The Banner, Vol. 28 No. 4 - October 7, 1983

              The
BANNER
Vol. XXVIII  Issue 4
California Baptist College
Oct. 7, 1983
CBC Loan, Fund Deficit Draws
Concern of Executive Board
This abridged article is reprinted with permission from the Oct. 22, 1983 issue of The California
Southern Baptist.
by Herb Hollinger
The Executive Board of The Southern Baptist General
Convention of California firmly — but politely — reprimanded California Baptist College by approving "after the fact"
the $900,000 loan secured by the college earlier this year and a
board committee expressed "grave concerns about the college's deficit in the current fund balance as of June 30,
1983."
Following the board's action, James Morton, Livermore
pastor and chairman of the college's board of trustees, told
The California Southern Baptist "we (the college) goofed.
I'm glad we can get this thing straightened out so the record
can clearly reflect what has been done."
Loans of this amount by California agencies must be
brought before the total program committee of the Executive
Board or the convention in compliance with Article V., Section 6 and Section 9 of the bylaws.
The deficit amount was never released to the board, but the
denominational relations committee reviewed two audits of
the college — a one month audit as of June 30, 1982, and a
full audit as of June 30, 1983. The committee told the full
board it "has grave concerns about the deficit in the current
fund balance as of June 30, 1983. However, we are encouraged that the college and their board of trustees are working
hard and diligently to turn that deficit around." The committee encouraged the board and staff to be positive about the
college and help it grow financially stronger. The committee
also noted the college could increase up to 150 students above
the present enrollment without any increase in operational expense. Present enrollment is about 650.
The total program committee was requested to seek a
report from college trustees as to what measures they have
taken to begin defraying the deficit "with whatever measures
are necessary."
LATEST    BUDGET  AID CUTS   WORSE-THAN-EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(CPS) - Congress may soon
cut some student aid programs,
after all in the last-minute
political struggles over setting
the   new   federal   education
budget for the fiscal year to
start October 1st.
In the last few weeks, House
Of Representatives committees have cut money out of virtually   all   student   aid   pro-
Mixed Feelings
About Lifeline
As of fall 1982 all freshmen
students with 14 units or less
are required to take student
life lab, otherwise known as
"lifeline." Lifeline is divided
up into two seperate groups;
the large group lecture that
meets every Tuesday at 10:50
a.m. and led by Bob Chavez,
and the small discussion
groups led by various, trained
students.
The purpose of lifeline is to
help students adjust to the
school and to prepare them for
life after CBC. Many new
students are away from home
for the first time, and really
need help adjusting to college
life.
Because lifeline is a required
class, there have been mixed
reactions from the students involved about having to take
lifeline. When asked what he
thought about lifeline, one
student replied unfavorably,
"It's a big waste of my time,
and I paid $116 for it."
But another student was
asked what she thought about
lifeline and replied that it was
very helpful to her. "I feel that
lifeline   has   not   only   been
beneficial to me, but I know of
several people that if it weren't
for lifeline would not have any
friends at all."
Since it is still early in the
semester, it would be unfair to
draw a conclusion from the
popularity of lifeline amongst
the students. However, after
talking with several lifeline
leaders who had the class last
year, the general impression
received was that most of them
disliked the course to begin
with, but later changed their
feelings. "I rebelled against
the class because I felt that it
was a waste of time. But now
that I look back on itr the class
was a great help in finding out
things about myself," stated
one lifeline leader.
The student life lab is currently under the direction of
faculty member Wayne
Brown. Brown resigned last
Friday, Sept. 30 from
associate dean of student life.
Although lifeline has no administrator directing it, Brown
will continue to be in charge of
it until the end of the fall '83
semester.
grams. Although the full
House restored some of the
money, its most recent version
still is4ess than the student aid
budget it passed provisionally
last June.
Senate committees working
on the student aid budget also
made cuts, though they were
less dramatic than the
House's.
"It's a very strange political
situation," says Kathy Ozer,
lobbyist for the U.S. Student
Association in Washington,
D.C. "We have a Democratic
House coming out with lower
figures than a Republican
Senate."
The Senate subcommittee
that goes over education spending produced its version of
the budget after direct negotiations between subcommittee
Chairman Lowell Weicker (R-
Ct) and David Stockman,
director of the Office of
Management and Budget, a
committee staffer reports.
Stockman reportedly
thought spending for College
Work-Study, National Direct
Student Loans (NDSL's) and
the Trio programs for
educationally- and
economically-deprived college
students was too high in the
June provisional budget, the
staffer says.
Weicker then proposed cutting a total of $130 million
from the three programs, got
Stockman's approval, and
pushed the cuts through his
committee. The full senate will
vote on Weicker's package
sometime during the first
weeks of October.
According to Ozer, the
lower version in the House -
which normally adds money to
education programs - springs
from White House pressure on
William Natcher (D-Ky), who
heads the House subcommittee that appropriates money
for college programs.
The full House's budget,
however, is still lower than the
spending ceilings both the
House and Senate agreed upon
in June.
After the full Senate approves a college budget, a conference committee from both
houses of Congress will meet
to form a compromise budget.
The House and Senate will
then vote on the compromise
individually. If both approve,
it will go to President Reagan,
who can either sign it or veto
it. If they disapprove, a new
conference committee will
meet.
But as the figures now
stand, Ozer says all the federal
programs - Pell Grants,
Guaranteed Student. Loans,
State Student Incentive
Grants, NDSLs, Trio and College Work-Study - will suffer
during the 1984-85 academic
year, when this budget would
take effect on campuses.
The funding levels recommended in both houses are
nearly the same as the college
budgets of 1981-82, 1982-83
and 1983-84.
"While funding has remained at the same level since
1981," Ozer says, "because of
inflation there has in fact been
a 23 percent cut in federal fun-
ding (of college aid
programs)."
Looking
Toward
the Future
Now that we have had a
chance to reflect upon the loss
of Walt Grubb and to recount
the good memories we have of
him we must turn our eyes to
the future and ask ourselves
who will replace him? Can the
Office of Student Life ever be
the same?
As you might know the task
of replacing Walt Grubb
won't be an easy job. The
Dean of Student Life is
responsible for nearly
everything in connection with
the students. Housing, health
services and security are just a
few of his responsibilities as
well as being the advisor to the
ASB. The person that will fill
this position must be very
good at relating with students
and must have good organizational skills.
Dr. Staples is the one that
will ultimately make the
recommendation to the
Trustees for Grubbs replacement and is actively involved
in the search process. Staples
indicated that finding a
replacement will not be easy.
When asked about the type of
person the College was looking for, Staples replied "It
won't be easy to find someone
to fill the position as well as
Walt did, we want a quality
person."
Although the search for a
replacement has already
started, none has been found.
According to Staples the
search is not limited to this
campus. Understandably there
is no way of knowing when a
replacement can be found.
Until then the various tasks of
the Student Life office will be
carried out by the people
already in place with Dr.
Carleton acting as an advisor.
To answer the questions
first asked in this article: No
we don't know who will
replace Walt Grubb; but one
thing is sure, the office of Student Life will never quite be
the same without him.
Kevin Mc Elhenie