TL20060427-01 "Amanda Doran Assistant Arts Editor Elizabeth Malliakos Assistant Arts Editor As the Campus Activities Board gears up for Tigerfest 2006, it is finding itself needing to do less planning and preparation than in years past. Saturday�s festival is pro-duced by the Virgin College Mega Tour, which features such bands as Yellowcard and Mae. The Mega Tour comes complete with a village of sponsors. �The village has the sponsors of the Virgin College Mega Tour, name-ly Dentyne Soft Chew and Major League Baseball, and each are bring-ing giveaways,� Kira Taylor, CAB�s Tigerfest chair said. The village will contain batting cages, pitching stations and other activities. It all begins on Burdick Field at noon. Thursday, 4/27/06 www.thetowerlight.com Caret a finalist in Temple U. search CAB, Virgin prep for Saturday �fest Towson, Mega Tour collaborate to bring village of activities (and larger beer garden) to Tigerfest INSIDE: This Weekend.....3 Perspectives......5 News.................9 Beyond............14 Arts.................17 Movies.............18 Classifi eds.......20 Sports.............24 Section: Behind-the-scenes coverage of the music, the mayhem, and the wounded soldier beers left on Burdick Field -- we�ve got it all in our Tigerfest recap Inquirer reports Temple is considering presidents of Towson and University of New Hampshire See BANDS, page 19 COMING IN MONDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: Hesitant moviegoers won�t be disappointed by respectful, chilling �United 93� Arts, page 18 Asian ceramics exhibit comes to CFA; �Glorious Pots� open through May 20 Arts, page 17 The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly Taking photos at TigerFest? We want �em! Send your camera phone and digital camera photos to tigerfest@gmail.com by Sunday at noon, then look for them in Monday�s Towerlight. Brian Stelter Editor in Chief Towson University President Robert L. Caret is one of two final-ists for the presidency at Temple University in Philadelphia, today�s Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Caret, who returned to TU three years ago after an eight-year stint at San Jose State University, did not return phone calls from The Towerlight on Wednesday evening. If selected, Caret will succeed David Adamany, who has served as Temple�s president since 2000. Adamany is stepping down June 30. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that the other candi-date is Ann Weaver Hart, president at the University of New Hampshire. A spokesperson for the school said Hart did not apply for the job, but was nominated. The search for Temple�s next president has advanced in recent days. On Tuesday, The Temple News, the university�s student newspaper, said the committee had narrowed its search to three finalists. The news-paper quoted committee member Jane Evans, who said the candi-dates are �experienced fund-rais-ers� who have spent many years in higher education. The Inquirer said the third candidate, John Fry, the current president of Franklin & Marshall College, withdrew himself from consideration. According to the newspaper report, Temple�s presidential search committee will meet today. �The committee could either vote to nom-inate Hart or Caret or decide to keep looking,� the Inquirer reported. Caret spent 21 years at Towson as a professor, dean and provost before moving to California to take over San Jose State in 1995. He returned to Maryland to become president of Towson on July 1, 2003. In some ways, Temple has more in common with San Jose than it does with Towson. Temple enrolls 34,000 students, compared to 27,000 at San Jose and 18,000 at Towson. Temple has 3,200 faculty members, compared to 1,600 at San Jose and 1,250 at Towson. Temple also has a medical school, something that neither Towson nor San Jose has. �Some at Temple doubt that either candidate is up to the job of running an enterprise as big and complex as Temple,� Thursday�s Inquirer reported. �That has led at least some trustees to suggest that the search should be reopened to include one or more new finalists, according to three sources close to the search process.� In 2003, Caret said his long his-tory with Towson was a big factor in his decision to return. �I also feel that I can play an important role in helping TU to maximize that potential and contin-ue to develop as one of the premiere institutions in this country,� he said at the time. Caret has spent the last year hiring a new athletic director, vice president for administration and finance, and assistant to the president for commu-nications. In an interview on Tuesday, Caret remarked that his entire execu-tive staff was finally in place. File photo TU President Robert Caret. Painting the town red Towson�s Queer Student Union sponsored its second drag show Wednesday in the University Union. Despite sound problems during the first hour of the event, performers used improv to entertain the packed Chesapeake Rooms. Once sound was restored, students and professional per-formers alike paraded about the room, lip singing to songs like �Redneck woman� and RuPaul�s �Supermodel.� See story, page 9. Photos by Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight "
