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By Liz Neukirch Senior News Editor
Do you have a resolution for the New Year? Cadenza has a few. Among them: grow a beard; knit an article of clothing; and, of course, create campus controversy.
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Undergraduates who plan to take advantage of new housing and full meal plans at Washington University next year can expect to pay $1,862 more for their stay: tuition, room and board for the 2005-2006 school year will be $41,854, up 4.6 percent from this year’s $39,992. More specifically, undergraduate tuition rose $1,400 (4.7 percent) to a new total of $31,100, while room-andboard charges will be $462 (4.5 percent) more than this year’s charge of $10,292 for newer housing and a full meal plan. Graduate students in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Architecture, and Engineering & Applied Sciences face identical increases and totals in tuition fees. Graduate stu-
dents in the schools of Art, Law, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work can expect to pay between $1,098 and $1,710 more for next year’s tuition. The increase in tuition for the M.D. degree at the School of Medicine will be determined in March. This year, the undergraduate price tag on attending the University was higher than Ivy-Leaguers Harvard ($39,880) and Yale ($38,850)—but Chief Financial Officer Barbara Feiner says Washington University’s cost of attendance is, in actuality, in the middle range of other schools to which University students apply. “As long as I’ve been at the University, our tuition has really been right in the middle—actually a little lower than the middle—of all the universities with which
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Costs of 2005-2006 Academic Year: Tuition - $31,100 Full meal plan and new dorm housing - $10,754 Student activity fee - $311 Student health fee - $631
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Two speeches at the University’s celebration of Martin Luther King were particularly insightful, writes the editorial board in Forum.
Planning for new University Center resumes
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By Sarah Kliff News Editor
tems will ultimately be installed in all the dorms on campus, as well as Greenway and Rosedale, with the exception of the freshman dorms earmarked for destruction in coming years. Jim Severine, associate director of Building Services, said that the implementation is a result of several different issues, but that security concerns are definitely part of the equation. “Keys can be duplicated,” said Severine.
With the approval of the Board of Trustees, the University has commenced with the planning of a new University Center. The center will primarily serve as a resource for students by creating more meeting spaces as well as housing important student resources. The board of trustee’s approval allows the University to start determining what resources, ranging from financial needs to space on campus, the center will need. Although the center is currently in preliminary stages of planning, McLeod noted that a space west of Mallinckrodt Center as a potential site for the building. McLeod also mentioned that the building would likely have an appearance similar to the gothic architecture of most campus structures rather than the more modern look of Mallinckrodt. The most important aspect of the center’s design, says McLeod, is that it fits into the context of surrounding buildings. “It’s going to be next to Mallinckrodt, next to Umrath Hall, next to Simon Hall, and it has to fit within that context,” said McLeod. Mallinckrodt would still serve its current role as home to the bookstore, food court, and many performance art spaces. The new University Center will add additional, student-focused space. “I think it’s important to have meeting space, to have a place for students to come and relax hang out have fun,” said McLeod. “It’s important to have some space for student organizations to use. I think it’s important to have the career center. We should have things that students need to use and to do there. Figuring out what those are.” The new University Center may also serve as a solution to University parking problems. In response to needs for
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The University is contemplating to replace regular key locks on dorm rooms with card swipe locks like those used on building entrances.
Cards may replace keys in ResLife dorms By Angela Markle Contributing Reporter
Cadenza takes the opportunity to introduce you to the “House of Flying” everything.
Starting this summer, many students will have one fewer key to keep track of. Over the next five or six years, all dorms, excluding the freshman buildings tagged for demolition, will switch their mode of entry from key to card-swipe access. The card-access conversion will begin this summer with Millbrook, Phase 4, Shepley, Wheeler and Danforth, and sys-
Bill Clinton a model for new B-School dean?
PAGE 7 The Sports staff– plus a couple of other, random people–give their thoughts on who will win the AFC and NFC Championship games this weekend.
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By Dan Daranciang Bill Clinton: former President of the United States—and new dean of the Washington University Olin School of Business? The University committee in charge of finding a replacement for outgoing Dean Stuart Greenbaum tossed around the former president’s name as a example of the kind of dean they hope to hire. Another name that came up was industry leader Jack Welsh, chief executive officer of GE, said Kenneth Bardach, associate dean of non-degree executive education. In December the University contacted executive search firm Korn/Ferry International to help propose, research and then narrow a list of potential candidates for the deanship. John E. Simon Professor of Finance Anjan Thakor, the
chair of the search committee, described Korn/Ferry as the “largest executive search firm in the world.” “Korn/Ferry does a lot of searches, so they have names. They augment the pool… They are the primary point of contact with the pool we want to contact. They speak first to the candidates and find out whether they have an interest. They work with us to set up meetings with these people. They also do background checks,” Thakor said. The search committee started the process with a list of approximately 200 names, which they hope to reduce to three to six candidates who will be invited to campus. Thakor would not quantify exactly how many names remain. He said the names of the candidates would not be disclosed until a successor to Dean Greenbaum was named “because a number
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of these people insist on being anonymous.” When Dean Stuart Greenbaum announced in September his intent to retire, he also expressed a willingness to remain in the position past the end of the 2004-2005 school year until a proper successor was ready to assume the post. Thakor said that Greenbaum’s stance has not changed since then. “There is a larger group of qualified and interested people than I thought we would have, personally,” said Bardach. “I think that speaks very well of the quality of the reputation of Washington University.”
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