The Towerlight, March 11, 1988

tl19880311-000 "19 Inside Quoth Quill Reflections on the Tigers' heartbreaking loss .. page 5 werli Published weekly by the students of Towson State University htTowson, MD 21204 Index news 1 2 features & entertainment 3 9 business 4 photo contest 4 sports 5 6 classifieds 7 8 editorial 10 perspectives & letters 10, 11 weekwatcher 12 ol. 81 No. 17 March 11, 1988 dministration standards ncrease for 1989 by Sean Brohawn News reporter The Towson State University Sen-te recently passed a proposal that '11""significantly increase the mini- Urn grades and test scores needed entering freshmen for priority mission to the University,"" accor-ng to University Relations. This raise in admissions stand-rds will be put into effect for the ring, 1989 semester. Although this proposal is a reac-on to the record enrollment that owson State hais seen lately, it is 180 the most recent step in a five-ear effort to raise academic stan-ards. According to University Rela-on's�, some goals of Towson State fficials are to ""Admit fewer new nd transfer students beginning is fall to curb over-enrollment nd improve retention rates."" � The Director of Admissions, Lin-o Collins, said the University is urrently ""over-enrolled,"" but dded that under the new prop-osal, there should be an ""increase in the quality of entering classes."" The changes include an increase in the minimum academic grade point average for priority admis-sion status, from the current 2.5 GPA to the newly accepted 3.0 average. The minimum Scholastic Apti-tude Test scores for priority admis-sions status have also been raised from 450 on both verbal and math tests to 500. Transfer students with fewer than 56 college-level credits earned at another school will also be re-quired to present a higher GPA. Enrollment of new freshmen and transfer students will be cut by about 400 students in the next year, a 20 percent reduction in the freshman class size. LonnieMeNew, theassistantvice-prest dent for academic services at Tow-son State, said, ""Now we have a huge pool of talented students [ap-plying to Towson State],"" and it is important to ""set admissions stan-dards that will yield the right [class[ size."" rovost candidates interviewed by Brenda Brown News reporter Two Towson State University rofessors have been selected by e Search Committee to interview or the position of Provost/Vice resident for Academic Affairs. Seven other candidates from all ver the United States are also eing considered for the job. The ne candidates are undergoing ex ten- Ive on-campus interviews, which egan March 7. Copies of the candidates' resu-es have been placed on Faculty erve (Cook Libmry). During inter-lews, a brief informational state-eat about each candidate, his Pecific interview Schedule, and he EacultyReservecall number of copy of his resume will be dis-ributed to faculty, student leaders, dministrative offices, and the Alum- 1 Association. After completion of the inter-tews, the Search Committee will old an open meeting to receive omments from the campus corn-unity. The candidates to be inter-ewed and their current positions re: Ronald Applebaum, Vice Presi-ent for Academic Affairs, Profes-or of Communications, Pan Amen - an University; Robert Caret, Acting Provost-and Vice President for Academic ffairs, Dean, College of Natural and Mathemetical Sciences, Asso-ciate Professor of Chemistry, Tow-son State University; Annette Chappell, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Professor of Eng-lish, Towson State University; Ben Greenbaum, Associate Dean of Faculty, Coordinator of Graduate Programs, Head, Divi-sion of Science, Professor of Phys-ics, University of Wisconsin-Park-side; Dennis Hefner, Vice Provost, (Econo-mies), California State University, Chico; Thomas Hegarty, Vice President for Academic Affairs, (History), But-ler University; Robert Lewis, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Facul-ties, Professor of Languages, Act-ing Dean, Chicago Musical Col-lege, Roosevelt University; Gary Morotta, University Dean, Faculty of Communications, Com-puter and Information Sciences, Associate Professor of' History, Long. Island University; Marlene Springer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Af-fairs and Graduate Studies, Pro-fessor of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City. The interview groups consisted of the Council of Deans; AAUP/- Faculty Association Officers and Committee Chairpersons, Student Government Officers; Black Facu-lty and Administrators Assoc., Women's Studies Faculty, Depart-ment Chairpersons; faculty, staff, students and alumni. Shattered dreams Tiger players Marty Johnson, Mike Colclough, and Dwayne Martin [left to right] show their disappointment as they watch the awards ceremony at Tuesday night's final of the East Coast photo by Dave Hammond Conference Tournament. Lehigh University defeated Towson State, 84-78. See stories, page 5. SGA elections held next week by Vince Russomanno News editor Candidates for Student Govern-ment will make short presenta-tions today at noon on the second floor of the University Union. Student Government elections, March 14 and 15, will decide which of 18 candidates become senators and whether Deborah Kane or Mike Aronin is the next vice presi-dent. Since Vicki Francese and Jon Long, both members of the BEST ticket, are running unopposed, the offices of president and treasurer have already been determined, accor-ding to current SGA President Chris Krivos. Even though two of her running-mates are already in office, Kane does not plan to ""let up in the slightest"" her campaigning ef-forts. ""I have already made plans to commit to the SGA. I have peaker rates ""Constitutions"" by Michael Raymond Assistant !WU'S editor Professor Alan Dershowitz of liar-and Law School, playing to all audience of about 150 people, Inostly non-students, spoke in the phesapeake Room Sunday even- Ulg part of the SGA's continu-ing series of noted speakers. . Dershowitz, who has earned his bational reputation through suc-cessful defenses of high profile cli-ents including John Landis, Patri-cia Hearst, and Penthouse maga-zine, is also a best-selling author. its latest book is Reversal of For. tune: Inside the Von Bulow Case. Dershowitz's speech topic was. ""A Dissenting View of the Consti-tution."" He broke the document's history down into seven major Stages of development, each char-acterized by a particular ""crisis,"" beginning with the original draft, Which he considers the worst, a There power scheme, and ending With the Bork nomination. Of that serious debate, Dersho- Witz said, ""The Reagan adniinis-tration, the Meese administration, 'has had an explicit intention of rol-ling back 200 years of history."" Dershowitz was also quick to attack his own profession, opening With the old joke about the price of lawyers' brains, and continuing With such comments as, ""We in America are very lucky that our Ponstitution was not written by lawyers."" Dershowitz followed his humor-ous diversions and ""Seven Consti-tutions"" outline with remarkA of a lflore serious and reverent nature, however. ""Someday, somewhere, every-one will want to invoke the Consti-tution,"" he said. And speaking of the basic voice of America, ""We need breathing room. We will not submit to regimentation. We de-mand liberty."" The half hour speech was fol- ' lowed by a question and answer session of over an hour, during which a variety of controversial cases and social issues were raised. Dershowitz took a liberal stance on most issues, including censor-ship, toward which he is particu-larly opposed, but did announce support for mandatory drug test-ing of individuals who choose a career in which they are responsi-ble for other people's lives, offering airline pilots and air traffic con-trollers as examples. Not surprisingly, Dershowitz an-swered the question ""Who would you like to see as our next Presi-dent?"" with a quick and firm ""Mike Dukakis."" The two have long been friends and associates, and Dershowitz would rank as a serious contender for the Attorney General nomination were Dukakis to, in fact, win the Presidency. photo by Traci Koutz Professor Alan Dershowitz believes in mandatory drug testing of those who choose a career in which they are responsible for the lives of others. changed my living arrangements so that I can be in Towson during the summer break,"" said Kane. If elected, Kane plans to revise the current SGA Speaker Series to include less speakers but bigger names. ""I want to include the type of speakers that students want to see and that will get the Towson com-munity involved again,"" said Kane. Kane wants to get students on University committees more a part of the student government. I in-tend to do this by welcoming them to Senate meetings, said Kane. Speaking for the BEST ticket, Francese said, ""We want to make the SGA work more effectively and efficiently internally. Things do not always work easily and, as student organizations know, there can be a lot of red tape,"" said Francese. ""Most of' us on this ticket have worked with the SGA and under-stand where these stumbling blocks are. Once we fix them we can work more closely with the students,"" Francese said. Aronin and four candidates for senator comprise the Fab Four tic-ket. ""We want to promote student voice on campus and represent our fellow colleg uesand look into such problems as parking and re-estab-lishing tailgating,"" said Aronin. Aronin plans to get the students moreinvolvedthroughopinionquestion-naires and getting them to come to Senate meetings. Both Aronin and Kane served as senators-at-large this year. Aronin eis a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and has worked on campus as a Peer Assis-tant. Kane was chair of the Uni-versity Affairs Committee. Senators on the BEST ticket are: Scott Barrier, Kristin Beech, Chris Deaver, Karen Donohue, Rommel Gonzaga, Olivia Hill, Stephanie Kugler, Todd Mattingly, Carey Mc- Kenzie, Aneezal Mohamed, Susan Mummey, Jerry Reed, Laurie Sears and Jackie Tibbs. The Senatorial candidates of the Fab Four ticket are: Dena Ste-wart, Kieffer Rittenhouse, and Jackie Baker. Polls will be set up in three places- Newell Dining Hall, Glen Dining Hall, and the University Union. Only one booth will be opened at each location rather than the usual two. ""We are not expecting great hordes of people and the cost of each booth is very expensive. To be exact, $4,000,"" said Krivos. Ina uga ration ceremonies will take place Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 gm in the Potomac Lounge. Departments to enforce prerequisites by Robert Pattison News reporter 'Fhe Towson State University Sen-ate passed a resolution Monday making the enforcement of prerequi-site classes the responsibility of each department or college. The Academic Standards com-mittee put forward the resolution which the Senate passed 18-0-1 over objections by Senate mem-bers who felt this ruling would place further administrative duties on faculty members. Dr. James J. Hill, Jr., associate professor of English, said teachers do not have quick access to student transcripts and therefore cannot determine whether a student has met the couse prerequisites or not. ""I'm not a police-person,"" Hill said,�if the departments receive the responsibility of enforcement it will in turn delegate that responsi-bility onto its faculty members. ""I'm not happy with the depart-ment being responsible [for enforce-ment of this resolution],"" Hill said. Dr. Richard E. Vatz, associate professor of speech and mass communi-cations, asked whether students who have already taken classes without taking the required pre-requisites will have retributive action taken against them. William J. Reuling, secretary of the Academic Standards Commit-tee, said if by some chance a stu-dent does take a class without tak-ing the required lower level class first the University will not take his earned grade from him. ""If a student beats the system and gets a grade he will not lose it,"" Reuling said. The reasons for this action result from past students who have failed to graduate because they have missed a lower level class the depart-ment requires for graduation. The first step toward solving this prob-lem was the enforcement of man-datory advising before regis-tration, a move the Senate passed March 2, 1987. With mandatory advising, tea-chers can inform students of the department's requirements before that student gets close to gradua-tion and catch the problem before it becomes serious. By making the individual colleges and depart-ments responsible for enforcement of prerequisites the problems of students not meeting graduation requirements will be easier to solve. Dr. Annette Chappell, Dean of the college of liberal arts, said this will make course permits nec-essary for more upper level classes before students can register. Dr. Sam Barone, dean of busi-ness and economics, approved the ruling saying the University has the right to enforce published pre-requisites as a part of the student's general university requirements (GUR's). ""They should have GURs to back up more advanced classes,"" Barone said. Neither Barone not Chappell sit on the University Senate. With the passing of this resolu-tkon ,the individual colleg* no* have 'the right to force stu&nts tri take prerequisites; however, Doro-thy Siegel, vice-president for stu-dent services, said, ""There is no mechanism to force a student out of a class if that student is unpre-pared."" This might happen if by some means a student does not take the prerequisites and enrolls in an upper level class. However, Siegel said it is now ""possible to keep students out of classes [they] are not prepared to take."" In other Senate business, the first motion to amend the Senate bylaws was not voted on since this is a first reading and requires fur-ther study by Senate members. Another amendment to the Senate bylaws was not voted on because of improper wording of the motion. However, motion four, which changes the makeup of the Promo-tion and Tenure Committee into an eight member committee made up of faculty members from each col-lege, drew sharp remarks from Dr. Dan L. Jones, professor and co-chair of the English department, who was ""strongly opposed"" to the motion. ""It is not the purpose or design of the governing system we have at Towson"" to decide how members of the Promotion and Tenure Com-mittee are selected. ""Key policy and committee mem-bers should be elected from the faculty-at-large,"" Jones said. Presently there are seven mem-bers on the committee made up of a random selection of faculty mem-bers. The motion was tabled by a vote of 15-2-2 which will delay dis-cussion until the Senate's April 4th meeting. Dr. Jo Wirt Osdell basically members: tiotafan tuicrrenure Coln- � mittee ittlected from the entire faculty members on campus Van: Osdell said, ""The odds are no one knows who is being considered"" by the committee and will avoid per-sonal interest squabbles and power politics. "