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              THE LOYOLA MAROON February 22, 1991 VOLUME 69, NO. 17 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 Sports vote passed to students By Angela Pulido Staff writer The Student Government Association voted Tuesday to let students dec ide through a referendum whether to expand the athletic program at Loyola. David Vandersand, management and marketing senior and SGA president, has until Tuesday to accept congress' decision. No date has been set for the referendum. "It's constitutionally mandated that two weeks pass between the voting of the resolution and the actual referendum," Jean B. Duet, accounting and finance senior and congressperson at large, said. "The reason for this two week delay is so that we can getout the information students need to vote on the resolution," Vandersand said. "Now's when the work starts," Duet said. "We need to highly publicize the resolution to let people know what it entails and it's going to take a lot of work." Vandersand refused to comment on his personal opinion concerning the resolution. "Technically it is sound. It is a workable solution to the problem," Vandersand said. "The full addendum was presented to congress and for the first time they were able to look at the whole thing before they voted." Advocates of the bill are in a squeeze for time. "A veto would put us back at least another week. We can't afford any more delays," Duet said. He said if the students vote in favor of the bill, the SG A will have to present the bill to the Board of Trustees on March 21. If Vandersand decides to veto the bill, it will then go back to congress where it will either override the veto by a two-thirds vote or accept the veto, Duet said. This delay Lundy explains budget discrepancies, cuts By John Davis Managing Editor Cuts in this year's academic budget are the result of overestimating revenue and inadvertently omitting required expenditures, the Rev. George F. Lundy S.J., senior vice president and dean of Faculties, said Tuesday. Lundy spoke Tuesday at this year's second Town Meeting during the window in the schedule in Nuncmaker Hall. About 60 faculty and staff attended the meeting. "It is my responsibility," Lundy said, "to set up the various accounts within Academic Affairs." When Lundy finished preparing the current budget last year, $363,000 went unallocated, he said. "I had another $100,000 in reserve," Lundy said. "I told the deans and other division heads that I thought we had the funds to implement some of the many great idea? that are generated within Academic Affairs," he said. However, while preparing the academic budget, Lundy omitted several items, overspending the academic budget by almost $600,000, he said. One category included funding for programs in which faculty work part-time for extra pay, he said. "That wasasl6s,OOoproblem," Lundy said. "It was not discovered until after the unallocated funds were committed." "About $65,000 was left out of operating budgets for some of the enterprise programs and $16,000 in general support," Lundy said. "Not too far into the fiscal year, we discovered that there had been some wrong revenue estimates and some other shortfalls in places where the revenue estimates had seemed to be pretty solid," Lundy said. The Academic Affairs budget also failed to reserve $82,000 for benefits for retired faculty, Lundy said. The Rev. James C. Carter S.J., university president, moved $100,000 from his budget to the Academic Affairs budget last semester, Lundy said. Lundy's reserve fund of $100,000 was also added. The remaining $400,000 in cuts have come from operating budgets and keeping open positions unfilled, Lundy said. In the past, Lundy said, unused funds such as those caused by mid-year personnel changes have been allocated for "good ideas," such as providing money to pay guest speakers. "I am currently trying to figure out ways to provide about $ 150,000 in relief for critical needs for the end of the current fiscal year," Lundy said. "I would like to publicly apologize for the fact that my errors in the setup caused all this grief," Lundy said. "Some of you have written to me specifically detailing the difficulties that the situation has caused for you," he said. "The [budget] process tends to happen in the middle of the summer when there are not a lot of people around," he said. "It tends to happen while racing the clock. It [the budget] is a hundred pages of numbers. It really needs to be gone over by more than one person to find errors." Lundy said he has developed a technique to ensure that the same mistakes are not made again. "I won't do it [the budget] by myself," Lundy said. 'There will be someone to check every number before it goes to financing." Also, Lundy said, the budget process will change in creating the 1991-92 budget. In the past, budgets have been determined by departments, he said. In the future, deans and division heads will determine budgets by considering the totals of all operating budgets, and the totals of faculty and staff salary spending, he said. "Colleges will have more flexibility and should be better able to put a budget together that makes sense," Lundy said. Lundy hinted that in the coming years smaller programs might be eliminated altogether. "There are some programs that are not credit-giving programs that might have to be looked at," he said. Somebody, please—The Rev. Ransom MarlowS. J., associate professor of physics, asks for details about the current budget at a Town Meeting Tuesday./ Photo by Charles Baker See Sports fee/page 7 See Town meeting/page 7 ,^■ll D:::|^i^^HPPßß^m: .!»