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TODAY IN HISTORY 1944 – The Allied forces began the invasion of Normandy, France.
QUOTE -OF THE DAY "...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each
living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness..." –Jack Kerouac
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THURSDAY • JUNE
6, 2002
Budget shortfall has UCO cutting cost BY STEPHANIE NEASE
Staff Writer
In his memo, Kreidler budget cuts would be implemented announced a purchasing freeze for for state agencies.
the remainder of fiscal year 2002, In a memo dated May 16, Steve which ends June 30. Kreidler's memo asked that all Kreidler, vice president of administration at UCO, advised university credit cards issued to faculty that the university's departments be returned to the available funds for May and June department's vice president. had been reduced by 16.6 percent. Essential purchases would have to This latest cut required UCO's be approved by that vice president. He also warned that purchases or budget office to trim an additional $1.1 million from the year's budget commitments made for purchases in the remaining 6 weeks of fiscal not in accordance with this policy would result in disciplinary action. year 2002, Kreidler said. In a May 14 press release from Dr. Robert Epstein, business professor and director of Shawn Ashley, public information purchasing at UCO, said that officer for the Office of State because of the time constraints, - Finance (OSF), Allison Fraser, this last cut amounted to a 25 deputy director of the OSF had percent cut in an already tight announced that because of insufficient revenues, double-digit budget.
According to Fraser,, revenue projections predicted that the budget crunch that began in January would improve in April, typically the state's biggest collection month of the year. However, revenues from the gross production tax on natural gas and the state income tax failed to meet expectations, requiring further cuts for fiscal year 2002, Fraser said. This reduction is in addition to the cuts made in January and March that already had reduced UCO's available funds by $759,000. Epstein said the purchasing freeze is meant to save what money
is left in the departments' accounts from being spent on unnecessary items. He said the policy used to be that departments would lose any funds left in their accounts at the end of the fiscal year if it wasn't spent, so the departments would use it to stock up on what they thought they might need in the next year. "There are people with typewriter ribbons sitting in their supply cabinets," Epstein said. Dr. Charles Cooper, assistant professor and chairman of the math and statistics department, said the math department has three boxes of paper left to get them through until July 1.
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Current residents of Broncho Lake could cause future problems the horizon for UCO. "I have nothing against Staff Writer geese, but I don't think UCO's Canada Geese they have a place on our population has gained campus," Houghton said. three new members. "It's not a wildlife What began last refuge." semester with two geese Houghton said he's visiting Broncho Lake has concerned about the become a small family of aggressiveness he had five trying to find their observed in the geese, and place in the college the amount of droppings lifestyle. they leave in and around Interpersonal Commun- the lake. ication sophomore Jamin Houghton sees the three new goslings as trouble on See GEESE, Page 3 BY JOANNA WEISER
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Canadian geese use a ramp to exit out of Broncho Lake. The geese have made UCO a temporary to raise their goslings in a safe environment away from predators.
UCO professors voice concerns to Congress professor of business law, Sandra Mayfield, English Senior Writer professor, Siegfried Heit, humanities and philosophy Four UCO professors professor, and Amy Carrell, with the American professor of English. Association of University As part of the AAUP's Professors (AAUP) will Capital Hill Day, The four travel to Washington D.C. plan to meet with to represent the interests of Oklahoma senators James Oklahoma professors before Inhofe and Don Nickles, as delegates on June 6. well as Edmond's state The four members representative Ernest attending are Tom Guild, BY MICHAEL LARSON
Istook. The AAUP has prepared a letter explaining its stances on issues to present to members of congress. Mark Smith, AAUP director of government relations, constructed the letter with input from a 12member committee. Guild, who was part of the committee said, "We pretty much reach
consensus based on "Smith's" advice and our discussion, then he drafts the letter. We make the letter available to hundreds of delegates from around the country." The letter requests more money for financial aid programs, saying, "Simple demographics indicate that undergraduate enrollment will increase 14
percent over the next ten years... Level funding for student aid programs will not meet these needs." In their letter, the board recommends a 15 percent increase in the budget for "Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and tribally controlled colleges."
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