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IVOLUME 41 WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE, WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND NUMBER 3 the gold bug monday march 2 1970 Shutrz foto TIME has tolled for the classroom in the.boltom of Alumni Hall. Tradition sits at the desk. Change is at the lectern. Problems face the small college. In the spring of \966, a suit against four Maryland church related, prrvate colleges instituted by the Horace Mann League of America three years earlier, reached a final conclusion in the decision of the Mary- land Cour~ of Appeals. In this decision, Wes~ern Maryland College was one of the three colleges concluded to be too closely related to the church to receive outright state grants. This decision had a great impact then, and will conunue to affect the future of this college. As the front page photo. shows, small church related colleges face grim financial fut- ures. The question we face now is whether a college such as this can continue to offer a good education without aid other than federal loans, or whether it is impossible to avoid changing our emphasis far enough away from the church to once again receive state aid as had Hood college at the time of the decision. Facts and figures on the Gold Bug debt A steadily growing debt which has plagued the Gold Bug money comes partially from the Activities Fee fund the to sell advertising enough to cover the other expenses and two years caused the editor in chief, MichaelShultz, to go students should be consulted. increase its balance for the first semester next year. before a general meetingoftheSGAMOnday, February According to the editors the paper's debt stands at According to the editors of the paper, if the SGA does- 23 to ask for a special grant of at least two-thousand five- $1,522 while the present assests stand at $1,000. This not grant the requested increase this could be the last, Is- hundred and twenty-two eonar.s. thousand comes from the normal SGA aUotment. This of the Gold Bug for this year. Even if the SGA aUots more The SGA decided that the representatives should return leaves a $522 debt. Five more issues of the paper are than the standard $1,000, but does not grant the full re- to metr sections and poll their constituents to see if the planned for this year. The printing costs for these issues quested amount, the paper's financial crisis will not be request should be met. Someoppositlontotherequest was will be $2115. This projects a debt of $2637. This figure cured, only postponed, the editors said. vcrcec. Mike wetnbratt stated that if the money had to be includes only the cost of printing and does not cover mrs- taken out of the Spring Weekend then he was against it. ceuaneous items such as photography, phone and office The debt is the result of poor budgeting over the last Chris Spencer, treasurer of the SGAsaid that funds would expenses which add approximately $200 dollars to the two years, according to Shujtz . He said that with the cost have to be taken from some other program, but did not cost. of printing expected to go up next year the situation can know exactly which. Several representatives were sym- Advertising revenue usually runs around $200 to $250. only get worse if it is not cured now. pathetic to the pleas for money, but felt that since the If the paper gets the $2522itrequestedit should be able Western Marylanders' grade pOint averages In this issue- page 7 the future of the small private college - an interview page 2