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LXXIII No. 28 'CrO t13 trug PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY CONTENTS Sports 8 Feature 3 Entertainment 5 Classifieds 12 Week Watcher 4 Newsbriefs 12 Commentary 13 May 9, 1980 What they got last year What they asked for this year FAB recom-menda-tions What they got Accounting Association 150.00 300.00 300.00 300.00 American Marketing Assoc. 1,226.00 3,080.00 1,580.00 1,580.00 Biology Club 0 1,543.00 588.00 588.00 Black Student Union 4,057.00 11,463.00 6,070.75 6,070.75 Christian Student Movement 540.00 959.43 474.51 474.51 Campus Union Board 7,215.90 9,985.00 4,430.00 4030.00 Economics Club 0 250.00 0 0 Forensics Union 3,431.00 10,596.00 6,769.00 6,769.00 Geography Club 337.56 1,100.00 220.00 220.00 Intra Fraternity Sorority Council 2,135.00 1,956.00 260.00 510.00 Jewish Student Assoc. 2,140.00 3,350.00 1,450.00 0 Mass Communication Assoc. 945.00 5,750.00 1,565.00 1,565.00 Military Science Club 0 210.00 180.00 195.00 National Student Speech and Hearing Assoc. 0 1,580.00 730.00 645.20 Philosophical Discussion Group 0 425.00 225.00 225.00 Residence Council 5,200.00 12,320.00 3,717.00 3,717.00 Society for Advancement of Management 0 698.28 218.88 218.88 Stratus (Grub Street Wit) 2,135.00 3,075.00 2,400.00 2,400.00 Tower Echoes 26,000.00 28,469.85 26,761.85 26,761.85 Towerlight 10,015.00 13,078.85 10,390.80 10,390.80 WCVT 29,484.38 28,754.90 28,754.90 28,754.90 SGA-Executive Budget 19,235.00 24,935.00 24,935.00 24,935.00 SGA-Fixed Expenditures 68,461.25 68,080.00 68,080.00 68,080.00 182,708.09 231,959.31 190,100.69 188,430.89 Biannual audit due soon by Quincey R. Johnson Eugene Gerczak, legislative auditor, said that Tow-son State will be audited in the next couple of months. The university, 1 ke all other state agencies, is audited every two years, said Gerczak. The audit entails the examination of the accounts And records of the University. The last audit period started February 4, 1976 and ended April 18, 1978. The examinations are made in accordances with Maryland laws, and generally accepted auditing stand-ards, said Gerczak. Ronald Garrison, assistant vice president for finance and systems management, said ""The University look-ed at the past audit and tried to rectify the criticisms Made by the auditors."" The Board of Trustees went Over the criticisms with the University in September, added Garrison. Garrison said that the University's finance depart-ment sent letters to the various departments on campus informing them of the upcoming audit. The last audit examined faculty time reports, the Towson State University Foundation Inc., the recon-ciliation of financial transactions, contractual agree-ments, appropriations, box office, and the administra-tive structure. Concerning the faculty time reports, the auditors found that the University did not maintain positive time records documenting the attendance of faculty at work. The University's faculty noted only the days absent, however, the State department of personnel requires the faculty member to note days worked and days absent. The auditors found that the Towson State Founda-tion, Incorporated, a private organization, uses state employees for foundation work, but does not reim-burse the state for the services rendered. Student rights promoted The auditors found that the design of the account-ing systems at the University are not compatible with the systems of the State Comptroller's office. The auditors also found that the differences between the University's accounts and the comptrollers accounts were very different. The auditors recommended that the accounting records of the University should be reconciled with that of the State Comptrollers office on a monthly basis. The contractual agreements the University entered into were under scrutiny by the auditors. The auditors found that the University was not collecting rental payments on the Towson Club or collecting fees for the maintenance of the grounds of the Towson Club. The auditors recommended that the University col-lect the overdue payments immediately. The University's engineering services department was cited for not awarding approved contracts in the right period of time. The University received money to purchase a riding mower, for landscaping, repair and improvements to the campus, but the purchase orders were not dated in time to be included in the proper fiscal year. The auditors found that the University's box office has not been accounting for tickets printed and the usage with revenues. Records were not accurately kept in one year, but the auditors found improvement in the following year. The auditors recommended that the box office maintain complete records of all ex-penditures and revenue. The auditors recommended that the full-time day division, the continuing studies division and the graduate division be consolidated. The auditors found that the present system evolved historically and was not efficient as it was in the past. Garrison said the auditors will look at the prob-lems in the last audit and further examine the Uni-versity's accounts and records. SGA allocates $188,430 by Karen DiPasquale The Student Government Associa-tion Senate allocated $188,430.90 to itself and 19 organizations during the four-day budget hearings which ended Tuesday. The Economics Club and the Jewish Student Association, both SGA-funded organizations, did not receive any funds. The Jewish Student Associa-tion did not receive money because they did not send a representative to the budget hearings. The Financial Advisory Board recommended that the Economics Club not be funded. The SGA made it a policy before the budget hearings that it would fund no organization that did not send a representative to the hearings. The first day of hearings, Thursday, the Senate approved the SGA exec-utive budget and SGA fixed expen-ditures. The executive budget, which totaled $24,935, included items such as postage, printing, a newsletter, advertising, faculty grants, the book exchange, the Center for Informed Answers (CIA) and the Planned Par-enthood program. The executive budget also included special projects like student evalua-tions and committee expenses. The committees that branch from the SGA are for carpooling, security investiga-tion, bookstore investigation and the lobby group. Some other items covered by the executive budget are the TGIF pro-grams, the phone directories, orien-tation program, SGA dances and an emergency fund. The fixed expenditures of the SGA include broad categories such as phones, scholar aid, insurance, salaries and the speaker series. The fixed expenditures totaled $68,080. Also on the first day of the hearings, the Biology Club, the Mass Communi-cation/ Film Society, the Residence Council and Tower Echoes had their FAB-approved budgets unanimously approved by the Senate. Towerlight, Stratus and the Foren-sics Union were also allocated the funds recommended by the FAB. The Military. Science Club, which received no funds last year, received $195, $15 more than the FAB recommended. The extra $15 went for a flag the club will use when it parades at events. The Intra Fraternity-Sorority Council, which requested $1,956, received $510. Steve Horn, SGA presi-dent, said the drastic cut in the IFSC budget was not to punish the organiza-tion for any wrong it had done, but rather, ""to help the group focus on one event at a time."" Pierre Douyon, who was acting IFSC president when Waynbe Shores resigned as president, said, ""I find it hard to believe the cut wasn't made as a punishment for something."" The Society for Advancement of Management and the Philosophical Discourse Group were allocated the funds recommended by the FAB, as was WCVT and the Christian Student Movement. Jay Blanton The National Student Speech and Hearing Association's budget was cut by the Senate from the FAB-recom-mended $730 to $645.20. NSSHA had voluntarily cut its own budget $30 and the Senate cut more from the group's request for equipment. The Black Student Union's budget was also passed unanimously. How-ard Roberts, vice president of the BSU, told the Senate that the BSU asked for more money this year than last year because ""we're trying to get more people involved in our organiza-tion and we're trying to do more this year."" ' The American Marketing Associa-continued on page 14 Just another brick in the walk Just as Mother Nature was putting the finishing touches on Spring, the last pieces of Education Street were being put into place. Unfortunately, some of the other pieces are falling step! out, as these missing bricks show. Watch your TL photo by Cindy Sheesley Code guarantees free expression, in by John Koehler Dorothy Siegel, Vice President of Student Services, is working to punc-ture the old college belief that ""students don't have any rights."" ""Our overall philosophy here at Student Services] is every student has elbow room and rights,"" said Siegel. ""We are chasing down problems that students have, not waiting for them to come to us,"" said Siegel. A big problem with the student rights issue, which stems from the 1960s student demonstration, is students do not know their on-campus rights, Siegel said. Siegel and other administrators are working to open paths to students who want to know their rights, the proper channels to take and the penalties because of their action. The Student Code of Conduct pro-motes free expression and inquiry for students at Towson State. Student Rights covers four areas: classroom expression, personal ex-pression and privacy. Under classroom expression, stu-dents are allowed to communicate freely in class provided they do not impede ""the reasonable academic progress"" of the course. Further, teachers cannot degrade students' academic performances because of the view students express. Students are also allowed to hold rallies and distribute written material provided it does not disrupt ""the operations of the institution or deface property,"" according to the Student Code. The Code also protects student pri-vacy. This area is covered under the Supreme Court's Buckley amendment which ruled a student's records are confidential. ""The faculty advisors have access [without a student's consent] to a student's records for advising pur-poses,"" said Lonnie McNew, assistant vice president of student services. ""But the Registrar won't give infor-mation without assurance that the teacher is using it for advising pur-poses,"" he added. Student SAT records and high school transcripts are the most frequently requested material. Privacy is also respected for res-ident students. ""As icing as a dorm ghident's door is closed the rnm-munity Assistants won't bother stu-dents,"" said Jeff Dilandro, resident community president. Articles stolen from dorm rooms are not a liabiity to the University, though the theft is covered by home-owners insurance. Students can take their problems many places, including the Univer-sity's academic departments, the University police, the housing office, student services, and the student government's committee on student rights and responsibilities. Student services handles many stu-dent problems, though it may refer cases to other jurisdictions. ""We always try to be available to students,"" said Siegel. ""It's a shame students don't know they can do something if they feel their rights were violated."" Another potent, though less used, route is the students' rights and responsibilities committee. The committee, which consists of five students and five faculty continued on page 2 In this issue Alfred Hitch-cock, master of the macabre, re-cently passed on to that great my-stery in the sky. See the Hitch-cock retrospec-tive on page 7. Well, we've hit the big time. Lest you have any doubts, placekicker Randy Bielski was drafted by the Colts. Read about it on page 8. Kill the ump! Wait a minute. Not if it's good old Doc Gehring of the education department. He's living proof that umpires can be gc mi-guys. Story on page 3. "
