The Collegiate Times today launched a radically new look for its Web site, www.collegiatetimes.com, after a long, sometimes unpredictable process.
The new template features a mock white paper on top of a lime-green background and intends to pack a wider variety and greater amount of information onto the main page, among other goals.
Readers, what do you think about the redesign? Do you find it easier to use, and do you have any suggestions? Pk
The SGA is hosting the candidates for Blacksburg Town Council at Haymarket Theatre this Monday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m.
The candidates will address questions from students about issues impacting the student body in order to give student voters a more informed perspective on each candidate’s position.
There are nine candidates running for four spots. The candidates include Krisha Chachra, Michael Sutphin, Susan Anderson, Bryce Carter, Frank Lau, John Bush, Greg Fansler, Tom Rogers, and Cecile Newcomb. Pk
In an email distributed to university faculty and staff, President Charles Steger confronted the looming issue of budgetary woes and revealed several strategies to cope with the cuts.
Steger said he had asked deans, vice presidents, and other “senior resource managers” to prepare multi-stage plans for the reductions. The first stage will be to offer the so-called Alternative Severance Option and other layoff options for faculty and staff.
“I make you aware at this time of this planning because I am sure that campus cross-talk is churning,” Steger noted in the email.
The use of ASO, Steger said, would be limited but would offer severence benefits or enhanced retirement options in early Nov. to eligible employees with the goal of eliminating several employees’ salaries from the budget. Use of ASOs will be at the discretion of the senior resource managers.
By the 2010-2011 fiscal year, Tech will have experienced $68 million in reductions in state funding over three fiscal years.
This year’s budget appropriations were offset by Governor Kaine’s decision in early Sept. to accelerate the use of $30 million in stimulus monies. However, the cost of lessening the cuts’ immediate impact on Tech is to increase the gap in the near future. Pk