tl19780210-000 "Crack the Sky in concert see pg. 7 Tigers vie for M-D crown see pg. 8 VOL. LXX NO. 15 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 10,1978 Let it snow! Let it snow!! Let it snow� � � It may not be the nicest weather for a game of football, but when classes are cancelled and your car is under three feet of snow, there isn't much else to do. The storm that forced the cancelling of classes Monday afternoon and all The parking lot between the University Union and Burdick Hall will get additional spaces. Construction on the decks is scheduled to start in late summer. TL Photo by Dave Carrington Lots to be built $10 rebates available by Larry Lepus h Ten dollar refund checks are available for those who ld $25 for parking stickers last fall. According to Robert Wolf, director of Financial tuPerations, ""in excess of 2000 students"" have failed � pick up their refund checks. The checks are 4,vailable at the cashier's windows, Room 321 of the Idrninistration Building. b Wolf urges students to pick up their checks quickly �Cause ""they only have a six month life to them"". The refunding of the $10 came after ""some �e elnature actions"" said John Suter, director of �4,1npus Development. The raising of the parking meker prices, from $15 to $25, was designed to etierate money to help finance the construction of )1.0Posed parking decks on campus. The new decks are b� help alleviate the parking problems experienced by 001 daytime and evening students. However, the Board of the State Universities and ,011eges did not approve of this concept of raising d'!�4ey, hence the refund checks. The reason for t,isaPproval, said Suter, was that ""we didn't wait until 'le concept was approved by the Board of Trustees. We assumed it would be approved"". Since then, the Board of Trustees has approved the concept. The following parking fees will be assessed next Fall: $25 for day students per year. $6.50 for evening students per semester, $6.50 for summer students per session, and $10 per year for faculty and staff. Construction costs for parking are estimated at $1,900,000 by the University. In Fiscal Year 1977, the State appropriated $350,000 to be used for part of the cost, leaving $1,550,000 to be funded from the sale of revenue bonds to be issued by the Board of Trustees under prior statutory authority. The parking fee monies are to help provide security for the revenue bonds. The parking decks being constructed will be located in the center of the campus. The locations are north of Linthicum Hall and north of the University Union.. Plans call for construction of ""upper decks"" on the. existing lots of one of these two areas. This idea was favored rather than a more expensive parking garage. There are two different plans currendy being considered for the decks. The first calls for a double deck over the Linthicum lot and a single deck over the Please turn to page 3 �; ost fur trader? No, just a student caught in Tuesday's snowstorm TL Photo by Mike Ciesielski day Tuesday made for a slow playing surface for these students (polar-turf?) while others had a difficult time just trying to walk across the campus. The weatherman is predicting more snow for this weekend. If he's right, we may need a sleigh and a pack of Alaskan Huskies to get to class Monday. It might be hard to drive in, but a day off from school never hurt anybody, did it? TL Photo by Mike Ciesielski Speakers evade topic to delight of audience by Paul Gilmore They were supposed to debate. They were supposed to talk about Jimmy Carter's first year in office. But as Republican Senator S. I. Hayakawa tore into the Carter Administration with such unyielding attacks as ""I'm damned sure I couldn't have done as well,"" - and Democratic Senator Daniel P. Moynihan steadfastly defended the President with such unshakable testimony of confidence as, ""Presi-dent Carter's first year seems to be a good example of continuity in the presidency,"" - it became obvious to the five panelists and the 2,094 spectators that there was not much of a forum for debate. Hayakwa, though, made doubly sure there would be no debate by completely digressing from the assigned topic in his opening address and spending most of his introductory speech surveying the sociological aspects of unemployed youth in the United States. Moynihan followed Hayakawa's speech by claiming victory in the debate by reason of default. ""1 have here,"" he proclaimed as he waved his leather bound prepared speech in the air, ""a 40 page demonstration that Jimmy Carter's first year in office has been a triumphant success! Senator Hayakawa's failure even to chal-lenge the proposition suggests to me that it is conceded by default. ""And in as much as I was not entirely persuaded of the case I was going to make, I will abandon the subject also,"" he said as the audience responded with laughter and prolonged applause. Moynihan then entertained the audience with a philosophical dissertation of the changing rate of the biological maturity of man and its sociological and cultural implica-tions. Dr. Richard Vatz, who mediated the debate as well as designed the format and picked the topic, followed Moynihan's speech with the tongue in cheek comment that he was ""overwhelmingly impressed by the senators' ""efficiency in impromptu speaking."" The discussion eventually turned to contemporary political issues as the panelists forced it to by means of their questions. Each panelist routinely stated before addressing the senators that they had come prepared with other questions but since the topic had changed, so would the subject of their questions. Ron Lackey, a political science major, drew a round of laughter from the audience when he introduced his question saying, ""1 came here to talk about cultural evolvement of man and also growing up. Since you departed from your topic, 1 will also depart from mine and ask about President Carter's foreign policy."" The questions offered by the panelist offered a few opportunities for debate which Moynihan took advantage of with a display of rhetoric and showmanship that the audience loved. When Professor Georges Roc-court asked Moynihan about the Carter Administration's refusal to deregulate natural gas prices, it set up an exchange between the two senators on deregulation. Moynihan - It's time we got a little rough with each other! (laughter) You've just come back Please turn to page 3 Hayakawa strayed from the assigned topic of the debate and Moynihan followed his lead and abandoned the topic also, much to the delight of the audience. TL Photos by Oliver Dziggel Blood pressure screening set by Gail Bending You may be one of 23 million Americans who suffers, from high blood pressure. And because you may not even realize it, Dowell Health Center and the American Heart Association of Central 'Mary-land are sponsoring an on-campus blood pressure screening program for faculty, staff and students. ""High blood pressure is found e.yen in teenage girls and boys, and has been detected in children four years old,"" said Dr. Charles O'Donnell, physician at Dowell Health Center. ""And the earlier it develops, the greater the reduction in life expectancy,"" he said. High blood pressure in itself usually causes no aches or pains, and rarely gives any warning. But left untreated, it can lead to stroke, heart and kidney failure, or heart attack. The consequences of essential hypertension (high blood pressure, origin unknown) are frightening. A man with systolic pressure over 150 is twice as likely to have a heart attack and four times as likely to suffer a stroke as a man whose blood pressure is under 120. In older age groups, women are more likely to have high blood pressure than men. Black people are especially affected. They are twice as likely to have the disease as white people, and often in a more severe form. High blood pressure is more prevalent than even sickle cell anemia: About 31/2 million blacks suffer from high blood pressure, and only about 1/2 million have been discovered or are receiving treat-ment for it. The blood pressure screening is free and strictly confidential. If an individual discovers he has high blood pressure, he should then see his physician. Dr. O'Donnell added that, al-though it cannot treat the disease, Dowell Health Center will monitor a basis and report it to his physician if person's blood pressure on a regular necessary. Following is a schedule of the blood pressure screening, beginning Monday, Feb. 27. Monday, Feb. 27 Tuesday, Feb. 28 Wednesday, March 1 Thursday, March 2 Tuesday, March 7. Wednesday, March 8 Thursday, March 9 Monday, March 13 Tuesday, March 14 Wednesday, March 15 Thursday, March 16 Monday, March 20 Tuesday, March 21 Wednesday. March 22 Thursday, March 23 8-12 noon and 1-4 p.m. 8-12 noon 8:30-12:30 and 2-4 p.m. 10-12 noon 10-12 noon and 1-3 p.m. 6:30-10:30 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. 10-12 noon 10-12 noon and 1-3 p.m. 12-3 p.m. 10-12 noon 2-4 p.m. 6-9 p.m. 10-12 noon 10-12 noon 10-12 noon 1-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. 8-12 noon and 1-4 p.m. LI room 301-A UU room 309 General Services Conference Room Glen Esk Kitchen FA room 392 ST room 108 Newel Hall Conference Room HH room 205 TC Conference Room SM Faculty Lounge BU room 120 UU room 311 Smith Hall Faculty Lounge PY room 109 VB Xerox room, ist fl. CK room 300-A Administration Confer-ence Room, 2nd fl. "
