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GAMECOCK
LXXIV, No. 59 University of South Carolina Wednesday, December 2,1981
Budget Cut I
USC Student
By DAVID CORVETTE
New* Editor
A 2.19 percent budget cut ordered by the
State Budget and Control Board Monday
may mean USC students will be assessed a
surcharge in addition to their existing fees
? for the spring semester.
The Budget and Control Board voted 3 to 2
in favor of the reduction after James A.
Morris, chairman of the Governor's Board
of Economic Advisers, told them state
revenues probably will dip 2 percent this
quarter. All state agencies, including USC
are expected to comply by Dec. 11.
Riley said the cut will definitely harm
state agencies, but he urged officials to "use
maximum ingenuity" to reduce budgets in a
way "that will least hurt." With a note of
optimism, he said the funds may be restored
if the eoonomv Dicks ud during the
9 Christmas season.
Sen. Hembert C. Dennis, D-Berkeley said
he voted for the cut because he saw such a
move as "inevitable." He had earlier indicated
to USC President James B.
Holderman that he might vote to postpone
the reduction, but after James Morris gave
the board a gloomy economic lorecast,
Dennis changed his mind.
"What he (Holderman) had asked me
about was to vote to postpone it," "but if we
had waited it would have compounded the
situation. The cut would have been deeper,
i ^ Holderman has said that higher education
should be exempted from such budgettrimming
measures, but Dennis disagreed.
"I don't see how higher education should
be the only one exempted," he said. "There
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were aDsoiuieiy no exceptions iu una \tai ticular
cut" except for interest payments on
i the state debt.
What all this means to the Carolina
Nigerian Si
By TOM COYNE
Ant. New* Editor
A USC Nigerian student Justine Agunwal
from classes on Nov. 17 for failure to pay tuit
bills to the university for the past two summei
this semester.
! Agunwah says he is unable to pay the fe
? money is caught somewhere between Nigeria
"I have received a letter from my brot
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money nas Deen seni, ana 1 nave piaceu ie*egi
written home trying to trace the money but
I certain information, it is impossible for n
money," Agunwah said.
Agunwah said most university officials I
him but Steve Beckam, a special assistant t
will not allow him to finish the semester bef
Nigeria to find the money.
"All I am asking for is time," Agunwah sa
measures would produce the money I would
tj university but it will not. I am taking 18 hour
and I don't think it is fair for me to be forced o
!lose all the credit with less than two we
semester."
Beckam said the university has given /
. onoortunitv to Dav the money including effor
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job but he would not accept it.
"We sat down in August and I told him he
have the money here by Oct. 15 which seer
than enough time," Beckham said. "I told hir
he didn't have the money his schedule woul
and he would have to move out of his universil
| a Beckham said he felt the six week deadline
enough time for Agunwah to wire home anc
As Oct. 15 approached Agunwah reali
would not be here, so he went to various
ministrators including Provost Frank Borko
vice president for finance, Bernard Daetw>
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student is higher fees, less equipment,
reduced maintenance and cutbacks in
capital projects, according to Peter Denton,
assistant vice president for physical affairs.,
Denton's oitice must prepare a plan
detailing how the university will meet the
budget cuts and submit it to the Budget and
Control Board by Dec. 11. Several belttightening
measures will be combined to
reduce expenditures at the Columbia
campus by $1,601,798, and by nearly $400,000 f
system-wide. |
Among the measures receiving priority
attention, Denton said, is billing students a jj
surcharge in addition to the fees listed on j
the Computer Assisted Kegistration torms
mailed out this week.
A surcharge "would not be out of the
question," Denton said, but he would not
speculate as to the amount of such a charge.
Asked if $100 was a figure being considered,
he said "a surcharge of that magnitude
would be unlikely."
Other measures include postponing "a
considerable amount" of deferrable
maintenance projects, postponing capital
improvements such as the Russell House
renovations and deferring purchase of new
equipment "without undue disruption of the
university."
Certain parts of the Russell Houserenovation
plan will remain intact,
however. Particularly in need of upgrading
is the Russell House kitchen facility, built in
the 1950s. Denton said, "I don't think that
kitchen is postponeable."
Deferred purchase of new equipment is
"one of the higher priority measures," he
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saici.
In addition, faculty and staff positions
"will be looked at closely" to see if any can
be eliminated. However, Denton em'iident
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voted to cut USC's budget by 2.19 percent.
phasized there will be no wholesale layoffs p
of university personnel.
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tne lacuiiy rosier Decause 01 tenure cun- u
siderations he said.
"On the surface, 2.19 percent doesn't
sound like much money, but state ap- y
propriations for the (JSC system top $100 n
million. That's $1 million per percentage t
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finish the semesi
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t he has run out of time and feels Andrew Chiso
' for a situation he has no control Agunwah is a fii
of options."
ked for a job," Agunwah said. "I Kick Stepher
iping floors, but i could not get a Agunwah,said I
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"When you put it in absolute terms, away
rom the innocuous 2.19 percent, it's a lot of
innpv "
Denton complained that the mid-year cut
- South Carolina's first mid-year cut in five
ears ? gave university officials little
lotice and limited their ability to address
he financial problem.
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tz in breaking the law, so I only have a work
in campus so have not looked for a job off
rah said.
1 many foreign students work illegally
off campus but for him the risk of being
at.
the problem stems from his country's strict
p of currency. When he reouests monev he
ti to the Nigerian consulate in Washington,
lere it is sent back to him, and he must then
rilliam C. Agunwah, sent him a letter dated
itirig, "This is to acknowlege the receipt of
5 asking for mone to pay your debt to the
lso to continue your education. I am glad to
t we have remitted the money three months
jrer's office of the university. The money is
ach you in October, the delay being a result
ike by the workers (foreign exchange sec al
Bank of Nigeria."
1 all he is asking for is an allowance to
mester so he will not lose all his credit,
ked out I have everything to lose but the
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01 gain, Agunwan saia. ?y allowing me 10
ter I will not lose anything, and I will get the
liversity so they will not lose either."
im, special assistant to the president, said
le person but "the university has just run out
is, a journalism professor and friend of
the problems he is currently facing are not
Nigerian students. Stephens said a recent
e stated that many universities across the
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