The Towerlight, March 26, 1987

tl19870326-000 "Inside ECC wrap up TSU played in the finals of the ECC tournoment for the first time page 3. Published weekly by the students of Towson State University vver..ight Towson, MD 21204 All up Index news 1 6 classifieds 2,7, 9 sports :3, 4 features & entertainment editorial 8 perspectives & letters 8 police blotter 9 visuals 10 Vol. 80 No. 20 March 26, 1987 Preside Tit Chi' IS Kit vos VICe President Jeri' Rinaca fre er Vicki kancese Se nators -At-La(3� r Darb9,,,linvk � f)ebra Kan' Mae Ileedtn Vtlite calk en ti,...,yan t ;40,rie 1 1,00> SGA President elect Chris Krivos is pictured campaigning with the US ticket's campaigning clown, SGA Senator Dale Graham. krivos, US ticket sweep elections Neu s coor( 'rhe US (Unlimited Service) )ticket swept the March 9-10, ( Towson State University Student Nvernment Association elec-tions, a feat never before done. Chris Krivos, currently SGA vice president, claimed 704 votes to n the presidential race over Iichael Burton, the BASIC tic- ""t'8 candidate, who got 558 votes. In the vice president race, Jeff 1,tinaca, an SGA senator, beat h8r1an McKenna by 153 votes. Llinaca had 683 votes compared to meRenna's 530. Vicki Francese claimed the titeasurer post beating Michael e,rtel, 716-485. Each of the 14 US ticket senators itot elected over the 14 BASIC ticket and six Towson Alternative Party (l'AP) candidates. The 'win-ners in order of most to least votes received include John Campbell, Kathy Gross,, Michelle �Meeden, Deborah Kane, Judy Jenkins, Colleen Ryan, Kenneth Krucenski, Laurie Sears, Michael Armin, Jon Long, Darby Simmons, Pamela Flynn, Terry Brown, and Vince Russomanno. The Nuclear Free Zone referen-dum put before students failed by a vote of 615 to 337: The bull had been put on the ballot after Stu-dents Against Nuclear � Destruc-tion petitioned ;for its inclusion. The results were announced at the March 10 SGA meeting. The new officers will be, in-naugurated in a ceremony April l.. Krivos will succeed Melanie Gold-smith as SGA president. SGA becomes speaker sponsor by Doug Wood NeUR repotler A bill to allocate $200 for the purpose of bringing two speakers from Nicaragua and South Africa passed the Student Government Association Senate on Tuesday af-ter a heated debate. Senate Bill 1986-87 #28 orig-inally intended to allocate the mon-ey to Students Together Against Nuclear Destruction (STAND) for the purpose of hosting the spea-kers, but the senate ultimately re-worded the bill to not mention STAND because the SGA cannot fund political groups. The speakers are being pre-sented in conjunction with the Black Student Union, the Inter-national Club, and several other campus groups. Said Senator Dale Graham, ""It was our feeling that if these two groups [BSU and the International Club] wanted to take part in this, they could help STAND out by coming up' with $200. STAND also has $150 in their general account. We looked at this !STAND] as being a political organization, therefore we could not fund them, and, as their being a social awareness organization they're involved with two other organizations that have a lot of money."" Joe Delia, president of STAND, said, ""We arranged for the spea-kers to come because this is a cul-tural event. At the time that I talked to the Black Student Union and the International Club in terms of funding, they said they didn't think they could help us out. The main reasons I went to them was�to get their membership, and to publicize the event. We have other groupsithat doii�t necessarily have money, but they have a name, and they would be able to get people involved. I thought I would go directly to the SGA in light of seeing that it's a cultural event� getting these speakers to come to Towson State. These speakers can present us with a view of day-to-day life in these countries."" Representatives of the College Republicans and Young Dem-ocrats were also present. ""I think it's blatantly unfair to fund one political organization and leave the other two standing out in the cold. The policy has been not to fund political organizations, and STAND is most distinctly a political organization,"" Terrence Casey of the College Republicans said. Donald Karmasek of the Yining Democrats said, ""I Won't say it's unfair to give them the money on the basis that you won't give it to us or the College Republicans. I can see it's worthwhile use of what they !STAND] are doing. . � ""They just give a blanket a-mount to each political organ-ization for different expenses. think the Young Democrats are really strapped for money, but the SGA seems to give out a lot of money to other organizations; they really don't sponsor the events that the College Republicans and Young Democrats do. This is a case where they've gone out on their own. . ""To fund this activity only be fair to them and us. If that's the basis for not funding this, maybe YOU ought to suspend the rule of not funding a political organ-ization,"" Karmacek said. Senator Mike Burton stated that he would introduce a bill to consider funding political organizations. � . Although debate continued on the bill, most senators said that they thought that hosting the speak-ers, who are visiting several schools in the Baltimore area as part �of a national tour, would be beneficial to the student- body. It was decided that since the BSU, as well as several other student groups, were sponsoring the speak-ers, and not just STAND, it was not solely STAND activity. The wording of the bill was changed to read: ""A motion to allocate $200 for the purpose of sponsoring two speak-ers."" The bill then passed by a vote of 12-0-0. In other news, a bill which would allocate $500 to the TSU Rugby Club for coaching failed the sen-ate. The SGA originally agreed to allocate $500 to TSU professor Dan Agley for coaching the Rugby Club. Agley has since been re-placed by former TSU 'student Chris Schmidt as coach of the Rugby Club. The senate refused to continue allocating the money, since it was to go specifically to Agley. The motion was defeated by a vote of 11-0-1. A motion to 're-consider the bill also failed by a vote of 2-7-3. Additionally, the inauguration for the new SGA executive officers and senators will be held on Tues-day, March 31. The new senate will meet the following week. In other news, the Senate sus-pended rule D-2 and operated as a committee-of-the-whole to present a favorable recommendation on Senate Bill 1986-1987 #29, an allocation of $5,784.52 for the Prom. One hundred tickets are to be sold at 35.00 each for the Prom, which will be held on May 8 at Martin's Eastwind. SGA President Melanie Gold-smith said that she was reluctant to even sponsor a prom after the disasterous turnout last year. How-ever, many people have expressed interest, in having a prom. The breakdown of funds for the Prom include $6,672 for Martin's Eastwind, a 16% ,gratuity of $1,067.52, $1,000 for the band, which will be ""The Look"", $100 for silk screen posters, $400 for Tower-light ads, and $45 for advertising banners. The grand total amounts to $9,284.52. The SGA said it hopes to raise $3,500 from ticket sales. After raising from committee-of-the- whole, the Senate passed the resolution bv a vote of 10-0-1. SGA freezes Rugby coach's by Robert Graham News editor The Towson State University Student Government Association voted Tuesday to freeze the Rugby Football Club's coaches salary allocation of $500 because the new coaches are no longer members of the University community. Dan Agley, a Health Science instructor and the team's coach for the last five years, ended his coaching tenure in Mid- September when the team elected not to ask him back. Instead, 'the club asked Chris Schmidt, a 1985 Towson State graduate and nationally-ranked Colleges plan for Fall mandatory advising by Robert Pattison News reporter ,Towson State University is ;loving toward mandatory ad- Ising for all students prior to 'tt ti stering for classes in response � an increasing number of stu- Ile/Its who apply for graduation tit do not meet all the academic !e.cluirements necessary, Univer-iltY officials said. )he University Senate at its 'larch meeting voted to approve a ,l1cv that provides for academic ing for all degree candidates 'efore they register for the fall 4t'iti ester. Each college will be It tructed to develop an advising ] 40gram that will meet the stu- qents' needs and adhere to the t)iversity's policy on academic ktvising. Students who do not meet all the �Noirements are usually missing ;Pe or two General University r,'ectuirements, GUR's, or in some ,418es they are missing a class f ired for their major. ""In-h '""rirned advising will help elimi-ltIlte these problems,"" says Dr. R. Brown, academic rcivising coordinator for the Col-te of Business and Economics. These classes the students are ,tsttissing can be the result of simply verlooking the list of require- 'eats printed in the university atItalog for GUR's and their major, '.(ioNti said. Seeing an advisor at east once a year can help spot ttAential problems before they ,eome major setbacks to a ritior's application to graduation, ite added. t or the students in Business and ,ionomics who applied for gra-ation in June 1986, about 35 15 cent did not meet the require-ents for graduation, Brown said. These students were short by about six credits, something that could have been foreseen through proper advising, . The University's policy in this case is to let the student go through graduation with his fellow class-mates but require him to take the necessary classes in the summer session in order to receive his diploma, Brown said. In extreme cases the student may have to attend the following fall semester to get the proper credits where more than six credits are missing. Once all requirements have been fullfilled, he then receives his diploma but will be considered a fall graduate, Brown added. ""This places a greater financial burden on the student and is some-thing that can be easily safe-guarded against through the use of good advising,"" Brown said. In the College of Fine Arts and Communications, Dr. Peter Lev, academic coordinator for ad-vising, said about 25 percent or 32 of the 135 students who applied for graduation were not eligible. This figure is slightly below the univer-sity average. However since each department is different in size these numbers can be misleading, Lev said. In Dance and Speech there were only four students of whom one student in each is not eligible for grad-uation. Brown said some students are falling short of graduation credits because they will re-take a class in order to earn a better grade. But in so doing they count together the credits from both classes towards the total number of credits earned. They assume the credits earned are cumulative, however the uni-versity only counts the class with the highest grade. \ Dr. Sam Barone, Dean of Busi-ness and Economics, said the use of on-line registration will be used as a vehicle to enforce mandatory advising in an effort to cut down on the number of students who are not meeting all the requirements for graduation. ""I was appalled at the exorbitant number of students who failed to be graduated owing to problems with requirements and procedures,"" Barone said in a let-ter to students. Another problem for students is the actual GUR requirements that all students must complete in order to graduate. The requirements listed in the University Catalog were changed in 1985. This means \ that students who entered the Uni-versity between the fall 1977 semes-ter and spring 1985 will follow one list of GUR requirements and those students who entered in the fall of 1985 and subsequent years will follow another set of GUR requirements, officials at Aca-demic Advising said. Students must know which cate-gory they are in and follow only those classes prescribed as GUR's in order to avoid confusion, offi-cials added. The Junior Audit is a service begun one year ago by the depart-ment of Academic Advising that helps students plan which classes they need to take in order to satisfy GUR's. It tells the student what they need to graduate. This is an automatic survey of a students current academic standing as the university has it on files. There is no charge for this and it is done when a student has successfully completed between 80-90 credit hours. The audit tells the student what classes the University has on its records and which classes he needs to graduate. The student is then advised to take this survey to his advisor and check it against the, records in the departments files to � insure that �both agree with what courses the student has taken. If there is a dispute he then has See ADVISING, page 10 Additionally, the Senate ac-cepted by a vote of 11-0-0 Senate Bill 1986-1987 #27, a resolution to allocate $1,132 to the Circle K club for the purpose of attending their annual district convention. Circle K originally asked for $1,632, but that amount was reduced by $500 because the club currently has $500 in it's general account and will also receive $200 from its sponsoring Kiwanis club. During the convention, which will include Circle K members from Maryland, Virginia, Dela-ware, and Washington, D.C., the Circle K will elect its district board and also distribute achievement awards to club officers and mem-bers. Circle K, and international public service organization, was represented at the meeting by Presi-dent Cheryl Satterfield and Trea-surer George Deeley. In other news, an amendment to the Constitution of the Jewish Stu-dent's Assocation which would allow for the positions of co-presi-dents of the group passed the Senate by a vote of 10-0-1. Mem-bers of the JSA said they fell that the group will operate more ef-feciently with co-presidents than with a single president. The amend-ment will still allow the group to elect a single president if it so desires. The JSA was represented by co-president Marty Gruber. , Finally, Senate Bill 1986-87 #28 was introduced. This bill would allocate a budget of $200 to Stu-dents Against Nuclear Destruc-tion (STAND) for the purpose of having two speakers. The speakers are Kevin Meoketsi Qhoboshiane from South Africa and Roberto Fernandez from Nicaragua. Both are student leaders from their respective countries. The lecturese would take place on March 31 at 3:30 in LI WO. The speakers, on a circuit tour of seven mid-Atlantic states, will also visit several other universities and high schools in the Baltimore area. allocation rugby player, and John Malcolm, a Towson State student and member of the Easter:n' Rugby Union, to serve as head 'coach and assistant coach. The freeze was approved by a vote of 11-0-1. A motion to recon-sider the freeze because two mem-bers of the team had come to the meeting to speak of behalf of the team was defeated 2-7-3. At Tuesday's Senate meeting, l)ale Graham, from Government Operations, explained that the allocation in April 1986 was given with the ""understanding that Agley would be coach."" Hov�Tver, no provision was written with the allocation. Schmidt, an insurance agent, was the captain of the Towson State Rugby Football Club in 1985 when during Spring Break the team travelled to the Bahamas. After the trip, Schmidt was accused in a letter written by Stuart C. Marder, vice-principal of Albert Einstein High School in Rockville, MD as being the student Marder said ""Forced attention on a ,17-year-old girl, bruising and scratching her."" The charges were later dropped. Schmidt reiterated his defense Tuesday at a club practice saying that the girl had been with another player partially undressed and had run into the bathroom when the chaperone knocked on the door. Schmidt said he went in the bathroom to bring the girl out to the chaperone and the girl grabbed the shower curtain. She fell from the shower curtain and received the bruises and scratches men-tioned, according to Schmidt. Graham told the Senators that Schmidt ""did the team a lot of harm personality-wise in the Bahamas incident. Graham said the team had also had approximately 15 posting vio- See RUGBY, page 6 Students and faculty members donated pints of blood in the Spring American Red Cross Blood Drive. The event ran during the week prior to spring break on the third floor of the University Union. "