EMBERS OF the Faculty Senate Executive Committee met June 21 in Capen Hall's Jeanette Martin Room for a special budget session to update members and to enable them to ask questions and voice their concerns to university administrators.

"It's not a partisan issue. It can't be solved while staying inside the box. We have to think outside the box," said UB President William R. Greiner.

"At least the parameters are known," said Peter Nickerson, outgoing Faculty Senate chair. "The worst case scenario and the best case scenario."

"We are obviously on a very, very, tight time line," said Robert J. Wagner, senior vice president. Wagner went on to review the proposed tuition increases.

According to Provost Thomas E. Headrick, the deans are operating under the constraint of not spending more than 95 percent of last year's budget. He later added, "My system for getting through the year will be to not make much change to base budgets." He went on to say, "This year we have to set up a system of analysis and distribution that establishes priorities and how to go about funding them."

Terry Gates, chair of the budget priorities committee, said that the committee is on call to the senior vice president and to the provost on a 24-hour basis.

Maureen Jameson, assistant professor of modern languages and literature, asked whether the tuition waivers that have been awarded to new graduate students will still be in effect for the upcoming academic year.

"The offers that have gone out will be honored," Headrick responded.

In the future, both UB and SUNY, "will have to analyze every unit in terms of its cash revenue to the institution," Greiner said. He said he favors charging different tuition fees for various undergraduate programs on this campus. On the subject of SUNYwide issues, he discussed the possible closing of less profitable campuses and the possibility of privatizing SUNY Maritime College.

Claude E. Welch Jr., Senate chair-elect, expressed his vision for the upcoming year. He has met with half the FSEC leadership and will be meeting with the deans of the schools. "The task of the Senate chair is primarily one of listening," he said. Their concerns are potential complaints. Welch, a Distinguished SUNY professor, last chaired the Faculty Senate for the 1985-87 term.

Welch told the Senators that they hold the dual responsibility of being the "ears of the faculty who elected you" and "servants of the university as a whole."

"Let's hope this table becomes the real source of information exchange," he said.