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  • The^stern Carolinian 16 PAGES THURSDAY SEPT. 14, 1978 Vol.XLIV.No. 4 CULLOWHEE, N.C. 'Mismanagement' attributed to Nelson by EDDIE YANDLE Design Editor Possible mismanagement by SGA President Wanda Nelson has resulted in what will probably be the most expensive concert in the history of WCU. The concert, Hall and Oates, is scheduled for September 29th with a contract price of $20,000, $4,500 more than the previously most expensive. In addition, to the contract price, SGP (Student Government Productions) will have to shell out, "at least another $5,000" according to an official in SGA, pushing the cost of the concert in excess of $25,000. Part of the "mismanagement"- attributed to Ms. Nelson was from the expenses incurred in arranging the concert and the failure to appoint a Director of SGP with only two weeks remaining before the concert. A director has been tentatively recommended by Ms. Nelson, but the student senate must First approve the appointment in the next senate meeting. Another major expense in the concert is the replacement of several pieces of the stage that somehow disappeared over the summer. According to Maintenance Superintendent Tom King who is in charge of rebuilding the stage, it will cost SGP "approximately $800" including labor. Mr. King went further to say that Ms. Nelson has failed to contact him yet over the possibility of training students to build the stage that would save SGP another $100 per concert. "This year I made Wanda the same offer I always make to the president; ( to train two students to build the stage) to reduce their (SGP) cost." King added that Ms. Nelson "...hasn't turned it (offer to train students) down, but she just hasn't reacted." Ms. Nelson refused to rehire last year's director, Randy Lackey because, "...it's every president's prerogative (on appointments) and I chose not to rehire him." Lackey, with three years experience in SGP, is considered "the only qualified person on campus to run SGP" by one source. Lackey refused to comment on the situtation except to say that "Last year, I had every show for the fall semester lined up before school started." This year the only show planned is the upcoming concert on the 29th. Another discrepancy in the SGP controversy was the removal of over $8,000 from the SGP budget at the end of last year to cover a deficit incurred in SGA due to a mixup in the FTE (Full-time enrollment) figures that determines the organizations budget. Comptroller Roger McKinney assured the Carolinian that this was a simple line item changeover so SGA wouldn't have to start the academic year in the red. Mr. King continued about the operation of running SGP by saying, "I'm not saying she's (Nelson) not qualified, but she's not well versed." In another possible example of mismanagement by Ms. Nelson, the Carolinian learned that during Ms. Nelson's tenure as head of refrigerator leasing during 1974-75 that several hundred dollars was "mismanaged." The discrepancy was discovered in the refrigerator leasing ledgers that showed Ms. Nelson, David Fowler, Jack Bradley, and C'risti Morrow who all worked with Nelson at leasing, received the same amount each month for renting refrigerators based on commission rales. According to reliable sources within SGA it is "virtually impossible'' for all the salesmen to work on commission and receive the same pay each month. The SGA official said that "ideally, the director receives less than the salespeople...," because the director is also paid on stipend by SGA and receives less percentage on the sale ol refrigerators than the salespeople. The Carolinian also learned that all these facts were known before last year's election by former President Patrick Murphy and Vice-President (iary Brown who "more or less sat on it because of their support for Ms. Nelson," the source said. Another act of "presidential prerogative" was also exercised by Ms. Nelson who also chose to not rehire former director Bill Jarrett. who like Lackey, had three years experience with leasing but was nonetheless not rehired. When asked why he thought Ms. Nelson wouldn't rehire him, Jarrett also refused to comment except to say, "personal reasons." The personal reasons may have been Jarrett's refusal to back a candidate in last year's election, and that he had written a report on Ms. Nelson's actions while in charge of refrigerator leasing that said some of her' actions were "highly questionable." Reports from inside SGA indicate that because of this mismanagement, hard feelings and poor rapport has dominated its office. One official referred to it as the "Imperial Presidency of WCU." Filing deadline Friday Elections are postponed Elections for dorm senator seats in the Student Government Association have been postponed until next Tuesday and filing dates for those elections have been extended until Friday, according to an announcement by LeGrande Lister, chairperson of the 1978 elections commission. The elections were originally scheduled to be held yesterday but the lack of response from students filing and failure of the commission to meet until Tuesday forced the elections to be postponed. The original election date was set by SGA Vice President Phil Cates before Cates ever appointed the election commission and it was not until three days ago that the Student Senate approved Cate's appointments. The first meeting of the commssion was Tuesday, the day before the scheduled elections. Lister said the commssion decided to postpone the elections because it would have been impossible to organize them in one day and also because no students had even filed in five dorms. The election commission should have been approved by the senate last week and appointed well before that. The members of this year's election commission are: Lister, chairperson; Linda Street, Pat Hughs, Joyce Allen. Bill Hooker. Jeff Tice. and Steve Nye. The commission met with those candidates Tuesday who had already filed. No students had filed in Harrill. Helder. Buchanan, Madison and Reynolds. Harrill and Helder each have two seats open and Buchanan. Madison and Reynolds each have one seat open. Students who have filed for seats in other dorms are: Walker (two seats)—Lori Aycock and Beth Boger Turn to Page 7, Please Inside today... Mark Stuart Photo Parking meters make the news again. Page 3 Sports cenlerspreacl on pages 8 and 9. A reincarnated bull rider reigns In Western. Pages 3 and 4 Letters, letters, and more letters. Sec pages 12, 13, and 16. See the editorial by staff writer Chip Hammond on page 16. Housing problem to be corrected "The worst situation is up at Reynolds where we had to put three persons to a room, but we are right now in the process of making room changes," said Mrs. Hazel Bradsher, a secretary in the Housing Office. She said the problem in Reynolds would be alleviated as soon as space permits, but it depends on the number of students who will be dropping out of WCU, and the Housing Office isn't sure how many or how soon that will be. Room changes are taking place now and it will be at least another week before the area coordinator (Bee Pfahler) will know just how many vacancies there will be and how much help it will be. There are more than a hundred extra students living in the dorms compared to this time last year, according to Mrs. Bradsher. She said the university did forsee the overcrowding problems but admitted the freshmen anyway. "We feel like that was the chancellor's decision—it wasn't ours—to go ahead and admit as many freshmen and transfers as last year. The reason for the overcrowding situation is because more upperclassmen signed up for rooms. And in order to have as many students as last year we had to go to temporary housing." All students are still being housed on campus. Males have been temporarily placed on first floor of Scott Hall and girls are on the sorority halls in Walker. These areas are considered by Housing as just temporary housing. Mrs Bradsher said there are "actually just two people to the room, so it's really not a badly overcrowded situation at all, except at Reynolds." The Housing staff succeeded in getting all students moved out of study rooms in Scott. Leatherwood and Albright-Benton over a week ago. Scott Dorm will not be coed this year; all the guys presently living there are expected out by Housing as soon as vacancies permit. The hall will then be reused as the university's guest housing for official visitors.
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