The Towerlight, May 7, 1976

tl19760507-000 ", A rally for California Governor Edmund Brown, presidential candidate, will be held Wednesday at noon at Burdick Field. The location will change to Gym in case of inclement Weather. kiikastasstwaiftwomainate t, t MAY 7, 1976 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE LXVII, NO. 27 Senate approves budgets after lengthy delays by T.F. Troy, Jr. Monday of this week, at the ""llth hour"" before Senate's term ran out on Tuesday, Joanne Finegan rescued the senate from its budget quagmire with her ,Proposal for the '76-'77 Oscal year. The Senate had met until late hours last Thursday arid Friday in vain at-tempts to pare down the $225,000 originally re-quested by organizations to the $200,000 that could be given out. No 4. organization was eager to take a budget cut. The Black Student Union ;v�as represented by Jeff n'oodard, who stalled pro-ceedings over his refusal to ,accept a cut in B. S. U.'s kideet from $16.000. , Nancy Payne, Vice-Pres- 'dent, and Joanne Finegan, Il'resident, argued against towering the executive's budget from $60,000. Towerlight, WCVT, and Tower Echoes had no �8Pecial representation on oenate but there was a general sympathy with those media, and agree- �lent that their budget requests were realistic. Art Student Union $1,07.5.u0 Biology Club 745.00 Black Student Union 9,325.00 Christian Community on Campus 649.70 Forensics Club 6,590.00 Junior Class 4,190.00 Philosophical Discussion Club 550.00 Student Gallery 3,555.00 Towerlight 22,436.00 Rambler Magazine 3,394.00 Internat'l Student Union 2,878.72 Student Nurses 725.00 College Union board 5,022.00 A.S.P.A. 389.50 Mass. Comm. Assoc. 1,920.81 Tower Echoes 20,780.00 Speech and Hearing Assoc. 450.00 Jewish Student Ass'n. 2,530.00 Executive Branch SGA 57,450.00 Creative Interpreters Guild 400.00 WCVT Radio 25,922.60 SUB TOTAL $170,978.37 Phones, Security, Speaker Serie; Faculty Grants $25,500.00 General Fund 5,571.63 GRAND TOTAL $202,050.00 The Rambler Magazine almost squeaked by with a budget of $8,000 but was cut at the last minute to $3,400, with the possibility of regaining the rest in the spring. Most of the senators wanted to leave the smaller budgets alone as they provided for student ser-vices such as dances, shows, dinners, trips, etc. which are regarded as important to students. On Friday, Woodard and Fran Schramm suggested making a sweeping 8 percent cut in every organ-ization. This 8 percent across-the-board cut would bring the budget back into Please turn to page 5 Plower investigating discrimm* ation charges changes have taken place within the department, but added that he does not know if the action occurred as a result of the letter. ""There is a lot more communciation in the (Food Services) depart-ment,"" stated Gibbs. ""There are definite plans for the direction of the department for the fall,"" he continued. ""I can see them, and I think they are good."" Please turn to page 5 by Ruth Ann Leftridge Dr. Annette Flower, TSC \ffirrnative Action Officer, Is investigating the mis- Tanagement and racial olscrimination charges acle by junior Wendell ?libbs concerning the Food Services Department. Gibbs, Student Manager �f Cashiers, made the accusations in his April 27 letter to Director of Food Services Al Walsh. have talked to mr. Gibbs, and I am engaged in an investigation,"" *said Flower. ""I haven't come to any conclusions."" She did add, however, that the Affirmative Action Office will make some decisions regarding the validity of the changes by Wednes-day. Although Gibbs had ori-ginally resigned from his position in Food Services, he has been back at work since last week. Gibbs explained that some Jeff Woodard makes a point at recent Senate budget hearing. Finegan picks She han, McGlone toful top spots by Steve Verch After taking office last Tuesday, Student Govern-ment President Joanne Finegan announced her choices for the major positions of her Cabinet. Explaining her choices, the new SGA executive said that she made her decision on the basis of the particular individuals' cap-acity and enthusiasm for student government. Finegan chose John Schehan and Matt Mc- Glone to fill the two top departments of the Cabi-net: Secretary of Organiza-tional and General Services and Secretary of Institu-tional and Community De-velopment. Schehan, a sophomore, currently is the Student Information Service Coor-dinator. Finegan said she chose him because of the effort he put into SIS. ""John really put a lot in SIS, along with Mike Garcia and Bill Spangler. He really showed a lot of kolar ends term as SGA treasurer, li)arns Senateto be careful with money By T. F. Troy, Jr. i ""I don't know if I should iirril) up and down or what. 1�guess I'm going to have readjust to being an 4chaary student."" Those were the words of 2%vson State's financial i'lzard, Kathy Kolar, the s(:1�111Ler treasurer of the e' dent Government Asso-kolar began her SGA illreer when she succeeded thlidY Forti as secretary for e, Class of 76 in January, ti9i'5. In March she ran for be treasurer position with kiavid Nevins and Ann trie Lowe. e 'his past Tuesday, she erkMPleted her term and t('ved out of the office to t;111ro way for the new ''urer, Eric Perkins. tkolar built up a reputa-e�� 4 in SGA as being ;ergetic and dependable. the beginning I was thNlY intimidated at the w�,.,,11ght of having to deal ri'Ln organizations about th44ricial matters. I mean, he are times when you e to call up somebody t"")od sa 'Look, you're gorLSIng things up' or 'I'm V; we can't pay that to hllt she quickly got used '11a.eserting her authority. qe'le Senate came to really ti:erid on me. If I came to :go an d told them I was ,tuidg to freeze somebody's ,o,!, they would just say 4hi;e 1"" and not really ,erl,d: whhaatt I recom- Her relationship with the Senate during budget hear-ings was not so rosy as that. She had worked with the SGA's full-time book-keepers Andrea Conlan and Arlene Campeggi to produce a workable budget proposal to present to Senate. She called Senate's re-action to it, ""a slap in the face."" ""If we set out to do a project and we work hard on it and we make good, it'll show in the long run, and anybody's objections are just idle words."" ""Senate just took my word for everything. That was because they had confidence in me. But at FAB they questioned me on dollars and cents; I wouldn't mind if they questioned me ond matters of opinion."" Still, she had some nice things to say about Senate. ""There are some really good people, but they're new; it takes time to learn."" ""They had the desire and they wanted to do a good job, but they wanted to please everybody. You can't do that; you have to cut the budget some-where!"", referring to Se-nate's inability to clip $25,000 off the requested budget. Did she have any last words of advice on sGA financial policies? She thought Senate should be more careful about whom it gives money to. ""They should take a hard look at funded organi- Kathy Kolar zations and set up some priorities. They should have some criteria to decide who should get money and who shouldn't. Otherwise we'll go to the breaking point."" Also from a legal stand-point, she says SGA should be more careful about giving out money. ""Sometimes it's hard to tell whether an organiza-tion wants money for the good of the students or they're trying to pull one over on you."" ""The organizations should be made to sign a contract so they know just where they stand with sGA,"" she said. Another change she sug-gested was to give certain organizations a set alloca-tion. WCVT, she said, could operate more con-fidently if they knew from year to year that they were going to get a set alloca-tion. Having worked with three different SGA Presi-dents, she was in a good position to make compari-sons. ""Konrad Herling and David Nevins.had different ideas but I thought they were both good presidents. Konrad wanted to go out and meet the people; you know, get everybody in-volved in student govern-ment. He did a good job. We got Steamline thanks to him, and he and David got the Speaker Series going. ""David wanted to pro-mote the image of SGA. He wanted to make us as important as other depart-ments on campus. We had some definite disagree-ments. We were both kind of stubborn. We differed. He brought SGA a long way."" ""Ann Marie came in in mid stream. Everything was already in the works. Faculty grants - she didn't start them but she saw them through. For the short time she was in she did well."" When she graduates, Kathy Kolar wants to eventually go into interna-tional marjteting. ""I might take a local job for a while, but my heart's with inter-national marketing."" dedication to make SIS work,"" said Finegan. Citing McGlone's back-ground, she stated that this was important in her selection. ""The Concert Series that we are planning will have to be coordinated within the Cabinet -- it will come under Institutional and Community Development. Matt has the type of background in communica-tion and business that will be necessary for a success-ful series,"" Finegan said. ""Additionally, we share the same philosophical outlook about concerts: low prices, plan far in advance, and poll the students for their preferences,"" she added. Spangler was Finegan's choice to continue as Director of Public Rela-tions. When asked who her Director of Activities would be, Finegan replied, ""I don't know."" This, and another poten-tial vacancy at the Minority Relations position could leave two empty seats in the new Cabinet. Regard-ing the directorship of Minority Relations, Fine-gan said she had talked to former SGA Senator Sop-hia Stevens. ""I've asked Sophia Ste-vens if she would take the post, but she is very interested and active in the Senate. She may not take 'it,"" she said. The new Director of the Freshman Class will be the new Sophomore Class President, Maura Friedel. According to Finegan, this is a traditional appoint-ment for all sophomore presidents. ""It's traditional for the Sophomore Class President to hold this job. They work along with us and the Residence Council for the Welcome Week Events,"" she said. Welcome Week is the first week of the fall semester when events are held to welcome residents and freshmen to Towson State. Finegan said that al-though she didn't name the necesary assistants for some of the cabinet offices, the cabinet members were free to choose their own. Forecasting specific tasks that her Cabinet would face, Finegan stated her intention for a Student Directory this fall. ""Hopefully I will shoot for November, that gives us plenty of time,"" said the new President. tti""SiMillOMMONOSIUM Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter is tentatively schedule to appear at TSC next Friday at noon. It is assumed that Burdick Field will be the location for the rally. If it rains, the rally is expected to move to Gym. ONSOSSIWWWWWWW01014411 Food Services expecting loss of near $200,000 by Bill Stetka Food Services will end the current fiscal year with a substantial deficit, ac-cording to Wayne Schelle, vice president of Business and Finance. Both Schelle and Al Walsh, director of Food Services, cite several rea-sons for the loss. Most of the reasons relate directly to the move from Newell Hall to the College Center and the introduction of the coupon system. Schelle also said that those involved ""were guilty of weak planning."" He estimated that the loss could be as high as $200,000. ""It's squirting out all directions,"" Schelle said. ""It's a combination of many things."" The move to the College Center was necessitated by the renovation of Newell Hall dining area. The move left Food Services with a lack of storage space. ""We only have a three day storage supply for food in the College Center,"" said Schelle. ""We could-n't buy bulk food the way we wanted."" Schelle said that not being able to buy and store the larger quantities of food the way they would like to meant paying higher costs for food. After several months, the Col-lege was able to persuade the state government to allow Food Services to buy direct, using the suppliers' warehouses for additional storage space. This has helped to reduce food cost in recent months. Walsh said that the Food Service operation. before he came to the College in February, went to buying ""convenience foods."" These items, he said, are higher priced than those foods that are prepared at the College by the hired labor. The department is returning to a ""raw food"" program. ""Their theory (behind using the convenience foods) was that they would save in labor. They didn't,"" Walsh said. Both Walsh and Schelle indicated that the cost of the labor force was another reason for the deficit. Walsh said that the open-ing of the multi-purpose rooms on the third floor of the College Center for lunch meant the hiring of more people. The coupon system has not worked out the way it was planned, either, ac-cording to both men. Walsh said that the operation of the coupon system is ""not as difficult as was thought,"" and Schelle said ""we realize now we didn't have to offer the bonus coupons."" Last fall, when the coupon system began, meal plan buyers were given coupons worth 15 per cent more than the cost of the meal plan. After seeing so many coupons left over, they cut back to a five per cent bonus this spring. ""And we really don't need that,"" Schelle said. Please turn to page 5 When it comes to budget, Fine Arts is left out in cold by Marj Mayers, Jim Masseron and Diane Prange ""Fine arts and sports have a lot in common,"" noted Hank Levy, director of the TSC Jazz En-sembles. ""They're both extracurricular. Each one sends out people to repre-sent the school in their performances. They're both involved in recruiting and promoting the prestige of the school."" ""But,"" Levy pointed out, ""we're (Fine Arts) not part of the school when it comes to financing. We get fluffed off so many times."" Levy's remarks were in response to a recent Towerlight survey of several fine arts faculty No suspects in Newell rape; security concerns Residence by Kathy Pascuzzi Mary Lee Farlow, direc-tor of Residence Halls, says that she and the rest of the residence staff are 'concerned"" with security in the wake of last week's rape. William Carey, director of News and Publications, said that campus police reports that no one in custody yet, but they say they are working on some leads. He also mentioned that the campus had been ""quiet"" recently. Farlow said that one of the points she and the residence staff are empha-sizing in meetings with students is ""not to leave outside doors open."" She mentioned that the security personnel on campus are ""doing all they can"", assigning an officer each shift to the dorm area. These officers are to check to make sure all dormitory doors remain locked. Far-low showed Towerlight an inch-thick stack of reports from these officers each repo'rting an open or unlocked door. Under normal circum-stances, a resident would need one key to enter the dorm building, and would have another key which would open both his quad and his own room. How-ever, on a quick tour of Newell Hall with Farlow, where the Housing office is located, a quad door found unlocked opened easily to reveal a wide-open bed-room door. Farlkow mentioned that the dorms have never had a lock broken, although the ""Crime Report"" lists several thefts each week. She said that she and others on her staff have met with residents and are trying to, enforce the security measures. Three .commuting mem-bers of the Towerlight Staff toured all the dorms re-cently checking for un-locked doors. Three doors were found unlocked, but one locked door was open-ed for a staff member by a student she had never met. As the group approached the Residence Tower, one student was seen entering the building with another group. The single student had come up to the building alone, and once inside he stood in the lobby asking several students, ""Do you have a key?"" He got on the elevator with a few minutes. The main door was found unlocked on at least one of the women's dorms, and in general, entering the dorms was pronounced ""easy"" by these three students, who had no keys. Farlow said that an alternative security system had been discussed; but that a system like the one at UMBC, or the Univer-sity of Maryland at College Park would cost about $70,000 to $80,000 per year. These systems pro-vide for a manned desk in each dorm 24 hours daily, and all visitors must regis-ter at this desk and be recognized by a student inside the dorm to gain access to the room. members regarding general reactions to overall budget and funding opera-tions of the department. Levy is not alone in his contention. Dr. David Mar-chand, director of the TSC Concert Band, remarked, ""I don't know of a single person who doesn't agree."" Gerald Phillipps, direc-tor of the TSC Opera Workshop, maintained that ""a lot of the problem is"" that people who are in charge, who make the decisions don't have any idea of the.cost. They don't understand that a good stringed instrument can cost a fortune."" ""Our program is a good program, but there is little money,"" said Paul Ber-man, chairman of the TSC Theatre Department. ""Prices have gone up so far out of proportion to what we are getting."" Thomas Supensky, chair-man of the Towson State Art Department, agreed that inflation was ""fantas-tic"" and noted that some-times when an item is ordered from a catalogue ""by the time it goes through red tape the cost has gone up one-third."" Aside from complaints that money for equipment was scarce, some faculty members were dissatisfied with travel allocations. ""That's why so many music students are com-plaining,"" added Mar-chand. He noted that $350 is the ""entire"" amount of money allotted to the music department for travel, a figure which must bi. divided between about Please turn to page 5 "