Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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'1! , John Wirick Clifford W. Taylor appears excited at the prospect of eating dinner in a residence hall cafeteria. zM, Congressman Bob Carr shakes hands with a member of a local motorcycle gang at the Pigs-Freaks

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28 Carr, Taylor clash again Two strikes and you're out? by Paul F. Charette In 1974 M. Robert Carr and Clifford W. Taylor locked horns for the first time in pursuit of the Sixth District seat in Congress. Carr won by the narrowest of margins, a slim 647 votes. This mar- gin was less than two votes per precinct in the district which includes parts of Ingham, Clinton, Jackson and Livingston Counties and all of the MSU community. In 1976 they clashed again. This time Carr had the edge as an incumbent, but the race still ap- peared to be very close. When the election results were in on election night, Carr had thrashed Tay- lor by 16,200 votes. Two factors led to the Carr victory. Carr did an outstanding job in his first congressional term and was a leader in the freshman delegation. He was known for his attacks on the seniority system of Congress. He asked two ineffective leaders, Speaker of the House Carl Albert and Armed Ser- vices Committee Chairman Edward Hebert, to re- linquish their positions of power. Carr also lived up to the promise that he would spend as much time as possible in his district. Taylor also ran into problems with his cam- paign which was based on attacking the Carr re- cord in Congress. Carr accused Taylor of distor- tion and the remainder of the campaign revolved around Charges and counter-charges. Eventually the two candidates went before a 24- hour arbitration board of the Federal Elections Commission. The arbitrators threw out the com- plaints of both candidates, but Taylor could not shake his image as a distorter. While Taylor con- tinued to fight distortion charges in the last week of the campaign, Carr focused on a positive cam- paign based on the success of his first two years. Both candidates spent hours campaigning on campus: shaking hands; lecturing and eating in dormitory cafeterias. When election day arrived, Carr Carried between 70 and 80 per cent of the vote in every student precinct. It appeared that Carr was at the beginning of a dynasty in Congress. Taylor, on the other hand, had thrown in the towel. Carr and Taylor face off a second time. Ira Strickstein Ira Strickslein

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30 Priorities are paramount in tuition pinch sucx Mr mwaex! Concerned students protest high tuition at a rally. Aaron Sussell by Sharon Schlief The tuition-laden student may not have been the tragic case he was cracked up to have been. You want to know who suffers most from tuition hikes? I'll tell you, said Elliott Ballard, assistant to the president and secretary to the MSU Board of Trustees. The parents suffer most. The students think the University is trying to hurt them, but it's the parents who suffer. Whether the parents or students handed over the cash, in the past few years they had handed over more and more of it. Between fall term, 1974, and fall term, 1976, costs for graduate students at MSU rose 52.9 per cent. Undergraduate hikes for the same period amounted to a 30 per cent rise. We are pricing higher education in this state right out of the reach of the ordinary family, said Rep. Jackie Vaughn, tD-Detroitt. Students at MSU and across the state faced tu- ition hikes because they were one of only two sources of revenue for most universities. The uni- versity students and state legislative funding were the two sources of money, Ballard said. If the legislature doesn't come thrOugh or the state re- calls funds, the cost of education must be passed on to some extent to the students, he said. For the 1975-76 school year, the Michigan Leg- islature first cut MSU's budget of about $107 mil- lion to $89 million. Then, in the winter of 1975, Gov. William G. Milliken issued an executive or- der that took back $1.2 million. When the state made its appropriation for the 1976-1977 school year, MSU found itself in need of $9 million. One-third of that was to come from a tuition hike, but officials did not want an across- the-board increase. To keep freshman-sophomore rates below or competitive to Wayne State and the University of Michigan, MSU had to follow their example of a split-rate tuition, Ballard said. Laying it on equal- ly would have put us above the marketplace in terms of freshman and sophomores, he added. Another side of the money story belonged to the financial aid department. Assistant Vice-presi- dent for Finance, Steve Terry, said financial aid had grown considerably. There are many more students on financial aid and there are many more aid programs than in the past, he said.