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Audit shows I By Jan Easterling Oamacock Staff WrtW A sum of $1,715 is missing from the total amount that should have been deposited in the student discount ticket account, a university finance office audit has revealed. <IV " ' i iitsi neierminea tnac tickets numbered consecutively one through 3,750 had been picked up from the Irvin Fuller business office," said Sue Ann Rough ton, administrative assistant who did the audit. "Since all of these tickets have been sold, a total of $7,500 should have been deposited in the university treasurer's office." After checking all deposit receipts from the treasurer's office, Roughton found only $5,785 had been deposited, she said. The Irvin Fuller Co. has sold tickets to the student government for $2 since November to be sold to the students at the same price. The company owns 14 movie theaters in Columbia. Tickets normally range from $1 specials to $3.50 when sold at the theaters. Roughton said she turned her audit of the discount ticket sales over to Alton McCoy, director of the internal audit division of the finance office. McCoy verified Roughton's figures. "We have no way of knowing at this point what has happened to the money," McCoy said. Mark Hopkins, the student senator in charce of the ticket sales, said he has an idea of how the money was mishandled. "There are innumerable ways that people could have Provost name begins this fa ByDonFobes committee placed ads ; n?w* Editor publications such as the Times and had a total Dr. Francis T. Borkowski was plicants. Through visi named University of South candidates to USC ai Carolina provost by President interviewing and James B. Holderman Friday. processes, the field was Holderman said he was to three finalists fr< "tremendously impressed" with Holderman selected 1 Borkowski, who will assume his new position as the university's As provost> Borko highest academic official in assume administrative Borkowski succeeds Dr. Keith over lSnniversitydearis Davis, USC provost since 1974. Davis announced his resignation the^ollowinK areas ^rei last year, effective this June, but scheduling and space ai he Will continue thmiicrli Ananaf 8 Dr. Borkowski STSm'TS^ Z\7ersZ Press" cellor at Indiana University- DroBramsy university Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Umversitj Ind., a system created when the A,?,T072y Fort Wayne campuses merged in ^'^'U o ice ol 1964. In Indiana, Borkowski has ,t,J served as vice chancellor, dean of de8n of the faculty and professor of music ' since 1975. MAIN FUNCTION! DR. GLEN Abernathy, chair . _r_ ? w*v*vaav aivn UI1U AC search* ^mmXT said The 'ac^ P?sitions- t0 r' search committee, said tne adjustments in con departmental budgets ai :j;?: - the president in desig: ' -1 range plans. , 1 "Carolina has a rich t academic excellence," ^PPP^IP said. "Dr. Holderman h i to break down the line ft teaching, research ai Si ? 1r?P service, and I totally a R: added, "Excellence ^^K0WSK1 s^la^le dea MNHM complished flutist and e of Indiana Universit; Borkowski *" principal flutist of the F< Philharmonic. |>1,715 missing been taking money out of the cash box/' he said. "It was partly my fault. I should have kept a personal ledger, but I did not. I relied on invoices from the Irvin Fuller Co. and from the treasurer's office deposit slips. 4'I should have kept better records, but I made the mistake of trusting people," Hopkins said. "My theory is that maybe someone took tickets instead of the money to resell them." Hopkins said he based this idea on the large amount of money missing and a drop in sales in March. Hopkins said he tried to keep the amount in the cash box low, and he did this partly by cashing checks for himself on/4 o/*m Al-?. ? ? ? A .1 *? A * M ana wuicuiiics iui uic secrcuiries in ine siuaent government office. "I feel certain I did not abuse the cash box by doing this. I was afraid a student may try to reach in and grab the cash if there was a large amount in the box." Hopkins said he also took the cash box to his dorm room, but only when there was very little money in it. Houghton said when she talked to the Irvin Fuller Co., they had no proof that Hopkins had picked up the tickets. He did not have to sign vouchers for the tickets each time he iw ? ? * * - - ? PILRWJ U1U1U up, JJ11U UUHWUMWk Ihey just left them sitting on a desk for him/' she said. Discount tickets for all local Irvin Fuller theaters has been a service of the student government since November, d' SB 11 IHw liEHHSBSHl of 110 7p- ^ screening \ /'ision over ? '* Jistrar and >* ? **#%.?*; > ''?Pi'l&fc5 )i5lllllClliat SW:?' IS... ?. !S, The ' special On the ball r 101, the ? . , Majors, the "ie lawn on the Horseshoe proves to b Facilities viting to USC student Doug Jones, who fou : Research graduate 1TT| "| *| rroposed park 5 of the onrl (n vilU v\> UIV placement By Brian Duncan eCOmmend OamacMk St?H Wrlt*r lege and id to assist The University Parking Committee last \ ning long- tabled proposed parking fee hikes for studi faculty and staff members until other alternat radition of have been tried. Borkowski USC President James B. Holderman, who as wanted present at last Friday's committee meeting, saic s between j* ??* " - * * VVUAAAIllO^K PilUlI 1111U3 1|> tillFflCllVC 10 16Vy 3 nd public on anyone." He added, "I am dead against an; gree." He crease for students, faculty or staff members.' is the The committee agreed, cancelling proposed hikes until a number of other options are exhaut ires to see University figures show that although there ^ not only in almost 3,800 student parking spaces available ntry, but 1977-78, more than 7,000 parking decals were i ionally as Faculty and staff decals issued also outnumh spaces available, although not by as great a mai k! to the has three THE COMMITTEE took definite action on me-Marie, options. First, at Holderman's suggestion, members agreed to start plans for a continuoi an ac- running shuttle system from the Coliseum perl i graduate area to circle the entire campus. To be implemei V, is the possibly by fall, the two-bus system carries ort Wavne MtimatMt *iA M *? *** ~ k>iw iog vi fw,w ui fou,uuu, accoram Harold Brunton, vice president of operations. from account with Hopkins appointed by the president of the student senate to be in charge of sales procedures. Rough ton said she went over the procedures with Hopkins before the sales began back in November. Each day Hopkins was to keep a sales sheet, including the number of ttlA 1 1 i!-? * *-? * " uiv III Di aiiu iasi HURCl SOIU Vila U16 amount 01 HlOney collected. He was also to deposit the money into the university treasurer's office, keeping one copy of the deposit and sending one to the dean of students' office. If sales extended past five pjn.f Hopkins was to deposit the money in the student media office safe, but he was not to take the money and tickets from the Russell House, except to make a deposit at the treasurer's office, Rough ton said. No money was ever deposited in the media office safe, according to Jon Clemmensen, student media general manager. The media office closes at 5 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters. "It is my belief that these instructions were not followed since I have not seen an audit sheet since November and all of the deposits slips were not given to me," Houghton said in a letter to McCoy. Campus Security has been notified of the missing money, Roughton said. Lt. William E. Shurling, a campus security investigator, J A* X ft ? ? ? ? mw UlUl M rss<3 Hiked to Robert hi. Alexander, dean of students, but no investigation has begun. V *; ~>K *y!>* -^'i .s-jMiP %A J-.-. - ..? : . rn ,v s** *. t - T :-W..V* : J5&:'i Jim Pastorick ? GAMECOCK e in- comfortable erassv soot to rpst and *???*. nd a template. ring raises tabled a ? * - mis system, wiui specinc times and stops to be worked out later this summer, would be free and available to anyone, and could make use of the veek Coliseum parking areas, which Brunton says are the ents, only ones not congested on campus. tives According to Danny Baker, another committee member, a similar system set-up in 1971 was a fiasco was because of lack of use. 1 the Second, the committee voted to propose that decals "fee issued for the south side of campus (Bates House, y in- Bates West, and Roost dormitories) be limited to those specific parking areas to reduce congestion on fee campus. The shuttle system would provide these ?ted. residents transportation during bad weather. vere Longer-range options were for possible HUD or i for HEW funds available for a garage exclusively for iold. students, and a re-evaluation of proposed cafnpus Bred building programs. No action was taken at this time gin. on either. According to Dr. Peter Becker, chairman of the two committee, if these options prove futile, the comthe mittee will be right back where it started, facing isly. possible increases in parking fees. As to the amount king faculty and staff will pay if this were to happen, a nted tentative figure of one-half percent of the employee's i an salary was mentioned. ig to See PARKING, page 5