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The North Texas Daily
Tuesday, March 28, 1989 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 72nd Year No. 90
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Organizations request budgets totaling $1.2 million
Julie Hemby
Staff Writer
Representatives from five student
service groups made their budget re-
quests Friday for 1989-90 to the Student
Service Fee Committee, presenting
combined budget requests of $1.2
million.
The University Scholarship Office,
Intercultural Services, the spirit squad,
debate and forensics and the Health
Center were represented.
Thirty-two groups are requesting
funds from student service fees for the
next school year.
Dean of Students Joe Stewart said
that the $4.7 million total of budget
requests from the 32 groups will have
to be cut. The Student Service Fee
Committee has about $4 million to
allocate.
Sheila Meyer, administrator for the
Health Center, presented the largest
request at more than $1 million, a 32.1
percent increase from last year’s budget.
During the 1988-89 school year the
Health Center has operated with a budget
of $801,866.
THE HEALTH CENTER has re-
quested one of the highest budgets,
second only to athletics. Of the 32
student service organizations, both the
Health Center and athletics have asked
for budgets of more than $1 million.
The requested budget for debate and
forensics shows the largest increase of
the six groups at 73.8 percent. Dr. John
Gossett of the communications and
public address faculty presented the
group’s budget and requested $65,782.
The organization’s 1988-89 budget set
by the Student Service Fee Committee
in spring of last year was $37,850.
Intercultural Services is requesting a
1989-90 budget of $53,898, a 26.4
percent increase over this year’s budget
of $42,645.
The Scholarship Office has asked for
a 1989-90 budget of $36,309. The
budget for 1989-90 shows a 14.3 percent
increase from the 1988-89 budget of
$31,763.
THE LAST BUDGET proposal
came from Assistant Athletic Director
Jim Hobdy, who represented the spirit
squad. The squad is requesting a
1989-90 budget of $12,200, which
Hobdy said he expects to cut by about
Student Service Fee Budget Requests
1888-88 Budget
1888-80 Reauest
2k
Unlv. Scholarship Offlca
$31,763
$ 36,308
♦14.3
Intercultural Services
$ 42,645
$ 53,888
♦26.4
Spirit Squad
$ 10,100
$ 12,200
♦20.8
Debate &Forsenslcs
$ 37,850
$ 65,782
♦73.8
Health Center
$801,866
$1,058,080
♦32.1
Graphic by Joe Toland
$1,000. The group’s initial request is a
20.8 percent more than the budget the
cheerleaders have operated on this school
year of $10,100.
Meyer said the Health Center’s
1989-90 budget request includes repair
costs totaling $148,000.
The heating and cooling unit in the
building is outdated, Meyer said, and
Physical Plant workers who have been
repairing it over the years have told her
it needs replacing soon.
Salaries and wages draw the most of
the total Health Center budget request
at $635,852.
If she can staff another physician.
Meyer said that would bring the total
of university physicians to four, who
would serve more than 24,000 people.
“If you go to other universities with
this type of enrollment, they always have
about eight physicians,” she said. “In
1970, when there were only 17,000
students here, we had five physicians."
GOSSET JUSTIFIED HIS 73.8
percent increase in budgets from last
year to this year for debate and forensics
by saying the organization needs a
full-time staff member to collect in-
formation and conduct research so that
the debaters can be more competitive
against larger universities.
“We compete against Big 10 schools
that have full-time researchers,”
Gossett said, “and it becomes harder
and harder, even impossible, to compete
at the national level if we don’t have
that type of position here.”
Harold Bell, coordinator for Inter-
cultural Services, said his department
is seeking more in salaries and wages
to keep the full-time secretary shared
with the Dean of Students Office.
Salaries total more than $27,000.
“The two work-study students
couldn’t be there all the time,” Bell
said. “We had to alleviate the problem
by hiring someone who could be
there.”
BELL SAID HE would also like to
add to the number of black and hispanic
awareness programs on the campus next
school year.
Dr. Robert Detrick of the history
faculty, who represents the University
Scholarship Office, said the office has
served about 12,000 students during
1988-89. On Friday with a week left
until application deadlines, Detrick said
950 applications appeared in the office.
The chancellor’s office will be pro-
viding about $94,000 in 1989-90 for
scholarship money.
Dctnck said that the amount of money
from sources outside the university has
increased dramatically in the last five
years.
“Our expected amount of scholarship
money to award the students for the
coming year will range from $175,(XXJ
to $190,000," Detrick said
HOBDY SAID HE will be cutting
the initial request for the spirit squad
from $12,200 to $11,200.
"Some things have happened that
will lower this request,” Hobdy said
“We found maintenance and operation
not to be quite as high as we originally
expected.”
At 2 p.m. Friday seven more student
service organizations will present budget
proposals to the committee
Representatives from Counseling and
Testing, the substance abuse program,
the Student Association, Recreational
Sports, intramurals and co-recreationa!
sports and club sports will be requesting
their 1989-90 budgets for an expected
combined total of more than $500,(XX)
Dean OKs appointment
to service fee committee
By Melinda Lusk
Staff Writer
Female students have a representative
on the Student Service Fee Committee
after Dean of Students Joe Stewart
approved the appointment of Shari Bracy
Thursday.
Bracy, Ozark, Mo., senior, was ap-
pointed to the fee committee last
Tuesday by Student Association Presi-
dent Will Helixon, Denton graduate
student, after committee member Jay
Ruuska, Richardson senior, resigned.
The Student Service Fee Committee
is an advisory group to the dean of
students and is composed of six students,
three administrative officers and one
faculty member The committee makes
recommendations on the allocation of
more than $4 million in student service
fees.
Helixon said that Bracy is the most
qualified person for the job, having
passed all of the qualifications he set
for the appointment.
In addition, Bracy has served as both
an SA member and executive secretary
for the body. She ran also for SA's vice
presidency against Helixon and Ruuska
during the spring 1898 semester
Helixon said that Bracy’s appointment
to the committee was an effort on his
part to correct what he called an un-
intentional selection of an all-male
committee.
“I felt that it was a mistake not to
appoint a woman on the first committee,
but it was a mistake I didn’t know I
was making," Helixon told The Daily
last week.
Helixon’s effort to correct what he
called a mistake depended on Stewart's
approval. Stewart said he had been
concerned about whether or not Bracy
could devote the time needed to catch
up on the minutes of the hearings she
had not attended.
“I met with her and she committed
to me that she would take the time
necessary to catch up on the process
so she could join in delibeiations,"
Stewart said.
Drug-free policy protects
NT eligibility for grants
By Rogers Cadenhead
Staff Writer
NT’s compliance with new
federal drug-free workplace reg-
ulations should protect the uni-
versity’s eligibility for grants, a
research administrator said Mon-
day.
“The law won’t really have an
effect,” said Mark Elder, assistant
vice president for research. “It’s
one more certification we have to
send off for federal grant pro-
posals.”
Starting March 18, the university
must certify with every new grant
application that it has established
drug-free workplace policies, ac-
cording to Office of Management
and Budget guidelines published
Jan. 31.
“This is to let people know that
drug use is not as acceptable as it
was 10 years ago,” said Tom
Overton, director of NT’s Coun-
seling and Testing Center.
A university committee that met
six times in February and March
released a policy statement March
10 that defines NT’s implementa-
tion of the guidelines.
The university’s written policy
mandates a public statement,
awareness program and employee
regulations.
By public statement the uni-
versity must notify employees that
unlawful drug use, possession, sale
or manufacture “is prohibited in
all workplaces where work is being
done in connection with any federal
grant or contract,” according to
the policy.
NT's existing drug abuse pre-
vention program in the Counseling
and Testing Center meets many of
the work place requirements, com-
mittee member Overton said.
Under the regulations, univer-
sities must establish a “drug-free
awareness program” by inform-
ing employees of the dangers of
drug u&, available counseling and
punishment for drug use.
The counseling center is using
an $125,000 grant to expand NT
Challenge, a university drug
awareness program created to fight
alcohol and drug abuse among
faculty, staff and students.
“That’s already in place,”
Overton said.
Under NT’s guidelines, any uni-
versity employee involved in the
performance of federal grant work
will be notified of the policy and
must agree to follow it.
Any employee convicted of a
criminal drug statute for violations
at the workplace must notify the
university within five days, and the
university must notify the federal
agency that administers the grant
within 10 days.
“It’s a self-reporting program,”
Elder said.
Penalties for violations depend
on the circumstances of the in-
dividual case, the university policy
states, but they range from “man-
datory participation in university-
approved drug counseling and re-
habilitation programs to dismissal
from the university.”
Provisions ate made for appeals
to university committees and the
provost’s office. “In all cases, all
due-process procedures will be
followed,” according to NT's
policy.
Kapow!
Paul Ramirez, Dallas junior of lambda Chi Alpha, hits
Mike Richardson, Richardson sophomore of Kappa Al-
pha, with a left jab. Proceeds from Friday ’s Fight Night
go to the Lambda Chi Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Car crash
damages
restaurant
By Julie Hemby
Staff Writer
An NT student lost control of her
car and crashed into a Burger King
restaurant as she turned a comer
shortly before 5:25 p.m. Friday, police
officials said
Denton Police Lt. Walter Keen said
Denis Foreman. Irving freshman, was
turning left from Avenue A to Eagle
Street when she lost control of her
1983 Buick Regal. She swerved to
avoid hitting another vehicle and
crashed into a sign, flower bed and
wall of the Burger King, he said
Foreman, a Clark Hall resident,
sustained a bruised knee in the ac-
cident.
Chris Castle, San Antonio junior,
was eating at the restaurant when he
witnessed the crash.
“It looked like a car pulled out in
front of her, and she swerved to miss
it and lost control," Castle said.
It is estimated that the cracked bnck
wall and damaged flower bed will cost
from $2,500 to $3,000 to repair.
Burger King manager Mike Wilkes
said.
18-year-old resident dies in car wreck
By Kimberly Moore
Staff Writer
An 18-year-old Denton resident died Saturday
morning in a one-car accident at the intersection of
Bonnie Brae and Roselawn streets, south of Interstate
Highway 35E.
Police suspect alcohol was involved in the incident.
Lt. David Wright of the Denton police said Monday.
Corey Todd Shaw, a 1987 Denton High School
graduate, died of multiple chest injuries sustained
after he was thrown from the Jeep CJ7 in which he
was traveling. Shaw was crushed by the vehicle,
which flipped and rolled on top of him.
Shaw was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m. at HCA
Denton Community Hospital, Freda Callabrese,
hospital spokeswoman, said.
The driver of the vehicle, William Jenkins, 19.
of Argyle, was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
He was not injured.
No one in the vehicle was wearing seatbelts, Wright
said. The other passengers, an 18-year-old Argyle
resident and a 19-ycar-old Denton resident were also
thrown from the vehicle, but sustained minor injuries.
Shaw was a freshman at Austin Community College
and was home for the Easter holiday. His parents.
Butch and Carolyn Shaw, are teachers at Denton
High School. Both are NT graduates.
Other survivors include Shaw’s grandfather. Murl
Calvert of Denton, and a brother, Chad, who is a
1985 Denton High School graduate. The funeral
service was Monday at Jack Schmitz Funeral Home.
Shaw was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park
Walter Nusbaum, Denton sophomore, knew Shaw
and said his death was a shock to a lot of people.
“Corey was friends with everyone. He could mix
and match — he wasn’t the type of person who
limited himself to a certain clique
“He had friends of all types, and he cared equally
about all of them," Nusbaum said.
Donor tally approaches 25,000
By Beth Ziesenis
Daily Reporter
As raindrops fell on campus Monday, drops
of blood from NT donors pumped life into the
NT spring blood drive.
Last semester the blood drive siphoned a total
of 2,488 pints of blood, which included 70 pints
donated by NT students for the Delta Air Lines
Flight 191 crash. This semester Dr. J B “The
Count” Spalding of the business faculty hopes
to top 2,700 pints.
“We could have a few more students today,
but it’s kind of cloudy,” Spalding said.
The Count is desperately seeking the 25.00<)th
donor, who will arrive early this morning. The
landmark donor will be number 298 in the spring
drive. Monday’s total reached just over 250
pints.
Spalding has been keeping the tally on the
number of donors since 1973. He said that the
lucky donor will get a special T-shirt and be the
center of attention for the morning.
“We’re going to have horns and confetti and
a lot of hoopla,” Spalding said.
Anyone wishing to donate may do so at any
of three blood drive locations: the Silver Eagle
Suite in the University Union, the mobile blood
unit outside of Kendall Hall or another unit near
the PE Building. The sites will be open every
day this week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Many of today's donors were giving for the
first time. Jennifer Masters. Austin junior, ad-
mitted that she was a little nervous at first.
“It’s a lot better than 1 thought," she said.
“I’ll definitely do it again.”
Some students preferred working at the blood
drive for credit in a class or organization instead
of donating. About 75 faculty members and 100
organizations are giving incentives for par-
ticipation.
Tom Kline, Plano senior, worked more than
six hours for Delta Sigma Pi Monday, holding
hands and encouraging people to donate
His interest in the blood drive began when his
brother was in an accident, and he noticed the
blood shortage, he said.
“I believe in giving,” he said “I donate
every year.”
Daily to hire
for summer, fall
Applications are being accepted through early April
for The Daily’s editorial and advertising departments
Applications for the jobs, which are open to all students,
are available in General Academic Building 117 for
editorial and GAB 101 -C for advertising
The first application deadline is April 4 for fall
advertising applicants Summer advertising applicants
and all prospective editorial staff members must turn in
applications by April 7.
Hiring is being done by the newly selected summer
and fall Daily editors and ad managers
They are: Summer Editor Mike Bolduc. San Antonio
senior; summer Ad Manager Heidi Swart wood. Lewisville
senior; fall Editor Rogers Cadenhead. Garland junior,
and fall Ad Manager Carolyn Fischman. Allen junior.
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