Re: Hatch Act Len Paplauskas 07 Apr 1995 08:25 EST

Gail Wine writes:

>Our auditors have been citing us for several years for not following
>the Hatch Act provisions of getting assurances from our employees
>funded by federal grants that they will not engage in bipartisan
>politics while being paid with federal funds.  Though large
>colleges/universities most likely have dealt with this issue, I
>haven't talked with anyone from smaller liberal arts colleges about
>Bowdoin's size who knows of any such provision made by their
>institution.  Their auditors don't seem to be interested in that
>regulation.

This is absurd!  25 years in this business and the mentality of auditors
never ceases to amaze me.  I have never heard of this nonsense, and certainly
hope that it is only the result of a bad dream that this particular auditor
has had.

It's $%#@ like this that led to the Republican win in Congress last fall.