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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT wildcat.arizona.edu Tuesday, September 30, 2003 , Tucson Provost Cats start rebuilding to divvy 11-member committee to play key role in search for faculty new head football coach By Shane Bacon salaries STAFF WRITER Acommittee made up of university representa- tives, prominent Tucson businessmen and UA ath- letics department officials will play a major role in By Shelley Shelton choosing a permanent replacement for departed SENIOR WRITER , Athletic Director Jim Livengood said yesterday. For years, legislative budget cuts Senior Associate Athletics Go Inside: have forced administrators to give Director of Sports Programs deans and department heads more con- and Operations Kathleen More on trol over available faculty salary money, “Rocky” LaRose has, along the future of but now administrators are thinking of with Livengood, appointed UA football taking that control back. 10 members from across the When faculty members leave, their Tucson landscape to help salary money is sent to the deans of their with the nationwide search. PAGE 10 respective colleges, who then let their Included in the committee department heads vie for the money — to be headed by LaRose — is automobile dealer before the dean decides into which Jim Click and real estate developer Bill Estes, both department to sweep it. longtime supporters of UA athletics. President Peter Likins and Provost The committee will be handed the responsibili- George Davis want to change that in ty of finding the best person to fill the void and order to let the provost decide which will make sure the candidate follows the guide- department needs the money most. lines set forth by the athletics department, “We are very serious about creating a Livengood said. mechanism for the university to reallo- “We’re looking for somebody who we think cate some dollars across colleges,” Davis will be the best fit for Arizona football,” said com- said. “It’s really no different than what mittee member John Perrin, the UA’s senior asso- the deans of the colleges absolutely ciate athletics director for business affairs. “(He) depend on.” must be able to relate (to) the kids and have a foot- Some of the deans said they were DAVID HARDEN/Arizona Daily Wildcat ball mindset that fits our school.” uncertain what a loss of control could Interim UA head football coach Mike Hankwitz answers questions yesterday during a press Livengood said he was looking for someone mean for their colleges but said they conference in the McKale Center. Hankwitz, who officially took over the program Sunday, understand the basic need for central- said he is ready for Saturday’s game at Washington State. See COMMITTEE/15 ization of funds. “You have to have flexibility and be able to rethink what you’re doing,” said John Mackovic’s Mark Zupan, dean of the Eller College Firing OK with students of Business and Public Administration. buyout package: He said he is not sure how such a Sean Smallman, a theater production change would affect the Eller college. By Greg Holt junior, said that axing Mackovic will draw “It could go either way, but until you CONTRIBUTING WRITER more fans only if it leads to a turnaround The $909,000 buyout of see how it actually plays out, it’s hard to in team performance. former UA head football coach predict,” he said. Those students who shouted, “Fire Joaquin Ruiz, dean of the College of “If we start winning, it’ll make anyone John Mackovic’s contract will Mackovic,” at the football games had their Science, said he is in favor of the reallo- more likely to go to the game. It kinda come from revenues generated wishes granted after Livengood cation plan, with some caveats. sucks when your team is losing so badly,” solely by the UA department of announced former coach John Mackovic’s “My only concern is that the reason said Smallman, who is also a resident intercollegiate athletics (ICA). the university runs as well is because dismissal at a press conference on Sunday. assistant in Cochise Residence Hall. But now that the deed has been done, The buyout includes zero state deans can move quickly,” he said. “I “I’m an RA, so I know the guys in my or tuition money. hope the university doesn’t lose by cen- students are saying that the team needs to hall were thrilled to see him leave,” he tralizing too much money.” get better before they begin to fill the said. Some opportunities are lost if money stands again. For those less than infatuated with the Former head football coach can’t be moved quickly, he said. “It wouldn’t change whether I go to the Wildcat football team, the only thing that’s ’s buyout was also Tom Baldwin, head of the biochem- game. It doesn’t seem like anyone’s going important is whether or not the team is paid solely by ICA, with the istry department, said he is concerned now,” said Tim Arbon, a studio art junior. winning. final payment occurring about the ideas administrators are “I think they were impatient, and I don’t Lukas Westendorf, a pre-pharmacy in Jan. 2003. necessarily think it will solve the problems See DEANS/9 the team had on the field.” See REACTION/3 Student service week in full swing

By Alexandria Blute encouraging UA students to make Today, committee members bookmarks for disadvantaged will have frames for students to CONTRIBUTING WRITER fifth graders. decorate that will be given to eld- The activity was organized by erly patients at nursing homes. Siddharth Panwar joined Kid Cats, a branch of Project Tomorrow, paper flowers will Project Volunteer last year to get Volunteer that pairs UA students be constructed and donated to the required service hours the UA with students from South Tucson youth programs in the communi- mandated for scholarship elementary schools. ty. On Thursday, students can recipients. Through different service-ori- paint cups filled with goodies that Yesterday, Panwar, who is now ented activities, Project Volunteer will be taken to cancer patients at on the organization’s executive hopes to gain new members and local hospitals. Students can also board, spent his early afternoon spread the word about mix cookie ingredients for gifts to on the UA Mall, trying to get other volunteerism. workers of the Student Union students to realize they can make For the remainder of the week, Memorial Center. a difference, too. members of different committees On Friday, students will have DAVID HARDEN/Arizona Daily Wildcat As part of Fall Service Week, will be asking students to volun- the opportunity to help the Freshmen Melanie Proulx, Erin Dougherty, and Braulio Rodriguez, stop to make a bookmark for an elementary student, in support of Project Volunteer’s fall service Panwar and his fellow Project teer a few moments of their time week, yesterday on the Mall. Volunteer members were for a good cause. See SERVICE/9