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r Alpena, Michigan October 1972 Vol. 4 No. 2 Members of the Arts Co_uncil engaged in a meeting are from left: Bonnie Aas/and, Dan McNiel, Cindy Skiba, Nick Scheidler, Tom Glazier, and Paul Gibson. Missing from picture are Bob. Young, Bart Boyer, Terry Hall, Matt Splitt, and advisor JoA nn Lovejoy .......... . WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR MONEY This year's Budget Review Board has come up with some surprising and good news. First however, a little background information as to what the Budget Review Board is and what it does. The Budget Review Board's purpose in meeting is to allocate funds which come from the Student's Activities Fees. This is the ten or five dollars which the students paid at the beginning of the semester. This money is to be used to bring activities to the cam- pus for th students' academic and social enjoyment. The members of the Budget Review Board are•set up so there is a student majority. On the Board this year were Dean Souden, Mr. Frank McCourt, Mr. Terry Hall, Rudy Feldt (chairman), Jane Szczukowski (secretary), Glen Betzoldt and Chris Dagner. Mem- bers of the different organizations who submitted a budget were asked to be present to answer any questions and defend their budgets. The funds available are distributed to the different organizations who are doing something for the entire student body . Out of the $16,000 in student activities fees, earth magazine asked for $1,396 and received $1,235 to publish it's issues. The A.C.C. Arts Councill asked for a budget of $11,400 and were funded $6,650 to bring in a series to films, lectures, and band concerts. Some of the clubs to receive money were Golden Z, Circle K, and the Ski Club, Golden Z is planning to put on the Snowball Dance and were given $237 .50. Circle K was allocated $760.00 to put on the Spring Weekend bash again th\s year. The Ski Club requested Winter Weekend and got $760 to put on a bash at a ski lodge in the area. Some of the other organizations to receive fur.i.ds were the Collegiate Singers ($475) and the Collegiate Band ($142). The College Theatrical Group asked for $750 and was given $475 for their production. The Polemic was allocated $950 from a desired budget of $1,343. The intramural program asked for $2,800 and was assigned $2,660. Studerrrfo..G-ti: vity funds were $950 out of a $1,500 budget. The cheerleaders received $142.50, which was $7 .50 less than requested and more than the zero amount they received last year. Some of the organizations did not receive 'all or any of the funds they had requested . Phi Theta Kappa Fraternity had asked for $53.00 for their rushes. They didn't re- ceive any money because they are only open to a selective part of the student' body. The laws governing the Budget Review Board allows them to distribute money only to organizations who are contributing to the majority of the student body. The Student Government turned in a budget of $4,600 of which the majority was to go for building and maintaining a coffeehouse for the students. It was decided to ask the administration to fund the coffeehouse instead of student fees. Therefore they were given only $522.50 for their budget. There has been a lot of debate in the past couple of years as to how much money should come out of student activities fees for the athletic program. The school board this year funded athletics $12,000 for their programs and the Athletic Department asked for an additional $2,325 from the Budget Review Board. After hours of debate, the board set a tenetive budget at $1,200. In the final meeting of the Board, it was de- cided not give the Athletic Department any funds. After heated debates, the resolution was made by Chris Da_gner not to give athletics any funds from the student fees, and the motion was seconded by Mr. Terry Hall. On the vote there were only two who voted against the motion, Dean Souden and Frank Mccourt. Of the $16,000 available from the student activities fees $15,960 were distributed to different organizations. It is hoped that several of ·these organizations will be able to make enough money with their programs to put funds back into a Student Organi- zation Contingency Fund for clubs to draw on if the need arises. !'rts C!Inunril Jff eatures The Arts Council is moving once again. After planning the activities for the 1972- 73 school year last spring, the members returned to tind complete chaos with nothing underway. This was partially the fault of some of the old members leaving without telling those remaining what was to be done. But a more important factor which quickly presented itself was a lack of funds. The Arts Council was informed 'that until after the first meeting of the Budget Review Board, which was to al- locate funds for all student 'activities, there was little the Council could do. While waiting for the Board to meet, the Council put together a terrific sched- ule for the coming year, which has a much broader base than ever before. Some top- ics to be covered this year will include witchcraft, blues music, art, womens' lib, folk music, psycho-cybernetics, nutrition, and music by a string quartet. When the Budget Review Board did meet, it gave to the Arts Council $6,650 for the school year 1972-73. Since then the Arts Council has been trying to be- come organized so that it's schedule will b_e_ well-run and successful; and it looks like they've accomplished just that. There are 10 films and 9 celebrities coming to ACC. That works out to over one movie and one speaker per month. The tentative schedule is as follows: Oct. 12 "Zorba the Greek," Oct. 22 Mi- chaquel Church, a well known artist from Michigan State University, Jack Fritscher, a leading authority on witchcraft who has several books to his credit, Oct. 23. On the seventh of November "Juliet of the Spirit" will be shown, followed by Bella Abzug, former Congresswoman and fem- inistic activist on November 21. The mo- vie "Rachel Rachel" will be seen on Nov. 29. The James Cotton Blues Band will ap- pear here either Dec. 7 or 8. Closing out the semester will be "On the Water- front" on Dec. 14. Starting off the second semester will be Josh White, a folk musician who gets it on the harmonica, on Jan 12. Then "Red Sky at Morning;" Jan. 18 and "Blow-Up" on Jan. 29. Michigan State's Concord String Quartet will appear here on Feb. 9, then "Privilege" on Feb. 28. A Spanish guitarist, Miguel Rubio, will be at ACC on March 1, "Zabraski Point" on March 22. Adelle Davis, a nutrition expert who has written several books on the subject, will be heard April 2, fol- lowed by the movie "Citizen Kane" on April 26 and "The Committee" May 1. Maxwell Maltz, the discoverer of psycho- cybernetics who has also 9 uthored a book by the same name, Psycho-Cybernetics will conclude the Arw Council for the year. He will speak on Mav 8. Some changes in ticket sales thi L Ys?ar ~~----i include: 1) each ACC student is allowed in free to all of the programs upon pre- sentation of his college ID card at the door; 2) if a student doesn't have his ID card with him he'll be required to pay full admission price; 3) there will be no advance ticket sales; 4) tickets will be sold at the door for the general public. The Arts Council has vacancies for three freshmen. If you are interested, contact Miss JoAnn Lovejoy. It 1~ 1[] 1Progrum 1fJegins by Bart Boyer Recently the Carnegie Cornm1ss1on on Higher Education found that 83 percent of college·undergraduates feel that colleges should give more attention to the emo- tional growth of students. Many faculty members on the ACC campus concur with the Carnegie Commission, and three in- structors have responded specifically to the observations of the Commission by creating a unique program called the Lib- eral Arts Block (LAB). Mr. Faber, Mr. Hall and Mr. Boyer have formulated a program by combining the concepts of interdisci- plinary teaching of the liberal arts, be- havior modification, humnistic phychol- ogy, and cognitive-style mapping to help increase academic performance and self- actualization, or emotional growth . A block of five courses for sixteen hours of credit will be offered in the pro- gram: English 122, 3 er.; English 244 : The Novel, 3 er.; Humanities 242, 4 er.; Philosophy 226, 3 er.; and Psychology 225, 3 er. These courses are organized in such a fashion so that related concepts are being dealt with at the same time in each course. This helps the student to recognize that the world really is an ecosystem that is divided into parts primarily for the pur- pose of study. In addition, learning efficiency is increased because in most cases related materials are much more easily assimilated than materials presented discreetly. Principles of reinforcement will also be used in the program. They consist of systematically and quickly rewarding de- sired behaviors by verbal reinforcement and technological reinforcement,including the use of videotape replays and alpha- theta brain wave sensors; accounting for different ways and rates of learning; in- suring some student decision-making power regarding educational goals and methods; and insuring that an environ- ment of playfulness and enjoyment are present to encourage creativity. There will be attempts to achieve some goals of humanistic psychology. The in- structors hope to move students slightly in the direction of self-actualization, de- scribed as "an on-going actualization of potential capacities and taient" by the late Abraham Maslow, a renowned figure in humanistic psychology. The character- istics of this process are a superior percep- tion of reality; an increased acceptance of self, of others, and of nature; increased (Continued on Page 2)