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Ghost of last year’s overspending returns to haunt Music Committee by Mark Mehzer Campus Editor The money available will be less, but because ‘lie money is separated into different '‘lines,” it’s difficult to determine how much the Musk Committee budget has been cut. Krown suggested that it’s a “little under” last year. Inflation will give UUAB even less, especially when compounded by a small reduction in subsidy. Krown tagged inflation in the music industry at “twin as much” as the outskff'world. After being silenced by financial woes last January, the University Union Activities Board (UUAB) Music Committee is back with a new orchestrator, a toned down budget and a more conservative approach to on-campus music The new chairman is Steve Krown, a second year grad student whose experience in music programming at SUNY Cortland puts him far ahead of predecessor Stu Fish, an amiable leader who encountered a lot of problems in his short reign. Fish began the 1978-79 year with a set schedule and a $41,410 subsidy from UUAB. Eleven concerts, 12 weeks and a lavish $57,900 in net expenditures later, the committee was shut down for the year. Fish’s inability to estimate attendance caused much of the monetary crisis, since low attendance means low revenue, but once the overspending was discovered, little could be done, for UUAB was already committed to present several more acts. ' Ultimately what the decrease in subsidy means to students, according to Krown, is higher prices. “People will be very surprised to see that there won’t be much difference between what happens downtown and what happens on campus,” he said. Besides higher prices, there will be fewer concerts, Krown said. Plans right now call for five acts each semester —one at the Fillmore Room, one at the Katharine Cornell Theater, two at Clark Hall and one at Shea’s Buffalo Theater downtown—although nothing has yet been scheduled. — UUAB cut too Just why the Music Committee was cut by Sub Board I—the student corporation that collects and disburses mandatory student fees — is uncertain. Although UUAB as a whole was cut, some areas within Sub Board, such as the Sexuality Education Center received increases. Sub Board Treasurer Chris Jasen told The Spectrum the Sex Ed center needed a boost to compensate for inflation. Not doing so, he said, would compromise the quality of the Center. “They couldn’t really absorb very much in cuts and still do anything,” Jasen said. slashing. “I think that the performance of last year’s Music Committee had a direct reflection on UUAB’s budget as a whole,” he said. Closer watch Perhaps wary of last year’s foulup, UUAB has both reduced the amount of money available to the Music Committee and the way it can be spent. This year, Jhe Committee is not permitted to spend more than 48 percent of its budget in the first semester. Additionally, more stringent supervision is planned to prevent mismanagement. Krown acknowledged, “We’re going to have to keep better track of our money.” But Jasen “doesn’t really think” last year was the basis for the cut. Although, he concedes, “I’m sure it was in the back of everyone’s mind.” Success of this year’s program will be dependent on good support from the students. “If we really take a dive on a concert, Jasen stressed, “it could do very serious damage.” Krown added, “We’ll be evaluating each show and going on from there.” Krown is one who thinks the 78-79 fiasco contributed to the Center's move north gives UB ‘window on by Joe Simon Campus Editor UB to locate, after spending the past three years at the University of Houston. “The kinds of people that will be coining to this University because of CIS,” Cohen said, “and the ideas that will be generated are limitless.” He characterized the Center’s addition to SAED as its long- desired “windows on the world.” CIS has been associated with the SUNY system before, when it was located at SUNY Binghamton under the auspices of the School of Advanced Technology in the early 1970’s. CIS then moved to Houston in 1977. This past year John McHale passed Way, and CIS has since been run by his wife, Magda C. McHale. McHale will join the faculty of SAED, teaching graduate seminal's on various disciplines in which CIS is involved. She will be bringing with her a library of 8,000 volumes and 57 filing cabinets full of research materials which will be housed in Hayes Hall on the Main Street Campus. the Law School, the School of Management, Civil Engineering and any other area that needs studies done on some form of future planning,” said Cohen. The bulk of funding for CIS is coming from grants by various corporations and organizations, with a major portion from the United Nations. Mrs. McHale has done studies for the United Nations on a wide rande of areas including The International Year of the Child and UNICEF. Cohen pointed out that “The University is funding only a small portion of the Center.” He estimated that in the past three or four years, the Goiter has had a funding level of dose to three-quarters of a million dollars. With the increse in population shifts, Coher noted, there should be an increase in funding. The highly prestigous Center for Integrative Studies (CIS) will soon be located at this University, President Robert L. Ketter announced Sunday. The internationally known center —which will be affiliated with the School of Architecture and Environmental Design (SAED) —deals with various planning studies that include such areas as population, energy, and ecology. Ketter told a Talbert, Hall audience of the new addition in a break from his written “State of the University” address. Dean of SAED Harold Cohen—who has actively sought the center for several years—was overjoyed it chose Cohen maintained his position of keeping the enrollment in SAED down, even in the wake of such a prestigious organization joining its ranks. “We’re not very big, and I want to keep it that way. We should reach a certain limit in a few years and I’d like to maintain that level.’’ Formed in the late 60’s by John McHale, former editor of The Futurist, CIS is involved in bringing together several areas of study into one central organization. These areas include world resource planning, world ecology, and population planning; areas that Cohen believes are of major interest to planners and architects. Cohen characterized the Center as “A clearinghouse for information. They have the leading collection of data on world resources, both natural and technological.” He said that once the Center arrives on campus—around the first of the year—people frpm all areas of research will have expanded information to draw from. “Scholars from everywhere in the world come to use their files,” Cohen mentioned, “and that great wealth of knowledge will now be in Buffalo.” Funding The information that CIS contains is not only relevant to Architecture, but to many other areas of the University. “Mrs. McHale will be working with Buy A Big Mac and Get a Free Flair Pen of far good at !aa | /j\flrnnnnlfl*t (Show your UB ID and get your free monthly • jj Jjjj ® student calendar worth $7.50 in free food.) UNIVERSITY PLAZA - MAIN STREET and OUR NEW LOCATION 3232 BAILEY AVENUE I limit one coupon per customer per visit coupon expires Sept. 24,1979 or while they last Panel not formed Albany drags feet on Ketter evaluation “No, No a thousand times No.” That was virtually the answer Monday from the SUNY Chancellor’s office when asked if a time frame regarding UB President Ketter’s scheduled evaluation has been finalized. A spokesman for Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton, who was in the midst of a meeting with the SUNY Trustees, told The Spectrum that three presidents from outside the SUNY system who will constitute a panel to ‘evaluate Ketter have not been selected. “We are not yet ready to announce,” said SUNY’s Communication officer. Under new guidelines, Ketter will be evaluated by this panel rather than a campus-based committee comprised of representatives of the Student Senate, Faculty Senate, Professional Staff Senate, local University Council, and the Administration. The new guidelines also preclude the use of “nonattributable” information —or input that can’t be pinpointed to any one source—- but the UB Faculty Senate has opted to “challenge” this mandate. At its meeting last week, the Senate voted to distribute a survey to all faculty members in an effort to gather faculty input, which will be presented to the evaluation team by Senate Chairman Newton Carver. Currently, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee is reviewing an evaluation survey that a Senate Committee designed last Spring. In Albany, The Chancellor’s office also noted that no dates have been finalized for the evaluation team’s visit to the UB campus. One SUNY spokesman acknowledged that to date “no time frame” has been established. Both Ketter and Wharton have publicly discussed an October evaluation schedule. Last week Ketter pointed out that Wharton hoped the evaluation would be completed by Thanksgiving.
