"Fund abuse denied"(Phoenix, Apr. 25) discusses an investigation of the chair of SF State's Physics department involving alleged misappropriations of state funds.
The Society of Physics and Astronomy Students (SPAS) has raised money for the colloquia and other events by selling lab manuals directly to the students.
The cost to physics students is much less than it would be if the manuals were sold through the bookstore.
These sales are approved by the Physics department's faculty, public Physics department's faculty, publicized throughout the School of Science and coordinated by a dozen graduate students.
It hardly constitutes a covert embezzlement operation.
The sum raised from this semester's sales was less than $500.
The suggestion that the Physics chair would involve himself in the petty theft of SPAS funds is ludicrous, as (?)
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