Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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Dorm Security Due to a tightening up of security around campus the Housing Office came out with a interim parietal security ruling in Decem- ber. Policy During Hours of Desk Cover- age 1. All guests of residents must sign in, and leave a valid ID or Driver's License with the desk receptionist. 2. lD'S will be returned upon signout. 3. ID'S not reclaimed when desk recep- tionist goes off duty will be available in the Campus Police office or returned by the desk receptionist when coverage resumes the next morning. Policy During Hours When Desk ls Not Covered 1. ln order to be admitted to a residence hall back to the front door is locked, all students must report to Campus Police with their guests. 2. Campus Police will keep the ID or Drivers License of guests in the Campus Police Of- fice. lD'S not reclaimed will be given by the Campus Police to the desk receptionist in the morning. And if that wasn't bad enough we were further told, Residence Hall Director's will be reviewing parietal violations daily and forwarding repeated violators to the All College judicial Board. ...Q.aM. I cfs:- ' ...W ifffs. i ' Sits-mit With the new regulations posted, security tightened and desk sitters were required to ask all visiters for valid id's. Many cheerfully complied with these wishes, but others seemed unsatisfied with the new rules. Ladies and gents alike must become accustomed to the phrase, Do you have an id? Nzff' 's'-- , ff- li . -I , , 4? . .,--1. . T.. . sh . Lag'- IN .:..':'..is All it rf-t ,cf

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Baird Affair Speaking for the administration, Dr. D. justin McCarthy, FSC president, denied charges the administration made any efforts to block abor- tion rights advocate Bill Baird from speaking at the college. The charges were made prior to Baird's lec- ture April 10 by Roland Van Liew, former SUB member. Van Liew charged the administration made two efforts to block Baird from speaking pre- viously and made a third attempt this time to stop him from speaking in addition to telling Baird the reason he could not appear at FSC was that a room was not available at the college. Van Liew also charged the public was barred from a lecture for the first time since he was on SUB, and South Middlesex News was allowed to attend only after strong pressure to let them. Van Liew told the South Middlesex News that FSC is a state-supported college, supported by public funds, and that they have no right to keep the public out. Pres. McCarthy responded by saying they have every right to keep the public out from an activity paid for by FSC students if allowing the public in threatens the possibility of FSC students attending and that Baird was brought to the campus by FSC students funds and not public funds. Assistant Dean of Student Activities Susan Siegal, had been named as the main person in- volved in the Bill Baird affair by Roland Van Liew. Van Liew said that Dean Siegal told him Baird could not speak at FSC because he was Bill Baird, and that she requested him to call Baird and tell him that a room was not available. Dean Siegal said that she opposed Baird speak- ing at FSC because she felt he would have an ad- verse effect on the college community. She felt she had to think of the college as a whole and that some people might have been offended by Baird's appearance. The signifance of the charges and answers in the Baird affair, Van Liew stated, was that the ad- ministration found out they cannot tell students who they could have speak and who they could not have, because if they do the students will use their student government and lawyer to make sure their rights are kept up. Damage Fee FSC Student Government Association President Patricia Coulter, charged the col- lege of misusing the damage fee account. The damage fee account is composed of the 51350 damage security deposit each dor- mitority student pays yearly. Ms. Coulter said It appears that funds in I the account are being carried forward from one year to the next, students are not re- ceiving interest on their deposits and the account has been used for 524,000 loan to - the dormitiory authority account, which pays the salaries of maintenance personnel. The college claims 517,692 were used for I repairs since September. Barry Walker, SGA attorney, said In ef- fect it appears to us the damage account has been treated as some kind of excess ac- I count from which disbursements can be made willy-nilly to finance other obliga- tions. Frank Haley, director of fiscal affairs, said, The Board of Trustees gives us the author- ' ity to carry funds forwarded from one year I to the next, and added, It is done this way at all state colleges. X ,lqw A gggwg g '

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SUB Overspending In a 3Vz hour emotion filled session, the Stu- dent Senate voted to loan the SUB 510,000 so the SUB could continue to provide program- ming on this campus for the rest of the year. The evening session climaxed a week of worry and frustration for the leaders of SUB because the SGA was opposed to giving the SUB the money after it had totally spent its 552,720 bud- get for this academic year. The plan which was accepted by the Senate, after four others had failed, called for the SGA to loan SUB the money and have that group repay the 510,000 at the beginning of next semester from their budget which will be allocated by the SGA. The program of SUB spending more money than they had realized April 3 when Jeanette Neilsen, the SUB Chairperson and Susan Mel- pignano, the SUB treasurer were going over Flu Epidemic A virus infected the FSC campus. It had substantial impact on both resident com- munity and the academic activities of the college. The resident cafeteria makes prepara- tions for approximately 1,100 at the lunch- time meal. On Tuesday Feb. 14 only 951 stu- dents partook of the midday offering. In the evening the resident cafeteria only served 1,025 meals as compared to the nor- mal preparation of 14,895 meals. Headcounts were taken in each of the dorms to determine the number of stu- dents complaining of ill health. As of Wed. Feb. 15, at least 625 students out of an ap- proximate dorm total of 1,500 claimed to be suffering from the effects of the flu. Resi- dents of Peirce and Horace Mann openly admitted that over half of their dorm-mates were suffering from the bug. their organizations class and club account books to prepare for next years budget requests. Miss Neilsen, in an interview with the Gate- post before the Tuesday meeting said, We have overspent our budget. We did the same number of programs allowed by the budget, but we ex- panded some of the programs. Because of the overspending SUB had to cut some programs that were not contracted for and they raised the price of tickets for other programs to help make up for the lost income. The 510,000 SGA allocated to SUB was to be to complete programs for the rest of the year which were expected to cost 58,300 The addi- tional 51,700 was to be used for unforeseen expenses according to Miss Neilson. SUB treasurer, Susan Melpignano said the overspending of the budget was a bookkeep- ing error, and not intentional. The Nurses' office worked a double shift around the clock in hopes of coping with the sudden attack. There was evidence that the flu bug was present on campus before the snowstorm that froze Massachusetts, but the sudden and rapid spread of the flu through the resident community was apparently due to forced inactivity the storm created. Because of the widespread effect of the flu throughout the residential community the college urged those suffering from the virus to go home rather than stay around because of their school work. There was no academic penalty imposed on those stu- dents who missed school during the week of Feb, 13 and any tests or exams schel- duled during that period were given an- other date.