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State Budget Ax Cuts Most Summer Classes thre indilegwm*ent flinIa Henrietta's Lovers in N'awlins ifatc 0---- - Not ol+!,iaIly afloc aled w~i'h, Um var.yV MFlor's. .APPLAUSE VOLUME 84, NUMBER 13 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1990 State budget ax cuts most summer classes By DEBBIE CENZIPER said Provost Andrew Sorensen, UT's top Alligator Staff Writer academic officer "We're doing what we have to do As the state budget tightened again Santa Fe Community College Presi- this week, UF administrators decided dent Larry Tyree said so far the school that canceling most summer classes is has not planned any semester cuts, but the least painful way to chop about $8.4 SFCC has frozen all travel expenses, million from the school's budget. vacant faculty positions and purchases UF President John Lombardi scram- of any equipment not needed immedi- bled to meet with campus ately officials Wednesday after If that's not enough, the governor instructed all SFCC may dip into its re- state agencies to cut their serve accounts and trim its budgets 5 percent spring class schedule, At UF, that budget ax Tyree said will fall on the Summer A If UF's proposal is ap- and Summer C semesters, proved in Tallahassee, administrators decided Sorensen said the next step Wednesday. will be finding classes "There is no solution taught only during summer that is painless" Lombardi and trying to offer them in said. "This is a really bone the spring marrow kind of debt, and Srsn UF won't completely it isn't going to be abl shut down during the sum- sorbed easily or happily. mer, he said Research labs, Shands The UF proposal to cancel the sum- Hospital, computer labs and UF librar- mer terms will go before state education ie will remain open officials this week. State Rep David Flagg, D-Gaines- To students who plan to graduate in Vile, said the loss of money cannot be the summer, the cuts may mean waiting blamed on the Legislature. but on another semester to graduate, or load- Florida's fluctuating and fragile econ- ingupspringschedulesto leaveon time omy, which generates its revenue un- To faculty, the canceled classes may predictably each year mean fewer paychecks. University budgets, based on last The budget trimming also will curtail year's income, are planned months in UFs hiring, travel expenses and possi- advance, and if there's a decrease in bly even promised faculty raises. revenue and an increase in spending, Student Government, UF's Infirmary, deficits add up, he said s SULLIVAN the Reitz Union and UF Housing, which "Not only are we not getting what we Block seating all depend on fees generated by tuition, expected, but we're getting less than we Paul Painter, left, and Joe Shumon of Painter Masonry work on the supports for the also will have to juggle their budgets expected," Flagg said. "It could have roof of the bus stop on the Park-and-Ride lot Wednesday aftemoon. and cut corners. "We haven't been given a choice," see Budget. page 8 ROTC students won't help with search for clues they could join in the search. Sy DONYA CURRIE About 15 ROTC advisers will Although he has not been "What's a walk in the woods for Alligator Staff Wrter join the Game and Freshwater Fish charged in the murders, police "'They always try to stress aca- some people is a matter of life and Commission, the Florida National searched Humphrey's Gainesville demics ahead of anything else,' death to us," he said "If you trip While 200 police and military Guard, Gainesville police and Flor- apartment along with his car and said Mike Matthews, a UF senior on a mine, you're dead " personnel spend the next two days ida Department of Law Enforce- family home in Indialantic. who is the training officer for the Investigators are no closer to tramping through Gainesville ment at 7 this morning to start The murder task force organ- Army's Fightin' Gator Batallion. "I making an arrest in the stabbing woods in search of clues to last searching the woods ized thesearch after learning Hum- would gladly help if I didn't have deaths of Sonja Larson, Christina month's murders, ROTC students Gainesville police are in charge phrey was fond of camping out and class. I'm disappointed, because I P Powell, Christa Leigh Hoyl, invited on the mission will be sit- of the search for evidence that going on military-style "reconnais- know a lot of people who would Tracy Paules and Manuel ting in class. could either clear or convict UF sance mission&" in the woods sur- help if they could' Taboada, Darnell said, but today's Ihey called and asked us to freshman Edward Lewis Hum.- rounding his Hawaiian Village The Florida National Guard is search could turn up some valu- participate, but wedetermined that phrey, police spokeswoman Lt. apartment. sending 42 troops to Gainesville able information the liability." said from Ocala and Lake City, Sgt we couldn't risk Sadie Darnell said. Humphrey, 18, Brown said police asked for help "Iis is a step that's done i in Col. James Brown, a UF aerospace is one of four top possible suspects from some of the UF ROTC's 600 Steven Wolf said The guardsmen investigation of this type to eli- professor who asigns ROTC ca- in the murders of five students. students because cadets would be will use mine sweepers, a type of nate us overlooking anything," detector, to search the dets to duty. 'We didn't want par- Humphrey is being held in a perfect for the job. metal Darnell said. 'The search teams woods ents calling and asking why these Brevard County jail after allegedly "'They initially called our cadets Vell be looking for anything un- students were hurt when they beating his grandmother. He also because they thought we might be 'lhe military spendsalotoftime usual in the wooded area. should be in clan." has been charged with aggravated a little more disciplined and ror training out in the forests here," astute in reconnaissance and train- Wolf said. "We would better be 'It's a very tedious process, and Although Gainesville police in- assault for an incident last month no one looks for- ing," he said. able to see if something was out of it's something vited the cadets to help. ROTC at UFs Pi Lambda Phi fraternity ward to having to dot" officials said their students could house and a 1988 attempted sexual Some student cadets said, al- place This is good training for fall or get bitten by snakes in the assault and armed burglary in In- though they understood their them to get the equipment out and Alligator staff writer Geoff Bou- dian River County. officers' reluctance, they wished use it. cher contributed to this report Li 11 21 AilMATORm T iFRSDAY STIYSMMPH I. T Ph V77 thh SAM'Ss PAWN a GUN Guitars . Instruments WHAT'S HAPPENING C77 -14 tfall 21j IItS We buy used equipmrl Endingth.hate: Ile cLo mmnit i in Ret int, on Rois 4h, 14, and Confidential support. 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