I The recent fourth floor Beaver chugging incident has forced
Association of Residence Hall Students (ARHS) coordinators
to intensify enforcement of drug and alcohol policies and has
led to the dismissal of the fourth floor resident assistant.
Last week freshman Phil Wilts was hospitalized after he
chugged a half-gallon of Southern comfort in less than a
minute on a $75 bet. He has since been released.
Beaver Hall RAs last night informed residents of the new
policy which prohibits floor parties with alcoholic beverages;
any quarter, half, three-quarter or full kegs in the dor
mitories; possession and-or transportation of all alcoholic
beverages in the building; and alcoholic beverages in the
rooms of minors. One Beaver Hall RA said this policy will be
in effect for all dorms for the rest of the summer.
Studeftts bringing alcoholic beverages into a residence hall
may be stopped by campus police or residential staff mem
bers. When stopped by police, the student must present proof
of age and an I.D. on request. If stopped by a residential staff
Bus drivers try to join AFL
DAVID W. SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
The Campus Loop bus drivers recently
requested that they be allowed to
organize a union under the American
Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employes, an affiliate of the
AFL-CIO, to prevent absorption into
Teamsters Local Union 8.
Nineteen of 25 drivers sent
authorization cards to the Federation.
The union then sent a letter to the
University requesting that elections be
held to form a union. According to state
law, if the University consents, then the
union will submit an election request to
the Pennsylvania Labor Relations
Board. If the University denies the
request, the Board will hold a hearing to
determine whether or not elections
should be held.
According to Ray Fortunato, vice
president for personnel administration,
the University has not decided what
action to take on the union’s letter.
President of Teamsters Local 8 Jane
Pikouski said that the Loop drivers
request shouldn’t have any ettect since
they’re already part of. the Teamsters’
bargaining unit.
Department of Justice
to rule on Med funds
By FRANK FRANZONIA
Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania Department of
Justice has been called in to rule on
Auditor General Robert Casey’s
recommendation that the University
return $29,680 because of Hershey
Medical Program withdrawals during
the 1974-75 fiscal year.
“Since the auditor general has no
enforcement powers per se, the
Department of Justice is going to decide
what' happens,” according to Harry
Yaverbaum, who supervised the report
made by the Auditor General’s
Department.
• The report, issued June 22, stated that
the University used an enrollment figure
of 328 students in computing its costs
whereas the actual number enrolled at
the end of the year was four less. “The
difference of four full-time students
amounts to $29,680 which was not earned
by the University according to our
calculations,” the report stated.
The report also recommended that the
Department of Education set guidelines
for determining the definition of a full
Weather
Mostly cloudy and cooler today with a
few showers likely, high only around 78.
Partly cloudy and cool tonight, low near
59. Morning clouds will give way to sunny
skies and seasonably warm tempera
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KATHY O’TOOLE
Collegian;
According to bus driver Alex Holt,
the jobs of student bus drivers would be
endangered if the Teamsters Union were
allowed to take over. Pikouski said that
if the Loop drivers are organized under
the Teamsters, if does not mean that
students will lose their jobs.
Teamster membership requirements
stipulate that a member must work at
least 30 hours a week. All Loop drivers
are undergraduate or graduate students
and all work less than 30 hours.
“If it’s a Teamsters contract, it will
definitely put students out of a job,”
Undergraduate Student Government
President W.T. Williams said. He said
that while the present drivers may not
lose their jobs, as they leave or
graduate, the drivers would be replaced
with full-time .non-student employes.
“An important source of student em
ployment would be gone,” he said. Both
the Graduate Student Association and
USG passed resolutions denouncing the
efforts of the Teamsters. -
According to Holt, if the Loop drivers
were organized under the Federation,
they would be allowed to function as a
time student in order to budget future
revenues correctly.
Garban said that since the audit report
was issued, he has adVised* the Depart
ment of Education that “the University
recommends that the guidelines be a
full-term headcount at the beginning of
the term for determining the ap
propriation.” If this recommendation
were accepted as valid by the Depart
ment of Justice, the University would
not be obliged to return' the $29,680
requested by the Report.
The auditor general had to formulate
his own definition of a full-time student,
Yaverbaum said, because_ the
legislature failed to issue its” own
directive when it made the ap
propriation. “Our determination of a
full-time student became someone,who
didn’t drop out,” Yaverbaum said. All
agree that it was this discrepancy that
resulted in the disagreement over what
money, if any, is owed by the University.
Both the auditor general and
University officials are hoping that the
Department of Education formulates a
standard definition that will alleviate
future problems concerning the proper
appropriation amount. Many variables
that now must be calculated in a medical
program appropriation audit could also
be reduced by a more precise definition,
Yaverbaum said. According to Garban,
the simplest and most beneficial
definition from the University’s stand
point would be based on the number of
students enrolled for the fall.
lion, according to one EA.
Coordinator:
ministrative si
alcoholic bevei
subject to pr
ly legally enter a dorm room for “ad
>” purposes, an HA said. If illegal drugs or
are found in the room, the occupants are
jnt, he added. In the past, coordinators
lorms on weekends, according to several
have checked
sources.
there is a party on his-her floor he-she is to
)ne RA said there was no clear definition
fititutes a party, thus forcing a personal
te residential staff member,
ler fourth-floor Beaver RA was dismissed
one source said. Bob DeWitt, the new
1 RA, M. Lee Upcraft, director of
id Tom Eakin, coordinator of Pollock,
Halls, refused to comment on the
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CIO union
terving student jobs. Centre Area
\sit Authority bus drivers are also
lized under this union. The Loop
;rs designated Dave Jackson and
ly Contair as spokesmen.
.‘hard H. Brown, assistant to the
tant vice-president for bus services,
that it would cost the University,
’ing fringe benefits, about five
an hour to pay Teamsters em
full. time. Campus Loop drivers
:ently paid , between $2.20 and
hour. Loop driver Kathy Contair
'■ the drivers are not asking for
Viking on
University purchases
another Navajo plane
By JANICE SELINGER
Collegian Summer Editor
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a
series on the University Park Airport.
The University Park Airport appar
ently just purchased another airplane
a Navajo Chieftain valued at approxi
mately $249,533.
The Chieftain, according to reliable
sources, was delivered to the airport
Monday to join the University’s $275,805
Navajo PA 31P, apparently to replace its
more modest Aztec valued at $103,009.
' One source told the Collegian that he
believed this replacement was true be
cause the -Aztec log book that records
flight destinations, number of passen
gers and any costs incurred such as
landing fees, no longer sports the number
N9O9PS but instead is labeled N 59908
the number on the side of the new Chief
tain.
Airport officials have neither denied
nor confirmed either the purchase of the
white Chieftain with orange and gold
trim or the possibility of selling the
Aztec.
Charles Shilke, airport manager, told
the Collegian that he had no comment on
either of these two transactions and
added that Collegian reporters should
talk to administrators in higher posi
tions.
Bud Goehring, director of transporta
tion services and Shilke’s immediate
boss, also had no definite comment on
the purchase.
However, in a phone conversation,
Goehring did tell the Collegian this:
“Where did you get that information? ”
To which the Collegian reporter answer
ed, “I can’t tell you.” Goehring then said,
“Well, neither can I tell you anything,”
and hung up the phone.
The Chieftain has two 350-horsepower
engines and can travel 202 knots at 12,000
feet compared to the'Aztec’s 250-horse
power engine that cruises at 190 knots.
However, according to a Piper Air
craft spokesman, the Chieftain’s direct
and indirect operating costs for 600 hours
of flight time amount to $67.02 per hour
while the Aztec would cost only $52.99
per hour.
Operating costs include expenses for
minor repairs and depreciation on en
gines, avionics and propellors, as well
as insurance and hangar rental.
The Chieftain has the same number of
seats as the Aztec, but they are arranged
in a conference setting with seats facing
one another. This Navajo, however,
does not have the pressurization that the
PA3iPhas.
According to a reliable source, airport
records show that as of April 1, the Aztec
had 1,232.4 hours of flight time logged in
and 1,393.9 hours as of July 16. The Nava
jo, however, had fewer hours of flight
time. April 1 records show 910.9 hours
while July 16 ones show 1,032.7 hours.
Above are two of the first photographs ever taken of the Mar
tian surface at ground level. Viking I touched down at 7:53
EDT yesterday morning. See page 3 for story.
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In an interview two weeks ago, Ri
chard Crowley, assistant vice president
for business services, told the Collegian
that he was sure the University planes
were more ofteh full than not.
"You don’t see too many times that
the planes are flying with only one
person,’’ Crowley said.
Since that time, the Collegian was told
flight records show otherwise. These
records show that the Navajo, from
April 1 to July 17 108 days flew 60
flights on which the number of passen
gers averaged slightly more than two
per flight. All five passenger seats were
filled only twice, on'April 17 and 28, and
the plane flew with only one passenger
a total of 18 times:
The Collegian has also been told that
airport employes have been strongly
urged, to the point of feeling that their
jobs may be threatened, not to talk to
State auditor recommends
new plan to transfer funds
By MIKE JOSEPH
Collegian Copy Editor
The Pennsylvania Auditor General’s
office has recommended that the state
revise its method of transferring ap
propriations to the University to
eliminate "unnnecessary’’ flights of
University aircraft, according to a letter
released yesterday.
The letter, from Auditor. General
Robert Casey to Gov. Milton Shapp,
stems from a review of the short-term
investment practices of the University
as those practices relate to the monthly
state allotment of $8,500,000.
Under the current system of trans
ferring this monthly allotment, the
letter says, a University representative
travels by University airplane to
Harrisburg to pick up the check and then
flies to Pittsburgh, Erie or Philadelphia
to deposit the check in a bank with a
University account.
Harrisburg'.'.’s Dauphin Deposit and
Trust Company, the second flight is not
necessary, but sometimes University
representatives carry out the transfer
when the $8,500,000 is to be split and
desposited into two banks, according to
the letter.
“Most times, despite efforts by the
University to accelerate the collection
and investment of these funds, there is a
one day delay in the investment,” the
letter says. “On other occasions, the
delay can be more than one day because
of intervening weekends or poor flying
weather.”
The letter says the current system is
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Collegian reporters. They have been
told not to give any information and to
refer all questions to the airport man
ager.
Meanwhile, Collegian reporters have
been told that the only way they can get
airport-related information is by sub
mitting written questions to either
Shilke, Goehring or Crowley.
“This is the way it’s done in the govern
ment,” Goehring said. “We are doing
the thing right for the sense of accuracy.
Don’t think we’re just trying to stall,
because we’re not.”
The Collegian submitted written ques
tions to Shilke last Tuesday. Shilke then
passed the answers on to Goehring who
okayed them and then passed them on to
Crowley where they apparently were
as of last night. The Collegian has, up to
last night, received no response.
“needlessly time-consuming and costly
and results in a loss of interest income to
the University.”
The letter recommends that the state
treasurer make all monthly payments to
the University by “telephonic transfer”
of the money into the University’s in
vestment account at the Mellon Bank.
Doing this would “permit investment of
these funds by the University oin the
same day,” the letter says.
The University could save $15,900
annually in interest earnings under this
revised system, according to the letter.
“In addition,” the letter says, “the
cost to the University of its couriers and
the many miles of unnecessary flights by
the University airplane would be
eliminated.”
George Lane, deputy controller for the.
University, said the . University'agrees
with the revision. “The whole recom
mendation by the Auditor General is that
in the state transfer the money direi
sctly to
make it easier for the University to get
the money and have use of the money,”
Lane said.
Lane said he could not predict how
long it would take the state to put the
new transfer process into effect. “The
recommendation has been made, and
we’re awaiting the implementation,” he
said. “We’ve agreed with the recom
mendation and certainly we’ll be in
agreement with its implementation.”
Lane said the University has been
using its airplanes to pick up the monthly
state allocation for several years. “That
was the established process, ” he said.
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