tl19740222-007 "Page 8 Towerlight, Towson State College February 22,1974 photo by Coke Hagepanos The Students for a Democratic Society began handing out petitions outside an Educational Psychology class in Stephens Hall Monday, calling for the textbook used in the course to be discontinued or altered in its teaching use. The text, has been labeled ""racist"" by SDS, who plan to continue their petition drive until enough signatures are acquired to provoke legislative action. Mathias lectures (Continued from Page 1 ) Blaming Congress for not mandating a research project concerning the control and conservation of our natural resources sooner and Detroit's auto industry for ignoring the .warnings of a foreseeable petroleum ciris crisis. Mathias explained our country's predicament. ""World wide supplies are increasing, but demands are growing faster. He conceded if the United States ""digs. dams and drills and puts up hundreds of nuclear energy plants for the next 25 years, the 'U.S. would still be 15 percent short of self sufficiency."" Disagreeing with the present administration's view over the idea of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 causing the energy shortage and the thought of the U.S. even reaching self sufficiency, Mathias sees ""society not as bleak but exciting."" He commented that this crisis will bring about an interdependent new world creating a global economy with great opportunity for increasing the quality of life on this earth."" Mathias expressed the bend that the people of this country should be given a realistic estimate as to what they are headed for in the future. Mathias told the audience of his confidence in the people of this country ""to fulfill the challenge, finding substitutes and alternatives, creating a better society."" ��������������������� �� COLLEGE UNION ��� � presents a � MOVIE � � ""ZORBA THE GREEK"" � March 1, 1974 � � 8:00 P.M. FREE! � Stephens Auditorium � Coming March 75 � Buster Keaton � Laurel and Hardy and � Peter Sellers � all in one showing SO �� � ******************************** END WINTER BLAHS WITH Operations to begin in April: Black Cultural Center created by Mike Dilworth The Black Cultural Center, housing the black library educational center and arts center, is scheduled to begin operation in April, promoting various activities designed to broaden the cultural base of the Black community at Towson State College, as well as the campus at-large. To be temporarily located in a rennovated Van Bokkelen's Ceramics area, the Center is the result of a task force of the Academic Affairs Division and the Student Affairs Division, which incorporated the Black Student Union, Student Government Association, Black Faculty and Administrators Association, Afro-American Studies Program and concerned students into a Black Cultural Center Committee. Chaired by Rosemary Malcolm, Associate Dean of Students, and with the aide of Julius Chapman, Associate Dean of Minority Relations, the Committee planned the implementation of the Center. Dolores Long is coordinating student activities for the Center. Sponsor student oriented activities Funded by the Academic Affairs Division, the BSU, and BFAA, the Center will sponsor student oriented activities in theatre, dance, music and art, in addition to lectures and cultural events by outside groups. The concept for the Center was presented to the Executive Council by Vice President Kenneth Shaw. The education center will feature tutoring, voluntary adult education, co-operative programs with Morgan State College, and provide area for a SUMMER JOBS Guys & Gals needed for summer employment at Natio.Qal Parks, Private Camps, Dude Ranches and Resorts throughout the nation. Over 50,000 students aided each year. For FREE information on student assistance program send self-addressed STAMPED enve-lope to Opportunity Research, Dept. SJO, 55 Flathead Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901. ....YOU MUST APPLY EARLY.... $1uflfN,ASS,ST �NCE P.OG.AM HAS BE Eh y,f Tmi DE RA, R� OE COWIN iSSIO% karate club, dance troupe and gospel choir. The Center will provide the College with a comprehensive program geared toward strengthening the Black studies curriculum, and insure Black students understanding, participation and recognition of Afro-American heritage. Donated by the BSU, the Black Library will consist of books and music. Black arts, by both amateurs and professionals, will be displayed in the Arts center. Reason for founding A spokesman for the Center explained the reasoning for its founding. ""At present, there is no facility on this campus where all interested members of this community can contribute to and profit from a knowledge and understanding of and services dealing with the Black collegiate experience, cultural, intellectual and social, which is recognized by all as difficult and unique. There is no facility that a Black American can touch that will affirm his knowledge of himself and his blackness; no place that a Black member of this community can call his own."" ""It is for this reason"", he said, ""that the Black students, faculty and administrators of Towson State College have worked diligently for the funding, planning, and implementation of a Black Cultural Center. Minimal participation ""Whereas the College appears to encourage a wide measure of control and participation in all phases of academic and social activities to the Black community, the actual participation of the Black populus is minimal. Because of this situation. the Black Contraceptives by mail; Introductory Offer; one dozen condoms in five assorted colors. $2.00 ppd. Two dozen $3.50 ppd. Tax included. Send to Bag Company P.O. Box K Chase, Md. 21027 experience on the Towson campus involves a two-fold alienation, which is fostered by the College's present structure. There is first an alienation from the community at large, and secondly, there is alienation of self. The Black Cultural Center will stand as one attempt of offering a solution to the black community on this campus,"" he said. Currently co-sponsoring the Black Consciousness Series, the Center will co-sponsor future events such as a cabaret once a month, a gospel festival in March, the Arena Players in April, a unity dinner, rap nights in the dorms starting February 28, a photography exhibit by J. D. Thomas and a lecture series by Johnnella Butler on Afro-American Studies. Rev. Adam Kittrell, of the Ecumenical Campus Ministry of Towson and Morgan State College, will have an office in the Center and will help coordinate discussions with students. For more information contact Dean Rosemary Malcolm, Julius Chapman or Dolores Long at 823-7500. New York TRIP March 9th & 10th Includes Transportation and Lodging at ROYAL MANHATTAN HOTEL '25 double '23' triple '22' quad per person MUST SIGN UP BY MARCH 1 Contact Box Office College Center 823-7500 Ext. 568 BOARD ��1 �f.�� �"": � 4( * /pang Get Away * THE MOST FANTASTIC VACATION CONTEST P/ERI OVER $10,000 IN PRIZES! 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