tl19800310-000 "VOL. DEXIII No. 20 Papers stolen Friday Nearly all of the 10,000 copies of ?'owerlight were stolen from distri-ktion spots across campus early ,iday morning soon after they were elivered. The papers were first discovered gissing from the Union at 7:30. Clair Snyder, of the checkout desk Q the library, said he saw three tall !bite males take the papers from the brary shortly after they were de- A?ered. , As of Friday afternoon, Univer- 4Y police did not know who took ihe . Stephen Horn, presidential candi-late said, ""I've run a totally clean '411ipaign so far and I know no �Ile in our campaign did it. It's obvious that it's someone who thinks they're helping me. My Ist impression is that it's the fra-ftiiies, but I've talkod to them and Continued on page 12 olverit PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, and other Council members listened as President Hoke Smith announced at Monday's Academic Council meeting that the University is requesting a student fee increase. The request, made to the Board of Trustees for State Col-leges and Universities, increases commuter fees $55 and resident fees $180 a semester. The amounts cover costs in the comprehensive fee, tuition, room and board fees. TL photo by Bill Breidenbaugh Itirray says it's too late Fee increase debate continues by Karen DiPasquale he > fee limitation amendment will Dear on a referendum in Tuesday's titient Goverrment Association elec- 11, 3 Th amendment, sponsored by presidential candidate Will Neumann, is one of the main issues of his cam-paign. Neumann said the amendment is designed to, ""give the students more say in how the SGA spends their fees."" According to the amendment, ""the aa Murray, SGA president, explains to the senators figures dealing with 1311 State enrollment and fee increases. Murray used the figures, which Obtained by Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, to rt her request for the $1.75 student fee increase. Murray said she told the stration to go ahead with the fee increase request to the State Board of tees despite the Limit referendum that will apper on the election ballot esday. TL photo by Ed Gore SGA cannot accept, appropriate or ex-pend any funds derived from an SGA fee greater than that existing March 1, 1980..."" unless the students vote in a referendum to raise the fees. The limit amendment was the result of a semester-long debate in the Senate about whether to raise student fees from $23.25 to At the begin-ning of the spring semester, Milissa Murray, SGA president, told the Senate that she asked the administra-tion to request a student fee increase at the March Board of Trustees hear-ing. However, some senators felt Mur-ray acted too quickly and without the approval of the Senate. Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, said as far as he knows, Murray has the power to ask for the request without the approval of the Senate. Murray's actions prompted the in-troduction into the Senate of two separate acts which opposed raising fees. The first act failed in the Senate and the second, although it passed in the Senate by a 7-1-1 vote, was vetoed by Murray. Neumann and other proponents of the Limit amendment petitioned 500 signatures from full-time SGA-fee-paying students to have the amend-ment placed on the election ballot next week. Leonard Satisky, another presiden-tal candidate, said he is in favor of the limit amendment, and Steve Horn, the third candidate, is against it. Murray, at last week's SGA meeting, supplied figures from Mc- Culloh to suppport her request for the increase. The figures reflected that within the next six years, student eiwollment will decline about 000 which would result in approximately $23,250 less that would be collected in student fees. However, Murray said we will have the same number of organizations and inflation will be higher, so the SGA will need the extra money that would be provided by the $1.75 increase now. McCulloh said he will bring the re-quest to the Board of Trustees and if the Board approves, the University will be allowed to implement the in-crease. Murray said, ""If we get the money that the Board of Trustees allocates, the minute the Senate allocates any money at the budget hearings, they will have committed an impeachable offense. The amendment is too late."" However, McCulloh said, ""Just because they (SGA) get the increase they don't have to implement it. We wouldn't have to bill the students the $1.75. Approval is needed (by the Board of Trustees) to raise the fee, but we don't need approval if we decide not to implement the increase."" CONTENTS Sports 7 Entertainment 6 Feature 4 Newsbriefs 10 Week Watcher 5 Commentary 11 Classifieds 10 SGA Elections 2 $110 hike proposed March 10, 1980 Smith requests tuition increase by Patricia Voelkel President Hoke Smith announced at Monday's Academic Council meet-ing that the Universiy will submit a request for a student fee increase to the Maryland State Colleges Board of Trustees. The fee increase, if approved, will take effect next fall. Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, said the increase would raise commuter fees $55 a semester and resident fees $180 a semester. Those totals are in-creases in the comprehensive fee, tuition, room and board. Students now pay $85 each sem-ester in comprehensive fees. The pro-posed increase would raise it to $105 a semester, McCulloh said. Included in the comprehensive fee is the University Union operating costs which will increase $7.50 a semester. Also, the athletic fee will increase $7.50 each semester and a registrar fee will go up $5 a semester. The tuition fee will be raised from $310 to $345 each semester, McCul-loh said. The 11 percent tuition increase will allow the University to have the same purchasing power as it does now, Smith said. The increase request also calls for an average $85 increase for rooms and an average $40 increase in food for the resident students, McCulloh said. This is only an average price because room and food rates vary. Inflation, energy costs and costs for auxiliary services caused the increase, McCulloh said. The University is now paying more for auxiliary services than it did last year. Auxiliary services in-clude electricity, oil, power, house-keeping and the operation of the University Union. ""A lot of energy is used in the residence halls and in the University Union,"" McCulloh said. Because of a state legislative de-cision, the University must pick up the costs of the auxiliary fees, a cost that the state board once paid. In 1971, a recommendation was made by a state legislative budget analyst requesting that the state universities should not be allocated money for auxiliary services, said Kenn Webb, fiscal officer of the Mary-land State Colleges Board of Trustees. The recommendation called for the legislature to phase out the funding of auxiliary services over a ten year period. At the end of the ten years, no general fund dollars would be al-located for those services. The recommendation was accepted in 1971 by the office of Budget and Fiscal Planning, Webb said. McCulloh said the University's total auxiliary budget for fiscal year 1980 is $1,353,000 while the state general fund dollars allowed to be allocated is $340,000. The estimated cost in 1981 is $1,366,000 while the general fund allocation can only be $182,000. At the end of the ten years indicated by the recommendation (1982), the estimated costs of aux-iliary services is $1,800,000 but the University will not receive any gen-eral fund dollars. The increases in the compre-hensive fee, tuition, room and board were not included in the University budget that has already been sub-mitted. In that budget the Univer-sity has a built in fee increase because costs normally increase, McCulloh said. The student fee increase was not in the University's budget because it covers costs that are over and abbve what was expected, McCulloh said. These fee increases do not include the additional $1.75 a year SGA fee increase requested by Milissa Mur-ray, SGA president. Even with these increases, Mc- Culloh said, ""Towson State still has lower rates than other schools in the area. The University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Frostburg State College and Coppin State College have fees that are higher than some of the fees at Towson State, McCulloh said. McCulloh said the University has lower fees because of the way the money is managed here. He said the state board passed a resolution that allowed colleges to increase their dorm fee $50 each semester because of energy costs. Some universities have done this like Salisbury, but Towson State has not, McCuiloh said. ""We manage well to keep costs down,"" McCulloh said. ""Students can still get a reasonably inexpen-sive education."" Council delays minimester vote by Halaine Silberg The Academic Council is expected to make a final decision March 17 on the elimination of minimester. After much debate, Monday's regular meeting was adjourned until then. The Council is attempting to adjust the academic calendar to reduce fuel consumption. The change w.ould close campus buildings during most of January and August which, said President Hoke Smith, are the most Sports editor Tom White takes on the NCAA and their over-expanded basketball tourna-ment. Page 7. Do you remember Brenda Lee? She's going strong and still singing as well as ever. Page 6. Towerlight endorses candidates for SGA president, vice-president and treasurer. Page 11. William Pelham expensive months for fuel consump-tion. A report submitted by Donald Mc- Culloh, vice-president for business and finance, estimated the savings at $102,621. Under the proposed calendar, the spring semester would begin January 22 instead of January 29 as it was this year. Also included was a proposal for a three-session summer calendar dur-ing July and August, which would eliminate most of August from the academic calendar. McCulloh said that it costs twice as much to air condition the buildings than it does to heat them. This summer, the summer session will end after the second week in August as previously planned. Smith said he is concerned about students who do not participate in minimester and cannot find part-time jobs during January. He said students could be spending this time doing something constructive. ""We do have a very light use of the campus,"" said Smith, stating that only 1500 students took advantage of the last minimester. Dr. Patricia Plante, chairman of the Council, said she was concerned that the savings would not be channel-ed back into the University but ultimately cut out of the budget. ""Generally, if you save $100,000 you can't get $100,000 in some other place,"" said McCulloh. Dr. Patricia Plante, chairman of the Academic Council, moderates debate on the cancellation of minimester at Monday's Council Meeting while Dr. Herb An-drewss, secretary listens. TL photo by Bill Breidenbaugh McCulloh said he hoped if the pro-posed academic calendar was approv-ed, reductions were affected and the University showed need in other areas, the money could be channeled back into the budget. William Pelham, professor of physics, said the August savings should be greater than the January savings, making retention of the minimester a possibility. � Smith called the revised academic calendar a well-thought out adapta-tion of the present calendar. He said another alternative could be to ap-point a calendar committee to study the possibility of implementing radical changes in the schedule. These changes might include four day weeks with 75 minute class periods or six day weeks resulting in a shorter academic calendar. "
