The Towerlight, March 10, 1978

tl19780310-000 "Election campaign coverage see page 5 VOL. LXX NO. 19 1?Alr Rutles to release album see page II TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY March 10, 1978 ""I've seen buildings 100 years old in better shape than this,"" Theatre Department Chairman Paul Berman said of the Fine Arts Building. The Fine Arts, Administration and University repairs. Union buildings are in need of extensive TL Photo by Lester Shugauman Buildings suffering leakage; administration considers action by Jim Gring John Suter, director of campus Planning, said on March 6 that the University plans to begin the long Process of repairing the Administra-tion, Fine Arts and University Union buildings next week. Suter said the bidding for the replacement of the Administration Ruilding's roof will start Thursday. ""The roof leaks like a sieve,"" Suter said, standing in front of a piece of Plastic fitted to the ceiling to catch the water. He added the entire roof Will have to be replaced. The University received an emergency appropriation from the governor for the repairs, which Suter said will cost approximately %300,000. The University commissioned an engineering firm to do an analysis of the problem, and the firm dis-covered ""some structural problems that have led to roofing problems,"" Suter said. The Administration Building is not the only building with problems the Fine Arts Building is also having problems. In the five-year-old Fine Arts nuilding, brown water spots cover the ceiling panels from where the iloof leaks. Cracks, through which light can be seen, run the length of Several walls, and a blower system designed to improve ventilation Provides a steady hum. Partition Walls do not completely separate less rooms. Dr. Paul Berman, Theatre De- Oartment Chairman, said, ""My Nor complaints are the blower ystem, the leaks and the cracks. ve seen buildings 100 years old in Defter shape than this."" Herman said the hum coining 'tom the blower system disrupts classes. ""You'd be surprised how kuch it affects a class or a Performance."" Plastic tarps, used to prevent Water from dripping onto the floor, over much of the building. Berman 'Rid the rain leaks onto the stage, Where there is scenery and lighting. Dr. James Flood, chairman of the ktt Department, said his major teelnplaint about the leaks is that it tikes away badly needed office aDace. The Art Department lost the use of an entire office due to the leaks because the usual plastic tarps were not enough. The office has its entire ceiling covered with plastic which drains into a 55 gallon drum. Flood said, ""I've called maintenance when it got to a point where I thought it might overflow."" Several cracks seven feet or longer can be found throughout the building. Berman said, ""I'd say this building was put together with spit."" Members of the State Department of General Services examined the Fine Arts Building, and apparently the lack of expansion joints has caused most of the structural problems. Suter said there is no way to be sure when work on the repairs will begin. ""We're writing specifica-tions now for the parapet wall, and it should be done in the next two weeks."" After the specifications are drawn up, the University must wait for the bureaucratic red tape to unravel. Suter said once the specifications are finished, the bidding will start. ""Realistically, it will be the end of April before any apparent repairs start, if that soon. Maybe I'm wrong, and it will be mid-May,"" Suter said. Suter added that specifications were being drawn up now for the 6-year-old University Union, and it will be mid-May ""before we see any particular action."" ""With the University Union, we've had problems from the very start. Its not a structural problem, its just a roofing system not put down to specifications,"" Suter said. Maryland Properties, the general contractor for the University Union claims the reason the roof leaks is because the University allowed students to walk on the roof, Suter said. The University denies the charge, saying it leaked while it was still under construction, and the University has thermo-nuclear stud-ies and core samples to prove it. Since the University thinks it is the contractor's fault, Suter said the University has asked the state to take legal action against Maryland Properties so it can recover the $90,000 cost of the new roof. However, Suter was not optimistic about the chances of any legal action. ""The problem is I don't think there is a precedent to recover anything. It depends on the courts, and we can't wait for that to happen. It could take years."" Before any legal action could be taken, the Department of General Services must document all the evidence they have and then it must present it to the Attorney General. The Attorney General then decides whether there is enough evidence to warrant legal action. Suter said the University also hopes the state takes legal action against John K. Ruff, the contractor for the Administration Building. Chisolm, Bennett to give speech at TSU next week by Cindy Roberts Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and Lerone Bennett, Jr., will speak in the SGA Lecture Series next week. Chisholm will speak Sunday evening at 8 p.m. in the Towson Center and Bennett will speak next Thursday. Chisholm was the first black congresswoman in the United States and was the first woman to seek the nomina-tion of the presidency from a major political party. She represents New York's 12th district, Bedford- Stuyvesant, which is said to be the nation's largest black ghetto. She entered politics by public demand in 1964 and ran for the New York State Assembly. By 1972 she had beocme so popular she made a serious run for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. She is a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and in the past played a major role in the passage of the minimum wage law. She serves on the Select Education, General Education and Agricultural Labor subcommittees. She has written two autobiographical books: Un-bought and Unbossecl, covering her childhood to the beginning of her presidential campaign, and The Good Fight, her account of that campaign including some of her basic philosophies. For the last three years she has been listed on the Gallup Poll's list of the 10 most admired women in the country. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to appear Sunday. Chisholm received a B.A. from Brooklyn College in Sociology and an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Columbia University. After college she became involved in many community projects such as work in nursery schools, nursing homes, retirement homes, child welfare and child support. Bennett is editor-in-chief of ""Ebony"" magazine and is a visiting professor of History at Northwestern University. He is also a Senior Fellow for the Institute of Black World. Bennett began his career as a reporter for Atlantic Daily World. He eventually became City Editor before establishing his chain of black oriented magazines in-cluding ""Jet"" and ""Ebony Jr."" He has authored many books on black history and is a regular contributor to many magazines on issues concern-ing blacks. He authored a Martin Luther King biography titled What Manner of Man, which received the Patron Saints Award of the Society of Midland Authors. He also wrote Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1966. Bennett graduated from Morehouse College in 1949. He received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Morehouse in 1965. Tickets for both lectures are free to students with TSU ID and are $5 to those without. Tickets are available at the box office on the first floor of the University Union. Lerone Bennett, Jr., to appear Thursday. CARP requests SGA recognition by Steve Verch Will .the Moonies return to Towson State? This is the question that the SGA Senate considered this week and put off deciding upon until next Tuesday. Originally, a chartered SGA organization, CARP, or the Colle-giate Association for Research Principles, was expelled in 1976 on a membership technicality after TSU Vice-President and Dean of Student Affairs Dorothy Seigel, alleged that CARP was a front organization for the Unification Church of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Steve Bates, a veteran of the 14-0 Senate vote two years ago, recently submitted a new constitution and a 21 name membership list to the Senate's Government Operations Committee in an attempt to recharter CARP at TSU. According to Senator Brigid Ross, chairperson of the Government Operations Committee, the commit-tee was split in its feelings about the Carp rechartering, and was unable to decide upon a favorable or unfavorable recommendation for the Smoking banned in classrooms by Paul Gilmore The Academic Council approved l tlesday a motion that will ban Oking in all classrooms unless 4,4unimous approval be given by the -Itiss via a secret ballot. The motion, introduced by stu- (tient Michaelle Wilson, passed after ;)rief debate with only one dissent- 'lig vote. The last time a similar (11,10t1o n was introduced to the ""(ioncil, October of 1976, it was ()verwhelmingly voted down. the motion makes no 1' Although for the enforcing of the PiVit'Y, it was passed unamended. ue Motion reads: , , That smoking be prohibited in 4'1 areas where a class is in session 14)11less permission has been granted tiY1 all persons present in a manner at will not reveal their identity."" i The motion goes into effect rtl'ilediately unless it is vetoed by President Fisher. The main issue of debate over the motion was the lack of enforceability of the rule. Wilson testified before the council saying that a similar provision had been adopted at Essex Community College and that a professor's history on enforcing the no-smoking law was included in the professor's record and was taken into consideration when determin-ing promotion and tenure of that professor. ' Dr. Joseph Cox, Dean of the University, stated that he thought that course of action would be unreasonable. There was no further debate on the enforcement of the provision. There was a motion introduced to amend the motion to include Academic Council meetings and meetings of committees of the Academic Council in the areas where smoking would be prohibited. Dr. Dan Jones, with cigarette in hand, moved that an amendment be made to ""ban Protestants , from meetings of the Academic Council because they endanger my immortal soul."" Neither amendment passed. Correction Last week in a story by Oliver Dziggel it was incorrectly reported that John F. Kennedy was Barry Goldwater's opponent in the 1964 presidential election. Upon investi-gation we have discovered that Kennedy was not actively seeking the presidency in 1964 and most historians believe he would not have accepted the office had he been elected. Mr. Dziggel regrets the error. group. However, Ross did mention that the group experienced opposition from the administration. CARP has had problems in renting rooms in the University Union to hold meetings because the administration is against them,"" she said. Opening debate on the issue of the rechartering, Senator Donna Sauerborn said that Towson State was an ""academic society."" She said she opposed the group's rechartering because ""CARP draws students away from this academic society."" Senator Pete Binns, though not involved with CARP, defended the group's right to seek rechartering and urged the Senate to accept the CARP constitution. ""If they want to have a room to turn other people into Moonies (slang for followers of Reverend Moon), I believe they should have it,"" said Binns. ""I personally don't think that they are going to get anybody to show up,"" Binns said, ""but they should have a right to be an SGA organization."" Senator Tony Tubman, one of the Senators who in 1976 voted to expel CARP, said the pressure to expel CARP came from the administra-tion. Because of this, Tubman said he thinks the group was ""denied due process."" Bates, who represented CARP at the Senate meeting Tuesday, denied Sauerborn's statement about an article she read that said the Moonies used a very effective form of persuasion. Ruark vetoes Bill 55 Bates said the view was ""typical of people who have taken a negative stance,"" adding, ""CARP is very pro-educational...it's in our consti-tution."" Bates also denied that the Unification Church and CARP are one-in-the same. SGA President John Ruark, who earlier in the Senate meeting said that on the basis of past experience, he opposed CARP, asked Bates if CARP was solely interested in ""the teachings of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church."" Bates said, ""CARP is an organization that offers the works of Reverend Moon for the people to look at and explore. We have Please turn to page 5 Polls set in Newell Hall by S. L. Verch SGA President John Ruark has vetoed the recently passed Senate Bill No. 55, which would have prohibited the SGA from placing any voting machines in the Newell Dining Hall for the March 13 and 14 election. Senate Bill No. 55 sought to pliwe all four, of the already contracted for machines on the first floor of the University Union across from the Tiger's Lair. Before Senate Bill No. 55's passage, the SGA Election Commit-tee had planned to place two machines in the University Union and two in the Newell Dining Hall. This was to maximize voter turn-out and put an end to the long lines which were present during last year's elections. However, debate offered in last week's Senate meeting raised several serious questions as to the efficiency of the committee's plan. Senators Erik Hanks, Brigid Ross, and Donna Sauerborn argued last week that a central location, such as the UU, would serve the most students as well as discourage voter fraud. Two locations, they said, would serve fewer students and increase the chance of fraud. Ruark, who last week character-ized these arguments as ""asinine,"" said at this week's Senate meeting tht the bill ""does not maximize the number of students voting,"" and charged that by prohibiting the placing of any machines in Newell, the senate was discriminating against the University's residence population, estimated at 1400 students. Senator Hanks moved to over-ride Ruark's veto immediately following his announcement, and was second-ed by Senator Tony Tubman. ""In moving to over-ride John's veto, our intention is to maximize the student turnout. In addition, to increase the legitimacy of the vote, that is, to keep people from voting twice, all the voting machines should be in one central location,"" said Hanks. ""I'm seconding Erik's motion because the argument opposed to this does not have any merit,"" said Tubman. Responding, Senator Chuck- Frazer pointed out that the Senate must protect the rights oi the minority, in this case, the residence students. He said that most resident students do not visit the UU, and that only a Newell location would assure their vote. He added that the Election Committee was exploring various plans to fight potential voter fraud, and labeled these ""100 percent fai safe."" Bulletin Ned Schorr, senatorial candidate of the Campus Unity Party, was ruled ineligible to run for the SGA senate yesterday. The Commission ruled he cannot run for office nor can he be appointed to any position for one year. Erik Perkins, SGA Treasurer said the Commission is in violation of the ""Sunshine Law"" and their ruling can be voided by the Senate. The Sunshine Law was allegedly violated when the Commission forced Schorr to leave the room during the debate of the issue. Schorr said, following the deci-sion, ""Although I respect the Commission, I have no choice but to file a formal complaint."" "