The Towerlight, April, 30, 1976

tl19760430-000 "0 e Closet will not be n this evening, Food ces announced this k. The Closet will re- 'n next Friday. ic Pr orm tudent aped by Kathy Pascuzzi female student was Ped in Newell Hall about o 4.nl. Saturday, said 0. 4IPus police. Although 0 I. Baltimore County fide Department was in, and both agen-are cooperating in the o estigation, no one has apprehended yet. L �1181Pus police report 01 they do not know how . suspect entered the � ding. Mary Lee Farlow, tector, of- Residence !s, said that the doors lkse dorms are supposed ,4 locked at all times, s thal each resident dent is furnished with a tto the dorm, as well as n18 or her own room. e Mentioned that no ges had been made in security arrangements the dOrmitories, except `.she and other dorm lals are urging resi-hi' students to ""please, 8, keep those doors �8(1�"" She feels that dents have paid a Id era penalty for ""prop-the door open, or 0 Pig it unlocked."" 0 Illiam Carey, director Ne ws and Publications, 1. that although the two o les are ea departments they do not 1(1 have a suspect in t�dY, but they do have a iPtion of the suspect. is reported to be a 4 male between the l of 19 and 25, about 5' t� 6"" tall and stockily Weighting 180 to 200 0 ds. He also reportedly gold tooth and a La u sh haircut. reY also said that '4euts have noticed more rty personnel around .1s,a01Pus since Saturday, I'arlow says all that's to prevent a desh.i. incident is for ts to take on more �Osibility and ""per-concern"" for their safety. ""We have to lb at some point,"" rit aici, ""that we are 1,18g with mature %UP �4el1e Dawson, Director ii -blrous Police, said that e Is the first forceable Ii 1;eported during his bistration. I. Dl Dl 0 ii 0 0 Pit Ar ott i er it LXVII, NO. 26 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE APRIL 30, 1976 SGA Senators study budget requests. 4 TL photo by Kathy Dudek Fisher was a college drop-out. See page 3. Gibbs faults Food Services for discrimination, mismanagement by Ruth Ann Leftridge In a letter dated April 27, Wendell Gibbs, Stu-dent Manager of Cashiers, charged Food Services with ""mismanagement of the department, mismanage-ment of personnel and racial discrimination."" The letter was directed to Al Walsh, Director of Food Services, with copies to key officials in the administration. Roy Whitley, assistant director of Food Services, said, ""So often people who do not work in the Senate ends budget hearings by T. F. Troy Jr. Tuesday afternoon the SGA Senate concluded its budget hearings for the fiscal year 76-77. The results of Senate delibera-tions will be reported in the next issue of Tower- Tempers were short and nerves tense as the last meeting concluded on Tuesday. The assembly heard from twenty-two organizations seeking stu-dent funds. Of the $180,000 appropriated to SGA from student fees, all but approximately $15,000 will be distributed to the organizations. For two days the SGA Senators sat in juagement of nervous club representa-tives petitioning for money. First Kathy Kolar, SGA Treasurer, and head of the Financial Advisory Board, (FAB), would give her five-minute recom-mendation on how much money each organization should get. Then the organization would face the assembly and try to explain why they needed all the money they requested. Senators would ask organi-zation representatives questions: How many members did they have? Why couldnt they get the job done cheaper? Had they used all the money they were allotted last year? New fields near completion, stadium eonstruction to begin by Bill Stetka When Towson's new athletic complex opens, it will mean new homes for most of the Tiger varsity teams, with five new athletic fields and a 7,000 seat stadium planned for fall completion. In addition to the $10 million physical education building and fieldhouse, the 24-acre complex will include fields for field hockey, lacrosse, softball, baseball, soccer and foot-ball as well as ten lighted tennis courts. The cost for the new athletic field space and the stadium construction is $1.5 million. The stadium itself, which will be built into a natural incline, will cost $500,000. ""I think we can have aluminum seating,"" said John Suter, director of Campus Planning. ""We might even be able to get chairback seats if the budget is okay,"" he added. The stadium will be a ""simple design,"" said Suter, with 4,000 seats constructed and the blea-chers on the present football/lacrosse field being transported to the new complex. The lights presently used on the Burdick Field will also be hauled over to the new stadium. Suter said he hopes the stadium will be under construction by mid-June. ""If it's started then, it should be available when the phys. ed. facility opens in mid-October,"" he said. That doesn't mean that any of Towson's teams will start using the fields next fall, said Suter. ""The fields generally need two growing sea-son's,"" he said. ""We've got it seeded but there's also sod laid."" Suter said that it's possible that teams might begin using the fields next spring. The athletic fields Please turn to page 4 After hearing the cases of the organization, and the FAB, Senate met Thursday and Friday to put the final vote on the budgets. As the meeting on Tuesday drew to a close, some senators were in a hurry to leave. By one's and two's, the sixteen member group dwindled to nine, the minimum neces-sary for a quorum. After the last organization was finished, the ninth senator left, taking with her the quorum. At that point Richard Andrews leaped to his feet and proclaimed ""Meet-ing's over! From now on everything's void!"" The meeting then ended, half the senate already gone, and the rest un-decided when to hold the next meeting. Kathy Kolar couldn't make it Wednes-day; the Senate didn't want to miss the inaugura-tion picnic Thursday; Fri-day is Pub Day; and Saturday is the last day of the present Senate term. After grumbling, they elected to forego the Pub and picnic, and meet on Thursday and Friday. The Senate has two vacancies. Any full-time day student wishing to fill the spaces should come to the SGA office of the second floor of the College Center to pick up petitions. department think it is mismanaged."" One of the reasons Gibbs cited for his charge of departmental mis-management was ""con-stant operation in the red."" He stated, ""It has been mentioned many times to the student managers that we (Food Services), are operating in the red."" ""He is referring to last year because we have turned around and brought the department into line where it should be,"" said Whitley. ""I am assuming that this is what he is talking about."" A lack of communica-tion, ""the laying off of several employees,"" and ""the continued inefficiency of the coupon system"" are also discussed in Gibbs' letter. ""My basic complaint since December has been lack of communication,"" stated Gibbs. ""I don't even know if they (Food Ser-vices) know the meaning of the word."" Whitley said about the lack of communication charge, ""You're going to always have that problem in a place this large."" But he added, ""It will be eliminated."" According to Gibbs, people who had been hired at the end of last semester or the beginning of this semester suddenly had their hours cut midway through the Spring '76 term. ""I know for a fact that there was no notice given as to cutting off hours,"" he said. ""Everybody had their hours cut, even the state people,"" explained Whit-ley. ""There was just too much freedom - people working too many hours."" In his letter, Gibbs says, ""The continued ineffi-ciency of the coupon system also points to an inability on the part of management to provide a meal program that truly benefits the students."" To this, he added, ""I just feel that the program somehow needs to be streamlined. Students are not allowed in the (present) meal plan to buy according to how they eat."" Gibbs suggests that a choice of meal plans with a different amount of coupons in each would improve the present situa-tion. The Food Services De-partment will be changing the coupon system next academic year, according to Whitley. He adds that the department is present-ly only ""living with a system that existed."" ""Fulfilling Quotas"" Gibbs' letter also states that ""hiring in this depart-ment has not graduated beyond the stage of ful-filling quotas."" He ex-plained that at a meeting of student managers, dur-ing which employees were being evaluated, discrimi-nation was evident. ""One person's name was called out with no particular evaluation, but it was mentioned that she was black. That was followed by an immediate note on that person's application,"" he said. Gibbs continued, ""One Please turn to page 3 New BSUpresident Howard calls for frosh involvement by Steve Verch ""I want to get all the freshmen involved in the Black Student Union, be-cause of the high attrition rate among black students at Towson, 'I said the newly-elected BSU presi-dent George Howard of his plans for next year. Serving with Howard will be Dana Jackson, as vice-president, and Janice Nelson as treasurer of the organization. Jackson was to be in a run-off election with Richard Harris for the vice president's position, but Harris withdrew from the contest and Jackson was named winner by default. Howard, who like Jack-son and Nelson will take office May 14, said he hoped to set a direction for the BSU that was a positive one. Citing the recent public split between current BSU president Larry Hughes and SGA Director of Mi-nority Relations Francis Clay, Howard said he would seek to avoid this type of divisiveness. ""I'd also like to unify some of the black fraterni-ties and sororities. Some of the members don't get along, and unfortunately, some of the leaders don't either,"" he added. The new BSU president said that he had discussed possible policies with SGA Senator Jeff Woodard, and that the two will work together to better the BSU. In fact, Howard said that the idea to emphasize freshmen involvement in the organization was Woodard's. ""I plan to give George my full support. We feel that hopefully there will be no dissension next year among black students,"" said Woodard. While hoping to initiate some new tutorial pro-grams for black students in public schools other than college, Howard said he wanted to work with the current Black Council of Organizations to streng-then unity among its member organizations. ""I'd like to establish a constitution for the council. I hope they could get a spokesman so they can tell us what they need,"" said Howard. Please turn to page 3 owe reflects on SGA years, calls Senate 'passive' by Steve Verch litttent Student Govern- 'President Ann Marie Will step down from Position when presi-r! iscl Joanne Finegan office May 4. bo former vice-presi-der David Nevins, le president five ?�8 ago when Nevins ItZd to graduate in 'quer of last year. iltaduating senior, %ccqlomented and re-i"" Upon her years of te with the SGA, and ,811e sees ahead for q -cl ganization. "" It ' s me to single out 1114.8t five months when [01 s been a three-year :ti,ori,"" she said. ' freshman, Lowe ran tSQ A senator - at - Winning, she took a:8 a sophomore, and two years in that th the viewpont of a `tI t, things always h t� be wrong. You try e 80 responsive (to %4L,8,), you end up yo them'nem in such a way t?'""11 don't have a clear ti I think from a St a tin outlook (like Yt,e uf the current p \1 .) You don't see the 1,1'111.0.'' she said. r .tit .4t; on the Academic tell her sophomore, e t' ancl senior years, Ij080 for vice president Taking office in May of that year, she said she had a lot of ideas for the Senate. ""I wanted to build up the Senate committee structure and to get it working. To a large de-gree, I felt I did this,"" she said. The current president said she established the Senate bill and filing systems, and journal minutes, ""so everyone would know what bills were being introduced."" Lowe cited additional problems that the Senate experiences. ""You can have some great ideas, but when the Senate can't put them together in policy formula-tion, you have problems. Most of the proposals therefore come out of the Executive. ""Another fact is that there is no sense of continuity because many of the Senators become Senators to use it on their resumes later, and then leave,"" she said. Asked if she thought this year's Senate was a bit impatient and that that could explain some of the problems they may have been experiencing, Lowe said: ""Either that or they don't have any real grasp as to how that body should function."" ""This group is passive. I recall there was one vice president that was upset with the entire final SGA budget as approved by Senate who resigned a day early in protest."" Lowe said she decided to run for vice president and not against Nevins last year because ""between the combined efforts we would have the best programs and policies possible."" However, she was quick to add that ""I never doubted my abilities to become SGA president; I think I could have beaten him."" Questioned about Ne-vins' resignation midway in his term, Lowe main-tained that neither she nor Nevins had known he would finish early. She said that when he ran, Nevins did not know if he would get the nine-credit internship which he finally got that summer. These nine credits per-mitted Nevins to complete school early. Commenting on the ad-ministration which pro-ceeded hers, Lowe offered praise for both Nevins and his predecessor, Konrad Herling. ""David was also very service-oriented, but he was more administratively effective. He was more inward-turning, while Kon-rad wanted to bring more people into the organiza-tion,"" she said. Lowe said that during her five months she had tried to strike a direction midway between the two. The result, as she des-cribes it, was the heavily-contested recent SGA elec-tions. ""We set a trend; when we were done, a lot of people really saw WIltli could be done. They saw the potential � for the or-ganization,"" she added. ""We (the SGA) went from the beanbag and band syndrome to the group that was considered like another group in the ,...411111111111116, Ann Marie Lowe, SGA in office next week. President, completes her tenure TL photo by Kathy Dudek college, that hao some good ideas and ought to be consulted,"" she stated. Regarding the veto of the bill for university status for Towson State by Governor Marvin Mandel, Lowe recalled being ""ex-tremely disappointed with the system."" According to Lowe, ""University status wasn't something we needed, we already had it. It was something we deserved."" She characterized Col-lege President James Fisher's feelings to the veto as something of ""sheer disappointment,"" adding, ""we had worked that particular piece of legislation; in fact, it was one of the two bills we were able to get passed through the State legisla-ture."" ""The other bill was one to place student member of the state colleges on the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universi-ties,"" she said. After becoming presi-dent, one of Lowe's first duties was to name a vice president. She said that she chose Joanne Finegan had the qualifica-because she ""necessary tions."" ""Joanne was a very industrial, diligent senator. She had prior Senate knowledge, and her per-sonality and philosophical views were similar to mine, and this is important. We were together on a lot of issues,"" said Lowe. When Cabinet secre-taries Michael McFall and Ed Consroe resigned for an internship and a student teaching position, respec-tively, Lowe named their assistants, Mark Lewis and Gerry Hartung to these posts. ""Because they know wkat they were doing, I felt like I could rely upon them,"" said Lowe of Lewis and Hartung. While president, Lowe said she had tried to continue the service the student government was providing. She mentioned .her efforts pertaining to the Student Information Service (SIS), the Speakers Series, the Planned Parent-hood contract and others. ""I wanted to get SIS off the ground and give it a boost in the arm. We started planning next year's Speakers Series five months ago. With the demand for the Planned Parenthood services, we've tried to deal accordingly. I've tried to suggest a few soVions for such things as the reserve rooms in the College Center. Right now you have to reserve a room a month in advance if you want to hold an event,"" she said. With little time left in her administration, Lowe said her role as SGA president has changed. ""Right now I see my role whereby I've tried to tie up loose ends and leave the SGA in a healthy position. I've tried to leave no gaps."" ""I am taking seilously this transistional period. Thursday of last week we held a very successful dinner and workshop for all the future SGA executives, senators, and appropriate members of the adminis-tration,"" she said. Referring to the gradua-ting Kathy Kolar, currently SGA treasurer, Lowe said: ""I think Kathy is really an efficient treasurer. She had the right temperment at the right times. In her job you constantly have to be the 'heavy'."" ""She has all the quali-ties of a good financial manager,"" said Lowe. Asked about her relation with Towerlight, Lowe said she wished there were ""more communication be-tween us. SGA can really be good but we need the vehicles of communication offered to us. Towerlight hits all of us at one time or another."" Lowe also commented about next year's SGA executives, though she declined to say who she had favored during the election, or even who she had voted for. Please turn to page 3"