The Towerlight, December 3, 1976

tl19761203-000 "Tigers on TV. Coverage starts 1:30 p.m . tomorrow on ch. 13. Details on page 10. et t VOL LXIX, NO 12 1 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY 'Myth and Fairy Tales' Mime show next week. See page 5. DECEMBER 3, 1976 Touchdown by Skip Chase causes players on both sides to lose their heads in the rough action. Towson State edged St. Lawrence, 38-36, to advance to the NCAA Division III finals against St. John's (Minn.) in Phenix City Alabama, tomorrow. More details on page 10. TL Photo by Sue Latimer Dance Marathon finals set for this weekend by Kathy Pascuzzi The final competition for this 'oar's Dance Marathon to benefit the Maryland Association for Iletarded Citizens will begin tonight 48 'clock and continue for 40 hours, io the UU Multipurpose Room, says' SGA treasurer Eric Perkins, an 0rganizer for the event. Besides live Music, the entertainment for the Weekend includes visits from local television and radio personalities, Politicians, clowns and Frankie Avalon. Perkins said that although the inarathon has been in the planning 8tages since the semester began, We're finding a lot of last-minute things still need to be done"" to 'sure that the competition runs Ten committees helped to plan the event, which has so far involved 41)out 150 students. Fifty couples Will dance in competition, but sPectators will also be invited to join the dancers at certain times. Perkins said, ""We'd like to charge slPectators to dance with people like President Fisher, or Ted Venetoulis or Mayor Schaefer."" Student organizations have also helped with the planning. Perkins said he got a lot of help from such groups as the Campus Union Board, Circle K and the American Association of Personnel Adminis-trators. In addition, TSU's Special Services department and others in Towson's administration worked With Perkins on the planning. The Cockeysville-Timonium Jay-cees association co-sponsored the event. Live entertainment will be pro-vided tonight by bands Opus Nuevo and Climbadonkey, and WFBR's DJ Mike March and Amanda Arnold and Joe Kriebs from WBAL. Saturday and Sunday, live music will be provided by F. A. Duck, Bluegrass, Hank Levy and the Towson State Jazz Ensemble, Appaloosa, Lone Rat, Crosstown Express. Mike March will be back, and WJZ TV's weatherman Bob Turk and WLPL's DJ Casey Jones will make appearances. An appearance by Frankie Avalon is also planned for Sunday morning. In honor of the occasion, Perkins said he will wear a tuxedo. He promises ""endless beer and con-stant entertainment"" for the week-end. Fisher tests 'political ocean,' eyes Md. gubernatorial post by Bill Stetica Towson State President James L. Fisher has begun to test the depth of the political ocean in Maryland by seeing what his chances are of winning the state governorship in 1978. Dr. Fisher, who said he will not formally declare his candidacy for at least 15 months, said, ""I intend to run for governor, assuming that I have sufficient support. The key is the extent of support that I can get from people who are not normally politically active."" It had been rumored in several University circles that Dr. Fisher would throw his hat into the ring, but it wasn't until Thursday night, November 18, that any type of fund-raising event was held. Dr. Fisher, a Democrat, said he ""had hoped to get $15,000 from the first meeting."" He received $20,000 to back his run for the governor's mansion. Observers feel that at least six other Democrats will seek the governor's post, being vacated by Marvin Mandel. Among the six are Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis, Lt. Gov. Blair Lee 3d, State Senate President Steny Hoyer, Atty. Gen. Francis Burch, State Comptroller Louis Goldstein and Baltimore City Mayor William Schaefer. Dr. Fisher said, ""I'm not running against anyone in particular. I'm running for something."" At the same time, he let his feelings be known about the current state of Maryland politics, saying, ""I want to offer, hopefully, for voters, a clear alternative to 'business as usual' government. ""I have no personal exceptions to any of those people [other candi-dates],"" he reiterated, but said the current crop of political leaders ""have caused a near-crisis in this state of trust, inefficiency, quality in terms of service, and confidence. ""I want to run a positive campaign, not a negative one. I want to make it obvious to voters that I am not a party to nor have I been involved in political compro-mises in this state,"" the President said. ""I know enough about the government situation to know that something must be done,"" Dr. Fisher said. ""Government can re-establish public trust and confi-dence."" At the present time, the 45-year-old President said, he has a ""braintrust group working. ""Right now, we're all intelligent amateurs"" in the campaign busi-ness, he said. Dr. Fisher emphasized that, although there are a number of people on the TSU staff helping him, ""no one, including myself, is working on government time."" He said that, with the money he has gathered, he is seeking the aid of several political consultants in an effort to put together a design for his organization. Dr. Fisher has also been asked by four of the speculated candidates to run as lieutenant governor, although he declined to name them publicly. He said that he has not accepted any of the offers. He acknowledged that he is ""not naive enough to believe I can't win without some support from the political machine,"" but added that he wants that support ""on my terms."" Dr. Fisher said that, if he garnered enough support to make a serious effort in the primary election in September, 1978, he would ""probably resign from the presi-dency. ""When? I'm not sure, but no later than the spring '78 semester,"" he said. Whether or not he gathers enough support to run in the primary, Dr. Fisher said, ""I believe my candidacy will be enhancing this presidency and this University in the eyes of the state General Assembly of Mary-land."" Brungardt to replace Shaw as VP Dean Shaw will be taking his vacation from his new post ""this spring and will return to TSU during that time to aid in the promotion and tenure process for faculty mem-bers."" The Vice President of Academic Affairs Committee includes the following members of the faculty: Dr. Patricia Plante of the English department (Chairperson of the committee); Dr. James Binko, of the Education department; Dr. Ruth Conard, Physical Education de-partment; Dr. Howard Erickson of the Biology department, Dr. Jenny Jochens of the History department; Dr. David Marchand of the Music department; Dr. William Pelham from the Physics department and Dr. Ed Roulhac of the Health Sciences department. Students Joanne Finegan and Phillip Ross III and Dr. Annette Flower, Special Assistant to the President and Affirmative Action Officer are also on the committee. director of choral activities. From by Debbie Pelton 1965-1967, he served as director of choral activities at Colgate Univer- Dr. Gilbert Brungardt has been sity. For three years, from 1967- chosen to temporarily take over the 1970, Brungardt was chairperson of duties of Dr. Kenneth Shaw, vice Towson's music department. He has president of Academic Affairs and served in his present position for the dean of the University, when Dr. last six years. Shaw leaves in January to assume No temporary replacement for the position of president of Southern Brungardt has yet been selected. Illinois University at Edwardsville. Applications for a permanent Dr. Brungardt is presently the replacement for Dean Shaw are now dean of Arts and Letters and being accepted. Dean Esslinger, Communication Arts and Sciences. chairperson of the Academic Coun- ""I'm happy Dr. Fisher asked cil, has been appointed by Univer-me,"" Dr. Brungardt said about his sity President James Fisher to select appointment. ""I'm looking forward members for a search committee to the challenge of continuing the who will find a candidate to fill the projects he (Dean Shaw) has position of Vice President of initiated."" Academic Affairs. One major goal he will be Dean Shaw's permanent replace-concerned with during his interim ment will take office July 1, 1977. position as dean of the university is President Fisher said Tuesday ""to successfully implement the new that he told Dr. Annette Flower that general university requirements."" he wants the final three to five Dr. Brungardt came to Towson ""superior candidates"" presented to State in 1963 when he was the him in unranked order by May 1. Dr. Gilbert Brungardt $3,350 BSU budget request approved after much debate by Tom Troy, Jr. The long - debated and much-publicized Black Student Union request for $3,350 was finally passed by the SGA Senate Tuesday by a vote of 14 in favor of the bill, 2 opposed and 2 abstaining. The whole BSU issue caused much confusion in the normal business of the Senate, which is usually not as heated as it has been in the past few weeks. Midway through Tuesday's meet-ing, it became clear that Eric Perkins, treasurer of the SGA, and Eric Hanks, president of the BSU, were dealing with two different sums of money. Perkins said the BSU had $6,200 in their account and Hanks said they had $5,200 in the account, and neither party had sufficiently reliable documents to resolve the dispute. A number of Senators seemed to be tired of the budget issue and did not seem to care to argue it with BSU any longer. Strongly influenc-ing the vote on the budget, according to SGA Senator Jeff Woodard, was the intervention of Dean Siegel, vice president of Student Services, in the dispute. Woodard abstained from the vote. Siegel met with several senators privately, at her request. She also met with the Appropriations Com-mittee, where she dissuaded chair-person Angela Pierce from putting a moratorium on all money bills, including that of the BSU. Siegel also spoke with Vice President Nancy Payne, President Joanne Finegan and members of the Black Student Union. Last Tuesday, she gave a speech before the Senate. In her remarks, she did not recommend the BSU budget out-right, but left it as the only conclusion. She said, ""I am here to try to influence decisions, but not to make them. I am here to talk of other approaches to problem-solving than what I have seen within this group. ""A program of self perpetuation of cultural differences is the only answer to freedom within a multiple populace. Blacks no longer feel the need to press their hair into white straightness in order to have identity and to have respect,"" she said. ""It is incumbent on every senator here to see that the black experience is shared by every member of Towson State University, that it infiltrates our very being, in order that we may become the greater whole. If the BSU is prevented from making black culture part of the Towson experience, then not only have we failed to meet the needs of an important segment of our population, but we have robbed every member of our total commu-nity of the enrichment that that segment can provide,"" Siegel said. She also had some advice for Towerlight, ""I call upon the press to report the proceedings of this body, not in a description of its disputes, but in a description of its constructive efforts and achieve-ments."" Siegel also said, ""Being in the majority is always an unequal position and being a legislative leader makes you unequal. Extra dispensations will be needed to give the black community to make them able."" Vice President Payne was not happy with Siegel's involvement with the SGA. Payne said, ""I think Dean Siegel came to the Senate meeting because she thought we weren't following the right path . . . I think it was unnecessary for her to come And BSU Vice President Leon Thompson said, ""This is what we have been waiting for since day one"" of this semester. Other SGA Senate news: The senators were unable to override Finegan's veto of the Creative Interpreters' Guild budget ($1,350) for a speaking tour. Also passed was a grant of $69 to video-tape tomorrow's football game for the benefit of students who can't see the game. 1Voodward-Bernstein regale 3500 with tales of Watergate, the role of the press Bob Woodward .by Steve Jones ""Since Watergate, the press finds itself in an orgy of self-congratula-tion,"" said Carl Bernstein, ""and that attitude could not be less justified."" Bernstein and his partner, Bob Woodward, who together won every major journalistic award in 1973, including the Pulitzer Prize, spoke before a record crowd of 3,500 at the Towson Center on Saturday, Nov. 20. After an introduction by President James L. Fisher, the two Washington Post reporters took turns speaking, with Bernstein going first. lie spoke ot the ""comptete contempt for the role of the press"" by the Nixon administration and especially by former Attorney General John Mitchell. Bernstein also commented on the ability of the Nixon administration to undermine the press and talked about former Vice President Spiro Agnew of Baltimore County,"" and his ""usual alliterative nonsense."" Originally, only 14 of 2,000 Washington reporters were assign-ed to Watergate, because, as Bernstein explained, many made the assumption of the Nixon White House that it had to be smarter than to get involved in something ""quite so insane"" as Watergate. Both reporters claimed that Nixon's pardon was ""a complete surprise."" Describing the events that immediately followed Ford's pardon on September 8, 1974, a stunned Bernstein called Woodward and said only ""the sonovabitch just pardoned the sonovabitch."" Wood-ward said he ""immediately knew what had happened."" However, they had different opinions on whether the pardon was right or wrong. Woodward thought Ford ""did the right thing"" by pardoning Nixon and added that ""the former Nixon staffers had been instrumental in getting Nixon the pardon."" Bernstein took an opposite view, saying, �*the pardon was a terrible thing, a case of bad timing,"" and also said that it ""had a serious effect in undermining the judicial pro-cess."" Bernstein described a telephone conversation with John Mitchell in which he called to confirm some Watergate-related information. A stunned Mitchell, his tongue tied after hearing himself implicated in the coverup, responded ""Jeezus, .Teeezus."" Woodward told the audience about the scrawl ""H.Hunt-W. House"" that appeared in the notebooks of two of the Watergate burglars. ""Being from the Midwest, I'm slow in picking things up. As Carl said, the W. House could mean only one of two things. So Bernstein called the whore house and I called the White House."" On the subject of the reporter's job and the way it is performed, Bernstein said that the press has undertaken a policy of ""mutual backslapping over our. role in Watergate,"" and that there was ""too much mythology, covering Watergate was not so extraordi-nary."" On the topic of the movie, ""All the President's Men,"" Bern-stein said that ""The great thing about the movie is that it shows the reporter's side and is the best attainable version of the truth. The movie shows at times how grungy a reporter's life can he."" In the question and answer period that followed each reporter's speech, the duo were asked if they ever felt compelled to hold back information. Both ag,reedithat they would ""go with the information"" and not hold anything back. The question of why Nixon kept the tapes was also raised. Wood-ward said that Nixon ""acted as an anal retentive"" and elaborated that it was ""easier to explain the creation of the universe than to speculate on why Nixon kept the tapes."" Bernstein added, ""Nixon was a pack rat."" Finally, they were asked if another Watergate was .a possibility. Bernstein commented that there is a ""healthy skepticism"" that it will not happen again. Carl Bernstein "