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Tuition and room
Parking problems face
charges hiked again
long-term solutions
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University considers parking garage or shuttle service as
alternatives to limited parking spaces.
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The increase sets tuition for a Leadership Center, the Marianist
national increases, were taken into Cont. on PG 4, SEE “STUDENTS”
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the visitor's parking lot in front ty faculty and staff.
$40
$255 per hour
$255 per hour
+/-$o
$1,846 per sem.
$1,901 per sem.
$55
$1,599 per sem.
$1,552 per sem.
$47
$1,901 per sem.
$1,846 per sem.
$55
$1,901 per sem.
$55
$1,901 per sem.
$349
i $1,628 per sem.
| $1,677 per sem.
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OLD AND NEW TUITION AND ROOM RATES COMPARISON
Student Bill of
Rights stalled
on three issues
STMARYS
UNIVERSITY
The leading state demog-
rapher Stephen Murdoch,
Ph.D. who recently joined
the University of Texas at
San Antonio as a professor,
state or federal aid in the Pell Grant and
Texas Equalization Grant (TEG) programs.
"The enrollment growth is increasing
faster than the aid is being given," Cotrell
said. "The TEG availability is being outrun
and the allocations are not being awarded
And the winner is...
Who will walk away with
an Oscar statue?
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MANAGING EDITOR
Meet Marcus Session
Athlete breaks stereotypes
by being artist, poet, and
actor.
By VALARIE GECKUER
COMMENTARY EDITOR
enough."
So why the low funds and why don't stu-
dents take a stronger interest in the lack of
state funding?
account.
"The balance here is between a
continual reinvestment in quality,
In part two of his "no-holds-barred" inter-
view with.The Rattler, St. Mary's University
President Charles Cotrell continues the dia-
logue with the state aid situation affecting
rising tuition costs, his long-term projects for
the university inside of his hyped Vision
2006 plan, and his honest opinion of the stu-
dent body.
With the recently announced $7.8 bequest
for scholarships from the estate of Mexico
City alumnus Pedro Viyao and his wife,
Alicia, and an endowment fund for universi-
ty scholarship nearing $100 million, Cotrell
feels confident that he will be able to over-
come the lack of state aid coming into St.
Mary's.
Cotrell said nearly 85 percent of the stu-
dent body receives some form of financial
aid, with the majority of students in need of
By FRANCISCO VARA-ORTA
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
By VALERIE CHAVEZ
STAFF WRITER
State aid cut a "political issue"
Cotrell cites the $9 billion state deficit that
led to programs in social services and educa-
tion being cut or even eliminated altogether
as well as the politics that revolve the deci-
sions in the Texas Legislature.
"We must advocate the importance of
education and that of higher education as an
essential element of our future in the state.
Students must exercise their right to vote and
lobby their lawmakers to make education a
priority," Cotrell said. -
PHOTO BY JENNIFER YUARTE
Lot J is one of the only lots unaffected by the parking changes.
Wednesday
February 25, 2004
Vol. 91, Issue 8
Cotrell zeroes in on achieving his Vision 2006 plan
Part two of The Rattlers exclusive interview with the university president.
PHOTO BY DANNY CHARBEL
Cotrell sees a bright future for St. Mary’s.
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As the Historic Gateway to
St. Mary's Project moves into its
second phase during the spring
2004 semester, many new fea-
tures, including new trees and a
water feature near the school
entrance, are now visible on the
grounds of this university.
But the yearlong, $4 million
project has raised many con-
cerns, especially regarding the
availability and ease of parking
on campus.
When the first phase of the
project began last semester, most
modifications, including the
installation of irrigation sleeves
under roadways and landscape
WHAT
Undergraduate Tuition
to the campus materialize, stu-
dents, faculty and staff must
deal with the accompanying
changes to parking areas and
procedures.
In a December letter updat-
ing St. Mary's resident students
on the status of the Gateway
Project, Dean of Students Karen
Johnson described the front of
the campus. -
"It's possible now to see
parking area configurations, the
water feature at the base of the
statue of Mary, and the many
PART 2 of 2
See "Cotrell"
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for more
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improve the aesthetic appear-
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administration has announced
tuition rates and room charges for
the 2004-2005 school year will
increase nearly eight percent and
the cost of housing will increase
by three percent.
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Leadership Program and others-
on the one hand and yes, what the
cost is in the other," St. Mary's
University President Charles
Cotrell said. "There's nothing sim-
ple to it."
According to a 2003 report from
the Chronicle of Higher Education
comparing costs from 2002, in a
grouping of ten peer private Texas
universities, St. Mary's ranked
sixth for tuition and fee costs, mak-
ing St. Mary's over $7,000 cheaper
than highest ranked Southern
Methodist University, but almost
$5,000 more expensive than the
lowest costing Texas Wesleyan
University.
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$479 per hour $517 per hour
Discussion of the status of the
Student Bill of Rights (SBR) was held
at a meeting on Feb. 16. On the
panel to address the issue were Dean
of Students Karen D. Johnson, Vice
President of Student Development
Kathy Sisoian, and Director of
Student Activities Carlos Ramirez.
"We've been advised by universi-
ty policy not to have another docu-
ment," Johnson said, explaining why
the SBR is not going to be made an
official document.
The fact < that Chaminade
University in Hawaii has a Student
full-time undergraduate taking 12-
18 hours at $8,628 per semester.
Housing costs will vary by hall.
Chaminade and Treadaway
Residence Halls will cost $1,599
per semester, Dougherty and
Marian Residence Halls will be
$1,677 per semester, and Anthony
Frederick, John Donohoo, Flores,
Adele, Cremer, Lourdes and Leies
halls costs will rise to $1,901 per
semester.
When making the decision to
raise these costs, the number of
enrolled students, salaries of facul-
ty, amount of money in the endow-
ment fund and mandated expendi-
tures like health insurance and
utilities, both of which are seeing
subsequent conversion of Lot T,
the area in front of the AACC,
from partially to fully
faculty/staff to serve as its tem-
porary replacement.
According to an internal
email in February, the
University Parking Committee
is currently assessing special
parking requests from universi-
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of Chaminade Hall and St. Louis
Hall, removal of old sidewalks,
the relocation of a red oak tree to
the west side of the SBC Center
and the addition of a fountain to
the statue in Santa Maria Plaza.
Johnson's letter also
addressed the issue of parking
shifts for the spring semester,
referring to the readjustment as
a "temporary inconvenience."
December saw the closing of
faculty/staff Lot A, the area in
front of St. Louis Hall, and the
off with a good education, has a
well-credentialed, good faculty,
and has other kinds of programs
and amenities, like information
technology and other programs-
the Twenty-First Century
"There has been a significant
increase in requests for universi-
ty-issued temporary handicap
parking permits," Vice
President of Administration and
Finance Rebeckah McCoy said.
"Before parking changes were
implemented December 2003,
the university exceeded federal
guidelines for handicap-accessi-
ble parking spaces. A review of
requests for temporary hand
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shaping beams, the relocation of Johnson said.
a flagpole to V.J. Keefe Stadium Since late January, many
and other basic landscaping highly visible project elements
improvements, were part of have appeared on the university
preparation for the larger ele- campus, including the addition
ments of the project. of fence columns to the north
Now, as those larger changes side of the project, the paving of
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