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- The Towerlight, January 27, 1983
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- The January 27, 1983 issue of The Towerlight, the student newspaper of the Towson State University.
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The Towerlight, January 27, 1983
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tl19830127-000 "Vol. 76 No. 15 �a n The Towerlight There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. �Socrates PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 January 27, 198 3 Hail and Farewell ...and good luck getting a job to all 1,169 of Towson States most recent graduates. Commencement was held January 5th in the Towson Center. Courtesy University Relations Profs seek ""New Directions in Education"" By James Hunt The start of a new year is, among other things, a time to reflect on the Stand, more important, a time to e�rIsider what the future might bring. It is appropriate, then, that the An- Leal at Conference, which took ;,,,s'ace January 12 in the Lecture Hall, ijfained what Conference-organizer f; C"" Esslinger termed ""New Direc-s for Liberal Education."" hose directions include, not sur- ',""aslagly, the increasing use of corn- ""eters and telecommunciations ,,elaiPMent in all areas of liberal ;us acation as well as the ""Main-c% earning of Womens Studies into the ah�4ege Curriculum"", a particularly erapriate topic considering the high by 'g given the University recently a national womens guide to col-fe'rhe keynote address for the con- hence was delivered by Dr. Barbara '10 Hill, the editor of Liberal Education, a higher education jour-nal. Hill reviewed the development of liberal education from ancient Greece to 20th-Century America, noting the central purpose of the traditional liberal arts curriculum has always been to develop in students ""the skills of critical thinking. and informed judgement."" She acknowledged, with some regret, that recent trends among students entering liberal education programs in the post-World War II years has been away from the tradi-tional curricula towards programs that offer more specialized career-oriented skills. She underscored, the importance of the traditional cur-ricula to students today, quoting James O'Toole in the Washington Post: ""Those who will succeed in the work force will be those who have learned how to learn...unthinking jobs will be left to machines."" Dr. Elaine Hedges, coordinator of women's studies at the Towson State followed Hill. Both she and Dr. Sara Lab steps out into By Terie Wolan Part of an ongoing effort to rrePare students for their careers by 11),reviding actual business experience, Ln san State's Applied Mathematics te boratory recently presented its in-thrl., report on a research project tierleaerraken for the Electronic Repair On. , ater of the Westinghouse Corpora- LI u�Stadent team member Susan Roth ��`edited the course with giving her, ullsef Ul experience in finding out what jea'auld be like to work on a real pro-ttued1. the academic world, every-it's Perfect, but in the real world, I not that way,"" she said. tepn, doing this report, the student Pres had to make several verbal pt`seatations and publish a written 4essional report for the company. fh artha Siegel, mathematics pro-el' id said the student report, ""was ti,ery well and with a lot of en-stud Laboratory team of five eats and two faculty directors 'real' world began the project in September 1982 and plans to give a final presentation of their findings in May. The project involves an investigation of the effi-ciency of testing stations within the repair center. The Westinghouse project is the se-cond the Laboratory has done since its inception in 1980. Research projects are done for businesses for one or two semesters and select students are in-vited by the department to par-ticipate. The Laboratory's costs are paid for by the company sponsoring the pro-ject and subsidized by a Local Course Improvement Grant from the Na-tional Science Foundation. This grant ends March 1984, after which, accor-ding to Siegel, a sponsoring company will pay twice the current amount in order for the Laboratory to cover maintenance costs. However Siegel believes the price will not dissuade potential sponsors. ""I feel we do offer a service...com- See STUDENTS, page 9 Coulter, who teaches English at the University, spoke on the ""main-streaming"" of women's studies into all academic disciplines. Hedges talk emphasized the relatively recent growth of women's studies (""Until the mid-sixties...the achievements of women were totally absent from liberal education"") and considered the attitudes that had restricted that growth. (There has been a refusal to take women as seriously as we take men."") She con-cluded noting that womens studies had the potential to ""revolutionize the (liberal education) curriculum."" Coulter then focused on the current state of women's studies at Towson State, and around the nation. At Towson, she said, some faculty were ""in the process of mainstreaming"" women's studies into their courses, while at universities nationwide there were ""50 formal projects in mainstreaming."" She also proposed a tentative plan for mainstreaming women's studies which would introduce interested faculty to research on topics in womens studies and provide a forum for debate and discussion on those topics. Eventually, she hopes, women's studies will receive enough exposure to gain popular acceptance. Computers and telecommunica-tions equipment, like women's studies are relatively new to most college campuses, but most agree that they, too, could revolutionize the college curriculum. Dr. Robert Caret, dean of the Col-lege of Natural Science and Mathematics highlighted his talk by noting the approval of a new com-puter facility and degree program in computer science for Towson State. He then outlined the potential com-puters have for use in academic pro-grams as diverse as geography � in which they can be used to study the Earth's surface � and art -- in to develop graphics and designs. State Board okays facility for computers, B .S. degree Major The State Board of Higher Educa-tion last month approved a degree program in computer science for Towson State. The program, which will be offered to students beginning next Septem-ber, will be similar to the mathematics-computer concentration currently offered by the University with the addition of three to six com-puter credits a semester, according to Dr. Robert Caret, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Graduates of the new program will be awarded a bachelor of science degree, a title which should make it easier to find jobs. Explained Caret: ""(the new degree will) provide students with ammunition for com-petition (in the search for jobs)...if a company has 200 applicants they will screen out those with just a concentra-tion in computing first."" The program, combined with the new computing facilities, will also make the University more attractive to prospective students and make it easier to attract and hold qualified faculty, Caret said. Those faculty will in turn be able to assist the rest of the faculty as corn-puters expand throughout the Univer-sity, Caret said. - System After an ardous journey through the state budgetary process, the corn-puter system slated to open at Towson State next fall has been given ap-proval by the state. In a December 22 decision, the state Board of Public Works gave approval to modernize the computer facilities at Towson State and seven other state colleges and universities. The estimated cost of the project is $7 to 10 million, said Robert Caret, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The Towson facility, which will in-itially hold 48 terminals linked to two ""main-frame"" computer. One com-puter will be utilized academically and the other administratively. The five year plan to meet the University's computer needs provides for an increase in terminals to 132. Caret said the installation of the new system should begin Feb. 15 with the arrival of one part of the system. This computer, he said, will be tem-porarily housed in the Administration building and will be used to train faculty. The second computer is scheduled to arrive May 15, and the full system See SYSTEM, page 9 'Standstill' budget for '84 University officials are calling next year's Towson State budget request, submitted by Gov. Harry R. Hughes January 21, no more than a ""stand-still budget request for the University."" Ronald Garrison, assistant vice president for finance and system management, said the $51.8-million request includes no program cuts or additions. ""The largest increase in funds comes for the replacement of a 10-year-old refuse truck,"" Garrison said. The budget request includes in-creases in tuition, athletic fees and University Union fees. The $20.5-million request for state aid is a two-percent increase over last year's appropriation, Gar-rison said. The major jump in the Univer-sity's operating budget comes with the opening of the new residence halls, slated to open in September. The more than $6 million gener-ated by the new facility will be a part of the special funds request. Funds generated by the residence halls are included in the $31.1-mil-lion special funds request. Special funds also includes monies from tuition and room and board. Along with the $70 increase in tuition for both in-state and out-of-state students, the University's request would levy a $10 and $20 increase in athletic fees and Univer-sity Union fees respectively. Athletic fees are currently $90 and University Union fees are $75. Room and board rates are ex-pected to rise from this year's average rate of $2,400 annually to $3,200 annually. The budget request also provides for an increase in University-based student aid. The Independent Grant program, funded by student tuition, See page 2 in this issue Vince Angotti resigns after 16 years of coaching page 6 Debuting this week, with news from campuses across the country, Scope page 2 Eric Mills, author of Stilettos Front Heaven and 666 Rifles, brings you Murder, U.S.A. page 3 ""Gandhi"" and ""Sophie's Choice"" are reviewed page 4 Angotti resigns Evangelist group's SGA status held in doubt By Stephen Hyde etIlle Student Government Asso- :""on Senate, in a move seen as 1)`ernature by some of its members, :1St. December 14 approved the con- 'stltation of the New Life Christian titadents, an evangelist organiza- :a Which has been a source of a:attoversy at Towson State as well Other college campuses. 0,.i t he student group traces its 61:g Ins to the Solid Rock Fellowship ill'atch in Columbus, Ohio, founded ell 1970. The members of that utatch were active in recruiting tna,clents at Ohio State University et t .� 4 mbus, a campus of 50,000 uents with 550 SGA-registered ooups, Of the 28 religious groups evn that campus at present, 25 are angelical in nature. At OSU, the Solid Rock church established a student Bible study group in the early 1970s using the same name as the church. Accord-ing to Jim Trainer, an OSU ' employee and coordinator of the student organizations office, the group changed its name in 1979 to OSU Bible Studies and is still in existence. Four years ago a member of the Solid Rock church, Tom Short, moved to the Silver Spring area to start the New Life Christian Stu-dents group at the College Park campus of the University of Mary-land. The student group there is affiliated with the New Life Evangelical Church of Adelphi, in which Short and four other ""elders"" serve as pastors and leaders. Last fall, two of the Adelphi elders, Les Bartley and Mike Keator, leased a house at 209 Dunkirk Road in Baltimore after the elders, in prayer, determined that Bartley and Keator should spread their message to the Towson State community and its northern Baltimore surroundings. According to Keator, Bartley , holds a full-time job in Washington to which he commutes, and Keator is able, through donations from the estimated 150 New Life Christian Students at College Park, to lease the Dunkirk Road residence, sup-port his wife and child, and act as pastor for the Towson Christian Fel-lowship, an adult evangelist church identical inphilosophy to the New Life Christian Students at Towson State. Keator, 32, was raised in Colo-rado, and estimates that he has spent 13 years as an evangelical pastor or in training in 20 to 30 states. He says that the goal of the evangelical group is ""to grow in Christ and in their faith, to help other Christians grow in their faith, and to help Christian students find Christ."" His statement contains the items of controversy which have followed the group since the days of Short's work in Ohio: � The evangelists receive attention for the ideological conflicts with per-sons of other religions or lifestyles. The Gay Alliance group at OSU in Columbus recently accused the Bible Studies group there of dis-crimination and harassment be-cause of the gays' sexual preference. Father Robert Albright, the Catholic campus minister at TSU, notified the SGA in an October 19, 1982, letter that the New Life students were distributing anti- Catholic pamphlets on campus. Keator acknowledged their exis-tence, but said, ""We're not an anti-Catholic group."" Short, how-ever, commented in a telephone interview that Catholic teaching were not in agreement with the New Testament, and that Catholicism was ""very, very deceptive"" as it related to the salvation of the individual. � The same small group of people change their organizational names and disclaim any connection be-tween the elders and the student groups. Short denies any ""official"" connection between the New Life Evangelical Church and the student groups at College Park and Towson State. Keator likewise dissociates the Towson Christian Fellowship from the TSU group, although Harry Adams, director of publicity for the student group, claims to have left University Christian Outreach and joined the New Life group so that he could ""be with his friends"" rather than be sent on missionary work. The Towson Christian Fellowship is composed of approximately 40 older adults, and Adams graduated from TSU last year. Keator says that the TCF and the New Life Evangelical Church are ""sister churches"" and that the other elders ""are friends of ours."" Some SGA senators have expressed con-cern about whether the New Life students have been completely forthright about their connection to EV AN G ELISTS, page 10 "
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