Volunteers help keep up community ice rinks, B3
UMD grads make web show, B4
THE STATESMAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
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After a request from Governor Mark Dayton that state agencies cut five-percent from their administrative spending, UMD is in the process of moving $1.158 million from administration and putting it towards instruction. “We’re not officially cutting, we’re reallocating,” said Michael Seymour, Vice Chancellor of Finance and Operations. “Meaning we’re taking money out of support areas, non-direct instruction areas, and were applying those dollars to our direct instructional priorities.” It’s sort of like taking money out of one pocket and putting it into the other, according to Seymour. Trimming administrative costs is how many universities across the country are looking to save money. As funding from the state continues to decline and tuition rates increase, cuts within administration are one way to keep students, and faculty, out of harms way. A 2010 report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) concluded that American colleges and universities are “bloated with administrative bureaucracies.” They also stated that if job growth trends continue, administrators would outnumber instructors by 2014. An employee head count shows that UMD has a total of 117
administrative job positions for the 2012 academic year compared to 606 professional/faculty positions. A recent article from the Wall Street Journal scrutinized the University of Minnesota’s administration in terms of salary and employment. The article found the percent of administrators at the University of Minnesota grew twice as fast as the faculty and almost twice as fast as the student body from 2001 to 2012. When asked if the request made by Gov. Dayton was a result of the article, Patty Mattern, assistant director for national media relations at the UMN Twin Cities campus, said no. “Looking at administration… and seeing where cuts could be made, that work was well under way before anything else came up,” said Mattern. She added that President Kaler has been focused on ways to improve efficiency since coming to the university in 2011. Chancellor Lendley Black said that while reallocating the university will do whatever it can to protect its core mission of undergraduate instruction. “We’re going to do everything within our power to have the impact on [students] be as small as possible,” said Black. “That’s why we are taking such a close look at administrative costs and expenses and seeing what we can trim without directly hurting or
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affecting [students].” The trend of administration growth indicates a shift in priorities among colleges and universities away from “the production and dissemination of knowledge,” according to the report from CCAP. Roughly 25 percent of non-profit 4 year colleges reported having more full-time equivalent administrative support employees than instructors, according to CCAP. Michael Pfau, president of the University Education Association (UEA) said that the association is pleased that action, such as this reallocation, is being taken to examine and address any inappropriate, disproportionate or unnecessary growth in administration.
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“It is the position of UEA that the University ought to focus resources primarily on its central mission to provide quality instruction for students, and research opportunities for both faculty and students,” Pfau said. “We believe, for the sake both of student access to courses and reasonable class sizes, that the faculty is the last area that ought to be cut during trying budget times.” At the end of reallocating $1.158 million UMD could see cuts, but not within the classroom. “The way that services get delivered is by people, so it’s awful(sic) tough to make those kind of reductions without impacting people,” Seymour said. “At the end of the day there’s pain involved for people. They’re either
going to have to do more with less or their going to see their jobs folded into other areas of the institution. So their work life may change or last resort their position may even be cut.” The reallocation should be wrapping up sometime this week. After that, Seymour said there will be a good sense of what will be done in terms of cuts and reductions. Black said he is waiting for the “dust to settle” before speculating how, or if, the reallocation will affect students. “If we don’t get the money from the legislature and if we don’t raise tuition then we’re most likely going to have to make additional cuts,” said Chancellor Black. “But we’ll cross that road when we get to it.”
UMD Body Image Week urges students to love their bodies BY MAEGGIE LICHT licht096@d.umn.edu
UMD kicked off its annual Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week on Monday, hoping to shed some light on a silent problem that affects many people, especially college students. “We have been doing an eating disorder awareness week on campus for five or six years now,” said Jean Baribeau-Thoennes, program director and counselor at UMD Health Services. “We’ve targeted awareness and specific audiences each year.” This year, at the request of past
participants, the event hones in on the topic of men and eating disorders. “In 2002, the University of Wisconsin did a study of media with males,” Baribeau-Thoennes said. “They showed that there was a significant increase in anxiety in boys and men about having wellmuscled bodies.” Media projections of perfection have been shown to leave a traceable effect on the population. With hundreds of photographs streaming through Facebook feeds, thin Victoria’s Secret models strutting down catwalks, and the muscles of Abercrombie & Fitch
models glaring out of storefronts, it’s no wonder where the pressure to be perfect comes from. “The media posts pictures of what most people don’t look like,” Baribeau-Thoennes said. “And, often, what (the person in the photograph) doesn’t even look like.” The event has many sponsors, including: the Department of Psychology; the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Women’s Resource and Action Center (WRAC); The Minnesota Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-North East (MAND-NE); and UMD Health Services. see BODY IMAGE WEEK, A3
Faculty to take online training on how to spot and report crime BY SHANNON KINLEY kinle005@d.umn.edu CONNOR PARISEAU/SUBMITTED
UMD sophomore Connor Pariseau pins his opponent in a club match earlier in the year. BY MICHAEL SCOTT
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The International Olympic Committee shocked the sports world earlier this month when it dropped wrestling from the games, starting with the 2020 competition. Connor Pariseau, president of the Wrestling Club at UMD said this decision came unexpectedly. “When we found out, we were all really shocked,” he said. “It’s a huge blow to our sport.”
Pariseau explained that it hurts when they’re trying to promote wrestling in a hockey town. He says most schools in the area don’t even have a wrestling team. The UMD club has reached out to the community in the Twin Ports, helping youth wrestlers and volunteering at events. He described the action by the IOC as a “slap in the face to our sport” and “really sad.” Ryan Silbernick, captain of the Wrestling Club, and Pariseau both argued that wrestling is one of the original sports. see OLYMPIC WRESTLING, A3
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For the past several years, UMD has mandated that all campus security authorities take crime and reporting training, and is now streamlining the process by offering the training online. All colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs must keep track of and disclose information about crime that happens on and near the campus. This is mandated by a federal law known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act—more commonly known as the Clery Act. UMDPD Lt. Sean Huls, UMD Clery Coordinator, said the act
doesn’t address or mandate a training program for campus security authorities, but UMD has decided to still require the training. “UMD is making proactive efforts to ensure that campus security authorities know they’re campus security authorities, and what their obligations are for crime reporting,” Huls said. The law defines a campus security authority as: “An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities.” Some examples of campus security authorities are: faculty/staff advisors to student organizations, housing and residential life staff, Office of Student Conduct staff, and athletics staff. “The intent of including non law enforcement personnel is to acknowledge that many individu-
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als, and students in particular, are hesitant about reporting crimes to police, but may be more inclined to report incidents to other campusaffiliated individuals,” Huls said. Vice Chancellor of Student Life, Lisa Erwin, said this training is not new. The only new thing about it is that it is now offered online. After some investigating, the Statesman found that six individuals who are defined in the report several of the people who are defined as as “campus security authority,” but who had never been required to take this training during their past years of advising. Some had never or even heard of it before. it was mentioned. “Every year we go through an exercise to figure out who (campus security authorities) are,” Erwin said. see CLERY TRAINING, A3