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- The November 17, 1983 issue of The Towerlight, the student newspaper of the Towson State University.
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The Towerlight, November 17, 1983
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tl19831117-000 "The Towerlight Publish and be damned. �Duke of Wellington Vol. 77 No. 11 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21201 November 17, 1983 Faculty discuss Lebanon, Grenada 'so the world will end knowledgeably' 1983 By Regina Layette Davis Once a year, speech professor Richard Vatz said,, he and political science professor David Dent get together to organize a panel discus-sion when world crises develop so that ""the world will end knowledgably."" Belying that rather tongue-in-cheek agen-da, Drs. Vatz and Dent recently focused discussion on a serious topic: the United State's involvement in Lebanon and Grenada. A sizeable crowd � including a con-siderable share of students�packed into Lin-thicum 100 last week to hear five faculty draw from their areas of exPertise in a discussion of whether the U.S. presence in those two countries would make 1983 the year of the ""New Vietnam."" The faculty who participated in the discus-sion were Dr. Michael Grossman, professor of political science; Dr. Harry Piotrowski, pro-fessor of history; Dr. Eric Belgrad, professor of political science; Dr. Arnold Eisman and Dr. Dent. Vatz was the moderator of the discussion, Former administrator convicted of battery', theft in Montgomery Co. A former Towson State University administrator was convicted by a Montgomery County (Maryland) circuit court on charges of shoplift-ing and battery, the Montgomery Journaireported last week. Tyrone Lewis, who served as associate r'ean of student activities developme. ! t year, was sen-tenced to serve a maxim um three and a half years by Circuit Court Judge John F. McAuliffe. Accord-ing to the Journal article, McAuliff told Lewis at the sentencing that he believed Lewis was ""not only a thief, but an outrageous liar."" Lewis was brought before the court on charges of stealing three socket wrenches and a screwdriver from a Seats store in August, 1982, and knocking over two security guards during his escape. During the trial, Lewis' defense attorney presented a $384 airline ticket to support witnesses' tes-timony that Lewis was in Chicago delivering a lecture when the crime occurred. Prosecutors, however, proved the flight did not exist and that the ticket was forged, raising the Possibility that Lewis may also be charged with perjury. The article noted that Lewis had been convicted of two prior offenses and nearly escaped one�also a shoplifting charge�when his wife told the court he was dead, pre-senting a fake Death Certificate as proof. Lewis' sentencing hearing was delayed seven hours while he denied any previous charges. Prosecutors, however, produced arrest records confirming that Lewis had been Charged with a similar offense in Laurel (Maryland) last year. Lewis said that he ""honestly didn't recall"" the offense, the Journal reported. Lewis came to the University in October of 1982, to serve as a liaison between student organizations and the administration. Lewis described his duties in a Towerlight interview last year saying, ""I see myself as, basically, a trouble-shooter for students when they reach that stagnant point in dealing with the administration."" Before his appointment as associ-ate dean at Towson State, Lewis was athletic director and departent chair-man of health and physical sciences at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. He was also head of the health science department at ' Howard University for five years prior to the UMES job. The Journal said Lewis was fired from his position at Towson State after being jailed pending his sentencing. Earlier this semester, in a Tower-light article, Lewis said he believed he was being forced to resign be-cause Of poor job performance. Lewis said he had contacted the National Associ tion for the Advancement of Colnred People (NAACP) to ensure fair treatment, but Dorothy Siegel, vice-president of student services, said Lewis' termination was ulti-mately due to personal and legal nroblems. When asked, Siegel said she did not know why the University hired a convicted criminal. Lynn Kelly of the personnel department explained that Lewis was hired by a search committee and that, because he was being considered for an adminsitrative position, his police record was not investigated. Tyrone Lewis, former associate dean of student affairs, was convicted last week of shoplifting and battery. which dealt primarily with the present and future of the United States forces in Lebanon. Belgrad felt that the U.S. occupation in Lebanon was based on the ""theory of presence,"" that is, that the presence of the military will lend stability to that country. But, Belgrad noted, just the opposite has happened. Instead of providing stability, the Marines presence has broken Lebanon into several factions. The question now, he said, is ""whether anything (in Lebanon) is salvageable and whether we should stay or get out."" Belgrad believes the question is moot. ""The sentiment in this country is against further in-volvement. A prolonged stay is not palatable to either the Congress or the voters."" Piotrowski, who specializes in Soviet and Third World politics, approached the situa-tion in Lebanon from a slightly different perspective, questioning whether the United States would be willing to engage Syria in ""a full-fledged war."" Piotrowski noted that the U.S. initially became involved in Lebanon to protect the Palestinian refugees and wound up ""keeping peace in a civil war as a neutral force."" Because the U.S. has supported the Lebanese government, ""the U.S. is faced with going to war with Syria (which is backing anti-government forces) or getting out."" Either way, Piotrowski said, the result will be a ""bloodbath"": if the U.S. stays, more Americans will be killed and if we leave, peo-ple in Lebanon will be killed. Grossman offered a broader, more general insight, reflecting that American foreign policy since the 1950's has resembled its domestic policy. The U.S. he said, ""acts as though, (it) has a free hand"" in international affairs. The present administration is the best ex-ample of this, Grossman said. ""The Reagan administration believes it can implement its own ideas, regardless of what is actually go-ing on in an area."" Grossman described Reagan as a ""wild card"" who will ""follow his instincts more than previous presidents."" Eisman said the fact that the U.S. will be forced to ""vindicate its decisions"" in Lebanon is the only parallel to Vietnam. The U.S., he said, cannot withdraw because of the 234 casualties it lost recently in Lebanon. ""To pull out would dishearten the Lebanese government, would encourage its opponents, and show we give into terrorism. ""We are in for a long and frustrating period during which the government tries to find a way of getting out without appearing humiliated or defeated,"" Eisman said. Dent, who specializes in Central American and Caribbean politics, focused on the recent invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada. In attacking that country, he said, President Reagan is ""attempting to exorcise the Viet-nam devil and harden his stand on Marxist governments while using the rhetoric of rescue and (from a potential Cuban takeover) and stabilization"" following a recent coup during which that country's leader was depos-ed and executed. Dent said he hoped the Grenada invasion did not portend an invasion of Nicaragua. ""The current thinking is that the Sandinistas should be frightened and shaking in their boots."" Dent said that he did not think that the San-dinistas were ""shaking in their boots."" Newman Centers, named for John Henry Cardinal Newman, are celebrating their 100th anniversary this year. Towson State's Newman Center is across York Road from Stephens Hall. By Eilvins Lagulins Newman Center celebrates 100 years in U.S. By James Hunt When John Henry Cardinal Newman first began sending priests to minister to Catholic students on non-Catholic college campuses in the 1880s, he was criticized severely by church offi-cials, who felt that Catholic students shouldn't be on non-Catholic campuses in the first place. Today, 100 years after the founding of the club that bears Newman's name, ""you couldn't pos-sibly go to a campus anywhere where there isn't a Newman Center,"" according to Father Bob Albright. Albright should know. He is director of Towson State's Newman Center, which last weekend hosted 200 Newman Club members from cam-puses around the state for a celebration of the club's 100th anniversary in the United States. The centenary celebration began with a mass offered by the Archbishop of Baltimore, William Borders, who was a campus minister in Louisiana for 15 years to open the centenary celebration, and was followed by dinner in the Susquehanna Room, which was lined with the banners and flags of the clubs. Afterwards, an open house at the Newman Center, located across York Road across from Stephens Hall, left the large, white house ""bulg-ing at the seams,"" Albright said. The Newman Clubs. which today are located on campuses worldwide, began rather inauspi-ciously 100 years ago on a campus in Madison, Wisconsin, Albright said. A small group of Catholics who had been meeting informally for several months at Lae home of a woman, Mrs. Melvin, to discuss the Bible were officially recognized as a student group on Thanksgiving Day, 1883. Originally, the group called themselves the Melvin Club, in honor of Mrs. Melvin. Ten years after the club's founding, however, one of the original members formed a similar organization See NEWMAN, page 2 'Ethics and Responsibility in the Media' forum set Local print and broadcast journalists tapped for panel By Loraine Mirabella What is media's responsibility to the public? To what extent can a broadcast or newspaper reporter remain objective? These and similar questions are expected to be discussed in the program ""Ethics and Responsiblity in the Media,"" scheduled for November 20 at 8 p.m. in Stephens Auditorium. SGA Senator James Di paula, who organized the event, said the discussion will focus on ""ethical issues that arise in contemporary print and broadcast journalism."" The initial idea, Di paula said, was to hold a ""media night"" composed of people with a wide range of experience and ""try to bring the participants to Towson."" He worked in conjunction with Dr. Richard Vatz, professor of speech, and developed the ethics theme. The debate wilLbe structured as a panel discussion followed by a ques-tion and answer period, Di paula said. The program will feature some of Baltimore's top media people. Television anchormen Jerry Turner (WJZ), Dave Durian (WBAL) and Nelson Benton (WMAR), and Reg Murphy, publisher of the Balti-more Sun, James Toedtmen, editor of the News American, and Betsy Hyle, news director of WBAL, will be on the panel. The panelists who could be reached said they agreed to par-ticipate because they feel the topic is one which needs to be discussed publicly. ""We are constantly concerned with journalistic ethics and trying to uphold them,"" Turner said. ""[The program] is an opportunity to call the public's attention to the topic."" Benton agreed. ""Any time these things are discussed publicly, [view-ers] and participants learn from Durian said he agreed to partici-pate because he hasn't been involved in a public discussion of ethics since college and was intrigued by it. ""[Ethics] is something we don't talk about enough. It is a worthwhile topic,"" Durian said, and ""a topic journalism students ought to get from places other than textbooks."" Each panelist has a long list of credentials. Turner, correspondent and co-anchor of Eyewitness News, was previously news director of WXEX-TV in Richmond, Virginia, WNOR in Norfolk, Virginia. Prior to that he was a reporter for Holly-wood Valley Times in Los Angeles and The Meridian Star in Missis-sippi. Broadcast Magazine has named Turner one of the top 10 local TV news anchormen in the United States. Benton, anchorman for WM AR-TV, joined CBS news in 1960 and has been a news correspondent since 1964. He has reported on such events as the assassination of President Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and na-tional party conventions of 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976. As anchorman on the CBS Morning News with John Hart, Benton covered the Watergate hearings. He presently anchors the Monday edition of First See ETHICS, page 3 "
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