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table of contents volume 2 Academics Professional and Honorary Groups Organizations Communications Militaryi Athletic Teams and Scoreboard Dormitories I Greeks Seniors Hawkeye Staff 272 280 312 354 420
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An Interview with the President In his white-walled office with the clock that runs eight and one-half minutes slow, President Willard Boyd talked to person after person while we waited for our interview. Secretaries buzzed around in an informal atmosphere, obviously already at home in their new offices. Shortly, a pensive and tired-looking President greeted us and we met with him in his in- formal outer office: comfortable chairs, a small rug and a coffee table full of campus publications. Presi- dent Boyd is a college president with many troubles facing him, and yet he was congenial and eager to talk. Here our interview begins: Hawkeye: Money seems to be the biggest problem within all of the University schools and colleges, and there has been a lot of talk about a tuition raise. From what does the financial problem in the Uni- versity result, what is foreseen for the future? Boyd: Well, first there is no question but what the financial problem is a major one, and I think this University is headed for trouble financially. This is certainly due in a very large part to the economic conditions of the country and the state. The economic growth of the state is not what it once was, and there- fore the question is whether taxes will be increased - and if they're increased will the taxes go to help local governments or state government. If they go to the state, then the universities will probably share in that. The appropriations to education from the general assembly have increased in recent years with the percentage of legislative appropriations but the Regents' share has been decreasing because the last appropriations went mainly to help the school districts so they could hold down the real estate taxes. In the sense of foreseeing it, we've been in a very austere period this biennium and that's what gave rise to the last tuition increase. The last increase went to do three things. First of all, slightly more than half of it went to,pay the salaries of faculty, staff, teaching assistants and so forth. Over one quarter of it went for student aid: somewhat less than a quarter went for critical things such as paying the bus drivers for the student teachers to go out of town and so forth, so we've been very much concerned about this. The in- flation exacerbated this. Also affecting the situation is the fact that the economic situation of the state has been getting steadily less healthy, although there is not a depression by any modern means. Still, we must avoid a major tuition increaseg this is my atti- tude. I believe in low-tuition institutions, I want to avoid a major tuition increase. Therefore, we are giving a lot of attention to how we can cope with the appropriations of the next biennium. Even if we get the full appropriations that the Regents are asking for, we will have fiscal problems, so we will have to 194 Boyd ' I re-order some of our priorities. I do, as I have said, want to avoid a major tuition increase. Hawkeye: Do you think there is a chance of taxes covering the financial problems? Boyd: I don't know. I know there's a great feeling that there's a sort of Utaxpayers' revolt and the peo- ple aren't looking forward to having higher taxes. Recently a gentleman pointed out to me that a man engaged in farming can understand a S500 increase in the cost of a tractor as opposed to an increase in taxes on the grounds that he can defer buying a trac- tor for three or four years but he can't defer the taxes. There's a great deal of concern about the tax problem so you don't find this solution la tax raisel being sug- gested readily by anyone, simply because there is such strong public reaction against it. Now this is also true of the federal government, because they have had to cut back, and this is compounding the diffi- culty. We get a great deal of financial aid for students from the federal government and a lot of other sup- port such as funds for the medical school and the medical compound's expansion. So it's tight on the state level and it's tight on the national level. Hawkeye: Do you think we will see another tuition increase within the next two years?
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