SAME RACE, NEW PLACE:
Riders to circle GCPA in new route for 2012 Little 5 criterium bike race. See story on page 3. ARCHIVE PHOTO
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
VOL. 160, ISSUE 31
Trustees green-light five ‘aggressive’ campus improvement projects By MATTHEW CECIL news@thedepauw.com
ILLUSTRATION BY BOB ALLEN
Low funding, drastic budget cuts from allocations upsets student organizations By ABBY MARGULIS news@thedepauw.com
Due to allocations board’s low available funds this semester, many student clubs and organizations lack necessary funding. According to senior Margarita Villa, president of the allocations board, there is currently a delay in funding coming out this spring due to a high amount of requests for funding. The board was unable to respond to the overabundance of
requests. The budget has officially been released to all student organizations and clubs and many did not come close to the amount of funding they requested. 18 groups did not receive any. Many affected student groups are expressing their dissatisfaction with the allocations board. One of the groups largely affected was the African-American Students organization. The group put in a request for roughly $13,000
to support various events for Black History month including speakers, a Bowl-a-thon and a trip to the Indianapolis Zoo. The club only received about 12 percent of the funding they requested. “We wish they prioritized funding more accurately for the season,” said senior Adrienne Taylor, president of the African-American Students Organization. “We wish it were done at a quicker pace. We don’t feel like some of the things are just. One of our biggest high-
Three years after a global economic crisis cut millions from the university endowment, the university board of trustees approved initial proposals for five campus projects last weekend. These ventures include updates and entire replacements of athletic facilities, the dining hall, student residences, Roy O. West library and student services facilities in the Union Building. “It was a bit stunning to have a board of trustees say, ‘Begin aggressively planning five major projects,’ said President Brian Casey. “It’s extremely unusual for an institution of this scale.” The request for architectural drawings and more concrete planning of the five projects was yet another development from the trustees’ winter meeting in Naples, Fla., which finished on Sunday, Feb. 12. Other approved measures included a tuition hike, endorsement of the School of Music and Dean Mark McCoy, as well as the potential expansion of Public Safety jurisdiction from university property to all of Putnam County. According to Casey, it was the most important meeting of the trustees he had attended since his first year at DePauw.
Trustees | cont’d. on page 3
lights of the school year is black history month and our funds were cut when other clubs across campus weren’t funded.” The Lacrosse Club also faced cuts to funding. “The allocations board actually ended up cutting our funds for most expensive and arguably most anticipated events we planned for,” Lacrosse Club President sophomore
Budget | cont’d. on page 2
Proposed draft plan for a new dining hall to replace the Hub. COURTESY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY