The Towerlight, March 16, 1979

tl19790316-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 20 115oivertigt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Weekend Weather: Sunny All day today with highs in the 40's. No chance of precipita-tion. Slightly warmer and clear Saturday. Warmer and partly cloudy Sunday. Vandals plague dorms by Pat Voekel About 39 per cent of all reported vandalism on Campus takes place in the dormitories. Vandalism in the dorms is rising and according to Pat Walsh of the Physical Plant, 80 per cent of all repairs are made in the dorm. In February, a $200 couch was thrown off of the thirteenth floor of the Residence Tower and the control panel in the elevator of that building was ripped out. According to Barry Evans, area coordinator, both of the telephones in each of the two elevators of the Tower were ripped out six times in one month. The cost to put the phones back in is anywhere from $25 to $219. The Tower is not the only dorm that is damaged. Newell and Richmond Halls have telephones without reveivers or wires and some telephones have been Pushed through the wall. Both dormitories have num-erous holes in the walls. The other dorms have their share of damage in broken clocks, intercoms, poplights and windows. broken windows are a problem in all the dorms this semester and in the Tower, a single window costs from $36 to $100 to replace. Mary Lee Farlow, director of residence, said that itt the dorms with the highest amount of damage, 99 Per cent of the residents chose that dorm as their first building preference. ""Ten per cent of the students perpetrate these things, if that much. A lot of the vandalism is done by people Who don't care�either non-resident students or stu-dents from other dorms,"" according to Evans. ""Why Should they care?"" he said. Farlow said ""students have a lot of time and money on their hands."" ""When people have time on their hands,"" she said, ""they become destructive and they have the money to Inq alcohol."" Alcohol is often invOlve""d' in the vandalism but Evans said they can't be sure because no one comes to them with first-hand stories. In an effort to decrease the destruction in the dorms, Evans said that the school has purchased 'really durable furniture"" like the kind used in prisons, but there have already been two cases of furniture van-dalized with knives this year. Although 10 per cent of the students create the dam-ge, the remaining 90 per cent are concerned, Evans said. More people are beginning to see the impact of vandalism around them,"" he said. According to Evans people are now paying attention to the vandalism because it costs them. ""Before,"" Evans said, ""students would often see people damag-ing the dorms but they didn't pay attention."" In malicious destruction, ""we usually have to hunt someone down to accept the responsibility,"" said Evans. It is ""unaccepted behavior."" The student is billed for the damage and depending On the seriousness of the damage and his/her record, Spring? Nature played a trick on us with Spring weather earlier in the week. Temperatures proceeded to drop the rest of the week. TL Photo by Dave thunke Milissa Murray, SGA President elect, is given a congratulatory hug for her victory. TL Photo by Frank Lippy March 16, 1979 Murray wins SGA race by Ellen Zelinski and Debbie Pelton The t1 ('\V Student Government A ss(lciation president, vice-presi-dent and treasurer, respectively, are ilissa Murray. Michael Burns and Stephen Horn. ' The result s of Monday and Tuesday's elections were announced at Tuesday's Senate meeting by Mickey kVilson, Election Conimittee chairperson. The new executive branch and the newly elected Senators will take I ffice April I. Murray, who headed the Fedelus Poplorum Servus ticket with David Reuwer and Stephen Horn, topped her opponent. William Neumann, by IS() votes. Neumann was the presidential candidate for .the Partners for Progress Party. which . also includes Burns and Jim Szymanski. Murray said she is ""looking forward to a fun and productive term."" Burns said he feels lw can ""do a good job"" as vice-president and is ""happy the students think so too."" Present president John Shehan said he will help orient the new officers to ensure a smooth I ransition. He said, ""it's going to be hard leaving, as the SGA has been part of my family. All the Senatorial candidates running on the Partners for Progress ticket won. as did Murray's senatorial runninp; mates Craig Wolf and Ann Keough. Overall voter turnout was appro-ximately 1300, about 100 less than last year. The 9,000 full time day students were eligible to vote. The first referendum question on the ballot, about whether ex- Senators should be able to have a Cabinet position should they resign, was ruled invalid by the Election Commission. Wilson' told the Senate Tuesday that a copy of the SGA manual was not at the polls, as required in SGA rules. The second referendum question about whether the Gay People's Alliance should be funded. lost by about 150 votes. a co-ordinator of the GAP said the results ""show the necessity of the organization.-, 'rho students response shows a hick of education on the subject, he said. If voters would have ""seen us as true human beings. as we are, disregarded ""stereotyped images:' he said ""they would have voted yes.'' The CPAs purpose is to educate t he students; he said, not to encourage others to adopt a homosexual lifestyle. Litie Allen Carol Balkov Dennis Caprio Valerie French Keith Hark William limvey Stephen Hastingh Senatorial election winners 711 Jeffrey Kaehik 523 Rick Kat, 658 8(X) 637 611 698 Runk II: The recruiting game by Tim Gounaris Second of a three-part series. On down the list of any of the organized sport s--name if--are the stories of coaches who, in their al tempt to get their point ,across, take it upon themselves to get a little physical; the premise here being t hat a good kick in the tail, rattling of the bones or bounce Off a locker will get a guy. even the almost hopelessly lethargic, to do what the coach wants. Pump in a little feat: and you have them by their collective iock-straps. ready to do as you please. Towson State's lacrosse coach, Carl Runk. has done that. goo en physical, and not infrequently either. He admitted that hitnself. Whenever the occasion arose, and he demanded their attention, he got it via physical intimidation. Nobody hides that fact, and nobody tries to: ask Carl Runk himself, and. barring a few sticky particulars, he's as ()pen about it as anybody. It is ciincerning the value of Runk's physical propensities that interpretation differs: a good many stood appalled iLI such scenes, while others received the impetus for inspired play. There were few in-betweens. ""I guess I was used to it , from my high school days,"" said Bob Griebe, a first-team All-American in 1975, perhaps the greatest of,the many great players to ever play at Towson. ""We weren't really all that good, my team in high school, so the only way our coach could get us to do anything right was by getting physical. That's m(). though. Maybe a lot of the guys who weren't used t hat kind of thing got upset. but I don 't think Hunk's I o blame. 11 usually worked."" Joe Dougherty has a different slant on the situation. ' Physically. he intimidates you. and his temper. his Pat I erson Park temper that goes along with it, intimidates you, with the theory being that if vou disagree with me. I'm gonna beat the living manure out V( )11. to prove that I'm right. It's just a big show of . force.' Tim McGarity wasn't used to this so-called ""force,"" and he had no regrets about not getting an early indoctrination. He saw enough at Towson. ""I've just never seen anybody grab and shake somebody out of just anger and frustration like he .did,"" he said. ""There's no place for this--especially when it's someone picking on somebody weaker than him. And what's the guy gonna do anyway? If he hits Runk he's through, so there wasn't anything he could do. In most cases,they were probably all scared of him."" In prior statements, Runk admitted to an ""impulsive"" influence spurring him to the varied assemblage of physical taunts, which partially rules out an action-reaction relationship. ""You know,"" Runk said. ""it's not the desired effect I'm worried about. Sometimes, it's hard to see a kid go out there with all that potential going for him, and not live up to it, while here are other guys who could be in there With a chance as well. So sometimes I do think you have to get somebody's attention,"" Incongruities arise, as they often do, which create severe jolts in regards to what goes in as theory, and what comes out as reality. Runk is on record as saying that the furthest thing from his mind is the bodily harm of one of his players, or anyone else, for that matter. Two incidents point perhaps to a compromising of philosophy, at least temporarily. Both, if carried out properly, would have resulted in the very thing Runk so adatnantly condemns. A player from last year's team, choosing to remain anonymous, relAted the following: ""We were playing in this alumni izame, and before the game Runk gathered us all bigot her and told us that if we didn't go after that guy Eisenhut (Wayne Eisenhut. who quit the team in 1976; it was known that he and Runk were at-od(Is), and put him out of the game. we'd be running hills the next practice."" No. Eisenhut wasn't hurt, and no, they didn't run any hills t he next pract ice. But Runk allegedly gave the lirder. and it was none other than, Eisenhut himself who remembered a not her occasion when Hunk told the team III knock Don Rutkowski, an outspoken Loyola College player, off his wheels and out of action. Separate incidents but with a similar intention: physical harm to imother player. Runk flatly denied the charge. or rather, charges. ""I don't know where you got that he said. Incongruous Incident Number Two could be better related by Keith Jackson. who played on the 1976 team. Briefly though. t he setup was this--during a clearing exercise, an opposing attackman was supposed to move up otl a defenseman in the corner near the midfield, a ft ()r the latter had snared a crossfield pass. It was the II tackman's first priority to stick the defenseman good, I .e.. ""knock the hell out of him."" Jackson finishes the story. ""The thing that happened in practice, was that he wasn't hit ling him. So Runk says, 'You better knock his ass out this I in- e, right.' So, he told the defenseman, '1 want you to stand there and take it.' So he klefenseinan) got the � pass and the guy just boom He didn't really wipe him out, because he didn't really want to. Everybody was saying it was screwed up--you could just see it in everybody.'s eyes. Construction continues Ann Keough James Manfuso Robert Robertson Dennis Tully Craig Wolf 598 766 670 616 657 657 601 Why are von gonna make one of your own players cummit himself to being wiped out."" Runk denied this one as well. ""I'm not sure. They might've mistaken that for a drill where we work on dodging, where we have a player run through a nosit ion. and the offensive player tries to dodge out of ii If that were true, we'd recruit more football players... Which brings us to that very thing--recruiting. Dull or not . devious or not. recruiting itself has become the backbone of any successful collegiate athletic program. Some see it as tit() consequential, quite honestly: what ever. recruiting is the meat and potatoes of championship teams. and it no less trauma-producing here at Towson, where a nuclear arms race-type approach forces Runk and Co. to constantly keep up wil h the Hobarts, the Roanokes and the UMBC's. ""Recruiting has been the biggest problem and the biggest headache for me since I've been at Towson St at e,"" Runk said, ""and I think recruiting is the biggest problem any coach has. Recruiting is hectic. It takes a hell of a lot if your time . . and I think athletics would be a tremendous thing if we could eliminate r()cruit ing."" According to most high school prospects questioned, he script for the Runk recruiting methods consisted of an initial letter. It the standard, how-do-you-do, wanna play ball for Towson State'? piece of correspondence, with an invitation at the end to give his Continued on page 8 Watch for new detour by Robert Krummerich Say goodbye to the front doors of Cook Library! Sometime in early April Educa-tion Street construction will force the closing of the entrance, forcing students to use the media center entrance. But first. Linthicum Hall's main doors have to be blocked off, approximately March 19. John � Whitmore, construction foreman on the project, said ""all the utilities are laid over .the winter and all that's left is just a matter of putting in brick curbing."" This is tentatively scheduled to be completed in April. Cook won't be closed until Linthi-cum is finished. ""Turntables will be turned around to face the two glass doors to the Media Center,"" said Capt. Greg Roepke, assistant director of \ campus police. He said his department handles the hiring of the turnstile operators. Pat Walsh of the Physical Plant, which will perform the actual work, said the main objective is ""to give proper exists and egress people through the media center."". Whitmore said having to keep ()pen entrances for students takes more time than if they were allowed to work in an . entirely blocked off area. fle also cautions students against walking through the fenced-in areas. It can be dangerous and students have no business being there. he said. The lower level east entrance to the Psychology Building will have to be closed off again. Rising bricks kept those doors shut two weeks ago until they were ripped up. Roger E. Holtman, the landscape iirchitect who designed the entire Education Street project, said possibly part of the drainage system under those doors was clogged up with stone during installation. All is not gloom on the construction scene though. John Suter. director of campus planning said, ""we can expect the Hawkins Flall snack bar entrance to be completed and opened shortly with landscaping completed as well."" In This Issue ROTC After the beating it suffered in the late sixties and early seventies ROTC is making a comeback on the nation's campuses. Is it patriotic fer-vor or the fad of outdoor-ism that makes these young people take to the uniform? page 12 St. Patty's Day You should be preparin' for the wearin' of the green this weekend�and along with the wearin' of the green comes the bendin' of the elbow. Find out where you can bend the elbow in a style remin-iscent of the Emerald Isle. page 4 Stacked deck Gambling�give or take? Some say that gambling is ""an evil tax on the poor."" But is it fair to call such things as the lottery taxes? After all, who decided to lay the money down? Angles view. Page 11 "