Provost to Eliminate 235 Posts Personnel Cutbacks Needed to Reduce Operations Budget by 10% by KATHY OSBORNE Reallocation," He Said
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Vol. 99, No. 50 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Provost to Eliminate 235 Posts Personnel Cutbacks Needed to Reduce Operations Budget by 10% By KATHY OSBORNE reallocation," he said. faculty members and four In an effort to trim There will be cuts in new department chairmen. university operational costs, faculty positions, but there The faculty positions will be the provost's office · is are no plans to fire anyone,. allocated to the colleges of studying the possibUity of Campbell said. "We plan to nursing, engineering and cutting the personnel budget take care of the faculty. business and economics, said by 10 per cent before June 30, simply by attrition" Campbell. · ~ 1977, said Provost L. Leon Campbell said, explaining Campbell. that new professors will The university has asked Campbell has asked the probably not be hired to take the state' legislature for an college deans, academic the places of those who additional $3.2 million in directors and vice presidents resign or retire from operating funds. Only to submit reports indicating marginally necessary $926,698, Gov. Sherman those positions which could positions. Tribbitt's recommended be eliminated without There will be no new budget allocation is likely to sacrificing educational professionals, staff, or be appropriated. That would quality. graduate teaching assistants result in a $2.3 million deficit. The personnel cuts are part hired with funds from the In that case, said Campbell, of a university effort to re general fund budget next "We have two choices ..... we duce the proposed operating year, but there are have to make further cuts, budget, which is supplied by provisions in the proposed . or ask the trustees to the state. This year's budget for the salaries of reconsider their decision of operating budget constituted approximately six new no tuition increases." roughly $17.6 m_illion out of the approximately $80 million 1975-1976 budget. Carpenter Funds to be Cut Two hundred thirty-five positions must be ellminated by June 30, 1977, said As Result of Budget Deficit Campbell, adding, "Since the mnjority of the university's Carpenter Sports Mike Sweeny, president of budget is in personnel, when Building's budget will be the Intramural Council, you're talking about a budget reduced by $10,000 next year. explained how the cutback you have to look at will affect the students w:ho Bruce Troutman, second use Carpenter. personnel." Sweeny stated that Rep.du Pont Tells Students Campbell explained that he assistant director of men's intramurals, announced at Carpenter will probably close is not sure which weeknights at 9 p.m. departments will be most the · weekly intramural meeting that all university Weekend hours will be State Cannot Boost Subsidy affected by the budget cut reduced to between 1 p.m. By DENISE PECK In reply to a question about because he has not received departments will receive a 10 per cent budget cut next and 5 p.m. In addition, he "There just isn't any a bill supporting possible tax the final reports from the predicted that the pool will money there to give," said deductions for students' deans, .--- academic directors year. "This means Carpenter's budget will be be open less frequently. Rep. Pierre S. du Pont IV in a college expenses, du Pont and vice presidents. "Some The cutback will also affect reply to a question about the said he agreed that it was a units may actually end up reduced by about $10,000," he said. the intramural sports university's financial crisis .(Continued to Page 12) with more resources by program. Sweeny said the and the state budget number of intramural teams appropriation. will be reduced in order to Du Pont made this and allow games to be played in other statements at a Weible's Lawyer Waives Hearing the limited hours that ' discussion Wednesday Carpenter will be open. The evening in the Ewing Room Investigation Continues Into Shooting of University Student number of floor hockey of the Student Center. "They had established in their garage an teams will be reduced from Du Pont, who is currently By LYNN REYNOLDS indoor shooting range. He was shooting into a 50 to 30 and that of basketball running on the Republican The preliminary hearing for Daniel bullet trap, and during his target practice, he teams will be reduced from ticket for governor of Anthony Weible, charged with manslaughter says that he saw two birds and turned around 90 to 30. Delaware, said that although in connection with the April 14 shooting of to shoot at them," Brierley said. Sweeny said the number of higher education is university sophomore Gary Celeste, was Brierley added that Newark police are still referees will be cut in half. important, all state waived Monday in Family Court. conducting an in-depth investigation into the He explained that there will programs must be evaluated Weible's lawyer, David H. Erisman, said shooting. "I have assigned several detectives be only one referee per game annually for effectiveness he felt the hearing was not necessary, since and survey crews to the case," he said. rather than two. Basketball and necessity. he had been offered all the necessary The crews are using transits (surveying players will have te call their "They add on more information by Deputy Attorney General devices) and triangulation, a process which own fouls and the referee will expensive programs every Charles M. Oberly, III, prosecutor for the reconstructs the paths of bullets by laying out be there only to start the year without considering the case. the trajectory lines which intersect at the game and throw the ball up budget and we've reached According to Newark Police Chief William point where the bullets were fired. for jump shots. the limit," he declared. Brierley, the charge of assault originally Police are trying to determine if the time Sweeny and William "In my opinion," he told leveled against Weible was changed to the shots were fired correlates with the time Frownfelter, a junior civil one student, "you've learned manslaughter after Celeste died at the Celeste was hit. "They are doing a splendid engineering major, are everything you're going to Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical job; making sure that everything Weible says planning to draw-up a learn. They're teaching Center. is accurate," Brierley said. petition stating the students' ceramics and some people Unless Weible pleads guilty to the charges, In addition, Weible's rifle has been sent to desire to keep Carpenter. still can't read an English he will stand trial in Family Court. The the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C ., for operating in its present · sentence." Glasgow High School student was. released ballistics tests, he said. capacity. Du Pont said he felt three-, into the custody of his father, Ray W. Weible, Newark police arrested Weible after the . Sweeny and Frownfelter four- and · nve-y~ar olds · an area locksmith, on $7000 bond, Brierley trajectory of one of the bullets was traced to said they plan to send the absorb information at an said. the garage of his house. petition to university enormous . rate and that Brierley said Weible told him th~t he was Police said that when Weible was first President E.A. Trabant in money would be much more aiming at birds when he fired the two shots in questioned, he denied havi_ng a gun in t~e hopes of receiving a larger effectively- spent on the direction of the lacrosse field with a house. His father later confirmed that he d1d budget for the sports elementary education. .22-caliber rifle. - own a .22-caliber rifle . building. / Poge2 REVIEW, University of Delaware, Newark. Delaware April 23, 1976 T~ U.llCC iS holding a referendum on several questions it feels are of major concern to the students here at the ·University of Delaware.We at the U.D.CC. urge the student body to participate in this ·referendum regardless of any personal feelings about the upcoming elections of s~ government officers. A large rE'Sponse to this effort would IE'nd crE'dibility tC? the results. Qu€STION 'ONE ~ESTION THREE Would you be willing to pay a Do you support the firing of Richard voluntary student activities fee Aumiller by President Trabant? (approximately $5-$10 per semester) to maintain the present level of student programming? (concerts, plays, movies, radio, etc.) Do you want your tuition doll~ to be spent by the University in an effort *Comment: H is almost certai·n that to prevent the reinstatement of the present tevel of programming will Richard Aumiller? not be maintained due to budget cutbacks by the administration. Student support of this proposal may permit the expansion of present programming or the lowering of admission prices. QuESTION Two . QUeSTION FOUR Do you feel the .administration's Do you have confidence that the proposed health fee is equitable to all present administration of the students? University of Delaware is acting in the most efficient manner possible and in the best interests of the students? · Would a· voluntary Health Service user fee at a nominal cost discourage you from utilizing the Student Health Service? · I NO I *Comment: The total cost of the proposed student health fee during an Do you support the concept of a 8-semester period would probably Student Health Service as it presently exceed $200 per student at the exists on the University of Delaware proposed rates. including expected campus? cost increases. " I YES I I NO I Let your voice be heard & VOTE in the RefE'rE'ndum! 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