tl19810220-000 "VOL. 74 No. 18 Towerlight PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 You might as well fall fiat on your face as lean over too far back ward. �James Thurber February 20, 1981 Smith calls for 2 major U's by Patricia Voelkel President Hoke Smith has sug-gested a reorganization plan for the Maryland state higher education sys-tem that would create two major institutions. Smith told members of the Mary-land legislature and of the American Association of University Professors at a dinner held February 4, that the present organization system needs to be changed. ""We need to highlight educational resources currently in existence and to improve our research and public service base as a stimulus to commerce and industry. ""I believe that Baltimore is well served by its current institutions,"" he said. ""But they represent only a part of the educational needs in the Bal-timore metropolitan area."" Smith said that the Maryland State University should be created, consist-ing of Towson State, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Mor-gan, Coppin and the University of Baltimore. Also included in the Maryland State University would be the University of Maryland at Baltimore as the base for the development of the graduate center. Smith's plan calls for merging the University of Maryland and Bowie State College as a Washington area institution. This would create two Major institutions, one representing the Baltimore area and one represent-ing the Washington area. In addition, Smith suggested that Salisbury State College and the Uni-versity of Maryland-Eastern Shore should be merged as an Eastern Shore regional institution. Frostburg State College would be the representative college for Western Maryland, Smith said. Smith said his proposal makes great sense although he is not sure if it is politically feasible. Smith said the present organization reflects the functions of institutions, regionalism, race and politics. ""The current system is analogous to the neighborhoods of Baltimore. ""Still, Baltimore needs an educa-tional Harborplace."" In addition to the reorganization, Smith gave other suggestions for actions that can ""lead to the improved Productivity of the investment which Maryland has made in higher educa-tion:, The state should create a system of grants to stimulate cooperation among area institutions, Smith said. Also, the state should investigate the development of a research center and/or a combined graduate center ?sing the resources now available Erom area institutions. Smith said that the present relation-ship between institutional autonomy and centralized institutional manage-rrient should be reexamined. Under the present system, the Uni-versity must deal with more than a dozen agencies and bureaus. Smith Said he realizes that the state needs budgetary control but he called the current system ""ineffective and counterproductive. ""Most of these agencies have as their primary goal cost curtailment rather than the delivery of quality education,"" he said. Smith said that increased institu-tional autonomy would allow Mary- ""Ind institutions ""to make the best 'ossible educational judgments with be dollars available while elim-aiing the overhead costs of exces- 'ive control and coordination. So you thought that the money they've been taking from the parking fees would go toward the long-awaited perking garage. You're right. and from the Towson Center. Happy Trails. Unfortunately, rising construction costs hal ve delayed the project once again. Well, until the garage is built, many of us will continue hiking to TL file photos Vandals cause expense by Christa Marvenko Mutilation and book and period-ical thefts happen frequently in Cook Library. ""Mutilation to books and per-iodicals happens more freqently than book theft,"" said Eleanore Hofstetter, associate director of public services in Cook Library. Jane Parsons, serial librarian, said librarians in the reference department file four to five reports a week of pages missing. When pages are stolen or mutilated, those pages of that issue must be replaced, Parsons said. ""We can ask another school library to xerox those pages and send them back to us,"" said Par-sons, ""then we just put them back in the issue."" However, this technique is not working because the pages frequen-tly fall out, or there are so many pages mising that they cannot be re-placed. If too many issues of a vol-ume are destroyed, the entire volume must be replaced. ""Sometimes we can replace the issues by getting them from second-hand businesses that collect issues people have gotten rid of,"" said Par-sons. ""Inconsideration for other stu-dents affects a lot of people, is cost-ly to the library, and is enormously aggravating,"" Hofstetter said. Parsons said the money used for repair and replacement is budgeted through replacement and back file. ""The money is lumped to-gether, so we really can't make a guess as to how much is budgeted to replace destroyed material."" Parsons said that everyone thought the xerox machines would stop this destruction of materials. ""I guess it has cut down on some damage, but some people still aren't using them,"" said Parsons. ""These students are damaging their own library, and one day they may be on the receiving end when they need an article."" When people are caught mutilat-ing or stealing library materials, they are prosecuted. The first step, said Hofstetter, is to call the campus police. The evi-dence and any witnesses are pre- Eleanore Hofstetter sented to the police, and they turn everything over to the Balti-more County police, who take the case to court. ""If students become more aware and a ,,ort witnessing this destruc-tio n ma oe we can aevelop a sys-tem wherr neer.: create enough pre-sure to stop it,"" Hofstetter said. Shirley Baker, access librarian for Johns Hopkins Library, said, ""we probably have what is a nor-mal ra te of destruction to our mat-erials. She explained that Johns Hopkins has a 3�m Book Detection System which detects someone trying to steal library materials. It sets off an alarm and locks a gate preven-ting people from leaving. They are then questioned by a guard on duty. ""This system has cut our losses in our undergraduate library by 80 percent,"" Baker said. ""We would like to have electronic secur-ity, but we can't get the money for it because our budget is already being cut."" Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland concerning theft or mutilation of books or other property states: Every person who shall steal or unlawfully take or detain, or who shall mutilate, injure, or dis-figure by writing, marking, cutting, tearing, or otherwise, any book, map, picture, engraving, manuscript, or other property of any public library, circulating library, or lib- 41011111�11 Garage delayed by Jack Lombardi John Suter, director of campus planning, said the proposed parking garage to be built in the Linthicum lot is now being held up because the present design is one million dollars over the original figure of $3.2 million. Suter said the firm handling the design for the parking garage is now modifying the present design to cut expenditures in order to reduce the cost of the garage. ""We're in a holding pattern. We're trying to get the plan going, but somehow we have to get the cost of the garage down to $3.2 million,"" Suter said. Suter met with the firm handling the design on Feb-ruary 11 and told the firm to try to reduce the cost of the building to the alloted $3.2 million. He said he ""is expecting to hear from them within a week. The parking garage which will accommodate 600 cars will consist of one ground level and two upper levels. Each level will be accessible by existing roads. Suter said, ""The design of the building is beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to the campus surroundings. The building is also ideal for the handicapped."" However, Suter said, ""The building is one million dollars over the alloted funds. If they can't modify the design and cut some costs, we can't go with it."" At the current cost of $4.2 million, each parking space costs an average of $7,200, about $2,000 above the national average of $5,000. Suter said he would like to see the cost of each parking space around the $5,000 level. If the firm cannot cut the cost of the building, Suter said he will have to start the search for another firm to take the job. Suter said, ""If the firm now handling the project can build the garage at $3.2 million, construction will start in August. That's if everything goes well."" If the present firm cannot build the garage to the University's specifications, the construction date of the garage will be pushed up to a year from now, if a new firm is found quickly . The Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges, which is funding the garage, has given continued on page 8 aggravation If you can't find the information you needed for a term paper, maybe it's because the page you needed was torn out of the book. Pages being torn out of books is a common problem at the Cook Library. Not only does it inconvenience students, but it is also very costly to the library. TL photo by Tom Sallese rary belonging to the State of Mary-land, or to :my municipality, or public body, or incorporated insti-tution, shall be guilty of a mis-demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars, or be impris-oned for not more than three months, or, in the discretion of the court, may be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid. Pew announce candidacy for election by Jeff Pierce Craig Wolf, Student Government Association vice-president, said at the Senate meeting Tuesday that �hIY two students have announced their candidacy for SGA president the upcoming SGA elections on March 9 and 10. , Wolf also said that only one pos- 8!hie candidate for treasurer and Sixteen possible candidates for sen-have requested petitions, on ly,hich ti the signatures of 200 full-e students must be acquired in order to be eligible. 'I don't expect much competition in this election,"" Wolf said. Wolf accredited the minimal turn-out, the least in four years, to this year's graduation of a large number of the senators presently holding office. ""Usually most of the candi-dates for executive offices first ser-ve in the Senate,"" Wolf said. Only one senator currently holding office has announced inten-tions to seek re-election. An election committee, which would over-see the election, was un-animously approved at the Senate meeting after there was much de-bate over the proper parliamentary procedure for choosing members. SGA procedure calls for the presi-dent to nominate two members, the Union to the Pub. Virden said the SGA plans to sell beer during the government operations committee to nominate two members and a fifth chairman to be nominated by the four previously chosen members. To qualify as a member of the election committee, a person must be a full-time day student and must not be seeking election. Steve Horn, SGA president, nom-inated Mark Andrichyn, a senator; and Laura Finck, the SGA director of organizatin, for the positions. Dispute arose over the unofficial government operation's committee's recommendation of Donna Krieger and Mike Virden, both senators, to fill the other two seats. Rather than postpone a decision until the next Senate meeting, the Senate unanimously approved the four nominations as well as the nomination of Rick Yent, SGA sen-ator, for chairman. The Senate also unanimously ap-proved an appropriation of $1,000 from the SGA treasury for the pur-pose of financing TGIF for the spring semester. Introduced by Virden, the bill was part of an attempt by the SGA to bring the Friday concerts from the lobby of the University show if possible. ""This could be a revenue maker,"" Virden said, although he added that financial success would depend on student support. Jay Blanton, SGA senator, said plans are for one or two bands to play at the Pub on Fridays, but only on a trial basis. The Senate also approved a $2,365 supplemental budget for the Foren-sic Union, which will finance six speech tournaments. Another $6,264 was appropriated to the executive branch for the 1980- 81 Senior Prom and $536 was ap-propriated to the American Mar-keting Association to help finance an awards banquet. In this issue.. CREAM OF THE CROP: Although the Tiger cagers aren't having a spectacular year, one star was born at the Towson Center this season. Junior forward Tony Odrick brings ex-citement back to Tiger basketball with his amazing dunks and game-saving blocks. Read about the Tiger sensation on page 7. PILOT OF THE AIRWAVES: TSIrs own Adrienne Kelley started her career as one of WCVT's air aces but made the leap to the bigtime of Z-96. She's the voice behind the stars. See page 3. READ INSTEAD: Roman Polanski's ""Tess,"" based on Thomas Hardy's classic English novel opened at the Towson Theatre. Although it has its high points, you would probably pre-fer the book. Review on page 4. "