The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 69, No. 80, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1983 Page: 1 of 10
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Reagan ‘pleased’ over proposal
Military cuts suggested
A belated Christmas greeting took on a bitter note of
irony as a weary Norman fireman emerged from the
Phi Kappa Psi house Jan. 4 after fighting to extin-
guish a blaze which destroyed much of the house and
its contents Smoke and water were blamed for a
large amount of the damage
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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Kathy Robinson helps sign up her mother, Terresa.
for spring classes in Buchanan Hall Tuesday to the
seeming amazement of computer operator Bonnie
White Late registration begins today for those who
still wish to enroll for the spring semester Photo by
Ric Moore
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The Oklahoma Daily
A Student Newspaper Serving the University of Oklahoma Community Wednesday, January 12.1983. Norman OK 73019 69th Year, No 80 10pages 10^
OU administrators do not know how Nigh’s pro-
posed “stand still” budget for the 1983-84 fiscal year
will affect the university, he said
Utility costs keep going up, we have commitments
made we can’t stop," he said. “Things like fringe
benefits, health insurance costs keep going up. Things
we have no control over. And a lot of things like that
lake money. If we’re not given an increase, it makes
for a serious situation next year. ”
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A team of investigators including Ol fire investiga-
tors, Norman Fire Department investigators and the
state fire marshal has concluded the fire began in the
basement of the house nea- the boiler room
However, some of the fraternity members speculat-
ed the fire began on a flight of stairs leading from the
basement to the first floor
Jones disagrees.
"There’s no question of this having started in the*
basement near the boiler room,” he said.
Donna Murphy of OU media services estimated the
fire damaged 75 percent of the fraternity house The
house’s estimated value has been set at $750,000.
by WILDA WAHPEPAH ______
University officials have issued a four percent bud-
get reduction plan which includes a hiring freeze, a
freeze on all non-essential travel and a reduction in the
purchase of all non-essential supplies and equipment
for the current fiscal year.
Craig Conly, OU budget director, said Tuesday OU
President William S. Banowsky ordered the reduction
plan as a precautionary measure in response to recent
state-ordered budget reductions. The reductions, made
in November, December and January, were ordered
because of shortfalls in monthly revenue collections,
he said. If the state’s collections continue to decline,
an overall cut in state agencies’s budgets for the cur-
rent fiscal year may be necessary, he said.
Conly said if state revenue collections pick up, the
additional funds can be re allocated to state agencies
Because future redistribution of funds is a possibility,
he said, OU officials cannot determme a percentage
amount for the reductions made thus far.
“Until there is a final number given for reductions,
it isn’t clear how much is a permanent reduction and
how much is temporary,’’ Conly said.
OU officials chose four percent as a possible figure
for an overall budget reduction for the current fiscal
year after Gov. George Nigh asked the state legislature
to trim three percent from all state agencies' budgets,
he said.
"That’s a little less than four percent,” Conly said.
“If the overall cut is more, it will be extremely painful.
Our concern is primarily what we are going to have to
reduce between now and the end of the year. ”
Conly said the four percent reduction affects the
entire university. Il will be up to the individual aca-
demic heads to determine what will be cut, he said.
Conly said the plan does not call for salary
reductions.
“We hope we don’t have to look at salaries; that’s
always difficult,” he said. "Right now we’re making
all the reductions we can.”
by LYNNE WALKER____
Three young men sat in front of a fraternity house
eating lunch from brown paper bags. Classes would be
starting in a few days; the sun was bright and the air
was clear and cool. At first glance, the scene was
typical of students moving in for another spring
semester
But on second glance, the scene was notso typical.
Although appearing deceivingly solid from a dis
tance, the three-story structure was only an empty shell
containing charred rums. The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
members were there not to move in, but to clean up
and salvage.
When fire swept through their house on Jan. 4, most
of the fraternity members had gone. Now some had
returned to sift through ashes and memories.
"I'm just glad nobody was hurt,” Sherard Man-
ning, 20, said.“That’s the main thing.”
"We’ll be moving to GreenTree Apartments,” said
Rick Waters, 21."We’ll all be together that way.”
GreenTree Apartments, 801 Biloxi Drive, are located
in east Norman
The university presented them with several apart-
ment options, and that’s what the fraternity brothers
agreed on, they explained. The cost is about the same
as what they paid to live in the fraternity house, they
said.
The house will be rebuilt at the same location.
"They’re supposed to start on our house next
month,’’ said Rhodes Bolton, 21.“The repairs should
be finished in August. ”
Money for repairs will come from alumni and fund-
raisers, Bolton said.
Inside the house, fraternity members, a policeman
and an insurance investigator moved around. It was
dark within, and wet ashes clung to shoes like mud.
"A lot of this stuff can never be replaced," a
fraternity member said as he moved through the black-
posed budget authority would leave the Pentagon
with $27? 4 billion, a new record total about $35.4
billion bigger than the Pentagon received from
Congress this year.
The budget authority covers spending next year
as well as some outlays spread out over future
years.
Weinberger said actual spending in fiscal 1984,
under his revised proposal, would be about $8
billion smaller than had been projected That
would place the fiscal 1984 spending figure at
about $239 billion, or some $30.2 billion more
than this year
Stockman had been pushing for cuts in precisely
the same ball park $11 to $12 billion for fiscal
1984 as part of his quest to narrow what
otherwise looms as a deficit approaching $200
billion
But W einberger denied he had given in to pres-
sure and pictured the reductions as “long planned,
ever since it was known how effective our anti-
mflationay campaign has been.” iiiti
Most of the rollback, he said, is attributable to 'IIIB
lower fuel costs and prices for many other items as mu
a result of "sharply lower inflation rates," W ein- |ln
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by CHRIS BRAWLEY _______________
It is the price one pays for procrastination a wind
ing line stretching beyond the doors of Buchanan Hall
and a limited amount of classes which convene at a
decent hour.
Today is the first round of late registration and
though officials won’t speculate on the number of
students who will turn out, a crowd will probably
gather
Who are these students who will battle lines for
hours today to have a schedule in hand by the time
classes begin on Jan. 17?
Registration officials said Tuesday that the late reg-
istrants arc not just those who have put off enrolling,
there are also those students who still can’t decide on
their courses. Some students have just arrived in town
and others are transfers, they said
A few are waiting to see if they have passed certain
courses before enrolling in others, officials said.
Occasionally students will wait to register in popular
by KIM BERTHIAUME____________________
OUPD Chief of Security William Jones said last
week’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house fire is under
routine investigation after evidence was collected and
sent to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
OU officials said last week the origins of the fire
were suspicious. Checking for arson is a routine part
of the OSBI investigation
"We have sent forms of physical evidence up to the
crime lab for chemical analysis,” Jones said Tuesday.
Results from the OSBI will return in about one or two
weeks, depending on how busy the lab is, he said.
W ASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Ca-
spar Weinberger surprisingly recommended on
Tuesday an $11.3 billion cut in proposed military
budget authority next year, a step that he and
President Reagan had once resisted tooth and nail
But Reagan declared: "I’m pleased ... Cap did
it!”
Weinberger credited the prospective scaledown
to Reagan’s "effective . anti-inflationary cam-
paign,” meaning fewer dollars were necessary for
programs once thought to require greater
spending.
Despite that rationale, it appeared Weinberger
had yielded to budget director David Stockman,
other White House economic advisers, and senior
congressional Republicans who had been pressing
for a significant trimming of the defense buildup
so stoutly embraced by Reagan and his Pentagon
chief.
It was the first time in memory that any Defense
Secretary had ever made public his budget recom
mendalions before the president sent his overall
federal budget to Congress. President Reagan’s
budget for fiscal 1984, which starts next Oct. 1, is
expected to reach Congress Jan 31
The $11.3 billion reduction in fiscal 1984’s pro-
courses because they believe late registration is the best
way to grab a desired course. They hope someone who
has already enrolled will drop the course, said Bonnie
White, who has operated the computer terminal part-
time during registration for the last five years.
Sometimes, persistence will pay off for a student,
White said Terminal operators do begin to recognize
familiar faces after a time, as some students travel
through the lines four or five times a day until a
desired course is obtained, she said.
Dee Reece, another operator, told of a particular
student who hung out on the second floor of Buchan-
an Hall for two weeks until his schedule was ideal.
Computer operator Patti Kessler said by the end of
registration one semester a student had filled three
computer screens full of add/drops in search of the
perfect schedule.
Approximately 3000 students have yet to register,
said registrar Milford Messer A total of 19,000 stu-
dents studied at OU last semester, but only 16,300
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Sorting through the rubble: fraternity rebuilds
ened remains of rooms."The guys who really lost a lot
were the ones from far off, like New York, who left
erem/j/nghere over Christmas.”
In the worst rooms, personal possessions were mere-
ly heaps of ashes. In other rooms, it was easy to spot
charred stereo speakers, books that lay in ashes, and
clothes hanging in closets. In one room, two member-,
kept art supplies, including markers, paints, desks and
lamps--all gone.
The third floor was virtually destroyed. Blue sky
and sunshine poured in through through holes where
the roof once was. In the basement, fraternity mem-
bers looked glumly through the darkness.
"We were the only ones who had a place like this for
parties," Manning said. “It made a great dance floor,
and we had a stereo system, a bar and lights.”
Not all of the rooms burned One end of the second
floor was left untouched by the flames. Possessions in
these rooms were mostly intact, but smok* uad water
damage occurred almost everyw here.
The main floor of the house was in fairly good
shape. Although flames had swept down the main
curving staircase, burning the red carpet black, the
main-floor rooms escaped without much damage
"The fire doors saved our house from burning
completely to the ground," Manning said.
"After the Sigma Chi fire, the.fire marshal really
cracked down on us,” Manning explained." We had
fire doors put in, and built a fire wall where he told us
to build a fire wall. All this was finished in November.
November. And only a couple of months later.. . It’s a
good thing we got it done.”
As the students sat in front of the house, they
looked at it and talked.
“We hope we all stay together as a fraternity,”
Bolton said.
“We'd better,” Waters said firmly.
“We will,” Manning said “We’ll pull together
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Webb, Todd. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 69, No. 80, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1983, newspaper, January 12, 1983; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1821540/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.