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POLICY MATTERS Agriculture vs. football Not really. But, with the recent signing of Mike Leach as the new WSU head football coach for $2 million annually while students pay higher tuition costs and programs like agriculture continue to battle funding cuts, many have wondered what’s going on. No, the WSU Athletic Department is not stealing money from the university’s general fund to pay for Leach. No, the college of ag is not hurting worse because of the new hire. In fact, the two don’t have anything to do with each other from a budget standpoint. It seems the “education” side of WSU has nothing to do with the “athletics” side. Specifically, WAWG will still be pounding the pavement in defense of WSU ag research funding in both Olympia and Washington, D.C., regardless of the new windfall in athletics. WSU is able to afford Leach because of a recent $3 billion PAC-12 television deal with Fox and ESPN. Because of equal revenue sharing, each of the PAC-12 schools will eventually reap more than $20 million annually from the 12-year contract. As for the struggling backbone of education and research at WSU, as years progress, it may improve because of the Leach hire. Donor funds to WSU says NO to further cuts By Hope Bellie Tinney WSU News Washington State University administrators have not started working on a plan to make additional cuts to the WSU operating budget, said WSU Provost and Executive Vice President Warwick Bayly, because the 17 percent cut on the table is untenable. Bayly spoke with WSU’s Administrative Professional Advisory Council (APAC) in December, discussing a wide range of topics including shrinking budgets, increasing enrollment, differential tuition and the importance of athletics. But much of the discussion focused on the budget. In November, Governor Christine Gregoire proposed that the state’s four-year institutions take a 17 percent cut in the upcoming biennium budget as part of a plan to deal with a $2 billion shortfall. At WSU, where the operating budget already has fallen from $530 million to $260 million in the last four years, a 17 percent cut would put WSU’s operating budget at $220 million. “The only thing we’ve said is that the governor’s proposal is unacceptable,” Bayly said. The governor called the Legislature into special session in November in the hope that it would pass the $2 billion in budget cuts before the holidays, but legislators were unable to accomplish the task. Bayly and WSU President Elson S. Floyd had both been scheduled to meet with APAC, but, Bayly said, the president had been called to Olympia by the governor. When asked if WSU’s stance—refusing to plan for a 17 percent cut—would exacerbate the difficulty of cuts later on, Bayly said the problem with creating a plan is that as soon as you do, the Legislature can decide the plan is a workable one, even if it isn’t. “We don’t have a plan because this (current proposal) doesn’t warrant a plan,” he said. Previous budget cuts have resulted in 570 positions lost, he said, out of a total workforce of more than 6,000 employees. Every job lost is devastating to the person who lost it, he said, but WSU has managed to limit job loss to about 10 percent of the total workforce, even while the operating budget has dropped 50 percent. “Can we continue doing that” he asked. “I don’t know; I don’t know.” As part of her budget proposal, the governor also has proposed a temporary half-cent sales tax that would bring in nearly $500 million in fiscal year 2013 and would expire in 2015. If approved, much of that money would be used to restore education funding. According to a story in a December Spokesman Review newspaper, Gregoire told reporters that she does not believe legislators will ask voters to approve the sales tax. 12 WHEAT LIFE JANUARY 2012
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