The Towerlight, March 6, 1981

tl19810306-000 ".111. Towerli VOL. 74 No. 20 ht PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 What is the first part of pol-itics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. �Jules Michelet, 1846 March 6, 1981 Budget cuts hit COOP by Rich O'Brien President Reagan's budget cuts are expected to have an indirect but ineasurable effect on Towson State's Cooperative Education Program. Joanne Brantley, COOP director, said the impact from Reagan's plan will come when the state is forced to pick up the slack in various kinds of federal aid. The COOP program, Which is funded under continuing studies, will probably feel the pinch along with other state and federally funded programs on campus. The COOP is probably in a better Position to survive the impending cuts than most other special pro-grams. When federal funding for the establishment of the program Was withdrawn last summer, the Coop began its funding under the Olvision of Continuing Studies. In an effort to make the program Self supporting, a $30 fee was in-stituted which the student pays Only upon completion of a work-study agreement. In addition, the program receives (Mar credits for tuition generated Since students enroll in COOP for academic credit. Brantley said the Program will survive, but that it really needs to expand. ""Cooperative Education is one 5 the fastest growing programs in the country. It has unlimited po-tential here at Towson State. COOP Placed over 425 students during the last calendar year,"" Brantley said. She said that UMBC, which has a staff of five working full-time with the COOP, placed only 70 to 100 students last year. Towson State's COOP office operates with a staff of two. Under the Cooperative Education rogram, a junior or senior gains Work experience while earning col-lege credits. The program supple- Inents the classroom with paid and aonpaid positions at various corn- Panies and organizations. , COOP assumes responsibility for to.cating appropriate training posi- ,t10fls; however, employment already neld by students may be approved for credit if it meets program re-quirement. 13rantley said she expects to in-crease the number of placements tine Year. She estimated that now Over 50% of the program applicants are being placed. ""Towson State's COOP has an excellent reputation among em- 12,10Yers. That's why, even with all Ile � cuts, employers, including the Iederal government, are deciding to stay with COOP.' Brantley said. Brantley's main concern is that f�11dget cuts will prevent the COOP tr,Orri assisting more students. ""Given e opportunity and the proper "",ff, this program could more than t'aY for itself,"" she said. Here's the plan These hard-at-work students are enrolled in Towson State's newest course, Keg Tapping 101. Not only will they learn how to tap a keg, but they will also learn the technique of drinking directly from the key without breathing for five minutes and then finding the quickest and most efficient way of relieving themselves. TL photo by Merick Jeannier Sex penalties lenient (CPS)�Professors who sexually harass students usually are not pun-ished very severely by their schools, if they are punished at all, according to various observers who track collegi-ate sexual harassment cases. Bernice Sandler of the Association of American Colleges' Women's Proj-ect said that the one-month suspen-sion imposed two weeks ago by the State University of New York-Genes-co on a professor who had ""improper physical contact"" with a student is only the fourth known punishment of any kind handed out in college sexual harassment cases in the last three years. Sandler said she would not be sur-prised if more schools have dispensed reprimands, but said she does not know of any because ""schools don't like to publicize this sort of thing."" At Genesco, an outside arbitrator ruled that Vakahn Dadrian, professor of sociology, had acted in an ""unpro-fessional manner"" when he tried to kiss one of his students, asked her about her sex life, and once ""phys-ically detained"" her in a hallway. Though three other women have ac-cused Dadrian of similar behavior toward them, only one case was considered. Dadrian was suspended for a month. In the reported, proven cases of campus sexual harassment, light sen-tences seem to be the rule. A year ago, Harvard issued a ""for-mal letter of reprimand"" to one of its professors, whom a student accused of trying to kiss her. In December, 1979, University of California-Berkeley administrators suspended Elbaki Hermassi, a sociol-ogy professor, for one quarter without pay after several women filed harass-ment charges against him. Hermas-si's suspension, which was imposed during a quarter when he was on leave and not getting full pay, cost the professor an estimated $5,000 in pay. San Jose State University, in the most forceful recorded response to faculty-student sexual harassment, fired Phillip Jacklin, an associate philosophy professor, in January 1980 for ""fondling, embracing and making sexual propositions"" to five female students. But a National Advisory Council on Women's Education Programs sur-vey suggests that, for every instance of punishment, there are ""hundreds"" of harassment cases never even reported. For example, a Berkeley student group, Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment, said that one-quarter of the senior class�over 5000 students�claims to have been harassed sometime while pursuing undergraduate studies. Sandler said students, often fearing their reports will not be believed, do not know where to complain, and therefore the teacher is never charged. Additionally, students suspect that ""a fair hearing is far from likely,"" said Frank Till, formerly of the National Advisory Council. ""Given the natural distaste between faculty and everybody else on cam-pus, it's difficult to believe that fac-ulty would formally file against other faculty."" Male enrollment increases , (CPS)�In a reversal of recent ""rhends and in defiance of almost 114 Predictions, white males again ave taken over as the majority of entering college students, said An-fcil. ew Pepin of the National Center �r, ducation Statistics (NCES). v &Airing the 1979-80 academic ""he.4r. women for the first time com-vpsed more than 50 percent of the ;:nlerican student population. While �Inen are still in the majority, men now apparently catching up. t Part-time students, in addition v,� full-time minorities and women, e' ere the facts that really kept the 411r0llment of the last decade up ere,"" Pepin said ""but now the ""'en are the major factor."" s tatistics from the American As- :elation of State Colleges and Uni- ZsitIes (AASCU) confirm that the q-le student population has grown 1,'3 1 0.6 percent in the last academic bLar, while the female increase has -7;18.5 percent. rredictions made five years ago s,5; ,abriost every education observ-t.' h Including the NCES, suggested w (3at college enrollments in general 19uld start a decade-long slide in ' 0,8�, but schools in stead are finding illelriselves with an average enroll-increase of 3.2 percent. es,""�. n earlier University of Alabama 'Iniate put the population jump at 5.1 percent. Enrollment would have been pushed up more by in-flux of white males if not for a sharp drop in part-time students, said Jacob Stampen, of the AASCU. Pepin said that the inaccuracy of the predictions was due not to miscalculation, but to an inability to foresee the drastic effect of the economy on enrollment. Pepin said he anticipated a drop in college enrollment proportionate to the drop in the number of high school graduates, but his formula, which proved dependable in the sev-enties, is too simplistic now because of monetary factors. ""The tight job market influences the immediate futures of high schol graduates most profoundly,"" he said. � ""An 18-year-old man or woman will often decide to go to school full-time when they cannot find a job in order to put off the job hunt until the market opens up."" Addit-ionally, he said, many young people find it more and more necessary to have better training in order to get a job at all. The job market is particularly small for ex-military personnel, Stampen said. ""The Vietnam war drained the college population somewhat in the seventies,"" he said. ""Veterans are still coming back from extended duty, and they're finding it impos-sible to get a job, they go back to school."" ""This accounts for much of the in-crease in male students, I would estimate,"" Stampen said. In the same category, Pepin said that college-age men and women are finding enlistment even less of a choice right now. With the draft over and male military enlistment slowly decreasing, the male student enrollment will naturally go up. Judith Stitch, of the American Council on Education, attributes the jump in the numbers of male students to new campus recruiting. New methods have resulted in an older student population. Stitch said that half the nation's college stu-dents this year are over the ""tradi-tiional college ages"" of 18 to 22. She also holds the economic situation responsible for the new trend. ""If you're out of a job, then you're not giving up anything to go to school,"" she said. ""People who get laid off especially like to return to school to improve their skills so they won't get laid off again. A lot of college drop-outs are going to fin-ish school, particularly at commun-ity colleges, for this reason."" continued on page 4 Only in the last year or two have colleges begun to set up grievance procedures specifically for sexual harassment cases. Under legal interpretations, Title IX of the Higher Education Amend-ments of 1972, schools receiving federal funds must establish these procedures or lose funds. But Dorothy Gray of the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights said that setting up programs has not proven easy for many schools, simply because there are no guidelines to base them on. ""It's a new area under the law,"" she said, and enforcement and investiga-tion strategies are still being devel-oped. ""It's not the type of thing you come up with instantaneously�espe-cially when there are no guidelines,"" she told the Higher Education Daily. But once a procedure is set up, Sandler said it makes a big difference in the number of complaints filed. GA election next week by Katherine Dunn Election for Student Government Association president, vice-president, treasurer and senators will be held Monday and Tuesday in the Univer-sity Union and Newell Dining Hall. The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. on Monday and at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Voting booths will be located on the first floor of the Union and in the Stone and Carpet Room at Newell Hall. Keith Hark, Leisa Kelley and Leon-ard Satisky are candidates for pres-ident. Hark is the current director of communications for the SGA. He heads the ticket Students for Unity. His platform includes reorganizing the speaker series. He said he would like to eliminate the speaker series as See pages 2 and 3 for complete election coverage. it is now, because the series is losing too much money. He said he would rather present single events, includ-ing speakers and cultural events. Hark said he would also move the events to Stephens Hall and have them earlier in the day so more students could attend. Reorganizing and revitalizing the Residence Council is also a priority of Hark's. He said the Council is an important part of the campus, but it should be studied to see how it can work more efficiently and for more students. The SGA lobby group is another concern of Hark's. He said a lobby group is important, but he would like to organize one in a combined effort with the administration so that neith-er one could unknowingly undermine the other's efforts. Other important parts of Hark's platform include working more closely with SGA organizations, developing a rape awareness pro-gram, and publishing student evalu-ations of faculty members. Kelley is running independently. Her platform is based on ""abolishing the SGA."" She said she would abolish the cur-rent executive structure of the SGA as soon as she is elected. Kelley would set up a conunittee of four students, two faculty members and one staff member to run the organizations. She would also set up an ad hoc committee with the same composition to study the entire SGA budgeting pro-cess. The committee would make rec-ommendations for a better budgeting process. Kelley would like to have those recommendations before she takes office so she could put them to a student vote by referendum. She said she is concerned that the same students are always involved in SGA, and she would like to get more students involved. Satisky is running independently. His platform includes studying the SGA budget allocations to determine where cuts would be made. Satisky said organizations should be given money on the basis of how much effort they put into generating their own funds. Another major plank in Satisky's platform is improving the Greek structure on campus. He said he would like to organize an SGA griev-ance committee to hear complaints of students who are not satisfied with the way SGA runs. Other important parts of Satisky's platform are upgrading security, im-proving parking and expanding the lobby group. Dave Thomas, a former SGA sena-tor, is running unopposed for vice-president. He is affiliated.sith Hark's Students for Unity ticket. Jeff DiLandro is also running unop-posed for treasurer on the Students for Unity ticket. Rick Benton, Sandra Bryan, Joann Bush, Chrostopher Davis, Brad Howatt, Beth Joseph, Joe Lis, Patricia Martinez, Mike Richard, Debra Riggin, Mark Schumaker, Stewart Shore, Eric Thompson, and K.T. Welhoelter are running for Senate on the Students for Unity ticket. Running for Senate independently are Natalie Davis, Bruce Jones, Kevin Sharun, Duane Verderaime, and Nancy Warren. Students will vote for one president, one vice-president, one treasurer, and 14 senators. All fee-paying, full-time day stu-dents are eligible to vote. The results will be announced at the end of the Senate meeting Tuesday. The meeting will be held beginning at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the Univer-sity Union and is open to the public. Master's program approved by Michael Bennett The Academic Council Monday passed a motion approving a pro-gram leading to a Masters of Science Degree in Professional Management for Non-Profit Organizations. The proposal now goes to the program committee of the Board of Trustees. If approved by the program com-mittee, the proposal must be approv-ed by the Board of Trustees, the program committee of the State Board for Higher Education (SBHE), and the SBHE before it can be im-plemented. The University hopes to implement the program in January of 1982. The ""Desegregation Impact Study For A Master of Science Degree in Professional Management for Non-Profit Organizations"" states that the purpose of the program is to provide graduate level education for students who ""need problem solving skills in order to function effectively in meeting the goals of their organization and in maintain-ing a sense of personal growth and development."" The idea for the Masters program originated in President Hoke Smith's 1979 State of the University Ad-dress. At that time Smith recom-mended the immediate considera-tion of a master's degree in admin-istration program focused on the non-profit sector. In 1979 Smith said, ""programs in public administration, business ad-minisration, and policy sciences are not fully responsive to the needs of those who administer the many ser-vice agencies in our society. ""There are distinctive character-istics of the marketing, manage-ment, governing board relation-ships, finances and personnel prac-tices of non-profit service organiza-tions."" At Monday's Academic Council meeting, Dr. Helene Breazeale spoke in favor of a motion to approve an undergraduate program in dance and dance education. According to Breazeale, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, instead of a Bachelor of Science degree, will help TSU dance majors compete in the job market. TL photo by Mike Heels In other action, the Council voted to split a previous motion to approve an undergraduate program in dance and dance education into two separ-ate motions: (1) to approve the Uni-versity's offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and (2) to approve an undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance and dance education. The mo-tions will be discussed at the Coun-cil's next meeting. The Council postponed until April a motion to accept the final report of the Ad Hoc committee on over-lapping jurisdictions. The Council also postponed a motion to assign intercollegiate athletics to the Presi-dent's office. In this issue.. ENDORSEMENTS: Towerlight's rec-ommendations for this year's SGA elections appear on page 11. We urge you to read them, use your own judg-ment and be sure to vote. RETIRING: George McGinty is retir-ing after 15 years as TSU's women's gymnastics coach. Read about his successful career on page 8. MIND MAGIC: Who would think that magic wands and fairy dust could help solve emotional problems? Ross Sharer in the Counseling Center be-lieves they can. Read how on page 4. "