TL20060220-01 "Erica Kritt Arts Editor Pop-rock band Yellowcard, best known for their 2003 double-platinum album �Ocean Avenue,� will headline this year�s TigerFest on Burdick Field April 29. The group will come to Towson via this spring�s 20-city Virgin College Mega Tour. �It is a full sponsored tour,� CAB music chair David Hamburg said. �It�s similar to when we did the MTV Campus Invasion a couple of years ago.� The tour is comprised of six acts. The head-liner stage will include Yellowcard, Mae, and Reeve Oliver, while the emerging artist stage will include three local acts that the Virgin College Mega Tour will find and present. Virgin will work with Sonicbids, a company that specializes in helping independent artists make press kits, to find the local bands. But CAB has one act that the tour won�t bring. �The only addition to the tour will be the winner of the Battle of the Bands, which we do every year,� Hamburg said. The battle is scheduled for April 11. Plans for TigerFest were cemented about a month ago. �We decided on the Virgin College Mega Tour about a month ago, we were just waiting on contracts,� CAB advisor Jason Heiserman said. Along with the musical acts, the tour comes with many other attractions. �We get a whole village that comes with it,� Hamburg said. The tour, produced by Virgin Megastores, is presented by Dentyne Soft Chew with key sponsors Pontiac, Major League Baseball and Sonicbids. �There will be a lot of exhibits, new technol-ogy, record your own songs,� Hamburg said. Major League Baseball will bring in many of their official products for students to purchase as well as batting cages and pitching cages. There will also be opportunities to win parties with the bands. Thursday, 2/20/06 www.thetowerlight.com Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly TigerFest on Yellowcard tour Noisy neighbors beware Students get lucky in HRL lottery INSIDE: This Week..........3 Perspectives......4 News................9 Beyond...........14 Arts.................17 Music..............18 Classifi eds.......21 Sports.............24 News: Can you hear that? It�s the Echo, and it�s coming back to Towson Arts: Get freaky with �Sexual Perversity in Chicago� at Center Stage COMING IN THURSDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: Successful local band �Taken� turns live concert into music video set at Rams Head Live! Arts, page 17 Sheehan takes up new VP position on campus News, page 9 Community complaints cause Caret to be on the lookout for �nuisance houses� Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight Left: Pres. Caret addressed Towson community members about neighborhood distur-bances Thursday. Above: Don Gerding voices his concerns. Annual festival lineup surfaces with Mae, Reeve Oliver on roster of Virgin-sponsored venue See VIRGIN, page 20 See RULES, page 15 Sharon Leff Associate News Editor Though students with 60 to 89 credits were told they would not be guaranteed housing for Fall 2006, 125 of the 147 who applied were offered a room. Those chosen from the ran-dom selection process Feb. 8 will have the choice of living either in Towson Run Apartments or in a single. As for the 22 students who were not chosen �their names have been given over to Millennium and they�re given priority for housing,� Jerry Dieringer, assis-tant vice president and director of Housing and Residence Life, said. Rules for who is eligible to live in Towson Run have also been changed for the fall. All students who are currently living on-cam-pus now qualify for housing in the Towson-owned apartments. Jazzmen Tynes Contributing Writer Towson University is about to get more aggressive with students who act like bad neighbors off campus. At a meeting with the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations Thursday night, Towson President Robert Caret said the University is preparing to com-bat �nuisance houses� in residential communities. The meeting marked Caret�s first comments in over a year to the umbrella group that represents many Towson neighborhoods. In the past, the GTCCA has lobbied against plans to build new student housing in downtown Towson. Thursday�s meeting was an attempt to clarify the University�s goals and desires for campus growth. Don Gerding, a Rodgers Forge Community Association board member, said the University should take responsibility for students who move into residential communities and create disturbances. �I�ve just changed my position on this, and I�ll tell you why,� Caret said. In the past, the University has intervened in incidents involving formal groups that reside off campus representing TU (such as sororities, fraternities and sports groups). �If there�s a group living together, carrying the Towson label, we�ll take significant action against them,� he said. Up until now, Towson has resisted calls to punish individual students for off-campus misconduct. But that may be changing. By mid-April, the University plans to draft a policy that would define what qualifies as a nuisance house, according to Deb Moriarty, vice president for student affairs. The policy could go into effect next fall. The Towerlight See CARET, page 15 "
