tl19700417-000 "Earth Day focuses on environmental abuse Towson's Environmental Task Force has set ,asde the week of April 20 in conjunction with the national environmental movement for special concern and instruction in the area environmental abuse. The weeks activities will include three teach-ins and student volun-teer activities, including a phone.in and petition signing. Newly established on campus this semester, the Task Force al-ready has over a hundred members. Their main goal, according to Walt Wessel, Chairman, is to ""educate and activate the students to the issue of environmental abuse in hopes that this concern will spread to the community beyond the cam-pus."" He also expressed their con-cern and efforts in cleaning up Loch Raven, the sewer in the Glen, and in general, working against the present and future pollution on campus. The schedule is as follows: APRIL 22 ""Earth Day"" 9:30.11 am ""Health Aspects of Air Pollution"" Speaker�Dr. David Swift, Dept. of Environmental Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Burdick Hall 111- 113. 1-3 pm. ""Procreation: Mankind's Uninalienable Right"" Population Control. Speakers�Mrs. James B. Zabin, Pres., Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland, Inc., Mr. Alan Beck, Ecologist, Johns Hop-kins School of Public Health and Hygiene and Dr. Charles J. Stine, Ecologist, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Budick Hall 111- 11g. Throughout the day an ""ecology counseling service"" will provide in-formation on individual eco-tactics such as buying law phosphate de. tergents and only returnable con-tainers. Throughout the month of April, the Environmental Task Force has planned various panel discussion, displays and films relating to the destruction of our environment. APRIL 29 ""The Military and Pol-lution"" relating the problems of war economy to the American economy. Peter LeBrun and Steve Kirsch, both of ETF will speak. Interested students should con-tac Wally Wessel or Steve Kirsch through Box 2004 or in the Envi-ronmental Task Force Office in the College Centre. FLASH! ELECTION RESULTS: President: Run-off between Rick Neidig and Pat Moon Vice president: Bruce omith Treasurer: Ron DeAbreu The polls will be open for the run-off election un-til 5:00 pm today in the College Centre. 111��101101�0? .?1111111=0 Vol. XXII, No. 22 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 April 17, 1970 Book shop tightens security. I attitude sours by CAROL CONNELLY Over a thousand dollars worth of merchandise and furniture has been stolen from the Book Shop and the Stu-dent Center this year by TSC students. The seriousness of this problem is compounded by the fact that all students are being hurt and incon-venienced. Approximately eight hundred dollars worth of furniture has been stolen from the lounge area. Included among the missing are: 1 green leather couch, 2 black otto-mans with chrome legs, 1 square end table, 2 burlap cushions off of a chair, 2 green burlap chairs, and 1 black colonial lamp. Those who stole either the couch or the chairs are wanted for grand larceny. Although all of these articles are insured, a great deal of time and a great deal of ""red tape"" with the State ""bureaucracy"" and the insurance company is required in order to replace them. The insur-ance rates go up, also, because the college is considerd more of a risk. Even the art exhibits are limited because of the possibilty of theft and the accompanying higher in-surance rates. $300-$400 stolen Three to four hundred dollars worth of merchandise has been stolen from the Book Shop in just the past five weeks. Popular items range from forty-nine cent pens to ten dollar books to thirty dollar college rings. According to Paul Gigley, man-ager of the Book Shop, there are three methods that students use: 1. actually walking off with the merchandise; 2. sealing books from other students and selling them to the Book Shop as used books; 3. stealing a new book and an add-drop card and then returning the stolen book to obtain a full refund. The last method was made pos. F ible by a liberalization of Book Shop rules prompted by Gigley this year. In the past a student needed his receipt and he had to return any merchandise within two weeks of the purchase date. When Gigley changed this procedure he was ""counting on people being hon- INSIDE: This week's issue covers the national movement for en-vironmental abuse which will come into focus on Wednesday, Aprj1 22. Ecology features 3 Picture page 6-7 Bulletin Board 9 Sports 10 est with people."" Now he says that ""people who are stealing are be-ginning to sour my attitude to-wards students at Towson."" Affects everyone Although guilty students may feel that they are not hurting any-one except the establishment, their behavior is affecting the entire stu-dent body because a higher College Union fee for all students could conceivably result. The Book Shop has taken some steps to curb the number of thefts. An arrangement was made with the Registrar's office so that the Book Shop will know when a stu-dent is legitimately dropping a course and, therefore, returning his own book. Also a railing was put up to the right of the entrance way so that students will have to pass by the cashier as they leave. Union takes preventive steps The Union has also made defin-ite changes to help correct the sit-uation. All of the locks within the College Center have been changed and a more sophisticated closing out procedure in the evening has been implemented. The problems in both the Book Shop and the College Center could be alleviated with more security, but this involves a great deal of expense. Security realizes the prob-lem but the State will not approve the necessary funds for additional guards, night managers, alarm sys-tems and other preventive mea-sures. Jim Duffy, Associate Director of the College Union, and Gigley both feel that Towson should not be turned into a police state. Duffy feels that ""the College needs to take a definite stand on the subject of crimes."" Should of-fenders be judged on a local level, expounding the theory of in loco parentis, or should the guilty stu-be turned over to the Civil Author. ities? Duffy hopes that the College will turn them over to the authori-ties, since students should be taught to accept all the responsi. bilities of society and should not be sheltered from reality. No stand has yet been taken by the College. Already two students have been apprehended and the procedures used in each case were contradic-tory. One was referred to the Civil Authorities and the student's coll-ege career was not jeopardized. The second was handled by the Judicial Board on campus, an or-ganization run by students and chaired by Dave Anderson. The student's punishment was deter-mined within the campus bounds. ries rather than outside. More drastic measures if necessary Gigley feels that more drastic measures will have to be taken if the thefts continue. If the Book Shop rules are made stricter and security is increased, innocent stu- IS THIS YOU OR DO YOU KNOW THIS PERSON? Stealing merchandise from the Book Shop and College Centre is causing hundreds of dollars in losses and could conceiva-bly result in an increase in student fees. dents will be affected as well. He hopes, however, that conscientious students will spread their influence and try to change the existing situ-ation. Second report on Faculty Hearing Panel Department presents its case by DONNA QUANTE The case of Phillip Marcus is still under consideration. This week Towerlight presents the Physical Science Department side of the case. Towerlight would like to take this opportunity to correct two mistakes in last weeks issue. It is the Faculty Hearing Panel, not the Faculty Hearing Committee, which is charged with arriving at a decision Also, TL inadvertently confused the Faculty Hearing Committee with the Promotions and Tenure Committee regarding the June 27, 1969 letter to President Hawkins. Towerlight regrets the errors and hopes that no inconvenience was caused to its readers. During the remainder of the first week, many persons testified�stu-dents and faculty alike. The second week the Physical Science Depart-ment presetned their case. Edward Rubendall, chairman of the Physical Science Deartment (who was represented by William Mosner) is concerned only with Mr. Marcus' activity in the Depart-ment, not outside. The decision not to reappoint Marcus was based on a betrayal of trust�he prom-ised to be present in labs and he wasn't. An instructor should not dismiss a lab early according to Ruber-nq11. It is a measure of the pro-fesosr's competence to give us all the lab time. If students should linger in a lab (which was testi-fied that some had the day Marcus dismissed early), the instructor should be there with them. Rubendall was asked whether he had evidence other than that of March 6 that was obvious untruth-fulness on the part of Marcus. He replied that Mr. Marcus had said he was a physics teacher at Tow-son, the first night of the hearing. Comments by Rubendall ran along the lines that to the best of his knowledge, teachers are always in physical science dur:ng labs ex-cept in rare instances. When ques-tioned about Moorefield's practice of not always being present in labs. Rubendall stated that ""ten-ured people can get away with more than non-tenured . . . I'm afraid that's right"" He also said that he didnt think anything had been said about Marcus' compe-tency as a teacher and that there were no breakdowns in communi-cations due to personality conflicts. 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