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e 18, 1987 Jun
Vol. 85, No. 56
VISTA
Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Charges filed on coeds
By Richard Murteza Student Writer One of two Central State University Students pled guilty to charges of concealing stolen property Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court. Evelyn L. King, 18, pled guilty to a charge of concealing stolen property in connection with book thefts from students in the library and attempting to sell them to book stores. Janeka Jordan, 18, still awaits a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 22 on two counts of concealing stolen property, in connection with charges filed against King. Both students were arrested last May while attempting to return stolen books to the University Book Store for a refund valued at $86.95. Police Chief Bobby Roberts said the books, belonging to a student, were taken off a study table from the CSU library, allegedly by the two girls. Clemma McCawley, assistant director of public services at the library, said all students should safeguard their property from any chance of theft. "Toward the end of the semester students may wish to keep one eye on their grades and the other on their books," said Roberts. He added that police are using a system used to identify and retrieve stolen books and the method has proven highly successful.
Home theft conducted by 'friend'
1987 Graduates of the ROTC program at CSU were commissioned by Lt. Col. Terry May last month. The enlistees have entered careers in the United States Army in a variety of fields. Top row, left to right: 2nd Lt. Richard L. Martinez, infantry; 2nd Lt. Karen T. Wade, signal corps; 2nd Lt. Phredd J. Evans, army nurse corps; 2nd a Ronald D. Claiborne, quartermaster; 2nd
Lt. David L. Logan, medical service and 2nd Lt. Eddie T. Miller, army nurse corps. Bottom row, left to right: 2nd Lt. Christine E. (Nail) Agan, military police; 2nd Lt. Billy W. Baird, field artillery, Lt. Col. May, 2nd Lt. Chadrick J. Morse, chemical corps and 2nd Lt. Long N. Pham, infantry.
By Sweet Yee Ng Student Writer An International graduate student was robbed in his home Friday by a man posing to be a friend of the family. The student, Wee Pin Yap, surpised the man in his room when he returned home from class. Yap said the man had been posing as a friend of his brothers. Yap said the man told him his brother was in the kitchen. Yap went to the kitchen but his brother was not there. When he returned to his room, his belongings and the man were gone. Yap said he lost a video cassette recorder, a clock radio and $60 in cash to the man.
Chairman picked for advisory board By J. Money Summer Editor History and Geography Chairperson Dr. Donald E. Green has been appointed to the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board by Governor Henry Bellmon. Green was appointed to the board for a three year term, to end in May of 1990. Mr. Howard Lowell, coordinator of the board, said it has basically two functions. "The board's official role in-
volves reviewing requests for grant proposals to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for preservation and access to historical records of all types," said Lowell. The board's second role, he added, is in an advisory capacity, to promote preservation of historical documents as well as access to them. Green said he has considerable expertise in the preservation of historical documents, and hoped he would make a valuable con-
tribution to the board. "Preservation of historical documents is very important to this state. Up until 20 years ago, there really was no concerted effort in this area," Green said. "One area where this is really evident appeared during Oklahoma's territorial years. During that 18 year period, only one territorial governor kept historical records. So, for anyone trying to research that period, things that happened are sketchy," Green said.
Green also serves on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, an organization that maintains museums and historical sights around the state. Green also holds memberships in the Western History Association, the Agricultural History Society, the Texas State Historical Association and the American Association of University Professors. Green has authored five books and has served on the staff of CSU since 1969.
Extension class funding to change By J. Money The budgeting for non-credit activities on campus will soon be changing from estimated to at cost funding. This move became apparent after the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education requested Central State University and all other higher institutions in the state to list all the non-credit activities conducted by the university staff or conducted in university facilities. Currently, budgeting for noncredit activities has been estimated, taking into account the amount of students enrolled in such courses and the amount of non-credit courses offered. Then,
a proportion of the institutional budget is used for an additional allotment to cover the costs. Mark Fischer, director of institutional research at CSU, said there are several categories, but that basically anything conducted by a school which involves school resources and is not offered for course credit is considered a noncredit activity. Fischer said an example would be a workshop held on the campus not offered for college credit. Press Secretary David Blakeman of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education said the regents are calling for the inventory of non-credit activities held on campus to enable them to
estimate the cost of these accurately Blakeman said up until now, the regents have been figuring the costs of extension (non-credit course) programs based on a percentage of the instruction portion of a schools budget. "There are three basic categories of activities on a college campus, instruction, extension (non-credit) and research," Blakeman said. "Instruction is always the largest amount for budgeting schools, and the estimated-costs of the other two areas have been based on a percentage of instructional costs," he added. Blakeman said the percentage
of the instructional cost used to figure the additional money for the other two programs at a school will vary, according to the size of its extension and research programs. "For example, schools such as OU and OSU have a significantly larger portion of the instructional budget as a figure for allotment to research and extension, where as a junior college might have very little of its budget alloted because of the lack of an extension or research program," Blakeman added. Fischer said that OU and OSU handle between 100 and 150 thousand students a year through their extension programs, and conse-
quently, both employ full time staffs. "CSU, however, doesn't handle that amount of students and neither do any of the smaller institutions in the state," Fischer added. Blakeman said the regents will probably monitor the amount of non-credit activities for at least three years. "Before the regents went to at cost budgeting with instructional budgets, they monitored the courses offered with costs included for three years to take into account fluxes in enrollment and other factors," Blakeman said. "I expect them to do the same here," he added.