The Towerlight, April 21, 1978

tl19780421-000 "Gregory lashes out at gov't by Paul Gilmore Dick Gregory came to the Towson Center last Sunday night and said the United Sates government was responsible for everything from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the past year's inclement weather and brought documents to prove it. Gregory spoke for three hours to the largest Speaker Series crowd since the February appearance of Senators Moynihan and Hayakawa. The audience, which was composed of a slight majority of blacks and a larger than usual amount of students, gave Gregory two standing ovations and applauded and cheered him' often during his speech. Mixing humor with commentary on everything from politics to the unhealthy diet of Americans, Gregory united all of his comments under the umbrella of a challenge to his audience to change the world. ""Y'all got a big job,"" he stated time and time again, posing the burden of repair of the injustices he spoke of on the shoulders of his audience. He arrived at the Towson Center 20 minutes late and climbed the stage to a thunderous ovation. He ap-proached the podium, applauding with, the audience, looking slim and healthy as a result of his strict diet of raw fruits and vegetables. He immediately ordered the house lights up and asked the people in the upper rows to come down and fill the empty seats close to the stage. ""Y'all got your ticket. Come on down and take the reserves. They should've been here by now anyway."" The audience laughed as they obeyed and filed down the aisles to fill the empty seats next to the stage to get a closer look at the star. He kept the atmosphere close throughout the evening. He lectured them, pleaded with them, chastised them, and cursed them throughout his speech. For the first 20 minutes though, things were fairly light. He was the Dick Gregory of old, who performed in the nightclubs and college towns. Mixing jokes about his family, Piedmont Airlines, toilets with some off color humor, he allowed the audience a chance to grow accustomed to his unrefined manner and he prepared for the heavy stuff which was to come later. Only a few were offended and walked out. After 20 minutes, he wound up his routine of comedy and light political commentary and began a new lecture. ""Again I say good evening,"" he said re-greeting the audience and signaling the entrance of the Dick Gregory of today, the activist and political commen-tator. For the next hour and one-half he showed the audience virtually every facet of the later day Gregory. He was Gregory, the civil rights advocate: ""If Bert Lance were black, he'd be in jail. If Nixon was black, Please turn to page 3, Z5otvertig_ t TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY April 21, 1978 Towerlight -VOL. LXXI No. 23 SGA elects Parliamentarian; forced to delay budget hearings by Steve Verch The Senate elected former Senat-or Ned Schorr to fill the position of Senate Parliamentarian last Tues-day in a 13-3 vote. Schorr, who last week came under fire for having purchased $9.09 in campaign supplies and charging the purchase to the SGA, was approved with little debate since Schorr had repaid the money very soon after having charged the supplies. In other Senate action, a resolution calling for the Albert S. Cook Library to remain open 24 hours during exam week was passed unanimously. The library has agreed to remain open to accomo-date students for an additional four hours if it received matching funds from the SGA. Sent to committee was another library bill offering to pay half of the expense of operating Cook Library during the extra-exam-week hours. Also sent to committee was a bill which would have permitted part-time students to pay the mandatory SGA fee required of full-time day students to be able to participate in SGA organizations. In comments made to the SGA Senate this week about the condition of files that were removed by former Treasurer Erik Perkins when he left office and returned just last Monday, SGA Bookkeeper Arlene Campeggi said, ""In all the time I've been down there it's the worst mess I've ever seen."" Therefore, budget hearings were postponed to May 4, 5, 8 and 9 to permit a better examination of data. The files deal with cuts made by the Financial Advisory Board and Perkins in proposed 78-79 organiza-tion budgets. Still chairman of the FAB, Perkins was to have organized the data and turned it over to the new treasurer, Donna Sauerborn. ""The information was totally incoherent. No justification was given for the cuts which were made. The reasons for some of the cuts are in Erik's head,"" testified Sauerborn. In faci, Sauerborn claims that since taking office she had repeat-edly called and asked Perkins for the data. Monday, she and President John Shehan went to Perkine' room and waited two hours for Perkins. When he arrived, he finally turned the aforementioned data over to the two executives. American Bandstand host Dick Clark. Clark coming to TC tonight by Kathy Norjen Dick Clark, host of American handstand, will appear at the l'owson Center tonight at 8 p.m. as the eighth entry in the SGA Speaker Series. He is scheduled to talk about the ha ndstand era and show film clips of early ilandstand programs. Clark began as a substitute host on ""Bandstand,"" a local Philadel-phia TV show in 1955. In 1956, he Was made the full time host. The program was picked up by the 4BC network in 1957 and made its tiPtional debut under the title of American Bandstand."" . American Bandstand celebrated I,ts 25th anniversary in 1977, making It one of the longest continuous ograms in broadcasting history. American Bandstand has pro-vided the first national TV exposure for more than 8,400 musical guest performances. It has also helped to launch thousands of recordings to the best-seller charts, and has introduced the American public to ""dozens of teen-age dances that became international crazes."" By the winter of 1957, Clark's Bandstand had become so popular, that ABC decided to air a ""Dick Clark Saturday Night Show."" This too became an instant hit. Clark's production company annu-ally produces the '""American Music Awards,"" and ""New Year's Rockin' Eve,"" both ABC specials. Clark was added to the Speaker Series roster as a replacement for Truman Capote, who was unable to complete his scheduled appearance on November 13, 1977. Said Shehan, ""Much of the information was unclear, it did not check, in some cases it did not add up."" This contrasted sharply with Perkins' account, which claimed that one third of the organization's budget information had been completed. He also maintained that he was told to have the information ready by Tuesday, and that by the two demanding the files a day early, he did not have enough time to finish organizing the data. ""Donna told me she had pushed up the deadline, and honestly I did not know that she had,"" stated Perkins. Responding, Sauerborn said that Monday when she and Shehan went for the files, it was after having waited all day in her office for Perkins. According to Sauerborn, Perkins had agreed to return the files on Monday. Referring to those budgets completed by Perkins, Sauerborn said that the totals were incorrect. Due to this situation, Shehan announced Tuesday that Sauerborn would be working directly with the SGA bookkeepers in assessing the 78-79 budget requests. Perkins commented that this action circumvented the FAB, and he charged that the action was political. ""It's astonishing that this Senate, which is composed entirely of Campus Unity, is ignoring a body other than themselves,"" said Perkins. ""I was using all the records to complete the budgets. I was using all the records to do a good job instead of a half-assed one,"" Perkins said. However. Sauerborn felt that Perkins was working with only half of the available information. She also doubted the effectiveness of the FAB. By working on the files in Newell Hall where he lives, Perkins was not utilizing the bookkeeper's files, which record all expenditures of the past year. Perkins, said Sauerborn, had only been looking at last year's budgets and comparing the requests with this year's. Perkins was also making some cuts on a policy criteria, a criteria which she said was not spelled out for her. Without this policy criteria, she said it was impossible to interpret either Perkin's or the FAB's cuts. _ Please' turn to page 3 Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory warned Sunday night's audience about government manipula-tions. TL Photo by Mark Gail Fisher returns from Egypt trip by Katherine Dunn President James L. Fisher and 12 other American college and univer-sity presidents returned April 6 from a ten-day trip to Egypt where they signed a mutual education assis-tance compact. The compact stipulated that American and Egyptian universities will attempt student and faculty exchanges, and joint projects in scholarship, research. and teaching technique in the future, said Fisher. Fisher. . ""According to our State Depart-ment, education is one of their real problems,"" said Fisher in his daily radio program on April 10. Egypt has 13 universities, some with as Dr. James Fisher Faculty survey explores versatility of faculty by Abby Singer One hundred faculty members of Towson State University responded to a Faculty Talent Survey conduct-ed by the Faculty Development Program. The Faculty Development Pro-gram was established in 1974. It's main purpose is to ""help the personal and professional growth of the faculty,"" said Dr. Dean Esslinger, director of Faculty Development and professor of History. It is ""a liaison between faculty and the administration"" encouraging faculty excellence in teaching and research. The survey, implemented by Esslinger, was to discover faculty members' interests and capabilities for teaching courses unrelated to their present department. Esslinger said the survey was ,conducted to promote flexibilty I within the tightly-knit teaching areas of faculty members and to allow for the development of new interdisciplinary courses. Responses from the survey hopefully will result in allowing instructors to deviate from their normal teaching sched-ules and enable them to instruct in areas of higher demand, said Esslinger. The Faculty Talent Search was administered in late November to all faculty members and was collected through February. Approximately 20 percent of the faculty responded and returned the one-page survey which asked for information con-cerning interests, qualifications, experience, academic degrees, and background in areas which might lead to the development of additional teaching responsibilities. The survey may also lead to the creation of new courses. Specific results of the survey are confidential but Esslinger did Notices Dr. David W. Dent, Associate Pro-fessor of Political Science, has been awarded a stipend by the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend a Summer Seminar at Stan-ford University, entitled Recent His-toriographical Trends In The Study of Modern Latin America. Peter Jay, the British Ambassa-dor to the United States, will speak April 27, at the Johns Hopkins University. The topic for Mr. Jay's address is ""The Perils of the World Economy."" SPECTRUM, a radio program pro-duced by Political Science Depart-ment and WCVT-FM will deal with Panama Canal Treaties on April 24, at 7 p.m. (Program will be repeated on April 25, at 9 a.m.) Professor David W. Dent, who teaches courses on Latin America at TSU, will be interviewed by Professors Merani and Belgrad. mention some examples. Ed Hirsh-mann, professor of History, worked several years as a newspaper reporter and now teaches one journalism course. One instructor in the Education Department expressed an interest in teaching statistics. A Business instructor stated that he had some experience in Computer Science and a Psychology instructor was capable of teaching Spanish. The Faculty Talent Survey will be especially useful in coming years, said Esslinger. It has been projected that statewide college enrollment will drop drastically, affecting departments' sizes and students' needs and interests. So, teachers who double up on courses may be helpful. The survey can give the Faculty Development Program an idea of what ""talents"" faculty members possess and can therefore use faculty from within the University community instead of losing time, wasting money and energy to seek outside instructors for teaching needs. Correction There were no errors in Towerlight last week. Back copies of this unique edition, sure to become a collector's item, are available in the Towerlight office. many as 100,000 students ""who are usually poorly taught, not terribly serious about learning and unable to find jobs,"" he said. Fisher and the other presidents met with the President of the University of Alexandria and some of his staff. The University is crowded with some classes of 5,000 students, he said. The school is in desperate need of resources, Fisher said in his April 17 program. The compact would help faculty members who ""are usually well-qualified academically,"" but ""have little knowledge of teaching techniques and almost no audio-visual facilities."" Another purpose of the trip was to increase Egyptian appreciation for broader programs in liberal arts. Egyptian programs are very narrow and do not expose the student to much outside of his major field, said Fisher. There is also a need for more efficiency in management, Fisher said. ""Virtually no one is account-able,"" he said, ""so you can't hold anyone responsible when things aren't done."" A more general reason for the trip, Fisher said, was to foster better relations between Egypt and the United States. The group of presidents met with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo on March 27. ""He [Sadat] spoke of self-suffi-ciency. ...in knowledge there is eventually personal independence, maximum freedom, prosperity and happiness,"" said Fisher in another radio program. In the same program, Fisher called Sadat ""one of the most important and respected leaders in the world today."" He said Sadat ""was a man of strength and substance, possessed of a deep sense of humility in addition to personal confidence and pride...he spoke of love and respect for all humankind, even those with whom he was at war."" Fisher and the other presidents then travelled to Greece to try to establish similar links between Greek and American universities. Meetings with Greek officials produced positive indications of cooperation, said Fisher, but no-thing specific like the Egyptian compact. The trip was arranged by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. In this issue Rock Around the Clock: Circle K's dance marathon was a big success last weekend, raising over $2,400 for the American Cancer Society in 12 hours of music and dance Page 3 Not So Vain: Carly Simon makes a rare and spectacular appearance with husband James Taylor in Philadel-phia Page 9 Under the Lights: The Great White Hope, Towson's largest theatrical production ever, opens tonight .Page 7 Big Time: Scholarships or no scholar-ships? Division I or no Division I? Tiger coaches give their view from the sidelines Page 12 Lacrosse: The Tiger stickers served as both conqueror and conquered, los-ing to UMBC before conquering the Mount Pate 1 "