The Halyard Vol. 3 No. 01

Lass·ter: Bud et 'far from adeq_uate' By DREW BRUNSON Currently faculty workloads said was "bad last year" and he "The university will be available this year to adjunct have been increased by approxi expects it to be "worse this depending more on adjunct positions which wiJJ provide more "If we don't get some relief by mately 22 percent. year". professors and overload compen adjuncts than were previously funded. next year we are going to be Last year many areas of the Carpenter said the university sation this year than in previous hurting," .said UNF Vice-Presi years," said Lassiter. university community were not does not anticipate the need to cut The 19 percent increase in dent Roy Lassiter about this able to afford to duplicate academic programs, faculty He said that he has changed year's university budget. enrollment expected this year materials for classes--a situation salaries or full time positions. the few new faculty positions could cause some areas of the The budget, comparable to last university to become over year's, is "far from adequate" crowded. said Lassiter and the university, I The extra adjunct lines are expecting a 19 percent increase in "If we don't get designed to enable these enrollment is "going to be tight overcrowded situations to be on expense monies." some relief by relieved. But, in an attempt to take next year we · are According to Lassiter the pressure off of the state general number one priority, when funds revenues curtently supporting the going to be hurt become available, is an increase State University System, recently in salaries with the number two raised student fees by approxi ing:" Lassiter. priority being the lowering of mately 14 percent. productivity requirements for faculty. The Board of Regents has lowered the amount of support He said that if budget cuts are given to the universities, based necessary adjuncts will be cut on student headcount, by first although Carpenter stated approximately 12 percent. that as faculty lines become The end result is to raise the Expenditure Category Actual 74-75 Estimated 75- vacant, they may not be reftlled. amount of support to UNF by General llevenae/lacldental Trot S.Jarlea $6,485,436 $6,746,000 1 Currently there are six faculty about S /1 percent. This, said Extension lncldental Trust Salulea 32,730 UNF President Thomas Carpen 196,724 spots open and Carpenter says ter, is not enough to offset the department chairmen have General Revenue/Incidental Trot OPS 217,562 360,500 been given permission to fill inflation even though a freeze has Extenalon lncldeatal Traet OPS 2,433 25,230 been in effect on merit increases these vacancies if they are able to. for the entire SUS. General Revenaellnclcleatal Trut Expea~~ea 993,845 1,132,000 Extension lncldental Trust Expenaea 17,836 Budget Officer Richard Hirte 89,250 These six professors and one stated thatthe university will also )Gent~ral Trut department chairman have left have fewer "real dollars" to Revenue/laclcleatal OCO 608,525 536,571 Ex&e•loa laeldeatal Traet OCO 34 16,260 the university within the last two spend this year. "or three months. Carpenter said ..._-~~,.,._~~Activity and Service Fee--~-~-_, that he believed that they all left Despite this prediction, Car to accept_ better positions penter said, "I think we'll make Student Govellllllellt $31,050 Student Services 72,426 Health Servtee. .44,000 elsewhere. He added that the out alright. The real question is Student Center 77,350 Sldlla Center 50,696 Newspaper 21,668 attrition rate at UNF has been how long people can be expected Other Actlvltlea 41.820 Cblld Care Center 38,140 extremely low since the founding to carry extra loads." of the university. Carpenter 'sells' UNF UNF could lose $75,250 By FRANK STANFIELD Other questions soon popped By STEPHEN W. HOLLAND architect, Taylor Hardwick, up from all directions. What is the submitted for the auditorium "Designed to be Different". enrollment of the undergradu As a result of cost overruns and were submitted to a third party That was the sales pitch UNF ates, graduates and the number leaky pipe, the University of estimator to review and both President Thomas Carpenter of students on financial aid? North Florida could Jose as much architectural and estimator ap gave to Duval County state as 575,250. praisals indicated that the project legislators here recently to sell UNF Vire-President Roy Lassi was considerably over the the lawmakers on the value of the ter told 1he group that enroiJment According to UNF President budget. University of North Florida. is currently around 4,400 Thomas G. Carpenter, the students, up almost double from working drawings that the Lawmakers were treated to the initial class in 1972. "We went to the department of coffee and shown a public Continued on Page 2 general services who actually is relations slide show caJled the outftt that contracts with the "Designed to be Different", architect and told them we didn't narrated by television newsman see any point in pursuing this as it John Thomas, former UNF was designed and we could not student and now a member of the see asking for the additional Alumni Association. funds for that project when in our opinion it shouldr't require it," After the slide show, Carpenter he said. took the floor and asked legislators not to "tar UNF with the same brash" used on other UNF, said Carpenter, has since state schools when those schools asked that these funds be report erroneous enrollment withdrawn from the project and figures and other questionable be incorporated into activities practices. funds which raise that to approximate S3 1/l million and Carpenter then turned the floor give the project to another over to questions. architect, however, Carpenter said that this had not been done Senator Dan Scarborough yet and for the past 3Yl months asked if the university had ever the whole matter has been in the utilized mass transit for students. Attorney General's office. Carpenter told of the experiment with Florida Junior College in which a bus served both schools, Carpenter explained that the but that by the end of the period, Attorney General must decide the bus failed to draw any support whether or not to sue the from the students. architect. Should the Attorney General decide not to sue When asked if county school Carpenter said UNF would be out buses had ever been tried on a j Hte cost of the design that UNF has already paid the architect. different time table. Carpenter As Tom the Turtle strolls on the campus, others are busy doing the "hurry up and wait" which is replied that this had not been familiar to anyone who has tried to register on a university campus. See more scenes of back to school Continued on Page 2 tried. life on pages 8 and 9. P~~ge 2 • THE DALY ARD • October 1, 1975 Carpenter sells UNF Continued from Page 1 and business administration. Not all of the legislator's Lassiter was quick to point out feedback to Carpenter were that the graduate programs were questions however, some mild career oriented and not research criticism was leveled at Carpenter based. for not lobbying hard enough for the university. Despite the tough questions, Representative Mary Singleton the atmoshpere remained convi said thatMiamigetsits lion share vial. ot state monies because of its lobbyists. Urging that the Duval Other legislators that were also delegation should be realistic present included Rep. Tommy Singleton said, "We might as Hazouri, Rep. John Lewis, and well get a piece of the action.'' Mattox Hair. An official apology was given for Rep. Carl Ogden Representative Earl Dixon whose abscence was described as asked how the delegation could unavoidable. best serve the university money-wise. Also present was Board of Regents member and Jackson President Carpenter speaks with one of the guests at the meeting of the state legislators on the UNF The greatest problem of the ville business man J .J. Daniel, campus. university system, said Carpen and Dr. Tad Moseley, former ter, was the lack of budget director of the UNF foundation. increases for the current fiscal year. It was Mosley who answered a UNF may lose $75,250 question by Lewis about the feasibility of a Jacksonville Continued from Page 1 Carpenter said that there was no As the pipe is out of warranty, graduate medical school. Mosely Representative Stephen Pajcic Bill Munson, campus planner, immediate danger, but if allowed UNF will have to pay for the said the move would receive said that UNF paid $38,112 for to continue it could hurt the proJect and according to Munson was also direct. In addition to support, but that the University of work completed thus far on the foundation underneath the co- it will cost $37,138. asking several questions about Florida should be the parent auditorium. lumn, also the university was the university, including which school. losing energy expended in If UNF is not reimbursed, its colleges were turning out the When asked about pipe being heating thew ater. The pipe being expenditures on the stalled most successful job candidates laid between Building 3 and the installed is a bypass which they auditorium construction, together and which ones were not, also Carpenter told the lawmakers corner of Bldg. 8, Carpenter said are trying to get in before we with the funds being spent on stated frankly that Florida Junior that UNF did not wish to that there was a leak that need to heat the building," he pipe repair, will require a total of College made its needs known duplicate any of UF's programs, developed in the hot water line said.

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