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Show !WEDNESDAY, AUC.UST 22, 2001 PAC.E 3 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS SUU tightens ·pocketbook after state budget cut BY RHIANNON BENT ENIOR STAFF WRITER impact of th cutback on rodent and maintain a po ·itive work ovironm nt for faculty and taff. lf the holdback i permanent, tauffer aid administrators will have to reasse the budget ituatioo. Interim Provo t Carl Templin aid nothing would be taken from faculty and ·taff alarie . However, tudeot houri wages wer affected with the re ult eing fewer rodent workers on campu . Travel budg ts, tudent hourly wages and new faculty hires are som of the areas io which UU wiJl take th brunt of a tat -mandated budget cutba k. As a precaution to an expecli d tax revenue shortfall in tab, Go . Michael Leavitt asked each of the nine tare institutions to cur back p nding 2.5 percent. Gr gory tauffi r, vice pre id ot for administrative and financial erVtc , aid no pecifications were gi en co bow pending hould be cut back. Each Gov. Michael o. Lea itt' 2.5 p rcent budget cut for higher vi e pr 'dent was given a portion education d n 't have to mean disaster for UU. of the total- 677,000-to cut and left the Last year, re O ered after a 500,000 deft it and ended P cine to deans and deparm:ienc chairs. the 2001 fiscal year with an extra 6 ,000, said Brian Foisy, "This i n 't a po itive, but there are budget director. man more negatives than a one-time To deficit was caused b an inaccurate estimation of nonholdback, • tauffer r ident tuden~ aid. 'T'h for th 2001 fiscal 1. i is isn't a positive, When recei e d year, which was warning of d1J but there are many calculat d by the utba k in June · h Office of the tauffer .aid the more negatives t an a Commissioner of 'administration one-time holdback, , Higher Education nginally anticipated Greaory Stauffer. vice based on historical a 4 percent cutback. o ~J' Brian Fol y, president for ~r:Mortensen, bu!fget dir ctor said administrative and director of the Utah tate Tax busin and Commi ion w uld financial services, said. finance at th know by o ember if ..__- -- - - - . . - - - - - -- - - - - - ----' ommis loner the cut wiU be Office, said there are "a lot of hands in the pot" for permanent, b ed on updated determining tuition revenue , but the mmissiooer' Office information on tax revenue . will estimate a target based on h . torical information th Stauffer aid as a general rule , the institution has provided. administratlon w uld minimize the "[Th administration] tri d tq.rnake the cut tran ·parent to tud nts," Templin aid. tauffer aid travel budget were al o cut which mean fewer conference and le training for faculty. 1n addition administrators made cutbac in equipment budget and will postpone building projects Like th teacher education building. (continued on page 25) Administration handled budget deficit in 2000-01 "Th re was a deviation from what historically happens with rudents," Fo' ;y said. "There's no way they could ha e known. " Mortensen said if there is a one-time hortfall the institution will usuall have to "eat~ th diffi rence and a closer look at the timations will be made th following year. If th timations are incorrect on a long-term basis, tuiti n appropriations can be adjusted. Foisy said one explanation for the decrease in non-r id nts could be the Mill nnial Scholarships di trihuted in evada to keep coll ge studen in th state. An ther reason could be two-year colleg li.k, Dixie tate College offering four-year programs. Fo· said university administrators l keel for urces of unused money aero campus to make up the di.ffereni e wb n th erestimated projecti n was discovered in September and Oct ber of 2000. He aid a combination of funds from th di · ·on of continuing and proJi ional rudies and unused salary ~ds for unfilled po itlons accwnulated 250 000. To make up the other half, Foisy said the rest of campus helped redu ing current expenditures and postponing expenditures for the next year' budg t. -Rhiannon Bent More parking· at SUU after buildings demolished BY STACY VENTURA A building compL ·consisting of and the Iron County hool District ffi e was tom d wn during the sum.me/, making more pace for UU' expanding campus. The buildings, located just east oftheJ.L. renson Phy ical Education Building, took three day to tear down and about a m nth to haul the rubbt away. "It' kind of citing to talk about tearing the building d wo/ said Dean O ' Driscoll, director of marketing and publlc relations. "The company {Quantum nstruction] did the j b in half the tim forl money." The I t can n w be d for tudent and faculty parking during the school year. 'Driscoll aid fences and ign allowing tudents to park in the lot bould be posted b th first day of school: tudents will be allowed to park on the asphalt or on the din where the building wel' . "A vast majority of the lot is flat," aid O 'DriscoU . "It used to have big hol all over, but our plan people made negotiation with th contractor to fill th m in. I give them a l t f credit for the task being finished : dar Middle ch I new teacher education building. "It will be a few years before they break ground," said O 'Driscoll. "We are being ptimistic and hoping it will be about two years." cood in th tate in teacher education and UU i produ tion. Th.is new building will be d igned with lab that resemble actual classrooms. "It will help not just and its tudents, but it will also benefit thousands of elementar , junior high and high school stud nts and th ir famili ." Also, students from the community will be brought in o students will get a "hands-on " experience. "This building ~ be a tate· of-the-art facility " said O 'Dri coll. "The ther one [Old Main] is old and d n't give tudents th experience th n ed. Th.is new building will give tuden the t!chnology need d as well real-life Some of the buildings which consisted of enc unters." Cedar Middle School (top left) and the Iron Plans to raise m ney for the County School District Office, stood on the building are being formulated . north side of campus for almost 70 years. SUU On idea i help from the purchased the complex in 1999 for $8 million tuden . and debated whether to Inhabit the old "There · a capital campaign buildings or to tear them down and build new going on right now," said ones. However, after inspection it was 'Driscoll. "We move up the r t estimated that it would cost more than $9 with the m re moo y w earn million to bring the buildings up to building private! . If each tudent code standards. SUU officials decided to raze donated a d liar or two, that the buildings and did so in three days in July would equal a 1 t of mone ." tudents can purchase parking ti ker permits that allow them to use th lots for 12 at the hier' Office. Th p rmits are alid th entire school year. ~owever, long-term plans for th lot are to build a ,---- - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - -- - - -- - - - -- - --~ THE MIDDLE SCHOOL'S METAMORPHOSIS (top right). It took about a month to clear away the debris. Now, there is an empty lot in which students and faculty can park (bottom left). (See page 4 for a related story on parking at SUU) |