The University Echo /»p An Independent Student Newspaper Serving the University Community Since 1906 Volume,77/lssue 15 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Friday, January 14, 1983 INSIDE THIS WEEK: Set aside forces cutbacks The unsung rodeo heroes pp. 10-11 Record check bids farewell to Squeeze p. 14 Barry Aslinger/The Echo Grab the bull Mocs beat by the horns ... ETSU 76-73 p. 16 it's a new semester! News 2 The Echo/January 14, 1983 Statewide "set aside" hits UTC By Mary Mahoney Echo News Editor In response to a statewide $7 million "set aside" of state appropriations for higher education, UTC Projected revenues 1982-83 Chancellor Frederick Obear announced a plan to A State appropriations 46.7% freeze hiring, postpone salary increases, delay B "Set aside" 1.1% purchasing new academic and administrative C Student fees 23.6°k equipment, and reduce department operating D Other 28.6% budgets. UTC's "set aside" of $616,265 amounts to The set aside is five percent of the state appropriations five percent of the total appropriations the University but only 1.1 percent of total revenues. receives from the state. Vice-chancellor of business and finance Dave The second area to be cut, Obear said, is academic Larson added that this is the third year of appropriation Larson stressed the cutback is a "set aside" rather and administrative equipment. Larson said he hoped cuts and this year's is the largest. He noted however, than an impoundment. The difference, he explained, to buy word processors and other equipment for the that a little more than half of last year's "set aside" was is that an impoundment is an actual loss of the funds, administrative and departmental offices to help with recovered. while a "set aside" means the money is written off the the extra workloads due to a 1982 state mandate for a Obear said the "set aside" did not cause a student budget in anticipation of an impoundment, but the two percent personnel cutback. An impoundment of fee increase because students are already paying for funds may be returned. academic equipment, Obear said, will hurt the 30 percent of their education, which is the established Obear explained the $616,265 cut will effect three sciences, engineering, computer science, and the ratio of the state legislature. He also added that areas: faculty, equipment, and operating costs. The arts. It also means, he added, a delay in the purchasing students paid a nine percent fee increase in the Fall faculty budget, he said, will be cut by $190,000 by not of radio and television equipment for local 1982 semester, and he is anticipating another nine filling five empty positions, and a reduction in the transmissions. percent increase for the Fall 1983 semester. number of part-time faculty. He added that proposed Obear said he has also asked each department to Larson said the spring semester will be "very tight" salary adjustments for faculty and staff would also be cut their operating budgets by decreasing travel but he is "very appreciative of the fact that the campus cut. These adjustments were to make UTC's salaries expenses, supplies, and services. has pulled together." Deciding where to cut the more competitive with other universities and UT President Edward J. Boling anticipates a partial budget, he said, was difficult, but department heads comparable market jobs. Obear said he fears this will recovery of the "set aside." Obear said he is "hopeful were very open and helpful about how much could be result in a loss of some faculty and staff members to that's the case" however he hopes this distribution of cut from their budgets. better paying positions. the cuts will minimize the impact of the impoundment. For students and faculty Printz terms cut "depressing" "problem that is no one's fault, but Even though many faculty and we've got to resolve it together." He administrators anticipated the five added, however, that there are differ percent "set aside" of state appropria­ ences of opinion. Some are very tions, it still came as a depressing blow, unhappy while others feel the cuts are according to Dr. Jan Printz, chairman not as bad as they could have been. of the Economic Advisory Council. Printz said that the students are the "Nobody's shocked, but it's just adding ones who suffer the most from the cuts. to the depression everybody had," she The reduction in equipment expenditures said in reference to the already low will obviously hurt the students, she faculty morale due to inadequate said. The instructional equipment in salaries. many departments, Printz added, is Printz, as well as Chancellor Frederick inadequate and outdated, and this can Obear and other administrators, expect only hurt the students. The freeze on the University to lose several faculty faculty hiring will result in overcrowding members to higher paying positions of the classrooms and more closed either in other universities or in other classes. This extra workload coupled jobs. One department head said he with a freeze on salaries, will further expects to lose all three of his younger damage faculty morale, which is faculty (those who have been at UTC reflected in the classroom, Printz less than seven years), which will asserted. practically wipe out his department. He The cuts and low salaries are not added that they will probably move to new, she said, but what makes the jobs at other institutions. situation so bad is "we don't see any Dr. Merle Baker, provost, said the improvement." If faculty members general attitude he has noticed seems knew they would get adequate raises to be one of disappointment, but the next year, she said, they would be Dr. Jan Printz faculty accepts the "set aside" as a better able to handle this year's cuts. The Echo/January 14, 1983 3 Preliminary figures Enrollment dips from fall semester By Mary Mahoney Echo News Editor Preliminary enrollment figures show mean anything." The figures will proba­ budget cuts, Quarles remarked. When now, we're in a settling down period, an increase in the number of students at bly change drastically before the final the credit hours are converted to a full- trying to move people, and it's just too UTC in the Spring 1983 semester over count is taken, Quarles explained. The time equivalency (FTE), they will show early to tell," she said. No students have the Spring 1982 semester, although official total for the 1982 Spring term an increase of 175 to 200 students over had to be placed in hotels, she said, and enrollment dropped from the Fall 1982 was 76,187 credit hours, while the last Spring, Quarles added. the office will be able to accommodate semester. Dr. Dan Quarles, director of count on Jan. 11 for the 1983 term was Commenting on complaints about anyone who wants on-campus housing Institutional Research, cautioned, how­ 79,634 credit hours. The total for the closed classes, Quarles said he noticed if they are not specific as to where they ever, that it is too early to make a Fall 1982 term was 85,220. However, more students registering early. This want to live. "Students may not get prediction as to what actual enrollment the drop from Fall to Spring is normal, caused more closed classes for those their first choice, but we've got room for will be, as so many students drop and Quarles said. registering late and for students attempt­ them," Burris said. She noted that on- add classes at the beginning of the Despite the drop from the Fall semes­ ing to add classes. campus students get priority on moves semester. The official count is not taken ter, Quarles said if the 3,000 figure Going along with a drop in enrollment before off-campus students. The office until the fourteenth class day, Jan. 25, should remain constant, it will be a fairly from the Fall semester, the Housing tries to accommodate everyone, and Quarles noted. significant increase. This would bring Office anticipates some vacancies. many moves have been made so far, Quarles said there is a 3,000 credit increased revenues for the University in However, according to Marion Burris, she said, but it takes time to get settled. hour increase over last spring, but he the form of fee payment. Increased housing supervisor, it is too early to stressed, "These figures really don't revenue would be helpful in this time of interpret such figures for certain. "Right Pahle protests rights violation By Julie Johnston Echo Managing Editor A UTC student, who served a right to privacy by not recognizing my expensive. mandatory 48-hour jail sentence last request." Pahle said the group's leader Pahle said he is basically arguing on month, believes his rights were violated said Christ told him to come preach, the principle of the matter. "Just the when a church group visiting the jail and Pahle added, "They just continued principle of the fact that a basic preached to him despite his protests. with their irrational tirade. They fundamental American freedom here David Pahle, 23, has contacted the probably felt that the fact that I was has been violated by a group that American Civil Liberties Union about doing that (protesting) sort of gave professed to uphold American ideals, "...a basic fundamentalth e incident and has sent a letter of them reason to do what they were and what's worse," Pahle said, "it has complaint to city officials, including Fire doing because here was a 'lost soul' in been sanctioned by the city and over an American freedom herean d Police Commissioner Walter their eyes." extended period of time.