The Towerlight, February 13, 1986

tl19860213-000 "Teacher scholarships under consideration A teacher shortage has forced the Maryland State Legislature into considering a scholarship Program that will provide substantial financial aid to teaching students in exchange for a promise that they will teach in Maryland's public schools 1 1/2 years for every year they receive the scholarship. ""Basically what we're looking at here in this state is a shortage of 6000 teachers and (the Teacher Assistance Program) will appeal to younger people and attract them to teaching,"" Delegate Martha Klima (R-Baltimore County) said. Klima introduced the bill with eight co-sponsors in the House of Delegates and a similiar bill was introduced in the state Senate by Barbara Hoffman (D-Baltimore), a former school teacher and a 1960 graduate of Towson State University. Hoffman attended TSU on a similiar scholarship. But that Program was discontinued in the early 1970s when there was a glut of teachers, she said. The bill will also attract better students to the teaching Profession according to Hoffman. ""Right now the lowest 25 percent of students enter the teaching Profession. Hopefully (the Teachers Assistance Program) Will attract some of the better students,"" she said. A high school grade point average of 3.5 will be required to enter the program and students will have to maintain a 3.0. G.F.A. while they are in college. Only Maryland residents will be eligible and the scholarships will be merit based, Klima said. Students in the program will l'eceive $1400 a year during their first two years of study in a state aPproved teching program. If they are studying in a field where there is a critical shortage of teachers they are eligible for 15300 worth of yearly scholarships during their last two Years of study. Students in non-critical shortage areas will continue to be eligible for $1400 'early scholarships during their last two years according to 1Clitna. Funding for the program will ve to come from Governor. Itarry Hughes' supplemental dget and both Klima and offman pointed out the state's (Poor performance with a student N. ""Maryland is 34th out of 50 Istates) in financial aid per need,"" 4offman said. , ''he outcome of the two gislators meeting with Gov. 40ghes Wednesday was not livailable. Neither legislator tWould reveal how much funding beY were going to ask the governor to put into the program. If (the governor) will put the li loney in (the supplemental adget) it'll pass,"" Hoffman said. b The house bill will be examined $ ri two committees. That process ould start in about three weeks eccording to Klima. Kelso Sturgeon Campus news from all over Alabama Sociology Professor c:; Globetti said that higher linking ages won't work. Quoted al the College Press Service, 1,10betti said two things will ""aPpen; ""The community and law 1-iforcement officials will lose Ihriterest, and people will learn ow to circumvent the law ... A reeent Bureau of Labor Statistics t'1,1c1Y said that college faculty j�c es are dwindling at a rate atched only by those of postal It University of Missouri at i;ansas City's Adult Extension .,r�gram is offering a course in hAdvanced Class Cutting''. tL;egistrants are urged to pay h'.130 for the course and not show � . 'A study by Radcliffe i;ollege and the Educational I eating Service has found that ettlale students tend not to ,!""eider science and engineering 'tieteers because they believe eY're not compatible with 'llarriage and family life. W.Y.S. Education Secretary Bennet formally gave the 'e.lective Service a list of five iteidlion student aid applicants, so i iea Selective Service can use the ttat to trace non-registrants for heLe draft ... The Australian rl one company, Telecom e acovered the phone the Wagga v/4,11113118 of Murray Institute on 1��Ich students went on a free igternational phone spree in late eel'. In six hours, students called (etinterparts at UC1A to compare ttlstorns, and residents of Miami 4 discuss ""Miami Vice."" ?�, College Press Service campus notes Inside Working overtime The women's b-ball team played in two consecutive ECC overtime games this week 4 W & M, again The gymnastics squad is hoping to avenge both of its losses this season when it takes on William and Mary for the third time 5 Fiction Bridge An up and coming band that is truly original 6 Heartbreaking The new Center Stage play, The Normal Heart, addresses the plight of AIDS' victims 8 Forensics does well at three events Towson State Forensic Union competed at a debate tournament at George Mason University on January 17-19. Lynn Weber and Julia O'Hara, both senior English majors, won quarterfinal trophies. The team of Rafael Arroyo and Lisa Donoho. senior English major and ,:ophomore iass ommunication major respectively, also won quarterfinal trophies. Towson debaters took three of the ten speaker awards at the tournament. Julia O'Hara won ninth speaker, Lynn Weber won fifth speaker, and Rafael Arroyo won the award for the number one speaker at the tournament. The team travelled to UNC-Wilmington January 24-26, where Lynn Weber and Julia O'Hara advanced to the semi-final round. Lynn Weber also won the award for second place speaker. Individual events competitor Brian Barke won fifth place for his rhetorical criticism of Bruce Springsteen. At Ohio University February 7-8, debaters Lynn Weber and Julia O'Hara advanced to semi-finals. Debaters LaVerna Harris and O'Dette MacDonald won a certificate of recognition for their debate record. Bruce Winters won the award for fourth place novice speaker and Debbie Edmunds won first place novice speaker. Julia O'Hara won fifth place varsity speaker and Lynn Weber received the award for second place varsity speaker. Campus notes are continued on page 2 Published weekly by the students o Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 17 Towson, Md 21204 February 13,1986 Is it Spring yet?... Tam The snow of the last week was a hardy reminder that spring is still awhile away. Students sloshed through the slush and snow to get to classes, but some did find some free time to enjoy the white powder. (See page 3). Towson student dies over weekend By Scott Hollenbeck A Towson State University stu-dent apparently committed suicide early last Saturday morning. Kurt Drewer, a 19-year old resident stu-dent who lived in the Residence Tower, was north bound on Juniata Street when a Havre De Grace Police officer noticed his car weav-ing erratically, said Havre DeGrace police chief Earl Walker. The officer then observed the vehicle veer to the right, strike a parked car, graze a telephone pole, hit a sidewalk guard rail and come to rest in front of a private residence. When the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed serious head in-jury and requested an ambulance. The officer had to break a window to gain entry to the vehicle and found a shotgun on the floor with one bullet discharged. Drewer was pronounced dead on arrival at Harford Menioria' Hos-pitas. Walker said. Drewer, a sophomore art major, was described by some of the stu-dents in the Residence '1 ower as ""an easy going guy."" They said ""it was a shock when they were told of his death. ""We are always saddened by the loss of any members"" ot the Univer-sity c:,ininunity said Dorothy Siegel, vice-president, for student services. Chuck Malloy, director of the counseling center, said ""anytime someone close to us dies, it's a shock. We have a tendency to ques-tion ourselves,"" and ask if we could have done something to stop a suicide from occuring. Malloy said from the people he spoke to who knew Drewer, Drewer revealed ""no traditional things that point to suicide,"" such as a change in sleeping and eating patterns, talking about suicide, giving things away or getting things in order. Malloy also wants people to know that the counseling center in avail-able for people to come in and talk about suicide. ""Suicide can occur in clusters,"" said Malloy, referring to the rash of incidents in Nebraska where three high school students have commit-ted suicide and two others have tried. According to Malloy, the effects on students will vary from those who knew Drewer closely and those who knew him casually. One stu-dent said ""you would have never thought he would have done it, he was a nice guy."" Book exchange cancelled due to scheduling conflict By Terie Wolan Due to a dispute over using a Union room, the SGA Book Ex-change was not held last week, the first time it has not been held in fourteen years. A number of stu-dents have been complaining about the cancellation, SGA officers said. ""A lot of students called and a lot of students came in the office"" to complain, said SGA President Paul Walsh. ""Students weren't happy,"" Arlene Campeggi, SGA business manager, said. ""One student in par-ticular asked who was responsible"" for the cancellation. The exchange allows students to sell their textbooks on consignment and to set their own prices for used books, frequently below bookstore prices. The dispute centered on the use of the University Union Art Gal-lery, located on the second floor. The gallery is ""the only place to have it (the book exchange)"", Campeggi said, because of ""securi-ty, space, and location."" However, when the SGA attemp-ted to reserve the room, Campeggi was told that Chris Bartlett, as-sociate art professor, needed the room for the week of February 3-7 to set up a clay exhibition to be held February. The SGA needed the room from January 28 to February 7. Hard feelings have been raised because the SGA officers say that the gallery was empty last week, and that, in fact, Bartlett did not use the gallery. ""There's nothing in there,"" Andy Kohn, SGA treasurer, said. Reports from the Union building managers do not show that anyone Teen was in the gallery last week. ""According to our records, the room was reserved by Chris Bart-lett,"" building manager Nate Ross said. 1,00king at t he report s, Ross said, ""it wasn't used."" As of Monday, February 10, a few unopened crates were stacked in the gallery. ''rhe crates are there, but no-thing was set up last week,"" Ross said. Bartlett said the gallery had not been used everyday, but defended its use by the art department. ""We can't work on it everyday. Things are coming in spasmodical-ly. It's not possible to have students in there every day, but we have to have access to it over a period of time."" Furthermore, he noted that as an art gallery, art projects should have priority in scheduling. ""It's supposed to be an art gallery. The gallery operations have precedence."" Bartlett said that while there had not been a problem in the past, the clay exhibition was a special exhibit, and he needed the room. ' As a rule, there would be no con-flict. But this is a special case. This is a one time deal only, Bartlett said of the exhibit. Bartlett denied that he was told about the effect of his refusal� namely, cancellation of the book ex-change. ""It wasn't put like 'if the gallery wasn't available, it (the book ex-change) wouldn't occur,' "" Bartlett said. ""I would have assumed that if the book exchange was important"" they would have found a place for it."" See BOOK EXCHANGE, page 2 The art gallery doors were closed and locked last week, when the SGA would have been holding the book exchange. pregnancy still on the By Osa Eghafona Each year more than one million Americans teenagers will become pregnant. Nine out of ten of those will be unmarried. Some 30,000 of teenagers under the age of fifteen will become pregnant in their early or mid-teens. Teen pregnancy has become more widespread than ever before and the dimensions of its social costs and the urgent need to attack the problem are just beginning to be appreciated. According to statistics released by Maryland lawmakers, children con-tinue having children in this state. In 1983, 8,574 babies were born to adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19. More than two-thirds of these mothers were unmarried and more than half were on public assistance when they gave birth. In 1983, 22,089 Maryland women ter-minated their pregnancies by abor-tion. Nearly one-third of these women were under the age of twenty. One-thousand, eight-hundred and one of these abortions were repeated abo-tions. The lawmakers have proposed a $3.2 million expansion of services for pregnant teenagers and programs to prevent unwanted pregnancies. According to the Maryland Center for Health Statistics; ""Baltimore has the highest teen birth rate for a city of its size in America. While Maryland ranked fourth in the percentage of births to unmarried teens."" Teen pregnancy imposes hardships on two generations: parent and child. Teen mothers also face the highest possibility to live below the poverty level. According to a recent study done by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, only half of those teens who give birth before age 18 complete high school. This represents a substantial number of teenage girls who never enter col-lege. On the average these girls earn half as much money as their counter-parts and are far more likely to be dependent on welfare. Seventy-one percent of females who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children had their first child as a teenager. Among the underclass in America's urban ghettos the trends show an even rise worse fate for pregnant teens. Nearly half of all black females in the U.S. are pregnant by age 20. The pregnan-cy rate among those ages 15 to 19 is almost twice the national average for whites. Nearly 90 percent of these babies born to blacks in this age group are born out of wedlock. Most are raised in fatherless homes with little economic opportunity. The Guttmacher Institute also studied teen birthrates in 37 developed countries, and the United States was found to have the highest incidence of teenage pregnancy. Ninety-six pregnancies for every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 is the average for the U.S. compared to 45 per thousand in England and 44 per thousand in Canada. The AGI study found that this is not due to higher levels of sexual activity in teens in the U.S. but more to ""lack of availablity of contraceptives"" to American teens and lack of use of birth control methods. According to a survey done by the Towson State Health Center, 28.8 per See PREGNANCY, page 2 "