Friday, January 29, 2010 • Volume 95, Issue 21 • nique.net Failing Angel Apocolyptic double features “Legion” echnique and “Book of Eli” fail T to impress.413 The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper BUDGET REDUCTIONS University system budget announced Tech may see 8.2 percent state budget cut according to USG By Matt Schrichte 12.3% Staf Writer Community Health 5.4% Photo by Kelvin Kuo/Student Publications $2,233,088,087 In response to Governor Sonny Perdue’s Corrections proposed iscal year (FY) 2011 budget, $987,940,698 Chancellor of the Board of Regents Erroll Gov. candidate B. Davis, Jr. presented the University Sys- tem of Georgia’s (USG) budget requests to 33.3% the Joint Appropriations Committee. he Other State Oxendine presentation was part of the budget brief- Allocations ings located at the state capitol last week. $6,039,982,228 visits campus As a member of the USG, Tech relies heavily on formula funds for the majority By Zimu Yang of its state funding. he USG uses formula Staf Writer funds to get funding from the state legis- lature, which it then distributes and allo- John Oxendine, the current Georgia In- cates those funds to member institutions. 38.3% 12.3% surance Commissioner and one of the seven “Typically you can take the state fund- K-12 Education University System candidates vying for the Republican guber- ing total and we [USG] get about 11%, $6,956,500,473 $1,938,924,334 natorial nomination, visited Tech on Tues- but it doesn’t always work out that way,” day, Jan. 26th. said Jim Kirk, Director of Budget and he College Republicans at Tech hosted Planning at Tech. Oxendine in the Student Center’s Piedmont he Institute receives 30 percent of Room. he event lasted close to an hour and its $850 million budget for Resident In- featured Oxendine speaking to approxi- struction funding from the USG. he mately three dozen people on various topics remainder costs are covered through tu- in his platform. He began his speech on the ition, technology fees and other revenue. Governor’s FY 2011 BudGet recommendations current political race and his competitors, Resident Instruction funding determines comparing the current nominees to the edu- the base budget of the university used for cational pedigree of past governors. teaching, research, facility costs and the “Up till now, every governor of Georgia President’s salary. has at least taken some classes from the Uni- Based on the Governor’s Amended FY versity of Georgia, either as an undergradu- 2010 Budget Proposal, Tech’s Residential ate or graduate. If you look at the major Re- Instruction state funding will be reduced publican candidates, none of them has ever by roughly $19 million or about 8.2 per- as a student stepped foot on the university cent. hat reduction would be closer to campus of Athens,” Oxendine said. $25 million if not for the $6 million of He proceeded to discuss his oicial po- federal stimulus funding Tech received. litical stances such as phasing out the state hroughout FY 2009 and FY 2010, income tax, improving Georgia’s trans- Tech has eliminated a total of 250 posi- portation system, revising public educa- tions, including laying of 96 people due tech student to FacultY ratio tion funding policy by funding individual to budget constraints. children to go to their choice of schools “We’ve frozen new faculty hires. And if through the use of vouchers, enforcement we were hiring, we have very little money of immigration laws and the improvement available for start-up,” Kirk said. of water consumption and waste. One idea he lack of funds, complemented by Oxendine proposed for the last issue, which Tech’s growing student enrollment and Illustration by Jarrett Skov/Student Publications had come to the forefront following ther- stagnating faculty hires has contributed to Source: (Above) GCR, Oice of Planning & Budget ecent two-year drought, was a renegotiation (Below) Planning and Budget bringing the student to faculty ratio to 23 do your job without administrative sup- with Tennessee to allow Georgia access to to 1, the highest rate in school history. port and all of that, but this is our main the Tennessee River and revisiting the issue’s In response, Tech has placed an em- focus—working on that student to faculty Governor Sonny Perdue and previously failed case at the Supreme Court. phasis on instruction as one of its most ratio,” Kirk said. the USG Board of Regents Students afterwards had a chance to par- likely re-investment strategies if it was to Also adding to Tech’s elevated student presented their budget ticipate in a question and answer session receive additional state funds for FY 2011. to faculty ratio is the reduced number of recommendations which could with Oxendine. Questions asked by various he Institute has listed hiring additional ofered course sections. Caused by the members of the audience included how Ox- faculty and teaching assistants to reduce budget reductions, the reduction has re- include $19 million worth of cuts in the 2011 iscal year. endine planned to eliminate the income tax the record high student to faculty ratio. and how he would recuperate losses and how “We need faculty. Of course you can’t See Budget, page 3 See Oxendine, page 5 Days of Engagement, Town Hall continue strategic planning By Vivian Fan meetings and discussions. As of ing, featuring keynote speaker Jo- News Editor late, committee events included seph Bankof, President and CEO Days of Engagement, which was a of the Woodruf Arts Center and Institute President G.P. “Bud” series of student discussions with- Peterson was held on Jan. 22. Peterson and the Strategic Plan- in classes from Jan. 21 to Jan. 22. “I want to assure you that we ning Committee continued their “I think they really identiied haven’t made any decisions at all. initiative to chart the course of what Georgia Tech needs to focus he thing that is very exciting Tech’s growth over the next 25 on, but I really wish they would about the reports that we’ve re- years this week with a series of address more on issues about fac- ceived is how they kind of come events geared towards students, ulty and students. For example, together. And I think the really faculty and other members of the [in] any science class or math class hard part for us is the strategic community over the last week. there is a lot of faculty and stu- planning process; the really hard he goal of the strategic plan- dents [concerns they should ad- part is the part that lies ahead of ning, according to its website, is to dress, and] how they can change us,” Peterson said. “It’s relatively “deine the technological universi- that or stuf that’s maybe a little easy and exciting and energiz- ty for the 21st century” and estab- more related to [students],” said ing and enjoyable to think very Photo by Kelvin Kuo/Student Publications Guest speaker Joe Bankof speaks to faculty, students and lish the goals for Tech to get there Yutong Dong, irst year IE major. See Planning, page 5 through a series of focus groups, In addition, a town hall meet- community members at the strategic planning town hall meeting. 2 • January 29, 2010 • Technique NEWS From the iles of the GTPD... investigate a report about an in- toxicated person damaging a re- Technique stroom. The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime After arriving on the scene the oicer located a male subject, who By Vijai Narayanan stated that he was intoxicated af- Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the Assistant News Editor Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an oicial publication of the ter drinking with friends at his Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. he Technique publishes residence hall. he subject’s father What TV? tip on the afternoon of Jan. 22 was contacted, who came to pick on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the from a student about a gun lying him up. he subject was then re- summer. 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