Argo: Volume 16, Number 4

              Advisory Board lottery
draws very few students
Apparently student apathy
has hit an all time low as the
lottery drawing for members
of advisory boards was held
this past week.
The selection of members to
College Council, Campus Hear-ing
Board, and the Faculty
Review Committee/Board was
conducted on Thursday, Sept.
30 in room G-207 of the Col-lege
Center.
Shortly before the selection
began, Michael Korff, assistant
to President Bjork and the
Where is the President?
On October 1 (last Friday)
the president of Stockton State
College, Richard E. Bjork de-parted
from the U.S.A. This
event went undisclosed to the
members of the Stockton com-munity.
Only after intense re-search
did the Argo receive
any information concerning the
president's where-abouts.
An initial phone call to the
President's Office, which was
answered by a member of his
staff, revealed that the Presi-dent
was on an adventure to
China.
Curious as to the reasons for
the President's journey to
China, Argo contacted Person-nel
Services wishing to know
if the President was on a
vacation. An unnamed person
at extension 384 stated, "we
did not know anything and
couldn't say anything for two
weeks until President Bjork's
time sheet is sent to us."
The acting leader of Stockton,
Woodworth G. Thrombly (nor-mally
vice president of Aca-demic
Affairs) was quite in-formative
as to Dr. Bjork's
travels.
"Dr. Bjork is on a trip to
the Far East: Tokyo, Hong
Kong, and Taipei," Thrombly
said. Thrombly went on to say
that Dr. Bjork was one of 15
members invited to Taiwan
from the Association of State
Colleges and Universities.
Argo also contacted the
Chancellor of Higher Educa-tion,
Ralph Dungan. Dungan
was in conference at the time
Argo reached his office. How-ever,
Mrs. M.H. Fairbanks
from the Chancellor's office
said, "President Bjork is on
vacation and is touring the
Far East."
Where exactly is Dr. Bjork?
Is it not the college's right to
know where our president is
and why we were not notified
as to the reasons behind his
mysterious send-off? Is it
standard procedure for a col-lege
president to take a vaca-tion
during the opening weeks
of a new semester?
Do we have the confidence in
Dr. Thormbly to lead us at
this point in our academic ca-reers?
In an Unrelated Event
Unknown to most of the
Stockton community, President
Bjork is also the president of
the Mainland Bank of Atlantic
County. This week, at the
Phillipine International Conven-tion
Center in Manila, there is
a meeting of the International
Monetary Fund. The occurence
of this "Banker's Meeting" in
the Far East and the Presi-dent's
vacation in the same
region may be purely coin-cidental.
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SSC space squeeze will continue
By J. Entwistle
Clubs and organizations are in
a bit of a squeeze this year. It
seems there just isn't enough
room to grant each of them an
office. The clubs and organiza-tions
have access to 12 cubicles
in upper B-wing which are old
faculty offices. Of the 37 organ-izations
that applied, 25 were
given an office. There are two
organizations to each office and
one office contains three
groups.
In evaluating the applications
many things were taken into
consideration. Decisions were
based on: number of members,
special needs, interests served,
and past performance of the
organizations. The Administra-tion
tried to "use the available
space in such a way as to
accomodate as many students
as possible," notes Chuck Tan-tillo,
Vice president of Campus
Programs.
There are a few new organiza-tions
on campus and some have
moved around a bit. The Ten-ants
Assn. and Pine Tree Co-op
have moved to cabins 2 and 3,
respectively. The radio station
has been moved from their cabi
to G-216 citing problems of
theft. They also wanted to
begin broadcast to the College
Center. A new organization that
has come to SSC is the Gay
Peoples Union. They are "well
organized" and "add a new
dimension to the co-curricular
activities," states Rick Hurley,
assistant director of student
activities.
The Office of Campus Pro-grams
handles anything the
student organizations have to
do. They provide telephones, a
mail drop, they keep accounts,
and do free printing for all the
organizations sponsored by
Stockton.
The office space granted to
the organizations may last only
to the end of this semester.
They get whatever is left over.
Campus Programs has a "space
budget" and upper B-wing may
have to be renovated for class-es,
according to Ron Klepcyk,
director of student activities. If
this space is renovated, where
will the clubs go? Possibly to
the College Center, states
Klepcyk. The renovation is
"not likely", say Chuck Tantil-lo,
vice president of campus
programs.
Well that's fine for this year,
but what about next yéar? The
Administration will no doubt be
faced with this problem again
until a specific area is set aside
for this purpose. What about
next year? We'll just have to
wait and find out.
Burglar hits dorms
Gets $1500 in goods
By Chris Baumle
On Saturday, Oct. 2, apart-ment
D-15 was broken into
and ransacked. Approximately
$1500 worth of possessions are
missing, items such as a TV,
stereo, camera equipment, an
electric typewriter and some
cash.
The entry was apparently
made through the left bed-room
window, as it was com-pletely
opened and the screen
was pushed in. The incident
was reported Saturday night
by victims Marc Schwartzmann
and Scott Shallete. Other vic-tims
are John Williams, Leon
Schweizer and Louis Esposito.
There are no suspects in the
case as of yet, and no spec-ulation
can be made as to
whether the burglar is from
the Stockton community or
not. Anyone having any infor-mation
on this matter is urged
to contact Detective Bill Lentz
of Campus Police, ext 317 or
652-7495. All information will
be kept strictly confidential.
director of the affair, exclaim-ed
to no surprise of those
present, that something was
amuck.
Surveying the audience, it
was apparent that everyone
present was a member of the
Stockton staff except for two
students (neither of two stu-dents
present were "running"
for the post on the numerous
committees).
"I can't believe that there
aren't any students here,"
Korff said. In the past, stu-dents
would normally show up
at the selection to insure that
there would be no irregulari-ties
in the drawing of commit-tee
or board members.
"Last year the students came
because they didn't trust us,"
said Korff.
"This year they didn't show
up because they didn't care.
It's obvious that the present
system developed by President
Bjork for enlisting student in-volvement
in the internal af-fairs
of the college is a fail-u
r e , " said Wayne Wipper-mann,
editor of the Argo and
one of the two students at the
lottery.
G-Court
toiiets
flood
By Chris Baiunle
During the night of Sept. 24,
gurgling noises followed by
overflowing water from Hous-ing
toilets and bathtubs oc-cured
in several G-court apart-ments.
Most of the dwellings
in question received minimal
damage—nothing more than a
wet bathroom floor. At least
one apartment (G-17), how-ever,
suffered more extensive
leakage, causing the sogging
down of the living room rug
and a flow of water into the
kitchen.
One of the residents of G-17
attempted to soak up some of
the water with rags but could
do nothing with the carpet.
When the incident was report-ed,
Ron Rice, director of
Housing, stated that cleaning
materials would be supplied to
the tenants involved, but that
no one from plant manage-ment
would be able to do the
clean-up. This was termed
"unfair" by the student vic-tims.
Argo spoke to Ron Rice for a
fuller explanation of the situa-tion.
Rice said that the stu-dents
had not made it clear to
him what the extent of the
flooding damage was and did
send someone to clean up the
water.
Rice stated that the problem
developed as a result of a
backed-up sewer. In the sewer
were found a crushed beer
can and a wad of paper. Ron
Rice also said that similar pro-blems
could be avoided in the
future if the tenants take
more care as to what they
flush down the toilets: cans,
sanitary unflushables and
paper towels.