November 15, 1974
Volume 57 Number 9
Concord- costs approximately $150 just in Your Help manhours a month to get everything ready to send out, so 1s Needed
Why students get paid once a month
"Why do we only get paid once amonth?" And "Why don't we get paid sooner?" are two over a period of twelve months, questions oft~n raised by the figure would amount to student employees regarding $1800. Thus if the payroll were their payroll checks. This article to be computed twice a month attempts to answer these the cost would double. If the questions and more with the cost were to double, then the help of Mr. Woodrow Macke, additional cost would have to Vice-President in charge of come from somewhere; that Business Affairs. place being most likely in the Mr. Macke stated that there student tuition which would are an average of 300 students have to be increased. However on the payroll each month. he wanted to clarify this by Presently, they receive their saying that Otterbein is not out checks on the 15th of each to make business. month providing that their time Some may argue that it's cards are signed and approved by unfair that some employees of their supervisor by the third of the College such as custodial, the month. He adds that the clerical, cafeteria, health and business office cannot issue security personnel are paid twice checks until the cards have been a month. Macke stated that turned in. This is one of the these types of occupations are major reasons that some covered by government students do not receive their pay regulations saying that these on time. Another is that sometimes students forget to people have to be paid on a straight hourly basis and that sign their cards to verify the anyone working over forty hours number of hours worked. Macke a week has to be paid overtime. stressed, "It's the person's who Student employees don't is working responsibility to see have much to complain about that the card gets in." when the dilema of the T&C and Macke explained that making Sybil personnel is considered. the student payroll once a They only get paid at the end of month is "purely a matter of every term, which means they economy." He then went on to receive their checks three tiines a explain the cost. After receiving year. When confronted with this, the time cards, it takes the clerk Mr. Macke answered that frankly five days just to do paperwork which then goes to the - he didn't know how that system of payment originated. All he Computer Center. The printout could say was that it . was is made then the checks are something the college could hold made out and given to the over the editor's head: no paper Campus Center office for or yearbook, no money. distribution. He added that it
Spring Fever Day Up for Grabs Support for Spring Fever Day has dwindled in the last few years and has been climaxed by the Campus Programming Board voting not to support it this year. The day had been planned into this year's calendar but is now subject to re-evaluation. The Administrative Council has considered the matter and desires to obtain student input concerning a workable alternative. Questionnaires will be distributed during 11 :00 classes Wednesday, November 20, to poll students' preferences. Students who do not have an 11 : 00 class may react to the questionnaire in the Campus Center during the first 15-minutes of that hour. Workable options to be considered are: 1) to retain Spring Fever Day on pie
calendar as an unstructured holiday Friday, April 25, 1975. This would be during the fifth week of Spring term and would be the third 3-day weekend that term. 2) To hold classes on Friday, April 25, and to reschedule final examinations from June 4-6 to June 2-4. This would allow students to begin their summer vacation two days earlier and would save the college approximately $3000 in food service expenses. It has been pointed out the questionaire is not a referendum and will serve only to assist the Administrative Council in making a decision. Library News November 22 is the last due date for all library materials. Contact one of the librarians for an extension on materials needed longer.
Students! Get involved with an important people-oriented community project. Come to Room S-222 this afternoon ( across from Lemay Lecture Hall) to get more information about how you can help out on a canvass of Westerville· this afternoon or Saturday afternoon, Novemmber 15 and 16. Call Dr. Place at Extension 3104 if you cannot come in but are interested. We need 75-100 students so please help if you have a chance. If you help with the canvassing you will spend 2-4 hours going door to door in Westerville to distribute a of one-page description Concord, a Westerville-based crisis-intervention service located at 32 W. College. You will not be expected to ask for money directly since we hope people will respond with a mailed check after reading the literature. For Your infonmi tion callers to Concord number an average of 600 per month. They have a variety of personal, family or peer problems related to dating, depression, drugs, pregnancy, runaways, parent-child conflict, and suburban lifestyle problems. Each person can find someone at Concord who listens to his concerns confidentially and who refers him to the appropriate volunteer local physicians, lawyers, psychologists and clergy for further assistance if necessary. Concord is currently implementing an expanded walk-in service for individuals who are seeking face to face counseling opportunities. Concord has a new and vigorous director, John Crandell, who is developing new services and expanding old services. Many volunteers, trained in on-going training sessions, carry out most of the major task of manning the switchboard an average of 14 hours per day. However, it takes money to pay a full-time director of the activities, a part-time secretary, rent, utilities, office supplies and additional expenses for expanded services which are needed but presently unstaffable. Money which Concord receives is used extremely frugally, and its effectiveness is further expanded by the extensive utilization of · volunteers. You can help Concord raise this needed money.
Ball, Taylor, and Ball
Ball, Taylor and Ball Concert The C.P.B. Mini Rug Concert will be held this Tuesday, November 19, in the Campus Center Main Lounge from 6:30 - 8:45 p.m. Performing folk and bluegrass music will be Hall, Taylor and Ball. They are obsessed with their music and are dedicated to the goal of touching the lives of many with their creations. Their obsession is becoming - and understandable, because their music is an integral part of their lives. Thom Ball and Rick Taylor are on guitar and Cal Ball plays electric bass, but the acoustic group's forte lies in their vocals. Music has be~n important in each of these three men's lives, but only recently have they been freed to pursue their lifelong suppressed desires to . be entertainers. The group really began when Thom and Rick met in September 1972 at a football game outside Thom's apartment in Oxford, Ohio, where the two were attending Miami University. They knew each other only by reputation prior to that introduction, for both had been involved in popular acoustic groups at the university. Working together during the 1972 school year, they developed a remarkable blend of guitar styles and voices. That
blend was adopted and expanded with Cal when Thom and Rick came to the Balls' home in Augusta, Ga., in June 1973. Ball, Taylor and Ball find their roots in folk music primarily, with impressions from rock and pop. Their own performable songs are more than an albumfull and each is "an extension of the music we grew up with," Rick says. While the trio compose their songs together, each musician. brings with him specific influences. For Thom, it's the Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Rick rerriembers the works of Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Cal hears the more recent output of Paul Simon, Jonathan Edwards, the Doobie Brothers and Livingston Taylor. Like all good musicians, Ball, Taylor and Ball draw upon their backgrounds to produce material that is truly their own. The product of their efforts reflects not only the music of others they enjoy but the individual knowledge each has in life. The result capitalizes on all the strengths the three possess and can only be heard, not explained.