Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 10-28-1983 The Guardian, October 28, 1983 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1983). The Guardian, October 28, 1983. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Budget Board seminars inform campus clubs •> CHERYL CONATSER it approximately SI8,000 left to be ricular activities. Second, all other possi- —If lot* la incurred the fund* recovered 4 AsMMM* Writ* allocated. ble sources of funding must have been phi* 30 percent of the loss is repaid. Budget Board held three seminars ytsjjrr- Fundi cannot be "given to groups for tried. ' "The 20 percent is flexible, and I think day 10 Jet "student group) know »e anything that would cause the university to Thirdly, such requests must be of a it ii safe to *ay that it will never go over allocate fundi for us* to student groups," take reHgiouior political stands, to pay for "one-time" nature. Fourth, the activity will 20 percent." Hemmelgarn said. Budget Boaol member, Doug Hemmelgarn alcohol or gambling, or for gffti for In- be open to all Wright State itudent*. Propoaai forms can be obtained through •aid. dividual Board Chain* Jim St. Peter Hid. -Discretionary fund* need not be paid the Office of Student Development, Stu- Budget Board consist! of five mem ben Other points on the Student Activitki back. Rotary funds will be paid back In the dent Oovemment, and Inter Club Coun- appointed by Student Government. They Budget Board Guideline* include: following i cil. After it is submitted, a proposal will a (locale fundi, through granu and loani, --Budget Board shaUl' not discriminate take approximately a week before It can be to all subsidized-fend urisubsidlzed itudent against any group or individual for any -Loans of 1500 or let*, if a profit is made, heard by the board. groups. ^r'.- f reaion (e.g. race, rtllgtoh; iKreonality). the total amount of the loanit repaid. "If you don't like what we do, it is ap- --Requests for funding an activity ihaO be —On loan* In excess of $500, If profit it pealable to the OfTice of Student Develop- Thii y«r the board waa in charge of apr subject to four constraints. First, luctt're- made the amount of the loan plu* 20 per- ment and the Student Development Direc- proximately 1151,000 In Mate fundi. There quests art iccondary to itudent extracur- cent of the profit is repaid. tor," St. Peter said. Game aquaints students with real society By FREDA K1NYON Sociology, hat had more than 600 student or red region of a larger society. The stu- At some point in the game, the coor- •Ad RICHARD EDOERTON participants over the but seven yean. SIM- dent Is faced with having to find a job or dinator may interject a "disaster" to dHW Wfiun SOC' cnatM a dynamic environment in some minner of obtaining "subsiitance," demonstrate the need for social cohesion SIMSOC, the simulated society game which to simulate society. It achieve* this representing minimal food and shelter, of among the members of the society. ln the developed tyf&r. 'William Gam son, Pro- though roverplaying. In order to acquaint which there is a limited supply. latest game, the Red- group, already af- fessor of Psychology at Boston College, students "with complex interactions in real Position In the society is decided in a ran- flicted by poverty and lack of business in- was played again last weekend at Wright society. dom fashion, so this may be difficult for dustry or agency, was struck by the dread State Universffy. Tlie two credit, hour? The game begins' when the student the student not chosen to head a business. "Red Fever" and faced with possible course, offered under the Department of becomes a citizen In the yellow, green, blue If subsistence is not obtained for one ses- death, inoculations against the Red Fever sion, hunger and unemployment result. could be bought and the effluent protected Two consecutive sessions without sub- themselves, while one of the Red group siitance causes death.. died. CAS 'nearly down the tubes' Those who happen to head Basin (Basic SIMSOC has a provision for afterlife in Industry), ReUin (Retail Sales), Masmed that the dead Red member became an assis- (Mass Media), Empin (Employee Interests- tant to the coordinator and continued to HARRISBURO* PA (CPS)--Wayne Board of Governors committee that recom- Union), Sop (Society Party), Pop (Party of participate in ait observational role. Richardson, lawyer for the Pennsylvania mended topping the collection of CAS the People). Judeo (Judicial Council), According to Ballantine, It b very rare for State System of Higher Education, told the f*es, laid the endorsed it became of CAS' Travel or Subeisunce'Agencic* will have a anyom^to die in SIMSOC. ' system's Boari of Governor* that a New "lobbying aginst our present 'governor last better chance to jpt Simbucks (money) and The game usually ends when the time set Jersey court's "recent decision" against the November." may obtain Luxury Living, which provides for the class runs out,, but will also end if way "another school collected Its student , The other reason she endorsed it was not only subsistance but Munchies. i reaches jrro, fees meant Pennsylvania ought to change "because our attorney told us we were on The group beads rely on the generic representing a total collapse of the how It help* the hug* Common wssdth very dangerous legal ground" by keeping society members for employee*, customers society- This has only happene4>nce at Association of Students (CAS) collect stu- the current funding system. ~- or subscription in Order to incNasa Income, WSU, according to Ballantine. dent fees. "(Richardson) premised his opinion while the average dtzen need! thi orgaati- Many undercurrents and/ The Board of Governors, acting on upoir a recant decision of the TOrd District ed groups for employment, food, travel brought out in the poet | Richardson's advice, voted to Mop cotlec- Court of Appeals," said the system's of- and political patronage; The resulting lu- sion. BaBantitie pointed out that "the game ing the S2-a-*eme*ter fee 'for CAS. ficial statement explaining the fee cut-off, teractk* is the essence of SlMSOCs is played on three levels. One level Isthe But, the court decision never happened. "in which the court held that Rutgers purpose, societal level that parallels the real world, The Board of Ooveroors, which oversees University violated Its students' Pint Tim Parker, sociology major, who the grmip.level or combinations of per- the admlnistartion of all 14 Pennsylvania Amendment rights" by using a negative played SIMSOC as an industry head Saw sonalities ' and the personal leVel-- state cofieges, "nearly tent CAS down the check-off student fee system to help fund the game at "survival of the fittest." ind'vidually what role did you play, were tube* bated on thi* misinformation," -aid the New Jersey Public Interest Research The entire process was under the super- you a leader or follower?" John Horn. Spokesman for CAS, which Oroup (NJ-PIRO) vision of all-seeing coordinator Dr. Jeanne Ballantine. said her best experience at lobtolm in the HMf for student Issue* Ballantine, WSU Professor of Sociology, coordinator Of SIMSOC Is, "When people on behalf of tome 70,000 (tudent*. In the negative check-oft system, used on who maintains that "something new hap- have .Insights on a personal, group and CAS ha* been an unusually effective lob- many campuses, a part of a student's fees pens every game, no two societies are the societal level that show, they have gained bying group. It mobilised enough student autemaifaafty goes to a certain group unless same." • "" and can.taite Something away with them." presture last year, for example, to stop state the student spedflcafly denies the group After dividing the 29 students into the She feels that SIMSOC is succenful schools from imposing a S75 >nid-year tui- money. Students on get refunds from the four groups, Ballantine kept accounts, ran because, "It's practical, involving and a tion hike. group by checking a box on their tuition the bank, and tabulated the National In- fun way to fcam-and earti one credit It alio successfully opposed some of the bills, or fBling out refund request forms. dicators which were statistic* on Food and (hour).1' education policies of Gov. Richard Thorn- The Third District Court, however, did not Energy Supply (FES); Standard of Living The Sociology Department will be offer- burgh. That may have been it* biggest decide anything about the constitution (SL), Social Cohesion (SCJ and Public ing an advanced section of SIMSOC under mistake. Evelyn Crawford, head of the lity of the funding system. Commitment (PC). Sociology 213, later this'-year. • TOO 2 The Daily Guardian "October 28, 1983 Trick or treat attitudes hav/ e changed As Oct. -31 rtears, 'ihe same old questions n^ai^narked by the lighting of Bonfires. on the eve of finals ... are running amuci. What should I dress This was supposed to" ward off elves, Halloween wis also the time of the year upas? What party should I atlend? What Halloween History fairies, and witches. People wearing mask» for pranks. These so-called act of terrorism' spirits should I take in? would pretend that the spirits, were- after were • much more refined than simply ' These thoughts.