The Towerlight, March 13, 1986

tl19860313-000 "next stop University Senate SGA passes smoking resolution The SGA passed a resolution March 11 that limit smoking on campus to designated areas. - The resolution was passed in support of a similar resolution that Dr. Neil Gallagher and Dr. Richard Vatz will introduce to the University Senate in May. Vatz came to the SGA Senate to get student opinion and support before taking the case to the University Senate, and because he said he didn't want to make the same mistake University of Maryland officials made when trying to pass similiar legislations. ""Maryland forgot to secure support from the student body before passing the legislation,"" Vatz said. The resolution passed the Senate unanimously but without the wording that cigarette sales would be banned from campus. ""I don't think it is our place to ban cigarettes from campus,"" Treasurer Andy Kohn said. Most of the senators voiced their approval for the resolution, but agreed with Kohn that cigarette sales should not be banned. Senator Goldsmith pointed out that many resident students don't have cars and cannot get cigarettes anywhere else. In other business, the Senate voted to give the Forensics Union $800, in order to take one more team to the National Tournament in Wichita, Kansas. According to Lynn Webber, Forensics president, the extra team needs to go to gain more competing experience because many of the current debaters will be graduating this spring. She said the teams that will be at the tournament will help the inexperienced debaters get the experience they need. ""We need to debate good national teams to be a good team,"" Webber said. The Senate passed motions to affiliate four groups, two of which had been disaffiliated because they missed mandatory meetings. Both the Luthern Student Movement and the Korean Students Association were reaffiliated and put on the required six-month probationary period. Two new clubs, the Educators club and the Physical Educators Club were affiliated for the first time. Both clubs were praised as working hard towards becoming strong organizations by Senators Krivos and Francese. Michele Hart campus notes Inside There's no place like home House is basically un-sound 8 It's Spring again Men's lacrosse opens Satur-day against North Carolina . 3. TOwson's detente Dance department chairper-son Helene Breazeale toured the U.S.S.R. last month, and returned with tales of dance on the other side of the curtain 6 A carry-tale The Crane Maiden is fun for adults and children alike. Terri Lewis reviews the latest Theatre Department production 9 Pulitzer bound Richard Cohen has discovered a low -cal Nirvana 13. Freshman Campus notes from GPAs at a all over low point A measles epidemic hit University of Arkansas after a recent basketball game with Southern California University. Twenty-one people have been diagnosed as having measles, while another 34 people on campus reported having measles symptoms Morningside College in Iowa announced a plan to offer four years of free room and board to certain students to try and expand its regional reputation. Students must be from Iowa or the six states on its borders. The College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has issued a press release advertising a live visit by Poet Dylan Thomas March 29. Thomas died in 1953 ... The national chapter of Alpha Tau Omega voted that all chapters must stop selling alcohol, make all parties by invitation only, drop out of events co-sponsored by alcoholic beverage firms and observe other drinking limits to retain their charters. The new rules were released last week just as the University of Texas at Austin suspended its ATO chapter during a probe of a hazing incident ... College Press Service Lost and found Lost anything in the Union lately? If so, March 18, all items in the lost and found will be on display in the University Union in front of the information desk on the second level. All items should be picked up before March 28, the beginning of spring break. Phil Adams, a Residence Department Area Coordinator, has just finished conducting a survey of freshman grade point averages in Tower A. Tower A houses over one-third of the freshmen population of Towson State. Adams found that, ""a large number of Tower A residents did not do well when compared to other campus students, and Tower A had more residents who could be in danger of being academically dismissed,"" he said. Since freshmen cannot be academically dismissed these statistics are being used to indicate the performance of this year's freshmen in comparison to others on campus, according to Adams. Adams attributed the numerous number of students in academic trouble to, ""the time students need to adjust to college, and not using unstructured time wisely."" Adams is meeting personally with Towed A residents whose GPA' e are below 2.0 to try to help them. ""The responsibility to do well is on the students. We will do all we can; but it is up to them to take that step and seek help from their advisors and the academic advising department,"" Adams ,said. Adams said the best way to avoid academic trouble is to, ""Look over course load, manage time wisely and plan next semester's courses carefully to avoid academic dissmissal."" Vince Russomanno Campus notes are continued on page 2 Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 21 Towson, Md. 21204 March 13, 1986 Yes, somebody voted Stu ents vote i Monday and Tuesday in the Union and in the Glen and Newell Dining Halls for new SGA officers and senators. Melanie Goldsmith, the only opposed candidate, won the race for president. Chris Krivos is the new vice-president and Regina Lennon is treasurer. Business school will reorganize By Kelso Sturgeon The reorganization of Towson State's School of Business and Economics is part of a five-year plan begun in the fall of 1985 to gain accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, according to the school's Dean Sam Barone. The school will be reorganized in-to departments of management, marketing, economics and account-ing and finance, Barone said. Two-hundred forty-five of the na-tion's 650 business schools present-ly meet AACSB's minimum re-quirements for accreditation. ""Who wants to feel that they don't even meet the minimum re-quirements?"" Barone said, ""we need to make improvements in per-sonnel, curriculum, resources, library, physical facilities, use of new technology and innovative teaching [to gain accreditation]."" The university is giving a high priority to improving the School of Business and Economics where about 35 percent of Towson State's Tailgating policy toughened By Michele Hart Towson State's tailgating policy has undergone changes in the past year and another change will take effect March 15, the beginning of lacrosse season. Previously unrestricted, a time limit was put on tailgating last fall to make sure that people did not stay in the lots of the Towson Center drinking all day. Now, according to Tom Ruby, Events and Conference Service director and member of the Alcohol Concerns Committee, ""Towson State is moving into a unique posi-tion as far as alcohol on campus."" Starting with the first lacrosse game people of legal drinking age who want to drink while tailgating must get a bracelet signifying they are of legal drinking age. These bracelets will be the same as the ones used at dances. Ruby said the new policy was formed after staff members and the Alcohol Concerns Committee voic-ed fears that ""more than likely those celebrating before games were under age."" In order to get a bracelet, Ruby said, the prospective drinker must show a photo ID such as a driver's license or school ID. ""There will be stations set up to distribute the bracelets, and only those who have them will be eligible to drink,"" Ruby said. Towson Center student staff will rove lot 20, where tailgating is per-mitted, to enforce the new policy and flyers will be handed out to make sure people are aware of it. The new policy was enacted, ac-cording to Ruby, ""to make sure the See TAILGATING, page 11 students are enrolled. However, on-ly about 8.5 percent of the universi-ty's financial resources are allo-cated to the school according to documents published by the Board of Trustees of the State Univer-sities and Colleges. But, the university is spending $8 million to renovate Stephens Hall, which houses the school and next year, six faculty members will he ad-ded to the, school. The School of Business and Economics gained three of the seven existing faculty positions that will be open next fall due to retirements throughout the Univer-sity, and three new positions were created for the school, Barone said. Receiving a degree from a non-accredited business school is not harmful to most students chances of being admitted to graduate school, according to current busi-ness administration chairperson Charles Mott. But, national honor societies will not admit Towson State's business honor societies un-til the school is accredited, he said. Mott will return to full-time teaching in the accounting depart-ment next fall. Accounting chairper-son Raymond Castaldi and eco-nomics chairperson Harvey Paul will continue to head their depart-ments after the reorganization. A search committee ' is interviewing applicants for chairperson of the new management and marketing de-partments, according to Patricia Atkinson, assistant to Mott . Atkinson will become assistant to Barone next fall. The number of students in the school has been increasing. An ex-pected drop off of ten to 15 percent this spring did not occur. Instead enrollment increased by four per-cent. Barone said the University Senate rejected a business school proposal to screen out students who did not have a 2.5 grade point average in lower division courses. A grade point requirement, which is used at many business schools, would help to limit enrollment in the school. Currently only the account- See BUSINESS, page 2 Goldsmith wins SGA race By Michele Hart Heavily favored Melanie Gold-smith and the Unified Ticket won the SGA elections Tuesday night. Only 779 votes were cast in the two-day elections. About 10,000 students are enrolled at the Univer-sity. Goldsmith won by a 3-to-1 margin over Anthony Pappas. Out of 753 votes cast for president Goldsmith received 576 votes, Pap-pas 118, and Crash Khan got 59 votes. Goldsmith said she was ""extreme-ly happy about winning"", because she feared there might have been the need to have a run-off election. ""I wanted to win very much, and ideas are popping into my head. I'm See ELECTIONS, page 2 Stephens remodeling to cause overcrowding during construction By Kelso Stergeon The $8-million renovation of 72-year-old Stephens Hall will begin this summer and displace 3,000 to 5,000 students daily until the spr-ing of 1989, according to university officials. All academic departments at the 120-year-old university have been given recommendations about how to offset overcrowding, according to Registrar William Reuling. Reuling's recommendations in-clude double-sized sections, elimina-tion of introductory courses that are no longer required for majors, less courses taught between the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., teaching classes in Towson Center and offer-ing some courses only every other semester. ""Students will have to get out of what I call the 'high school syn-drome' where they go to class from nine to two and then on to extracur-ricular activities,"" Reuling said. Department chairpersons don't seem to feel they will be affected by overcrowding. Economics Depart-ment Chairperson Harvey Paul said that he has not changed his depart-ment's fall schedule and that the economics faculty was still discuss-ing whether or not to have larger classes. ""We already have large classes and we'll have to discuss whether or not we think double sectioning is good academic policy,"" he said. Accounting Department Chair-person Raymond Castaldi, cur-rently housed in a Stephens Hall of-fice, said that his department will double the size of just two classes. ""The only classes that we'll dou-ble section are introductory busi-ness law and introductory accoun-ting,"" Castaldi said. ""One double section will count as two classes (for the teacher). So they'll have to teach one double section and two regular sized sections instead of four regular sized sections and they'll probably have 135 students instead of 120."" Last December the Maryland De-partment of Licensing and Regula-tion cited the university for not hav-ing an ""effective extermination pro-gram"" for rodents and for having ""mice on premises"" in Stephens Hall. The department also made formal complaints about falling plaster in several rooms, leakage during rain-storm, hazardous floors, possible electrical hazards and possible asbestos contamination. ""The building is an asset, a hand-some building,"" University Presi-dent Hoke Smith said. ""But it's not someplace you want to show off to visitors unless you want to show them how poor it is."" The Computer Sciences Depart-ment has already moved from Stephens Hall to the basement of Smith Library. The Accounting De-partment will move into office space in the Lecture Hall and both the Business Administration and the Mathematics Departments will move to temporary facilities that will be erected between Stephens Hall, Smith Library and the Media Center, William Schermerhorn, as-sociate vice-president for plant and police operations, said. Stephens Hall opened in 1914 and originally cost $612,000. The clock tower atop the Jacobean building has become identified with the Uni-versity. It appears on the letter head of Towson State's stationary and in the masthead of Towerlight. Renovation of the 83,000 square See STEPHENS, page 2 Stephens Hall, slated for 8 million dollars in renovations, will be closed for three years while the work is being completed. "