Mirror - Vol. 03, No. 12 -October 25, 1979

              Legislature Picks Auditor
Investigates SEC
By Claudia M. Napp
and GiGi Byron
The legislature voted at their
meeting last Thursday to comply with
a bill calling for an impartial auditor
to review an organization's books be-fore
appropriating money to that
club. This decision came after it was
pointed out by Bob Schumm, exlegis-lator,
that the legislature was in viola-tion
of law, as passed in 1976, by ap-propriating
money without an
auditor.
"I think it's Bobby's intent to have
us use the power we have to keep
our authority to appropriate money.
This being brought up is to be an aid.
We can't be condemned for our ig-norance
of the bill," stated legislator
Lisa Craig. Chris Pfirrman, legisla-ture
president, added "I don't think
it's Bob's intention to hurt us. I've
read the constitution over several
times and it says nothing of the aud-itor.
We acted out of ignorance last
week, (when we appropriated money
to four clubs); we're acting out of it
now; whould we continue to act out
of ignorance and excuse it that
way?"
After the vote was taken, Pfirrman
decided he would appoint the auditor
within 24 hours. Bill Schaub, a junior
accounting major, was chosen.
Schaub will have a staff of five assis-tant
auditors working under him.
The first club to be audited under
the new system was the football
cheerleaders. The cheerleaders re-quest
was sent back to the legisla-ture
appropriations committee be-cause
of a discrepancy in their book-keeping.
Also discussed at last Thursday's
meeting were the projected losses to
be incurred at the Forbert/Hunter
Harvest Weekend concert. "If the
concert loses a lot of money, we can
take the SEC's money and give it to
appropriations," stated Ms. Craig.
Along with the concern about pos-sible
concert losses, a concern
about advertising for the event was
voiced. It was noted by Pfirrman that
an announcement of the then up-coming
concert was aired on WPLR.
It was decided that Pfirrman would
look into these allegations and if they
proved true, as action of some sort
would be placed on Mike DiSpirito,
SEC co-chairman.
A possible sanction discussed was
lowering the $2,000 ceiling for clear-ance
free expenditures to $1,000.
This would mean that any activity
costing SEC over $1,000 would have
to be approved by the legislature
before plans for the event were
made. The motion was sent to com-mittee
for further discussion.
it was also decided at that time
that the legislature would hold a
meeting the following Monday and
request that DiSpirito be present to
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FUSA Treasurer Ken Donovan and President Jim Connolly discuss
strategy at Monday night's legislature meeting. (Gigi Byron Photo)
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Carolen Fette, Cahirperson Career Spectrum (Colin Kelleher Photo)
Career Spectrum Set
"Not For Seniors Only"
By Lauretta LoCasale
and GiGi Byron
Over forty career representatives
will be available for informal discus-sion
with students at this year's
Career Spectrum, Thursday, Novem-ber
1 from 2:30-4:00 p.m. in the Oak
Room
Carolen Fette began organizing
the workshop last May when she was
appointed chairperson by FUSA
president Jim Connolly.
The format of this year's Spectrum
differs from last year's in that it con-sists
only of an afternoon session.
Ms. Fette explained that the morning
seminar session was not well attend-ed
last year so she decided to drop it.
"We've found that the students ben-efit
more from the informal, question-and-
answer format than from listen-ing
to seminars," Ms. Fette added.
Career Spectrum is geared for stu-dents
who are at all different stages
in deciding about a career. "It's for
the junior who knows he wants to be
an engineer and wants to find out
what it's really like and how to go
about getting a job. It's also for the
freshman who has no idea what he
wants to do, but is possibly inter-ested
in advertising. He can ask any
question he wants without feeling
stupid," explained Ms. Fette.
Ms. Fette was aided by Evelyn
Taylor of the Guidance Center in
choosing the career representatives
to be at Career Spectrum. About 30
percent of the representatives are .
Fairfield Alumni who, according to
Ms. Fette, "were very willing to
come and answer questions."
Many of the companies contacted
have special departments which
handle just this sort of workshop, and
some of the representatives are re-cruiters.
Mrs. Fette noted, "It's the
perfect chance for seniors to find out
about a specific company, establish
a contact, and maybe even set up an
interview.
Both Ms. Fette and Ms. Taylor
tried to get a diverse group of people
to appear at Career Spectrum. Pro-fessions,
ranging from accounting,
business or financial careers to
drama, engineering, medical or so-cial
service careers are represented.
"We have tried to get enough people
so that every major will be happy.
For example, we got a curator of a
museum who used to be a history
teacher for the history majors." ex-plained
Ms. Fette.
All students are both invited and
urged to attend Career Spectrum. "I
hope students don't think it's a holi-day
and stay home. It's really worth
everyone's time to come, and surely
people can get out of bed by 2:00,"
added Ms. Fette.
Campus Shuttle Altered
As A Response To
Beach Problems
By GiGi Byron
In an effort to deal with the con-flicts
that have recently taken place
between year-round beach residents
and student beach residents, the
beach shuttle schedule has been re-vised,
it was announced by FUSA
cabinet members Mike Navarro and
Tim Buckley.
Beginning today, every shuttle to
the beach after 8:00 p.m. will carry
only beach residents who have OCB
stickers on their I.D.'s. These stick-ers
were distributed to all beach resi-dents
at the Student Beach Resi-dents
Association meeting last Tues-day.
Student Services will continue
to distribute stickers to beach
residents who haven't gotten them
yet.
In addition to the shuttle's hourly
beach run (9:30-12:30), the bus will
make a run up to Julie Hal! and into
town every hour on the quarter hour
carrying campus residents.
The decision to limit the shuttle
came after various alternatives,
ranging from cancelling the shuttle
altogether to using the minibus as
the shuttle (to cut down the amount
of people and noise), were discussed
at last week's Student Beach Resi-dents
meeting.
"Our main alternative was bet-
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United Way Drive Begins
More Student Involvement Sought
By Stephen Banbury
For the third year, the University
will participate in the United Way's
annual fund raising campaign.
Directed by Father George Mahan,
Executive Assistant to President
Kelley, the program is "aiming for an
increase over last year's totals, from
$9400 from 250 gifts to $11,000 from
300 gifts, all to be accumulated over
the next few months."
Last year, through this drive, the
University and Prep administration
and personnel contributed the larg-est
amount, but sizeable donations
came from various other depart-ments
of the school.
Members of the Macke Food Co.,
perennial leaders in the drive, have
planned several fund raising events
for the year. Tonight, a beer and piz-za
night, featuring homemade pizza,
"wheelios", donated by Steve
"Wheels" Paulone, will take place in
the Stage-her. All proceeds will go to
the drive. Steve Paulone a graduate
of Fairfield, added, "among the
various ideas we have for the near
future, our main event, now in the
planning stages, is a showing of the
'Sound of Music' in Gonzaga Aud-itorium.
Besides direct donations, students
interested in work for the drive can
get in touch with FUSA. "Activities
like candy sales at Halloween are
what is planned for this semester.
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POLITICAL
STRAW POLE
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
415 votes cast
Kennedy ...47%
...26%
...20%
... 7%
split between 12 candidates.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
453 votes cast
Reagan . ...31%
Connolly ...20%
...20%
Ford . ...12%
Bush . . . 6%
... 4%
Dole . . . . 4%
. .. 3%
split between 6 candidates.
FINAL ELECTION
469 votes cast
Kennedy
Reagan
...31%
...19%
Connolly
Ford
... 11 %
. .. 9%
. . . 9%
. . . 8%
Bush
. . . 4%
.. . 3%
.. . 2%
... 4%
split between 10 candidates.