•;] Volume 77 THE TRINITY Issue 11 TRIPOD Dec. §31978 On-Off-On Spring Concert Drops $ 12,000 Confusion, Irregular Practices Mar Management By Michael Preston and McDonald's ledgers show that concert have been pieced together pay a number of student security ledgers is an appropriate total for Steven Elmendorf the concert, which featured from the frequently unclear and concert. Szala noted that other concert revenue. recording artists, Pure Prarie occasionally inconsistent memory stipends were paid in check form to Efforts to trace the cash from Figures revealed recently for League and Pousette-Dart Band, of participants, leaving unex- student workers when her $200 was ticket sales have repeatedly been the Student Government Planning was presented at a total cost of plained a possible discrepancy exhausted. Szala states that the mired by poor records and faulty Board sponsored Pure Prarie $16,232, while total revenue from between revenue figures shown on cash given to her by McCarthy had memory on the part of coor- League concert, held at Ferris ticket sales was only $3,900. Treasurer's office ledgers and been ticket revenue removed from dinators. Conflicting accounts of Athletic Center last May, indicate J McDonald stated that the $12,321 revenue which should have been the cash box the night of the cash management procedures have that the controversial concert deficit was absorbed by the SGPB, generated by the number of paying concert. McCarthy confirmed that arisen from SGPB members and incured a deficit upwards of which drew funds from its various students believed to have been in Szala "had been given $200 for McCarthy. Chandler empahsized $12,000, and that deficient record accounts to cover the loss. attendance by coordinators. payments to student security that coordination of the concert' keeping allows the possibility that SGPB members and Student According to SGPB members guards. "became very confused" when as much as $500 to $800 may Services coordinators of the and Charles McCarthy, former An additional unrecorded sum McCarthy assigned a team of remain unaccounted for. concert concede that no records of Director of Student Services, paid of cash was removed from the cash Student Services employees to Student Accounts Ad- ticket sales or cash management attendance at the concert was box the night of the concert for assist SGPB in management of the ministrator, Patricia McDonald, for the event were ever kept. between 900 and 1000 students.' miscellaneous expenses, said event. indicated that expense and revenue Current SGPB co-chairmen, Student tickets sold for $5.00, Chandler. Chandler stated that "a The SGPB had been planning a figures for the concert were not Michael Siraco and John Chandler bringing potential revenue from maximum of $100" would be a major spring concert as early as the compiled until late September acknowledge that no ticket stubs or the concert to $4,500 to $5,000, reasonable estimate of these ex- fall of 1977. In February, the when she was approached on the surplus tickets were retained, nor short of the total deposited at the penses, which he said might have student body approved a loan of issue by Tripod reporters. was an exact count of paid at- Treasurer's office by $600 to $1,000. included such items as extension $6,000 from the Student Govern- "When I went through all my tendance ever made. Chandler, who was in charge of cords, or beer for the band. ment Scholarship Fund to help accounts for the concert and added Delinquent record keeping for ticket sales for the concert, stated In addition, Chandler and Ken finance the event. The Planning up the figures, I realized what a various aspects of the concert has that there were 1000 student tickets feinswog, who was chairman of Board then proceeded to schedule mess we had" said McDonald, who obscured the circuitous channels printed. He recalled that as many SGPB at the time of the concert, a major concert for May 5, which is responsible for administration of through which cash from ticket as 100 of these tickets wre not sold, say that it is possible that .$100 was to be held in the Field House th<5 M28.000 Student Activities sales were handled. Specific cash noting that approximately 40 from Pure Prarie League advance and' open, to non-students. - - budget. management procedures for the tickets were given out as com- ticket sales was removed from te Two weeks before the concert plimentary passes, while 50 or 60 cash box on April'28 in order to pay was to be held, McCarthy an- were returned unsold from St. a local band which the SGPB hired nounced the College ad- " Joseph's College. late that day. No record of this ministrations' decision to cancel ' 79 Fellows Posted Part of the discrepancy has payment exists, and the band could the event, citing inadequate been attributed to cash payments not be reaced for comment. preparation and ofhsr problems. By Steven Elmendorf purpose of the program is two-fold. made to student workers at the In the absence of precise ,(See story, Page 2). First to recognize outstanding President Lockwood an- concert, and to miscellaneous cash figures for paid attendance, and The following week, McCarthy nounced last week that 27 mem- senior majors, and secondly to expenses for the bands. Records with no records to estimate cash announced that the concert was to bers of the class of 1979 have been bring together a group to discuss for these expenses were never kept. expenses accurately, SGPB take place after all. After the chosen as President's fellows. One the "strengths and weaknesses of Roberta Szala, '81, a Student members and McCarthy have been cancellation, the College had been fellow is appointed from each the College program." Lockwood Services worker, said that she was unable to ascertain whether the threatened with a lawsuit by Pure academic department and program is interested in the fellows pr- given $200 in cash by McCarthy to $3,900 shown on McDonald's cont. on page 2 for the honor, first established in spectives on Trinity and on the 1974. "common problems of society." The fellows meet periodically The majors chosen as fellows with President Lockwood and are not necessarily those with the Mid East Conflict Debated various faculty and administrator highest grade point averages but by Andrew Walsh pective on the recent history of the mately 1.5 million refugees from to discuss education and other according to Lockwood, "the most Polite verbal brawling was the Near East. Hussaini opened his ' the 1948 war living in surrounding topics, According to Lockwood the promising" students in the major. order of the day when a repre- history by quoting a modern Israeli Arab nations and the 1.5 million sentative of the Palestinian Libera- writter's complaints about the living on the occupied west bank of -PRESIDENT'S FELLOWS 1978-79 tion Organization and a pro-Israeli injustices meeted out by the Israeli the Jordan River and Gaza Strip "realist" met to debate the Middle government ot the Palestinians and living under direct military occupa- Eastern situation Thursday in Unit Department Nominee quoted the neneteenth century tion by the Israeli army. A in the Ferris Athletic Center. Fine Arts (Art History) David N.Duncan Zionist Herzel as saying that the Hussaini said that the Israeli Dr. Hatem Hussaini, director of Fine Arts (Studio Arts) R. Clay Kanzler Jews should move into Palestine, government claimed that the occu- the PLO's Palestine Information "use the native Arabs to clear the pation was a benevolent one, but Biology D. Holmes Morton Office in Washington, D.C. and Chemistry Dianne L. Rosentrater swamps and then spirit them over claimed that "there is nothing David Schoenbrun, a former CBS the border." benevolent about occupations." He Biochemistry Andrew J. Castelle foreign correspondent and com- He said the the Zionist viewed added that the Palestinians live Classics Sarah M. Wright mentator squared off in a debate the Palestinian Arabs as a people "oppressed by an alien state—they Economics T. Michael Preston sponsored by the student Govern- are not Jews, not equal citizens but Education Sidney A. Rowell with no attachment to the soil. He ment Planning Board and the claimed that the Zionist were not Israel controls them none-the- Engineering Frederic H. Borgenicht World Affairs Association. About peaceful men, that the Zionist less." He said that even those Computer Coordinate Francis P. Cart 400 students and a small flock of organizations, the Irgun, the Ha- Palestinians living within Israel English Mary Kittredge local media figures gathered to ganah, and the Stern Gang had were legally discrimated against. History Andrew H. Walsh hear the exchange of views. used force to disposses Arabs of He commended the stand of Mathematics Lester D. Nelson Each debater was allowed 20 .their land and attacked Palestinian President Carter in his recognition Modern Languages Robert F.Hurlock minutes to make a general state- villages and towns to depopulate of the rights of the Palestinian Philosophy Stuart L. Cohen ment of views, a period of rebuttal them in the years before the people—and asked how- can a Physics Eric R. Fossum followed before the debaters took independence of Israel in 1947. people survive without a state, Political Science MarkR.Vibert questions from the floor. History Hussaini said that the Palestin- without a nation. Psychology Joseph F. Longofono, Jr. professor H. McKim Steele mod- ian people had been ' 'wiped off the Hussaini said that creation of Religion Susan L. Tananbaum erated the debate. political map in 1948," but that the Zionist state was based upon a Sociology Vicki L.