The_Rambler_1965-02-15

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W i m E OF TECHNO vf);
STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L. I., N.Y,
VOLUME XXXV NO. 6 FEBRUARY 15, 1965
[du€ational TV P/on Announced /wove Required by increase in Costs
President Gould has prepared
a detailed program to Implement
the educational television net-work
proposed in the 1964 Re-vision
of the Master Plan.
The president's proposal has
been endorsed by Governor Rock-efeller
and Dr. James E. Allen,
Jr., State Commissioner of Ed-ucation.
In announcing that he
will recommend the plan to the
Legislature, the Governor said,
"This plan is feasible and work-able-
an exciting educational con-cept
ready for immediate consid-eration.
This proposal can pro-vide
the basic physical network
and the continuity that is essen-tial
in any educational television
system to utilize to the fullest
New York State's vast educational
resources in the field of higher
education, elementary and second
ary education, and adult educa-tion."
President Gould emphasized
the many important educational
purposes of the network as fol-lows:
"It can strengthen and enrich
the regular instructional ac-tivities
of the entire University
and each of the University's
parts. It can bring the finest
resources of the total University
(its most distinguished teachers
and scholars, notable visitors,
unusual concerts, lectures, ex-hibits,
etc.) to each of the units,
and ultimately to all of the people
of the State. It can bring a
new sense of unity and identity
to the University, no only through
the sharing of courses, teachers,
and other educational exper-iences,
but by being the means
through which University of-ficials
and University - wide
student and faculty committees
communicate directly with the
entire University community."
Will Serve Community Needs
The president also pointed out
that, aside from its fundamental
importance to the University it-self,
"such a network can serve
the broader educational and cul-tural
needs of communities
throughout the State." Among
226 Evening
Courses Offered
ot SUATC
FARMINGDALE — Between
3,500 and 4,000 Long Islanders
were expected to register for the
226 evening courses being offered
this spring by the Evening Di-vision
of State University's Agri-cultural
and Technical College
here, announced Dr. Charles W.
Laffin, Jr., president of the col-lege.
Spring evening courses span
the areas of advertising art,
aeronautics, agriculture, air
conditioning, heating and refrig-eration,
automotive and diesel
technology, biological science,
business, chemistry and physics,
construction, electronics, gen-eral
education, journalism, for-eign
languages, horticulture,
mathematics, mechanical tech-nology
and police science.
In addition to taking Individ-ual
course work, strudents can
also enroll in programs leading
to the Associate In Applied Sci-ence
degree In any one of six
major fields. Certificate pro-grams
In 14 separate categories
are also offered by the Farming-dale
college.
these services, he said, are pro-grams
of continuing education
for professional groups, ad-vanced
placement courses for
high school students, educational
opportunities for "shut-ins,"
programs to prepare interested
persons for college proficiency
examinations, courses for ele-mentary
and secondary school
pupils, and programs of cultural
enri(;hment for the general public
"Most importantly of all, how-ever,
in view of the sharply ris-ing
numbers of young people
seeking a college education, such
a network can offer courses which
permit students to earn at least
a portion of the first two years
of college credit largely by study-ing
at home," President Gould
said, "By thus extending the
teaching capacity of a limited
faculty to an enlarging student
body, a University network can
accommodate many thousands of
students who otherwise might
be denied the opportunity for
a higher education."
In brief. President Gould's
proposal recommends:
(1) Establishment of open
broadcast UHF stations at each
of the four university centers
(Albany, Buffalo, Stony Brook
and Binghamton).
(2) Interconnection of the foor
university center stations by two-way
(duplex) microwave to form
•a ''backbone" network; micro-wave
facilities to be leased from
a common carrier.
(3) Linking of the colleges
of arts and science, specialized
colleges, and community colleges
to the "backbone" network by
one-way (simplex) microwave;
microwave facilities to be leased
from a common carrier.
(4) Acquisition of two mobile
units (one to be stationed at
Albany, the other at Binghamton)
to tape programs at all insti-tutions
except the university cen-ters.
Programs could then orig-inate
at any of the University's
units, or elsewhere in the State,
and be viewed throughout the
University and the State when
later broadcast over the network.
(5) Location of sufficient
transmitters and translators
throughout the State to permit
open broadcast coverage of the
entire State by the network.
(6) Establishment of the net-work
in six phases, beginning in
1965 and ending in 1975:
Phase I 0965): Link existing
Albany and Buffalo ETV stations
by duplex (two-way) microwave
facilities.
Phase II (1966): Build ETV
station at Binghampton and link
by duplex microwave with Albany
and Buffalo.
Phase m (1967): Build ETV
station at Stony Brook and link
by duplex microwave with Albany,
Buffalo, and Binghamton,
Phase IV 0968): Link other
State University units to four-station
basic network by simplex
(one-way) microwave.
Phase V 0969): Establish
mobile units (at Albany and Bing-hamton)
to film programs at other
State University units for trans-mission
over facilities of four-station
basic network.
Phase VI 0970-75): Establish
transmission facilities to permit
•'open" circuit broadcast cover-age
of the entire State by the
four-station University network.
Dormitory Fees to Rise in Fail
President Gould has announced that, because of constantly increasing costs, the University must
regretfully increase its dormitory room rents, effective September 1965. Generally, the increase
will average $50, with an maximum of $65.
Dr. Gould said this will place the average cost for a dormitory room at about $350 and the maximum
at $365 at 21 State-operated colleges of the University during the 1965-66 academic year. Units not
affeaed by the announcement are the Graduate School of Public Affairs, College of Forestry, Medical
Centers, Contract Colleges and Community Colleges,
President Gould also said that the continuing upward spiral of construction and related costs indicates
that the University will have to add $10-per-year rent increases in 1966, 1967 and 1968.
"The University deeply regrets the necessity of this action," Dr. Gould said, "and it is taken only
because costs of constructing and equipping dormitories and amortizing debt service have increased
to a point where there is no other alternative."
Cost Spread to
Approach Uniformity
Dr. Gould said State University
has made every effort to spread
the total cost of dormitories
throughout the various colleges in
order that rental rates charged
students approach uniformity.
However, variations will continue
to exist for a number of rea-sons.
At those campuses with older
dormitory facilities which do not
have some of the advantages
built into more recent construc-tion,
the rental charge, generally
will be lower than the $350 aver-age.
This also will be the case
where units have as a temporary
measure ' 'tripied-up" in two-bed
rooms so that the maximum num-ber
of students possible can be
admitted to classes at tlie
colleges.
Students living in the newest
dormitories at planned occupancy
per room with the advantages of
more recent design and living
standards can expect to be
charged the maximum rate of
$365. The majority of these
students will be at six of the Uni-versity's
larger units, including
all four University Centers.
The increases are the first in
four years. In 1961 room rents
were raised by $20, bringing the
average charge per bed at that
time to about $300.
President Gould said that the
new increases had been deferred
over the past two years, in keep-ing
with a pledge of the Uni-versity's
Trustees, through ex-penditure
of reserve dormitory
funds as well as State-appropriated
money and tuition
income, to temporarily under-write
operating deficits.
In January of 1963, in announc-ing
a uniform schedule of tuition
and fees, the Trustees pledged
part of the additional income
would be used "to avoid an im-pending
increase andpermit con-tinuation
of the current level of
rental charges to students in the
dormitories, at least for the
period immediately ahead."
However, in the 1964 Revision
of the University's Master Plan,
the Tiristees noted that the up-ward
revision of the estimates
of capital expenditures required
to complete the University's de-velopment
through 1970 was also
reflected in the dormitory pro-gram
and that some adjustment
in the room rent charged to stu-dents
would be necessary.
'The Trustees, however, are
very much aware of the need to
hold student costs at an absolute
minimum," Or, Gould said, "and
the increase announced today has
been calculated at the lowest
necessary to support the Uni-versity's
dormitory program."
Subsidy Has
Been Increased
Dr. Gould luniier pomted out
ihat while the State in 1962 dis-continued
its one-third subsidy
of the construction cost of new
dormitories, it is now providing
a greater subsidy of annual dor-mitory
costs throupli payment of
one-ihird of the total annual ex-pense.
The manner in which this
applies is illustrated, Dr. Gould
said, in a breakdown of estimated
'income and expenditures from
the Dormitory Income Fund for
fiscal 1965-66.
The total cost of operating the
dormitory program next year is
estimated at approximately $13,5
million.
The University estimates that
with the new rent schedules, dor-mitory
income from an estimated
28,000 beds will total ap-prximately
$9,250,000. Of this,
$7,250,000 will be paid in rental
payments to the Dormitory Au-thority,
The remainder of income from
rents will be expended as follows:
$200,000 added to the building
and equipment replacement de-preciation
reserve,
$1,800,000 applied against an
operating cost of $6,300,000.
The additional $4,5 million of
'total annual expense which cannot
be met through income will be
provided by State appropriations
and represents one-third of the
total. These ftmds are in addi-tion
to a subsidy of utility costs
for all dormitories which always
have been provided as part of the
operating budgets of the in-dividual
colleges.
Represented
at Banquet
On January 14, Professor Nor-man
Foote, along with four- sen-iors,
Donald Piano of Olean, New
York, a Floriculture student;
Leonard FUasky, Nesconsit,
Long Island, Agriculture; Law-rence
Timson of Massapequa
Park, L.L, Food Technology; and
Mark Ascerno of Bethpage, L.I,,
Biological Technology, repre-sented
SUATC at the Nassau
County Agricultural Extension
Service Annual Committeeman's
Banquet, which was held at Jer-icho
N.Y.
Dormitory Bed
Cost Up $IW0
Assembly
Schedule
Feb. 18th - Walt Whitman Jazz
Band, Mr. Clement DeRosa,
Director,
Thursday, March 11th (Tenta-tive)
- Peace Corps Program,
Thursday, March 25th - 11;G0
A,M,:
Hans Conreid - Television
and Motion Picture Star "An
Horn- with Hans Conreid"
Thursday, April 29th - 11:00
A.M.:
Joe Buccl - Jazz Organist
with Drummer
President Gould also reported
that the average total cost of
providing a new dormitory bed
(planning, construction, equip-ment)
had increased $1,100 over
the past five years, from $4,500
in 1959 to $5,600 in 1964,
Similarly, the annual cost per
bed in a newly constructed build-ing
(amortization and interest
costs, building depreciation,
equipment repair and replace-ment)
had increased by $165,
from $225 in 1959 to $390 in
1964,
Although the annual cost per
dormitory bed in a newly
constructed facility already ex-ceeds
the maximum of $365 just
announced. Dr. Gould said the
University was able to avoid im-mediately
imposing a total maxi-mum
increase to meet the higher
figure for two major reasons:
Some of the dormitories pres-ently
in operation were built at
lower costs, and this tends to off-set
the higher cost of current
construction because room rents
are not directly related to
facilities in which the student is
housed.
Some colleges are temporar-ily
housing three students in a
room originally designed for two
in order to provide educational
opportunities for many young-sters
who otherwise could not be
accommodated. Although stu-dents
are charged less than the
normal rate in these situations,
the income is in excess of the
amount which would be received
under normal room occupancy.
Scholarships
Awarded
The Eastern Frosted Foods
Association presented five $"00
scholarships to the following
Food Tech students on Wed-nesday,
Jan, 13: Diane Miller,
Alan Weiss, Stephen Young, Ken-netli
Grieve, and Douglas Raf-ferzeder.
Also, student Rodney Dix was
the recipient of a $300 scholar-ship
presented by the Southland
Frozen Foods Corp, in memory
of their late president, Mr, Phil-ip
Rizzuto,
Prof, G,G. Cook attended as
college representative.
Prof. Norman Foote has been
elected to a three-year term as
Director of the New York State
Agricultural Society,