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- The Towerlight, December 7, 1979
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- ["Student publications","Student activities","College sports","Theater -- Reviews","Punk rock music","Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration","Universities and colleges -- Finance","Student housing","Towson University -- History","Christmas","Books","College students"]
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- The December 7, 1979 issue of The Towerlight, the student newspaper of the Towson State University.
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- 07 December 1979
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The Towerlight, December 7, 1979
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tl19791207-000 "Part II: Where does the gold go? Tiger Club money: the words drop off the tongue like change from a Coke machine. Some covet it; some stand in awe of it; some are outwardly disappointed with their allotments; some take what they get and re-main silent. Tiger Club money is the funds raised by a group of school boosters for the scholar-ships of TSU athletes. The money is used solely for scholarships. Money for the athletic budget comes from students' athletic fees and gate receipts. Tiger Club money means many things to Many people on and off campus. To a coach It means how many people he can expect to recruit for his team. A large number of Tiger Club grants enables a coach to recruit not just locally and in neighboring states but Oh a national level. In the competitive world of athletic recruiting, scholarships are an essential tool. VOL LXXIII No. 13 [Feeding the Tiger [ by Michael Bennett and Robert Krummerich To the administration, Tiger Club money can mean a nationally visible winner in a major sport to correspond with the Univer-sity's recent expansion. A winning football team can bring a lot of recognition to a school trying to shed an image of inferiority. To Tiger Club members such as John Unitas and Bobby Boyd, their contributions mean watching and helping young students develop athletically. To Boyd, a former Baltimore Colt foot-ball star, it means helping students par-ticipate in a sport ""that has been a very large part of my life,"" he said. ""I also have two restaurants in the area,"" said Boyd, ""so from an economic stand-point I am also very interested in watching Towson grow as a community. One of my restaurants, Hooligan's, draws a great deal of business from the campus. Whatever the reasons involved, everyone wants more money for the club. Of all the money that comes into the Tiger Club, via contributions, none is dispersed directly or indirectly by the Club or Club officers. Once operating expenses are met, which usually run about 25 percent, the re-maining monies are handed over to the University. Joe McMullen, athletic director, called dispersal ""a subjective thing. You look at where your programs are. You ask questions such as: Do you have a unique coach? Who can draw? Do the local high schools act as feeders for your teams?"" One of the problems McMullen watches for is what he calls ""programming for total mediocrity."" Or, spreading the funds so continued on page 10 otverttg PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY rS -yr to . dorm limit e to begin in fall 5r, Quincey Johnson 'St Beginning next year, incoming ,uclents wishing to live on Towson h ates campus cannot expect to live ""ere for more than four semesters. Dorothy Siegel, vice presiddnt for StUdera services, said the present I:kplicy regarding housing availability promises the student housing as ng as the student maintains 'ull-time status at the University. The 1979 University catalog r) ""The housing program PNvides living facilities for full-time undergraduate students . . Priority campus residence is given to the St udents who reside beyond a t.vventY mile radius of any four year ute institution . . . A student who Withdraws from the housing forfeits the reserve space.' L Once the student is granted using on campus the space is 'eserved for that student. President Hoke Smith said the catalog states no limitations to efaMpus residents, so no one can be �reed to leave campus, but new stnclents can be limited to two years. L Slnith also said that there would ""e exceptions to the two year limit, such as the handicapped, but not many more. The University officials would also like to build new dorms, therefore, the time limitation is not the only alternative to the problem. Terrence Smith, director of auxiliary services, said there are three other alternatives. The University could purchase an existing structure, lease a facility adjacent to the University, or build a new structure. The residence hall life is a valuable experience for students, said Smith. The limitation policy would give more people the opportunity to have this experience. Mary Lee Farlow, director of residence, said all students should have access to campus housing, but sometimes freshmen have a greater need for such housing. Hoke Smith said more space is needed especially for freshmen and sophomore students. Because of the lack of space last semester, some students were forced to live off campus. Next semester these students will be housed on campus if they want. Cushion of the East? Dave Bonner goes up for rebound with an American University player in action Saturday night. The Tigers lost their first game as a Division I com-petitor to the Eagles. The Tigers then went out and defeated Division I foes Fairleigh-Dickinson and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. For story turn to page 5. TL photo by Colleen Brosky 141nimester classes rescheduled . . �facilitate energy conservation by Halaine Silberg 4,The Energy Planning Committee, ,Taired by Dr. Norman Sheets, .h'ee-President of academic affairs, ;:�Posed a rescheduling of classes t-�tittng ' the minimester to facilitate "",,ergY conservation. his decision made at the ,741-ltri1ttee's November 19 meeting for certain buildings to be ""laintained at 55 degrees while (tilers will stay at 65 degrees. The Inpanying chart shows how the dings are divided. i,he committee also ruled that all 41IdingS will be closed and t112 aintained at 55 degrees December 12 t� 25 and December 29 to January The Administration Building, Stephens Hall, University Union, Towson Center and General Ser-vices Building will be kept at 65 degrees December 26 to 28. Sheets said these closings could result in a $40,000 savings for the University. The Committee, appointed by President Hoke Smith, is designed to study energy problems including fuel consumption, use of electricity and implications of the gasoline shortage. The Committee is com-prised of William Vauersfeld, assistant vice-president for oper-ations, Ronald Garrison, assistant vice-president for finance, Lonnie McNew, assistant vice-president for student services and Donald Dean, assistant vice-president for adminis-trative services. Maximum building temperatures for minimester de_grees Stephens Hall New Smith Science Hall Burdick Hall Towson Center Lida Lee Tall Cook Library Media Center Fine Arts Building Residence Tower University Union Administration Building Dowell Health Center Glen Esk General Service Building 55 degrees Van Bokkelen Linthicum Hall Hawkins Hall Richmond Hall Prettyman Hall Scarbourough Hall Psychology Building Lecture Hall Newell Hall Ward and West Halls ""We got input from every segment of the University,"" said Sheets. Their next immediate concern, he said, will be to find ways of helping students in an impending gasoline crisis. The Committee has not yet formulated any decisions on this matter, said Sheets, and welcomes suggestions from anyone in the University. Two major concerns of the Committee are the national diffi-culties of the fuel shortage and its financial effect on the University. Although energy modifications are being made continually to combat these problems, Sheets said, ""I'd be surprised if there are many changes in the next three to five years."" He attributed this to the present problems in the heating systems and the need for long term funding and studies to improve efficiency. ""When most of these buildings were constructed, energy was not a problem,"" said Sheets. John Suter, director of campus planning, described the specific problems. ""Systems were designed in a time when fuel was a relatively cheap commodity,"" he said. There-fore, the systems were built to work well at an average of 72 degrees. If a system was operating- in a heating mode, and the weather became warm outside, cool air from the air conditioning mode would automatically be brought in to regulate the room temperature. Al'hough the buildings are now being regulated at 65 degrees, the temperature of a room can rise to well over 72 degrees from a combination of warm outside tem-peratures, thick walls of buildings, lighting, solar heat and the presence of many bodies in one room, said Suter. The system can no longer air condition these over-heated rooms during a heating mode, because that would be utilizing unnecessary energy. This accounts for several of the hot spots throughout the University, he said. What accounts for the cold spots'? Suter said that in each building a group of several rooms, called a zone, is regulated by one thermo-stat. This thermostat is usually located in the room closest to the heat source. The heat, said Suter, reaches the room with the thermo-stat first and when the thermostat reaches 65 degrees, the heat flow regulates itself at that point. By the time this same heat has reached the last room, however, it has cooled considerably, making the temperature in that room actually less than 65 degrees. Suter said that when the systems operated on a 72 degree basis, a few degrees lower was not a noticeable difference. Now that the system is working at 65 degrees, ""the bottom of the creature comfort zone,"" a few degrees lower is a considerable difference, he said. Suter said that an energy audit being conducted on the Psychology Building, Hawkins Hall, Fine Arts Building and Smith Hall will hopefully give an engineer consultant information with which to make recommendations for im-proving the system. One recommendation, he said could be to install controls that would Oetter regulate room tern-peratures. Instead of using air continued on page 2 Contents Sports Entertainment Features Newsbriefs Week Watcher Commentary Classifieds 5 4 3 8 7 9 8 Athletic fee to increase $ 10 in spring by Pat Voelkel The athletic activity fee will be raised ten dollars each semester beginning in the spring, said President Hoke Smith, at the Academic Council meeting Monday. The increase is th'e result of new expenses in the'athletic department and last years' deficit of $40,000 dollars. Students now pay $75 dollars comprehensive fee each semester of which about 19.59 dollars goes to athletics. The fee will raise comprehensive fee to 85 dollars with , 29.19 going to athletics. Joseph 'McMullen, athletic director, said the reason for the fee hike is rising costs of equipment, travel and insurance. McMullen said transportation has gone up 25 percent and food costs have gone up 15 percent. The insurance premium coverin* the athletes above their own insurance is now 9,500 dollars. As an example of rising costs, McMullen said that football helmets are now 65 dollars compared to 28 a few years ago. Also, basketball travel alone costs 15,000 dollars, Smith said. ""We can't scrimp on things like that,"" McMullen said. ""We can't give them cheap helmets or tennis shoes or anything else like that."" Although it is not yet final, this years' athletic budget is expected to be 125,000 to 130,000 dollars. For the first time, the athletic department must pay a full time athletic directors' salary. The salaries paid by the athletic department are under the depart-ment of institutional development. In previous years, the athletic directors' salary came from the office of academic affairs because he also taught classes. The athletic department budget also includes salaries for the sports information director, the associate sports information director and secretaries. Coaches' salaries also come from In this issu The best of the beat�Towerlight rates the year's top albums. Page 4. the athletic department. The ex-ception, McMullen said, is the released time coaches. Released time coaches are those who teach as well as coach. They are paid out of funds from the academic affairs. Food for athletes during mini-mester is another big expense for the department, Smith said. McMullen said that previously the department was insufficiently fund-ed. All of those costs add up and eventually ""catch up with you,"" he said. The move to Division I for all men's athletics except football has added some expenses although a ""full-fledged Division I program would cost more,"" Smith said. More money is now needed for travel because there are not many Division I teams in the immediate area and the teams have to travel farther. Most of the teams in this area are in Division II. Last year the athletic department suffered a $40,000 deficit, Smith said, due to underestimating equip-ment for the Towson Center and stadium. Even after the ten dollar fee is imposed, the department will still have a slight deficit for this year. Smith said he expect S it to be completely removed by fiscal year, 1981. Donald McCulloh, vice-president for business and finance', said the fee hike is the only way to obtain the money for the department. It is a state requirement that state funds cannot be used to make up the deficit. 4 ' Instead, the money must come out of non-budgeted reserve accounts. McCulloh said. These accounts include gate sales as well as athletic fees. McMullen said that other schools with comprehensive athletic pro-grams like Towson State's have high athletic fees. He said that students of James Madison University pay $150 in athletic fees per year. Want an unusual type of music? Try Thee Kata-tonix . . . it's cer-tainly an unusual approach. Page 3. EXTRA! Start you holiday off right with Towerlight's holiday EXTRA! You'll find it inside! "
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