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October 26, 1989 Vol. 88, No. 16
Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Lillard OK's meeting to explain class cuts By Bill Kramer Staff Writer President Bill Lillard Tuesday agreed to schedule a campus-wide meeting in the near future after three students gathered 1,100 signatures on a petition complaining about class section cuts at Central State University. "We are the students," said Su-
san Randolph. "We deserve to be informed." Randolph, and collegues Donna Banks and Charles Brimer, delivered the petition to Lillard in his office Tuesday and asked him to explain why class sections were closed this fall and additional class sections are scheduled to be dropped this spring, Banks said. "The problem now is that he (Lillard) sends us to this office or
that office and passes the buck on to someone else when we ask him a question. We would like him to back up his statements with information instead of sending us somewhere else," Banks said. The campus-wide meeting will provide students with the opportunity to personally ask Lillard questions, Brimer said. Please see PROTEST on page 8.
Regents to consider audit President Bill Lillard attempts to explains class section cuts to
CSU student Donna Banks. She and two others gathered 1,100 signatures of students petitioning against cuts made this fall. (Staff photo)
Campus crime cut by half since '85 By Bill Kramer Staff Writer The crime rate for Central State University is one of the lowest in the state of Oklahoma for college campuses, according to a report issued by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Crime on college campuses is not rare, according to another report issued by Reader's Digest which revealed that 1,990 violent crimes were reported by college campuses across the nation last year. Despite idyllic images portrayed by college brochures and catalogs, violence is a fact of life on college campuses, according to the report. This is a startling number, considering that almost 90 percent of U.S. colleges do not report crime statistics, according to the report. The incidence of property crime was even greater with more than 107,000 reported cases of burglary, larceny, arson and motorvehicle theft. At CSU, however, a low 7.02 percent crime rate was tallied per
1,000 persons in 1988 including students, faculty and staff, according to a report issued by OSBI entitled "Uniform Crime Reports." This figure compares with a 15.28 percent crime rate in 1985. The crime rate has decreased each year since then for several reasons, said CSU Police Chief Bob Roberts. "Thanks to a more aggressive administration in recent years, we have been able to improve and expand our force. We now have 17 full-time and six part-time employees in the campus police organization," Roberts said. CSU's crime rate compares quite well with the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, Roberts said. OU's crime rate last year was 34.84 percent, down from 42.04 percent in 1987, according to the OSBI report. OSU's crime rate decreased to 20.73 percent. Crime prevention has become the main concern for campus police departments in the past couple of years, Roberts said. The Reader's Digest report included several suggestions for Please see CRIME on page 8.
Oct. 20 meeting of the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges. By David Coppock "In the meantime, this board Student Writer supported Dr. Lillard's decison and we have our own regular auThough the audit committee of dits," Grantham said. Central State University's Board CSU's faculty senate deferred of Regents will consider an audit for at least a month the decision on request from CSU's faculty se- whether to ask the regents for an nate, it will stand behind its state- audit of part-time faculty cuts. ment of support for President Bill Faculty senator Lewis Irving Lillard's decision to cut part-time had written a letter to be sent to the regents asking the internal auditfaculty. "Such a request probably would ing department to investigate the not be a high priority for us to con- cause of a budget shortage that sider," said Linda Grantham, audit triggered part-time faculty cuts. committee chairperson, during the The faculty budget shortfall
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amounted to $120,000. Grantham refused to comment that her committee would simply be going through the motions when considering such a request from faculty senate. "Only if there is some new information would we consider an audit," said Torn Volturo, director of internal audits for the regents. Grantham defended the regents' statement of support for Lillard's part-time faculty cuts issued during their Sept. 14 meeting by saying the president was not the regents' only information source. Grantham said her committee also uses the approved budget as a method of tracking. She said the approved budget was presented last July. "Air will continue to be cleared because there is an audit each year for CSU," said Lillard. "I feel very good about our finances." "The only way we can get accurate information is to seek an audit," Irving said. "Every financial item is documented on an individual basis," said Lillard. "I can't judge faculty morale. Only about three, four, five faculty members expressed an interest, but the last senate meeting I attended, not one raised the issue and not a one was effected directly." Of the 23 full-time faculty members hired, less than three or four were replacements, said Lillard. "We didn't have many retire Please see REGENTS on page 8.