The Lumberjack, February 24, 1993.

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Flagstaff National Guard mambars of tha 1059th ordnanca company and tha 157th ordnance battalion
daUvar aandbaga In aaat Flagstaff Sunday to barricade tha flow of watar to a electrical-switching cabinet
carrying 12,470 volte of current Recent ralne threetened to flood the cabinet, which supplies 700 Fairfield
homes with power. "Even with more rein expected this week, the berricades should hold up,” said Harold
Sanders of Arizona Public Service.
Hughes leaves July 1
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University President Eugene M. Hughes
announced his resignation and his accep­tance
to the presidency atThe Wichita State
University on Saturday.
Hughes, who has been president of NAU
for 14 years, was present when the announce­ment
was made in Overland Park, Kan., a
suburb oFKansas City.
Hughes was chosen over two other final­ists
by the Kansas Board of Regents. He will
take the position July 1, the day before he
leaves his post at NAU.
The interim president will be decided ata
later date, but speculation pom ts to current
vice president o f student services Patsy
Reed.
Hughes, who previously cited Arizona
as not a state which “appears to care about
education, * made a similar referen ce dur­ing
his acceptance speech in Kansas.
“I don’t believe Arizona has placed as
high a priority on education as Kansas has, ”
he said.
“Arizona has had budget problems for 12
years. I stayed and faced those problems,
there comes a time in your life when you’d
like a new challenge," Hughes said
As president of WSU, Hughes will make
S122,000per year, $3,000less than his salary
at NAU.
Although Hughes will make less at WSU,
he will be eligible for retirement payments
o f $55,000 a year from NAU.
Hughes began his career at NAU as dean
o f the College of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
He then moved to academic vice president
in 1972, and was named NAU president in
1979.
Many state and national leaders said they
will be sorry to see Hughes go.
“(Hughes) has beenatremendousforce for
higher education in Arizona,” said Manuel
Pacheco, president of the University of Ari­zona.
I ’m going to be sorry to see him go.”
U.S. Rep. Karan English said she feels
Arizona is losing a great educator.
“(Hughes) has been a great asset to edu­cation
in Arizona, "she said. “I reallywill miss
his devotion to Arizona.
“I understand, however, his concern with
the state’s lack of commitmen t toward higher
education and that being his reason for
leaving."
Arizona State University President Latde
Coor, who is also a former NAU studen t and
student body president, said he will also be
sorry to see Hughes go.
“(Hughes) is a personal friend o f mine,
and a friend of this state,* he said. *1 have
admired the way he led NAU to a first-rate
university.
“1 am, however, pleased for him in his new
position," he said.
Coor said he shares Hughes’ frustration
with the state and its lack o f support for
higher education.
*1 share his concern," he said. “There is a
lot that needs to be done in the way of
supporting our universities here."
Hughes said he will miss NAU and Flag­staff
and plans to return and visit.
“We plan to keep our home here, to rent
them out," he said. “When WSU plays at
NAU, I plan to be there."
Hughes said he will keep in touch with
NAU faculty as well.
CosnaBUTtNG to tub AtrrciE was Jett Gut, reporter
nm The Sunflower, the studestnewspaper at WSU.
University President Eugene M
Hughes leaves for WSU July 1.
SBRC recommends
cuts to Facuity Senate
By Damon Cline
The Lumberjack
The Faculty Senate Budget Review Committee has
proposed restructuring administration, trimming $1.9
million from academics and a postponement on pro­gram
enhancements when it presented its S3.5 million
dollar cost-cutting proposal to the Faculty Senate Mon­day.
The Faculty Senate de­cides
March 1 if it will accept
the proposal as is, or give its
own “right-sizing” recom­mendations.
The BRC proposed to cut
$1,907,000 from colleges
and three programs (Continu­ing
Educaton, NA Yuma and the
Honors Program) during a
threeyear period. If approved,
the cost-cutting measures will
be implemented via five “lev­els”
within three years.
BRC Secretary Mike Malone said the cuts would be
enacted level by level as the need to cut spending
increases.
T h e amount of money that needs to be cut corre­sponds
with a level number,” he said. The more money
that needs to be cut, the higher the level.”
Malone said th e report does not advocate cutting
million from the university budget, but merely shows
the university how to cut the budget if they need to.
“If they (university) need to cut $1 million, they
shouldn’t go any deeper than level two," he said.
According to the preliminary report, level two would
cut $1.79 million from the university budget with
$350,000 coming from schoob’ operating budgets. The
highest level, level five, would cut $3.5 million from the
budget, with $1.9 million coming from the nine col­leges
and three programs.
In leve' one, college budgets would go untouched
except for the College of Creative and Communicative
Arts, which would lose 0.7! percent of its budget, or
$28,000; an d the College of Fngin eering an d Technol­ogy,
which would lose 10.04 percent, or $254,000.
Both CCA and CET would sustain the largest budget
cuts through all five levels. Iflevel five was implemented,
CCA would lose 6.S4 perc enter $271,000 o f its budget,
while CET would still sustain a $254,000 cut from its
operating budget.
The College of Arts and Sciences would receive the
lowest budget cut perc en tage throughout all five levels,
peaking at 2.04 percent, or $220,000. The College of
Social and Behavioral Sciences would receive the sec­ond-
lowest cuts, peaking at 2.45 percent, or S90.000.
In addition to the aca­demic
cuts, the BRC pro­posed
to terminate pro­grams
in the following col­leges.
Programs targeted
for termination
• The CET engineering
technology bachelor's de­gree
program, which in­cludes
civil, electrical and mechanical engineering at
level one. The elimination imperils a handful o f the
estimated 88 students, by forcing them to transfer to
another university for a degree.
• The CCA dance minor program would be cut at
level one with all dance classes eliminated.
• At level three, the CCCA bachelor programs in arts
management, music/organ and its graduate program
in arts and design, which includes master o f arts in
studio art and masters in art education, will be termi­nated.
• The Center for Excellence in Education master’s
program in c o m m uni try college education program,
which has 25 students, will also be terminated at level
three.
Several colleges are also facing program modification
and consolidation. Programs targeted would not be cut
altogether, but would be significantly changed.
Programs targeted for modification
• The CCA extended major programs (advertising,
See CUTS, Page 6
he BRC proposed to cut
$1,907,000 from colleges
and three programs during a
three-year period If approved, the cost-cutting
measure will be implemented via
five “levels” within three years.
ASA recommends $150 in-state tuition increase Damon Cline
: Lumberjack
Students’ Association is
a $150 resident, and a
tuition increase to the
is ex-
The recommendation would raise 1993­94
resident tuition at the three state uni­versities
to $1,678. It would rake non­resident
tuition to $6,620.
Currently, the regents is considering a
tuition increase to offset a possible $ 1 1.7
million university budget cut by the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee.
ASA recommendations, urge the Legis­lature
to reject the JLBC's recommenda­tion
and provide adequate funding be­cause
a tuition increase should not be the
only option to resolve the budget crisis.
Suzanne Pfister, ABOR associate direc­tor
o f public affiurs, said it is still too early
todecide an exact increase amount. Specu­lations
range from an increase as 1 cm as
$100 to a figure as high as $500, she said.
Pfister said the board has not formally
reviewed A S A ’s recommendation sand will
not “take a stand * on the recommenda­tions
until the public video conference
next month.
Student Regent Rhian Evans said she
personally reviewed the recommendations
for a tuition Increase and said she thinks
they are ‘Very realistic, ” and V eil though t
ou t"
"I liked the recommendations because
they looked at the situation through a
global perspective, "shevud. “It men boned
a tuition increase, but it also mentioned
things about financial aid and the
Legislature’s contributions."
The recommendations call for SS per­cent
— or $4.8 million o f the new tuition
revenues be set aside for financial aid.
“I agree with the financial-aid recom­mendations,’'
Evans said. “If we have to
raise tuition, we should increase financial
aid. I will not budge on that issue at all.”
Erik Anderson, Associated Students o f
NAU vice president for student services,
said he thinks the $4.8 million will not
adequately fund the additional costs o f a
tuition increase.
"They (ASA) are working with the issue
a lot more closely than I am, but I don’t
think itwillwork," Anderson said. 1 don't
think all the needs can be meL"
McWhortor said ASA has not received
much feedback from the State Legislature
as o f yet, but the proposed tuition increase
is sparking reaction from NAU students.
Some students said they would be in
favor of an in crease if they knew the money
would benefit class availability and stu­dent
services.
“I would go for (a tuition increase) if 1
knew it would help," said Elizabeth
Schwartz, sophomore hotel and restau­rant
management major. "I pay out-of­state
tuition, so it's already expensive for
me."
Anderson said he is opposed to a tuition
increase o f any amount He said more
students and student coalitions should
lobby for greater university funding.
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