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Maintenance,j BY NIARION ELLIOTT News Editor A University-wide budget cutting program announced this summer by the USC administration will directly affect University students, faculty, staff and departments. Ten specific actions to be im plemented to enable the University to live within its budget as given final approval by the Board of Trustees were afnounced by the administration on June 19. The announcement came after the University's state appropriations for 1975-76 as approved by the State Budget and Control Board last winter was cut $5.2 million by the General Assembly. The biggest jolt came when the state Senate cut the House of Representative's version of USC's appropriations by $3.2 million at the beginning of this summer. The University's budget had already been drawn up at that time based on the House's version because "usually the House version is a pretty good indication of what we're going to have," Bernard Daetwyler, vice president of finance, said. The 10 areas in which action is being taken to enable USC to live within its budget reflect either actual fund cuts, minimal in creases or approval of the same level of spending f o r 75 -.76 as 1974-75. Those areas according to an official administration statement are: 1. The hiring of personnel has been frozen. Even replacement Comi 11-7:30] 10-6:00 KELTY CAMP 7 in4 SNOWLIOI PHOENIX KAl~ WOOLRICI TECHNICAL CLIMBII *THESER Publications To 2 Millior positions must be approved by the President. Personnel will be cut by attrition. 2. Preventive maintenance has been cut out almost entirely. 3. Educational equipment purchases and replacements have been cut out almost entirely. 4. Student assistants will not be paid the minimum wage after the first of the year when the minimum wage is raised from $2 to $2.20. In the past the University has paid minimum wage. 5. University-funded academic research has been curtailed. 6. The Center for Shakespeare Studies and "Proof Editorial" offices have been abolished. 7. Custodial services have been reduced. 8. Departmental supply budgets have not been increased. 9. Frequency of some publications has been cut. 10. Postage and telephone service has been reduced. In a statement about the University's approved budget which is to be balanced by the budget cuts, Board of Trustees Chairman T. Eston Marchant said, "The approved budget reflects a general belt-tightening across the board. The ad m'nistration is taking appropriate means to effect every economy they can without endangering buildings on campus, Huitt said. Rather than purchase replacement educational equip ment, Huitt said such equipment as microscopes and typewriters, which may have been scheduled to outh C >lete W ti U-F Sat AKS] ViG GEAR GENERAL 1 LINES FOUTND I Suffer iBudge be replaced, will be given a longer "life." That kind of equipment will probably be used for two years longer than previously planned, he said. In spite of past practices of paying minimum wage to student assistants, the University has realized it can no longer do so because of its tight budget, Huitt said. The University, as an educational institution, is not legally bound to pay minimum wage to student assistants. However, despite the Univer sity's funding predicament the number of students working on work study is expected to increase this year, according to Martin McGirt, director of Student Financial Aid. An increase in federal funds of $37,171 from last year's allotment (making the University's total federal allot ment for work study $634,171) should allow for more students to join the program, McGirt said. Eighty per cent of the program's funds come from federal funds and the University gives the remaining 20 per cent in matching funds, McGirt said adding, "Wean ticipate no problems with the University coming up with the matching funds." Programs for academic research funded by the University will not receive requested in creases for this year, Daetwyler r>aid. Depite this, directors of six University research bureaus have said they do not expect any drastic cutbacks in the amount of research aroli n ildern ie WiAt qualltg 2 Harden St. * Columbia, S. C. 25 SIERRA DESIGNS JAINSPORT VASQUE BOOTS IAICHLE BOOTS AUL PETZOLDT WtOUNTAINEEllING, EQi XCLUSIVELy / t Cuts J4 which will be carried out because most are funded primarily by outside sources. Most research directors agreed that not receiving requested in creases from the University will cause mostly personnel problems for them and may affect the replacement of old equipment and the amount of supplies. All directors said their bureaus are primarily funded by independent ongoing academic programs." University officials have asserted that no programs except the Center for Shakespeare Studies and "Proof Editorial" offices which are connected with scholarly writing, will be cut out completely. All University hiring has been frozen in line with Gov. James Edwards' moratorium on state employe hiring. There will be a complete freeze on job offers to faculty and a cut in many depart ments in support staff such as secretaries and lab assistants, Daetwyler said. No support staff will be fired but as members resign they will not be replaced, he said. Preventive maintenance will not be cut "almost entirely"ac cording to USC Information Ser vices Director Sig Huitt. The maintenance budget will be in creased $300,000 from last year's budget. However, the ad ministration expects maintenance service to be less effective with the small increase because of inflation and the completion of additional grants and only a small percentage of their funds come from the t' sMos ss Out -p _P (803 ger Across THE 15 AL RICH l1 PET] [JIPAGE COMPLETE C LT THE BACKP. )lt USC University. The abolishment of the Center for Shakespeare Studies and "Proof Editorial" offices as an nounced will essentially save the University the salaries of a few secretaries, Huitt said. The other personnel in these two areas will not be affected because they are already members of the faculty or administration. Custodial services will be reduced even though the University has never reached a level of adequate funding in this area, Daetwyler said. As a con sequence of the reduction, he said, "you will see more filth along the corridors this year." Departmental supplies such as pencils, rulers, chemicals for labs and paper will not have a budgeted increase next year, Huitt said. "We'll have to make do with the same amount of material we used last year," he said. The publications whose frequency have been reduced are a result of a $30,000 budget cut sustained by USC Information Services, according to Huitt. "Instead of having a graduate university catalogue, we'll just have the two combined into one," he said. CarolinaType, a University publication for alumni and staff, is being studied by the College of Journalism to see if it can be operated more efficiently. Huitt said postage and telephone service will be reduced to the bare essentials of specific University business. Ot fitter HONE )799-7571 from Sears FORTH FACE PENLITE VIOOR FOOD ER STORM UTDOORt LIBRARY WCKER a