a The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 11, 1981- Page 13-B Slicing the. ' J' ie i 'U' budget ax trims Botanical Gardens Extension Service cut By ANN MARIE FAZIO The University's Matthei Botanical rdens was the first non-academic gram to fall victim to the ad- ministration's budget ax this summer. University administrators announced last June their plan to cut the gardens' budget by about 36 percent, forcing the closing of one of the gardens' five greenhouses and the layoffs of at least five gardners and other employees. Bill Collins, the gardens' senior bot-. ' ulturist, said the staff has been in- Wrmed of the cuts-totaling about $100,000-in a meeting about two weeks before the cutbacks were enacted. He also said that then-acting LSA Dean John Knott had assured the gar- den's staff that the current budgetary constraints were only temporary. Collins agreed with other staff mem- bers that a great deal of energy would be devoted to looking for alternative sources of funding. Bob Henry, one of four horticulture asistants at the gardens, said that the *tbacks forced the elimination of three lull-time positions and two part-time jobs at a time when he said the gardens are already short-handed. Though the, five dismissals will account for most of the cutbacks, the gardens also enacted other measures, inclluding the introduction of a 75 cents admission charge, to absorb the deficit, Collins said. The remainder will come from several other sources. They plan to ask for a 75 cent donation from visitors as well as a fee from organizations that hold meetings at the Gardens, he said. ABOUT $20,000 of the deficit will hopefully be made up by charging researchers for space used at the Gar- dens, Henry said. Collins added that they will also be charged for any materials and staff time used. Henry said the Gardens area most jeopardized will be the section open to the public, because with the reduction in the number of groundkeepers, the staff will be unable to keep it up. Collins said that since the main fun- ction of the Gardens is teaching and research, there will not be as much out- side maintenance needed, which con- sumes considerable staff time. FORMER GARDENS Director Erich Steiner said, however, that the gardens were never fully utilized because they never had a' research staff. "If the Botanical Gardens had a research staff," he said, "there would be, perhaps, a greater interest in keeping (the facility) at a maximum level." Dean Knott said there have been ef- forts to have more researchers at the Gardens in the past, but that they haven't worked out "for one reason or another." Frye . .. in pensive mood Collins said some of the areas which cannot be tended to will be "let go into natural areas." He added that some of the outside maintenance will be done by volunteers, particularly from the Friends of the Botanical Gardens. HE ADDED that the cuts that are being made to the Gardens will "very significantly diminish the ability of the Gardens to produce material for class and diminish the quality of the Gardens as a public education resource." Greenhouse 3, which holds mostly personal collections and class material, is slated to be closed to save ap- proximately $1,000 in heating costs, Henry said. This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. By ANN MARIE FAZIO The budget of the University's Exten- sion Service was cut by nearly 90 per- cent this summer as part of the Univer- sity's retrenchrent plan, a move the program's director said will force the dismissals of at least 45 staff members. The cut forced the discontinuation of the program's Extension Regional Cen- ters in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Saginaw, Director Alfred Storey said. THE CUT IS part of a "reorganization" of the Extension Ser- vice being conducted as part of the ad- ministration's plan to make the Univer- sity "smaller but better," according to a July report to the Regents. And, though University Vice- President for AcademicAffairs Bill Frye reassured the Regents that the cuts "will enable the University to provide, with minimal disruption, ser- vices to off-campus students," Storey warned the cut would "greatly diminish" the program's ability to ser- ve the state. "We're being reduced, not reorganized," he said.' HE ADDED that these services reach 47,000 people through the credit-course program, and another 20,000 people in credit-free programs, such as con- ferences and institutes. The academic unit that sponsors a particular program or course with Ex- tension Service will hopefully pick up the responsibilities for those programs, Storey said. This will depend on their individual budgetary constraints. Along with the cuts, an Advisory Committee on Extension Activities will "review the mission of Extension in light of changes within the University." STOREY SAID he feels this mission includes "the responsibility of sharing with citizens of the state teaching and research resources of the University."- The fulfillment of this mission, he said, would be greatly hindered by the cuts. The Extension Service offers credit courses at six centers around the state as well as non-credit courses, including seminars and conferences, many times using University faculty members as lecturers. The cutbacks are the result of an ex- tensive review of the Extension Ser- vice, held in February, which is part of the University's massive budget cut- ting plans caused in part by reductions in state appropriations. The report of the subcommittee which studied the Extension Service, made in March, recommended that the department be totally eliminated. THERE HAS been some criticism of the review process by program of- ficials. The director of the center in Detroit, Robert Schultz, said he wrote a 20-page criticism of the process, charging the committee was incom- petent and unworthy of the University. He said the committee didn't gather information or think logically and made "gross errors of omission and com- mission." This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. 'J' officials not ruffled by Title IX review a° By ANN MARIE FAZIO Despite President Reagan's intended review of many federal regulations, in- eluding the controversial Title IX, Utaiversity athletic and affirmative ac- n officials aren't too concerned about e effects of the act's possible elimination on campus sports. Although the application of Title IX, which requires proportional financial support for men's and women's athletic. programs,. to the University's Athletic .Department, has- been the subject of a continued debate, the aspects Qf the regulation that will reportedly be eviewed by the R eagan ad- inistration are "non-issues," accor- ding to University Affirmative Action Director Virginia Nordby. 'ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Don Canham said he thought "it was about time the amateur-ish" investigations of the law's implementations, as they pertain to the University, were reviewed. He addedthat he was "happy as hell " about the review of what he calls "a classic case of government bureaucracy at its worst." "It won't make a bit of difference one ay or another" Canham said, adding at the University already complies with Title IX. "We have 11 men's sports and 11 women's sports. We treat them both the same." Women's Athletic Director Phyllis Ocker said the support of the women's sports has "come a long way and Title IX helped. She said, however, that she thinks federal support would continue, even if Lhe law's rules were to be relaxed or even totally abolished. AND EVEN IF the review finds that Title IX doesn't apply to departments not receiving direct federal aid-such as the University's Athletic Depar- tment-Nordby said she doubts there would be a.withdrawal in the Univer- sity's committment to the support of women's athletics. "We've done so much already," she said, "there would be no sense in not continuing on the path we've set for ourselves.' Women's basketball and softball Coach Gloria Solud said she thought Canharn, the University Athletic Department, and University President Harold Shapiro all strongly support the womens' programs. This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. 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