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THE STATESMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH
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Funding increase alive in Senate
ON DISPLAY At the Tweed Museum of Art’s Gallery Hop
Dayton’s $5 million most likely off table, Senate proposes $2.5 million ahead of committee talks BY KYLE FARRIS News Editor
There is still a chance UMD will receive at least part of the $5 million funding increase proposed by Gov. Mark Dayton in March. The Minnesota Senate set aside $2.5 million for UMD in its proposed finance bill, which will be negotiated by a House and Senate budget conference committee before the legislative session ends in mid-May. Chancellor Lendley Black said UMD would use the money to help pay off its $9.4 million structural deficit — the result of decreased enrollment, a 16-year fringe benefit miscalculation discovered last year and less state funding, with a smaller share of the available state funding. “We are encouraged that both the Senate and Gov. Dayton support supplemental funding to UMD,” Black said in a statement Monday. “We hope that the Conference Committee of the House and Senate will work out Black a final version of the bill that includes money for UMD.” After including $5 million for UMD in a supplemental budget plan released in early March, Dayton said he wanted the university to use the one-time payment to prevent further layoffs to faculty. More than 60 UMD employees have already taken voluntary layoffs, and cuts to academics and campus programs are part of the university’s short- and long-term plans. see STATE FUNDING, A4
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he 24th annual Gallery Hop put on by the Tweed Museum of Art Saturday featured works by student and professional artists, games and activities like “pinata bashing and smashing,” and live music. Mediums of printmaking, lithography, drawing, ceramics, sculpture and photography were represented. The afternoon concluded with a student exhibition and quartet performance courtesy of the UMD Music Department.
In her first marathon, hoping to go the distance Having trained since January, Annika Whitcomb said her biggest fear is not finishing in Grandma’s BY PAIGE WALTER Staff Reporter
Sophomore Annika Whitcomb’s New Year’s resolution has her pushing physical and mental limits. Whitcomb is entered to race in her first Grandma’s Marathon this June. Her training schedule, part-time job and 18-credit school load are wearing on her. She compares training for a marathon to taking an additional five-credit class. “I am a morning person, but I’m not a 5:30 a.m. morning person,” Whitcomb see MARATHON, A3
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“Apollo and Daphne” in Carrara marble by Ferdinando Vichi (18751945). The sculpture was donated to the Tweed by William R. Stephenson and John A. Stephenson.
Union: For now, evals won’t go public at UMD Course evaluations, which may soon be published at Twin Cities campus, are kept private by a union-system contract BY KYLE FARRIS News Editor
Whitcomb and her stepfather, Frank Motz, at a race in Madison, Wis., last year. ANNIKA WHITCOMB/SUBMITTED
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Members of the Faculty and Student senates at the U of M will vote on a measure in May that would make course evaluations accessible for students at the Twin
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Cities campus. The measure, or one similar to it, is not possible at UMD under the current Bargaining Unit Contract between the University Education Association-Duluth see EVALS, A4