tl19830428-000 "The Towerlight A thing worth having is a thing worth stealing for. �W.0 Fields V01. 76 No. 26 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 April 28, 1983 By Bob Tarleton The SGA assembled in the Susquehanna Room last week to dole out the Fall 1983 organizational budgets. Senate doles out $68,413.79 By Shawn Hill The Student Government Asso-ciation Senate ended its budget hearings last week after allocating $68,413.79 to 16 SGA-affiliated organizations who had submitted requests. The Senate allocated a total of $169,299.79, an increase of $5,230.79 over last year. The toal includes $100,886 for the SGA Executive Budget and fixed expenses of the SGA. The money allocated comes from the $23.25 student fee. The money is given to organizations to pay for expenses of functioning next semes-ter. The money allocated is based on ' projections as to the number of students who will attend Towson State next semester. There was an estimated $200,000 Who got what . . . for the Senate to allocate. The money left over will be used by the SGA to fund its activities such as the speaker series and film series as well as for supplemental budgets. The Grub Street Wit was allocated $4,000 to publish four issues next year. The SGA has set dates by which the organization must publish its issues, said Kelley Ray, SGA treasurer. The Tower Echoes received SENATE BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FALL '83 $18,305 after settling problems with their budget from the 1982 yearbook. The Towerlight received its total request for $20,704.43 and WCVT received $15,382 for next semester. The entire budgeting process was a long one, due in part to the new senators making sure that they knew what they were allocating and exactly what it would be used for, Ray said. AIESEC. , 349.75 Forensics Union 4,678.60 A.M.A. 507.50 Grub Street Wit 4,000.00 Arts Guild 1,148.64 J.S.A. 190.80 Biology Club 705.07 Nursing Students Assn. 51.00 B.S.U. 1,820.00 Philosophical Discussion Group I 50.(X) Economics Club 156.00 Society of Physics Students 200.00 Society for Environmental Concerns 35.00 Tower Echoes 18,305.00 Executive Budget 26,700.00 Towerlight 20,704.43 Fixed Expenses 74,186.00 WC VT 15,382.00 University police protest hours, pressure By Stephen Hyde Second of two articles on the University Police force. Stress, fatigue and frustration in the lives of police officers at Toldvson State seem to have come to a head, the members of the University's clge of the Fraternal Order of Police 'lave retained an attorney to negoti- 4te with administration officials. David Harris, a Baltimore lawyer iv110 also represents the F.O.P. tkige of the Baltimore City police, Ses a growing dissatisfaction with II:erking conditions among the mem-er8 of the Towson State force. These people are burned out,"" says q,arris, noting long hours of over-tkinle and double shifts worked sutaafefa.use of unfilled vacancies on the The attorney also feels that in t atters of law enforcement, ""direc-q� 11 is coming from outside the Ps�lice force"" as officers at Towson . tete ""are called to exceed their ,111t1sdiction by civilians,"" referring ,`,t' the University administration. ,Their feeling is that police are *eend-rate people,"" adds Harris. o_When asked about rumors of a 6�88-action lawsuit against the niversity, he declined comment, :44 wanting ""to fight a legal battle the newspapers."" He did say, 14'ever, that he would be sending a tter to University president Hoke 'Nth this week. 5,ecording to University police i'lleers who have signed a petition tlhltlining their grievances, part of the Problem stems from having less ;itin 15 officers to police a campus Thaunity of 15,000 people, and ,� ether part lies in a state law !eh limits their jurisdiction� th a few exceptions�to only the 1.�Perty owned by the University. Although the school's public r:ietY budget for fiscal 1982 allows ad 36 positions�some of them ,Ininistrative or clerical�few Ilrees expect the number of uni-formed officers to rise above 20 this year. In contrast, the University of Maryland at College Park, with twice the number of students as Towson State, maintains a force of 100 officers, and a private's maximum - salary there is $2597 higher because of that institution's autonomy from the state's central Personnel Board. Apart from an estimated $558,000 which will be spent this year on Towson State police salaries and overtime pay, an additional $34,510 was allocated for miscellaneous costs such as supplies, contractual services and equipment purchases. Many officers point out that the sec-ond sum is inadequate to maintain a well-equipped police force whch Author and composer John Langstaff Children's Literature Festival. By Edvins Lagzdins teaches and entertains at the must deal with a variety of emer-gencies and routine duties. Police vehicles are most often cited by officers as being the weakest link in their equipment inventory. The Ford sedans pres-ently in use are V-6 factory models rather than ""police package"" V-8 models specially equipped for con-stant use and extreme demands on their drive trains, according to one officer. The electrical systems of the factory models are also claimed by officers to be inadequate for police use. When a student on Burdick Field collapsed from a heart attack last October 14, the responding offi-cer left his emergency lights on while he aided the student. The lights were intended to serve as a signal by which the arriving ambu-lance could locate the victim, but within minutes the lights caught on fire. To many officers, the cars rep-resent the level of concern that University purchasing officials have for police needs. Another item that was in use until recent years was a standard-issue revolver with a six-inch barrel, which one officer described as being so antiquated that ""it was the kind of thing that Deputy Barney Fife wears on 'The Andy Griffith Show.' "" Those pistols have since been replaced with Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolvers with four-inch barrels, a standard police weapon. The lack of concurrent jurisdic-tion with the Baltimore County police department is another cause for concern among University police officers�a concern which they men-tion in their petition. Under Title 14, Section 14-201 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, University police have no other authority than that of citizen's arrest when they are off Towson State property. In one recent inci-dent, a man struck a University officer and fled. When the officer See POLICE, page 3 Total 169,299.79 Here comes the bride This pair stepped out in style at the Bridal Fair, held last Monday in the By Tony Smith Chesapeake Room. in this issue A photo pictorial of the most recent glen party by Stephen Hyde page 4 Adam Eisenberg reviews director Adrian Lyne's Flashdance page 5 Kim Marshal reviews Amadeus now playing at Center Stage page 6 Dr. Yes on health, the effects of the drug DMSO page 6 Billy Hunter's baseball squad have an up and down week, ready for the ECC playoffs page 8 Langstaff entertains ,teaches at children's festival By Amy P. DeNike An elementary school teacher does more than spew out information and lead hour-long spelling lessons. The teacher must be part family, part philosopher and part entertainer to his or her classes. John Langstaff stood as both enter-tainer and philosopher . . . He firmly grasped the microphone as he began. ""Well . . . boys and girls, we are go-ing to make some music . . . so let's sing a song together,"" he said. Ac-companied by Towson State student Diane Bowman on guitar, Langstaff led the audience through clapping the beat of a song, and gradually pro-gressed into teaching refrains. His audience consisted mainly of several classes from Lida Lee Tall Learning Resources Center � rang-ing from the day-care children up to the sixth grade. But there were also librarians, Towson State students, faculty and staff, and even a few grandmothers. They all joined the children in enjoying the atmosphere of fun and song surrounding the Children's Literature Festival, presented by the College of Education and Instructional Technology last Wednesday and Thursday in Hawkins Hall. Langstaff, the featured guest speaker of this year's Festival is a well-known author, folk-singer, con-certist, and teacher. He has spent his life working extensively with music and children. His books, A Frog Went A Courting, A Hunting We Will Go, Jim Along Josie, among others, are well known in the field of children's literature. During his performance, the teacher in Langstaff was evident. ""Sit up straight, and pronounce those words � you don't say goin', you say going,"" he said. ""Music has no words, but songs �have words. We need to understand what the words in the song are, and what they mean. Words can be fun. They can be wonderful, so wonderful, you can almost taste them."" The children in the audience, as well as the adults, responded en-thusiastically to Langstaff. ""Now, let's sing a song about a wonderful, magical animal. This song is about a grey goose,"" said Langstaff. ""WE KNOW THAT ONE, SO LET'S SING IT! ! ! !"" came a shout from the audience. During the time when Langstaff was reviewing the words of ""A Hun-ting We Will Go"", a voice shouted, ""NO � THAT'S NOT RIGHT, THE WAY IT GOES IS THIS WAY..."" Langstaff responded with a smile and a chuckle. Chandler Barbour, professor of education at the University and chairperson of this year's Festival, was pleased with the success of this year's turnout. ""We had well over 150 people in the audience for every per-formance. Everyone who attended seemed to be very happy and en-thusiastic. It seemed like everyone had a super time,"" he said. ""This was the first year when we were able to have an evening perfor-mance for the Towson community, and we are very pleased with the way it turned out,"" he said. Barbour said that the Wednesday night perfor-mance by Langstaff emphasized the relationship of music, poetry and rhyme to success in reading. Langstaff emphasized the importance of singing to the development of self expression. ""Langstaff would speak a little bit, and then start singing He has a neat technique of pulling the audience in first on a simple level, and then basically pulling them into everything he's doing,"" Barbour said. Langstaff was chosen to be the See CHILDREN, page 3"
