The Towerlight, February 22, 1980

tl19800222-000 "VOL. LXXIII No. 17 zirotuttlig Pew attend anti-draft ""teach-in"" by Michael Bennett The anti-draft movement came to Towson State last 4id0y when a small group of students attended a ,d,raft ""teach-in"" sponsored by the Alternative Action Com mitteeand the Student Government Association. Speakers for the program were Fran Donalen of the American Friends Service Committee and Paul Pump- Y of the African Liberation Education Project and 'ne Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. Donalen is 41no a member of CARD (Committee Against Regis-tretiion and the Draft). Neither Pumphrey nor Donalen were disturbed by the turnout. ""This is just a start. I'd rather see Brflall group of dedicated people than a room full �People we'll never see again,"" Pumphrey said. Alexandra Doumani of the AAC said the small el'owd could have been caused by a lack of publicity !nd a scheduling conflict. The draft program was to nave started at 12:30 p.m., but was delayed be- ,11se organizers wanted to wait until Dick Gregory, ""no was here as part of the Black History Month %alters series, finished his lecture. � 83( the time the draft ""teach-in"" began, at about 2 many people, including reporters from two local 4evi5i0n stations, had left. Pumphrey and Donalen made brief opening state- Inents and then answered questions from the audience. 1)orialen took issue with the claim that ""registration not a draft."" She said that people should let govern-nient officials know how they feel now, because when trie draft comes there will be no time to deal with de-raerits of any kind. 3,In his opening statement, Pumphrey said President Al,nnilly Carter's reaction to the Russian move into grehanistan points out the racist attitude of the U.S. verninent. He said that what Russia is doing in Af-gnanistan is no different from what the South Africans 4e doing to the Black majority of their country. LI. Carter has asked for boycotts against Russia, but United States has vetoed similar moves against 'oath Africa,"" he said. Pumphrey said the U.S. does 4,(1t. take action against South Africa, because of 'Itoerican economic interests. l According to Pumphrey, draft registration is a pre-de to the creation of a rapid deployment force that 111 be used to protect U.S. capital investments abroad. hanphrey said racism is being used to ""whip up sup-frii3rt"" for unjust policies. ""We have to start thinking ourselves. The military does not want people wno think,"" he said. , If we have to be drafted, we should be drafted itLIL0 an army that will rebuild the cities and correct social inequities that exist in America, Pumphrey ;,;1!cl- ""We need to mobilize for more humane policies Z' our government. We need to make it our government that of the 'fat cats""' he said. � lionalen said draft registration is dangerous, be- 114148e it allows us to ""slip into a war."" She said, ""If ereis a war situation, declare war."" tIsSlie suggested that those opposed to the draft ""get vi"",,eir deferment information together now,"" because thnen mobilization comes they will be swept up in system and have no recourse. q Oho said that inspite of President Carter's claim at any future draft will be fair, racism and in-ities are built into the system. ""We need to insist gat the local draft Boards are truly representative continued on page 8 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Poor publicity and a 90-minute delay were some of the reasons given for the small turn-out at last Friday's Draft ""teach in,"" which was sponsored by the SGA and the Alter-native Action Committee. Fran Donalen and Paul Pumphrey spoke against the draft and offered advice on how to fully exercise one's rights when dealing with the Selective Ser-vice. Forms for declaring conscientious ob-jector status were distributed and anti-draft T-shirts were sold. The participants, who were not discouraged by the small crowd, plan to continue to work against registration and the draft. TL photo by Bill Breidenbaugh Registration sparks little college reaction (CPS)�Initial student reaction to Presi-dent Jimmy Carter's request for $10 million to reinstitute military registration of 18-to- 261 ear-old Americans 4eems to be only slightly negative, despite expectations that registration would ignite a huge resistance movement. Anti-draft organizers, however, are con-fident the spontaneous campus protests that have broken out since the President's January 23 proposal will eventually grow into a sustained anti-registration move-ment. An Associated Press-NBC poll taken just after Carter's State of the Union address showed that most (78 percent) Americans favored registration, but that a majority {55 percent) of the 18-to-24-year-olds op-posed it. A number of informal, largely-unscientific student polls by campus newspapers did find widespread support for registration and even for a renewed draft, Ohio State's phone survey discovered 67 percent in favor of registration, while 64 percent of the students at Marshall Uni-versity supported it. At the University of Texas, the Daily Texan found the most popular joke around campus had two students agreeing to meet at fall registration at UT, but missing each other because one had assumed the other had meant the University of Toronto. Never-theless, the paper found ""a mixed if not mildly favorable reaction to the registration proposal"" on the Austin campus. ""A substantial majority' of students in-terviewed by the Cavalier Daily at the Uni-versity of Virginia supported registration. lt was a ""slim majority"" at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. Yet an ""overwhelming majority"" of Fort Hays students said they would serve if drafted. There was a similar pattern at the Uni-versity of Oklahoma. Sixty percent of the students questioned favored a return to the draft, not just registration. A larger major-ity, however, wanted the government to provide a legal way for them to escape it, with 68 percent favoring student defer-ments. If there were no deferment system, 74 percent said they would serve if drafted. Despite the sentiment suggested by the informal polls, students have been quick to protest against the registration pro-posal. continued on page 2 CONTENTS Sports 6 Entertainment 5 Classifieds 8 Features .3 Week Watcher .4 Commentary 9 Newsbriefs 8 February 22, 1980 Budget denied for Smith Hall renovations by Quincey Johnson A supplemental budget request for the renovation of Smith Hall has been denied by the state planning depart-ment. The renovation would alter the ex-isting structure to accommodate an expanding science department, said Dr. Jack W. Taylor, dean of natural science and mathematics. In fiscal year 1979, a $2.9 million capital budget appropriation was granted to Towson State for the renovation of Smith Hall. The General Services department accepted bids for the renovation, and the bids were well over the appropria-tion. The bid for the renovation was $4,100,000 and only $2,900,000 was available. The bid, therefore, could not be accepted and the project had to be delayed. The supplemental budget request was made to make up for the added expense of the project. In December of 1979, the state plan-ning department recommended to the Board of Trustees that the entire proj-ect be cancelled. After correspon-dence with President Hoke Smith, the Board of Trustees objected to the cancellation. In February, the state planning department made a verbat agreement not to cancel the project. The planning department recorre metaled that thc project be reviewed this spring by a value engineer. The value engineer would review each facet of the operation, and make recommendations to the state plan-ning department. The planning department would then make its decision on the funding of the project this summer. Alan Povey, capital improvement programmer for higher education, said that Smith Hall does not have top priority because it is relatively new compared to other buildings under its Board of Trustees. Povey also said, ""The state is at-tempting to get the best value for the money."" The value engineer would evaluate the project and through this evalua-tion recommend the best course of operations for the project. The plans for the Smith Hall re-novation are old and need revision, and that is why a value engineer was recommended, added Povey. The changes in the plans must make the structure energy efficient, said Povey. The renovated building should last for at least fifteen years. John Suter, director of campus planning, said he believes that if the University goes through the evalua-tion process the project will be fund-ed. Povey added, ""At the present scenario the construction will be finished in the summer of 1981."" The renovation of a building must be in accordance to the Capital projects planning Cycle for the Mary-land State Universities and Colleges Maryland laws require the prepar-ation of a program for every pro-ject prior to an appropriation of funds. The program means the academic goals, justifications and the space required to attain these goals. The University must secure ap-proval by the State Planning de-partment before the appropriation of funds by the General Assembly and the Governor. Once the appropriation is received, the General Services department collects bids on the project. If the bids are over the appro-priation, as in this case, the General Services Department will be unable to accept any contracts. Once the contract is awarded, the architect prepares drawings and spec-ifications in accordance with the pro-gram. The plan must get its approval from the UniverSity, which will con-sider the campus mission and the program in its decision. Next, the project must get ap-proval from the Board of Archi-tectural Review, which is an advis-ory board to the State Planning department. The Review Board concerns itself with the site location, site develop-ment, architectural design, and con-formance with the campus plan. After the preliminary drawing is finished and receives approval, the architect is authorized to do the final working draft of the project. The General Services department must give the fina approval to the working draft. The architect and the General Ser-vices department will have total responsibility for the completion of the project. When completed, the University will accept the duty of maintaining the structure, Paculty reaction mixed on retrenchment decision by Michael Bennett k Tenured university faculty members, whose jobs 4 traditionally been as secure as Supreme Court ,Ilstice's, are finding their positions threatened by t1nuing enrollment declines and tight money policies. N�lhe Academic Council's passage of the University's erichment procedures made it clear that the era of f""aveIivr.ersity expansion and permanent job security is dictionary defines retrenchment as ""cutting or lug away in an effort to economize."" Whatever word fl.),.11 use, the bottom line is that at some point in the people may lose their jobs. lie Council's retrenchment plan spells out exactly '1 faculty will be terminated, but it also sets up pro- ?N�- oO.res for course review and long-range planning that ttt e make it possible to ""avoid the obviously dis- 4eful matter of formal retrenchment of positions."" 4,44 Q:circling to the preamble to the retrenchment pro- �Ures, there is a core of liberal arts and science cour- Ill"", that must remain intact if Towson State is to re- 41,;t14a university. The procedures require each depart-ki` tIt to determine which courses within that depart-are pert of the essential core. ire e-Professional programs, such as business admin-vIlVition and mass communication, will become most 'hIlerable if their enrollments decline. ,11e preamble states, ""retrenchment is more likely i4�Nfect, graduate and continuing studies programs be- LI;e it does day undergraduate programs,"" because Programs are expected to be self-supporting. 14 'he Board of Trustees has established an order t , ��rnlination to be used if retrenchment of posit-it,"" becomes necessary. Faculty on temporary con-r.) e will be fired first, then non-tenured faculty obationary appointments and then tenured faculty. Ittlhge Board's guidelines allow the University to re- 1 ,0"" 4oretenured and temporary faculty or make new ivi,'�, Intments during retrenchmet if it is necessary to a serious distortion in the academic program. 4.3P tenured faculty members who are terminated will have the right to appeal. The University Presi-dent will make the final decision on all appeals. Faculty reaction to the retrenchment procedures has been mixed. Dr. Dan Jones, co-chairman of the English department, said the committee ""has put together a positive response to a bad situation. The document gives us a chance to plan a coherent sense of our mission as a university."" Jones does not think the University will ever have to terminate tenured faculty. ""Unless there is a drastic change in state funding, I don't think we will get to that point,"" he said. Dr. Irwin Goldberg, chairman of the sociology de-partment, disagreed. ""The mechanism is ineffective. What do they rnt, an when they say 'liberal arts core.' A good case could be made that a student should know something about all of the courses that the liberal arts departments offer, he said. Goldberg thinks retrenchment will create conflict among three groups on campus: the traditional old-line liberal arts departments, the newer sciences and the social sciences (sociology, political science and economics) and the job oriented departments (business administration and mass conamunciation.) ""The Dean is going to have to use coercive per-suasion on the departments to get them to come up with realistic recommendations,"" he said. Goldberg said retrenchment is a serious problem and should not be taken lightly or dismissed with an it-won't-happen-here attitude. ""You're talking about firing people who may never work again in a field for which they have prepared for their entire lives. Everyone of us ought to be asking, 'seven years from now, when I am fired, what will I do,"" he said. He said the shock will not set in until the first person is terminated. ""Up until now the tight job market has only hit the younger people. Those who got their doctorates in the late seventies may never work as academics. Most tenured faculty don't believe that they are in danger of losing their jobs,"" Goldberg said. According to Goldberg, cutbacks are not the only solution to the problem. ""Colleges and universities are not tied to demographics the way elementary and secondary schools are. One hundred percent of all high school graduates do not go to college. At the present time, only 50 percent of them do. Programs directed at increasing attendance might eliminate the need for retrenchment. I see no sign that this is being considered,"" he said. Goldberg disagreed with those who question the value of a college education in today's technological world. ""In the future higher education will become more and more important. The community should real-ize that a highly trained work force is always attractive to potential employers,'' he said. He said that while it is always possible to run an institution with fewer people, you always pay price. ""Intense work with the students is still the best way to teach. At Towson State small class size is one of the positive qualities. I'd hate to see that lost,"" he said. Goldberg also said that an informed state willing to spend the money could avoid retrenchment. Dr. Golden Arrington, professor of music, thinks more could be done to bring students to the Uni-versity. ""Maybe we haven't spent all the time we could have spent going after students on the open market,"" he said. Arrington said the low cost of an education at Tow-son State, when compared to the cost of Peabody or the University of Maryland, is an important sell-ing point. If retrenchment ever actually comes about, non-tenured faculty will be the first to go. Eighty per-cent of the full-time faculty at the University are tenured. Dr. Alan Pribula, instructor of chemistry, is a non-tenured full-time faculty member who is already look-ing for another position. ""For young faculty, the fu-ture looks extremely bleak in terms of promotion and tenure. I came here at the peak of the Uni-versity's expansion and I was told that promotion and tenure would continue to be available. They did not realize that change was coming,"" he said. ""I know other non-tenured faculty members who are not satisfied. This situation should never have been allowed to happen. The expansion was not well thought out. Someone should have thought of what was going to happen when the expansion ended,"" he said. The library will also be affected by retrenchment, because as the number of students decreases, the need for library staff will also decrease. Thomas Strader, director of the library, said, ""All of us were originally trained to do all the jobs in a library, however over the years we have specialized. We will deal with retrenchment by sharpening our previously learned skills. Perhaps a cataloger will take a summer course and become a reference librarian,"" he said. In this Issue-- Black activist Dick Gregory brings his mess-age to Towson State. Page 4. Senior eager Lloyd Tucker is the only player re-maining from the Tigers' Division II glory teams. Read about the oldest Tiger. Page 7. "