VMI Cadet. October 7, 1977

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VOLUME LXVIII Virginia Military institute/ Lexington, Virginia October 7,1977 NUMBER6
VMI Could Lose $2.5 mil. In Budget Cut
byJ.E.Mackin
Tuesday, the fourth of Oc-tober,
marked the approval by
the State Council of Higher
Education of a 201 million dollar
budget recommendation for ten
of Virginia's four year colleges
in the 1978-80 biennium. The ten
colleges — Radford, VMI,
James Madison University,
Christopher Newport, Clinch
Valley, George Mason,
Longwood, Mary Washington,
Norfolk State and Virginia State
— asked for around 217 million
dollars in funds, representing a
31 per cent increase for the next
two years. The 201 million
dollars approved was a 22 per
cent increase, but a budget cut
of around 15.1 million dollars
from the original requests.
The budget cuts were made in
three areas according to Laura
Alderson, staff writer for The
Roanoke Times and World
News-."staff, salaries and sup-plies,
travel and other expen-ditures."
In the way of faculty, VMI
would lose two or three
members, to bring the number
of faculty members down to
98—and within the limits set by
the council. These guidelines,
based in part on the ratio of
faculty to freshman and
sophomore students, is 20:1.
As for supplies and salaries,
the budget that the council
came up with for VMI
amounted to 4.7 million dollars
for 1978-79 and 4.9 million
dollars for 1979-80. This
Hop Weekend
Homecoming hop weekend is
here and for Friday night the
CPB has some proven great
talent. The progressive country
style of Meisburg and Walters
mixed with the comedy of Tom
Parks promise to make for a
very enjoyable dance. Both acts
appeared here last year and
were very successful. Now they
are back and the possibility of
an unforgetttable night is high.
Last year Meisburg and
Walters outshone the main act
at the Easters. Also, Tom Parks
made for a very successful din-ner
theater in Lejuene Hall the
On Saturday the rock band
Cold Duck will come alive and
play tunes for dancing all even-ing.
The CPB has lined up some
great entertainment for
Homecoming this year and a
thoroughly good time can be ex-pected
by all. Cadets are
reminded that the CPB does not
issue season hop tickets, and so
the full price must be paid. The
cost for both nights for two peo-ple
is $13.00. Tickets are
available in Lejeune Hall at the
reception desk, or any CPB
member.
same weekend.
of Events (7 Oct.-14 Oct.) ^
81 Friday, Oct. 7 «S
n 2100—Informal Concert, Meisburg and Walters and comedian TomS
^ Parks, Cocke Hall. ^
| | Saturday. Oct. 8 ^
HOMECOMING (shortened class periods) ^
represents a 2.3 million dollar
cut in VMI's original request.
The figures for the new bien-nium
only reflect a two hundred
thousand and a four hundred
thousand dollar gain from the
last biennium.
The individual salaries of the
faculty for the current bien-nium
are $17,000 and $17,869. It
would go up to $19,101 and
$20,267 for the next biennium,
which stretches from 1978-1980.
This recommendation has
been approved by the State
Council of Higher Education but
is not final. It must come before
the General Assembly in
January for incorporation into
the governor's budget. Should
this budget be passed, VMI
would lose 2.3 million dollars re-quested
in aid, and two or three
of its faculty members.
Cadets Raid Baldwin
VMI cadets "raided" Mary
Baldwin College early Tuesday
morning, and state and local
police were called to the scene.
Some MBC students suffered
minor injuries; at least one
cadet cut his hand punching
what he thought was wood but
what turned out to be glass.
Mary Lou Kiley, Dean of
Students at MBC, expressed her
concern about the inability of
students from both institutions
to act responsibly.
Damage at Mary Baldwin, in
some media reports, was set as
high as $15,000, and the number
of cadets involved, in the same
reports, at times reached 800
According to figures released
by Dean Kiley the total cost to
repair the damaged items, and
areas is $671. The n[iost costly
damage occurred, in Spencer
Dorm—$295 worth. Costs per
dorm for the other dorms are
$146 at McClung, $90 at Hilltop,
$50 at Woodson, $16 at Rose Ter-race,
and $8 at Memorial. In ad-dition
to these costs, approx-imately
$66 will be spent on
overall cleaning and labor. The
college will bill each dorm the
appropriate amoimt, because
although no cadets were sup-posed
to be able to get into the
dorms and although the doors
were locked at 12:00, someone
in each dorm allowed the cadets
Cadets Attend
Leadership Conference
^1115—Dress Parade.
11130—Luncheon buffet served at Moody Hall. B
11300—Corps of Cadets march onto football field. B
S2100—Homecoming Dance, informal, music by "Cold Duck,"P
||Cocke Hall; Alumni Dance, informal. Moody Hall.
| | Wednesday. Oct. 12
11600 & 2000—Films: "Monet" and "Seurat." Sponsored by W&L.^
•Art Department and Rockbridge Chapter of The Virginia Museum^
^of Fine Arts. duPont Auditorium. ^
||2015—Concert: Piedmont Chapter Orchestra. Jackson Memorial||
i H a l l , VMI.B
K Thursday, Oct. Wi ^
^1930—Exhibition Debate. "Resolved: This House Prefers Por-k
•nography to Censorship," W&L vs. Oxford University, Moot Court^
iRoom, Lewis Hall. Free. ^
MOOO—Lecture: "From Press Freedom to Press Responsibility: Ak
^ o o d or Bad Trend?" John Merrill, visiting scholar, duPont^
^uditorium. Free. ^
^000-Play: "American Dream" and "Zoo Story." VMl Theater.^
^ c o t t Shipp Hall, 318. $1.50 for public, cadets free. ^
fi Friday. Oil. II ^
Sl900 &2100-Movie: "Hang "Em High." duPont Auditorium $1.00. S
^ G ^ C l u b Concert (to be announced) ^
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. Four cadets recently attend-ed
a conference on student
leadership at Mary Baldwin
College. These cadets were
Pete Dillon, the Regimental
Commander and First Class
Historian; James Leech, the
Honor Court President;
Richard Wetherill, the Cadet
Program Board President; and
Frank Fountain, the Cadet
Editor-in-Chief. Col. Flournoy
H. Barksdale, the Director of
Cadet Affiars, also attended.
Fourteen Virginia colleges and
universities were represented.
During the morning, student
Concert
Series
Opens
Four outstanding musical
programs will highlight the
32nd season of the Rockbridge
Concert Theatre Series, which
opens this Wednesday, October
12, with a concert in Jackson
Memorial Hall'
Returning by popular de-mand
for the first concert is the
Piedmont Chamber Orchestra
from the North Carolina School
of the Arts followed by the
United States Army Chorus on
Nov 16. and pianists Jeffry and
Ronald Marlowe on Jan. 17. The
Manhattan Savoyards, the na-
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government presidents or their
representatives gave short
speeches on the topic of "Ac-countability:
Student to Stu-dent,
Student to College, and
College to Student." Dillon
spoke for VMI. A open forum
followed these speeches.
During the afternoon, the stu-dent
representatives and deans
of students were divided into
five discussion groups: student
government representatives,
judiciary board and honor coun-cil
representatives, student ac-
Godwin
Reaffirms
HEW Stand
In an exclusive interview last
week with the VMI
Cadet. Governor Godwin reaf-firmed
his position on the HEW
plan to set goals in the
desegregation of Virginia's col-leges.
The governor denied the
possibility of any racial
discrimination. He called the
HEW directive "just another ef-fort
of the federal government
to take over all the educational
programs of this country.''
Next week there 'will be a
complete story on the Godwin
interview covering the HEW
report, the bond issue, and ex-actly
why there is a VMI.
to enter, usually by unlocking a
door.
Some personal property such
as a stereo, was damaged, but
no figures on the exact amount
were available since the college
is not responsible for this pro-perty.
Officials at VMI have set the
total of the raiding party at less
than 300, while Mary Baldwin
officials claim 80 to 100 cadets
were involved. The exact
number is not likely to be
known, however, as those
members of the VMI corps who
remained in barracks banded
together, in the chilly early
morning hours to fill vacant
beds and thus keep most of
those cadets absent from being
discovered by the officer in
charge of midnight inspection
(OCMNI).
The raid by VMI was in
response to a raid by a large
number of war painted Mary
Baldwin girls on the VMI bar-racks
the preceding week.
Responses
To Dalton
Proposal
by Richard Smith
Last week, there appeared in
the Cadet an article on Lt.
Governor Dalton's proposal
that a recent (within three
years) graduate be placed on
the Board of Visitors of all state
supported colleges and univer-sities.
As a follow up, the opi-nions
of General Irby and the
Honorable Frank G. Louthan,
Jr., Chairman of the Board of
Visitors at VMI, were sought on
this subject.
General Irby did not feel that,
in his position as Superinten-dent,
he could make a state-ment,
pro or con, to this issue.
However, he did bring up some
points that are well worth con-sideration,
such as the respon-sibilities
of the Board. The
operation of VMI 'from a
"policy standpoint," the legisla-tion
of policy for the school, and
the appointment of new faculty,
along with financial matters
and problems of the Corps,
make up the areas of vital im-
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