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Cuts
Continued from Page 4
Less classes offered
The budget cuts also strike the
core of the university: the classroom.
For year's, departments have
been cancelling or offering fewer
courses to deal with decreasing
funding. The College of Applied
Professional Sciences, among others,
has had to eliminate sections of
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It has become increasingly difficult
for the education department to
offer courses on other campuses.
In some universities, whole programs
have had to be dropped.
Journalism was dropped in one
school, dentistry in another. In one
Texas college, some classes are
held in the coliseum for 11,000 students
at one time, said Kay.
That, at least, hasn't happened at
use.
"We don't have it as bad as
some states," Turk said. "This university
saw the signs enough in the
future to capture enough savings to
weather the storm."
USC's administration is working
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From Staff Reports
Computers can be handy tools,
just ask engineering senior Carl
Whitesel and Cromer Food
Services.
During the spring semester
someone was breaking into Cromer
vending machines and stealing
money, which led to the company
posting $500 reward signs leading
to the apprehension of the suspect
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now to arrange a budget allowing
colleges to offer the courses
required for a degree.
But, there will be larger classes
and fewer electives.
The College of Humanities and
Social Sciences has felt the hardest
of the budget blows. It offers core
curriculum to every undergraduate
and its enrollment is 38 percent of
all graduate and undergraduate students.
In recent years, tne college nas
had to drop 32 "core courses." But
they have been reinstated with an
emergency one-time only funding
by USC President John Palms.
Kay is working with the administration
for a steady state budget
which will keep the core curriculum
healthy and keep up with
growing enrollment.
The College of Education built a
professional development school
program to provide a clinical setting
for students and research.
Thomas Surratt, associate dean of
administration in the education college,
said this program has been
cut back to the point where it can
no longer grow to keep up with
national programs.
In order to offer a "doctoral program
in Journalism, some unders
computer
ist suspect
Whitesel was working in the
Swearingen Engineering Center in
March and saw a man breaking
into one of the vending machines.
From there, Whitesel went to a
nearby computer and drew a composite
sketch of the man using
graphics software.
The sketch was taken to the
USC Police Department and a man
matching the description was
apprehended.
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College of Nursing has consolidat- for <
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from three to two, effective next yeai
month.
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made and student-teacher ratios fore
have been reduced in the clinical thei
settings. tunc
Effects on research
Research has increased in some innc
departments and decreased in oth- can
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more research, Turk said, because unit
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out of their own pockets, though, ey
because the college doesn't have fact
the big funding grants as the sci- ^
ence and math departments have, pari
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increased teaching loads are not con
going to be able to do as much dep
research. And if faculty are only juni
teaching, they are not contributing Ii
to the knowledge base, Paul Dixon, ty >
associate dean for education-acade- tha
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Reaction
effects pharmacy and nursing students
because it costs more for our I'm
classes than it does for regular stu- is a
dents' classes," Leonard said. Ii
Even though some students said tuiti
they did not like the raise in up
tuition, they did agree that of all peri
state-supported schools, USC was US<
fortunate to have the smallest cen
increase. ^
Student President Tom Young sen
agreed. He said the tuition increase in ;
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ed to re-structure, and re-think
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cent increase, however, allows "If we cut 2
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like do we cut across
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ty to cut within student
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>de," he said.
also said if any cuts took
his office, students would
mention than before.
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we keep doing that, then
; going to be those (stuvho
need assistance that
out and seek it rather than
ffering it to them," he said. |
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