Vol. I, No.8 The Monthly Newsmagazine Of Boise State University Boise, Idaho April, 1976 Budget: Won Some LostSoine It was a "won some, lost some" result for Boise State University when the State Board of Education put its final stamp on the school's operating budget allocation from state tax funds April 1 in Pocatello. BSU got an eleven percent allocation increase for 1976-77, a total of $13.7 million. That compared to $12.3 million this year, and it is the highest percent­ age increase awarded among the three universities. The allocation still left BSU far behind the University of Idaho in total budget allocation dollars. UI received a $22.6 million allocation, compared to $21.5 million in its current budget. Thus, UI gets a five percent allocation increase. Idaho State University was awarded $15.5 million for fiscal 1976-77, a seven percent increase over the $14.4 million in its current budget. Though he expressed satisfaction with the solid budget increase awarded to IT DOESN'T MAKESENSE toanyone but the promoters of the AIWDDifootball game and the Alumni Wide-Open GoH Tournament, BSU this year, President John Barnes but try this: Toots Kaahaoui plans to play iD both events, so he's uncorking hisfeart:d dri�ef' UD an extra point play dreamed up by still feels his school is lagging in parity of Alumni team coachDave Nickel [holding ball). Meanwhile, BSU Varsity hopeful, freshman center Mark Villano of Pocatello, is set to funding for equivalent programs offered block the try while Varsity Headman Jim Criner takes careful notes on the whole weird business. Grid game goes May 1; the goH at all three state universities. tourney caps WeekAlumni Saturday, May 8 [seeinside fordetails). Pay Increases 'Marginal' ----------------------------------------: His other major concern with the new allocation, he says, is that it does relatively little to keep salaries for Plenty faculty and other exempt employees in Ruyle New Finance VP pace with competitivepay scales. Asa M. Ruyle, fifty-five year old vice­ president at Boise State University to of Work BSU faculty and administrators are president for financial affairs at Sanga­ succeed the late Roger Green. budgeted for an approximately three mon State University of Springfield, Ruyle's appointment to the $32,500 Construction tradesmen will eon· percent average pay raise level, in the illinois, has been named financial vice- annual salary post was confirmed by the 1 tinue to fiDd Boise State University new allocation. State Board of Education meeting in building projects a key source of Barnes has warned that that rate of Pocatello. His appointment ended a employment iDmonths ahead, accord· pay increase is "marginal", compared to three month search that saw applica­ ing toproject plansnow approved for the increase rate gained each year by tions from over 100 people following the a steady phase of activity through classified state employees and by Mall 'Go' death of Green in early January. 1978. With a key approval step now behind, similarly-skilled people in neighboring This summer, firstnew project will states and private business where a new pedestrian mall development on Ruyle is a veteran education adminis­ be the pedestrian mall. Major con- 1 the BSU campus should begin actualcon­ trator who took successive degrees faculty and administrators tend to seek tract construction is currently in struction work during the summer (B.S., M.Ed., and Ed.D.) from the Uni­ jobs. progress on the three-story Phase I "quiet period", according to Buildings versity of Missouri from 1946 through Besides the three percent exempt section of the Science-Education Coordinator Palmer Putnam. 1949. employee increase allowance, the new complex. The planned development, of which Most of his career has been spent at allocation provides funds for the follow­ By fall, administrators plan tohave ing: the current project is an opening phase, colleges and universities in Illinois, contractors iD place on the two new will eventually create a new link in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, For an improvement in BSU's lagging vocational-technical buildings that Boise's riverfront Green Beltproject. where he has administered school summer school teaching pay compared willrise between the football stadium budget operations, public relations to levels paid at sister universities; This summer's project willdevelop the and the present vo·tech building For enough new faculty members offices and a variety of institutional ser­ to center section of the larger develop­ area. vice agencies. keep the present student-teacher ratio ment, covering an area between the If preliminary, then final plans from getting worse; School of Business building and the He is currently a member of the drawn by the firm of Dropping, For increased maintenance and capital Library building. illinois Joint Council on Higher Educa­ Kelley, Hosford and LaMarch are costs, due to inflation; Approximately $80-thousand will be tion, a member of several other illinois approved on schedule, the $3.5 For a 4.6 percent increase in graduate expended on the first phase of the higher education study committees. million Phase ll of Science-Education assistant pay; project, says Putnam. He expects the Dr. Ruyle has been a professor of Complex could provide construction in-grade step increases due classi­ For bidding process to take 30-45 days, with psychology on the Sangamon State jobs through the balance of 1977 and fied employees through the state pay construction to begin during the summer academic staff. He is married, with two most of 1978. system. session here. children. Programs LeftOut Not included in this allocation were several items pushed hard by the university during the funding debates BSU & Prep Dancers Out for New Song Team earlier this year. The programs that Tryouts for the all new Boise State sory dance routine, one routine of their were held on April 9-10. Julie Stevens, a failed to find funds in the State Board Dance Squad will be held at 7 p.m. April choice, one short cheer, and on appear­ choreographer who teaches at Capital allocationare: 21 in the Student Union Ballroom. The ance and showmanship. High School conducted the clinic�. A plan to computerize the BSU library Squad, following national trends, will be All current BSU students or high operation; composed of eight women, all skilled in school seniors attending the university Final judges will include coaches of the Funds to beef up BSU's student dance-related activities and cheerlead­ in the fall are invited to try out for the football, basketball, gymnastic and financial aids program; ing. squad. wrestling teams, Fred Norman, two A baccalaureate program for Radio­ The eight members of the squad will Clinics designed to teach the compul­ former cheerleaders, Christa Bax, Jane logic Technology. be judged on three routines: one compul- sory dance and words to a short cheer Buser, and Lyle Smith. · !Jsu · I!'Wrtlis• IJEP�trry II/ ) 11JrCHfV£S -- i ::: --� �RXl.JS 2 Wishing Or KBSU Sets Fall Debut Witching? by Chris Schultheis ber Gary McCabe cautions that there tions building, 213 College Boulevard. may be some loss of power on the higher Into those rooms will go the standard · Boise listeners will hear a new sound bench areas. radio operating equipment: a couple of There may be water, water at 90.1 on their FM dials next fall, as The board is shooting for an October 1 turntables, several reel-to-reel tape everywhere under the BSU radio station KBSU goes on the air. air date, with equipment installation to players, a 5-channel stereo board, riverside campus, but Buildings Long-awaited FCC approval was be completed during the summer. cartidge machines and recorder. Coordinator Palmer Putnam is finally received, on March 5, issued to ASBSU has already approved a radio taking no high-faluting chances BSU for construction of a new class-D "We hope to have all the equipment in budget of $16,700 for equipment pur­ when he locates the new irriga­ noncommercial educational FM broad­ a good month, maybe two, before school chases. The broadcast board is asking tion well scheduled for. construc­ east station. starts to run our FCC tests, train some for a supplementary appropriation of tion as a major addition to BSU The station has been allotted 10 watts people, and get some programming $17,000to cover operating expenses. water reserves this summer. of power, which BSU broadcast board together," explains McCabe. - "I never tried to dig a well members say should cover at least the Operating headquarters will be two Faculty advisor Jerry Gephart says he without witching for the water lower Boise area. Student board mem- large studio rooms in the Communica- expects the actual appropriate to fall first," says Putnam, deadpan. somewhere between $8-10 thousand. That means Putnam will short­ A large chunk of operating money will ly grasp his trusty wish-boned go for the purchase of records, according "witching stick" in both hands to McCabe. and start a steady pace across Gephart says the radio board has the grounds between the Busi­ asked the university administration to ness and Library buildings where fund a UPI wire service machine, to he hopes to sink his well. supplement campus news coverage. Depending on how hard the McCabe emphasizes that the wire ser­ historic tool twists downward in vice would be a supplement, not a substi­ his grip, he'll make his decision tute, for news programming, with copy on where the best water courses, rewritten by station personnel into underground. standard program form. Putnam needs a well that will Gephart points out that the news wire pump out 450 gallons of water machine would also be valuable to per minute, to feed sprinklers journalism classes.