TL20060504-01 "Thursday, 5/4/06 The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly INSIDE: This Weekend.....3 Perspectives......5 News.................9 Beyond............15 Arts.................17 Movies.............18 Classifi eds.......20 Sports.............23 News: With country music and NASCAR, Towsontown Festival invades community News: Towson�s winningest basketball coach receives award for 40 years service COMING IN MONDAY'S TOWERLIGHT: �Mission: Impossible III� hits all the action movie high notes thanks to �Lost� creator J.J. Abrams, Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman Arts, page 18 Muslim Students� Association hosts Islam Week to educate students on the religion News, page 9 www.thetowerlight.com Darnay Tripp Assistant Sports Editor After weeks of confusion among some faculty regarding the imple-mentation of �intentional advising� next fall, Provost James Brennan dis-cussed the issue with the University Senate Monday. Starting next fall, all students will be required to meet with a faculty adviser before registering for classes. The specifics of the new system were not initially defined clearly, and some professors were concerned about having enough time to advise students amid their other tasks. At the meeting, Brennan took responsibility for the misunder-standings surrounding the policy. �I am sorry for any angst that was caused,� Brennan said. He said information about the new advising system was supposed to be distributed to departments following a workshop on Jan. 10, but it didn�t happen well in some cases. Richard Rosecky, associate profes-sor in the marketing and e-Business department, said he doesn�t mind helping the students who need the assistance. �It takes me 20 or 30 minutes using the audit system to track where they are and where they�re going and I�m glad to do that for stu-dents that have real problems with it,� he said. �The thought of doing that for every student, every semes-ter is the cause of my anxiety.� �I never recall an issue in my many, many years of senate where I�ve been contacted by more people from the faculty who have been upset by what they thought they heard about the advising policies,� Richard Vatz, professor of mass communication and communication studies and University Senate mem-ber, said. Adding to faculty concern was the release of an unofficial form explaining the policy, which may have misrepresented its original goal. �It was clear that in one of the colleges, especially, there had been a form developed,� Brennan said. �I�m not sure where the form came from; it was not part of what the committee recommended, that had been discussed at the Jan. 10 work-shop on intentional advising. But the form itself induced a reality of inflexibility that was not the inten-tion; as a matter of fact it was the opposite.� Some faculty members were con-cerned that intentional advising would be one-on-one in all instanc-es. At Monday�s meeting, Brennan described advising as the oppor-tunity to talk to a faculty member individually or as part of a group. In light of the confusion, Vatz and English professor Jennifer Ballengee submitted a motion also at Monday�s meeting to require such policies to be vetted by the senate in the future. Brian Stelter Editor in Chief Towson University administrators are poised to make some tough deci-sions as they prepare the next fiscal year�s operating budget. Divisional vice presidents have collectively requested between $17 and $18 million in funding for new initiatives. Many of the requests involve enrollment growth. The University wants to hire dozens of new faculty and staff members, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on marketing and recruit-ment, implement behind-the-scenes technological improvements, and add money to the student affairs budget for campus life events. �I understand that this year�s requests were more numerous than in prior years,� Vice President for Administration and Finance James Sheehan said. �That�s due to the increase in funding� from the state. But the amount of the requests Heidi Greenleaf/The Towerlight Junior midfielder Matt Eckerl (1) transitions the ball downfield in Wednesday�s 13-12 loss to Delaware in the first round of the CAA tournament, ending their season. See story, page 24. Tigers fall to Blue Hens in CAA Tourney Provost clarifies advising plan I never recall an issue in my many, many years of Senate where I�ve been contacted by more people from the faculty who have been upset by what they thought they heard about the advising policies. Richard Vatz Univ. Senate member �ver man Sena con It was clear that in one of the colleges, especially, there had been a form developed... The form itself induced a reality of inflexibility that was not the intention; in fact it was the opposite. James Brennan Provost �c developed Divisions request more funds in fall See ADVISING, page 10 See FUNDS, page 11 "
