The Towerlight, February 5, 1988

tl19880205-000 "Inside Tigers Tumble The men's basketball team gets its first ECC win after a bench-clearing brawl with the Rider broncs __page 3 The 1. 81 No. 12 ig wer 1 Published weekly by the students of 7'owson State University Towson, MD 21204 This area will soon be under construction as a new garage and apartments are erected. niversity plans garage by Michael Raymond News reporter new parking garage/apart- , at complex is planned in order 1et Towson State University to 0 , ldence needs, according to eeet. ever-growing parking and reitY President Hoke L. Smith. said that a single build-g, to be constructed on the site of 0,e Current administration open '4 will serve both functions. AL garage much like our current 5 e will be built first,"" Smith said, nd a mid-rise will be developed eve it with a capacity of up to ,00 beds, depending on the indi- Ehlal architectural bids."" ,siNe construction date is set, and, "" fact, no bids have yet been made. But the project is on the verge of advancing from the con-ceptual stage to actuality. ""Bonds will be sold late this week or next to raise money,"" Smith said. The bidding process can be expected to follow shortly thereafter. Although this project has been an obvious need for some time, especially in regard to parking, site selection required careful con-sideration. Before the administration lot was chosen, three other possibili-ties in particular were reviewed. Garden-style apartments along Towsontown Blvd. were rejected because the steep terrain makes for inefficient land use. Additions to both Linthicum parking lot and tFC attempts by Sandy J. Colwell News reporter I,According to Greek advisor, Bet Bober, and IFC Rush chair rYtin Casey, the Inter-Fraternity 4lincil will rush as a whole prior IRe individual fraternity recruit- When a student has decided to Greek,"" he must make an in- II-fled decision about which fra-hillitY to pledge. So, IFC has I L up the opportunity for men i Investigate each fraternity first, 'Ete,ed on individual preferences e merits, and then make a deci-c4,11, according to Bober. Btudents need to be aware of eirnPortance of investigating all .,..,e fraternities before making a , felon,"" he continued. Ln the past, each fraternity and-Picked its members during I e semester and held its pledge asses whenever it wanted. With .ell, organization working inde- ""n tiently, the student did not ""e an opportunity to make ade-ta comparisons, Bober added. ""le new IFC Rush program will 8 Promarily on educating the the garage were eliminated by concern over undue congestion. The attempt to prevent people and vehicles from becoming too concentrated will raise another issue, however, concerning the number of pedestrians crossing Osier Drive during rush hours. ""A walkway was proposed six or seven years ago at a price of $1.25 to $1.5 million,"" Smith said. ""But it was turned down by the legisla-ture. Then, when we built the gar-age, they made us put up the traffic lights."" Indeed, with the signals that now stand, the safety record on Osler Dr. has been good. As plans for the new parking/residence complex come to fruition, however, greater measures may follow. Index flows 1 classifieds 2 6 7 sports 3 4 features &entertainntent 5 editorial 9 perspectives & letters 9 weekwatcher 10 February 5, 1988 SGA performance analyzed by Doug Wood Assistant news editor Chris Krivos, Student Govern-ment Association president has been evaluating the performance of the senate and has described the SGA's plans for this semester. ""We tried to evaluate some of the programs we did in the past and look at the things we told the stu-dent body we were going to do dur-ing the elections last year and de-cide how we were going to do those things,"" said Krivos. Krivos said the senators have distributed responsibility among themselves to be more efficient in accomplishing their goals. One goal is to produce a brochure listing and describing in detail every organization on campus. Krivos said Earl Hicks, a senior mass communications major, would be assisting him with the production of this leaflet. The pamphlet should be out by the end of this month, and will be available upon request. ""We may have boxes out by The Towerlight stands, but there will be a large quantity kept in the SGA office, so when students come up they can always ask for the bro-chure,"" said Krivos. Krivos also said that the pro-gramming of the Rathskellar would be changed to include live entertainment three nights per AGD chapter returns by Vince Russomanno News editor Judith B. Jelenko Assistant news editor Alpha Gamma Delta, a national sorority that folded at Towson State University four years ago, has once again formed a pledge class. The official installation of AGD's pledge class occured Janu-ary 31, 1988. AGD was previously Alpha Sigma Chi, a local sorority. Alpha Sigma was founded by four people who began their efforts to start a sorority in February 1984. Alpha Gamma Delta was the last national sorority to leave the Towson State campus. Panhelic law says that if a chapter folds it is the first national sorority to be asked to return to the University, said Kristine Beech, who is one of the four to originally found Alpha Sigma Chi and an AGI) member as a freshman. ""I really don't know what hap-pened. After being initiated I left for one semester in Italy,"" said Linda Winegarden, another of the unified fraternity rush student population about Greek life at Towson State. The overall objective of the IFC is to increase student awareness about fraterni-ties on campus, Bober said. ""Some students formulate mis-conceptions about .fraternity life, and it is our responsibility as ad-ministrators to clear up any false perceptions and let students know what Greek life is all about,"" Bober said. By holding its own Rush, the IFC hopes to add structure and organization to the University's Greek system. The IFC's objective is to concentrate on Rush the first few weeks of the semester to cap-ture and maximize the interest of men who would benefit from a fra-ternity atmosphere, according to Bober. ""Hopefully, the new Rush will both improve relations between fraternities as well as cause them to increase their competitiveness,"" said Bober. ""Competition is good. Fraternity men will go for a larger pledge class, spread the fraternity energy around campus and im-prove the whole system."" ideo to be filmed at by Vince Russomanno News editor (111,11'141g Change of Pace with ;:"".' and Jeff playing at Towson ""de University is nothing new. ,�,? 4 Wever, tonight they will be -:;1�ging a film crew with them. , ""e are shooting part of a video Potpourri Friday,"" said Bob �NveY. The pilot video will be shot C. e'poPeration with Film Group, We will make the video .and send it out. If there is enough inter-est, then we will make a full blown video over the summer,"" Slowey added. Bob and Jeff Auen originated the act on this campus six years ago. ""Jeff graduated [from Towson State] in 1984. We started [per-forming] in 1982 at one of the gong shows,"" Slowey said. According to Robert Baeuerle, director of the University Union, the making of the video will not entail changes in either security or In contrast to the sororities on campus, the fraternities have an unlimited membership potential. There are no limitations or restric-tions on the number of men that may be offered bids or accepted as members, according to Bober. The new Rush has no formal reg-istration requirements; all inter-ested men are welcome to attend. WC plans to recruit at least 200 new members overall, which means 20 pledges per chapter out of 5,700 eligible men, Bober said. ""I'here are a lot of men on cam-pus that are ready to go Greek and just need to be contacted,"" he said. Bober said he has received a lot of positive feedback about the new Rush on campus this spring. ""I think that most of the fraternities involved in the new Rush have mixed feelings about the success of their chapter because the process is new, and they don't know what to expect for sure."" Two new fraternities will be introduced on campus this semes-ter: Delta Sigma Phi and Kappa Delta Rho. Delta Sigma will send its representative, Rodney Gould, Potpourri the serving of alcohol. ""The only changes are that the lights and sound system will be beefed up and the event will take place in the Cheasapeake Rooms,"" he said. The change in location will allow the Union to sell 800 tickets insted of the usual 500. The computer system used for verifying that students are of legal drinking age was used for the last two events of the past semester and is currently in use, Baeuerle added. Pactbook"" reveals vital statistics News release Dle Office Of Institutional Re- :1;eh has compiled and released owson State University Fact- �K. The report documents facts 9 7statistics from 1983 through _,..The following are some of the 11148: 41,Pr the fall of 1987 there were .""390uridergraduate students atten- 0,s4,1? Towson State. The women ""4-1111-nber the men by 8 percent. rhe number of incoming first-time, black freshmen has been drop-ping since 1983 when the figure was 234 and fell to 193 in 1984. The pattern continued when 149 in 1985 decreased to 132 in 1986. Last year, the number was recorded at 123. In 1987 the national norm for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was 906 (combined verbal and math). In the same year the aver-age for Towson State freshnien was 956. The highest number of incoming full-time freshmen (477) came from Baltimore County. Out-of-state stu-dents totaled 271. Harford County was ranked third with 122 stu-dents. ""olt from February 3 to March 10 to organize its pledges and to take part in the IFC's Rush. Kappa Delta Rho will organize a small group of 12 to 15 guy � who have similar interests. The difference between the two new fraternities is that Delta Sigma Phi will enter campus with official colony status and Kappa Delta Rho will be using a two-semester process of applying to the national organization for official colony status with the IFC. The WC has set aside February 9 as ""Information Night."" Each fra-ternity will have tables set up in the University Union all day. At 7 pm, all interested men are invited to attend an informational meet-ing in the Susquehanna Room. The remainder of events for Spring Rush have yet to be announced. original four. Beech, president of Alpha Sig, said ""AGD folded due to low mem-bership. National felt that it was more of a struggle to keep going rather than being a fun and en-riching experience. We had sisters holding three offices at one time; national felt that was too much."" AGD had a Rush Wednesday to bring in more pledges. This semes-ter, AGD hopes to pledge 65 women. week, and on Thursday nights cam-pus groups would have the oppor-tunity to share in profits from bev-erage sales. Groups which attended master calendar day and signed up for ; this event will be able to either use ; the Chesapeake Lounge from 9pm to 1am or take over the Rathskellar at 10:30 Thursday evenings. The t? Rat will stay open until 1 am ; Thursdays, and all profits from food and beverage sales will be col-lected by the sponsoring group. ; ""It's a great opportunity for stu-dents to make some good money and for everyone to enjoy them-selves,"" said Krivos. The new Rathskellar menus are ; now available, and the SGA will work on reaching more students and increasing its visibility, Kri-vos added. ""I feel we are doing a good job, ! but as a whole the SGA needs to go out and reach a lot more students. , We need to stand up in class and let ; people know who we are and ask them to come to more meetings and i let us know what their gripes and ' grievences are and what their compli-ments are so we can pass them on the the administration,"" he said. Krivos said the SGA will im- ; prove the marketing of events. ' Doug Wilkinson, a senior .business major, will be marketing the SGA's programs such as the movie series and speaker series. Safe Sex contest ends by Judith B. Jelenko Assistant news editor Sigma Alpha Epsilon, in con-junction with Trojan, maker and distributor of condoms, finished its Safe Sex contest by distributing condoms to people in the Univer-sity Union during the last day of classes last semester. This effort was to make stu-dents, teachers, and visitors to Towson State University more aware of the constant threat of sexually transmitted diseases. Forty brothers and 20 pledges handed out 4,150 condoms within a four hour period. Mitch Wolf, a brother of SAE, said ""Have a Safe Sex weekend compliments of SAE and Trojan"" as he passed out condoms. Lenore Meyers from Dowell health center was present. ""Whether we accept it or not, sex does occur outside marriage and in college. We are also handing out literature on abstinence,"" Meyers said. ""People feel they know all about AIDS [aquired immune difficiency syndrome], but not everybody has been made aware of the other STDs,"" said Meyers. Baltimore ranks second to Washington, DC, in the nation in reported cases of gohnnorhiea and first in teen pregnancy, Meyers said. The contest, which asked stu-dents to create a Safe Sex adver-tisement was organized by John Erniatinger, an SAE brother, who got the idea through one of his marketing classes. He organized the plan to have Trojan bring its Safe Sex contest to the University and to sponsor SAE. Winners of the contest were announced the same night. The grand prize winner will soon see his advertisement in many areas of the US. During the four hours, no less than 20 brothers were handing out the condoms. One man, visiting the Univer-sity with his granddaughter, a prospective student, said, ""I am now more inclined to send her to TSU; I'm glad to see that organiza-tions are taking the responsibility to educate their peers."" ""I only hope that the students of Towson State take us seriously,"" said SAE brother John Long, ""be-cause this is no laughing matter."" ""We only hope that our fellow students recognize not only the severity of the contemporary crisis know as STDs, but that they also take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and those indi-viduals they choose to intimate with,"" said Keith Davis. ""Save your life. AIDS is no laughing matter. There is too much we don't know yet, so why risk two lives?"" Davis added. In 1987, 9,674 students, both full and part-time, declared majors and out of these 2,783 are in Busi-ness Administration. The second largest major was mass communi-cation wi th 838 declared. 'Hurt throb... photo by David Hammond we welpiraway, Towson played host to 44 visitors. A portion of the movie-version of Anne Tyler's boo - he Accidental Tourist, starring William Hurt, was filmed at Finkelstein's Clo-thing Store on York Road in Towson January 18. Film crews took over the store, bringing in props for the scene in which Hurt buys a pair ofjeans. Crowds of several hundred blocked the street during lunch time. Filming of the Baltimore por-tions of the movie concluded February 4. "