The Towerlight, November 15, 1984

tl19841115-000 "Help a friend break the nicotine habit Thousands of people will quit smoking today, just to prove to themselves they can. The American Cancer Society (ACS) is sponsoring its eighth annual Great american Smokeout (GAS) campaign. The 1984 Smokeout goal is for at least one�of every five smokers to quit for 24 hours. Last year, 43.7/ of the nation's females and 28.5/of the males quit smoking for a day during the smokeout, according to ACS statistics. ""We're hoping that students will quit for a day, and then quit permanently when they realize it's not that hard,"" said Carol Stude, Health Science and Nursing major, who is coordinating the University Smokeout campaign. The ACS has developed an ""Adopt a Smoker"" program. This pairs a smoker who wants to quit for one day, with a non-smoker who will help the smoker resist smoking. The non-smoker is responsible for making sure the smoker has no access to cigarettes and providing snacks and encouragement to help them through the day. There is a ""Survival Station"" in the University Union today where smoker survival kits are available. Adoption papers can also be signed there. �Michele Davis �Joanne Brady � rani P1.1.110 Secondary school exhibit Review of local artwork art studPnts' page 8. A kick in the grass Towson State's soccer team wins last regular season game.. page 5. Garbage mouth Glenn Small gives thanks for garbage page 14. Congres sends Reagan a higher student aid budget Education funding bill H.R. 6028, is sitting on President Reagan's desk. If he signs this bill, students locked out of federal financial aid in 1984 could find some doors opened next year. Experts predict the president will sign the bill which was passed October 11 by both houses of Congress. The bill contains the federal education budget for October 1, 1984 to September 30, the 1985 fiscal year. Students financial aid funds comprise nearly $8 billion of the total $17.9 billion education package. $3.6 billion goes toward Pell grants and $3 billion for Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL). Lou Dietrich from the Department of Education, said, ""The budget exceeds our request for 1985 and provides a great deal of aid."" Congress' aid budget is $1.7 billion more than last year's and nearly $1.5 billion more than Reagan wanted in the 1985 budget. Last February, Regan wanted to fund the Pell program at its 1984 level, eliminate Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG) and State Student Incentive Grants, cut National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) and increase Work/Study and GSL allocations. If Reagan signs the bill into law, the SEOG program would get $40 million more, NDSL will get $35 million more and College Work/Study will get $37.5 million more than the 1984 levels. Some financial aid directors believe the increase won't greatly help new aid applicants. ""The increase in Pell funds will go to students already in the Program,"" said Pat Smith of the American Council on Education (ACE). ""Maximum grants will be raised from $1900 to $2100, and there are nearly three million students in the program."" �College Press Service Campus notes Forensics gives other teams a tongue-lashing The Towson State Forensics team went to Suffolk University in Boston this past weekend and captured first and second place in Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) competition. Other schools competing included Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse, University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. John Mollard and partner Lynn Weber received the champion's plaque for defeating West Point in the semi-final round, advancing to the final round with a perfect record. University debaters Steve Mister and Michele Derlunas also made it to the final round of CEDA competition by defeating William and Mary College debaters on a split decision (2-1). Weber and Mollard took first place after they won their semi-final round on a unanimous (3-0) ballot. Both teams were undefeated in preliminary rounds, and all four University debaters earned speaker awards, with Lynn Weber winning top honors, Michele Derlunas placing second, Steve Mister taking fourth, and John Mollard winning sixth. Another University debating pair, Jeff Order and Rafael Arroyo, were at a tournament at Notre Dame in Indiana last weekend, going 5-3 in preliminary rounds of competition and losing to top-ranked UCLA in the quarterfinal round. The University's team will compete this weekend at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. �Glenn Small - -- Forensics team partners John Mollard and Lynn Weber took first place at the Suffolk Univer-sity Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) tournament last week. Escort service will run beginning Dec. 5 The Student Escort Service will have its trial run December 5 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. and December 6 and 7 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Senator Marty Hyatt has introduced a bill in the SGA Senate to appropriate $2,000 to the escort service. The funds will be used to help cover transportation, communication, and advertising costs, including buying phone lines, flashlights, additional walkie-talkies, and advertising for needed volunteers, Hyatt said. The University has donated four walkie-talkies. Hyatt said the service has the use of vans donated by the University to transport people requesting assistance. Senator Larry Kushner said volunteer applications have been sent to every campus organization and he hopes to get two or three responses from each group. Kushner said ""We want to avoid a situation in which we only have 16 applicants and we will have to use them all,"" with nobody on standby. Each applicant will be interviewed twice by two sets of interviewers,plus Chuck Malloy from the Counseling Center. In addition, escort drivers need a clean driving record and must be approved by the Escort Service, said Senator Dan Dinkin. In the vans, there will be one male and one female student. The service wants to emphasize safety and convenience. Scott Hollenbeck See NOTES, page 2 Published weekly by the students o Towson State University Vol. 78 No. 11 Towson, Md. 21204 November 15, 1984 _ The newly crowned East Coast Conference volleyball champions exult after upsetting heavily-favored Hofstra in the title match, 15-8, By Jerry Trout,III 15-7, 15-13. Volleyball routs Hofstra for ECC title Conference champions! By Bill Gates Towson State was on the ropes. In the third game of the East Coast Conference championship match last Saturday versus defending ECC champion Hofstra, the Tigers had just seen their 14-4 advantage whittled down to 14-13. The Flying Dut-chwomen were on a roll, hammering spike after spike past a Tiger squad whose confidence seemed to have wafted into the upper reaches of the Towson Center. Suddenly, not even Towson State's 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series seem-ed secure. Hofstra was ready to squash these upstarts, right? Wrong. Rather, it was more a case of the final thrashings of a dying champion. Karen von Rinteln ended the Hofstra surge with a spike. Paula Gib-son, who represented the seventh Towson server since the Tigers' last score, sent the ball arcing towards the Hofstra backcourt, where it was fielded cleanly and passed to the front line. Then it was all over. Hofstra's spike attempt was stuffed by Von Rinteln, the ball landed in play, and bedlam broke loose in the home of the ECC's newest volleyball champions. ""On that last point, when it was 14-13, I was saying, 'please Lord, just one more point."" said Von Rim eln. ""We just wanted to see (coach Arlene's face get red one more time,"" said all-conference selection Roxanne Reagan win linked to economic recovery, his personality Lohnieyer. ""We showed her the old Towson State, shuffling our feet and hesitating."" ""I don't even want to think about what could have happened if we lost that third game."" said coach Geppi. There was only one word to describe the Towson play: awesome. They completely dominated Hofstra, a team which had never lost an ECC match and owned a four-match win-ning streak against Towson State, in- See VOLLEYBALL, page 4 Democrats must rebuild party, panel says By Terie Wolan Foi most of us, the 1984 election is history. But for political commen-tators, the only thing more interest-ing than following the presidential campaign is dissecting what the election means,and through various clouded crystal balls, predicting how the 1984 election may affect the future. Described as a ""post-mortem"" on the 1984 election, a panel of Towson State professors assembled last Thursday to give their interpreta-tions of the election results. The discussion was moderated by David Dent, professor of political science. Martha Kumar, Michael Grossman and Antonia Marzotto, professors of political science; Richard Vatz, mass communica-tions associate professor, and Irv-ing Goldberg, chairman of the soci-ology department, were panelists. Dent lead off the session by ask-ing the basic question Walter Mon-dale supporters are no doubt asking themselves�why did Ronald Reagan win re-election so easily? Some observers have blamed Mondale's loss on his uneven cam-paign, his vice-presidential can-didate, the targeting of states where he campaigned, and his state-ment that he would raise taxes. The panelists generally agreed these problems contributed to his loss, but felt the outcome would have been the same whatever Demo-cratic candidate ran against Reagan. Kumar said this election was a vote in favor of Reagan's programs, on the effect of people's pocket-books, and their notion of leader-ship. Reagan said little on his specific plans for the next four years, but he did communicate to the people, Kumar said. Grossman felt that along with Reagan's personal style, the vote represented ""a strong rejection of the Democratic party, and the Democratic leadership."" The Demo-cratic leadership did not count on the image of a still unpopular Jim-my Carter hanging over Mondale, or the long struggle in the primaries, where Gary Hart poirib-d out negative aspects the Republicans capitalized on later, he said. Jesse Jackson's candidacy ""hurt the Democrats significantly"", Grossman said. ""It emphasized for whites, the importance of the black vote to the Democratic party,"" and nervousness about Jackson caused white voters to leave the party. Goldberg said weaknesses in the Democratic party were more to blame than Mondale for his loss. Since Franklin Roosevelt, there has arisen a majority coalition of Re-publicans, Independents, blue collar Workers and Catholics which has gained increasing strength on the national level, Goldberg said. ""Mondale is the cream of Demo-cratic liberalism, of high compe-tance, great integrity and high pro-fessional skill,"" however; a majority of voters no longer identify with liberalism, said Goldberg. Because of voters' satisfaction over it being a time of peace and prosperity, Reagan's re-election was inevitable, Vatz said. There was ""not any time during this campaign when Mondale could have picked up an Oxford English Dictionary and put together words which could have won this election for him,"" said Vatz. Goldberg noted the tendency to re-elect incumbents during periods of prosperity helped to sustain most Congressional Democratic incum-bents in this election. ""The people are not sure if the president or the Congress is making things work,"" said Goldberg, so they're hesitant to get rid of either. Looking to 1988, the majority of the panel suggested the Democratic party will have a difficult time re-taking the White House, even if fac-ing a Republican challenger, rather than a popular incumbent. The Democrats, need to look beyond their current coalition of minority groups and to limit disagreements between the competing groups to succeed, panel members said. It's clear the Democratic party can no longer win a national election with the old Roosevelt coalition, Grossman said, and it will be harder for the Democrats to win an election because the electoral college cur- See POLITICS, page 2 Lewis receives black women's award By Elisa Burns ""Up, you mighty people. You can what you will."" Elma Lewis, black activist and artistic scholar, motivated students and faculty to be ""doers instead of talkers"" with messages like this during her visit to Towson State November 7 through 9. The University's Office of Mi-nority Affairs awarded Lewis and eleven Baltimore women the Uni-versity's 1984 Distinguished Black Women's Asa rd Thursday, November 8. University President Hoke Smith extended his greeting at the second annual awards ceremony, along with Vice President for Stu-dent Services Dorothy Siegel. ""She's (Lewis) the kind of person you want to bring to the communi-ty. It helps to enrich both our in-tellectual and cultural life,"" said Smith. Lewis is the founder and artistic director of the National Center of Afro American Artists and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. Lewis is particularly interested in children between the ages of six and sixteen. She received her Masters Degree at the Boston University School of Education in 1944, spe-cializing in education for the excep-tional child. On a personal level, Lewis has taught over 8500 students. Last year, President Ronald Reagan honored Lewis for her ""work in encouraging young people to enjoy the arts and to explore careers in the arts."" Smith said both black and white students need to become exposed to black contributions, particularly those by women, and catch up to ""social reality"". ""We should be honored to have her here. Considering black people have come so far through history, its really a pleasure to see them (the distinguished women) honored here tonight,"" said junior Carol Steward. During her visit, Lewis spoke at several meetings on campus. The main topics of her discussions were the plight of blacks in underde-veloped countries and the role of blacks in fine arts and education. Lewis participates in many black See LEWIS, page 2 Activist and educator Elma Lewis received Towson State's Distinguished Black Women's Award last week, along with eleven other local black leaders. "