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UB Music Committee hits sour note, forced to disband by lack of funds for concerts U) 5* ftt by Mark Meltzer Campus t'ditor An estimated 40 percent shortfall in projected attendance, combined with systematic mismanagement, has silenced the University Union Activities Board (UUAB) Music Committee until the fall 1079 semester, according to former Music Committee Chairman Stu Fish. UUAB is one of the five-divisions of the student services corporation. The committee - Sub Board I, responsible for bringing popular musicians to Clark Hall, the Fillmore koom and the Shea's Buffalo Theater on Main Street The i search was disbanded in mid-December upon the shocking discovery that it had already spent its entire 1978-79 budget. “Dissolving it was a paper action,” commented Sub Board Chairman Jane Baum. “The Music Committee dissolved itself.” Since there was no money left for music programming, Baum noted, the committee would have remained stagnant regardless of its formal status. from within ,v | English Dept, reputation on line; budget problems With the Music Committee quiet, students will he forced to seek their entertainment elsewhere. UUAB’s Sound Tech branch is expected to program more disco nights at the Ellicott Pub, while the Coffeehouse Committee will continue to stage folk performances every weekend. group went to Division Director co-sponsor Saturday night’s Kathy Evans, who was fired even Grateful Dead concert at Shea’s before the Music Committee was claimed Fish. Sub Board’s dissolved. Instead of supervising Executive Committee, said Baum, according to Sub Board Treasurer was forced to deny the request Mike Volan, Evans got more because of the Music Committee’s involved with direct programming, fiscal status. letting the overspending run “It (the dead concert) involved rampant. However. Volan said, “A quite a bit ,of money up front lot of the blame lies on me. I which we didn’t have,” Baum didn’t clamp-down on Stu.” Evans said. “We had no choice.” could not be reached for Although UB students were able comment. to attend the concert, which was Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a series of articles detailing the Deans’ Annual Reports. Today, The Spectrum takes a look at the Faculty of Arts and Tetters. Not in line Fish cited several reasons for the fiasco, but admitted that his own failure to gauge popularity was a major contributor. “My estimates and the number of people that were going to concerts were not in line,” Fish said. Indeed not. Ip the October 20 concert showcasing jazz performers Ramsey Louis and Freddie Hubbard, Fish’s estimates were off by 1300 people, a miscalculation that cost Sub Board nearly $6000. The November 9 Little Feat Rock Concert drew only 2050 people - off by 1050 — costing Sub Board another $7290. by John H. Reiss Special to The Spectrum The Faculty of Arts and Letters and its prestigious English Department have been so riddled by recent budget reductions that their outstanding national reputations are in serious jeopardy. According to Arts and Letters 1977-78 Annual Report, the Faculty “is so beleaguered by imposed or threatened budget cuts that it cannot and will not long maintain the outstanding reputation it has earned.” The report, authored by Dean George Levine, paints a gloomy portrait for the future of Arts and Letters if its grim financial situation does not improve. 1 The report claims that the University administration is risking “massive demoralization and the flight of those who are mobile” if it continues to bolster other Faculties and Schools at the expense of Arts and Letters. It holds that the Faculty has thus far been able to enhance itself through stronger inter-disciplinary efforts, selective hiring and imaginative use of resources, but warns that further cuts could seriously hinder its efforts. co-sponsored by Harvey and Corky and Buffalo State College, Dead deal died The full effect of the Music the seat Selection at Squire’s box Cpmmittee disaster may not be office was more limited, according know for several months. to Fish Initially, it cost UB a chance to —continued on page 4— Financial Aid opens satellite The Financial Aid Office has announced the opening of a Satellite Office for Millard Fillmore College students. A Financial Aid Counselor will be on duty at Hayes Annex A, Room 2, on Monday and Tuesday of each week of classes from 5 to 7 p.m. Fish expected a large -number of door sales at the Louis/Hubbard show, but Hubbard cancelled the night before and the gate sale was weak. Little Feat was even more baffling, Fish said,. “It totally shocked me,” he said. “They sold out Ithaca the night before.” All through the fall, acts drew below projections. In all. The Music Committee fell in the red Ito the tune of $7000. Looking with consternation The threat of an increased attrition rate among professors has been one costly result of financial constraints. The nunfeer of faculty members choosing to leave Buffalo is rising, the report claims; and it attributes the growing losses to what it calls the “bleak educational future” feared as a result of future cuts. A large percentage of faculty members who received firm offers from Arts and Letters last year chose to go elsewhere, and the report “looks with consternation at a future which portends a lengthening of that list.” It states that to an increasing degree, distinguished faculty are choosing other institutions partly in order to validate their market value, but more significantly “because they feel that SUNY Buffalo cannot or will not offer them a congenial intellectual environment.” The report places the greatest portion of the blame for this increasing disenchantment on the Faculty’s shrinking budget, but also cites regional environment and other unchangeable aspects of this University. But, Levine told The Spectrum on Monday, the bottom is not falling out. He explained that although six faculty members left last year,' the loss was somewhat offset by the remarkable coup of four Humanities scholars from John Hopkins University. “I don't regard this as a mass exodus,” Levine said, but he warned that attrition could get ’ seriously worse if Arts and Letters’ budget is not strengthened. “The more we’re singled out to be cut,” he claimed, “the greater the possibility of losine faculty. As you lose faculty, you lose the capacity to maintain programs.” French, for instance, has lost 11 of its 20 Instructional Full Time Equivalents (FTE) since 1971. Attendance wasn’t the only problem,though. An agreement with local concert pronoters Harvey and Corky has already cost the Music Committee several’ thousand dollars. The agreement calls for UUAB to buy tickets from Harvey and Corky and then resell them to students. The deal allows UUAB to acquire choice seats and sell them at a SO cent discount. But its UUAB’s loss when they can’t sell all the tickets. Spacious Dance Floor Great Entertainment Tonight h College Bluegrass Night / The Pointless Brothers Free Admission with College I.D. According to Fish, it was November before what was happeni Peat, Fish tried ‘ flakes, but two a> (poked — and th We’ve been slighted As badly as Arts and Letters had fared, financially, Levine feel that Vice President for Academic Affairs Ronald F. Bunn has beert unreasonably harsh. He said the cuts have been excessive, buf Understands why Bunn has felt them necessary in light of the Faculty’} decreasing enrollment Yet Levine feels that Arts and Letters’ Qready committi guitarist John Fahi fat comediafts ■*! fpgman lost $1701 % The job of ov \ ■ T\ i* —continued on page 4-* 'ij&esx. xr-- v
