Maroon

              MAROON LOYOLA UNIVERSITY  NEVA/ ORLEANS LOUISIANA MARCH 25 1976 VOL. Lll NOL SO Take the (mail) money and run by Peg Hannan Mail theft at Loyola Over $600 in checks and cash never got to Neil and Skip Clemmons, two brothers who live in Biever Hall. The money was sent in four envelopes, none of which arrived in their post office boxes. An A&S sophomore who lives in Buddig Hall expected a letter from home she knew to contain $50. She found the letter taped inside the door to her room-but the money had been removed. An envelope she had been told would contain newspaper clippings and an insurance policy arrived on time to Maureen Clarke, a Buddig resident. The insurance policy had been removed. The parents of a Loyola freshman mailed an airplane ticket to her by special mail one week before tbr' flight. She received it the day of the flight, and only after demanding that mail room employees search their office for it. It had been sitting in a drawer for several days without her knowledge. Two sophomores' final term papers were mailed to, a Loyola professor by interdepartmental mail. He never received them. Security investigating "Someone is stealing mail, I'll tell you that right now," said Jack Kellogg, director of Security. "There's a good chance the thief might be caught." Security has been investigating mail theft at Loyola for two semesters, but Kellogg was not willing to elaborate on his efforts to track down the cause of the thefts. Although only the dorms' mail clerks are authorized to enter the mail rooms in Buddig and Biever Halls, anyone who is so inclined can go into the rooms. "They are left open all day long," Clemmons said. When asked about that situation, Buddig Hall mail clerk Susie Boushie said, 'That's a big problem. Buddig has to start getting better security. A lot of times I've gone down there and nobody's in there (the Housing office). The secretary might be at lunch; Mr. Kavanaugh might be out to lunch. That's a problem." "Dorm students can get other students' mail simply by asking the clerk or someone at the desk for it," Maureen Clarke, a resident, said. "I don't think that's right." Mail theft can occur at any stage in a letter's travel to its destination. Mail addressed to dorm residents changes hands many times before it reaches the addressee, and tracking where the thefts occur is a difficult process. There is still the possibility that some of the thefts occur before mail even reaches the Loyola campus. Mail sent from other cities first reaches the Carrollton Post Office, at 1426 S. Carrollton Ave. It then is sent to Loyola; unaccountable mail arrives in the morning, and accountable (certified, registered and insured) mail arrives in the afternoon. Employees bonded Two ful} time University employees and four work/study students currently work in the post office. The two University employees are bonded under Thomas Preston's name. Preston is director of personnel at Loyola. Preston did not know exactly how much they are bonded for. Accountable mail is handled only by Mary Ballein, chief of clerks in Loyola's central mail room. She signs for the mail and keeps it in the office until the addressee signs for it. Residents are supposed to oe notified that accountable mail has arrived for them by the receipt of slips in their dorm mail boxes. If the mail clerks do not check with the main office in the afternoon, the slips won't reach the residents until the nexi day, thus holding up the mail. Susie Boushie is responsible for bringing, the girls' slips to Buddig Hall. "Some slips I get in the morning, and others come in in the afternoon," she said. "Lately, though, I haven't been going over there in the afternoon,-and that's bad." She said that Mrs. Ballein leaves the slips in the housing office's post office when she (Boushie) doesn't go to the office in the afternoon. "But they never go to pick up their mail anyway, so the girls will just have to get their mail the next day," Boushie said. Third class mail, such as newspapers, magazines and packages, are delivered to Buddig Hall in open trucks by maintenance personnel. When it rains, that mail is not delivered. Biever residents must pick up their uninsured mail. Several people have noted signs of neglect and sloppiness in the handling of mail in the dormitories. Last semester Neil Clemmons found a sack of mail that had been stuffed under a desk in Buddig Hall. On checking the postmarks of the letters inside, he found that the sack had been there for over a week. Pat Grusenmeyer, a Bievcr Hall resident, checks his mailbox to see if any misting mail has finally turned up. Recently, some dormitory residents have complained that mail either doesn't arrive or has been tampered with in the process of delivery. SGA runoff election set by Gretchen Hock Janelle Naccaxi A close race between two Student Government Association presidential candidates will result in a run-off election next Monday and Tuesday. A total of 1096 students voted in the SGA elections this year. Votes tallied Tuesday night determined the run-off election between Michael Furlong, with 364 votes, and Anne Bienfang with 337 votes. To win, a candidate would have needed 537 votes. "I'm grateful," said Furlong, "but I know I've got a lot of work ahead of me. I've put a lot of hours into this because I was the dark horse and was not known around here." Furlong stood by the voting booths for 14 hours campaigning on both election days. Furlong's strongest support came from City College where he received 76% of their votes. He had complained to the dean of City College about the lack of City College interest in SGA elections. The Reverend John J. Burns, S.J., dean of City College, endorsed Furlong in the election, which may have influenced many of the City College voters. "It's kind of tiring right now," Bienfang said after a long day of campaigning and awaiting results. "I hope to be campaigning more," she said. Joseph Altonji won the SGA vice presidency, with 662 votes, clearly defeating Chris DeVocht. "I was very pleased about it and I'm ready to get to work," Altonji said. Presidents of the five colleges in the elections are as follows: Jim Fadden, Arts and Sciences; Laurie Suhr, Business Administration; Len Rozell, City College, who ran unopposed; Paul Tabary, Law School and Cynthia Lynn Revisore, Music School. The Loyola presidential primary put incumbent Gerald Ford in the lead with 266 votes followed by Jimmy Carter with 23S votes. Ronald Reagan pulled 107 votes; George Wallace was next with 74 votes; Morris Udall had 58 votes and Henry Jackson 57 votes. BGA presidential candidates Anne Bienfang and Michael Furlong