The Towerlight, April 6, 1979

tl19790406-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 23 tc!to to tritg PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Weekend Weather: Partly cloudy today, high in the 50s. Fair and cool Saturday and Sunday with a chance of rain. High near 50. April 6, 1979 How are you, Harry? Harry Chapin came onto the Towson Center stage and ""wooed"" the audience with an evening of his most popular tunes last Thursday. Three days later Roxy Music came across the same stage and gave a slightly different style performance. Stories on page 7. TL l'hoto by Oliver Dziggel Council votes to reject additional athletic fee by Debbie Pelton The Academic Council Monday postponed voting on the 1979-80 academic calendar, spending the majority of its meeting in a heated debate over a proposed three dollar athletic activities fee for evening students for the 1979-80 fiscal year. Members of the council protested the fee, saying it violates a stipulation included in the increased athletic emphasis report approved by the council last May. The condition, listed in the Intercol-legiate Task Force Preliminary Report, says, ""There should be no athletic fee for evening and summer students."" Drs. Henry Chen and Herbert Andrews of the Academic Council, introduced a motion Monday urging Acting President Cox not to institute the evening student fee. Chen said the proposed fee ""appeared to be in direct contradiction with the under-standing upon which the council, voted last May."" Wayne Schelle, vice president and director of business and. finance, told the council that the fee. was ""an effort to balance next year's budget."" Schelle said the athletic program has a $20,000 deficit and the recreational program has a $15,000 , deficit. Eighty per cent of the three dollar fee, or $2.55, would go to the athletic program and the remaining 15 per cent, or 45 cents, would go to the intramural prograin. Schelle said, this is a ""long standing distribution policy"" made by the physical education people."" Full-time day students pay a $40 per year athletic activities fee, about $38 of which goes to the athletic program. Part-time students and evening students have not paid an Sun Day theme energy options by Catherine Seebald ""Alternative Energy"" is the theme of the Sun Day celebration planned by the Solar' Society for Sat., May 5th on the Towson State campus. The society intends to combine the two celebrations held � last year at Towson State and the Baltimore Inner Harbor. � By combining the solar emphasis of these two celebrations, the Solar �Society hopes to attract visitors from the surrounding states of Pennsyl-vania, Delaware and Virginia. There will be live music, arts and. crafts, speakers, exhibits (including Jim Lytle's old ones), along with manufacturers, contractors, and stores who , have been invited to participate. All of this is to show the feasibility of alternative energy. Sun Day at Towson State last year was a project of the Physic's Energy and Pollution class, which demon-strated the many uses of solar energy. Some of the projects were provided by Solar Society member Jim Lytle: a solar hot dog cooker, 'a solar oven, (that contained chili for the hot dogs), a solar cooker and a solar tracker that always oriented a collector to face the sun. Also featured was an immense solar clothes dryer (a clothes line strung along the widest distance between Smith and Linthicum 'Halls), an information table, blue grass music and baked goods. The Solar Action and Baltimore Environment Center and the Energy Policy Office sponsored the Sun Day celebration at the Inner Harbor by inviting manufacturers, contractors, and stores to show their merchan-dise and distribute information. Projects from the area's schools were also exhibited. The Solar Society is presently seeking volunteers to help out with � Sun Day. Member David Wentling said students can contact the group by calling the Physics department. According to Wentling, the group's goal is to see control of energy become decentralized so that, for example, instead of having one electric company for an entire city, each building and home would have its own wind or photo-electric cell generator and hot water collectors. He said it is unfortunate that the average person doesn't realize how easy home energy conservation is. Installing weather stripping and a water saver in the shower, channel-ling the dryer vent (with a filter) back into the house, or replacing the gas or oil pilot light with an electric one, is a good beginning. A percentage of the cost ot these and the more expensive energy savers such as insulation, storm windows, and solar heating are-tax deductible, while they also save money on fuel costs. athletic activity fee the past five years, yet they have the same free Towson Center court reservation privileges and are admitted to sports events for free like full-time day students. Cox said at Monday's meeting that he doesn't think full-time students ""should have to bear the burden"" of part-time students. Cox also expressed concern that the Towson Center facilities are being abused by people registering for one course or registering and dropping courses, but retaining their identification cards to utilize the athletic facilities. ' The Board of Trustees of State Colleges and Universities last year approved an athletic activities fee for part-time students. President Fisher, however, asked the board for permission to not implement the. fee for the 1978-79 year. � Cox said the University absorbed the costs for the athletic and recreational programs with money from the University's general budget. � � The proposed fee ""was a motive to bail out the athletic program'. and ""balance the deficit,"" said Schelle. With the present inflation rate, said Schelle, without a fee, ""in ten years there would be no athletic program whatsoever."" Chen said the five per cent inflation rate allowance built into the athletic budget was unrealistically low. The present inflation rate is around 10 per cent. Schelle said he thought the allowance ""was adequate at the, time"" according to the government statistics, but ""we were as short-sighted as Jimmy Carter and the United States government."" Last spring, Fisher appointed a task 'force committee to prepare a report on increased athletic empha-sis, eventually making TSU men's, sports. excluding football, Division I status. The committee's report contained the recommendation that part-time and evening students be exempt from paying an athletic activities fee. It was this report that the council voted on last spring. Fisher then appointed a Feasibili-ty Committee to examine how the University would compensate finan-cially for the move to Division I. Raising athletic status would in-crease team traveling costs because the teams would probably be traveling farther for games. In-creased travel would necessitate mot le funds for food and housing for away games, said Cox. According to the Feasibility study, said Cox, the Task Force Committee report's recommenda-tion against a part-time athletic activities fee ""couldn't be imple-mented."" The ""projections we had TSU files suit against architect by Robert Krummerich In a move that could help establish a nationwide legal trend, Tewson State, through the Mary-land State Department of General Services, is suing over the old leaky roof that was over the Administra-tion building. Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance, said that after many years, suit has been brought against the now defunct architectur-al firm of Tatar and Kelly, principle designers of the building. Schelle said he ""has a two inch pile of correspondence just on the Administration building. The State, he said ""just hasn't been into litigation."" Alan Levi, general counsel for the department of general services, who is handling the case, said he ""can't remember a suit like this in the ast ten years."" ""There are,"" said Levi, ""more and more cases being filed against architects across the 'country. This is part of a growing awareness that the government can go against archi-tects."" Schelle said the $750,000 suit was for problems with ""drains, cracks, and caulking."" John Suter, director of campus planning, said the ""roof leaked from the day we moved into the building."" Levi anticipates ""a long litiga-tion."" And, so does Lawrence F. Rodowsky, counsel for. the defense who ""would not .be surprised if it goes a couple of years."" He added that it would ""not be that unusual for this type of case."" Levi said, it is ""not the easiest suit to win and like malpractice is hard to prove."" Even if the monetary rewards from winning such a snit would not be obtainable for several years, school administrators feel there are other benefits to be derived. Schelle said ""from now On there won't be nearly as many problems because they have put the fear of a suit- into designers and contrac-tors.' ' As an example, Suter cited the new Administration roof which he called ""the best roof on campus."" The project was partially funded by $300,000 being used to correct structural defects. He attributes the ""excellent job"" to the constant inspection of the work while it was in progress by University officials. ""The big gain for us,"" said Suter,"" is better workmanship in the future...they can't do shoddy work."" These trucks were seen frequently outside the Admin-istration Building from the time it first opened until a new roof was finally completed in the fall. As a result of the leaky roof, the University is now filing suit against the now defunct architectural firm that originally designed the building. Wayne Schelle said the $750,000 suit was for problems with ""drains, cracks, and caulking."" TL Photo by Lester Shugarman then, indicated"" the University' athletic program � couldn't finish the year in the black"" without imposing a part-time student athletic activities fee for the coming year, said Cox. He said he voiced his concern to Fisher. Cox said he thought the Academic Council .""should have been told it wouldn't work."" The' council made a hasty decision when it approved the increased athletic emphasis report, said Cox, ,possibly because it was under pressure from Fisher. He said ""a full debate"" on the issue was not held last spring. Maybe if the council had had all its questions answered before the vote, it would have ""enthusiastically approved the emphasis,"" said Cox. ' 'If I had been president last year, I would have handled the matter differently,"" Cox said, ""but I wasn't the boss then."" He said he thinks he is ""taking the rap"" for last year's decision. ""After Monday's meet-ing,"" he said, ""I decided I would no longer take the rapt for a decision that as not mine."" Academic Council member Mary Catherine Kahl said she voted against the increased athletic emphasis because she thought the council was voting on insufficient information. Details about the implementation of Division I status program were not fully explained at the council's meeting last year, said Kahl. If all the questions were answered last May, ""maybe the council wouldn't be so edgy now"" about the increased athletic empha-sis, she said. At Monday's meeting, Kahl said she thought the council ""had been conned."" She later said the council was told it could reconsider its vote in a year, but found out later that Division I status involves a three year commitment. She said she thinks the council should have been informed of this before it voted. Kahl said she is more concerned with the violation of the council's vote last spring than the proposed fee itself. Other Academic Council members voiced concern that a change in the recommendation about the part-time student athletic activities fee would lead to other changes. ""If this can be violated, why can't they all?"" asked council member Wolfgang Fuchs. Eleanor Hofstedder suggested a ""pay as you play"" policy instead of a fee. Schelle said this would be ""a financial nightmare"" because it would involve so many additional costs such as cash registers and additional personnel. In this issue Aware Baltimore County State's At-torney Sandra O'Connor issued some warnings and burst some myths during her speech here last week. The focus of her message to Towson State women�be aware of rape. It can happen to you page 2 Play Ball! There are likely to be large numbers of empty seats around campus this afternoon as students transfer en masse to the classroom on 33rd Street. Jigsaw inaugurates the rites of summer. ' page 13 Roxy They call him the ""Frank Sinatra of Rock."" He's Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music, and together with his cohorts he made some beautiful music here last weekend page? QUIZ MASTER Lacking incentive to crack the books ovr Spring Break? 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