The Towerlight, November 3, 1983

tl19831103-000 "One final hurdle: the County Council State Board approves parking garage By James Hunt After 14 years of proposals and re-jections, Towson State is finally just one step away from beginning con-struction on a parking garage. The state Board of Public Works (BPW) Tuesday approved a proposal to build a $3.3 million, 1055 car garage in front of the University Union. The final hurdle is the Baltimore County Council which must approve the sale of Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRB) so that the contractor, The Mullan Garage Limited Partnership, can fund the construction of the garage. Discussion of the bond sale will be included in the Council's agenda beginning Nov. 15 and a final decision may be made by Dec. 5, according to Donald McCulloh, vice president of business and finance. If the bond sale is approved in early December, construction could begin shortly thereafter, and be completed by the Fall 1984 semester according to a tentative schedule outlined earlier this year by William Schemerhorn, Sr., assistant vice president for plant and police operations. McCulloh noted, however, that con-struction could not begin until the Mullan Partnership sells the IRBs and prepares for construction. He ad-ded that the Mullan Partnership would ""have t6 get (the garage's foun-dation) into the ground before it freezes,"" raising the possibility that if the bonds are not sold in time, con-struction could be delayed until spr-ing. The proposal approved by the BPW Tuesday calls for the construction of three concrete decks above the pre-sent faculty/staff and carpool lots in front of the Union (Lot 11A). The completed structure will create 765 new spaces over the 290 spaces it will occupy on the old lot. Access to the decks will be from Cross Campus Drive and will be regulated by a traffic signal placed near the present pedestrian walkway. The ground level � a planned faculty/staff lot � will have a separate entrance. Katie Ryan, director of University Relations, said that University of-ficials have been considering ways to compensate for the loss of an ex-pected 350 parking spaces during con-struction, and expects that a decision will be made before construction begins. McCulloh said that he did not expect parking fees would be increased because of the garage construction, but that any increase would be ""in-significant... perhaps a dollar."" The garage is being built under a sale-lease back arrangement. Under this arrangement the Mullan Partner-ship leases the land the garage is built on from the state, obtains funding to build the garage (in this case, the IRBs), and then leases the garage to the University. Mullan Enterprises will retain title to the garage and benefit from federal tax laws, which allow deductions based on the depreciating value of the structure. See GARAGE, page 7 Courtesy University Relations This is a (slightly imaginative) artist's rendition of the proposed parking garage. At left are the new dorms and, behind the trees, The University Union. Vol. 77 No. 9 1. The Towerlight PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. --Cari Sandburg TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 November 3, 1983 Just add color This picture of autumn at Towson State (Stephens Hall is at right) is just the first frame of a two page panorama beginning on page 8. By Bob Tarleton Ethics Forum:`the ethics of a five day week' By Mike Judge Towson State students, faculty,'and area business people met to discuss ""the study of unsatisfactory answers to difficult questions"" last Wednesday at the Towson State Ethics Forum. The Ethics Forum was designed by the Department of Student Services and the Towson State Campus Minister s to give students a chance to examine the ethical considerations of daily living. ""We wanted students to struggle in thought with the ethical considera-tions of decisions,"" Dean Dorothy Siegel, vice-president of student ser-vices, said. ""We wanted students to think about the ethics of a five day week."" Dean Marion Hoffman, associate dean of student development, headed a committee composed of students and campus minister s who designed the program of the forum. The program featured talks by Doc-tor Barbara Loomis Jackson, Direc-tor of Doctoral Programs at Morgan State University and Robin Whitlock, Episcopal Chaplain for the University of Maryland at Baltimore. The members of the forum then assembl-ed in small groups to discuss issues in ethics. Each group included a ""broad mix"" of students, faculty, and area business people, Hoffman said, who discussed the ethical considerations of five dif-ferent case studies, from the right of a nurse to allow a patient to die with dignity to a professor's decisions about flunking a graduate student who can not write. The idea for the forum originated in October 1982, when a group of Campus Minister s met with Dean Siegel to discuss the University's role in teaching students the ethical con-siderations of daily living. We wanted to help students recognize and deal with ethical pro-blems in a responsible manner,"" Bob-by Waddail, Baptist Campus Minister, said. ""Making ethical deci-sions is a learned experience."" (Each of the five campus ministries contributed $100 to the forum, and the University founded the remainder of the $750 cost.) Baltimore area business people were also invited to participate and talk about the ethical consideration in business, and to provoke an exchange of ideas from the perspective of run-ning a business. Business people who took part in the forum included Paul Yates, general manager of WJZ-TV and Peter Kum-pa, columnist for the Evening Sun, along with a wide range of lawyers and professional people. ""The fact that the business people took time out to help Towson State students shows the regard they hold for the University,"" Dean Hoffman said. ""The business people left with a good impression of the students."" Student Government Association of-ficers and leaders of SGA affliated groups, and students from each col-lege department were invited to par-ticpate in the forum. A brainstorming session will be held in the President's Board Room next Wednesday morning at 10:30 to discuss further programs on ethics at Towson State. Student teaching program rated best Program in top four of 900 rated By Loraine Mirabella When the Maryland State Department of Education and the National Association for Accredita-tion of Teacher Education (NCATE) evaluate Towson State's student teaching program this spring, they will be reviewing a program which has been rated outstanding in a recent national study. The University, along with three other institutions, was distinguished as having the best student teaching program in the nation. ""We're delighted that we've won this recognition,"" James Binko, Dean of the College of Education and Instructional Technology, said. ""[The study] confirms what we like to claim�we're the best,"" Binko said. The study, entitled ""A National Survey of Student Teaching Pro-grams,"" was conducted by James A. Johnson, Director of the Office of Clinical Education and Student Teaching at Northern Illinois University. Nine hundred institutions across the nation were analyzed and rated on the basis of 24 criteria. Accreditation by NCATE and by one of the regional accreditation associations are among criteria cited as elements of the best stu-dent teaching programs. Other criteria required the head of student teaching to devote at least 50 percent of his time to administrative details for the pro-gram and to assign student teachers to schools. In addition, the program had to be innovative, be a recipient of a research grant within the past two years in connection with the student teaching program, have full-time Elementary, Secondary and Special Education programs off campus, and provide opportunities for stu-dent teaching in disadvantaged areas. The college supervisors were also evaluated by criteria which included having a doctoral degree, having no more than 20 student teachers to supervise at any one time, visiting the student teachers at least once every two weeks and averaging at least an hour per visit with each student teacher. Towson State�along with the University of Nebraska, Northern Illinois University and River Col- Reagan stirs controversy just trying to store books on college _ STANFORD, CA (CPS)�Stanford University administrators are in the middle of a political controversy over plans to locate President Ronald Reagan's presidential library and museum at the university. At the same time, Emory Univer-sity in Atlanta is receiving ""nothing but positive feedback"" from its facul-ty regarding its plans, announced last week, to operate President Jimmy Carter's new Carter Center, which will be part of the former president's library and museum complex. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, every American president has had a library and museum errected in his name to house important presidential papers and honor his administration. But many of Stanford's faculty members are up in arms over plans to locate Reagan's presidential depository on campus. While most agree the presidential library � which would hold millions of documents and archives from the Reagan administration � would be a valuable addition to the campus, many faculty members are concerned about the museum and public policy centers that would accompany the library. The museum and policy centers, they point out, would be active, con-servative organizations operating on a supposedly non-partisan campus. In addition, they would require private funding and upkeep, while the library � since it contains historical federal archives � would be main-tained by the federal government. Much of the Stanford-Reagan museum controversy is centered around the already-existing Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located on the Stanford campus and run under the auspices of the univer-sity. ""Last spring there was a petition circulated on campus asking for an in-vestigation of alleged partisan ac-tivities by the Hoover Institution,"" ex-plains Stanford spokesman Bob Beyers. With faculty and students already concerned about Stanford's conser-vative ties to the Hoover Institution, he says, the prospect of adding Reagan's library and museum has spurred additional fears the univer-sity will become too conservatively-oriented. Indeed, the Hoover Institution lists among its fellows such names as cur-rent Secretary of State George Schultz, Undersecretary of Transpor-tation Darrell Trent, presidential economics advisor Milton Friedman, and special advisor to the president Martin Anderson. Overall, ""more than 40 fellows and former fellows of the Hoover Institu-tion are members of the Reagan ad-ministration,"" Beyers notes. ""And Reagan has said that the institute is one of the leading sources of his ideas."" ""We take various positions on the role of the Hoover Institution,"" noted 20 Stanford Law School professors in a recent letter to a university advisory panel studying the library/museum proposal. lege in Lawrenceville, New Jersey � received the highest rating, meeting 21 out of 24 criteria. No institution reviewed met all 24 criteria. The survey's high rating of the student teaching program should be an added attraction to high school students considering the University and to students with undecided majors, Binko said. He said that the timing of the study was also a plus for the depart-ment since it coincides with the accreditation evaluation by NCATE and the Maryland State Depart-ment of Education in the spring. Binko credits faculty throughout the University with the achievement since the student teaching program encompasses 16 programs in var-ious departments, including four areas in the education departments. ""The faculty deserve recognition,"" Binko said. However, Binko singled out Dr. Chandler Barbara, who was Direc-tor of the Student Teaching office form 1970 to 1981. ""[During this time] most policies cited as exemplary by the survey were formed,"" he said. Binko added that Ron Culbert-son, a math teacher at the Gilman School who graduated from Towson State, was the recipient of this year's White House Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. The year 1984 will mark the end of the five-year state accreditation period and 10-year national accred-itation period. campus But ""it is quite another matter to embrace what would amount to a ma-jor expansion of the functions and in-fluence of the Hoover on campus,"" the law professors warned. ""Over 200 faculty letters have been sent to the committee on the library and museum proposal,"" Beyers says, noting he can't remember ""an other issue on which so many letters have been written."" The advisory committee is schedul-ed to meet with Stanford President Donald Kennedy this week to discuss preliminary findings on the proposal, he says. Meanwhile, faculty members at Emory University have voiced little if any opposition to the university's re-cent announcement it will operate and maintain the Carter Center In Atlan-ta. But the center � a kind of liberal think tank and meeting ground for world leaders � will be run separate-ly from the library and museum buildings, which will also be part of the $25 million Carter complex. "