tl20080303-01 "www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Monday Now on TheTowerlight.com: View video of Friday�s Battle of the Bands and video Word on the Street... Senior Deven Cooper and junior Dayvon Love make history on Towson University Speech and Debate Team Kristofer Marsh/The Towerlight Deven Cooper, left, and Dayvon Love, right, will represent Towson at the National Debate Tournament this year. They are the first black competitors to participate in the tournament in the history of Towson�s program. Towson�s great debaters Colony seeks expansion See DEBATE, page 9 Trimester course list almost complete Classes being offered during 10-week sessions will be revealed on March 10 Complex�s move to increase tenants opposed by community March 3, 2008 Irish rockers Flogging Molly play sold-out show at Rams Head Live! Arts, page 18 Kiel McLaughlin News Editor AIMCO, the Denver-based real estate investment trust company that recently purchased the Colony at Kenilworth apartment complex, is seeking to up-zone the proper-ty to increase the number of pos-sible tenants, according to Mike Ertel, president of the West Towson Neighborhood Association. Ertel, along with other commu-nity members, met with a represen-tative from Apartment Investment and Management Company and dis-cussed a potential zoning change during the upcoming comprehen-sive zoning map process that occurs every four years. In the process, Ertel said, AIMCO will seek to rezone the property, which currently allows for 16 units per acre, to expand to 40 units per acre and to allow for the construc-tion of four to five story build-ings with elevators. According to Baltimore County�s zoning issues log, the developers are seeking to up-zone 16.7 acres for increased volume rentals and 7.1 acres for retail. A public hearing on the zon-ing change will be held at Perry Hall High School at 7 p.m. on March 18. �When we met, they laid out what they were thinking about and said they�ll get back to us with some plans. We haven�t seen anything from them further,� Ertel said. During the February meeting of the Greater Towson Council of Community Associations, commu-nity members discussed the poten-tial changes and agreed to uniformly oppose any attempt by AIMCO to rezone the property. Ertel said the community does not oppose rehabil-itation of the Colony, but large-scale construction would lead to over-crowding and unsafe conditions. �Anything this dense, they are going to have to rip down every-thing, the trees, everything that is there now in order to build these huge, massive buildings,� Ertel said. �We have no problem with them try-ing to fix up the place, but we can�t have them going about it like this. This is an issue of quality of life.� See COLONY, page 8 Kiel McLaughlin News Editor Starting later this week, stu-dents can find registration infor-mation about the University�s pilot trimester on Towson�s Web site. A full list of the available courses will be finalized by March 10, task force chair and dean of the College of Health Professions Charlotte Exner said. The University�s 10-week sum-mer session will start small, and will target workforce needs, espe-cially in the fields of health profes-sions. �We are looking at how to address the workforce needs and how to help students to graduate as soon as possible,� Exner said. �It is a goal to increase and sup-port teacher education with this initiative and the [science, technol-ogy, engineering and mathematics] See PILOT, page 9 Women�s basketball defeats Georgia State Sports, page 23 Nick DiMarco Associate News Editor For the first time in 11 years, the Towson University Speech and Debate Team is sending two of its members to the National Debate Tournament. And for the first time in the history of the program, the com-petitors that have qualified for the NDT are black. Deven Cooper and Dayvon Love will speak on behalf of Towson, one of the 78 schools that qualified for the NDT. �This is something I�ve wanted since I was a senior in high school,� Cooper said. �I don�t even know how to put it into words really, because it hasn�t really hit me yet. For me, it�s not over because we still have to debate and our goal basically is to win it�this is just a starting point.� The pair qualified for the NDT after finishing with a record of 4-4 in national "
