TL20060313-01 "Arts: Nobody loves �Smoking� more than writer/director Jason Reitman News: �What, no more college night!? But what�ll we do on Thursday?� Monday, 3/13/06 www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly Heading to Harford County University to extend selected academic programs to neighboring community college INSIDE: This Week..........3 Perspectives......4 News................9 Beyond...........15 Arts.................17 Music..............18 Classifi eds.......21 Sports.............24 OFF-CAMPUS EXPANSION COMING IN THURSDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: �Where the HELL is my chiffon!?� Find out with our rags to runway recap of Bravo�s hit reality TV show �Project Runway� Arts, page 19 Towson joins trend of adding Arabic to language repertoire News, page 9 Photos by Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight Students search the Auburn House for ghosts, taking pictures at random in hopes of catching any paranormal presence on film. Following the tour, paranormal investigator John Zaffis helped students look for spirit images in their photographs. Ghost hunt revives Auburn House myth SPOTTING A SPIRIT? Last Wednesday, students made like Scooby Doo and went on a ghost hunt in Towson University�s Auburn House. The residence is rumored to house Towson�s own haunt, named Martha. About 30 students toured the Auburn property with paranor-mal investigator John Zaffis (pic-tured at left), snapping pictures and searching for spiritual entities. The event was sponsored by the Campus Activities Board and University Residence Government. Left: Zaffis told Towerlight photographer Heidi Greenleaf she may have captured a ghost on film in this photograph. What do you think? View the rest of the slide-show and decide for yourself at http://www.the-towerlight. com/ pages/ghost/. Brian Stelter Editor in Chief As Towson University strives to meet the state�s enrollment demands, it is increasingly looking off-campus for opportunities to expand. TU has offered to grow by about 1,000 students a year for the next six years, but it doesn�t have room for all those new bodies on cam-pus. The soon-to-be-built College of Liberal Arts complex will not be occupied for several years, funding for the College of Health Professions building may be several years away, and a new residence hall won�t be online until Fall 2008. Adding pro-grams off-site will help the University increase enrollment without crowd-ing classrooms in Towson. �A good portion of the enroll-ment growth we�re planning is going to happen off-campus and at com-munity colleges,� President Robert Caret said. Harford County is an area of intense interest. Baltimore County�s northeast neighbor is anticipating a population boom in the com-ing years. That�s why Caret had breakfast with James LaCalle, presi-dent of Harford Community College, about two months ago. Several universities are interested in supporting the growth in Harford County, LaCalle said, but he�s espe-cially interested in Towson. See CAMPUS, page 11 Military, county growth go hand in hand Harford County will need thousands of new military service mem-bers, contractors, teachers, doctors, and other professionals in the next decade, and Towson University wants to help prepare them. Last year�s decisions by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission are going to bring upwards of 13,000 civilian and military personnel to the state, analysts predict. Daraius Irani, director of applied economics for RESI, a University-based research institute, said BRAC, a Pentagon process to make the military more efficient and agile, has been kind to Maryland. �The process of consolidation of out-of-state base operations and func-tions into existing Maryland bases will net upwards of 40,000 to 60,000 new jobs over the next decade to Fort Meade, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Andrews Air Force Base and Bethesda Naval Hospital,� he said. See JOBS, page 11 "
