The Towerlight, March 6, 1986

tl19860306-000 "Senate finally passes AIDS policy The Towson State Senate accepted the AIDS policy that Was presented to the legislative body last month. After momentary deliberation spurred by University Vice President Dorothy Siegel over the actual wording of the policy, it was unanimously accepted. The policy states, ""No student, faculty or staff member shall be denied access to the academic, social, or employment Opportunities offered by Towson State University solely because he/she has AIDS or is an HTLV-III carrier. Decisions about faculty, staff members, or students with AIDS will be made on a case-by-case basis by the appropriate vice president. Educational programs are provided which inform the campus community of ways to minimize the risk of transmission of AIDS."" Steps are being taken t') make this policy known to all University faculty, staff, and students. The administration will Print the statement in the Compass, the Personnel manual, the Faculty Handbook, and the Continuing Studies Chronicle. During the consideration of the Policy it was brought up that the agreed upon statement was not really helpful to an individual concerned about AIDS. ""The intent of the bill is to show that Towson State does not discriminate against individuals With AIDS, but help for a concerned individual is available at the health center,"" Siegel said. James Saylor Debate scores again Towson State's Forensics Union won twelve awards this Past weekend, including a first Place debate award at Capital University in Ohio, and a third Place sweepstakes in the New England Championships. At Capital University the varsity team faced competition from Michigan State, Emerson, and the University of Illinois. Lisa Donoho and Debbie Edmun d advanced to the acto-final round, and the team of Lynn Weber and Julia O'Hara won the tournament. In addition, O'Hara Won an award for seventh Speaker and Weber received an avvard for fourth speaker. Facing competition at the New s;rtgland Championship from .�Inerson, MIT, Cornell and 20ston College, ten of the towson squad's speakers and debaters, and two debate teams did well. The team of Carol dliPpersberger and Osa Eghafona Ivent to semi-finals with Cornell, ahrld the team of Bob Gallon and u'ruce Winters went to quarter � Along with these two teams, team of Laverna Harris and 'bette McDonald scored with �lir wins, and only two losses. . Towson State also had finalists four individual events. Brian arke was a finalist in extemp tlad rhetorical criticism. Sandy J oy was a finalist in persuasion. ,,a/1 Costanza won a first place 'f 'r her rhetorical criticism of Bill osby, and was a finalist in laformation. Is In the future the debaters will ""e competing in JV finals at weeks Mason University in two ""eeks. campus notes ?�? Inside Tumbling tigers The gymnastics team will have its fourth shot at William & Mary when it competes in the ECAC championships 6 SGA election Candidate info 4,9. Sub-par season The end of the men's basket-ball season came to a familiar close when TSU lost in the 1st game of the ECC tournament 5 ""Fascinating"" Junior Leslie Resnick tells of life on a kibbutz in Israel and at school in France 8 Campus notes from all over Howard University students picketed D.C. radio station WWDC trying to get disc jockey Doug Tracht, better known as the ""Greaseman"" fired for racial slurs made about Martin Luther t{ing's birthday. Tracht ""joked"" that if killing one black leader was cause for a day off, killing four more would give the nation a whole week of vacation ... The Leadership Institute gave awards for ""skewed facts,"" and ""liberal bias"", when it named the Washington State Evergreen, the Idaho Argonaut, the Wayne State South End, the Current at George Washington, and the North Texas Daily as the most liberally biased student newspapers ... Northern Illinois University students now must know the state and federal constitutions, the Declaration of Independence and how to care properly for the U.S. flag before getting their diplomas ... A Simmons Market Research study found that one in five college students has more than $200.00 a month to spend. Of those with the extra money 66 percent hold part-time jobs ... College Press Service Campus notes are continued on page 2 The Published weekly by the students of Towson State University g j Towson, Md 21204 Vol. 79 No. 20 March 6. 1986 Not tonight , honey National television show We ('att Make You Laugh, was on campus Monday night as part of a special week of activities sponsored by the Student Activities Board. The object of the game is to make contestants laugh at comedians and therefore lose. IAC decides the track program will stay By Edvins Lagzdins By Lisa M. Quill Athletic director Billy Hunter submit-ted a new proposal to the Inter-collegiate Athletic Committee Friday, asking that Towson State continue sup-porting 22 varsity sports�including track. Instead of eliminating the six track teams, the new proposal simply modified the existing programs in the areas of scheduling, facilities, and fund-ing. The IAC unanimously approved the revised proposal. According to Hunter, ""the revised proposal is from a lot of soul searching, letters, phone calls from the track team, alumni and administration. I feel com-fortable with this. I hope the track team will."" Under this accepted proposal, each cross country team is permitted a max-imum eight meets and the four track and field teams (men's and women's in-door and outdoor) can run in up to 32 contests. Although the cross country teams can particiapte in the same number of meets as they did this year, the other sports are dropping from 49 meets�this season's schedule. All future prospec-tive races must receive administrative approval before scheduling. ""What we have to do is meet ex-penses. The dollars cut from track pro-bably won't make much difference on the other sports,"" said Hunter, adding ""reducing the number of meets could cut the budget by one-third."" Facility modification will be in the form of Towson Center availability as well as transportation usage. No week-day indoor track meets may begin before 7:00 p.m., and Towson Center will be avilable for practice only after December 1, and only two times each week - if feasible. Also, the men's and women's meets must coincide so that the coach is able to travel with both teams. ""I'm not about to do away with the in-door program,"" said Hunter. ""The in-door facility is the bug-a-boo. My job is to make those teams work within the budget. In essence I'm not doing away with indoor, I'm just limiting it."" Finally, there will be no meets scheduled during the mini-mester; on-campus expenses incurred at such time will not be covered by the athletic department. The funds saved from mini-mester expenses and budget cutbacks will be u.ied to hire one full-time coach, who will handle all six sports. No assistants will be hired. ""Having only one coach will difficult,"" Bill Robertson, a member of the track team, said, ""because track is such a diverse sport."" ""I'm trying to improve the whole [athletic department],"" said Hunter, ""but I want it to be Division I. Nobody on campus seems to understand we are Division I. I want the teams we have to be competitive on the Division I level. If they can't, I would propose dropping."" Hunter added that he ""feels good in my heart that we still have a track team."" ""It's the best we could do under the circumstances,"" said Robertson. ""At least we saved the team. A lot of the younger runners aren't happy because they don't know if it will continue next year. They're afraid that Hunter has tried to make it so that the program will fizzle out in the next couple of years. It's still up in the air; at least there is still a team."" The three other objectives from Hunter's original proposal were also passed unanimously. As a result, a full-time women's lacrosse-field hockey coach, a full-time volleyball-softball coach, an assistant gymnastics coach, and an assistant football-weight room-coach will be hired; the reorganization of emphasized sports and levels of scholarship assistance were also ap-proved. Level A sports will be men's basket- See IAC, page 2 Alexander Haig calls for balanced foreign policy By Michele Hart As part of the 1985-86 SGA Speaker Series, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig was on campus Tues-day night to share his views on cur-rent issues and problems faced by the United States and the world. ""I've been involved directly or in-directly in every foreign policy crisis that we have had since 1950 and as a result of that I've drawn some conclu-sions about myths and realities. So I try to express those, and I address some contemporary issues,"" Haig said in an interview before his lecture. The following are exerpts from that interview. The Phillipines: ""The jury is still out,"" on the Phillipines Haig said, but he does feel that former Phillipine President Mar-cos should be allowed to stay in this country for as long as he chooses. ""It is important for Americans to remember that when we deal with a leader of a friendly or an allied state for 20 years, like we have with Mr. Marcos, that this incurs some obliga-tions. And if we were to repeat the mistakes of our handling of the Shah [of Iran], I think the message sent around the world to nations who share our values or at least see a common interest is devastating. They ask themselves frequently, if with a friend like the United States, do you need any enemies?"" Haig is optimistic that the relations between the U.S. and the Phillipines will not change since President Aquino has taken power. He said the United States has incurred an ""obligation to be sure that Mrs. Aquino succeeds."" The prospects of Soviet U.S. arms 'control: Haig said that ""of course"" it is possible for the United States and the Soviet Union to reach an arms control agreement; but that the challenge is to recognize that ""arms control for arms control's sake is not the solution to the worrisome competititon that ex-ists between the United States and the Soviet Union."" ""A lack of arms control progress, unfortunate and undesirable as it is, is far less dangerous than a lack of pro-gress in the political areas. And I'm talking about the Soviet proclivity and support for bloodshed, terrorism, and so-called wars of liberation around the world. It is from these situations that we face a threat to peace."" The possibiity of a nuclear war: ""I don't think there is a likelihood of nuclear war,"" Haig said, ""Even though the balances are getting dangerous between ourselves and the Soviet Union."" ""I don't think the leadership in either capital believes that win or lose, there will be any winners,"" Haig added. But, according to the General ""if the Soviets enjoy advanced superior-ity in nuclear weapons, then in areas where no nuclear weapons will be us-ed, they nevertheless take greater and greater risks. And it is that risk taking that could inadvertantly lead to nuclear war."" Strategic Defense Initiative.: Haig said the public promotion of Star Wars was premature; not because he is against Star Wars, but because it has complicated the arms control dialogue. ""The uncertainties of the technology are such that we would have been better served by increasing our research and development effort quietly, and not have talked about it publicly until we knew that we were facing the deployment decision,"" Haig said. Haig added that raising SDI early has had a number of bad side effects including giving the Soviet Union another ""propaganda bludgeon."" It has also he said, ""raised some unfor-tunate associated rhetoric which I think is unsound."" See INTERVIEW, page 2 By Kelso Sturgeon Former Secretary of State Alex-ander Haig, primping for a possible 1988 presidential campaign, told a Chesapeake Room audience of about 700 that world peace is possi-ble if a balanced and consistent U.S. foreign policy can be developed. Haig, Secretary of State in the Reagan government from 1981 to 1982, supreme commander of NATO forces from 1974 to 1979 and presidential chief of staff in the clos-ing days of the Nixon administra-tion, played down speculation about his presidential aspirations, but said that he would decide whether or not to run after the 1986 congres-sional elections. Haig resigned from the Reagan government over what he saw as poor handling of American interests in Lebanon. He said that after the U.S. Marine barracks was bombed killing more than 250 U.S. Marines he would have retaliated against Syrian-supported militias in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. ""The president was more worried about how the American electorate would react than about how the perpetrators of the crime would react,"" Haid said. President Reagan's concern for popularity with the American peo-ple creates problems in U.S. foreign policy, according to Haig. ""One of the difficult aspects of leadership,"" he said, ""is that some-times you have to do what's right and sometimes what is right is not what is popular."" Haig said that at the time of the barracks' bombing the president lacked adequate evidence to con-clude that the Syrians had been in-volved. But, more evidence has been gathered by U.S. intelligence agen-cies over the last 2 years and there is no question now that Syria was involved. ""Our law enforcement agencies can handle the John Hinkleys, the iroardeiicganl , policy ko ky stgeerrnorrieissmm, ubsutt roeusr. pond to state-sponsored terrorism,"" he said. As long as people have com-plaints there will be terrorism, Haig said. ""But, state-sponsored ter-rorism is an act of war and the United States must respond against the bloody perpetrators of state-sponsored terrorism."" Haig described recent U.S. in-volvement in the peaceful transfer of government from long time U.S. ally Ferdinand Marcos to Corazon Aquino in the Phillipines as a corn-bination of the ""realpolitik of Henry Kissinger and the idealism of Jim-my Carter."" U.S. actions in the Phillipines suggest a balanced foreign policy he said, but it is too early to decide By Alex Landau Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig told a sold out Chesapeake Room audience March 3, that it is too early to, announce whether he will ran for presi-dent. whether or not the change in Phillipine governments will be a positive one for U.S. strategic in-terests in the Pacific region. ""Certainly,"" he said, ""in light of See LECTURE, page 2 "