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SG looks at cutting English department professor placed department budgets on leave after misconduct allegations By Jesse Stokes M A N A G I N G
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Departments from the Marshall Student Center to Campus Recreation could be looking at a cut in the Activity and Services (A&S) funds they receive to put on events and provide services to students. A&S allocations, made by Student Government (SG) and approved by administration, are from a semesterly fee paid by students. The Activity and Services Recommendation Committee (ASRC) makes allocations based on the projected amount that fee will bring in for the following year. The budget for the 2017-18 year allocated $17,889,421. However, the projected budget for next year is $17,378,224, according ASRC Chair Aladdin Hiba. The budget is still being worked on and numbers aren’t official until passed by SG Senate and signed by System President Judy Genshaft. An earlier version of the budget planned to allocate $12,250,319 to departments. These include the MSC, Campus Recreation, the Center for Student Involvement, the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Veterans Services among others. However, after a meeting Monday, the working estimate for departments was cut by $905,638 or approximately 7.39 percent with an overall cut of $1,603,828, according to Hiba. In total, after the meeting, $1,603,828 was cut
from the $18,982,052 in discussion. According to Senate President Amani Taha, this wasn’t pulled from payroll allocation for the departments. “All of the departments, the executive branch, and Safe Team all received a 15 percent cut on everything except payroll,” Taha said. “So the programming, the administration, all that stuff except payroll got a 15 percent cut.” Taha said the hope of ASRC is that departments such as the MSC and Campus Recreation would be able to make up the difference with the money received by nonstudents using the facility. “I think it really depends on how they’re setting their budget,” Taha said. “Luckily, places like the MSC and Campus Rec have very large auxiliary accounts. If you’re not a student, you have to pay to get into Campus Rec. If you’re not a student organization, you have to pay to use the MSC. So, they do have some funds in auxiliary. Hopefully that (the cuts) won’t impact that too much. “Just in terms of what I expect, hopefully they can utilize their A&S budget and utilize their auxiliary budget to kind of continue to provide those services to students.” According to MSC Director Sujit Chemburkar, approximately 60 percent of the MSC’s funding comes from A&S currently with the other 40 percent from these auxiliary funds. As for cuts, Chemburkar doesn’t know how
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The director of the First-Year Composition Program, Joe Moxley, who has served as an employee of the English Department since 1984 was notified of his administrative leave on March 19 in a letter from College of Arts and Sciences Dean Eric Eisenberg. Administrative leave is different from a suspension, as it is pending an official investigative decision, and Moxley’s pay and benefits will not be impacted until a decision is reached, according to the letter. “The University has received notice of allegations concerning your conduct that appear to be inconsistent with University Regulations, Policies and Procedures,” Eisenberg wrote in the letter.
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Joe Moxley’s pay and benefits will not be impacted until a decision is reached regarding the discrimination allegations. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE.
Students say laundry machines are cleaning out their wallets instead of washing their clothes By Maria Ranoni N E W S
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Students seem to have a variety of adjectives to describe what doing laundry is like on campus. However, one seems to come up more often than the others: frustrating. The laundry experience on campus is similar to that of a laundromat. Students haul their collection of dirty clothes to the nearest laundry facility, and pay a total of $2 to wash and dry one load of laundry. Students may pay with quarters directly at the washer/ dryer or with their Bull Bucks on a
communal automated machine. With both methods of payment, students must choose a washer or dryer and hope it works properly. However, many students have revealed that this sounds easier in theory than in practice at USF. Emily Pereira, a freshman majoring in biomedical sciences and a frequent at the Juniper-Poplar Hall (JP) laundry facility, said this practice does, in fact, backfire often. “(Doing laundry on campus) is amazingly frustrating,” Pereira said. “There’s always a problem with the laundry facility — it’s so annoying. The last time I went to do laundry,
half my clothes came out smelling like chlorine and the other half were in a machine that apparently didn’t turn on so the bottom half was soaking and the top half was bone dry.” Megan Malone, a freshman majoring in public health, said she also frequents the laundry facility in JP and seems to have similar complaints. “Doing laundry on campus is practically a guessing game,” Malone said. “You are unsure whether or not the machine will actually work. About 1/5 of the
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