The Towerlight, November 13, 1987

tl19871113-000 "Inside Sports Bar A review of the Baltimore riginal Sports Bar, a new owntown club page 3 The werli Published weekly by the students of Towson State University 1 No. 8 ht Towson, MD 21204 Index news classifieds 2 sports 1 7 8 3, 4 features & entertainment 5,6 editorial 9 perspectives & letters 9 weekwatcher 10 November 13, 1987 andela speaks about racism by Laurita Huff News reporter aki Mandela, daughter of Boned South African political om fighter Nelson Mandela, e to an audience at Towson University about the South can system of Apartheid that ,oralizes and discriminates nst blacks living there. he complaints of blacks living outh Africa is not that whites rich and blacks are poor, but once you are born black in h Africa, you ar.e immediately ded a slave and imprisoned by ountry. You are told where to Where to work, where to eat, re to die, and where you will buried. The government in h A-Trim makes it impossible blacks to succeed above the rdinate level,"" Mandela said. cording to Mandela, under the held government, black fain-ife is of no importance. Hus-ds are separated from wives; Uren are separated from their ers and mothers from their dren. The South African goy-ent continues to brutalize the g children who are defense- Lilte educational system is de-ed to create a black-subordin- ', .white-dominant society. eks are taught only enough to under whites, not enough to ""'rl2lue managers or supervisors. isdela noted that whites have *Ss to a free education, whereas 1..eby Judith B. Jelenko News writer 4,11Kappa Epsilon (TKE), a fra-dY at Towson State Univer- ' received notice Friday, Novem- 6 that its charter is suspended, .� secitu se of a ll �gedvi b I at% n s-of University's Code of Conduct, Charter of Tau Kappa Epsilon , roity has been suspended, ef-we immediately,"" according to blacks have to pay for tuition, uni-forms and books. ""If you have money, for tuition, but not enough for books or uniforms, then you don't go to school. The average earnings for blacks range from $50 to $200 a week; therefore, the majority of blacks can't afford school."" Mandela, in her presentation, compared apartheid with the Jew-ish holocaust. ""The first public holocaust was in 1944 when the Germans tried to extinguish the Jewish race. When the world failed to act responsively right away, it was almost too late for the Jewish race. ""This mass slaghtering of Jews still haunts the world today. Today the world is faced with apartheid, which is just as bad as Naziism). Naziism was against Jews; apex.; theid is against blacks. If it is con-tinued, perhaps the world will have another holocaust,"" she said. Blacks in South Africa have fought against the unjust system of apartheid only to be met with mass slaughering and brutality, Mandela said. When asked by a student how the United States could help to end apartheid, Mandela said that eco-nomic sanctions would be a way to show that America and its allies oppose apartheid. ""This would be a big step in ending the pain for blacks under this system,"" she said. She also said that she feels Rea-gan is not sincere in his efforts to &E charter suspended Bill Stetka of University Rela-tions. ""TKE is subsequently pro hibited from conducting activities ofanykindasaTovvsonState/SGA-Affili-ated organization either on or off campus, pending a hearing. Marion Hoffman, dean of stu-dent development, University Pres-ident Dr. Hoke L. Smith, and Mar-garet Hayes, director of Judicial Affairs refuse to comment pending further investigations. k)rensics team places 3rd frSteven Dagirmanjian Forensics release e forensic team placed third in Pstakes at Appalachian State versity in Boone, North Carol- . The tournament was held Hal-een weekend, as several prom-teams from the south corn- & arhara Giuliani continued her c,essful semester by placing 4in informative speaking with aPeech on garbage. Scott Ro- S0 o took third place in after-dinner speaking with his speech on heroes going commercial. While not winning individual awards, several other Towson State entries still did well. The novice debate team of Nick Kornb-lith and Mike Walsh finished with a 3-3 record and came within speaker points of breaking into the finals, and the varsity team of Brian Barke and Bob Gallin fin-ished in the top five speaker points. In individual events competi-tion, Shari Warnick was next to break in finals in persuasion, and Christy Salerno was next to prose. 'Ural America discussed by Vince Russomanno News editor I2,.! symposium on Central 'Pea, sponsored by the Aca- �la ofP olitics and Religion, was ""'ed by Dr. David Dent outlin- ,""4. 10 mistakes that the United '` tea has made in Central , erica."" The United States government 8,4 lot of people who spend the Part a their lives trying to derstand Central America. The tthing the Reagan administra-ci did was get rid of those people turn the job over to amateurs,"" nt said. eat also pointed out that the :Ig'an administration ignored ',..Guatemalan accords, Organi- �lan of American States, the encan people, Congress, the .8(Ina of history, and the benefits .ved from the Sandinistan Revo- Reag treats Honduras like a state. They want to have alr history, values, and culture eh into account,"" Dent added. M second speaker was Ricahrd ara, foreign editor of the Pers-e section of the Baltimore n. Nicaragua is a country that taken too many blows accord-orrection ,4,the November6 issue of The ':""Iight, the article ""Altera- "" results in Suspension"" said ,tiKaren Webber was arrested 'isle University Police. In fact ""'""er was not arrested. The :i 4""""light regrets this error. ing to O'Mara, pointing out that relief funds given to the country after a devastating earthquake were stolen by the Somosos direct-ly after that came the revolution. William Lay, research director for CAUSA, gave two definitions for communism: ""In one sense, it is an ideal state which operates on the slogan 'to each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.' No country exists in that state,"" Lay said. ""The second meaning is a political movement and party with a certain ideal. ""The Sandinistas are a Marxist/ Lenninist Communist party,"" he continued. Responses to the spakers were given by Dr. Peter T. Merani, pro-fessor of political science at Tow-son State. ""None of them ad-dressed the question of the whole international environment,"" he said. ""Historically we have seen the more powerful the state, the less powerful they want their neigh-bors to be. Because of this, we can-not expect Russia to allow Poland to be pro-democratic and pro- United States as it would be ridicu-lous for the US to be expected to allow a Marxist, pro-Soviet coun-try in Central America,"" Merani said. ""The point is, international politics is conducted on the basis of national interest, not morality or legality."" Of Lay's comments that the Sandinistas is a Marxist/Lennin-ist party, Merani said, ""my com-ment would be 'so what?' We [the United States] are not here to decide what is good for the rest of the world. It is irrelevant because communism has changed over time."" stop apartheid, adding ""The rea-son Reagan imposed certain sanc-tions in South Africa was to stop the rise of anti-apartheid move-ments in the United St4tes."" When asked if she thought that her father would be released soon, she said, ""I know my father will be released from prison one day; when, I don't know. In prison or not, my father will still keep his stand on opposing this cruel system."" Mandela's main concern is to educate the people of the world about the horrible treatment that blacks receive under the South Af-rican government. ""American people think that things in South Africa have changed for the better. It's worse. Because of American media, peo-ple don't see everything. In Amer-ica, if it's not seen on the screen, then it's not happening,"" she said. ""If people are aware, then they can influence Congress and foreign policy."" photo by Paul Elbo Maki Mandela, daughter of political prisoner Nelson Mandela, spoke at Towson State University November 8. Mandela's topic was the hardships of those under apartheid in South Africa. - AIDS Counseling and Testing Center clarifies position by Elizabeth Buck Contributing writer Since AIDS Counseling and Test-ing Centers (ACT), the first private and independent AIDS testing facility in the Baltimore area, opened October 5, the Light Street facility has been the subject of media attention that has questi-oned the safety and legitimacy of ACT's services. According to ACT manager David Baker, some of the reports, including an October 16 article in The Towerlight, included inaccu-rate information about the type of testing provided at 'ACT. In The Towerlight article, representatives from the Baltimore County AIDS Information Line and Towson State University's Health Center expressed concern about ACT's testing, its offer of an ID card for clients who test negative, its $50 test cost, and its advertising as a ""non-government"" facility as po-tentially dangerous to the public. However, Baker said that ACT's procedure is completely legitimate. After blood is drawn in ACT's office, the sample is packaged and sent to MetPath, a certified medi-cal laboratory used by physicians all over Maryland, for the ELISA test. The ELISA test is used to detect the AIDS virus. ACT pro-vides information about the ELISA test, but it is not ""a long-term counselling facility for per-sons with AIDS-related emotional needs"" or a treatment center for AIDS patients. ""An ELISA test is an ELISA test. It's the same as any other test-there's only one way to do it,"" Baker said. ""Every facility, public or private, that does an ELISA test does the same test, soTor someone ' to allege in that article that some-how our testing would not be as good or that they would not trust a private vs. public health clinic to do the test correctly is either mak-ing something up or is totally mis-informed about what the test is. ""If an ELISA test comes up with a positive, we have immediate orders to our laboratory to back it up with the second, confirmatory test, which is called the Western blot,"" Baker continued. ""We urge, as do other responsible medical facilities, a second AIDS test in three months or 90 days as recom-mended by health officials."" Contrary to what The Tower-light article implied, the ID card offered by ACT does not guarantee that a person is AIDS-free, but is simply a ""test result in a different form."" The front of the card in-cludes ACT's logo and phone num-ber and indicates that the person ""has tested AIDS-negative"" for a particular date. The back of the card reads: ""The holder of this card is concerned about the AIDS epi-demic and has been voluntarily tested. The holder is aware of pre-cautions that need to be taken to prevent the spread of this deadly disease."" ""The card is kind of like four things at once. It's the test results. Two, it's a reminder of the day the blood was drawn. Three, it's an educational tool because if some-one has corne in and read our material, he or she is more edu-cated than when he came in. And, it's advertising foras or promo-tional, but it's not a guarantee oi anything,"" Baker said, adding that most people who test negative request the ID card. Although many testing centers in the Balti-more area offer the ELISA test for free, ACT charges $50, which coy-ers the lab and material costs. Also, ACT prom-ises anonymous results in three to five days; most public facilities do not provide results until two to three weeks after the blood is drawn. ""We're not telling anyone they have to come here and pay,"" Baker said. ""But we're offering it if people want our service. Someone pays for the other tests. Whether it's the state or the city, the taxpayers are paying. But we do not get any government funding."" Because private AIDS testing centers are new in the area, the Attorney General's office and the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are looking into the operation of ACT, but Baker stressed that the facility is not under investigation. ""I've been assured [by the Health Department] that there are no charges against ACT at all. They just have questions; they're curious,"" Baker said. ""We are kind of in a grey area because there really are no regulations to re-gulate this because it's so new and there is a possibility it might not even need regulation."" When ACT was formed, Tim-othy Walz, the associate director of ACT and a medical technologist certified by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, was told that ACT would not need a license from the state. However, Baker said that the Health Department is now considering requiring ACT to obtain a license. ""If it's determined photo by Lisa M. Quill Pictured above is a centrifuge, used by the center to separate blood platelets from red and white cells. Such preparation is needed to ready the samples for the lab. that we need a license, of course. we'll get one. But we were told before we would not need one, so we did not apply,"" he said. Although ACT is a new facility, Baker said that the number of clients is increasing. ""It's very new, but it's picking right up,"" Baker said. ""The media coverage and our advertising are hitting now."" According to Baker, ACT is also being considered as a referral from the Baltimore City Health Depart-ment Bureau of Disease Control and the Health Education Re-source Operation (HERO), which operates the AIDS hotline. How-ever, Jacqueline White from the Disease Control said that they have no plans to add ACT to their referral list. ""We do use other facilities as ref-errals, but the ones we use are free and anonymous,"" White said. ""This one is anonymous, but the others we use do not advertise. And, the people we usually refer don't have The AIDS hotline was not refer-ring callers to ACT as of November 9, and Jack Stein, health coordina-tor of HERO, could not be reached for comment. Study outlined by committee News report The Steering Committee for the Middle States Study preparing for Towson State University's evaluation coming in March, 1989, has completed the first pase of its work. ""The following outline represents the tentative shape of the final document to be presented to the evaluation team,"" said Michael O'Pecko, chair of the Steering Committee. Each Roman numeral signifies a chapter of study. One task forcer per chapter will be appointed in early November, according to O'Pecko. ""Each task force will be asked to describe the University's strengths and weakness in regard to each of the topics withing its charge and to make recommendations for improvements,"" he said. I. Orgainization and governance, both internal and external A. Mission and goals 1. Implications for Towson State University as a result of being a comprehensive university B. State Board for Higher Education C. Board of Trustees. of the State Universities and Colleges D. Legislative relations E. Administration F. Shared governance 1. Statewide faculty senate 2. Senate 3. Standing and ad hoc committees of the Senate 4. College/school governing bodies, standing committees, ad hoc committees 5. Departmental organization G. Board of Visitors H. AAUP/Faculty Association I. Student Government Association J. Judicial issues II. Academic Program A. General University Requirements B. College curriculum C. Department/discipline D. Graduate programs E. Faculty 1. Statistics 2. Issues relating to teaching 3. Issues relating to research 4. Faculty development F. Outcomes G. Remedial curriculum H. Tutorial programs I. Academic advising J. Honors college III. Enrollment management A. Admissions B. Recruitment C. Financial aid D. Transfers E. Retention IV. Campus life A. Enrichment aetivities 1. Cultural activities a. concerts b. exhibitions c. lectures d. symposia e. theater f. visiting scholars 2. Recreational activities a. club sports b. intramural athletics 3. Religious activities a. camus ministries 4. Social activities a. clubs b. dances C. Rathskeller d. sororities/fraternities B. Supportive services 1. Psychological counseling 2. Career counseling 3. Day care 4. Residence programming 5. Health service 6. Office of special needs 7. International student programs 8. Minority affairs 9. Women's center 10. Security issues 11. Placement center V. Human Resources A. Faculty/staff morale B. Faculty/staff retention C. Faculty/staff recruitment D. Benefits E. Retirement F. Salaries G. Merit pay H. Promotion and tenure for faculty I. Staff promotions J. Professional development K. Affirmative action VI. Finance A. Auxiliary funds B. Finance office C. Financial aid as a source of Uni-versity funding D. Foundation E. Institutional advancement F. Sources of financial aid VII. Information Resources A. Intramural communications 1. Publications B. Learning labs C. Library D. Technology 1. Academic Computing 2. Administrative Computing 3. Telecommunications VIII. Physical Resources A. Book store B. Buildings C. Cafeterias D. Major equipment for research and instruction E. Student housing F. Distance of Administration build-ing, Fine Arts, and Towson Center from the center of campus G. Maintenance H. Space needs (instructional, labs, office, lounge) I. Transportation J. Security X. External Relations A. Alumni B. Intercollegiate athletics C. Outreach programs 1. Informal and non-credit pro-grams D. Public relations 1. Publications E. WC VT "