TL20060417-01 "Monday, 4/17/06 www.thetowerlight.com Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly TU plans for fall advising changes Assessment leads to revision of registration protocol INSIDE: This Week..........3 Perspectives......5 News................9 Beyond...........15 Arts.................17 Music..............18 Classifi eds.......21 Sports.............24 Arts: When it�s Raining Jane, it�s pouring. Bring your umbrella News: Can anything a University hosts be funky and formal? We�ll soon see ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMING IN THURSDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: Chalking, signs and Facebook groups � what will it take for Vision or Vital FOUR to win seats in Towson�s SGA? News, page 10 Late professor leaves legacy in CFA with room-naming Arts, page 17 Kristi Funderburk News Editor She was just a 54-year-old woman buying a lottery ticket. But most lottery gamblers � or even winners � can�t imag-ine the $183 million Bernadette �Bernie� Gietka won in 2003. With her winnings, the devout Catholic has already donat-ed more than $200,000 to local parishes and Catholic schools, according to the National Catholic Reporter. And recently, Gietka has turned her philanthropist spirit toward Towson University, donating $50,000 to support the arts. Gietka didn�t receive a degree from Towson University, but she did take some courses, Cheryl Armstrong, director of leadership gifts, said. �She did school here for a period of time, but her con-nection with Towson is through friends and employees,� Armstrong said. �And knowing of her interests, they thought she�d be interested in seeing the new [Center for the Arts] building.� Gietka took a hardhat tour, College of Fine Arts and Communication Dean Kit Spicer said. �I enjoyed meeting Bernadette as well as her brother and mother,� he said. �It�s a great gift. She�s a wonderful person for doing this.� Lotto winner has CFA seeing green Chris Castillo Staff Writer Starting this fall, every Towson University student will meet with an academic advisor every semester, according to the Division of Academic Affairs� plan for �intentional advising.� In a Feb. 22 �Bob�s Blog� entry titled �Advising at TU,� President Robert Caret explained that twice-annual advising was mandatory during his first tenure at Towson, but it had fizzled out after he moved to California in 1995. �When I returned in 2003 much of that mandatory advising had disappeared,� Caret wrote. �But, when I meet with you and ask what I can do to help you have a better day-to-day experi-ence on the campus, one of the top items on the list is almost always advising � right after more beer and free T-shirts. So, we listened and are moving to the old model again.� Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs James Brennan agreed with Caret�s appraisal of the situation. �Clearly, we needed to do something about advising, and the president underscored this point almost from the moment that I met him during the search for provost in the fall of 2003. The students are unhappy and so are staff and faculty,� Brennan said. Accident leaves car in Res. Tower�s backyard Brian Stelter/The Towerlight On Friday afternoon an unmarked police cruiser was stranded in the woods near Residence Tower following a multi-vehicle accident, shutting down eastbound Towsontown Boulevard at rush hour. See LOTTERY, page 10 On the inside... Three perspectives on advising: Provost Brennan explains the changes: Page 5 Student and faculty points of view: Page 6 VOTE Cast your ballot on April 18 & 19, under the Lecture Hall, at Susquehanna, Glen Marketplace, or Newell dining hall The he Towe owerlight See ADVISING, page 14 "
