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Thursday, October 3, 2013
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Volume 66, No. 8
Lovejoy closing early opens campus debate Student Government will vote on Senate Resolution 1409-02 Extension of Lovejoy Library Hours this Friday. If passed, it would recommend that SIUE administrators extend library hours. This semester, Lovejoy Library has been closing at 11 p.m. rather than its previous closing time of 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and at 7 p.m. Friday rather than 9 p.m. The library’s operating hours during final exams will remain mostly the same. It will be open until 2 a.m. the week before finals, Dec. 1-5. It will open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7. It will remain open until 2 a.m. Dec. 8-11. Library Dean Associate Professor Regina McBride said the shortened library hours are a test for the semester to see if any money can be saved after budget cuts. “We had a 2 percent cut a few years back, and then we had a 7.8 percent cut to the library budget I think three years ago,” McBride said. “The other thing is we keep having to spend more for our materials due to inflation. Our electronic resources go up between 5 and 6 percent every year, and we have not received any increase in our materials budget, so I’ve had to make up that difference, which eats into the amount of money I had to spend to hire students and whatever to keep the place open longer.” Junior computer science major Jaime Acevedo, of Crystal Lake, said the shorter library
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hours are inconvenient. “It kind of sucks because I’m used to it being around 2 o’clock,” Acevedo said. “There’s not a real library like this anywhere around. The resources are kind of beneficial.” Freshman pre-dental major Jesus Camarena, of Gilman, was
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There’s various places students can use to sit down at and study, but I feel like if students aren’t going to be here at those times then it is acceptable for them to close the library at those hours,” Camarena said. Sophomore chemistry major Sydney Wellen, of High-
land, said the changing hours does not work with her schedule, as she uses the library to study when she gets off work on Friday evenings. “I don’t like [the new hours.] When I get off late, I | pg. 3
Board of trustees working to replace Glenn Poshard
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The process for replacing SIU President Glenn Poshard is currently underway. At the latest board of trustees meeting, the executive committee made the recommendation to hire an outside search firm to help aid the search. The board of trustees voted to implement this plan, and a search committee headed by Vice Chair Donna Manering is currently being formed. As part of its search, the board of trustees has sent an email with a link to a survey to students, faculty and staff in the SIU system. The email says the survey
deals with qualifications and other information regarding a potential SIU president and other opportunities or chal-
versity email addresses. The deadline to take the sur vey is Oct. 11. The search committee will
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We want to hire by April if possible, but we are willing to slow down the process ...
lenges the SIU system faces. Only currently enrolled students or current faculty and staff members who are 18 years old can take the survey. The survey was sent to uni-
create a pool of presidential candidates that will eventually be narrowed down to several candidates. The search firm will aid in | pg. 2