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VILDLANOVAN
“CWAM ITI”
Vol, 45, No. 2
UpAgainst theWelsh,
Mothers and Fathers
Dear-Villanova Parent;
With a great deal of regret I must inform you
that the Board of Trustees of the University have
reluctantly voted an increase of $100 per semester
in undergraduate tuition and, for resident students,
an increase of $100 per semester in room and board
charges, effective in September 1969, My regret
is deepened by the relative shortness of notice,
but this is unavoidable.
The project budget for the next fiscal year carries
an operating deficit at the present time in excess of
one million dollars, We hope to trim this before
the beginning of the fiscal year on June 1, Some
expenses are fixed, of course, and cannot be reduced.
_Others which represent desirable but not essential
- items can be either reduced, or, if necessary, elim-
inated, We shall bend every effort to insure that the
changes will not have a deleterious effect on our
academic programs, . ~
The latest figures available to me (taking into
account the increases listed above) list total income
from undergraduates as $9,352,700 and total expenses
for undergraduate education as $10,678,000, Instruc-
tional salaries plus fringe benefits increase from
this year’s $3,598,950 to $4,349,089 projected for
next year, Academic capital expenditures increase
from this year’s $208,500 to a projected $389,637.”
Expenses in resident halls and dining halls will
increase from $1,403,616 to a minimum of $1,497,429.
During the summer months we shall make whatever
renovations possible in order to provide study and
lounge areas in dormitories which currently lack
them, expand recreational facilities as much as is
feasible within the framework of straitened financial
resources, and plan for future improvements in these
areas, .
Undoubtedly these are trying and difficult times
for all of us, We must carnestly solicit your un-
derstanding, your support and your cooperation,
Sincerely yours,
Rev. Robert J, Welsh, 0.5, A,
President
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY, VILLANOVA, PA.
Previn to Conduct
Houston Orchestra
Villanova University will close
its 1968-69 cultural affairs series
on Monday, April 28, with the
presentation of the Houston Sym-
phony Orchestra conducted by
Andre Previn,
The series is presented annually
as a joint effort by the Student
Government Association and the
Villanova Arts Forum, and al-
*
though it is intended for the student
body, it is also offered as a com-
munity service,
Eugene Ormandy and the Phila-
delphia Orchestra opened the cur-
rent calendar in September with a
concert in the field house, and as
the year progressed it saw such
notables asthe Pennsylvania Ballet
Company, Mantovani, Ferrante and
Teicherand the Intercollegiate
Jazz Festival, coordinated by Mr,
Stan Kenton,
The cultural series also
presented a.group of outstanding
lectures during the past two se-
mesters, which will come to a
close at the end of the semester
the first week of May, although
the official closing date of the
University’ is May 25th, the date
of commencement exercises,
The Houston Symphony provides
a fitting climax to an outstandin
ar of concerts, and much of the
credit will undoubtedly goto Andre
Previn, whose skill in conducting
be considered a major
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By GREG PIRMANN
United States District Court
Judge A, Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
will deliver the main address for
the Villanova University Com-
mencement exercises on Monday,
May 12th, at Civic Center (Con-
vention Hall) in Philadelphia. The
3:00 p.m. exercises will mark the
close of the University’s 126th
year. The Very Rev. Edward L,
Daley, Chairman of Villanova’s
Board of Trustees, will preside.
Judge Higginbotham will receive
the honorary degree of Doctor of
Juridical Science during the after-
noon ceremonies, which will be
attended by more then 10,000 per-
sons, Judge Higgenbotham is a
resident of the Germantown section
of Philadelphia, where he lives
with his wife and three children.
He attended public schools in Tren-
ton, the city of his birth and grad-
uated from Antioch College in 1949.
He gained his LLB at the Yale
School of Law in 1952. Judge Hig-
genbotham has previously been
honored by the North Carolina
College at Durham and by wilber-
force University wit} honorary
Doctor of Law degrees.
Judge Higginbotham was sworn
in as a United States District Court
Judge for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania on January 7, 1964,
this being the youngest person to
be appointed a Federal District
Judge within the last 30 years.
Previous to this he had been
private practice in Philadelphia
rom 1954 to 1962, He was ap~
pointed to the Federal Trade Com-
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conductors - including Leopold
Stowkowski, Sir Thomas Beecham,
Sir Malcolm Sargent, and Sir John
Barbirolli, and has added a new
dimension to the orchestra. Hehas
conducted the New York, Chicago,
and St. Louis Symphonies, as well
as the major orchestras in Europe.
His direction of the Houston
Symphony in the close of the Vill-
anova cultural affairs calendar
should prove to be a highlight of
the series, The concert 1s open to
the public, and tickets will be on
sale at the door,
Congratulations to the
Fedigan Free
TRUTH SQUAD for
Demonstrating Once Again
That the Truth Hurts
el
SENIORS ~
Be sure to get your $35
breakage fee from the Business
Office after graduation.
They've already robbed you of
enough money.
Time Has Come
Harvard Today
(LNS) Dramatic. action took place at Harvard University, where
students taking part in a sit-in were violently ousted from the main
administration building. Police arrested some 200 students and brutally
zens. The sit-in began at noon April 9, when SDS-led students,
demanding that ROTC be totally eliminated from Harvard, led nine
deans out of University Hall and took over. Before dawn, the cops
came, and by the next morning, some 1200 students announced a strike
in sympathy with the original demands and in opposition to the police
brutality, What’s old hat for some of us is new to the Cambridgtans,
Columbia
(LNS) Columbia University SDS shot ‘the opening gun” of its spring
anti- militarism and anti-racism offensive on March 25, with a one-day
show-of-strength strike, .
The strike was 80% effective in Hamilton Hall, the main classroom
building for Columbia College, and about 50 % effective elsewhere,
Students picketed in front of buildings chanting, ‘‘On strike, shut it
down!’? -- an echo from S,F, State.
Queens
(LNS) At New York’s Queens College, about 500 students held a sit-
in to press for the reinstatements of three SDS members suspended
for their part in campus demonstrations. The demonstrators went home
for spring vacation promising to return when school begins again, Stu-
dents at Pratt Institute, alsoinNew York, called for a bigger enrollment
for blacks and for a halt to the school’s property-grabbing expansion.
Stanford
(CPS)--At colleges and universities across the country last week,
protests centered around the issues of the schools’ relations with the
military and their disciplinary action against student demonstrators,
‘At Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif, more than 400 students
seized the school’s Applied Electronics Building, in which most of
the Stanford Research Institute’s classified research work 1s done,
~The sit-in began late Wednesday (April 9), after a mass meeting of
900 students (known as the April 3 Coalition, after the date their
demands were first issued), voted to take the building in protest of
the university’s tles with the Institute,
The demonstrators demanded that SRI come under closer control
of the university, that it cease all chemical and biological warfare
research, and that the Stanford board of trustees consider these demands
by April 21.
Chicago
(CPS)--Militant students at the University of Chicago, outraged over
the expulsion of 42 students as a result of the February sit-in there,
have conducted a partial strike for two days, and may extend it to the
entire campus, .
Groups of students Jeafletted and picketed Wednesday and Thursday
outside Cobb Hall, the school’s main general classroom building, Ob-
servers said the strike was successful. - .
The students have presented a set of four demands to Chicago Presi-
dent Edward Levi, Central is the demand for reversal of administrative
disciplinary action against participants in the occupation of the univer-
sity’s administration building for nearly two weeks, A faculty discip-
linary committee, whose legitimacy has been challenged by students,
has expelled 42 of the students and suspended 81 others,
Other demands include an end to university construction in ghetto
areas around the campus, establishment of a free day-care center for
children of faculty and students, and opening of all campus facilities
to community residents, . -
The students (who meet en masse every day to vote on tactics, as
they did during the earlier protest), said if their demands were not
met by the weekend they would call a general strike of all classroom
buildings.
Kent State .
(CPS)--An Asian Affairs Conference at Kent State University in Ohio
has been threatened with disruption by SDS members, The chapter had
its charter revoked last week after a demonstration against ROTC,
ars,
(CPS)--Rutgers University students on the Newark, N.J., campus
have planned a strike to dramatize their demand for additional funds
for operation of the school.
Alabama State
(CPS)--The campus of Alabama State College in Montgomery was back
to normal operations by last weekend, after the campus was closed
most of the week, Closure was ordered by college president Levi
Watkins after students took over two campus buildings,
The protest was triggered in mid-March by the firing of a black efvil
Tights and political activist, Alvin Holmes, from the college’s adminis-
trative staff because of pressure trom the state capital,
Students at the predominantly black school (enrollment 2100) repeated-
ly requested meetings and an explanation about the dismissal, The
requests escalated into demands; on one occasion earlier in the month,
1000 students marched to the administration building, only to be locked
out, Last week they took over the dining hall and student union,
Twenty demands were presented to Watkins, and his answers were
unacceptable to the students, They announced aclass boycott, which was
to end last Monday (April 7), if the demands were met. Watkins
retaliated by closing the campus,
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