tl19760521-000 "EDITION TOWSON STATE COLLEGE MAY 21 1976 The Winnah! California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks at Towson State days before he trounced Democratic frontrunner Jimmy in the Maryland primary. --TI. photo by Kathy Dudek Campaign Analysis a few Carter Alumni Seize Paper The Towerlight office was seized Tuesday by a band of renegade alumni editors, led by IRA dropout ancl radlib priest Max Gump and dimestore heir Mike Dilworth. No injuries were reported in the coup, although five Towerlight edi-tors are being held. They are editor-in-chief Bill Stetka, managing editor Joan Grabowski, news editor Peter Binns and feature editors Alan Reese and George Everett. With cries of ""Death to irresponsible journalism,"" ""Burn, pica, burn,"" ""The Columbia Journalism Review sucks Hunter Thompson,"" and ""Free Alan Reese,"" the Gonzo Jimmy Carter Browned By Mike Dilworth California Gov. Jerry Brown Pulled off his Stop-Carter, Start-Brown maneuver in Tuesday's Maryland presiden-tial primary, soundly beating Jimmy (Hurricane) Carter by 49 percent to 37 percent. Yet Carter, the frontrunner, has about 900 of the 1500 pledged delegates needed to take the donkey nomination in July. Even though Brown success-fully put a dent in the southerner's campaign, Brown did not get one delegate in the Maryland beauty contest, Where he spent three weeks Shaking hands, compared to Carter's three days. grown reportedly had the ,SUPort of Maryland's Mandel-uacked political machine, as Well as substantial Black and Catholic vote. But the newcom-er to the national scene lost. All of the 40 Maryland delegates to the deomocratic convention, 24 �f which to the Georgia candidate, Mr. Peanut. Brown tiled entered the primary too ate to pick up delegate support. . In Michigan, a much more Portant primary, Carter nar-l'nwly beat Mo Udall by 44 Percent to 43 percent, and 69 to 58 in pledged delegates. Again, ti- Carter candidate Udall spent ten days campaigning ePnpared to Carter's three mays. Yet the Maryland and Michi-f! fn contests, along with the 'Nebraska primary results, re-veal that Carter's position is Waning in races where he faces a lone Democrat. This puts Carter's recent efforts to unify the haggard Democratic party at a standstill, which will probably force an open conven-tin in New York come July. The possibilities now are endless. Hubert H. Humphrey, as well as Ted Kennedy, hold key positions in party-line positions and may yet help determine the Carter-Brown question in July. Despite Brown's upsurge in Maryland, few political obser-vers see him as a serious threat to the Carter nomination on the first ballot, unless he continues to pick up primary wins. This analysis is clearly based on the delegates pledged to Carter. Step Back, Jack Step back and take a hard look at this year's presidential race. We have two strong Demo-cratic candidates emerging from the original entries. Both are relatively new to national politics. Both admit being anti-Washington candidates, taking advantage of a mood that has taken the country since Watergate. Both suffer from vagueness on the issues. Both lack experience in dealing with a Congress, and in foreign affairs. And both are fighting against Ford, the incumbent, who won heavily in Maryland and Michigan, crushing Ronald Ray-guns last ditch effort to put his campaign in jeopardy. Ford's campaign was facing hard times a few weeks ago, when Carter appeared to be running away with the Demo-cratic nomination, and with Reagan building a block for conservative Republicans and Democrats. Should Brown block Carter or vice-versa, Ford wil lhave accomplished what the Democrats have been doing to themselves for past ten years -- splitting their support. There is no real common sense in political races. To make a prediction on the results is usually fruitless. You Please turn to page 6 By David McQuay terrorists stormed the Towson State College newspaper office in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, catching the editors napping, reading Reader's Di-gest and getting laid out under erotic page dummies. The leftists crashed through the main office door, and held managing editor Joan Grabow-ski in a closet until she agreed to edit terrorist Flick (Killer) Doyle's copy. The group threw editor-in-chief Bill Stetka into a bamboo cage they brought in and forced him to eat his own Towerlight editorials. Stetka reportedly is suffering from malnutrition. All former editors of Tower-light serving in recent years, the band published this issue of Towerlight as a demand in the protest action. Campus police, state trooper and the FBI have adopted a wait-and-see tactic to the seige. President James L. Fisher called the takeover ""hilar-ious,"" and indicated he wished the group would stay for good. ""I had been a little concerned in recent years,"" Fisher said, ""as to the meaningfulness of the paper, when it published such items as termpaper ads, abortion promotions and ar-ticles by Dr. Maxwell Gump, a known communist."" Alan Reese, feature editor, reportedly joined the terrorists when he was offered a swig of Old Grandad. A warrant has been issued for his arrest, along with the rest of the group. The alumni group has cru-saded for several years in its fight for what it refers to as ""responsible gonzo journalism. It frequently uses brainwashing tactics similar to the SLA, (Sones of Little Alchohol). Its victims, usually powerful members of the news media, are forced to read books by Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Fydor Dostoevski, John Lennon and Woodward and Bernstein. The group has claimed credit for getting Walter Cronkite bombed on national TV last week, in which Cronkite un-dressed down to his boxer shorts, defended Jimmy Cart-ter's ""ethnic purity"" state-ment, ate a tab of LSD and repeatedly pinched Barbara Walters on the left breast, saying ""How's my million dollar boobie?"" Police are negotiating with the leftists on their demands for a slow boe to China and political immunity there. If demands are not met, they promise to publish Towerlight in this issue's form until Fisher runs for the state Senate. ""We're handling a time-bomb and it could go off at any second,"" Gene Dogface, head of campus police commented. ""These goddamed journalists are crazy enough to do anything, as past issues of Towerlight confirm. They can't even spell my name right."" Food Services Modified By Ruth Ann Leftridge Food Services will be mod-ifying the food coupon system beginning in fall '76. A choice among meal plans will be offered to all dining hall students. The $370 plan is designed to provide 14 meals per week, and the $390 plan will provide 19 meals. Coupons will be issued on a monthly basis and will be color coded for each month. Wayne Schelle, vice president of business and finance says the monthly system will provide students with a better budget-ing concept and give college officials more internal controls. Under the new arrangement, there will not be any bulk sales. ""We had to do away with the discount purely from a financial standpoint,"" Schelle said. For students who want more food coupons during each month, a coupon bank will sell additional coupons at a 10 percent discount. Other changes include a brunch and dinner offered on Saturdays and Sundays, and the fact that no coupons can be used for catered events except in the dormitories. A letter was sent to all dining hall students on May 19 to explain the modifications, ac-cording to Schelle. He said that College officials wanted to, be able to announce the changes before students left for summer vacation. ""We were taking too big of a loss,"" stated Schelle. ""This plan should put us back on a break-even basis."" Schelle also said that there will be a re-evaluation at the end of next fall's semester. ""If we can't break even, we're going to have to go back to the meal ticket,"" he added. Schelle explained that the food coupon system has been ""retained basically at the request of students."" SGA and the Residence Council both expressed views to Food Ser-vices' officials about what would be the best student meal plan. Index News P.1 Editorials P.2 Features P 3, 6 Fiction & Poetry P 4, 5 Sports P. 7 "
