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' - 5 SPORTS - • FIG '0 MY HEART - 3 LETTERS INSIDE• ROUTE 202 - 4 MIME- 7 11-12 Weekend Maine CampusVol. 80, No.10 March 5, 1976 University readies for budget hearing BY SHERRY BOWDEN still does not have all the details of where The University of Maine's special the cuts would come from at each request for $6.4 million will be heard by university. Amounts which could be cut the Appropriations and Finance Commit- from each university would include tee of the legislature on March 10 at 1:30 $148,795 from UMA, $245,111 from UMF, p.m. in the Augusta Civic Center. $94,250 from UMFK, and $110.935 from UMO President Howard R. Neville will the Machias campus. UMPG would be cut be among those attending the hearing and $734,425, UMPI would be cut • $172,435. will speak for the Administrative Council. and the UMO campus's budget would be There will also be speeches made by 51.915248. The Chancellor's Office and Chancellor Patrick E. McCarthy, faculty State Wide Services feel they would cut members, employes of the university and $352,764 from their budget. A ten per several students. This time the university cent cut from that budget would be system will be armed with specific figures $165,655. however the chancellor said and cuts. At a meeting Wednesday, they feel strongly they ought to concen- Chancellor McCarthy. his staff and the trate the money on the instructional university presidents discussed each delivery system rather than on state wide school's projected program cuts. services. After a ten hour meeting, five universi- Total budget cuts for the entire ty's reports were sent back for revisions, University of Maine system add up to some major, some minor. University of $3,586.854. Maine at Machias' report was approved, The general impact of the budget cuts be but was to be looked at over the weekend. to the whole university system would 10 per UMO's proposed cuts were approved as far reaching. If the university's by the reported. cent cut is not reinstated will Although the chancellor has now tabu- legislature, at least 160 positions or vacancies will not lated the final dollar figures of a 10 either be eliminated programs will be percent brclget cut at each uriversity, he be filled, five academic closed and at least three buildings closed. • photo by —During the meeting the budgets were Rhett Wetland looked over carefully," said McCarthy. McCarthy keys "We looked at the criteria being pursued, areas considered essential to higher performance education, areas which would haave to his face cuts first, if cuts were necessary, and finally the overall impact of all the fact-gathering proposed action." to By the end of next week all of the proposed cuts will be in. McCarthy is BY JEFF W. BEEBE release the cuts will be in. As the University of Maine approaches planning to is planning to release the cuts a legislative showdown in Augusta Chan- McCarthy public, as well as to the legislature cellor Patrick E. McCarthy has described to the hearing. his role as mostly "fact-gathering and at the committee information-providing." McCarthy and numerous university Student President officials and representatives will testify at Appropriations and Finance Committee hearings on the university $6.4 million another term supplemental budget request beginning McGowan won't seek next Wednesday. March 10, at the Civic Center. Augusta McGowan, a junior who is eligible for He said he doesn't want to blame are things that have to be done, BY JAG ROY "There re-election, told the senators he wants to his decision on apathy in the senate, even that are difficult that don't "I think I can do things that will be things stay involved in the university but in a though he feels it does exist. Rather he gain headlines," said more useful on a different level and for necessarily different capacity. For example, he hopes stressed he needs a chance to develop Thursday. "They are the hard that reason I've decided not to run McCarthy for a position on the Board of Trustees. personally and according to him. the information-providing again," Student Senate President Jim fact-gathering This semester he was Chairperson for the General Student Senate needs that chance that in the long run will make the McGowan told the Senate Wednesday things University of Maine Organization of too. continued on page 2 evening. Student Government(UMOSG)and plans to run for that position again in the fall. Reviewing his year in office. McGowan says quotation in BDN said, "I'll give myself a ribbon on one Clark He takes credit for having begun McGowan feels if he were re-elected the thing". Legal Service this year on the Orono senate would remain basically the same. of his views campus. Previously students had only a not representative He explained he committed himself as part-time attorney. McGowan believes much as he could as GSS president but recollection at all" of saying it. "But he is the greatest program "The people who aren't so good—they feels he can now be of more use to the Legal Service (BDN reporter Wayne Reilly) has a has come up with in his tenure. get experience and stay." students by branching out in different UMO recollection that I said it and he has That quotation, referring to UMO areas. faculty members and attributed in Thurs- notes," said Clark. "If I said something Elections for Student Senate will be to like that there must have been some held in mid-April. day's Bangor Daily News Vice president McGowan is a history major and a McGowan feels the Jim by Clark who said qulaification." controversy and the Collective Clark, was refuted transfer student from Portland-Gorham. budget it "certainly doesn't represent my view-" Reilly had no comment except to say Bargaining proposal, which would seat Last year he was the youngest president that he had not misquoted Clark. The vice and give them input into the ever to be elected. students UMO faculty president claimed Reilly' must have taken will be major concerns The quote angered many "I've had a lot of temptation to run bargaining process, members and both Clark and the Maine something I said out of context." of the Senate and its new president. we don't Campus received letters severely critical "I'd be the last one to say that because of again and right up till February vacation I of him before the day was out(see page have good peple here who stay McGowan said he will not reconsider his believe in was willing". McGowan said. However, five for Letters to the Editor.) dedication to Maine and who decision not to run. "I've made my have over the past few weeks he has had Clark did not deny making the the institution." said Clark. "We I'll stick by it." While second thoughts. decision and statement, he said he had "just no ven able, excellent. people." 2 Maine Campus / March 5. 1976 *McCarthy performance keyed onfact-finding 441,ifiv ing the governor and arranging for continued from page 1 introduction of its own bill earlier in the university a more credible institution," session, McCarthy said he believes, he said. "there is a process for getting funded by McCarthy fielded charges that his office the legislature and its' incumbent upon us has kept too low a profile in the drive for that process first. rest legislative approval of the university 1 iene saying he is "trying to build a request, "If we were to go it all by ourselves Tom broad base of support for the university, without asking for the due review of all WOL which is time consuming if not as colorful the various agencies, I think we'd be seen But as it might be if we grandstand it." as being naive," he explained. "I think He. the democratic process is an interesting so 1 with The Chancellor met Wednesday one -- its not an easy one, but you know, 13 UM campuses the presidents of the seven people have a right to comment along the of I reports of to receive their initial tentative way. and often you learn slot about your rest he found budget impacts. However, own request Having to justify it is a good ago detailed and several reports insufficiently exercise." he added. wit asked that they be revised and returned to 13u! in time for the hearings. him next week McCarthy. who said, "there is no single the I sent them back for "The reason person who can get the university 1 is that I wanted to be sure we got revision funded," deemphasizes his own admit- me right," he said. "You know. the numbers tedly low-profile, technical responsibility" pro together the necessary statistics gathering while emphasizing the university's need att to display the impact of the 10 per cent cut for a profile of unity.