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Master of Public Adminis*
tration degree approved
UNC Wilmington students will be
able to enroll in the master of public ad
ministration program this fall. The
Board of Governors of the University of
North Carolina recently approved the
degree.
The program is targeted for students
interested in management or policy po
sitions in government and nonprofit
agencies. The degree features core
courses in public management, policy
analysis, computer applications, leader
ship and an internship in a local govern
ment or nonprofit agency. For more in
formation, contact Dr. Tom Barth at
962-3385.
CROSSROADS seeks Peer
Facilitators
CROSSROADS CO-OP is hiring Peer
Facilitators to educate, train and men-
I high school students about alcohol,
1 tobacco and other drug prevention. For
( more information call 962-4136 or visit
I Westside Hall (2nd floor) to fill out ap-
I plication. Interviews begin Monday.
University Police Bike
I Round Up
The 2001 Bicycle Round Up will be
conducted Saturday, May 12 through
Tuesday May 15. All bicycles, includ
ing those secured to bike racks, will be
! collected and impounded. This service
is conducted annually to prevent larce
nies and in preparation for the fall se
mester. To prevent your lock from be
ing cut and/or yourliike from being
impounded and donated to a chari-
1 table organization, contact University
Police at 962-3184.
Budget, from pabe 1
The potential budget reduction plans
would completely eliminate for credit
distance education and public service
programs. The university would also
have to cut 2.6 percent of the faculty
budget, totaling more than $830,000.
“There is no way that we could meet
the size reduction that we are being
asked to do without looking at reducing
the size of the faculty,” Cavanaugh said.
“This is a very difficult and painful de
cision for us to make because it will
have direct, very consequential effects.”
Students could face larger class sizes,
less availability of elective courses and
a longer course cycle.
“These cuts will also have some very
serious consequences on the measures
that the university can use to gauge suc
cess,” Cavanaugh said. “Things like
retention and graduation rates. If
courses are not readily available, it may
take students longer to graduate.”
Other areas facing budget cuts are
student support (8.4 percent), technol
ogy programs (11.25 percent). Univer
sity Police (18 percent) maintenance and
operation of physical plant (9.45 per
cent), summer school support (25.6 per
cent) and library materials (12.35 per
cent).
“We will have to limit some of the
services that we provide to students out
side the classroom,” Leutze said. "We
will not be able to buy as many books
and journals.”
Leutze expressed concerns about how
the potential budget cuts effect the mo
rale of faculty and staff.
“We are already facing the possibil
ity of an increase in health insurance
costs. (The budget cuts) would virtu
ally eat up any proposed salary increase.
Consequently I know that several of the
faculty are looking at the possibility of
going elsewhere - either the private sec
tor or other universities in other states,”
Leutze said.
Tim Jordan, vice chancellor of busi
ness affairs agrees that the university
has already been effected.
“Regardless of whether these cuts
materialize or not, the damage has been
done at this university,” Jordan said. “I
know that some people are already dam
aged by this process.”
Leutze said that the state is sending a
mixed message to the people of North
Carolina.
“The state has a goal increasing the
number of people that can go to college
and graduate in four years. Now we are,
indirectly at least, reneging on that.
We’re saying to the people who voted
for this bond issue, who wanted their
sons and daughters to have a place in the
university...’we’ll build you a building,
but you can’t come,’” Leutze said.
According to Leutze, the state should
be more far-sided in terms of revenue
and needs to plan for the economically
difficult times.
“I don’t care where the state gets it,
but this is not the way to get it in my
opinion,” Leutze said. “I don’t care
whether that means a lottery, I don’t care
whether that means raising taxes and I
don’t care if that means closing tax loop-
UNCW SGA President Katie Russell
said that she was shocked to hear about
the order to prepare budget cut propos
als.
“I was very surprised and alarmed
that the budget they had planned had
come to a point where they need (to
take) money from the schools,” Russell
said. “I was not aware that we were that
bad off in the general assembly.”
Building sites and renovation approved
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Speculation of where several new buildings
will be located on campus ended last week when
the UNCW Board of Trustees approved building
sites made possible by last November’s bond is-
Among the building sites approved are tte
Watson School of Education, the visual perfor
mance center, the general classroom building, the
expansion of University Union, an advanced com
puter lab, the expansion of Westside Hall and a
three-level parking deck.
Jefferies and Paris Associates, a local archi
tecture and planning firm, has assisted the univer
sity in master planningsince the 1980s. Thisplan-
ning session is the sixth update to the master plan.
“I really don’t have any concerns as to whether
this is the right direction [in terms of px)ceeding
with univeiBity planning]. We certainly looked at
a number of sites before the decision was made.
Options were weighed carefully,” said Roman
Kolodij, university architect
However, several BOT members voiced con
cern due to the placement of the visual perfor
mance center deeper into the center of campus,
thus drawing additional public traffic farther fiom
the entrances along South College Road.
Cuircnfly, Reynolds Drive sustains 200 cars
more than the nuniw typically prefened on a two-
lane road, according to a traffic survey being com
pleted for the univeisity by Kimley-Home and
Associates Inc, a local engineering and planning
finn.
Seveial members of the board said that they
beUeved traffic problems might be cptjplic^lpd
fijrther with the placement of the visual arts cen
ter. The building will consist of two segments.
The bond funds the academic section, however,
the performance center, that is expected to be
joined to the academic building, is not funded yet,
and is slated for ccsislruction several years in the
ftiture. When members of the public are finally
able to attend performances at the center, some
members of the BOT said they think the increase
in traffic congestion could be detrimental.
The BOT plans to mcmitor further traffic de
velopments and possible implications of the build
ing placement
“The traffic patterns on campus are changing
somewhat and tfie whole idea is to plan out into
the future as far as we can with all these systems
[such as traffic, drainage, infiasmx:nire] because
in some ways they are interconnected,” saidTuno-
thy Jordan, vice chancellor for business affairs.
Tlie survey is currently examining traffic pat
terns from 16 locations throughout campus. Cot-
clusions tiius far show that despite growth in the
university, traffic is being controlled more closely.
This control is attributed to the use of the shuttie
and the policy of disallowing students within the
mile-radius of the university to drive to campus.
‘Traffic as a whole did not increase substan
tially in four years,” said Andy Owens, a repre
sentative of Kimley-Hane and Associates Inc.
Instead the areas of higher congestion in years
past have shifted, according to the report com
piled by the agency in 1996.
Enrollment has increased by 2.1 percent and
the number of students obtaining patog permits
has increased by 1.6 percent according to Owens.
Suggestions generated from survey to combat
future traffic caigestion include additional paric-
ing resources along tiie periphery of ttie campus.
shuttle service from tiie perifrfiery of campus to
tiie interiw, expanding Reynolds Drive, alterna
tive traffic routes in conjunction with Randall
Drive and providing secure, covered bicycle park
ing areas in tiie new parking facilities.
The university is also conducting bicycle.
fic, in coordination witii overall university plan
ning, according to Jordan.
“We also have a need to keep the master plan
updated and so we will continue to incorporate
other studies tiiat are cm specific issues tiiat im
pact on the master plan,” said Mark Lanier, spe
cial assistant to the chancellor.
The placement of the buildings is in accordance
with previous layouts of the master plan. The
meeting approved the siting of tiie particular build
ing in each position, accwding to Kolodij.
“The whole idea of master planning is tiiat
we’re going just beycmd siting buildings and we’re
trying to look at total infrastructure, including our
electrical distribution system, our storm water
draining systems, gas distribution system, sewer
distribution systems with tiie idea of froviding a
road map not only fw tiie siting of btiildings but
for the entire infrastructure of tiie campus,” Jor
dan said.
The recent budget cuts are not expected to dras
tically affect building construction because tiie
funding was drawn from the bond issue. Thestate
will finance the fiinding for faculty salary and the
cost of maintaining and operating the academic
programs through an expansion fund upon
completion on tiie projects, according to Jordan.
“We aren’t planning to make any changes [due
to] the budget cmnch. I think it’s possible that tiiese
buildings in the bond issue may not be built as