tl19800314-000 "VOL. LXXIII No. 21 frO o tu trug PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Members of the Unity in Action ticket placed president-elect, Steve Horn (left) on a table after the election committee announced that he and his entire ticket had won the Student Government Association election. Current SGA president, Wilma Murray, congratulated Horn (top right). Craig Wolf, vice-president elect, awaited the announcement (midd)e right). Jay Blanton, treasurer-elect, hugged another Unity in Action candidate (bottom right). TL photos by Cindy Sheesiey, Bill Breidenbaugh and Dave Gibbons CONTENTS Sports 8 Features 3 Entertainment 7 Week Watcher 5 Classifieds Commentary 11 Newsbriefs March 14, 1980- Unity in Action sweeps SGA election in landslide Horn, Wolf, Blanton elected by Karen DiPasquale The Unity in Action ticket swept the Student Government Association ' election Tuesday, with Steve Horn winning as president, Craig Wolf, vice president and Jay Blanton, treasurer. ""I was very surprised,"" said Horn, who received 808 of the 1,465 votes. ""I didn't believe there were so many straight ticket votes."" Wolf pulled in 807 votes and Blanton, 818. Some of the new Senators on the Unity in Action ticket are John Abell, Mary Ellen Barry, Donna Krieger, Barry Orem and Rick Slaug-hter. Others are Jeff Sweetin, John Torbik, Mike Virden, Brock Ware, Rick Yent and Kurt Zumwalt. The two re-elected Senators on the ticket are Mark Andrychian and Laura Stratmeyer, who received the most votes with 843. John Bohanan, who ran on the Limit ticket, was the 14th Senator elected. ""We won by large margins,"" said Blanton. ""The election showed stu-dents have confidence in us. Most of the Senators are brand new to the school and the SGA. The students felt they needed to see a new SGA."" Horn added, ' 'an SGA that is clean, hard working and that has lots of desire to do a good job."" Wolf attributes his ticket's vic-tory to the resident votes. ""The resi-dents did it for us, especially Jeff DiLandro, the president of the resi-dence council,"" said Wolf. Horn added, ""We got 90 percent of the resident votes. And the or-ganizations supported us too."" Schelle: Bluffing the bureaucracy by Michael Bennett During the time between August 1967, when Wayne Schelle became vice-president for business and fin-ance, and May 1979, when he left to become vice-president for develop-ment and public relations at Loyola College, Towson State grew from a small teachers college to a major Metropolitan university. Schelle play-ed a vital part in that growth. While he was at Towson State Schelle directed the construction of Many of the largest buildings on campus, such as the Towson Center, the University Union, Hawkins Hall, the Lecture Hall, the Psychology huilding, the addition to Smith Hall and the 4esidence Tower. It may be just a short drive down Charles Street from the modern-istic campus of Towson State to the gothic and tudor style campus at Loyola, but Schelle's job has changed considerably from what it was here. At Loyola, Schelle's job is to build the development division, which 'beans he concentrates on fund-taising, alumni relations and capital grants. Schelle said the biggest difference in his new job is that at Loyola he does not have to fight the state bureaucracy. ""Here [Loyola] if it's in my budget I have no problems at all, because I'm free to do what I want. If it's not in my budget, 1 only have to convince the vice-president for business and finance or the President. Best of all, I can get an answer in just a day or two, if not that day,"" he said. Recently, in his office in Millbrook House on the Loyola campus, Schelle reminisced about his years at the University. ""My time at Towson State was a super experience. More than any-thing else it was hut We had a mission. We believed in it and we made it hap-pen,"" he said. Schelle said he and Dr. James Fisher, former president, built on a good multipurpose teacher education college and created what he considers to be the ""finest public institution that cares for the students."" He said he knew the job was go-ing to be long and difficult, but he underestimated just how long. ""I told my wife she wouldn't see much of me for three years. Unfortun-ately, it was ten."" According to Schelle, his and Fis-her's mission was to ""create a school that said 'I love you' to the stu-dents. Take the ice cream parlor in Hawkins Hall. We included that because we thought it would be nice to have a place where students could sit across from each other and talk. The space underneath the Lecture Hall and the walkways through the Glen were both designed with the students in mind."" Schelle said that when he came to the University in 1967, there was no in this Issue Breezy Bishop, women's basket-ball coach, will stay on as coach next year. Page 8. Hank Levy is di-rector of the TSU Jazz Ensemble, but he also has his own special the-ories of music. Page 4. Joe Strummer is the lead singer and song writer for Clash, whose latest album London Calling is reviewed on page 7. master plan for the campus' growth. ""The architectural layout was terr-ible. When we complained, state of-ficials would tell us 'you're only a teacher's college."" In 1968, plans for Cook Library and the Residence Tower called for all tiled floors. Schelle could not be-lieve that a library and a residence hall could be built without carpeting. He was able to persuade a friendly ""The Board of Trustees was never helpful or effective. It was un-commited and incom-petent."" -Schelle secretary of general services to put carpet in the library and he talked Che architect into substituting the words ""sound absorbent floor cover-ing"" for the word tile. Schelle said he and Fisher had great expectations for Towson State. ""When they told us 'we give you the best' I told them it wasn't good enough."" ""We reached our goals by build-ing a strong political base. In Anna-polis they called us [Fisher and Schelle] Frank and Jesse James. Jim Fisher dazzled them with so much artistic and articulate footwork that I was able to get more done. The Bureaucrats were afraid that Fisher would go to the Governor or to the press, and he would have,"" Schelle said. According to Schelle, state officials once threatened him and Fisher with arrest for misuse of public funds. ""They told us that if we played along and were 'good-old boys' then. we'd get our share of state money. ""We did what we did at Towson State with virtually no help from the state bureauracy. They fought us every step of the way. Time and time again they'd say 'if we do it for you we'll have to do it for everyone, and they're just not as good as you are."" Schelle said that funding inequity was always a problem. ""The system worked on negative rewards. If you did a poor job, you got the most money per student,"" he said. The Board of Trustees did the most damage in Schelle's eyes. ""The Board of Trustees was never eff-ective or helpful. It was uncommited and incompetent. Even the state continued on page 12 ' Wolf also gave some credit to his and Horn's fraternities for helping the Unity in Action ticket win the election. ""I feel exhausted,"" said Wolf, Tuesday after the results were announced by the five-member elec-tion committee. ""But it was all worth r it.'"" Blanton said, ""Wg've got plans for all good things to help the students. Now we've got to prove ourselves."" Horn said, ""Now the work begins."" Despite the total win of the Unity in Action ticket, the Limit refer-endum was approved with a 528-209 vote. Wolf said he and the others on his ticket were surprised the Limit passed. ""We didn't come out very strongly against the Limit. We didn't really bring that up in our campaign. I think the other ticket really pushed it well, and that the students were for the Limit, but not for those on that ticket."" Will Neumann, one of the losing presidential candidates and supporter of the Limit referendum, contdnued on page 2 SGA Election Results President Steve Horn 808 William Neumann 381 Leonard Satisky 230 Vice-president Treasurer Craig Wolf 807 Jay Blanton David Thomas 543 Dennis Tully Limit Amendment Yes No 528 209 818 515 Total Votes: 1,465 Wayne Schelle, who was vice-president for business and finance at Towson State for 12 years, is now vice-president for development and public relations at Loyola College. Schelle helped build Towson State into a major university. TL file photo Szasz speaks against classifying behavior by Debbie Pelton Dr. Thomas Szasz is ""in favor of psychiatry between consenting adults,"" but strongly opposes involun-tary mental hospitalization. The psychiatrist and author of several books detailing his theories, spoke at the Towson Center Sunday night as part of the Student Govern-ment Association's Speaker Series. Szasz insists mental illness does not exist and therefore, any plea of insan-ity be criminal defendants is unjus-tified. The traditional views of mental ill-ness as a disease of the brain contrast with Szasz' definition of mental illness as a label ""attached to people who do something we don't like."" Szasz criticized the ""medicalization of behavior,"" when psychiatrists link de-viant behavior with mental illness. Members of minority groups some-times exhibit culturally significant behavior, said Szasz, citing Blacks and Jews as examples, but their dif-ferent behavior should not be at-tributed to mental illness. He said classification of certain behaviors is dated and changes with what is fash-ionable. Homosexuality, for example, was labeled a disease until 1973, when members of the American Medical Association voted, and decided homo-sexuality is not a disease. New (i.e., currently receiving a lot of attention) mental illnesses"" are child abuse and wife-beating, said Szasz. Szasz questioned psychiatrists' cri-teria for institutionalizing a client. One requirement, that the person be in need of and likely to benefit from psychiatric treatment, is absurd, said Szasz, because if there is no such , thing as mental illness, then there is ""no such thing as psychiatric treat-ment."" Another criterion, that the person , be possibly dangerous to himself and/or others, is ambiguous, said Szasz, because ""it can't be proven."" He said institutionalization for that reason ""curtails human freedom."" During the panel discussion, Dr. Robert Gibson, medical director at Sheppard-Enoch Pratt Hospital, said that involuntary hospitalization is uncommon because the patient has several safeguards to ensure he is not wrongly institutionalized. Szasz, however, argued that use of such safeguards is ""historically, not the case."" People are hospitalized ""to keep them away from others,"" said Szasz. ""If mental hygiene laws were abolish-ed,"" he said, ""more people would will-ingly,"" not fearing involuntary hos-pitalization, go to hospitals and ""psychiatry as we know it, would dis-appear."" Other panelists were Dr. Jonas Rappeport, Chief Medical Officer for the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, and Dr. Lee Weinberg, assistant professor of administration of justice at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Richard Vatz, assistant pro-fessor of speech and mass commu-nication, moderated the discussion. Szasz' books include The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct and The Myth of Psychotherapy�Men-tal Healing as Religion, Rhetoric and Repression, vublished in 1978. Thomas Szasz "
