Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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The Great Blizzard Of 78 The Great Blizzard of 78 brought amounts of snow that Massachusetts hadn't seen in years. Record high numbers of inches were reported all over the state. The blizzard was a crippler to say the least. Massachusetts along with several other New England states were declared disaster areas. Traffic on roads was banned, roads were impassable, schools and businesses were closed for days.

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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.

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