tl19700501-000 "Fisher challenges right to manage internal affairs at TSC by CAROL CONNELLY President James L. Fisher is handicapped in his attempt to run TSC by the controls that the State Budget Bu-reau maintains over admin-istrative salaries and the number and types of admin-istrators hired. According to Fisher, ""the prime problem at Towson is the lack of be-ing allowed to manage our internal affairs."" Fisher requested a 12 percent in-crease for administrative salaries in his budget for 1970-71. This re-quest coincided with a salary plan proposed by the Board of Trustees. The State Budget Bureau, however, ignored both Fishers' request and the Board's recommended plan. Administrators were only given a four percent increase in their salaries for next year. As the stan-dard of living in the Baltimore area has risen seven percent, this meant that they would proportion-ately be making less money than they are now. The Governor alle-viated the situation to some extent in his supplementary budget where he increased their salaries by three percent, resulting in a seven per-cent increase over this year's sal-aries. This increase, however, when combined with the seven percent increase in the standard of living results in static salaries. Fisher plans to obtain more funds from the Governor's Emergency Fund or from TSC reversions to increase their salaries four percent more, as ha feels that many administrators merit a raise in salary. Awarding and denying raises is a basic management tool, which Fisher does not have the power to use. He feels that those who have done a good job should be reward-ed and that he should have the power to issue raises. All of the administrators work under Fisher and are responsible to him, and yet he does not have the power to determine their salaries. Wayne ,Schelle, Director of Busi-ness and Finance. did a study com-paring Towson's administrative salaries and costs to other colleges and he found that they were ""sta-tistically lower than colleges of equal size throughout the country."" Because of this Towson has diffi-culty attracting qualified people to fill administrative positions. It is even difficult to atract mem-bers of the faculty to come into the toiverlight Vol. XXII, No. 24 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 May 1, 1970 Gillespie made Dean of Students by ELIZABETH EMERSON Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, Director of Theatre at Tow-son State College, has been appointed Dean of students effective September 1, 1970, Dr. James L. Fisher announc-ed this week. Dr. Gillespie will succeed Dr. Orrielle Murphy, who has -an nounced her retirement. In making the appointment, President Fisher said, ""Dr. Gillespie's concern and special insight into the problems of students and staff has been well demonstrated during his years at Towson. I am exceedingly pleased that he has accepted the appoint-ment."" Dr. Gillespie explained, concern-ing his appointment, ""The main reason that I gave up theatre to take this job is to be able to deal directly with problems rather than just through symbolic acts in the theatre. My concern has been mainly intellectual before now."" Native Baltimorean Dr. Gillespie is a native Balti-morean and attended Guilford, Govans and Severna Park elemen-tary schools and Sykesville High School. He graduated from Prin-cipia College, Elsah, Illinois in 1951, and earned his MA and PhD in theatre arts at the University of Iowa. Before working on his advanced degrees, he served as motion picture photographer in the United States Army Signal Corps from 1952-54. Previous position held by Dr. Gillespie include Director of Thea-tre at Glassboro, State College, Glassboro, New Jersey, from 1957- 61, and Director of Summer Work-shop in Dramatic Arts at the Uni-versity of Iowa, 1963 and 1964. Photo by Thomas Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, Director of Theater at TSC, has been appointed Dean of Students, replacing retiring Dean Or-rielle Murphy. A full professor in the Depart-ment of Speech and Drama at Towson State, Dr. Gillespie has written three one-act plays and three full-length plays. All have been produced in the Baltimore area. Dr. Gillespie has served Tow-son State as a member of the Fac-ulty Fiscal Committee, Governance Committee and the Committee for the selection of Administrators. He is also currently Chairman of the Faculty Hearing Panel. He serves on the Statewide Fac-ulty Senate of Maryland State Colleges. His memberships include the American Theatre Association, Speech Association of America and the American Association of Uni-versity Professors. Dr. Gillespie and his wife, Shir-ley have two children, Douglas, 4, and Joy-Lyn, 18 months. administration because of a poten-tial decrease in salary. If an in-structor teaches during the regu-lar school year and during the summer session he would make more than an administrator since administrators cannot teach during the summer. The State Budget Bureau also maintains a control over the type of administrators hired at Towson. Although Fisher is responsible for the running of the school and is more aware of the administrative needs at Towson his attempts to choose positions that he feels are necessary have been blockd. Fisher submitted a preference list in the budget which included the administrative jobs that he and other authorities felt were the most important ones to be filled. This was done at the request of the Budget Bureau, but they failed to follow the list and ignored those that Fisher and his staff consid-ered most important. The number of administrators is ""insufficient for Towson's needs."" according to Fisher. The Maryland Council of Education sets enroll-ment projections, but as the stu-dent body grows the number of ad-ministrators does not rise propor-tionately to adequately handle the' greater number of students. This results in long hours and a great deal of work for TSC administra-tors, while they receive low salar-ies and work with inadequate oper-ating expenses. Administrative costs over both salaries and operating expenses. Schelle's study found that Towson's administrative costs per student are lower than all the other state schools�UMBC's and St. Mary's. Bowie State received $933 per stu-dent for administrative costs. The average for all of the state schools was $452 per student, whereas Towson only received $246 per stu-dent, four percent lower than the average. Throughout the country admin-istrative costs range between 15- 20 percent of the total budget. Twenty percent of the budget for the other stae schools was desig-naed by the Budget Bureau for ad-ministrative costs. Only 12 percent of Towson's total budget was allo-cated for this area. Schelle stated the following rea-sons for the discrepancies between Towson's budget and the other state colleges. 1. Towson oan work more effici-ently than the other schools be-cause of its size and therefore does not need as much money per stu-dent as a smaller school. 2. The type of students in the other schools require a large Fin-ancial Aid Department 3. Many of the other schools have been neglected in the past and the state is trying to alleviate the sit-uation. He included, though, that the funds we have receivd, are not adequate and that ""we can't make the State understand how low our administrative costs really are."" Both Fisher and Schelle think that an ideal situation would be where Towson received a certain amount of money that TSC officials could spend in areas of their choice. They are willing to take the re-sponsibility of handling Towson State. As Fisher stated, ""Give me money and let me decide how it should be allocated. It is my re-sponsibilty and I have so little to say about the management of in-ternal affairs."" SGA motions BSU and Echoes Ly MYRA WELSH The SGA Senate passed two mo-tions at the meeting Tuesday. The Financial Committee had voted unanimously to grant $500 to the Black Student Union. Before the Senate voted on the proposal, objections were voiced on is segregated. The Finance Com-mittee had assumed that the or-ganization was not segregated and that any white student entering would not be put out; but, it also assumed that the organization was formed to promote black pride. Rick Neidig stated that black pride is essential if real integra-tion is to come, and that it was essential that ""we show the blacks a sense of faith and trust."" The motion to grant the funds passed the Senate by a 14 to 8 vote. Pat Moon offered a proposal to halt financial support of the year-book, Tower Echoes, until the Sen-ate can examine whether funding the year book is in the interest of the student body. This proposal would not interfere with the cur-rent contract. The proposal was passed unani-mously. Rick Neidig confirmed that he would appoint a committee to investigate the matter as soon as he takes office May 12. The com-mittee would be broad-based to in-clude a variety of student opin-ion, and if necessary, students would be contacted by mail during the summer for their opinions. Towerlight ran a random poll to sample student opinion on year-book financing. Fifty students were polled: eight Freshmen, seventeen Sophomores, fifteen Juniors, and ten Seniors. Of these, twenty voted for the previous system whereby all students except Freshmen re-ceived a free Tower Echoes. Ten voted for the present system: free copies for seniors while others who order pay $6 additional. Twenty students voted to stop funding the book with SGA funds. They preferred that seniors and undergraduates pay the full coat of the book when ordered. Only nine of the 50 students interviewed wanted to abolish the year book. "
