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Mismanagement blamed for missing SHAC funds by Shelby Jean year. However, he explicitly kept him from exercising his and denied any personal wrongdoing power to account for all SHAC Kevin Liner in relation to any funds. funds. He admits he could have of The Post staff There is money missing in the done more in his role as treasurer, SHACs stamp fund, which is set but denies he did anything wrong. Continued investigation into the up to provide dormitory residents Doesn't touch money circumstances surrounding mis with an ongoing source of postage "The thing is, whether there is placed money in the Sandburg stamps and small office supplies. one dollar or a million dollars in Halls Administrative Council As it is set up, there should the fund, I never touch any funds points to a virtual absence always be $200 in the fund, money," Liu said. of financial accountability. because money goes in to replace Others said they felt there An audit has been requested by an equal value in stamps. hasn't been illegal activity SHAC officials and will begin soon 'Some stolen' involved in the financial area, after final exams. "I'm sure some of it was simply bad judgement and Most officials attribute the loss stolen," Daly said about the suspect accounting methods. to a combination of a large missing stamp fund money. The "It's not just Daly," said a increase in the number of fund- fund currently has about $150 in member of the SHAC executive Finals turn campus raising events this year and an it, he said. board, who asked to remain accounting system which has not In regard to problems with the anonymous. "Pat Daly brought grown along with it. bookkeeping in SHACs Student this all to light, but there is a lot into pressure cooker Theft of SHAC funds has not Organization Fund, Daly said he that goes on under the table in yet been ruled out. is mostly responsible, but only Housing." by Jay Radloff Carol Weier, a sophomore edu "We started getting real big because he has not done all he can Elmer Hamann, director of of The Post staff cation student, has five exams in this year,'' Pat Daly said Wednes to keep records straight. Housing, said he was surprised the next week. day. Daly, former president of "I would say I did not sys when he learned The Post was Well here I am, ready to take "I worry about them but think SHAC, has been accused by other tematically mishandle any planning to run a story about my first final exam. Boy, am I about getting it over with," she members of that organization of funds," Daly said. financial mismanagement within nervous. I have four more exams said. mismanaging its funds. He also said Mike Liu, SHAC SHAC. He said an audit of to take in the next week. I don't Weier added that some of her "Previously there had not been treasurer, was partly to blame for SHACs accounts was planned know why I always cram for friends don't really care about a good (accounting) system in not working to provide records prior to the April 28 Post article exams; it never works. their finals and just treat them like place/' Daly said. which would account for all which detailed several incidents of I start thinking about those any other exams. Daly said there has definitely SHAC- generated funds. money not being where it should great times in the Gasthaus after Business administration stu been a lack of proper accounting within that organization. the exam. That tall pitcher of beer dents lead the exam list with procedures within SHAC this Liu claims Daly deliberately [Turn to p. 10] that's waiting for me. about 9,600. - Wait a minute. I can't think of Imagine studying for that many that now during my accounting exams in a week. I feel better exam. I have to concentrate. knowing that I only have 9,596 Let's see now, if that's a debit, less to study for. then.. .one pitcher of beer plus two You know it's finals week when more equals...no, no, what am I those unfamiliar faces come out of doing! the woodwork, and you wonder if I only have 10 minutes left to you're in the right room. finish my exam? Holy panic city 11 Did you hear the latest? The Oh well, I guess I'll have to do drugstores in Milwaukee in better on the next one. creased their supply of No Doz, The dreaded final exam week is you have to take a number to get a indeed upon us all, and between seat in the library, and the coffee now and next week over 5,000 pickers hotline to Colombia's class sections will issue exams. considering a new call waiting According to the Institutional system. Studies Center, about 24,800 stu If that isn't enough, there was dents attend classes at UWM. All construction being done on the told, there will be about 79,218 third floor of the library on exams taken during finals week. Tuesday. The drills distracted This averages out to three for many a final exam studier. every student. Joe Murphy, a sophomore polit Wait a minute. I have five ical science major, was annoyed. exams and have only taken one so "I don't know why the week far. That's not fair! This week is before finals they would have this going to be an endless nightmare. stuff going on," he said. "It Jan Held, a freshman business sounded like they were trying to student, said he is taking this drill right through the floor." semester's finals a little more Maybe the driller was remind seriously than the last time, but ing students to bring their number he is looking forward to relaxation two pencils for their IBM exams. and summer fun. After exams one should take a Picasso's "Guernica" graces the second floor of the Fine Arts Building, thanks to the efforts of "The last week turns into a students in Art 102. The work is approximately 5' by 7'. Post photo by Jim Moroney pressure situation," he said. [Turn to p. 31 Robbins dismisses EST controversy Posted by Michael Dobran concentrated. The room becomes Potential Movement begun in the In 1977 a journal appeared in inside. of The Post staff dead silent, so tomb-like that the '40s and self-improvement tech Biosciences Communications that In recent weeks controversy hum of fluorescent lights becomes niques. explains an important philo has surrounded the UWM Theatre audible...the silence becomes Over 400,000 people have par sophical component of the pro department. The controversy cen eerie, otherworldly...." ticipated in EST in 103 different gram. EST helps one experience Andy Rooney: ters around Sanford (Sandy) Rob Murphy charges in his article countries. Business people are the self, not self as a concept, or self Aging fast? bins, a self-described proponent that EST training is an ideology, primary users of EST, but priests, as peak experience (the ex Page 5 of EST. essential to the successful comple rabbis, and entire families have perience of self by self)—but the And while some call EST "in tion of the Professional Theatre also participated, Werner Erhard direct and unmediated experience valuable," others are calling it Training Program and implied and Associates said. of self as self, not limited by The Eve of that Robbins broke University previous context. Or, indeedm, by "brainwashing." "One way to make clear what rules. any context," the article states. a new magazine An article in the April edition of EST is," Robbins said, "is to list But what exactly is EST? In context, what the journal is Milwaukee Magazine, written by off what it isn't: it's not an Page 9 saying is that EST enables an Bruce Murphy, portrayed Robbins EST is a two weekend, 60-hour ideology, a therapy, religion, individual to understand his or her as a "guru of the footlights," and educational experience. The sem medical treatment, belief-system, thinking not for what they think his classes as nothing more than inars deal with questions that behavior modifier, or system in Libraries and the has been, should be, or would be, glorified rituals. stem from a philosophical rather which to order your life." but for what it is in reality. First Amendment Murjphy warned readers that than a religious or political source. Torrey Hanson, an acting major The EST program, at $425, is Page 13 there "is something strange— People examine "what it means to at UWM and EST graduate, said expensive. Robbins thought that something weird and fright be human" by examining three he found it "invaluable to me. I this was too much money for ening—going on at UWM.'' areas: reality, knowing, and didn't find any political or reli students to pay so he arranged a Baseball team Robbins, who makes use of the being. EST is designed to help gious aspects to it at all;EST is $300 scholarship through the EST Japanese discipline of Akido, people understand the way they getting in touch with who you are, strikes out management for his students. customarily ends his classes with think rather than giving them a and understanding yourself. It's "At no time did any University Page 15 a brief period of silence and new way of thinking. primarily a philosophy," he said. reflection. money go toward EST scholar ships," Robbins said.