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VOLUME 46
NUMBER 9
FEB. 26, 1976
POWER STRUGGLE THREATENS S.A.S.U
by Debby Beitch
The Student Assembly and S.A.S.U.
(Student Association of State Univer-sities)
the largest student assembly
in the country is at this time inop-erative.
The reason for this sudden halt of
all business is due to a power strug-gle
between the President of S.A.S.U.,
Bob Kirkpatrick and the Executive
Vice President, Betty Pohanka. Each
side believes the other is not run-ning
the organization as it s h o u l d be.
Accusations against various mem-bers
of the organization have been
flying. Charges of theft, intent to
destroy the organization, incompetence,
corruption, and believe it or not even
C.I.A. involvement.
These hostilities first came out
into the open during October, when
Ray Glass, S.A.S.U. founder died. For
two weeks following his death work
ceased and it was apparent at this
time that there would be little like-lihood
of the officers working toget-her
again.
Pohanka's major complaints had to
do with the way the organizations
money was being spent and how
office supplies were being stolen
from th State Department of Education
for use by S.A.S.U.. She also feels
that the death of Ray Glass is being
used as an excuse for not getting
back to work.
Pohanka, and Gail Walker, her
assistant found their files had been
tampered with, their possessions dam-aged,
and were subject to harrassment.
Towards the end of January a let-ter
was sent out saying how incompe-tent
and unwilling to work Pohanka
was. She then responded with libel
and slander suits.
The Student Assembly Executive
board responded to these charges by
forming a committee to investigate
at the December Conference. Unfor-tunatly
this only instigated more
charges and rumors and consequently
no other work was done. The commit-ties
official verdict is not avail-able
at this time.
When questioned, Mark Natelson,
President S.G.A.aand S.A.S.U. dele-gate
wished to remain neutral on
this issue, and has decided to wait
it out.to see what happens instead of
withdrawing from S.A.S.U. as some
colleges have chosen to do.
IN THIS ISSUE PHOTOCAP returns with doubled winnings on p. 3 Rambler Trivia
Quiz tests your knowledge of Farmingdale on p. 3 Rambler's
new "Club Directory" premiers on p. 4 A1 Pacino's Smarter
Brother: Two flicks reviewed on p. 5 The Amazing Randi
(remember him from Wonderama?) comes to Farmingdale (p. 7)
Bob Lawler is charged with public exposure on p. 9 Aggie
hoopsters gain revenge on tough opposition on p.12
DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: MARCH 2nd
S.G.A. says: FEWER ACTIVITY FEE REFUNDS
On February 4, 1976, the Student
Government Association came to a deci-sion
on the topic of refunds of the
Mandatory Student Activity Fee.
S.G.A. Vice President Debby Viniar,
after contacting a number of schools
in the S.U.N,Y. system, reported that
Farmingdale had the most lenient refund
policy.. S.G.A. President Mark Natelson
stated that the word "mandatory" alone
should be substantial ground for the
toughening of the refund policy. It was
therefore decided that the following
policy regarding refunds of the Manda-tory
Student Activity Fee should go
into effect immediately:
1. NO refunds given for special consid-erations,
under any cicumstances.
2. Refunds given to students who with-draw
on the following basis:
A. 100% refunded to student for the
first two weeks of the semester
(day one being the first day of
classes).
B. 50% refunded to student for the
third and fourth weeks of the semes-ter
(day one being the first day
of classes).
C. No refund given back to student
after fourth week of semester (day
one being the first day of classes),
3. A time limit will be set as to when
a student may request a refund. After
a month beginning from the first day
of classes, regardless when the student
withdrew, there will be no refund given,
A student must request a refund before
or during the first month of classes.
- R.S.
FINAL STATISTICS FOR THE SGA/PTK
TUTORIAL PROGRAM
PAYROLL UTILIZED-FALL '75 $2594.74
STUDENT TUTORS - 52 @ $2.50/Hour
PART-TIME FACULTY - 3 0 $8.00/ Hour
STUDENTS TUTORED - 144
SUBJECTS TUTORED - 152
SUBJECTS PASSED - 95-73%
SUBJECTS FAILED - 36 » 27%
STUDENTS WITHDREW - 18
STUDENTS DROPPED - 2
Gk.\DES INCOMPLETE - 1
GRADE BREAKDOWN:
A T 2 C - 22
B* - 8 D+ - 13
B - 7 D - 29
C+ - 14 F - 36
ADDITIONAL REFERRAL LETTERS (STUDENTS
Not Tutored - 58