FSA ponders ways
to spend cash surplus
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Syracuse Dome funds approved
in State Supplemental Budget
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by Dan Bowman
Spectrum Staff Writer
WANTED: Constructive ideas
how to spend over half a
million dollars. Please send to the
Faculty Student Association, Inc.
on
The
Faculty
Student
Association (FSA) will receive an
estimated
$550,000
after
relinquishing
control
of
the
University Bookstore to the Follet
Bookstore
The
Corporation.
money, which has yet to be
realized, will be in payment for
the sale of FSA’s inventory
investments will then be spent by
FSA to benefit present and future
student activities. However, Doty
believes FSA should initially make
organization is
sure its 'own
financially stable and is able to
comply
equity
guidelines. After reaffirming its
corporate stability, surplus from
the $550,000 would then be used
to make investments under the
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by Mark Meltzer
Campus Editor:
with- FSA
professional
of
“Real
estate
will
probably not be included in the
Doty asserted. “1
think we’ve learned our lesson.”
Students
have other ideas.
Bookstore’s new owners.
of
the
Student
FSA now has the delightful President
trouble of trying to decide what Association,(SA) and member of
the student assembly of FSA, Karl
to do with its new bucks.
Various members of the FSA Schwartz said, ”1 would like to
Board of Directors have been ensure that the FSA will continue
formulating potential proposals to as a corporation. However, the
money should be concentrated in
present at next Friday’s Board
meeting.
According
to student activities and -not, for
Administrative representative to example, in paying off debts.” In
the Board Edward W. Doty FSA response to a proposal by FSA
had
previously constructed a Secretary Ruben v Lopez, also a
tentative plan in 1972 in case the student representative to the
corporation suddenly acquired a Board, that a portion of the
large cash surplus. The plan was money be allocated to build a
designed
lieu
in
of
the student union on the Amherst
corporation’s projected sale of a Campus, Schwartz contends that
500-acre tract of land in the Town the State has already made plans
to construct a new student union
of Amherst which FSA purchased
for investment purposes in 1964, in the future
The investment backfired. The
A proposal made by University
land was never sold and has cost official and FSA Treasurer Len
FAS over $250,000 in faxes.
Snyder to purchase a $50,000
one that FSA
“I expect,” Doty said, “that IBM computer
many of these guidelines will'be currently Tents at a fee of $1800
followed when a decisio'ti is per month
met. with favorable
reached on how- to allocate the response. Millard Fillmore College
funds.” The plan’s major proposal (MFC) representative Peter Gruen
said, “Mr. Snyder has convinced
is to invest in stocks and bonds.
proceeds
The
from
these
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advisors.
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Area politicians had virtually
no choice but to vote for the
legislative package that contained
the now infamous Syracuse Dome
\
appropriation,
according to
Buffalo Assemblymen Sill Hoyt.
■ The $15.3 million Syracuse
handout was included in the
mammoth $72 million Stale
Supplemental Budget, Hoyt said,
making it impossible for him, or
any other legislator, to vote
against it without rejecting the
whole package.
“It should have been pieced
out earlier,” Hoyt said. When
Governor
L.
Hugh
Carey
requested the dome appropriation
be included, Hoyt added, he
effectively negated Western New
York legislator’s ability to vote
for their constituency.
Assemblymen Dennis Gorski
(D-Cheektowaga) also voted for
the package, but called the
Syracuse appropriation, “a bad
expenditure.”
Assemblyman Gorski, Hoyt
and Richard Keane met last week
with Assemblyman Melvin Miller.
Chairman of the Committee on
Higher Education, and University
President Robert L. Ketter to
discuss Amherst construction.
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However, no,, concrete proposals
were discussed at the meeting,
-
according to Hoyt.
Technical Director named
The new Technical Director for the Katherine Cornell Theater
was officially appointed last week. Jerry Kegler, a 1977 UB
graduate with a combined major in Arts Management and
Technical Theater has assumed the position.
Kegler has held similar positions locally with the Timon
Association for the Arts and the South Buffalo Cultural
Development Program. He is now in charge of lighting, sound,
and other technical
well as scheduling, house
management and billing.
University Public Affairs Director
Jim DeSantis said it might be
irritating for UB to keep pressing
specific issues so early in the
budgetary process. “One of the
to
alienate
quickest
ways
somebody is to start pushing for
things now,” he said,
The State Legislature will see
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It couldn't hurt
Ketter did not inform the
legislators of UB’s 1979 budget
request for a second recreational
Bubble. UB administrators believe
that such a structure could
partially alleviate the crying need
for recreational facilities at this
University.
In explaining the avoidance of
discussion on the Bubble request.
Veterans' victory claimed
Beyer’s sentence is vacated
by David Davidson
Sports Editor
Vietnam War
resister Bruce
Beyer's fight to excape jailing on
—Floss
A NEEDED BOOST: Vietnam draft resister Bruce Beyer, who was scheduled for
sentencing on assault charges Wednesday, left the Federal Courthouse with a
smile on his face. District Judge John T. Curtin has ordered a revaluation report
by Beyer's probation officer before he considers sentencing. In Beyer's arm,
above, are volumes of the FBI files kept on him since 1968, which he obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act.
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assault
received
a
charges
surprising boost Wednesday when
Federal District Judge John T.
Curtin vacated his sentence in lieu
of a new probation report.
The judge, in- a 26-page
opinion, said that Beyer had no
opportunity to challenge the
presentencing probation report.
He
therefore ordered Beyer,
re-evaluated by a probation
officer before reconsidering his
sentence at a later date.
Beyer, 29, was convicted in
1968 on draft evasion charges,
then jumped bail and fled to
Canada. Upon returning last
October, he appealed the sentence
before Curtin who freed Beyer
and
reserved decision until
Wednesday. Beyer has been
represented. since October by
former U.S. Attorney General
Ramsey Clark.
Beyer first learned of the turn
of events when entering Curtin’s
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