Koch should NOT be involved in any decision making. He should not be on this board.

Does this proposed 3.2% budget cut include the salaries of such notables as Schmidly, Krebs, Locksley, and Koch? Or are these frauds so altruistic they will voluntarily take a salary cut?

Will any of this matter? Probably not. Layoffs are already happening, and “Central Administration” sure as hell isn’t going to take a salary cut. The staff, the people who actually do all the real work at UNM, will be squeezed some more and some of us might even be let go. But all the VPs and Schmidley’s flunkies will keep their jobs and super-high salaries. What happens when enrollment goes up but nobody is there to process the paperwork?

Of course they’ll take voluntary salary cuts Lobo Joe because they know they’ll just trade the cut for some kind of “deferred compensation” and not tell anyone. Then when they have to cut everyone else’s income and start layoffs they’ll talk about how everyone is having to make sacrifices, including themselves. Garbage.

I think that they should cut back on the upper levels of administration and their costs, they’ve already cut too much from those parts of the University that students depend upon. It’s time for them to walk the talk and stop the shell games.

Is each sport, being forced to cut? Or is “athletics” being considered as a whole. If so, then “academics” should be a whole. Why am I even asking, when I figure athletics is exempt altogether. The football team’s weekend retreat cost more than the entire operating budget of several small departments combined… operating budgets that will soon be cut.

Separate the wheat from the chaff, as they say. This is a strategy long overdue for UNM and APS as well. New Mexico spends about 50% of its’ budget on Education and is ranked the 48th state in public education (hint- this is bad). So step back and understand that New Mexico provides “schooling” rather than education in public schools. Hence the vast number of private schools. A large percentage of idividuals in high school can’t concentrate for more than about 5’, much less be educated. When you combine the number of teachers that have given up with the large number of poor students you get a very negative snowball effect.

When/if these kids get to UNM they become part of the problem and expense. It shouldn’t be UNMs responsibility to graduate these kids at the state’s expense. It’s reasonable to identfy the kids that are failing or almost failing at UNM and get them into a trade school or manual labor school. Better yet test them and set the bar high prior to enrolling them. Lets consider improving the quality of the education system in NM instead of lowering the bar for quantity in New Mexico.

It is important for the students, faculty and staff pay higher tuition and take deep pay cuts so the athletic department and higher administration can have pay increases. The latter are entitled to live the high life and screw the low ones. Koch should also be paid well for his moronic contributions. Locksley should be given a big pay raise for being a moron.

Joe

New Mexico would really set the bar high if a child bearing limit was instituted. Indivduals that are on welfare should have to demonstrate birth control and not be allowed to have children. It’s a regressive policy to support unlimited welfare recipient birth rates. This only crowds the prisons and welfare roles of the future!