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- The Towerlight, October 4, 1974
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- The October 4, 1974 issue of The Towerlight, the student newspaper of the Towson State College.
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The Towerlight, October 4, 1974
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tl19741004-000 "of final audit shows ""considerable progress"" VOL. LXIX NO. 5 othttttgt TOWSON STATE COLLEGE OCTOBER 4 1974 nt oii by Dave Cochran .all op The final audit of Towson State nollege's finances for fiscal years 1972 tiod 1973 has been completed and both Ilyie College and the State's Department rid Fiscal Services feel that considerable 'ogress has been made by Towson c,ate since the last audit two years ago. Tip The auditing team, led by Pierre J. eeimbden, examined Towson's books for cose Period from August 12, 1971 through ,diovember 13, 1973. Their report not Illy showed progress but was less isoitical than any of the College's ,./evious audits. ,,s( Dr. James Fisher, College President, ne!1,3apey with the State's findings saying, h ot, he college is satisfied with the positive port and is encouraged by the corn-fents by both the Board of Trustees and IC Department of Fiscal Services."" to Wayne Schelle, Vice President for bosiness and Finance, says that he was ncyld two weeks ago by Lambden that wIs is a ""good audit"". Schelle also says -4 has been told by the Trustees that ftiOwson's audit is the best audit they'?T en from any State College. 0.61 He says steps have already begun to eidplement the recommendations made id Lambden and his crew. ""Two areas of nincern to the auditors, the accounts befeivable and cash receipting operation had the accounting of Federal funds, are deady being corrected."" s In the past, the College has main-tained an overall accounts receivable control account, but there was never any breakdown separating students, faculty, staff, college departments, and on and off-campus organizations. The report recommends that the College have such breakdowns and ""the accounts should be aged periodically."" The auditors also recommended ""that all students, faculty, and staff be required to pay the past due balances in their accounts and that the College vigorously pursue the collection of open balance due from off-campus departments and organizations."" The College has since reported that those people with accounts over four months old have been receiving letters stating that a ""transfer to. the State Central Collection Unit would be ac-complished within a 30-day period if payment was not received by Towson."" Schelle also says that trying to collect past bills tends to ""cause some human relations problems."" Towson will not admit any student who has a past bill due to the College but Schelle says that some people trying to re-enter the school have been writing bad checks in an attempt to clear their accounts. Some unpaid bills are as old as 20 years and can be traced back to the tuition waiver program for teacher education students. Many graduates could not find jobs teaching immediately (1,;(Democratic candidates agt nvade Towson campus by Sue DeBolt Capitalizing on his campaign theme ""'It can be better,"" Democratic can-late for Baltimore County Executive d Venetoulis joined with Governor Irvin Mandel, U.S. Senatorial can-tate Barbara Mikulski and Comp- Louis Goldstein in a campaign ealie-over at Towson this week. 1 ()People have been and will continue to iyil a key in the Venetoulis campaign as agil said ""that people made a difference at the first time in the county."" Around. 3 ti) county, he said that the great pride tithe county can be seen in the defeat of e entrenched political machine. netoulis added that the previous Pitacism of the people in their feeling tit jt; their vote didn't count has abated. Want to take government and return it th.the grassroots level,"" Venetoulis said w! he called for town meetings. ""The btical process demands that there be etle'ect interaction between political nitres and the public,"" he added. ttli , 01 Just the beginning .r, Stressing that ""this is just a .nOginning,"" the Democratic candidate inIld that the county with the ""worst t Oputation had been transformed. He (lantioned the current ""Watergate vcndrome that winning is the most thiportant goal"" - in the beginning of his oampaign, Venetoulis made up his mind gait running was not the most important :nting, rather it was ""the domination of inciples and standards."" Regarding lts goal, Venetoulis emphasized that he yihuld come into office as a ""completely cc,e man,"" with no bargains or deals ""Nnging over his head. als Venetoulis said the question in 35 lys would be if he ""could beat the new Iet the audience that he had asked his oppoilent to limit his future campaign spending to $50,000 which he refused to do. The Democratic candidate said that his Republican opponent spent $68,000 in his primary with no opponent where as Venetoulis spent only $30,000 beating the Democratic machine. He also criticized his opponent or not iden-tifying himself with t. Republican party, ""I'm proud of being a Democrat, I didn't like what was going on in my party so I stood up."" ""I'm going to make the Baltimore County Democratic party the pride of Maryland, I'm going to make Baltimore County the pride of America,"" an excited Venetoulis told the audience. Experience cited Comptroller Goldstein introduced Mandel by citing the experience of their Democratic team - Mandel - 23 years, Lt. Governor Blair Lee - 16 years, Attorney General Francis Burch - 14 years, and himself - 32 years. Emphasizing his team's record, Mandel told the audience that ""government today needs to be , made more manageable."" He praised Maryland's Transportation Department, diverse industrial, commercial and business network, and balanced budget. Mandel said the ""the country was facing perhaps the most tremendous challenge we've ever had - inflation"" and that it needs to be put back on the right path. ""Were just one state, it's a national problem so your voices must be heard on the national level,"" he added. ""The election right now is a forerunner to 1976 when the government can be changed,"" Mandel emphasized. Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Barbara Mikulski reiterated her feelings of last week's speech concerning her deep commitment to education and me machine in the t ."" told . tax reform. y� Ii .0 be tt 0 )0 ti' red Vent4ou1is smiles and says. ""It can b hettir n after graduation. In many instances, these people found other forms of livelihood and never taught. The non-teaching waiver people were supposed to pay back to the College all tuition monies, but often the College could not track them down. Women graduates have been especially hard to find since most changed their names because of marriage. Another problem has to do with College charge accounts that were once used in the Bookstore. The charge ac-counts proved so unsuccessful that the Bookstore has since gone to using Master Charge and Bank Americard. Schelle says, ""We're in the process of cleaning up old accounts receMible,"" but he expects it will take an additional six to nine months to finish the job. The auditors also reported that as of June 30, 1973, there was a net cash balance of about $60 thousand on deposit in the Federal fund reserve account. About $47 thousand of this money represents excess funds resulting from ""incorrect postings of receipts and disbursements made to various grants over the' past years."" The auditors recommended that unless the Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning gave the College per-mission to keep the $47 thousand, that money should be turned over to the General Treasury of the State. After meeting with the State, the College agreed to turn over to the State treasury $40 thousand in the reserve account. The one part of the audit that is most favorable is the Student Government Association portion. Lambden said in the report that the SGA had followed the suggestion made in the last report and had gotten their books in proper order. Schelle says, ""I would give all the credit to the SGA."" He feels that Student Government bookkeepers, Andrea Conlan and Arlene Campeggi, deserve a large part of the credit. Also important, says Schelle, in maintaining books, is former SGA treasurer and president Rick Danoff. Schelle sums up the report by saying, ""We have made many forward strides in improving our management ef-fectiveness including those areas scrutinized by the state auditors and the audit explanations in most cases are products of 'human error'. ORGANIZATIONS OVERSPEND Controversy created in Student Government by Bryan Harness An impoundment of funds for three SGA organizations - Talisman, the Black Student Union, and Class of 1975, has created a controversy within the Student Government. The three organizations overspent their budgets last year by a combined total of $2,518. SGA Treasurer, Rudy Ford, has defended the impoundment by citing an earlier precedent set by the state. Through this precedent, if the total SGA overspends its monies, then the state would delete the overexpenditure for the coming fiscal year. Consistent in policy Forti commented that the im-poundents will be consistent in policy, and said they should have been done last June. ""Because overexpenditures will be known when senate isn't in session, it should be a policy that these funds be subtracted, for whatever reason,"" said Ford. The BSU overspent its 1973-74 budget by $1,818.25. Thi g money has been subtracted from their '74-75 budget. The BSU appears to have done a heavy load of spending towards the end of last year. Many time sheets came into the SGA at the end of the year from the BSU, which along with other factors caused the deficit spending. In order to take clear of the problem, Forti said that the BSU could either not pay students who were supposed to be payed, or they could take the loss in their next years budget. Campbell sends letter Morris Campbell, BSU President, said Tuesday that he still hadn't been notified what the causes were for the overexpenditure. Campbell wrote a letter to the SGA last week, in which he requested specific information regarding the expenditures. Assistant to SGA President Konrad Herling, Mike Wach, in replying to Campbell's letter, wrote in part, ""On Tuesday, September 24th, I arranged a meeting (through Larry Hughes, former BSU Treasurer) with you, Larry, and present treasurer Darryl Wright, to once and for all clear up our $1,818.25 financial difficulty. The meeting was for 2:30 p.m. For one and a half hours the entire SGA Executive body, along with the secretary and bookkeeper awaited your arrival. Not once, not twice, but three times I per-sonally traveled to your office to get you. Three times Darryll informed me that you were coming. We waited, Morris, and you did not show. We would be more than happy to once again assemble our financial records for your viewing. Please feel free to set up a date and time at our mutual convenience. Looking forward to seeing you. Sincerely, Michael R. Wach Assistant to the SGA President Campbell maintains that he had not been aware of any meetings being called, until after he received the letter. Shelia Culberson, Vice President of the BSU said that she had been within reach but that nobody from the SGA made an effort to contact her regarding a meeting. Supplemental budget Francis Clay has submitted a sup-plemental budget request for $1,818.25 to the Senate. SGA Treasurer Rudy Forti said Monday that he will oppose a full reimbursement of funds to the BSU, ""because of the fact that to a con-siderablo degree the overexpenditure was the fault of the BSU organization that was in office when the overex-penditure occurred, in my opinion."" '75 overspent The Class of 1975 has also had some of its monies impounded. The organi-zation. overspent itself kv approximately $200.00 last year when it was forced to pay for damages incurred during the Port Welcome Moonlight Cruise. Rick Danoff, President of the Class of 1975, said, ""In my opinion, I don't think it's fair or equitable"" in commenting on the impoundment of some of his classes funds. Danoff added that it was his un-derstanding that SGA was going to take total financial responsibility for the damages. However, that wasn't the case, as the money was deducted from the Class' budget for fiscal year 14-75. SGA Treasurer Itudi Forti in a lighter moment. photo by Buddy Rehrey Forti maintained that there was a misunderstanding between SGA and the Class of '75, and pointed out that the SGA executive has no authority to take funds from the SGA treasury for reimbursement purposes. The third organization to have funds subtracted from its 1974-75 fiscal budget was Talisman, which overspent itself due to an error on the publishers part ""If we are disbanded, it will be an overreaction on their part. Something like this gives them an alibi for doing something they wanted to do in the first place,"" said Dillon, in disucssing the possibility of his supplemental budget failing. If Talisman's supplemental budget request is approved, then they will have sufficient funding for a slightly smaller publication, he said. Forti is urging the appropriations committee to put in the financial policy a provision enabling the Treasurer to impound deficit funds. Senate would then make the decision whether or not funds should be reimbursed, since it is the policy making body. Vets to meet Towson Concerned Veterans will meet today at 3:30 p.m. in the Tiger's Lair. This Sunday's cleanup will be discussed. It is planned that representatives from other college veterans clubs will attend and discuss their clubs. Fund requests captivate Senate by Sue DeBolt Senate simply continued to pour over bills again in their weekly meeting as two appropriations were made. The Christian Community on Campus received $572.50, a cut of $255.00 from their original request; and the Forensics Union was awarded a $740.00 ap-propriation, a cut of $260.00 from their first request. Two other bills passed their second reading: 1.) S.B. 13 - to request that CAIB allocate $4000 for an Outstanding Faculty Grant Program and 2.) S.B. 17 - to allocate $1075.00 to Concerned Veterans, amended to $475.00 Faculty grants Discussion arose over the bill requesting $4000 for faculty grants. SGA Vice Presidnet David Nevins praised the program as he said that the SGA is interested in faculty. He added that it would be the first time that students are giving their fees to faculty. Senator Bobby Wayden questioned the bill because he felt there was ""no incentive"" in it plus faculty were already on a payroll. Senator Eric Martin said that it should be emphasized that students would be in charge of making the decision on who would receive the grant. Utilizing the new process of electing senators, SGA President Konrad Herling nominated Bruce Hoffman, Jose Ceppi, Clarence Allen and Terry Fern-stein as new members of the Senate on the condition that they are approved by the Government Operations Committee and then by the Senate. Herling praised this new system as one ""that gives those people a much more decent chance at learning what's in Senate and if they're really dedicated."" ""Speaking of jokes..."" Closing his comments on the new election procedure, Herling said ""too often in the past it's been a joke."" ""Speaking of jokes, I want to talk about the CAIB (College Advancement and Improvement Board),"" Herling said, 'as he came out in favor of the bill to abolish the board. He criticized it because students who aren't even elected are determining where student finances are going. Continuing on the subject of legislation, Herling also came out in favor of a bill to fund the Black Student Union tutorial project. ""I want everyone to know that this Student Government is committed to a philosophy where Black and White Students can respect each other and exchange ideas,"" he em-phasized. Committee members needed Nevins told the Senate of a com-mittee currently being formed to study the possibility of merging the two day care centers: so that he asked the Welfare Committee to nominate two. members to the body. He also urged senators to tell people that many tickets are still left for the upcoming October 18 speech by Day Care expert, Dorothy Pittman Hughes. The date was also changed for Abba Eban to November 17. Hughes tickets on Tickets are currently available, in the College Box Office, for the Dorothy Pittman Hughes lecture, Friday, Oc-tober 18. The Day Care expert will speak Course correction noted for Mini An error has been made in the description of Dr. Armin Mruck's Travel-Study course in the Mini-mester catalogue. The course will actually be con-ducted as a four week semester during January in Berlin (West and East), Munich, Innsbruck, Florence and/or Rome. Persons interested in this course .hould contact either Professor Mruck in the History Department (823-7500, Ext. 427 - Office Hours MWF 2-3 p.m., LI 119E) or the Secretary of the History Department, Mrs. Beverly (Ext. 428) or Miss Bowersox (Ext. 534). sale at 8:30 p.m. in Stephens Auditorium. Student Tickets are free, all others are $2.00. Free tickets for Hughes and Dickerson will be available on Monday, Oct. 7 at 8:30 A.M. For Abcug and Eban, free tickets will be available beginning Monday, October 21 at 8:30 A.M. Rowan and Brinkley tickets will be available beginning Monday, November 21 at 8:30 A.M. Gallup and Kilpatrick tickets win be available beginning Monday, February 10 at 8:30 A.M. Tickets will be given out on a tirst come first served basis. The tickets are for students, faculty, and staff. The date for Abba Eban's lecture has been changed from October 20 to November 17. "
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