The Vista Oct, 30, 1997

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University of Central Oklahoma

THURSDAY October 30, 1997

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Funding increase prompts plans to hire more full-time faculty By Mark A. Schneberger Staff Writer

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Crash course UCO students Brandy Price and Brett Maghan, both of Moore, escaped injury Wednesday morning after their cars collided at Garland Godfrey Drive and Second Street. Price was cited for failure to stop at a red light. (Staff photo by Steven E. Wedel)

Elewer adjunct professors are expected to teach from campus classrooms next year, officials from UCO's budget office said this week. The change is an expected result of UCO's 1997-98 fiscal year funding increase, recently appropriated by the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education. The university was awarded nearly $39 million in higher education monies this year. That's nearly 14 percent more than funds allocated for fiscal year 1996-97. Jean Benson, UCO Associate Budget director, said a sizable chunk of 1997-98 monies given to UCO will be applied toward hiring additional full-time professors next year — a priority for UCO, which now employs 315 adjuncts. "Beyond (salaries) our (biggest) priority is to increase the number of faculty so we (won't) have to use so many

adjunct professors," Benson the additional monies could said. "Having more full-time mean an easier financial time for faculty will be a benefit for the the university. students." "Any time there's an increase She did not have figures on such as this, it's a good sign for how many full-time professors the institutions," said Laura are expected to be hired due to Callahan, OSRHE the funding increase. Though, spokeswoman. "We applied our she said UCO is planning an formulas to the amount of advertising campaign to pull in money appropriated to us by the quality applicants. (Oklahoma Legislature) and we However, a majority of this came up with these amounts." year's allocated funds were used She said she hoped UCO for higher salaries for officials would be pleased. instructors and other staff. UCO was granted "Basically many categories of $38,887,735 worth of the total staff and the administration money given to the State System didn't get raises (last year) of Higher Education. That's because we couldn't afford about 14.8 percent more than last them," Benson said. "This year's figure, and the largest should help in that area and amount given to any of the allow us to adjust salaries to the state's four-year regional market level." institutions. Including UCO Figures from the OSRHE there are 10 regional were also promising for UCO. universities. They show that compared to all In comparison, Northeastern other regional four-year state Oklahoma State University in universities, UCO ranked hihest Talequah received $25,883,322, in receiving educational funding East Central State University in this fiscal year. Ada was granted $14,020,530, Regents and UCO Budget Office spokespersons agree that V See ADJUNCTS, Page 3

Watches essential as campus clocks continue to be unreliable By Mark A. Schneberger Staff Writer

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f you recently began wearing a watch at UCO because the on-campus clocks aren't showing accurate time, get used to it. UCO students, faculty and administrators should not expect

all clocks on campus to be properly reset THURSDAY soon, said officials from the Facilities Management department and managers at Simplex Time Recorder Company, the company responsible for clock maintenance. "I don't, mean to make light of

the situation by throwing up puns, but it's a matter of time before we can get to (the clocks)," said Lennis Pederson, director of Facilities Management. "This is a situation we are working on and we hope to get closure on it soon." The "situation" Pederson

refers to is simple but affects everyone on campus. Hallway clocks in almost all buildings regularly run at different times, sometimes hours apart from each other. For instance, one clock in the Liberal Arts building may show the time as, 10:15, while another clock a few feet away reads 3:30.

Two-faced clocks, such as those in the Science Building, may read different times on their "front and back faces"— sometimes more than six hours different." Some students seem to have already lost patience and hope.

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INSIDE TODAY INDEX Editorial 2 Sports 6,7 Entertainment 8 Around Campus 11 Classifieds 12

FEATURE UCO student 9. Bill Austin battles muscular dystrophy.

SPORTS Tailback Ryan Logan named LSC player of the week.

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MOVIES Writer Steven Wedel reviews flicks for Halloween.

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