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ultimately did, as I'm sure you and your
parents know we would use that money
to hire faculty."
Money spent, money saved
Adams said during FYIO a number of
faculty positions were reduced, but
because of the tuition Increase which
did not affect students on the “fixed for
tour" plan more contract faculty were
able to be hired In FYII.
“According to [Tim] Burgess, the
tuition increase generated about sls mil
lion in round numbers, and a good por
tion of that went to support the faculty
hiring initiative,” said Matt Winston,
assistant to the president.
Adams said one wave of 23 tenured or
tenure track faculty has already been
hired, and the provost is working with
deans to hire an additional 25. He said
these faculty members would “supplant”
some non-contract positions.
Bringing in sls million and at least 23
new professors may have helped rescue
academic programs that were on the
chopping block.
Though no specific programs were list
ed on the original proposal, the docu
ments stated the eliminations could tores
more than 500 undergraduate and gradu
ate students to change their majors or
transfer in order to get
their degrees.
Adams said programs
are eliminated year-round,
and not just because of
budget crunches.
“You do that in good
times as well as bad
because you want the cur
riculum to be current and
alive and serve students, so
the fact that there’s some
coming and going of curric-
ulum is a nomud thing, not an abnormal
thing,” he said. “My recollection is that
there were two or three last year ... but
there was not any big wholesale erosion.”
Winston said it was difficult to tell
which programs were eliminated because
of the budget.
“We have academic programs which
are discontinued all of the time for rea
sons normally associated with student
demand and faculty availability, and so
making a determination as to what
changes were budget driven is not easy to
pinpoint,” he said.
What’s next for students
In August, the Regents approved addi
tional FYII budget reduction plans for
operating at 4, 6 and 8 percent. USG is
now operating at the 4 percent level, and
if adopted, any of these plans could carry
into FYI 2, according to a Regents news
release.
FYI 2 already has a proposed 10 per
cent plan.
If that gets put in place, Adams says
there’s not much the University can do
that won’t hurt students.
“It’s not much left to cut that you
won’t feel,” he said.
Bennett said reducing facility hours
was probably not the way to answer cuts.
GAME: Zombies relish thrill of ‘hunt’
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“For me, it’s more about
being on the hunt rather
than being hunted,” he
said. “When you hit a zom
bie, it’s only stunned for 15
minutes. You haven’t really
accomplished anything, as
opposed to when you’re a
zombie, you can now turn
that human into a zombie
for the rest of the game.”
Kenny Adcox, another
HvZ moderator and senior
telecommunications arts
major from Dunwoody, is
still playing as a human
and has, as of press time,
managed to dodge count
less zombies on campus.
He said he’s been avoiding
Craft all week.
“He is just really sneaky,
and he’s really fast,” Adcox
said. “In our game, if a
zombie can swat a Nerf
dart away with the palm of
their hand, then It doesn’t
count, and he is by far the
best at that that I’ve ever
seen. So it’s hard to stun
him, plus he’s fast, and
he’s quiet.”
Craft agrees that his
“swat” is his best strength
as a zombie, and this skill
may contribute to his rep
utation as one of the most
prolific human killers in
the game, but he also said
it’s difficult to calculate
the game’s exact death
tofi.
“We currently have a kin
board (on the website],
but it doesn’t really say
who’s in the lead,” he said.
“A iot of human players
give fake codes or don’t
have the codes on them,
so you can’t really say
who’s winning. So without
a kiU board especially, we
don’t really know how
many humans are out
there right now. Generally
right now, I’d say there’s
probably about 150 to 250
at most. Maybe 300, but
those are probably the
really skittish ones.”
Farzad said she has
been wandering around
campus looking for fresh
human but
has yet to make her “first
“Going forward, I would continue to
talk with the department heads. I would
also schedule a meeting with the Student
Government Association to see what they
think the impact would be on students,”
he said. “I’m not sure that going forward
any of the items that were on the original
budget reduction list would be on the list
again... I think I would be hard-pressed if
the budget cuts came again to cut hours.
I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, but it
wouldn’t be my first priority.”
If anything, he said, the hours at Ifete,
Ramsey and the MLC should be extended
to meet students' needs for study places
and meeting places.
Bennett also said he would be surprised
if Adams did not seek student input if
future budget reductions were required.
“I think I would look across the divi
sion to see where there were places or
maybe duplication of services,” he said. “I
think the key will be to have some involve
ment by student leadership and depart
ment heads.”
But Adams cautions there are plenty
of unanswered questions about the state
revenue for next year.
“We don’t know what the state reve
nues are gonna look like the next eight
months left in this fiscal year. We don’t
know where the governor and the legisla
ture are going to prefer to make cuts. We
don’t know what the Regents are going to
do on tuition. We don’t know what stu
dent demand is going to be next year,” he
said. “Now it’s really impossible to answer
that question until we know more than
we know right now. There’s just too many
mqjor elements out there that we just flat
don’t know the answer to.”
The little things
“We don’t have as many staff members
anywhere. We don’t cut the grass quite as
often. We don't empty the garbage quite
as often as we used to, we’ve adjusted all
the thermostats, we’ve reduced travel.
We’ve hurt supply budgets,” Adams said.
“I mean you name it, we’ve done it."
Things such as health care costs, power
bills, fuel and food cost the University a
hefty sum of money each month, he said.
“We pay Georgia Power a million dollars
a month,” he said. “There’s so many things
that we do that even if the revenue had
stayed level, the expenses have gone up.
And that too is lost on a lot of people.”
But the University community is rising
to the challenge.
“We’re down 22 percent in water use;
water conservation has been strong. We’re
down about 15 percent in electrical use
per square foot. All of these little things
we’ve done, once you extrapolate them to
a place this large, they matter,” Adams
said. *
He said though the big picture of the
budget situation dealt with labor issues
and the loss of faculty and staff, there are
small things everyone is contributing to
that are helping the University cut back
and be more efficient with its resources.
“The students have helped. They
bought into the ‘Every Drop Counts’
campaign. Students on recycling and on
some other things, they’ve been both
sensible and frugal," Adams said. “And
all of these things together have allowed
us to scrape by.”
kill” to add to the kill
board.
“I’m a hungry zombie!”
she said. “I have not fed
yet. I was definitely relieved
when I became a zombie
because you don’t have to
be paranoid anymore, it’s
just like now you’re chas
ing instead of being the
one chased. It’s definitely
more ton. You see the
humans walking around all
paranoid and you’re just
like. Til let this one
slide.’”
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week of fun and mayhem,
he is dreading Saturday's
return to normalcy.
“Next week is going to
seem so incredibly boring
compared to this week,"
he said. “It’s really differ
ent as far as the hype of
the week, just the excite
ment, not even playing
yourself but just watching
people running around.
You see a guy fully loaded
with Nerf guns and think,
‘Oh, he looks ridiculous,’
but you know what he’s
doing.”
NEWS
New
media
could
grow
By ADINA SOLOMON
The Red & Black
The growing New
Media Certificate program
in the Grady College of
Journalism and Mass
Communication might
become a major if the pro
gram director achieves his
goals, said Cully Clark,
dean of the college.
Clark said Scott Shamp
director of the New
Media Institute plans
for this to happen, though
it first must be approved.
There has been an
overwhelming demand for
the limited number of
seats in the certificate
‘program.
“There is certainly
heightened awareness
and attention to what role
new media will play in all
of our content majors and
how that will-be elaborat
ed,” Clark said.
On Thursday night,
students had the oppor
tunity to ask Clark about
the NMI and other pro
grams during “Open Mic
with Dean Cully.”
In addition to new
media, topics discussed
included the sports jour-
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▲ Cully Clark, dean of Grady College, held an
open mlc session with students on Thursday.
nalism program and the
TV station WNEG.
Clark said he recently
met with a foundation in
Atlanta that wants to give
$1 million for the college’s
sports journalism initia
tive. Grady is in the pro
cess of organizing a sports
journalism program.
“We will be among the
leaders in that area and
certainly in the
Southeast,” Clark said.
He said sports journal
ism is important because
it encompasses many dif
ferent aspects of journal
ism and numerous stu
dents are interested in
the program.
Clark also commented
on the future of WNEG,
which has been losing
money since its establish
ment at the University.
For now, the station is
ongoing, he said.
“By December; we will
know how we’ll move for
ward with that asset,”
Clark said.
He said though WNEG
is losing money, its $2 mil
lion studios in the base
ment of Grady are an edu
cational platform for stu
dents mqjorlng in broad
cast news and telecom
munications.
Although Clark and
other faculty said they are
receptive to students’
input, Clark reminded
attendees of the budget
constraints, saying the
University’s 2011 budget
is the same as its budget
in 1999. But he said Grady
will work through its
financial constraints.
“I am entering my 15th
year as a dean, and it has
been the most difficult
year I spent as a dean,” he
said. “Even in the face of
very difficult times, there’s
reason to believe that
together, we will see our
way through and continue
to do the great work that
Grady is known for."
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