tl19700202-000 "towerlight Volume XXV No. 1 Towson State College, February 2, 1972 Towson, Maryland, 21204 In the College Center: Registration commences today by Vivian D. Lipka Another first in Towson State College's history will be the Spring Semester registration. It will take place in the recently completed College Center on February 2 through February 4. The key word in the new site for registration is centralization. The Registrar's office, Cashier, and Academic Advisors will be present on the third floor to assist the individual student in registering. Three floors used The College Center consists of three floors which will all be in use during registration. The DAY students will register on the third floor; EVENING students will register on the second floor, and Activities will be located .on the first floor. Evening and day students will be completely divided to avoid creating unnecessary hassles. The following facilities will be open during registration: the cafeteria and snack bar, the Post Office, recreational facilities, and the Book Store. College Center officials feel that this method of registration will be beneficial in the long run because it will provide repetition necessary for the smooth flow of registration. All registration policies used in Burdick Hall will also be used in the College Center, Book purchase Students may purchase their books directly after registration in the Book Store or through the SGA book exchange list published in this issue of Towerlight. Used books will be sold in the Book Store, but first come, first serve applies. Used books will be bought by the Follette Book Company on February 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and on February 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Students, one word of advice: be ready to read the directional signs that will be posted in the College Center during registration. Hopefully again, this semester's registration will be an improvement. Evaluation underway: Registration will be held in the College Center for the first time. The Evening School registration. Violence by Ward Smith Violence erupted at the construction sight of the proposed, Fine Arts Building early Monday morning as nearly 200 union laborers protested the non-union hiring of the John K. Ruff construction company. Mini deemed success by Brenda Ginza()ly TSC's first minimester has been deemed a success by the administration, participating students and faculty. According to Dr. Kenneth Shaw, Dean of the College, the four-week rninimester in which 13 per-cent of the student-body participated was a success. Accomplished objective Shaw said, ""It accomplished r400�44.,, N-its major objective� introducing new kinds of things which students and faculty want to do, unencumbered by time schedules and other commitments."" Students agree with Dean Shaw that the minimester was basically a success. They felt that the minimester allowed each student more individual attention and provided more time for interesting speakers and photo by Lotzeaux Dean Shaw said the mini-mester accomplished its objective. worthwhile field-trips. Complaints voiced The main complaints voiced by students concerned was the shortage of courses, the lack of social activities on campus, poor dormitory accomodations, too few courses which fulfill the general education requirements, and the exclusion of freshmen due to their inability to fill course prerequisites. Concerned students hoped that these complaints will be rectified in future years. Hopefully, the number of courses offered will be doubled next year. This will allow twice the number of students to participate. Future hopes Dean Shaw also hopes to add more courses that will meet the general education requirements. These also would not demand a prerequisite, this including a larger number of freshmen. Evaluation underway An evaluation of the minimester is now in progress and will be compiled by mid-February. However, the consensus is that the minimester was successful because it allowed for new kinds of experiences. Dean Shaw said, ""Any program in which over 800 students participate is a success."" Photo by Robert Phelan Lounge above will be used for erupts at T.S.C. According to Ralph E. Ensor, President of the company, that has experienced similar violence at Morgan State College and the Keswick nursing home, ""They burned one trailer that belonged to the Drake Electrical Contractors, one of our cranes, and overturned a State Roads trailer across the street. Police said that the fires were started at about 6:30 Monday morning, after which the nearly 200 picketers began their march. Police and fire equipment. arrived shortly thereafter, and soon had the situation under control. It was reported that several fire hoses were cut by the demonstrators, but that eventually the fires were extinguished. Four persons were arrested by Baltimore County Police and Maryland State Police, and one officer was reported injured by a thrown rock. A Baltimore County Police officer told Towerlight, that the President of the construction company and a representative of the college must appeal for a court injunction if the police are to do anything to curb any further violence. A representative of the Ruff Construction Company said that they had been expecting such trouble as early as last Friday. He added that, ""Yes, we will be expecting similar trouble tomorrow (Tuesday) morning."" He said, ""We hope to get the injunction today, so that we can stop this before it starts again."" The trouble began as a protest against the non-union hiring of the John K. Ruff company at nearby Morgan State. Ensor, of the Ruff Company, said that the union had told them to hire all union or no union labor, and that the union workers would,. not work on the same job with non-union workers, The Ruff Company decided to hire all non-union, and, as Ensor reiterated, ""They've made their own bed and now they can't lie in it. The unions in question are out of work now, so they're hunting for work from us, and we won't give it to them,"" Ensor added, ""We have no contract at all with the local iron workers union in question."" Similar trouble had erupted at Morgan State College, for two days early last week, and then spread to the Keswick Nursing Home downtown. The county police had been alerted to keep a watch on he Towson State Construction site for the entire week last week. At Morgan, the union strikers reported that their protest was against the company for paying higher than union wages, where in fact, the Ruff company was paying similar wages, but without the union dues withholding. Sidney Allen, a steelworkers foreman with the John K. Ruff company who has been on the job here for over a year, said that he felt that the people doing the burning should be arrested as soon as they set foot on the construction property. He said, ""I'm not a union worker. I have a family to feed and take care of, and I don't want to miss a day's work."" Most of the workers had left the job early in the morning. Allen said, ""Those unions didn't want to work earlier, but since they lost a job they had in Pennsylvania, they 're sitting in the Union hall without any jobs. I think they should all be arrested as soon as they set foot on this property."" He added, ""Yeah, I've been expecting something like this since last week when they did all that stuff over at Keswick and at Morgan. I'm expecting to see them back here tomorrow morning doing the exact same thing."" "
