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Show Page 6 Signpost May 3, 1977 EDITORIAL Unless someone comes up with some money soon, or at least a go-ahead from the Media Board, this is the last issue of the Signpost that will appear this year. Someone forgot to plan on a commission of $1,000 for last year's business manager. There has also been about $545 spent for unbudgeted typewriter repairs and computer billings for advertisers. A strain has also been placed on the budget by the ASWSC page. Although they budgeted the Signpost for about $12,000, $3,000 more should have been paid for the page. Where the money is or has gone has been hard to understand. In past years there have been problems in properly assessing the costs and what the budget should be. This year's budget was set upon the same formula as that used in years past. The end result has been much the same as in former years. Part of the present problem could have been avoided if a specific chain of command had been set up with someone in charge of notifying or consulting the proper people as soon as a problem was identified. If students are responsible for the Signpost budget, as they're supposed to be, they need to have access to proper and ACCURATE budgetary information. 'Free trips 9 vs. Signpost by Brad Hart In light of the recent budget arguments which have occurred on the WSC campus, the advertisement in the April 29 Signpost offering "free" trips to various locations for the members of the College Activities Board seems to give an indication of where the Executive Council places their values in the spending of student money. 8 (o) Opinions expressed on the editorial page do not necessarily represent those of the student body, administration or WSC Media Board. All signed articles are the opinions of the author. Published twice weekly by the Media Board of Weber State College. Mailing address: Weber State College, 3750 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Utah 84408. LeeAnn Williams Editor-in-Chief Dale Hicks Business Mgr. Val Williams Managing Editor Clyde Mueller Photo Editor Debbie Carter News Editor Brent Aguirre News Editor Lynn Arave Sports Editor Donna Ann Willis Copy Editor Georgeana McCrae Secretary The activities outlined in their ad total 19 days of vacation at the expense of the studentbody. According to Dan Forsey, Activity Vice President for the 1977-78 school year, they are going to send approximately 130 students to these retreats. He also said that for all of these trips, except the Denver and Snowbird retreats, the student-body will be footing the entire bill. This includes transportation, lodging, meals and the convention fee. Also coming out of the student funds is an annual leadership conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. This conference serves approximately 60 from the college student body. The total cost for this convention this year was $4,000. With all of these expenditures and more, the Executive Council has decided that funds to continue operating the Signpost cannot be made available. Their argument is that the Signpost is not operating economically. It is true that the Signpost is as of this printing, about $420 in the red. But the Signpost serves many more people than the expensive retreats do. The Signpost provides an information service for the entire campus as well as being an important educational device for the students involved with it. The fact that the Executive Council can run an advertisement offering "free" trips at the same time they are cutting Signpost funding is an ironic action taken by them in behalf of the studentbody. Critic Trite and tasteless he called my work, A life's work formed in the agony and sweat Of the human spirit . That mad dog devil leper assassin of art Shall have his tongue slit to the root. (Should he not look like a surly snake as well?) Each fork will I rivet with one Yellowed tooth torn from those dripping jaws To his nose. Then let him smell the stench of lies Reeking from that ripped organ. Let him repent in the brotherhood of silence. As for me, I desire only An honest appraisal of my work. CarlE. Andra Wildcat Litterbox By Chris Hicks Both sides of the ERA issue are composed of adament factions. The ERA is, of course, the controversial Equal Rights Amendment, proposed as an addition to the U.S. Constitution.A recent debate was held between Mrs. Phyllis Shafting, national spokesman against the ERA, and Ms. Gloria Stringemup, national spokesperson in favor of the ERA and editor of "Mizz" magazine. "You pro-ERA women are all alike," Mrs. Shafting said. "Butch haircuts, dressed in suits and ties and smoking cigars." "They're cigarellos," Ms. Stringemup said as she countered by describing "all anti-ERA persons are 'Total Women' with 1950s hair styles and makeup." After these cordial introductions to one another, Mrs. Shafting began the debate. "It's obvious to any intelligent person that proponents of the ERA are prejudiced," she said. "It's a man's world and we, as women, should be happy to be able to fetch his pipe, slippers and newspapers. "After all, men were made to drink beer, watch TV football and burp." Mrs. Shafting said the ERA is worded too broadly and would cause the elimination of certain freedoms now enjoyed by both sexes. "We'd have women being drafted and men and women using the same bathrooms ," shesaid. "My husband and I have a men's room and a ladies' room in our separate bedrooms." Ms. Stringemup said the charges concerning the draft and bathrooms ' 'are ridiculous . ' ' "Women will never be drafted and share bathrooms !" she said. "Everyone knows the Army uses separate bathrooms." The women's rights leader said women are not being paid their worth on the job and deserve larger salaries than men. "The Lord made Adam and realized he could improve upon him, so Eve was created," she said. "But all forms of discrimination must cease. "Why should women stay home, clean house, cook meals and have babies? "Why can't men do 50 per cent of all these functions?" Asked if suggesting that men should have 50 per cent of all babies wasn't going a bit too far, Ms. Stringemup replied: "If men can be there during the preliminary procedures, they can certainly have 50 per cent of our children." She declined to say which 50 per cent of a child men should have. Critics attending the debate agreed that no issues were resolved, but it was certainly an adament evening. |