The Towerlight, March 24, 1983

tl19830324-000 "trite Vo it. The Towerlight Give that fan a contract. �Rex Barney 1. 76 No. 23 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSOIV, MARYLAND 21204 March 24, 1983 Admissions applications increase By Terie Wolan According to a recent report in the College Press Service, applications to Public colleges nationwide have dee 'eased an average of eight percent over last year. Towson State, however, appears to be bucking that trend. Statistsics supplied by the admis-sions office show increases in several areas�applications are up 10.4 per-cent over last year, the number of students already admitted is up three Pe rc!era, the response rate of students accepting admission and paying dePosits is up 40 percent, and those kd""io-itted requesting housing increas-ed 33 percent. Linda Collins, director of admi.s- ,sio ,, attributed the rise of applica-gok; to ""sheer hard work. We've been recruiting like crazy since last SePtember."" ioC,4ollins said that the recruiting ef-is much more comprehensive 110,',Y, The admissions staff has travell-ed throughout Maryland and the , wuni network and students current- 'Y enrolled have been working on ree.. uitment. Also, ""members of the 1�W son State community have been Pirlg out with us in recruitment 'earns .. . and faculty members are doin a lot more in outreach pro- P'unis to get the better students' 'ere the past, some people tended to uiscotuit the University's academic titialifications. But, Collins said, ""We have competitive admissions re-qiiirernents. We're finally getting that ineosage across, at least to the local DOpulace."" The University's denial rate, the 'Itirnber of students not accepted from the applications, is expected to be 15-20 percent compared with last Year s 10-12 percent. L'�We do seem to be attracting a bet- � iality pool (of students),"" Collins ""As long as the applications are goijr. S�? up, and the denial rate is about same, we're getting a better pool. kricl we'll be able to be even more 3elective the year after this."" Irk The new dormitories are also con- Col- 'a. ting to recruitment,"" said ""A lot of students look at Towson th gi u a different light . . . especially se students who live locally,"" since is the first year they could apply � ,.. , l(ousing. ""Overall, the major fac- 4 Nmsidered are the location, the rregrarris offered, and the relatively 'Pti+ tuition,"" said Collins. tioCobans expects the student popula-k ti to change because of greater ""'Nag facilities. ""There'll be a total- ' int ferent student body two or three Years from now. It'll be much more residential in nature, and students 4have the chance to participate in Ore school activities.,"" Collins said. .11 The Amazing Kreskin, world famous mentalist, appeared Sunday night in Stephens Hall. by Eric Collins Kreskin amazing in Stephens By James Hunt ""I know what you're thinking."" The Amazing Kreskin Well, if he doesn't know, he sure does a good job of faking it. The Amazing Kreskin, world famous mentalist and frequent talk-show guest, joined rings (and separated them), read minds, convinced willing volunteers that someone in the audience had committed murder, and even found his hidden paycheck�all while delivering humorous monologue to an audience of 400 assem-bled in Stephens Hall Saturday. And he made it look so simple. Kreskin. is. polished. He has appeared on ""The Tonight.Show"" 88 times (""almost as much as John-ny,"" and 119 times on ""The Mike Douglas Show."" His first act, however, has never been shown on TV. Kreskin descended into the audience and randomly borrowed three solid metal rings from different spec-tators. Returning to the stage, he placed the rings on what appeared to be a gold Cross pen and began to spin them with his finger. He then pulled the rings off the pen�linked. He passed the rings into the audience for verification. ""Tell me, is it linked?"" ""It's linked."" (Dryly) ""You seem thrilled about it."" ""There's a possible technical problem,"" Kreskin noted as he retrieved the rings, ""pulling them apart."" As it happened, there was no problem; the rings sepa-rated easily with a click. He returned one of the rings to its owner. ""Are there any breaks in the ring?"" ""No breaks."" ""Any holes in the ring?"" ""No holes."" ""How do you get it on?"" The audience roared its approval, but Kreskin was just getting warmed up. ""I don't call myself a mind reader,"" Kreskin told the audience. But he believes in telepathy: ""There is no question that under certain conditions people have had a sense of the thoughts of other people."" He then proceeded to demonstrate that he was one of those who had a sense of the thoughts of others. He in-structed the audience to close their eyes and think of a picture from their past, then think of a number between one and 50 with two different odd digits and put it in a circle. ""Was the number 37?"" he asked. ""Raise your hand if it was."" Almost half the audience raised their hands in an amazed silence. Next he told the audience to write down eight ini-tials, thoughts or questions on a piece of paper, fold the paper, place the paper in an envelope and the envelope out of sight. He then began drilling the audience with ques-tions� often answering them before he could get a response; reciting birthdates, social security numbers, street numbers, events in people's lives; jumping from person to person, leaving in his wake a host of stunned respondents. ""You haven't seen anything yet,"" he said, grin-ning, and prepared the audience for his most well-known feat: finding his hidden paycheck. He has done thousands of live performances, he said, and has only failed to find the check nine times. Kreskin brought nine volunteers up to the stage, four from the Student Government Association and five chosen by tossing cards into the audience. Instructing four of the volunteers to hide the check, he left, accompanied by three of the volunteers while two others guarded the door. Once Kreskin was safely out the door, the four bearing the check turned to the audience for sugges-tions, consulted briefly, and tucked the check in the hem of the curtain over the entrance to the right of the stage, opposite the door Kreskin had just exited. Kreskin returned, and after establishing that he had been unable to see what had gone on inside the See MENTALIST, page 10 The parking garage: problems,no solution By Chuck Jones 11,.rhe parking garage, which the f""HiVersity has been planning to build :4ll 14 years, is still having problems v he P planning stages and may not be built at all. 1�11%jim Hull, chairman of the Park- ,g c the 3mmittee, said various plans for garage have been proposed and Jejote,cied many times since the pro-s beginning in 1969. 0tList year the plans were moved to Lot 11, the University Union lot, 7eause officials thought the location uld add more spaces to the garage 4tia would be more accessable to pobi, tic roads,"" Hull said. 11,, when the plans were moved to Lot ei the garage design was reworked to nate extraneous construction, ; '41 as glass-enclosed stairwells and a""eY electrical columns,"" he added. r,_ said that the current status of �0.e4, garage, which is now estimated to O +5,000,000 is that of plans that are 4b, ^ being evaluated by Attorney 4 ""eral Stephen Sachs and must be s'tPePinro.ved by Comptroller Louis Gold-ii- 41111 said that one reason the cost of tile tli garage is so high is because the lkle ersity is required to build a ""uni-d building,"" that is, a building s'iet8yi.gried specifically for the Univer-i* Re said that all state buildings in 'tarYland must be ""uniquely design-i""- e- a one-of-a-kind building."" tb added that if the University Wo�1h1l,1 (1 use a ""generic design"" there the'-""ut be ""a substantial savings"" in Cost of the structure. He aaid that unique designs""are ex- Frlaive"" but because the garage is a 41aDital Project, the extra money 114 be spent because ""the state has contracts... [we] must follow state rules."" He said that maybe $2,000,000 could be shaved off the total price of building the garage, but the Univer-sity cannot do anything but pay because it is state policy. Hull said that the policy is part of a ""cumbersome bureaucracy"" but add-ed that University President, Hoke Smith is trying to change that policy. He said that the plans were redesigned to save money but the longer the garage project is delayed the more the cost will rise. He said that parking fees may in-crease five to seven dollars if the cost of building the garage increases. Hull said that Smith would scrap the entire garage project if the cost of construction is more than the students are willing to pay. He said that if the garage project were dropped completely there are a few alternative plans for the money in the garage fund. One plan Dr. Smith would like to im-plement is to install emergency security system telephones in some of the parking lots that are located away from the main campus buildings, Hull said. Another alternative for the garage fund money is for the purchase of more shuttle buses, Hulls said. He said that shuttle buses cost be-tween $30,000 and $40,000 each and currently the University is running three of them, two on regular runs and one on reserve. He said that if the garage were built it would only increase the number of parking spaces on campus by 600 and added that this increase would not af-fect commuter students because narlrina b in the garage would chiefly ho or continuing studies students only. Hull said that if the plans are ap-proved, construction on the garage could begin as early as fall 1983. Hull said the original plans called for a two-deck structure to be built in Lot 1 just off of York Road near Stephens Hall. Those plans, which estimated the cost of construction at $2,000,000 were rejected when founda-tion support problems were discovered. He said that since then plans have been proposed to build the garage in Lot 5 behind Linthicum Hall but were rejected when bids on construction were $1,000,000 over the estimated cost. He said that when the garage plans were moved to the Linthicum Hall lot, the estimated cost was $3,200,000 but the lowest bid was for $4,200,000. Ron Grieb, the University's Finan-cial Analyst, said there was $870,377 in the parking garage fund at the end of fiscal 1982 and current figures are not yet available. Grieb said money in the garage fund is collected from only two sources, from the sale of parking stickers and from money collected from parking meters. He said that in fiscal 1982 the follow-ing amounts were collected from the sale of parking permits: $188,898 from full-time day student; $63,166 from part-time student; and $19,314 from faculty and staff. These figures do not vary much from year to year and money col-lected from parking citations do not go into the garage fund he added. SGA approves New Life group By Shawn Hill In their third attempt to gain SGA affiliation, the New Life Christian Students were finally recognized at last Tuesday's Senate meeting. Strong support for the organization came from senator Tom Hartsock, who had originally opposed the groups' SGA affiliation. Hartsock said that he had worked with the group for the last two months to amend their constitution and forumlate by-laws. ""The organization deserves affilia-tion,"" Hartsock said. ""The Senate that denied them should be the one to give them (affiliation) now."" Senator Mark Snidero opposed granting affiliation to New Life. He argued that denying the group twice and now deciding to recognize them would make the Senate, ""look like a bunch of 'wishy-washy' politicians."" Snidero said that recognizing the organization now would be an effort against maintaining continuity in SGA decisions. After much debate, the Constitution of the New Life Christian Students was accepted by the Senate, af-filiating the group with the SGA. The New Life Christians were the subject of some controversy earlier in the semester when they had gained SGA affiliation, then lost it because of alleged violations of University policy. After the vote, Hartsock said that he applauded the Senate for this action. ""A weak Senate could have let the new Senate take action on the issue, but this was a very strong group,"" he said. A related bill was also presented by the Government Operations Commit-tee, headed by Leslie Swiger. The bill would allow the committee to refer to existing religious groups for informa-tion about new religious groups desir-ing SGA affiliation. The bill also call-ed for a decorum of respect between religious organizations on campus. It was then stated that the idea of the bill would best be used as a guideline for procedure rather than as a regulation. The bill failed to pass. In other business, Treasurer Susan Crago reported that the budgets of three SGA organizations have been frozen, because the groups sent no one to work at the polls for the SGA Elec-tions. The organizations are the Na-tional Association of Black Accoun-tants, the University Residence Government, and the Grub Street Wit. The three organizations must present their case before their budgets can be freed. President Dave Thomas announced tentative plans for the SGA to begin a fund to light the intramural field near the University Union. Thomas said that it is possible that additional funds for the project may come from the Athletic Association. He said that the project will ""show students where SGA funds are going."" The American Marketing Associa-tion was denied supplementary funds from the SGA. The AMA had re-quested additional money to allow some of its members to attend an AMA Conference. Ma, Up in arms by Trevor Kilgore Over 600 aerobic dancers strutted their stuff in Burdick Hall last Satur-day to raise $35,000 for YMCA's day care programs. in this issue Linda Drage interviews Elaine Hedges, coordinator of Women's Studies program page 3 Paige Jansen goes to the circus page 4 Tigers split home opener . . page 6 This is the last issue of The Towerlight before spring break. The next issue will be published April 14, 1983. CORRECTIONS In last week's issue of The Towerlight, election committee chairman Mike Miller was incor-rectly listed as Mike Marshall. Also, the dance-a-thon photo was incorrectly attributed to SG A Pub-lic Relations. George B. Tudder was the photographer. The Towerlight regrets the errors. Depressed: The house on the hill can help By Regina Layette Davis At first glance, the white house on the hill that holds the Counseling Center appears to be somewhat for-midable. Once inside, however, the center reveals itself as open and willing to offer help to those who seek it. Nan Green Cerio, a part-time counselor, has been at Towson State since October and likes the staff and students here. Cerio sees approx-imately eight students a week for counseling. ""The type of problems I see are in making career decisions or some skill they're lacking that they would like to have, such as assertiveness,"" said Cerio. She also said that some students have developmental difficulties, which relate to a person's develop-ment as an individual. According to Cerio, each person goes through these developmental stages. ""Often, the person is just confused by what's happening in his or her life,"" Cerio said. Some students have anxiety problems, eating disorders, depres-sion, or Cerio said, ""behavior that gets in the way of them fully func-tioning as a student."" [Information supplied by the Counseling Center staff states that approximately 15 to 20 percent of the college population will expe-rience depressive symptoms. Cerio said that there is a higher incidence of depression in women.] This information continues with data on Towson State students. An estimated 18 to 36 percent of the students who enter the Counseling Center are concerned with depres-sion. The data stresses that this does not mean that depression is the sole or primary concern. Students who are clinically depressed are health resources, Cerio said. What is depression? Depression is a collection of behaviors. Cerio explained that there are many theo-ries as to what causes depression, such as when someone loses some-thing of value to them, the result of a biochemical change, anger turned inward (when one is angry with oneself) or results from sociofamilial causes. Severe depression can, at times, lead to suicide or suicide attempts. Cerio would not say, however, that it always does. How can someone tell if a friend is suffering from depression? Cerio said that if a person has been depressed for years, a minimal change in behavior may not be noticed. There are drastic changes that one can spot. ""A change in behavior, loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping, loss of interests, inac-tivity, loss of interest in their appearance, or is sad oftan. All these things should be compared to past behavior,"" said Cerio. How can someone help a de-pressed friend? ""Let the friend know they are cared about, give them an opportunity to talk. Offer to take them along with you when going places. Try to get them to a counselor. Try to make a referral,"" said Cerio. Cerio continued, ""The depressed person feels hopeless, that it's out of their control. Because it covers a wide range of behaviors and feel-ings, many people believe the depressed person will never get over it. This is not necessarily the case. "