The University Daily KANSAN, Page 9 pus sources ught The Bite Gets Bigger How High Tuition? Bv SUSAN STOFFLE Recent reports have recommended even higher tuition rates as a means of solving financial problems for be-leauged universities. Inflation during the past decade has landed a hard kick in the pocket-of students at the University, where rates to higher and higher levels. Kansan Photo One of the reports, issued by the Committee for Economic Development, recommended that college tuition rates be more than doubled and that an expanded system of student aid be established. Another group, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, Max Bickford, executive officer of the Kansas Board of Reports, says the regents and the legislature play a "game" with tuition rates. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS TUTION UNDERGRADUATE SEMESTER has stabilized the last two years, and state appropriations are needed to make up the difference."
Incidental FeesTotal Tuition-a
ResidentNonresidentResidentNonresident
1866$ 15$ 15$ 15$ 15
187010101010
182010151015
193025372537
194025752575
19505010050100
196070165104199
196070250164274
196485250122287
1964100250129307
1966100300139339
1967150350399469
1968150350170.50400.50
1969120350170.50400.50
1970120475170.50505.50
1971180475231.50526.50
1971180475231.50526.50
1975100475272587
1975100600272667
a-includes special campus fees. (Figures before 1940 are half the annual rate.) "The board is the only one that can change fees," he says, "and it's not a question of law or legislature. There is an unwritten agreement between the two bodies that university students should pay more for tuition and the general costs of their education." If the regents expect additional funds from the legislature, they must maintain the 25 per cent fee recommended a voucher system that would provide financial assistance to every person for at least two years of postsecondary education. The Carnegie Commission also proposed that families with incomes between $11,000 and $15,000 pay higher tutitions. But James McCain, president of Kansas State University, has asked him to light proposals that students be charged the full cost of education, and a Kansas City Star editorial记者 say much to be desired. The largest recent tuition increase amounted to $70, or 19.4 per cent, in 1969. Last year brought the next increase to $83, or slightly more than 7 per cent. The national average tuition for resident students has increased 67.2 per cent since 1965. Student fees then were $311. Now they are $250, or a total increase of $209, according to a 1973 survey of student charges and costs by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). This fall saw a 15 per cent increase in tuition costs at KU, KState and Wichita State University. There are more than 40 students semester at all three schools, and nonresidents paid $125 more. Resident fees at the three state colleges remained the same, but a $50-a-season fee may apply on nonresident students. KU has had a history of escalating tutitions. In 1900, resident students could attend free. Today they pay $42 a year. Through the first half of this century, each decade averaged an increase of $20 to $40 in the past decade have seen increases of $20 or more. But Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols maintains that the state, not the student, is the place to so for funds. A recent report from the University of California says "the proportion of state budgets going to higher education will be no greater in states other than those are boom times or bad, Republicans or Democrats in office." level, Bickford says, but the percentage could easily be increased, although the regents currently have no plan to do so. "There is no indication any revenue-sharing funds will be appropriated by the state for higher education," Nichols says. "Enrollment Declining enrollments and increasing residency loopholes are adding to the dollar plight of Kansas colleges and universities. It is becoming increasingly difficult to prevent out-of-state students from establishing Kansas resi- BIG EIGHT STUDENT CHARGES FOR UNDERGRADUATES, 1973-74 | Required Fee | No. Resident | | :--- | :--- | | Iowa State | 268 | resident | | K-State | -308 | 1,314 | | Colorado | -363 | 1,959 | | Missouri | -344 | 1,959 | | Nebraska | 483.50 | 1,209.50 | | Board | - | - | a—up from last year. (Figures are for full-time undergraduates for full academic year.) deny for tuition purposes, Bickford says, because of the lowering of the age of majority to 18. This fall, he says, KU lost $320,000 when 400 out-of-state students left for summer. Bickford said the loss could be as high as $6 million a year if every out-of-state student at the university established residency. As a result of Bickford's report, a suggestion to allow a single tuition level for all students with an annual rebate for graduates of Kansas high schools is under consideration. William Kelly, associate dean of admissions and records, and more than half the 115 respondents to the survey are likely to blame for rate increases on inflation. "There was a time you could buy a week's worth of candy for a nickel," Kelly says. "Today you're lucky to get a bite's worth for a week." The answer is this kind of inflation is the reason tuition increases are necessary." A 1973 report issued by the regents' staff calculates per capita cost for 30 hours of student instruction at KU to be $1,084 for freshmen and sophomores, $1,627 for juniors and seniors, $2,169 for master's degree But even additions to student charges leave a major gap between charges to students and instructional expense per student. Costs at KU are highest in the state. Estimated costs at Fort Hays State College are lowest at $833, $1,250 and $1,666 for the first three classifications. (Only the three state colleges with WSU or WSU offer doctoral programs.) Although instructional costs vary, the implication is that undergraduation does not require reevaluation. Even so, Bickford says, the regents aren't receptive to the idea of giving a test. Most Kansas educators are reluctant to estimate how high fees can go before large-scale government aid is necessary. In the early 1980s, the Kansas Education and Welfare publication projected that annual resident undergraduate fees in public universities would reach $581 by 1973 and would increase $17 annually by 1982, when they would reach $733. candidates and education specialists and $4,338 for Ph.D. and Ed.D. candidates. If the current trend continues, however, actual fee increases could far exceed these projections. NASULGC figures indicate actual 1973-74 median tuition-fee charges of $520. Although this figure is more than HEW projections, the actual fee is more than double the projection. These estimates vary an average of $377 and are admittedly arbitrary. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the argument in favor of low tuition charges at public colleges is that American society is committed to an ideal of equal opportunity and ideals that have been imposed on the national welfare. Another proposition stated by the same education journal is that institutions themselves favor tuition charges to students at less than instructional costs. This "doctrine of balance" position holds that a variety of funding sources is essential for preserving academic freedom. The free market plan of education directly opposes reliance on governmental support and proposes that education be regarded as a common resource. It should charge a fair price and help students to finance the purchase. So those without to go to college who are without the means to pay at once would mortgage their future in a longer-term, deferred payment loans. The alternative, appraisers say, would be to provide direct federal financial assistance to students rather than institutions. Such a program of loan would also benefit universities by granting them operating funds in recognition of the fact that tuition charges don't meet instructional costs and by encouraging institutions to raise student fees, which are greatly enlarged federal programs of student assistance. He defended U.S. support or Israeli during the Middle East war, telling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization court that Mr. Bush had warned Europe's interest as the United States. But Kissinger promised to stand by the allies despite the disagreements and proposed the development of a unified energy program to tackle an oil shortage he said would have developed even without the October war. THE SPEECH WAS KISSNER's first to the council, which is holding a two-day year-end meeting. It was paraphrased for newsmen by U.S. officials who said the secretary emphasized that the alliance cornerstone of American foreign policy At one point, Foreign Minister Michel Jobert of France and Kissinger had a sharp contrast. Jobert said Europe should have been advised before President Nixon and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid Breshnev had joined the June on the prevention of nuclear war. Kissinger attempted in his speech, however, to heat the souls that deepened when most of the allies separated them. During the siege, he stance during the war and its aftermath. INFORMED DIPLOMATS reported that Kissinger disavowed any intention to keep Britain and France out of the Middle East peacemaking process. But they said he also told the NATO ministers both inside and outside the conference room that British representatives were not to criticize the peace tasks due to begin in Geneva Dec. 18. He said differences between the United europe pole in comparison with other other problems. First, Kissinger listed a growing Soviet military force which he said was the primary reason for the search for detente. He also said upheaval in developing nations and a number of economic problems have an urgency than differences across the Atlantic. act in unison as well as with other countries if threatened. Syria until it turns over POW list. Israel says Syria has refused to turn over names of the 102 Israeli POWS believed held in Syria, and the International Red Cross has confirmed the An Israeli refusal to negotiate with Syria be a serious blow to chances for the success of the negotiations. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told the Israeli parliament that the refusal to deal with Syria at the Dec. 18 Geneva peace negotiations was a threat. Congressional tax experts received the first documents of Nixon's tax returns. The material Nixon released in disclosing his tax affairs confirmed that he paid about $80,000 in federal income taxes over the past four years and no state income taxes. He asked the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to review the returns. Gas retailers want Phase 4 controls lifted so prices can rise $1^{t}$ to $3^{a}$ a gallon. "We are fighting for our survival," said Charles Binsted, president of the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers during a convention. He made his comment at the same time an industry publication told of rising gasoline prices. KU 'Preachers' Put Faith In Bible See Story Page 3 sdav. December 11, 1973 Nixon Tapesutor Disclosed inspirator E. Howard Hunt and also said it would be no problem aillion to buy the silence of the al Watergate defendants. id newsman Monday that perts were taking a second look f a June 20, 1972, conversation e President and then-White of staff H. R. Halderman in an whatin cause an 18- fied that the March 22 meeting union of Watergate and the orgate committee hearings open seven weeks later. past two weeks, Siraca heard what might have caused the 2e tape which was one of need. CINICAL EXPERTS had a tape at a laboratory in New yd returned it to the judge a ring the weekend they asked Sirica said, adding he hopes to sort by the end of the week. into evidence at the court a letter Jaworski wrote Nov. Fred Buhardt, White House r. Jaworski asked for the June The request for an injunction was made by Chester Davis, attorney for Summa Corp., a company controlled by billionaire Howard R. Hughes. The Senate committee has taken testimony in closed sessions about a $100,000 cash contribution from Hughes to Charles G. "Bebe" Teebozo, the President's close friend. Dean has testified that a plan to offer executive clemency to Hunt was discussed during those two days. In a related development yesterday, a federal judge refused to bar the Senate Watergate committee from question witnesses in closed sessions. Rebozo and the President have said the money, held in a Florida bank for nearly three years, later was returned. Kamaan Staff Reporter By SUZIZSMITH 4 and tapes. He requested the tape of a meeting between 3:05 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on June 3 involving the President, Haldeman Michael, then his domestic affairs adviser. Tapes of telephone conversations on those two days between the President and Colonel S. W. L. HE ALSO ASKED for the tape of a meeting between 5:16 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. on June 4 between the President and Charles Johnson, then White House special counsel id he couldn't say how much it increase might be adjusted swed the budget. Gov. Robert Docking said last there would be "some aside in the 5 per cent salary faculty at state schools that ended at the state budget month. et here last night with student for class presidents from the ages and universities of Regents had requested a 10 increase for faculty of the Kansas. James Bibb, budget recommended that faculty be given that the money has limits, one priority is to be faculty innsas State University, said, Wichita student and senior d that he was still "balancing against his demands." There choices that have to be made and learning, he said. cking to Adjustulty Pay Increase adent representatives agreed alary increases were the top air schools. y, Wichita senior and student t of KU, called current faculty U a "morale depressant." representatives also stressed approval by the legislature of a $770,000 allocation to state tuition fee waivers at the state schools. The program would give KU and K-State each $190,000 and each $200,000 and each of the three colleges $490,000. Seventy-five per cent of the funds would be used to pay athletic scholarships, and the remaining funds would go to music, debate and journalism programs. Victor Miller, student body president at Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, and the school's principal important to the colleges than to the universities. He said the colleges were being hit harder by decreasing enrollments and were finding it increasingly difficult to fund their athletic programs. He said that the only way to avoid dropping minor sports and to face the coming enrollment crisis at the colleges would be through the waiver program. Buckley said that he and Pat Neumstrom, Salina senior and senior class president, mentioned specifically to Docking faculty members that he will serve in classes and women's intercollegiate athletics. "The desire for these programs was clearly made," Buckley said. "Now it lies in them." Neustrom said he thought Docking was very receptive to the student representative. "I really don't know how much consequence this dinner is going to have on his life." ge and price controls were lifted from industry but increases limited. ost of Living Council said it extracted a commitment from Ford o. and General Motors Corp. to limit price increases for the er of the 1974 model year to an average of no more than $150 a A commitment came from American Motors for an average increase or Corp., the council said, declined to make similar commitments, until decided to exempt it from controls. *partment of Labor filled suit against milk lawyers alleging unfair labor practices.* Jucers alleging unfair labor practices. A spokesman for the Associated Milk Producers, Inc. had no immediate comment on the suit alleging that it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Labor Department petition asserts that the association hasn't been paying overtime compensation to workers who have worked more than 40 hours weekly at branch plants in Rusk and Sulphur Springs, Tex., and Laurel, Neb. Gov't, environmental group considering the suitets to a russia pipeline the government and Soraa Club assert that the Alaska pipeline would owe oil, electricity and military resources. At least one suit could seek to halt pipeline construction, scheduled to begin within weeks. Completion of the line, which will tap the rich oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma, is expected in late 2018. Nixon formally submitted to the Senate Nixon formally submitted to the Senate Saxbe's nomination to be attorney general Nixon prized Sen. William E. Saxbe, R-Ohio, to be attorney general more than a month ago but had been unable to make the nomination because the attorney general's salary had raised to $60,000 a year from $35,000 while Saxbe was serving in the Senate. That constitutional obstacle was removed when Nixon signed into law a bill reducing the attorney general's salary to its previous level.