: Mkhael Bollinger. Doyle BylerCanieAn «r (^0010; Jennifer Jennings; Shane Meokins; Linzi Rotheamel; and Genrid ShoAok.
New senior memben (rf the Beta Gamma Sigma include: Anujani Aluwihaie; Mary Smb BoNkn; WOl- iam Calloway; Kimberiy Davis; Will' oontonpg.2