The Towerlight, May 4, 1979

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LXXII No. 25 115otvertigt PUBLISHED BY 'THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY What They Got Last Year What They Asked for This Year* Advisory Board Recommen-dation* What They Got* Accounting Association 300.00 270.00 150.00 150.00 American Marketing Assn. 615.00 3.076.00 1,626.00 1,226.00 Art Student Union 0 525.00 � t 0 Black Student Union - 8,185.50 10,543.00 3.759.00 4,057.00 Campus Union Board 5,942.80 9,480.40 6,755.40 7,215.90 Christian Student Movement 545.30 756.38 559.00 540.00 Creative Interpreters Guild 955.00 2,830.00 0 Economics Club xx 515.00 0 Forensics Union 5,979.00 10,312.00 5,100.00 3,431.00 Geography Club xx 750.56 322.00 337.56 Grub Street Wit 2,105.00 2,495.80 0 2,135.00 Inter Fraternity-Sorority Council 0 3,735.00 2,400.00 2,035.00 1pternational Student Union xx 4,845.00 675.00 675.00 Jewish Student Assn. 1,465.00 3,830.00 2,225.00 2,140.00 Mass Communications Assn. xx 3,029.50 1,065.00 945.00 Residence Council 2,422.00 12,083.45 5,200.00 Society for Advancement of Management xx 1,890.00 0 Tower Echoes 21,448.84 28,729.10 26,380.17 26,000.00 Towerlight 24,821.00 19,015.00 14,015.00 10,015.00 WCVT 31,280.12 36,483.38 22,000.00 29,484.38 Executive Budget 22,540.00 21,510.00 xx 19,235.00 Fixed Expenditures 64,961.00 70,461.25 69,461.25 68,461.25 Total: 195,514.31 247,165.82 156,492.82 183,283.09 * All figures are approximate. t FAB was unable to provide information. WEEKEND WEATHER Occasional rain today, high in the 60's. Chance of rain Satur-day and partly cloudy Sunday. High both days in the 70's. Weekend lows in the 40's. May 4, 1979 Denies money to 4 groups SGA allocates $184,283 , by Katherine Dunn The SGA Senate allocated approx-imately $184,283 to itself and its 20 member organizations during its annual budget hearings which ended Tuesday. Four organizations which had requested budgets were not con-sidered because they did not send a representative to their hearing. The Art Student Union, Creative In-terpreters Guild, Economics Club and Society for the Advancement of Management asked for a total of $5,760 and got nothing because no representative attended their budget hearing. � Some members of these organ-izations complained that they had not been informed ahead of time that they must attend the hearing. ""If an organization does not take the time to come to their own budget hearing, they don't show the interest to justify their request and many other organizations can use the time to have their budgets considered more fully,"" said Horn. Mike Burns, SGA vice-president said, ""It is impossible for the Senate to judge the priorities and needs if nobody is there."" About $11,716 was left over from the $195,000 originally avaiable to the organizations. This money will be available to all organizations if they request, it and send a representative to their supplemental hearing but there is no guarantee that they will get any. Some of the supplemental budget will be reserved for the Senior Class which did not make a request during the first round of hearings, said Arlene Campeggi, SGA bookkeeper. One organization that will def-initely request more money is the Black Student Union. Their original request was almost $6,500. The number of dances was cut from four to two. ""I can't under-stand this,"" said Pierre Douyon, president of the BSU, ""because they're our only fundraisers and they're always saying make Your Own money to subsidize your events, but we can't."" Douyon's major protest is the cutting of the money for the Parent's Dinner. He said he knows that it is the SGA's policy not to give any money for food, but they always have in the past. There is a difference between the BSU dinner and other dinners said Douyon. It is the main culteral event of the BSU every year, he said. ""It has become a tradition at Towson State."" Dawn Porter, editor-in-chief of Tower Echoes said that she, too, was upset with the cuts made in her budget request ""Everything we requested, we had a good reason for requesting because I only requested things I absolutely needed."" she said. One large cut made in the yearbook's budget was in camera equipment. ""I don't know how we're going to have a yearbook without any pictures,"" said Porter. Not everyone was upset with their budget allotment, however. The Campus Union Board requested almost 9,500 and actually got $7,215. Rosemary Forbes, president of CUB, said she thought the request was reasonable. ""Since we are the largest social organization on campus, everything we do is for all the students not just for the members, but we got a fair share. We didn't get cut unreasonably."" The organizations which sus: tamed the largest cuts were Tower. light ($9,000), WCVT, Residenee Council, Forensics Union ($7,000 each) and BSU ($6,000). The Financial Advisory Board recommendations were not available for the Art Student Union, Econ-omics Club, and Society for Advancement of Management be-cause Horn said when no one showed up to present their budget requests he threw the recommend-ations out. Ar for the Residence Council, Horn said he just misplaced theirs. Schlafly, DeCrow sound off on ERA by Evelyn Hoopes and Pat Voelkel Anti-ERA advocates Phyllis Schlafly and past president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) debated whether the Equal Rights Amendment should be enacted before a half-filled Towson Center last Saturday night. ""The defeat of ERA would be the greatest victory for women's rights since the sufferage vote in 1920. It would prevent women from being drafted into combat."" These were the words of Schlafly, who delivered a smooth defense of laws that she thinks already exist for the benefit of American women. ""You really have to be kidding to call this an advancement for women,"" Schlafly said. ""The nicest thing this country has ever done is that in nine wars women have never been sent in-to combat,"" she added. ""It's absolutely rigid, it has no ex-ceptions,"" Schlafly said, ""the American people don't want it, it is going to be rejected."" ""The ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment will not change the United States overnight. It will not end sexism, it will end sexism under the law,"" said Karen DeCrow, whose free-flowing hair and dress contrasted her more conservatively attired oppo-nent. ""You have to be kidding to say that women want to be drafted or sent into combat but you also have to be kid-ding to say that men want to be put in-to combat,"" said DeCrow. Another of DeCrow's main points was since other medical expenses are paid for under the name of Medicaid, abortion, when recognized under the law as a medical procedure, should also be covered by Medicaid. ""There's absolutely no way the ERA will pass,"" said Schlafly, who complained that the ERA advocates, who after seven years of attempting ratification, were still ""using the power of the government to make ERA Pass. ""If they had a good product to sell, they could sell it on its merits, but they don't,"" she said, adding, they can't get it fairly, they can't get it legally. DeCrow refuted Schlafly's argu-ments on the amount of time the Federal Government has given to the ERA advocates for ratification, point-ing out that 18 of 26 Constitutional amendments did not have time limits set on them. The Federal Government gave ERA ""reasonable time,"" which in DeCrow's words is ""as long as it takes to pass the ERA."" ""They're bragging about the loss of jobs and money in non-ERA states,"" said Schlafly, who complained about the convention boycotts of unratified states which hurt ""innocent bystanders"" such as the Marriot, Holiday Inn and the Hilton hotels."" DeCrow listed many of the organi-zations supporting the ratification of the ERA, including some of the Catholic churches, Southern Baptist groups and the Girl Scouts. She added, ""proponents of the economic boycott believe their ac-tions are legal,"" in reply to Schlafly. Schlafly said of ""the use of our tax money to accept ERA when we don't want it,"" arguing that President Carter doesn't have the right to use his executive power to help ratify ERA. In reply to Schlafly's argument that big businesses do not have a lot to say about the passage of ERA, DeCrow used the example of the success of the civil rights Alabama Bus Company boycott which ""brought the eyes of the entire world on that."" Thirty-five states have already ratified the ERA, although five have rescinded, Schlafly pointed out in fur-ther argument against its passage. But DeCrow said the ERA amend-ment should be passed because ""women as a class should not be discriminated against in court, ad.. ding that both she and Schlafly are lawyers, both whom are discrimi-nated against under the law. In closing DeCrow said, ""Women may not have been at the Last Supper, but we'll be at the next."" Several CA's released for fall by Karen DiPasquale Several Towson State University Community Advisors were released from their contracts and will not return as CA's in the fall. Mike Koontz, CA in Richmond, was ""fired because of conflict of interest,"" he said. ""I thought I did a good job as a CA."" 11e felt there were no conflicting interests. However, Jim Pickering, Area coordinator, said that Koontz knew he could not be president of his Although the crowd was sparse for the most part at this year's Springiest, an annual event organized by the Res-idence� Council, Springiest chairman Val Taguding said the event netted a $200 to $800 profit. TL Photo by Cindy Shoesly Springfest '79 ""success rut"" by Michael Bennett Springfest '79, the fifth annual spring festival sponsored by the Residence Council, was held last weekend on Burdick field. The festival had about 60 booths, a carnival mid-way and several special events. Highlights of the special activities included a dance marathon spon-sored by Circle K, an antique car show, a demonstration by the U.S. Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corp , and Drill Team and an exhibiion by the 97th ARCOM Parachute Team. Some of the money raised at the festival will be donated to charity. The Circle K dance marathon raised about $4500 for the American Cancer Society, according to Laurie Hilfiker and Jim Manfuso, co-chairpersons of the dance marathon. The 15 hour dance involved 31 couples from local high schools. The winning couple, Jeff Karsner of Calvert Hall and Martha Walsh, collected just over $1100 in pledges. They received a first prize of two 10-speed bikes and a commemora-tive plaque, Hilfiker said. Randallstown High School, whose $947 in Pledges led all other schools, 'received a trophy donated by A&A Trophies. Hilfiker said the annual dance marathon is Circle K's largest fundraising event. The Hamilton and Belair Road Lodges of the Order of Sons of Italy will donate all profits from their Italian food booths to Birth Defects and Cooley's Anemia, according to Sam Longo of the Sons of Italy and the Towson State maintenance department. Cooley's Anemia is a blood disease common to people of Mediterranian heritage. The disease causes the body to lose it's ability to produce hemoglobin. Not all of the charitable work at the festival was monetary. Accord-ing to Val Taguding, chairman of the 1979 Springfest committee, Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority and Spring-fest committee members arranged a day at the festival for 25 children from the Villa Maria Orphanage ih Lutherville. The children were escorted around the festival, taken to kiddie movies, given rides at the carnival Mid-way and fed, all at no cost to the orphanage, Taguding said. The women of Phi Sigma Sigma also ran the festivals Beer Garden. Phi Sigma Sigma was awarded the beer concession after a process of competitive bidding. Jaguding said money was not the prime concern of the Springfest committee, when it came to choosing a beer concession-aire. continued on page 2 fraternity and CA at the same time, and he led Pickering to believe that he would resign as president. But Koontz never resigned because he said the fraternity went national this semester and he did not want to have an election at this time. Koontz said he was not warned about his contract being discon-tinued and that he never signed a contract. Pickering said, ' 'the contracts are verbal sand are renewable at the end of each continued on page 2 In this Issue Lax Kings With an 11-8 victory over second-ranked Roanoke College, the Towson Tiger Lacrosse team jumped from number four to number one in this week's College Division poll. It is Tiger lacrosse's first number-one ranking since March 1975. See Tom White's story on page 7. Moody Park 3 Their followers have painted the campus red. Now find out who the Moody Park 3 actually are. See page 12 Taking a Hike The complete spring rec-reational hiking guide makes an appearance in our Features section on page 3. "