The Towerlight, November 21, 1980

tl19801121-000 "VOL. LXXIV No. 13 otverlig PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Contents Sports '7 Entertainment 5 Features 3 Weekwatcher 6 Newsbriefs 10 Classifieds 10 Commentary 11 November 21, 1980 Party hardy! How difficult was it to get a room on campus in 1919? How did students handle parking problems? Better still, what did they have to park? Towson State archives offer a glimpse of the University's past, including the beginnings of higher education in Maryland. See page 3 for more photos and information about the Normal School and Towson State College. Photo courtesy of TSU Archives Pedestrians responsible for crosswalk safety by Francis C. Broccolino The au Osler Drive crosswalk, where tomobile traffic outnumbers Pedestrian s three to one, has often !lbeen criticized by students for be- Unsafe; however, students, as t.e,I1 as motorists, have a responsi-uletY M the crosswalk. Although Maryland traffic laws tegaire motorists to stop for ped-estrians crossing on their side of ,the street, drivers are not obligated �e stop for those crossing on the other side of the road. Moreover, Pe destrians are not supposed to Wielk or jump in front of cars so eleee that the drivers cannot stop. ""Sometimes people take chances tiedw alk right in front of cars,"" Baid Gene Dawson, director of cam- ' Police. ""And sometimes they cross where there are no crosswalks."" Dawson said motorists are not always at fault when pedestrians are hit; sometimes students' care-lessness or weather conditions are responsible for accidents. On the average, one pedestrian is hit each semester. Although Baltimore County police, who respond to accidents on Osier Drive, have not compiled statistics for this semester, Daw-son said he knows at least one pedestrian has been hit since school began. On October 14, a female student, crossing in the crosswalk, was struck by a car moving at a slow rate of speed. The student, taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, was treated for minor injuries and re-leased. A witness said the student had walked in front of the car, which could not stop in time. To prevent similar accidents, campus police usually guard the Os-ier Drive crosswalk during rush hours; however, this is not always an easy task. ""Peak times fluctuate from sem-ester to semester and from day to day,"" said Dawson. Therefore, in-stead of watching the crosswalk at specific times every day, cam-pus police direct traffic only when the volume is heavy. Because peak times vary, Daw-son said he does not think cross-ing guards are the answer. ""We need something there other than officers,"" he said. continued on page 2 Supplemental requested SBHE recommends $39,906,385 budget by Quincey R. Johnson The State Board for Higher Educa-tion has recommended a budget of $39,906,385 for Towson State. The recommendation is above last year's appropriation by $3,241,542. The SBHE recommendation in-cludes a $20,652,703 general fund ap-propriation (state funds), $19,075,999 in special funds (tuition and fees), and $117,683 in federal aid. The budget is based on an estimated enrollment of 10.6 thousand students which is 283 students less than the 1980 fiscal year. Credit hour enrollment The enrollment estimate provides for 64 percent of the credit hours in the lower division, 33 percent in the upper division, and three percent in the graduate division. The budget includes an addition of six faculty and staff at the University with four of the positions in Inter-collegiate Athletics. The Governor's guidelines do not allow new positions for existing facilities. The University has also submitted a supplemental budget request of $745,374. The request includes $429,289 for equipment for Van Bokkelen Hall, $310,535 for the enhancement of the instruction program including the conversion of seven part-time faculty members, and $5,550 for adminis-tration. The supplemental budget was rec-ommended except for the request for funds for administration. The admin-istration is already over the SBHE guideline for expenditures in that program. The SBHE recommendation for the University provides for an operating budget at 92 percent of the SBHE guidelines which gets 66 percent in state support Operating guidelines The SBHE guidelines give the amount of money needed to ade-quately operate a University pro-gram, said an SBHE staff member. In terms of the guideline level of expenditures, the state supports 60.7 percent. The guideline formula is less than the national average. Statewide, the SBHE has recom-mended an operating budget of $769.4 million. The SBHE recommendation includes an $82.5 million increase over last year's appropriation. Harry Wells, chairman of the SBHE, said in a letter to the governor, ""the budget provides funds that sup-port activities necessary to support quality education."" Of the increase, $35.1 million (47 percent) will be consumed by infla-tion. Fourteen percent of the increase will go to workload increase, 27 per-cent will go to quality improvements, 10 percent for improvements in effi-ciency and two percent for an increase of diversity. The SBHE recommendation pro-vides 63.1 percent general fund support of the guideline level expen-ditures. In fiscal year 1980, the campuses received 62.8 percent general fund support. The Board received $20 million in requests above the Maximum Agency Request ceiling that is set by the Governor's office. The Board was able to recommend only $8.3 million of the request. 1980 general fund budget In fiscal year 1970, the general fund budget was $830.4 million. Eleven per-cent of the of the FY 1970 budget went to higher education. In fiscal year, 1980, the general fund budget was $2.6 billion. Ten percent of the FY 1980 general fund budget went to higher eucation. In the past 10 years, the general fund budget has grown 12.2 percent; however, this growth does not account for inflation. The budget figures are adjusted by the consumer price index in order to show the actual purchasing power after inflation. When the growth figures are ad-justed to account for inflation, the ac-tual growth of general fund budget is 4.5 percent. The adjusted growth of the percen-tage of state support received by higher education is 3.2 percent. General funds increase Between FY 1970 and 1980, genei al funds per student increased from $1,407 to $2,151. The figures adjusted by the consumer price index show a loss of 24.6 percent in purchasing power over a 10-year period. Harry Wells From FY 1970 to FY 1980, full-time equivalent students increased from 47,465 to 70,759. The growth in FTES is more than the growth of state support for higher education. The budget for higher education is based on the amount of credit hours produced by the universities. General funds are only one source of revenue for higher education. Tui-tion and fees are other sources Of higher education revenue. Tuition increase slow Tuition and fees have not kept pace with inflation in Maryland and they have increased even slower nation-ally. Neither general funds per student nor tuition and fees have kept pace with inflation; therefore, state spend-ing for higher education is behind inflation. Maryland's tax capacity and tax revenue per capita are above the national average while Maryland's support for higher education falls below the national average. In FY 1976, general fund appropria-tions per student were $1,129, which was six percent below the national average. In FY 1978, general fund appropria-tion per student was 10 percent below the national average. Maryland's tax revenue per capita increased from six to 12 percent dur-ing the same time. Cardiac rehab program: a tale of life and clocks by Dan Zeigler and Lisa DeNike It like the first movements of t'elaeone who has just gotten up af- ,le.r a fall and is now testing the 'afferent parts of his body to see ich Still work. girtI hey test their anatomies slowly, hey exploring for injury. Start- lteg with one muscle, they flex cau-hleasly, rediscovering feeling, pur- Pri�8e: a back muscle, perhaps, or a eck muscle, or a muscle that many Pe t theleettrdto.n't think of as a muscle, tin he men and women participa- ""g in this cardiac rehabilitation "";:,?Fratil line up for calisthenics wl,""�aout signal. A seriousness over-of e the usually playful nature gymnasium. The participants -gia their exercises quietly.. e first are neck rotations. They i�vtate their necks carefully, intent- ' as if trying to detect Some- OU They gently stretch them nd in circles like football play-ers getting up from a gang tackle, or race car drivers who have sur-vived brick walls, or prize-fighters lifting themselves up from the can-vas � like people who must stop to check the status of their mortality. Each of the participants out on the gymnasium floor have taken a similar fall, been thrown up against that brick wall, been dropped to their knees by a stunning body blow. Each have had a heart attack, a bypass or cardio-vascular dis-ease. This Cardiac-Rehabilitation Pro-gram is a twelve-week course of-fered through Towson State Univer-sity's Athletic Department in co-operation with St. Joseph's Hospi-tal. Heart patients enroll in the course under their doctors' recom-mendations. But from then on, it's up to the patient. Because of the personal respon-sibility of the patient to work for improvement, the warm-up exer-cises are unhurried, deliberate, thorough. After the preliminary neck rotations, they loosen up their In this Issue tiavid 8 or: owie is takoth %a11 just er rock star. hild hew album B uee_Ids current lead vss in the Elehhrole ""The pro""""adt Man"" ve that. Read ,ta o ut it on page 5. Coach Vince An-gotti has high hopes for the Tiger basketball squad as they prepare to enter their second year of Division I com-petition. Preview on page 7. shoulder muscles, then their arm muscles and other combinations of muscles through exercises like run-ning in place, swimming in place, body squeeze and reaching for the sky, until it is certain that their bodies are ready for activity. But then they must check the most im-portant muscle of all to make sure, which they do by taking their pulse. They will do this at least every 15 minutes for the remainder of their one-hour workout. The clock they use to time their pulses makes the minutes seem large and significant. It is a big, square clock that sits on the gym floor, unavoidably visible. The clock is omnipresent. At its signal, the people stop and place fingers on wrists or necks, checking to see if their human beats are synchron-ized with the mechanical ones. Then they continue with their program. The program is run by a core of instructors, doctors and nurses from St. Joseph's and the Univer-sity. Bill Forbes, assistant profes-sor in the University athletic de-partment, is the chief coordinator and director of the program from Towson State, Robert Zeigler, chairperson of the athletic depart-ment, assists Forbes during the class and arranges whatever back-ground administrative services are required. Dr. Jose Hernan-dez, St. Joseph's physician in charge of coronary care, is the co-ordiantor of the Program from the hospital, with Dr. John Messina, head of cardiology there, working as the liason between the hospital and Towson State. Pat Beichler, RN and nurse pra-ctitioner, and Karen Zink, RN, also work with the program. ""The aim of the program is to re-habilitate people to the optimum physical, psychological and emo-tional states possible. We do this by prescribing exercise and giving guidelines as well as teaching them the basics about cardio-vascular di-sease, its causes and such,"" Hernandez said. But there is an overwhelming obstacle to achieving any form of rehabilitation for these people: the heart patients reluctance to par-ticipate in any form of physical activity. The fear of being alone, said many participants, was the major problem that had to be confronted after their attacks. They were afraid to be anywhere doing anything that would make it difficult for them to get the help they might sud-denly need again. Many said they felt that any exercise program would put them right back in the hospital. Such a reoccurance is prevented by two built-in features of this program. Medical supervision is present at every work-out, usually Hernandez, Zink and Beichler, and the participants are divided into two groups, according to ability. The advanced group works out and then plays racquetball, and the beginning group does exercise drills and plays badminton. During the program, each person learns to monitor his own pulse rate, an im-portant indication of how the heart is responding to activity. So the participants watch the clock and take their pulses period-ically to determine how they have improved or if they are pushing themselves beyond their recom-mended personal pulse rate, which is derived from a preliminary stress test taken at the beginning of the course. Participants also record their weights, resting pusle, warm-up pulse, pulse after activity, laps walked or run, and recovery pusle rates on white charts lining the gymnasium walls. ""It is imperative that they check their own heart rates by taking their pulse,"" said Zink. ""They check after doing what are basically aerobic ex-ercises that condition the cardio-vascular system."" All of this is performed under the supervision of the medical and in-structional team. This team re-minds the participants to keep checking their pulse rates. The charts staring down from the walls deik also remind them. A sterile-looking compact, white portable Electrocar-diograph machine sits on a table at the end of the gym, spewing out official-looking heart-rate readings on green graph paper whenever anyone wants his measured. With all these reminders around, the participants still continue to play. Even though the benefits are vis-ibly physical, the emotional rehab-ilitation is perhaps the most im-portant and dramatic. continued on page 12 4 411.114 Participants in the Rehab program either walk or jog around the gym at the end of theft sessions to cool off. ""The cool-down is one of the most important steps,"" said Dr. Hernandez, a physician in charge of the program. TL photo by Lisa Denike "