120 G's up Spout in Fees and Fines
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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Volume 2, number 1 September 9, 1975 THE CREDIT SQUEEZE Plus= 120 G's Up Spout Minus ON CAMPUS: Benson & Hedges, the health hazard In Fees and Fines people, sent two lovelies to Concordia treasurers seduce Loyola with ·their . revealed that the univer charms and their wares. sity loses $120,000 a year in Jennifer Honan , 20 left, unpaid fees and fines. E and Diane Cody, 28, offer "That seems like a lot", ed free samples of the said Sir George assistant latest cancer stick, Plus for treasurer Fred Sauer, more than an hour. B & H whose campus accounts for sales manager Yvonne $100,000 of the loss. "But Blanchet said: "It's part of it's nothing compared to $20,000 promotion JUld it's the annual losses in the going very well." But business community." Gladys Lennox, head of "We have a liberal poli Concordia health educa-· cy. We don't blacklist stu tion, disagrees: "It's stupid dents or throw them out to let people push cigaret because they haven't been tes on campus when we're able to make payments," always talking about stop Sauer said. ping smoking. The ethics The $100,000 loss is of the company are highly drawn from an annual $7 Will That Be questionable." million in fees, he said. I Loyola's assistant treasur er Al Lee said his campus Cash Or suffered a $20,000 loss drawn from fee revenues t ~--Speak Up! of $4 million a year. Sir George warned that Chargex? long-standing overdue ac- Sir George's experiment with credit cards _for Psst! Wanna get your mittee would like to see in ' counts will be handed over sub-committee _ on each payment of tuition has been abandoned by the favourite speaker to Con dividuals and groups try to campus. to one of two collection treasurer's office after only one year. cordia? come up with some cash on agencies the university re Sheldon, who's secret "It was just t<>? expensive," said assistant Executive Assistant to their own before approach ary-convenor of the com tains-Allied Collection treasurer Fred Sauer. "The university had to pay a the Rector Michael Sheldon ing the committee. Agency and Financial Col mittee, says he'll answer service charge each time the cards were used. isn't talking money, but he Assist, not carry the full any questions at 879-2863. lection Agency. Chargex and Ma:::ter Charge charged three percent says if groups or individu administrative load, is Campus sub-committee Loyola campus engages and American Express wanted six percent." als want to try to bring a what Sheldon's talking a no collection agencies; it chairmen are: Mark Ger "The cards weren't attracting any new business visiting speaker in, it might bout. It's your job, Sheldon vais (though he's so uses its own treasurer's to the university and they weren't saving us any be worth hitting the Con says, to get the room book crushed with work he may office instead. money because all the card-holders were good cordia University Commit ed, meet the plane, make give up the post) and he Sir George refers an ac financial risks, anyway. They were just supposed to tee on Visiting Lecturers sure your visiting star chairs the Loyola end of count to the bill collectors be a convenience for the students." for some cash. doesn't starve while he's at things at BR-415; Martin only if it has remained Another reason for dropping the credit service Concordia, and so on. Singer chairs the Sir unpaid for 18 months or was that the Loyola campus would have nothing to The committee exists "to The lecturers' committee George sub-committee at more, though regular in do with the scheme. finance, support and assist is officially a committee of H-1006. Two student reps voices are mailed to the "We never had them and I hope we never do," groups who want to bring the Rector and has repres who'll be listening for ideas tardy students starting in said Al Lee, Sauer's West End counterpart. in speakers," says Sheldon. entation on it from faculty are David Stagg of the DSA November if they fail to After choosing from math, physics, history, Assist is perhaps the oper and students of both camp at H-333 (Sir George) and pay at fall registration. poly-sci or soc, isn't it nice to know the last choice ative word, according to uses. The committee num Colleen Hillock of the LSA The treasurer's office is has a_lready been made for you? Sheldon, because the com- bers over 20. There is a at CH-1. TURN TO PAGE 2 Concordia Bags 3rd Spot In Contest Solar-powered water heaters for the home could Michel Champagne and Davy Lee - working be just around the corner, thanks to a new under mechanical engineering professors in two I prize-winning device from engineering students at courses: Hugh McQu_een (social aspects of Concordia University. engineering) and Sui Lin {design). At the recent 1975 Student Competition on It can heat 55 gallons of water to a temperature of Relevant Engineering, the Concordia solar collector 155 degrees fahrenheit, and is designed for easy walked off with enough awards to put a warm glow installation on the roof of a single-family home. The on a lot of cheeks: first place in efficiency (for a 61 % solar collector provides enough hot water for all record), first place in system output (for the best summer needs (making it ideal for summer cot solar energy performance), third place in innovation, tages), but just pre-heating support for winter, and third place in the overall competition. This when the old electric water tank will still be needed. year's SCORE sweepstakes, held last month in The unit now costs $1,160 installed. At today's Albuquerque, New Mexico, called for energy prices it saves the average family around $50 on the resource alternatives; it drew entries from over 65 annual electricity bill, a figure that will grow as universities across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. existing energy costs continue to increase. The solar-powered water heater is the brainchild "If people in Canada were to outfit their homes of five students - Paul Kiang, Eddie Lo, Don Brown, with this, the saving of energy would be consi derable," says Prof. McQueen. He'll put his money Students Paul Kiang, Eddie Lo and Prof. Sui Lin bask in where his mouth is by putting the first one up on the the glory of their prize winning sol.ar energizer atop the roof of his N.D.G. house soon. Hall Building. -NEWS-----Cente-rdir-ector-and -in - 111--,--l-:-:t\\l\l\l 'sQ\\llllp > Genter Rousts Rowdl·es charge of the new campus . ;i:teits::?e~=~v~~e~~:~ • Fund F:ails Three years ago Loyola's ded to the library. Campus Center was Punch But for the moment the _ - The dean of students' • the· early sixties with a Out Central - not the Fun "We set up one of our so it would never be on a students will patrol heavy emergency loan fund is own," he sai!i. "We got one-to-one basis. Any more donation from the National House people wanted. "It drinking events and when empty and closed _ and Council of Jewish Women got so bad chicks weren't them picking up glasses trouble and several of on duty will receive t,,e has not been reopened. from tables as a way of them would move in and - will regain its solvency? coming anymore," said minimum wage. Judy Stymest, in charge "We're trying every assistant director David patrolling the place incon ask him to leave-no nego The new Safety Service of the fund, said it is now spicuously. If a guy started tiations, no arguments." thing we can think of," said Crandall. reports to a committee $6,000 in arrears from Stymest. "The fund has raising hell, one of the Results were magic: But all that stopped a made up of Devenne, Su- unrepaid loans of last year. always depended on dona couple of years ago when security students would '"l'he chicks started coming san Lavinskas, LSA vice It will be $9,000 in the tell him to cool it. Next back and the place was tions for its existence since they started the Campus president, Peter Brown, red in a few weeks when it is not an item in the time he started up another . iueat." Center Security Service. residence director and Leo ' 'th~ Bank ~ot: Montreal - university budget. There is It's the service which student would warn him, Doug Devenne, Campus Carroll, campus security ' through whicb the fund ,a J;)O~sibility the Uni~ersi~y this year emerges as a chief. operates - transfers to the Council on Student Life will campus-side organisation Chief Carroll, the fam- debit slate the remainder of transfer a $10,000 donation called the Loyola Students' *-------, ous Capt. Carroll who ran last year's outstanding to fund. I've just written a Safety Service. Appointments Montreal's Station 10, was loans. letter to David Charlton, "The idea is to keep enthusiastic. In years past, the bank the UCSL president, ask things cool on big drinking James Whitelaw, Acting Academic Vice-Rector, "It's much better having has made $3 available for ing him to consider this. nights on campus," said recently announced these appointments: Prof.