♦ Questions about the use of ARHS movie funds escalated into iFor the Association of Residence Hall Students it was a bad month. An in vestigation by Daily Collegian reporters' which started out examining the uses • and abuses of movie co-op funds, ended up examining not only the co-op, but several former area presidents, a projector sale, the Student Travel Organization, a floating meal ticket and asummer Arts Festival party. 0 wVsa result of art ARHS examination of these matters, the ARHS Council yCsterday asked for the resignations of President Jeff Glazier and. Vice President Steve Matt. Glazier and Matt said they had no intention of resigning. iast Wednesday, Mike Edwards, West Halls president, resigned because of ac&demic reasons and dissatisfaction w?th the ARHS Council. Former movie co-op co-chairman Bill BOerschinger and Glazier were charged tins sutnmer by the Office of Conduct . Standards with misuse of $l,OOO collected from the Feb. 3 and 4 showings of "Annie Hall.” Glazier was cleared of involving charges organizational funds to personal use and /fiuerschinger refused to comment on the | charges brought against him. jt Buerschinger was asked to resign / WWCT‘S TttKT? YOU SAY THAT A HIDEOUS;, POWERFUL MONSTER HAS g>EEN~DRWiU& TAXPAYERS FOR PERSQWAL 6hHri( X'll L-OQA RI&HT INTO IT///" The state legislature goes house cleaning By DAVE GILMARTIN Daily Collegian Staff Writer •September ’7B brought to the state General Assembly an extensive questioning of its ethics which led to a Tlurry of month-before-election bills aimed at reforming politics in Penn sylvania. The Philadelphia Inquirer started the controversy with its series on the legislature’s abuses of taxpayers’ Money. The articles, which were the result of an eight-month investigation, revealed a complex, secretive political system in both the House and Senate which allows a Senate librarian to charge the state $l,OOO for candy, allows many of Senator Henry J. Cianfrani’s employees” to reappear on the Sate payroll after he admitted their existence last February and allows a retired legislator to earn more on pension than he did while on active service. ""One of the most important disclosures centered around the abuses of the Senatorial Scholarship program. The Inquirer discovered that many of the senators were giving scholarships to children of friends and political leaders who had little or no financial need with college costs. '’l'he‘s3.l million program gave each senator 96 scholarships, averaging $6OO Guns, appropriation top September page one news ’ -Traditionally, students take the first month of the school year to catch up and readjust. But the rest of the University community keeps functioning and news continues to be made. These were the top stories in September: Appropriations request ‘The University’s Board of Trustees approved a 1979-80 state appropriations request of $130.1 million, representing a percent increase from last year’s 11.9 million allocation. Eddy said that a third of the increase was required to offset a rise in tuition. Helen D. Wise, a tstee and state representative from State College area, warned the board that the chances of the full appropriation gibing granted were slim in a non election year, especially because ad ditional revenues from personal and industrial taxes implemented for 1977 from the co-op at a closed ARHS meeting Feb. 16 because he failed to promptly deposit movie receipts in the Associated Student Activities office, the organization which keeps the books of most student organizations. ASA policy requires that movie receipts be deposited by 5 p.m. the working day following the movie. Another movie co-op chairman, John J. Osswald, was said to have violated ASA policy when he allegedly deposited $4OO from movie profits into his personal bank account. Buerschinger and Osswald also reportedly gave about $3OO to former ARHS Publicity Director Mary Anne Eves to pay her rent. Sources said all the money was returned after it was discovered missing. Former North Halls President Dana Van Cise spent $407 of North Halls funds last winter without the consent required by the constitution of North Halls council. Also, two former area presidents, Centre Halls’ Kelly Hause and South Halls’ Mary Spyridakis, failed to turn in budgets for the 1978-79 academic year leaving their respective areas without money. converting each, to be given to students at five state schools - including Penn State with no criteria as to who should get preference. When the Inquirer requested a list of scholarship recipients from fifty senators, only 20 replied. On September 13, three days after the first Inquirer article, the Senate Rules Committee failed to send a bill to the floor that would have abolished the scholarship program. On September 15, a more in-depth article was released concerning the program’s abuses. Five days later, the same committee passed the measure to get the bill on the floor. Six days after that the Senate abolished the program, effective 1979. Local politicians got involved when Representative Helen Wise announced that she and five other House democrats were proposing a watchdog committee to monitor House members’ public accounts and to force the stepping down of any legislator who is under indictment until his case verdict is determined. - Wise’s opponent in the next election, Gregg L. Cunningham, charged Wise with “an incredible change of position” from her previous legislative record. Cunningham said Wise had voted against efforts to remove House Speaker Herbert Fineman from office after he had been indicted. will expire Dec. 31. She said the University could expect at best a 5 to 6 percent increase. Oswald hospitalized University President John W. Oswald was admitted to the Milton s! Hershey Medical Center Sept, li to undergo unscheduled surgery to repair a detached retina in his right eye. He originally was scheduled to remain hospitalized for a two-week recovery period, but his stay was lengthened indefinitely. Oswald later asked the Trustees for a two-month leave of ab sence. Eddy will assume Oswald’s responsibilites in his absence. Ford speaks on campus In a move to bolster the campaign of local Republican congressional can didate William Clinger, former president Gerald Ford made several IWRVC. TVfeiWur/ , Hause also sold two movie projectors and a switch-over system to Buer schinger, STO president, without the approval of Centre Halls’ council, which is a violation of their consitution. Hause said the equipment was not working properly and was of no further value to Centre Halls. However, Tom Hartman, Centre Halls’ movie chairman said the equipment was still usable. STO was formed to provide students with low-cost travel opportunities, but since the organization received its charter in February, it has co-sponsored only one trip, which was a financial disaster. According to STO Secretary Matt, the trip was co-sponsored with Centre Halls and 150 tickets were bought at $4 apiece. The money was a personal loan from Osswald, also an STO member. Two buses were chartered for the trip at a cost of $l,lll. Tickets for the trip cost $2O apiece. Matt said only 60 tickets were sold and the trip was unsuccessful because there was not enough time to advertise for the trip due to the extended Spring Term break. The STO charter will come up for month in review mm* Rules governing tenure challenged in court,, revised A professor who sued University President John W. Oswald last summer to learn the reasons he was denied tenure rejected an out-of-court set tlement in September. Kurosh Ostovar, formerly an assistant professor of food science, said he ex pects a hearing this fall. In another tenure matter, Oswald appearances locally, including a $5O-a -plate speech at Gatsby’s and a speech to an overflow crowd at a rally in the HUB Ballroom. At Gatsby’s, he said President Carter “blew it” in his han dling of economic and domestic policy. Rep. Joseph Ammerman also an nounced that Vice President Walter Mondale would appear in the area on his behalf Oct. 13. Ammerman remainded hospitalized throughout the month, recovering from hip injuries incurred in an automobile accident Aug. 20. Police request guns David E. Stormer, director of University Safety, requested that the University Council, an advisory body to • the president of the University, consider the possibility of arming Police Services officers. He also revealed that 33 officers had been armed from July 17 to Sept. 21, following three incidents of potentially review within the next few weeks. The review is a routine one, to determine if STO is living up to the terms of its constitution and meeting the requirements of registered student organizations. Buerschinger was also issued a floating meal ticket enabling him to eat in any dining hall area, although he was no longer a member of ARHS. Only ARHS Council and Executive Council members, Residence Hall Advi ory Board members and the movie chair man are entitled to that privilege. RHAB Chairman Frank Lignelli issued the meal ticket at the request of Glazier and Matt. ARHS also sponsored a summer Arts Festival party which cost $608.12, in cluding $131.44 for eggrolls. The original cost of the party had been agreed on as $425 by ARHS Summer President Marina Murphy, Glazier and Michael Leeper, vice president of the Organization for Town Independent Students, and was to be split between Leeper and ARHS. Leeper said he paid $212.50 cash from his personal money and not from any OTIS funds. Photo by Lynn Dudinsky approved six of nine Faculty Senate proposals to change University promotion and tenure policy. Under the new tenure and promotion policy, faculty ’ members would be notified of the reasons for their tenure denial. Oswald said that if tenure is denied, the provost will inform the dean violent natures. Acting University President Edward D. Eddy recom mended the Council study the problem and hold public hearings on the issue. Airport challenge Four Philipsburg residents filed suit in Centre County Court requesting that the University Park Airport be closed because it took business away from the Mid-State Airport. Because Mid-State was built with state funds, the plaintiff argued, no municipal funds should be channeled into the University Park Airport, as this would directly affect operations at Mid-State and therefore would be in conflict with the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945. Lowered referendum The Undergraduate Student Government Executive Council initiated a move to lower the minimum number of r~*~-rr-'’ c-' 'V ; - “ ' • v i, I s*-r J&f. p; '>->* V ’ ',i', '»>« Shutout in the In what many were calling a one- described as a small-scale riot. The game season, the Nittany Lions beat police said it was all in good fun, but Ohio State, 19-0, largely on the merit several students and town residents of an airtight defense and Matt took offense to beer being dumped Bahr’s right foot. What ensued back from balconies, cars being walked on home in Happy Valley could only be and buses being rocked. or deans informally of the reasons and the dean or department head would inform the faculty member informally. Oswald said the policy was changed “to insure that ultimately the individual will be informed in private by his dean or department head as to the reasons for tenure denial.” students required to vote in a referen dum change, such as last spring’s Task Force student government proposal. The Council originally sought to lower the number from 40 percent to 20 percent, but that effort was abandoned when two thirds of the organizations in the council Academic Assembly, Black Caucus and the Organization for Town In dependent Students voted down the referendum change. Two-thirds of the nine Executive Council organizations must approve any change in the referendum. The council now is bringing a proposal to the member groups to drop the minimum requirement to 25 percent of the student body. Learning support center Vice President for Student Affairs Raymond Murphy agreed to open the Learning Support Center to all students, Woody Bowl The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1978 H U Bgate # 7 fully admit my guilt with the floating meal ticket, but / consider that the extent of my abuse." Jeff Glazier (left), ARHS president, Oswald told the Senate on Sept. 7, “There were two changes that I felt were so important that I would refer them to a joint administrative-faculty com mittee.” He rejected a ninth proposal because he felt “it did not belong in the policy statement.” reversing a decision in June to allow only Equal Opportuntiy Program Students to participate in the project due to budgetary cutbacks. Murphy’s decision came following a meeting with Paul Weppler (lOth-chemical engineering), who had initiated a petition drive to reopen the center to all students. CATA drivers' charges Centre Area Transportation Authority bus drivers, represented by the Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, decided to drop unfair labor charges against CATA management, pending the success of a newly-formed labor relations committee made up of union and management representatives. The charges stemmed from what the drivers said were discriminatory actions against union steward John Strand in considering candidates for a higher position. —by Mary Anne Mulligan
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