The Towerlight, December 12, 1975

tl19751212-000 "LbH � i_IBRARY TOWSON - COLLEGE Trustees reviewing mutual Contrac tALTDiMEOC RE7M1A9R5YLAND by Marlene Milder egotiations between Baltimore nty and Towson State College expand the physical education plex currently under construe-have resulted in a ""mutually ptable contract"" which is being ewed by the County Council and college's Board of Trustees. ect,or of Business and Finance yne Schelle reported the concept expanding the arena from a capacity seating arrangement of ht thousand to eleven thousand S at the County's suggestion, a professional basketball a XVIII, NO. 14 franchise's move to the Baltimore Civic Center was disbanded. Towson appeared to be the best physical location to hold major events, said Schelle, because not too many people go to the Baltimore Civic Center. The physical education complex is situated at the corner of the cam-pus where major events could take place without interrupting the coll-ege, said Schelle. Further, maintaining events would not hinder classes because classroom areas are in a separate academic wing. ""The expanded arena,"" reported Schelle, ""Could benefit the commun-ity with its multiplicity of uses, cul-turally, academically, and recrea-tionally."" The director of business and finance reported Cellar Door Productions have shown interest in handling performances for the arena if it were to be expanded. They have staged productions for Elton John, Chicago, Tony Orlando and others, and feel performers would appear before a good-sized audience. Maintaining ""an intergovernmen-tal relationship being long overdue,"" Schelle reported the cooperative efforts between Baltimore County and Towson to jointly operate a civic arena have resulted in a projected dual governing board. Ted Venetou-lis would have three voting members on the board, while Towson's Presi-dent James Fisher would appoint four to the board. Under the joint sponsorship, 110 dates have been arranged where the arena could be used as a civic arena, said Schelle. The college's academic, intramural and intercollegiate activ-ity would not conflict with those dates. Also, nine dates have been scheduled for student government events and 15 projected dates for college events do not conflict with TOWSON STATE COLLEGE DECEMBER 12, 1975 ullea is Kodak All-American by Bill Stetka Towson State has been honored th its first-ever football All-erican. Dan Dullea, the brilliant passer o led Towson State's rise from football obscurity, Tuesday was rewarded by being named to the 1975 Kodak College Division II All- American team. Chosen by the American Football Coaches Association, the Kodak son State's All-American quarterback Dan Dullea. II(',p � � 7 Os: It team is perhaps the most presti-gious of the All-American teams since it is chosen by the coaches. Dullea's record at Towson speaks for itself. The junior out of Loyola High School completed 56 percent of his passes in three years as a Tiger, but the award still surprises both Dullea and head coach Phil Albert. ""I was shocked when Coach called and told me,"" an excited Dullea said. ""It's just incredible."" Albert was shocked, too, but the gleam in his eyes showed his pleasure. ""Ain't that nice!"" he exclaimed, noting that it was even greater since Dullea will be back next year. ""We've won 20 of 28 games since Dan started here. I knew he had the physical and mental capabilities, but it still comes as a surprise,"" the Tiger mentor added. Much of the reason. for the surprise comes from Towson's record. While not bad at 6-4, the Tigers fell from a lofty 10-0 in 1974 when Dullea actually had a better year. This past fall, Dullea completed 118 of 209 passes, a 56.5 percentage, while throwing nine touchdown passes. He was inter-cepted 15 times while trowing for 1,457 yards. Since taking over as director of the Tiger offensive attack, the Towson resident has completed 338 of 608 passes for 4,563 yards and 39 TD's. ""All I look for are points on the scoreboard,"" Dullea said. ""It's too difficult to set personal goals. You never know when you'll get hurt or something."" Dullea played with sore ribs throughout much of this year. ""Sometimes, I really had to push it,"" he said. He also squashed rumors that he was going to leave Towson last year and play at a larger school. ""I never gave a thought to going somewhere else,"" he said. ""I knew I'd have to devote too much time that I didn't have."" The naming of the junior quarterback to the All-American squad is a giant step forward for Tiger football. articipation, openess iff by Ruth Ann Leftridge of I would really like to stress tjtudent participation. I am going to bify M maintain an open atmosphere Ore,"" stated Ann Marie Lowe, hew president of the Student iovernment Association. Lowe listed the students as her t Interest in her new position ch she assumed December 1, lowing the resignation of David vins. Secondly, she emphasized r representative role and respon- ilities. ""I have been active in the olnaign for university status ough student goverment - I will a student lobbyist,"" she said. Lowe also expressed a strong terest in presenting the views of C students to the Board of stees in regard to their recent to to raise tuition rates to all aryland state colleges. This ecision by the trustees would ange Towson from a state- Pnorted to a state-assisted # hool, and thus increase the cost of teodance. "".1 want to carry out those rojects that the student govern- eta had been working on reviously,"" continued Lowe, and ded that she especially wants to to phasize the academic areas by rthering faculty grants and work- g for the Visiting Scholars rograrn that is currently under s cussion. 1 In addition to her nomination to the Senate for Joanne Finnegan to fill the vice-presidency, Lowe will make one other appointment. She announced that she expects the Senate to confirm her appointment of Cindy Baduski to the Academic Council. Otherwise, she stated, ""As far as I know there will not be any further major appointments. My cabinet will essentially remain the same."" Regarding SGA-sponsored social events Lowe stated, ""Discussions and plans are under way for the possibility of having a concert, but it is a big endeavor with a lot of implications to it."" If the proposal ""It shows there are signs of growth in the program,"" noted Albert. ""The quarterback is the key position on the football field, and we felt if we were going to launch a successful program, we had to start there."" ""All our quarterbacks do a real fine job. In fact, all our players do a helluva job - if they didn't they wouldn't be out there,"" Albert continued. Even though Dullea impressed the selection committee, the West-ern Union Mailgram announcing his selection was not impressed. The six-foot, two-inch, 185 pounder was listed as ""Dan Dulla,"" misspelling his last name. Dullea was one of six juniors named to the 22-man squad. There is no second team or honorable mention selected ont he Kodak list. Only one of Towson State's 1975 opponents were named to the team, defensive end Edward Kelley of Hampden-Sydney. The ten-member AFCA selection committee included representatives from each of the nine athletic districts and chairman Tubby Raymond, head coach at the University of Delaware and former two-time Kodak Coach-of-the-Year. the selected joint sponsored pro-grams. Schelle reported the college would be paid a six percent fee for manag-ing and promoting the facility, with the money reverting to the college auxiliary reserve account. He has forcasted approximately $350,000 in net proceeds will be received, with the college receiving 70 per-cent and the County 30 percent. The County, said Schelle, would use their money to pay back their principle and interest in the money they bor-rowed. Also, under the contract, 500 tic-kets would be set aside for Towson Taking care of business State members at a discount and, up to 48 hours of any event, the Board would have the authority to distribute tickets not sold at a cheaper rate. ""Fdr two million dollars,"" said Schelle, ""the County would have half a civic center and.Towson State would enjoy the rest of the bene-fits."" Results of the negotiations will be decided within 10 days, said Schelle. The County Council now must ap-prove a lease agreement to guaran-tee payment of principle and inter-est, and the Board of Trustees must consider it. Senate concludes with appointments by T.F. Troy, Jr. The SGA Senate concluded its last meeting of the semester by appointing two new senators to fill the vacancies left by Maria Williams, who resigned, and Joanne Finnegan, who was elected vice president. The two new senators, Rick Weber and Joe Baranoski, were chosen over two other candidates, Richard Andrews and Chris Cager. Three of the more noteworthy pieces of legislation to come out of the Senate so far this year were the Planned Parenthood Bill, the Food Services Investigation, and the ""Cancel Ky"" attempt. In September, when the P.P.I. bill was introduced, the Senate was eager to get a P.P.I. clinic on campus, and fearful that if they delayed, P.P.I. would ""pack up its bags and go."" Therefore, they passed the bill quickly. But Dave Nevins was not quite so enamored over the P.P.I people. He vetoed the bill, saying Senate had been ""snowjobbed"" by Mr. Bates, the treasurer of Planned Parent-hood. Furthermore, they had not secured a contract to make sure that P.P.I did not abscond with the $5,000. Anyway, Senate overrode the veto, but promised they would negotiate a contract. The next issue to make Tower-light headlines was College Affairs Committee's investigation into food services. Chairman Mike Hill undertook the inquiry to find out why the prices seemed so high, the service so inadequate, and the food quality so poor. The investigation was intense enough to evoke defensive mea-sures from the administration. Mr. Suter sent conciliatory letters to residents. He conducted a survey of other schools' prices to show how reasonable Towson's were by comparison. The most notable result was the lowering of the cost of meal plans for next semester. By far, the most controversial issue was the hiring of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky for the SGA Speaker Series. When Ky's scheduled appear-ance was made known to The Pholosophical Discussion Club, The. Rainbow Coalition, and The Revo-lutionary Student Brigade, the resultant outrage was tremendous. Senators Reed, Schramm, Payne and Hill sympathized with these opponents and introduced a bill demanding that Nevins cancel the appearance of that ""corrupt and immoral"" tyrant, Nguyen Cao Ky. Battle was fairly joined now between then President Dave Nevins, and the Senate, so they went to the people. Both sides ran surveys to determine student sentiment on the matter, and for both sides, the majority response was ""Who's Ky? I don't care if he comes. meanwhile, the RSB kept up a steady barrage of pressure outside the Student Center to cancel Ky. In the end, Ky's engagement was sustained, and he was allowed to speak. Nevins given a fond farewell by Marlene Milder ""Being Student Government Pres-ident was an educational and an experience in itself,"" said outgoing SGA president, David Nevins, a 1976 December Towson graduate who resigned his position to SGA Vice-President, Anne Marie Lowe before Thanksgiving in order for his successor to familiarize herself with the procedures. Nevins maintains that his two major accomplishments as President of the SGA involved gearing Student Government towards an academic trend and placing a student on the board of directors. ""The Speaker Series served its .purpose 100%,"" said Nevins, ""bring-ing notables to the campus to dis-seminate information and offer stu-dents a chance to question per-stressed by Lowe is approved, a concert will be held around the time of Spring Home-coming. Although Lowe would not com-ment any further on these plans, she did say that with the opening of the new field house in October 1976 she could see no reason why the SGA would not be able to sponsor concerts next year. Other current social activities will include the Speaker Series, which will continue throughout the spring semester introducing a number of other speakers. Lowe assures students, ""I don't think any of us in student government have forgotten the social aspects."" Ann Marie Lowe Credit changes proposed by Jim Masseron Presented in a memorandum to the Academic Council, the Aca-demic Standards Committee re-cently proposed changes in current grading policies and graduation requirements, including restoration of the ""F"" grade. Building criticism of the present marking and point system prompt-ed Dean Kenneth Shaw and the Standards Committee to suggest several alterations for the Fall 1976 semester, comprising removal of the ""NC"" (no credit) grade reinstatement of the ""F"" (no credit and 0 quality points). The decision to restore the F grade stemmed from apparent student abuse of current grading standards. Shaw and the committee claim that too often students ""walk away"" from courses, failing to take final exams, yet receive a grade (NC) which does not figure into their grade-point average (GPA). As in the past, the D would count one quality point toward the GPA. Like the present NC, the proposed F grade carries no credit but is worth no quality points, therefore reducing the final GPA. With a new ""Pass/F"" option, the Academic Standards Committee hopes to eliminate abuses ""inherent in the present grading system."" Due to increasing levels of unacceptance by medical colleges, law institutions and graduate schools, grades of ""PA"" (pass), ""PE"" (credit for previous exper-ience) and ""S"" (satisfactory) will carry an equivalent grade of C or higher as before. sonalities."" Nevins supported the speakers selected to discuss various topics and felt by comparison it was the best Speakers Series in the state. ""We had Moshe Dayan when there was trouble in the Middle East, F. Lee Bailey one week after be-coming Patty Hearst's lawyer, William Masters, who only lectures at four colleges and universities yearly and ex-vice president Nyguen Cao Ky."" ""The controversy raised by the Revolutionary Student Brigade over whether to let Ky lecture at Towson was an experience in itself,"" said Nevins. ""I think everyone on campus was aware of what was going on and it made everything interesting."" Another new concept in education was achieved during Nevins' term. Ten outstanding faculty grants of $250 were awarded by students to faculty members. ""This is a unique idea,"" said Nev-ins, ""because it shows that students giving money from their funds to professions they feel deserve reco-gnition."" Also, the SGA allocated $10,000 to visiting scholars for next semester. This, said Nevins, ""will be conductedf in a close personal seminar. Profes-sors and visiting professionals will meet with students foi a weekend in order to give indepth discussions. An Asian Art Collection was funded by the Student Government last month after Nevins made arrange-ments to have it brought on campus. Valued at one million dollars, the collection, to be displayed in the library is one of the major Asian collections on the East Coast. Another major accomplishment, Nevins maintains was placing a student on the board of trustees. ""My being chosen as that student is minimal, but the future potential of the position is what counts,"" said Nevins. ""It will take time for the board to fully accept, and take seriously student input but it will happen."" ""The foundation has been hard for students to have a say in determing budgets, since the board placed one on the Finance and Budget Commit-tee and hopefully the board will gradually give students more pow-er."" Nevins also feels he has helped maintain a good working relationship with faculty and administration. ""We (the SGA) have helped to in-corporate a mutual trust and res-pect relationship rather than the traditional role of the adversary."" In dealing with students, the ex- President said, ""Student input is as good as the student wants."" Nevins believes each individual contributes to the college in the way in which he or she sees fit, and ""That's the way it should be."" ""SGA should not just be geared to academics,"" said Nevins. During his term in office, the SGA sponsored the First Annual Spring Homecom-ing, with the Ed Williams Band, and he has implemented matinees for movie productions and started a video tape network. The culmination of his term is the Student Government Annual Re-port. For the first time, the SGA has put in writing what SGA has accomplished and what we're all about. Mike McFall and David Per-kosksi did fine jobs in showing just what SGA is all about. ""Now that I think back, being SGA president was a challenge. At times it was really hectic, but every-thing I wanted to achieve, I did."" REQUIRED MINIMUM GPA TO BE IN COLLEGE Credits Minimum GPA 1-15 by-20 by-30 by-40 by-50 by-60 1.10 1.50 1.65 1.80 1.90 2.00 Minimum Level of Satisfactory Progress 1.75 1.85 1.85 1.95 1.95 2.00"