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use t> By TIGE WATTS News Editor University Housing Services is $68,000 to see if they're up to standards. Linda Saad, Director of Housing told the USC Board of Trustees Fis Committee that her office is paying Virginia firm to inspect residence make recommendations to fit fire cod< Saad also said her office spent $13 stall smoke alarms in 3,100 dorm root Rolf Jensen and Associates fronr will report to Saad's office by Oct final report on all recommendations. "They'll make a priority list of wtu be done. From there, we'll make t budgetary moves to support these ] Saad said. Under current regulations, USC Ruripet ?o ? By TIGE WATTS News Editor Students should prepare for rippling affects from massive budget cuts within USC, top USC administrators say. After passing a budget which slashed non-academic areas $2.4 million in late June, USC President John Palms had to send another plan to reduce spending by $5.3 million this year. These cuts, however, will most likely be in academic areas. The $5.3 million was called by the Budget and Control Board when they asked all state agencies to trim budgets by an additional 1 percent and put 2 percent in a contingency account The 2 percent might be taken by the Board if hard economic times persist. "I couldn't cut hardly anymore in the non-academic areas. We've already cut them to just the necessities," Palms said. Palms said he refuses to raise FITNESS is FREE i Come Workout with L_ / ": vJ C X , X ,j ' (< x>^ \ xe~x i/H ' ! >f' \ j Ajsjofc 1 j ^ X&.X A >*>\ f>: \ | c\A.^vS ' , ?-< l?*-' N? ft i "MVVftB,., \i/ IJIWI 0 pay f< halls are in compliance w hall is found unsafe, said spending director of USC s legal de fire code "That's what Jensen i< looking to see if we're Of Services, Parham said, cal Policy Because fire code regi a private buildings must foil halls and ^ y^ were built- 1 ;s buildings at USC were bu 640 to in- aS? an(* must be updated \ becoming unsafe. 1 Virginia The fire code problems 25 with a slale ^ire marshall said 1 City of Columbia Fire E it needs to state buildings, David Ri he proper Facilities Planning, said, jriorities," Rinker also said USC v sidence halls because of residence for classrooms. cuts tar: < tuition and plans to look elsewhere s for the money. "I just can't raise p tuition again. It's too high as it is," I he said. v Meanwhile, the latest round of p cuts will be seen in dormitories, y classrooms and extracurricular activities. c Former provost Art Smith said f the maintenance of the campus e would most likely drop because of b sucn ugni iunas. aiuaeni Airairs a Vice President Dennis Pruitt trans- n ferred $100,000 from student organizations to pay for former state s< salaries. Palms has also said the o quality of education might drop S because of such cuts. "The budget cuts we have to 9 face this year are going to hit us _ hard next year. We've eliminated so much that if we're ordered to b cut anymore, we're really going to fS. hurt," Palms said. Travel and equipment purchases reduced in USC's original budget, s] will almost be eliminated with the next round of cuts. 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Howver, some sections may be combined and the minimum number of tudents signing up for the courses night be increased. "From this round of cuts, you'll ee fewer sections and less classes ffered in the spring semester," mith said. Palms said he plans to not alter r cancel any classes in the fall. fnwp.vpr he HiH cav if the RnHae.t , " ??O-Control and Review Board does ike the money it requested USC et aside, USC would be tight in le spring. Palms also warned against a pill-over effect. "Because we have to cut equip- i lent expenses, we're going to lose ion Program. n re information. D I ECBVE A10% DISCO WITHYOURSI 1TY FOR YOUR VERY* kZA, CAYCE 1/2 MILEA( codes e different codes and restrictions for and offices than dormitories. We 5 classrooms later," Rinker said, lid only the Columbia campus was :ted and no plans were made to in1 branches. I the individual smoke alarms cost e. year, there were four fires requiring attention. "We hope to cut down ber," Saad said. he summer, Richard Wertz, Vice ?f Business Affairs, said students er with the fire alarms and take out id he was also planning to look for lents could not tamper. Currently, jns on the smoke alarms instructing to tamper with the alarms. iemics the quality we have had. Professors will have more work and students will have even fewer classes. 'The worst scenario, however, is if the Budget and Control Board takes the cuts and then asks us for even more cuts," Palms said. South Carolina colleges are not the only ones hurting. Palms said colleagues in Georgia are facing budget cuts as high as 10 percent. Student Affairs, the victim of the first budget cuts, may be able to survive the next round of cuts easier. The office currently has 18 vacancies and Pruitt has said he does not intend to fill those vacancies. v Because $100,000 in contingency money was taken away from student organizations, USC has also left itself vulnerable to extreme emergencies. 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