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Wnz (Samccock I Columbia Wednesday, March 7 ■ Drunkenness. 1115 Northwood St. Reporting officer S. Barber was dispatched because of a domestic dispute. When the officer arrived, he found Albert Smith at the scene very drunk and smelling of alcohol. Smith was arrested and transported to Richland County Detention Center. ■ Information, 1024 Elmwood Ave., McDonald’s. Customers told the manager that there was a large bag of marijuana in the bathroom. The manager later called the police; M Larceny of herbie curbie, 1116 Taylor St., Kiki’s Barber Shop. Employees said someone stole the city-issued trash can from behind the building. Reporting officer: P. Haney. Tuesday, March 6 ■ Breach of trust, auto, 511 Allcott Drive. Ulylisses Hurndon said he let his brother use his car to go to work. The brother hasn’t yet returned with the car. Reporting officer: D. Hunt. ■ Unaccompanied death, 300 Kings Grant Drive, office building. George Walker said, when he came to work, he found co worker Robert Moore on the floor. Walker called EMS, but when they arrived, Moore had no vital signs. Police and the coroner’s office are investigating the death. Reporting officer: K. Sumpter. University Wednesday, March 7 ■ Grand larceny of motor vehicle, Capstone meter lot. Patrick Abrams said someone removed his vehicle, a 1988 blue Honda Accord, from the parking lot. Abrams said he’d left the keys in the vehicle. Reporting officer: D. Friels. Tuesday, March 6 ■ Suspicious activity,Crosswalk by Blatt P.E. Center. Student Kristy McPherson said someone attempted to stop her while she was walking across the crosswalk. She ran and notified the USCPD. The event is still under investigation. Reporting officer: N. Shirer. ■ Disorderly conduct and trespassing, Williams-Brice Stadium. Employee Pat Moore said he noticed the suspect, Joseph Young, looking into vehicles. Reporting officers R. Osborne and A. Ross said Young appeared unsteady on his feet, slurred his speech and smelled of alchol. Young admitted to drinking beer. He said he was on the property taking a shower. Officers noticed there were four signs on the property prohibiting entry. Young was arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing. He was transported to the Richland County Detention Center. Cuts from page 1 He also said the legislature’s final decision could be affected by the outcome of a court case in Alabama. The state was sued after it cut K-12 education. Palms said he remembered the 3 percent cuts in the university’s budget when he first came to USC. Those cuts were considered substantial at the time. “So this is kind of a new ballgame altogether,” Palms said. Provost Jerry Odom also spoke about the budget cuts. v-1 “The main thing is, we still don’t know ; where we are,” Odom said. ; Odom said the university would use “management tools” in addition to across the-board budget cuts to make up for the state cuts. - “We need to look at our budget in a strategic way,” Odom said. He also gave an update on the search for a Journalism dean. He noted that the candidate to whom the university has extended an offer, University of Nebraska Dean William Norton, “has not turned us down,” drawing laughter from some of the senators. “But we’re not holding out a lot of hope, I can tell you, at this point,” Odom .saii « • - Norton has said he would be unlikely to come to USC if the university receives a substantial budget cut. The idea of mandatory furloughs, or leaves of absence, has been proposed for state employees. However, senate Chair Caroline Strobel said it wasn’t final. “Nothing has been decided, and things are being tossed around,” Stroble said. However, such furloughs would likely take place “on days where we would normally not be there,” Strobel said. In an interview with The USC Times printed Thursday, Vice President for Human Resources Jane Jameson said the university was considering scheduling the furloughs for days when students wouldn’t be in class. “However, whatever is determined, furlough days would be selected in such a way as to place as little burden as possible on employees who anticipate receiving a paycheck every two weeks,” Jameson told the Times, which is published by the university. Such furloughs wouldn’t impact the benefits of USC employees, Jameson said. Palms also said the administration is considering absorbing some of the blow of the budget cuts itself, and he said he’s considering the same furlough that might be required of university employees. “We’re all in this together,” Palms said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Memo from page 1 including reductions in force, reductions in campus services, furloughs, internal budget reallocations, tuition increases and restored enrollment — to minimize the impact of the budget cut.” Palms specifically wrote about two measures that might be used at the Columbia campus: ■ Tuition increases. According to the memo, a new legislative proviso under consideration would allow universities to raise tuition by up to $250 a year more than the increase in the Higher Education Price Index. Under current law, USC and some other state universities may increase tuition no more than an increase in the HEPI. If the university raised tuition by the proviso amount, it couldn’t do so again until HEPI had caught up with that increase. “This contingency is punitive in that it does not consider future inflation or the reality that tuition increases provide the only revenue source for us to cover unfunded portions of state-mandated salary and fringe benefit increases,” Palms wrote. “Even as we work for relief from the punitive aspects of the current proviso, a maximum tuition increase at this time is crucial to reducing the overall cut to the university.” ■ ’’Restoring freshman enrollment to 1993 levels without returning the entire student population to 1993 levels.” According to Palms, that would mean the university would have to increase the size of the freshman class by about 500 students this year. But the change shouldn’t affect student quality, Palms wrote. “Wfe had already planned to increase freshman enrollment at USC-Columbia for the fall 2001 semester, and with applications nearly 15 percent above last year’s level, I believe we can increase the number of students without sacrificing the quality we have worked so hard to achieve,” Palms wrote. Additional measures could be taken that would lower the amount of an across-the-board cut to less than eight percent. Palms wrote. Palms also said the university would allow units to carry some unexpected funds over to next year without the current 5-percent limits to blunt the impact of the budget cuts. The academic quality of USC must not suffer because of the cuts, Palms wrote. “We must manage this budget cut without penalizing students or compromising the academic mission of the university,” he wrote. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Budget Cuts House budget panel advises agencies on cuts by Valerie Matchette The Gamecock The House Ways and Means Committee met Wednesday to present its proposals on how various state agencies should adjust their budgets to compensate for impending cuts. The allocation of new money for higher education is only slightly lower than it was this past year because of an unusually large amount of one-time donations given in 2000-01. The department would receive $8.5 million in funding. According to Higher Education Committee Chairman Thomas Keegan, any money spent on college education in the state is a good investment for the future. Keegan asserted that funding for students’ education shouldn’t dry up after their senior year in high school. “We started with the premise that education is continual — it is not just K-12,” Keegan said. “It has been our feeling that education should cover K 16.” Keegan also justified the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston receiving a kinder budget cut than other state universities, at about 2 percent, compared with about 11.5 percent for USC. According to Keegan, the school’s president, Dr. Raymond Greenberg, had just brought the university back “into the black” after years of financial struggle, and a budget cut now would be devastating. “To impose a cut of 15 or 10 percent or even less than that would be unconscionable in light of the work that Dr. Greenbeig has done in reducing that deficit,” Keegan said. “We do not consider that to be special treatment.” Keegan praised research programs at S.C. universities, referring especially to the USC Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, which works to “develop nano-scale materials for applications in the fields of chemical manufacturing, environmental protection and effective energy utilization.” Keegan said state funds should be used to help build and keep up the momentum of programs like this across the state. The committee’s proposal annualized $ 1 million to USC’s nanoscience research program. Under guidelines set by the committee, tuition increases would be kept to a minimum. “The committee was generally opposed to tuition increases,” Keegan said. To keep tuition increases from causing enrollment to fall at state schools, the committee voted to put a cap on tuition increases for any school already over the statewide average. Universities could only raise their tuition as much as the Higher Education Price Index, which is now at 3.7 percent, plus $125 a semester. Any school making the maximum adjustment would then have to wait until the HEPI rate caught up to their rate before making further increases. In another move that would protect college students’ financial situations, the committee included a proposal to limit the presence of credit card solicitors to visiting schools once a year. This would also prohibit companies from giving away free merchandise to get students to sign up for credit cards. 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