tl19691205-000 "SGA cuts '70 budget further to remedy over - allocation by RON DeABREAU On Tuesday, December 2, faced with over-allocations of up to $20,- 000 in the budget, the Student Gov-ernment Association Senate was forced to drastically trim the bud-get. SGA budget worries After the discovery that the recently passed Student Government As-sociation budget was over-allocat-ed, the Senate met on Decembe7 2 to make some unpopular but neecsary cuts. 'SGA President Charles Johnson, in an opening statement to the Senate, informed the body that, due to an allocation of $5,000 to the 1969-70 Special Events Pro-gram, a deficit from last year of over $10,000, and the need for con-tingency and bumper funds of $10,- 000 and $5,000 respectively, there was only $94,586.83 available for allocation this year. He advised the Senate that he would veto an unbalanced budget and strongly urged cuts to remedy towerlight_ � ol. XXII, No. 11 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 December 5, 196' - - Senate approves academic reform report; standards committee acts on changee next by PATTI THOMPSON The Academic Reform Commit-tee, headed by Tom Walkiewicz, Vice President of the 'Student Gov-ernment Association, has presented its report to the Academic Stand-ards Committee of the College. The student committee is pushing for changes and improvements within the grading system. The report which was unani-mously approved by the SGA Sen-ate, calls for revamping of the present grade scale. According to Walkiewicz, ""We simply wanted to eliminate those features of the pres-ent system which seems to us to be unfair to the student at the in-stitution it was designed to serve."" F-grade eliminated The eliminaion of the ""F"" grade in favor of an ""NC"" (no credit) record is part of the report. The reasoning behind this is explained by Walkiewicz. The grade of ""NC"" lIttiateXEMWMT, Inside... Editorials Pg.N Play Review 3 Winter Sports Review .... 4 Blockbusting lu Getting Married 10 Falling Rain 12:, would not be computed into the QPA (Qualitative Point Average). ""We feel that a QPA lowered by a few ""F's"" received early in col-lege is 'an inaccurate measure of a student's work. The QPA should represent the quality of work count-ed toward the student's degree, not the quality of all the courses at-tempted while in college."" The commitee is also recommend-ing a modification of the Pass-Fail system which would allow students to either, record their actual marks, or record a ""P"" (pass). This would be available only in non-ma-jor courses and physical education, to a total of 14 credits. Walkiewicz hopes that this ""will mean that students will 'attempt to take more courses in unfamiliar areas, knowing that they could al-ways record a low mark as a (Please turn to page 11) How it affects you . . � Lottery allows eligible by TED OSTERLOH (Number 11) Last Monday, December 1, at 8 pin, more than 50 draft-age rep-resentatives of the Selective Serv-ice System's Youth Advisory Coun-cils drew 392 slips Of paper out of two-foot high glass jar and determined the future actions of all American men from 19-26. Out of the jar, were randomly drawn the 366 dates of the year, including the leap-year day. Also chosen, were slips of paper with each of the 26 letters of the al-phabet. Order determines chances In the order that they were drawn, the dates were put on a list numbering from one to 366. The dates represent birthdays and their order in the list determines the order in which draft eligible men will be called up for induc-tion. Men whose birthdates are at the beginning of the list will be the first to be drafted. If their date appears further down the list, their chances of being called up are less, depending on the amount of men required by the services for the upcoming year. Unless a na-tional emergency arises, these at the bottom of the list need not fear being drafted. Ages 19-26 affected The 1970 draft pool, which is subject to Monday's drawing, will consist of all draft-eligible men from ages 19-26. A new lottery You belt.HA , KIDDIES...ITI5 HERE!! THE ALL NEW '70 DRAFT!!! No LONGER WILL You BE SUBJECT TO ThE PETTY1414IMS OF A NASTY DRAFT BOARD!! NOW YOUR couNTRY WILL rtAKE You A HIRED Ku.LER By FAIR, ARBtTRARY CHANCE PI the over-allocation. The body, faced with no choice, then proceeded, in a two hour session, to reduce the 'budget to a balanced form. Some of the larger cuts were: $1,000 from the SGA executive fund, $1,250 from Talisman, $5,000 from the College Union Board, $1,- from Towerlight, $1,000 from the grants-in-aid to the Drama Depart-ment, $1,150 from the Creative In-terpreter's Guild, $1,000 from the speakers pools, $1,200 from Men's Residence Council and Women's Residence Council, and $2,000 from next year's Homecoming Dance and four jam sessions. Many other smaller cuts were made, including the reduction of all honorary fraternity budgets to $10. As a final note to the proceed-ings, .however, Johnson proposed a resolution, which the Senate ap-proved, to request $5,000 from the Athletics budget. Going on the philosophy that the college should support all inter-collegiate competition, he said that, since ,SGA could no longer support organizations like the Creative In-terpreters Guild and the Chess Club which are active in inter-col-lege competition, the $5,000 would go to this and other inter-collegi-ate cultural activities. Debaters sweep four honors at Elizabethtown tourney Photo by Thomas TOWSON'S DEBATE TEAM won top honors by taking four places at the Elizabethtown College Invitational Tour-nament. Award winners were (pictured from right to left) Ron DeAbreau, first place in Extemporaneous Speaking; Terry Katz, second place in Extemporaneous Speaking; Dave Kaplan, third in Oratory; and Amy Schaffer, second in Oral Interpretation of Literature. Accompanying the team was - Coach Nick Nykodym, left, of the Speech Department. men to plan for future will be held every year with fu-ture draft pools consisting only of all 19 year-olds in the coun-try. In the new system, an individ-ual is susceptable to the draft for only one year. All deferments are still in effect. According to Government esti-mates, the 1970 pool consists of 850,000 men. If induction trends continue, 250,000 of those men will be drafted next year. According to these figures, men in the lower third of the list, below 122, will most likely be drafted; the upper third is virtually free of the draft forever. Those with numbers 123- 243 will have to hope for no draft increases. Letters also drawn To determine in which order men with the same birthdays will be called up, the letters of the al-phabet were also randomly drawn and placed in a list. Men whose first letter of their last names ap-pears early on the list, will be chosen first. An example of how the system affects Towson State males is the hypothetical case of Lou Hershey, born on October 21. Like all eli-gible males from 19-26, Lou is a part of the 1970 draft pool, for which Monday's lottery was drawn. His birthday was the 113 date to be drawn (hypothetically). As long as he has his college defer-ment, he will not be drafted. Dur-ing the year, men without defer- (Please turn to page 11) "
