University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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w t 4NPI PLEASE BUS ' YOUR OWN TRAY The food service: an alternative to eating You have to admit, it ' s not that bad. This year the Food Service has seen a few changes, a number of Improvements and some nice touches. The theme of pride In product prompted a series of weekly promotions aimed at relieving the boredom of the ever familiar dining hall Specialty nights included such treats as ice cream or watermelon in warm weather, real Italian food, country style home cooking and special desserts. Restaurant Night was a great success, complete with good food served by waitresses But it ' s not always pleasant There are times when nothing tastes right, and the trek to the dining hall hardly seems worth it, unless, of course, you manage to catch a glimpse of your dining hall boy, or have an opportunity to eat sparenbs in front of the girl you ' ve been hoping to meet for weeks Everyone has a complaint or two or three about the Food Service Often the service is a source of sheer disgust and disappointment But no one can deny that the dining hall is a convenient place to fill an empty stomach, socialize with friends or otherwise waste time The days when the food is decent and faces seem to be smiling, the dining hall can actually be a nice place. 6 Student Government Association Loves You

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The Budget a University crisis Students are protesting. Faculty members are complaining and the University administration is biting its fingernails. Campus riots? No, it is the annual battle with the Maryland General Assembly and Governor Marvin Mandel over the University ' s ever-shrinking budget. This year ' s College Park $131 million 1977 fiscal budget request included a tuition increase for students, 13 additional faculty positions and a 2 5 per cent across-the-board faculty pay increase. Although the budget was increased by i7 5 million over last year, the University is still facing a crisis situation In the fall semester, in-state students will have to absorb a $60 tuition increase while non-residents will face an added $190 to their fall semester bills, . . n i Mandel said the state could no longer afford to foot the bill for out-of-state students But this is only half of the budget problems. With only bare bones necessities, the University must deny faculty members pay raises which would keep them in line with the rising cost-of-living. And Potomac Electric Power Company rate increases plus those of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission loom in the future General fuel cost increases last year caused a near panic state when there was no money to cover rising costs and the University faced the prospect of deficit spending Many state officialsattributetheir watch-dog like behavior to the decreasing state budget. But many state that this trend follows a nation-wide decline in support for higher education institutes Since the college students of the ' 60 ' s did not solve the problems of society, a college education is un- necessary. What good does it do, many disilusioned citizens ask. They cant even find jobs Also waning is state support for the University ' s fiscal autonomy Originally, the Board of Regents had been given the right to spend appropriated funds without legislative in- terference But since the autonomy acts approval, many legislators have had their regrets Little by little the University ' s automony has been taken away. Presently, the University still has the power to hire and fire employes and holds onto some purchasing autonomy There will be moves by the legislature this year, as there have been in the past, to take away the University ' s last shred of independence and put it solely under legislative power, much to the chagrin of administrators And the University ' s faculty is not escaping the legislature ' s cutting pen Mandel cut a proposed facLilty pay increase from 7 per cent to the 2 5 per cent. Faculty members have conckided the only way to procur pay increases was through collective bargaining. It is through this system that faculty members can barter for salaries and benefits But bargaining can only be gained through the legislature which does not seem willing to give it In the face of spiralmg inflation, faculty salaries cannot keep pace. And they won ' t again this year And faculty members and administrators in two of the university ' s academic divisions are being asked to give up money and people to other divisions The reallocation con-