tl19790518-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 27 t13 ertigt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Sunny today with highs in the mid 70s. Fair through the weekend with highs in the lower 80's and lows in the mid 50s. May 18, 1979 Cox unsure about future by Debbie Felton Acting-President Joseph Cox said his plans for the immediate future are uncertain. Cox and Hoke Smith of Drake University, were the finalists in the search by the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities for a replacement for Dr. James Fisher, who left Towson State last fall. The Board announced Friday its selec-tion of Smith. Cox said he is ""obviously dissappointed"" that he was not select-ed to succeed. Smith asked Cox to stay on as Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs and several faculty members have urged him to remain dean, said Cox. The president needs a dean who is 105 percent supportive"" of his philosophy of what direction the University should take Cox said, so whether he stays dean will depend on how he fits into Smith's plans for the school. He said he will meet with Smith after Monday's press conference to discuss future plans. ""Odds are, I will remain"" as Dean of Academic Affairs, he said, at least for the immediate future. Cox said an s"" always attractive option"" is returning to teaching history, which he's done on and off at Towson since 1964. In the fifteen years he's been at Towson State, Cox has served as history instructor, Dean of instruc-tional services, Dean of Continuing Studies, creater of the Faculty Development program and, when Dr. Kenneth Shaw resigned in 1977, Vice president and Dean of Academic Affairs. He said he ""wouldn't trade his year as president for anything. Nurses celebrate As usual for this time of year, the nursing graduates show their enthusiasm ( or is it relief) now that the display is currently on exhibit outside Burdick Hall beside Towson-towne Boulevard. Hurry over, because as of graduation day they will come down. TL photo by Cindy Sheeskey Smith wins Presidency Course increase rejected The Academic Council, at its final meeting of the '78-'79 school year, voted Monday that the Curriculum Commit-tee should not be allowed to encourage the offering of regular courses during the January minimester. In March, the Council had encouraged the various aca-demic departments to begin offering more regular courses during January, but other factors not considered then have since changed their minds. The Faculty Handbook states that courses offered dur-ing minimester should be designed to examine a narrower range of topics than those courses offered during the regular spring, fall and summer session. The Handbook also states that these narrower topics of-fered during January should not be offered during the regular semester. Survey courses were said to be inappropriate for January term because the limited time for January classes would be insufficient to cover the necessary course material. Minimester sources should, it was said, be designed to cover much narrower ranges of topics than are covered by survey courses. Rowan examines U.S. racism by Pat Voelkel ""The civil rights movement is in a state of limbo,"" said syndicated col-umnist Carl Rowan to a small au-dience at Towson Center Saturday. Rowan, who spoke on Racism in America, told the audience that black disillusionment is a main reason for the movement's problem. ""The notion that blacks are inherently inferior is very much alive."" Part of the problem, he said, is that blacks have been confused and have lost direction. ""In the fifties and sixties the objective of the movement was to wipe out 'Jim Crow.' Today no one is quite sure. Everyone is going different ways."" Rowan suggested there is a need to draw up objectives for blacks as a solution to the confusion. Another reason for the state of the civil rights movement, Rowan feels, is national leadership. ""Minorities don't make progress except with powerful leadership in the White House."" Rowan told the audience that John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson played a role in the establishment of the civil rights movement but added, ""We haven't had the king of leadership we need in many a year."" The Nixon administration ""wouldn't give blacks the sweat off their eyebrows."" Rowan was also disturbed with Jimmy Carter and his association with blacks, saying that Carter got the black vote because he promised jobs for them. Now, although white unemployment is down, there are more blacks on unemployment than before Carter was elected, he said. To solve the black unemployment problem, Rowan urged that pro-grams such as the CETA program continue, providing ""training for people who did not learn what they should have 10 or 15 years ago."" The problem with these programs, as Rowan sees it, is that no matter what program there is, ""some 'fat cat' always tries to destroy Rowan also discussed the problem of low income in black families. In 1961, black family income was 56 per cent of what white family income was and in 1968, it had gone up 64 per cent. Today, Rowan said, it has widened ""tragically and drastically"" to 57 percent. Even with these facts, Rowan said, some people ""want to believe that the government has been given the goodies to minorities."" He added that minorities ""make pro-gress only during good times while In this issue Working for the O's What's it like to toil in the land of Murray and Sin-gleton? Find out on page 3. Manhattan Woody Allen has crafted another master-piece. Read about it on page 5. Leaders of other eras With the selection of Dr. Hoke Smith as TSU's new president, a little nostalgia (or history, if you prefer) is in order. See the presidents of the past on page 2. in bad times, a 'dog-eat-dog' world is developed."" The reasons for these misconceptions and attitudes, Rowan believes, is that people ""don't particularly want to hear"" this kind of news. He said Americans are too often not exposed to unbiased facts and his profession, journalism, is partly respon si - Rowan referred to Rhodesia and its coverage, for which he recently won a Peabody award, saying that the public has been misinformed about the situation. Even the television station he works with, Channel 9 in Washington, D. C., is responsible to ""some bad journalism."" A good source of information whom Rowan, praised, is Rev Jesse Jackson although he said Jackson is ""waging one of the biggest uphill battles a man can wage."" No speech of Jesse Jackson can override the effect of the environment"" except for a few people, but is worth it, he said. The ""grey overpowering influence"" is disillusioning to some people, Rowan added. As for his own success, Rowan said although some say he is able, he knows he was also very lucky. Rowan told the story of how finding a $20 bill on the campus of the University of Tennessee enabled him to continue school and join the navy, a turning point in his life. Poverty could be solved, said Rowan, by taking a lesson from his ""luck"" story. ""We must support and sustain programs for students so they may find their $20 bill, so to speak, to make magic for themselves."" People ""don't particularly want to hear"" news about misconceptions and about minorities, said syndicated columnist Carl Rowan last Saturday at the Towson Center. TL photo by David Hulce by Evelyn Hoopes It began with the resignation of ex-president James L. Fisher, effective September 1, 1978 and it ended last Friday, with the appointment of Dr. Hoke Smith, the newest of 10 administrators to head what is now Towson State University. The nine-month long presidential search began with notices in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and two black col-legiate journals. About Smith's background Smith, who was vice-president of academic adminis-tration at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, was chosen because of ""his good solid background,"" said Patricia Plante, TSU faculty representative on the presidential search committee. ""It was a matter of judgement,"" said Plante. Prior to his current position at Drake, he was an assistant to the president and professor of political science at Drake from 1967 to 70. He served as visiting associate professor of political science at Kent State University in 1966. Smith was also dean of the European-American Study Center in Switzerland and served on Senator Eugene McCarthy's staff in 1965. Smith has an A.B. in political science from, Knox University, an M.A. from the University of Virginia in foreign affairs and a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University. The search Seventy-five persons applied for the position. From these applicants, Dr. Patricia Plante (who was appointed the faculty representative for the presidential search committee by the trustees of State Colleges and Uni-versities), John Shehan, the student representative, and John Wighton, representing the alumni, chose 10 finalists. The 10 finalists were narrowed down to nine when one applicant dropped out of the race. He was Dr. James Horner, of Illinois State University, who re-portedly claimed ""the salary was too low."" Dr. Marc Chamberlain, from Glassboro State College in New Jersey was the first of the nine candidates to visit the University for a two-day period of meetings with various faculty and student representatives. Next came Dr. Robert Randolph, vice-chancellor or the Massachusetts College System. The following week Dr. Elwood Ehrle of Indiana State University visited the campus. The fourth candidate was Dr. Irene Hulicka, from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She was followed by Dr. Janet Travis of Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Edgar Schick of St. John Fisher College in New York was the sixth candidate, followed by Dr. Hoke Smith and Dr. Joseph Cox. The field was narrowed down to two candidates; Smith and Cox. ""An announcement was made to everybody on Fri-day (May 11) that an offer had been made to Mr. Smith and that he had accepted,"" said Plante. Past presidents McFadden Alexander Newell was the first principal of what was then, Maryland State Normal School, serving from 1866 to 1890. From 1890 to 1905, Elijah Bernet Prettyman was principal. George W. Ward was the third principal from 1905 to 1909. In 1909, Sarah Elisabeth Richmond became principal, serving until 1917. Henry S. West was the fifth principal of the school, from 1917 to 1920. continued on page 2 What's in future for TSU VPs? by Robert Krummerich With Dr. Hoke L. Smith about to begin his tenure as the new president of Towson State, the University's four vice-presidents have a question of job security to deal with. Acting-President, Joseph Cox, said ""It is standard practice for the vice-presidents to submit their resignations when a new president takes over."" Cox said he ""offered his resignation over the phone"" last week but ""was turned down."" Cox is unsure about his future at the University. He will ""arrange a staff meeting"" with Dr. Smith and ""go from there.' ' He said it is ""too early to say"" whether he will stay on as vice-president and dean of academ-ics. Norman Sheets, acting vice-president for academic affairs, would then return to his previous position as dean of applied sciences. Sheets said he knew his position was temporary and was given no reason to believe otherwise. Paul Wisdom, vice-president for institutional development, said ""I offered my resignation"" and ""Dr. Sm ith turned it down."" Dorothy Siegel, vice-president and dean for student services, has not yet offered her resignation and will not until she meets with the new president. ""I have a marvelous job and I love it,"" said Siegel. However, she added, ""I serve at the pleasure of the president."" Siegel said large scale changes usually occur at ""universities in disaster. We are a good university with no need to be done over."" Siegel ""will have to talk with Smith"" to see if she ""is the best person for him."" Siegel said, ""from the type of administrator he seems to be,"" she expects Smith to ""size up the situation' and ""use studied cau-tion."" "
