The Towerlight, December 1, 1978

tl19781201-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 12 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY 1111inik6, December 1, 1978 Winter Wonderland Monday's snow took some students by surprise, but there wasn't enough white stuff to warrant an extended Thanksgiving weekend. Needed courses hard to come b by Karen DiPasquale Despite the hopes of acting President JOseph Cox to have 40 Writing courses offered here in the 1979 spring semester that would fulfill the second writing require-raent, only 15 courses have been approved by the Committee for Second Writing Courses la subcom-mittee of the University Curriculum Committee). mitteel. Dr. Filmore Dowling, chairman of the committee, said, ""We can only view and approve those courses that are submitted by the various departments on campus."" Appa-rently the departments aren't coming through with courses that meet the committee's criteria. The criteria used to approve the courses are 1) the courses must stress expository writing, not poetry or fiction writing, 21 the course must Include written assignments of a minimum of 5,000 words, 31 there must be at least three separate Pieces of writing during the course, 4) the course must practice the basics of writing,' ""There are presently 500 spaces available in all the courses offered this spring,"" said Donald Dean, chairman of academic affairs. College writing or advanced freshman english are prerequisites for the second writing courses.. However. more than just these two courses may be needed to take a second writing course. ""Some of the second writing courses are 300 and 400 level courses and students probably will not take them until their junior or senior years,"" said Dean. The second writing courses will tie .into the major requirements and when a student takes a course, he or she will fulfill a general university requirement, as well as, the major requirements. The second writing courses offered in the spring semester are: Writing and Communications Skills for Teachers (0801.301), Advanced Composition (1501.3311, Writing for Business and Industry (1501.333). Informational Writing (1501.334). Topics in History (2205.280-289), Introduction to Historical Study (2205.290). Health Seminar (1201.402), Ancient Greek Philo-sophy (1509.221), Curriculum in Physical Education (0835.302), Phi-losophy of Sport and Physical Education (0835.351), Sociology of Sport (0835.353), History of Science (1902.213), Experimental Psycho-logy (2001.261). Adolescent Psycho-logy (2001.321). and Sociological Theory (2208.381). C concerts net about $14,000 by Theresa Gilmore By the end of this school year, Towson State will have netted approximately $35,000 in concert Profits, said Terrence C. Smith, director of auxiliary services. For the first three concerts of the Year. (Little Feat, Hall and Oates and Roy ('lark) profits stand at almost $14,000, Smith said. Last year, the first year the Towson Center was in operation, teh school made $5,00,0. This sum is the total of the Towson Foundation's profits, along with those that the University made. Although last year's total seems small compared with this year's projected profits, ,Smith said the figures are not surprising. ""We were a new market with a great deal of overhead in our first year,"" Smith said. ""We didn't expect to make a lot of money."" Towson Foundation profits this year so far stand at about $7500. Acting President Joseph W. C.oX's 1978 fall faculty address, he stated that he ""would like to reinvest $5,000 of that into faculty develop-ment."" The retnainder of the money will be used for purposes approved by the Towson Foundation. Profits generated by the Univer-sity which total over $6100 thus far this year go into ""Program Ten."" which encompasses all self-support-ing .programs at the university. These programs include the resi-dence . council, University Union, RecreatIon Center and dining services. ""We're pleased with the profits I ecause we still in the market development stage,"" said Smith. ""You can't expect to make great profits every time. hut student employment is generateci through every concert, and yyse're very concerned with that he said. Housing crunch may worsen NNW More dorms on the way? by Robert Krummerich . If present demographic trends continue. Towson State's increasing student enrollment will 'worsen the already critical housing situation. Of the 900-1,000 applicants each semester. campus residence halls can accommodate only about 350. The remaining students are assisted by the University in finding reasonably priced apartments and homes to live in. Mary Lee Fairlow, director of residence, said, ""we have never had a person we couldn't help find something."" However, she continu-ed. ""We have pretty well saturated the Towson Community."" Part of that saturation involves 128 female students now rooming at Goucher College. Previously, Goucher was receptive to the TSU students. Goucher's enrollment went up 8-10 percent this year and Goucher students, are now sleeping in their own infirmary. Carole Weinberg, (;oucher's dean of residence. said ""we would like to have one of those houses back."" Towson has a contract for those spaces and the students will remain but Weinberg said, ""The negotia-tions for those spaces will be coming up"" and ""we will have to see what the enrollment figures look like."" The capital budget request for 1980 includes $3,780,000 for a 450 bed residence hall which could greatly 'ease the campus housing problem. However, there is little hope the request will be. approved said John Suter, director of campus planning, ""Because the legislature won't use its funds tn build an auxilary facility."" The State feels they have fulfilled their commitment for residence halls and expects the universities to build any needed additions from the revenues generated by them. That money, said Wayne Schelle, director of business tind finance, ""has never materialized.'' Additional �housing is on the agenda for the next Board of Trustees meeting. What they would like to do, said Schelle. ""is build quadrangles which could be added to as enrollment increased.'' These would enrollment increased.' These would I' ssibly be open 6) fraternities and sororities. The University employs two realtors who are on the ltiokout for potential residence hall sights. Last spring Cardiff Hall, a nearby 375 bed apartment complex, went on the market for $1.8 million. The University was prepared to buy that facility and use it as a residence haq but the owner decided not to sell the apartments at the last minute, said Schelle. Schelle said there are a ""variety of proposals any of which will fulfill the needs of 400 students"" and he said he is confident one of them will pass. However, John Sutar said. .""Ihere are no plans for construction in the immediate future."" and he doubts that there will be. In his fall faculty address, ,Deati Cox. called dormitorY space a priority which I believe cannot In placed too high in our planning and thinking for the next several years. If we are OVer to be succetiSild obtaining tmother dormitory. that the time we must itchiev(' it."" The 1 2:-)2 spaCeti at Tow SO Ii Statc are assigned on a first come. first serve basis. Stimpson Hall is one of the Goucher dorms that houses TSU students. An enrollment hike at Goucher may cause the college to Like hack one the houses presently inh:tbited TSU students. Cox requests MBA here by Theresa Gilmore Acting president Joseph Cox has sent a letter of intent to the State Board of Trustees for Colleges and Universities to begin a. Master of Business Administration program at Towson in the fall of 1979. Cox was also a co-signer of a letter sent to the State Board of Higher Education from the presidents of four � area colleges who are protesting plans to create undergraduate and graduate business programs at University of Maryland Baltimore County. In the letter to the SBHE. Cox, along with H. Mebane Turner, president of the University of Baltimore: Andrew Billingsly, pre-sident of Morgan: and Rev. Joseph Sellinger. president of Loyola, said extension of the business program from the University of Maryland at College Park to the UM BC campus would be ""undue duplication"" of existing programs. Dr: Norman L. Sheets, acting vice president and dean of the Univer-sity, said that Towson's proposal for an M BA would not represent duplication because the emphasis would be in entry and middle level management, which no other area college offers. ""Our program would be designed for liberal arts students with no background in business,"" said Sheets. One reason for protest of the UM BC program is that the presidents of area colleges feel that enrollment in business at their own schools, will be impinged upon. 'rhis fear was clearly stated in their letter. lowever, John S. Toll, president of the University of Maryland, said that this plan will not harm area schools. hi its proposal, the University of Maryland states that enrollment will be cut by 2,000 students in the business program at College Park, while only 1200 students will In' admitted to the program al UM DC. This would theoretically release 800 students to area colleges. Sheets said that this is a false assumption. ""Most of College Park's draw is from the Washington area,"" he said. �Mese students would not be coming to this area to go to school anyway.""S Sheets feels that students will go to the school that is most convenient for them so that anyone living in the Catonsville area would go to UM BC should a business program be offered there. ""This is an area which we are presently servicing now,- he said. Since both Towson and the University of Maryland presented proposals to the 81311E at the smae Towson prof dies suddenly Funeral services will be held today at the Rua. Funeral Home for David L. C.ornthwitite. professor of education, who died of a heart attack at his home Tuesday morning. He was 57. David L. C'orniliwaito Cornthwaitte joined the Towson faculty in 1952 as a teacher at Lida Lee Tall Learning Resources Center tmd began teaching college curricu-lum the following. year. He was a graduate of Towson State Teachers College and earned his Masters Degree from Columbia University . and a Doctoral Degree in education from George Washington Universi-ty. Charles Haslup, assistant to the president, said the University will sponsor a memorial service on campus sometime in the near future. Cornthwaite was a long standitw member of the Academic Council and was an education department representative to the Towson Chapter of the Association of American University Professors. He was faculty advisor to Kappa Delta Phi. the education honors fraternity, and served on the committee of the Irene M. Steele Most Promising Teacher award committee. He was also moderator of the First Church of Christ Scientists. The Cornthwaites family has requested anyone wishing to make a Ii) emorial contribution (A) direct their contributions to the Sarah Long Cornthwaite Scholarship Fund named for Cornthwaite's wife Win) died several years ago. The family also said they intend to rename the fund the ""Sarah and David Cornthwaite Scholarship Fund... time, Sheets feels that both programs will either be rejected or accepted. .""I'hey couldn't possii.d\ accept theirs and reject ours."" he said. ""This was our strategy,. In the event that Towson 's NI 11 A is rejected, Cox also has, plans for a joint MBA including Loyola and the University of; Baltimore. A 1)ar,1 graph stating this possibility, was. included at the end of the proposal sent to the State Board of TrusteO'`. which in turn presented it to tho SI311 E. ""We included this idea to sh,,�, our intentinos of not � wanting duplicate existing programs,"" sid Sheets. ""But oil Id really like' our own MBA.�� ""Hight now our only concorm time.'' said Sheets. because 8131W will not :let on the pi op,o ii until at least February or Vlitych next year. Towson hopes to begin otfo r i r;.,. conrses in the fall. Inn it 11,w proposal is not acted upon until vi-,Fy� late. Sheets said ""it would he ?,,ry difficult to remain on schedule.. tin This Issue Hamburger Hostess: Miss Hot all() Juicy for Wendy's is none other tliat'l Claudia Miller, and she talks tiblito � peddling burgers with a pretty face. See No Evil: Aunt Minnie and the of the old crows on the Maryland Cen�� sor Board have just staged their latest crusade to stomp out sit: and saint on celluloid ..... .. page 10 Slums on Stage; The depths of despair, Russian-style, makes its ap-pearance at TSU with the debut of tin' play ""Lower Depths"" page 11 Metropolis Meeting: B-ball fans will have trouble coining up for air as the Metro Tourney rolls along all tins . weekend at the Towson Center. .. page 19 Briefcase Lugging: Former SG.A president David Nevins has really made his papa proud, as he gets desk job in D.C. and starts getting buddy-buddy with Jimmy anti his: ing Page "