The Towerlight, February 20, 1986

tl19860220-000 "University club to re-open in Spring Auburn House, Towson State University's privately run University Club, is close to finalizing a nine-year repayment schedule of a $118,000 debt and plans to reopen in April, according to General Henry himmey (retired), the club's director. The club plans to involve both alumni and students as members after it reopens, according to Kimmey. Kimmey would not comment further on the negotiations or the club's future plans, but Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Sally Souris, said that students will be offered special memberships in the Bratskeller bar. Auburn House was closed last September after the state attorney's office refused to allow the club's lease to be renewed until it repaid its debt. The club is a private corporation founded in 1970. Membership was offered to members of the Towson community for $100 and to University professors for $25. The university turned debt collection over to the Maryland Central Collection Agency almost three years ago. About $65,000 is owed the state for use of its athletic facilities by members of the club, Souris said. Most of the debt is owed because of services the university provided during the first few years of the club's existence. The club made money during its last year of operation but debt service was so high that most profits went for repayment, according to Kimmey. The club, in addition to charging membership fees, rents out its facilities for receptions, luncheons and meetings, according to Kimmey. He said that the club will continue to be used for those purposes. Kelso Sturgeon Towson places in math competition In the Seventh Annual Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest, held on November 2, 1985, two Towson State students ranked in the top 25 percent and one student ranked in the top 50 percent, of the 169 students competing from 32 colleges. David Rouschenberg, who won an Honorable mention in last Year's competition, placed 28th this year and missed receiving his second honorable mention by two points. Stephen Griffith ranked 35th, David Dubeau ranked 81th and Mary Jeanne Arnold placed 126th. Dr. Steven Grossman, Mathematics Department, Publicist said, ""Only the best Math students compete, so even a low ranking is an excellent achievement"". The test, given to the student O n his or her own campus, consists of eight mathematical Problems and takes two and a half hours to complete. ""It tests 11 student's ability to reason quickly and clearly with a Moderate background of Mathematic knowledge"", said Grossman. ""The contest is evidently becoming e more popular and Prestigous as more schools Participated this year than before"", said Grossman. Last Year 86 students from 20 colleges competed compared to the 169 students from 32 colleges who Participated this year, according to Grossman. The contest is sponsored by the Virginia Tech Institute and State University in Blackburg, Va. and is open to students of all 111f:tiers from schools in the mid (Ind southeast region. The contest is coordinated on this c,afripus by faculty advisor Dr. iloushang Sorab. Vince Russomano campus notes MICA ROL& PICTuPC ir"" Inside Track attack Runners take Greater Baltimore Invitational ....4. Aaaa-choo Ann Polk of the Health Center offers tips on combat-ting the flu 7 Mercurial Kevin Bacon rides again in Quicksilver 8 Rock and a hard place Robert Taylor waxes ob-noxious about the rock lyrics controversy 13. Shipman steps down as mass comm. chair Dr. Irene K. Shipman has announced she will step down as chairperson of the Speech and Mass Communication department as of June 1, 1986. ""I've been here eight years, that is a long time to be chairperson,"" she said. According to Shipman those eight years have been ""very satisfying and gratifying."" Under her watch, the department has grown in number of students, teachers, and courses. Currently speech and Mass Communication is the second largest major on campus. She will stay on as a full-time faculty member and divert her time and energy to research on organizational communication and communication burnout. Dr. Shipman said a nationwide search has been effected for a new department chair. She said the new chairperson should have an ""interest in the department and the students."" Scott Hollenbeck Campus notes are continued on page 2 Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 18 Towson, Md 21204 February 20. 1986 Organizational Expo, Spring '86 Tau Epsilon Phi was one of the 42 participants in the SGA's Organizational Expo. Held every semester the expo gives students a chance to become familiar with most groups on campus. (See page 3). Hunter proposes cuts in sports programs By Lisa M. Quill In an attempt to upgrade Towson State's varsity athletic program, the athletic department has under-gone major changes in the organi-zational leveling of the sports pro-grams. But of more importance to the University's intercollegiate sports program is athletic director Billy Hunter's proposal to the Inter-collegiate athletic committee ask-ing that all of the track pro-grams� men's and women's, indoor and outdoor, and cross country, women's swimming, and golf be dropped from varsity level competi-tion at Towson State. All three categories of sports are considered D level sports (receiving no scholar-ship aid) under the new structure. ""I know that I am being perceiv-ed as the big, bad ogre on campus,"" Hunter said, defending the pro-posal. ""I just feel that in trying to do my job as the athletic director of a Division I school that I need to try and make a Division I program work."" Track in particular has received most of the attention thus far because if Hunter's proposal were accepted as is, the track programs would be finished as varsity sports following the spring season. Golf and Women's swimming, however, are to be looked at only as future cuts. ""What brings track to the thing right now is that [track coach] Jack [McDonald] has tenured his resigna-tion as of June 30,"" Hunter said. ""We're trying to do away with part-time coaches and hire full-time peo-ple. In the case of track, how can you get one track person to handle indoor, outdoor, and cross country?"" The reorganization within the department, according to Hunter, is not purely for financial reasons. ""As far as our level of sports, we feel that those particular sports [the A level sports] can promote our image better than any of the other sports."" Nance Reed, Hunter's assistant, reaffirmed the department's philosophy: ""One of the goals is to be able to recoup some of the money we put out, but also the image is very important thing. With the track ... being a Division III image ... that's an image we've been fighting for a long, long time. Peo-ple forget that we're Division I. We Hughes will wait before approving scholarships By Kelso Sturgeon Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes will wait to see the effects of Gramm-Rudman budget cuts on a federal teacher's tuition assistance program before deciding whether to fund a similiar state program, ac-cording to legislators and education officials who met with him last week. Hughes is waiting to see the results of Gramm-Rudman required budget cuts on the Carl Perkins Memorial Scholarship Program, ac-cording to Delegate Martha Klima (R-Baltimore County). The Perkins Scholarships are scheduled to begin this fall. The $10-million federal program will be subject to 4.3 percent budget cuts in 1986-87 because of Gramm-Rudman's deficit reduction requirements, according to Birdie Kyle, legislative associate to Chair-man William Ford (D-Michigan) of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education. A larger cut in the Perkins Scholarship program could be ask-ed for this year and much more will be cut in subsequent years, accord-ing to Bev Stonestreet, president of the Maryland State Teachers Association. ""You can't count on federal fund-ing and we have to show our com-mittment. If we wait our [legislative session] will have passed and we might not have any program at all,"" state Senator Barbara Hoffman (D-Baltimore) said. Klima is sponsoring a bill in the state House of Delegates and Hoff-man, a 1960 Towson State Universi-ty graduate and a former school teacher, is sponsoring a bill in the state Senate that would provide substantial financial aid to teaching students. Tuition assistance for teaching students is necessary in Maryland to ease a projected teacher shortage of 6000 by 1989, according to Klima. Klima, Hoffman and some state education officials met with Hughes last week and asked him to provide $200,000 in his 1986-87 supplemen-tal budget for a tuition assistance program that would provide about 140 first-year teaching students with $1400 yearly scholarships. Hughes will receive State Comp-troller Louis revenue projections for 1986-87 during the first week of March and will make a decision then about which programs to fund in his supplemental budget, Sheila Tol-liver, the governor's education coor-dinator, said. Students would have to qualify for the state program with a 3.5 high school grade point average and promise to teach in Maryland public schools 11/2 years for every year they received the scholarship. A GPA of 3.0 would be required while in one of the state-approved teaching programs to remain eligi-ble for the scholarship and a student could receive the $1400 yearly scholarship for four years. Only Maryland residents would be eligi-ble. A tuition assistance program already exists for upperclass teaching students studying to teach in areas where there is a critical shortage of teachers. Those areas are math, science, foreign languages and special education, according to Stonestreet. Regulations for the Perkins Scholarships will be available in about a week and the final rules for the program will be ready by May, Kyle said. The U.S. Department of Educa-tion is asking the states to set up committees to selects students for the Perkins Scholarships, according to Hoffman. want to change that and work on those programs [A level] and make them more competitive in the con-ference and in the region."" ""We were starting to make a name for ourselves,"" said Bill Robertson, who participates in the field events. ""But it doesn't matter if you're winning anymore; it's all politics."" Robertson continued: ""They are going to cut us so that, the other teams will be competitive in the ECC. When we talked to Hoke Smith [University president] he told us that we (the level A teams] will never be that good, and that we're trying to compete in the worst con-ference in the division. He told us that."" ""We've tried for so long to keep everybody happy,"" Reed said, ""and in trying to keep everybody happy, nobody's happy. So now it's time for us to try to be successful."" And the way for the rest of the department to be successful, accord-ing to Hunter is to give fewer people and fewer teams more commitment and support. ""We're very limited in what we can do,"" Hunter said. -We need to be realistic about what we can do and still give our people an oppor-tunity to be competitive."" Currently Towson State supports 22 varsity sports; the NCAA re-quirement for Division I schools is to have six men's and six women's squads. Elimination of the track See SPORTS, page 2 Ebony editor on campus as part of Black History Month By Osa Eghafona Black history and culture was the focus of a lecture given by Dr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., Senior Editor of Ebony magazine last Thursday as a part of Black history month. ""We come to commune the black dead, living and unborn and to remember what their experience means to us. Black History Month is a holy month and season to celebrate the spirit ... time to recognize the achievements of blacks in the United States,"" said Bennett. Bennett has written numerous articles, poems and books, in-cluding What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Lather King, Jr., served as a U.S. delegate to the sixth Pan-African Congress in Tan-zania and to the Second World of Festival Black and African Art in Nigeria and is a leading black hisAtoria. native of Mississippi, Bennett is the recipient of 12 honorary doc-torate degrees. And, he serves on the board of trustees of Morehouse College and the M.L. King, Jr. Memorial Center. Bennett spoke on Thursday about black tradition and ex-perience. He told the audience to forget slavery, and that oppression has no shame. He pointed out to the significance of black history, white history and the American dream. ""White history,"" he said, ""is celebrated every week and month of the year."" For a brief period after the civil war, Bennett said, the first� ind in many ways the last years of eman-cipation, there was a great upsurge of optimism and achievement among black Americans. ""Black politicians, lawyers, businessmen, and farmers showed that neither servitude nor skin color was rele-vant to the incidence of ability, in-telligence, creativity, and dignity,"" he said. ""The hopes of Reconstruction, ho..,ever, were to end in bitter humiliation and defeat as the threat of black power began to disturb the equilibrium of white complacency,"" Bennett said. Beyond that, Bennett said, ""We are challenged in this month to remember one of Dr. Martin Luther King's greatest legacies: hope. He never ceased to believe that the dream and the dreamers would pre-vail. And if he could speak to us, he would tell us that nothing can stop us if we keep the faith of our fathers and mothers and walk together and dream together,"" Bennett said. According to Bennett in the black community employment rates have had a great depression; hunger and poverty are at the highest levels ever. ""In the face of this partial, but bleak assessment, you are probably wondering why dare to dream and act? You must dare to dream be-cause without dreams we die,"" said Bennett. Bennett said that blacks have been involved in all major aspects of American history from the colonial period to the Vietnam war. ""They have not always been remembered,"" said Bennett, ""To ignore these heroes, to deny their contribution, is to disavow a basic part of the American character and seal away a component of the proud heritage of everyone, black and white. Bennett said that is the reason for Black History month; to ""dig out the skeleton of U.S. history, painting in all the colors, cultures and heritages that make this nation See, BENNETT, page 2 Dr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine was on campus last II% Lonnie Titlimoilm I I "