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Tuition CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We can’t continue to cut the budget like this without hurting the people we are trying to serve, and that is the students,” Odom said. Odom said the possibility of USC compensating for the budget cuts with tuition increases was “a hard question to answer.” “That’s basically a conversa tion that (USC President) Andrew Sorensen will have with the Board of Trustees,” Odom said. A tuition increase wouldn’t be the first for this generation of stu dents. Tuition went up 10.4 per | cent in 2001, followed by a 17 per ® cent increase in 2002. Kelly said a one percent tuition increase gem erates an additional $840,000. State money constitutes 34 per cent of the school’s budget, and 24 percent comes from student tu ition. As those numbers continue to get closer together, students are faced with more debt once they leave college. Denis Pruitt, vice president for student services, said the average student leaves college after four years $17,000 in debt. “It’s a tremendous increase,” he said. “What’s also a tremen dous increase is that there used to be more grants, and, more and more now. dollars are nomine to students where they have to bor ^ row andxepay, as opposed to mon ey given to them to help equalize the cost of attendance.” Pruitt said an increase in USC’s tuition could affect the kinds of students who apply. “I think one thing we will see is that many students from poor-in come families are not willing to take on debt,” he said. Odom said he didn’t know if students would be able to handle another tuition increase. “I keep asking if we can manage another budget cut,” he said. “One way or another we are trying to do it, although it certainly is not with out sacrifice. I would assume that if tuition would increase, some people could not handle it and some people could with sacrifice.” to USC has fallen on hard times in * past years, with more than $33 mil lion in budget cuts. “Clearly, these are very difficult financial times,” Kelly said. “There is an awful lot of pressure to balance needs of the universi ty, quality of education that stu dents expect and resources avail able to do that.” First-year nursing student Elizabeth Baylor said she is frus trated with the uncertainty sur rounding the budget. Baylor, who receives federal scholarship mon ey that pays for her tuition, said she is already looking to transfer to Francis Marion University. “If tuition goes up and federal money does not, I don’t know what I’m going to do,” she said. “It is kind of frustrating, knowing that I personally cannot pay for my schooling because of my financial situation, knowing that the state budget is in such dismay that the colleges are having to make up for it by raising tuition.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Address CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Patel said the two speeches, which are both expected to last 20 minutes, are partially his cabi net’s idea. The SG constitution requires the SG president to give a formal address to the Student Senate at least once in his one year term. Patel said a discussion during a meeting of his cabinet led it to invite Sorensen to do the same. “We had a thought this year that we could make it kind of a real ‘state of the university’ ad dress and invite all the faculty, staff and students, and better yet, have the president of the uni versity give a speech as well,” Patel said. “And Dr. Sorensen is a very student-oriented presi dent and seemed excited by the idea.” Patel’s speech is expected to cover three main areas: SG’s re lationship with the university ad ministration, what SG can do to provide additional help to stu dents and a review of what SG has accomplished so far during his term as president. Patel said he wrote his speech and has compared notes with Sorensen on at least one occa sion in preparation for the ad dress. “He is planning a speech that is going to kind of give a broader vision of the university,” Patel said about Sorensen’s speech. Sorensen is also expected to an swer questions from the public after giving his speech. The Russell House Theater has room for little more than 300 at tendees. Patel said he is expect ing a full house. McKinney said organizers are trying to make ar rangements to have the speeches broadcast via video link to all of USC’s eight campuses. Sorensen’s speech comes just a day after making a similar speech at the Mayor’s Surrilnit on Technology, during which he laid out his vision for a research park near the university that would include five million square feet of building space. That would be equivalent to about half of the total square footage of all current USC build ings combined. Sorensen has been backing ideas like this since last September. He wants to see some thing called “new urbanism,” he told the faculty in a meeting last year. The concept is to incorpo rate what he calls “non smokestack” research buildings in a city environment. His vision comes as no sur prise, as he has been a renowned biomedical re searcher at universities such as .Johns Hopkins in the past and got his formal education in pub lic health at Yale University. His primary goal is to help USC establish research partnerships with private corporations for mutual benefit. But he needs significant back ing'from local and state govern ments before his vision can take shape. He is expected to put the plan for the research campus at .the top of his agenda in the com ing months. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Spring Treasurer's Workshops All registered student organizations must be represented by their Treasurer at a Treasurer's Workshop to continue receiving Student Activity Fees and using a University Account at the University of South Carolina. Additionally, all Treasures of organizations that receive or plan to apply for student activity funds during the 2003-2004 school-year must attend a workshop. Treasurer’s Workshops will be held on the following dates: Thursday, January 30, 2003 Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Thursday, February 6, 2003 Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:30 - 5:00 3:30 - 5:00 • 5:30 - 7:00 7:30 - 9:00 3:30 - 5:00 3:30 - 5:00 RHUU 322/326 RHUU 322/326 RHUU 322 / 326 - Sports Clubs RHUU 322/326 - International Groups RHUU 322/326 RHUU 322/326 The Treasurer must attend a workshop and submit Budget Submission Forms to the Office of Student Government & Student Organizations, Carolina Underground (Russell House), by 4:00 on Tuesday, February 18,2003! Any questions concerning funding should be directed to Becky Floyd at 777-3857 or Kyle Shuler at 777-3015. 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