The Towerlight, May 14, 1976

tl19760514-000 "in res hi he he Towerlight staff exposes itself. See pages 8 and 9.. New Moon rising over Towson? See page 4. LXVII, NO. 28 r TOWSON STATE COLLEGE MAY 14 1976 Schelle discusses coupons I Towson bills fail by Bill Stetka The food coupon system Was a ""risky effort"" accord-ing to Wayne Schelle, vice President of Business and Pinance, but was necessary because of the renovation of Newell Dining Hall. Schelle said that he has a large portion"" of his staff working on ways to avoid Problems similar to those incurred by Food Services this year, and that many of the problems have al-ready been worked out. :Al (Walsh, director of Food Services) has already begun to turn things a- Nund, said Schelle. Walsh began as director of Food ervices at Towson in Feb-tuary with 30 years of ex- 1)eriene in food manage- The renovation of Newell f�rced Towson administra-tors to make several major Changes in the operation of the food program. Both Schelle and Walsh empha-sized that the problems that were caused are only temporary."" The Newell closing for-ced the move of resident dirling. to the traditionally c�rnmuters' cafeteria and anack bar facilities in the College Center. Walsh said ithe College Center facili- ',les are not equipped to ndle the number of people department has had to leed there this year. ,��We've been feeding 38 to Is,000 people a week through ll the College Center dining Iseilities,"" he said. The third eor snack bar area was ened and, according to sish, the ""cost to operate t out-runs the take-in."" A severe lack of storage 8Pace in the College Center Meant buying higher - �11r1eed ""convenience"" foods. ""ince Walsh came in, the 4,8Partment has slowly been ble to revert back to a NW food"" program, Schelle aaid. The convenience food, Thich is already prepared, costs 15 per cent to 20 Per cent more than the raw 'nod the College would like to buy. Schelle said that it wasn't nntil Walsh came in that l'ewson was able to get an !)ternption from the state M food purchasing. The ex-tion enables Food Ser-ees to buy direct and use ""le storage areas of the ,c4nPanies they buy from ts store larger bulk quanti-ties of food. This has been 4 big help in cutting food costs, said Schelle. ,He said that the trailers rited last fall for temporary 'Lnrage failed because of eMistant breakdowns. I The overload in the Col- Lege Center dining area has n a burden on the Somat :""nchine, as well, Schelle ;5id. According to Terry nith, director of Auxiliary ""Vices, the Somat re- (Mires 10,000 man hours to �Perate. In addition, Schelle 41id, breakdowns of the So- 41.14 cost up to $2,000 to .8Pair when someone puts "" foreign object in the ma-chine. 4:We're trying to main-facilities."" t ld Schelle, noting that ve coupon system is an 4fert to provide more ;lexibility within limited `8 ties."" ; The coupon system was olstituted only as a result ots the problem caused by i"" Newell closing, accord-tl, e to Schelle. to We realized it was going !:le a problem,"" he said. e could have been real h�tiN and stayed with the seal ticket plan."" Schelle 1d, however, that staying 5th the meal ticket plan, IS is used in nearly all col- Res and was used by Tow-h5 Prior to last fall, would 4,ye necessitated many re-t� etictions on where both qbsident and commuter stu- 'llts would be allowed to eat. ""We may have tried to do too much to provide ser-vice to the students,"" said Schelle. Purchasers of the meal plan got a 15 per cent bonus in coupons, which Schelle said was not necessary. This spring, the bonus was cut to five per cent and the meal plan price decreased, and it has still resulted in many coupons being left-over at semester's end. The bulk food program was Please turn to page 4 Fisher optimistic Wayne Schelle by Steve Haas ""The big news is that an awful lot of legislation (concerning Towson) didn't pass,"" said Assistant to the President Annette Flower about the results of the recently-concluded ses-sion of the Maryland legislature. She also explained that a number of bills in the state legislature, including the University status bill, have been passed by the legis-lature and are awaiting Governor Marvin Mandel's signature on May 17. Mandel decides U-status by Bill Stetka Maryland Governor Mar-vin Mandel will take pen in hand again Monday to either sign or veto another stack of bills passed during the last session of the leg-islature. Among those bills that are expected to be placed before him is the piece of legislation that would make Towson State a university. Governor Mandel has three options once the bill is placed before him: he can sign it, he can veto it, and he can do nothing with it. If he signs the bill or does nothing with it, the bill is passed and Towson be-comes a university on July 1. If he vetoes the bill, it is defeated. Towson President James Fisher remains optimistic that the governor will sign the bill. ""We're being called a university because we are a university,"" Dr. Fisher said. ""We are not being re-born - we're being recogniz-ed for what we are."" Dr. Fisher said that the Carnegie Foundation rec-ognizes three kinds of uni- President James Fisher Unification by Kathy Pascuzzi The Unification Church, founded by Korean evan-gelist Sun Myung Moon, has bought a 9-bedroom house close to the TSC campus. The group has announced their intention to ""proselytise,"" or convert Towson students. Moon is the leader of the Church, which believes that he may be the New Messiah, here to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Church members live communally, and they publicize the fact that chastity is an important part of Moon's religious teaching. In an effort to calm worried neighbors at the Towson house, Henry Hurt, an insurance sales-man and a follower of Moon, said that there will be ""no drinking, taking of drugs or premarital sex in the house."" The Church sponsors several other groups, and according to some sources, uses about 42 ""cover organizations."" Many of these groups deal with anticommunist principles, which are an important part of Moon's teaching. One of these organiza-tions, CARP, or the Col-legiate Association for the Research of Principles, was affiliated with the SGA until recently. The SGA expelled CARP, from its support because of its connections with the Moon movement. The SGA decided that the Unification Church and its affiliated organizations represented a threat to versities: research, doc-torate and comprehensive. He said that the Founda-tion recognizes Towson as ""a comprehensive univer-sity."" ""People external to our institution see Towson State as one of the most distinguished universities of its kind in the United States,"" Dr. Fisher said. The Towson president said that the Attorney General's office has checked the bill and assured that it is legal. What if the governor ve-toes the measure? ""We press on,"" said Dr. Fisher. ""Our case is so refined - it is clear, con-cise and undisputable."" Dr. Fisher said that, in the event Governor Man-del vetoes the bill, the new Board of Trustees of Mary-land State Colleges can rec-ommend passage. In fact, he said, the Board has the authority to grant univer-sity status. ""Looking back, I think we took the right course,"" he said. ""I can't see that he won't sign it."" There was, however, as Dr. Fisher himself noted, some hesitation in his voice on that comment. Church near school education, since the new convert to the Church is sometimes urged to leave school, home and family to work full-time in the movement. At Dartmouth College, it was reported that 21 students left the college in one day, to join the Moon movement. Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, New York reported on this and other information he has gathered in an intense study of the situation. Dr. Dorothy Siegel, Dean of Students and Vice President of the College, has been in touch with Rabbi Davis in order to learn something about the cult. Davis described for her the various stages in the conversion of a Church member. He says that the converts are exposed to the teachings of the group gradually. The first step, says Rabbi Davis, is that the Church member makes friends with the student in the College Center, then invites him to dinner. The dinner is followed by an invitation to a weekend workshop, then longer and longer ones, until the convert is encouraged to move away from home and drop out of school. The same pattern was described in more detail by Mr. Paul Engel, who is a former Church member. He and David both describe the encourage-ment given Church mem-bers to lie, since according to Davis, this is ""heavenly deception"", and is a way of ""fighting outside ways."" Dr. Siegel has also been in touch with the parents of one of the three TSC students who have dropped out of school to join the movement. She said that these parents are very worried about their son, and that they have not been able to contact him since he went away to join the Church. In describing the typical student who is susceptible to the conversion techni-ques of the group, Dr. Siegel said that the student whose parents she had spoken with was ""a nice guy"" the kind of guy, she Please turn to page 4 ""May 17 is the last day to sign statutory bills,"" Flower said. ""That's the day he will sign whatever bills he plans to sign. He (Mandel) likes to sign on the last possible day. The delay is partly because his legal analysis office must study the full implications of the bills before he signs them."" ""All of the proposed school reform bills failed,"" she said. One major bill, intended to change the process of senatorial scho-larship selection, was among them. The bill was created to eliminate the situation in which state senators per-sonally select the recip-ients of scholarships, often with only a limited know-ledge of the background of the candidates. The bill contained a recommenda-tion to institute a central commission which could evaluate the merits of the individual candidates and act accordingly, but it was voted down. Another rejected bill dealt with the proposal of allowing students to use credit cards to pay school tuition and expenses. Flower remarked, ""The main issue that the papers brought about this bill was that students were un-aware of the interest charges involved with us-ing credit cards. (The legislature) didn't want the students to fall into the trap of high carrying interest charges."" A bill seeking to give students credit against their state income tax for ""educational purposes"" was nixed. In an aborted attempt to lessen the impact of the rising cost of school-related items, the bill attempting to exempt school textbooks from sales tax was not accepted by the legisla-ture. ""Considering that students are paying about $100 a year for textbooks now,"" observed Flower. ""The bill would have saved them about $4 or $5, and every little bit helps."" In an effort to correct the furor over increased use of marketed term papers in classes, a bill proposing that the sale or purchase of termpapers be made illegal was drawn up in the House of Representatives, but it ""never got out of the House,"" Flower said. The Towson police bill, Please turn to page 5 Annette Flower Health dept inspects by Ruth Ann Leftridge The Baltimore County Health Department made a routine inspection of TSC's Food Services' facilities on Friday, May 7, according to Al Walsh, Director of Food Services. Walsh explained that his department is in ""violation of the health laws with the salad tables which are not refrigerated."" To be in ac-cordance with the Health Department's require-ments, salad bars must be refrigerated and must have sneeze guards. At this time, Food Services does not meet either requirement. The Director of Food Ser-vices felt this was the most significant part of the Health Department's eval-uation, and he said, ""I don't have an instant solution."" Walsh explained that, since the salad bars are so popu-lar, Food Services will try to work out an alternative arrangement. Another violation cited by the Health Department was the ""non-refrigerated storage of food."" These two things must be taken care of before the Health De-partment returns in ap-proximately a month and a half to reinspect the faci-lities. Other small complaints were able to be corrected immediately, according to Walsh. ""Baltimore County (Health Department) is very strict, as they should be,"" stated Walsh. ""They were very fair in their inspection."" Tuition rise set by Eileen Power Tuition for out-of-state students at Towson will be increased by $25 a semes-ter as of Fall 1976. The increase comes as a result of a recommendation by the Board of Trustees to Governor Marvin Mandel. Kenneth Miller, state budget analyst for higher education, explained that the additional revenues will be applied to the Desegregation Program. This increase will affect all Maryland state colleges. In addition to increased tuition, a fee increase will be implemented that will affect all full-time day students. The comprehen-sive fee will be an extra $60, and the athletic fee an extra $10. This means non- Maryland residents will pay an additional $120 a year and residents will pay an additional $70 a year. Fees are broken down as follows: Fee Curriculum Registration Student Activity Athletic College Center Construction College Center Operation Total Maryland residents will pay a total of $697 a year while non-resident will pay $1197 a year. The Board of Trustees for State Colleges allowed a curriculum fee increase of up to $100, but Towson felt that only a $60 a year increase was needed. Most of other state colleges went the entire $100 increase. Wayne Schelle, Vice President of Business and Finance, explained the additional funds will ""pro-vide for thirteen new faculty positions, twenty-one housekeepers and three watchmen for the new Educational-Psy-chology building and the new Physical Education building. In addition ap-proximately 750 new park-ing spaces will be provided to the students, faculty and staff of the College."" Year Semester $325.00 $162.50 20.00 10.00 25.00 12.50 40.00 20.00 65.00 32.50 22.00 11.00 $497.00 $248.50 Senate storms over food by Steve Verch Indicative of the growing storm at Towson State concerning alleged Food Services mismanagement, the SGA Senate suspended it,s rules to adopt a resolution (S.B. #4) at last Tuesday's meeting reques-ting that a ""representa-tive"" of that department ""come before the College Affairs Committee"" to an-swer questions about the new meal plan to be established for next semes-ter's full-time resident stu-dents. Resident students are currently required to pur-chase the meal plan, which costs $335 this semester. Other full-time day stu-dents may also purchase the plan, but are not required. S.B. #4, sponsored by Senator S. Marc Land and William Hannon reads as follows: ""Be it know that the Student Government Association of Towson State College believes that it is only fair that students be aware of any changes in the meal plan for next Hartung, Lewis to leave by Steve Verch Student Government As-sociation President Joanne Finegan has announced Good times were enjoyed by all who attended this year's Spring Homecoming. TL photo by Steve Converse that the current SGA cabi-net secretaries Jerry Ilar-tung and Mark Lewis have agreed to continue on in their positions and to work with her recent cabinet choices next fall in an at-tempt to insure proper func-tioning of SGA depart-ments. Last week Finegan named sophomore John Shehan, Student Informa-tion Service Coordinator, and senior Matt McGlone, to replace Hartung and Lewis as Secretaries of Or-ganizational and General Services and of Institu-tional and Community De-velopment. ""I know I needed a transi-tional period, and I felt John and Matt could use one. Also, Jerry and Mark are involved in projects that just cannot drop,"" said Finegan. Commenting on Fine-gan's picks, former candi-dates for SGA president, vice - president Hartung, Lewis explained the situa-tion. ""It's hard for us to just leave because we've been working on projects that have to be completed.... (such as) the Calendar, get-ting the Videotape network through, the Speaker Series,"" said Hartung. ""We'll work with them (Shehan and McGlone) from September through til Oc-tober,"" he added. Hartung, like Lewis, will attend classes through the sum-mer and will graduate in December. While Hartung and Lewis expressed good feelings toward Shehan, they claim-ed they did not know Mc- Glone. ""He's very energetic; he'll work his head off,"" said Lewis of Shehan. However, referring to McGlone, he said that he and Hartung had ""never met him."" Asked to explain why she chose McGlone, Finegan re-iterated that he had a good background, majoring in Mass Communications and Business. In last week's Towerlight, Finegan stated that this type was impor-tant if McGlone was to work on the Concert Series. This week, Finegan said that McGlone was ""a per-son that I've known over this past year."" Finegan admitted that he Please turn to page 4 semester. ""Therefore, be it re-solved that the Student Government Association present a break-down on the meal plan for next semester. This will be requested from the Food Serices."" Upon passage of this resolution, the Senate re-quests a representative of Food Services to come before the College Affairs committee in order that they may ask questions and make recommenda-tions concerning the plan. Senator Jeff Errington voiced his concern for the situation, pointing out that this semester's plan had left him without enough coupons to last through the last days of the semester. ""I paid for enough food to eat the entire semester, and I don't care...I'm gonna eat if I have to rip the shit off,"" he said heatedly. After debate on the subject was ended, a move was made to suspend the rules and vote directly on S.B. #4. Following normal procedure would have re-quired that the bill be referred to committee for consideration. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. Senator Angela Pierce took the occasion to label one of last week's Tower-light articles about Food Services as ""vague"" and said the article was ""poor-ly written."" However, Pierce did not specify. which article she meant. During discussion of S.B. #4, Senator Steve Tobias said that he had seen College President James Fisher about the Food Services issue and told him of the Senate's intent to investigate it. ""Fisher was visibly. shaken,"" claimed Tobias. ""An hour later he was on the phone...(to Food Ser-vices)."" Tobias explained the college president's actions. ""He was jolted because I said we had started an investigation and that we had people from Food Services who would come, forward and tell us what they knew."" Earlier in the Senate meeting, Tobias had claim-ed that the College Affairs Committee (of which he is a member) had ""no good leads"" about the Food Please turn to page 4 "