The Exponent, 1980-11-20

              Northern Dominoes To Be Shown on "Real People"
EXPONENT Volume 80, Issue 7 Northern State College, Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 November 20, 1980
NSC Makes Good .. .
It looks like Northern has
finally hit the big time. The
Human Dominoes stunt per-formed
during Gypsy Week will
be broadcast on the November
26th segment of NBC's "Real
People." Tune in to see yourself
and your friends.
NSC on NBC!
every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty
to say something courageous arid true, to rise above the medio.
de and conventional, to say something that will command the re-spect
of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the
community, to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of the
popular prejudice
—Joseph Pulitzer
Reserve Hits $30,000
Activity Fund Shows Surplus by Ellen Zeller
The Student Association Reserve
has a surprise for the students of
Northern. It was discovered that
because of a new budget plan where
left-over money in the budgets funded
by the Student Association goes into
the SA Reserve for the following year,
this years SA Reserve is much larger
than in previous years. This has also
come about because of the greater in-crease
in the number of students than
was estimated.
Because of this unusually large
amount of funds, the Student Associa-
* * * * * Where Your
The student activity ticket, its cost
and how it is delegated among organi-zations,
has long been a controversial
and misunderstood item of discussion.
With this in mind, we will try to clarify
to you, the students of Northern, what
organizations your dollars are funding
and where each dollar of your $80 fee
goes.
Each spring, the Student Associa-tion
holds budget hearings where
organizations can request funds for
their following school year budgets.
This year's activity ticket is delegated
to 17 areas of service and organiza-tions.
Here is the breakdown of how
much each area receives:
Health Services $31,122
Music $13,875
Cultural Affairs $4,650
Ambassadors $1,200
Student Union $78,149
Post Office (up to) $12,000
Drama $3,700
U.O.B. (now C.A.B.)...$15,186
Student Association . . .$11,661
Gypsy Days $6,500
Publications $41,320
Cheerleaders $1,643
What's Up $2,410
Debate $1,750
Men's Athletics $58,710
Women's Athletics $21,900
Reserve unlimited
These budgets are approved on an
estimate of the number of students
that will be attending NSC the follow-ing
year. If there are more students
than were expected, there will also be
tion has already approved additional
funding for three organizations where
additional funding was requested.
The SA appropriated funds for the
start of a new drill team, "Waldo's
Women". They requested $962 in
funds and the SA appropriated $760.
Also, the UOB requested $130 in addi-tional
funding to pay a bill from the
previous year, and the SA approved it.
The Pasqua also requested additional
funding because of unexpected costs.
They requested $3,000 and were ap-proved
$2,620 in additional funds. All
requests for additional funding must
Money Goes
more money from the activity tickets.
However, each department receiving
funds from the activity ticket only has
authority to spend the amount of
money their buogets approved. If the
increase in the number of activity
tickets sold bring in extra funds, this
excess is deposited in the SA Reserve
at the end of the academic year. This is
also true of the money left-over from
the approved budgets.
Now that you know where the
general funds from the activity ticket
are delegated, you are probably
curious as to where each one of your
individual dollars is spent. The follow-ing
is a dollar-for-dollar breakdown of
where your $80 is going:
Health Services $8.19
Music $3.65
Cultural Affairs $1.22
Ambassadors $ 32
Student Union $20.17
Post Office $3.00
Drama $ 97
UOB (now CAB) $4.00
Student Associations $3.07
Gypsy Days $1.71
Exponent and Pasque. . .$10.66
Cheerleaders $ 43
What's Up $ 63
Debate $ 46
Men's Athletics $15.45
Women's Athletics $5.76
Reserve $ 31
$80,00
The part-time student activity fee is
$17.80, and this is required of students
with only five to eight credit hours.
also be approved by Dr. McFadden.
In regard to the unexpected and
unusually large amount of money in
the SA Reserve, our Student Associa-tion
President, Mike Berg, has written
a letter to the students of Northern.
Deer Students:
The Student Activities Committee
(SAC), which is responsible for setting
the price of the activity ticket each
year, would to share a bit of good
news with you, the student body of
Northern State College. All funds that
were left over at the end of the fiscal
year in any of the accounts of the
organizations that receive monies from
the SAC were transferred to the SA
Reserve account, which is to be used
Northern Vote
Calls Election
It appears as though Northern is in-deed
a true representative of national
inclination, at least in the political
realm. The mock election held on cam-pus
Wednesday, October 29 closely
followed the national election results.
In one instance, the Reagan vote, the
campus and national percentages
correlated exactly.
Readers should take note that errors
made in the mock election percentages
in the last issue have been corrected in
the results listed below.
Total Ballots Cast:
Exponent
397
Actual
Mock
Vote
Reagan 51 51
Carter 41 33
Anderson 7 13
Clark 1 2
Abdnor 58 50
McGovern 39 48
Daschle 66 77
Kull 34 19
Dove Hunting
Yes 58 73
No 42 27
Uranium Law
No 51 42
Yes 49 58
Dakota Proposition
No 63 92
Yes 37 8
for emergencies or for precautionary
measures. As a result, the Reserve Ac-count
now has an amount in the neigh-borhood
of $30,000. This may sound
like a lot, but let us first look at the rea-sons
for this surplus and then at the
uses to which it may be put.
Each year the activity ticket price is
based on an estimated number of full-time
students. Last spring, the number
the SAC used was 1,900. Due to in-creased
enrollment this fall, the
number of full-time students was
considerably higher than projected;
consequently, the number of activity
tickets purchased was higher than an-ticipated.
The ticket price is broken
down so that each organization
receives a certain dollar amount from
each ticket sold. However, they have
the authority to spend only the amount
approved by the SAC and the Presi-dent
of the college. Any amount left
over is transferred into the Reserve Ac-count.
This sum has been ac-cumulating
over the past two years
and accounts for part of our surplus
this year.
The other way money is transferred
to the Reserve Account is if the organi-zation
generates more revenue than it
was expected to. Such extra income or
left-over funding is then transferred to
this account.
There are several choices the SAC
may make regarding the use of this
money. First, we could use it to cut the
price of the activity ticket for next year
only, for a one-time saving. Or we
could split the amount and thus make
possible smaller savings but over the
next two years. The advantages of the
latter are that there would be a reduced
or at least maintained ticket price over
a longer period plus we would have a
reserve on hand during the second
year in the event of an emergency.
We wanted to be sure of the amount
in the Reserve Account before we
made any statements about it. Also,
we wanted a chance to discuss our
alternatives. At this point in time, we
have not decided on a certain course of
action to take. If you have any ideas,
suggestions, or comments, feel free to
call the Student Association Office
(622-2528) anytime. Better yet, stop by
if you get a chance.