Students speak at town hallAt Tuesday’s town hall meeting,

a panel of USM o� cials answered students’ questions concerning the proposed budget reductions announced Monday, Aug. 30. � e panel included President Martha Saunders, Vice President of Stu-dent A� airs Joe Paul, Provost Bob Lyman and chairpersons of the University Priorities Council.

During the hour students asked questions concerning the cost of USM’s plane, the vision for the future of USM, the supposed in-crease in the athletic budget and the recommended terminations of various programs.

Before the question and answer session began, Lyman answered a question that he seemed to know was on students’ minds.

“� e university has commit-ted itself to teaching out current

students and majors,” he said. “� at means if you are currently enrolled in a major or academic initiative which is designated for

elimination, there will instructors available to you until you � nish that degree.”

Lyman said the instructors

may not be those a� liated with the program now, but they will be quali� ed instructors, as this is required by a regional accrediting agency.

Lyman also discussed the ap-peal process, saying the � rst step of the process will be the appeal of programs. He said it would not make sense to appeal faculty cuts � rst, because if a program is saved then faculty will likely be saved as well. Appeals will begin in Octo-ber and probably last until Janu-ary, he said.

In response to sociology major Henry Herds’ question about the usage of USM’s plane, Saunders said, “� e university does not own an airplane. � e university leases an airplane. And in about two years – two and a half years – when the lease is up, we’ll cer-tainly review the e� cacy of that decision.”

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USM senior wins MasterChefLOCAL

Whitney Miller, a 22-year-old senior from Poplarville, Miss., is America’s � rst MasterChef.

Miller, along with family, friends and supporters watched the � nale of the show at the Alumni House Bar and Grill.

A� er winning, Miller said she will start on her cookbook � rst and joked about another possible career prospect.

“I’m waiting on the Food Net-work to call,” Miller joked.

Miller de� ed the odds by re-making a chicken dish she had spent the entire 2-hour match pre-paring, only to drop it near the end of the match with 10 minutes le� . She was able to recook the dish and serve it to the judges.

� at setback did not stop Miller from winning the contest. She re-cooked a chicken breast in 7 min-utes and wowed the judges with her presentation.

Before the � nale aired, Miller said being a part of MasterChef was a life-changing experience for her.

Miller was the youngest con-testant on the program, and through her expert preparation of dessert dishes earned the title “Pastry Princess.”

“To go to California and cook

with chefs from all over the U.S...,” Miller said. “No matter how it ends I’m glad I got to be a part of it.”

Miller said her strategy through-out the show was to always stick to her Southern roots.

“I liked to think like I was cooking for my family,” Miller said.

Midley Harrison, a classmate of Miller’s, was in attendance at the party thrown for her at the Alumni House Bar and Grill.

Harrison said many of the people in attendance were also from Pop-larville, Miss., where Miller grew up.

“We all came out to support Whit-

ney,” said Harrison, who was not at all surprised by the large turnout.

“From that small town, yeah! A lot of the people here know Whit-ney personally and came out to cheer her on,” Harrison said.

Harrison said he has been fol-lowing the entire season, but watching his classmate on Mas-terChef hasn’t gotten him into cooking shows.

Logan Grubbs, also from Pop-larville, echoed that notion. Grubbs said, however, he also watched every episode of the show this season.

Grubbs, unlike Harrison, was surprised by the turnout. When he got to the restaurant at 6:15, he could not � nd parking.

Miller, who accepted hugs, handshakes and congratulations from supporters a� er her victory said the best experience she gained from the show came from the judges’ feedback.

Miller said of the experience overall, her favorite part was “knowing that I got to grow as a person and a cook.

“It just pushed me to work hard-er and to be a stronger person.”

USM senior Whitney Miller celebrates her win Wednesday night with family at the Alumni House Bar and Grill, where they hosted a party to view the fi nale.

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Mark Your Planner16 17 18 19 2010:00 a.m.The Intelligent Eye - Reality Re-Seen by Bill Baggett Museum of Art

4:00 p.m.Information meeting on the Abbey Program - Study Abroad in FranceLAB 108

4:00 p.m.Gulf Coast Career NightGulf Park Campus

7:00 p.m.Stage MonkeysTCC 210

7:00 p.m.2010 Centennial Arts GalaLake Terrace Convention Center

All DaySouthern Miss Student Leader ReunionHattiesburg, Miss.

10:00 a.m.The Intelligent Eye - Reality Re-Seen by Bill Baggett Museum of Art

12:00 p.m.University ClosesHattiesburg Campus

2:00 p.m.Grand Opening for The Accelerator46 Shelby Thames Drive, Hattiesburg

7:00 p.m.Soccer @ Ole MissOxford, Miss.

7:00 p.m.Football vs. KansasHattiesbug, Miss.

All DayCross Country @ Crimson ClassicTuscaloosa, Ala.

8:00 a.m.Barking for a Cure Dog Walk (breast cancer)Kamper Park

12:00 p.m.Greek FestCentennial Green

10:00 a.m.The Intelligent Eye - Reality Re-Seen by Bill Baggett Museum of Art

2:00 p.m.Softball vs. Nicholls StateHattiesburg, Miss.

4:00 p.m.Softball vs. Jackson StateHattiesburg, Miss.

7:00 p.m.Volleyball Alumni MatchHattiesburg, Miss.

6:00 p.m.Men’s Recruitment Week OrientationTCC Ballrooms

10:00 a.m.The Intelligent Eye - Reality Re-Seen by Bill Baggett Museum of Art

3:30 p.m.Disney College Program PresentationWSB 120

5:00 p.m.Men’s Recruitment WeekFraternity Row

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What is the Trent Lott Center?“Economy has frequently

nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it,” reads a Henry Ford quote etched in stone on a wall inside the Trent Lott Center for Excellence in Economic Develop-ment and Entrepreneurship.

In the wake of the budget cuts, many concerned students and cit-izens have been questioning the wisdom of spending $28 million to build the very building where that quote is memorialized.

“A lot of people ask, ‘How can you build a $28 million building of that size and grandeur?’” said Assistant to the President for Ex-ternal Affairs Chad Driskell. “The Trent Lott Center was started some seven or eight years ago, probably five years before Dr. Saunders became president. So when you have a building of that magnitude and grandeur, there’s nothing to do but finish the building.”

Addressing the irony of com-pleting a building named for

“economic development” so soon after last year’s cut of the econom-ics program, Driskell pointed out that the programs at the Trent Lott Center were unrelated to the economics program. “Economic development is a new discipline that studies the recruitment and retention of business, workforce development and the compo-nents necessary to attract and bring industry to a town whether it’s natural resources, labor or ed-ucational achievement.”

He said that despite the general lack of knowledge about the cen-ter’s functions, the building plays a very important role at South-ern Miss. “The building holds a prominent position on the cam-pus of the university and will be a prominent fixture in the new economy as Southern Miss devel-ops a true connection to the com-munity.”

One way the center is helping Southern Miss connect to the community, Driskell said, is by working with small businesses and entrepreneurs. He said that the center will help students who have small business ideas get started up at a launch point in downtown Hattiesburg. Another

goal for the center is to provide community leaders and elected officials with insightful seminars and opportunities to learn.

“There’s no better way to con-nect to the community than to provide a service, whether it’s educating business people or elected officials about economic developments and ways to track business, or whether it’s helping be your small business start-up and business incubator,” Driskell said. “Those services are crucial to the future of the university as far as our connection to the uni-versity.”

The center hosts the Depart-ment of Workforce Development, the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, the Center for Logistics, Trade and Transportation, and the Univer-sity Foundation, which was once housed in the Honors House.

The Center for Logistics, Trade and Transporation is meant to provide an executive format mas-ter’s program for people who work in logistics and intermo-dal transporation arenas. Driskell said that because of the enhance-ment of the Port of Gulfport and the widening of the Panama Ca-

nal, more freight will be coming through the Port of Gulfport. “So this program will serve to train, retool and bring up to par our folks who are working in the lo-gistics arena, whether it be ship-ping, rail or air cargo.”

The National Center for Spec-tator Sports Safety and Security, or NCS4, exemplifies the goals of the center, said NCS4 direc-tor Lou Marciani. NCS4 is a one-of-a-kind operation backed by grants from the Department of Homeland Security. It focuses on developing innovative so-lutions to strengthening secu-rity at sporting events like MLB, NASCAR, NBA, NFL and other events. Also offered is a master’s degree program called Sports Management, which emphasizes security.

“The Trent Lott Center was built for globalization of work-force development for Missis-sippi,” Marciani said. “So we’re an offshoot of that. We’re a model child – just one example of that model.”

NCS4 seeks to standardize se-curity practices across all sports venues in matters like natural di-sasters, crime management prob-

lems and terrorism. One key em-phasis in NCS4’s relationship to the DHS is on security measures in the event of terrorism.

“We cannot see any case except sports games where there are so many people in one place at the same time,” said Young Lee, a vis-iting professor from Daebul Uni-versity in South Korea. “So that’s why terrorists are very interested in sporting events, because our airports are very secure right now.”

Stacey Hall, the associate di-rector for NCS4, wanted to make it clear that NCS4 looks at more than just international terrorism. “When people think terrorism, they think 9/11; they think inter-national terrorism. But domestic terrorism is also a problem.

“For example, you have the bombing by Eric Rudolph in the ‘96 Olympic games, you have Timothy McVeigh and the Okla-homa City bombings, and even in 2006, at the University of Okla-homa, a student with a bomb strapped to his body prematurely detonated a bomb outside the stadium. Fortunately, nobody was injured, but he died. Those kinds of things are our concerns.”

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Saunders said, too, that most Mississippi universities have planes to maximize the time of the president and vice president of the university when doing business out of town.

“One visit, well placed, can come back with a million dollar gift,” she said. “So it does have merit. Is it sufficient? I don’t know.

Seeking her BFA in draw-ing and painting, Megan Sauls’ question drew applause from the audience.

“I came back to this Univer-sity after 15 years out,” she said. “I’m juggling being a wife and a mother and a caregiver to an elderly parent. And my old-est stepdaughter was recently advised not to apply here for her master’s degree in English because of the turmoil at this university. And I personally would have an easier time swal-lowing these cuts if I knew what the long term goal was. These programs seem really random, and I don’t understand where you’re aiming for our university identity. There’s teaching cuts, there’s science cuts – What are we doing to be?”

Lyman said USM was found-ed as a teaching college and would not stray from its roots.

Deaf education major Krystal Newsome said, “Deaf kids will not get the education that they

need if their teachers are not prepared. You said you wanted to improve the quality of teach-er education. Does that not in-clude deaf ed?

“No matter what happens, there will always be deaf chil-dren,” she said. “And they will always need teachers. And this is the only deaf ed program in the state of Mississippi.”

Lyman said Newsome should write the appeal for them.

After the event, some stu-dents were disappointed in the answers they were given.

“I thought a lot of the questions weren’t as pointed as they needed to be,” Michael Samel said.

“I think students’ questions were open but the answers were very technical,” said sports and high performance materials major Olivia McNair. “[Panel members] tried to be sensitive, though.”

Paul said, “I was so happy to see so many students coming out and voicing their opinions and questions.”

“Students need to keep asking questions, there should be civil discourse like this in the univer-sity,” said Tim Rehner, director of the School of Socials Workers and chairperson of the UPC.

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ON CAMPUS

It is hard to imagine a Christ-mas with no presents, yet mil-lions of children in countries all around the world and even in the United States know this as a reality. Operation Christmas Child is a program working to change this reality for as many children as possible.

Operation Christmas Child, or OCC, is a project sponsored by the organization Samaritan’s Purse, a “nondenominational evangelical Christian organi-zation providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world,” according to its website.

Samaritan’s Purse hopes to reach out to the hearts of thou-sands of children living in im-poverished countries, and Op-eration Christmas Child is just one way of achieving this goal. Every year millions of shoeboxes full of toys are sent to children in over 120 different countries, and for the past three years USM has been playing their part in this outreach as well.

Dr. Brigitte Burgess, associate

professor of fashion merchan-dising and co-representative of OCC here at USM, said she has been involved with OCC for years. “It is so rewarding, so much fun and not a lot of money. You can really make a whole family happy. Most of these kids have never gotten a Christmas present.”

Burgess also said that it is easy for USM students to get involved with and a little way to make a big difference. “The items that are sent are things that these children and families need,” she said. “It’s a way to give back and to teach people that Christmas is about giving, not receiving.”

Many of these children are lacking in the everyday things that others take for granted – things such as shoes, tooth-brushes, toys and even candy. “Some of these kids have never had candy before,” Burgess said, “and a lot of times that is their favorite thing.”

Junior Katie Wilson partici-pated in OCC last year and said that it was very enlightening. “The kids that get this stuff – I mean, basic stuff – it doesn’t matter what you give them, they will be excited about it. When I

was collecting donations I real-ized, ‘Wow, I’m giving these ba-sic needs to somebody.’ It’s an eye opener.”

Assistant professor of fashion merchandising and the USM representative for OCC Gal-layanee Yaoyuneyong said that the first year USM took part in this organization they collected eight boxes. Last year that num-ber rose to 92. She said she hopes that it will continue growing.

“Every year we have more box-es,” Yaoyuneyong said. “What we do at USM is try to promote it. As long as you pack the box and drop it off somewhere we’re hap-py, because that means one more kid will get the box.”

Yaoyuneyong also points out that it is especially easy for USM students to relate to these children and become involved because many have experienced natural disasters, such as Hurri-cane Katrina, themselves. “Peo-ple here know what it means to be in distress,” she said.

Before the shoe boxes are packed up and sent away USM will have three drives. The back to school drive will be Sept. 20, followed shortly by a hygiene drive. At the end of October the

group will host a candy drive..During National Collection

Week, which takes place from November 15 - 22, students can help pack the boxes and write individual notes to the kids to be included in the boxes.

The boxes can be made in all sizes for children anywhere from ages 2 to 15. One can even pay for a bar code to put on the box-

es so that its final destination can be tracked down. Boxes from USM have gone to India and China previously, and this year many of the boxes are intended for Haiti.

Items for Operation Christ-mas Child can be donated ei-ther in Joseph Greene Hall or taken to Immanuel Baptist Church in Hattiesburg.

Michelle HolowachPrintz Writer

Students put Christmas cheer in a shoebox

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ON CAMPUSWant to create your own organization on campus? Here are a few of the steps that you must follow:

Step 1) Fill out a Blue Card Step 2) Create a Constitution Step 3) Get an Advisor Step 4) Letter of support from the advisor Step 5) A letter from the a� liated department (If no a� li ation is planned, then no letter is required). Step 6) Complete Chartering Application (minimum 10 members) Step 7) Complete Health and Human Services Form

For the full list of details, please visit the Student Activi-ties website at:

http://www.usm.edu/union/studentactivities.php.

Want to create your own organization on campus? Here are a few of the steps that you must follow:

Step 1) Fill out a Blue CardStep 2) Create a ConstitutionStep 3) Get an AdvisorStep 4) Letter of support from the advisorStep 5) A letter from the a� liated department (If no a� li

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USM students begin autism organization

TEAAM USM is a new stu-dent organization at Southern Miss dedicated to improving the lives of those who are af-fected by autism across the state of Mississippi.

TEAAM, “Together Enhanc-ing Autism Awareness in Mis-sissippi,” is a non-profit volun-teer organization that provides direct assistance as well as indi-rect resources to Mississippians with autism and to those who support them.

Matthew Planchard, a junior biology and biochemistry dou-ble major and treasurer of the organization, believes the main goal of TEAAM is to educate.

“TEAAM is an organization dedicated to educating people about Autism Spectrum Disor-ders,” he said. “Through educa-tion, we hope to draw attention to the challenges these people face on a day to day basis and the need for research, knowl-edge, and investment in devel-oping programs for people who have more severe forms of au-tism.”

Marie Holowach, a junior speech-language pathology ma-jor and TEAAM USM’s presi-dent, began the process of cre-ating TEAAM’s first university chapter in January of this year. As of this semester, TEAAM USM is an official, certified student organization here at Southern Miss.

“This is a place where people should come and be able to feel comfortable and accepted,” Ho-lowach said. “Also, it is a place where people going into any profession having to do with autism can come and learn. It’s for both sides. ”

TEAAM USM will host a number of fundraisers through-out the semester, such as “Rock for Autism,” a non-traditional fundraiser that will bring to light the compulsive behav-iors that are typical of autistic people. Volunteers from the organization will rock in rock-ing chairs for an entire day while taking donations in the process. All profits from fund-raisers throughout the semes-ter will go directly to sending children with various types of Autism Spectrum Disorder to Kamp Kaleidoscope, an out-door adventure camp hosted by TEAAM. Planchard said the camp “offers autistic children a

great time in the great outdoors while feeling happy, at home, and normal for once.”

TEAAM USM is open to all students, not just those who are personally affected by autism.

“People don’t realize there are a relatively high number of peo-ple on campus who are affected by autism,” Holowach said. “It’s easy to become involved. It’s as

much involvement as you want. You sign up for whatever volun-teer opportunities you want to participate in.”

Students interested in be-coming involved with TEAAM USM can attend the meeting on Sept. 21, featuring faculty guest speaker David Davies in Room 214 of the Thad Cochran Cen-ter at 6:30 p.m.

Hannah JonesPrintz Writer

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Halo: Reach for the Xbox 360 has hit shelves, and millions of gamers worldwide have picked up Microsoft and Bungie Stu-dios’ latest addition to the Halo franchise.

� e newest Halo game is the last game that Bungie Studios, the game developer behind the Halo series, will produce. Bun-gie has declared Halo: Reach to be their “swan song” to Halo in which they have attempted to epitomize the Halo experience and send the series out with a bang. A� er playing the game my-self, I believe they’ve succeeded.

Halo: Reach is set imme-diately before the first Halo game. The player experiences the untold story of Noble Team, a squad of “Spartan” super-soldiers, during the final days before the planet Reach falls to the alien Covenant. Though Halo: Reach lacks the Master Chief, the iconic main char-acter from the previous Halo games, it doesn’t suffer for it. The enemies are faster, tougher and smarter than ever before,

providing a challenging expe-rience even on the default dif-ficulty setting. The campaign maintains the epic feel of Halo, actually bringing back some of the magic of the first Halo’s single player mode.

The multiplayer for Halo: Reach delivers an even more satisfying experience, provid-ing new weapons and gadgets and all-new ways to battle your friends for bragging rights. Bungie’s multiplayer match-making service on Xbox Live provides more options than ever, from the Firefight surviv-al mode to classic death match modes. Multiplayer maps old and new round out Reach’s multiplayer. The innovative Forge map editor from Halo 3 has also been improved for Halo: Reach, allowing players to build their own Halo multi-player experience.

All in all, Halo: Reach de-livers fun, fast-paced, frantic game play that the Halo series is famous for. I recommend it for any fan of sci-fi games, shooters and/or multiplayer madness. My overall rating is a 9.5 out of 10.

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The Lady Eagles soccer team is coming off its most impressive win of the season last weekend as they defeated Jackson State at home with a 6-0 victory.

“Coming out and playing a good first half and finding the back of the net early was a big fo-cus for us coming into the game. When you can do that it changes the completion of the game and obviously it did today for us.” The win brings the team’s record to 2-3-1 on the young season.

There are 13 true freshmen on this team who bring young blood to the group. With those new fac-es comes inexperience, however.

“It’s all about understanding how to play together as a team,” Ebke said. “Every game is crucial as we start getting into confer-ence play coming up. It’s some-thing I’ll have to manage.”

Coach Scott Ebke is in his third season as the team’s head man with a record of 9-26-1 and said he expects the team to take a big step forward this year.

“We have a good group of up-perclassmen here who have taken the lead role to heart and want to guide the new faces we had come in,” he said.

Hannah Vanderboegh has had two impressive shutouts of the year so far against Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State.

Elisha Tarbell is tied with Jana Mason, Chelsea Cruthirds and Jordan Wagner in goals scored with two on the season so far. When asked who he thinks has been impressive so far, Ebke said, “I really like the play of Tarbell, Polley and Vanderboegh. Their play on the field has gone up and I am really pleased with their leadership they have displayed. But everyone is doing a great job.”

Elisha Tarbell, a junior center-midfielder for the Lady Eagles, said she’s anxious to see what this team can do. “I’m real excited about this year’s team and the things we can achieve,” she said. “The level of play has been high lately and we’re going to need that once conference play starts up so we can finish where we want to be.”

Jessica Long is an undergradu-ate here at Southern Miss and said she is an avid soccer fan. She said although she hasn’t been to many Lady Eagle soccer games in the past, she’s looking forward to seeing some games in the future.

“I played a lot of soccer when I was a kid and loved it,” she said. “But I haven’t been involved in the game since. The recent World Cup in South Africa has made me fall in love with it again, and I’m looking forward to watching our girls play this year.”

Ebke will try to improve his team’s conference play this year as the Lady Eagles finished in 12th place last year.

“We’d really like to finish in the top six in conference this year and play in the conference tournament,” he said. “We need the Golden Eagle nation to come out to support our team this year. Our team feeds off those guys.”

The team has another early test as they travel to Ole Miss on Fri-day and come back home to play Northwestern State Sunday at 1 p.m. at the soccer complex. Con-ference play starts next Friday when Marshall comes to town.

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Lady Eagles look to soarKurt Cavataio

Printz Writer

USM’s Tricia Tillman attempts to dribble the ball past Jackson State’s Rochelle Moncrieffe during their match on Sunday. USM won the match 6-0.

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Senior Kelsea Seymour sets the ball up during the volleyball game against Mississippi State Wednesday, The Lady Eagles went on to win the match 3-0.

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President Saunders addresses concerns: Part 2

Concern: The Century Park residence halls and parking ga-rage constructions are absorbing funds we could have put to better use paying teachers.

Response: Provost Bob Lyman explained that the residence halls and garage can be built because they will be self-supporting proj-ects. This means that USM has essentially borrowed money from the state to pay for the construc-tion because the new sites will eventually repay their own costs. The students who live in Century Park will pay for its construction through room fees (hence the high cost of living in those halls).

The parking garage will be paid for through the increased cost in parking permits. The construc-tion of new classrooms comes from bonds, which is money the state of Mississippi appropriates to Mississippi universities to use for that purpose only; that money cannot be used for salaries.

Executive Assistant to the President Chad Driskell empha-sized that student tuition money does not go toward either of these projects, nor is it used for the construction of the Trent Lott Center or the new hi-tech Ac-celerator building, which offers

office space laboratory space and specialty equipment. “When you pay your tuition, those monies are dedicated to the education and general support of the university. You know, paying the student’s share of the overhead if you will – the power bill, and the student’s share of the faculty and staff costs of the university,” he said.

Concern: USM’s plane is un-necessarily burning student tu-ition money.

Response: The university leases a twin engine prop air-plane owned by the University Foundation. Saunders said the chief pilot is already employed by the school, and the plane is

available only for official use. USM is not the only university to have a plane. Other Missis-sippi universities, such as Mis-sissippi State and Ole Miss, each have one or more than one plane to maximize the time of people doing business for the university, Saunders said.

Concern: If we cut the oper-ating costs of the buildings, we could put money toward teach-er salaries.

Response: True. Lyman said the operating budgets can be transferred to faculty support, however most of the buildings on campus are very old and energy inefficient. Lyman said USM will invest $2 million during the next two years to update antiquated operating systems for campus buildings, which should more than pay for itself in the amount of money saved on energy bills.

Concern: The furloughs be-ing considered will force faculty to take a day off teaching each month.

Response: Furloughs, which will only be used as a last resort, will not work the same way for staff as for faculty. The faculty will have to endure a 4 percent cut to their salaries if the fur-loughs, which Lyman called “an act of desperation,” are put in place. The alternative, however, is cutting more teaching positions. Another route Lyman hopes will help keep jobs is the retirement incentive package for retirement-eligible faculty. Those who elect to accept it will receive a pay-ment of one half of their yearly salary.

Concern: The university has failed to consider other areas of the university to cut. Faculty jobs could be saved if staff jobs on campus are trimmed.

Response: Many areas of the university will endure cuts in order to keep more faculty jobs. These include staff support in the library, staff support in the grad-uate school, the budget of iTech, administrative offices, university publications, administrative of-fice of BlackBoard, computer labs, clerical and administrative staff, commencement budget, physical plant and grounds, stu-dent services, Greek Life staff, etc. These jobs were cut to save money for faculty positions.The university is also introducing a retirement incentive to eligible professors in an attempt to save other jobs. Lyman said if some professors respond to the cash payment for early retirement, some cuts will be unnecessary.

Go here to see a breakdown of the budget: usm.edu/budgets. The entire budget book is public infor-mation and must be requested at the office of the Provost.

President Martha Saunders addresses university faculty, staff, and students during the Fall Convocation on Tuesday.

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