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Volume 18 No. 7
A Weekly News Magazine
Pomona, N.J. 08240
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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
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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
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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
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