HOW TOUGH ARE THE TIMES? Administrators sit pretty amid budget slashing and tuition increases While students empty then pm kets to attend universities whete they < an t gel into classes l>et attse ol a "budget insis. some administt alors are enjoying luxuries like mansions and tars pint based vs11!i those same snapped funds. And Jeanette Adams and students like hei are angry I hey le angry lh.it theii administratols are living like kings anti tpieetis while students fat e tuition int leases, bigger t lasses and fewer i est mi t es "( .etnng t lasses is rcallv haul line, and like am big st bool, there's problems ysith t lasses being quite large," Atlams says “I think iheie neetls to be a bteakdoyvn ol the funds asail.thle and re-examining of w here dies re needed." Atlams, an elet ted at-large leptesenlatiye of the Asst m iated Slut let its of the l HI VVashingti >n, believes university lutitls might Ik- spent mote enet lively than by going administrators lug raises And across the country, students unpaired by butfgel t onsli.tints ate aii mg the same complaint. I niversities ate tindei siiutiny by students anti tat ulty members lor gt'mg atlliunisliatots pat kages mt lutlmg generous salaries, t ars anti houses in spite ol et ononut problems ravaging many budgets I he nine-st bool l of < aliloima system vsas t aught m the middle ol that dispute last seal While battling an ongoing budget 11 isis, the system concurrently approved a mdlion-doll.il retirement package loi outgoing President David (iartlnei I he system is awaiting a budget that will Ik- slashed even further than the t-jx-i i enl t in last seat, and the campuses still are reeling horn an HO-peuent tuition mt tease timing the last five seats At the same time, l ( has s[k nt hundreds ol thousands of dollars to bus out < (:• >iis 111 (lie Ilium "I think that vnu always have i«» adjust .u midinglv li> ct onoinit times, .mil lime extirmr rt minimi dines have made us look irahstiiallv .it wli.it v*f 1 an pi nude tu .mInntifstt .in >1 v" she says But the ptoblrim iicn t limited to ( alilotnia, they .nr ,o wulrspir.nl and divrise as the grogta|ihi( tegtdiis thc-v .diet t \t Youngstown Stair l in Ohio, President Leslie (lot hi an — 111 addition to his $ I hi.00(1 salat v — t c( rises a vrai h Jli.OOO ( ai a I Iowa nr r, $21,000 aniiiial housing allowani r and a paid mrmt>eishi|) to (hr i (»unii\ ( luh ol his choice, siw Min lev < at jieiitri. rxrt utivr dim lot ol |>ei vinncl srnu rs But ( (h hian's salary is aiming the lowest hi tin* stair lot puhlit university presidents, which may inditatr thr niotirv crunch at Yi lungstovvii white state funds ot mote than $ I million weir t tit Irom the I'tU'J 'id Budget 1 Bitty - two rrnpli >vrrs in rnlly weir laid oil. the njuivalrut of Id1* lull-time positions have hern ttmd tm long-lei 111 ^i■ • v\111 l\ul llit mones iiiiiltl mil In- used Ini laises l tiiseisiiy ullii nils vtid using lunds fi«>111 the etidnssme in i\ mil imiseisits polio anil usually is illegal Knlu tl ( atroll, |>it suit ill ill I list haptel i>1 lllf Alllei it an Assot iatton ol l mu iMli I’l olessor s, disagrees " I In n- an- large amuiiiiis nl minu s dial go in llu endow infill I mu I that are uniestiit ted." In- sas s "We’re not nrai lllf poverty level llieie ait Ilf me i ii lulls e mil iwine ill rrsouri es Some, like Kti.it higian, sas film alumal ipialils begins vs11Ii solid leadeisliip and si bools gel ssliat they ie willing lo pay lor “ I tic- snipe oj ad in mist i alls e i e sponsibility is tilt it-lent and linn Ii laigei than (bat ol a prolessoi " she viss " I his is not to vis that one is molt iui|>oi latil than llie othri lo otlie is. tut teasing salaries hu administrators is tough to swallow when piogiams ate being i lit and Icn^llis debate, .1 plan that will awuid (•.miner on 1 ><•« (1 .111 annual pension *>t Sl'.’o.OOO. a one-time pavment ot 5707.000 lioni a deferred iiu oine retirement par kage and three months of administrative leave Iregtnning * h 1 I. totaling $00,000 based <>n his annual salatv. Board ('hairwonian Meredith Khar higian sa\s the regents had no 1 hoit e her a use (•.miner legalh had earned the mono "We ton t rat ted mime him the monel so “...A gtxxl president won’t do any gtxxl if all the faculty leave because of low pay and the students are gone because they can’t afford to attend..." — AndreaJones-Hartsough "ON \i (hr I <>l Washington, where nllii i.ils an- < i inside ling a (all liiitiun iihic.w of as niitt I) as 2 a jiet c nil, iego I!Is soled to give President W illiam (.eibetding a Inimis jiai kage. Ixmsling tin if itnine I tom $1 .'i'i.OOO In more [hall $200,000 — the imisl rsei (laid in a stale 11! Washington em|ilosee Regents s,i\ the bonus vsas net essatv lie i a use si hi ml ol I u la I s leal etl losing (it-t lierilmg to another' universitv I heir was a legal obligation,” slit* says. “In iralit) tt isn't dial much money, bui since it is a lump sum it lias Ix'cn blown out of proportion." Andrea Jones-Hai tsough. v it f president of the \sv x iated Students at 1 . of ( aliliirnia. Has is, dtK'sn t think she's blowing anything out of propoi non “ I he regents sa\ they need big pat kages to altrat t quality people, but a good president won I do am good il all the fat uliv leave because of low pay and the students are gone because they can't afford to attend the s< bool." she savs. < iardner s salary and retirement pat kage aim t the tau.se of the system’s budget problems, but they re a symptomatic of administrative priorit/ing nationwide. Khachigian says the controversy will help shape the fill aim ill* Vt ai IHn IK — a Ulllipin HJUim I'M — was c ill. At tin State* l of Ne w York, \lbam. thr school prosifies President H Patiirk Swygrrt with $126,800 annualls and a Matraiwnrd tat Since September 1000 students ai SI \Y s< hools hair endured an MO |>ersed SA*M> million m an endowment Kit haul Hmn< he.tu. an at-large teptesentatisr of ihc Assot iated Students <>l 1 of Washington, i.m adiiiiniMiators fiavr In slum thru worth. "When wr it talking salaites. administialnis nerd to prmr win tilt s makr that unit h," hr sass "I don't know that the (irrh l