The Towerlight, April 24, 1986

tl19860424-000 "Mass Comm changes special permit policy In an attempt to solve the problems usually associated with the preregistration period, Towson State's mass communications department has drastically altered its special permit process. Rather than continue with the old system that saw long lines stretch the length of Van Bokkelen Hall, the department will provide special permits only for graduating seniors with 99 or more credits. According to Richard Gelbke, assistant to the department chairperson, the new policy has caused confusion among students. ""What the students don't understand is that we have eliminated special permits for almost all of the upper level courses,"" Gelbke explaind. ""The only courses that need the permits now are for graduating seniors who might need just one more course. The permits will be an additional guarantee for those students."" Because of the elimination of special permits, underclassmen will follow normal University procedures for preregistration. The Registrar's Office assigns courses on a class priority and first come-first serve basis, so Gelbke does not foresee any problems with registration. ""If you can get your preregistration materials in early, you should get your courses,"" he said. Gelbke also thinks the system will be adequate for preventing most non-majors from successfully registering for mass communications courses. ""Although the computer does not distinguish between major effectively, it shouldn't be a major problem,"" Gelbke said. ""There may be a few exceptions, but most upper level courses have prerequisites that keep non-majors out."" Elizabeth Buck Rising insurance may affect Health Center Towson State students will be nominally affected by the existing trend of increased liability insurance rates for medical practitioners. According to the College Press Service, the insurance increases have caused several college medical facilities to terminate services. Despite the 100-400 percent rise in medical insurance felt by college health clinics across America, Towson students will still be able to enjoy inexpensive medical care. At the present Towson students pay $109.00 per semester. Donald McColloh, Vice President, Business and Finance at Towson State said that he was not at liberty to tell the actual bid for the cost to students next semester. McColloh was quick to add that, ""the increase will only be a few dollars more."" Dr. Jane Halpern, director of the Dowell Health Center will feel the sting of the recent increase. . Halpern said that, the increase will affect her personally and that her personal malpractice rates will increase. This insurance is not covered by the University. The recent insurance rate is not detrimental to practicing surgeons and gynecologists. Dowell Health Center does not provide major surgery services, so the health facility will not be too hard hit. Towson State is currently covered by the Peerless Insurance Company. Using the risk pool method in which everyone pays regardless of the coverage they receive, the Insurance company compares the amount of premiums received to the amount paid in claims. If an overhead is not seen, the rates are increased. This lack of overhead and general inflation Will cause the student medical health coverage rate to increase several dollars next semester. Hard-hit universities have begun to decrease health care services. Other means of supplementing the high cost of liability insurance are raising the student medical care fees and eliminating some services. According to McColloh, ""Towson Students will not see any decrease in medical care."" Dr. Ralpurn also states, ""Dowell has riot been affected as yet and I cannot see that it would be."" James Saylor Campus Notes Inside Softball beats Catholic Tigers softball clinched its 16th victory of the season with an 8-4 win over Catholic University, but lost a double-header to LaSalle 4 The Secret Value of Daydreaming Julian Lennon tops his debut album with his latest release 10. Rock Noise Martin Gruss discusses the battle of the bands held on campus last Saturday night, and hosted by Fiction Bridge 10. Richard Cohen on David Stockman Cohen writes about the ""Albert Speer of the Reagan Administration 15. 11�111111111M111111=1101111111��? Special Needs honors 34 The Office of Special Needs awarded its annual ""AWW Shucks Awards"", Friday, April 18. The awards were presented to individuals that have been particularly helpful to handicapped people of the Towson campus. The Faculty Member of the Year honor was awarded posthumously to the late Ben Swenson, mathematics professor. Staff Member of the Year was given to Cleveland Chandler, transportation. Also given was the Student of the Year award, to Gerald Thomas. Thirty-one other faculty, staff, and students were honored by Special Needs this year. Reaction poll to Libya taken by College Republicans In the wake of the bombing of Libya by the United States, Towson State's College Republicans conducted an informal poll to determine student's attitudes of the recent turn of events. The poll was conducted in the University Union from 11:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor, and the results were verified by the Young Democrats. The question asked of students was whether or not they supported the U.S. military actions against Libya. The results are following: Number of responses: 233 Number Percent Yes: 179� 76.8% No: 51� 21.9% Undecided: 3� 1.3% Campus Notes cont. on Page 2 The AIM Published weekly by the students of Towson State Universityower Towson, MD 21204 Vol. 79 No. 25 April 24, 1986 Sigma Alpha Mu is sponsoring Bounce For Beats, a 32 hour fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Starting at 10 a.m. Wednes-day SAM members will continue to bounce basketballs until 6 p.m. today. By Edvins Lagzdins Colloquium presents all aspects of apartheid By Osa Eghafona Apartheid and its implications on all aspects of South African society was the subject of the 11th annual spr-ing colloquim sponsored by the Philosophy Forum. The colloquium, ""Perspectives on Apartheid,"" held April 17, was attended by members of the community and 20 students from the Mount Royal Middle school. Elie Bitzer, first secretary to the South African Embassy, told the au-dience that much of the problems sur-rounding apartheid are perception problems by those outside the coun-try. ""We should not deal with apartheid as a black and white issue, but as a humanistic problem. Americans are basically ignorant about the problems in South Africa, and they base their emotional aspects about it on what they see and hear from the media,"" Bitzer said. Bitzer feels the United States needs to show concern for the problem for it ever to end. ""The United States government should still remain con-structively engaged in South African Government because that is the only way they can influence the South African government to make any changes."" Mankekolo Maklongu Mjeolo, speaking on women's isses and apar-theid, agreed with Bitzer saying that South Africa's apartheid regime must come to an end and Reagan's policy of ""constructive engagment"" with the Pretoria government. ""The minority regime is still mov-ing within the confines of apartheid,"" Mjeolo said. She said the future of South Africa lies in the hands of the majority; the black people of South Africa. Mjeolo defined apartheid as a ""system where the majority of the people are oppressed by the minority on the basis of color."" According to Dr. Donald Ihde, pro-fessor of philosophy at the State University of Stonybrook, New York, ""the continuing denial of the most basic civil and human rights to the black Afrikaners demands our con-cern."" Ihde, who gave the Keynote address at the colloquium, said that ""accor-ding to statistics, the situation in South Africa is complex. It is even complex among the avrious white tribes. And the ability to recognize complexity, unfortuntely has not oc-curred. ""The complexity reflects into the dominant white immigrants and the black Afrikaners in such a way that apartheid is preseved,"" Ihde said. ""Fifty percent of the problem in the country is domestic. Blacks are manipulated, economically cheated, and under-paid for the jobs they do,"" said Naancie Plaatjies, a gradute stu-dent in philosophy at Howard Univer-sity. One of the main questions when dealing with apartheid, Hide said, should be who has the right to claim the soul that has existed from the beginning of time. ""However, one of the reasons the regime cannot or will not move is because if they move too far, too fast, they will be voted out by their own regional democracy,"" Ihde said. There is no single solution to rectify the problems in South Africa, Ihde said. There may be possible pluralistic solutions ""but problems of South Africa are simply a microcosm of the world. We in America, in par-ticular, focus on those problems because they are our past experience and because of the immorality."" MBAs may improve earning power for some graduates By Maria Vailas A new study has found that middle- and lower-income students can improve their earning power dramatically by filing away their business bachelor's degrees and go-ing on for master's degrees in business administration (MBA). But the study also concludes that the MBA doesn't help upper-middle and upper-income students earn much more than they could without a MBA, according to the College Press Service. The study of 346 graduates (half had BAs and half had MBAs) of the universities of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma also discovered that women from the middle, lower-middle and lower classes earned as much as their male counterparts four to five years out of school. Within four to five years of earn-ing their MBAs, graduates from the lower classes were making about $11,000 more a year than economi-cally similar students who earned just business bachelor's degrees. MBAs, however, did not help im-prove the earning power of students from upper economic classes. ""Students from the upper group already have the skills and contacts necessary for success, whereas the MBA may provide the extra sociali-zation that those from the lower group need (to earn more money)"" said Tom Dougherty, University of Missouri at Columbia management professor who directed the study. Dr. Charles Mott, business de-partment chairperson at Towson State, said he agrees with the study and added that, ""students whose parents own a company have an added advantage, in that they really have no need to go on for their master's degree in order to work."" ""The main reason why upper-middle and upper class students may go on for their master's degree is because their families want them to tone up their skills,"" Mott said. And while ""lower class"" men and women out of school for four years were making the same amount of money, females from the upper classes were earning less than males from the upper classes. Dougherty thinks this is because wealthy females may not have the same access to family businesses as do upper class males, a factor he found to contribute greatly to earn-ing power. He also speculated that affluent women probably don't have the same financial motives as fe-males from the lower classes and that affluent women can afford to take interesting jobs such as work-ing in a museum. There may also be a limited number of well-paying jobs, which often are grabbed by males from af-fluent backgrounds. Dougherty's study, of course, deals with grads of three schools not nationally recognized as heavy-weights in business education. John Aisner, assistant director of communications at Harvard's busi-ness school, thinks an MBA from a ""credential"" school will accelerate the earning power of any student, regardless of his or her economic background and that ""someone with an MBA (from Harvard) will clearly have an advantage over a BA regardless of class"". He also ad-ded, ""where you go to grad school is becoming more important"". Mott added, ""For the average student, it is probably a help to go on and get a master's degree, and most companies pay higher wages to students with an advanced degree. Also, a graduate degree is important when the employer is in the process of promoting."" Although Towson does not have a graduate program in the business department many students go on to get master's degrees at other universities. ""Approximately 30 percent of all our students go on to get their master's,"" Mott said. At the same time, student's grades don't seem to have anything to do with how much they earn after graduation. Dougherty found no relationship between academic per-formance and professional. Barnes makes campaign stop at Towson By Andrew Kohn At the request of the Young Democrats, Congressman Michael Barnes paid a visit to the Towson Campus Monday as a part of his race for the U.S. Senate. In his talk, Barnes addressed many problems the U.S. and Maryland are facing. On the local level Barnes address-ed two problems the state needs to deal with. One of the problems, the Chesapeake Bay clean-up, Barnes feels is crucial to resolve. According to Barnes, President Reagan wants to cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency. That elimination of funds could be detrimental to the clean-up. Barnes said he is ""against the elimination of the funds that are most crucial for the clean up and restoration of the bay."" The second local problem ad-dressed by Barnes was the weaken-ing of handgun laws. ""Less than 10 people will be killed by handguns in Japan this year, and about 20 will be killed in Britain. These two countries do not seem devoid of democracy, even though they don't let people run around shooting each other,"" Barnes said. See BARNES, page 2 Congressman Michael Barnes was on campus April 21, as a part of his campaign for the United States Senate. Barnes feels that defense spend-ing should be cut to reasonable levels."