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University spending questioned among students
Heather Grady
Tension over university spending
has been building on campus, as stu
dents and administrators wait for the
final word on budget cuts and tuition
Such a tight budgetary situation has
led to much speculation over the
wiseness of creating additicxial beauti
fication structures on campus, while
some program cuts could loom in the
lack of communication and student
knowledge cm the structure of univer
sity spending for any animosity created
by additional beautification projects.
“The cost of education.. .is really
going up everywhere. But I think it is a
multi-faceted problem,” said Tmidhy
Jordan, vice chancellor of business af
fairs.
And, according to Jordan, not a
problem generated by an administra
tion more financially focused on beau
tification than substantive educaticHi.
“Capital mcmey can not be used for
operating costs. Conversely, operating
money cannot be used for capital
projects. Therefore, the money I’m
spending to put that [gateway stiucture]
up over theie I couldn’t use for sala
ries,” Joidan said.
The policy, put in place by the leg
islature, serves to maintain accountabil
ity and to prevent spending crossovers
that could allow administrators to take
to much money fiwm one area to add
to another, he said.
‘1 think there is a gross misconcep
tion. There’s a misconcepticm of what
money goes to whaL People don’t al
ways understand that,” Pat Leonaid,
vice chancellor fw student affairs.
‘T\ution and a{^ropriations go to
support the main purpose of the uni
versity,” Joidan said.
All of the tuiticxi is poured into a
state general fund which finances a
number of qierations, which include
fimding teacher salaries, student ser
vices, administrative costs, supplies,
physical plant activities and grounds
keeping. State appropriation money is
also fiinneled into the general fund, and
the total is then divided among a pri
oritized list of university funding pools,
whkh in addition to other operations,
go to areas such as enrollment growth
and student financial aid, according to
Jordan.
“You don’t necessarily say this dol
lar of tuition funds this grounds keep
ing [project],” Jordan said, in reference
to the inaUlity to match each individual
cost with the dollar-to-doDar funding
from student tuition. ‘It is a cumula
tive set of needs, and you get fiinded
fw those needs in two different ways.”
See Spending, Page 2
UNCW’s newest addition, the Lakeside Gateway Structure,
has often been criticized by students as an example of frivo
lous use of University money.
New University Union
will focus on student life
After renovations to the student union is completed, many of
the current offices in the Wanwick Center will move.
I Henderson
A new student unicm to be com
pleted by the summer of 2007 could
mean a student fee increase as early as
the fall of 2002.
“In October we are verging on two
years of research for this project, “ said
Carolyn Farley, director of the Univo--
sity Unicm.
Construction will occur in three
jJiases, with the first to be a new build
ing with ground breaking scheduled fc*-
spring of2003.
“We will try to eliminate cutting off
Ideas for the new building include
a movie theatre, a student media cen
ter, a new bookstore, a student involve
ment center, “which would pull all of
the student organizations into a central
area,” Farley said.
The second phase of construction
will occur on the existing university
union building. ‘TheHawk’sNestwoU
expand,” Farley said, “so that it’s much
more integrated with the building.” Tlie
offices that are cuirently in the union
building, like the leadership center, will
stay, but they may be moved to a more
See Union, Page 2