The Towerlight, April 25, 1985

tl19850425-000 "1 4' Poorest students will be hurt by aid cuts Nearly 250,000 students from families with $6,000 annual in-come or less would lose an average of $1,160 of financial aid money under President Reagan's budget proposal, according to an article in the April 10 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion. The article cited an American- Association of State Colleges and Universities report which con-tradicts Reagan's previous claims that his cuts would only affect students coming from middle class families. The report added that 96,000 students from families with in-comes from $6,000 to $12,000 would also receive less aid. Allan Ostar, president of the association, was quoted as say-ing, ""These figures show that the Reagan administration's claim that the cuts would affect only middle income students from families with incomes more than $25,000 is false."" ""In fact, 40 percent of the students who would be affected come from families with incomes of less than $25,000 per year."" Reagan's fiscal 1986 budget pro-posed allowing Guaranteed Stu-dent Loans Leo students from families earning $32,000 a year, while only students from families earning less than $25,000 a year would be eligible to apply for Pell Grants. Additionally, all students would be limited to $4,000 a year in total federal financial aid. A college student's fancy turns to love What is this thing called Love? Find out Tuesday at the 10th Annual Spring Towson State Philosophy Colloquium. The event begins at 9 a.m. in the Union's Chesapeake I. with five speakers presenting papers on topics ranging from what the love poets don't tell us, about to a discussion of tenderness. ""The subject is of interest to everyone,"" says Philosophy Club President Ted Smith. ""Anyone who wants to hear some philosophic standpoints on love, or anyone who thinks they know something about love should be interested in the colloquium."" ""And,"" Smith adds, ""In the spring, don't all college students' fancy turn to thought of Love?"" The following speakers will participate: Dr. Dan Jones, e nglish Department chairperson, will discuss ""What the Love Poets don't tell?"" from 9:30-10:1 -1. At 10:15, Towson philosopily graduate student Gary Backhaus will deal with ""Love, Wisdom, Genius, and Schiller"" in a paper. Mr. John Rose, a philosophy instructor at Goucher C. liege, will talk from 11-11:45 a In. on ""The Dialec tic of Love."" �Glenn Small Take a professor to lunch Students will soon be able to invite their favorite professor to lunch on campus. The program, which Student Government Association (SCM Senator Larry Kushner described as ""ideal for faculty-student in-teraction,"" will undergo a trial run April 29 through May 10. Each of the fourteen SGA Senators will choose a faculty member and two other students from their class to comprise an eighty member group. Par-ticipants r-ay dine in the Sus-quehanna or Patuxent Rooms of the University Union one day during the two-week period. �Linda Garrett Columbia summer school Wanna go to summer school in Columbia? Towson State Univer-sity at Columbia is offering courses in Art, Art Education, Early Childhood Education, English. Philosophy, and Mass Communication. Columbia is also offering infor-mal noncredit courses varyng from attracting birds and wildlife to your backyard, to Everyday Life in the Communist World: the German model. Columbia is holding two sum-mer day sessions, first from Wednesday, June 5 to Thursday, July 11, the second from July 12 to Friday, August 16 plus an evening session from Wednesday. June 5 to Tuesday, July 30. Registration deadline is Friday, May 17. Schedule booklets can be found at the information desk at the University Union, in the Ad-ministration building, or by con-tacting the Columbia Center at 964-0260 or 964-0261. campus notes .11?���? BSU election The following candidates are running for office in the Black Student Union (BSU) elections: President: Henry W. Martin, Jr. Vice-President: Stephen Brunson Treasurer: Willie Harris Secretary: Jackie Ellis The elections are being con-cluded today in the BSU office from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Inside 1(.1.1). Joe 1301) Why there won't be any more Joe Bob Briggs after this week p 13 Blues Buster Yes, you probably missed Eric Clapton at the .( Center Tuesday night � but you can read about it . p. 9 Towson OAS named best delegation Towson State's Model Organization of American States (OAS) won the best delegation award at the Model OAS con-ference last month. The University was one of twenty-nine colleges which com-peted in the four day event and upset perennial winners Universi-ty of Wisconsin and the Universi-ty of Virginia. Dr. David Dent, model coor-dinator, said having students in several majors�political science, international affairs, Spanish and economics�helped the team. Dent said the model gives students an idea of ""how a diplomat thinks and makes them realize that you don't always get what you want."" Acting as the nation of Colum-bia, the University group form-ulated policy regarding problems plaguing the Americas, such as drug trafficking, arms sales, unrest in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the huge debts fac-ing Brazil and Mexico. Brandt Kamka, senior political science major and three-year OAS veteran, said the model, while it approx,mates how the OAS functions, probably func-tions better than the OAS itself. 'We're not playing for the real stakes, so we ... get along better,' Kamka said. The problem with the OAS is like the problem with the United Nations: it's somewhat of a debate society. When push comes to shove, everybody does what he d-�- well pleases."" However, it. does at least allow ... people in the Western Hemisphere to realize they have some things in common, he said. Kamka said participating in the model has made him realize how difficult the problems are facing the Americas. ""These things [unrest in Nicaragua, drug and arms traffick-ing] don't really go away. We debated the same issues we were debating in 1982.- �Terie Wolan Campus Notes are continued on page 2 The �owerl Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Towson, Md. 21204 Vol. 78 No. 25 April 25, 1985 Laxers trounce Hofstra Towson mid-fielder Matt Box eludes a Hofstra defender in the Tigers 18-12 victory Saturday. Story on page 4. By Jerry Trout III Mass Comm due some relief, but not much By Mike Barnes comm classes. For mass communications majors, Then, if a student doesn't have a the annual agony of getting classes in high enough priority and doesn't get their major begins anew Monday, the the classes he or she wants, there's in-first day of registration for Fall person registration which one mass classes. comm major likened to ""banging First, there's the matter of waiting your head against the wall."" in lines which frequently stretch the If that is of no avail, the last resort length of the hallway in Van Bokkelen for the student is to beg or badger the to secure special course permit cards, faculty member teaching the class the which determine a students priority student wants to add. for being placed in upper-level mass These types of problems, of course, NIIVESTIRITING MCOM 0006.366 SPEC RIFT FR DEPARTMENT Novas*"" 0606.151, ENGL COW CIS& EFFICIENT TYPING SKILL WI la T I 0200p 0.316p VII NI Smart, R. I FRAMS WRITING MCOM 0606.X11 SPEC PRMT FR DEPARTMENT /ND IMMO CUE. 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Considering recent scandals where U.S. companies with defense contracts defrauded the government, how can the U.S. im-prove weapons procurement? Has U.S. involvement in arms control negotiations benefitted the U.S.? At the Earl T. Hawkins Symposium on International Affairs last Thurs-day, analysts from Washington think tank s spoke before approximate-ly 100 stuaents and faculty on these questions. The symposium, which is sponsored every year by Towson State's Center for Public Policy and International Affairs, is named for Earle T. Hawkins, former University presi-dent. After an hour delay, the symposium got underway. Steven Daggett, senior research analyst for the Center for Defense In-formation, a liberal research in-stitute, said abuses in the U.S. weapons procurement system and the effort to modernize all weapons at once has led to a huge increase in the defense budget. In 1980, the defense budget was $142 billion and by 1985, it had doubled to $292.6 billion, Daggett said. However, the money has not really gone to adding more men to the Army or more ships to the Navy, he said. In-stead, it's gone to replace old equip-ment. From $35 billion in 1980, the weapons procurement budget had tripled to $96 billion by 1985, Daggett said. The weapons procurement budget is itself driven higher by abuses in which companies underbid their com-petitors for a government contract knowing they cannot complete the work for their bid. When they are unable to complete the work for the agreed on price, Daggett said, they charge exorbitant prices for spare parts, claim cost overrun or charge the military for luxuries enjoyed by See DEFENSE, page 2 are not completely unique to the mass communications department, but since it has the second largest number of majors, ( business is first) they are particularly acute. Some relief may be on the way, however. Beginning in the Fall, students seeking to add or drop mass com-munications courses will have to go through the department's main office before heading over to the registrar, according to Richard Gelbke, assis-tant to the mass communication chairperson. Faculty will no longer decide whether to allow students to add their class, instead the decision will pro-bably be made by Gelbke. Gelbke explained the rationale behind the move: ""Students who wanted to add a class had to go to the faculty member and beg, but (fac-ulty) are not always aware when someone else has dropped the class"" thus creating a vacancy. ""The new system will use a list of students in a particular class and if a student comes into the office to add or drop a class his or her name will be added or scratched off the list"" allow-ing the department to know im-mediately what spaces are available in which classes, instead of waiting for revised class lists from the registrar. Gelbke, like others, feels the on-line computer system of registration, which administrators say should become a reality in the next two years, will make registration go much smoother. With the ""on-line system,"" students will take a list of class selections and alternatives to a person operating a computer terminal who be able to tell them immediately what is available, and the student will leave registration with his schedule set. ""The system would make the whole process of registration less com-plicated,"" Gelbke said. Still, while these changes are likely to make registration more efficient, it will do nothing to alleviate what many mass comm majors see as the depart-ment's biggest problem: too few sec-tions of the courses they are trying to get into. Gelbke said while majors have valid complaints about a lack of classes, the department cannot offer more sections because of a lack of money and faculty. He said while the number of mass comm majors is growing ( there are currently about 1100, he estimated), the department's budget has decreas-ed because it is tied to enrollment at the Unviersity as a whole, which is ex-pected to decline slightly. Statistics on the mass communica-tion department's budget were not im-mediately available from Gelbke or from Dr. Norman Sheets, associate vice-president for academic affairs. Sheets said, however, that the depart-ment's budget depended on its enroll-ment and not the enrollment of the See MCOM. page 2 Edvins lagzdins "