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SGA President Bob Malloy SGA Sets Goals by Bob Malloy (Malloy is the elected Student Government Association President for the 19 78- 79 academic year. - Ed.) Two years ago, we as a student body, voted no confidence in J. Renwick Jackson and asked for his dismissal. We charged that he did not allow the Student Government to fulfill its responsibilities by “constantly employing strategies and techniques designed to exclude our participation from the decision-making processes.” Our actions failed to oust President Jackson but they were successful in other ways. This summer we gained voting privileges on the Student Life Committee of the Board of Trustees. The President and Vice-President of the Student Government will exercise this privilege. This may be the start to a student on the Board of Trustees. Now that we are a voice that is respected by the administration, we must channel our energies into making this a better place. Socially we need volunteers for the Dance and Concert, Film, Speakers and Student Life Committees, and for the student media organizations, WSMC, the Empath, yearbook and Avatar. Physically there needs to be student input on the new Student Union, the possible conversion of the Charles Hall basement into a pub and a concentrated effort against the vandalism of past years. Remember, with a little help from you this can be a hell of a good place to go to school. Photos by Carolyn Alkire Vice President Dave Oswald THE ST. MARY’S COLLEGE BI-WEEKLY VOL. 6, NO. 1 ST. MARY'S CITY, MARYLAND SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 College Audit Cites Irregularities From the August 2, 1978, issue o f The Enterprise By Rick Boyd The president of St. Mary’s College was called before a State legislative committee recently to respond to a critical audit detailing irregularities in financial records at the school. The report by the State Division of Audits covered the period from April 21, 1975, to Aug. 7, 1977, and charged that “ deficiencies in the areas of cash receipts and accounts receivable were of sufficient magnitude to preclude a satisfactory verification that all receipts were properly recorded and deposited or that all charges were properly assessed and recorded.” Among the specific criticisms in the March 28, 1978, report'were overexpenditures of the operating budget during fiscal year 1977, and the transfer of $22,300 from the National Direct Student Loan Program to cover over expenditures in other areas. The juggled expenditures violate State law, the report said.T uition and other student fees “were distributed to the various programs and accounts arbitrarily on an as needed basis,” according to the audit. Some refunds made to students, averaging $89,000 a year, lacked supporting documentation and approval, according to the report. In a handwritten note on the audit report, Pierce J. Lambdin, then director of the division of audits, recommended that the College be brought before the Joint Budget and Audit Committee of the Maryland legislature “in view of the deficiencies noted in this report and (See Audit, page 6) S t u d e n t H o u s i n g E x p a n d e d O f f - C a m p u s There is a waiting list for on-campus student housing this fall due to an increase in requests for dorm rooms. To accommodate the increased enrollment and need for housing beyond the available dorm rooms, students will be living in other on- and off-campus buildings* in addition to using studies and corner rooms as triples and the front offices in dorm lobbies as doubles. According to Beth Steinway, Director of Residence Life, they were not aware of the dorm situation until the end of school last spring when returning students paid a deposit to reserve their rooms for the fall. “Once the dorms were full we had to either find other alternatives or turn people away, so we made arrangements for additional housing space,” said Steinway. All the front offices in the dorms, with the exception of the Inter-Residence Hall Council office in Queen Anne, have been converted into doubles. Four new women residents are living in the apartment on the second floor of Margaret Brent and five in the Guest Cottage. “This adds up to 710 students living on campus, but the buildings aren’t going to be any more crowded than they were two years ago,” she said. During the fall 1976 semester 676 students lived in the dorms. In addition to these on-campus arrangements, 40 students are living at St. Mary’s Garden apartments in Lexington Park. by Carolyn Twenty-seven of these students are new and thirteen are returning students, while the majority of them, twenty-nine, are female. Steinway said the apartment building being used for students at St. Mary’s Gardens has been vacant for a while but they have been completely renovated and repainted, and should be ready for students to move in. Alkire She also explained that housing is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with returning students assigned first, then new students in double rooms, the corner triples and then the studies, former dorm offices and additional housing space. “Eventually we will get new dorms but for now we will do the best we can,” said Steinway. “We have to show that our dorms have been overcrowded before HUD will consider a loan for the construction of additional dormitory space.” If some students leave she indicated that students would be shifted from triples and perhaps from the Guest House and Margaret Brent in order to get every- (See Housing, page 5) F o o d C o n t r a c t S p e c s C h a n g e d by Carolyn Alkire Photo by Mary Tydlngs Bob Lococo, Fiscal Officer The food service this year will be provided by ARA, the lowest bidder for the contract. The opening for a food service company for the College occurred when Servomation cancelled their two-year obligation with St. Mary’s at the end of last semester after one year. ARA will be following updated specifications, basically the same as before but with many minor changes and the major addition of three entrees at dinner, one of which will be vegetarian. According to Bob Lococo, College Fiscal Officer, the cost will be $16.63 per week for each student as opposed to the $17.22 figure Mark IV submitted. Modifications of the serving line were made before school started, and several pieces of new equipment have been ordered and are expected to arrive sometime during the fall semester. A new dishwasher was ordered in May, and when the new budget was approved early this summer, deep fryers, grills and ovens were also ordered. “The only reason we didn’t get new equipment before is that we didn’t have the money. We weren’t making enough money on the food service to improve the facilities,” said Lococo. The increase in the board fee will cover the increased cost of the food service as well as new equipment. Of the $100 increase of the board fee from $610 to $710 per school year for each resident student, $18 will go to the food service vendor while the remaining $82 (See Contract, page 4)
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FullText | SGA President Bob Malloy SGA Sets Goals by Bob Malloy (Malloy is the elected Student Government Association President for the 19 78- 79 academic year. - Ed.) Two years ago, we as a student body, voted no confidence in J. Renwick Jackson and asked for his dismissal. We charged that he did not allow the Student Government to fulfill its responsibilities by “constantly employing strategies and techniques designed to exclude our participation from the decision-making processes.” Our actions failed to oust President Jackson but they were successful in other ways. This summer we gained voting privileges on the Student Life Committee of the Board of Trustees. The President and Vice-President of the Student Government will exercise this privilege. This may be the start to a student on the Board of Trustees. Now that we are a voice that is respected by the administration, we must channel our energies into making this a better place. Socially we need volunteers for the Dance and Concert, Film, Speakers and Student Life Committees, and for the student media organizations, WSMC, the Empath, yearbook and Avatar. Physically there needs to be student input on the new Student Union, the possible conversion of the Charles Hall basement into a pub and a concentrated effort against the vandalism of past years. Remember, with a little help from you this can be a hell of a good place to go to school. Photos by Carolyn Alkire Vice President Dave Oswald THE ST. MARY’S COLLEGE BI-WEEKLY VOL. 6, NO. 1 ST. MARY'S CITY, MARYLAND SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 College Audit Cites Irregularities From the August 2, 1978, issue o f The Enterprise By Rick Boyd The president of St. Mary’s College was called before a State legislative committee recently to respond to a critical audit detailing irregularities in financial records at the school. The report by the State Division of Audits covered the period from April 21, 1975, to Aug. 7, 1977, and charged that “ deficiencies in the areas of cash receipts and accounts receivable were of sufficient magnitude to preclude a satisfactory verification that all receipts were properly recorded and deposited or that all charges were properly assessed and recorded.” Among the specific criticisms in the March 28, 1978, report'were overexpenditures of the operating budget during fiscal year 1977, and the transfer of $22,300 from the National Direct Student Loan Program to cover over expenditures in other areas. The juggled expenditures violate State law, the report said.T uition and other student fees “were distributed to the various programs and accounts arbitrarily on an as needed basis,” according to the audit. Some refunds made to students, averaging $89,000 a year, lacked supporting documentation and approval, according to the report. In a handwritten note on the audit report, Pierce J. Lambdin, then director of the division of audits, recommended that the College be brought before the Joint Budget and Audit Committee of the Maryland legislature “in view of the deficiencies noted in this report and (See Audit, page 6) S t u d e n t H o u s i n g E x p a n d e d O f f - C a m p u s There is a waiting list for on-campus student housing this fall due to an increase in requests for dorm rooms. To accommodate the increased enrollment and need for housing beyond the available dorm rooms, students will be living in other on- and off-campus buildings* in addition to using studies and corner rooms as triples and the front offices in dorm lobbies as doubles. According to Beth Steinway, Director of Residence Life, they were not aware of the dorm situation until the end of school last spring when returning students paid a deposit to reserve their rooms for the fall. “Once the dorms were full we had to either find other alternatives or turn people away, so we made arrangements for additional housing space,” said Steinway. All the front offices in the dorms, with the exception of the Inter-Residence Hall Council office in Queen Anne, have been converted into doubles. Four new women residents are living in the apartment on the second floor of Margaret Brent and five in the Guest Cottage. “This adds up to 710 students living on campus, but the buildings aren’t going to be any more crowded than they were two years ago,” she said. During the fall 1976 semester 676 students lived in the dorms. In addition to these on-campus arrangements, 40 students are living at St. Mary’s Garden apartments in Lexington Park. by Carolyn Twenty-seven of these students are new and thirteen are returning students, while the majority of them, twenty-nine, are female. Steinway said the apartment building being used for students at St. Mary’s Gardens has been vacant for a while but they have been completely renovated and repainted, and should be ready for students to move in. Alkire She also explained that housing is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with returning students assigned first, then new students in double rooms, the corner triples and then the studies, former dorm offices and additional housing space. “Eventually we will get new dorms but for now we will do the best we can,” said Steinway. “We have to show that our dorms have been overcrowded before HUD will consider a loan for the construction of additional dormitory space.” If some students leave she indicated that students would be shifted from triples and perhaps from the Guest House and Margaret Brent in order to get every- (See Housing, page 5) F o o d C o n t r a c t S p e c s C h a n g e d by Carolyn Alkire Photo by Mary Tydlngs Bob Lococo, Fiscal Officer The food service this year will be provided by ARA, the lowest bidder for the contract. The opening for a food service company for the College occurred when Servomation cancelled their two-year obligation with St. Mary’s at the end of last semester after one year. ARA will be following updated specifications, basically the same as before but with many minor changes and the major addition of three entrees at dinner, one of which will be vegetarian. According to Bob Lococo, College Fiscal Officer, the cost will be $16.63 per week for each student as opposed to the $17.22 figure Mark IV submitted. Modifications of the serving line were made before school started, and several pieces of new equipment have been ordered and are expected to arrive sometime during the fall semester. A new dishwasher was ordered in May, and when the new budget was approved early this summer, deep fryers, grills and ovens were also ordered. “The only reason we didn’t get new equipment before is that we didn’t have the money. We weren’t making enough money on the food service to improve the facilities,” said Lococo. The increase in the board fee will cover the increased cost of the food service as well as new equipment. Of the $100 increase of the board fee from $610 to $710 per school year for each resident student, $18 will go to the food service vendor while the remaining $82 (See Contract, page 4) |