PSH clubs face funding problems
Derrick Stokes
Capital Times Staff
Funding problems place the future of
Penn State Harrisburg clubs in
uncertainty.
The Student Government Association
and its Finance Committee cite the lack
of a budget increase for this year as the
problem of adequately fund the growing
number of clubs. The Finance
Committee has been severely criticised
by club presidents for their handling of
student activity funds.
According to Janet Widoff, the
Director of Student Activities and the ,
advisor for SGA, the school received
$31,900 this year. The Finance
Committee received the same amount
last year to allocate to 28 clubs. This
year the number of clubs has increased to
35 with a possibility of two clubs being
added.
Members of the Finance Committee
refused to be interviewed by the Capital
Times individually. They did agree to
talk to reporters as a committee.
Michelle Noecker, SGA Tresurer and
Finance Committee Chairperson, Mitch
Sklar and Jim Bailoni attending the
conference. Judy Farina, Carol Kilko
and Lynn Jesuitt failed to attend. There
are no business majors on the Finance
Committee.
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"We've got to work with what we
got," Noecker said.
"We work with what is present in the
budget," added Mitch Sklar. Sklar, a
SDCET major, served on the Finance
Committee last year.
Dr. James D. South, the Assistant
Provost for Student Affairs, said a
budget task force sent their budget
requests to the provost last spring. Dr.
Ruth Leventhal negotiated those requests
at University Park. He said there is no
formula for determining SGA's budget.
"Our's is based on a need analysis
basis," South said.
"Our pitch has been that it should be
increased," he added. "(One year) we
were able to get a 20 percent to 25
percent in increase in the student
government budget."
The Capital Times has learned that in
the 1987-88 school year SGA received
an initial budget of $23,946. They
received an additional $lO,OOO later that
year. Last year, SGA received $lO,OOO
at the end of the school year that brought
total of appropriations from University
Park to $41,946.
"We would like to expect it (money),
but it's all up to University Park,"
Noecker said.
Dr. South said that new limitations
will be imposed on the university for
next year's budget requests. He said that
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Penn State Harrisburg students:
Graduate School Preparation
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Penn State Harrisburg will not be
allowed to ask for more than a five
percent increase for SGA's budget.
South explained that if the total college
budget is $lOO, the most the school can
ask for is $lO5.
"The fiscal reality is that the
university cannot fund some programs,"
he added.
Clubs will have to organize fund
raisers to generate additional income.
"There is some expectation that clubs
will do something in their behalf to
generate some income," said Janet
Widoff, SGA advisor. She added that
clubs that don't put forth the effort to
raise money independently can't expet
to receive additional money from the
university.
The Capital Times and WPSH radio
station had the highest budget requests.
Head of the Humanities Division, Dr.
William Mahar said that SGA should
consider the records of performance of
the Capital Times and WPSH. He called
the two organizations "educational
enterprises" that provide a "vital service"
to the school.
"The Capital Timei and WPSH have
good organizations," he said. "Both of
them are vital to this campus."
However, he said the humanities
division will not provide economic
.assistance to the, two clubs. He said he
personal and professional life.
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Career Concerns
Tips on career decision making, resumes
and cover letters, job search strategies,
and interviewing techniques.
Facilitator. Karl Martz
Thursday, Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, 1989
12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Register by Oct. 25, 1989
The SAC will announce additional
upcoming workshops in future additions
of the Capital Times.
The SAC also sponsors the
following support groups: Gay and
Lesbian Issues, for the homosexual
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thinks a fiscal relationship between the
campus newspaper and the radio station
would weaken their independence.
"It will create a conflict of interest,"
he added. "The Cap Times should be
free of interference."
Although Mahar said that the
humanities division would do everything
they could to help, that doesn't include
financial assistance.
"I believe the money should come
out of the Student Government area," he
said.
on paper what funds the clubs can expect
if anticipated revenues are received.
SGA
recommendation of the Finance
Committee.
Committee members at first said that
there have been cuts in the funds they
will have to work with, however,
advisor Janet Widoff later said that the
SGA will not receive as much money as
last year.
"(The committee) has just decided to
do it differently this year," Widoff said,
adding that the members of the
committee are new and inexperienced.
The foray ended as Finance
Committee members agreed to put down
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Students interested in these support
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the student Assistance Center, Olmsted,
room W-117, or call (717) 948-6025.
The SAC regards all inquiries as
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