The Towerlight, March 17, 1978

tl19780317-000 "Lacrosse season preview see pg. 12 ottierit t Shirley Chisolm at the Towson Center see pg. 5 VOL. LXX NO. 20 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY MARCH 17, 1978 Shehan wins in record vote PRESIDENT John Shehan Leon Thompson 1,056 300 VICE PRESIDENT Bob McMurrer Milissa Murray 878 500 TREASURER Donna Sauerborn Laura Hawkins 797 544 SENATORS Valerie French Barbara Kelleher 850 627 Heidi Heyderman Bobbi Lees 825 618 Paula Sauerborn Eric Hanks 775 594 James Szymanski Linda Rogers 769 529 Mike Burns Brian Ridgely 757 517 Neal Brown Valencia Jackson 735 476 Donna Jean Rumbley Theron Scott 727 410 Jay Blanton Dennis Caprio 705 379 Betsy Hendrickson Jeff Kachick 691 319 Charles Frazer, Leroy Klebe 686 297 Stephen Hastings Ned Schorr 624 (not on ballot) by Debbie Pelton John Shehan was voted president and every Senator on his Campus Uni-ty Party ticket won in a landslide vic-tory in this week's SGA elections. The turnout at the polls this year was over 200 people more than last year. Shehan said the first task on his agenda when he takes office on April 3 will be to review the notes he took dur-ing the campaign and try to decide on some priorities. One practice Shehan said he would like to start soon is monitoring the delegation of certain tasks to Cabinet members. In addition to the tradi-tional Cabinet positions of Director of Communications, Director of Organizations and a Public Relations Director, Shehan would like to establish positions that would be responsible for working on resident problems, handicapped student condi-tions and the Student Information Ser-vice. Also, Cabinet members to work � Shehan's ""Thank God It's Friday"" program, expansion of Placement Of-fice services and Saturday night entertainment. Shehan said that by delegating these areas to others, he can ""get out and talk to people to see what they need and want. I won't get that if I'm sitting in an office,"" said Shehan. Having the entire Campus Unity Party ticket elected is an asset, said Shehan, because the group ""already knows each other personally and pro-fessionally."" However, Shehan said, because the senators have similar ideas, ""they can't limit their sights."" There must be diversity of ideas and opinions, said Shehan. The Senate must ""keep their perspective as wide as possible."" Shehan said that in the past, the Ex-ecutive branch of the SGA and the Senate have been opponents. Since the Senate is already close-knit and familiar with each other's ideas, they plan ""to work as a team,"" said Shehan. Other areas Shehan wants to con-centrate on while in office include get-ting a program together to present to incoming students at orientation and to have Senators eat at Newell Hall a few times a week to get feedback from students there. Shehan said he is also planning to do extensive research for the budget pro-ceedings that will begin in a few weeks. Campaigning in this year's SGA elections was more extensive than any campaign in memory. The Campus Unity Party went so far as to appoint a campaign manager to coordinate all their efforts. A Leon Thompson supporter is shown far left assuming the town crier role in front of Linthicum Hall. A ""Heidi Heyderman for Senate"" sign shown above is one of 14 the Campus Unity Party placed along the path leading to the University Union. The result of it all was the laragest voter turnout on record. Shelian and Thompson are shown far right nervously watching the tabulaion of votes. TL Photo by Mike Ciesielski Senate vetoes CARP recharter by S. L. Verch The SGA Senate has refused to recharter the Collegiate Association for Research Principles as an affiliated Student Government As-sociation organization, and thereby denied the group use of conference rooms in the University Union to hold meetings on campus. Currently, CARP has been kept from renting the conference rooms because the administration has refused to rent to the group. According to Lonnie McNew, special assistant to Vice president Dorothy Siegel, ""The administra-tion's position is that CARP will need a court order to get a room. However, we take no role in these proceedings (Senate)."" ' CARP was denied rechartering this week for many of the same reasons that it was expelled from the SGA in 1976, though by a narrower margin. Citing allegations that CARP was a front organization for the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and inconsisten-cies in the group's memberships list, the Senate in 1976 voted 14-0 to expell CARP. This week the vote was tied at 6-6 to accept CARP, two short of the 2/3's vote required to recharter an organization. Senator Brigid Ross announced before Senate debate on the CARP rechartering that a the 21 name membership list submitted by Steve Bates, leader of the Towson Chapter of CARP, only five students were verified by the Registrar as full-time day students. However, Ross pointed out that the Registrar used last semester's register to verify the names, and the possibility remained that some of these on the list were not registered last semester, though enrolled this semester. After moving into committee-of-the- whole, a parliamentary device favored by the Towson Senate to exchange information and elicit Carter and Congress debate future federal aid programs By Patrick Casey There is little doubt in Washing-ton that middle-income Americans need increased aid from the federal government to meet the high cost of providing their children with a college education. But a fight is assured over the form which this increased aid should take. The combatants must choose between expanding current federal financial aid programs or providing an across the board tax credit to all families with children in college. The Carter administration is lining up behind a plan which would expand three of the current per student tax credit to families in the side of Washington's powerful, that factor could considerable influence. Whichever course is chosen, it will surely have much influence on financial aid at Towson State. According to Griffin, between one-third and one-half of the financial aid dollars received by Towson State students comes from federal sources, making the federal programs the largest on campus. Although there is always the possibility that both programs will be enacted, it is a remote one. President Carter has said, ""This Nation cannot afford, and I will not accept both,"" so a veto would surely be forthcoming should both propo-sals cross the President's desk. But with the clamor spreading across the nation for relief from college costs, it is just as certain that some program will be enacted in this election year. As of now, neither proposal is clearly the stronger, although the Roth plan has received favorable recommendations from committees in both the House and Senate, where it was tacked on to other proposals. with college students. Roth's plan would cost approxi-mately $2.2 billion. A third scheme is on Washing-ton's agenda, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D., N.Y.) and Robert Packwood (R., Ore.). The Moynihan-Packwood plan would offer a tax credit covering one-half of a student's tuition up to $500, and would cover any student from kindergarten through graduate school. However, the Moynihan-Pack-wood plan is generally dismissed as too controversial, since it brings the question of government aid to private and parochial schools into the debate. Analysis The Carter administration feels its proposal is superior because it Programs; the Basic Educational allows the federal government to Opportunity Grant, the College maintain control over its financial Work-Study program, and the aid funds so that they can be Guaranteed Student Loan program. targeted to those students most in The Carter plan would increase . need. funding to all three programs, at a Harriet M. Griffin, Towson cost of $1.4 billion in fiscal year State's director of Financial Aid, 1979, which begins this October. supports the Carter program, which The administration plan would she feels is ""much more compre-increase the income ceiling for Basic hensive."" Grant eligibility to $25,000, at the Of increased aid to middle-income same time increasing the maximum families ($15,000 to $25,000 income grant to $1800. All students eligible range), Griffin said, ""I think they for the program would receive at deserve it, I think they need it...but least $250. it's got to be done in a way that hits The guaranteed loan program where it's needed."" Provides interest subsidies for the Supporters of the tax-credit. loans of eligible students. Under the approach point to the bureaucracy Carter plan, the income ceiling for inherent in the Carter program as its an interest subsidy would be raised major weakness. Their plan, they to $451000, supporting an estimated say, would stem the flood of paper 260,000 new loans. through which parents must wade in The Carter plan would also add order to apply for financial aid. 1.5 million dollars to the work-study Supporters of the Carter plan say program which provides 80 per cent this approach is too simplistic, and of the wages for a student's attack the tax credit proposals on the part-time job. basis that they would give too much Opposition from several corners of money to people who have no real Congress, including Sen. William need, and too little to those who are Roth (R., Del.). most needy. Sen. Roth proposes that financial The Carter plan is, of course, the aid to middle-income families be cheapest, and in this day when Increased simply by offering a $250 budget deficits are a constant thorn most have Elan to Appear at Coffeehouse The Jewish Student Union will present Israeli singer Gadi Elon tomorrow night at 9 p.m. as the featured entertainer at TSU's ""Is-raeli Nightclub,"" in the Potomac room of the University Union. Disco music and Israeli food and wine will be provided. The event is co-sponsored by the college services department of the Jewish Community Center. Tickets are $2 for adults, $1 for students, and are available at the UU box office. testimony, the Senate recognized Mrs. Ida Ward, a secretary from the Sociology Department. Representing the Personal Free-dom Foundation, a community group which studies sociological cults, Ward quoted the Washington Post of February 15, 1974, as listing Reverend Moon as the head of both CARP and Unification Church. She added that student govern-ments from the University of Rhode Island, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Kansas had refused to recognize CARP because they felt the organization was at cross purposes with their educational institutions. ""This is a place of learning, and to bring in an organization that encourages students to drop-out of school to follow the Unification principles is at cross-purposes with Towson State. ""At Dartmouth and the Universi-ty of New Hampshire, 25 students dropped-out of school in one day to join the Unification Church-,1"" said Ward. Questioned by Senator Chuck Frazer as to her qualifications, Ward answered by stating that she had two daughters who had been heavily involved in the Moon cult. The PFF, she said, is made up of the parents of the sons and daughters who have joined CARP or the Unification Church, as well as ex-members of these cults. She explained that CARP invites students to weekends that are offered as retreats, but end up as indoctrination sessions for the Unification principles, utilizing what she labeled as ""sophisticated brain-washing techniques...compa-rable to those used against POW's during the Korean War."" Quoting Robert Clifton's study of American POW's from the Korean War, Ward said that after a combination of lectures, lack of sleep, and a low protein diet, you can accept anything. These are the tactics that CARP has used to brain-wash new recruits, she said. Responding, Bates maintained that legally as well as in terms of membership, that the Unification Church and CARP were two different organizations. He also said that after gauging the climate of emotions during the Senate's debate, he did not want his organization's request to be rechar-tered voted upon at that time. ""I don't even want CARP to be considered as an SGA organization because of the emotions which have been attached to this issue. CARP is new, Reverend Moon is new and like anything else that is new it will be resisted,"" said Bates. He said that CARP activities at Columbia University are pro-educa-tional and reiterated a point made last week that CARP sponsors an Please turn to page 3 The TSU campus donated 427 pints of blood during last week's blood drive. The program offers TSU students and faculty access to the Red Cross Blood Bank. TL Photo by Mike Ciesielski Blood drive tops goal, collects 427 pints by Cindy Roberts The bi-annual T.S.U. Blood Drive collected 427 pints of blood last week. The drive was held last Monday through Thursday on the third floor of the University Union. ""We reached our goal of 400 pints, and we took in 427 total in spite of the flu season,"" said Phil Ross, safety coordinator at Towson State. The blood drive is held once each semester in order for students, faculty and staff to donate their blood to the Red Cross. Said Ross, ""Blood donors are entitledcoveragafotro three rceesitv oef thf ree ye eabloodt also guarantees the donors of emergency blood supplies for their immediate families. Professor Carol Molinari of the Health Science Department encour-aged the participation of her students as volunteers. ""There were quite a few first time donors there, and the students who were trained to ' assist in the drive made them feel a little less nervous,"" Molinari said. Other volunteers were from the Nursing Department and Circle K. ""They all took an active part, by working with publicity for the drive, donor registration, and assisting the Red Cross during the donations,"" she said. The Health Department at Tow-son State has a policy of offering extra credit to students in Introduc-tory courses who donate blood during the semester. A number of services were provided for the donors. The amenities included a temperature reading, hemoglobin and blood type tests and blood pressure-pulse check. Also a quite indepth questionnaire on the donors medical history was answered to assure the safety of usage of donors' blood enroute to the donation beds. In the event of an emergency, and blood is required, you should contact the Personnel Department. The information will be processed promptly and the blood supplied. The next blood drive is scheduled for October. Mr. William Flattery will speak to students at noon on March 22, UU rooms 315/316 on the topic, ""Why Should an Employer Hire You?"" Flattery will convey how motive./ tion affects your efforts in securing employment, how to project yourself in a positive way and what it means to be ""direction' oriented."" "