The Towerlight, November 11, 1982

tl19821111-000 "The Towerlight Vol. 76 No. 11 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 November 11, 1982 Indian summer Richard Rohde, a Towson State freshman, enjoys the fact that mother nature forgot November was supposed to be cold. By Stephen Hyde Campus bank to open soon By Terie Wolan The First National Bank is installing a. utomatic teller machine outside thhee u.niversity Union bringing banking ser-ices to the University for the first time Ina Year and a half. Construction began November 1 and ,Me sYstem should be operating by early Icernber, said Gerald Smith, director piirchasing for the University. Smith a,td, ""we originally wanted a full bank-facility, so we put out a letter of in- 4e.rest to all the local banks. First.'Na- `ional was the only one that resPonded."" Du e to the cost of running a staffed �ranch office, First National decided it Was More feasible to install the banking Machine. The machine, Easy Bank, �Prates twenty-four hours and enables the account holder to make transac-tions by putting a special card in the system and keying in a code number. All banking transactions can be made through the machine. Smith said the system ""will be ac-cessible from the outside of the Union facing parking lot 11. It provides a place that is readily accessible and peo-ple can get funds and make deposits."" The University has been without banking services since Union Trust closed its campus branch in June 1981. Smith saki, the bank closed because Union Trust officials said they did not do enough business. Richard T. Briggs, a vice-president for First National said, ""we determined that it (Towson) was a very attractive place. We expect it will be successful and look for some type of minimum Guard offers to pay By Chuck Jones I:he Maryland National Guard has P,,1,�,nrIced three new programs which help students pay for college: lar master Sgt. Warren Myers said the heng.t program, the Student Loan -dYMent Program, will repay 15 per-fr; rtt of the unpaid balance of a student Ian. Fifty percent of all students with NS at Towson State University have Gational Direct Student Loans or tlaranteed Student Loans and he add- ed that those are the loans the National kzilard repays. fr M d said if a student borrows $2,500 b,Mn, a bank or government program, time he is graduated from col-p- 6e he will owe $10,000. ""Even if he's whea good job, it ($10,000) is a lot to owe tin You're first starting out,"" he said. der the Student Loan Repayment ""a gram the National Guard $171oniatically repays $6,750 of the 'MO for belonging to the National Guard for four years. Most of a student loan under this program is ""forgiven,"" Myers added. Myers also said another program, the Educational Assistance Bonus, repays students up to $1,000 a year for educa-tion expenses such as tuition, lab fees and books. A high school graduate can receive up to $4,000 over four years in the Na-tional Guard if he decides to go to a col-lege, trade school or ""anything on the back of a match book cover."" Myers said that under the Simultan-eous Membership Program, the third program a student in ROTC can belong to the National Guard, receive student loan assistance and still receive their standard pay for both organizations each month. He also said a student involved in ROTC and the National Guard can par-ticipate in an early commissioning pro- See NAT. GUARD, page 10 monthly usage of the machine."" As an incentive for University stu-dents and faculty to open accounts, First National is offering free checking and accounts may be opened any time. Robert Bauerle, director of the University Union, said he does not foresee any traffic difficulties develop-ing because of the machine. ""There is a metered space. directly across from where it will be, and not too many people will probably use it during the day. More will use it in the evening and on the weekends."" Student funds tight, outlook even worse Feds to make cuts COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (CPS) -College students should expect the same or less funding from the federal government over the next few years, the Reagan adminis-tration's top higher education official told a convention of loan officers here. Edward Elmendorf, acting assistant secretary for post-secondary education, told a meeting of the National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs and the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs that the U.S. Dept. of Education's next budget proposal will probably be much like its last one. That proposal, offered in February but ultimately rejected by Congress, called for a 50-percent cut in federal student aid programs. Elmendorf would not reveal specifics of the next Rea-gan education budget�it is, he says, still being hammered out�but predicted the administration would try to reduce the number of aid programs from seven to three: Guar-anteed Student Loans, College Work-Study, and Pell Grants. That would mean consolidating Auxiliary Loans, State Student Incentive Grants (SSIGs), Supplemental Educa-tional Opportunity Grants (SEOGs), and National Direct Student Loans (NDSLs) into the other programs. In the last budget request, the administration tried to abolish SSIGs, SEOGs, NDSLs, and Student Social Secu-rity. It succeeded only in eliminating Student Social Security. ""I don't think we need seven student aid programs to do the job of helping needy students through college,"" Elmendorf told a panel on government support of higher education. ""Our concern is to eliminate waste and increase effi-ciency in the programs, not to deny education to deserv-ing students,"" he explained. ""But we'd also ask that deserving students pay their fair share."" Elmendorf said the administration's program to get students to pay a bigger share of their education costs before qualifying for aid is working. Private college students, he said, are now paying a greater percentage of their college costs themselves. But Charles Saunders of the American Council on Education pointed out that those students come from wealthier families, they are borrowing twice as much money as they did last year, and a recent study showed lower-income students had been forced to transfer to cheaper public colleges because of the aid cuts. Locally, not so bad By James Hunt Fewer students are taking out Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) this year and local money lenders fear students' misconceptions about the availability of these loans are the reason. Lenders believe many students are not applying for GSLs because of federal regulations imposed in October, 1981, which require students from families earning over $30,000 a year to demonstrate financial need in order to get these loans. As a result, there has been a 30-percent drop-off locally in loan applications this year and ""[student loan] funds are going begging,"" said Benjamin A. LeBorys III, assis-tant vice-president in charge of loans at Union Trust. Nationwide, almost 500,000 fewer students took out GSLs from October 1981 through August 1982 than dur-ing the previous year, according to a report prepared by the New York State Higher Education Services. Part of the blame for students' misconceptions about loans, LeBorys said, lies with the media, which, in report-ing the new regulations, ""gave the impression that students whose families earned over $30,000 a year could not get loans."" LeBorys said, ""Forty-four percent of all approved loans go to students whose parents earn over $30,000 a year."" LeBorys also faulted parents who ""[sit] back in their armchairs and make decisions [about loans] before deter-mining if their families are eligible."" Eligibility, he said, is determined by a school's financial aid office and is based on several factors, including the cost of attending the school and the number of family members enrolled in college, as well as the family income. The GSL is the ""best bargain"" for students, LeBorys said. GSLs carry a nine-percent interest rate (the ""prime rate""�the interest rate banks charge their best custom-ers on loans�is 12 percent) and feature a six-month ""grace period"" after graduation before payment on the loan must begin. GSLs may also be used to supplement Pell Grants, National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) and other student funding programs, he said. ""Parent Loans"" are also available for those families not eligible for GSLs, LeBorys said. These loans are available directly to the student's parents and carry a 12-percent interest rate, but require a credit check and immediate repayment, he said. Students bring television to TSU By Ingrid Floyd ""Roll tape,"" said Randy Gray, a senior mass communication major at Towson State, as he peered through his camera lens to tape the play on the Towson Stadium football field. Cameramen from WJZ, WMAR and WBOC-TV in Salisbury were posi-tioned nearby on the press box platform. Two of them are Towson State graduates. Other members of the TSU TV crew, Ken Hostentter and Kim Mendenhall, stationed on the field, and Brian Glock, also on the platform, were taking footage from different angles with their cameras. The football sailed through the air near the goalpost. Gray followed the movement of the receiver racing across the field to catch the ball. The player grabbed it. ""Stop,"" Gray instructed Reggie Grant, who oper-ated the tape deck and recorded the deck's counter number for the play. ""Good shot,"" commented John Morris, producer for instructional television services. Gray prepared his camera for the next down. ""This is television at Towson State,"" exclaimed Morris. Gray and the rest of TSU's TV crew are all part of a program recently begun at Tow-son State to give practical experience to mass communication students in-terested in working in the television field. Morris, a past producer-director at WBAL and commercial-producer at WJZ-TV, knows the importance of having students operate equipment effectively on shoots. ""We are trying to give students real-life experiences while still in the process of graduat-ing,"" Morris said. ""They are going to be trained to do the job academically as well as practically."" Morris has wanted more field expe-rience for the students for some time but the idea did not blossom until Coach Rich Bader of Towson State's athletic department saw the possibil-ity of videotaping football. ""Spring football is a big evaluation time. In the past we used film, but film cost too much,"" Bader said. ""I decided to start talking to Morris."" Two TSU students, through their independent studies, taped the spring practice and this fall the crew shot the Morgan State game. Bader was ""impressed by the tapes"" and de-cided the crew should ""do all the games."" Morris said they had ""very pos-itive cooperation"" from Dr. Irene Shipman, chairperson of the mass communication department, and Gil-bert A. Brungardt, Dean of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communi-cation. As a result, the TV crew was formed. Football is not the only opportu- See TSU-TV, page 8 TSU's TV crew films a recent Tiger football conquest. The Glen master plan, ideas save old ecology An artist's view of the new footbridge By Mark Baltimore The future of the Glen, an ecological attraction of which Towson State students are so fondly proud, seemed doomed once construction of the new residence towers began. This monstrosity of four towering buildings and one three level dining hall erupts from the Glen in a way that no prestigious oak had ever dared before. The contemporary structure of the buildings will be something the Univer-sity will most surely use as a ploy to at-tract prospective students from farther geographical boundries. Although the towers will be a contem-porary attraction, what about the rest of the Glen? The traffic patterns that would result from students moving from the new towers to the main portion of the campus could be fatal to this campus gem. Bill Schermerhorn, director of physical plant operations, said that the University was concerned about the Glen and its future. ""The main concpet of our plan was to figure out how to preserve the Glen, and tie in the residence halls with the rest of the cam-pus,"" Schermerhorn said. Blair Farrand, the landscape ar-chitect who was contracted for this job, was asked to design a plan that would preserve the Glen, and yet still be at-tractive. The problem that Schermerhorn mentioned was that the new residence towers will sit on a hill. To get to the rest of the campus from the towers, students would have to go down that hill, through the Glen, then back up another hill from the Glen, to the main part of the campus. The number of students that would be migrating through the Glen in this fashion would destroy it quickly, Schermerhorn said. Farrand began by studying present pedestrian patterns in and around the Glen, and studying erosion patterns caused by drainage and pedestrian movement. He designed maps of the campus and outlined areas where ero-sion and pedestrian traffic had caused problems. After meeting with the architects that designed the towers and other concern-ed University groups, he designed an equitable plan that is both appealing and functional. The main thrust of the plan is to build a 200 foot long pedestrian bridge that will extend from the plaza area of the dining hall, over the Glen, to the top of the walkway between the University Union and Smith Hall. The bridge, which will be made of cor-ten steel, will cost between $150,000 and $200,000. At its highest point over the Glen, this bridge will reach approx-imately 30 feet. This 200 foot long bridge stretches across the Glen with little or no slope as well. Farrand said that the site picked for the bridge was ideal because the elevation at the dining hall area and at the top of the hill between Smith Hall and the University Union are the same. ""From the plaza (dining hall) to the top of the hill is a straight shot. This made it attractive,"" Farrand said. Schermerhorn also said that this pedestrian bridge will be well lighted at night for security reasons. The bridge is expected to be completed in time for the opening of the towers next August. Far-rand said that only one tree would have to be removed to erect the bridge. The rest of the plan calls for stabaliz-ing the remainder of the Glen. Farrand said that this will be accomplished by replanting trees, sureing up the stream banks and replanting vegetation that has been destroyed. He also said that after construction of the dorms was completed, pathways through the Glen would be stabalized to prevent additional erosion. ""These pathways would be stablized with natural materials. We would not put asphalt or concrete pathways through the Glen,"" Farrand said. By Rod Mayhew in this issue E.T. really enjoyed his Reese's Pieces and the people at Reese's are just in love with the little alien page 2 Everything you want to know about what's happening in the Towson area this week. Weekwatcher page 4 Towson State's soccer team traveled to Drexel last week for a chance at the ECC playoffs page 6 BALTIMORE BLAST page 7 With everything else going on here at Towson State, how can a student take time to worry about his health? page 9 "