| Show Tribune Blast at U Questioned Union Building Scored in Tribune LARRY TAYLOR bv Chronicle Editor Tribune blasted Lake r in the March So of the local daily Tone-sided view of the re-p auditor's Ct Ucle titled Fund Jetties Hit in Tribune Joe Writer took a poke at Associated d including student the- publications and activities Union monies and the Board of ESSi for what the Tribune handling of financial Regents Criticized The Board of Regents was criticized for their removal of from the Uniform School earmarked by the legislature for and diverting it to the General fund of the which is audited by the state According to University the money diverted from the Uniform School fund was used for research in the Graduate Approximately half went for research while the other half was paid as salary to professors who supervised the research done in the Graduate Athletic Funds Questioned In reference to the athletic fund's Leon D. Controller of the University Jack is to be commended for the fine records he has managed on athletic The only possible complaint which the auditors could have on the handling of these funds could come from what the Trib reports as sum totals for hotel and They further were a number of vouchers for substantial amounts approved without any supporting receipts particularly true of travel According to Elmo business vice president of the records of the athletic trips were complete in the Vouchers for funds expended were totalled according to the type of with supporting receipts clipped right on to the vouchers as records of all to trips taken by Ute In he case of taxi fare mul- i y 14 trainer equipment could take four were no receipts nen it was not feasible for the am to eat as a each player was given an allowance sufficient for and in these no receipts could be pro-In ALL other cases the junta used were well item-Other Activities Scored Ane Tribune went on to report I the Union Carlson and IBM service bureau all were to continue year after year showing substantial According to figures compiled by open to public and in the eleven years from 1944 to 1955 the Union building food service has profited lost for a net gain of Carlson Hall has earned lost gaining a total of University Press has profited in all eleven years totaling The stenographic bureau has shown a due to the type of work which they According to the loss of has come through staffing the bureau to meet the sudden rushes of work which come to the The staff is used between rushes for work on the University explaining in part the large earnings of the To this writer the inferences of the Tribune's article are clearly and apparently sensationalized beyond Well buried in the article comes the single statement of praise for the audit praised the accounting records for all phases of the finan cial activities of the stating they were excellent Some question is raised by the ethical nature of the reporting done by the Tribune on the whole According to Garrett the auditors left practically no comments with him on the results of the Yet on the day preceding the Tribune's he was called by the State auditor's office and informed of some of the things which had been found in Within an hour following that re received a call from the Tribune city desk informing him that the Trib had a report of the audit and asking him for a statement on the Garrett's was simply that he would be glad to study the report and attempt to make any suggested improvements when the report was made The article makes that statement appear defensive about the whole J The implications of the report put the University up to public ridicule when the facts may be quite different from what was No copies of the audit have yet been The report is now being bound at a Garrett has been given a copy of some and made by the where the Tribune apparently got their in- President A. Flay has taken steps to prepare the matter in full to present to the press in the next regular Board of Regents Editors of the local newspapers be r- |
