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August 19 , 2010
Volume 95 Issue 1
ON CAMPUS
Freshmen covered in GEWW CENTURY PARK OPENS Century Park residents adjust to the ups and downs of their new rooms. Students moved into the buildings on Friday.
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NEW FACE OF COMICS Printz reporter sits down with Southern Fried Comics’ owners, Barry Herring and Jayme Foster. The USM alums opened their store this month.
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Freshmen Savannah French of Long Beach, left, and Elliott Harper of Biloxi, right, clean up after participating in Painting the Eagle Walk, a part of Golden Eagle Welcome Week (GEWW), on Sunday.
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BUDGET
UPC: ‘Grim picture’ emerging Meryl Dakin
EAGLES’ NEW KICKER The Golden Eagle kicking game is getting much attention in the preseason practice.
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Managing Editor Southern Miss has by no means escaped the national financial distress. Though the budget for the current fiscal year is set, next year will bring a $15 million cut to the entirety of the university. University President Martha Saunders called it a “grim picture”. She said, however, that
the university is in good shape for the current year and will be prepared for the next. The University Priorities Committee, which formed in January to draft recommendations for how to deal with the reduced budget, will now send their official reports to the Executive Cabinet. The most pressing deadline is Sept. 1, when the programs and faculty to be terminated must be notified.
“Then we have the rest of the year to wrestle with the rest,” Saunders said. The UPC, the college committees, and the deans of each college each “graded” every degree program in the university. These reports and recommendations now go to the Executive Cabinet. Saunders explained that the cabinet will now add the revenue portion to the decisions: they’ll weigh their priorities against the
amount of money the programs cost and how much they make for the school Chair of the UPC Bill Powell said there will be an inevitable impact on “initiatives”, the degree plans and programs. There is also a “definite chance of cuts to tenured faculty,” Powell said. Those degree plans that will be terminated, however, will be phased out so that current students may graduate. ww SEE UPC PAGE 8.
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Stormy Speaks/Printz Writer Since her freshman year, she’s been dreaming big for USM. For three years she was a member of the Student Government Association, observing and learning the organization. Now, as SGA president, Kasey Mitchell has a long list of goals to tackle for the 2010-2011 school year.