tl19800829-000 "Ztolvertig PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Sports Features Entertainment Commentary Classified Contents August 29, 1980 7 University orders During the renovation of Van Bokkelen Hall contractors lotund deteriorating asbestos insulation in the utilities tunnel. This tunnel, which services most of the older buildings on campus such as Stephens Hall and Newell Speaker format changed Hall, is off limits to students. Staff members who could have been affected were not in the tunnel when the asbestos was exposed. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley Series cut to 4 nights by Dana Bennett ""Looking Forward: America in the &Ps"" is the theme of the seventh an-nual Student Government Association Speaker series. , Steve Horn, SGA president, said tile idea of having a theme for the speaker aeries is new and he hopes it will give the series more credibility. All of the speakers' topics will be relative to the future of America and how the past has helped to mold its future, said Horn. The series, which used to be eight nights, has been cut to four nights. He said he thinks most people will ,..be able to make at least four nights. liorri said that eights nights was too iNch to demand from the public. He hoks the schedule cut will encourage 81thscription sales. Last year the speaker series had 381 aUbscribers. This year, Horn said, a Ubscription drive is planned to help increase the number of subscribers. . Horn said this year the SGA is plac- Tg a greater emphasis on advertisng loe series. They are working with a Professional advertising agency and ""Pe to double or triple the amount of advertising that has been done in the Past. Horn said, ""Last year's speaker aeries was the best one we ever had."" ''he series lost $900. Attendance at the series ranged to 331 persons to hear Julian Bond I.� 2,497 to hear Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden. All of the other speakers drew audiences of under 900 persons. Total seating capacity for each lec-ture was 2,500. Coretta Scott King, president of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP, will open the 1980-81 speaker series on Oc-tober 9, 1980. They will be presenting minority issues. Moshe Dayan, Israel's former Minister of Defense, will be the speaker on international politics night, November 6. Domestic politics will be the issue on February 22 with speakers Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winning col-umnist, and John Dean, former coun-sel to President Nixon. George Herman, CBS-TV and radio news correspondent will be the moderator between speakers David Brinkley, co-anchorman of NBC-TV news, and Howard K. Smith, TV com-mentator, March 15 on media night. Like last year students will be en-titled to two free tickets. However, students will be unable to pick up their tickets in advance at the University Union box office. Students will have to pick them up the night of the speaker. at the Towson Center. All lectures will begin at 8 p.m. in the Towson Center. Other tickets will be available for $5.50, $7.50 and $9.00. Subscription tickets will be sold for $32. 1979-1980 Speaker Series Attendance Counts Fonda Bond Proxmire 505 Szasz . 900 Bailey 815 Thomas. .634 Buckley 2,497 331 710 asbestos removed by Patricia Voelkel University officials have ordered that hazardous asbestos insulation in the utilities tunnel beneath Van Bok-kelen hall be removed this week. High voltage lines including steam, chilled water (for air conditioning) and gas lines are located in the tunnel that services Stephens hall, Newell hall, Richmond hall, the power plant and now Van Bokkelen. The asbestos insulation was dis-covered in May by contractors who were installing new pipes in the tunnel as part of the Van Bokkelen renova-tion. Asbestos is a carcinogenic substance and is dangerous when air-borne. ""In a fixed state there is no problem but when broken, trouble oc-curs,"" said Phil Ross, personnel assis-tant and safety coordinator. Ross said the insulation had been in-tact until the contractors had to break it to put in the new pipes. Unviersity staff was not affected because they were not in the tunnel after the insula-tion was broken. Students are in no danger because they are not authorized to go into the tunnel, Ross said. When the contractor noticed the asbestos in the tunnel he told Univer-sity officials that his workers would be exposed to hazardous asbestos Served 10 years fiber if they continued their work. University officials then met with environmental safety officials who ex-plained the federal regulations and the actions the University would have to take. John Suter, director of campus planning, said the University had two choices. The insulation could be covered, therefore eliminating the danger, or the asbestos could be com-pletely removed. Officials decided to have the asbestos removed ""because we'll only run into it again,"" said Suter. The utilities tunnel will have to be used for the rest of the Van Bokkelen renovation. The removal of the asbestos will cost approximately $26,000 and the funds have already been authorized by Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance. The money was allocated from this year's operating funds although it is an additional expenditure. McCulloh said he has requested an emergency budget from the Department of Bud-get and Fiscal Planning but has not yet received a reply. McCulloh said he does not think the University should have to pay for the removal because it is not a fault of the University but a change in health and environmental regulations. McCulloh said the University acted �11111111 without waiting for emergency funds for the protection of the University community. ""We moved as fast as we could for the safety of the University,"" he said. The tunnel was built in 1915 and the regulations concerning asbestos were adopted in 1979, Suter said. A local insulation firm will remove the asbestos and replace it with fiberglass. The process should take about two weeks Suter said. John Suter Wisdom resigns as VP by Quincey R. Johnson On August 1, President Hoke Smith announced that Paul Wisdom, vice president for institutional develop-ment, intends to resign at the end of the academic year. Wisdom who has been the Universi-ty's only vice president for institu-tional development, said that he has been at the University long enough, and he needs a new challenge. ""The enhancement of the fine arts program, the establishment of the Towson Club, and the success of the Towson Foundation are some of the highlights of my tenure at the Univer-sity,"" said Wisdom. Wisdom helped to found the Towson Club, Inc., in 1976. He is the treasurer of the club and has assumed opera-tional responsibility for the past year. Wisdom formed the Towson Foun-dation in 1970. The Foundation has brought the University more than $27 million in contributions. He also established an alumni services office which serves nearly 30,000 alumni. Wisdom establshed other programs including an office of endowments and grants and a news and publication department. A Dartmouth graduate in the 1950's, Wisdom was a businessman active in real estate and construction. Prior to coming to Towson State, Wisdom was an administrator at 11- linois State University. In 1970, Wisdom was recruited by former University president James Fisher. Wisdom was instrumental in the upgrading of the intercollegiate athletic program and the Maryland Council on Economic Education. He also played a major role in helping Towson receive University status. Wisdom has received twelve na-tional awards in the fields of develop-ment and public relations. Author of a number of publications on subjects like Asian art and issues in higher education, Wisdom is a nationally recognized consultant on public rela-tions, development and management. Wisdom served as chairman of the board of directors of the Baltimore County Board of Social Services for six years, a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore Ballet Company and as executive vice presi-dent of the Asian Cultural Exchange Foundation, Inc. Wisdom plans to seek business op-portunities in the Baltimore area. ""I will miss all of the good people who supported Towson all of these years."" State Board staff proposes program specialties by Quincey R. Johnson t. The State Board for Higher Educa- ""on staff has proposed changes in the State plan for higher education that nuid establish freshman enrollment � rrultations and program specialties ""Ir. Maryland four-year colleges and WIlversities. Sheldon Knorr, SBHE commis-sioner, said, ""We must make sure that we are adequately planned for what we know is coming. We are ex-pecting enrollment declines from 1982 to 1995, and we must be prepared to deal with this fact,"" said Knorr. The second review of the state plan cited four reasons for an enrollment limitation. The schools where enroll-ment ceilings are being applied are University of Maryland College Park, The housing crunch remains with TSU, how-ever relief may be in sight. Page 2. Quarterback Ron Meehan and the Tiger football squad have set heir sights on a division H cham-pionship this year. Football preview on page 4. Frostburg, Salisbury and Towson. The state plan would apply enroll-ment limits to these particular schools because they have shown strong growth and are operating near to above capacity. The state plan provides for a decreased emphasis on the lower divi-sion and increased emphasis on upper division and graduate education at the schools. The limitations would allow the schools to be more selective in admit-ting students. The limitations would also allow enrollments to be more evenly distributed among the insti-tutions. Enrollment limitations would help to keep standards high and alleviate the potential problem of the institu-tions lowering their standards so that they could get more students. ""We can improve on quality it we become smaller, but it will cost more to run the schools,"" said Knorr. Knorr also said, if standards are raised, then more of Maryland's tal-ented students would opt to attend Maryland schools. Two of the major reasons cited by high-ability students for leaving the state are academic reputation and admissions selectivity. By keeping these students in-state, Maryland in-stitutions gain students to defray enrollment declines, added Knorr. The second review of the state plan projects a drop in enrollments for Towson State of 15 percent from 1980 to 1989. Knorr said the second review also focuses on the programmatic struc-ture of the four-year colleges. This, said Knorr, will keep the Baltimore area colleges from duplicating pro-grams. The proposed state plan revisions outline a five-year program spe-cialization plan for University of Maryland, the state colleges and universities, and community colleges. The areas of specialization are as follows: Towson State University : Arts and Science Core, Fine Arts, Humanities, Communications, Allied Health, Busi-ness Administration and Education. University of Maryland campuses: Baltimore County: Art and Science Core, Physical and Biological Sci-ences, Eggineering, Health Services Administration, Political Science, Psychology, computer Science and related areas, Mathematical Sta-tistics. College Park: Comprehensive. University of Baltimore: Business, Law, Public Administration. Morgan State University: Business, Transportation, Urban Affairs, Inter-national Studies. Along with the specialization plan there is a plan for program phase-out, added Knorr. Jean Spencer, executive director of the Board of Trustees, said, ""We must take a look at the existing programs and carefully assess them. You just cannot open and shut a program."" It is better to develop few top-flight programs than to develop more programs with less quality, added Spencer. The review was made in accor-dance with Maryland law which requires that the state plan, adopted July 1978, be reviewed annually. The proposed changes in the state plan must be adopted by the State Board for Higher Education. The first annual review provided for a SBHE study and recommendation concerning public highf""r education in the Baltimore area. The Board studied the competition for students among area schools, enrollment pro-spects of the future and mission similarities among four-year insti-tutions. The commissioner of the SBHE made recommendations to the SBHE based on the study done. The commis-sioner recommended freshman enrollment limitations, a devel-opment of a unique identity for each four-year institution, a consolidation of three of the area universities under one governing board, and a system of monitoring the academic and finan-cial viability of the are universities and colleges. ""I am quite optimistic about the future,"" said Knorr. ""We have looked at the problem and we are willing to deal with it,"" he added. On February 13, the Board held a public hearing on the recommenda-tions proposed by the commissioner. The consolidation plan met with much opposition from the schools in-volved in the merger. At the March 1980 meeting of the SBHE, the Board rejected the con-solidation plan and approved the other three recommendations. "
