Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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TUITION SURGES Students Return To Find Cost of Education Higher It ' s on the rise again! Once again while the members of the elite organization icnown as L.S.U. students were off con- taminating their bodies with care- fully chosen celebratory bever- ages and or tanning their bodies on vast stretches of semi — tropic- al coastline, the members of the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors were contemplating how much to raise our tuition. Not that the thought of tuition was ever cros- sing most students minds while they escaped the drudgery of school life for a few months of sun and fun. Those students who stuck it out and spent their sum- mer in the icy rooms of L.S.U. while the proposed $95 tuition increase was officially being ' mulled over had their chance Iq vgice their opinions. ■ I hate it ' buy m ' Mirej omeone is responsi- bls ojj , MTiat5 fh j;icrease (Jf ( LJiOn l W {l ' w-as- e it ' s wrong. We know it ' s abso- lutely wrong. By July 22nd the students ' worst fears were allayed when the Board of Super- visors approved a $48 increase, upping the cost of an education at L.S.U. to a hefty $930 a semester. As student Marc Hale put it hope the quality improves prop- ortionately with the increase. But there is a purpose behind all the budget cuts and increases. L.S.U. seems to have an ever in- creasing number of migratory professors that is, professors who are leaving L.S.U. for greener pastures (or was that paychecks?) Other schooli are making these professors offers that are causing them to pack up their podiums and parking passes and leave. We can ' t afford to lose 100 to 200 faculty at this key point in time. It ' s that critical. • m ' -■ ,t . - «7 • - ' ' Chancellor Wharton stated. With f- ' Pwt, ' llopf «T«i r, ' ? ' $Ja ' Hlae,decreasejjj nrollnient due to .5;B|JuiV r(4 ofc hefgcant lo.Oi;her aii « u)a proce(SiJi» »i fc s At TTeiT ' Ly 9 ' Bu Wi ni - th .,j;e.V( fwi ' ■-. ,. .u cr-A .., f.,».,i J J J. . J j ; t iog ' in havijotm u5l i t ' H,,j t po i|;iwtDjgJve so he pn le ;la j | i%y y mfln i- sors rais«.in ' reiirry fh e ;f jr-, ;Slor WanirrJ ' Ife iav ve y ' H ■ iveill Te- Wif on ' t ' We°kpow MeaniiTif, njore tuil ' nHvlJik ' f ' i iTf the-fuiu v Mayiyd we: i. fi ' |!ei.i §,By)a I 10 Tuition Update