The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, June 15, 1978, Page Page 3, Image 3
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.
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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
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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.
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last year, effective this June, but scheduling and space ai
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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
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1964. In Indiana, Borkowski has ,t,J
served as vice chancellor, dean of de8n of the
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search committee, said tne adjustments in con
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|>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
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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
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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,
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ning long- tabled proposed parking fee hikes for studi
faculty and staff members until other alternat
radition of have been tried.
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as wanted present at last Friday's committee meeting, saic
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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
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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
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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,
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mw UlUl M rss<3 Hiked to Robert hi. Alexander, dean of
students, but no investigation has begun.
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e in- comfortable erassv soot to rpst and *???*.
nd a template.
ring raises tabled
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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.
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See PARKING, page 5