)Vanaging the flichigan Union
Editor's note: This is the first of a "what's going out." The head of any does make money and what does not $3,300;, rentals $1,100; the Opera
series of three articles dealing with family can explain it without diflh- make money, let us go into the financ- j $3,500; Opera Music,.$127; waste
the operation and organization of the culty. ial sheet as approved by the Board of paper, $28; valet service, $7; Opera
Michigan Union, of the establishment With the distinction in mind be- Governors, and see how the various trip, $4,000; Spotlight, $1,700; Spring
as seen from within rather than as tween what we have on hand, and branches stand. Spotlight, $194, and Summer Spotlight,
seen from without. It complements what we have to spend it for, let uss se Taking up what is, perhaps, the $375.
the perspective-of the Michigan Union what the Union does with its funds. most important feature to the aver- But on the other side of the ledger
as the student sees it every day. The Since at the present time the Union is, ( age student, the food department, we we have the operating expenses with
two remaining sections of the series. and until an endowment fund is ob- find the restaurant with expenses of no source of. profit which include
will 'be published next Sunday and ained will be, almost entirely self- $177,762 a year. Last year they took house supplies, wages for those not
the Sunday thereafter, supporting, the profits from runnning in $177,552, so that the restaurant is employed in any one department, as,
the organization must be enough to about breaking even. The Cafeteria, managers, housemen, doormen, ele-
(By George E. Sloan) enable it to maintain itself. That is with less expensive equipment and vator boys, check room employe,$s
the crux of the whole financial situ- service and less fancy dishes, did a and telephone operators $26,994.02.
,I, Financing the MIchigan Union ation, for while the tap room may re- business of, roundly, $135,000 on a cost This includes also such items as tele-
When one hears that the Uniosr did turn a profit of $6,000 in any given of $128,000, making a profit of slightly phones, $1,316.20; water, $332.22; re-
a gross business last year of a half year, yet When it is eaten up by non- over $6,000 for the year. The soda bar I pairs to furniture and furnishings,
million';dollars and 'on that business productive sources of expense such as came next, with a business of about $2,394,34; magazines and newspapers,
realized a profit of $70,492.17, dues in- telephone booths, housemen, doormen, $28,000 and expenses of about $22,000, $467.69; electric light and power,
cluded on the revenue producing de- elevator boys, check room, taxes, leaving a profit of iore than $5,000, $2,972.22; insurance, $2,650.80, and de-
partments, and yet only shows a clear water, gas, repairs, etc., there isn't (making it next in importance to the preciation on equipment, $1,800. In
balance of $600.00, the first impulse so much profit after all. cafeteria in capacity for paying for addition are smaller items, such as
is naturally to wonder "whereinhell" That, briefly, is the situation the itself. The stand made a profit of watertaxes, laundry, cleaning of uni-
al the money goes It shall be my, Union finds itself: Profits from some $1,200; billiards netted $3,800; the forms, upkeep-and care of shrubbery
object in this first article to show, and departments--dead loss in others, which dormitory (rooms on the third floor and yards, membership emblems and
and in the third article to explain the must be kept balanced. Another diffi- for members and their guests) re- printing. Altogether these items of a
organization of the Union, its consti- culty is that the Union has only been turned $9,400; bowling alleys $700 and gneral nature, not applicable to par-
tion, by-laws, boards of governors and in operation three years and any hotel barber shop about $1,300. In addition ticutar departments, total $44,943.28.
directors and other managing bodies. man will explain that it takes from to these main revenue producing de- In the office, wages of clerks, book-
end in the third article to exnlain the three to five years to enable a club partments the dances brought In. (Continued on Page 8)
varions student activities centering in or hotel to weed out its personnel and
the Union which make it the very get down to a smooth running basis.
nerve center of University affairs. Thus the Union must support itself
To bE-in with, it should be clearly upon the 'revenue from those depart-U rr
borne in- mind that the vast difference ments which do return a profit. E S
set'wen 'what's coming in" and In order to see clearly just what
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