TL20070201-01 "Feb. 1, 2007 www.thetowerlight.com Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly MFA Candidate Stephanie Shade co-stars with a ladder in �CHATTER vs. LADDER (...in a pitter-patter matter...)� Arts, page 17 Thursday INSIDE Calendar........3 Perspectives........4 News.......7 Beyond.....11 Life.....12 Arts......17 Puzzles.......21 Classifi eds......22 Sports.......28 on the New policies, same problems Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Parking policy changes will be in full effect by July 2007; some students are doubtful the policies will improve current parking problems. Building is milestone for Child Care Center Parking changes implemented in 2007 include towing regulations, fine increases PARKING & TRANSPORTATION SERVICES Krysten Appelbaum Senior Editor While problems arising from parking shortages on Towson�s campus are something most com-muters come to expect, new poli-cies being implemented through-out 2007 may add to students� complaints. Enforcement of the new policies started in Sept. 2006, and will be fully implemented by this July. The policy changes include stricter enforcement, increased fines and a new towing program. Kenny West, the administration and finance manager in parking and transportation services, said staffing was also slightly increased last fall. While he said staff was not hired to write more citations, some students have noticed an increase in tickets. �I�ve seen a lot more people giv-ing tickets,� junior Solaz Masoudi said. �A couple of my friends have See PARKING, page 8 Sharon Leff News Editor In 1970 a female student strug-gled to balance taking care of her child and her class load. After she approached a professor, her plight led to the creation of the Child Care Center, which was estab-lished in 1972. Thirty five years later, a mod-ern 12,000-square-foot Child Care Center with 60 enrolled children is up and running across from the Towson Center on Auburn Drive. The $4.4 million new Center was formerly located in Lida Lee Tall. That building is slated to be demol-ished sometime this semester to make room for the new College of Liberal Arts complex. Harriet Douthirt, the Child Care Center�s director since 1975, described the new building as �unbelievable.� �I feel like I need sunscreen,� she joked about the sunlight coming in from the glass walls around the building. In addition to the brighter atmo-sphere, the new building also comes with larger rooms, a washer and dryer, bathrooms in the classrooms, a conference room, and a multipur-pose room. Marie Skeeters, administrative assistant and parent of two chil-dren enrolled in the Center, said she thinks �it�s a wonderful place considering the old building was outdated.� In each of the rooms, the fur-niture and wall paint for each age group is unique. The room for two-year olds is orange, for three-year olds it�s green, and for four and five-year olds it�s blue. There are also two additional rooms currently being used for storage that Douthirt said will eventually be classrooms. She said the transition could be as early as Fall 2007, but it is not certain. �It�s a lot bigger, it�s a lot brighter. I like a lot of the new furniture and I really like having the bathrooms in the classroom. It�s a nice change,� lead teacher Cassie Stegman said. See CHILD, page 8 The Towerlight "
