J ,_ .. "_ c .•.• ".._ ~.- .. ; . .···l ~ ..-,.." ,., .' '~" . .... .............., -.'. .'-~ . ;:-'.. • ....... !oilo _4~ .... *1932* The St1ldeats' Voice for .Over. SO Yean Vol. 55 No.3 Barucb CoUege, CUNY September 19, 1917 r STUDENTS DENIED THE USE OF TABLES TO PETITION By LINDA ZUECH A group of students who wanted to set up tables to petition for sup­ port of Regent Adelaide Sanford to become the next chancellor of the City University of New York were refused by the Office of Campus JoIna RIdImIs, Planning and Facilities. DSSG. Cherel Nelson. who is Reform Act Declares spearheading the effort to petition for Sanford. said. "We' requested Financial Aid to have two tables (through Ron STUDENT GOVERNMENT Williams) and we were denied," FACES FUNDING PROBLEMS "Taxable" Income' According to John Richards, the president of the Day Session Stu­ By CHRISTOPHER A. WARD By NANNEI IE F. GORDON dent Government. the reason Mikulsky gave for refusing the re­ quest was that the group was not af­ DSSG PROPOSES LESS MONEY filiated withthe college. FEE INCREASE FROM SPRING Nelson said. "There are many students in the Baruch Community OF $13.65 CARRIED OVER who support this effort." According to Dr ~ Marilyn The Day Session Student According to records at Baruch's Mikulsky. disector of Campus Government 'has proposed a St 3.65 Student "Center Accountmg office. .~·ana :'Fli:ifities~cActualJY. ~11£Te-ase to the e"ist~ng student fee . the -Da~-- Ses5iion-S*,,,le•.c.oven. " of '$36.35. 'DSSG President John ment fou.nd .itself' widt Rss than '11 WasII't arormal'group that re- . ~ tables.lt-liiS-toc;e-a- etu6 t6at­ (hc :-.'8'-"01 file' ~aIJ 'l~1 semes,.~ ,.... - --­ makes the request and it has to per-' The reserves, represent unspent money carried over from the tain to the activities of that club. If we didn't have this procedure any previous semester. Until this year. the total had small group could come in, ask for hovered around $20.000 for the tables and demonstrate." 1985/86 and 1986/81 semesters. (Continued on Page A IJ. Col. 3) John Richards. president of the DSSG. explained that the approx­ imately $] 6,000 difference was due to an increased demand by students Student Cancellations for more services. He stated. HOver ' the course of the past three years. there has been a steadily growing CostAdvisor$500 demand . for extracurricular ac­ lon~ tivities and services on campus. By CAITLIN MOLLISON interested i n reforming a defunct Art Society had begun to That demand reflects itself in a Katheri ne Crum, adjunct pro­ organize this club. Crum is the lower carry-over from the previous fessor of art, lost approximately faculty advisor to this society. year's unspent monies." $500 of her own money last According to Judy Harvey.one of "The Day Session Student Government last year"• Pamela semester when some 30 of 38 the organizers of the society last students cancelled out on a bi­ semester and its unofficial president Mitchell. oftile Accounting Depart­ ment. said "Had many new expen­ annual out-of-town art trip. The at the time, "(Professor) Crum trip was Planned for: May 16. 1.987 would get students together every ditures. Til ere were stipends. (costing arund $6000,) more par­ at rowdIlY the same time students semester and organize a bus trip to some museum outside of the City. ties, a boat ride for the senior party This last semester she ordered a and two large events. the Manley bus, then a lot of people cancelled and Robinson lectures." Increased and she ended up paying for it per­ dub membership also played a role sonally." Harvey said Crum was in greater DSSG spending. Mitchell -"devastated" as there has usually (Continued on Page AB. Col. 4) been. an ~'overflow" of participants on these field trips. ,<Z Harvey stated that she completed ,f- all the necessary paperwork in order ~ ~! for the Art Society to become a stu­ '< dent club, 'but the Day Session Stu­ :- dent Government did not contact her and as she was involved with personal problems she "did not persue it." ',~ "., " ',:.i~ '.' " According to Pamela Mitchell, of i;~:-;: : j the Baruch Accounting Depart­ 1 M-.. tn.bler ment. the DSSG is not required to ] (Continued on Page A8. Col. jJ . 1. ~ .. -~-.,~. *CENTERFOLD: A W-IIOLE SOCCER F . ':'"" 'Q. .. ". ... ~. ......:,1' • ~ '. .,. " ~ '., TheTicker t TheTieker September 29, 1917 september 19, 1,., i E·DITORIALS LETTERS / . PLASMA DE STIMULI/CHRISTOPHER A. WARD A QU.estionableStrategy THE STRENGTH OfSenators And Goldfish ADAV In a few weeks, students. may again have a chance to vote on an activity fee increase. If the OF A STRIKE Student Elections and Governance Review Committee passes a Day Session Student Govern­ What do goldfish and a Robert Kennedy to a bureaucratic cesspool of liars. sharks, ment petition to make this issue a referendu.m, students will be asked to come out to the polls To Tbe Editor: Hyundai and Daewoo plant speech have in common? Not much on the gangsters and actors. Public servants are a once again. However, there is a major difference between this year's proposed increase and last In the wake of a strike by 250,000 workers. For this country, much face of it, but recent events tell us that both thing of the past. 'Maybe "idiot savant" OF RECKONING semester's: namely five dollars. black miners in South Africa there hope lies in anti-government leaders can be used to make the statement, would describe the American politician bet­ Last May, students voted against a proposed increase of $8.65 that would have gone towards may be dismay at the loss suffered such as Kim Dae Jung to bring ••Americans on the whole are idiots." Let ter. Certainly, when it comes to promoting By JIM LE MAIRE down to Texas to see my folks. They asked improving the student center and giving more money to student clubs, activities and the media. by the many who havebeen dismiss­ labor's demands to fruition. For me explain. their own aspirations and interests. their me nervously if I suspected anything. I Students sold themselves short sy not passing this referendum because better and more student ed from their jobs as well as the fact South Korea, a country already in The ASPCA stormed into the San Gen­ abilities border on genius. Yet when it It was one of the worst days of my life. I replied no. After all, he'd just been seeing a activities and services benefit every member of the Baruch community. Whether a 'student is that the striking miners never did turmoil, due mainly to an oP-. naro festival and closed down the goldfish comes to the public, the "man in the remember it well: a hot, muggy Friday two girl and had been talking of marriage. He part of a club or not, this increase would have served to create a more college-like atmosphere realize many of their goals, most pressive government, the South game, where people throw ping-pong balls street," they become. withdrawn.. retarded summers ago. It was the day I discovered couldn't be gay. that is available to every single student. The fact that most of the students who attend Baruch important, a wage increase of 30 African strike may provide an add­ into bowls in an attempt to win the goldfish individuals who have no feel for what my brother was gay. My roommate bad asked me the same do not choose to become involved in extra-curricular activities does not mean that more money .percent, later lowerecfto 27 percent. ed impetus to the government to in them. The reason for the action: crueity makes Americans·tick. Believe it. they see The day before hadn't been so great thing. My brother had called one day while should not be solicited for organizations that open their doors to everyone. The prevailing feelings seem to be reach an agreement with labor to the fish. The ping-pong balls entering the all Americans, with the exception of either. I saw a suicide, or rather the sad I was out. My friend answered the phone What does not ma·ke sense is that the DSSGis now asking for $13.65; a full five dollars more those of lost hope and of forces soon. water caused a "traumatic experience" for themselves, as idiots..;; results of one. I was living then right below and they talked for awhile. When I got than last semester's defeated request, this proposition is>quite frankly, devoid of all logic. How discouragement. In addition, many The miner's strike has shown the fish. I would not stoop to name-calling Cornell University in Ithaca in a house that home. he told me about the call. Then he does the student government intend to make people in less than six months want to pay more believe the three-week strike ac­ their own government, with stark Senator Joe Biden, a former Democratic without defining the terms I've used to was literally perched on the edge of asked, "Is your brother gay?!' than they were not willing to pay the first time around? John Richards, president of the DSSG complished little, if anything. clarity, the strength that labor may candidate for president of the United States, describe the elected or would-be elected Cascadilla Gorge. The Stewart Avenue "Naw," I said. "At least I don't think While' such initial and obvious "Gumbies" who plague our society: seems to feel that there was not enough compaigning by government"last year in favor ofthe fee possess both ecoromically and was caught plagiarizing, almost verbatim, bridge crossed the gorge there.