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SEU is still competitive
Pay remains unequal
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Anna Clendennen
of this problem,” she said.
a career
makes planning for four years but is one of the smallest for
a mem-
private schools in Texas.
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built the parking garage.
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made to have both
and a family.
Martha E. Smiley,
Moody Hall lot.
Since the opening of the
parking garage in the fall
2007 semester and the levy-
ing of the daily $2 charge, the
venient and predictable park-
ing,” Pacheco said.
University
SMU
Trinity
Southwestern
Baylor
St. Mary’s
St. Edward’s
Incarnate Word
Concordia
Tuition (2007-2008)
30,800
25,832
25,740
24,900
20,410
20,400
18,970
18,910
is difficult, because the aver-
age return on investments is
rarely that high.
"Unless you are investing in
lottery tickets, it's hard to do
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course of two years.
BeginningJuly 1,2008, stu-
dents, faculty and staff will
pay $140 for their parking
stickers. In 2009, the price
will increase to $175.
Currently, students pay
$110 for their parking per-
mits, and faculty and staff
pay $80. Pacheco and Kirby
said the new annual fee struc-
Greenberg also said wom-
en must realize that there
are sacrifices that must be
growth of the university re-
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securities department of
Winstead PC, a law firm,
said she believes that wom-
en can be seen as leaders if
they're taught this idea as
children.
"Our view of leadership
that kind of financial plan-
ning,” Altmiller said.
Keeping St. Edward's com-
petitive with schools with
larger endowments is a chal-
lenge. St. Edward's has a $60
million endowment, which
is above the national average
ture will cover the debt the permit needs to increase ev-
university assumed when it ery year to accommodate the
has been an issue with stu-
dents, faculty and staff, Trejo
said.
"Many students did not
understand the additional
$2 fee and said they would
rather pay a slightly higher
parking permit fee then have
to pay every day to use the
garage,” Trejo said. "I think
this is a win-win situation for
the students.”
The price of the parking
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it may be understood, it does
not make it any easier to
swallow.”
Seniors now are paying as
much as a third more for a
St. Edward’s education than
when they started as fresh-
men. Altmiller said that
Lot designations have also gardless, he said.
been changed. The Wood- Pacheco said she hoped the
ward Office parking lot, university community would
which is currently reserved understand the planning and
for staff, will become a des- thoughtfulness that went in
ignated lot for Dujarie and to the final decision.
Moreau Hall, Casas and “We had to find a solution
Casitas residents. Only staff that was fiscally responsible
will be allowed to park in the and which still provided con-
SGA fights parking prices
Continued from page 1 financially possible, the uni- -price of parking in the garage
The women on the pan-
el of Update: Women’s
Leadership, hosted by the
Kozmetsky Center of Ex-
cellence in Global Finance,
said that 88 years after
women were granted the
right to vote, they are still
only paid 77 cents for every
dollar a man earns doing the
same or comparable work.
The news seemed to be
fairly interesting to many
audience members who
gathered in Jones Audito-
rium March 3 to hear the
Kozmetsky Center’s last
panel for the semester.
"It is so important to hear
these ideas from such strong
women,” Priscilla Benavides,
freshman, said.
Dorothy O. Helly, former
professor at City University
of New York, said that to
change the view of women
as breadwinners alongside
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For info and to recister.
Watch lor cicn-up table:
men, students must be in- is formed as kids, shaped
troduced to a gender-inte- by our parents, society and
grated society and work- community,” Smiley said,
place. Sonia Picado, president
Sherri Greenberg, a for- of the Inter-American In-
mer state representative and stitute of Human Rights
a professor in local govern- and one of Latin America's
ment at the LBJ School of leading politicians, said that
the University of Texas, said women’s rights should be a
women cannot be expected global issue.
to bring home the bacon, "Women’s rights are hu-
cook the bacon and all the man rights and we must
while look like they’ve just have a holistic approach to
Frce t-shiris. breaktast, & lunch
versity decided to raise the
will be free for the rest of the • annual permit fee over the
semester.”
The St. Edward’s park-
ing policy was re-evaluated
March 4 by university offi-
cials and the SGA.
Sandra Pacheco, vice presi-
dent for student affairs, and
Patrick Kirby, associate vice
president for financial affairs,
said they felt they had struck
a balance between cost and
convenience.
The meeting was originally
arranged because of SGAs
concern over a $220 parking
permit charge listed on some
students’ Edweb accounts for
the fall 2008 semester. Trejo
said members of SGA were
upset that this had happened
without prior notice of the
price increase.
The resulting new parking
policy addresses the rest of
this school year, as well as the
following two academic years
from 2008-2010.
To make the new policy
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to St. Edward’s.
"Currently we find our-
selves right in the middle
of our crossover schools,”
Marisa Peterson, a university
admission counselor, said.
“We see a variety of reac-
tions to our tuition prices, '
but when people have done
the research and compared
us to other private schools
in Texas, they find us to be a
good price,” she said.
Since the beginning of the
2004 school year, the cost of
attending St. Edward’s has
increased at a minimum of
8 percent. Last year hike also
was 8.5 percent.
“This rise is indicative of
the university’s need to be
competitive,” Student Gov-
ernment Vice President of
Intergovernmental Affairs
Hank Altmiller said. "While
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Audience members
thought the panel was
a successful end to the
Kozmetsky7 Center’s semes-
ter panel series.
“It was my favorite event
they’ve put on,” Erica Zamo-
ra, freshman, said.
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