The Towerlight, November 19, 1976

tl1976119-000 "JV() Towerlight next week-- Thanksgiving vacation VOL LXIX, NO 11 w 41/ cru TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Towson gets incitation to NCA A playoffs See page 8. NOVEMBER 0.1976 Shaw selected President of Southern Illinois U. Dr. Kenneth Shaw, vice president and dean of the University, became the first person to leave the Towson State campus for the presidency of a university this week, accepting an offer as the head of Southern Illinois University. His appointment is effective Jan. 17, 1977. Dr. Shaw, who has been dean of academic affairs since he came to TSU in 1969, was appointed president of Southern Illinois following a nationwide search that produced over 200 candidates. The Blacksin,terrupt aTTI Senate meetin Dean Kenneth Shaw Increase in state aid to colleges advised by Ruth Ann Leftridge A committee of the Maryland Board for Higher Education recently recommended a substantial increase in state support to public colleges. The recommendation was a result of a study forecasting a 70 per cent Increase in the cost of a Maryland college education in the next five Years. The increase in state support would offset the expected rise in tuition. Maryland now pays 64 per cent in subsidies to the state colleges and 69 per cent to the University of Maryland. The committee's report suggests a 70 percent level of state support. The recomMendations will be submitted to the entire board for higher education at its December Meeting. If approved, the Maryland General Assembly will consider the suggestions in January. If adopted by the legislature at that time, the proposals will become effective in 1979. Wayne Schelle, vice president of business and finance, said he is ""hopeful but wary"" that the recommendations will be of assis-tance to TSU. Schelle said he thinks the study was ""very superficial,"" but it was ""step in the right direction."" ""The study could have an impact,"" he said, but added that it needs to be more aggressive. ""We're grateful that they're considering -the added support,"" Schelle said. The study also includes a recommendation for a $5 million state-capitalized student loan pro-gram. This program will serve as a ""lender of last resort"" for students who are unsuccessful in obtaining loans through commercial lenders. Schelle said the loan funds are being offered ""instead of more grant money."" He said these funds wil help students from families with a $20,000 to $40,000 a year income, and not the ""disadvantaged stu-dents."" ""I really hate to see more loan money instead of more state support money,"" Schelle said. ""I would like to see both."" Also, if the recommendations are approved, faculty in Maryland's four-year colleges and Universities will receive a three per cent raise for fiscal 1978. Maryland's level of state �support is not proportional with the level of other states, Schelle said, Maryland ranks behind 38 other states in the amount of state aid it allocates to higher education. by Tom Troy, Jr. The SGA Senate was again interrupted by a group of black students protesting the refusal of the Black Student Union budget. The protest on Tuesday began in the same way that it began last week, with black students slowly filling up the gallery seats while senate carried on with its business. Then they got up and quietly came forward with their placards bearing the words, ""Omega Psi Chi Supports BSU,"" and others. There was one placard this week that included the words, ""Student Genocide Association."" Last week, the protesting stu-dents were invited to speak before the Senate body, a very unusual practice. This week, however, no such invitation was given. The trouble started when one student was standing on the side of the Senate table rather than in back, where the gallery customarily stands. Vice president Nancy Payne asked him to move back with the rest of the gallery, but he refused. She asked again, in more insistent tones this time, and he again refused. At this point, Senator Spencer Leckron said a motion needed to be made to adjourn the meeting and something also needed to be done to prevent further such occurrences. Marc Land made the appropriate motion and the meeting was ended. ""This is the worst behavior I have ever seen,"" said Payne. ""I haven't the slightest idea why these people are doing this."" BSU president Eric Hanks seem-ed taken aback by the way the meeting turned out. ""I must say I'm surprised at the adjournment. I didn't expect them to adjourn. Some of the senators overreacted a little bit, I think. No one came in jumping up and down or throwing stuff at them,"" Hanks said. ""I think they thought our purpose was to disrupt the meeting. It wasn't to disrupt the meeting. It was a misunderstanding on their part. Our purpose was to peacefully show the signs, to show that we're still concerned with the BSU budget refusal,"" he said. As to the student who refused to move when Nancy told him to, Hanks said, ""I think he should have complied, yeah."" Because the meeting ended so abruptly, some observers are expecting a repeat of the same next Tuesday. Hanks says he knows of nothing planned for next week. ""I couldn't speculate what's going to happen because I really don't know,"" he said. Payne, on the other hand, is not taking any chances. She plans to have the gallery section roped off, and security guards present to help her keep order. Also: Senator Ray Tubman announced his plans to run for the vice presidency of the SGA. `Woodstein' gets phenomenal response by Steve Jones ""Response was phenomenal on campus,"" stated Mark London, manager of the University Union, about tomorrow night's appearance of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Towson Center. The two Washington Post repor-ters, who made public the Water-gate break-in and subsequently caused the downfall of the Nixon administration, will be the special guest of the Towson State Founda-tion as part of the SGA *speaker series. Woodward and Bernstein, who co-authored the best-seller ""All the President's Men"" and ""The Final Days,"" will each be paid $3,500 for their appearance. It should be no 'problem paying both reporters to speak, said Bob Bauerle, assistant manager of the VU, ""Advance ticket sales are very r A crowd gathers near the harbor during the search for a 12-year-old boy who drowned while watching the marathon football game with friends. TL photo by Sue Latimer good and we are expecting a crowd in excess of 4,000,"" Bau�rle said. ""The benefits from the ticket sales alone will be enough to pay both speakers."" The SGA has purchased 3,000 tickets for distribution on campus and has had an incredible 80 per cent response, ""which is high considering that we usually have only a 65 to 70 per cent response,"" said London. The box office will be selling ""Woodstein"" tickets Friday from 9 U.M. until :3 p.m. On Saturday, the Towson Center box office will open at noon and Continue selling until the beginning of the reporters' speeches. Tiger fans busing to play-off The Tiger Club has tentatively Deadline to sign up for the trip is reserved three buses for fans to 6 p.m. tonight at the box office. The make the trip to Long Island buses will leave promptly at 7 a.m. tomorrow to cheer on the Towson Saturday morning, arriving at C. W. State Tiger football team in their Post, which is in Greenvale, Long NCAA Division III play-off game Island, at 11 a.m. Game time for the against C. W. Post College. first-round play-off encounter is The trip, which is being partially noon. subsidized for students by the SGA, For those wishing to make the trip will cost $10.50 for a round-trip bus by private car, the box office has a ticket aboard the Greyhound motor limited number of reserved seat coach and a reserved seat ticket to tickets, priced at $4. Tickets will also the game. be on sale at the game. Santa Claus loses in marathon by Bill Stetka Tragedy, poor attendance and failure to meet financial goals overshadowed Towson's victories in this year's marathon football game, held last weekend at the inner harbor. Organizers of the marathon said they had hoped to be able to turn over $10,000 to Santa Claus Anonymous, the non-profit organi-zation that distributes the money in the form of gift certificates to needy children at Christmas time. The goal for this year's marathon was $20,000. Organizers cited poor attendance at the game as a major factor in not reaching their goal. Others felt the same way, offering reasons why there were not more people attending the game , and contributing to SCA. ""We got more people at our game last year at Herring Run Park,"" said one Loyola College student, after surveying the crowd at about 9 p.m. Friday night. This year's game was played at Southern High School's brand new athletic facility, James Rash Memorial Field, at Key Highway and Light Street. Several people from the Univer-sity of Baltimore said that friends of theirs who have gone to past games at Herring Run Park, in north Baltimore, did not want to go downtown for the game. Sunday afternoon, tragedy struck the marathon site, when a 12-year-boy, throwing rocks into the harbor, slipped and fell into the cold waters and drowned. There were two bright spots to the weekend event, and they were Towson's victories in both the men's and women's football games. Towson's men, who finished second to Essex Community College last year after a nine-year reign as marathon champs, regained their title by outscoring last year's winners 654 to 493. Loyola and Baltimore brought up the rear in the men's division. Towson's women were also victorious, advancing to the finals of their division and nipping Goucher College, 13-12, for the champion-ship. Edwardsville, Illinois school offers bachelors', masters' and profes-sional degrees for 11,500 students. The 37-year-old vice president, who will also hold a professorship in sociology at Southern Illinois, praised the faculty that he will be leaving at Towson State. ""They are one of the very best assemblies of academicians any-where,"" Dr. Shaw said. ""I leave with the confidence that they and the administration can carry out any on-going responsibili-ties and conquer any new chal-lenges,"" he said. Dr. Shaw, who was born in Granite City, Illinois, and whose parents still reside in Edwardsville, site of his new presidency, followed Dr. James Fisher, Towson's presi-dent, to Maryland in 1969. The institution has tripled its enroll-ment, gained university status and national recognition for a number of its programs. Dr. Fisher, in accepting the vice president's resignation, said, ""I hate to lose him�he's simply the most remarkable man in college administration I've ever known. ""He's the best�he's one of my closest personal friends. We play ball together, we drink together. I've known him since he was a senior at Illinois State University,"" Dr. Fisher exalted. Dr. Fisher was an adminsitrator at Illinois State when Dr. Shaw was a student. Dr. Fisher continued, ""It's been pleasing to me, even a little fun, to hear people who used to gripe about the dean and the president:Now, many of those same people are groaning because Buzz is leaving. ""What do you say about a guy you've grown up with? The academic principle of this institution is a product of his leadership and his ability to make everyone feel a part of the decision-making process,"" Dr. Fisher said. ""His presidency, I'm sure, will be a truly remarkable one,"" the TSU president said. Dr. Fisher said that the University will now seek to replace Dr. Shaw, ""although I'm not sure a person like him is easily replaced."" Dr. Fisher said that the search for a successor will include both persons on campus and at other institutions. ""No question, we have persons eminently qualified on this campus, but they will have to meet the national test,"" Dr. Fisher said. SGA insensitivity charged by BSU head by S. L. Verch They're not being sensitive to what we want,"" said Black Student Union President Erik Hank of the Student Government Asf- iation senate performance in regard to his organization. The BSU staged a second ""demonstration"" this past Tuesday at the regular Senate meeting, not unlike the one they organized at last week's meeting. Each time, the BSU and sister black organizations were able to mobilize approximately 40 students with signs to, as Hanks explained, ""raise the consciousness of the senate."" The two demonstrations were the result of discontent among he BSU for the Senate's decision several weeks ago to reject an approximate-ly $3,000 supplementary budget request that Hanks had submitted. Hanks contended that the request was justified if the group was to hold many of the activities that had been planned. He felt that the activities are ""sorely needed"" by black students at Towson. SGA Senator Jo Lee Lesser defended the Senate's action, pointing out that the BSU hadn't spent any of its original $9,000 budget. For this reason, she said, the Senate did not see the need to allocate any more funds to the BSU. ""The senators' job via appropria-tions is to determine who gets what money . . . I believe they could have done a little more investigation and could have communicated with me,"" said Hanks. Explaining the goals of the BSU, Hanks said the organization func-tions to provide the type of events that black students want, and to also provide input from black students at all levels of the university. The decision to demonstrate at last week's Senate meeting was made sometime before the meeting. At this time, it was also decided that a follow-up demonstration would be held this week. Hanks said that the decision was the consensus of the organization. The ""protest committee,"" a committee within the BSU, was formed as a result of this decision. The ""protest committee"" was responsible in part for the organiz-ing of the demonstration and also has been very much concerned with determining BSU strategy in this regard. Fatima Wilson, BSU vice president, nominally is in charge of the committee. Of the first ""protest,"" Hanks stated that it was successful. ""Yes, I think it was productive. It showed the senators that the black students are very interested in what happens. We wanted to raise the consciousness of the senators and hopefully they'll examine closely our requests,"" he said. The second demonstration was held, said Hanks, to let the Senate know that the BSU is still concerned. ""The second one was held to show that the issue is still very much alive,"" he added. Asked how he felt about the Please turn to page 3 A member of Towson's women's marathon football team evades an opponent during last weekend's action. TL photo by Sue Latimer "