tl19801114-000 "VOL. LX.XIV No. 12 1f5ottiertt PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY t Sports Entertainm Features Weekwate hCeernot ()tents 6 4 3 5 Newsbriefs 8 Classifieds 8 Commentary 9 _ November 14, 1980 'love the night life When the sun sets, the school doesn't die. Night classes begin, dances start rockin', maybe a film in Stephens Auditorium. Look around there is much to do on campus. Look for the mud wrestling championships, and the Bob Special groups demand Dylan look-alike contest, for real events see page five for the Weekwatcher. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley priority dorm spaces by John Koehler ""If our Division One program is to survive we are going to have to eventually increase our (athletic) housing,"" said Joe McMullen, ath-letic director. ""That's something some people don't understand."" ""Music needs housing just like athletics,"" countered David Mar-chand, chairman of the music de- Partment. ""Both perform and are a service to the University."" This competition among Univer-a_ itY departments and other groups ,ulustrate the increased demand for 'united on-campus housing. Be- Cause, of this problem, shown by last spring's 1700 housing appli-cants for approximately 300 spaces, the Board of Trustees has estab-lished a five-group housing priority list. Some policies have limited the number of freshmen and sopho-mores living on campus, as well as students desiring housing but not involved in activities or groups, said Mary Lee Farlow, housing director. ""We are getting more special groups than we have spaces,"" said Farlow, noting that only 75 fresh-men secured on-campus housing. ""The vast majority don't get hous-ing until their second or third year. By that time, they will have already matured and didn't receive the benefit housing provides during the initial years of college life."" Farlow estimated that the Uni-versity has added only 600 beds during the last 20 years while en-rollment has increased 7000. The athletic department has the largest allotment (150) of the 1250 available. Second-year athletic director Mc- Mullen sees no need to defend the large amount. ""We're trying to meet competi-tion,"" emphasized McMullen, who noted one of the University's foot-ball team's earlier competitors, New Hampshire, had five times as many athletic scholarships as Towson State's fifteen. ""We have made a commitment to Division One and have had to establish a policy for x-number of spaces offered."" Guaranteed housing ""is used as a recruitment tool,"" stressed Phil Albert, football coach. ""If we are recruiting a boy who says 'I'm go-ing to James Madison (University) because I don't want to live home' we'll try to provide housing for him."" . The athletic department, while not always promising the athlete free room is not obligated to the regular University policy of giving housing to students who live out-continued on page 10 Higher standards expected SBHE limits enrollment by Nancy Zeleski Full-time enrollment for the fall semester at Towson State is 9,633, the highest in its history, but whether that figure will ever be topped depends on the ten-year limitations on incoming freshmen set by the State Board for Higher Education. Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic affairs, said there is no single reason for the surprisingly high enrollment figures. Donald Dean, assistant vice-presi-dent for administrative services, who works with enrollment projections, said the economy may have been a major factor contributing to the high enrollment. Dean said some may have planned on dropping out but returned when they could not find jobs. Others may have originally applied to more ex-pensive schools but opted for Towson State because of its lower tuition rates. ""We are a good buy in terms of quality education for the money, whether it's part-time or full-time,"" said Cox. Both Cox and Dean said pro-spective students find Towson State attractive for other reasons besides cost. Students choose programs On freshman questionnaires con-cerning the students' choice of schools, Cox said the most often response for choosing Towson State was the programs offered and the reputation of the programs. Despite climbing freshman enroll-ment at the University, the SBHE is predicting a decline in the 18- to 20-year old population. SBHE studies show a decline in births from 1964 through 1977. The decline will show up in the numbers of high school grad-uates between 1983 and 1995. Joseph Popovitch, coordinator for academic planning for the SBHE, said the population of high school seniors in the Baltimore area is dropping, al-though not for the state as a whole yet. Baltimore city schools are one of the biggest feeder systems to the University, said Dean. One of the purposes for the state-wide limitations on freshmen entering colleges, said Popovitch, is to ensure even growth among all state colleges that will better utilize the present facilities. ""It is much cheaper to utilize the existing buildings than to build new facilities at the institutions, like Towson and College Park, which are in high demand,"" said Popovitch. The SBHE limitations, while cutting new freshman enrollment by 13 per-cent at College Park and 15 percent at Towson State, will attempt to increase enrollment at other institutions under its jurisdiction. The planned increase at Bowie is 20 percent, with other schools falling between Bowie's increase and Towson's decrease. SBHE wants enrollment down ""The State Board for Higher Educa-tion has said they want our enrollment to come down. They want to place a limit on the number of freshmen we can take. If they force us down, those students will go to the less attractive institutions,"" said Cox. Dean said the SBHE is making an assumption that the Towson State overflow will stay in the state. ""You can't manipulate people. They will go where they wish to go . . . Human behavior is just not program-mable,"" said Cox. ""If we can market ourselves and attract a better student and still main-tain enrollment levels that we think are necessary to keep this place a quality institution, then I think we should be able to,"" said Dean. ""It's one thing to experience decline because decline is going to come,"" said Dean. ""It's another thing to expe-rience decline because somebody tells you that you can't admit who you want to admit. And there's a big dif-ference beween those two positions."" Plan to be selective Another part of the state-wide plan is to encourage public istitutions to be more selective when admitting their freshman class. The SBHE feels that by limiting the numbers of freshmen that can be admitted, the institutions will be encouraged to be more selec-tive in their admissions policies. Popovitch said the SBHE program should cut the rate at which students are leaving Maryland to attend out-of-state schools. Popovitch said one-fourth of continued on page 2 Enrollment limitations for new full-time freshmen Actual_ Institution 1977 1978 1979 Limitations 1980 1985 1989 %Cnge 1980-89 UMBC UMCP 1,120 5,577 1,180 4,810 1,387 5,161 1,550 4,600 1,600 4,100 1,600 4,000 +3.2% -13.% UMES 229 398 352 450 450 450 O.% UMUC 0 11 14 0 0 0 O.% Total, U of M 6,926 6,399 6,914 6,660 6,150 6,050 -8.3% Bowie 259 345 344 375 450 450 +20.% Coppin 395 473 477 435 410 400 -8.% Frostburg 716 850 737 800 800 800 O.% Salisbury 857 688 712 725 750 750 +3.4% Towson 2,157 1,998 � 2,078 2,000 1,700 1,700 -15.% Total, BTSUC 4,384 4,354 4,348 4,335 4,110 4,110 -5.4% St. Mary's 268 330 350 375 400 400 +6.7% Morgan 1,066 873 864 880 800 800 -9.1% Total Public Colleges & Universities 12,644 11,016' 12,476 12,190 11,460 11,350 -6.9% Chart courtesy of SBHE Incarceration leaves student angry and uncertain This is the second of a two part series about Michael Smiley, a stu-dent arrested outside of his class in Linthicum Hall in January. by Michael Bennett ""It's no place to be somebody."" That is how Michael Smiley describes the Baltimore County Jail, where he Vent six months awaiting trial for eriMes he did not commit. Chl January 31, 1980, when two University police officers came into LSI.1111eY's class and asked to speak to lain, he thought that perhaps there was a family emergency. Maybe one ef.his children was sick or had been liAured; or maybe his car had been hit In the parking lot. But when Smiley went out into the aallway, he was thrown against the :4;all and frisked. There were three university police officers and nine Baltimore County policemen, one of Whom had his gun drawn and aimed at Smiley. ""I don't know how many people have ever looked into the barrel of a gun, but it's a scary thing. It scared the hell out of me,"" Smiley said. Michael Smiley was taken into custody by the County police and charged with two counts of armed robbery. Smiley was ultimately exonerated and freed on August 5, 1980, but six months of his life were gone. He has no recourse; he cannot sue or other-wise seek compenstaion. He is left to pick up the pieces of his life as best he can, without help from the system that put him behind bars. Smiley describes his stay in the County jail as debilitating. It has left him unsure about his future. He is considering transfering to Temple University and moving back to Phil-adelphia where he was born, because he feels there is always the possibility that any time there is an armed rob-bery in Baltimore County he may be picked up as a suspect. ""I'm a double minority. It's hard In this issue The Tiger Booters whipped 15th-ranked West Vir-ginia last week 2-1. Read about it on page 6. As if to prove that the reminiscences of a great actress can be as boring as your Aunt Sara's, Ingrid Bergman has written an autobiography. Read the review on page 3, enough to be black, but it's harder being an ex-con. To many people an ex-con is lower than a dog to be spat on,"" he said. Smiley was convicted of illegal possession of a hand gun in 1976. He served his time and returned to col- ""I could look out the window and see the college, but I couldn't be there. After a while I just didn't look out the window anymore."" lege in 1977 to get his life in order. However, his past came back to haunt him when his name was kicked out of the Baltimore County computer as a possible suspect in an armed robbery case. The robbery victim identified Smiley from a police mug shot, but later when she saw him in person, she said that he was not the man who robbed her. By that time the damage had been done; Smiley had spent six months in jail. Smiley was angry when he got out of jail, but he has chosen to channel his anger into working to change the system. He has contacted Congress-man Parren Mitchell (Dem. 7th), Congressman Barbara Mikulski (Dem. 3rd) and Judge William Mur-phy in an effort to change existing laws to provide for compensation for people who spend time in jail for crimes they did not commit. ""When I got out I wanted to strike back. I could have said 'hell, they took six months of my life away from me for something I didn't do; now I'm going to get even.' But I decided that I'd strike back not with my fists but with my voice,"" he said. Smiley was so sure that he would be set free once he got the chance to tell his side of the story in court he did not withdraw from the University. He at-tempted to arrange to continue his studies while he was in jail, but none of the faculty members his family contacted followed through on his request. It was even difficult for him to get textbooks in jail. When his family sent him the books, they hatl to be in-spected by jail officials to make sure they did not contain weapons or con-traband materials. Being out of school was painful. ""I could look out the window and see the college, but I couldn't be there. After a while I just didn't look out the window anymore,"" Smiley said. The delay in his education was not the only problem Smiley had while he was in jail. Smiley follows Islamic dietary rules, so he does not eat pork and several other foods. He does not drink soda, coffee or tea. It took some time before jail officials would pro-vide him with the food he needed. However, in jail food can be the least of your problems. The strict regimentation becomes frustrating to men who are accustomed to going where they want when they want. In jail they tell you when to get up, when to eat and when to go to bed. Often the frustration and the crowd-ed conditions lead to violence. During Smiley's time in jail he was involved in two fights. Both fights arose out of his need to defend himself and to maintain his self-respect. According to Smiley, in jail it is vital that you get and maintain the respect of the other inmates. Other-wise you become a victim of those continued on page 8 A University is a place where a person is free to expand his horizons, but behind bars one is not allowed this freedom. Michael Smiley, after six months in jail, has returned to Towson State to continue his education. TL photo by Cindy Sheesley "