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Budget
context in which we're working, I think we have some real soul-searching to do."
affairs, said he was concerned with the effects on the university of a long period of budget reductions. That is what was this year's cuts were signaling.
He said that if the budget cut continued, students might have to pay for services that now cost $500 a month.
"I want to avoid having us nickel and dime students to death," he said.
In early August, Strong Hall ran out of fall timetables, and the budget was so tight that no more were printed. Amber said that in the spring 2014 semester, she helped students to avoid having to charge students for them.
The cuts this year also would mean delays and difficulty in getting service from some of the office locations.
"It's painful. It's hard to do. But you find out where your priorities are." he said.
STUDENTS WILL BE directly affected by the budget cuts through classes, labs and use of resources.
Because of the cuts, more than 800 students will be turned away from Western Civilization at enrollment, said James Seaver, the program's director. "I want to want a bachelor's degree from the College."
Seaver said that last year, 26 graduate teaching assistants were employed to lead discussion sections. This year, only 16 graduate students received firm commitments to teach in the program and budget cutting began. After that, Seaver said, he will not hire any more teaching assistants.
SEAVER SAID that the discussion sections could not be made larger because the rooms in Wescow Hall for those sections could not hold more than 11 people.
To accommodate more students, Seaver has asked professors who have taught in the program before to take a section. He said he expected about 10 professors to help. The professors that agreed would take the class top of their regular workload, without extra pay.
However, Sever said, if 10 professors take one section each, only 100 students would be helped.
"Since Western Civilization is a requirement for graduating with a B.A. I expect that many of the students who are turned away will be quite angry," he said. "I'm very concerned about being a required course and not being able to service the students."
THE COMPUTER SCIENCE department also was hit hard by the budget cuts. Chairman Victor L. Wallace said that enrollment for C S 100, the introductory course, had increased by 15 to 20 percent every year. Because of reduced funding and fewer students, a few away 200 students from C S 200 each semester this year.
In the music department, more than half of the budget for operating costs has been cut, said Stan Shumway, chairman. Ninety-three percent of operations are staff-based, leaving only 7 percent for operating costs.
Because the School of Fine Arts is making cuts beyond the 2.2 percent required for academic units in anticipation of future cuts from the school, the department has been left with very little money.
"The unpleasant truth is that we cannot provide the essential services to operate the department on this funding base," Shumway said, reading from a letter he had sent to the division directors in the department.
SHIWAYM SAID that he had not, yet made specific reductions because he was waiting for the faculty to return for the fall semester. Areas to be cut could include student hourly jobs, most of which are for pianists that are paid to accommodate students at their private lessons and recitals. Works she practiced the practice rooms at night, the phone system and piano tuning.
Last year the performance division, one of four divisions in the music department, spent about $22,000 on such items as piano and organ tuning, percussion instruments and programs. $13,000 of that was used for the pianos.
This year the department has only $17,000 to spend on its supplies and equipment, budget of.
Some of the pianos at Murphy Hall may go untuned for the year.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS in the University are not only struggling with the recent cuts, but are also preparing for possible future cuts.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said he was preparing for the possibility of further cuts this year.
"We have a contingency plan for that," he said. "I think everybody does. Everybody's supported."
The dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Robert Lineberry, did not say specifically that he was preparing for another round of work at the college to make every effort in the College to be brudual.
Bill Hogan, associate executive vice chancel
"We have asked them to be especially careful." Hogan said. "We have asked them to be mindful and attentive to their budget expenditures."
lor, said that each of the vice chancellors had been asked to closely examine their budgets.
LINEBERRY said that because most of the College's budget was tied up in salaries and was therefore untouchable, he had to cut heavily from each department's supplies and equipment. In addition, all these items included paper, phones, exams, typewriter ribbons and maintenance contracts.
The supplies and equipment budget for each department in the College was cut in half, Line-
"A very large supply user like chemistry ended up being hit much harder than, say, the chemistry in a bottle."
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MARILIN HARMONY, chairman of the chemistry department, said the department would use the chemicals it had in store and not buy any new ones.
"We're going to be running down our inventory by as much as $30,000," he said. "We can handle it."
He said service contracts for the equipment used in lab would be to be cut, including those that were purchased.
their chances to win."
"We're gambling that the balances are not going to die," Harmony said.
JOHN TOLLEFSON, dean of the School of Business, said he had cut an "already small" supplies and equipment budget by more than $20,000, he cut the student hourly budget by 50 percent.
"If we can't hire student assistants and buy the
supplies we need, we're not going to be doing a good job," Tollison said.
Many of the student assistants help faculty members by grading papers. Others help by working in the reading room, dean's office and the word processing center, he said.
"This cutting back means less support. We one and three quarters of a million dollars of faculty talent," Tolleson said. "To get the good jobs, we need to know that we have to give them the work to work."
Tollefson said he was glad that the administration had agreed not to cut faculty salaries or fire any professors because of the cuts. He said he had been telling the professors in the School of Business that because the faculty had been hired, they would have the faculty members do the best job they could.
HE SAID he particularly disliked the timing of the cuts. If he had known about the cuts before the fiscal year started, he said, he could have gotten a way that it would have had a lot less impact.
"If we are forced to make additional cuts of this order and magnitude we are going to be in the way."
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service and dean of the Graduate School, also was concerned about further cuts.
"The next cut will seriously injure the mission of the University," she said. "Right now, we're not."
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