Show Page 3 May 21 1975 Senior Citizens week SCAR scheduled May 1 3 9-2- debt costs speaker Dave Klngham both pledged $99 to the cause and Bill Gentry then the Current Indepth Reporter has been declared Senior Citizens Awareness Week at USU in a motion passed by the ASUSU Executive Council last week “We are sponsoring this week to make people aware of the opportunities available to the aged and to make students aware of the May 19-2- 3 gerontology -- on program campus and the opportunities available to themt” said Rita Burnham organizer for the vent A display table will be set up throughout the week in the UC basement from 10:30 to 2:30 daily It will include information about the campus gerontology program and facilities for the aged in Cache Valley Products made by residents of Sunshine Terrace a Logan nursing home will be on sale film “Don’t Stop the Music” will be shown Monday at 1:30 in the UC auditorium Admission is free Mayor Desmond Anderson is scheduled to speak at noon Tuesday in the Sunburst on national Lounge A recently attended national gerontology con- Boston NAACP rally Boston on the SCAR representative Moody said ASUSU under pressure from Dennis reduced the $99 pledges to $75 and Gentry withdrew his pledge completely Upon return from the Boston trip he was informed that SCAR owed ASUSU $78 he said “Dennis had been hostile and antagonistic toward SCAR ever since a meeting between myself Michael Knight and Dennis to discuss the Boston trip the night before the Executive Council meeting” Moody said As a result of this alleged debt Dennis stopped action on a requisition of $50 pledged by Bill Gentry to bring Olga Rodriguez a Puerto Rican spokeswoman to speak at USU Moody said SCAR representative Ron Hunt said Gentry told an activity desk secretary to write up the requisition but it was never written because Dennis stopped it In answer to the claims made in Moody’s letter LeRoy Dennis student activity director said no money was ever appropriated for bringing in Ms Rodriguez and no requisition was ever written so there was nothing to refuse to sign “When I was approached at the activity desk by a SCAR member a small an involving alledged SCAR debt to ASUSU and the refusal of ASUSU to allocate money for a speaker on racism remains unsolved In a letter to the editor in the May 12 edition of Student Life controversy a SCAR representative Michael Moody wrote “Recently some Cache are Valley sponsoring a banquet Thursday at 7 pm in the UC Walnut Room Live entertainment will be furnished by the Kingsmen and a speaker on the gerontology program at USU Tickets are $350 per plate and will be available at the UC display the Senior Citizens Center and at the door Everyone is citizens Events Chairman pledged $30 Moody said After he had already left for Student Against Racism representatives head to the vention Senior three USU Coalition developments in gerontology He the As in student government officers appropriated funds to bring Olga Rodriguez here to speak on behalf of the mobilization effort However when the requesition was placed upon the desk of administrator LeRoy Dennis (a student “advisor”) he refused to sign on the pretext of a supposed SCAR debt The student government didn’t question this decision at all — the student government even went so far as to attack the anti-racis- m non-elect- ed personal character of the members of the Student Coalition Against Racism on the basis of the perspective of LeRoy Den- nis” Giving SCAR’s side of the debt controversy Moody said in February SCAR asked ASUSU for funds to send one representative to a convention in Boston The resolution was not passed by the Executive Council Moody said but at that time ASUSU bylaws allowed council members to allocate up to $99 of their personal budgets without council 4 ''If about the speaker money requisition I didn’t have any idea of what he was talking about” Dennis said “I had never seen a requisition for the money and no one from STAB had talked to me approval Taking advantage of this then the about it” Johnson Dennis said he blocked nothing Executive VP and Russell but merely refused action Hawkins the Academic VP COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA " Nolan ' w re 'WHS s Senior Citizens Awareness Week will continue on the USU campus through Friday Photo by Larry Samuels because he knew nothing of the matter and recommended SCAR straighten out its financial to ASUSU before obligations more funds for asking Bill Gentry said he indeed pledged the $50 and told a secretary to write up the requisition but then refrained from carrying through on the matter when Dennis after his encounter with the SCAR representative asked him about the appropriation Gentry said he hesitated to carry through on the requisition after Dennis informed him of the SCAR debt “At no time did LeRoy Dennis tell me I could not appropriate the money or pressure me not to” Gentry said “He informed me of the SCAR debt but made it clear that the decision of whether to appropriate the money was completely mine” The pledge of the $50 has never been withdrawn Gentry said and would still be available if the financial situation could be straightened out The money is useless to SCAR now' because they needed more than $50 to bring in Ms Rodriguez and they failejgwet the remaining funds necfefry from the Executive Council as a whole Gentry said On the subject of the SCAR debt Dennis said SCAR is distorting the facts Russell Hawkins and Nolan Johnson both pledged $75 and no other amount Dennis said The claim that the pledges were changed while the trip was in progress is not true Bill Gentry never committed $30 at the Executive Council meeting Dennis said his mention of the sum was in a comment not as a pledge EARLY CHILDHOO ART - x p Q STUDENT LIFE it the official ttudonf publication of Utah Stato Univarsity and it O' written and edited by students EDITORIAL POLICY it solely the responsibility of the editorial staff The editor can 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