TL20070510-01 "www.thetowerlight.com Towson Tigers face fourth-seeded Cornell Big Red Saturday in NCAA tournament opening round Sports, page 24 Thursday Now on TheTowerlight.com: Participate in our online poll and listen to the Towerlight Sports Podcast... Jammin� in the Circle GenEd review begins Gearing up for finals Library extends hours to assist students preparing for exams Sharon Leff Editor in Chief With the sun at his back, freshman Carroll Zentz strums his guitar for a small cluster of students at the Speaker�s Circle. Some students sing along with him on the warm Wednesday afternoon, and others chat among themselves, using Zentz�s music as background. On their way to class or to the Brick Street Caf� they turn their heads and listen to tunes by the likes of Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Lynyrd Skynyrd. In between songs, Zentz gets requests from people on the grass. Zentz and two of his friends, freshman Brian Debbie and sophomore Chris Bologna, decided to perform for no reason other than because they enjoy it. �It�s a beautiful day. It�s the first time [we�ve done it] but we�re going to do it again,� Zentz said. The trio brought an amp, cords, two gui-tars, borrowed a microphone from the Media Center, and used a cigarette butt receptacle as the mic stand. The group didn�t ask for permission from anyone to perform and were out there from noon to about 5 p.m. �Yesterday was really nice out and I had the idea because me and my friends always play together,� Debbie said. He sent out a Facebook event invitation, but friends and non-friends alike showed up to listen. �There have been a lot of people. Before, the whole hill was full,� Zentz said. Debbie got the idea after seeing there was an electrical outlet outside of Brick Street. He brought his laptop and used the school�s wireless connection to look up lyrics and guitar tabs for songs. He set up his guitar case for cigarette donations. �We�re trying to start a band and we met some guy who plays drums. It�s a good way to meet people,� he said. Bologna said Debbie and Zentz were friends before he met them. �I met them a couple months ago and that was the first thing [we did]- We just met and jammed,� Bologna said. Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Freshman Brian Debbie, left, and sophomore Chris Bologna play and guitar and sing Wednesday afternoon in the Speaker�s Circle. �We just plugged up and started playing,� Carroll Zentz, another guitarist said. The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly May 10, 2007 Krysten Appelbaum Senior Editor In Cook Library, books and papers are spread over desks littered with empty coffee cups and crushed Red Bull cans. The only sounds are the tapping of fingers on keyboards, the flipping of book pages, the hum of the fluorescent lights, and the clicking of the clock hands ticking away the minutes until test time. The monotonous sounds are only interrupted by stu-dents� groans and sighs as they look up to see the hour hand turn to 4 a.m. There is still a lot of work to do. See EXAM, page 15 Warm weather draws crowds to impromptu musical performance Brian Stelter Senior Writer Towson is moving forward with its first review of the General Education curriculum in over a decade. The results will determine the kind of classes every future student must take at TU. A committee of faculty members, administrators and students has spent the semester discussing a wide range of ideas. Some of the proposals � a streamlined course structure, interdisciplinary approaches, civic engage-ment emphasis, seminar courses connecting the classes � could be incorporated in a revised curriculum. �General Education is essential education,� com-mittee member Howard Nixon, professor in the sociology, anthropology and criminal justice depart-ment, said. �It�s the education that puts the Towson imprint on a student�s higher [education] experience. See CLASS, page 8 "
