Page 2 Hanging In Limbo Limbo. Every organization and club on campus is hanging --- waiting for the Senate to pass a budget. The negligence of a signifigant number of senators resulted in confusion and the defeat of the budget at the SGA meeting Tuesday night. The budget was proposed a week prior to Tuesday night's meeting, giving the senators adequate time to familiarize themseleves with the proposal and allocation procedures. However when voting time came, so did The questions and questions and questions. The confusion started when a club expressed to the Senate its dissatisfaction with its allocation. From there the discussion digressed to center on criteria the Finance Committee used in its evaluation procedures. Whether the criteria used was valid could not be determined and was never relevant to the issue at hand. The vote was taken. Four senators voted yes, five senators voted no and four senators seemed to have no opinion, choosing to abstain. If the uninformed senators would have done their homework they could have dispersed with the irrelevant discussion on criteria and taken care of any dissatisfaction after the budget was passed. For Student Government policy provides for any dissatisfied group to petition the Finance Committee and settle thier disagreements directly with the committee. • The Finance Committee then proposes the newly recommended allocation to the Senate to be voted on. CAPITOL CAMPUS READER of the PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY THE CAPITOL CAMPUS RTE. 230 MIDDLETOWN, PA., 17057 OFFICE W-129 PHONE [7171944-4970 Editors-in-Chief Associate Editor Copy Editor Sue Middleton, Vito Valvano, Jeff Stout, Wendy Hawthorne, Debbie Morrow, C.J. Marshall, Jane Reinstadt, Randy Myers, Pete Faith, Connie Lantzer, Tony Romeo, Joan Klein, Jeff Drinnan, Sue Girolami, Terry Reed, Michael Argento, Duane Kanagy, Dave Marko, Sandy Stern, Frank Lynch The Capitol Campus Reader is the school newspaper of Penn State's Capitol Campus. It is published weekly on Thursday by the students who attend this school. Final deadline is on Tuesday at 12 pm. Perspectives Maureen Doyle Jim Musselman Lyda Baker Ed McKeown C.C. Reader Letters To The Editor To the Editor, As an officer of the SGA and a member of the Election Screening Committee it is my duty to promote the upcoming elections of graduate and junior students. With the meeting of this previous Tuesday (Oct. 3) I find this difficult to do. The Senate in its actions voted the proposed '7B-19 budget down. Discussion went round for a significant period of time with no real accomplish ments. It was clear from the Senators' responses that they did not understand the process from which the proposed bud get was arrived at. The proposed '7B-'79 budget was presented at the Septem ber 26, SGA meeting. Every Senator had a full week to talk with the. Finance Committee to receive insight into the budget process. How many Senators talked to the Finance Commit tee? Apparently- it was less than a handful. Now it stands that all clubs are acting without a budget for at least another week. How does this all relate to the upcoming elections? Being on the SGA is not just a once a week job as some have tried to make it. Your respon sibility as an elected official permeates everyday. If you are thinking of running because it will look good on your resume, please do not. We already have enough hot air on the Senate now. When you vote in the up coming election remember that you are going to be dependent on the people for a full year. Elections can no longer be a personality contest! Sandy Mancuso 11th Term To the Editor, It is to my knowledge that G.P.P. has been a part of the Social Committee, whose func tion was to hold a spring con cert. Since the spring concert has been cancelled so has G.P.P. I hate to see G.P.P. cancelled since I was part of it last year. I want to take over G.P.P. and reorganize it. Its sole function will be to hold concerts in the gym, hopefully one each term, with a larger concert in the spring, but not in the same form as last year's concert. To do this I need support and help. Help from students who want to contact the booking agencies and see who is touring, and students who will work at the concerts. Those of you who are interest ed can contact me at 944-7831 or at 840 A Jones or during 3rd period in the SGA office. Apathy Problem? The question we gave to Vito this week was: How much of a problem is apathy at Capitol Campus? I would say that apathy is a major problem at Capitol Cam pus. It seems as though the students want to see a lot of things happen on campus but a majority of them don't want to get involved in the planning and work it takes to bring off some of these events. I think they will soon realize that if they want to see their ideas acted upon they have to get involved. Randy Goshert Social Committee Chairman 10th Term Business Apathy was a major prob lem at Capitol last year. This year has just begun and I have been amazed at the increase SGA News On October 3 the SGA held its second meeting of the term. The SGA received a letter from a 10th term Social Science student, Greg A. Verner, in response to the traffic problem. His suggestion will be passed on to the Administration. Thanks Greg, and any more suggestions would be appreci ated. Scott Summers reported on the President's Council meet ing; all clubs are now required to place a summary of their upcoming activities in Scott's mailbox on Friday. Elections are under way for junior and graduate senators. Petitions and by-laws may be picked up at the SGA office. October 5, 1978 in student interest here. The interest level is still far from where .I would like it to be. Personally I can not tolerate the people who complain and never get involved! Sandy Mancuso SGA Secretary 11th Term So. Sc. Student apathy is fantastic problem at Capitol Campus. Whether students come to Capitol with an apathetic atti tude or not, it's very quickly picked up. It's hard to care when very few others care. When student's hear the old "let's get involved speech" they look the other way and mutter about not having enough time. It's either make time or have "no life" school that Capitol is rapidly becoming. Paul E. Mitsch P.S.P.E. Pres. 10th Term When the petition is completed place it in my mailbox. Dean Smith is currently organizing a search committee for a head librarian. More details will be forthcoming. In actions taken by the Senate: traveling expenses to COBSG were allocated and the proposed budget was defeated. All club budgets are now frozen until the Senate passes a bud get. Under discussion it was pointed out that our yearbook, Capitolite, needs an editor or there will be no yearbook. If you are interested drop a note in my mailbox. Sandy Mancuso SGA Secretary B'S RALPh kitt4 ()Roc - . WHAT is THE CAPITA Lcc ALASKA ? STUDENT S : JuNeAu PROF : 030 KNOW... egyr Do you Koow T
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