tl19721103-000 "towerlight Volume XXVI No. 9 Use of funds questioned in SGA senate by Jud Almond The SGA senate enacted seven pieces of legislation in a session which took only 35 minutes last Tuesday. Treasurer Rick Danoff, who presided over the meeting in the absence of Jesse Harris and Craig Schloer, called the meeting to order at 4:10 pm. Senate approved three changes in the constitution of the Forensics Union. The first changes officially the name of the group from the Debate Council to the Forensics Union. The second provides that those who miss three consecutive meetings will lose membership and the third establishes that a president, vice-president, treasurer and historian will be elected on a yearly basis. The senate unanimously passed a bill providing that a display case in the college center lobby be used to display trophies won by the Forensics Union. The Jewish Students' Association was allocated a budget of $285, although their original request was for $505. A motion to request that SGA President Jesse Harris contact Wayne Schelle and inform him of the Senate's wish to pipe WVTS into the snack bar was unanimously approved. S e nate also passed a resolution asking that the upper level of the recreation center (including the pinball machines) be left open until 10 pm. John Kipper questioned the use of SCA funds to buy tickets to last week's bullroast for the Homecoming court and SGA members. A resolution passed asking for a reply in writing from Harris explaining the expenditure. The senate also passed a motion asking Harris to reply to a letter printed last week in Towerlight. The letter raised several questions about Harris' performance in office. Towson State College SGA Senator John Photo by Mel Blackburn Kipper asks to be recognized at Tuesday's meeting. Kipper requested explanation in writing as to why SGA spent money to send the homecoming court to last week's bull roast. Towerlight poll Students question activity fee, uphold Fisher's ideas A Towerlight poll conducted this week on campus issues indicates that students question the mandatory student activity fee, support the administration's stands on military recruiters and institutional neutrality and do not believe that parking has improved this year. Sampling over two hundred students and a small number of faculty, staff and administration, revealed that 46.5 percent felt the student and administration, revealed that 46.5 percent felt the student activity fee should not be mandatory. Students pay a $30 student activity fee each year that is allocated to the Student Government Association. 58 percent of those polled felt that military recruiters should not be banned from campus. Only 12 percent called for their removal. 30 percent were undecided or had no opinion. President Fisher's stand on institutional neutrality was upheld by 61 percent who indicated that Towson State College should remain neutral. 17.5 per cent felt the institution should be unneutral. 21.5 percent were undecided or had no opinion. Parking has not improved this year according to 42.5 percent of those polled. 32 percent felt that parking had improved this year, while 25.5 percent either were not here last year, were undecided or had no opinion. November 3, 1972 Towson, Maryland 21204 Polls indicate McGovern favored by TSC students Recent campus polls on the upcoming presidential election indicate that Towson students favor Senator George McGovern by 22.5%. McGovern was viewed as more believable, but indecisive. The war was termed as the most important issue of the election. 60 percent of the sample taken vowed to vote for McGovern while 37.5 percent pledged support for Richard Nixon. In the polls conducted by Towerlight this week and a dormitory poll several weeks ago, five hundred students were questioned and a small number of faculty, staff and administration. In the Towerlight poll, which included additional questions on the issues and candidates, over 92 percent of those polled had registered to vote. 64 percent were Democrat, 21 percent were Republican, 9 percent were independent, and 2 percent declined. Only 23 percent were going to work for their candidate on election day, while 77 percent were not. War 71.5 percent disagreed with the way Nixon handled the Viet Nam War. When asked to list the five most important issues of the election, 59 percent of those polled mentioned the war. Stabilization of the economy was listed by 35 percent as one of the top issues. 19 percent listed the environment, 18 percent chose welfare and 17 percent picked taxes. Other issues deemed important were employment, education, foreign affairs, corruption and inflation. Nixon's achievements When asked to indicate President Nixon's top New concert, dance regulations are coming, SGA discussions continue by Susan DeBolt No progress has been made concerning new regulations for dances and concerts. Although Dean of Students Richard Gillespie formulated 14 points for discussion, he would not release them without consulting SGA President Jesse Harris. Harris had not received the plan as of Wednesday, November 1. SGA organizations and the administration have been meeting to develop new procedures after gatecrashers, at a recent concert caused $1400 in damage to Burdick Hall and the area around it. According to Harris, ""every effort was made to control the situation,"" and the problem of gatecrashers was completely ""unexpected."" He continued the ""BS U, myself, and the administration did not foresee this and all three of us must therefore share the blame."" Gillespie emphasized that this incident was not the only time but that each dance or concert brought on problems. Harris proposed a temporary moratorium banning further dances and concerts unless scheduled ""Basically, everyone wants to hurry up and rectify the situation,"" he explained as he said that the matter would probably take ""several weeks to clear up."" Harris charged that the ""administration was overreacting some on certain situations such as the BSU concert."" However, Gillespie stressed the need for better regulations to ensure less risks. He also mentioned the tremendous economic cost of policing the dances and concerts. Gillespie would like to see events take place off campus, and Harris agreed that it ""would be a lot easier, but there are so many factors, such as cost, involved."" According to Gillespie, the cost would not be that much more. , achievements, 35 percent rated improved foreign affairs with trips to China and Russia stressed. 16 percent felt the Vietnam truce and winding down the war were the Nixon administration's top successes. Economic stabilization was termed the top accomplishment by 15 percent. 7 percent indicated that the Nixon administration had no top achievements. 3 percent called draft reform Nixon's top endeavor. Failure to end the Vietnam war was termed Nixon's weakpoint by 31 percent. His inability to stabilize the economy was rated a failure by 15 percent. Credibility and corruption, employment and the wage price freeze was termed Nixon's failure by 8 percent. McGovern's strongpoints McGovern's honesty and credibility was felt to be his strongpoint by 19 percent. His policy to end the war was called his strongpoint by 12 percent. 11 percent felt McGovern had no strongpoints. 6 percent polled listed McGovern's strongpoints as his policies for the people and his openness to change. When asked to list McGovern's weak points, 26 percent felt he was indecisive. 6 percent saw the Eagleton controvery as a downfall. 3.5 percent termed his economic policies weak. 2.5 percent felt his organization was poor. McGovern more believed 42 percent felt McGovern was more believable, while only 20 percent saw Nixon as more believable. But 23 percent termed neither candidate more believable. Asked whether McGovern made the right or wrong decision in the Thomas Eagleton affair, the sampling showed 59 percent saw it as wrong and 24.5 percent felt it was right. All those polled did not answer every question. Index Editorials 2-3 Letters 4-6 News 7-12 Features 13-15 Goings on 16 Sports 17-19 "
