The Towerlight, December 6, 1974

tl19741206-000 "* 1 A VOL.LXVII, NO. 12 Money pinch hurts TSC TOWSON STATE COLLEGE Nevins breaks tie by Marlene Milder The allocation of $3600 to Towson State's Vocal Music Club was denied by the Student Government Association after SGA Vice-President David Nevins cast a ""no"" vote, breaking the Senators' tie. Nevins felt ""with the economic problems of the Student government, college and country, the planned trip to Europe was not warranted."" He maintained the money the club did raise could be better used for trips throughout the state. The makings of a Senator Unanimously, the Senators passed a bill determining how vacant senatorial seats should be filled. Francis Clay and Gerome Murfy resigned leaving two positions. Three steps must be com-pleted: 1) a petition with 200 signatures must be complete and submitted to the SGA office 2) a 5 man Senate ad Hoc committee must review the applicant, and 3) the committee then recommends the person to Senate for final senatorial vote. Bill called unwise Student Government Association President, Konrad Herling, cited the current Senate Bill 45 as an ""unwise and unfair overreaction to the Day Care problem."" This bill sponsored by 5 SGA Senators prohibits any student fees from being used to fund ""social welfare Programs."" The two main social welfare Programs which this bill seeks to eliminate are the Day Care Center and the Black Student Union's Tutorial Project. Herling feels the Day Care Center offers good service and is con-vinced a final solution will be reached. ""We don't want to see the, Student body Just give up after all the work they've done with the Day Care Center,"" added Herling. Petition presented - A petition of over 2400 signatures was presented to the Community Relations Board by the Coalition for Day Care. Ann Marie Lowe, chairperson of Concert Sunday The class of 1977 will sponsor a Christmas concert featuring Brownsville Station and Jo Jo Gunne, Sunday af-ternoon in Burdick Hall, Gyms 1 and 2. Tickets are $3.00 at the College Center Box Office, and will be available at the door. the committee, stated the 'Relations Board unanimously decided to coor-dinate efforts with the Task Force chaired by Francis Bond, to jointly try to obtain external means of obtaining funding for day care. Register Soon by Mary Hubbell Preregistration for the Spring, 1975 semester here at Towson State College began Monday, December 2 and will run through Wednesday, December 11. Preregistration gives continuing students a chance to choose courses in advance in order to avoid in-person registration. Mr. Bill � lieuh ling, Associate Registrar, commented that this Preregistration is following the same pattern as established in previous years. Always crowded Reuhling observes that Preregistration always starts and finishes with a crowd. Monday, December 2, was no exception, but the heavy crowd was anticipated. ""Every first day, no matter what the weather, people line up outside about 7:30 in the morning, and there is a continuous heavy flow until about 10 o'clock,"" Reuhling said. However, people don't realize that the day a student turns in Preregistration materials has a negligible effect on the courses that students will be admitted to. Reuhling states that ""only if two people of the same class standing sign up for the same course at the same time slot would the date of preregistration be taken into account."" Otherwise, a student's class standing has the most influence on whether or not 'i-student is admitted into a class, with seniors getting top priority. Success guaranteed Preregistration, although people arrive, in -spurts, is a success. Reuhling estimates that approximately 90 percent of the student body preregisters, ex-cluding. graduate students. Reuhling urges all students to preregister, even if they aren't sure that they will be returning to Towson State in the spring. He says it would be easier to drop a student from those courses which he signs up for than for that student to appear at in-person registration with no schedule at all. 1.11:!foit.V.AitleigfAVV4NIVIrig-Ivy.-V41 .*:,.. 0, 1 . Merry A.04 0 ' )Z1/ # ../ ' 0.. Christmas i,1 ..-, :, #.4 v to4�Y'4' tk41,41?ria:kriAeS'itt�Iff$Itil:�-'1.bietki DECEMBER 6, 1974 .411111 111 Senators unanimously pass vacancy bill. CAIB abolition bill defeated by Mary Hubbell At the Senate meeting November 26, the bill to abolish the College Ad-vancement and Improvement Board (CAIB) was defeated in a 10-4 vote. Proponents and opponents alike discussed the issue prior to the Senate vote. This article will present the views of Konrad Herling, SGA President, who supported the bill, and David Cochran, Chairman of CAIB, who opposed the Board's abolition. Abzug calls 74 ""political year of women"" by Sue Baily , ""I believe an ironic postscript to atergate would be to turn the White House over to the corporate power hi mself,"" stated Congresswoman Bella Abzug, N. Y. City's 20th Congressional ,District representative, during the Speakers series Thursday evening. Objecting to the possible vice presidential confirmation of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abzug warned the .ziudience they need not accept from a president in waiting"" an appointee who ean afford to give out half-million dollar gifts- ""Rockefeller calls them gifts: ordinary people who work for a living s.ee them as bribes,"" she stated. She turther admonished the vice presidential nominee stating, ""We should remember t hat Rockefeller remained silent t hroughout the Watergate scandal and was a prime supporter in Vietnam.' Non elected president Testifying before the Senate Rules Committee and House Judiciary, Abzug stated it would be unwise to place a new vice president in office. ""For the first time we have a non-elected president chosen by a self-impeached president proposing to give us a non-elected vice president,"" said Abzug, and ""this is foreign to our democratic system."" The polls. said the Congresswoman, show the public wanted another election. Lame duck Congress The public has new and different views and this should be partially reflected in Congress, remarked Abzug. Presently there is a lame duck or outgoing Congress in' session, she ex-plained. The confirmation of Rockefeller should wait until the 94th Congress takes over in January, because the public does not want to see an unelected Vice President confirmed by a lame duck ""A Stag senate is a stag-nation."" TL photo - Bubby Rehrey Congress, added Abzug. Year of Women Abzug felt the American people had their time at the polls and spoke decisively. Calling this ""the political year of women,"" the Congresswoman assured men they could relax because ""we are not anywhere in sight of women taking over."" During the past election, the first woman governor was elected, besides a chief justice and lieutenant governor of New York City. Stag Senate is a Stag nation Congress is a product of white middle upper class males, said Abzug, but it should represent all of the people. The House represents few minorities in-cluding women but the Senate does not have any female constituents. ""A Stag Senate is a stag nation,"" declared Abzug, continuing ""corporate powers want to make kings, not queens."" She cited women in political life as being in-dependent, creative, open and honest. Abzug maintains women are the type of people that can combat a Watergate which placed this country on the verge of dictatorship. Doomsday clock is beating In our lifetime, stated Absuz, it's become possible for humans to destroy all things. ""We have a choice to bear this in silence and apathy or say we only have one world. Still the nuclear doomsday clock is beating."" Abzug opposes the arms race stating the United States strategic superiority could kill the entire country. With the current problems of unemployment, recession and inflation, the U.S. recently passed the largest military peacetime budget of 90 billion dollars. She feels the U.S. should use some of its ""peaceful weapons"" instead of supplying countries in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Chile with nuclear reactors. The real threat to our internal security comes from an ingrown military lobby to escalate the arms race, said Abzug. ""If we don't blow ourselves out of existence, we'll starve,"" she added. Notice This will be the last Towerlight of the Fall Semester. We will begin publication again Friday, February 6, 1975. Responsibility adds to Senate prestige Herling supported CAIB's abolition, because he felt that it would ""add to the reputation and prestige of Senate."" Herling explained that the incorporation of CAIB into Senate would require the divisions of the College to be accountable to the Senate, which was elected to represent the student body. Herling felt that ""if Senate had more financial power and responsibilities, it might be looked upon more favorably."" Herling feared the power of students who are not directly elected by the student body. CAIB's members are presently appointed by Senate. Thus, Herling further supported the Board's abolition. Senate refuses additional burden Finally, Herling commented on the meaning of the vote itself. He viewed it as an admission that ""Senate wasn't willing to take on an additional burden."" On the other hand, the vote was also ""an admission that CAIB has done a very good job,"" he commented. No abusers in CAIB David Cochran, Chairman of CAIB, agreed with this statement of Herling's, saying, ""There have been no abuses of the power resting in CAIB. The mem-bers of the Board have been very cautious in making allocations. Con-sideration has been given to the amount of 'college advancement and im-provement' each project would bring and further, what expenses within the 2400 signatures show support request were unnecessary. A minimum of one week has been set for the in-vestigation between the request and the decision on it."" Senate still in infancy Cochran also played upon the idea that CAIB's members are indirect representatives of the student body, as its members are appointed by elected Senators. He also persuaded Senators to vote against the abolishment bill because of the backlog presently existing in Senate. Cochran added, ""Because Senate is still in its infancy as far as structure goes, incorporating CAIB into Senate may just add unnecessary problems to the structure at this time."" Best in the long run David Nevins, Vice-President of the SGA, sums up the final outcome of the TI, phut o Buddy Itchrey vote: although he felt the CAIB should have been abolished because only one body should oversee SGA funding en-tirely, Nevins also saw that perhaps the vote was for the best in the long run. He agreed that Senate, who knows best about its committee functions and structure,"" should not have been allowed to take on another responsibility. ""Allow Senate time to strengthen the com-mittees and not let what has gone before weaken its future decisions,"" he advised. Issue is not dead Finally, the general concensus is that the issue is certain to reappear before Senofe in the near future. ""I do not think the issue is dead,"" declares Nevins. Many are assured that the question of CAIB's abolishment will return to Senate next year. Council votes for University by Sue D. Bailey University status currently looms before Towson State College with an Academic Council vote to accept an Ad Hoc Committee report favoring the name change. Although that report now goes to TSC President James L. Fisher, the final decision rests with the Maryland State Legislature. Name only Fisher, who emphasized that the change would be in name only, had said that he would abide by whatever decision the council made. Throughout the discussion in the actual Academic Board receives petitions by Marlene Milder The Coalition for Day' Care presented the Community Relations Board with a petition containing over 2,400 signatures demanding the following: free Day Care to all students; no merging with the Council Day Care; and concrete action to be taken by the Student Government Association. Discussion continued concerning the source of funding. Day Care not feasible In answer to the petition, both Ann Marie Lowe and Eric Martin said free Day Care is not feasible at this time and that the Committee has no direct control over the merger. ""The Committee feels we have taken concrete action .with our letter informing the task force we wish to join forces,"" stated Lowe. ""We can't ignore the fact that the Task Force has the name and clout to get some action with the legislature,"" she added. SGA no longer responsible Martin discussed two memos, one from Wayne Schelle, stating that the Administration was taking Day Care out of the SGA's hands. The other memos were from Andrea Condalin, SGA Secretary, who said the Student Government Association was on longer responsible for Day Care. ""This,"" said Martin, ""shows that the Community Relations Board cannot affect Day Care Appropriations, so we mile, work with the Task Force."" Look for external allocations ""In all reality, we can't look in-ternally for money within the College because there's none for permanent funding of Day Care,"" said Committee member Eric Martin. He explained that because of SGA's changing nature, money isn't always available. His suggestion was to look for external allocations within the federal and state governments. Chairperson Ann Marie Lowe agreed with Martin, adding that the current economic situation will force the SGA to look externally for funding. Shift in priorities needed David Pridgeon expressed disap-pointment because there had been no discussion of internal funding. Calling for a ""shifting of priorities,"" Pridgeon said, ""We are kidding ourselves if we let our work just rest while looking for external funds:"" In discussing priorities, Reverend Adam Cantrel questioned how the SGA categorized Day Care: ""I; Day Care is a necessary ingredient for ex-panding the College by providing a service, then it should be reflected in the budget,"" he explained. Council meeting, it was emphasized by: the Ad Hoc Committee Chairperson, Dr. Howard Erickson, that the committee issued a favorable report on the basis that it was only a ""cosmetic change."" The Ad Hoc Committee on university status, consisting of Professors Erickson, Regina Fitzgerald, George Hahn, and Madelaine McDermott, Dean Kenneth Shaw, and students Patrick Dillon, Tim Tignanelli, and Evelyn Smith, was formed in October and delegated to report its findings to the Council at its December meeting. Its activities included a study of the meanings of the terms college and university, a review of recent ex-periences of colleges which changed their status from college to university, provision of reading materials for faculty and students in the Library Reserve Room, and a polling of faculty, students, and the wider community through balloting and open hearings as to their views on a change in status. In that survey, 57 faculty, 9 administrators, and 16 students favored changing the name to ""university"" while 36 faculty, 2 ad-ministrators, and 11 students sought to retain the name of ""college."" Cosmetic change During the Council discussion, questions were continually raised as to whether the ""cosmetic change"" could he maintained or would pressures arise for internal changes. In that discussion, Vice-President of Academic Affairs Shaw and Vice-President of Business and Finance, Wayne Schelle, both strenuously emphasized that there would be no internal changes. Shaw called Towson ""something unique"" while Schelle said that name change would be a tool to better fight with. Professor Linda Sweeting questioned the change as she said it would be only of ""PR value"" for those who don't know the score. Student Government Association President Konrad Herling vuLed ap-prehensiveness because the term ""university"" implied bigness. By a vote of 13-0, the Council voted to approve the report and sent it to Fisher. "