The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1964 Page: 3 of 8
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fhe megaphone
Friday, November 6, 1964
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Tuition and Fees To Go Up In 65
(Editors Note: Reprinted here is
Ipart of a letter issued by Dr. Dur-
wood Fleming to the students of
Southwestern. It might be worth
mentioning that in compiling the in-
formation for tjbe report the Univer-
sity checked with schools of the
same nature as Southwestern out of
state since the state schools con
sidered comparable to Southwestern
had already been examined fairly
well.)
Fleming Letter
Student costs, beginning with the
Fall Semester, 1965, will be increas-
ed $300.00 for nine months of school-
ing. The increase will be divided
as follows: $200.00 will be applied
toward upgrading the educational
program, and $100.00 will be used
in improving our food services and
dormitory operations. I will explain
in more detail the use of these anti-
cipated revenues later in this paper.
For more than a year it 1ms been
known that Southwestern could not
continue with a program to upgradr
its educational thrust without addi-
tional income. We have done our
very best, up until this time, to
reinvest in our educational program
and in our student services every
dollar we could get. We believe we
have done an acceptable job; we
take pride in our past accomplish
meets.
Southwestern University was ex-
traordinarily fortunate a year ago
in receiving an endowment grant
from the Brown Foundation of what
will amount to $1,009,000. Three
Chairs have already been endowed—
in History, English, and Chemistry,
and the professors have been ap-
pointed -Dr. Hester, Dr. Perry, and
Dr. Sculen, respectively. The Chiajr
1965, and! the professor will be ap-
pointed in time for the opening Of
school ’iext September This endow-
ment grant has been an educational
4‘break-through” for Southwestern.
In addition, from our own resour-
ces, during the past three years we
have been able to add to our teach-
ing staff an assistant professor in
biochemistry, an assistant professor
in economics, and an instructor in
voice.
We have also added to our staff
an Admissions Counselor and a Di-
rector of Alumni Relations.
While making these new additions
to faculty and staff, we have been
able to raise salaries across the
board a total of 15 per cent during
the past three years. It takes the
equivalent of the returns from
$3,000,009 of endowment money to
raise our salaries 15 per cent.
It needs to be pointed out that
all of the above has been accom-
plished with the institution having
raised student costs only once in
the past five years. We doubt that
any other institution can surpass
•this record of financial responsibi-
lity- I
However, with the financial
strength from our combined re-
sources—endowment returns, student
fees, annual giving from individuals,
families, industry, and foundations—
we will have gone as far as we can
with the present program. If the
high gv/al of excellence is to be
pursued, we will have to find new
and additional sources of income.
You have a right to ask, and wc
are anxious for you to know, how
the anticipated revenues will be bud-
geted. To recapitulate, our present
costs are: $450 for tuition, $175 for
fees, and for room and board, $625
(dependent on mom choice), or a
total of $1,250. Under the new cost
schedule, the amounts will be: $825
for tuition, inducing fees, and $725
for room and board, or a total pi
$1,550.
The increased costs, moving us
forward toward the high goal of
excellence, will be used in the fol-
lowing ways:
1. To augment the teaching staff
of certain departments which we all
agree need strengthening, such sts
mathematics, foreign languages, arid
in a discipline in the Fine Arts;
Winners of the Miss Witch and Mr. Goblin contest
are Pat Renfro and Ronnie Cookston. They were se^
lectetj jn judging at the Great Pumpkin Carnival Satur-
day night. '
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2. To provide far a mare adequate
direction of student life by estab
lishang an Office of Student Affairs
under a Dean of Student Life; and
3. To increase faculty and staff
snlari.es as a fair recompense for
our personnel and in sufficient a-
mouaits to retain ottr best teachers.
The increase in charges for room
and beard will be used:
1. To improve our food sex vices;
and
2. To begin a program of modem-
;zirg and redecorating dormitoiy fa-
cilities which have depreciated
through the years when no funds
have been available four such.
The Board of Trustees is under-
taking to raise additional money for
scholarships and grants-in-aid in
time far tire hg&tulioi'i to be of
mar.'mum help to students who will
need financial assistance next year
and the next. The student aid pro
gram is being revised so as to be
able to meet new conditions. A more
The all school Great Pumpkin car-
nival reminded me of a summer
might in Mexico City when by chance
that social and cultural barrier
erected before a visiting American
collapsed.
A string quartet performing cham-
ber music by Beethoven and Bartok
bad enticed me to accompany a
friend to the University of Mexico at
tiie edge ot the city. Far out Insur-
gents Avenue South, as I watched
from the window of our re-turning
bus, a glowing sphere, trailing a
siring of exploding firecrackers,
drifted across the black evening
sky,
When the city bus slowed past the
step nearest the appearance of that
aerial light bulb, my friend hopped
off with me. One block beyond the
modern face of Insurgent es which
frequently -bars a true view of Mex
ico City, we abandoned our classical
high stone wall. From white squares
of cotton cloth spread along street
gutters, the Indians whose church
we had discovered sold us their
hand-made carnival hats and masks,
pan deice and tiny cookies baked
on plates over a candle flame.
They assured us Saint Lorenzo ap-
preciated our presence at his festi-
val.
Behind the church were more
lights. There near the hand-cranked
klddi eairplan: s, my friend discov-
ered a dart game. Mexican youths
gathered, round the balloon board
helping to win prizes and reputations
for their tossing skill; instead, by
wild throws, they earned laughter
and embarrassment. When I stepped
up to win the tall plaster penguin
with the red bow tie, these jovenes
watched silently.
When five successive darts sue
cessfully missed every balloon on
tastes for the gaiety of a simple foe crowded board, they cheered
dangling above
street, but an>
church carnival.
Surrounded by scrapes and rebo-
zos we passed under an arch initjo
a dark wralled churchyard. No light
extended inside from naked bulbs
e stills in -the crowded
anyone would have seen
immediately a toll pole of fireworks
crowned' by a sign—VIVA SAN LOR-
ENZO — in the center churchyard,
and to one side the men and boys
who held'a deflated paper bag over
an open flame.
After the paper balloon expanded
with hot air, the paraffin flame, con
faired in a coffee tin, was secured
in a wire sling beneath the bag. A
small boy touched a burning match
to the attached string of firecrack-
ers. Released with a loud shout from
men and boys, the home-mode rig
sailed a sloping, glowing, crackling
line through the sky until flame and
fuse burned away.
Martial music blared from five
Mexican hornblowers. Multicolored
Roman candle balls, aimed near the
drifting orange lantern, swished into
sulphurous air accompanied by
squeals of native women and chil-
dren.
A breeze soon cleared away that
pungent odor and the facade of -the
old Roman Catholic church exhaled
the perfume cf tropical flowers gath-
ered1 and carried) fifty miles down
the mountains by Indian families.
Inside, grandfather, mothetfs, tee-
tering tots knelt in .aisles and behind
pews for prayer, then shuffled across
the stone floor to a plaster figure,
San Lorenzo, knelt again to. kiss the
hem of crimson robes, and scamp-
ered back to street stalls under tar-
paulins, ropes, and poles to toss
wooden rings over plaster chickens,
elephants, -bears, clowns.
Spanish and Indian dialect jostled
in the air that night as Mexican
and1 native around us ip the streets,
as religion and tradition over the
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and1 laughed. Inadvertently, an inept
American gringo, who laughted with
them, had restored some part of
ttieir pride.
After mid-evening when the little
ones began yawning and climbing
into maternal arms, a carnival of-'
ficial lighted the fireworks pole.
Pinwhee’s sprayed golden sparks
among the trees. VIVA SAN LOR-
ENZO burst into red and green bril-
liance. Four rotating propeller blad
es, showering a trail of comet sparks
streaked’ into the night progressing
from Beethoven to brass march,
from Catholic prayers to Roman can-
dles, and approval expressed itself
in the simple “ahs” of Indian, Mex-
ican, American.
Dennis Mayes
exacting inventory of family re*
souifes will be required as a basis
for making grants and work pit*
gram assignments in the future. Fir*
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The Honor Council
Of Southwestern
University
met this week and
assessed a just
penalty for a
violation of the
Honor Code.
nancial need will have to be clear-*’
ly indicated by students and families
before drey will be granted. How-
ever, we want tiiis to be perfectly
clear—where there is a genuine
need' for assistance, wc are all'’
agreed that we shall do everything
possible to assist students in meet-;
ing the costs for their education.
In all instances we will welcome
an henest discussion with students
G'f what they can afford to pay and'
cf what help they will need to con-,’
tinue their education at Southwest*
ern. 1.
Cordially ’ yours,
Durwood Fleming,
President
MSM Involved
In Essentials of
Faith Studies
Currently the M.S.M. is involved;
in an attempt to understand the im-
port an) essentials of different phEusf"
es of Christian faith. : 1 ‘
This Sunday s program will be a
look into the Existentialist view of
Christianity. It will be led by Chap-
lain David Swiltzer.
A brief look into the future ix>
veals that the M.S.M. is planning
to participate in a state wide con-
ference of M.S.M.’s at S.M.U. This
conference will be held on Nov. 13-
14-15 and will be on the theme ‘The
Biblical Faith in Ethical Revolution.
The cost will be $13.85 for room,
board and registration.
This is a very fine opportunity
for individuals Who truly wish to
become involved. Interested parties
should contact Roberta Wiseler or
Rennie Cookston.
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