The Towerlight, April 11, 1980

tl19800411-000 "VOL. DOM No. 24 ""( il) erttg PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY 5 weeks and counting! The usually crowded Union patio was almost uninhabited earlier this week as students returned to classes from spring break. Some of those who didn't make lt to Florida last week worked on their suntans when classes began Tuesday. If you want a head start on your suntan before bitting the beach, you had better hurry because there are only five weeks of school left. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley Board adopts 2 degrees by Quincey R. Johnson The Board of Trustees has approved a Towson State proposal for the Mi-tiation of a graduate program in mass communication and a major in ac-counting. With that approval of the Board of Trustees, the proposals will be sent to the State Board for Higher Education. The SBHE program study commit-tee will review the programs that are Under consideration. The program study committee, that consists of five of the 11 board members, will study the programs and question University officials on the need for the programs and the goals of the programs. The committee will make a recorn- Mendation to the board members, Who will make the final decision about the programs. Once the SBHE makes its decision, the proposals need no other approval. Before reaching the SBHE, the pro- Posed program changes went through the Academic Council and the Board of Trustees. Both the Academic Coun-cil and the Board of Trustees use the same procedure in determining the need of a program such as the SBHE. The Academic Council's graduate Studies committee did the first work on the mass communication master's Program. The committee researched the proposed program change and Submitted it to the Academic Council. The Council adopted the proposal at the November 19 meeting. Dr. Joseph Cox, vice president for academic affairs, said he thinks the Proposed graduate program is good, but a solid undergraduate program Elitist be maintained. At the Council meeting some members were concerned about whether the graduate program would take money away from the under-graduate program. The proposed accounting major received its first approval from the University curriculum committee. The committee approved the change of the accounting program from a business administration concentra-tion to sn individual major. The proposal was later adopted by the Academic Council. The proposal would increase the number of courses and hours required in the accounting program, said Cox. ""In terms of depth and exposure, the accounting major will make the stu-dent more marketable,"" he said. William Brown, chairman of the business administration department, said that the accounting concentra-tion only requires students to take 15 hours and that will not adequately prepare them for careers in account-ing. Henry Vollemer, staff member for SBHE, said that the University sent a letter of intended program changes. This is required of all expected pro-gram changes, although the Universi-ty does not always follow through with its plans, Vollemer said. The prposals have been passed by the Board of Trustees but have not been sent to the SBHE. Once the SBHE receives the proposals, the review committee will begin work. The committee meets every third Wednesday in the month, but this month's meeting is on the fourth Wednesday, said Vollemer. Cox said the proposals will not be implemented in February, 1981. Carter, Reagan drop off Gilbert Brungardt, dean of arts and letters, said there are other master's programs in his division and none have been detrimental to the under-graduate program. The graduate stu-dents can help the undergraduate students very much, Brungardt said. ""Whether the proposal gets ac-cepted or not depends on how much flack we get from the other institu-tions. The program will not duplicate any program in the state,"" said Brungardt. Annette Flower, dean of human-istic, social and managerial studies, said there should be no problem in getting the approval because a sim-ilar change was made at Frostburg State last year. ""The change in name will enhance the program to the business world and attract more students to Towson,"" said Flower. CONTENTS Sports 6 Features 3 Entertainment 5 Week Watcher 4 Classifieds 6 Commentary Newsbriefs 9 8 Council may alter zoning April 11, 1980 Ammeamoursommun Proposal may limit off-campus housing by Patrick Casey Baltimore County Councilman Bar-bara Bachur, D-4th, will introduce legislation altering zoning regulations for rooming and boarding houses, leg-islation which might restrict the volume of off-campus housing avail-able to Towson State students. Bachur's proposal is based on amendments to zoning regulation recommended by the county Office of Planning and Zoning. The amend-ments would restrict the number of tenants allowed in rooming and boarding houses without special ex-ception from the zoning commission. Under current rules, a boarding house offers meals or rooms and meals to four or more individuals not related to the landlord, while a room-ing house provides two rooms to indi-viduals not related to the landlord, with no rule governing the number of tenants in those two rooms. Under the amendments proposed by the zoning office, either boarding or rooming houses would be able to rent to only two individuals without special exception. An exception also would be required if the property in question were not the landlord's domicile. The zoning office proposal would allow a three-year compliance period. Bachur aide Lisa Schade said, ""She intends to introduce legislation, it's just a question of what it's going to be precisely. One of the changes she has had in mind is changing the time for conformity from three years to one."" Mary Lee Farlow, director of res-idence, had guessed that the three-year compliance period would soften the effect of the changes. ""Anything that takes three years to comply will take three more years to investigate,"" Farlow said earlier. Bachur was inspired to introduce the legislation by the complaints of her Towson constituents, who voiced their displeasure with the current situation at a County Council hearing April 1. ""The state should not pass its residence problems on to the community,"" said Raymond Potter, president of the Towson Manor Improvement Association. ""If Tow-son State is going to expand its students, they should expand their housing."" Mike Tanzen, president of the Rogers Forge Improvement Associa-tion, said, ""Towson State is not the bad guys, but unwittingly they have been a thorn in our side, as they don't have sufficient on-campus housing."" John Kane, representing the Berk-ley Square Community Association, said ""We're concerned with the in-creased traffic congestion in the area. We're also concerned with the erosion of permit parking."" In all, seven representatives of area community associations spoke in fa-vor of the zoning amendments. No University officials or student rep-resentatives spoke on the matter, though Farlow did attend the meeting. Most of those who spoke in favor of the proposal asked that the compli-ance period be shortened from three years to one. ""We think this is a reasonable time to reduce the impact of this problem in the community,"" said Donald Gurdy, president of the Greater Towson Council of Communi-ty Organizations. Gurdy discussed community prob-lems caused by students after the hearing. ""The state has dumped this thing [the University] in our laps, and it's huge. The University has to address the issue of housing for its students,"" Gurdy said. ""The kids drink beer, have parties and disrupt the neighborhood. We in the community are tired of the quality of our life being eroded."" McCulloh refuses dorm offer A private party is willing and able to build dormitories on his own prop-erty for rental to Towson State students, said Donald Gurdy, presi-dent of the Greater Towson Council of Community Organization. Gurdy said he had presented the idea of private dorms to Donald Mc- Culloh, vice-president for business and finance, but that the University was not interested in the proposal. ""Let private enterprise do it,"" said Gurdy. ""I know someone who would be willing to do it, but [the University felt it has got to go on the back burner."" McCulloh confirmed that the offer had been made, but said, -We're just not interested in that piece of prop-erty."" Neither McCulloh nor Gurdy would reveal the location of the property or the name of the owner. But McCulloh did not rule out similar possibilities, saying, ""The University is always interested in looking for housing."" Monday, legislation which would have allocated $4 million to the University for the design and con-struction of new dorms died in the Maryland General Assembly when the 1980 session ended before the Assembly could vote on the bill. General Assembly kills bid to hike drinking age by Dennis Tully The Maryland General Assembly last week killed a bill designed to raise the drinking age from 18 to 19. The controversial bill, introduced by Sen. H. Eric Shafer, D-Anne Arun-del, lost by one vote in the House of Delegates after the Senate approved it. Shafer, who had sponsored similar legislation last year, was attempting to stop 18-year-olds from buying alcoholic beverages for their high school or grade school friends. Much of Shafer's opposition came from Del. Marilyn Goldwater, D-Montgomery. Goldwater debated against the bill saying, ""It would not solve the problem of underage drink-ing. If they want to drink, they could drive down to D.C."" Goldwater instead supported a corn-promise measure that would automat-ically suspend a teenager's license for 30 to 90 days for alcohol violations. The measure passed both houses and awaits the Governor's final approval. Robert Dubel, superintendent of the Baltimore County Board of Educa-tion, was disappointed at the failure of Shafer's bill. His primary concern was to ""help keep it [alcohol] out of the high schools. Dubel supported the compromise but said, ""The most effective way to curb underage drinking is to remove one year from the drinking age."" Del. Wade Kach, R-Baltimore Coun-ty, agreed with Dubel. Kach teaches at Loch Raven Junior High School and said he has been exposed to underage drinking at the junior high level. . ""It's becoming a tremendous prob-lem for our youth. When you see 14-and 15-year-olds with drinking problems, you wonder what they will be like when they're 25,"" said Kach. The issue of raising the drinking age is not a new one to the General Assembly. Since 1973, the year the drinking age was lowered to 18, there have been 13 attempts to raise it. It seems certain there will be more attempts. As Dubel said at the close of the session, ""We'll be back next year."" Anderson leads rivals in race for student votes CHICAGO, ILL (CPS)�Eric auskirk, a senior at Northwestern University, smiled brightly when he described himself as a ""radical."" Yet, he has deep liberal roots. His brothers voted for Robert Kennedy. Buskirk, himself, worked for George McGovern in 1972 and Morris Ud-all in 1976. According to form, in 1980 Buskirk would almost be a textbook Edward Kennedy suppor-ter, But he's not. ""The man is terrible,"" Buskirk groaned. ""He's a damn liar. He just can't be trusted."" So in the March 18 Illinois primary, Buskirk became a textbook example of why students Etre voting for John Anderson. In a survey of selected college Students precints around the state, Anderson took a whopping 59 per-cent of the student vote in the Re- Publican primary. Of all student vo-ters in both Republican and Demo-cratic' primaries, Anderson out Polled his nearest rival, Ronald Rea-gan, by better than a two-to- one margin. Anderson took 46 Percent of all student votes � in Illinois. Of all student votes cast, Reagan got 21 percent, while President Carter got 14 percent. Senator Ken-nedy and former Ambassador Geo-rge Bush each attracted seven per-cent of the Illinois student vote. California Governor Jerry Brown had less than one percent of the total student vote. Before the primary season, of course, Brown was generally con-sidered college students' first choice because of his anti-nuclear positions. The only other candidate who was thought to have a chance at re-awakening the student vote was Kennedy. Yet in the first presidential test-- in Iowa in January � students showed surprisingly strong support for Anderson, bringing them in second behind Bush in student pre-cincts. Lumped together, the student vote in New England gave Anderson a lead over Bush. The ten-term Illinois congressman did not campaign in the South, but managed to attract student support anyway. By the time the presidential con. test rolled into Illinois, the contest for student support was narrowed to Kennedy and Anderson. Illinois, however, illustrated the Massachusetts senator's inability to draw support from what should be his natural constituency. Around Chicago campuses in the days before the vote, Kennedy's campus campaigns were almost de-funct. The explanation ranged from a dislike of Kennedy's personality� ""He's ambitious just like the way Caesar called Brutus ambitious,"" John McGlocklin, Northwestern senior said � to a certain student conservatism. ""Students are conservative on ec-onomic issues"" said Eileen Kelley, editor of Loyola University's stu-dent paper. ""Their parents are very business-oriented and Kennedy's economic policy would be catas-trophic for them."" ""I just believe students are look-ing for an alternative to Carter,"" she said. ""Since it can't be Kennedy, and the other Republicans are too right wing, the only alternative is Anderson."" ""Students are not turning out for President Carter in 1980,"" �aid Ger-ry Austin, Carter's coordinator for his downstate (central and southern) Illinois campaign. ""Students used to be going to Ted Kennedy, but now they don't think he's going anywhere."" Even Tim Snelling, Kennedy's downstate director, said Anderson seemed to have the strongest cam-pus support, followed by Bush. Statewide, student participation in the Kennedy campaign was ""hot and cold."" ""The reason students are going for Anderson ""Austin said, ""is be-cause his campaign is exciting. He is a challenger challenging the es-tablishment. He has a cause and a crusade. ""There seems to be a renewed interest in the political process. I don't know whether it is Ander-son or what it is. But it is good for politics,"" Austin added. Anderson did excite interest on campus. ""I've never seen anything like this,"" said Loyola's Kelly. ""This is the first time (students) have been interested. I've seen posters, fly-ers, and I heard about meetings, all for Anderson. It's amazing."" Ron Kaufman, who was George Bush's Massachusetts field co-ordinator before moving into Illi-nois observed the same phenomen-on. ""Anderson's number one in the college campus hit parade,"" he said. ""Students have been apathetic about politics for almost a genera-tion,"" he added. Kaufman said he wondered if the number of Ander-son's student volunteers means an increase in campus political inter-est. rival Ronald Reagan at four of the six campus voting blocks surveyed� Reagan won among students at Illinois State and Eureka College, the former governor's alma mater. Anderson enjoyed landslide vic-tory margins over Reagan at pre-cincts in and around North Illinois, Southern Illinois and the University of Illinois. In this Issue Former Secre-tary of State Henry Kissinger spoke at Loyola College last week. Article on page 4. Rock songwriter/ performer Elvis Costello's latest album Get Happy is reviewed on page 5. Features editor Lisa DeNike and her contest-winning sister travelled to Florida to witness the Orioles' spring training. Story on page 3. "