tl19730316-000 "towerlight Volume XXVI, No. 21 Towson State College March 16, 1973 Towson, Md. 21204 NCATE team: Teacher ed evaluation being conducted this week by Brenda Gilhooly The National Council for the Accreditation of teacher Education (NCATE) and a team from the Maryland State Department of Education are currently conducting an examination of teacher education programs at Towson State College. The NCATE team, chaired by Dr. Harry V. Barnard, from the University of Kentucky, evaluates both the graduate and undergraduate programs. The Education Division, along with all other departments of the college having teacher preparation components, have written a self-study report, which examines all aspects of the teacher education programs. The approval of the teacher education programs at Towson State College means that Towson graduates will be accepted as full certified and accredited teachers in 33 states throughout the nation. Barnard said that if a graduate of a NCATE-approved institution goes to another state, he can get licensed without hassle or being required to take many additional courses. Also, often external funding agencies want to know if one has NCATE approval. According to Barnard, Towson reflects the national state of transition and innovations in education. Dr. James L. Fisher, in his speech before the NCATE, echoed this sentiment. ""More recently, the College has faced, like most other educational institutions across the country, the enormous pressures of the currents for Change which have swept across the land."" ""The dynamic stability that we have been able to maintain is attributed to the anguish, concern, and commitment of our faculty and students. Through their efforts in these few years, we have managed to implement a whole host of innovations."" ""We have completely restyled our governance structure, and dramatically reshaped the administrative organization, a proposed enrollment ceiling, the mini-mester, the College in Escrow program, increased student involvement, directed independent study, general studies major, and effected many similarly suitable changes."" ""While each of these advances may merit your further Towson theatre presents premiere of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock by Bryan Harness The Towson State College Theatre Department will premiere Sean 0.Casey's play, ""Juno and the Paycock"" tonight ih Studio 27. The production directed by Dr. Paul Berman, will run through March 17, and March 19 through 24. O'Casey, Irish palywright and dissenter, once said of his native land that ""erie was deafened and dumfounded and nearly destroyed by gin-peal and slogan-cries."" The play,written after the Irish Independence centers on an Irish family, the Boyles. Traditionally, O'Casey tended to express anti-violent, anti-war, and anti-poverty feelings in his work, but ""Juno"" is not a political piece. It embodies Dr. Paul Berman will direct ""Juno and the Paycock."" O'Casey's love for human life, and refrains from endorsing one point of view over another. In short, ""O'Casey's position is that politics wrecked the human spirit. It is an appeal to life rather than an appeal to politics,"" stated Dr. Paul Berman, director of the play. By focusing his attention on the Boyle family, O'Casey succeeds in revealing the trails and eventual disintegration of the family in the face of poverty and the civil war which followed the inauguration of the Irish Republic. There are two basic plot lines in ""JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK."" The tragic element revolves around Jun, played by Mariel Rosenblack, a Towson Theatre graduate student. Paycock, played by Gordon Gray, is Juno's alcoholic husband. He and Joxer, who is played by Larry Smith, a part time Towson faculty member, provide the comic element. The Irish have developed a remarkable ability to survive, despite the horrors they've been witness to over the course of their lives. Because of this, Paul Berman and the cast of ""Juno and the Paycock"" have decided to dedicate their play to ""the Irish people, who have suffered so much, yet contributed so much beauty, and to Jude Mac Gowran, an Irish actor who played O'Casey with a smile and a tear."" 11010111111111111111111111'111111 The NCATE programs. attention, I am most proud of the ineffable spirit of the institution, and that, of course, is the spirit of the faculty and students who have made our answer to the challenge of change responsible, effective and many times eloquent."" Six institutions in Maryland have the approval of NCATE. These include Towson, Salisbury, Bowie, Coppin, Frostburg, and the University of Maryland. The teams worked for four days beginning Sunday, March 11 and ending Wednesday, March 14. The teams interviewed individual faculty members, visited student teaching centers, and met with students. After studying the teacher education program team discusses examination of Towson's education thoroughly, the final oral and written reports are submitted to the visiting committee coordinator before departure. Team members met with President Fisher, Dean Shaw, Associate Dean Hauserman, department chairpersons, faculty members and students. Exhibits of curricula, syllabi, publications, and other information were prepared for use by the teams. These visits will provide the teacher preparation programs at the college an opportunity to note their strengths and to examine areas in which further modification and improvement might be indicated in order to meet the needs of the students more adequately. SGA news: Harris officially resigns by Bryan Harness In a speech before the Senate, Jesse Harris formally resigned from the office of SGA President. The tone of Harris' brief remarks was characterized as ""conciliatory in spirit, and optimistic in outlook."" Said Harris, in what was to be his final address to the Senate, ""There's a couple of things I think we should talk about for a couple of minutes, I don't really want to drag this thing out. There are certain people on the Senate and I think you know how I feel about you. There has been very little cooperation this year between the executives and between the Senate, I think that's apparent, and it's been the Senate's fault; it's been my fault, and for that I apologize. I just sincerely hope that that system does not continue."" Rick Danoff, assuming the office of the Presidency, began his acceptance speech by thanking former President Harris for his confidence in him, and wished Harris the best of luck in the future. He also expressed a great deal of confidence in the new SGA treasurer Ken Nelson. Danoff also declared the executive cabinet would remain intact, citing their fine work under the Harris administration for his decision. Currently, the office of .vice-president is vacant. Danoff declared ""My vice presidential appointment will be announced next week; I have not yet made a decision."" The four most important items that Danoff foresaw as dominating the remainder of the legislative calender were the newly proposed SGA Financial Policy and the SGA's Presidental Task Force Report, which ""would see the most sweeping fiscal changes since the SSFG8 was created four years ago."" Other important proposals would be to see the seating of a student on the Board of Trustees, and matters currently before the academic council, primarily the dropping of the academic credit requirement form 128 to 120. After Danoff had formally assumed his office, the SGA reverted to a legislative body for the first time in two weeks. The first and only item that they considered was the new SGA Financial Policy, which had been sponsored by Danoff while he was treasurer, and which he had cited earlier as one of the big four legislative proposals that the Senate would be confronted ,with during the semester. "
