Technician Volume LIV, Number 44 Vl Friday, January 11, 1974 Technician goes $13,000 in hole By Sheryl Lieb most expensive, costing $2,800 to the magazine had been printed on Staff Writer print. more expensive, slick paper which is Technician Editor Beverly Privette PRIVETI‘E RELATED the prob- not the kind used for usual news revealed at Wednesday’s Publications lem areas of advertising and printing publication. Authority meeting that as of the Dec. by suggesting that with the termina- She hastened to add that deSpite 31, 1973, financial statement, the tion of the magazines, the Technician the disappearance of the attractor as neWSpaper showed an Operational loss might produce larger neWSpapers, an entity in itself, the kind of material of $13,207.68. thereby offsetting the present deficit making up the magazine would be Privette cited a number of reasons in advertising with more Space in a incorporated into the Technician. It attributable to the loss, two major larger neWSpaper being allotted to would represent an effort to upgrade factors being an increase in printing increased advertising. the overall quality and standards of costs and an insufficient amount of the newspaper this semester. 1H,”: advertising to cover these increased She also noted that advertising has IN ADDITION, she hoped to en- 4/951], Him costs. , been adversely affected by the paper courage among her staff greater ef- “ONE REASON for the advertising shortage and stated, “I had to make forts to obtain more advertising, in- ////////’«’i~ being as little as it is as compared to the ad staff limit their amount of cluding a push for classified ads, for last year,” she explained, “is that. we advertising per paper, and usually the the paper, aldng with hopes of obtain- don't have some large accounts that way we make money'is we have large ing increased revenue in the area of we had last year,” further mentioning papers. We make much more money miscellaneous income, which includes the Cameron Village Subway among on a 16 page paper than we do on an doing such tasks as type-setting work other concerns that have either termi- eight page paper because we can have for other organizations. nated sizeable accounts with the Tech a lot more advertising percentage-wise Privette concluded that the Techni- nician or that have reduced their in a larger paper. cians, has a committment for one , lllllllllllllgm. amount ofadvertising. Privette voiced hope that any paper more attractor and that until the However, Privette singled out the shortage would not affect her plans to financial situation would be apprOpri- oVerexpenditures in printing as the produce larger neWSpapers since, al- ate, it would be the last, h0pefully prime factor in the Technicians bud- though the termination of the attrac- easing the burden for all areas affected get problem, particularly referring to tor would help reduce general costs, by its past publication. the expense incurred in printing the attractor and Touche magazines, spe- cial periodic features of the news- pa r. She stated, “The attractors have 80 parking spaces cost us over $10,000 to have printed, so the only thing I know of that we can do is terminate the attractor and also the Touche magazine.” go with new plant There were nine attractors and two staff photo by Halliburton Touches actually printed this past fall The completion date for the parking deck, at first scheduled for this semester. Of the total $10,000 cost of By Howard Barnett month, has been moved back to early March due to the inclement be too much affected by it, though, printing the attractors, the home- Staff Writer because it is my understanding that weather over the past few weeks. coming issue of the magazine was the The Physical Plant is building a most of those spaces are staff park- new steam generating facility on the ing.” south campus next to the mainte- THE NEW FACILITY will house a nance building. A fence has been put 100,000 pound-per-hour boiler, and around the area, and as a result, some possibly additional boiler Space along Rocky Branch project 80 parking Spaces in the small lot in with central air conditioning equip- front of the building and in Harris ment. “At parking lot will be taken up. present,” said Fite, “we Contract construction supervisor have one 100,000 pound-per-hour Robert Fite said most of the Spaces boiler and two 50,000 pound boilers. would not be lost permanently. “A The peak demand is now over under reconsideration number will just be in use temporar- 100,000 pounds per hour. If we were ily, during construction,” he said, to lose the “13,000 pound boiler, we “and these will be returned to use couldn’t meet the demand. For that By Jeff Watkins city. The plans are kind of sketchy greenway is,” said Charles Carmalt of when the building is completed.” reason, we need to finish this as soon Associate Editor right now. We need a detailed report the city planning department. “He FITE SAID, however, that con- as possible.’ Work on the Rocky Branch creek on the status of the greenway —— the was fairly understanding at our meet- struction was scheduled to take in The new boiler will be shipped to project has been halted temporarily in planning is in the embryonic stages ing before. But there’s still the ques- excess of one year, with the comple- the campus by rail, rather than being order to reevaluate the project, ac- right now,” he said. tion ofhow state and city government tion date set at late February, 1975. built from the ground up. It will be cording to Edwin Harris, director of Carl Fulp, the campus engineer, should work together.” For this reason, the spaces will be out able to use natural gas and/or fuel oil, Facilities Planning. said that the Physical Plant is running Harris said that he had been asking of use for a considerable length of and underground oil storage tanks will “1 went to see Chancellor Caldwell a profile on the creek, but did not for years to put a culvert over the time. be put in the new facility. and we discussed it,” Harris said.“He’s knowwhat would be done tothe creek creek. Facilities Planning director Edwin Fite said that the additional heat- asked John Wright (Vice Chancellor in the future. “The greenway prOposal caught us Harris does not feel this will prove to ing power was needed because of the for Finance and Business) to instruct “From what I understand, the city by surprise,” he said. “But we were be a serious problem, however. “The many additions to the campus over the Physical Plant to hold 11 further and the university will have to agree impressed by the reaction from the parking and traffic committee,” he recent years. “We have been in a work until we can thoroughly review on what's to be done,” he said. “We Technician and other people. Maybe said, “took this into consideration situation of adding floor space and it the project and reappraise our have about three-quarters of the field weyhaven’t looked at it the right when they assigned Spaces in the new has pushed up the demand greatly,” decisions.” work done, and this planning can be parking deck. The students shouldn’t he concluded. EARLIER PLANS CALLED for used for either a greenway or a cul- the creek to be covered over and vert.” landscaped, but this could conflict ALTHOUGH NO WORK has been with the city’s pr0posed greenway done to actually cover the creek, some Course evaluation gets $2, 000 system Members of the city planning fill dirt has been dumped alongside it. department met with Harrisin Decem- The Student Senate met for the pointed out that this did not cover the answered in class by the students ber to discuss putting the greenway The question has also arisen as to first time this semester on Wednesday cost of printing up the results when involved, thus the unusually large through the campus, but no decision whether putting a culvert over Rocky and highlighted a relatively short they were compiled, and that other number of forms. One form will be was made. Branch violated a city floodplain or- meeting by approving $2000 for the sources of revenue were being sought. given to each student in each section The greenway system would be dinance, but additional research dis- spring 1974 Faculty-Course evalu- The various school councils, Resi~ of every course. composed of natural trails that follow covered it did not. ation. dence Life, and the university itself THERE WAS DEBATE and one Crabtree, Walnut, and House Creeks, George Murrell of the city engi- Glen Harmon Spoke in favor of the were cited as possible sources of attempt to send the bill to committee forming a “loop” system around neering department said, “The flood- bill, pointing out the usefulness which additional funds. which failed. Student Senate President Raleigh. The greenway would connect plain ordinance only covers Walnut the evalutaion has demonstrated in The Spring evaluation, according to Kathy Black spoke in favor of the bill major concentrations of people in the Creek and Crabtree Creek until maps the past, and saying that a decision Harmon,.has been “completely rewrit- also, saying the university had do- city, and Rocky Branch would be are obtained to determine otherwise. had to be made soon as to whether ten.” Various sources, including evalu- nated computer time, class time, and used to help connect Walnut Creek to The trouble is that there are so many the Senate would approve the ations from other colleges and univer- people to help compile the statistics, Crabtree.