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i SdUthiJCarol iniana&Library \ v- -" \ IKorseshoe it<i *i n , L 1 Wednesday Dog s best friend p. 3 MT ^eSSta. jgsm ?""? jtGBt H m ? Animation anyone? p. 10 K Bffl bK ?fe October 19, 1983 Doobies No. 1 p. 13 %|Vl I I 1%W% O TT^.T ^ Budget deficit By David Hill Eliminating USC's budget deficit won't be a problem, President James Holderman said yesterday. Freezing some positions and having a lag time in filling flthpr nn^itinns will hp thp main wave r?f rloalino vuith thp revenue gap in the 1983-84 fiscal year budget, Holderman said in an interview with the Gamecock yesterday. Projected expenses for the Columbia campus for fiscal year 1984 total nearly $106.1 million, while projected revenue is just under $105.3 million, according to the budget. HOLDERMAN PRESENTED the cost-cutting approach to the board of trustees as a way of dealing with the deficit. The board approved the budcet this past week. "The budget is tight. Hopefully next year's budget will reflect full-formula funding," Holderman said. About $78.6 million, or 74.6 percent, of revenue for appropriated activities comes from state appropriations. Through the past legislative year, the General Assembly added (T 1 1 ! 11! * ? . I i aoi l ! _ A -* _ ? 1 A -11! jtj.i minion iu uic i^oj oase appropriation 01 $/i.v minion. The Commission on Higher Education added $131,o tin new 1983-84 desegregation funds, as part of the effort to comply with federally ordered desegregation efforts for state supported colleges and universities. Professors follow p tn hpr.nmp plinihlp fni 'w By Beth Harrison tract include ? USC professors are submitting files for fessors. Facu! review as part of the tenure and promotion for tenure, process, according to Joan Altekruse, chair- Professors man of the school's tenure and promotions such as insi committee. tenure. Whei Decisions regarding tenure will be an- reaches the i nounced this spring by the USC board of period, he or trustees, Altekruse said yesterday. The full pn The purpose of the file is to give regular years, depem faculty members an established process by given, the pr which they accumulate evidence of their year in whic eligibility for tenure. Records of their ex- tenure tract c perience, contributions, publications, "Historica teaching and service are presented in a filed to protect p format. positions on in addition, t THIS IS a basis for recommendations by for faculty gc their peers for individual promotion on the of their schol faculty rank and award of tenure, which gives them a permanent faculty appointment, - TIT MI ID IT Aitekruse saia. USC has recognized that faculty peer that a profes; groups are in the best position to determine a university un professor's qualifications. Specific re- consideration quirements for tenure in a unit are made up The expect at the unit level, she said. process deal Those criteria are approved by the univer- issue of gend if orp mneiefpnf "There are SIl y k.UlllllIlllVV IU 3VV H IIIVJ ?I v VWIUIJIVI v with university policy. There is a process by any part of 1 which requirements can be revised and very confider updated. an even-hand "It's a check and balance system to see on the issue < that it's satisfactory to experts in the field as "For evide well as the university's administration," the USC ten Altekruse said. Having a w< discriminatio THE NUMBER of files submitted for tempt to han review each year ranges from 130 to 140, ac- The comm cording to Altckruse. Positions in the tenure 1,vc women. Great Wall one of i By Timothy Bergen Jr. As report< (EDITOR'S NOTE: this is the second part astronauts h{ of an article by Timothy Bergen who took made object part in the USC-Shanxi exchange program. He is a professor in the College of WIDE EP Education. ride side by s ^ - **/-?! ' - -v f r* * nmnflrArc r 1 ne ureal wan is one 01 uic ihum .Mtiggti- vm^iv/u . ing engineering feats of all time. Dating back through the to the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), the wall tected centra extends 3,600 miles across northern China, mounting steep cliffs, plunging deep into un- I he sectio seen valleys only to reappear on distant restored in 1 slopes at unexpected places. on the avera It was originally built to keep out the and 19 leet marauding nomads from the North, but serv- tlements for ed no purpose against a determined and well towers tor ? disciplined army of Genghis Khan, which soldiers and breached the walls and swarmed over all At the ver China in the 13th century. flic panorar ! no problem, He The state Budget and Control Board added $2.66 million. STUDENT FEES of $23.36 million account for 22.2 per cent of revenue for appropriated activities, a 2.2 percent increase over fiscal year 1983. Added was $4.25 million, the income generated by a recent tuition increase. Deducted from the 1983 base of $20.11 million was $1 million, the estimated loss of revenue due to enrollment change. Also related to the enrollment decrease was a base reduction in campus-generated income of $150,000. Sales, services and other campus-generated income accounted for 1.2 percent of total revenue. OTHER REVENUE sources are a non-recurring coliseum contingency fund, and a balance from fiscal year 1983. Of the $106.07 million in budgeted expenditures, $58.03 million, or 54.7 percent, goes to instruction. This is an increase of nearly $3 million over this past fiscal year, when instruction comprised 55.3 percent of expenses. During 1982, the figure was 55.3 percent. Academic support of $10.37 million makes up 9.8 percent of expenditures. This past year's actual academic support ex assistant, associate and full pro- . , Ity in these positions arc eligible 7- r i a professor in the tenure tract final year of the probationary she must submit a file, she said. . obationary period is six or seven ding on rank. If tenure is not ofessor has one more academic M IIIC Uin v^i 3it_y . MH2BS lly, tenure grew out of the need """ rofessors who held unpopular controversial issues. Currently, P he tenure process assures a role I >vernals in selection of members ^ ICkliy V~l>illlllUillllVa? n mm . : . ^ ISN'T an absolute guarantee p >or will be able to stay with the .; til retirement. There are other s, Altekruse said. ajKfr' ations and intent of the entire on an unbiased basis with the no quotas that I am aware of in fhic wstem." she said. "I feel ure and promotion committee. Ilonifo Ufll 3man sensitive to the issue of rltJtlVtS flU. n says something about the at- , _ _ die this properly." Ja? Lamb' 0scar S,eele and ittee has 24 members, including "< w'ns tug-of-war compf many architectural \ id in almost every guidebook, Chinese visitors and foreign jve said the wall is the only man- over the wall. that can be seen from the moon. Another fantastic legacy of dOlIGH for five horsemen to ty is the emperor's tomb at > ide, the wall was used as a road: miles southwest of Peking. H noved men and equipment chaeologists uncovered an ; mountains. For centuries it pro- 6,000 life-size terra-cotta wai I China. ed and drawn up in battle fo tect the emperor's tomb, h n I visited in the Badaling Pass, more humane than those c inn r? :~ 4* u:~u j ...i u i 4.1 i 7j / 101 vis11in s, in zo icci mgn predecessors, who iuiu men ige, 22 feet wide at the bottom, tiers buried with them, even tl wide at the top. There are bat- pened not to be dead. observation and tiring, guard sentry posts, living quarters for SHANGHAI IS more ir beacon towers for signaling. modern city than for its artist y top, the wall looks endless and archaeological sites. More tl na is breathtaking. Crowds of ago, Shanghai was a small ilderman says penses were $8.85 million, 8.9 percent of all expenses. Institutional support, $ 12.37 million and 11.6 percent, is the second largest expenditure, representing an increase of nearly $63,000 over actual 1983 expenditures. OPERATION AND maintenance expenses are $10.59 million, an increase of $1.29 million, and make up 10 percent of total expenses, up from 9.3 percent in 1983. Utilities, $7.98 million, account for 7.5 percent of expenses, compared to $6.75 million and 6.8 percent in 1983. Utilities expenses increase by about $1 million annually, Holderman said. Research, though emphasized by Holderman, suffers a $244,170 decrease from actual 1983 expenditures. It makes up omy i.? perccni 01 an expenses Duagetea ior iv?4, comparea to 2.1 percent in 1983. For public service, $483,856 is budgeted. This is 0.5 percent of expenses, the same as in 1983. The entire USC system budget totals $142.27 million in projected revenue, and $143.06 million in expenses. Besides the Columbia campus, campuses receiving the largest appropriations are the Medical School, $9.96 million; Spartanburg, $7.25 million; Conway (Coastal Carolina), $7.03 million; and Aiken, $5.29 million. Photo by JoMpfc Harnett Steve Loyton keep the momentum strong as their platoon, Bravo itition Saturday at the NROTC field day. wonders in China tourists are all Today it is the most populated city in the world, with about 14 million people. Old Western-looking hotels and office and theQinDynas- warehouse buildings stand tall along the (ian, about 600 riverfront. Streets in downtown Shanghai are lere Chinese ar- livelier and busier than anywhere else in army of about China. People are everywhere walking, shopriors, full arm- P?"g and eating. rmation to pro- Some other notes about China. The anlis project was cient arts of China are being revived and en>f some of his couraged by the governement. In many cities wives and cor- one can vis'1 huge art studios where Chinese # * 1 * 1 --? 1 I lough they hap- panning, cauigrapny ana ivory anu wuuu carvings are practiced in the traditional way: factories turn out cloisonne, silk mills in iteresting as a Hagzhou display the whole silk-making proic treasures and cess from the unraveling of the silkworm's lan I ,(KK) years cacoon to the finished product and carpet in fishing village. See "China," page 3