Editorials f Solution difficult for SGA’s budgetary woes By Jerry Trently, Jr. They met, proposed, heard, reconvened, listened, and propos ed again, and somewhere in the midst of the process, the Student Government Allocations were adapted. Working with $12,000 less than the University Park allotment from the previous year, the SGA finance committee was at a disad vantage from the first pencil mark. Also working against them was the leave of their treasurer, Mary Ford. Senior Humanities Major, Florence Churchill, has since been chosen to replace Ford. SGA should have moved sooner to gain a competent replacement for Ford to compensate for the loss, taking the burden of budget allocating decisions off of SGA President, Joe Oddo. “I’m not a Treasurer,” Oddo told a special assembly of the President’s Council on September 25, “and that’s why I may have had trouble making these decisions.” The Finance Committee presented their proposed Times Thursday, October 20, 1983 Vol. 18, No. 2 Jerome J. Trently, Jr Executive Editor James E. Fitzroy Managing Editor Kimberly C. Bush Business Manager Sean C. Ferry Advertising Manager James P. Kushlan Production Manger Timothy Hagan Associate Production Manager Jeffrey G. Shatzer Photography Editor Robert H. Rejmaniak Sports Editor Michele S. Haley Events Editor Contributing staff Jeanne A. Ballets Janet Cody Thomas O. Dekle Sharon L. DePalma Kathy Heraghty Francoise G. Hultzapple Harry D. Lucas Shirley V. Marquet Advising and consulting The Capitol Times welcomes letters from readers. Letters intended for publication must indicate the writer’s affiliation, if any. All letters MUST be signed by the writer. Unsigned letters will not be printed. Capitol Times reserves the right to reject or edit letters to the editor for any material that may be libelous, does not conform to publication standards, or is too lengthy for space limitations. allotments at the September 26 SGA meeting, but met with strong criticism. Editorial Board Linda A, McCarty Michael Markle Neil Myers Tony G. Perry Betsy J. Sheehan Bud Smith Donald R. Strausburger George P. Yanoshik, Jr. .John Patterson, Bern Sharfman “What I want to know,” said Senior Senator, Brian Burdette, “is why social clubs weren’t cut as drastically as the professional clubs.” Burdette made a good point and was backed by a lobby of professional clubs, primarily engineering organizations that sent representatives to the meeting. Oddo used a “greatest good for To correct our mistakes: Letter to Editor; An error by our typesetter inadvertently deleted a phrase from a letter to the editor from Mary E. Gundel, Capitol Campus Director of Admissions in our September issue. The phrase was in the paragraph beginning “It is unfor tunate . . (Page 6, Letter to the editor, second last paragraph, second sentence, "Also unfortunate is the fact that...of them graduate.”) The paragraph should have read as follows: “It is unfortunate that negative articles about the number of black students attending Penn State have been very prolific lately. Also unfortunate is the fact that no article I have seen has mentioned the fact that Penn State has excellent black students and that a proportionately high percentage of them graduate.’’... Gilmore story; Misplaced quotation marks may have led to a misinter pretation of the actual quote attributed to Acting Pro vost/Dean, Dr. Stanley Miller in our September issue. (Page 1, "it’s not business as usual in the business division,” column 2, first complete paragraph, “But firing someone...does lightly,” he said.) That paragragh should have read as follows: But firing someone is “something one never does lightly,’’ he said. 1 Page 8 the greatest numbers” argument to defend the social club allocating, citing that more students benefit from a campus wide social function. The SGA voted 13-1 to adapt the revised budget listings on September 26. Burdette cast the only “no” vote. Professional clubs were hit harded this year because the SGA adapted a policy that prohibits funding for club trips and speakers. Burdette presented a letter from Bill Foley of the American Socie ty of Mechanical Engineers pro testing the budget. For the professional groups, the cuts may dispel hopes for a pro sperous year, and as some in dicated at the meeting, their clubs may fold. I agree that financially they’re in trouble, but if a group is that devoted, financial restrictions, although they may curtail activity, won’t allow the club to faulter in to non-existence. After revision, SGA made the minimum allocation for any club $2OO. That’s a start, and Oddo believes more funding may be released later in the year. The lesson here is, however, to listen to the professional clubs’ pleas. We can ill afford to let our out-of-class opportunities become limited to the extent that their functions become little more than ironically, “social get-togethers.”
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