The Towerlight, February 9, 1979

tl19790209-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 16 otvertigt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Weekend weather: Chance of flurries, windy and cold today. Temperatures in the teens tomorrow, going to 0 to 10 de-grees Sunday. Windy all week-end. February 9, 1979 Potential president screened by Evelyn Hoopes Dr. Mark Chamberlain, 10-year president of Glassboro State College in New Jersey, was the first of 10 candidates Vying for the presidency of Towson State University to ' visit the campus last Tuesday. The next candidate, Dr. James Horner, vice president and provost of Illinois State University, will visit the cam-pus Tuesday. He will give a public interview at 3 p.m. in the University Union. Chamberlain, whose doctorate is in Chemistry, was ask-ed at the open faculty-student meeting last Tuesday how ' he felt athletics would fit into the University. He said ""they should be nothing more and nothing less than a Physical Education honors program. I believe you design a level of competiton to stretch your best athletes a little beyond where they think they can go."" He added, ""Whatever the level of competition�be it Division III like Glassboro, or Division II like most Towson sports�it should be the best you can be at the level you can compete. You must do those things neces-sary to remain at a competitive level,"" he said. Three main problems Chamberlain predicted in a large athletic program were: 1) how equity was going to be established between men's and women's sports teams With the onslaught of Title IX (the law which draws the guidelines for sexual equality in all federally funded educational institutions), 2) how the problem would be monitored if instituted, and 3) how the school would have to be careful that students were not run through the ""athletic mill,"" which Chamberlain said meant that they became first athletes and secondly students. cm/tit/U(0 on page 11 'm cold! Fund shortage forces cut in library hours A severe cold wave and several inches of week. This student tried to duck the wind most students opted not to challenge the day Wednesday and Thursday morning. this weekend. by Karen DiPasquale snow chased students under cover this by hiding behind Linthictun Hall while weather as classes were cancelled all More cold, but less snow, is expected The Faculty Reserve section of the library is now being closed at 10 p.m. instead of midnight because ""the library is short on funds,"" said Thomas Strader, library director. ""Work study students were used to man the desks at the library, but since they can only earn a certain amount of money, they can't work all semester,"" said Strader. Therefore, the library is forced to hire regular students to work, but ""the library has run out of money for these students."" Strader saw it necessary to cut the Faculty Reserve hours instead of closing the library on Saturday because ""the Faculty Reserve is one area not used by the students at night."" A study done by the SGA and the library during exam time last semester proved this statement. ""There were only three or four students using the library late at night, but there were about 300 students using the Newell Dining Hall [the alternate study location],"" said Strader. The lack of funds has not only hurt the Faculty Reserve, but also the purchase of books, journals and periodicals at TSU. Although he could not provide a figure, Strader said, ""The budget this year is less than last year. But periodical prices are up 20 percent this year."" Also book prices have risen. ""Scientific journals have skyrocketed. Chronical abstracts are $3,500 this year."" When other schools cancel their subscriptions because of the high Towson's sports future in doubt by Katherine Dunn In a meeting Monday, some members of the Academic Council in-dicated they may have changed their minds about supporting increased emphasis on intercollegiate athletics. The Council originally approved ad-ditional emphasis last May. Paul Wisdom, vice president for in-stitutional development, defined ""ad-ditional emphasis"" as ""the change from Division II to Division I in all men's athletics except football where ,the change is from Division III to Division II and in women's athletics Division II in all sports."" The first phase of the additional em-phasis calls for the transfer of inter-collegiate athletics from the physical education department to the office of institutional development. The reason for the transfer said Norman Sheets, acting vice president for academic af-fairs, is that he ""feels time in the phys-ed department needs to be spent on academic pursuits and not on com-petitive athletics."" The transfer would place intercol-legiate athletics under the vice presi-dent for institutional development rather than the chairman of the phys-ed department. It would place corn-prices, the schools that are still receiving the jour-nals have to pay more for them. TSU's library meets the minimal standards of the American Library Association ( ALA ). The ALA is a national organization which seeks to improve stan-dards of libraries and make libraries accessible to everyone. Generally the number of books a library has, the size of the collections and the space the library pro-vides constitutes the standards of the ALA. Also, the building itself and other library features like micro-film collections and equipment for listening to tapes and records contribute to the standards. Obviously if the library budget is cut, then less materials will be purchased for the library and the standards will decline. This will then make TSU in-eligible for ALA recognition. ""If something is not done to the budget, it [the decrease of standards] will show,"" lamented Strader. With new programs being offered at TSU, new books and journals will be needed besides the regular material that is bought. If the library can-not buy the books now, ""in the future it will show up that we don't have the books we should."" Strader said that California's Proposition 13 has hurt a lot of states because many legislators have become more budget-minded. ""It's easy for legisla-tors to cut back on education."" And as for TSU, Strader said it is easier to cut back on the book budget than it is to fire people. Major scholarship changes proposed by Patrick Casey Supporters of the decade-long effort to change Maryland's Senatorial Scholarship system are certain this is 'their year."" They can start testing that belief to-day when Senate Finance Committee chairman Melvin Steinberg, D-12th Baltimore County, is expected to in-troduce legislation to alter signif- !cantly the awarding of $2.68 million L l senatorial scholarship funds. The legislation would give the state Scholarship Board final control over senatorial scholarship funds, allowing senators only to recommend scholar-ship recipients. The Board would award scholar-ships solely on the basis of financial need, making over 80 percent of state scholarship dollars awarded based on financial need. Only the tiny House of Author Chaim Potok gave his philosophical perspective to an approx-imately 500-person audience Sunday night at the Towson Center. See page 5 for the full story. Delegates Scholarship program and several highly specialized programs would use criteria other than financial need. Scholarship money still would be apportioned according to senatorial district. But strict minimums or max-imums for each district would be abolished in favor of efforts to fulfill the financial need of each district. Thus an inner-city Baltimore district would likely receive more funds than a district in Montgomery County. The new rules would not take effect until July of 1980, thus allowing cur-rent applicants and scholarship holders to continue under the old pro-gram. The bill also would allow the Scholarship Board to carry funds from one year to the next. Current rules call for return to the state General Fund of all money unspent at the end of the fiscal year. But supporters of the legislation view this provision as a bargaining tool. ""We'd be willing to throw that away,"" said Ken Pringle, head of the student advisory committee to the State Board for Higher Education and a leader in the battle to change senatorial scholarships. ""There's no othe agency in the state allowed to do that."" Supporters also are concerned with appearances of impropriety in the system. Scandals have marred the awarding of senatorial scholarships before, and scholarship reformists are anxious to avoid any chance for politics to enter the scholarship system. ""I'm concerned with the appear-ance of political consideration,"" said Walter Hohenstein of the Higher Edu-cation Committee for Scholarship Reform. ""I don't believe there is cor-ruption, but there is certainly the op-portunity for it."" In the early '70's several senators were accused of awarding scholar-ships to relatives and political allies rather than needy students. Scholarship reformists also are anxious to gain federal matching funds that the program cannot receive unless it is fully need-based. Money would be available from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's State Student Incentive Grant program, a program that sur-vived Carter administration budget-cutting efforts with virtually the same funding as last year. Another target of reformists is inef-ficiency they believe arises from allowing senators rather than finan-cial aid professionals to award scholarships. ""Financial aid officers are trained to do this job,"" Pringle said. ""Sen-ators are not."" The reform legislation has wide support, from Gov. Harry Hughes to the State Board for Higher Education, the student advisory committee to that board, and the Maryland, Dela-ware, DC Association of Financial Aid Officers. Supporters of the legislation believe with a new governor, new legislative leadership, and for the first time petitive athletics in a business atmos-phere rather than an academic atmosphere. The Council has debated the trans-fer at three separate meetings and not made any decision on whether to ap-prove it. A final decision is expected at this Monday's meeting. The actual transfer to institutional development was made in August and intercollegiate athletics is now under the vice president for institutional development. The move was made without Academic Council support. A motion was first introduced to the Academic Council to approve the transfer last December. A substitute motion was later made that the Coun-cil withdraw its support of the com-mitment to support additional em-phasis. After some debate, the motion was tabled by Henry Chen, professor of physics. At Monday's meeting, Chen brought the motion up for more debate. He said later that he does not necessarily support the motion but he thought that more discussion was needed before a decision could be reached. ""It's not clear to me what the right ('onlimicil on /mac 2 TSU is not the only university faced with library budget cuts, but many other major universities like Stanford, Cornell and the University of Pennsyl-vania share the same problem. Richard DiGennaro, director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, said in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, ""Libraries are experiencing a substantial loss in their standard of living as a result of inflation, increasing person-nel and energy costs, and changing priorities of aca-demia and society."" .� . ""There are fixed expenses that have to be paid,"" said Strader, ""and the rest of the money goes for books. If the budget is cut, the number of books bought has to be cut. ""Some students will flunk a course if we didn't have the library,"" Strader reasoned. When the next budget meeting occurs, Strader said he will try to acquire more money to extend the Faculty Reserve. ""But if no one complains about it [Faculty Reserve] it will remain closed at 10 p.m."" Strader said other areas can be found for students to study because the Faculty Reserve was only used as a study location for students at night, especially during exams. Some of his suggestions for locations are the Newell Dining Hall (which was successful last semester), meeting rooms on the third floor of the University Union, and the classrooms in the library basement. significant student support, they' can succeed where failure has plagued them so often before. ""We think now is the time for scholarship reform,"" said Hohen-stein. ""And one of the biggest thrusts will be from students."" Pringle, a student at Mt. St. Mary's College, is organizing a delicately planned lobbying effort involving stu-dent leaders from around the state. Co-sponsors of the bill include Sens. Dennis Rasmussen, D-7th Baltimore County, Robert Strobke, R-11th Bal-timore County, John Carroll Byrnes, D-44th Baltimore City, and James Clark, D-14th Howard County, the Senate president. Notably absent from the bill's list of supporters is Dr. Kenneth Shook, Ex-ecutive Director of the State Scholar-ship Board that would administer Senatorial Scholarships under the proposed nrnvrnm Shook refused to take a firm posi-tion on the bill, but said, ""Most senators are being very conscien-tious, and I see a lot of good coming out of that."" Shook said he believes a lot of students would rather deal with their senators than with a state agency, and that removing senators from day-to-day contact with the scholarship system might make them less willing to approve money for scholarships than they have been in the past. ""1 can't believe we'd have the coopera-tion and support we have now if Iv( wiped them out of the process."" In This Issue Sex-for-grades A Yale co-ed alleges her in-structor sought sex in return for an ""A."" The instructor says her story doesn't hold up. And the case now awaiting decision, left New Haven, Conn., packed with emotion and a whole nation watching closely pg. 14 Growing out How many pairs of jeans that you wore during freshman year no longer fit? Millions of beers, pizzas, and ham-burgers later, how many thousands of inches have been added to the waistlines of Towson students? Jigsaw takes a look at one of America's biggest ""growth"" Industry. pg. 13 Champ Olympians arise seldom. They are a special breed: the cham-pion. And Towson State has one of those champions. Juan Carlos Mendoza, former Boli-vian Olympic gymnast now is dipping, twirling and muscl-ing his way around the halls of TSU pg. 7 "