tl20080421-01 "The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Monday Now on TheTowerlight.com: View video Word on the Street and read blog �When in Rome� by a student studying abroad... Photos by Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Above, shoes and shirt off, sophomore Ryan Brooks soaks up some sun at the Speaker�s Circle Thursday afternoon. Right, a student walks across the Union bridge Sunday afternoon. Over the weekend, Towson and surrounding areas experienced unpredictable Maryland spring weather with high temperatures in the 80s Friday and Saturday and dipping to the low 60s on Sunday. Forecast: unpredictable Tailgate may keep BYOB policy Homecoming rules still being discussed; new proposal to be drafted www.thetowerlight.com VOTE � Questions for Team Tigertown, Foundation page 12 Elections to continue as scheduled Second commission in place; debate set for Monday April 21, 2008 SGA VOTER�S GUIDE VOTE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY College of Health Professions hosts mock natural disaster aftermath in Burdick Hall News, page 10 Sharon Leff Editor in Chief After receiving feedback from the president�s council, the Homecoming tailgate committee is moving away from the idea of a beer truck and is now working to determine what is a reason-able amount of alcohol to bring onto Lot 14. �They liked some of our concepts but yet weren�t sure that moving completely away from a BYOB event was the way to go,� Teri Hall, associate vice president for campus life, said. �They asked us to focus on how we can establish reasonable limits of beer that any one person can walk on the lot with.� Following a rowdy, and at times violent Homecoming tailgate last semester, rep-resentatives from student affairs, the ath-letic department, facilities management, the See TAILGATE, page 9 Sharon Leff Editor in Chief With a second election commission in place, the Student Government Association elections will go on as scheduled for April 22 and 23. A debate sponsored by the commission will be held April 21 in the University Union Loch Raven Room at noon. The first election commission resigned on April 15 after the SGA senate voted down an extension deadline for potential senators to submit their �Intent to Run Forms.� According to Priscilla Mint, coordinator of student organizations in student activities, 19 students applied for commission positions this time around. The com-mission is supposed to include seven. The previous commission only included five members because of lack of interest. �We didn�t have a lot of interest [last time] which makes it very interesting. The first time around we advertised for weeks and weeks and this one we adver-tised for [about] three days,� Mint said. Mint said both tickets and the independent candidate were made aware of the debate �but I don�t necessarily know it�s our job to confirm they�re going to be there.� At the debate held Wednesday, the Foundation ticket and independent attorney general candidate Ryan Assadi fielded questions. Team Tigertown declined to participate because an election commission did not host the event. �I feel like the debate turned into, not what we�re going to potentially do with the SGA as candidates, [but] into a debate about the current state of the SGA,� Assadi said. �I think it�s unfair the other ticket didn�t have to participate in the last debate�I think it�s ridiculous. There are only so many questions you can ask of a candi-date, and they already experienced what more than likely is going to be asked of them. Foundation and I had to answer on the spot. [Team Tigertown has] had five days to think about the answers to these questions.� Kristen Guy, who is running for president on the Team Tigertown ticket, said she doesn�t believe her ticket is at an advantage. She said Wednesday�s event included �drama� and the number of questions posed were limited. See SGA, page 11 STUDENT GOVERNMENT "
