The Towerlight, January 30, 1986

tl19860130-000 "AIDS policy sent to Senate A new University AIDS policy has been approved by the President's office and will be submitted to the University Senate February 3, for their approval. If passed, the policy will be in effect with regards to all University students, faculty and staff and it will be administered through the Vice President of Student Services' Office. The AIDS policy follows the guidelines and recommendations of the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The proposal recommends: � ""There is no evidence to support any requirement for mandatory HTLV-III screening of prospective or current university employees or students."" � ""Mandatory reporting of university employees known to have AIDS or HTLV-III infection to school authorities is not warranted."" � No student with AIDS or known to be a carrier should be excluded from campus academic, social or cultural activities. � ""Decisions about institutional housing for AIDS victims will be made on an individual basis depending on the nature of housing arrangements."" � ""Educational programs for all members of the university community will be provided to inform them of changes in Lifestyle and sexual behavior which can reduce transmission of the disease."" -Michele Hart Crime drops on college campuses Crime on the campus of Towson State University has dropped according to the Maryland State Police Uniform Crime Report. The report stated that although car theft has doubled in 1984 over 1983, robbery was down 57 percent and burglary dropped 6.7 percent over the same period. College campuses in general have become safer over the past few years according to the Uniform Crime Report issued by The Federal Bureau of Investigation and published in the College Press Service. These claims have to be looked at carefully however, according to Rick Huebner of the Cal-State 130minguez Hills Police. ""The Problem with statistics (in the FBI report) is that they are Misleading because of reporting differences from college to college."" John Rock CONAMS no-shows will get an FX Students should take note of the college of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. (CONAMS) new attendance Policy. Because of the high demand for class space, students who fail to attend the first two class meetings of science and mathematics courses will receive an FX. Students must notify the department by phone if they are unable to attend the first two Class meetings, or their space in the class will be given away. The department can be notified by calling: Biology-321-3042 Chemistry-321-3058 Math-321-3091 Physics-321-3091 Physics-321-3020 Computer Science-321-2633 Physical Science-321-3020 campus notes Inside Hoop horrors Men and women b-ball teams are off to a shaky start 4,5 Record set Track teams stride past of old TSU records 4 All booked up A bevy of books hot off the presses 7 Surprise Aerosmith's latest comeback album, Done With Mirrors is better than you would think .. . .8. WCVT cuts hours The owerliPublished weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 15 Towson, Md. 21204 January 30, 1986 If you recently tuned into Towson State's radio station WCVT between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m., and heard nothing, hold off on taking your radio to the repair shop. As of mid-January, WCVT cut back its broadcasting hours from 24 hours a day to 18, citing lack of enough student volunteers as the primary cause. Although acknowledging that broadcasting 24 hours a day is ""symbolically important,"" dean of the college of Continuing Studies Norma Long told Evening Sun reporter Line11 Smith that ""we have made a decision that quality airtime is more important to us than quantitative airtime."" The College of continuing Studies oversees the station and, along with the Student Government Association, helps to support the station financially. Long emphasized that the cutback in hours is only an 'interim decision', and that it was not related to either lack of funding or disatisfaction over programming. The students running the station are vitally interested, said Long, but heavy schedules of full-course loads and part-time jobs create a situation of just not enough hours in the day to work for the station. Presently, both the news director and business manager positions are open. WCVT's self-described, ""Bach to Rock alternative programming"" has helped to build a solid audience following for the stations, as did its 1985 wattage increase. Long hopes that ""by cutting back and taking an introspective look at ourselves, we will develop goals and objectives which will enable us to do better at establishing consistent student leadership."" -Stefan Freed Campus notes are continued on page 2 Signs of life A student waits in below-freezing temperatures to move into the dorms. Such was the scene last Tuesday and Wednesday as residents came back to campus. SGA, BSU tangle over budget By Scott Hollenbeck The Student Government Association allocated $14,507.77 to 11 organizations. Two clubs, the Biology Club and the Forensics Union each received a larger budget than they requested. Four clubs received the Financial Advisory Board recommended allotment and three clubs received what they originally requested. The Financial Advisory Board of the SGA is made up of SGA Treasurer Andy Kohn, Don Kar-maseck and Vicki Reichlin. The Black Student Union budget received the most debate because of the unused portion of their budget last year and the breakdown of com-munication between the BSU treasurer and the SGA Business Of-fice. Senator Chris Malanga said, ""I really have a problem with the breakdown in communication. Money is not the problem, com-munication is."" The FAB recommended $478.00, down from the BSU request of $1,248.00 Kohn said the BSU officers had problems with communication and with the system of receipts and band contracts. For example, the SGA rules state that all band contracts have to be turned in at least four weeks in ad-vance. For the BSU's Kwanza event, their treasurer turned in the contract three days before the event. ""Basically, not having contracts in on time is a problem,"" Senator Larry Kushner said. The Senate argued back and forth about the communication problem of the BSU. Three motions were made concerning the BSU budget until Kushner moved to divide the ques-tion. The Senate then agreed to take up the BSU budget on a piecemeal basis. The equipment, printing, and advertising accounts were agreed upon unanimously. However, the Senate had prob-lems with the activities account. Three motions were made before the activities account, which provides money for the Parents Banquet, was passed. The whole BSU budget was ap-proved with the stipulation that the BSU treasurer meet with the SCA treasurer every week during the Spring 1986 semester. The Forensics Union, whose bud-get in the past has sparked a lengthy and vocal debate, was pass- See SGA, page 2 ORGANIZATION Spring 1986 REQ. FAB SENATE RECOM ALLOC American Marketing Assoc. 1.500.00 1,249.65 1,249.65 A.P.I.C.S. 266.26 242.66 342.66 Biology Club 1,311.76 1,311.76 1.311.76 Black Student Union 1.248.00 478.00 658.00 Economics Club 752.00 447.00 747.00 Forensic Union 5.570.00 5,570.00 7,000.00 Jewish Students Association 821.00 517.30 517.30 Model OAS 890.60 890.60 890.60 Philosophy Forum 600.00 525.00 525.00 Rugby Club 795.00 795.00 795.00 Society of Physics Students 445.00 470.80 470.80 14.199.62 12,497.77 14,507.77 Black enrollment drops nationwide By Patrick Campbell Priest Enrollment of black college students has reached ""a virtual stand-still"" nationwide, according to a report released by the Southern Regional Education Board, and published in the January 22, Chroni-cle of Higher Education. Despite an almost 250 percent in-crease in black enrollment between 1967 and 1976, a continual downward trend shows only a 6.1 percent in-crease between 1976 and 1982 and no appreciable increase since. The report states that the decrease is partially attributable to ""a persis-tent gap between the academic preparation and performance levels of black and white high school students."" The report adds that a larger percentage of white than black students in the same high school grades are enrolled in college preparatory programs. The report concludes that state political leaders can raise educational quality while still preserving access to higher education for blacks. This would be achieved by improving the academic preparation of black students - instead of focusing solely on increasing college entrance stan-dards. According to the Board, recent pro-grams instituted in Florida, Georgia, Lousiana, and South Carolina could help to reverse the trend. These pro-grams include one in particular that would require colleges and univer-sities to report back to high schools on the college performance of the schools' graduates. ""Quality improvement can occur in ways that are not detrmimental to ac-cess, but in fact help promote access,"" stated Joseph L. Marks, author of the report and a research associate of the Southern Regional Education Board. According to statistics prepared by Towson States' institutional research department, this downward trend has become evident at this University as well. The statistics, which cover the period of 1981 to 1985, show a drop in the black undergraduate population from 11.7 percent in 1981 to 9.5 percent in 1985. On a positive note, however, the statistics show an actual increase in the enrollment of blacks in the school's graduate program, up from 8.8 percnet in 1981 to 10.1 in 1985. According to Dr. Camille Clay, ac-ting director of minority affairs at Towson State, there are many causes contributing to the decrease, most notably an ""increasing difficulty to obtain financial aid."" She added that more propsective students are choos-ing ""to go right to work or to enter a two year program such as a computer programming course,"" instead of a traditional undergraduate program. Clay went on to state that ""Towson State has been mandated by the state to increase the black population in the freshman class to 18 percent by 1989."" When asked how this increase might be achieved, Clay answered that the University is ""recruiting for a minor-ity admissions representative"" and ""increasing advertising campaigns,"" both in an attempt to ""bring more pro-spective black students to Towson State."" Black Enrollment at Towson State University. (Graduate & Undergraduate) Year number of black students total X of student population 1981 1,729 11.4% 1982 1,696 11.4% 1983 1,730 11.4% 1984 1,558 10.3% 1985 1,433 9.6% Teacher program honored By Robert Taylor A program designed to help teachers improve their teaching pro-grams through classroom research has brought national attention to Towson State this year. The Teacher Research Institute's Maryland Writing Project, directed by assistant professor Dr. Gloria Neubert, has been awarded the G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education for 1985. The award, given out annually by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), has gone in the past to schools such as the State University College at Brockport, New York, Southwest Texas University, and Georgia State. This is the first such award for the University. Citing ""the innovative way in which it (Towson State) links primary, secondary, and post-secondary educa-tion,"" AASCU president Allan W. Ostar said that the Maryland Writing project was a ""prototype for both the improvement of writing research and development of a successful cooperative venture among educators of all grade levels."" Dr. Gloria Neubert, assistant pro-fessor of education is the director of the award-winning Teacher Research Institute's Maryland Writing Project. The University was chosen for the honor out of 79 nominees nation-wide. ""Dr. Neubert has brought great distinction to the University,"" said University president Hoke L. Smith. ""This national award is extremely competitive."" The Teacher Research Institute is one of seven branches of the Maryland Writing Project. ""As a result of the Teacher Research In-stitute, our teachers now look at classroom problems as research pro-blems,"" Neubert said. There is a new sense of professionalism among the teacher-researchers. The Mitau Award is further acknowledgement that classroom teachers can produce research."" Part of the value of the Teacher Research Institute stems from its role in helping teachers with research pro-jects of their own. Chandler Barbour, chairman of the elementary educa-tion department of the University, has used the techniques studied by the In-stitute in his own research project, a joint effort with a Westminster High School teacher. "