The Towerlight, December 5, 1980

tl19801205-000 "VOL. LXXIV No. 14 frti, il) ertt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Sports Entertainment Features Weekwatcher Newsbriefs Classifieds Commentary Contents 6 5 3 8 8 8 9 December 5, 1980 Budget final by Quincey Johnson Towson State will revert $468,000 of its fiscal 1981 budget appropriation to the state. That sum is less than the three-percent expected cut. Because the state met the $50-mil-lion savings figure for the fiscal year 1981, the proposed three-percent reversion for state agencies was not needed. ""The expected $127-million budget deficit cannot be dealt with in one Year; therefore, cost containment Plans were necessary in fiscal year 1981 to offset the deficit expected in fiscal year 1982,"" explained Governor Harry Hughes. The $85 tuition increase for the spring semester was approved by Hughes. Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic affairs, said, ""The rever-sion will make things tight but it will not hurt our instructional programs. ""We will be able to cover part-time faculty salaries and maintain the same class size as the fall semester,"" Cox added. Hughes said yesterday a tuition increase for state institutions of higher education is in accordance With the State Board for Higher Education recommendation. Hughes also said, ""It is a justified increase, and some of it will go to the financial aid programs."" The state already offers over $60 million in financial aid to students. Cox said $10 of the tuition hike will go to the Board of Trustees' manage-nient fund and $10 will go to financial aid. Hughes said the spending ceilings set in June would result in a $127-mil-lion state deficit in fiscal 1982. The original spending ceiling was 4.8 per-cent higher than the fiscal 1981 appropriation. ""Under the state constitution, the governor is required to submit to the General Assembly a budget that can be fully supported by revenues ex-pected to be collected during the course of that fiscal year for which the budget is intended,"" said Hughes. ""In other words, we must prepare a balanced fiscal year 1982 budget tadaY on the basis of revenues we can expect to have available for fiscal Year 1982, which begins next July 1, 1981,"" he added. After directing state agencies to explore cost containment programs, state agencies will revert $52.4 Million. State colleges and univer-sities will revert $831,400. The governor did not comment on the fiscal 1982 budget situation. He said he would say more when the offi-cial state board of estimates report is Made next Friday. The state board of estimates will estimate state rev-enues for fiscal 1982. The state budget is based on the bloard's report. Step, reach, kick, leap...again Broadway's Best, a musical review featuring numbers from past musical comedies, will be presented along with a one-act play, ""Lone Star,"" December 11, 12 and 13. The review is student-directed by Tim Topper with Tom Wyatt 6 colleges projected serving as musical director. The double bill begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, Fine Arts. Admission is free and no reservations are required. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley Reorganization planned by Patricia Voelkel An interim report proposing the reorganization of the University into six colleges was presented to the Academic Council Monday. The Council discussed the report and referred it back to the task force for further study. A motion of intent from the task force is due in March. The report calls for the creation of six separate schools and colleges, each to be headed by its own dean. The restructure combines these de-partments that are academically related and that have similar aca-demic goals. Departments that are ""likely to share similar problems as their pro-grams and services develop"" during the next decade were also grouped together. The proposal calls for a College of Liberal Arts and includes the follow-ing departments: English, geography and environmental planning, history, modern languages, philosophy and religion, political science, psychol-ogy, sociology and anthropology. The College of Natural Sciences includes biology, chemistry, math-ematics and computer science and physics. For the School of Fine Arts and Communication, the task force pro-poses the following departments be included: art, speech and mass communication, music and theatre. Early childhood education, elemen-tary education, general education, in-structional technology, Lida Lee Tall Learning Resource Center and secon-dary education make up the School of Education and Related Services. For the School of Business and Management, the task force proposes that business administration and economics be included. The School of Health Professions and Physical Education consists of communication science and disor-ders, health sciences, nursing and physical education and sports science. Also, the task force proposes a separate Graduate School and College of Continuing Studies. The report states there is no difference between a school and a college. ""Schools and colleges are meant to have equal autonomy and prestige at Towson State University."" In addition to reorganizing the University structure, the task force proposes a University governance reorganization. The chief governing body will be a University senate or council, consist-ing of representatives from each school and college. administrative officers and students. The University-wide body will have jurisdiction over admissions, aca-demic standards, curriculum and other areas affecting the entire University. The proposal also calls for govern-ing bodies for each college and school. Representatives from each depart-ment within the college or school will serve on this council. The body will have jurisdiction over areas that affect them directly. For example, the college may require more strict admission standards than those of the University. Each department within the school or college will also have a governing body. Jurisdiction will be over areas that affect that department only. ""Every college will be given a more direct voice in University govern-ment,"" said Dan Jones, chairman of the task force. It is uncertain what will happen with the proposal after the Council receives the report. In September, 1979, President Hoke Smith recommended that a commit-tee be set up to examine the pos-sibilities of altering the University structure. The task force on academic struc-ture and governance was charged from President Smith through the Academic Council. Cox proposes contract hiring by Patricia Voelkel Dr. Joseph Cox, vice president for academic affairs is proposing a new system of hiring faculty that will pro-vide long term contracts just short of tenure. The proposed system is an effort to avoid the possibility of 100 percent tenured faculty which is not in the best interest of the University, said Cox. ""With 100 percent tenured in we have no flexibility,"" Cox said. If stu-dent interests shift the faculty would not be able to change and would therefore not be accomodating the students' needs. ""Students may be leaning one way but the tenured faculty may be lean-ing another way,"" Cox said. Over 80 percent of the University's faculty now has tenure. This percen-tage is not unusual for a school the size of the University, Cox said. The idea will be reviewed by other university vice presidents and then reviewed by university presidents. The attorney general will review the motion before it is adopted. Cox said he would like the plan to be in effect by next fall. ""The purpose of tenure is to insure academic freedom and to provide suf-ficient stability to attract good men and women to teach, said President Hoke Smith. To get tenure, faculty members must wait out a probationary period (full professors, 4 years, associate professors, 5 years, and instructors and assistant professors, 7 years). After the probationary period the faculty member must be recommend-ed by the department's rank commit-tee. If the departmental committee recommends the faculty member for tenure, a divisional rank and tenure committee passes judgement and, if it approves the faculty member's ap-plication, the vice president and the president of the college make the final decision. Cox said the University now gives temporary faculty members one year contracts but that does not provide security for the instructor. ""If you don't provide security they'll look for other jobs."" Offering long term contracts offers a security and is also most honest to the faculty member, Cox said. Unless otherwise stated, when faculty mem-bers enter the University they expect to get tenure. Cox said that beginning with the advertisements for positions, the faculty members will know there is no chance of tenure. ""This may produce problems in re-cruiting but it is more honest,"" Cox said. Cox said he is considering two ways to implement the system. The first is to give a one year contract that would be renewed depending on satisfactory performance. The one year contract would be followed by a three or a five year contract. Another approach Cox is consider-ing would give faculty members an in-itial four year contract followed by four year renewals. This would be ef-fective for recruiting young faculty, Cox said. ""It is important to say to young faculty members that we are giving them time to put their energies into teaching,"" Cox said. Cox said he is under the impression that the American Association of Uni-versity Professors will be opposed to the system. James Hill, AAUP/faculty associa-tion president, would not comment on the long term contracts until he con-sulted the national AAUP office. Cox said that although he believes in tenure and has supported it in the past as a past AAUP president, the long term contract is necessary. Cox proposed the idea a few years ago to other university vice presidents and deans but it was not accepted. When he introduced it again this year the attitude had changed. ""We don't want to give up on tenure but we ought to look at other alter-natives,"" he said. In order to establish the plan, each University department will have to be evaluated to determine it's future. Departments that are still growing, those that are underdeveloped, could be assigned faculty members on ten-ure track. Well established departments like psychology or biology have a strong, full-time faculty but could supplement their department with an adjunct faculty. This is where the contract faculty members could be used. Although people will be hired on a long term contract, Cox said he would like to have the option to make them tenure track if a position becomes available. Elaine Solez, University affirmitive action officer, said she does not think the long term contracts are discrimi-natory. ""It will only be discrimina-tory if, in practice, certain groups are singled out for the long term con-tracts."" Solez said that is not likely to hap-pen at the University. ""The University has stopped grow-ing and we have a higher percentage of tenured people each year,"" said Cox. ""None of us really knows what the next 10 years will bring."" Campus policeman captures County Jail escapee by Katherine Dunn One of f the seven men who escaped rorri the Baltimore County Jail early last Thursday morning was quickly apprehended by a Towson State cam-pus police officer near Lida Lee Tall school. Officer Jim Schepleng arrested the ,escapee near the track in front of Lida Lee Tall a few minutes after the 12:40 Jailbreak. .Schepleng had left the general ser-vices building to patrol the campus after he received a report of the tek_scape in progress. As he walked ,galnigh the Burdick tennis courts l'ebepleng noticed a man near the track. Schepleng took him into cus-tody when he could produce no iden-tification and he was later identified by the Baltimore County Police as one of the escapees. Four of the other escapees have been recaptured, the most recent two Monday night. One of the two pris-oners still missing is charged with murder and kidnapping while the other was awaiting trial for armed robbery. Although chances are better that any escapee would try to leave the area immediately, campus and coun-ty police warn that they have come onto the Towson State campus. Local media reported that some of the other six prisoners may have In this issue__ They're Makin' Whoopee et the Me-chanic. You can catch the fun in person to night or tomorrow, but \ first read about the first-rate musi-cal comedy on page. 5. Come on out tonight as the Tiger hoopsters take on UNC-Wilmington in the final game of the Crab Cake Festival at 8:45 in the Towson Cen-ter. Read what to expect on page 6. escaped by mingling with the crowd leaving a dance in the Union around 1 a.m. Gene Dawson, director of the cam-pus police, said there is no way to know for sure whether the escapees mingled with the crowd leaving the dance. ""There was a great deal of activity"" when the dance was over because there was an accident on Osier drive and helicopters and police cars were combing the area for the prisoners. ""I guess with all that activity there were dozens of police cars in the area,"" said Dawson. Dawson added that the one prisoner picked up by Schepleng was wearing a green uniform. Officer William Metz-ger, correctional officer at the jail, said all inmates wear noticeable dull-colored uniforms that would make There have been three jailbreaks since last October from Baltimore County Jail. Although the escapees are more likely to leave the area immediately, they still may try to escape through the campus. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley them stand out in a crowd. ""If they're running around in green uniforms they would stick out like a sore thumb,"" said Dawson. He added that he does not think the escapees would have thought to try to blend in. ""I'm not so quick to say they blended in. I'm more inclined to think they'd try to leave the area as fast as they could,"" said Dawson. Dr. Leon Ainsworth, chief psychol-ogist at Clifton T. Perkins hospital, which specializes in the criminally insane, agreed with Dawson. An es-caped prisoner would probably try to get ""as far away as possible,"" he said. Ainsworth explainen tnat an escaped prisoner would feel safe among people of his own color and social background. While Towson is predominantly a white upper-middle-class area, most of the prisoners are black lower-class individuals. Anyone who escaped would stand out in this area and he would want to ""get well out of the area,"" said Ainsworth. An escapee would not try to go back to his own home, said Ainsworth, because he knows the police have his address and would look there first. Most likely he would flee to a fellow convict's home, said Ainsworth, be-cause the people there would offer him sympathy and understanding. He would find someone who could help him. Dawson said an escapee might come on campus to find a way to get away. He probably would not find anyone to help him but, Dawson said, Gene Dawson he would not hesitate to use force to get away. Last October, three men escaped from the jail. Two of them came on campus and stole a car from two women in the gated lot near Burdick Hall. Dawson said anyone who escapes is considered dangerous even though he is probably in a hurry to get as far away as he can. When someone does escape from the jail, the campus police intensify their patrols and notify key people around campus to alert students and staff, said Dawson. He said the campus police would block off part of the campus if they suspected that an escapee were hiding there. "