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Student develops budget plan Samantha Schott Executive Editor
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After the town hall meeting on Sept. 14, sophomore Daniel Miles spent 12 hours in the library studying USM’s budget books. Now, after a month of research, Miles has a proposal that he believes could save the teachers and programs currently slated for termination. Miles explained that if USM cut the student fee each full-time student pays to athletics through his
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This change would leave athletics short $3 million, however. Currently, students pay a total of $384 to athletics each year, and they can attend athletic events for free. Miles’ proposal cuts this in half and gives $192 per student each year to athletics and requires that students buy tickets to athletic events, separately from tuition. Miles pointed to numbers in the budget book, which show that the projected figure for the athletic program’s expenditures is the same as the figure for its
revenue – $19,739,991. “They’re spending every dollar that we give them or that they make,” Miles said. USM Chief Financial Officer Russell Willis said the Institute of Higher Learning requires that the projected expenditures equal the projected revenues. “In the budgeting process, it is a requirement that the university submit a balanced budget to the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL),” Willis said in an email.
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or her tuition ($192 per semester) in half, this would cut the athletic budget by $3 million and leave this $3 million in the Education and General Fund. This money could then be used instead to keep the programs and teachers recommended to be cut, Miles said. Although nearly $15 million in cuts were made across the university, only approximately $3 million came from cutting teachers and programs. (See a graph of the cuts at www. studentprintz.com.)
USM’s Student Government Association is in the early stages of making a bike proposal. If passed, they plan to paint lines around campus that designate bike lanes to make traveling around campus safer. SGA president, Kasey Mitchell said, “Anytime we can do something that meets the needs of students, the better, and this bike proposal meets those needs.” SGA is still in the early stages of planning the proposal. They have
extended an invitation to students to come to the Senate meetings every Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in the Thad Cochran Center to offer thoughts and suggestions. International business major Lance Logan, talked about how he feels about the proposal. “I feel pretty good about the bike proposal,” Logan said. “A lot of doors will open once we work things out. Everyone hates having a biker in the way and if there’s a way to open up blocks then we need to find a way to obtain that. Having bike lanes would make less traffic between walking students and student riding bikes.” Art education major and bike
rider, Jeffrey He m p h i l l , is pushing for the bike proposal. “One of the biggest problems with riding bikes on campus is that there’s always a Photo illustration by Bryant Hawkins/Printz risk of hitting someone ing can’t be expected to wear a or crashing to avoid pedestrians,” helmet. I think designated bike Hemphill said. lanes could cut that risk, plus cut “We can wear helmets, but down the travel time we spend other people who are just walk- avoiding crashes.”