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              THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 69, NO. 9 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 October 26,1990 Vandersand closes external account By Ted Sheppard Staff writer David Vandersand, management and marketing senior and Student Government Association president, closed a First National Bank of Commerce checking account last Friday after learning that the account's existence violated university policy. The SGA had used the unauthorized account to finance the Annual SGA Retreat, the Annual SGA Inauguration Ceremony, the Annual SGA Christmas Reception and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with certain SGA events. The account violated university policy requiring all student organizations receiving funds collected through student fees to operate their accounts through the university. Three SGA members operated the account separate from the university, Vandersand said. The unauthorized account was funded by money cut from the refrigerator rental account, which contains funds collected by the SGA from their rental of refrigerators to members of the Loyola community, he said. Vandersand said the account had been around for years and that he had been using it according to precedents set by past SG A administrations. There had never been any reason to suspect that the account violated university policy, he said. He said Vincent Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs, had notified him that the account was unauthorized, and that he then immediately closed it and transferred the funds to the SGA's internal refrigerator rental account. Knipfing said he learned of the unauthorized account through Judy Deshotels, assistant Danna Center director and SGA adviser. Deshotels said she had not been aware that the account's existence breached university policy. "I very casually mentioned the account to Mr. Knipfing one day over lunch. He had never heard of it, though he immediately recognized that the account was in violation of university policy," she said. Knipfing said the account had been in existence as early as 1983 and that it did not have any critcriacstablishcd for the dispersal of funds. "There were two or three people who could sign these checks, but there were no guidelines set up saying how the money Photo by Kristin Hudson Raid the fridge? — One of the refrigerators the SGA rents out lies in storage. Until last week, the SGA cut money from funds reaped from the rental of these refrigerators and placed it into a special and, so they found, unauthorized account. Sports fee vote tests student support of athletics By Angela Pulido Staff writer The Student Government Association voted Tuesday to let students dec ide through a referendum whether to initiate a sports fee of $10 per student per semester. The bill, authored by Jean B. Duet, accounting and finance senior and congressperson at large, states that the $100,000 generated from the fee would go toward starting a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) varsity sports program with men's baseball and basketball. At present, the Loyola baseball team is only an associate member of the NAIA. Associate members cannot compete in championship tournaments. 'The sports program would provide the Loyola community with two varsity sports, home games free of charge and free transportation back and forth to all home games. Most importantly, however, the program would offer the university community something to rally for and support," Greg Suire, communications junior and baseball team president, said. David Vandersand, management and marketing senior and SGA president, has until Tuesday to accept Congress' decision. Vandersand said he is hesitant to support a referendum that would put such so much money on something so questionable. His initial concerns, he said, were that the allocation of a $20,000 escrow account for future women's sports and the control of funds were mentioned as part of the proposal, but were not outlined in the resolution. "It was implicit in the presentation, but not explicit in the legislation," Vandersand said. One of two scenarios can occur, he said. The program will either be successful or not "The first scenario is that the program starts off as a great program and expands," Vandersand said. "The problem is as more teams evolve, the more money the program will need to run effectively." Craig T. Bogar, director of recreational sports, and Robert Reed, director of Residential Life and coach for the basketball team, both agree that the fee money will not be enough money to effectively run a fullfledged sports program. "The SlO fee is enough to get the current projected sports started," Bogar said. "As the program expands, we will have to look for external funding from alumni in the form of a booster club, or we might have to increase the fee through university Search for agenda, new dean mark Arts and Sciences faculty assembly By Charles Lussier News Editor Talk of an overall lack of operational focus, especially in searching for a new dean to replace the retiring Dr. William Eidson, dominated a college of Arts and Sciences meeting Tuesday. Those present also discussed the college's unclear agenda and absence of priorities in their relationship with the administration. Dr. Conrad Raabe, associate professor of political science, said the collcgc must first outline its priorities as a collcgc and then try to find a dean capable of implementing them before the college does anything else. "We need someone who can negotiate on our behalf, not tell us what our priorities ought to be," Raabe said. "We could have a dragon come in here as long as the dragon respects our priori tics," he said. Dr. Stanislaw Makiclski Jr., professor of political science, said faculty distrust of the administration is a major factor in deciding on a new dean. "There's a sense that there's a lot of faculty anger and this has not happened simply in the last academic year, but in a kind of cumulative sense that we have been kind of cut out of the traffic," he said. Makiclski also cited the recent budget shortfall and the uncertainty about its actual size as a cause for low faculty morale. Dr. Marcus Smith, associate professor of English, estimated that overall salarcs allotted in the present budget amount to a total of $25 million, with faculty earning approximately $13.5 million and administrators earning $11 million. "I see the new dean as having to get in and successfully compete for a larger portion of a pic that has been disproportionately cut up," Smith said. Dr. Mary Blue, associate professor of communications, said one of the problems with the budget process is the small voice the faculty has in deciding how the budget See Account/page 5 See Sports/page 7 See Meeting/page 7 sdfsda