1984_11 The Daily Collegian November 1984

              6-The D.ily Collegia.
November 14,1984
Officialsseek retribution for card fraud
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(CPS) — University of Maryland
College Park and Princeton University
student officials are scurrying to find out
how they can get thousands of dollars
back from a man who collected the money
for student discount card programs and
then disappeared.
Princeton area police arrested recently
George Wheaton on charges of theft and
deception by fraud, says Princeton Bor¬
ough Police Captian John Bellow.
Earlier this year, Wheaton asked Prin¬
ceton and Maryland student government
officers to participate in a student dis¬
count card program with area merchants.
After getting student .government en¬
dorsements. Wheaton started enrolling
area merchants in the program for $250 to
$350 each.
The cards, to be passed out to students
at each school, were to list participating
merchants on the back. The businesses, in
turn, would offer 10 percent discounts to
cardholders.
But after months of delays and futile
attempts to track Wheaton down, the
cards never arrived.
When Wheaton went to Maryland in
early February 1984. "he seemed very leg¬
itimate," recalls Betsy White, Maryland
College Park student vice president, who
recommended the student government en¬
dorse the discount card program.
"He brought in a black notebook full of
information on the student discount
cards," she says, along with "some cards
from other schools, a sample cover letter
to go out to merchants, and a copy of his
he enrolled merchants in a similar student
discount card program there — a program
Jackson endorsed after meeting with
Wheaton.
Jackson says he had no reason not to
endorse Wheaton's idea in the beginning,
especially since Wheaton and his com¬
pany. University Services Associates in
New Jersey, had a record of successful
card programs at other schools.
Indeed, "we had no problem with Mr.
Wheaton." says Sharon Meeker, student
government secretary at the University of
lllinois-Urbana, which participated in one
of Wheaton's discount card programs last
"However," she adds, "we did have a
clause in our contract with him where he
But soon after Wheaton collected his
money from College Park-area merchants,
he vanished.
"What Wheaton did was solicit mer¬
chants to contribute up to $350 in order to
be listed on the student discount card, and
he was supposed to deliver the cards,"
explains William Salmond, Maryland's
campus legal aid director. - •      -
Instead, Salmond charges, "he collected X]«r>«mic Rriofc
an excess of $4000 total from the mer- i^*gW» Pr-K»g>
chants and he failed to deliver the cards."
Princeton student government officials
also are still waiting for the 5000 cards
they were promised on June I, 1984,
according to David Jackson, Princeton's
students government treasurer.
' About 20 Princeton-area businesses
nave Wheaton an estimated $4000 when
wouldnt receive money until the cards
were delivered to us."
Wheaton also ran a discount card pro¬
gram for the University of Maryland-
Baltimore County campus this fall, and
the merdhants and students are real
pleased as to how it is working out," says
John Rufe, the student senator in charge
of UMBC's card program.
Since Wheaton did operate successful
and legitimate card programs at other
campuses, Rufe speculates Wheaton may
have fallen on hard times and "probably
used the money for personal expenses."
Nonetheless, "we're thinking in terms of
~a-class action suit" against Wheaton, says
College Park's White.
Continued from page 4
Sunday for the benefit of our students.
Employees are encouraged to take ad¬
vantage of this recess by using CTO,
Vacation, or. Personal Holiday credit to
cover Friday, November 23.
Tutoring Center
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invites you lo attend Holy Communion
Friday mornings 7-7:45am in
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- November 19 to 23. However, Drop-in
tutoring will still be available in the areas
of Math, Accounting and Computer
Science:
MATH LAB
Monday    -0900-1650
Tuesday   -1100-1650
Wednesday-1100-1650
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Monday -1000-1400
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Wednesday - 0900 - 1400
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All services are free to currently enrolled
CSUF students.
Tours
A "Fall Color Tour Extravaganza" will
be presented by the Friends of the Calif¬
ornia State University, Fresno Arboretum
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday,-Nov¬
ember 17 on the university campus. The
program is open to the public free of
In addition to guided tours ofthe many
campus trees displaying their autumn
glory, a series of workshops of interest to
home gardeners will be presented hourly
by several local experts.
Proper pruning of landscape trees will
be presented by Pam Elam-Wenzel ofthe
University of California Cooperative Ex¬
tension Service, and selection and use of
landscape trees in the home garden will be
presented by landscape architect John
Valentino. Designing an irrigation system
for the home and the creative use of fall
color in decorating a home also will be
discussed.
The workshops will begin on the hour
in Room 101 of the Phebe Conley Art
Building and the guided tours of campus
trees will begin every 15 minutes from the
Maple and Shaw Avenue entrance to the
campus.
For further information, telephone
294-2797.
STUDENT
BASKETBALL TICKETS
Lottery applications are now available
in the A.S. Office, Joqal Administration
Cashier, or Buldog Stadium Ticket Office.
<,TTIPEMTS MUST TAKE:
-lottertj application
-Cashier Check or rnoneq order
palpable to FSU Ticket Office
(no cash or personal check)
-Self-addressed stamped envelope
Ifi
Joqal Adm, Cashier 8-5
or FSU Ticket Office 8-7
Drawing will take place
Friday Nov. 16 at 9 AM
Satellite CU
No applications accepted
.fatter 7 PM Thursday. Wov> 15 '
Helpbring
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Host an
exchange
student
Lottery
Student basketball ticket lottery winners
will be selected Friday November 16, 9
a.m. in the Satellite CU.
Students are invited to attend the open
drawing. Some ofthe 1984-85 basketball
players will be on hand to assist with
drawing.
Official winners and alternates will be
posted Friday afternoon by the A.S.
Office.
November 14,1984
International Youth
Exchange, a Presidential
Initiative for peace, brings
teenagers from other coun¬
tries to live for a time with
American families and at-
tend American schools.
Learn about participating
as a volunteer host family.
VtHte: YOUTH EXCHANGE
Pueblo, Colorado 81009
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DEC 20 THU 8:30 - 6:30
DEC 21 FRI 8:30 - 4:30
Enter Lowt>r Level until 4:30.
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News Briefs *
COSA
The Chinese Overseas Student Associa¬
tion and the Bulldog Bowling Club is
organizing a Fresno State Inter-Student
Organization Bowling Championship
which will be held at the College Union
bowling alley on Nov. 16 at 6 p.m.
The Bowling Championship is spon¬
sored by the Bank of America^ the Fash¬
ion Fair Branch. J
Prizes will include trophies and a free
trip to Hawaii with accomodations for
eight days and seven nighu.
Grants available
More than $290,000 in scholarship grants
is available to full-time students who will
be enrolled at California State University,
Fresno during the 1985-86 academic year.
Applications for the scholarships are
now available in the university's Financial
Aids Office located in Room 298 of the
loyal Administration Building. Applic¬
ations must be submitted by February 1,
1985.
To be eligible, entering and enrolled
indents must have a grade point average
ol .1.0 or better, be involved in activities in
their school or community, and be enrolled
lor further information, contact the
Financial Aids Office at 294-2185.
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed
•Education
Continued from page 5
ate issues, and should not be taught side
by side at colleges, notes the Carnegie
Foundation's Boyer.
"But we live our lives in a way that
blends our work with bur values and other
knowledge," he points out. "And I'm
troubled that the report has put them on a
collision course when the real problem is
funding the  proper  way to  integrate
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... the use of insecticides on various crops.
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n specified by the memorandum, which the item before eating it.
I into effect the last week of October,
crsons will have to have a permit toy* in
We will be watching the area closer,"
c said.
Before we assumed they had permis-
ion, and now we're not going to assume
Boriak said the areas that have chemi¬
cals have been marked well, and that
they've been very careful with what is'put
on the crops.
CSUF farm fresh products are availa¬
ble and for sale inside the machinery
building located at the eorner of Chestnut
and Barstow.
•Exchange
f ontinued from page 1
n.mncs, voted against further reviewing
the proposal, but later agreed with other
senators that a compensation plan was
nu such a bad idea.
As a student body representative, "You
have opportunity costs. 1 can't work. With
this job I lose the money that I would have
if working," Schinn said.
Mark Richcy, senator at large, agreed.
The role of senator can be costly," he
said. Among the unanticipated costs,
Richey said, are work materials, transpor¬
tation to senate functions, and time taken
away from a regular job. *»
"I would like to see some kind of pay
[for senators] to divert their costs."
Richey, who voted to review a compen¬
sation plan, said the current .AS Senate
would not benefit from such a plan unless
senators were reelected to another term.
The proposal was probably rejected by
the senate, he said, because "people a?e
worfied about repercussions — making
themselves look greedy."
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applications is November 21, 1984.
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