tl19791130-000 "Tiger Club: Upper-crust leads fundraising efforts At around six in the evening you walk , into the Towson Club and go downstairs to the Rathskellar dining room, where the air resounds with casual conversa-tions and friendly introductions. At first glance you know that you've stumbled in on a gathering of the upper-crust. You notice a University President Chatting with the president of a large cor- Poration. In one corner an athletic direc-tor is joking with a prominent Towson attorney. Scattered around the room there are doctors, lawyers, corporation executives, university vice-presidents end assistant vice-presidents, coaches and assistant coaches. You could be at an Alumni Associa-tion meeting or at a political fundraiser, out you're not. You are at a Tiger Club fundraising-cocktail party. The Tiger Club's job is to raise money for athletic scholarships at Towson State. Feeding the Tiger by Michael Bennett and Robert Krummerich After a while, when the talk and the food and drink warm the atmosphere and put everyone in a receptive mood, the lights dim, the conversation dies down and the Tiger Club's slide/tape presenta-tion begins. While the slide show, narrated by former WMAR sports director Jack Dawson, traces the development of Towson State from normal school to university, it concentrates on the growth of the athletic program from Division III to Division I. The presentation is fact-paced and highly polished. It touches upon the University's past athletic success and points hopefully to future success and further growth. After the slide show there are a few brief speeches, University officers and coaches are introduced and then the difficult job of securing actual contributions begins. Fundraising is an integral part of any successful Division I athletic program. Joe McMullen, athletic director, said Division I colleges and universities are in constant competition for top-notch ath-letes. While several factors determine which school a high school senior will choose, athletic scholarship awards are an important recruiting aspect. Tigers tip off first season in Division I tomorrow night. See page 7. According to H. William Bauersfeld, executive director of the Tiger Club, the cocktail parties have been successful. Not only do they raise an average of $600 to $800 an evening, but they also make friends for the University and demon-strate that Towson State and its at hletic program have come of age. continued on page 12 VOL. LXXIII No. 12 Z!rOil3trilf g PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Contents Sports 7 Entertainment 5 Features 3 Newsbriefs 10 Week Watcher 9 Commentary 11 Classifieds 6 November 30, 1979 r. Patricia Plante, chairperson of the Academie p li ncil and Herb Andrews, secretary and Mark i tman, parliamentarian were three council members 1170 attended last Monday's special Academic Council eeting. The council approved a policy regarding a student's withdrawal from a course and the transfer of the dance program from the physical education department to the music department. TL photo by Greg Foster Towson coed's brother among hostages in Teheran embassy by Michael Bennett b The ordeal of the 49 hostages t,eing held in the American ""Massy in Teheran, which has pne on for 26 days, has become a Irequent topic of conversation on ect.rnhus, and yet few people view the erlsis in Iran with the same concern tis one Towson State freshman. Her brother is one of the ""�Stages. She asked that her name not be It3rtnted, because to prevent harm to 1,11e hostages, the State Department requested that the families not alas their names to be publicized. .She is an attractive 18-year-old With long brown hair and clear blue eYes� Throughout the interview she , sil,t cross-legged with several OnYsics textbooks, a scratch pad and 4 calculator in front of her. Surprisingly, she blames no one i�1' what has happened. ""I wonder WhY the Shah was let in, but no one ch�111d have predicted that this would kapPen. I agree with the steps that ""aye been taken,"" she said. She has no use for the anti-Iranian demonstrations that have taken place. ""I try to stay away from all that. A lot of U.S. citizens feel that they can't trust anyone from the Middle East. That's sad and wrong. The people who go around saying Down with all Iranians aren't being fair. ""You can't judge all Iranians by the actions of a few. I don't think they should all be kicked out of the country. The violence that has erupted in this country is something that will not help at 411. The families of the hostages would appreciate the prayers of other Americans much more than all these demon-strations,"" she said. As one of eight children, she feels that her family has been ""pulled closer together, especially myself, my parents and my brother and his wife, who live out of town. If there is any good in this situation, it's the way people have been backing us up. People have gone out of their way to find out if we need anything. Friends of my brother have called from all over the country,"" she said. In this issue Cheap thrills in the Big Apple �what's on stage? Page 5. What really hap-pened at Munich? Another look. Page 3. Vince is back, and the Tiger b-ballers are preparing for the big leap to Division I. Page 7. She hasn't noticed any change in her families religious attitudes. She said her family is Catholic and the church has been part of their lives. ""My mother and father raised eight children, so they've been through many crises. I think that this trouble may have made my brother more aware of religion. I heard that the American hostages asked for Bibles. continued on page 10 Council accepts revised withdrawal plan, rejects mandatory prerequisites Withdrawal by Katherine Dunn The Academic Council adopted a new withdrawal policy at the November 19 meeting. The meeting was continued from the regular monthly meeting, November 5, to complete any unfinished busi-ness. The new policy allows students six weeks to drop a course with a grade of ""W"" while the present policy allows ten weeks. The new policy will be effective beginning fall 1980. The present policy, as stated in the 1979-80 Catalog, says ""Students who have not dropped a course at the end of the first two weeks of classes may withdraw from a course up to three weeks after the mid-semester date. Students with-drawing during this period will have the grade of ""W"" recorded for the course."" The new policy says, ""Students who have not dropped a course during the first two weeks of classes may withdraw from a course up to six weeks from the opening date of the semester. Students withdrawing during this period will have the grade of ""W"" recorded for the course."" Students will still be allowed to drop a course up to the end of the first two weeks of classes with no grade re-corded. During the debate, John Adams, student member of the Council, moved to amend the motion by lengthening the withdrawal period to eight weeks instead of six. The mo-tion failed by a vote of 7-8, but most of the student members of the Council were in favor of it. Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic affairs, said he also thought seven or eight weeks was a reason-able amount of time. He did say that he was in favor of reducing the amount of time to withdraw from ten weeks. Cox said he thinks Continued on page 2 Prerequisites by Karen DiPasquale Thc-Academie Council last Monday rejected a motion that would make all class prerequisites mandatory. The Council considered requiring students meet established prerequisites or obtain written permission from the department involved before registering for a course. Presently, teachers cannot require students to take the prerequisite courses for ' a class; they can only suggest that a student take the prerequisite first. Some faculty members on the Academic Council said students continue to take upper division courses without first taking necessary prerequisites. Mary Catherine Kahl, chairperson of the history department and Council member, said there was a conflict of opinion among faculty and the student body. She thinks the prerequisites should be just a warning, a caution. She also said that she would be willing to let some students take her classes without prerequisites, but with science or math courses, which are structured and build ' upon each other, students need to take prerequisites. Dean Dorothy Seigel, vice president for student services, said, ""This is not a problem for students because if a student knows he is over his head in a course, he will get out. But for the faculty, it is a problem. The teachers find they have to repeat material or answer unnecessary questions."" Dr. Joseph Cox, vice president for academic affairs, who was not present at last Monday's meeting, said, ""It 's not fair to the students who meet the prerequisites to have the instructor's time taken up by people having to' tnake up work. ' Cox said, ""I don't have an answer. I don't want to make it all by special permit."" But he said Continued on page 2 Council approves mass com. Master's by Katherine Dunn The Academic Council adopted a proposal for a graduate program in mass communication. The proposal must now go on to the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities and then on to the State Board for Higher Education (SBHE) for final approval. Dr. Irene Shipman, chairperson of the Mass Communication department spoke out in favor of the Masters Degree Program for Mass Communication at last Monday's special meeting of the Academic Council. TL photo by Greg Foster Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic af-fairs, said that SBHE has placed a moratorium on all new programs proposed by state institutions of higher education for six months. Cox said the Board of Trustees will still make decisions and the research and study will be done by the SBHE staff, but SBHE will make no decision for six months. The SBHE announced that it will hold public hear-ings on the state of higher education in the metro-politan Baltimore area beginning Thursday. The SBHE will consider the short and long range goals of higher education, said Cox. Of major con-cern to SBHE is the duplication of courses and the declining enrollment in the schools in this area. The institutions under consideration are Towson State, Morgan State, Coppin State, ti. e University of Baltimore, and the University of Maryland, Balti-more County. Cox said he is not surprised by the decision to review, but he is surprised by the timing. SBHE was trying to make a decision on a course at the Univer-sity of Baltimore when it decided to postpone it until the study of area institutions was completed. The moratorium will also hold up any decision on the University's proposed graduate program in elementary education and undergraduate pro-gram in computer science. Cox said if the Master's in mass communication is approved it could not go into effect until at least February 1981. He said it probably would not start until the following fall. ""I think it's a good program,"" said Cox, but he added that the first concern must be the undergrad-uate program. Linda Sweeting, professor of chemistry, said at last Monday's meeting that she was afraid the graduate program would take money away from the undergraduate program. Milissa Murray, Stu-dent Government Association president, agreed and also voted against the proposal. Murray also questioned the problem of staffing. She is concerned that there will not be enough to meet the needs of both the graduate and the under-graduate programs. Dr. Irene Shipman, chairperson of the mass corn-munication department, said she expects to get one additional faculty position, one retirement position and some more part-time teachers. Wilfred Hathaway, dean of the graduate studies program, said he is sure Shipman will receive those positions. He added that there could not be a pro-gram without sufficient faculty. Dan Jones, co-chairman of the English depart-ment, said, ""I feel it's a valuable program. It addresses an audience that we can bring to Towson for graduate study. It is very carefully thought out and detailed."" Jones did suggest that the proposal be edited bet-ter before being sent to the Board of Trustees. He said when a committee writes a proposal it is not as careful about phrasing. It should be adjusted for tone and style, he said. Another problem Jones saw was jargon. The com-mittee trying to look as professional as possible used too much jargon, he said. Jones would like the committee to make the proposal more understand-able to people outside of their profession. "
