The Griffin: volume 55, issue 18 - Mar. 22, 1985

              FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1985 VOLUME LV, NUMBER 18 TAP Parity Faces Obstacles; Equity to Pass Serving The College And Community Photo by JIM (iRECO Two Canisius students compose their letters to the Legislature regarding TAP with assistance from Senate president Chris Johnson, Senator Robert O'Connor and Secretary Jill Schwalbach. Ryan is confident that the Parity bill will be included. He stressed the importance of the letter writing campaign undertaken by the student senate for the success of the bill. The senate hopes to mail approximately 2,000 student-written letters to the leaders of the Legislature by next Wednesday.According to Ken Burlinski, staff director for Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, co-sponsor of the TAP bills, the Assemblyman "is working hard to get the bills into the budget." Berlinski feels that it "looks good" for Equity, but believes Parity deserves equal consideration. He stated that "all sectors deserve an increase." While the independent schools lobbied for both Equity and Parity, the public institutions were interested only in Equity. According to Chris Johnson, president of the Undergraduate Student Assembly, "Equity was pushed from both sides while Parity was pushed by one." A major development occurred last week concerning the TAP proposals when it was learned that the TAP Equity proposal has been incorporated into the 1985-86 New York State budget while the Parity Bill has not yet been included. The budget, due April 1, is in its final stages of preparation in Albany and should be completed by the end of next week. If the bill is not added, it will face a difficult time of passage if included in the Supplementary budget in June. Due to intensive lobbying by the State University System, the Equity proposal, which aids graduate and emanciapted students, has been included in the budget. The Parity Bill,, which raises the maximum award for undergraduates $400 to $3,100, is still in caucus. According the Rev. Edmund G. Ryan, S.J., Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, 'The Parity Bill will help Canisius students most." by Jim Greco "Most of the work will be done during the summer, and I imagine (cont'd on page 4) Bouwhuis Library, most of the books were put in storage temporarily in the basement of Christ the King Chapel on the Canisius campus. Mr. Winkler said Canisius librarians will now sort the books into three categories: titles the college does not already own; duplicate titles the college will keep; and duplicate titles the college will not keep. Any books the college decides not to keep will probably be sold to book dealers eventually, Mr. Winkler said. dents planning to seek employment with a Bachelor's degree, and finally developing internships and opportunities for independent study," noted Tomasulo. The shelves of the Bouwhuis Library will soon be bulging with 33,000 new care books recently donated. Photo by beth hoch Since advances and new developments in the biological sciences occur at an alarmingly rapid rate, the Council founders felt that outside expertise was required. Representatives on the Council are volunteers and consist of a mixture from area medical (cont'd on page 9} The Bouwhuis Library at Canisius has received approximately 33,000 books from the library of the Loyola Seminary in Shrub Oak, New York. The seminary library closed 10 years age because of a decline in Jesuit vocations. Its holdings were stored at Fordham University in New York City until legal proceedings could clear the way for distribution of the books to various Jesuit colleges in New York State. The portion of the collection acquired by Canisius is valued at about $330,000. Among the books In an effort to remain a leader in the field study of Biology, the college has formed a Biology Council. by Joel Robert Patterson "The Biology Council of Canisius has been established this year as : advisory body consisting of faculty and administrators together with professionals in the health ;tnce fields and from other a demic institutions," stated Joseph Tomasulo, chairman of the Biology Department and founder of the Council. Along with Tomasulo, Mr. George Martin, Executive Vice President of Administrative Affairs, and Dr. Walter Sharrow, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, aided in forming the Council. 'The Council was formed with the purpose of providing assistance and advice on curriculum, providing feedback and interaction with leaders in fields to which the present students aspire, developing research programs related to both students and faculty, providing direction for stu- Walter J. Winkler, collection development coordinator for the Bouwhuis Library, said he originally planned to spend two or three days at Fordham scanning titles in the Loyola collection to determine which books Canisius couls use. However, after half an hour of perusing the collection, he was so impressed that he called Peter J. Laux, director of the Bouwhuis Library, and told him, "we should Biology Department Forms New Council take any part of this collection we can get." As part of the acquisition agreement, Canisius met the cost of transporting the books from New York City to Buffalo. Mr. Winkler sought estimates from several moving companies before enlisting the services of the Seven Santini Brothers, a firm that had already moved part of the Loyola collection to Lemoyne College. The Seven Santinis had to employ two large moving vans to transport the books. Because the collection was far too large to be shelved in the Acquisition of Valuable Book Collection Expands Library are religious and historical works published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as more modern scholarly texts. jjr mm « i$f w/m jw jf JHF jf SB jmB mm jf aSf p JKBf M < "OVER A. H/U,F CENTURY IN V% , 4 - • ■ Michael Davis at Canisius, page 6. Viewpoints, page 3. Tracksters Set Marks in Syracuse Meet, page 12.