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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC April 1983 Daily Egyptian 1983 4-15-1983 The aiD ly Egyptian, April 15, 1983 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_April1983 Volume 68, Issue 136 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, April 15, 1983." (Apr 1983). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1983 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in April 1983 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Board to consider pay cut plan in June :y VI~~I. Olgeaty ~racts for s~ted peri~ and have done better." he said. said. taff \\inter of midyear The senate will meet April 26 rehired. Now, such employees Implementa~\On It would be a problem, he salary reductions was expected to consider an alternative should assume they will not be . Consideration of a proposal said. "if we were unable to rehired unless their contracts to be considered by the board in proposal. which the Committee come up with a document that h::.t would enable the SIt' May. on Financial Exigency is are renegotiated, Shaw said. System to layoff employees and wo·lld enable us to deal with The Faculty Senate favored But. Faculty Senate drafting. next vear." cut salaries. if the Board (If Preslden~ Her~rt Donow asked The trustees asked that the the change, but James Scales. Trustees deems it a "fiscal Under an amendment ap chairman of the Administrative that conslderatJon be delaye~ to board's Financial Committee proved by the board Thursday. necessity," has been delaved b,· gIve constituency g~oups timE' be informed of progress on the and Professional Starr Council the board until June. University faculty and staff said the council was to respond constructJvely to the proposal at its meeting in Mav. I"rylployed for specified terms . But the board did approve, at Chancellor Kenneth "philosophically opposed" to Its meeting Thursdav in Ed· pr~posa.l. Sha~' vlilll no lot.ger be notifIed that the change. It. \\ould ap~ar from the said that a finalized proposal they will not be rehired. w~r~sville, a proposal to unammous negative votes In must be approved by the end of He said the change would be ehmmate a reqUIrement that both the fo'aculty Senate and the JII"e. "We're trying to make a term "the worst scenario eVf term employees be notified that contract what it was meant to carried out in the history of G~ad~?te Council.·· Donow ·'It is necessary for us to have be," Shaw said. they will not be rehired. saId.. that the. d~art has no something in place in June University employment." The draft of an authorization The Sill System had been "We professionally believe in pe.~c~lvable merIt. which enables us to deal with an required to inform term em· to permit suspension "f con· GIven \0 minutes. J coul~ uncertain situation." Shaw courtesy and fair play to our ---------------------------- ployees that they would not be term employees." ScaJes said 'Egyptich)] Southern Illinois University Friday, Apri115, 1983-Vol. 68, No. 136 Shaw lays out possible FY 1984 scenarios By Vic:ki Olgeaty recommended $500 tuition in Staff Writer creases for undergraduates, $700 for graduates and $1,000 for A tuition increase of about professional students. This ~ and a 6.2-percent reduction would result in a 6.2-percent ID personal services may decrease in personal services at necessary at SIU if Gov. James SIU from fiscal 1983. Thompson's "doomsday" "U we must live within the budget is approved. constraints of such massive This is one 01 the com reductions," Shaw said, ''we binations of tuition increases and cuts in employment dollars ~c':d!.r :r:l~ tui~~ ~ for staff, faculty aDd students and personal and support that ChaPc::eUOl' Kenneth Shaw services cutbacb.: sayS might be required to meet "Findins the balanee between possible fiscal year 1984 tuitiOl] increases and personal scenarios. services reductions whicb best The Board of Trustees meets the need and financial Report says stadium unstable; discussed the scenarios at its capabilities 01 our students and meeting Thursday in Ed does least damage to our wardsville. faculty, staff and institutional Shaw said that uncertainty mission is a harsh but Sonrlt says structure is sound alxlut fiscal year 1984 state unavoidable responsibility ... funding levels points to the If tuition is increased $100 for By Rod Stone But, in one of the reports, that a 6-inch bounce places "necessity 01 having as much undergraduates, a personal Staff Wriw given to University ad more than twice the fatigue services reduction 0117 percent ministrators 14 months ago, endurance limit on the beam. ::::~~: ~~=~ could be necessary. The Board The chances are good that Brower listed several structural The report made several long ~et will be affected by of Trustees has already ap- McAndrew Stadium could faults in the east stands of the and short-term recom collapse under the stress stadium. mendations for correcting the the level 01 General Revenue increase of $84 for funding appropriated and the ~~=. created by a capacity crowd The report says, "Con inadeQuacies in the structure, magnitude of tuition increases. A $200 increase could result in jumping up-and-down, ac· struction of the stadium ap including installing missing If reductions are necessary , a personal services reduction of cording to the engineer who pears incomplete; partially or bolts correctly and non Shaw said the major area af 1•. 3 percent. conducted a study last year on completely miSSing arrayS of destructive testing of welds and fected would be personal ser If hi2her education funding is the structural safety of the bolts are a clear and present bolts. vices. $50 million less statewide than stadium. danger. The maintenance of the Shaw prcjected the effect of in fiscal 1983, a $100 tuition ''The chances may be one in a stadium from a structural point Some of the recom· various levels of tuition in increase could require a 9 thousand and that's my most of view appears to be mendations contained in his creases on personel services for percent personal services cut. A peSSimistic estimate," said nonexistent, or at least report have not been followed, each of five possible budgets - $200 increase could cause a 6.3 William E. B~ower Jr., an unreported. " Brower said, the most of im· the "doomsday" budget 01 $1.2 percent reduction in em· associate professor in The report also says that portant being further study on billion for higher education ployment funding levels. engineering mechanics and fatigue fractures in the main the structural soundness of the statewide, a budget $50 million The University could possibly materials, Thursday. stadium, particularly whether less than fiscal year 1983 ap increase personal serviCes 1.7 SIU-C President Albert ~~pCfrt~~I~ ~~~: eaJ~~:= the stadium cO'.ud absorb the propriations, a budget with the percent if tuition is increased Somit, speaking at an SIU caused by unison foot-stompi~ repeated unifi,!d stress of a same General Revenue funding $300 and higher education Board of Trustees committee of capacity crowds. capacity crow'j stomping their as in 1983, a budget of $50 funding for the state is the same meeting Thursday, said that the Brower said in the report that feet without collapsing. million mOn! than in fiscal 1983 as fiscal 1983 levels. A $100 University had commissioned he witnessed a 6-inch peak-to and the recommended Dlinois tuition increase could result in a three reports on the structural peak bouflce effect in tht' beam At the Board of Trustees' Board of Hidler Education 3.7 percent cut in personal integrity of the stadium and "all during a football game against Architecture and Design budget of $1.4 billion. services. three concurred on the Drake University in 1981. Questions about higher If the higher. education ap stadium's essential soundness ... Brower also ::aid in the report See STADIUM, Page 3 education funding may not be propriation is $50 million more resolved until June at the statewide than fiscal 1983 earliest, Shaw said. levels. a tuition increase of $100 If the "doomsday" budget is could increase personal ser Trojan Party su'eeps USO election approved, the IBHE has vices by 1.6 percent. The lO-percent tuition in By James Der" were invalidated because he crease that has already been Staff WriteI!' Joseph looks to lacked a running mate. approved would provide an 8.3- In the Student Senate, the - The Trojan Party swept the ~ (jUS percent increase in personal ket'ping promi8e~ same basic rule holds. The only services if the IBHE recom Undergraduate Student Maverick candidates elected mended budget is approved. Organi£8tion election Wed W1!l'e those running unopposed 1Jode nesday. See story Page 3 or without a Trojan opponent. '-~ Shaw said the projections do Every Trojan candidate in the In geograpbic areas, all 16 not considt'r any t'nrollment election won. The Trojans received 1,852 senate seats in both the east decreases that could result if Bruce Joseph and Steplumie votes for president, while the side and the west side were won Gus say•• proper mix of tuition tuition is increased. He said Jackson won the presidency by Mavericks garnered 856 by the Trojan Party, boasts, ball hilt" and badget enrollment could drop 9 to 16 a landslide, with 68 percent of presidential votes. For the east slde,the winners atlS ..ay DOt bask! bad going percent if tuition were in the vote, over Mavlmck Party Daily Egyptian Editorial are: Trojans Lydia Davis (481 ._8, IHa& it'U give just about creased by $500, but said it is candidates Steve PetrflW and Page Editor Andrew Herrmann nerybody hf'artbUl'll.