The Towerlight, March 9, 1979

tl1970309-000 "VOL. LXXII No.dle )9 ""(t 0113ettigt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Weekend Weather: Highs be-tween 40 and 50 with lows be- ""tween 30 and 40 all weekend. Mostly sunny today, mostly cloudy tomorrow with chance of showers through Sunday. March 9, 1979 SGA elections start Monday by Debbie Pelton In preparation for the SGA general elections that begin Monday, members of the Partners for Progress and Fedulus Poplorum Servus tickets are racing swiftly down the campaign trail. Both presidential candidates, Milissa Murray (Fedulus) and Will Neumann (Partners) and their runn-ing mates, have expressed interest in accomplishing several goals should they be elected. Neumann and his vice-presidential rnate, Mike Burns and prospective treasurer Jim Szymanski said, if elected, they would like to concen-trate on bridging the gap between commuters and residents. ""The cam- Pus dies on Friday nights,"" said Burns, because there is nothing to tempt commuters to return to or stay on campus. The Partners ticket has outlined plans to establish a Social Board com-posed of the Director of Organizations as chairperson, three Senators and five members at large to be selected by the Senate. The assistant treasurer will serve as the group's treasurer. All organizations planning events would be required to do so through the board. The board's purpose will be to Prevent overlapping of events and to assure events are spread out equally over the weekends. Another way the Partners are con-sidering to boost on-campus activities Is to challenge the University's alcohol Policy. Organizations are presently required to purchase alcohol from Servomation. Beer prices at the events is 60 cents per glass. Neumann said he thinks the high beer prices at organization events and the Pub causes students to opt for local bars where beer is less expen-sive. Another way students avoid the Pub beer prices is to drink cases of beer or bottles of liquor in the dor-mitories. Neumann suggested this practice may encourage vandalism in the dorms. Neumann said he plans to carefully study the alcohol policy and hopefully, find a loophole in the contract. Another technique he said he plans to employ is urging organizations to hold events on Thursday nights, the same night as the Pub. Maybe if the Pub has competition, said Neumann, lower at-tendance will force Servomation to lower its prices. The party is also considering trying to get the Pub to stay open from 4-8 p.m. every night to serve food to day students still in the Union and night students who may not get a chance to eat before coming to school. Neumann said he would like to get more night students involved in cam-pus activities so they would feel more comfortable at Towson. Neumann said he is concerned about the University's reputation as an undependable source of social events. He said the Speaker Series, which is $19,000 in the red, might sell better if six speakers, not eight, are scheduled. Also, getting a wider variety of speakers might interest more people. This year's series was dominated by media personalities, said Szyman-ski. ""We should be getting the people who make the news, not the people who report it,"" he said. The Partners are also considering a different approach to selection of speakers which may include the addi-tion of Speech and Mass Communica-tion instructor Dr. Richard Vatz. Another area the party thinks the University needs to reestablish continued or, page 3 Pinball Wizard Three-year-old Jessica, a student at the day care shows the grim determina-tion of a tough competitor as she takes two games in a row from the ""Lost World"" game in the University Union recreation center. Lucky for Jessica, there wasn't enough of her to cause a tilt. TL Photo by Stan Obeamp Identity of candidates baffles some by John Bennett Quick, what are the names of the two candidates for Student Government Association President? If you haven't been-able to come up with an answer, don't feel too bad. You are not alone. With the SGA general elections scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, many students still have no idea who is running, despite large expenditures for publicity by both candidates, Milissa Murray and William Neumann. An informal Towerlight poll taken earlier this week found that only four people out of 30 knew the names of both candidates. Another three students knew one or the other, while 23 out of 30 students didn't know the names of either. Murray has spent over $500 on the campaign so far, and Neumann expects to spend about $600. In both cases the money has been going mainly for Towerlight ads and printing materials. Murray acknowledges that many students are apathetic, and says she ""hopes to make the SGA available to those who do care."" She says that some students ""just won't care"" no matter what the candidates do. ""They (the students) don't realize the influence they can have on the university,"" said Murray. ""There's a lot that they can do."" Murray also said that she agrees that the campaigns ""are not very substantive in platform,"" and that there is little real difference between the two tickets. Neumann isn't surprised at his relative anonymity. He attributes the wide spread apathy to lack of enthusiasm in commuter students. He said many of these students don't even know what the letters SGA stand for. Neumann said he plans ,to schedule events that ""bring residents and commuters together,"" even though this promise has been heard before. Neumann also said he is trying to get more people to vote. but he isn't sure the candidates can do much more about voter turnout than they already are doing. The two candidates had differing predictions concerning next week's turnout. Neumann said that this year's turnout could be larger than last year's record total. However, even last year only about 19 per cent of those eligible voted. , Murray said that the total turnout would probably be less than last year's, but she hopes it might at least be the same. If you made it through this article, at least now you know the names of the candidates for president, even if you are among the 80 percent of the eligible voters who probably won't vote. But can anybody name the candidates for vice-president? Leftoverfood common at Newell by Karen DiPasquale ""It's difficult to imagine that 1,100 students could eat 2,800 to 3,000 desserts during one dinner,"" said John Downs, food services director. The desserts are not really being eaten, rather they are being thrown away, as is much of the other food in Newell Dining Hall. ""There's no way to tell exactly how much waste there has been so far this semester,"" said Downs. Servomation has only been operat-ing for six weeks. ""The amount of Waste is double any other college I've worked for,"" he added. Downs said that he has seen food Coming back untouched into the dishroom. Paul Stein, chairman of the food committee, also said there IS a high percentage of food waste. ""Cakes come back (to the dish room) with one bite out of them. Roast beef comes back untouched and two and three glasses of Coke Come back full."" ""The cost from food waste will be reflected in next semester's meal Plans,"" said Downs. Students do not realize that when they throw away Portions of food or take trays, forks, spoons and glasses from the dining hall, that it affects them heavily. Servomation has to spend more Money to replace the missing items and purchase more food. Besides the waste, the rising costs of food will affect meal prices next semester. One example, said Downs, is ground beef prices which have gone up 59 percent from last year. Ground beef is used in many meals that Servomation serves. ""Not only ground beef, but all food prices have gone up,"" exclaimed Downs. Because of the rise in food prices, plus the standard costs of employee salaries, equipment, renovation., trash removal and overhead, ""Ser-vomation is not making any money,"" said Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance. Newell Residence Program bud-get includes $643,000 for ARA and Servomation expenses for the past year. Of that, $38,000 was allocated for meal improvements. ""This was above and beyond the original meal plans,"" said Schelle. Schelle predicts that Servomation will request more money for the next school year when they meet for their annual budget meeting in April. ""If more money is needed for food, it will have to be taken out of the $45,000 net surplus we (the university) make."" TSU's goal during a school year is to earn a five per cent surplus from the Newell Residence Program. ""The $45,000 is only about four and a half percent,"" said Schelle. Downs said, ""Everyone wants me to say we'll decrease food quality, because of the rising prices, but food quality will not decrease."" Although food waste is evident, no data has been compiled on exactly how much has been wated. Neither has there been any invest ig,ation into ways to stop the One day added to semester by Paul Gilmore The Academic Council changed its mind Monday and voed to add two class days to the semester to compensate for days lost to the snow. The Council adopted a recommendation sent to them by Acting President Cox to use Reading Day, May 17 as a day of classes and May 18, formerly the first day of exams, as a day of classes to follow a Wednesday schedule. The exam week will now begin on Monday May 21 and extend through Monday May 28 which is Memorial Day. The motion passed 13 to 6 with one absentention while a proposed amendment to make the additional class days optional failed. The decision came one week after the council refused to adopt any of the options for making up classes presented to them by the Registrar. The Registrar's proposals, however, called for making up all five days lost to the snow whereas the present motion only calls for two. Wayne Schelle, Vice-President for Business and Finance said the extension would cost the University ""around $2,000 and at the most $5,000. All is required is to keep the Dining Hall open through the weekend and only 10 to 15 per cent of the students will be left on campus by then,"" he said. ""I was very pleased,"" said Cox, ""with the way the University acted and the fact that they were not required to act."" Technically, the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities has a standard of minimum classes to be held during the semester but both Cox and Acting Dean Sheets guessed the policy would not be enforced. l'At this point no one has told us we have to do anything,"" Cox told the Council. He did tell the Council he was concerned with the loss of school days. ""How can I admit to myself there's fat to be cut out of a 14 week semester and then put on the white hat and argue before the General Assembly that there's no waste at Towson. ""If we now say we can live with the loss of a week out of a 14 week semester we are arguing against ourselves,"" he said. Debate on the issue was short compared to the lengthy debate over the proposals in the meeting one week earlier. Both Michelle Wilson and Laura Hawkins, student members of the Council, expressed concern over the Council's credibility if they changed their minds over another issue. Some members of the Council felt the Coun-cil was losing respect since it almost overruled itself recently on the additional emphasis for athletics issue and now the snow days. ""I can envision people saying, 'Well, the council said this this week but wait 'til next week,"" said Hawkins. Some members of the Council had received many com-plaints from faculty who felt the Council was unwise in their decision to not make up any snow days. It became apparent, though, that no matter which decision the Coun-cil made it was going to lose popularity. ""We're probably not going to win no matter which way you move,"" Dean Esslinger, chairperson of the Council said. ""We alienated half the faculty last week, now we can change and alienate the other half this week."" After approving the motion to extend the semester, the Council balked at the motion to adopt a Computer Science Department. Computer Science is currently offered under the realm of General Studies. The Council will meet again April 2 to resolve that issue and others. waste. ""February was a difficult month to) evaluate the food service,"" said Schelle. ""Because of snow days, most students just stayed in and ate."" Servomation ranks over ARA by Karen DiPasquale About 91 percent of Towson State students surveyed over the past two weeks are more satisfied with Servomation this semester than they were with ARA last semester. The students, who were found in classrooms and various dorms on campus, were asked to fill out an anonymous survey consisting of questions involving meal plans, changes in food and satisfaction with food. The most common remark of those surveyed was that the food is now hot. Also, some students wrote that the food tastes better and the service in Newell Dining Hall is better. The variety of meals is also something the students are happy with. More vegetables and fruits are also favorable to most students, and the salad bar is heavily used. Some students also commented on the convenience of the sandwich bar. ""Most students are happier with the Servomation food,"" said Paul Stein, chairman of the Food Committee. ""There have been very few complaints."" � As a result of the apparent improved food, 58 percent of those surveyed ate more meals on their meal plan this semester. However, 33 percent did not eat the full 'amount of meals. One reason for this was that some students on athletic teams do not get to the dining hall in time for dinner. Also, many students are away on weekends , and some students are employed by Serviimation and do not have their Valadine cards punched the full amount of times. Other results of the survey show 56 percent did not eat the full amount of 'meals on their meal Plans. ""I find that impossible to believe,"" said John Downs, director of food services. ""Of the 1,800 who are supposed to be fed (at TSU and, (Gfo ucher), we are feeding 80 percent them."" Despite the apparent success of Servomation, Wayne Schelle, vice president of business and finance, said, ""Servomation is not making any money."" One reason for this is the increase in the purchase of smaller meal plans. Eight hundred seventy six students purchased the 10-meal plan this semester, as compared to, 526 students last semester. The 19-meal plan de-creased from 189 to 122 purchases. Another reason is the abundant food Waste seen in Newell Dining Hall. Schelle, forsees that Servomation will ask for more money to operate when representatives meet with him at the annual budget 'meeting in about a month. In This Issue Inside Carl Runk To many of his past and pre-sent players, head lacrosse coach Carl Runk is a man with two personalities. Known as a nice guy off the field, he can become explosive on the field or in the locker room -- so say some of his players. Get inside the world of Coach Runk page 16 CENSORED ""The Coming of Misty Beethoven"" won't be coming here. It's been banned by Maryland's Censor Board. -Grossly obscene,"" said the Board's controversial Mary Avara. Find out why its ""Ban-ned in Baltimore"" page 2 Austere budget? President Carter has proposed a budget he calls ""austere:"" austere with a $29 billion deficit. However some economists don't see much austerity. Rather they see a continuing growth in the public sector that threatens American freedom. This week's Marketplace con-tributor is one of those economists page 15 "