TL2007115-01 "Nov. 15, 2007 www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly Thursday Now on TheTowerlight.com: Check out video of Music Mayhem that was held in Paws Tuesday night... Dealing with displacement Faculty, students in the Center for the Arts contend with flood damage through the Fall Patrick Smith/The Towerlight Students including freshman Rachel Cagiwa, a pre-dance performance major, perform a stretch and conditioning exercise during professor Sandra Perez�s foundation of ballet class in Stephens Hall Auditorium Tuesday afternoon. Police chase suspect on to campus Two students carjacked; suspects armed Towson continues toward trimester University looks to launch two-year pilot of 12-week session with �in demand� programs Sharon Leff Editor in Chief Towson is one step closer to launching a trimester for Summer 2008, after administrators met with the University System of Maryland Board of Regents� efficiency and effectiveness committee Tuesday, Provost James Clements present-ed before the committee and he said they were enthusiastic and support-ive of the trimester program. The University wants to launch a two-year pilot plan to capitalize on the underutilized facilities on campus during the summer. �We�re busy in the fall and spring. The place is packed. Classrooms are jammed. Labs are filled. In the sum-mer, things sit kind of quiet. So you really have a lot of capital resources that are underutilized in the sum-mer,� Clements said. Before the program can be imple-mented, the state needs to approve funding for it, because when stu-dents attend current summer school sessions the University receives no funding. The University�s average full-time equivalent enrollment for the last three summers was 2,075. �[What] we�re saying to the System is, pay us for whatever we grow,� Clements said. If the pilot 12-week-trimester were launched, it would be in addi-tion to the shorter summer sessions that the University already offers. �We would focus on the pro-grams that are in high demand in See PILOT, page 8 See CAR, page 8 Jazzmen Tynes News Editor Two suspects are in police custody following an armed carjacking involv-ing two Towson University students Monday night. No one was injured in the carjacking, according to police. The suspects have been identified as Rashaad Thomas, 21, of the 4200 block of LaSalle Avenue and Marquise Artez Dukes, 17, of the 1200 block of Kitmore Road. Police charged both suspects with armed carjacking, armed robbery, car-jacking, three counts of first-degree assault, theft of a vehicle, three counts of second degree assault and theft of less than $500, Cpl. Michael Hill, a spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department, said. Police also charged Thomas with giv-ing a false statement to police. The carjacking occurred in the 900 block of Locustvale Road near Dulaney Valley Road, at around 9:46 p.m., Hill said. �The owner of the car and two 21-year-old Towson students were walking to the car when they were approached by [Thomas] with what they described as a �long gun,�� Hill said. �He demanded their wallets and took the car.� After taking the car, a 2006 Volvo, Thomas met up with Dukes and drove south on York Road where an officer noticed the car and began following it, Hill said. �The vehicle stopped after turning onto Bosley Avenue and both suspects exited the car,� he said. �Officers then began a foot pursuit.� Sara Newman, a freshman mass com-munication major, was walking back to her dorm along York Road with friends See DANCE, page 18 Krysten Appelbaum Senior Editor Students and professors who expected specially designed dance studios, ample office facilities, and teach-ing and practice space in the Center for the Arts were in for a rude awakening when the semester started. A flood caused by a pipe that burst on July 4 resulted in damage to 57 rooms, which have been closed for the entire semester, director of the physical plant Harry Hughes said. The damaged rooms include offices, classrooms, labs, dressing rooms and studios. �Three quarters of the dance department classes were relocated to Stephens Hall [Auditorium] and the theater department�s spring floored studios,� dance department chair Susan Haigler-Robles said. Many instrumental teachers have had to teach in prac-tice rooms, forcing students to wait for space to become available to practice, and music faculty have been forced to share their offices. Junior Alexa Conway, who transferred to Towson this semester, said it�s frustrating to not have the CFA as a central location for her classes. �It�s hard being introduced into a major and not getting to know any of the upper classmen. Everyone else in the major gets to see each other around the department in the CFA,� she said. �I feel like I sometimes miss important department flyers that are posted in the CFA because I never have to be in there.� Conway also said the displacement has caused some scheduling problems. She said the student who usually plays music to accompany the dancers has to travel across the campus to get to the classes. She also said the sched-uling forces some students to miss part of their classes. �Some dancers scheduled classes that end exactly as one of our dance classes begin. Dance classes follow a different time schedule than the rest of the college,� she said. �So students rush from building to building, missing some things said at the beginning of class.� Sophomore dance performance major Lacey Marousek said finding studio space has been a problem this year. �Many students are required to choreograph for com-position classes and it's very difficult to find and reserve studios. I've had a couple of practices where we literally just rehearsed in the lobby of the Center for the Arts,� Marousek said. Senior dance performance and education major Caroline Rodgers said she thinks freshmen have been the most "
