The Towerlight, April 9, 1976

tl19760409-000 "fet Finegan and Payne win SGA elections by Steve Verch S.G.A. vice-president Joanne Finegan emerged as the clear cut victor over �Pponent Gerry Hartung for S.G.A. president in the nln-off election held last week. Finegan running ruate Nancy Payne defeat-ed Mark Lewis of the Hartung ticket by a more arrow margin. Results of the S.G.A. executive contests are as follows: 5 S.G.A. president - of 774 votes cast Joanne Finegan . . . .446 Gerry Hartung . . . .328 ,S.G.A. vice-president - of 772 votes cast Nancy Payne 407 Mark Lewis 365 Commenting on her 118 �'Qte lead over challenger artung, Finegan said, I'M pleased at the margin I was pretty confident of my ability to be President, but I was not cOnfident I was going to win this election."" Payne stated that the 4ting showed that the 6 students voted on the basis I the candidates them- 01 a 'Veg. � ""People voted for me as L�PPosed to Mark (Lewis) uecause they believed I cnild be a better vice- Pteuident,"" she said. Winning the approxi- !lately 52.3% of the vote 14 vice-president, Payne ad, ded that she felt it was a (,1,1e1....c.X result of her cam-fling harder after the writ election. Payne finish-ed If, ;of ed second to Lewis by 25 votes in this election. ""Like a carrot"" ""The results of the first election made me want to get elected more,"" she said. ""It was kind of like a carrot in front of me."" Finegan, who led Har-tung by 26 votes after the first election, captured al-most 57.7% of the total votes cast for president in the run-off. This year's elections contrasted sharply with last year's. In 1975, 340 students voted in elections that saw many Candidates run unopposed. In the mid-March elec-tions of this year, 919 students voted, and three tickets offered candidates for either two or three of the S.G.A. executive posi-tions. Since none of the three candidates running for president or the three candidates running for vice-president received a majority, those receiving the first and second high-est number of votes were placed in run-off elections by the S.G.A. Elections Committee. Eliminated by the results of the first election were Fran Schramm and Lucy Reed, originally candidates for president and vice-president respectively. A landslide 63% S.G.A. treasurer - elect Erik Perkins emerged from this first election as the ,LXvi NO. 24 only candidate for execu-tive office who won his position on the basis of the election. Perkins, a member of the Finegan-Payne ticket, soundly defeated Donna VanTassel of the Schramm- Reed ticket by a landslide 63%. Voting during the run-off election was less than the first, according to S.G.A. Elections Committee Chairperson Konrad Herl-ing. He said that 857 students voted the second time around. Not knowing exactly how many people voted twice in both elections Herling maintained, ""There were many new faces at the second election."" President-elect Finegan was glad that her ticket had swept all three S.G.A. executive posts. ""I feel we'll have the best conditions now for a successful administra-tion,"" she said. Payne echoed her run-ning- mate's observation. ""I'm very pleased . . .Jo-anne, Erik and I have worked together on the campaign and in the Senate at approximately the same time."" Said Perkins, ""I think it is definitely an advantage for the entire ticket to be elected . . .we will have a very effective S.G.A. government."" Three main planks Though her campaign Joanne Finegan, SGA Presdient-elect, and Nancy Payne, SGA Vice-President elect, swept to victory in Student Government run-off elections held Thursday and Friday, April 1 and 2 in the downstairs lobby of the College Center. Finegan defeated opponent Gerry Hartung by 118 votes, while Payne polled 42 votes in a narrow victory over opponent Mark Lewis. TL photo by Ken Vane TL photo by Tom DeLuca had concentrated on three main planks (Concert series, tri-referendum, and lower prices at dances and other S.G.A. events), Fine-gan stated that a success-ful new administration would' have to do a good job in other areas. ""We want our successes to include another good book exchange, good dances, and following through on S.G.A. poli-cies,"" she said. Vice - president elect Payne mentioned some additional ideas that she is working on. These includ-ed a course guide based on student evaluations of par-ticular courses that would be available to students at registration. ""Up in the air"" Another idea of Payne's is a library of syllabi from every teacher at Towson. These would state course objectives, testing proce-dures, requirements, etc. ""These ideas are really up in the air right now,"" explained Payne. til According to Finegan, total cost for her campaign came to about $250,00. These costs included Tow-erlight ads, posters, flyers, T-shirts, and stick 'em letters. Stick 'ems expensive ""Those stick 'em letters were expensive,"" said Finegan. The Finegan - Payne - Perkins campaign theme had been ""stressing ser-vice to each and every student through visible TOWSON STATE COLLEGE APRIL 9, 1976 lection results Part II-- sequel to follow? Senate race ends in tie; results still undecided by Joan Grabowski A tie between candidates ze Boston and Spencer rultron has next year's rnate membership in tIOUbt again this week, as SGA election saga cantinues. ek R.lection committee i�ustn'Person Konrad Herl- ""I said no decision had Yt:t been made deciding tie, and no precedent SGA rule exists to 411' tat,4, cover the situation. Both Boston and Leckron re-ceived 226 votes, tieing them for the 14th Senate seat. Herling noted he would have to consult the other election committee members before deciding a course of action. He ex-presses a hope that anoth-er run-off would not be needed. Leckron said he was not sure what to do about the election results. He noted Or7;ll 1 Ph II 4Se Qov_ Student prepares to vote in last week's Student ernment elections. TL photo by Kath Dudek lenate restructures Speakers' ticket policy by T.F. Troy, Jr. t The SGA voted this week II� reorganize the ticket .sh()IfeY for the Celebrity 4 ""nakers' Series. Currently, the best seats 0f t41,1e house go to citizens wis�ne Towson community ti""io buy them on a season-tl int basis. Revenue from :Se sales pay half the -at of the program 0Te remaining seats are ;allable to full-time day ahgt_dents, who pay fthtehie cost o r tire of the CbrreC non a Last week, Towerlight , ;s'4�c ted the new academic st-,nlations as allowing 011 t5 to elect 21 credits a - Pass option. That 1241ber should have been stl,,.(11........'rowerlight regrets the program through student fees. A bill, introduced by Fran Schramm, will ar-range ticket sales so that the first ten rows of seats Please turn to page 4 Financial aid still available Although the deadline date is past, financial aid applications are still being accepted for 1976-77. All financial aid appli-cants for 1976-77 are reminded to return their signed notifications to the Financial Aid Office within two weeks of the date indicated on the award notification. Otherwise, awards will be cancelled. Basic Educational Op-portunity Grant applica-tions are still available for the 1976-77 academic year in the Financial Aid Office. Boston had won in the first election, and it might not be fair to possibly take the seat Boston had won. However, Leckron stated, ""I did have serious inten-tions about getting some-thing done in Senate."" He commented, ""There is no fair way to decide the tie . . . It is hard to hold a two-person election, but you can't just flip a coin ... one of us will have to re-evaluate whether we want to be in the Senate."" Leckron suggested ap-pointment to a cabinet post for one of the candidates as a possible solution. ""This creates some in-teresting issues,"" noted Leckron. ""I want the position,"" said Boston commenting on the election tie. Boston, who had tied for the 13th highest number of votes in the first election atrributed his poorer showing to the diminished level of excite-ment and enthusiasm among students in the second contest. He also remarked his campaigning funds had been depleted in the first week's contest. About a solution to the tie, Boston observed, ""I would hate to have another run-off...I don't care (how it is decided) as long as it is fair."" Jeff Woodard, whose name was omitted from the first ballot, received 325 votes, enough to assure him a Senate seat. While commenting the run-off was a fair solution, Wood-ard denied that the expo- Residence Council elections held The Residence Council held its elections this week. The results are: John Ruark, Chairman; Pat Kerner, Vice Chairman; and Susan Spencer, Secre-tary. Representatives - at - large are: Kate Getty, National Rolter, Mary El-len Guidi, Margaret Fahey, and Pete Gill. sure from the affair had helped him. ""The negative publicity balanced the pos-itive publicity I had got- .ten,"" noted Woodard. ""I am glad about the election results, and I think the amount of votes I received demand I run for SGA President next year,"" he stated. Two candidates, William Dronenberg and Norman Ladson, who thought they were elected last week, were ""unelected"" in the second balloting, with Jeff Woodard and Raymond Tubman filling the posi-tions. Only 857 voters partici-pated in the second elec-tion, down from 919 the first week. Others elected to Senate positions were Duane Dennis, Jeff Er-rington, Veronica Fluel-ling, Steve Haas, William Hannon, Mike Holden, Charles Klein, S. Marc Land, Angela Pierce, Donna Sauerborn, and Steve Tobias. Students vote for Judicial Review Board by Steve Verch Students voting in last week's elections were able to vote for referendum questions designed to seek out student opinion on several issues. Of the four questions, a majority of students voted ""no"" to the first three questions and ""yes"" to the fourth, which dealt with a judicial review board for student grievances. The questions, as they appeared on the ballot machine, and their results: Question 1 - 474 votes cast. Should there be a maxi-mum number of organiza-tions allowed in S.G.A.? Yes....185 No....287. Question 2 - 462 votes cast Have you found the Senate investigation of food services informative? Yes....161 No...301 Question 3 - 444 votes cast Should class Senators be abolished and At-large Senators placed in their stead? Yes...180 No...264 Question 4 - 482 votes cast Do you think a Judical Review Board to arbitrate student grievances would be helpful? Yes...423 No....59 S.G.A. Senator Fran Schramm, commenting on the referendum, said the questions did not appear on the ballot machine during the first election in mid-March because the Senate bill authorizing the referendum did not come out of committee until after the election. ""I submitted the bill at least two weeks before the first election and it did not make it out of the commit-tee in time for the election,"" said Schramm. Referring to the large vote in favor of Question 4, Schramm said some Sena-tors did not favor the bill because it would take away some of their responsibili-ties. Said Schramm, ""They felt the Judicial Review Board would take away some of their power."" These referendum ques-tions are in no way binding for any mandated action, as a specific bill mandating a change would have to pass the Senate and then be considered in another referendum before any changes were made. The referendum vote would be needed on a change of this type be-cause it would seek to change the S.G.A. consti-tution. Asked if she felt the referendum would have dany effect on the S.G.A. Senators, Schramm re-plied, ""I'd hope the Sena-tors would look at and consider the results of the referendum."" Bill slows buying by Steve Haas Senate Bill 165 in the Maryland Legislature, which will affect the selec-tion of books and all audiovisual materials in all Maryland counties, has passed the third reading in Senate and has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee. This bill will have a deterimental effect on teaching in Maryland if passed by the House of Representatives in its cur-rent form. ""It started out as a bill which would have required school systems to display all materials for a certain length of time before purchasing,"" said C. Law-rence Wiser, a member of the Montgomery County aggregation in Annapolis. ""As originally introduc-ed, a minimum of 90 days on display was required,"" Wiser continued. ""But the Senate committee watered that down and said that the public should have the right to review selections. That was a mistake."" Explaining that the bill ""was pushed by a small, but vocal minority group that, in effect, wanted to impose their will be want-ing a veto on curriculum,"" Wiser observed, ""I see it as the Legislature intrud-ing in the proper function Please turn to page 4 action."" Finegan had pro-mised that if elected, Towson would have its first concert sometime in Octo-ber. ""I've talked to agencies about a concert series and there is no reason why we can't have one this fall. . . in Burdick or Stephens Hall,"" said Finegan. Finegan specified that she had spoken with William Morris and CMA booking agencies of New York. She said she was also negotiating for open dates at the new P.E. complex as another possi-ble site of a concert. She is seeking early March or April dates for concerts. Next year's SGA budget should be about $300,000 according to Finegan. If Senate would appropriate additional money for dances, SGA could partly subsidize the events and lower prices charged to students. Regarding future at-tempts at streamlining cur-rent budgeting processes Finegan said she did not favor budgeting by cluster, as advocated earlier in the semester by former cabinet secretary Ed Consroe. ""This takes the budget-ing process and places it in the hands of six or seven biased individuals, each concerned with their own organization,"" stated Fin-egan. While admitting there was some duplication dur-ing the budgeting proced-ures, Finegan said she did not favor doing away with any of the scrutiny that is shown toward organization budgets. ""Some organizations in-flate their budgets to the point of exploding. This is a defensive reaction but these organizations should realize that a realistic budget would get approved by Senate,"" she added. She cited a College Union Board request for a budget that would permit fifty-two events to be held by CUB. ""If this had been the only organization on cam-pus providing students with services things would be different, but we have other organizations to con-sider,"" she concluded. Asked about her cabinet choices, Finegan said she had not yet made up her mind. ""Right now I don't feel as I'm rushed to name them,"" said Finegan. Fin-egan mentioned she had been considering former opponents Gerry Hartung and Mark Lewis for posi-tions. Hartung and Lewis are currently secretaries of Organizational and General Services and Community and Institutional Develop-ment, respectively. Finegan said she wants her administration ""to be a new start."" She added she appreciated all the people who worked on her cam-paign and said she felt an obligation to them. ""I want to do a good job for them,"" she said. Hartung,Lewis lose by Kathy Kraus Attempting to account for the results of last week's run-off elections, Gerry Hartung and Mark Lewis, presidential and vice-presidential candi-dates cited several reasons why they felt they lost the race against Joanne Fine-gan and Nancy Payne. ""We were really sur-prised at the number of votes we lost by in the run-offs,"" Hartung said. ""The first time around, the race was very close."" Finegan led by a narrow margin of 26 votes over Hartung. Lewis received 25 more votes than Payne. Yet in the run-offs, the voting highly favored the Finegan/Payne ticket. Hartung speculates that many votes cast in the first election for presidential and vice-presidential can-didates Fran Schramm and Lucy Reed were transfer-red to the Finegan/Payne ticket when Schramm's and Reed's candidacies were over. ""This could account for the wide mar-gin of votes between our two tickets in the run-offs,"" Hartung noted. Even though they publi-cized their campaign more the second time around, Hartung feels that what ""really killed"" them is the fact that both he and Lewis are commuters. ""Joanne and Nancy are no great difference be-tween the two tickets. Hartung and Lewis will remain in Lowe's cabinet until May. When the new SGA President, Joanne Finegan, takes office in May, she has the option of dorm students,"" Hartung said. ""And in SGA elec-tions, the majority of votes are cast by dorm stu-dents."" He continued: ""Even though there are only about 1600 residents at Towson as compared to 7,000 commuters, dorm students are usually the ones to become involved in student government elec-tions. Joanne and Nancy had a real advantage over us there."" Hartung and Lewis, un-like the Finegan/Payne ticket, did not offer a candidate for treasurer. Hartung feels that it did not hurt them. Although neither of them has ever held elected SGA posts before, Hartung said that this also shouldn't have harmed them. ""Our accomplish-ments in our present appointed positions speak for themselves."" Hartung is currently As-sistant Secretary of Or-ganizational and General Services in SGA President Anne Marie Lowe's cabi-net. Lewis was president of the American Marketing Association before being named Assistant Secretary of Institutional and Com-munity Development. When asked if there was anything in their platform that could have caused their defeat, Hartung stated that there was really Please turn to page 3 Mark Lewis and Gerry Hartung join student supporter in some last minute campaigning. TL photo by Kathy Dudek Lots 13, 14 lights due A petition recently cir-culated among TSC stu-dents calls for additional lighting at student parking lots 13 and 14. John Suter, director of Campus Plan-ning, explained that the installation of the street lights should take place within the next couple of weeks. ""The only thing holding up the lights is the delivery of the lighting units (the lamps) themselves,"" he said. According to Suter, the contractor in charge of the operation has already installed the necessary power and electric poles. ""It is all planned, and they will be installed as soon as the man can put them in,"" Suter said. "