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THE November 21, 1989 Vol. 88, No. 23
VISTA
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Career day talk inspires students By Debbie Burr Student Writer
CSU President Dr. Bill Lillard addresses the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges at their monthly meeting held in the newly renovated Evans Hall Friday. (Photo by Dan Smith)
Alice Walton, president and chairman of Llama Company and Associates, spoke to a sellout crowd of 600 students and faculty during Central State University's Career Day luncheon Wednesday. Career Day, an annual event sponsored by the College of Business Administration, allows students the opportunity to meet and
talk informally with company representatives about career information. Sixty-six companies participated in the ninth annual event, said Paul Roach, assistant professor of marketing and co-chairman of the event. Walton said after having various interests, from horsetraining to modeling, she finally discovered something her junior year in college. Please see WALTON on page 8.
OSBI investigation 'active' By David Coppock Student Writer
The Attorney General's audit report of Central State University, expected for the October Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges meeting, was not released Friday when the regents met at CSU. "I have no idea when they will be done," said Tom Volturo, regents' internal auditor. "I checked three weeks ago. I should give them a call." Paul Renfrow, public information officer for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said it sounded very routine that the Attorney General would not want to release his report before learning what the OSBI found with their investigation. "Central State is still under very active investigation," said Renfrow. "We have taken a room—a meeting room—and have turned it into a war room just for the CSU investigation, with charts and graphs." "This is very time consuming. We have to go examine these things from every single angle," said Renfrow. "It is a paper- trail type of investigation." Renfrow said the 8-month OSBI investigation is probing two items: allegations of misuse of
state employees' time and using state funds for the CSU Foundation for private use. Oklahoma's confidentiality statute specifically prohibits any OSBI report from becoming public record. OSBI's report will be turned over to the Attorney General's office when completed. In another investigative matter, neither Linda Grantham, audit committee head for regents, nor Volturo have received a letter requesting a special audit into CSU handling of termination of parttime instructors for the fall semester. In other business, Regents approved the purchase of five Online Computer Library Center computer systems for the CSU Library for $25,820 as required by OCLC for continued membership, $8,799 for a photographic color print processing system, $5,000 for a research grade compound microscope for the biology department. Regents' approved $17,000 for an expanded automated telephone attendant. Joyce Mounce, administrative vice president, described the system as having the ability to play recordings of information such as class closings due to weather to those calling the university. Mounce felt the price was not high when compared with paying an employee year after year for the same service.
Regents were informed by American Fidelity, current insurance carrier, that rates will rise every six months by ten percent or more due to current trends in the industry. Employee rates will automatically rise January 1, 1990 due to an agreement between American Fidelity and regents. "American Fidelity's ten percent offer looks good to me," said CSU President Bill Lillard.
Regent Gerald Hoeltzel said the way the state insurance plan is set up, it is losing millions of dollars currently and he expects major coverage changes in the policy soon. Regent Wayne Salisbury expects those changes to be a major upheaval in costs and coverage. Regents extended the Drug Free Workplace Policy beyond federal requirements to include all CSU
employees as well as those of the other universities governed by the regents. Federal law requires that any entity asking or receiving a federal grant or contract of $25,000 or more must have a drug-free workplace policy for employees connected with the grant or contract. All six universities governed by regents have a drug-free workplace policy in place.
Varsity status, Senate funding unlikely for CSU soccer club By Bill Kramer Staff Writer
Athletic director 'Skip' Wagnon said Thursday that Central State University will not add an additional varsity sport due to the lack of funding for athletics. The CSU soccer club is seeking non-scholarship varsity status in an attempt to lure more players to the program and attain necessary funding, said Andrew Smith, player and secretary. The team now competes in a league at Chico's Indoor Soccer Arena in Oklahoma City as they have been doing since 1987, however the club needs $350 to cover
fees for the spring, he said. The soccer club approached the Student Senate this fall in hopes of attaining funding for the spring league, Smith said. David Slane, Senate speaker, promised the soccer club $100 Oct. 30 from his contingency fund, however, the Senate expressed dissatisfaction with the idea, he said. "Anytime they (Senate) disagrees with me, they can remove me as the speaker. I have to be careful or I'll lose my job. The issue was sent to committee, and before Christmas break, they'll try to have the money," Slane said. Vice president of the Senate, Monte Townsend, said he is in
support of the soccer club and hopes they become a varsity team, but they should be looking elsewhere for funding. "If we cannot find another way, David Slane can give them up to $100. I don't see why they can't fend for themselves for the other $250," Townsend said. By collecting membership fees from players, the team was able to compete during the fall semester, but now the team is in financial difficulty once again, Smith said. "We collected a $5 membership fee and an additional $10 for those players on the 'A' team in order to pay the $350 gate fee to play in the league (for the fall semester), but now we badly need a sponsor," Smith said.