THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1979
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By DILLARD STONE
Battalion Staff
Intramural director Dennis Cor-
rington is displeased that the fi
nance committee’s recommendation
|fl979-80 student service fee allo-
!tion includes only an 8 percent
increase for his department, instead
of the 63-4 percent increase he had
^Carrington said he won’t be able
to work with the finance commit
tee’s recommendation. Wayne
Morrison, vice president for fi
nance is just as adamant about not
feting intramurals more at the
expense of other programs.
The allocation of the estimated
$1.58 million student services fees
anticipated for next year will be con
sidered by the student senate to-
ni j[f the committee’s recommenda
tion,is approved, students can ex
pect to pay team entry fees of up to
$5 per team for various intramural
sports. Faculty and staff members
willplso be required to pay a $15
user fee; intramural facilities will no
longer come free to them.
the intramural de
partment received $285,420
from last year’s fee allocation, and
had Requested $466,445, a 63.4 per
cent increase. The finance commit
tee’s recommended allocation is
$309,265, or only 8 percent.
Corrington said his office needs a
large increase to maintain the quan
tity and quality of intramural pro
grams
“I don’t think 8 percent is going to
be enough for us to have the type of
programming we’ve had in the
past, Corrington said.
Mprrison said the 8 percent in
crease is the largest the committee
can recommend.
“He refuses to realize that his
ppgram can no longer grow by
leaps and bounds,” Morrison said.
If he took that budget to any top-
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7 l ; United Press International
ICK AUSTIN — Arab protesters
Monday disrupted a speech by an
Egyptian diplomat at the University
ofTe xas, prompting one man pres
ent to slap two demonstrators on the
face.
Dr. Ahmed Esmat Abdel
Meguid, Egypt’s ambassador to the
United Nations, spoke on the status
of the peace movement between
Egypt and Israel.
About 20 Arab students re-
i||edly interrupted Meguid with
shouts of, “Long Live Palestine”
and Sadat no, Begin no, Long live
to cut PLO .”
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If the finance committee’s rec
ommendation for a team entry fee is
followed, the estimated increase in
the intramural budget becomes 16.5
percent.
HOWEVER, CORRINGTON
SAID the estimated $15,000 gener
ated by the entry fee still would not
be enough to meet his program’s
demands.
The finance committee calculated
that, to meet the proposed budget
requirements of intramurals, the
student service fee ceiling would
have to be increased to $26.
A survey sponsored by the com
mittee indicated that students
would only approve of a ceiling hike
of not more than $3.
“There are two main reasons for
the large requested increase:
salaries and wages,” Corrington
said.
We haven’t had any new posi
tions created in two years, but our
programming has doubled.”
Corrington said he had requested
three new professional positions and
two new clerical ones in this year’s
budget, due to the great workload
imposed on his current staff.
He said that three of the positions
were mandatory: “We have to have
them.”
IN ADDITION, THE Student
Financial Aids Office has a proposal
to raise student wages from the cur
rent $2.50 per hour level to $3.10
next year, thus increasing the
amount of money intramurals will
have to pay student game officials.
Corrington said he had asked for a
second hearing before .the finance
committee, but that the hearing had
been denied. Corrington would
have attempted to re-justify his
budget request at a second hearing.
A representative from the in
tramural department is supposed to
appear at tonight’s senate meeting
in an attempt to by-pass the finance
committee’s recommendation and
ask the senate for a compromise in
crease.
CORRINGTON SAID THE
compromise request would be a 29
percent increase over last year’s
budget.
Morrison’s letter to Corrington
denying the re-hearing said the
“committee found no justification
for a rehearing. ”
Corrington thinks there was.
“I asked for everything I thought
I needed. Now, that was probably
unrealistic, so I went back to make
as many cuts as possible.”
Personality conflicts between
Corrington and members of the fi
nance committee may be one reason
the two groups are faced with an
impasse.
In an open hearing last week to
discuss the fee allocations, Morrison
told committee members that Cor
rington had been uncooperative and
unwilling to compromise when he
found the extent to which his re
quested increase had been cut.
Morrison said Corrington had re
fused the opportunity to appear at
the open hearing before the com
mittee to attempt to justify his
budget, and Morrison concluded by
urging committee members not to
give Corrington a second, separate,
rehearing. The committee agreed.
Corrington’s version of his rela
tions with the committee,
though,was somewhat different.
HE SAID THERE had been no
discourtesy or problems in his rela
tionship with finance committee
members.
“The last thing I told them was
that they’d done a good job under
the circumstances. I was pleased
with the way my meeting with the
committee went — the kids did a
good job.”
However, according to Morrison,
Corrington used high-handed tac
tics to try to get the finance commit
tee to see things his way.
“This is not the first time he’s
tried to intimidate student govern
ment to get what he wants. He’s
asked for 150 percent before,”
Morrison said.
Morrison intimated that the se
nate might very well be satisfied
with the finance committee’s rec
ommendation, and thus would see
no reason to grant speaking
priveleges to the intramural repre
sentative tonight.
vote
ANDREW COOK
v.p. external affairs!
the ‘FLYING DUTCHMAN’
will bring
the ‘WINDS of CHANGE’
One elderly man asked police to
silence the demonstrators, then
turned to the hecklers and said,
■gut up, shut up and let the man
speak.”
was ignored, and moved to
confront the hecklers, telling them,
I You re supported by this country
with taxpayers’ money. Shut up. All
ofyou, shut up.” He slapped one of
students across the face, then
■ked to another student and slap
ped him,
f ,F 0lice to °k th® man aside and
^Jed to him, but did not arrest
nim.
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