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October 2002
10-17-2002 Daily Eastern News: October 17, 2002 Eastern Illinois University
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2002 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Tell the truth October 17, 2002 THURSDAY and don’t be afraid.” VOLUME 87, NUMBER 39 THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM ‘Show me’ state hosts Panthers Football team takes on SEMO in crucial OVC matchup
Page 8A UPI examines budget defecit Union shares theory on ‘Administrative bloat,’ a trend across the country over last decade, at press conference
By Caitlin Prendergast ADMINISTRATION EDITOR
A rise in administrative costs, the current operating budget and budget priorities were the focus of Eastern’s University Professionals of Illinois’ press conference Wednesday. David Radavich, president of Eastern’s UPI chapter and professor of English, said the number of admin- istrators and administrative costs have been steadily rising since 1993. Radavich has been compiling data through the Freedom of Information Act and found in 1998, Eastern had 107 administrators. By 2000, that number had risen to 177. Currently, the ratio of administra- CAITLIN BULLIS/ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR tors to faculty is three to one and administrative costs are up 43 per- Charles Delman, vice president of cent, while teaching costs are up by Eastern’s UPI chapter and professor of 20 percent. mathematics, talks to the audience This trend in what UPI calls about Easterns budget at the UPI press “administrative bloat” is not just at conference Wednesday in the Effingham Eastern. Other institutions of higher room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. education also have seen numbers and costs rise in the last decade. Charles Delman, vice president of deficit, but in terms of actual money, the Eastern’s UPI and professor of there is no deficit,” Delman said. mathematics, said, compared to the Administrators have said the rest of the state, Eastern’s adminis- budget is experiencing a shortfall trative growth is greater than the because of various unavoidable cost CAITLIN BULLIS/ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR state average. increases. Ted Michaelson, a sophmore art education major, works on a print for his printmaking class “This is a well-documented pattern UPI also believes the portion of Wednesday evening in the Art Park West building the temporary home of the art classes located of increases in administration,” money from the state dedicated to on LIncoln avenue. Radavich said. “We need to address academics also is lacking, Delman this, especially in a time of tight said. The percentage of the total budgets.” budget allocated to academic affairs UPI is also currently trying to is 38 percent, with 59 percent of that Art Park West gaining fans negotiate a new three-year faculty figure allocated to faculty compensa- contract. tion. Additional available room is a moved from Building 12 to another temporary As far as the university’s operating The increase in income from tuition location in the Art Park West. budget is concerned, Eastern’s UPI since last year is $5.3 million. Delman plus for some classes, projects Though it is another temporary teaching said certain realities and priorities said this increase spawns from an space, he would rather not think about another need to be addressed. increase in the tuition and an increase By Melissa Nielsen move. He said he and his students are pleased Delman unveiled some budget in the number of students enrolled CAMPUS EDITOR with the new and improved work area. facts, including the three percent this year. Boshart currently teaches 3-D art and sculp- increase in appropriated funds since However, the increase in funding Jeff Boshart, an art professor, spent eight ture, two classes that have few special needs last year. years in an office where he sat next to a boiler, compared to other art classes that require spe- “There has been some talk of a SEE UPI Page 6A had no phone or computer hookups. cial equipment and environments. To Boshart, just having an office is a luxury, Art classes were moved to the new building but he said new space in Art Park West has during the renovation and construction of the many pluses for him and his students. Doudna Fine Art Center; set for completion in When Boshart was moved to Building 12, a 2005. Some students and faculty experienced small house next to the Doudna Fine Arts delays in class work, losing almost three weeks Fall break weekend Building, administrators told him it was tempo- of class time when the Art Park West building rary, and he would only have to teach his was not finished by the start of the semester. dimensional and sculpture art classes there for Campus hours at a glance three years. Eight years later, he has been SEE SCULPTURE Page 6A Dining services will be consolidated to Taylor Hall Dining Services for the fall Construction coming to Union break weekend. Parking lot will see work, when the north entrance to the parking lot will Taylor will serve breakfast from 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., lunch from 11 a.m. be closed to traffic. A barricade will be placed traffic not affected until next week on the north lot entrance while crews repave to 2 p.m. and dinner from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. the area, remark parking spaces and draw a By Melissa Nielsen line to make two lanes of traffic. The University Food Court in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union will CAMPUS EDITOR The refigured parking spaces will make more room for the added traffic in the lot. The be open Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Crews will begin to break concrete Thursday lot has to become two lanes because when the as the first step in the new plan for parking and Doudna Fine Art Center is finished, all Union but closed Saturday and Sunday. traffic in the Martin Luther King Jr. University traffic will have to access through the north Union. parking entrance near the south entrance of the The Booth Library, Gregg Triad 24-hour lab and Student Recreation Center Sections of concrete will be cut out and new Union. concrete will be poured on the east side of the In February or March, once the university will keep regular hours. Union and the north side of the Union Bridge has received bids to begin the Doudna Fine Walkway in preparation for the permanent Arts Center renovation and construction, a bar- The regularly scheduled Residence Hall Association meeting has been closing of south parking lot entrance. ricade will block the south parking entrance of The construction will not affect traffic or the Union and traffic will no longer be able to cancelled today. parking in the Union until Oct. 22, 23 and 24 go through the horseshoe, Strode said. REVIEW THIS ON THE VERGE OF THE WEEKEND Jets to brazil is back ‘Perfecting Lonliness ‘ is not a good album to get Thursday, October 17, 2002 the party started with, but it is Section B lyrically well-crafted.
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