The Towerlight, November 16, 1979

tl19791116-000 "VOL. LXXIII No. 11 3 Senators reconsider resigning fr(tolverig by Karen DiPasquale Three of the five senators who submitted their resigna-tion letters last week, have withdrawn their resignations. The five senators, Lisa Allen, Jeff Kachik, Jim Man-fuso, Will Neumann, and Dennis Tully, had resigned because they said the Senate acted hypocritically when it voted not to fund any organization for food or drinks, but then voted to fund the Black Student Union for its Parent's 'inner. The three senators who withdrew their resignations, Jun Manfuso, Will Neumann and Dennis Tully, said they acted rashly, without thinking when they resigned. Manfuso said at the SGA meeting, ""There were things that were said and actions taken last week that are regret-ted, I myself made a mistake and acted out of anger."" Manfuso also said that since four new senators have already been voted into the Senate at the beginning of the semester, to have have more senators resign would reduce the effectiveness of the Senate. ""I feel I have a responsibility for staying in office to those people who elected us into the Senate,"" said Manfuso. Tully, who said last week, ""It showed real lack of uackbone for the Senate to completely change it s minds !Min 15 minutes,"" has also withdrawn his resignation. ittlly said that after he thought about what occurred last Week, he realized it would be better to stay in the Senate. Kachik, did not withdraw his resignation, nor did Lisa Allen, who was not present at the SGA meeting. Kachik said he had thought about resigning from the Senate before the misunderstanding about the bill occurred last week because of other commitments. Allen also said she had thought about resigning from the 8enate before because she had been disillusioned with the 4enate for the past few weeks. As far as Senate Bill 41, which stated that the Senate nauld not fund any organization for food or drinks, Milissa Turray told the Senate that she vetoed it and she passed Lae bill to fund the Black Student Union. There was no attempt by the senators to override Mur-ray's veto during the meeting. Manfuso, at Tuesday's meeting said he thought that What was considered inconsistency last week was irlistaken for what was really open mindedness. The Senior Class was allocated $5,000 for the Senior 'rem at Tuesday's Student Government Association Meeting. Laura Hawkins, senior class president, requested !10,125 about three weeks ago, but the bill which was in- 'reduced to Senate by the Appropriations Committee, was voted down. continued on page PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Towson State Iranian students are in favor of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranians who are still occupying the American Embassy In Iran, said an Iranian student here. The student said she feels sorry for the hostages and believes nothing will happen to them. She said she does not blame the American people for their reac-dons toward the takeover and she has experienc-ed retaliation while at Towson State. Other students participated Tuesday in a verbal con-frontation in the University Union. Iranian and American students talked for more than an hour about their views on the Iranian situation. TL photo it), Lester Shugarman Business and finance Reorganization to improve efficienc by Halaine Silberg Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, reorganized the departments within that division, effective October 8. McCulloh said the basic goal behind the reor-ganization was to allow the division to run more efficiently by reducing the number of people reporting to the vice president. Formerly seven department heads reported directly to the vice president. These included directors of police, physical plant, marketing, finance, business ser-vices, campus planning and personnel, he said. Under the reorganization several of the departments have been renamed and shifted, reducing the number of people reporting to Mc- Culloh to four. These four include Fred Bank, heading the personnel staff, Terrence Smith, director of auxiliary services, Ronald Garrison, assistant vice president for finance, and William Bauersfeld, assistant vice president for opera-tions. Police, physical plant and marketing depart-ments, which formerly reported to the vice president, now report to Bauersfeld, whose department changed from business services to operations. Also under operations are office ser-vices, procurement and supply as well as special services. Auxiliary services, which includes food ser-vices, residence, the University Store and the University Union, was kept intact as a depart-ment but moved out from under Bauersfeld in business services and transformed to a mainline department reporting directly to McCulloh. The finance department was left unchanged. It caters to accounting, auditing, budget analysis and forecasting, data processing and financial operations. How will all of this affect the University? ""The key, to me, is efficiency,"" said McCulloh. He said problems could now be solved more quickly, because there would be ""a cutting through of the various layers of supervisors."" McCulloh cited as one example a hypothetical problem involving the physical plant and police department. Formerly the vice president would have had to meet with the director of the physical plant to ad-vise him of a specific idea and then meet with the director of the police department to do the same. If both directors did not concur, McCulloh would then be responsible for again meeting with both and working out an agreeable solution. Under the new system, McCulloh said he can now go directly to Bauersfeld with an idea, let-ting him organize the meetings within his depart-continued on page 10 Contents Sports 4 Features 3 Entertainment 6 Week Watcher Newsbriefs 8 Commentary 9 Classifieds 8 Some threatened TSU Iranians back Khomeini by John Bennett An Iranian student at Towson State says the majority of Iranians here are ""very much"" behind the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranians who continue to occupy the American embassy in Tehran. The embassy occupation began November 4, and 60 to 65 Americans are among 90 hostages held at the em-bassy. The student, who asked to be iden-tified only as Tayebe, said she feels sorry for the hostages and believes nothing will happen to them. She said the takeover was meant to be a message to the American govern-ment that the Iranian people are serious about their demand for the return to Tehran of the deposed Shah of Iran, Mohannad Reza Pahlavi, to stand trial. ""When you make a promise you have to keep it,"" said Tayebe, ""and the U.S. promised not to let the shah into this country."" She said she knew ""somehow he [the shah] would end up here."" She said Iranians don't believe the shah is in the United States for treat-ment of cancer, but rather that ""Kissinger and Nixon pressured the goveniment into giving the shah asylum."" Former president Richard Nixon visited the shah when he lived in exile in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Tayebe said the Iranians want to know why reports of the length of the shah's medical stay in the U.S. differ, and why a doctor representing Iran reportedly was not allowed to ex-amine the shah. American envoy Ramsay Clark was refused entry last week because he represented the untrustworthy Amer-ican govenunent and because Kho-meini will not negotiate with the government, she said. Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr repeated Iran's demand for the shah's return Tuesday, but added, ""The United States must at least accept that the shah is a criminal and return the wealth transferred to the United States by him [the shah], his family, and leaders of the foreign regime."" Tayebe said she is ""expecting reprisals and incidents"" on the part of American citizens in retaliation against Iranian students. She said she heard of an incident in Baltimore City in which an Iranian's home was the target of a Molotov cocktail. She had been verbally abused and had stones thrown at her at Towson State, she said. She also said she participated in last Friday's Iranian students' demon-stration in Washington during which the 3,000 protestors were shouted at and showered with obscenities. A spontaneous verbal confrontation erupted Tuesday around 2 p.m. in the University Union between Iranian students and American students. Iranian students said six or seven of them were gathered in front of the recreation center talking together when a ""sympathetic"" American stu-dent joined them, precipitating the confrontation. The student in question claimed that he became involved only after the confrontation began. Other students were baiting the Iranians, he said. A crowd of over 50 persons watched the extended argument, which went on for more than an hour. continued on page Immigration t check Iranians The Immigration and Naturaliza-tion Service will be interviewing all Iranian students from Towson State University on Friday, November 30, 1979. The interviews are scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. with students being interviewed by the alphabetical order of their last names. All Iranian stu-dents must attend an interview on November 30. There will be no alter-nate date. Students must present their passport, I-94 form and letter of cer-tification from Towson State during the interviews. Certification letters will be available on Wednesday, November 28, in the Foreign Student Office, University Union, room 217. Faculty opinion varies on mass comm. Masters /33' Theresa Gilmore and Pat Voelkel The Academic Council is expected `o vote Monday on a proposal for a graduate program in mass commuai-t, The speech and mass communica-eh department faculty have express-varied opinions concerning the ProPosed graduate program in mass cohimunication. The main concern expressed by �Illealbers of the faculty opposed to the Program is that the undergraduate program is not yet strong enough to warrant a graduate program. br. Richard Vatz, who teaches 44Peech and who will be a member of ale graduate faculty if the proposal is aPProved ' is concerned about the stren.6.,b1. of the undergraduate pro-gram. ""I oppose the graduate program 4n.d voted against it. I firmly believe it wh,,111 severely hamper our already 'leaguered undergraduate pro-gram,"" he said. Michael Stanley, instructor of mass communication, agreed with Vatz. He said he thinks the emphasis in the department should be placed on the undergraduate rather than the gradu-ate program. ""I think the priorities of the depart-ment may be misdirected. I am not in favor of a master program until our undergraduate needs are met,"" he said. Dr. Irene Shipman, chairperson of the department, said the entire department is in the process of being revamped because it has grown so much in the past few years. ""We are looking out for the under-graduate,"" Shipman said. ""We are studying the strengths and weak-nesses of the entire department and we hope to be making some changes when the study is finished."" John MacKerron, who teaches broadcasting, said he thinks the undergraduate program has been suc- In this Issue Follow some of the odd goings-on that occur on campuses across the nation. Read Campus Line, every week in Towerlight. Page 2. IlaPpy Thanksgiving Clownin' around . . . this Towson student has a dif-ferent way of making his tui-tion money. Page 3. - - tLkike the rest of you, we need a little R&R by this point in the semester. Besides, 1.:lere's lots of turkey to be eaten and football to be watched next week. So we'll ""e back with the next issue of Towerlight on November 30. Enjoy your vacations! cessful. ""Our undergraduates are get-ting jobs, at least in broadcasting,"" he said. Some faculty expressed concern that the addition of a graduate pro-gram will weaken the undergraduate program because the faculty will be the same in both programs. Dr. Charles Flippen, who teaches journalism, said, ""The faculty situa-tion will probably get tight,"" because instructors will have to take time away from their undergraduate courses to teach in the graduate pro-gram. He does not see the problem as being too great for awhile, though, because there will be very few graduates in the program for a few years. Vatz disagreed. ""There are all sorts of complaints that teachers do not spend enough time with students now, and a graduate program would ex-acerbate this problem,"" he said. Many members of the faculty cited a great need for a graduate program in the area. Dr. Phyllis Bosley, who teaches public relations, saw a definite need for a mass communication program. ""There is no similar program and no opportunity to study public relations in this manner in the area,"" she said. Dr. Marlene Cowan said there is no similar program in all of Maryland. Shipman pointed out that the sophis-tication of the communication field coupled with the tight employment situation, showed a great need for students to obtain a Master's degree to increase their marketability. She said students had expressed an interest in having a graduate pro-gram in mass communication in the area. She said the department has received several phone calls asking about such a program. Other interest was shown through a student survey circulated throughout mass commu-nication courses last semester. Vatz does not think the survey results showed an accurate interest level of the students polled. ""I don't think the questions were well constructed,"" he said. ""I don't believe the students were asked whether they would enroll in a graduate program at Towson State, but rather they were asked if they were interested in enrolling in a graduate program,"" he said. Some other instructors wondered if a Master's degree in such a broad field rather than a specialized field would enhance the marketability of a student. Stanley said he thinks a student should specialize when obtaining a Master's degree. ""I'm in favor of specialization on the graduate level,"" he said. ""I think that would enhance a student's chances of getting a job more than just another general degree."" MacKerron disagreed. ""A mass communication Master's is good for the same reason our undergraduate program is. It gives the student a broader scope, and this is paying off because our undergraduates are get-ting jobs,"" he said. Other faculty expressed the same thoughts, adding that a broader pro-gram allows the student more flex-ibility, latitude and job opportunity. William Poulos, who teaches film and television, said, ""This program is not for everyone. It would be pri-marily for those students interested in going into theory related fields such as media management or media con-sultation."" S. Jim Kim, who teaches jour-nalism, said that the whole philosophy of the department is to give the students a well-rounded education rather than in any specialized field. ""Our program would compare favor-ably with College Park's [University of Maryland] because their graduate program is limited. At ours, you can study anything,"" he said. Discussing the marketability of a student with a Master's degree in mass communication, John Plunkett, assistant managing editor of the Morning Sun, said that the strength of the degree would depend on the opening available and the exact struc-ture of the graduate program. ""For example,"" he said, ""hiring for the copy desk, I would take someone who has taken courses in news editing and page layout. In news, many editors of large papers hire people with degrees in English, political science and history and mass com-munication majors. It is an asset to have a journalism course though."" David Emory, news director at WMAR-TV said, ""A Master's in mass communication would not be terribly beneficial. We are more likely to hire reporter-types in other fields such as economics. The last person we hired was practicing law before coming to the station."" President Hoke Smith said he is in favor of a graduate program in mass communication. While he was at Drake College, a Master's program in journalism was started, so he is familiar with this type of a program. Smith likes the idea of a broad background in a Master's program rather than a more specific research-type program, such as the University of Maryland's. He said he thinks Towson State's program will be for professionals already in the field who would come to classes on a part-time basis. Cowan said she feels the same way. ""A mass communication Master's Irene Shipman would be good because when people are out in the field, it becomes necessary to look to promotions and different kinds of skills might become necessary to obtain them,"" she said. In general, the mass communica-tion faculty was greatly divided in their opinions about many different aspects of the program. Opinion was divided on whether or not to have the program at all, what courses should be offered, and even whether or not the proposed courses would overlap or even repeat some of the courses in the undergraduate program. If the Academic Council approves the proposal at Monday's meeting, it will then be sent to the State Board for Higher Education, which will have to make the final decision. The proposed implementation date for the program is September, 1980. "