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GTV money mix-up solved, Dean says
By: Stephanie Kiszczak
Issue date: 10/12/06 Section: News
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After meeting with Dean Debra Carpenter of the School of Communications Oct. 5 about budget issues, the remaining members of GTV staff breathed a sigh of relief.
Students started working as GTV staff and were under the impression they would receive compensation from a work study budget for their work at the station. However, after six weeks and no money, several members of GTV staff left the station in search of work study jobs elsewhere. Few members of this year's GTV staff continue to work for the station - some on a volunteer basis.
Students working for GTV didn't understand why they were not being paid and the dean said the amount GTV requested for student salaries was too high - about $26,000. She also said she did not know who actually hired the GTV staff, because the paperwork was never completed.
Carpenter said 11 students were selected by last year's GTV student managers - Katie McComb, graduate student and former general manager for GTV, and Chris Abreu, a graduate student at Royal Holloway University of London and former GTV station manager. The names of the 11 students were submitted spring 2006 to Sally Lorino, director of the School of Communications.
Carpenter said there is no limit to the number of students working at GTV - the only limit is the budget, which stays the same despite how many students are hired. She also said the 11 students never were hired, and Lorino alerted GTV General Manager Brady Koch there was a money issue after Lorino saw the estimated salary budget for GTV student employees.
Neither the dean nor Koch can determine where or how the miscommunication between the dean's office and GTV staff began.
"I don't know where the miscommunication came from," said Koch, a senior broadcast journalism major. "Rather than pointing a finger, I am more interested in moving ahead."
However, after meeting with Carpenter, Koch said he was informed of how the GTV budgets work.
The 11 students assumed their GTV salaries would come from a work study budget, which Koch said was $4,000. To be paid from a work study budget, students have to be eligible for federal work study money. To earn such funds, students secure an on-campus job and work to pay off part of their tuition.
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