tl19730223-000 "towerlight Volume XXVI, No. 18 Towson State College February 23, 1973 Towson, Maryland 21204 Dr. photo by Dennis Clabaugh Kenneth Shaw, vice president of Towson State College, told the faculty Monday that the college could look forward to zero population growth in the near future. Shaw's mid-year address: College looks to ZPG by Brian Harness Dean Kenneth Shaw, in a mid-year address to the faculty, announced that Towson State College would soon be feeling the effects of zero population growth. Besides ZPG, however, Shaw pointed out several additional reasons for the nationwide decline in student enrollments. The elimination of the draft is the newest cause of dwindling enrollments in places of higher education, because those youths who in the past applied to college in order to obtain the all important student deferment, are no longer doing so. Shaw also blamed ""uncertain economic status"" as a primary cause for the current slack in the national enrollment. The poor job market for college graduates hardly reflects well on the value of a B.A. or a B.S. degree, the result being that many students and potential students are quick to accept the first semi-lucrative job offer that comes along. Towson, for the time being, at least, is still turning away thousands of students every fall, and Shaw expects it to continue its growth indefinitely. When Towson does begin to feel the effects of ZPG, however, the change (or lack of it), will be most noticeable in the faculty area. Shaw foresees little faculty advancement in the future due to a lack of retiring personnel. The average age of Towson's faculty is now thirty-eight years, which means that over fifty percent of Towson's teachers still have approximately thirty years to go before reaching mandatory retirement age. As a result, Shaw stated that ""many of these (Continued on Page 5) Harris to ask for elimination of Student Services Fees Board by Brenda Gilhooly Student G overnment Association president Jesse Harris will submit a bill to Senate next week which, if passed, will eliminate the Student Services Fee Governing Board. The bill will dissolve all functions of the SSFGB, leaving the final responsibility and final control in the hands of the Senate and the executive branch of the SGA. The bill states that the SSFGB serves the function of student representation and student control of funds, both outside and inside the realm of student government. Since in the future, the SSFGB will possibly no longer have under its control the fees for College Center operation, Day Care Center, and Intercollegiate athletics, and that the ultimate responsibility of budgeting , and controlling of organizations rests with the Joining partnership of Senate and the Executive branch of the Student Government Association, the SSFGB should be dissolved. SGA Senator Bob Leatherwood said that he opposes Harris' bill 100 percent and will do everything he can to stop it. Leatherwood said, ""This bill is a step backward for SGA. It will turn SGA from a policy-making organization into a social organization."" Leatherwood said that Harris is acting on the assumption that the College Center operations budget, the Day Care Center budget, and athletics department budget will be taken from the control of the SSFGB. Loatherwood intends to submit a proposal to Senate, President Fisher, and Vice-presidents Wayne Schelle and C.R. Gillespie which will establish a new type of board with new responsibilities. According to Leatherwood, the new proposals will do away with the current problems of the SSFGB and maintain some student control. Vice-president of Business and Finance Wayne Schelle feels that the bill is a good idea, because if plans go through to remove the areas of day care center, college center operations, and athletics, the SSFGB would only be left with student organizations. Schelle continued, ""I have confidence in the SGA executives and Senate."" He said that if the three areas previously mentioned were removed from SSFGB jurisdiction, SSFGB would be an unnecessary formality. SSFGB chairman John Kipper said that he sees no reason for eliminating the SSFGB until the three areas are actually taken away. He continued, ""I see no reason for taking away the responsibility of student activity fees from the SSFGB, which is accepting responsibility and accountability for student fees and putting them into the hands of a body that frequently cannot achieve quorum."" Kipper feels that by overseeing funds, SSFGB frequently bypasses the animosity that often flows between Senate and the executive branch of Student government. Teacher Ed program up for evaluation The teacher preparation programs at Towson State College will be evaluated for accreditation purposes on March 11-14, 1973. There will be two teams jointly conducting the examination�one team representing the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and the other team coming from the Maryland State Department of Education. Activity fee bill withdrawn by Brenda Gilhooly House Bill 294, aimed at imposing restrictions on activities fees, has been withdrawn from committee by its sponsors Representatives Michael E. Foley and John J. Gallagher. The bill stated that a university or college currently receiving state appropriations in any form, whether through a scholarship program, direct grant, capital construction, or otherwise, may not require students to pay any form of a mandatory student activities fee or charge. The bill defines student activities fee or charge as including any charge, billing, or collection from students for student activities, athletics, a student union, social activities, or other student purposes, all as distinguished from expenditures for the direct and primary purposes of the university or college. This bill, had it been passed, would have resulted in the elimination of all activities, which are presently under the control of the Student Government at Towson. Craig Schloer, SGA vice-president said ""The executives of the SGA at Towson began an intensive lobbying campaign two weeks ago to get the bill defeated. This was in response to unfounded rumors that there was strong support for the bill in Annapolis. We got in touch with the chairman, vice-chairman, and members of the ways and means committee, several influential members of both the House and Senate, and personal contacts in the Maryland legislature. Apparently our efforts were effective."" Harris stated that all the executives, along with Dr. C.R. Gillespie, had planned to go to Annapolis to testify at the committee hearings. ""We planned to argue on two basic lines,"" he said. ""First, that students were responsible in the handling of the fees, and secondly, that while most fees operate on the basis of 'taxation without representation,' student fees are not only distributed in accordance with the wishes of the students, but, in fact, provide for student representation. Without the student fees, the only legitimate means of student-administrative contact would be lost."" This was not the first time a bill to eliminate mandatory student fees has been brought before the House Ways and Means Committee. In past years it has always been defeated, but this is the first time it was ever withdrawn before coming to a vote. In preparation for these visits, the Education Division, together with all other departments of the College having teacher preparation components, have been involved in the writing of a self-study report, which examines all aspects of the teacher education programs. The NCATE Report reflects the status of both undergraduate and graduate programs in teacher education while the State Report considers only undergraduate programs. In the preparation of these reports, the efforts and inputs of many individuals and groups are represented--faculty members of the Education Division, students, department chairmen, deans, administrative staff members, and faculty of those supporting departments which provide some aspect of teacher preparation. Both reports are a product of more than a year of study. Planning began initially in November, 1971, with the appointment of a Steering Committee composed of Dr. Maud Broyles, Dr. Grayson Burner, Dr. Margaret Kiley, Dr. Theodora Kimsey, Dr. Robert Wall, Associate Dean Billy Hauserman, and Jack Epstein, chairman. During the academic year 1971-1972, committees composed of faculty and students intensively studied all aspects of the institution in relation to teacher preparation and prepared their reports according to the NCATE (Continued on Page 4) "
