January 17, 1984
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Vol. 82, No. 28
Enrollment anticipated to rise
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By Terri Carpenter With one week left in the enrollment period, 10,889 students are enrolled, one percent less than the total enrollment last spring, according to figures released Monday. With enrollment ending Jan. 24, final enrollment is expected to surpass the enrollment of last spring, according to CSU President Bill Lillard. These figures show that CSU has adjusted to drastic budget cuts and that the students needs were considered first, according to Vice President of Academic Affairs James E. Perry. Perry said he is optimistic about the enrollment figures, since many classes had to be cancelled from the spring enrollment schedule. The budget cuts proposed by the legislature will affect CSU in many ways other than class cancellations. There is a freeze on salaries and hiring at CSU, staff travel has been curtailed or eliminated, and money for equipment and supplies has been drastically cut.
Budget cuts reduce June class schedule By Terri Carpenter This year's summer school class schedule will be cut in half due to a reduction of $500,000 in the summer school budget, according to Dr. James E. Perry, vice president of academic affairs. "We have given instructions to the deans to reduce the class schedule that they had prepared, by 50 percent," Perry said. After the adjustments are made, Perry said, the most "complete and student-oriented" class schedule that we could assemble" will be offered. "But when you have a cut-back
of 50 percent you are decimating a
class schedule. What we wanted to do is offer classes that are needed for graduation and general education classes that are needed by the majority of students, Perry said.
Vista photo by Michael Keen
For some the recent snowfall was a chance to have a day off from school and enjoy a bit of sledding such as Trey Beasley, (pulling the sled), Shannon Raymer (middle) and Timothy Gillis.
Illusion designed by art students By Traci Baucom Associate Editor CSU art students are creating an illusion, a grand illusion, in the Deli on the fourth floor of the University Center. It all started last summer, according to Bill Wallo, professor of art, when Bob Fields, director of Auxilliary Enterprises, came to him and asked him to paint a mural on the east wall of the Deli. They decided to make the venture a learning experience. The class, studio and mural design, was offered last fall and again this semester. Last semester the students designed the prototype for their mural in the museum storage area of the art building. The design became a room and then an
This fiscal year ends in June and $250,000 will have to be cut then. Another $250,000 will be cut from the next fiscal year which begins in July, unless more funds are made available. On an overall basis, every school will be reduced 50 percent, but some departments within the schools may be reduced more, according to Perry.
atrium, lush with greenery, flowers, small trees and streams. The class, now consisting of six students—Doug Bowman, Mary Kay McCelroy, Mark Barker, Jerry Wittum, Jerri Guffey and John Finney, photographed the atrium then began their work in the Deli. The finished product, according to Wallo, will be be an illusion, a false reality. The mural represents a look through fictious windows on the east wall of the Deli onto the recessed atrium. On the opposite wall of the painted atrium are more ficticious windows which look out onto a fall landscape.
The deans of each of the schools were instructed to reduce their payrolls by 50 percent, said Perry. This reduction can be an "across the board 50 percent reduction" or a "selective reduction," distributing the reduction in a way that they think best meets the needs of the students. The administration has delegated approval of the reductions to the deans, but Perry and CSU President Bill Lillard will examine the deans' reduction choices, Perry said. "President Lillard likes to go through the class schedule, line by line, so that he has a good feel for the types of things that are being offered by the various departments in the schools, Perry said.
See Mural on page 3
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Last year's summer school budget was approximately $1 million. This summer only about $500,000 will be available, according to Perry.
"He (Lillard) has insisted that he be kept informed as to the expanse of the class schedule, any adjustments that are being made and any academic matter, said Perry. Vista photo by Michael Keen
For others, the snow only meant more work as David Mack of the maintainence department finds out when he was called out to shovel snow in front of Thatcher Hall.
Perry said more information on the summer school class schedule will be available when the deans complete the reductions and turn them into the academic affairs office.