TL20060327-01 "Brian Stelter Editor in Chief University of Puget Sound history professor Terry Cooney will become Towson�s new dean of the College of Liberal Arts in July, Provost James Brennan said on Sunday. Cooney was one of three finalists for the posi-tion. Brennan offered him the job late last week. �In the end, it was a match, and that�s what we try to look for,� Brennan said. �I was particularly impressed with Cooney about his vision of the liberal arts, in both the sense of general education for all students, as well as the liberal arts as preparation for careers in the 21st century.� Cooney joined the faculty of the University of Puget Sound in 1976. The private institution in the Pacific Northwest enrolls about 3,000 students. He served as academic vice president and dean of the university from 1997 to 2004. He also served as chair of the history depart-ment twice. www.thetowerlight.com Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice weekly In-state students see tuition freeze INSIDE: This Week..........3 Perspectives......4 News................9 Beyond...........16 Arts.................21 Music..............22 Classifi eds.......24 Sports.............28 Arts: Be cool and impress your friends with contempo art from the BMA News: Alone in the crowd, Taurean Branch left to be lone Spark Plug in URG Puget Sound professor is newest TU administrator COMING IN THURSDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: How is TU accommodating the needs of its student body? See for yourself on pages 5 � 6 and 18 � 20 Tiger statue, Lecture Hall, Schuerholtz Park suffer spraypaint damage during spring break; police search for suspects News, page 10 Photos by Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight Above: Towson student Jack Corcoran empties waste into a street-side junk heap. Top left: Students also assisted in gutting damaged home sites. Top right: They were met with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. More photos, page 17... Monday, 3/27/06 Instead of hitting the beach, Towson students head to New Orleans for hurricane cleanup No break in Big Easy Brian Stelter Editor in Chief The price of tuition isn�t going up this fall, at least not for full time in-state undergraduates. As college students packed their bags for spring break, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich announced an allocation of $18.1 million for tuition relief. The additional funds circumvented legislative efforts to implement a tuition freeze. Maryland undergraduates will pay $2,590 in tuition next semester, the same amount as this semester. The funding effectively nullifies January�s decision by the University System of Maryland Board of Regents to increase tuition by 4.5 percent next fall. The board will adjust the schedule of tuition and fees to reflect the new funding later this semester. �The University System of Maryland is pro-foundly grateful for the investment from both Governor Ehrlich and the General Assembly,� USM Chancellor Brit Kirwan said in a state-ment. The in-state tuition freeze does not benefit out-of-state students, who will pay $424 more next fall, bringing their tuition total to $8,261 per semester. Although tuition may hold steady, fees will not. All students will pay 3.5 percent more in fees, so in-state students will pay $958 in fees per semester while out-of-state students will pay $992. In this election year, tuition has turned into a political football. On the second day of January, Baltimore Mayor Martin O�Malley, a Democratic candidate for governor, announced a plan for �zero-percent tuition increases.� The next day, Ehrlich announced a 12.5 per-cent increase in higher education funding for fiscal year 2007. He dismissed O�Malley�s plan as a political gimmick and called University of Maryland College Park tuition �the best deal in the universe� but deferred questions about specific tuition levels to the regents. Three days later, on January 6, the board met at Towson University and approved a 4.5 percent tuition hike. Regent Jim Rosapepe introduced a resolution to �encourage the gov-ernor and legislature to freeze tuition,� but the board rejected it. Towson names new dean of liberal arts LEGISLATIVE SESSION �06 Reallocation of $18.1 million in governor�s budget allows USM to cap education costs for next fall See TUITION, page 13 See DEAN, page 11 The Towerlight Special Report Disabilities For more photos from New Orleans, see page 17 or check out a slideshow at http://www.thetowerlight.com/ pages/katrina/ "
