The Towerlight, May 15, 1981

tl19810515-000 "VOL. 74 No. 28 Tower! ight PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 what they got last year what they asked for this year FAB recommen-dation what they got American Marketing Assn. 1,580.00 1,760.00 960.00 970.00 Biology Club 588.00 987.00 544.75 544.25 Black Student Union 6,070.75 12,330.00 2,700.00 2,625.00 Circle K 3,275.00 725.00 725.00 Comedy Workshop 333.50 206.15 206.15 Forensic Union 0 13,434.00 7,425.00 7,425.00 Grub Street Wit 2,400.00 4,570.00 0 0 Intra Fraternity-Sorority Council 510.00 1,627.00 95.00� 95.00 Jewish Student Assn. 0 1,475.00 500.00 500.00 Mass Comm./Film Society 1,565.00 3,211.40 1,348.00 1,648.00 National Student Speech and Hearing Assn. 645.20 1,873.00 941.00 1,191.00 Nursing Assn. 1,725.00 0 0 Philosophical Discussion Group 225.00 1,330.00 726.00 726.00 Society for Advancement of Management 218.00 1,739.00 270.00 270.00 Tower EchOes 26,761.85 29,628.00 26,692.61 26,692.61 Towerlight 10,390.80 18,301.58 11,000.00 8,500.00 WCVT 28,754.90 37,294.30 30,998.62 30,998.62 SGA�Executive Budget 24,935.00 30,700.00 29,100.00 29,100.00 Fixed Expenditures 68,080.00 72,121.48 71,121.48 71,121.48 172,724.50 237,715.26 185,353.61 183,388.11 t Never budgeted before Budgeted by supplementals Student attacked by Christa C. Marvenko A female student was slashed across her hand May 6 in the Glen. At 3 p.m. she was forced into the Glen by man. At 3:10 the campus police teceived a call from the Health Center reporting the student was apparently struck on the head and had what appeared to be a knife slash across her hand. Gene Dawson, director for campus Police, said, ""The girl came out of S. inith Hall and was forcibly walked into the Glen."" Dawson said the man was described its being white, in his 20s, with a thin build, and shoulder-length dirty blond hair. The man was wearing a red tee-shirt and blue pants. ""He was apparently under the influ-ence of some type of drug or alcohol,"" bawson said. Dawson said the man called the girl by a name other than her own. , ""The young lady is very emo-tionally upset,"" Dawson said, ""and is apprehensive about giving us information."" Dawson said, ""At the time the case is under investigation and when the young lady can give us a full story and description, we will be able to obtain a composite sketch and proceed in find-ing this man."" There has been no substantial evidence to determine the assailant's intentions at this time, Dawson said. There also have been no significant leads obtained about the rape that occurred on campus April 9. Detective Donald Einolf, Baltimore County police sex crimes department, said, ""We have nothing as yet but I am still hoping to get more informa-tion from campus students."" Einolf said they had one slim lead, but it was not enough to work with. A man reported that he saw a door-to-door salesman who looked like the composite sketch, but did not get a license-plate number or any other information, Einolf said. We haven't the time to take our time. �Eugene lonesco in Exit the King May 15, 1981 SGA allots $183388 by Jeff Pierce The SGA senate allocated $183,388.11 to itself and 17 organi-zations for the fall semester during this week's budget hearings. More than $100,000 goes directly to the SGA executive and fixed expendi-ture accounts. The senate approved the budget after four days of hearings during which more than $50,000 was trim-med from the original budget re-quests. The appropriation of $29,100 to the SGA executive budget and $71,121.48 to the SGA fixed ex-penditures account came with little debate. The executive budget includes money for postage, printing, office supplies, planned parenthood, dances, TGIF, advertising and public relations, carpooling, news-letter, lobby group, Homecoming, Oktoberfest, and six films. The fixed expenditures include the book exchange, phone bills, salaries for the secretary and bookkeepers, insurance, scholar aid, speakers and cultural events. Mike Richard, SGA senator, questioned whether the SGA should use $2,500 of the executive budget for the planned parenthood program since the program is moving off campus and into Towson next semester, but after debate the sec-tion was left untouched. SGA President Keith Hark, said although the SGA budget currently is almost $15,000 in the red, there will not be another deficit and added that the reason for this year's de-ficit was the speaker series which lost $32,786.88. The series has been discontinued. Hark said the executive account request was almost $4,000 more than last year's because the SGA will manage next year's Homecom-ing and Oktoberfest. The Campus Union Board which has run them in the past has been dissolved and an alternative planning committee has been set up in the SGA to run those social events. Of the SGA budget, $7,000 will go to the SGA's alternative pro-gramming which also includes two dances, a weekly TGIF, dinner theatres, Parisian cafes, comedy nights and ultimate frisbee demon-strations. WCVT, received $30,998.62, $6,000 less than requested. The station requested $11,639.50 for equipment but the figure was dimmed to $7,930 by the financial advisory board (FAB). Spiro Morekas, station manager, said he was glad the budget passed, but said ""we're going to have to try to make ends meet. It took us a long time to cut the budget because we didn't pad it."" Despite a request for $1,627 by the Intra-Fraternity-Sorority Coun-cil, the senate only allocated the group $95. The IFSC had which would be used for a rush requested $1,040 Jeff DiLandro night, a pledge party, a greek week and a Glen party, but after DiLandro said it was ""unnecessary for us to pay for their private meetings,"" the group was funded only for sup-plies and advertising. ""The IFSC has the potential to generate its own funds, so it doesn't seem fit to fund a rush party, he said. Janet Carrier, IFSC president, complained that the group may request but can't enforce dues pay-ments, and said that ""without the dues, we don't have a budget."" Carrier said she thought the $1,000 recently made by the IFSC at a Glen Party affected the sen-ate's decision. She said the group plans to ad-just to the reduced budget by using the $1,000 for another Glen Party and by pushing for an amendment to their constitution, which is being worked on now, that would give the IFSC the authority to enforce dues payments. The Black Student Union received $2,625 of the $12,330 they request-ed, but DiLandro said most of the BSU's activities occur in the spring and so, the group does not need the money until then. Funds for BSU dances were cut back from $600 to $250 since the FAB decided the dances were too poorly attended. The group also reduced the num-ber of speakers it would have this semester from three to one, and al-so cut back its cultural events from two to one. The Grub Street Wit requested $4,570 but was allocated nothing. The senators decided to wait until they see this year's magazine which will come out by the end of the semester before they fund next year's magazine. Organizations that need money throughout the year may submit supplemental budget requests be-ginning in the fall. TSU beach Summer is still more than never know it by looking catching the sun's rays Coppertone has taken the a month away, but you would at these students. For them, has replaced studying, and place of pencils. And if they continue their sunbathing practices for the rest of the semester, the waves that wash them away will be their failing grades. photo by Greg Falter Cook Library: Students, faculty reps desire improvement by Nancy Zeleski This is the second of a two-part series kaalyzing the Albert S. Cook Library. Students and library representa-tives were surveyed to discover their �Pinions of how well the current Albert S. Cook Library system �Perates. To get an idea of how students use Cook Library, 887 students were krveyed in more than 40 classes around campus in late March and April. The surveyed students came from All sectors of the campus community end, with only four exceptions, all degree programs were represented. As with any large group, diversity of opinion was evident. While some complained about the noise at Cook, others seemed to find it an ideal place on campus to study for eXams. One sophomore whose com- 'tent, ""Never use them [libraries],"" vias contrasted bv a mass communi-cation major who said she enjoys using Cook as well as other libraries. Quite a few students like to relax at Cook, either by catching up on the news or kicking back to listen to a recording. Some like to go to Cook to catch up on sleep while others like to expand their dating horizons, if not their minds, by checking out the girls who use the library. While there were differences in the responses, trends could be noted. Freshmen and sophomores tend to use Cook a few times each month, as do graduate students. Juniors and seniors use Cook more frequently, up to several times each week. Most students use Cook as a place to study from their own texts and notes, for reference work or a combination of the two. The majority of students reported that they usually found the books they wanted but less often found the peri-odicals they needed. However, some students felt they 1;:lroughout the years, students have made widespread use of Cook Library. bile almost everyone has had to search through the periodicals and books to earch term papers, others have found alternative Methods of using the ,thrary. Some, for instance, visit the library to recuperate from those night-long 'tudying marathons. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley were not given an adequate choice of responses. "" Usually' differs radi-cally from 'rarely' . . . 'sometimes' would be Lan] intermediate [re-sponse],"" said a physics senior. Others seemed to feel the same way and responded by writing in a no-sponse between the ""usually"" and ""rarely"" choices given concerning library usage. However, regardless of class standing, 85 percent of the surveyed students reported that they used other libraries. When comparing on-campus residents with commuters of over three miles, 70 percent of Towson State residents used other libraries, while 88 percent of the commuters did. Many students volunteered the names of the other libraries they use. The Eisenhower library at Johns Hop-kins, Enoch Pratt, the state resource center, the Library of Congress, the Peabody, the Baltimore County Pub-lic Library, and the libraries at UMBC and Goucher were listed. The students' reasons for using other libraries were as diverse as their reasons for using Cook. Several students worked at other li-braries and, therefore, found other libraries to be more convenient. A factor for many was that other facilities were ""in the neighborhood."" Parking convenience was reported as a strong encouragement for choos-ing other libraries. Longer service hours were also seen as an advantage that other libraries have over Cook. However, of the approximately 23 percent who took the extra few minutes to respond to the survey by an additional sentence or two, the most often complaint was that Cook is too difficult to use. A business major remarked that he could usually find the material he needed, but ""always with help."" Many others agreed with him, var-iously responding that they could more easily and quickly find their way around the stacks to the material they wanted at other libraries. ""Cook is confusing,"" said a soph-omore theatre major. Others objected to the quality and variety of the material at Cook. One student's comment that ""books are not technical enough"" was echoed by another who found that other li-braries had ""more current material."" The sentiment of a junior majoring in early childhood education that she found other libraries to have ""more variety"" was also stated by a history major who felt there was ""more selec-tion"" elsewhere. A need for more periodicals and science journals was commented by several students. The subject of service, which was not addressed by the survey at all, was expressed repeatedly as upset-ting students. A senior elementary Student library questionnaire responses FREQUENCY OF USAGE How often do you use Cook Lib-rary, other than to attend classes? 186 once a week 330 more than once a week 325 three times a month or less 46 never TYPE OF USAGE When you go to Cook Library, other than to attend classes, is it mainly to�(more than one response given) 423 to study using your own texts and/or class notes 465 to locate references for an assigned project or paper 61 to relax and/or spend between classes 33 to meet other students 81 other time ABILITY TO LOCATE TITLES When you have used Cook Library to find books as references for as-signments have- 129 always found what you needed 563 usually found what you needed 120 rarely found what you needed 75 do not use Cook Library for reference purposes When you have used Cook Lib-rary to find periodicals as references for assignments, have you- 108 always found what you needed 496 usually found what you needed 178 rarely found what you needed 105 do not use Cook Library for references purposes AVAILABILITY OF TITLES After you have found books and/or periodicals as reference for assign-ments, can you get them in time enough to complete your work- 200 always 549 usually 72 rarely 66 never USAGE OF OTHER LIBRARIES Do you use other libraries be-sides Cook Library 754 yes 133 no education major wrote, ""I don't like the attitude of the people that work at Cook."" While a law enforcement major stated, ""People in other libraries are more willing to help,"" other students said librarians at other libraries were ""less intimidating"" and ""more friendly."" One business major simply wrote, ""The service stinks,"" and felt that other libraries were better overall. Another said the librarians at Cook ""act like they are doing you a big favor."" The library representative submits book requests for the publications others in his department have told him they would like purchased. The representative is generally a member of the faculty who has either been appointed by the department chair-man or has volunteered for the post. Their term of office is indefinite, often continued on page 10 In this issue USAGE OF OTHER LIBRARIES If you use libraries other than Cook Library your main reasons for doing so is that other libraries� (more than one respone given) 476 are more conveniently located to my residence 97 have hours that are more con-venient for my schedule 224 more often have the books that I need 144 more often have the periodi-cals I need 149 can get the references I need more readily, even if they are out when I first ask for them 94 other LACROSSE: The Tiger lacrosse team will try to salvage a .500 season tomorrow at Drexel. The Towson 10 were thumped by number-one-ranked Johns Hopkins, 24-8, on Tuesday. See page 5. BRECHT: ""A Man's A Man,"" now being presented in the studio theatre, re-creates the vicious, biting theatre of author Bertolt Brecht. For a review of the production, which is being directed by theatre chairman Paul Berman, turn to page 4. "