Maroon

              The Loyola MAROON :::::;:--:::::x::;X::;:.:;::X:::X-':::X;::X;Xx:: • :: :: :: x;': x:x:::x:x:x;x;: Volume 70 No. 12 Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 • t—i——* m. Novemoer 22,1991 Publications mess lightens Loyola's purse By Chris Raphael Assistant News editor Loyola's Admissions and Publications departments incurred an additional $6,227.50 in costs when 90,000 admission brochures were sent back to be reprinted because they contained no pictures of blacks or minorities in them. An additional 90,000 brochures were reprinted at request of the Admissions department. "They were reprinted because, in the rush to get the job done, they did not reflect the ethnic diversity Loyola shows," Roddy Wolper, director of University Relations, said. Copies of the brochure were circulated among the Publications department, but apparently no one noticed the original error before printing. According to two printing invoices dated August 26 and September 6, the reprint cost less than the first job, originally priced at $9,795.46. Only two photographs which appeared on the bottom left and Post-election mess — James Smith cleans a popular election plr-ase off part of the Communications building following Duke's defeat last Saturday. /Photo by Rick Millbourn UPT forecasts problems Loyola will face in 90s By Charles Lussier Assistant Copy Editor In an attempt to formulate a university plan to address problems Loyola will face in the '90s, the University Planning Team (UPT) is publishing the first of two documents outlining the present environment in which Loyola currently operates. The team has divided this document into two different sections, including sections on the internal and external environments affecting Loyola. The external section will be published this week. The Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., university president, said at a UPT meeting held Nov. 14. that the team hopes to point out that "of all the things out there, these are the ones that should concern Loyola." Dr. Randolph New, dean of business administration and chairperson of the Steering subcommittee of the team, said he was happy with the external document and did not feel that it missed any major external factors. New, however, stressed that both the documents were unfinished and should read as such and are now open to faculty input. He said, however, that he did not expect the faculty would suggest any major changes in the document. Theextemal environment is subdivided into different sections including economic factors, competitive factors, technological factors, political/legal factors, demographic factors, and social factors. Among the factors that the team foresees Loyola facing in the '90s are a continuing depressed local economy, increased pressure to contain budget costs, continued decline in student populations until at least 1994, increased importance of telecommunications and other technologies, and continued decreases in overall state and federal support. The document states that local governments on up will see other needs "as more pressing than higher education." According to the external document, growth in the number of available international students will continue due to the democratizing of more countries, more countries entering the global market, and the projected continued stability of the value of the dollar. The document also states that "nationally, private institutions like ours will increasingly be caught in a squeeze between higher prestige national/regional private universities and lower cost public institutions." The document goes on to say that these higher prestige universities "will continue to enhance quality and perceived value of their degrees (but will actually admit students from further "down" in their pools) while holding tuition increases to near the inflation level." Finally, the document says that universities will receive increasing pressure from students, parents and employees to provide "quality" and "value." Such pressures will cause more scrutiny of the market value and reputation of the degree, quality of teaching, cost of degree relative to competition, and the economic successfulness of majors offered at universities. "I'm not anxious that the writing committee [the Steering committee] have a finished plan," Carter said. New said he would like to have an open meeting in which faculty can offer any suggestions of how to make the document better. The team, which is made up of 23 members, including faculty, administrators, and one student, hopes to finish a publishable version of the internal factors by early to mid-semester next spring. The UPT, which has been operating in different configurations for over 10 years, is following in the footsteps of the Standing Committee on Academic Planning, which issued a document of general directives for the future in 1985. Carter said he felt that putting out a preliminary "rough" document will be more effective than publishing a finished work that hfhf ::x;H I: Witt) this issue. The Maroon ceases publication for the fail semester. Enrollment dives standards disputed By Chris Raphael Assistant News Editor What do you get when you cross rising tuition rates and reduced enrollments? "A bunch of rich, dumb kids," Mike Starke, political science junior, said. According to current admission reports, there has been a decrease in enrollment since last year, from 689 students in 1989 to 671 in 1990. More applications were also completed in previous years, from 2,374 in 1985 to 1,676 in 1990. "Given the significant downward trend (a 9% national decline) in the number of high school graduates, Loyola's recruitment results show that we had a very successful year," the report states. Figures for the freshman entering class of fall 1991 were not made available, but figures from Institutional Advancement report a drop of fifty students in total enrollment in campus programs for 1991 as compared to 1990. Acceptance rates for full-time undergraduates also increased during the same six-year span, from 46 percent in 198S to 75 percent in 1991, according \oThe Best Buys inCollege Education and US. News and World Report for those respective years. "Right now, they're letting in a lot of people, " Chuck Viosca, communications sophomore, said. "It's ridiculous." Tuition, in the same six year period, has increased at astronomical rates, from $4,824 in '85 to $9,200 in '91. Room rates have also increased in the same period from $918 for a double room in Biever Hall to $1,405, the current price, according to see Brochures/ page 5 see UPT/ page 5 see Admissions/ page 5 ' 'B(ouD your deadl ji - see page 13