March 12, 1975 (8 pages)

Earl G. Waters Included in the state budget Ind ependent vs. state colleges: institutions alone. proposed for 1975-76, which With enrollments on the exceeds $10 billion, is about $30" million in capital outlay for the state’s 19 colleges and about the same for the University of California. In relationship to the total budget the construction money _ for higher education is peanuts. But this is a one year budget and the state has been spending many millions, year after year, on construction at both its two year and four year colleges. That money merely provides the space for students. It does nothing to provide the teaching, a cost which must come afterwards and now exceeds $1 billion annually for the four year decline it would . seem time to review what we are doing and where we are headed in higher education. To date ‘the thinking has been overshadowed. with the obsession that only through higher education provided by public insitutions can those unable to afford tuition be accorded the opportunity of: college training. The public has been brainwashed into the belief that education by the state is cheaper than that provided by the independent colleges. It has been led to believe there is a~ 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed.,March 12,1975 conflict between the two and that somehow the public’s best interests lie with protecting and preserving against all competition, the state institution. Speaking on these points Dr. John. R. Silber, president of Boston University, recently told the Federation of Independent Illinois. Colleges, some interesting facts. Laying to rest the contention that there is a conflict between public and private education, he pointed out that the independent colleges have been providing the educational development of the people of the United States for many years without cost to the taxpayers. He might have made it clear that private colleges were doing this long before this country became a_ nation. Harvard, established in 1636, predated the revolution by 140 years. Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Brown, Rutgers, Dickinson. and Hamden-Sydney all were founded before the Declaration of Independence. In California the University of Pacific was started in 1851, six years before the first state college at San Jose and 17 years before the University — of California. Silber warned that unless the means are found to ensure the financial survival. of the independent colleges their services to the public will be He then went on to shoot down the myth that costs are less at the state schools. ‘‘The independent colleges,” he said, “can never compete with the state schools on the price to the students,” but he added that the state schools cannot compete with the independent schools “on costs to the taxpayers”. Costs per student at state schools are usually stated to be betweeri $1600 and. $3000.Silber disclosed that while the overall annual fiscal cost per student in the Massachusetts state college system is said to be $3400, the actual cost at the University of Massachusetts is $4250. “The Divine Eccentric’ by Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ STARTED® MARCH Sth IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET “Divine and eccentric’ were two words mostoften used by newspapermen of the 1850's to describe Lola Montez, the European danseuse and favorite of King Ludwig of Bavaria, that is before she caused his abdication and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the Northerner, and never stopped until she had rocked and scandalized the state from city to mining camp and back again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent ond her strange efforts to settle for keeps in Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history: Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched _ through California’s newspapers, of every issue published between 1853 and 1861 for the material in this different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about her-_ self — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Mail your check today—don't miss a single issue * Subscribe Now.. Recieve Back Issue To March Sth THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 Your Western Nevada County Historical Weekly Newspaper nEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada Cit y, Grass Valley, Red Hed T i tae se Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and heat Seabed ponies rth hides loomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill Peardale Pasa meh Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City Selby Flat Grizzly Hill Gold Flat, Soggsvilie, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill. Brandy Flat, Sebastopol. Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ‘SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET ‘yar $00 3 Years $7.00 * ey AES Spm Soci yt tohiet Sem, DEH eae ey v PRP RETO SARE S TS hs I RELY: on

Earl G. Waters Included in the state budget Ind ependent vs. state colleges: institutions alone. proposed for 1975-76, which With enrollments on the exceeds $10 billion, is about $30" million in capital outlay for the state’s 19 colleges and about the same for the University of California. In relationship to the total budget the construction money _ for higher education is peanuts. But this is a one year budget and the state has been spending many millions, year after year, on construction at both its two year and four year colleges. That money merely provides the space for students. It does nothing to provide the teaching, a cost which must come afterwards and now exceeds $1 billion annually for the four year decline it would . seem time to review what we are doing and where we are headed in higher education. To date ‘the thinking has been overshadowed. with the obsession that only through higher education provided by public insitutions can those unable to afford tuition be accorded the opportunity of: college training. The public has been brainwashed into the belief that education by the state is cheaper than that provided by the independent colleges.. It has been led to believe there is a~ 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed.,March 12,1975 conflict between the two and that somehow the public’s best interests lie with protecting and preserving against all competition, the state institution. Speaking on these points Dr. John. R. Silber, president of Boston University, recently told the Federation of Independent Illinois. Colleges, some interesting facts. Laying to rest the contention that there is a conflict between public and private education, he pointed out that the independent colleges have been providing the educational development of the people of the United States for many years without cost to the taxpayers. He might have made it clear that private colleges were doing this long before this country became a_ nation. Harvard, established in 1636, predated the revolution by 140 years. Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Brown, Rutgers, Dickinson. and Hamden-Sydney all were founded before the Declaration of Independence. In California the University of Pacific was started in 1851, six

years before the first state college at San Jose and 17 years before the University — of California. Silber warned that unless the means are found to ensure the financial survival. of the independent colleges their services to the public will be He then went on to shoot down the myth that costs are less at the state schools. ‘‘The independent colleges,” he said, “can never compete with the state schools on the price to the students,” but he added that the state schools cannot compete with the independent schools “on costs to the taxpayers”. Costs per student at state schools are usually stated to be betweeri $1600 and. $3000.Silber disclosed that while the overall annual fiscal cost per student in the Massachusetts state college system is said to be $3400, the actual cost at the University of Massachusetts is $4250. “The Divine Eccentric’ by Nevada City Author Doris Foley A WELL DOCUMENTED STORY OF LOLA MONTEZ STARTED® MARCH Sth IN THE NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET “Divine and eccentric’ were two words mostoften used by newspapermen of the 1850's to describe Lola Montez, the European danseuse and favorite of King Ludwig of Bavaria, that is before she caused his abdication and her own exile. Lola’s California adventure began the morning she stepped off the Northerner, and never stopped until she had rocked and scandalized the state from city to mining camp and back again. Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent ond her strange efforts to settle for keeps in Grass Valley, has tied her inseparably to California history: Nevada City author Doris Foley assiduously searched _ through California’s newspapers, of every issue published between 1853 and 1861 for the material in this different kind of historical book. What the newspapers said about divine Lola makes rather contrasty reading with what Lola said about her-_ self — for her autobiography is included also in this work. Mail your check today—don't miss a single issue * Subscribe Now... Recieve Back Issue To March Sth THE NUGGET, P.O. Box 828, Nevada City, Calif. 95959 Your Western Nevada County Historical Weekly Newspaper nEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the historical Gold Rush communities of Nevada Cit y, Grass Valley, Red Hed T i tae se Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and heat Seabed ponies rth hides loomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill Peardale Pasa meh Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City Selby Flat Grizzly Hill Gold Flat, Soggsvilie, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill. Brandy Flat, Sebastopol. Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ‘SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE NUGGET ‘yar $00 3 Years $7.00 * ey AES Spm Soci yt tohiet Sem, DEH eae ey v PRP RETO SARE S TS hs I RELY: on