The Towerlight, March 2, 1979

tl19790302-000 "VOL. LIOUI No. 18 11. erlig t PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Weekend Weather: Mostly sunny and mild today with highs near 60. Chance of precipitation is near zero March 2, 1979 Council votesfor athletic emphasis, against school extension To rule on snow days Monday by Paul Gilmore The Academic Council voted Monday to extend the evening session of the spring semester one day to compensate for days lost to snow but 6ted .10-8 to not consider any of the proposals submitted to the Council to add clays to the day session. However. there has been much faculty protest over the decision and it is likely a motion will be introduced at the Council's meeting Monday to add some days to the day session. according to Norman. Sheets, dean of academic affairs. So far this semester, the University has cancelled day classes' for five full days and three partial days. Sheets presented to the Council three proposals for adding days to the semester at the last meeting and - the Council suprrisingly opted to adopt none of them and ""just forget' the whole thing"" as Dr. Pelham of the Council suggested. The first proposal would have reduced the Spring break to Good Friday aliine, while the second would have left the spring break untouched and added five days to the end of the semester. while the third proposal would have split the difference.between spring break and the end of the semester. There were flaws with all three of the proposals which the Council members were quick to point out. Proposals i and 3 called for classes to meet on Jewish Passover while proposals 2 and 3 called for exams to be given on Memorial Day. The Council may decide that one of, those proposals. despite their flaws. may be worth accepting as a result of faculty protests over the amount of lost days in the semester. The debate over the proposals was lengthy and at times heated. Sheets was asked if the University was required to make up any days according to the laws of the Board of Trustees for State College and Universities. ""Yes. there is a policy,"" he said. ""Will it be enforced'? Probably not ."" SGA president John Shehan asked if it was necessary to ""make UI) all five days"" when Pelham interjected. ""I propose we just forget the whole thing."" ""I've been here 20 years,"" he said. ""and never made up any days."" adding that he had already caught his class up to his syllabus. Sheets said he felt the students would rather accept increased work loads over the remaining classes rather than take an extended semester. ""The people who would get screwed would be the students,"" said Professor Chen. Dean ksslinger. chairperson for the Council asked the Council to vote on whether or not they were interested in adopting any of the or( mosals before they wasted time ticrliting over which one to adopt. and they decided not to consider any. Those on the council who wanted to add days to the semester, however. did not give up and argued for another .vote which Esslinger vrant ed. but it' was to no avail. ""I think there's going to be a change."" said Herbert Andrews of 111�0 feel (siiin(lwesss b au voted 'lot' additional (lays) but some of the facult y were very upset at what the Cttuncil did."" Andrews conceded that all the days would not be made up. 'Micro's no way you could possibly make up everything- because some people lost different , things,"" he said. Andrews said he was guessing the Council would :glow a motion that would add some of the days at the end of the year. Addinir clays to the semester. I hough. \yin cosi t he University money since dormitories and build-ings must be at full utilization I onger. ""It will cost the University about $30 or s�10 t housand."" said Wayne Schelle. vice president for business and finance. Athletics to remain in phys. ed. by Katherine Dunn The Academic Council voted Monday to approve the move of Towson State athletics to Division I of the NCAA. but balked at allowing the athletic department to remain under the vice president for institutional development, A substitute motion replacing the earlier motion to withdraw the Council's support of additional emphasis. places athletics under academic affairs. Dr. Thomas Meinhardt, director of athletics, said, ""I'm delighted with the emphasis. We've been working for it for seven months and l' in glad that it has not been interfered with.'' ""I don't see any problems with academic affairs, but in all fairness to the vice president for academic affairs. it is very time consuming and he is very busy,"" he said. ""I'm not delighted with the decision."" said Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance, saying even though Division I status was nice to have the Council was not giving- enough. ""Obviously I'd much prefer it in the Institutional Development office rather than academic's because I believe by changing the emphasis of the program you have to change the management,"" he said. In a larger program ""the philosophies are different. the skills are different..:.'' Acting President Joseph Cox said during the next two months the university must apply for Division 1 status, and he wants the vice president for academic affairs to concentrate on other matters such as he Middle States Reaccreditation. ""I don't think it I remaining in academics] has to hamper the fundraising except where we're soliciting for funds and the people we solicit from see we are the only ones who administer our program ' this way. They may be less likely to give us the money."" said Schelle. Meinhardt said most of the schools with large athletic programs do not report to an academic dean. Paul Wisdom. vice president for Inst itutional development, said he wants to study the matter more and discuss it with Cox before making any comment. � Norman Sheets, vice president for tiCademic affairs. also refused to comment . The motion also sets up a committee composed of the acting vice president for academic affairs, the vice president for institutional development. the President of the Student Government Association, the chairman of the physical education department and the director , of athletics or their designated representatives and two faculty members from outside the physical education department. The committee will prepare a ,mnement concerning tlie relation-. hetween the physical education department and the intercollegiate :11 Illetic prOgram. They will also decide on goals and objectives to evaluate the effective-ness Of the athletic program by the Academic Council before the initial three-year period for NCAA mem-bership expires. , The committee will submit the statements to The Academic Council at its May meeting when the Council may again consider the transfer of athletics to institutional develop-ment . MEINIIARDT . . . delighted with the emphasis. Last week's snow storm kills salt supply I TL Photo by Jeff Dugan IJ After last week's blizzard, few students braved the waist-high drifts to locate their cars. Those who ventured to ""the pit"" had a relatively easy time digging out. But one poor soul who illegally parked found it wan't worth it. He spent hours just trying to find his wheels. TL Photo by Lester Shugarman Murray, Neuman dashing down SGA election trail by Debbie Pelton Student Government Association rieral elections � will be held March 12 and 13. Student Government Association 4neral elections produce an ener-tic spirit among seemingly gung-' c candidates, who campaign l'.ienuously� running on limited 4n-loUnts of sleep, optimism and .,y. Analysis This year's candidates may not 'necessarily exceed the amount 1enthusiasm demonstrated by last 'ear'.s candidates, but the '79 1 � 1didates seem to be reaching 'Wn farther in their pockets to nictromote their respective tickets. Lath groups have already or plan to ,""Yflass SGA president John She- ? al's campaign costs of' last year, ,qich totaled about $250, according '"" Shehan. T� he Fedelus Poplerum Servus ,u,edicated Servant of the People ""eket, headed by presidential eh4rldidate Milissa Murray With 'avid Reuwer for vice tnresident and Stephen Horn for l'easurer, has spent $500 on its alllipaign so far. William Neuman, Murray's op- /)()rtent and head of the Partner's for Progress ticket, and his running mates, has spent over $300 collec-tively on Towerlight ads. Michael Burns and James Szy-manski are running for vice president and treasurer. respec-tively. Murray said she isn't planning to spend any more money on the election. She said the bulk of her funds went to Towerlight ads. The half page ad Murray bought in this week's paper cost $197 and the 4,000 inserts to be placed in next week's issue cost about $100 to be printed and $80 to be inserted. The tri-fold pamphlets, business cards and posters the Fedelus Poplorum Servus ticket plans to distribute were prepared for free by a relative of Murray's. The running mates are also planning to purchase party T-shirts. Wednesday night, Murray's tic-ket hosted a fundraiser. Organiza-tions and close friends of the candidates were sent formal hand written Iwith a Ejuill pen and ink) invitations. Dittoed flyers were circulated, and the event, which was Open to all students, requested a $3 donation. The fundraiser was held to ""give Murray and her running mates a chance to rehearse"" their platform in front of groups, of people, said Murray. thus preparing the mates Ii r next week's campaigning. Neuman said h'e figures the Partners for Progress ticket will sP'� 1 about $600 on the election. Besides the ads, the party is having brochures printed up. The .paper for the brochures was donated by a friend, said Neuman. Neuman said he would not consider holding a campaign fund-raiser because he ""doesn't want students to have to pay for my campaigm..'' Both tickets have cl)mmon objec-tives planned for next semester's SGA. should they win the election. Both Murray and Neuman empha-sized the important of Towson State student representatives to monitor educatitm related legislation put before delegates in Annapolis. Murray is Towson State's repre-sentative On the Student ,Advisory Com in lace in Ann apolis . She worked for an Annapolis lawyer over January, which enabled her to establish contacts with some offi-cials, she said. Murray said student activity in the legislative process will benefit 'them in relations with TSU's administration. Another issue .that both presi-dential candidates had similar views on was the future of the SGA Speaker 'Series. The series has produced a deficit in the SGA budget for the past two years. Murray and Neuman both sug-gested cutting the number of speakers from eight to six. Both said they prefer quality to quantity of speakers for the series. Murray said, if elected, she would give priority to getting SGA organizations to ""organize their goals.� She said she thinks organizations are the ""backbone of the SGA."" Murray also said she would concentrate on having Senators keep in contact with the organizations. Another priority Murray cited was in-depth pursuit Of e'stablished SGA goals by the Senators, rather than encouraging activity in simulta-neous projects. Muriay said she thinks that too often, Senators are . involved in too many different projects at the same time. This only allows the Senators to touch the surface of the issue, said Murray. , If a Senator can fully develop and complete one project, said Murray, he or she could gain enough personal satisfaction to ""really get psyched"" for the next endeavor. The Bowtie. a Friday night coffeehouse organized by Murray, may be expanded in the future to include food in addition the the presently offered beers. wines and soft drinks. Murray said she thinks the next semester's Senate will be a more experienced group, since most of by Robert Krummerich Towson State is out of salt. Last weekend's snowstorm used up the last 40 tons and if more snow falls the Univer-sity will be in trouble. ""We had enough salt left for one normal storm but we got an abnormal monster,"" said Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance. ""We are now considering buying calcium chloride as a substitute,"" he said. An outside company automatically comes in to throw salt when phase 1 of the Snow Emergency Plan goes into effect, said Schelle. Enough salt was left for the snowstorm because little was used on the previous colder storms. ""Throwing salt would have been useless,"" said Schelle, ""because it doesn't work in temperatures below 18 degrees."" Tuesday and Wednesday temperatures were in the thirties. Al Jungers, of the Baltimore County highway depart-ment, said, ""The county has 124 tons of salt left."" When asked if the county would loan or sell some to the Universi-ty if needed, he responded, ""No way, we wouldn't give any to Annapolis. We're just not going to give away the tax-payers' salt."" County snowplows take care of York Road, Osier and Cross Campus drives. ""The University is responsible for the sidewalks and perimeters,"" said John Thomas, ground supervisor and snowplow driver. Ground crew workers pushed the seven snowplows about the campus from midnight Sunday until 9 p.m. Monday, rested until 3 a.m. Tuesday and worked until late Wednesday afternoon, said Schelle. ""Money to pay for this will come out of the physical plant's budget,"" said Schelle. -The greatest expense will continued err page 2 the present Senators are running .for re-election. Neuman said, if elected he is considering the development of a Social Board, an idea 'presented to him by Symnanski. The board, which would consist of three Senators and an assistant treasurer, would handle SGA social organiza-tions' budgets. He also said he would like to pursue getting more SGA sponsored concerts Neuman said he would like to concentrate on bridging the gap between commuters and resident students. He said he doesn't think there are enough consistent events on campus to encourage commuters to stay or come back to campus. One aspect he said he plans to investigate is the price of beer charged by Servomation. Neuman said Most students can probably �go to a more convenient place for a beer and pay lower prices than are charged on campus events. Neuman would also like to see the sptnutdient carpooling project ex- . , Neuman said � he thinks he is ""snrrounded by qualified or expe-rienced people"" in his campaign. His ticket includes four present Senators. Both presidential candidates pre-dicted a big turnout at the election. See page 2 for a list of the candidates. In This Issue Lighting up Joe Calffano notwithstanding, America continues to ""light one up"" as they have through-out the history of the ciga-rette� a history that has been long and colorful. Now that history has been chronicled on paper, open up and take a puff page 4 Tourney Bound The women's basketball team Is tourney bound�bound for the EAIAW Small College Tournament in Rochester. Follow them on the road to upstate New York ....page 12 QUIZMASTER A new general trivia contest makes its Towerlight debut this week page 6 Sexual marketplace The marketplace will match the wishes of demanders with those of suppliers, leaving all satisfied with their exchange. But one type of exchange seems to fall victim to ""mar-ket failure"" page 15 "