Affecting Mercyhurst Students Inconsistencies Found In General Telephone Policy By Fran Moavero and Donna J. dent had made it known to the ed that day, the student spoke (Phone Mart) should be $50.00". Peterson General Telephone employee with another employee who According to Jackson, the Either after six months or on $50.00 security deposit was in- the last phone bill, the amount of v The mandatory General that she is a Mercyhurst College quoted the price of $25.00 security deposit apiece for the two room- stituted for college students security deposit and six percent Telephone policy requiring a student residing in a college interest is credited to the phone $50.00 per roommate security dormitory. mates. The student informed the because of a number of problems employee that they were from out caused by students with phone bill. deposit for telephone service has The student was asked if she A number of Mercyhurst been found inconsistent in its would be making any long of town and had no previous service. distance calls and she said she phone service in their names. College students often receive students, however, claim that m%- treatment of Mercyhurst college billings with pages of long their final statements only • k* students! "-^ would not. The student was also Another Mercyhurst student asked by the employee whether who lives in an apartment re- distance calls, said Jackson. She reflected the security deposit and . • ;_v The Merciad has determined added that several people may not the compiled interest. $&• that various Mercyhurst students or not she had ever had phone quested phone service at the Phone Mart . A security deposit use one student's phone for long Jackson said that the collective *ji§r who have requested phone ser- service in her name before. The deposits are invested and earn &«& vice through the Phone Mart at student informed the employee of $60.00 for one student was distance calls and when the bill is quoted an employee. sent, the student does not know six percent interest. Egg the Millcreek Mall were quoted she had not. ~y According to Jackson, three -_£ )§§£ and charged prices inconsistent Another Mercyhurst junior was Mrs. Jackson stated that who made the calls. Consequent- '&& with the $50.00 policy. 1 %• only required to place a $35.00 security deposits for college ly, said Jackson, the phone com- criteria must be met in order for '•• fcig According to 5 the General security deposit by the Phone students are sometimes less pany is often left with unpaid a student to possibly not pay a __ jtojfc; Telephone Company, all Mart. This student was not asked because the students live in an bills. security deposit. C* Sgi customers besides college if there would be any long off-campus apartments and do Some students also leave "As long as the student did f-t WB students must pay a minimum of distance calls or where her not reveal that they are college school and go home without pay- have service before, excellent " B S $35.00 for a security deposit This hometown was. The student was students. ->i' ing their bills, said Jackson. The credit, and lived alone, we might ;"* jgga. deposit must be paid in advance asked if there had been any Jackson then said that the $50.00 deposit is designed t o offset waive the deposit," said Jackson, y f I before installation. ^ W.2- previous phone service in her Phone Mart makes the deter- these unpaid bills, according to .A Mercyhurst senior who • mination for students' security Jackson. t- previously had phone service in /"« ^ Mrs. Jackson of the General name before and the student her name last year and excellent '-* Telephone Company Business Of- stated no. §. f§3 * 4^. deposits based upon "personal "None of us like it when a col- fice said there should be no dif- contact". lege student calls in," added credit and lived alone was re- S Bom students were to be the on- Jackson. v^r. quired to pay a $50.00 security & ference between the General ly students using the phones. £ "Every individual is dif- Telephone policy and the deposits ferent," said Jackson about dif- After: six * months, security deposit this year. f- ';' A Mercyhurst junior who . fering security deposits. '• deposits are returned to students At this point the Merciad has charged by the Phone Mart. | resides in an apartment spoke to not researched the possibility ^ "The Phone Mart is General a Phone Mart employee before When asked by the Merciad her with six percent interest. opinion of the fact that some Kay Jankowski, another that the inconsistencies in deposit '* Telephone," stated Jackson. \ the store had opened for business charges for college students ex- _ A Mercyhurst junior who hours. The employee quoted the students are charged $50.00 employee of the General deposits while others are charged Telephone Business Office, ex- tend to other college campuses. - sought phone service through the student a security deposit charge plained the security deposit re- The discrepencies do, however, •-* Phone Mart was not required to of $50.00 per roommate. j nothing. Jackson replied, "It's v pay a security deposit The stu- After the Phone Mart had open- not fair." She added, "The mall fund procedure. • Vi»exist at Mercyhurst. '• • fflerxiao etftpufiltcatiim VOU54 NO. 6 MERCYHURST COLLEGE, ERIE, PA. OCTOBER 16.1981 Typing Clinic Started AtMSG In Flecken Room Check Cashing Service To Begin; The Flecken room will be used tative schedule will include two as a typing clinic for communica- or three hours a day, four or five Hurst In Process Of Buying! S e s l e r tion majors, said Richard Gar- days a week. - * da, director of the communica- & Work study student and Com- The ^Mercyhurst student ing a phone at all times while the during the tenth week, a com- tions department. '#•* | munications major Jim Kopchuk government voted to institute the service is operational. muter representative, and an all The Flecken room, commonly will be in charge of the clinic shuttle bus and check cashing A motion was then made to ac- resident representative'election known as the library blue room, when it opens. ••? & services proposed at last week's cept the proposal as submitted was voted on. A motion dealing is located on the west side of the meeting. , g under operation dates. There was with these elections was passed ground level.g* \ &g^ , The purpose of the shuttle ser- an all in favor response, 'i with only two abstentions. Garcia hopes to accommodate vice is to provide low cost y The check cashing proposal Next oh the agenda was the the typing needs of communica- Visitation transportation to and from the was then discussed! The opera- trustee update. It was stated that tion majors by having a facility Erie international Airport- and tion times would bef Monday, Mercyhurst College is in the pro- open especially for them. "The Erie Greyhound Bus terminal. Wednesday and Friday - 1:30 to cess of controlling and purchas- typing clinic will be for the ex- Hours The service will be operating 3:30. On Wednesday it would be ing Sesler Apartment Building. clusive use of ^communication on these dates: November 23,24, open 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The SAC report was given next. majors and minors at this time," Revamped 29, and 30; December 11 and 12; The cost would be $2.00 en- There Jwill be an Ice Cream stated Garcia^ He also plans to January 8 and 4; March 10,11,21, trance service fee (paid only Social, October 15, at 8 p.m. - in someday have the typing c l i n i c During the last school year, a and 22; May 27 and 28. i once) and $.25 service charge per the back porch cafe. There is no open for all students to use. decision was made to shorten the The service can operate either check. A motion was then make admission fee, however students The typewriters for use in the number of hours available to on schedules which coincide with to activate this proposal as soon must pay for the ice cream they clinic will j come from the visitors in the residence halls. major outgoing | and incoming as possible. There was an all in eat. ^*dl5L business department Garcia is This year, individual dorms met flights and buses or on an on-caD favor response. | The next MSG meeting will "trying to get rid of the big old to determine whether or not to basis. T I Wl The election committee update have a time change. Instead of electric typewriters which have move the .morning restriction yl( an on-call schedule was in- was then given. Discussion over Tuesday at 2 p.m., it will be Tues- been cast upon the communica- " from one p.m. to noon. ~f!p *stituted , * it 'would mean-there freshman elections taking place day at 3 p.m. tions department." The reason As a result* two of the three would have to be someone mann- for* this, he said, was because dormitories, Baldwin and there aren't enough ^electric McAuley, have ^visitation hours outlets. ^?»'*»a|] beginning at noon and lasting un- He stated further that the elec- til midnight on Sunday through Old Main Wo Be*Re- Wired tric typewriters are old which Thursday, and one a.m. Friday The $1,000,000 project to re- Because circuits are too few, and floor is at stake. causes keys to stick, takes time to and Saturday! Only* Egan wire Old Main, Preston Hall, and incessantly overloaded, the col- The college itself is providing warm up, and replacement parts residents have maintained the Egan Hall was initiated last Fri- lege has found itself "being nickl- $50,000 for the project, and the are obsolete.