tl20020408-000 "Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com The TOLUE, Monday, 4/8/02 Regents debate Perkins' fate Violence revealed with 'Clothesline' 3 Waters to lecture on life in film 11 'Anything' goes in guide to adulthood You Can Be Anything' tp.Aka NIII01�11.10.0111� MN IMIMIPB 12 Hofstra sails past slumping Tigers Akt�'701112i wir L 014, � 19 Departments News 3 Taking Stock 4 Nation 7 Campus Briefs 10 Arts 11 Entertainment Briefs 12 Sound Bites 16 Sports 19 In This Corner 19 Athlete of the Week 22 Classifieds 24 Opinion 26 President's job in jeopardy after audit reveals additional spending on mansion Mike Morris The Towerlight The University System of Maryland Board of Regents met for more than four hours in an abrupt-ly called executive session Friday to discuss ""a personnel matter"" with University President Dr. Mark L. Perkins. While no official comment was released as to the content of the closed-door meeting, sources involved with the matter said possi-ble outcomes of the talks, which focused on Perkins' spending, could be a reprimand or the dismissal of Perkins. ""We had a good meeting and dis-cussion with Mark Perkins,"" Board of Regents Chairman Nathan A. Chapman Jr. said early Friday evening. Chapman confirmed Perkins is still president of Towson University and noted that nothing regarding Perkins' future at Towson has been decided. He said he looks forward to continuing discussions at the See PERKINS, page 5 Saul StnagaskarThe Towarbgly University President Dr. Mark L. Perkins was warmly greeted by the USM Board of Regents during his March 15 inauguration. They are now debating his dismissal after discovering more costs of his presidential mansion. University reflects on five years with new name Adam S. Reisinger The Towerlight By one measure, five years is a relatively short period in the history of Towson University. By another measure, it's the University's entire life span. Five years ago this month, the Maryland legis- TOVVS 0 N UNIVERSITY Towson adopted the ""swoosh"" logo in 1997. Today High 66 Low 51 Tuesday High 69 Low 47 lature passed a bill that changed Towson State University to Towson University, marking a drastic shift in the perception of the University and its goals. ""We'll know what the ramifications of the name change will be in five to 10 years,"" said Ellen Stokes, the Associate Vice President for University Marketing in April of 1997. Five years later, Stokes said she thinks the name change and the image changes that went along with it have been successful. ""I think when you're looking at something dra-matic like a name change, and more specifically, the manifestation of that change ... I think what you're going to start to see happening is the com-munity begins to see Towson everywhere,"" Stokes said. Towson State became Towson in part because then-President Dr. Hoke L. Smith wanted to elim-inate the impression that Towson was entirely Wednesday High 68 Low 49 state supported rather than state assisted. ""They look at you and say '.state funds,' state supported' and the impression is that the state does a huge amount of your funding, which is not so,"" said Susanna Craine. assistant vice president for university relations. ""Every year the percent-age of funding we get from state percentage changes a little bit. but it's fairly low."" While Towson's percentage of state funding remained relatively steady in the five years since the name change, total state funding shot up from $46,627,878 to $58,797,522 in 2000, an increase of nearly 21 percent However, Stokes said that the increase wasn't specifically because of the name change, but more a result of the many efforts the University was making at the time. ""These things didn't happen just because we changed our name, but because a lot of things came together at the same time."" she said. See FIVE YEARS LATER, page 8 Thursday High 70 Low 47 Friday High 65 Low 44 "
