The Towerlight, April 11, 2002

tl20020411-000 "ighp 111111illeri N Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Thursday, 4/11/02 SGA resolution supports Perkins 3 Clay ready to play Towson Sunday 11 Delaware dumps Towson, 18-13 18 TU goes 5-1 with fifth straight win 20 Departments News 3 Nation 6 Police Blotter 6 Campus Briefs 7 Arts 11 Entertainment Briefs 12 In a Theater Near You 12 The High Road 13 Comics & Comics 17 Sports .............................. 18 In This Corner 18 Classifieds ....................... 22 Opinion ............................ 24 TU groups denounce Regents 1 - MI Seal Stategeake The Tawerhght University System of Maryland Chancellor Donald Langenberg (left) and TU Provost Dan Mark Jones leave Wednesday's campus forum regarding President Perkins' resignation from Towson University. Faculty members in attendance expressed displeasure with the USM Board of Regents' actions. Campus organizations express 'no confidence' in Regents; look toward future of University Mike Morris The Towerlight As the University continues to come to grips with President Mark L. Perkins' resignation last Friday, four prominent Towson groups have issued formal statements denounc-ing how the University System of Maryland Board of Regents handled the situation. The Towson University Board of Visitors, the University Senate, the Alumni Association and the Student Government Association unanimously said they have ""no Today High 61 Low 39 confidence"" in the Regents because tpheerkTionw;soonmctomhmuenity was exclud-ed from process that forced Office Sherman Board on Towson's Boa Ragland, II, one of 17 board members of Visitors, said the Regents violat-ed the law and acted u Ragland ""improperly pni dl said and st the Visitors approached Regents Chairman Nathan A. Chapman Jr. to discuss Perkins the week prior to his dismissal, but that Chapman refused to meet. Chapman did not return calls made yesterday regarding the mat-ter. ""The Regents drank his wine and ate his food,"" Ragland said of Perkins $56,500 inaugural ceremo-ny last month, ""then turned around and stabbed him in the back less than two ""The Regents drank his wine and ate his food, then turned around and stabbed him in the back less than two weeks later."" Sherman L. Ragland, II member, Board of Visitors out of Friday High 65 Low 40 Board of Saturday High 66 Low 47 weeks later."" Regent David H. Nevins, a 1975 Sunday High 70 Low 51 graduate of Towson, said the Regents plan on meeting with facul-ty. ad mi n istrative and student groups today ""It's very painful to see the cam-pus filled with so much anxiety and angst,"" Nevins said at his home last evening. ""Although Towson's future is as bright now as it was a week ago."" Jack Fruchtman, a member of the search committee that chose Perkins, said that while some in the Towson community may have had concerns about the price of the $1.7 million presidential house it is not a matter that requires dismissal by the Regents. At the very least, this is appalling,"" the political science pro- See FORUM, page 4 Monday High 74 Lou' 53"