The Towerlight, May 6, 1977

tl19770506-000 "il ;i, The Senate has approved a &working budget of $132,988.42 for ,26 organizations for the 1977-78 :fiscal year. Reductions in the Black Student ,Union budget and increases in several other organization's bud-gets, including the SGA Executive 'branch, highlighted Tuesday's Sen-ate action. Members of the Senate reduced the BSU budget by $4,000 from the $18,216 tentatively passed last week and added $2,800 to John Ruark's :Executive budget. It left Ruark, the :SGA president, with a budget of $20,472. ' At Tuesday's meeting, which was ,beld as a ""committee of the whole"" In order to expedite discussion of .each budget change, the Senate also ;voted to add money to the budgets of the Campus Union Board, the 'Young Democrats, and the Senior le 'Class. CUB received an extra $300, the :Young Democrats were given $100 3� i(the total amount of their allocated 10 budget) and the Senior Class was Y, .granted an additional $700. ;e : Most of the attention of the 'Meeting was focused on changes in the BSU and Executive budgets, J which were the center of much le ,heated argument last week. , t, . The Executive branch reached a 31 ;compromise with the Senate to drop :$4,000 from the BSU budget 'allocation for a big name band 'because of a University contract to bring popular music groups to the campus. 9) The Senate also decided to iT teiristate the $1,700 that had been )f Cut from the Executive budget for Faculty Grants. This allowed the d grants to remain at the full $250 instead of the $100 award that had I. been passed last week. lt On its first vote, the motion failed to gain a majority, but after s reconsideration, the motion passed 11 by a slim one-vote margin. Also added to the exec budget Le Were $300 for postage and $800 for a 111-D track, tennis championships this weekend. See page 12. Final exam schedule. See page 3. VOL. LXIX, NO.26 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY MAY 6. 1977 flanges made in BSU, Exec budg,tts Senate approves final budget for 26 SGA organizations Is 3' o o Next Friday's Towerlight will be the last issue of the semester. Anyone wishing to publicize events happening after next week should contact the Towerlight office by noon, Tuesday, May 10, to insure that your activity will be noticed. SGA President John Ruark is looking for people who would like to serve on the Academic Council for the Academic Year 1977-1978. If anybody is interested, please Contact the SGA at 321-2711. newsletter, both of which had been cut from the original budget request. The newsletter had been one of the prime issues of Ruark's campaign for the SGA presidency in March. After moving out of the ""commit-tee of the whole,"" the Senate quickly passed a total budget, including fixed costs of $62,600, of $195,588.42. Remaining in the SGA treasury are $6,224.08. Those funds will be available to fund supple-mentary budget requests. It was recommended, however, that the Senate allocate only about $180,000 of the $202,000 in student fees that it will have to work with next year. After a short adjournment, the Senate moved on to its regularly scheduled meeting. The only legis-lative action at the meeting saw Senate pass a bill permitting the Junior Class to make a down payment for next year's moonlight cruise on the Port Welcome. SGA Exec. budget 'satisfactory' : Ruark by Bill Stetka Stating that the money he received from Senate was ""satisfac-tory,"" SGA President John Ruark said this week that he is anxious for the budget matters to be forgotten. ""Now that all the budgets are over with, I hope that we can go on,"" Ruark said after reaching, a ""compromise"" with Senate over the Executive and Black Student Union budgets. Last week, Senate tentatively approved budgets of $18,216 for the BSU and $17,672 for the SGA Executive branch, which many observers felt to be unfair. Through ""a series of negotia-tions,"" however, a compromise was reached to give the SGA $20,472 and the BSU $14,216. Ruark gave much of the credit to Leon Thompson, the SGA director of Black Relations. ""He was instrumental in our reaching a compromise,"" Ruark said this week after Senate restored in full the SGA newsletter, which had been one of the major parts of his campaign, and allocated an additional $1,700 for the Faculty Grants program. Ruark said that negotiations began last Wednesday and Thurs-day nights in an effort to improve the budgets of the two organiza-tions, but said that ""when Tower-light came out Friday, everybody blew up. ""Over the weekend, everybody sat down and cooled off,"" he said. ""Then at Monday's meeting, everybody sat around and got off their chest how they felt about it (the story in Towerlight and all that was said about the budgets). ""Tuesday, we were able to sit down and work things out,"" he said. While Ruark was pleased with what was restored to his budget, he still felt that several other items should have been added to his budget. ""The money that we got is satisfactory, but I don't think it's enough to do what I wan to do next year,"" Ruark said. He added that the Executive branch was no different than other organizations that needed money to put on projects and said that his depart-ment ""will be having several money-making events"" to do some of those projects. Among those items cut from his budget was a student directory, which he said would include the SGA report, the Gold & White, and the directory. ""The residents already have a handbook. The commuters don't,"" he said. Ruark also said he had hoped for money for both treasurers' and senators' workshops. Senate agreed to cut $4,000 from the tentative BSU budget before okaying the final budgets of all Organizations. The $4,000 was to go toward a band for a BSU festival, but an agreement was made to drop 'that due to a concert contract the University has with a promoter for sole rights to concerts. Thompson was unavailable for comment this week after the settlement, but Ruark voiced the thoughts of his fellow Executive officers in hoping that the budget matter can be forgotten. ""This year's Springfest was the best there's ever been,"" said Dave Dobbs, cochairman of the event. The Residence Council made bout $2,000, during the weekend. ""We appreciate the help we got from Special Services, Uni% etsity Union, and Maintenance,"" he said ""as well as all the students and friends and families who came to make it such a success."" Dining Services employees charge department with racial discrimination by Ruth Ann Leftridge Approximately 35 state employees at TSU have filed a complaint of racial discrimination against Dining Services and the Personnel Department. The charges, filed in mid-March with the State Department of Personnel, include discrimination in hiring, promotion, downgrading and layoff. Also, in wages, employee benefits, termination and on-the-job discimination. A Dining Services employee, who wished to remain unidentified, said that ""unfair management within the department prompted the group to file the complaint. ""We feel that something has to be done,"" said the worker, who felt that his job might be jeopardized if his name was mentioned. Wayne Wilmouth, a former Dining Services employee who was among the complainants, said, ""The most a black could ever hope to be at Towson would be a token."" Wilmouth was fired this week from his job as Food Foreman, and he believes part of the reason for his termination was his involvement with these charges. The unidentified employee said that racial discrimination such as described in the complaint has existed within Dining Services for at least a year and a half. ""There is something wrong with the system,"" he continued, talking about the changes in management he has seen in his nine years with Dining Services. London dismissed from UU job by Bill Stetka Mark London, manager of the University Union building, has been released from his position after it was found that he had violated several University policies and procedures. London, who had been employed at Towson State since June, 1974, was released as of 4:30 p.m. last GROUP Accounting WCVT CCC Executives AMA Tower Echoes Young Dems Towerlight Nurses 13SU Mass Comm Porensics CIG Star Trek Junior Class NSSI IA Ileta JSA ASPA CUB ASU Senior Class Biology Gsw '111 ISU , aYchology 'PSC Pi x e d r'ePared by: Erik D-Tkins SENATE BUDGET PROCEEDINGS '77-'78 REQUEST FAB REC. SENATE ALLOC. 1976-77 740.00 350.00 350.00 585.00 53,886.23 24,344.49 24,344.49 27,245.00 837.00 255.00 110.00 684.70 36,120.00 17,222.00 20,472.00 978.00 277.50 277.50 632.00 25,234.00 18,926.05 19,993.55 20,780.00 1,005.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 24,226.00 21,659.00 21,659.00 22,436,00 1,175.00 0.00 0.00 725.00 20,620.00 11,140.00 14,216.00 9,325.00 2,345.00 640.00 890.00 1,884.81 7,147.00 2,818.75 3,746.75 6,590.00 2,593.55 715.75 924.55 1,120.00 6,000.00 0.00 250.00 0.00 2,781.00 1,642.00 1,642.00 4,190.00 600.00 55.00 55.00 450.00 2,167.50 581.00 0.00 5,287.50 2,462.50 � 2,462.50 4,405.00 1.205.00 1,650.00 2,530.00 1,175.67 157.33 332.25 392.50 11,625.00 6,120.00 6,140.00 4,712.00 1,380.00 305.00 305.00 1,075.00 11,388.08 7,238.48 7,938.48 7,549.50 1,550.00 607.50 547.50 745.00 10,000.00 0.00 2,000.00 4,037.04 1,645.00 487.50 0.00 790.15 9,036.85 1,101.85 2,701.85 2,878.72 2,107.50 122.50 420.00 7,334.00 1,050.00 1,160.00 247,744.88 121,534.20 132,988.42 62,600.00 62,600.00 62,600.00 310,344.88 184,134.20 195.588.42 Thursday. According to Wayne Schelle, vice president of Business and Finance for the University, London was asked to leave at the request of the administration as a result of a disagreement with Towson State University procedures. His dismis-sal followed a lengthy review of activities in the University Union building. ""We're in the process of analyzing and reviewing the activi-ties of the University Union and I can't comment any further,"" Schelle said this week. London could not be reached by telephone for comment. Asked if anyone else was implicated by London's dismissal or the review, Schelle replied, ""No, not at this time. ""There's no indication of anyone else being involved,"" he said. The University Union manager is responsible for handling the Box Office, the Recreation Center, the candy counter, the lounges, the vending areas and machines, and the operation of the building itself. Bob Baeuerle, who was assistant manager of the building under London, was named manager of the Union on an acting basis until a fulltime replacement is named, Schelle said. London started at Towson State as a Recreation Center supervisor. He later worked as manager of the Snack Bar and Special Dining Room until being named manager of the University Union in January, 1976. Steele resigns from job as Towson Club director by Steve Verch Fred Steele has resigned as manager of the Towson Club. His resignation took effect April 25. Wayne Schelle, vice president of Business and Finance, said that he has placed ads in the Sunday Sun, the Washington Post and the New York Times in an attempt to find a replacement. Al Walsh, director of Dining Services, has been made acting manager of the club until a successor to Steele can be found. A native of Connecticut, Steele came to Towson in November of last year to manage the club, located in the recently restored Auburn House. Membership in the club has risen to 2,200, with approximately half coming from the community, said Schelle. Though originally intended as a gathering spot only for Towson State alumni, membership has been opened up to include business, professional, and political people. Schelle cited his dissatisfaction with the club's performance in reaching certain labor cost and food cost goals that both he and Steele had set. He said that he and Steele had met regularly to discuss the club's performance, using operational and financial analysis that had been prepared monthly by certified public accountants. According to Schelle, both he and Steele agreed at their last meeting that it would be best if he resigned from his position as manager. Steele, believed to have returned to Connecticut, was unavailable for comment. ""This doesn't exist in any other job-management changing every year and a half,"" he said. -One reason we filed is because we are being lied to,"" the employee said. ""We're told one thing and then they (management) will turn around and do something else."" The Dining Services employee also said that workers are being ""harassed."" He said that discrimination was evident when several employees in the cafeteria had their jobs ""abolished"" recently and were ""given no rea -ton."" The employee also felt that discrimination in Dining Services exists because, ""Management is trying to push older employees out."" He said that 50 and 60-year-old Dining Services workers near retirement are now afraid that they may lose their jobs with the department. Wilmouth felt that racial discrim-ination was also evident in the area of layoffs. ""Why does Dining Services lay off during the summer anyway and not other departments like Secu-rity?"" Wilmouth asked. Wayne Schelle, vice president of Business and Finance, explained that the State of Maryland Depart-ment of Personnel is the official state agency that handles such employee complaints. Schelle said that TSU's Personnel Department received a copy of the charges, but said, ""We haven't heard any more about it. ' We think it (the complaint) really relates to the employees' concern with layoffs and the abolishment of jobs,"" he said. The Vice President said that ""something like 17-20"" Dining Services' employees will be laid off for the summer. He said this is necessary because meals to resident students will not have to be served after May 27. . Also, ""four or five"" positions in Dining Services are being complete-ly abolished, Schelle said, because with next semester's all-you-can-eat meal plan fewer cashiers will be needed. Al Walsh, director of Dining Services, said that he was aware that the complaint had been filed but said that he knew nothing else about it. The unidentified employee said that the case could possibly go on for one to two years. ""Even if none of us are here then, we're going to try and make it better for somebody else,"" he continued. He said that racial discrimination does not exist just within Dining Services. ""This is in the Bookstore, Post Office, and Special Services, too,"" he said. ""It is had to work on a job and be afraid to say what you feel or to fight for what you believe in,"" he said. "