tl19700227-000 "SGA slices activities fee $5 College Union operating fee raised $5 When students returned for spring registration, they received notice that they were not to receive the $5 refund previously promised them when the activities fee was slashed from $30 to $25 per person. Instead, the $5 per student was to be transferred to the College Un-ion operating budget. Wayne Schelle, Director of Bus-iness and Finance, explained to Charles Johnson and Richard Nei-dig that the need for a College Un-ion Operating Fee was discovered in October when it became appar-ent that the Bookshop profits had been overprojected by $28,000 for the year 1969-70. Since the College Union must be a self-supporting enterprise and depends on Book-shop profits, President Fisher asked Dallas Garber, Director of the Col-lege Union, to suggest different op-tions to make up for the loss of revenue. Dr. Fisher spee:fically in-structed Mr. Garber ""to touch the student base"" in producing the op-tions. towerli Vol. XXII, No. 18 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 February 27, 1970 Stall discrepancies by quits due to salary aiscrepannes MIKE LARKIN Deficiencies in promptness of paychecks play a major role in the shortage of manpower among col-lege employees, says Dallas Gar-ber, director of the College Centre. Some of the trouble spots are: pay checks always late; amount of check showing through the window on envelope; lack of communica-tion between comptrollers office and the employees. There are basically four cate-gories of employees at Towson: State, which includes secretaries and staff; contractural, which in-chides the hostess in the College Centre and maintenance personnel on a temporary basis; administra-tive, which includes Dr. Fisher and the administrative; and student part-time help. Only the contrac-tural and the student areas are in-volved in the difficulties. Their paychecks are always at least two days late according to the employ-ees involved. Mr. Garber acknowledged that this is true when he stated that when he hires personnel for those categories he tells them that as a general rule their pay will be a couple days late . He further went on to say that this tardiness is one of the major causes for the constant turn-over in maintenance and janitorial workers at the school. Mr. Paul Gigley, manager of the Campus Book Shop says his em-ployees cheeks are always late. When asked if anything was being done about it he stated ""Not that I know of, at least I'm not involv-ed in anything."" However, this is not the prevail-ing attitude among upper level ad-ministrators. Garber and Gigley both pointed out that it is the ,State who is-sues the checks and sends them out. Neither of the men were able to state why the other two categories have no trouble with their checks. Complaints have been registered with Wayne (Saelle, director of business and finance who echoes the viewpoint of his hands being tied by the state ""red tape."" Several people have complained of a ""I don't care"" attitude of the administration because their paychecks are unaffected. How-ever, it has been found that they have had problems too. They also seem concerned about the problems of the other categor-ies. One administrative employee lad to wait six weeks to get his first paycheck. This is another problem; that of getting new names on the payroll on time. This compounds the problem for the other categories, they have had the same problem. As Garber says in a leter sent to Schelle concerning the late pay-checks. "" . . . As I'm sure you know, Bev- Non-athletic fund covers intercollegiate competition by CAROL CONNELLY A $3,000.00 non-athletic Compe-tition Fund, taken from a surplus of money, left over from the athle-tic fee, has been approved by the College Senate to cover the expen-ses of sending TSC students to represent Towson in non-athletic competition with other schools. This ""emergency, non-precedent setting action of the College Sen-ate"" according to Charles Johnson, SGA president, will benefit organ-izations such as the Debate Club, Phi Mu Alpha, the Chess team, mu-sic organizations, and the Creative Interpreters Guild. The SGA did not have the money available to cover these expenses, but they realized the importance to both the school and to the indi-vidual students involved to partici-pate in intercollegiate competition. They first approached the Inter- Collegiate Athletics Committee, but their request was denied. After debate, the College Senate approved an allocation of $3000 rather than the $5000 requested by the SGA. The College Senate does not, however, want this to bcome a yearly occurrence, says Johnson. The money is to be handled through the SGA and will cover all the costs entailed by the various organizations. Budgets need to be submitted to the SGA office in or-der to receive these funds; and, where necessary, the number of competitors may have to be limited. In order to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the fu-ture, a committee is presently work-in on completely restructuring the fee system. Members of this com-mittee, Dallas Garber, James Duffy, Charles Taylor, and Tom Walkie-wicz, want to have one general fund, rather than separate funds. (Please turn to page 7) eral of the employees are on a low scale salary and cannot afford to have this sort of discrepancy hap-pen."" This situation not only affects those directly involved in receiv-ing late paychecks, but to the stu-the employees are unhappy with their working environment, they may not do their very best. The late checks are only one factor which adds to discontent and un-rest among the employees at Tow-son. balance zero In a November 26 letter to SGA President Johnson, Gather indicat-ed that he did not want to reduce the services of the College Union by closing down the Union earlier on weekdays and entirely on week-ends. Therefore, Garber offered two al-ternatives: 1.) increasing prices in the Bookshop, Snack Bar, and vend-ing machines; or 2) charging students with a $5 per semester College Union operating fee. The first alternative was consid-ered self-defeating because it would discourage rather than encourage business. Thus, Garber considered the second alternative of the $5 fee to be the best option. Previous to Garber's letter John-son had recommended that funds be invested to generate new reve-nue. Unfortunately, no such funds were available for investment Johnson still rejected the idea of a fee increase because he could see SGA meets no increase in services for the ex-tra charge. Johnson then attempted to negotiate a 6 percent discount for all textbooks in the Bookshop. At first Gather balked at the idea because a discount would mean a loss of revenue. Finally, a com-promise was reached between John-son and Garber. Day students would be assesed a $5 fee, evening students would be charged $2, and there would be a 5 percent discount on all required textbooks sold in the Bookshop. By the time the agreement was solidified, there remained only one week of classes before the Christ-mas break, and the regularly sched-uled SGA Senate meeting had al-ready taken place. At an emergency Senate meeting December 16, only 16 out of 32 sen-ators were in attendance. Thus, lacking a quorum, the Senate could take no official action. (Please turn to page 7) Johnson proposes corporation by RON DE ABREU Once again the main topic dis-cussed in the SGA Senate on Tues-day was the SGA's plan to form a corporation to circumvent the State budgetary system. After the Senate had granted the senior class $4,000 ($700 came from the new social fund) President Photo by Thomas SGA President Charles Johnson addresses Senate. Delegates hear student concerns Speaking before the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee SGA President Charles Johnson voiced the concern of Towson stu-dents over the budget for higher education. Johnson also committed Towson to the political process. The awareness of Towson stu-dents to the needs of higher edu-oation was stressed in Johnson's presentation. He said that they were aware because they sit in over-crowded classrooms, they need more faculty members and class-rooms, and they need more books to fill the new library. To avoid the implication of a threat, the SGA President reaf-firmed Towson's commitmentto the political process and the College's faith in the Governor and the as-sembled delegates. President James L. Fisher ex-pressed his admiration of Johnson's presentation. He also mentioned that the delegates seemed very im-pressed with Johnson's speech. Charles Joilinson explained some of the snags encountered in the at-tempts to form the corporation. The main obstacle, Johnson said, was the State law that prohibits the transfer of. State funds to a corporation. In discussing this, Johnson, once again, stated some of the ""ridiculous"" rules and regu-lations involved in the handling of student monies. SGA, Johnson said, was allowed to act only in an advisory capacity. There were, too, the added disad-vantages of time waste and mis-management. To answer the problem, the SGA President offered three courses of action: � He suggested that the SGA ask the State to recognize the corpora-tion as the official disbursing agent of student monies, exempt from the State budgetary and procurement laws. � Or, he said, the State would al-low the SGA to disburse funds without the Business Office red tape, but with provisions for post audit ting. � Johnson's third suggestion was that the GA discontinue the collec- (Please turn to page 7) TSC first frat forms Alpha Omega Lambda, Towson's first social fraternity is now or-ganized and active on the 'PSC campus, although it is not officially recognized by the Inter-Fraternity Council. A spokesman for the fraternity indicated that recognition by the Inter - Fraternity Council should come in the very near future. Vince Nastro, a member of Alpha Omeba Lambdo indicated that the newly formed fraternity will serve as a pattern for many other frater-nities and sororities at Towson. Alpha Omega Lambda has draft-ed its own constiution, met the re-quirements for fraternity organiza-tion as passed by the College Sen-ate on November 3, 1969, and dis- (Please turn to page 7) "
