tl19700213-000 "Schools must desegrcgate HEW rejects proposal by DONNA QUANTE On January 30, 1970, the De-partment of Health, Education, and Welfare turned down Maryland's proposal for the desegregation of the State-suported institutions of higher learning. The State of Maryland has been given sixty days to submit a re-vised plan. In a letter to Blaine Lee, Secre-tary of State of Maryland, Eloise Severinson, Regional Civil Rights Director, states that Maryland's desegregaion plan does not meet the requirements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title IV). HEW commended the State for its effort, but stated that the sub-mitted plan ""suffers from certein limitations."" � Essentially, the University and the State-College system developed their own plans as separate pro-grams. Because of this, the pre-pared measures lack uniformity and coordination in most instances. � The major thrust of the plan is based on , actions to be taken by each institution independently of the others. Although some cooper-ative measures are specific, they are few in number and limited in scope. Other efforts seem adaptable on a statewide basis, but are lirn-ited to one particular institution or system. � Most,of the elements of the plan are not specific. A number of them do not constitute commitments to take action. Rather, they promise investigation and study in order to explore the feasibility of a range of measures. � There is a striking scarcity of proposals aimed at faculty deseg-regation. � A number of efforts which seem to promise at least the probability of success are so limited in size as to indicate that they are as yet in the pilot or experimental stage, and there is a lack of specific evi-dence that the plans will be mag-nified to a degree commensurate with the urgency of the situation. The Department went on to urge the system to eliminate the iden-tifiability of all institutions by ra-cial groups. It endorsed the pos-sibility of a merger between state institutions of the Baltimore area into a single University. In this manner, students would be able to attend any of the state institutions to complete their edu-cation. Gradually, students will be able only to take certain curricula at a given institution in this geo-graphic area. This will allow for not only an exchange of students from their home campuses, but an exchange of faculty also. The Department feels that de-velopment of these ideas will lead to an acceptable plan for desegre-gation. Sokolow compliments by LARRY FRANK The three - week Contemporary to its climax Sunday, February 15, a part of the Lyric Tlheatre's pro with three world premiers � the first performance of ""Margritte, Magrittee,"" and the first perform-ance of a new musical work by Al-cides Lanza. The Lyric Theatre Company is a conglomeration of the Anna Soko-low Dance Troupe and the Phila-delphia Composers' forum, two na-tionally prominent groups, conclud-ing a three-week residence on cam-pus. Anna Sokolow is artistic di-rector of the Company, and Joel Thome is musical director. Besides the formation of the Lyric Theatre Company, the Con-temporary Arts Festival also fea-tured lectures, open rehearasls, master classes, and workshops with student involvement. These are all a part of the Lyric Theatres pro-gram designed especially for col-lege and university residencies. During the three-week residency at 'Towson State, the Company has continued an intensive daily train-ing of area students in the special-ized techniques needed for dance that goes hand-in-hand with the other art forms. Miss Sokolow, a renowned chor-eographer and director, has long been an advocate of combining the art forms and explains, ""That all art forms lend to and borrow from one another is acknowledged in totverlight Vol. XXII, No. 16 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 February 13, 1970 Board prompts Koch's resignation by MIKE WHITSON Effective August 1, Dr. Moses Koch will no longer be president of Essex Community College. Dr. Koch, president of ECC since Aug-ust 3, 1961, resigned before a meet-ing of the Board of Trustees on February 4, 1970, culminating a turmoil unequaled in the brief his-tory of that school. The Board of Trustees which is also the Baltimore County Board of Education, initially asked Dr. Koch to resign in July of 1969, but they did not publicly do so until January of 1970 at an open meet-ing of the Board. Up to the time of the open hearing, the Board had made no formal charge against Dr. Koch. They justified their actions by stat-ing that it was a personal matter and that they have no formal charges to make. P. Bayard Wil-liams, President of the Board, stated that they have ""lost confi-dence"" in Dr. Koch, but cited no particulars. Public opposition to the action of the Board has been, to say the least, unparalelled. The students, faculty, staff and administrators of the College unanimously voiced their support for Dr. Koch. In addition, numerous Essex community groups, the Citizens Committee for Education of Balti-more County, various area news-papers, and several local politicians all questioned the actions of the Board. Photo Courtesy Towson Times Dr. Moses Koch Towson's art festival Photo by Loizeaux Two members of the Anna Sokolow Dance Troupe rehearse for the world premier of ""Margritte, Margritte."" theory, but less often in fact. All too frequently, music, drama, po-etry, and the fine arts function as separate entities."" Sunday's perfor-mances will be an exercise in mixed media. Among the college audience, Miss Sokolow is probably best known for her direction and choreography of the original New York production of ""Hair."" But she is not known strictly for her choreography. As when reviewing her choreography of aDreams,"" Olive Barnes of the New York Times wrote, ""Miss So-kolow is an exponent of the theatre of protest, that rare, rare thing, a choreographer with a special con-science."" The Philadelphia Composers' Forum is one of the very few pro-fessional performing groups for new music in the United States. It is composed of young but ac-complished musicians, who, under the direction of Joel Thome, have won many accolades. Rather than being an entirely professional program, the Contem-porary Arts Festival also included faculty and student concerts over the past three weeks. Mr. Reynal-do Reyes, a member of Towson's faculty and the Lyric Theatre Com-pany, will perform Sunday night at the piano. The Lyric Theatre Company's premier performances will be pre-sented at 8:30 pm in Stephen's Auditorium on Sunday, February 15, 1970. Tickets for the public are available at the Towson State Box office. The County Council of Balti-more, on January 14, resolved their support for Dr. Koch and urged him to remain in his position. Pre-viously, several members of the Council had individually attacked the actions of the Board. Numerous doubts have been east on the actions of the Board of Trustees. This is the same Board that has promised to divest itself of its authority since 1966, and to set up an independent Board for the College, but has refused to do so until the appointment of an ex-ecutive director, the duties of which are unclear. The minutes of the Board's meet-ing on January 8, are the only clear cut statements regarding their actions. Anprox'mately 500 students arid ficulty members from ECC attended the meeting. Mr. Cenap Kiratte. president of the ECC chapter of the American As-sociation of University Professors, Mr. Charles Chrest, president of the ECC faculty association, and Mr. Michael Glliazzo, president of the ECC Student Government As-sociation all spoke in behalf of Dr. Koch. Dr. Koch himself addressed the meeting, all to no apparent avail. The Board proceeded to read its resolution to ask for the resigna-tion of Dr. Koch and the meeting ended. Following this, an unpreceden-ted effort took place on the part of the College to aid Dr. Koch. The January 17 issue of The Montage, ECC's newspaper, devoted itself entirely to the ,affair of Dr. Koch. A ""Save Koch"" fund arose, with plans for a coffee house. a bake sale, and a theatre production, all to raise funds to aid Dr. Koch's fight for his academic life. umper stickers reading, ""Things Go Better With Koch"" were printed - and distributed on campus and in the community. The ""Save Koch"" drive raised well over one hundred dollars before Dr. Koch resigned. In addition, campus organizations contacted county officials, local newspapers and local citizen organ-izations, soliciting their support in the struggle to save Dr. Koch. The matter came to a head on February 4. when Dr. Koch ad-dressed a joint assembly of stu-dents and faculty and announced his resignation. Dr. Koch stated he was faced with three alterna-tives: resign effective February 3 and remain salaried for a six-month period; resign effective Au-gust 1; or not resign and be fired. Dr. Koch chose to resign on August 1 for the following reasons. ""It [my decision] provided the College the values of my presence on campus for six months. It re-uced the opportunity of innuendoes and rumors growing. It also fur-nished the possibility of some sub-sequent formal airings of this en-tire matter."" Dr. Koch also men-tioned the effect of dismissal on his subsequent professional career. Moses Koch, to the chagrin of Essex Community College, is leav-ing. "
