The Towerlight, November 4, 1977

tl19771104-000 "'The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of The Crowd' Tonight 8:30p. LXX,VOL NO 9 ett Lazarus wins ISU election TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Towson to host M-D Soccer, Cross Country this weekend NOVEMBER 4,1977 by Paul Gilmore Brian Lazarus became president of the International Student Union this week after winning the third election held this year for the ISU, which saw an unprecedented number of voters. The election was held after two Previous elections were nullified because they did not comply with SGA electoral guidelines. Lazarus was also the winner of the last election in which he was unopposed on the ballot and only one vote was recorded. Lazarus t.eceived 135 votes to win the presidency, while Gourgen Assatourans received 106 and former ISU president, Abbas Mirghafouri, received 83. Norma Rodriguez won the vice Presidential election with 133 votes, ahead of Sondos Award with 92 votes and Toviu Suie with 69. Sandi I Nusbaum received 147 votes to ) become secretary of the ISU, while her opponent, Debbie Drukker, received 128 votes. Teresa Arrom was elected Court Jouncil Chairman with 116 votes over Erin Arp with 115 and Minola Clark With 49. Kaveh Hasseinzadeh received 241 votes for treasurer; he was unop- Posed on the ballot. The two-day election held on Wednesday and Thursday of last week saw an unprecedented 333 ballots cast in an election that typically draws about 40 voters. Excessive Campaigning Diane Szymanski, who coordinated the election for the SGA, attributed the large voter turnout to excessive campaigning by the three presidential candidates. Lazarus, a student from India, at-tributed the large turnout to the number of American students who Participated in the election. ""A lot of American students are very in-terested in the ISU, and one of the things I emphasized during the cam- Paign was American participation,"" he said. Now that the election is over, the ,ISSU can initiate some of the activities it had planned for this year. Until now, the ISU's activities were curtail-ed due to a frozen budget. It took a aPecial act of the student senate to un-freeze the budget just to achieve funds to finance the election. Lazarus will have the disadvantage of Working with a cabinet that intend-ed to be working with Assatourans. Rodriguez, Hosseinzadeh, Nusbaum and Arrom were each members of the Assatourans ticket. ""I don't foresee any difficulties,"" Lazarus said when asked how he Would deal with the cabinet. ""I guess ,they were expecting to serve with krourgen . . . but if they really have the ISU at heart, there should be no difficulties,"" he said. Valikiwita� Student senators deliberate over senate bill number 28, which would have dis-counted tickets for the England Dan & John Ford Coley concert. TL photo by Donna Sauerbourn TSU's Klein becomes president of Md. Young Democrats by Bill Stetka Charles Klein, who was defeated last spring in his bid for SGA president, has won a bigger presidency. ' Last month, he was.... was elected president of the Young Democrats of Maryland. A junior majoring in business, Klein overcame a controversial credentials fight at the state convention, which was held at Towson State, to win the statewide Post. He is the first Person from the TSU chapter to hold the title, which is appropriate since he is a co-founding member of the chapter. ""Patty Grimes and I founded the chapter following the 1975 state convention,"" Klein said. Grimes is now the president of the Towson State chapter, and she was elected secretary of the state group on Klein's ticket. Ray Tubman, an SGA senator and BSU member, was elected Affirmative Action director of the state Young Democrats. Answering charges by his oppo-nent, David K. Holy, that the TSU chapter forged names to add votes at the convention, Klein said, ""As far as I know there is no validity to his claims."" Grimes said, ""There's a lot of rumors going around. He's made a lot of allegations and he's gone about it in a low, sneaky way."" Grimes explained that credentials for the national convention, held earlier in the year, were different than those turned in for the state convention. ""The national forms are good for two years, and they were sent the year before. Some people on that form had graduated and were no longer members of our chapter,"" Grimes said, adding that apparent-ly, it was the national delegate list that Holy had used to 'check credentials. The credentials committee of the state convention had the correct list, and approved Towson's delegates. ""We lowered our list for the state convention. We had less votes than we had at the national convention,"" said Klein, who earlier this year was elected national secretary of another group, the College Democrats of America. ""He (Holy) never came up with a platform and he ran a negative campaign,"" Klein said. ""I won, and I don't think he has any validity to his claims."" The Young Democrats are ""the legitimate spokesman for the youth of the Democratic Party,"" said Klein. ""Our purpose is lobbying for public policy that affects young people, who we define as those under 35,"" Klein said. Towson's group is chartered with both the Young Democrats and the College Democrats. ""But we're basically a Young Democrat organization,"" said Grimes, who added that Towson's chapter has ""40 interested or dues-paying members."" Klein believes that ""the state organization can only be as strong as its local clubs."" ""We'll be 'doing a lot of lobbying in Annapolis on state issues,"" he said. ""The Young Democrats were responsible for the nationwide voter registration drive last year. In face, Jimmy Carter's election has been attributed in great part to the Young Democrats' drive, and Maryland was number one in meeting and surpassing its voter registration projections.' Senate kills ticket bill Discounts voted down by S.L. Veieh By a margin of one vote, the SGA Senate refused Tuesday to subsidize any tickets to the SGA sponsored England Dan and John Ford Coley concert scheduled for November 20. Thus only 1000 of the 3500 tickets which go on sale today to Towson students will be discounted $2.00, with this discount coming not from the SGA but from the Towson Foun-dation. SGA President John Ruark, who early in the Senate meeting stated his support for Senate Bill #28 which sought to discount 1500 tickets, stated afterwards that it was the students who would ""suffer"" by paying higher prices. ""I was extremely displeased that the Senate chose not to discount student tickets."" ""Our survey shows that they want to hear England Dan and John Ford Coley. It's the students who are going to suffer,"" he said. Survey Last Spring Ruark referred to a survey conducted last spring by David Dobbs, the assistant to the SGA President. Dobbs' survey involved a response advertisement in Tower-light and a direct handbill request-ing student preferences. From these, a list of 50 groups was drawn up. The SGA took the top 20 and listed these as the groups most requested. According to a memorandum dated July 5 and sent to the University promoter John Scollan, Dobbs' survey placed England Dan and John Ford Coley eighth, behind a Saturday Night Live Show, Al Stewart, Sha Na Na, Jackson Browne, Robert Klein, Seals and Crofts, and Boz Scaggs, who placed first. Of all the groups on the list, Ruark said that England Dan and John Ford Coley were the best replace-ments that could be found when Bob Seger cancelled out. Seger, incidentally, was one of the 50 but not one of the top 20. He added that Scotian had recommended that the SGA only discount 1500 because Towson students have not bought out all available tickets to past concerts, such as America and Bruce Spring-steen. Hence, as authored by Senator Pete Binns, SB #28 sought to discount 1500 and provide $100 for advertising, an expenditure that would have totalled $3,100. However, when the Senate discussed SB #28 in Committee of the Whole, a parliamentary condi-tion whereby the senators can Food Committee seeks merger of residents and by Art Goldberg The student-run Food Committee is currently working on plans that would, if implemented by TSU's department of Dining Services, allow commuter students as well as residents on the meal plan, to eat together in the University Union. ""We feel strongly about getting commuters and resident students to eat together,"" said Paul Stein, chairman of the committee. A barrier to any such plan is how to prevent students on the all-you-can- eat meal plan from feeding others. Actually, two alternate plans are being considered by the Food Committee, according to Stein. Plan A would remove the retaining wall between Susque-hanna Rooms One and Two, would move the meal plan validation station back to where the cashiers are presently located, and would place a limit on the amount of food that all students on the plan could carry from the food lines. In Plan B, the retaining wall would remain, the validation station would again be moved, but meal plan students would be free to sit in Susquehanna Room One with commuters as long as they limit the food carried from lines. Stein said that a student survey will soon be conducted by the Food commuters Committee in order to determine which plan students prefer. ""Students o have the power to change the food service system by addressing constructive criticism to ARA, the department of Dining Services, and the Food Committee,"" he added. A current survey that attempts to assess student opinion of food quality has not yielded constructive criticisms, according to Stein. ""We (Dining Services, ARA, Food Committee) feel that if students ,do not make justifiable comments on current survey), we can do nothing,"" he said. Suggestion boxes will soon be placed in the University Union and in Newell Hall for students, and Stein said he can be reached through P.O. Box 1422. Corrections In last week's Towerlight, the headline of the lead story on page 1 read, ""Insurance deadline set at Nov. 6."" The headline should have said Nov. 4. Also in last week's Towerlight, a story on page 3 was headlined ""CSA sponsors Thursday at the Den."" The headline should have said Friday. We regret the errors. discuss the bill and exchange information, it was both denounced and defended, and finally amended. Payne Opposes Bill Veteran Senator Nancy Payne, an opponent of the bill, said, ""I don't like to see good money thrown away. Three thousand dollars is not a drop in the bucket. If it were a good group there might be some merit to this bill."" Labeling Payne's judgement ""subjective,"" Senator Chuck Frazer argued that it was ""totally ridicu-lous"" for the SGA not to spend student's money but to permit the funds to sit in the treasury unspent. Responding to Frazer, Senator Tony Tubman asserted that a $2 discount was not a significant discount, and that with the Please turn to 3 1111?16 Nancy Payne 4th student hit on Osler by Cindy Roberts Last Wednesday afternoon a stu-dent was struck by a car while cross-ing Osier Drive in front of the Ad-ministration building, bringing the number of students hit by cars in the past year to five. Lt. Ryan of the Campus Police said, ""In the past year there have been four reported accidents in this area. Two of them have been vehicle-pedestrian, with no serious injuries and the others were two car accidents,"" said Ryan. None of the accidents were serious enough to put a stop-light at the crosswalk, said Ryan. A survey taken to find out how many people who drive near the campus regularly thought it necessary to initiate a law to get a stoplight. Response to the survey was too poor to warrant action. Richard Moore of Traffic Engineer-ing said, ""to put up a stoplight on Osler Drive would not help the situa-tion. In fact,"" said Moore, it would in-crease the number of accidents, Please turn to 3 ""No film fast enough to catch the love"" by Steve Haas Pearl Bailey, the second speaker in this year's SGA Lecture Series strode onto the Towson Center stage Sunday night and immediately chased photographers from around the podium. ""There's no film fast enough to catch the love I hope is in my heart,"" she said. Bailey protested the way she is constantly asked to sing wherever she is invited as a guest or speaker. She said, ""I'm not going to use you tonight and you're not going to use me. If I have to sing, then everyone here has to ply their trades and we will have one interesting gymnas-ium."" She spent the next 90 minutes barraging the audience with her thoughts on the United Nations, the world situation, the women's movement, motherhood, the educa-tion system and any other topic that came to mind, in no particular order. She had no written speech. ""There's nothing more boring than listening to a speech prepared six weeks ago,"" she said. ""Tonight, I will speak, not as a performer, but as a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt label me anything you like."" ""We are labeling ourselves right Pearl Bailey speaks out of business,"" she said. ""The biggest label you need to wear is love�plain love."" Bailey's labels include entertain-er, winner of a 1967 Tony Award, and the U.S.O. Woman of the Year Award in 1969, former Special Advisor to the U.S. Mission at the United Nations (1975-76) and author of five books. Melded nations with love She said of her UN appointment that ""nobody told me to go and no one asked me to stay,"" so she left. During that time with ""the men in that big party in New York... (I) sort of melded a couple nations with love,"" she said. Bailey related her experiences in the Middle East and Africa, where she became the first woman to receive Jordan's Hussein Ben-Ali Freedom Medal. ""The Middle East problem must be solved by the people involved,"" not by outside mediation, she said. Bailey referred to her ""death"" several times. She was declared clinically dead from a heart attack in at TSU 1972, but later recovered. ""The doctors did it the medical way. 1 was brought back by the True Physician,"" she said. ""Not only am I alive, but I'm still kicking."" She mentioned that she would Please turn to 3 "