tl20010514-000 "Summer 2001 www.thetowerlight.com iigh Published twice-weekly by students of Towson University 5/14/01 Parking woes expected in fall 3 Sequels flood summer season 11, Tigers advance in NCAA tourney 19 Departments News 3 A&E 11 Sound Bites 17 Wrasslin' Weekly 18 Sports 19 Year in Review 20 Athletes of the Year....23 Op/Ed 26 May 14,2001 This is our last issue of the year. Pick up The Towerlight again August 27. 2001: A Towson Odyssey isconsin-Green Ba committe _flat in' a p\ Chancellor Dr. Mark L. Perkins first end s tched as search committee iald N. Lano--1,,..1-1! and Board Inity � ,va ' � StS aeng, al of Regents chairman Natha p7,017$1c1 served a , mad; perier a desital. ,n G rro- Isconsin-Gree me a itution bein creased,ts' New president announced, campus safety questioned and TigerF est successful in 2001 Comedy, concert lead ""Welcome Week"" As students made their way back on campus after a long summer, the University, led by the SGA and the Campus Activities Board, tried to make that first month of getting back to the books as inviting as possi-ble with a long list of events planned as part of a ""September Celebration."" The celebration started a few days early, on August 28 (the first day on-campus students were permitted to move in), as ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"" star Wayne Brady performed his unusual brand of improvisation-al comedy to a packed house at the Towson Center. Clearly the highlight of ""Welcome Week,"" Brady helped the University start the fall semester with a bang and fostered student inter-est in a year filled with success-ful SGA and CAB sponsored events. The annual ""Welcome Back BBQ"" was held on Aug. 31 and other events like appearances by. hypnotist Torn DeLuca, ventril-oquist Lynn Trefzger and Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt rounded out a busy month of student program-ming. The biggest event of the ""September Celebration,"" how-ever, was clearly the Sept. 5 Cypress Hill concert in the Towson Center. A crowd of about 2,400 turned out to see the rap/ rock group on stage, along with local favorite Jepetto. Millennium Hall opens its doors The fall semester marked the opening of the first dorm built on-campus in a decade as Millennium Hall opened its doors to students. The 408-room building, locat-ed in front of the Enrollment Services building on Osler Drive, offered students an alter-native to living in the University's older dorms. Each four-bedroom apart-merit in Millennium Hall came equipped with a full kitchen, two full baths and a living and dining room and cost $6,000 to lease for a full year. In the first few weeks of the semester, Millennium Hall was the target of an unusual amount of vandalism, causing security to be present at all times. Despite problems later in the year with leaking walls and minor flooding, the first year of the new building went relatively smoothly. Though residents of the new building have to abide by University policies, Millennium Hall is not owned by the University, but by Capstone. Together, the University and Capstone plan to build two additional halls: the first extend-ing from the West end of the current building and the second where the Enrollment Services building currently stands. New Administration Building opens Students returned to find that the administration building had moved, or at least some of it. As one of the many renova-tions the University has under-gone this year, the move of Photo illustration by Adam S. Reisinger many offices from the former Administration Building on Osier Drive to the current build-ing at 7720 York Rd., confused more than a few students. While the Bursar's Office and Enrollment Services stayed at Oster Drive, in the building now called the Enrollment Services Building, just about every other office made the move. Students spent some time in the early part of the fall trying to locate the misplaced offices and navigating themselves through the unfamiliar halls of the new Administration Building. In addition to the renovations done to the new Administration Building, including new carpet-ing anti furniture, the 7720 Caf� was also added. Tigers leave America East for CAA As far back as July 2000, talk proliferated of Towson's move to the Colonial Athletic Association, although at that point, the focus rested on an America East-CAA merger. When the unification of the con-ferences never materialized, the four southernmost schools in the America East (Delaware, See 2001, page 8 "
