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Martin to Speak at Convocation Dr. warren Bryan Martin, vice president of Earll Forest Products, president of the Danforth Foun- Inc., earned his B.A. at Western dation, will speak at the Senior Maryland College where he was an Investiture and Honors Con- award-winning soccer player. He vocation at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May retired recently as Western 6 in Baker Memorial Chapel. Dr. Maryland's soccer coach after 15 Martin will be awarded an years of service. Buffington, who Honorary Degree for Doctor of also received her B.A. from Humane Letters. Western Maryland, is a national authority on the metric system This is a traditional event at at She is currently senior which Keith Patterson, president mathematics editor for Ginn and of the senior class, will be formally Company, Educational Publishers, invested with the cap and gown, as after serving several years as a representative of this year's teacher and mathematics graduating class. The ceremonies I supervisor in Carroll County. will alSo honor the -recipients of Western Maryland's major Before joining the Danforth "" academic, activity and leadership Foundation, Dr. Martin was active awards. in college teaching, research and administration at institutions Among those to be honored are including the University of Homer C. Earll and Audrey V. California at Berkeley, California Buffington who will receive the State College at Sonoma and of the Volume IX, Number 9 Trustee Alumni Award, Jr., presented Cornell College. A member Western chair- by Wilbur D. Preston Commission, Senior Western Maryland College man of the board of trustees. Earil, Association of Schools and Colleges, Dr. Martin holds the Suh.Contractors Sue WMCfor Doctor of Philosophy degree from Boston University. Unpaid Bills from College-Center Senior who was granted the Martin, Research Award, University under Fulbright-Hays of London, belongs the to Act, Bill Byrne therefore notmer the College in who assured the College that According to Charles O. Fisher, several professional organizations. and three Author of over 50 articles Allstate Sheet Metal Inc. and December of 1978 that they were Charles Frank would handle the a legal advisor for the College, the books, Martin has administrative wetsme n Inc. Mechanical filing mechanics liens against the matter. Frank's failure to either controversy is close to being and policy responsibility for the Engineers have filed Mechanics college. A mechanics lien is a legal contest or pay the liens was the resolved. The responsibility for Danforth Graduate Fellowship liens totaling $17,853.88 against the device used by contractors to payment of the liens has been Program, the Kent Fellowship Western Maryland College Decker guarantee that they recteve final incident (the college had been accepted by Charles Frank's Program and the Graduate Student Center in the Circuit Court payment for work completed. dissatisfied with their work in bonding company, Fidelity & Fellowships for Women. of Carroll County. The school's many areas) which led to their Deposit Company of Maryland, should position on the issue has been that When the college was notified of being fired as general contractor and the College problems therefore with the have no more the general contractor for the the liens, it contacted the Bonding for the remaining work on the Center, construction Frank of Inc., Decker was respon- Company of Charles Frank Inc. Decker Center. matter. :~~e~~r"f~'.\::~~:~:;ai~ftb~~\Boo.·sto-e p-,.ees Charles ...... Can't Be Helped College with no choice but to end fi, • • l its contract with that fiqp. Allstate and Weisman filed the One problem which Jarkowiec liens in an attempt to recteve Chris Bohaska stores made up for the discount by that there are many reasons. feels can be somewhat improved is payment for work they did on the profits made on best sellers and Although the school assumes in the case of leftover books. Most Decker Center between Jl;!!!uary of Many students in the past have other nondiscountable books. The responsibility for the rent, the heat of the major publishers in business 1977 and November of 1978. The questioned the prices of books in College Store can only make up and the electricity of the store, presently will only allow the case involves a confusing line of the college store as well as other losses on books through the sale of salaries must still be paid. Along college store to return 20% of the contractors, contracts and sub- merchandise. The frequency of other merchandise such as with salaries, the store must pay leftover books. This means that for contracts. During the construction this questioning has increased over records, clothing, food" etc. The the transportation (postage and every course that is cancelled it of the Decker Center, Charles this past year with the rise in the college community is not large handling) of books from the will cause a number of books to be Frank Inc. (the general contractor price of books, expecially when a enough to supply such a profit on publishing houses to the store. In leftover {sayan average of three to in charge of the entire project) few other stores in the Baltimore- these things in order to lower the past, other colleges in the area five textbooks at 40 copies of each hired H. L. Mills & Sons to assist Washington area can afford to give prices on books (which are already have gotten together and shipped book.j These books must be or- with the construction. H.L. Mills, students a discount on book pur- operating in losses). The sale of books together in one large dered ninety-working days ahead in turn, subcontracted Allstate chases. this other merchandise is the only cooperative operation. Jarkowiec of the opening of classes. Most Sheet Metal and Weisman Inc. to thing that keeps the store from claims that this operation has courses are open until the last two work for them. The situation Mr. John Jarkowiec, in charge of finishing with a loss at the end of become to large (use of computers, weeks before the opening of the became complicated when H. L. the College Store, claimed that each year, and these sales are newer & more restrictive order semester. If a professor ceneet be Mills filed for bankruptcy in there were many reasons why the successful because the student deadlines, etc.) and that the cost of found for a course, it is cancelled, August of 1978. Allstate and store could not alford to offer or body is very responsive towards joining the organization is to ex- leaving the books on the shelves. Weisman, hired by Mills, did not discount to students while some the college store and what it sells. pensive. On the average, forty courses are recieve full payment for work they other stores can. But why do book sales always cancelled each year. All these did on the Decker Center and First, Jarkowiec said that other take a loss'? Jarkowiec explains Another problem is theft. Store books have been payed for (in- employees are constantly picking cluding shipping), salaries have up empty cases and noting missing been payed for unpacking, pricing Country Rock in Alumni merchandise. These are things and shelving. The leftover books for. No one that they can account must then be taken off the shelves, can estimate just how much repacked and sent back (shipping merchandise is actually carried must be paid here too). Only 20% of JeniferUlrey out of the store. the books are "bought back" by Freewater, a country rock and with the Nighthawks at Maryland College is unusual in the A computer to keep a record of the publishing companies, leaving roll band, voted by The City Paper Baltimore's Famous Ballroom. respect that is is not being spon- all inventory and thus reveal total a huge Joss. as the best local band will be ap- The concert was given to celebrate sored by any particular group, but losses due to theft is too expensive Jarkowiec claims that ex- pearing at Western Maryland the incoming new year. The by three students. Barry Sacks, to operate, as are cameras such as perience has taught him to un- pollege on Thursday May third. Nighthawks have five albums out Robert Becker, and Hunter Stedley the ones in banks and other stores. der-order books, but that class Freewater is a local Baltimore and are a well known tour group have gone to all the trouble of Hiring an extra employee to walk cancellations cause a great loss. band which often played at originally from Bethesda, Md. booking, sponsoring, and the floor looking for shoplifters is Jarkowiec says that he un- Hanratty's Pub on Eutaw Street on Freewater is mostly known for arranging the whole concert. In- expensive and too ineffective a derstands the problems that Tuesday evenings as well as many their imitation of Grateful Dead. stead of having a big concert this solution. directors of the programs have, othergigsatsmall clubs. However, they also have a playlist spring it was decided to have two but he feels that better cooperation In September they surprised a that includes Bonnie Raitt, Bob small ones, the Tom Chapin In otherwords, the cost for between the store and directors crowd of over three hundred at the Dylan, Otis Redding, Hank concert being the first one. It is salaries, transportation or ship- might help the situation. University of Maryland's College Williams, George Jones, Jackson hoped that Freewater which has ping of books and losses in thefts Next week, Scrimshaw will have Park Campus with a free concert. Browne, and Martin Mi.JlI as well been described by many papers as are basically without solution. The a report on the directors of course The University of Maryland as a lot of excellent original a "fast rising local group" will be possible problem solvers are more programs and what problems they concert opened doors for them and material. among Western Maryland's better often than not more expensive than have in scheduling classes and they were invited to open a show The concert at Western concerts. theproble~. ordering materials.