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Spring Fling Preview Page 10 THE PHOENIX Western Maryland College KahnWInS SGAPresident; TIe For Senior Class President By LISA T. Hn.L James Felton. A run-off election was held pcaied into the jobs. Not until one reecbes lions. StllSibility. Thesetwopositions bert. "Trustees have played a big factor in 22 would have been very surprised to find pretty tight, bavelTllJeresporL"ibilitythantheotberlhree legislation at WMC because they pro- that. out of the 16student government JX>- For all the other SGA offices, only one IngClber. vide funding for the school. It's a siuons, amy two were being contested: candidate ran. "Noterough people came out Thisfact may acccent [IJ the prcolem with money thing." that of senior class president and SGA for it toeven fill alllhe senatorial positions in leekof interest in the SGA. "Noone pays at- Many students complain about the president each class,' stated Jay Hilbert, junior class tentim to SGA. and that is sorre fault of our lack of action on the part of SGA. See- Aaron Kahn beat out Kelly Benvin and president own," rcedlhlbet, who feels that thelimited ing that the SGA is a STUDENT body Scott Freidrich [or SGA president There Part of the Ixk of interest problem seems emoemorlnueeace SGA has over matters at government, those students who want was a tie for the position of senior class to stem from the fact lhat the SGA dreg IXX WMC has a great dea1 to do with the small to see something changed should be a president between Donna Munsoo and have that much power or respoosibility inoor- numbers of students who run for SGA post- part of that government, according to Hilbert and many other students. Faculty/ Staff Get First Raise InTwo Years time "However, people just don't have to all that they should to devote SGA; they have other responsibilities tOO," explained Hilbert. By DAN SCHAEFFER assistant professors will have a 6% in- able in the budget for a salary in- S"",Wriit, crease. crease. Despite the disheartening news Faculty and non-faculty members of Faculty members' were notified about "We've spent three years trying to get about student interest in SGA, those the college will have a salary increase the salary increase on March 15. Non- expenditures down to facilitate an in- who do decide to join SGA "have good next fall for the first time in two years, faculty will be notified May 1. crease", said Seidel. leadership [abilities] and motivation," said a school official. The individual salaries of the faculty Reiff said the raise "reflects a com- according to Hilbert. "Drew [ReddeI] Dr. Ethan Seidel, vice president of fi- are decided by Academic Affairs. The mitment to faculty on the part of the and Mark [Furlong] really gave it an nances, said the increase will be on a faculty won't see a change in their pay- college. My sense is that the faculty is effort Dean Sayre and Dean sliding scale between six and four per- checks until September, according to very pleased." Disharoon do stick up for us. If SGA cent. Seidel. The $.5 million increase includes had the same motivation as Dean Sayre, The increase an employee receives All employees had gone two years fringe benefits as well as actual sala- we'd get a lot more done," he added. depends on their current income. Those without a raise. There was no increase in ries. With higher salaries, more has to Judging from the tone of many stu- -with lower income will have a higher the 1992-93 and 93-94 school years be- go to Social Security and retirement dents. SGA has about as much power as percent increase and those with higher cause no money was left after expenses funds. The Social Security tax is theywanttotake, butasofoow it is serving income will have a lower percent in- the last two years, Seidel said. 7.65% and retirement is 5%, Seidel as nothing more than a "puppet govern- crease. Dr. Henry Reiff. a professor of psy- added. ment," Acanti.ng to Hilbert, the trustees Faculty with the same rank will have chology, said he recognizes the situa- The budget for next academic year "don't seem interested in us as individual the same dollar increase. Full professors tion the college has been facing. "Times was constructed when the Budget people." but onJy as bodies wbo pourmoney are in a higher pay range than associate are tough in higher education. I'm a re- Cornmitteemet in January. It was then into the school "We bend over backwards professors or assistant professors, so alist, so it didn't surprise me we had to recommended to the Board of Trust- for the trustees," he noted. "They should they'll have the lowest increase of 4%, go without raises," he said. ees, which approved the budget on give us some credit because if it wasn't for Associates will have a 5% increase and This year, there was $500,000 avail- February 19, Seidel said. students, WMC would not exist." Are Western Maryland Students Savages, Or Just Victims? By DoUG COMBS with our sanctions,' said Dean of Student Co.uribu/.i"8W,;u, Affairs Philip R. Sayre. If you are a WMC student and live in If there are damages on a floor and the a residence hall, you know what a mess person or persons responsible are not hall damage can be. caught, the entire floor gets the bill. The Students. get charged for everything bill is then divided up among all floorresi- from trash in the hallway to urine not dents and everyone is responsible for pay- flushed down the toilet. Fines often ing. seem ridiculous and drain money from Steve West, a first-floor Rouzer resi- students. dent, said, "The bathroom door was tom "The fines we have to pay each se- off ..j don'tknowwhowill pay for it, but I mester are outrageous. I wish I knew didn't do it and I won't pay for it." West why they charge us so much money," also said damages on his floor are not es- said Blanche resident Todd Bickling. pecially bad and when something does get Meg Gobrecht, resident director, broken the person usually gets caught. Since said, the most common hall damages are first floor damage is not that prevalent, holes put in the walls. The fine for this Rouzer students may not have to pay for the ranges from $25 to $75. Other fines broken bathroool door. range from a labor fee of $10 to put a Although the school charges students a toilet-paper spindle back on its holster to steep price for damages, the school only broken marble in the bathroom that can collects about half the fines given out. Holes in tbe wall are quite conunon and can be quite COStly. carry a fine in the thousands of dollars. This is because the school only collects Could these fines be a way for the from the floors with the highest fines. for common damages because of parties. the total damages students were charged school to make money or are they really which are usually over $300. Sayre said but this year we haven't had many fines at for was $30,017. In 1993, the damages necessary? Should a student have topay this is to reward the floors that have kept. all," said Blanche resident Deborah were down to $19,653. $50 for every hole put in a wall? damages low. Out of the thirty floors on Milstein. Sayre said he is not sure why the fines "We only charge students for dam- campus only the seven with the highest In the past three years the amount of have gone down, but l!e is glad to see it. ages that the students are responsible for. fines were asked to pay anything at the end fmes students have had to pay has gone He also is not sure why there isa tendency We don't try to squeeze every dollar we of the semester, according to Sayre. down significantly. Sayre said in 1990, can out of students. We try to be fair "About a year ago we had to pay a lot See Damage, page 6 / _2 ------------------------~------------------~~--