Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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The much needed Fitchburg state college Escort Service finally went into effect Monday, September 28, 1987. The Escort Service is available from 7pm to 1am. The student escorts, clad in bright yellow jackets, and travelling in pairs, escort FSC students to various destinations on and off the campus. The student escorts have direct radio contact with the Public Safety Department. There is a 2- way contact so that campus police can radio the escorts of their next job and escorts can radio campus police of any crime of suspicious characters they see. Given the rough location of the college, the new Escort Service, is a welcome addition to the community. The students involved operate under the premise that there is safety in numbers. During the Spring semester, a proposed cut in funding would have nixed the new Escort Program; the cut was justified by a lack of student interest in the program, and a difficulty in finding students with work study funds to become escorts. Students became involved in this issue and encouraged funding to be continued. During the 1989 school year, the Student Government Association will play a financial role in supporting the Escort Service. If the student body will take advan- tage of this opportuni- ty to ensure their personal safety, the new service will become a funding necessity, instead of an option. — Leslie D. White 4

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TOff i IV Reprinted in part. with permission from The Strobe. Written by Paul Brady, November 11. 1987. Controversy sur- rounding the election of a Senior class president has not only served to frustrate some candidates, but it has also high- lighted a need for stringent election guidelines. I ' m disgusted with the whole situation and I ' m going to let the administration know about it, a dis- illusioned Jeff Stallard said of the election foul-ups. Stallard was one of five candidates that ran for Senior class president. Tom Kilday, Mark Filosi, Winifred Monaghan and Anthony Rota (a write-in) were the other presidential hopefuls. Election trouble began when Monaghan approached the Student Affairs office con- cerning a mass mailing to solicit votes from the student body . . . . . . When Stallard requested to do a similar mailing, he was turned down. Apparently, as members of SGA cited, the letter Monaghan sub- mitted went under the assumption that the mass mailing was for SGA of Commuter Board business, SGA President Pat Mack stated. According to Lon Vickers, Dean of Student Affairs, the mailing error was due to a new employee of the Student Affairs office. He added, If we had known it was for election purposes, we would have never authorized it. With verbal protests from candi- date Stallard, who lost the election to Monaghan (35-27), Election Committee Chairman Marlene Bell decided to hold a second election. However, the second election was no improvement over the first. According to Mack, a logistics problem with the vote tally caused more problems for presi- dential candidates. Mack added that the problem was, com- pletely and entirely our fault. Round three of the Senior class election, however, proceeded without incident. Monaghan, who lost the previous election to Stallard (26-26), edged Stallard by a wide margin in the final election (42- 26.)