16—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Nov. 5, 1981
Department heads discuss taxes
By ELLYN HARLEY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Continuing tax problems of graduate students was the
:main concern at a meeting last night of department
heads and B.F. Howell, associate dean of the Graduate
School.
Proper documentation of the graduate student's
:assistantship status when the assistantship is in partial
'or complete fulfillment of academic requirements
:should be given to the IRS when the student is claiming
:a refund, Howell said.
• Kenneth S. Babe, assistant vice president of Audits
and Internal Controls Of the University, said docu
pentation has often not been sufficient in graduate
student tax returns to determine whether the the
stipend is scholarship or fellowship, and that letters to
Ile IRS should be personal letters not form letters.
• The letters should include factual information such as
The student's name, position, the amount of the stipend
and the time period involved.
• Most importantly the letters should include a descrip
lion of the service required, a statement that the service
is required for a degree, and in some cases a statement
Of what fraction of the assistantship is scholarship and
Toxic shock disease linked to surgery patients
By PAUL RAEBURN Toxic shock can cause fever, low blood
•AP Science Writer pressure, skin rash, vomiting and some
: CHICAGO (AP) Toxic shock syn- times death. Nearly 1,400 cases of toxic
drome, usually found in women who use shock syndrome have been reported to
tampons, has now been discovered in a the Centers for Disease Control in Atlan
'new group men and women who under- to since the condition was discovered
go surgery, a researcher said yesterday. several years ago.
• Other researchers have found that a Researchers have linked the disease to
:toxin associated with toxic shock has a very common kind of bacteria called
appeared in the breast milk of mothers staphylococcus aureus, a frequent cause
:who have the disease. But the research- of infections in hospitalized patients and
:ers say they do not know whether the others. Some patients exposed to the
disease itself can be transmitted through bacteria get toxic shock, but most don't.
'the milk. Scientists do not know why.
' The findings, reported at a meeting of Dr. Donald Graham, of the Springfield
the American Society for Microbiology, Clinic in Springfield, 111., reported the
emphasized that toxic shock can strike occurrance of toxic shock in patients who
people of all ages, men as well as women. have had operations. He and a group of
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what is service to the University, Babe said.
Students applying for refunds and professors writing
letters to the IRS should keep these requirements in
mind, Babe said:
• The student must be a candidate for a degree.
• The service must satisfy stated requirements of a
degree.
• Academic requirement must be reasonably appro
priate.
• Service must not be in excess of requirements.
• There must be equivalent services from all degree
candidates.
Social Security taxes are completely separate from
federal taxes and graduate students should not expect to
be reimbursed for those taxes, Babe said.
Several faculty members questioned why there are no
written standards on teaching or research requirements
for graduate assistantships for each department, and
one participant asked, "is the University, as an inte
grated body doing anything about this problem or are
they saying 'department heads, it's your problem?' "
However Graduate School Dean James B. Bartoo said
rigid, centralized guidelines should not be forced on the
departments. Such guidelines might become obsolete
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of pneumonia, probably as a result of from one hospitalized patient to another.
having had toxic shock, Graham said. "We couldn't prove it, but we suspected
The patients five men and 10 women it strongly," Graham said. "The coin
- developed the toxic shock symptoms a cidence was overwhelming."
few days after surgery. None of them had Dr. James Vergeront of the Wisconsin
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the surgery, Graham' said. the woman carrying in her breast milk a
Most cases of toxic shock still occur in toxin linked to toxic shock. The woman
women who are menstruating and using was advised not to breast feed her baby
tampons. But Graham said the unusual until the toxin disappeared.
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very quickly, he said, because of the variation in degree
requirements even within a single department.
"That must be'recognized in statements to the IRS in
ways they can understand," Bartoo said.
Howell said he thought national audits of graduate
student income tax returns are getting stricter, but the
IRS may not be as strict thig year as they have been this
year since the IRS has limited screening ability and
graduate students are a relatively low income group.
Of the approximately 2,200 graduate students at the
University, 300 have been or are will be audited by the
Internal Revenue Service this year, and although he
knows of one student who won his appeal to the IRS,
Howell said he does not think most students will win.
"Very few graduate assistants have $BOO or so to take
to the IRS," he said.
Also discussed at yesterday's meeting was whether
the current system of one-quarter and three-quarter
time assistantships should be replaced by one-third and
two-thirds assistantships when the semester calendar is
initiated in 1983. Under the Graduate Council's recom
mendation, the current half time assistantships would
remain after the semester switch.
Jeffreys, Eddy, Moyer win
seats on school board
By CHRISTOPHER COONEY
Daily Collegian. Staff Writer
Loretta Jeffreys, Mary S. Eddy
and William Moyer won seats on the
State College school board last
night, while Thomas W. Benson lost.
Jeffreys was voted in with 7,508
votes, Eddy with 6,894 and Moyer
with 6,493. Benson received 5,292
votes.
It was more of a surprise winning
in the primaries than in the elec
tions, said Jeffreys, the only incum
bant who ran.
"Of course, incumbants are often
defeated, so it was nice to not have
that happen," she said.
The Republican Party endorse
ments helped the candidates, she
said. "We are still in the Reagan
Republican sweep."
The school board will be dimin
ished a little because of the retire
ments of Nancy Daniels and Bob
Dunam, she said. "Their years of
experience and wisdom will defin
ately be missed."
Two University students win logo contest
The artistic abilities of Dave Plummer Corning Glassware, to set up exhibits at
(10th-meteorology) and Lee Young (7th- EMEX, Kodosky said.
geological science) paid off last night • •
when their design was proclaimed the The committee will consist of Charles
winner of the Earth and Man Exposition Hosier, dean of the College of Earth and
logo contest. Mineral Sciences, John Cahir, associate
The Earth and Mineral Science Stu _ dean for resident instruction, and mem- '
dent Council voted on the design at last bers of the council, he said.
night's meeting. William B. White, professor of geoche-
A $lO prize will be awarded to them, mistry will speak about "The Golden Age
council president Larry Kodosky said. of Cave Exploration in North America"
A committee will be set up next term to on Nov. 10, Laurie Brandt, council vice
arrange for area industries, such as president said.
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Thursday, November 5 .
Liberal Arts Alumni Career Series, 10:30 a.m., Room 301 HUB. Gail Faulkner
Paluka, unit manager, Indianapolis Package Soap and Detergent Div.,
Proctor & Gamble.
Engineering Science and Mechanics Seminar, 11 a.m., Room 232 Hammond
Bldg. Dr. V.K. Varadan, Ohio State Univ., on "Acoustic Scattering by a
Finite Elastic Cylinder in Water."
Ceramic Science 500 Seminar Series, 11 a.m.-noon; Room 301 Steidle Bldg. Dr.
H.P. Kirchner, Ceramic Finishing, on "Surface Preparation and Prop
erties."
Film, 11:10 a.m., Room 171 Willard, "Shinto: Nature, Gods and Man in Japan."
Career Development and Placement Center Seminar, "Job Search for the
Non-Technical Major," 4th period, Room 321 Boucke.
Career Development and Placement Center Seminar, "Interview Skills," sth
period, Room 321 Boucke Bldg.
Career Development and Placement Center Seminar "Resume Preparation,"
6th period, Room 321 Boucke Bldg.
English Dept. and Inst. for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, poetry reading by
Sidney Lea, author of Searching the Drowned Man and editor of the New
England Review, 3:30 p.m., Rare Books Room, Pattee Library.
Geosciences Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., Room 22 Deike Bldg. Professor Robert L.
Folk, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Texas, on "Italian Radiolarian
Cherts and Ophiolites: Peritidal or Abyssal?"
Physics Colloquium, 3:50 p.m., Room 117 Osmond. P. Mohr, Yale Univ.; on
"Lamb Shift in High Z Atoms.
1981 Taylor Lecture in Materials Science, 4 p.m., Room 26 Mineral Sciences
Bldg. Dr. Irving Wender, fuel scientist and research professor, Univ. of
Pittsburgh, on "Our Energy Outlook through 2000."
Math Colloquium, 4 p.m., Room 104 McAllister. Robert Lee Wilson, Rutgers
Univ., on "Simple Lie Algebras with Local Carton Subalgebras."
Philosophy Colloquium, 4 p.m., Room 220 Willard Bldg. Albert G. Tsugawa,
Dept. of Philosophy, on "Truth and Fiction." .
Engineering Science and Mechanics Seminar, 4 p.m., Room 214 Hammond
Bldg. Dr. P. Keating, Bendix Advanced Technical Center, Columbia, MD, on
"Piezoelectricity at the Atomic Level."
Special Acoustics Seminar, 4 p.m., Room 73 Willard Bldg. Dr. Robert J.
Hooker, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, Univ. of Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, on "High Damping Metals."
Wargame Club meeting, 6 p.in., Rooms 107 and 108 Sackett.
Commons Film Series, Myra Breckenridge, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
Water Ski Club meeting, 7 p.m., Room 209 Willard.
PSORML meeting, 7 p.m., Room 225 HUB.
Tau Beta Pi, Tutoring for Engineering Students, 7 p.m., Room 106 Osmond.
Delta Sigma Pi meeting, 7 p.m., Room 311 Boucke.
Student Foundation for Performing Arts meeting, 7 p.m., Room 227 HUB.
Internationale Dancers meeting, 7 p.m., Room 132 White Bldg.
USG, Political Affairs meeting, 7 p.m., Room 316 HUB.
Sailing Club meeting, 7 p.m., Room 308 Willard.
College of Education Student Council meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 323-324 HUB.
Model Railroad Club meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 108 Sackett.
IFC, Panhel and Associated Student Activities, lecture, 7:30 p.m., HUB
Ballroom. Eileen Stevens, founder of Committee to Halt Useless College
Killings.
URTC, Williams, The Glass Menagerie, 8 p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Golden Key meeting, 8 p.m., Room 307 HUB.
The new-comers will make a good
contribution though, she said. "It's
always nice to have fresh bldod."
"I was delighted by my election,"
Eddy said. ,"I never counted on it,
but I always hoped for it.
"I think being on both tickets,
Demacratic and Republican, helped
a lot," she said.
Moyer said he wouldn't have been
surprised if the results went either
way. "You're never sure because no
one ever tells you anything bad," he
said.
The candidates nominated by both
parties (Republican and Democrat
ic) were in the best position, he said,
because they received the votes
from the straight party voters.
Tom Ortemberg, Consumer Party
chairman, said advertising had
more to do with the election than
party support did. .
"Moyer spent an incredible
amount of money on advertising,"
he said.