The Towerlight, April 23, 1976

tl19760423-000 "owson university bill awaits Mandel signature by Bill Stetka The bill that would ge the College's name l'awson State University week successfully d in both the state te and the House of legatese and now needs only the signature of Governor Marvin Mandel for the name change to take effect July 1 of this year. There were no votes against the bill in the Senate and only two votes against it in the House. It seemed as though the only thing that would prevent the bill from passing would be the lengthy debate over the controversial Baltimore subway bill, which held up all other Senate activity for nearly a week. After the subway debate Towson State College Founded 1866 41. such as these appearing throughout Ked. APRIL 23, 1976 , campus e� grounds may soon have to be TL photo by Kathy Dudek ended, and the state budget decided, many bills awaiting action were either pushed through to passage or hurriedly defeated with little debate. Towson's bill was one of those pushed through to passage. Late phone calls Members of the Balti-more County delegation in Annapolis were ap-proached repeatedly by College officials in efforts to get passage of the bill. ""There were quite a few late night and last minute phone calls,"" said Dr. James Fisher, TSC presi-dent. Dr. Fisher wanted to make sure the bill was presented before the ex-tended session of the legislature ended. The bill will be pre-sented to the Governor for signature, and, if signed, would give Towson State university status three days before the nation's 200th birthday. Once before, Towson had a bill for university status approved by the legislature, awaiting the governor's signature. That was last year, but Gover-nor Marvin Mandel vetoed Towson's chances for the name change. In December, College officials sought to override the executive veto, but pulled back at the last moment after discussing the situation with many of the legislative leaders in Annapolis. An agreement was made to withdraw from attemp-ting to override the veto with a new bill to be presented during the pre-sent legislative session. That bill, sent as part of a bill which would change the name of the Board of Trustees of State Colleges and ""cedrtain other col-leges."" Towson is one of those colleges, and that is the bill which passed through the legislature last week. ""I am hopeful, indeed optimistic about the bill's future,"" said Dr. Fisher, who noted that it took much work on the part of Legislators John Arnick, the House Majority leader, William Linton, Minority leader, and John Hanson Briscoe, the Speaker of the House. Optimism reigns Asked whether he antici-pated trouble with Gover-nor Mandel signing the bill, Dr. Fisher reiterated that he was optimistic, but said ""I will remain intelli-gently equivocal until he does sign Others voiced many of the same feelings as Dr. Fisher, including Student Government Association President Ann Marie Lowe. ""I'm optimistic that he'll sign it,"" she said. ""We have the proper documen-tation that would totally ljustify our designation of university status."" Still, Towson officials are being cautious not to take things for granted. ""We won...so far,"" said Dr. Fisher. TOWSON STATE COLLEGE LXVII, NO. 25 Unprecedented' parking subsidy passed by state by Bill Stetka hi What has been termed ""unprecedented v.e,"" the Maryland state e,lelature approved a '0,000 subsidy for Tow- State to build parking 4s atop both the Bur-k and Linthicum Hall he total cost of the two etures, which will add Parking spaces, has Put at $1.8 million, Still must meet the SI, oval of the Board of .48tees, according to ele Schelle, vice pres-b�""� of Business and 'ace for the College. remaining $1.45 mil-li needed to pay for the � decks will be obtained 6 1i8elling a revenue bond, all faculty, staff and ItItierits being assessed for parking structure s. kilelle said this will not ttl additional cost to (Went fees, since the ege Center fee is being tieed from $65 to $50. is a net increase of 4 8 dollars for structural ' It was previously announced that student fees will be raised, but Schelle emphasized that they are in other areas. The legislature granted the money, which was put into the supplementary budget by the governor's Planning Department, under the guise that it was granting Towson the ""sur-face space cost equivalen-cy."" '""Fhey didn't want to come out and say it was for parking structures, so they gave us the amount it would cost for the land spaces,"" said Schelle. ""This is the first time any state government has put general construction bond money into parking structures on any campus in the U.S.,"" he said. Schelle said that of the 600 additional spaces the decks will provide, 400 will be student spaces. He is hopeful that the top of the Linthcium lot be designa-ted for resident students. Four hundred spaces will be built over the Linthicum lot and 200 will be built over the Burdick lot. Schelle said that because of the time it will take to get the approval of the Board of Trustees and draw up plans, construc-tion on the first lot will not begin until June 1977. Schelle feels the College Center lot will be construc-ted first, because ""it's less inconvenience to more people."" He said that the lot would probably be opened by February 1978. ""I think we could get the lower level of the deck open in the fall while work continues on the top deck,"" Schelle said. Construction of the lot at Linthicum would com-mence in June, 1978, with February 1979 planned for the opening. Schelle also said that the 1978 capital budget con-tains $400,000 for site improvements. Included in these plans are the expan-sion and widening of many of the College's existing roadways, as well as the construction of several new roads which would connect many of the parking lots and buildings on the inner part of the campus. Also included in the site GA committee 'bungles' by T. F. Troy T kittee SGA Elections Com-the e bungled again in ktl,,,Selection of SGA t at_ors. Chairman Kon- Herli ng called it a c',r, Performance on our e),110 committee - Konrad jei tig, Mike Behney and Pt: Weber - neglected to 44vide suitable write-in eOts for the position of )678 Senator. (For several 4-� 4 "" the SGA Senate has 4,1:1 composed of 14 t14;'rge senators and four tw.tis Senators, one for each 4r,,8 At-large candidates vo`t.elected through the Ltig Machines while thr''' senators are elected �4gh write-in ballots. Th . e write-in ballots were 1,41101141g places if voters lic,,lited to use them, but talla Were inadvertenly lp,rd off into a corner cot; forgotten by the Cl t 1ttee. In the first - Mella Katz, candi- 411'8 for Junior Class *tilltte4i3r, received the only Poet. �n vote, and won the al the second election ?ttl.: because Jeff Wood-ha: narne had not ap-lkijne, c1 on the first election A b , six write-in ballots how'e returned. Herling, y ever, threw them a- ' as he considered them insignificant. ""It was negligence on our part,"" he said. Mella Katz, for the junior class, was the only class senator elected. Three Senate seats lie vacant for next year (the vacant seats may come in handy for the committee which is now faced with a potentially embarrasing di-lemma resulted from a tie in the second Senate election. Spencer Leckron and Jae Boston tied for the 14thd at-large senate posi-tion with 226 votes each. There is no provision in the SGA constitution for deal-ing with ties. The Elections committee would either have to hold yet another run-off, or have Senate make the decision between the two candidates. It is believed Boston would have the advantage in this situation, as he was ""elec-ted"" in the first SGA elections. The committee hopes to resolve the problem by allowing Boston to take the 14th at-large seat, and Leckron to become Senior Class Senator. The SGA will vote on this resolution Tuesday. No opposition is expected. There is growing talk in the Student Government of doing away with class Senators altogether. ""It doesn't make any sense to divide the Senate into class Senators and at-large Senators,"" said Herling, a former SGA President. Many people agree that class distinctions have lost significance in recent years because they have become so blurred. Students who start out together as fresh-men will not always finish as seniors at the same time. The question was put to the student in the election referendum, held during the second SGA elections. To the question ""Should all senators run as at-large candidates 130 said ""yes"" and 220 responded ""no"", showing a 2-1 margin in favor of retaining class senators. The Senate could choose to abolish the posts legally, despite the nega-tive referendum vote. Dinner, lunch As part of Springfest activities, Food Services will serve lunch and dinner in the Glen on Saturday, April 24. Food will be served continuously from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with coupons ac-improvements are im-proved lighting and land-scaping. Schelle said the College has fought for parking. structures for a number of years. ""They are a necessity,"" he said. ""We'd much rather have the state pay for them, but it became apparent they wouldn't."" Schelle said the $350,000 subsidy will provide enough to cover the archi-tectural planning and fees and nearly one quarter of a million dollars in construc-tion money. ""We got everything there was to get,"" Schelle said. ""We just have to hope the governor will approve the subsidy."" Schelle had priase for the legislature for passing the measure, especially Delegate William Linton, the Minority Leader of the House. ""He got us the support of the Appropriations Corn-mittee,"" Schelle said. With Board of Trustees approval, both Burdick and Linthicum parking lots will have al second deck by 1979. TL photo Dave Carrington '76-'77 budget passed by state legislature by Ruth Ann Leftridge The budgeting process for the '76-'77 academic year is now complete as the Maryland state legisla-ture approved TSC's bud-get of $27,032,217 last week. The legislative assembly cut $15,383 from the budget, but according to Wayne Schelle, Vice Presi-dent of Business and Finance, this reduction will have no effect. In preparing the '76-'77 budget, college officials included a full year's salary for housekeepers at the Physical Education Complex and the Educa-tion- Psychology Building. However, now that these buildings will be opening later than originally expec-ted, the legislature cut the allocation for -housekeeper salaries for the months the buildings will not be in use. Although, according to Schelle, fairly significant reductions were made in other state colleges' bud-gets, this was the only cut made in Towson's budget. ""We're the best school, and we're being treated like it,"" he said. ""The legislative session was very successful,"" stat-ed Schelle. ""The legisla-ture was very complimen-tary toward Towson's total operation and the budget processes."" The Vice President of Business and Finance feels TSC's ""very tight budget"" brings about several prob-lems. He explained, ""The toughest part about the budget was that it did not call for any general salary increases for personnel. Also, the budget won't allow us to enhance or increase any services."" The budget will allow to be served in the Glen cepted. Beer, however, must be purchased with cash. The menu will in-clude roast pig, hot dogs, hamburgers, spare ribs, pork chops, assorted salads and chips, coke and Na-tional Beer on tap. Bring your own blanket. Except in case of rain, no meals will be served in the cafeteria Saturday, though breakfast` will be available in the Snack Bar. the college to employ approximately 45 addi-tional people, including 15 new faculty members to handle the 400 additional students who will be admitted during '76-'77. The approved budget is effective as of July 1. President Fisher explains the University status bill. TL photo by Kathy Dudek Senate overrides Speaker policy veto by T.F. Troy, Jr. President Ann Marie Lowe vetoed S.B. #80 which would revise the Speaker Series Ticket Pol-icy. The Senate promptly overrode the veto by exactly the required 2/3 vote. Ms. Lowe felt that the procedure would be unfair to season -ticket holders and difficult to administrate. Senate dis-agreed. ""I'm disappointed in the Senate's action because I think their concern for the students is a real one, yet I don't feel that by this action they've served the students well,"" said Lowe. Senate seized the in-comparable opportunity, Tuesday, of holding their longest meeting of the semester on the hottest day of the semester. In sweltering heat, Sen-ate debated exhaustively on the Speakers Series Tickets Policy, the budget meetings to be held yes-terday and Tuesday, a resolution to congratulate Joanne Finegan, Nancy Payne, and Erik Perkins for their SGA election victory, a bill to outlaw ""after-the-eovent"" budget requests, a bill to require SGA organi-zations to hold their busi-ness meetings on campus, and a recommendation to circulate a petition de-manding an administration breakdown of the proposed $60 increase in student fees. Senate talked over the Financial Advisory Board (FAB) hearing coming up which will decide '76-77 budgets for the SGA organizations. Senate voted to congrat-ulate Finegan, Payne, and Perkins for their victories in the past election, Rick Weber dissenting. In several cases already this semester, groups or persons have spent money for events and trips with-out first consulting Senate, and then afterwards came to Senate asking for reim-bursement. The Athletic Department requested and was granted $1,144 for travel, eating and lodging costs incurred in a National Please turn to page 5 Mikulski visits TSC by Pete Binns Barbara Mikulski, can-didate for the Democratic nomination to the United States House of Represen-tatives from Maryland's third district, Wednesday visited the Towson State campus to shake hands and talk with students, in the College Center cafeterias. In an informal interview she stated that she felt there were ""two things on students' minds -- their fujture in terms of job opportunities and the high cost of education."" She said she supported the concept of scholarships and grants to help students offset the cost of educa-tion. ""It is assumed that the benefits of leducation accrue only to the indivi-dual - actually, benefits accrue to one individual and society,"" she stated. Mikulski said she would ""fight to keep the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants"" funded and indi-cated she would be in favor of more such aid. Please turn to page 7 Springfest is coming - today! See p.4. U photo by Dave Esposito "