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The Towerlight, March 17, 1983
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tl19830317-000 "The Towerlight A penny saved is a penny taxed twice. �Susan Lee Vol. 76 No. 22 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TowsoN, MARYLAND 21204 March 17, 1983 by Bob Tarleton Members of the SMART ticket wait in anticipation as Mike Marshall, head of the Election Commission, prepares to read the election results (upper left) and rejoice upon hearing the news (lower left). At right, the victors: (from 1 to r) Jim Clark,Kelley Ray and Bob Barnhart rhe death penalty: colloquium considers its existence By Marty Kerr Is the death penalty ""cruel and /Usual punishment"" or are crimi-nals ""getting what they deserve""? How you answer that question eY depend on how much you have �Ben affected by crime; it may also 4epend on whether you attended the laY-long colloquium by the Philos�. PhY Club last Thursday. Dr. James Hill, chairperson of the P1)41losophy department, and the �Ililosophy Club brought together ,`En.ee prominent speakers to discuss )illeir views on the death penalty: t,Robert Johnson from the School Justice at American University; cholas Callio, Esq., from the LYashington Legal Foundation; and 41arie Deans, the founder of Victims (lli Families for Alternatives to the eath Penalty. According to Hill, ""It is generally .Etid that the majority of the popula- ,113/1 in every country has always 'nvored the death penalty and whenever it has been abolished, it has been abolished by legislators not representing- the majority view.' � Johnson spoke on the death penalty from the aspect of death row victims. ""Today there are over 11,000 prisoners confined on death rows across the nation."" He views death row as a warehouse: ""the pris-oner is warehoused for death�it is after all only his body which must be delivered to the executioner for ritual extinction."" Johnson believes that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, which ""is in violation of both the human dignity of the condemned and the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution."" One prisoner Johnson spoke to sees life on death row as a maggot that ""eats and defecates. All we do is eat and defecate, they don't allow us to do nothing else."" Another prisoner would ""rather be dead than live with the living dead"" on death row. ""Of the 1,167 persons on death row there have been eight suicides in the past seven years, which is more deaths than those put to death by the death penalty, Johnson said. ""The psychological impact of death row confinement is such that, most condemned prisoners burdened by despair and beset by insidious symptoms of deterioration come to lead lives that are not much richer than that of a maggot. This confine-ment amounts to nothing less than torture,"" Johnson said. Johnson believes that the sparing of a life from death row ""may constitute both a recognition of the awesome violence in which death row confinement and the death pen-alty implicate us all, and a modest refusal to seek perfect justice in an imperfect world."" Nicholas Callio, however, believes that ""criminals should be legally punished because they deserve it."" Speaking for the Washington Legal Foundation, Callio believes that the death penalty as a sanction would ""demean the value of and dignity of human life."" He says that ""as social authority becomes less willing to impose irrevocable judgment in any case in which lives of law abiding citizens are criminally taken, the value and respect for human life is diminished."" Deans, an opponent of the death penalty, feels that ""when you allow your state to execute murderers, you have in fact thrown away your most basic right, the right to life. You have given the state the right ,o decide who lives and who dies."" Deans wonders why only the poor are executed. ""Why don't we exe-cute surgeons who lose malpractice suits involving death? Why don't we execute rich murderers? ""I don't think the death penalty says very much about the people it's used against, but I think it says a great deal about the people who use it. A civilization can accurately be judged by the way it trusts its worst offenders,"" Deans said. March is National Cancer Prevention Month but clinic gees unnoticed By Terie Wolan , March has been declared cancer ue tection month, and in conjunction lth this, the campus health center having a clinic the first four tthursdays of this month for a pap test and breast exam. This service is 4vailable to all women, but the tblealth center staff is concerned ecause the response has been so rnlhirnal. .The center has sponsored this eilinic before and usually averages '00 to 110 appointments. However, 48 of last week, only 19 appoint- ,,111ents had been made, according to .,et.her ""Rusty"" Kelly, supervisor of t�he health center. Kelly said, ""If 'Ills [clinic] continues to be such a dud, I won't sponsor it again."" Nancy Huff, consultant to the division of cancer control for Mary-land, said, ""The breast exam is the cheapest insurance you can buy against dying from breast cancer."" Along with regular breast exams by a physician, Huff stressed the importance of monthly breast self-examination. ""Eighty-five percent of breast lumps are found by women themselves and 10 percent of all breast lumps are not benign. A breast lump can be growing for many, many months, that's why the sooner you find them, the better off you are."" The self-examination ""takes about five minutes and it can save your life."" The pap test is the early warning test for signs of cancer of the cervix. ""The cancer of the cervix is not a fast-moving killer. If you catch it in time, you can prevent it from spreading. That's why the pap test is so important,"" Huff said. ""What causes the cells to become abnor-mal, we don't know. We do know that sexual activity is a direct relation to cervical cancer."" ""Any woman who is sexually active should have a pap test done a minimum of every year, or depend-ing on the form of birth control used�the pill or IUD�it should be done every six months. Any woman who has intercourse before age 20 and more than three sexual partners is a high-risk candidate. Also, any woman, regardless of her sexual activity, whose mother took the drug DES while pregnant, is a potential candidate. DES was a drug used in the early 1940s and 1950s to save a pregnancy if minor complications arose,"" Huff said. ""There are a battery of things that can be done"" if cancer of the breast or cervix is discovered, Huff said. ""Surgery is always the last resort, but women have too much apathy about the body, and people let things go until there is no other choice."" The clinic is open the first four Thursdays in March from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the maximum cost for a visit is $7 lab fee for the pap test if there is no insurance. SMART posts near-sweep in elections By Shawn Hill and James Hunt The Students Making Action a Reality at Towson ticket won near-complete sweep Tuesday of the 1983 Student Government Association elec-tions, capturing all but one SGA posi-tion. SMART candidates Bob ""Krash"" Barnhart captured the presidency and Jim Clark won in the vice-presidential race. Kelley Ray, who ran independently, won the posi-tion of treasurer. Barnhart received 654 votes out of 1,180 cast capturing 59.8 percent of the vote. His opponents, Martin Gruss and Cedric Snow received 340 and 99 votes, respectively. For the vice-presidency, Jim Clark received 679 votes (64.2 percent), Elliot Levine received 279 and Tom Taylor received 99. Kelley Ray, a former SGA senator, won by the narrowest margin of the major candidates, defeating Daniel Suissa for treasurer by 542 votes to Suissa's 472. The SMART ticket swept the entire senate. Incumbent senators Drew Denicoff, Chip DiPaula, and Tom Hartsock won with an average of 50 percent of the vote each. The remain-ing victors were Renee Johnson, Mark Richards, Eileen O'Shea, Leslie Dubbert, Corrine Miller, Vicki Otravec, Kevin Shabow, William Wallace, Liz Lutrell, Dan Campbell and Scott Schiffer. Renee Johnson won by the largest margin of the senators, capturing 666 votes or 56.4 percent of the votes cast. All the SMART candidates won with over 45 percent of the vote. The next closest candidate was Charles B. Jones, who garnered 399 votes, or 33.8 percent of the votes cast. Jones, who with his gold tooth and three-piece suits was a familiar sight in front of the Union, vowed he would be back next year. Most of the victors appeared more relieved than excited. Barnhart and Clark allowed only smiles inside Room 309 of the Union when the deci-sion was announced. Outside, how-ever, Barnhart gave an exhuberant shout and departed for the SGA of-fices. Treasurer-elect Ray was only slightly less emotional. None of the victors had much to say. Barnhart said he had ""no comment at this time,"" Clark allowed that the vic-tory ""hasn't sunk in yet,"" and Ray said that she was ""scared to death"" before the announcement. Gruss and Levine departed im-mediately after the announcement. Levine offered his congratulations to the winners and said that he would still like to be involved in the SGA. Gruss waxed philosophical: ""As the saying goes 'to love and lose is better than to have never loved at all...but we were f� up the a�!"" Students for Apathy candidates Snow and Taylor were not available for comment. The number of people voting in this year's election was up slightly from last year. This year 1,180 students cast ballots compared to 940 last year. This may have been due to the in-creased campaigning this year and the number of candidates running for office. This year 26 candidates ran for 14 seats compared to 11 candidates last year. Financially, the SMART ticket spent the most money. According to Tom Hartsock, an incumbent senator, on the SMART ticket, each candidate for senate contributed $20 to the cam-paign and Barnhart, Clark and Suissa each contributed a reported $40 for campaign literature and posters. The new SGA takes office April 1st. Their first meeting will be April 5th. Get that, will ya? by Edvins Lagidin, Not too many weeks ago it was food trays on the snow, now it's frisbees in the air at Towson State. Univer sity Dance-a-thon rocks for kids with muscular dystrophy INEDVOU FMK MOST MUSCLE DISEASES 0�4 Courtesy SGA Public Relationsi- 1 ' 1 When your happy feet are tired you have to keep on dancing, no ifs, anus, or butts. Towson students boogie for Jerry's kids at the Super Dance-a- Thon. By Ingrid Floyd Yellow cans printed with words ""Help fight muscular dystrophy"" and pictures of handicapped children sat on the tables as the second annual Towson State Dance-a-thon began 5 p.m. Friday night in the University Union. Thirty-eight dancers were wig-gling, twisting, jumping and bending for Jerry Lewis and his kids and their spirits were high, making for 24 un-forgettable hours. Early in the evening a crew from Channel 13 visited and filmed the students line-dancing to ""New York, New York"" for the 6 p.m. news. Soon after, Joey Fink of the Baltimore Blasts challenged the dancers to kick a soccer ball past him into a ready-made goal. At 8:30 p.m. Channel 13's Bob Turk added his fun by holding a limbo stick for the participants to struggle under. Renee Johnson, victorious in the con-test, won a Noxema skin_ care set. The next day, however, provided one of the highlights of the dance marathon � Bob Lopez of 98 Rock and his second annual Ricky Ricardo mambo contest. In his usual crazy manner, he led the troops in a line while banging on a washbucket and chanting. During the afternoon Bob Sakolk r from Channel 13 led a joke contest. And if that wasn't enough to keep the dancers entertained, the marathon committee sponsored their own zany competitions. Couples had 'to hold a banana between their mouths to see who could dance the longest without it breaking. Then there was the Erotic Bagel contest in which the males had to lie on the floor to be fed bagels by their partners overhead. The females held the bagel attached to a string with their teeth. Meanwhile, throughout the whole marathon, local merchants provided the dancers with food. The students feasted on pizzas from Maria's. Big Macs and Egg McMuffins from McDonald's and doughnuts from four area doughnut places. If the refreshments did not energize the dancers, they had other inspira-tions. Gail McTague, a senior in oc-cupational therapy said, ""I keep look-ing at the Jerry Lewis sign and that keeps me going. I worked with muscular dystrophy kids last sum-mer. It will be a good feeling at the end."" Others saw Paul Mechlin and senior in mass communications and the one whose name is most associated with the dance marathon, on the dance floor constantly encouraging the students to keep moving their feet. Spectators watched and were im-pressed, many deciding to particpate in next year's marathon. Dwayne Banks, a junior in economics, said, ""It's good to see there are college students who will do it. Most college students go home or out partying."" But it was not only the dancers who gave their time for the worthwhile event. Members of Public Relations Student Society of America, (PRSSA), spent many hours organiz-ing and staging- and in the process gained important skills for obtaining a job in the public relations field. Dave Bosley, president of PRSSA, had to supervise seven committees formed in November: entertainment, facilities, finance, food, recruitment, prizes and donations, and publicity. Mike Elard, vice-president of PRSSA, in charge of facilities and decorations had to straighten out a last-minute confusion of set-up times. Janene Satisky and Ben Caplan, chairpersons of the food committee discovered quickly Friday night that even the best plans fall through at the last minute when their promised 40 pizzas from Maria's in Towson for dinner became 15 through error. Others learned how to obtain talent, publicity and prizes. See DANCE, page 3 "
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