The Towerlight, March 28, 1985

tl19850328-000 "Fire breaks out in Residence Tower D Tower D residents had a rude awakening early Tuesday morn-ing after a fire broke out in the second floor trash compactor. Ac-cording to campus police, residents were evacuated after alarms sounded on the lower floors at approximately 12:32 a.m. The Baltimore County Fire Department dispatched several fire-fighters to the scene after receiving a call at 12:40, but the fire was extinguished by building and maintenance personnel and the buildings sprinkler system before the fire fighters arrived. Residents were not allowed to re-enter the building until 2:20 a.m., however, dense smoke which had filled the lower floors filtered throughout the building after smoke blowers failed to function properly according to a Residence Department official. Residents were allowed to re-enter the building once residence officials determined that the smoke no longer posed a threat. Fire officials said they have not yet determined what caused the fire, and residence officials have not determined why smoke blowers failed to work properly. An investigation is continuing in both cases. �Adam Eisenberg Shooting measles Close to 200 students received free measles vaccines last Mon-day. Health Center Director Jane Halpern said the turnout was small because students had time to check with their doctors to see if they needed the measles vac-cine and concern about a measles scare is fading. Those students still in doubt about receiving the measles vac-cine should contact their doctor or the health center for more in-formation. By Mitchell Jaspan Frances Burman was one of the 200 students who were In-noculated for measles Tuesday. Two injured in bicycle accident Two people were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after a bicycle rider struck a pedestrian on the service road between the Glen Complex and the University Union. The identities of both were be-ing held pending notification of relatives. Campus police Sgt. Joseph Herbert said the rider came down the path from Smith Hall yelling that he had ""no brakes."" He rode up to the entrance of the road next to Tower A, where he turned the bike around and went back down the hill. He struck the pedestrian, a woman identified only as a resi-dent student, while travelling at ""a high rate of speed,"" Herbert said. Both were taken to St. Josephs Hospital where they were being held yesterday for observation. The woman suffered a broken col-larbone and a cut above the eye; the man had a fractured right arm. Both received concussions. Herbert said no charges have been filed yet against the bicycle rider, who was not a student, but the incident is still under in-vestigation. New officers to be feted The Student Government Association (SGA), will hold in-auguration of the incoming ex-ecutives and senators. President-elect Paul Walsh, vice president-elect Joseph Heacock, treasurer-elect Any Kohn, and the newly elected senators will take their oaths of office Sunday March 31, 7 p.m. in the Potomac Lounge in the University Union. Following the inauguration, a short reception will be held. campus notes The best team you've probably never heard of Bill Gates reviews the gym-nastics season . . p. 4 Welcome Back, Woody Dave Sherman reviews Woody Allen's latest com-edy The Purple Rose of Cairo ...p. 9. Who Cares? Glenn Small talks about apathy at Towson State ... p. l4. NCAA may crack down on rule-breakers The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may start cracking down on col-leges who flout rules, the Chroni-cle of Higher Education reported March 13. Walter Byers, NCAA executive director, said the NCAA rules committee may take a stricter line against offenders by suspending athletic programs for a year or more. The NCAA has always had the right to suspend schedules, but has only used it twice, against Southwestern Louisiana Universi-ty's basketball program in 1973-75 and the University of Kansas' basketball program in 1952-53. Byers said they ""are no longer content to sit by and let a minori-ty of unconscionable people tar-nish the reputation of higher education."" The most effective way to punish colleges who consistantly cheat is to cancel schedules, Byers said. Educational job fair will be held April 23 ' A job fair for people interested in education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, audiology, speech pathology, and counseling will be held at the Towson Center Tuesday April 23 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. School system representatives from Maryland, the mid-Atlantic states, Florida, Texas, Nevada and Ohio will interview ap-plicants. Those interested are asked to preregister with the career development center or the place-ment office by April 5. Campus notes are continued on page 2 The �oweriPublished weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 78 No 22 Breakin' on the beach An advance look at Fort Lauderdale htTowson, Md. 21204 March 28, 1985 ge.dre What would spring break be without the beach? Students, hundreds of miles from their books and studies, enjoy the relaxing atmosphere of the sun, sand and surf. By Caprice Berger During my five years in college, I never once had any intention of go-ing to Fort Lauderdale during Spring Break. Sure, I was envious of those tan bodies of fellow class-mates that had gone South. Still, going to overcrowded bars and drinking beer until I dropped never appealed to me personally. When the opportunity arose to go to Daytona Beach for the Daytona 200 motorcycle race in March, I de-cided to travel further down 1-95, to Fort Lauderdale, to find out what I might have missed. If you travel to Florida by car, as the majority of students do, it will take approximately nineteen hours from Baltimore. Because it is a long, boring drive, I hope you have good company with you. However, there is a reward at the end of the road: a sandy beach, blue ocean, and 80-plus degree temperature. If you aren't in a hurry to get to Fort Lau-derdale, or on the way home, you might want to drive along Florida's coastal highway, AIA, which takes you through St. Augustine� ""Oldest City in the United States,"" Daytona Beach�""The Most Fam ous Beach in the World,"" Cocoa Beach�""Home of John F. Kennedy Space Center,"" and on through West Palm Beach with its magnif-icent estates and 74 golf courses, truly the greenest of Florida's beaches. Once in Fort Lauderdale, there are several routes that you can use to reach the famous Fort Lauder-dale Strip. I chose Los Olas Boule-vard because my hotel was located there. This boulevard is Fort Lauderdale's answer to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive with its high-dollar specialty shops and restau-rants. Along the inland waterways sit some of the most opulent homes in Florida and they are all complete with private yachts docked in front and Rolls Royces and Jaguars in the driveways. Once you cross the Intracoastal bridge, you enter into another world. This is the world that college students have been attracted to for the past twenty years. This year, Escort services are not worth the trouble By Robert Taylor While plans to revive the Escort Service at Towson State are on hold, other campuses are learning that such services generally are in-effective. Most don't last more than a few months, and are usually ignored by female students, and often don t prevent sexual assaults anyway, campus police around the country said in a College Press Service (CPS) report. ""Generally, volunteer escort services don't work very well,"" said Daniel P. Keller, head of the nation-wide Campus Crime Prevention Programs. ""Right after a rape or sexual as-sault, everyone comes out of the woodwork."" Teller said. ""They want to help, but the incident fades, and they lose interest."" The CPS article said, the Univer-sity of Maryland-College Park re-ported six rapes, and 23 assaults in 1983, and campus police expect escort services won't help improve the 1984 statistics. UMCP police corporal Kathy At-well said, in the CPS article, a vol-unteer service started in the early seventies continues, but, ""because they're volunteers, and they lack funding, they're iffy."" ""There seems to be a lack of in-terest in the program,"" notes Greg Colucci of Kent State's now folded escort service. ""People just don't want to get involved,"" he said. Programs with full-time paid co-ordinators seem to do better accord-ing to Keller, who is also the Uni-versity of Louisville police chief. ""What I've done is position highly visible, paid students ... working in conjunction with the campus police,"" he said. ""It's called the 'Night Watch' and it's highly ef-fective. Sexual assaults fell nearly 100 percent in the first nine months of 1984 from the same period in 1983, although Keller warns ""that 100 percent drop only represents 'stranger, forced rapes'."" ""Most incidents of rape concern are ... 'date rape' and are never reported,"" he said. Many volunteer services merge with other campus organizations or are swallowed up by campus police departments, CPS said. The University of Missouri-St. Louis police took over the volunteer escort service three years ago, and, according to security chief William Karrabas, ""there's only been one reported rape"" in that three year period. ""That's lower than the three or four a year that used to occur,"" Karrabas said. An escort service trial run was held here last semester, but the ser-vice has not gotten off the ground. Student Government Association (SGA) President-elect Paul Walsh said that he would continue the struggle to get funding from the University administration for the service. The program is not func-tioning now, but the SGA Universi-ty Affairs committee is still plann-ing to go ahead with the service. Walsh said there is a ""definite need for the service,"" but the SGA is ""having trouble"" getting the funds from the administration. ""The largest expense is getting it [the t service] on its feet,"" he said. SGA Senator Din Dinkin, Univer-sity Affairs CJinmittee member, said the escort service would begin ""before the end of the semester ... hopefully next month."" The service needs funds to pay its workers to become operational, he said. The SGA plans to ""heavily advertise"" the service to ""make sure everyone uses it,"" Dinkin said. from February 17 through April 28: 300,000 young men and women, from as far north as Maine By Caprice Berger and as far west as Texas, will yield over 100 million dollars in revenue See SPRING BREAK, p. 7 Some question group's intentions in petition drive By Terie Wolan A Student Government Associa-tion senator, one of 25 Towson State students enlisted recently to collect signatures for a petition op-posing a bill before the General As-sembly which would can phos-phates in detergents, said he was misled about the intent of the peti-tion. Larry Kushner, an SGA senator, said he stopped collecting signa-tures and did not submit the ones that he had collected after he learn-ed that soap and detergent manu-facturers were among the sup-porters of the Consumers League for Environmental Action Now (CLEAN), the sponsors of the peti-tion. ""I got the feeling I was being used,"" Kushner said. ""What I had been told was that they (CLEAN) opposed the bill (Senate Bill0277) because they wanted a stronger bill to be passed which would fine com-panies for polluting."" The petition, which began circu-lating three ,weeks ago is prefaced by a statement that reads ""We, the undersigned, support cleaning the Chesapeake Bay"" through tougher water treatment standards, remov-ing phosphates at water treatment plants, and by ""moving forward on tougher water quality standards."" The statement concludes ""We op-pose Maryland Senate Bill #277, which bans phosphates in home pro-ducts like laundry detergents, be-cause it harms consumers without cleaning the Bay the right way."" Senate bill #277 was passed by a 39-5 vote in the Senate and faces a vote today in the House of Dele-gates. Joe Moser, aide to the bill's spon-sor, Sen. Gerale, Winegrad (D-Anne Arundel), charged that the petition, while claiming to support cleaning the Bay, is sponsored by large soap and detergent manufacturers seek-ing to hamper clean-up efforts. He characterized the group as ""very so-phisticated ... and one with a lot of bucks,"" which wants to keep phos-phates in the bag. (Phosphates foster the growth of algea on the surface of the water, which in turn choke off sunlight and oxygen to other aquatic life. Cur-rently, some phosphorus is removed at water treatment plants before it enters the tributaries of the Chesa-peake). Andy Parr, a senior political sci-ence major who coordinated the pe-tition drive here, countered that See PETITION, p. 2 8437 5. �fee rtofFensra t edisrbyh,i7hme: ;florin 154.12721;:elne r a Assembly In /9 4 43.. 1,67 d:uptnrIpotirsoitsyern:7tel:?hifprhl 2. We support tougher rater treatment standards aa the !it!: way to CLE.Ae flay of phoaPbares undersigned. adnnort cleaning the Chesapeake Bay but In the riaht Y. SIGN ertok, .....nichotbara phoaph�te ./1 fa:tie /eve/a in the Bay by moving fors17��, tougher rater atialley. pcZ:IX.:tre.at the treatment plant before It enters the Bay. th t c leaning the Bay the slabs Iv4Y. /Dore aunty and eking ..asaey prp or do wye en :epiroduct . o undrY nett ure Print' e 4.141211AND R TS Zip Phan. Representatives from the lobby group CLEAN recently salicited Bignatures apposing a legislative bill banning phosphates from soup aad detergent pnducla. Spring Break This year's Spring Break begins after 5 p.m. Thurs-day, April 4. Classes resume Monday, April 15. This will be the last issue of the Towerlight until after SpringBreak. The deadline for the next issue will be noon, Monday, April 15. Have a good time. "