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Budget to fund construction

By Anna Herkamp
Summer Reporter

Aspects of the recently announced state budget for higher education won't be as high as what the University officials would have liked, however, Purdue president Martin Jischke is still optimistic about the future.

On May 29, the 2001-2003 biennium budget was passed and provided an overall average annual increase of 2.9 percent in operating funds for public universities, with Purdue's West Lafayette campus averaging less than 2 percent each year.

In a recent press release, Jischke said, "The budget does not provide all of the resources that we need, but given the fiscal situation, we understand the General Assembly's limitation."

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Ceremony pleases families, graduates

Luis Jimènez/ Summer Reporter

SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER: A Purdue student receives a robe for a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine during commencement ceremonies Sunday morning in the Elliott Hall of Music. The University graduated 5,355 graduate and undergraduate students over the weekend.

Brimming with graduating students, relatives and friends, the Elliott Hall of Music served as the stage for the 183rd commencement ceremonies to the first graduating class of the 21st century over the weekend.

The ceremony held on Sunday, in which students from the School of Veterinary Medicine, School of Liberal Arts and the School of Consumer and Family Sciences graduated, started with an introductory speech by Purdue President Martin Jischke. In his speech, he spoke to the graduating students about the importance of striving to succeed in their careers. "Success emerges in the happiness from what we do," Jischke said to a packed auditorium.

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Finalists propose changes in school

The first of four finalists for the dean of the Schools of Engineering said the Schools need to put emphasis on solving socially relevant problems in order to keep up with the changes in the various engineering fields.

Mark Kushner, the interim head of the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, said since the there has been a shift in the industries towards a research and information based economy, the study of engineering has to make the same shift. This would include solving such socially relevant problems as well as more economic driven research.

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University chooses new registrar

On Friday Purdue named the interim registrar, Joy Garton Krueger, as the new University registrar.

"I'm very pleased and humbled to be appointed," said Krueger.

She had been the acting registrar since July of 2000, when the previous registrar, Marlesa Roney, left for a vice presidency at the University of Akron.

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