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L O UIS {'~'Some campus • Elevators name rel ent lack proper BY .JASON GRANGER safety News Editor measures After months of specUlation and ~ secrecy, the University of Missouri System has a new president. The Elevators appointment of Elson S. Floyd was . announced Wednesday, Nov. 13. missing Floyd comes to the Univen;ity of Missouri as the Board of Curators' features unanimous choice for the position. The secrecy of the vote and the overall f designed to process provided controversy for the selection process. There was some ensure safety criticism from the media, including the of riders St. wuis Post-Dispatch, that . information was not provided about candidates and finalists. Floyd will be BY MELISSA MCCRARY replacing President Manuel T. Pacheco, StajJWriter who announced his retirement earlier this year. Pacheco is due to step down on Dec. 31. Hoyd will assume the There has been · some concern . position of president Jan. 6 of 2003. recently regarding the condition of Unlike Pacheco, however, Hoyd the elevators at UM-St. wuis. will be making substantially more than Most elevators in the campus the $260,000 Pacheco made in his last I!i buildings display only minimal year as president. Hoyd's annual information. All of the elevators compensation will be $350,000, with display ''In case of fire use the the possibility of $50,000 per year in stairs"signs and note that the deferred compensation based on maximum capacity is 3,500 pounds successful annual performance or 21 pen;ons. reviews. He will receive none of the Not only does the fact that so deferred money if he does not remain many elevators offer so little president of the U illven;ity of Mi~souri information concern students, but ~ System for a full five years. Like also there is no proof of inspections Pacheco, Floyd will live in a or certificates from the state posted University-provided house and will be in the elevaton; saying they have given a University automobile. passed the codes of operation. Before coming to the University of In 199-l. The Missouri Missouri, Floyd was president of Department of Public Safety and Western Michigan University. He was ~ the Di"ision of Fire Safety took a popular during his tenure at that step to ensure that elevators operate institution, so much so that .in the days under sufficient codes. prior to his hiring by the University of The Department of Public Newly hired UM President Elson Floyd greets members of the which unanimously chose Floyd as their recommendation for Missouri, faculty and students held Safety and Building Division of press, faculty members and students after his speech at the System President. He will take over for President Manuel T. rallies and sent him e-mails asking him Missouri says that there are no Mercantile Library Thursday morning. Floyd was named UM Pacheco, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Floyd is to stay. Hoyd also worked as executive requirements that a certificate must President after meeting with the UM System Board of Curators, the first African-American president in UM history. vice chancellor and clinical professor of .. be posted inside of the car. education at the University of North respect from the outside community," Legislature the importance of higher While Floyd hopes to pen;uade Gov. tenacious peThQn, and I plan on doing However, there are minimum Carolina-Cbapel Hill. Hoyd said. The real strength a great education and its overall effect on the Holden to avoid further cuts to the whatever I can to get that funding in standards that require a sign t6 be Hoyd was introduced to lTh1-St. university enjoys is in its people." state. higher education budget, be also made here." posted in the elevator's machine wuis Thursday at a reception held in Floyd gave a speech to assembled "Quality and excellence are what clear the importance the private sector Floyd went on to say that it is room, and if there is no indication his honor in the Mercantile Library. He students and rnemben> of the media, we need to focus on a~ an in.<;titution," plays in the funding process and his imperative for the University of of this, the building should be was accompanied by his wife, faculty, and staff in which he outlined Hoyd said. "We must be appropriate ambition to bring more private dollars Mi~souri to form partnen;hips with the written-up for breaking a code Carmento, at the press conference .. his plan for the UM System. According stewards of a public trust that has been to the UM System. oul~ide community to promote the violation. His name has been talked about in to Floyd, one of his biggest priorities invested in us, I pledge we \vill do "It is those private dollars that will school. According to Floyd, this "Some elevators on campus say several media outlets in the la~t few will be to focus on the budget problems everything we can to reward the trust of determine the excellence of our includes fundraising tours and a that all certificates are kept in a weeks, including the St. Louis Post­ currently facing the University of the people and government of institution," Floyd said. "I don't want to tenacious public relations campaign to central file in the Facility Service Dispatch, as the Board of Curaton;' Missouri. He also said he wants to try to Missouri. If the schools are having step on the toes of the individual promote the school. Building, room 243. The main primary choice· for the position. effectively demonstrate to Gov. Bob classroom difficulties. we need to schools and their chancellors, but I am reason why the inspection codes are 'The University commands great Holden and the Missouri State respond to those issues as a unive~ity . " a very aggressive person, a very see PRESIDENT, page 9 not displayed is because of campus vandalism," Frank Kochin, director ~l\ of facility services, said. Students face higher fees A low-pitched squeaking noise , might be heard while riding in the Millennium Student Center's elevators, the newest on campus, that were installed in 1998. Some of the elevators on SGA approves increases; new fees campus are relatively new, some are moderately old, and some were BY ANNE BAUER side, and the other is what they call the installed in the 1950's, when many 'programming side,' which brings in Managing Editor current regulations were not in the events. I believe this money will go effect. Two student fee increases and two to the programming side," Schuster Kochin goes on to describe that new student fees, none of which will said. there have been service, mechanical be optional for students, have been Schuster believes that this fee will and electrical problems with the given approval by the. Student help get students into the center. elevators. The main problem with Government Assembly for the 2004 "1 think this is going to be an some is that there are no ground fiscal year. Though the fees that were exciting place and there are going to be fault plugs. Ground fault plugs are a proposed have been approved by the a lot of events that [students1 are going part of the circuit and decrease a Assembly, they have not been made to want to see," Schuster said. '1t is person's risk of getting an electric official by the University at this time. probably one of the few centen; in the shock. The new fees. if passed., will be for Midwest of this quality." The last elevator inspection was the Performing Arts Center and the The second fee that has been conducted in March by Thomas canipus's infrastructure budget. proposed is a $2 per credit hour fee . McGrath. McGrath is licensed in Reinhard Schuster, vice-chancellor of that will go towards the campus the state of Missouri by the NESA administrative services, attended the infrastructure budget. The (National Elevator Safety SGA's monthly meeting tills past infrastructure budget . pays for such Association). Friday to explain the fees and answer things as Bi-State passes for students any questions the Assembly had. and the on-c.ampus shuttle. Though The proposed new Performing Arts this is a new fee, those who already pay for parking would not notice this see ELEVATOR~, page 10 Center fee would be $10 per semester for fall and winter semesten; and $5 for increase. If the Univen;ity approves the summer sessions. Included in the this fee, parking per credit hour, which proposed fee is a 10 percent discount increased this summer to $20 per NDEX for students when purchasing tickets credit hour from $18 per credit .hour, Mike Sherwin! 7'be Currel1l Vice-Chancellor of Technical Services Jim Krueger looks over figures at the Student Government for events at the center at a limit of two will drop back to $18 per credit hour.