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B 2 H E D EDITION ON ELECTIONS • • • • • • • A - •All»' I» JM* mm «flkW peSMaMmt mi Stock*» ttoto C.l.«», bm I* r-K by * ' Volume 18 No. 7 A Weekly News Magazine Pomona, N.J. 08240 Jcmey. Friday October 28, 1977 BYRNE, BATEAIAN STATEMENT* OW by Governor Brendan T. Byrne You can't afford to be apathetic this year. Not when my Republican op-ponent proposes a five percent cut in state spending, a freeze on hiring of state employees and "adjusting" your tuitions upward. Consider the implications of a five percent across the board cut in state spending. Certain items, like debt service on a new building, cannot legally be cut. So what's left for Ray Bateman to cut? Your curriculum. Or faculty enrollment Extracurricular activities. Or student aid. The Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) pro-gram, which I support, exemplifies the difference between his rhetoric and my record. As a cost of eight million dollars, TAG would make nearly 15,000 more students eligible for financial aid. Ray Bateman public-ly says he favors TAG, but he sits by while his Republican colleagues keep TAG bottled up in the Legislature. That's not being honest with students. And that's not leadership. Unfortunately, students are not one of the interest groups that my Republican opponent is beholden to. His voting record shows that. In 1972, he voted to "adjust" tuitions upward by S3 percent-even though the state was then running a $212 million surplus. He voted against the 1977 budget in which my administration increased state aid for higher educat-ion. And he voted against state aid for independent colleges. In contrast, my administration has accomplished a lot for higher ediu ation-without Ray Bateman's Gov. Candidates Fypft Iff P o l h by Eugene Armao As the New Jersey gubernatorial leading campaign headed into the last two weeks of campaigning, both Demo, crats and Republicans were privately reporting that incumbent Brendan Byrne had reduced Raymond Bate-man's lead to five percentage points. Unofficial polls from both political camps registered the same results, the GOP dolefully and the Democrats jubilantly, inasmuch as the Republi-cans had boasted that Bateman was by as much as twenty percentage points in early September. A New York Times/Channel 2 poll conducted between October 15 and 19 showed Byrne and Bateman dead even at 40 percent each, with 20 percent undecided. There is generally a 3 to 5 percent margin of error in any poll. The same poll also indicated that over 70 percent of those interviewed (continued page 4) . » '"if n ^ jjjp* 1 j By Sen. Raymond Bateman I 'm happy to have the opportunity to set forth my views on higher educa-tion since much of my effort, and much of my satisfaction, during the past 19 years as a legislator has been working in this area. I've sponsored bills to establish the county college system, create the College of Medi-cine and Denistry a n d Rutgers Medical School, create the higher education assistance authority and set up the educational opportunity fund. Higher education has gone through many changes during my years in government. During the decade of the I960's we expanded much to meet new demands--we created a system of two year colleges, added new pro-grams to our four year schools and saw our former teachers' colleges emerge as solid liberal arts schools. We tended perhaps to oversell higher education as a guarantee of jobs and the key to the good life. As long as there were jobs and students higher education grew. During the 1970's indications are that there will be fewer students and the inability of many gradutates to find employment has already received wide notice. One of my big fears is that in reaction to our overselling during the 1960's the problems of the 1970's may lead to an underselling of higher education and aquestioning of its value. I firmly believe higher education in New Jersey must not be undersold. This is particularly true when, due to a combination of New Jersey's "export-ing of residents to out of state crowds gathered at cabin 4 for fun in the sun at the octoberfest see page 8 (continued page 2) (continued page 2) A FOLKTALE FQP HMIOWFFN SEE PAGE 13
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Title | Argo: Volume 18, Number 7 |
Date | 1977-10-28 |
Publisher | Argo Corporation |
Subjects | The Weekly Stockton Community Newspaper |
Publication Title | Argo |
Publication Date Range | 1971 - present |
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Title | Argo: Volume 18, Number 7 |
Date | October 28, 1977 |
Publisher | Argo Corporation |
Transcript | B 2 H E D EDITION ON ELECTIONS • • • • • • • A - •All»' I» JM* mm «flkW peSMaMmt mi Stock*» ttoto C.l.«», bm I* r-K by * ' Volume 18 No. 7 A Weekly News Magazine Pomona, N.J. 08240 Jcmey. Friday October 28, 1977 BYRNE, BATEAIAN STATEMENT* OW by Governor Brendan T. Byrne You can't afford to be apathetic this year. Not when my Republican op-ponent proposes a five percent cut in state spending, a freeze on hiring of state employees and "adjusting" your tuitions upward. Consider the implications of a five percent across the board cut in state spending. Certain items, like debt service on a new building, cannot legally be cut. So what's left for Ray Bateman to cut? Your curriculum. Or faculty enrollment Extracurricular activities. Or student aid. The Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) pro-gram, which I support, exemplifies the difference between his rhetoric and my record. As a cost of eight million dollars, TAG would make nearly 15,000 more students eligible for financial aid. Ray Bateman public-ly says he favors TAG, but he sits by while his Republican colleagues keep TAG bottled up in the Legislature. That's not being honest with students. And that's not leadership. Unfortunately, students are not one of the interest groups that my Republican opponent is beholden to. His voting record shows that. In 1972, he voted to "adjust" tuitions upward by S3 percent-even though the state was then running a $212 million surplus. He voted against the 1977 budget in which my administration increased state aid for higher educat-ion. And he voted against state aid for independent colleges. In contrast, my administration has accomplished a lot for higher ediu ation-without Ray Bateman's Gov. Candidates Fypft Iff P o l h by Eugene Armao As the New Jersey gubernatorial leading campaign headed into the last two weeks of campaigning, both Demo, crats and Republicans were privately reporting that incumbent Brendan Byrne had reduced Raymond Bate-man's lead to five percentage points. Unofficial polls from both political camps registered the same results, the GOP dolefully and the Democrats jubilantly, inasmuch as the Republi-cans had boasted that Bateman was by as much as twenty percentage points in early September. A New York Times/Channel 2 poll conducted between October 15 and 19 showed Byrne and Bateman dead even at 40 percent each, with 20 percent undecided. There is generally a 3 to 5 percent margin of error in any poll. The same poll also indicated that over 70 percent of those interviewed (continued page 4) . » '"if n ^ jjjp* 1 j By Sen. Raymond Bateman I 'm happy to have the opportunity to set forth my views on higher educa-tion since much of my effort, and much of my satisfaction, during the past 19 years as a legislator has been working in this area. I've sponsored bills to establish the county college system, create the College of Medi-cine and Denistry a n d Rutgers Medical School, create the higher education assistance authority and set up the educational opportunity fund. Higher education has gone through many changes during my years in government. During the decade of the I960's we expanded much to meet new demands--we created a system of two year colleges, added new pro-grams to our four year schools and saw our former teachers' colleges emerge as solid liberal arts schools. We tended perhaps to oversell higher education as a guarantee of jobs and the key to the good life. As long as there were jobs and students higher education grew. During the 1970's indications are that there will be fewer students and the inability of many gradutates to find employment has already received wide notice. One of my big fears is that in reaction to our overselling during the 1960's the problems of the 1970's may lead to an underselling of higher education and aquestioning of its value. I firmly believe higher education in New Jersey must not be undersold. This is particularly true when, due to a combination of New Jersey's "export-ing of residents to out of state crowds gathered at cabin 4 for fun in the sun at the octoberfest see page 8 (continued page 2) (continued page 2) A FOLKTALE FQP HMIOWFFN SEE PAGE 13 |
Subjects | The Weekly Stockton Community Newspaper |
Publication Title | Argo |
Publication Date Range | 1971 - present |
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