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On the home front
TV prepares for ratings war
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Defensive dilemma
CMU looks to stop high-scoring Hurons
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Central
Michigan
WEDNESDAY
January 16, 1991
Budget predictions show
University sinking into red
by JENNIFER CHRISMAN
LIFE Assistant News Editor
Most people cannot overdraw their
accounts without overdraft notices — and
additional charges.
Universities can.
CMU did, and probably will again before
its budget problems end.
Deficit projections for fiscal 1993 - '94 have
CMU's deficit increasing to mammoth
proportions unless measures are taken to
reduce University expenditures.
In a document dated July 2. 1990 and
provided by Jerry Scoby. executive assistant
to the president for Budget and Planning,
CMU's budget is expected to increase to $7
million bv the end of fiscal 1993 - '94.
to   be   at   that   level."
A   manageable   deficit
less than  1  percent of
President Edward B. Jakubauskas said the
University's budgetary' forecast is not a cause
for alarm because the situation can be taken
care of before the deficit reaches that
amount.
"T   won't   allow   it
Jakubauskas   said,
would be $1 million,
CMU's total budget.
Jakubauskas said CMU's budgetary
problems are base-budget problems and need
base-budget solutions.
The base budget is part of the budget that
is a recurring expense, such as faculty, staff
and administrative salaries, he said.
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1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
$941,223
1,146,374
3,100,000
5,800*000
7,000,000
Projection based on information from Jerry Scoby.
Kxeculive Assistant to the President for Budget and Planning.
Staying Tuned
LIFE Photo/Niie Young
Mike Thompson,  Illinois senior,  keeps up-to-date on the  latest developments out of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday on the television in
the   lobby   of  the   Bovee   University  Center.   Students   gathered  around the TV all day to keep up with the latest news.
See related stories on page 6.
Worsening deficit
leads president to
freeze new hiring
by JENNIFER CHRISMAN
LiEE Assistant News Editor
President Edward B. Jakubauskas said he does not want to resort to
layoffs in order to cut the University budget, but leaving vacated
positions empty is an option he plans to use.
Jakubauskas said he decided to follow a recommendation from the
Budget and Planning Council ad hoc subcommittee chaired by
Leonard Plachta, dean of the College of Business Administration.
The committee recommended CMU follow a new plan when filling
vacant positions on campus, he said. The plan, "position review," calls
for review of all positions before they are filled.
If the posts are not necessary to keep Central running smoothly,
they may be cut or reallocated to other departments, he added.
"I'm definitely going through with it." Jakubauskas said. "We've got
to institute some controls at this stage in order to handle the budget
situation.
"It means looking at all positions, primarily staff and faculty. The
part-time student positions — those are less of a priority."
The position review, which the president would not call a hiring
freeze, will have to be discussed by officials of CMU's employee unions
because cutbacks could seriously affect those jobs, he said.
"If we don't take action at this time, we'd be worse off next year,"
Jakubauskas said. "(But) if there's a position critical for the
University, we'll fill it."
"If (positions* are eliminated through that review process ... it will
help reduce expenditures for the University." said Jerry Scoby,
executive assistant to the president for Budget and Planning.
Scoby said a dollar figure estimating the amount of money the
University could save is not available.
..,=., The money saved will depend.on what positions are vacated and
which ones are filled, he said.
Jakubauskas said student positions are not exempt and available
positions could be cut if they are not needed positions.
He also said Provost Robert Franke could use the available positions
to reallocate available resources instead of leaving the positions
vacant or filling positions that are not imperative to University
operations.
— LIFE Copy Editor Corrie Pernik contributed to this article.
Some classes dropped
as FTE cuts discussed
by MATTHEW BACH
LIFE Assistant News Editor
In the past, many students
took some courses during the
summer because they couldn't
get them in the fall or spring
semesters.
But now, they might not get
them in the summer either.
Various academic departments are cutting back the
number of summer credit hours
offered due to possible full-time
equivalent cutbacks.
One fte represents one full-
time  faculty  position, two part-
time spots or three graduate
assist an tships.
"We have cut back by about '/>
of our summer classes,'1 said
David Sprague, management
department chair.
But the cuts in summer
classes are not isolated to
Sprague's department.
In fact, Robert Hanson,
associate dean of the College of
Business Administration, has
urged all six departments in his
college   to   cut   about   '/;   of the
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Board seat vacated
as Denning resigns
by LAURA PHILLIPS
L!t-fc Editor
Bernadine Newsom Denning,
a Board of Trustees member for
10 years, has resigned from
CMU's Board.
Denning. 60. said the winters
she spends in her Florida home
prevent her from completing her
second term, which ends Dec. 31,
1992.
"To be a member of any board
you've got to be there to be fully
functional," she said. "Since I
couldn't always be there, I'm not.
"It was a very rewarding
experience. As a professional
educator, I was naturally interested — I enjoyed the 10 years on
the Board."
Gov. John Engler may name
Denning's replacement this
week, said John Truscott, press
secretary for Engler. Denning's
resignation letter arrived a few
days ago, he said, and some
interviews for the post already
have been completed.
The   next   Board    meeting   is
Faculty question accuracy of budget model
scheduled for
Jan. 31 and
Feb. 1.
Denning,
who    lives    in      DENNING
Detroit    much
of the year, was appointed to the
Board in February 1980.
She is a former director of the
Office of Revenue Sharing in the
U.S. Department of Treasury
and resigned five years ago as
assistant superintendent of
Detroit Public Schools.
She also served as president of
DMP Associates, an education
consulting firm, and has been a
faculty member and administrator at the Lewis College of
Business, University of
Michigan and the former Shaw
College in Detroit.
Her other accomplishments
include chairing the Michigan
Women's Commission for six
years and election to the
Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
two years ago.
by CORRIE PERNIK
LIFE Copy Editor
Despite hopes that another Academic Senate meeting devoted to
CMU's current budget crisis would clarify the situation to concerned
faculty members, Tuesday's meeting did not achieve that goal.
Following a presentation of budget issues by Jerry Scoby. executive
assistant to the president for Budget and Planning, senators
questioned the validity of the model used to project declining
enrollment and the necessity of 38 proposed cuts in fte. or faculty
positions.
Scoby said the proposed cuts are based on an enrollment-driven
model that shows the University is "down several thousand credit
hours," or the number of classes students take.
Measures taken to reduce the budget would affect every division,
not just academics, he said.
Many senators, however, expressed concern that the academic
division would suffer more than other University divisions because of
the model's dire predictions.
Faculty Association President Guy Meiss suggested there are other
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Gulf quiet, dissent loud as deadline passes
(AP) — President George Bush has
U.N. approval to use force in the Persian
Gulf, but thousands of people in Michigan
aren't giving up the anti-war fight.
Students at Wayne State University
built a Persian Gulf War memorial and
thousands of peace activists rallied across
Michigan on Tuesday as the threat of war
with Iraq loomed.
In Lansing, about 200 protesters rallied
outside the state Capitol, assembling in
the snow in front of a memorial to other
wars. Michigan State University in East
Lansing   will   be   the   site   of a   teach-in
Saturday.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told
congressional leaders there are 410,000
U.S. soldiers in the gulf region now, up
40,000 from last week. Pentagon sources
said U.S. troops were pouring into Saudi
Arabia at the rate of 5,000 a day and that
the goal was to have 450,000 in place
soon.
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams
said a fourth aircraft carrier, the America,
entered the  Red  Sea Tuesday,  bringing
the number of carriers in the region to six.
All six are within range of Iraq.
As time for diplomacy dwindled, the
Pentagon said Saddam Hussein was
showing no signs of withdrawing his
troops from Kuwait and indeed was
bolstering his forces.
Iraq continued to add to its forces,
stretching its defensive lines westward
from Kuwait into Southern Iraq, Williams
said. The Pentagon estimated that
Saddam has 545,000 troops in the area.