The Towerlight, November 5, 1976

tl19761105-000 "Catherine Mackin speak Sunday in Stephens. See page 3. Vol. LXIX, No. 9 VV Fraternities and sororities at Towson. See page 3. TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY November 5, 1976 Shuttle buses will travel to Towson Center classes by Bill Stetka When Towson Center opens for Classes in the spring, it won't be like going to class at any other building on the TSU campus. That's because Towson Center is away from the rest of the campus. Both Bill Reuling, associate registrar, and Jay McCabe, director of parking services, realize that this is going to present a problem for some students getting to and from classes at different parts of the campus. Both are confident, how-ever, that problems can be worked out in time for classes to start in February. McCabe said that a new bus schedule is being worked out now to include stops at lots 19 and 20, the two new student lots adjacent to Towson Center. He said they should have plans finalized by the end of this month. McCabe said that buses will stop on their runs to lots 13 and 14 at the new lots if students are there, but there is no scheduled stop this semester. He added that it takes buses on the average five to seven minutes to make the run from lots 13 and 14 to Glen Esk, where the buses unload. Reuling said that his staff has had a random sampling of students walking from Towson Center to Stephens Hall. The average time for the walk was 19 minutes, according to Reuling. ""It definitely presents problems in terms of distance,"" Reuling said. He said that the Registrar's office has worked on several different time matrixes. ""We've looked into the possibility of 15-minute breaks in between classes every day,"" he said, "" meaning a complete Tuesday- Thursday type schedule."" ""But the sciences and labs would be a problem to work out,"" Reuling said. He said that reducing the time of physical education classes were discussed, but that this was discarded. ""They already have to allow 10 minutes for showering,"" Reuling remarked. Reuling said that his staff is taking a ""wait and see"" stand at present. ""If the increased bus service works out, our problems are solved,"" Reuling said. Reuling added a suggestion to students ""to create balanced scheduling."" ""Students will have to allow 15 to 20 minutes to travel from Towson Center to the center of the campus,"" Reuling reminded. ""We realize that there are some students who are going to have to make the hike, but we'd like students to be aware of the situation before they pre-register for spring classes,"" Reuling said. McCabe added that a bus stop at the University Union is still being looked into, but that engineering was a problem. ""It's awful tough to get a bus into that lot,"" McCabe said, noting the narrow isles and lack of space to turn. ""We would probably have to cut out some spaces,"" McCabe added. ""It's gonna take some planning."" Shuttle buses will be making additional stops, beginning in February, to transport students from several locations to the classes in the Towson Center. TL photo by Brian Folus Task Force goal is student fee ceiling by Stephen Verch ""The goal of the University's Task Force on Student Fees is a very long-range goal. We want to item rising costs, make them go the other way,"" said Student Government Association President Joanne Finegan, one of the new task force's three co-chairpersons. Finegan, the only student on the five-member panel, shares the chairpersonship with Dorothy Sie- Aalogue' set for Tueschty night Baptist -sponsored talk discuss Moonies By Thomas F. Troy, Jr. A very small group of students gathered Tuesday night in the University Union to hear a pre-sentation sponsored by the Baptist Student Union on the infamous Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church. Marcus Rackley, the B.S.U. director, gave a short lecture on the practices and history of the church. Andrea Diegel, the Lutheran pastor, discussed the theology of the church. Three members of the Unification Church were there but they did not debate as was politely requested of them. Next Tuesday, a ""dialogue"" will be held, in which they will be invited to speak. Mr. Rackley began the presenta-tion on the subjects of brain-wash-ing, deceptive fund-raising, and Rev. Moon's history. He recounted the now-familiar story of how the Unification Church is supposed to convert members. A member of the church, without identifying himself as such, will approach a young Person and encourage him to join a retreat of ""concerned people"" and friends. If the prospective convert comes on the retreat he is subjected to a barrage of lectures and activities to keep him occupied form early morning 'til late at night. When he is sufficiently confused and his defenses are broken, says Mr. Rackley, he is pressured to join the church. Besides the ""mind control,"" the practice which most appalls tradi-tional Christians is the ""Moonie"" fund raising which they consider to be deceptive and criminal. The money which the church members say will go to a charitable cause ends up in the hands of Moon and his people, according to anti-Moons. As to his history, Rev. Moon was originally a member of the Presby-terian Church in South Korea, but got into hot water with the church authorities and was excommuni-cated. In 1954, he founded his Unification church, which is dedi-cated to unifying Christendom after his perfect family. In 1956, he wrote the Divine Principle, his church's ""Bible."" He took the Divine Principle, which Andrea Diegel says reads like ""part Christian theology, part Eastern dualism, and part electrical engineering,"" to the spirit world and presented it to Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and God Himself, to get their reactions. God told him to carry on his teaching in North Korea, where he was imprisoned and tortured (for his religious and political beliefs according to Moon; for sexual misconduct, according to Mr. Rackley). In 1969, the church was established in the United States, and in 1971 he came here himself to really get the ball rolling. Moon believes that (Rid created man with the intention of establish-ing His kingdom on earth, a perfect family. Adam and Eve were supposed to do that, but the serpent got to Eve before they could reach perfection, and the human race was condemned until Jesus came. Jesus, too, was supposed to marry and begin the perfect family, but he, too, failed in his mission. However, he did achieve one thing, and that one thing, according to Moon, is spiritual salvation. Man is still imperfect, but he can be saved spiritually. Moon claims to have been sent from God to bring forth the perfect family (this idea of Moon being the father of a perfect race has given rise to the common belief that Moon forces his female converts to have sex with him). This, by Rev. Diegel's short account, is the core of Unification theology. This coming Tuesday, a ""dia-logue"" on the Unification Church will be held, which /all are invited to participate in. gel, university vice president of Student Services, and David Nevins, former SGA president and current assistnat director of Auxiliary Services. The task force was created this fall by President James Fisher. Full-time day students are now charged $214 per semester for student fees. The approximately $1.8 million generated is used for registration, student activity and other fees for services provided by the University. According to Fine-gan, while the costs of such services continue to increase, the ability of TSU students to pay for these services may not. ""The basic premise of the task force is that there should be some type of ceiling for the costs that beyond which, the students just could not afford,"" said the SGA president. She added that the task force would seek to anticipate what that ceiling was, and perhaps seek alternative means of funding if costs should rise above the ceiling. Explaining that the idea for the task force was President Fisher's, Finegan said that the other two panel members are representatives from the Financial Aid and Admissions offices. She also said that another panel member may be added, coming from the University's Finance and Business Department. Shotsendtoday Swine flu injections will be given today to students, faculty and staff from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room UU third floor. Today is the last day of the TSU's swine flu program. Woodward-Bernstein to speak here Nov. 20 Dancethon response poor by Debbie Felton ""Response was very poor"" for TSU's second annual Dancethon preliminaries held last weekend, according to G. E. Woodford, Vice-President of ASPA (American Society for Personnel Administra-tion) and Chairman of the Dance- , thon. The approximately $1,200 collected $915 of which came from dancers' collections, fell short of the $1,500 goal predicted by sponsors ASPA and CUB (Campus Union Board). Woodford said he was ""disap-pointed in the Towson State community and campus residents. I don't understand the apathy of the student body,"" said Woodford. Ten couples originally registered to dance but only four showed up Saturday evening. The winning couple was G. E. Woodford and Cathy Bradburn, who danced for sixteen and one half hours and raised about $493. Second place went to Ray Brewer and Joan Srite who also danced for sixteen Ito)! Whitley, assistant director of Dining Services, samples pie in unconven. and one-half hours, but brought in tonal way during Dancethon fundraiser which netted only $8.50. only about $200. Pies thrown in the face of Roy T � oto b Steve Converse Whitley, assistant director of Dining Services, brought in $8.50. Woodford hoped to raise at least $100 from the event. Another hopeful fund raiser was the mock kidnaping of President Fisher. Fisher provided ASPA and CUB with a list of trustees, supporters and friends of the university so they could issue a ransom letter asking for donations for MARC. Woodford would like to raise at least $1,000 from this publicity event. If there is no response, another letter will be sent. So far, $60 has been received from the event. Eighteen colleges participated in fund-raising marathons. These in-clude Loyola, Chesapeake Commun-ity College, Frostburg, Hood, The University of Maryland and Western Maryland, who won the marathon last year. So far, Towson trails other smaller colleges in raising charity funds. Hood College, for example, raised $1,600 with their marathon this year. In the finals, the goal will be $5,000 with $1,500 to $2,000 hopefully contributed to G. E. and Cathy. ""We need financial and Please turn to page 4 by Jim Moorefield Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two young Washing-ton Post reporters who cracked the Watergate story which led to the demise of the Nixon Administration, will appear at Towson Center Saturday, Nov. 20. The event will be jointly sponsored by the Towson State University Foundation and the Student Government Association. ""This is only the beginning of events which will be scheduled for the new Center,"" stated Charles Eckles, Special Services Manager. He said, ""Many other activities are in the planning stages, but nothing more is definite yet."" The new complex will hold approximately 5,500 people for an event like this. Season ticket holders of the SGA Speaker Series will be given preference in seating be-cause the Woodward-Bernstein lec-ture fills in the open date on the schedule. SGA has purhcased 2,000 tickets, which at a later date will be distributed to students on a first come, first served basis. Woodward and Bernstein who co-authored the best selling books ""All the President's Men"" and the ""The Final Days"" will each receive $3,500 for appearing. ""All the President's Men"" deals with the lives of the two reporters as they pieced together the story of the Watergate scandle. ""The Final Days"" gives, in intimate detail, the goings-on inside the White house until the moment of Nixon's resignation. Eckles considers $3,500 a ""good price"". Woodward began working for the Washington Post in September, 1971 and was covering local politics before stumbling onto the Water-gate story. He graduated from Yale in 1965 and worked as a communi-cations officer in the Navy and as a reporter for the Montgomery County Sentinel. Bernstein began his career in journalism at 16, working as a copy boy for the Washington Star. At 19 he became a full-time writer and joined the staff of the Post in 1966 to cover Virginia politics. While uncovering the Watergate story, both reporters received much pressure from the Nixon Adminis-tration as well as from their own editors. At times they even feared for their lives. When the reporters came to dead ends they relied on help from a friend of Woodward's in the administration known only as ""Deep Throat."" Woodward still has not revealed the identity of ""Deep Throat."" The main problem at the Oct. 17 grand opening of the Towson Center was that, during the Bullet-Knick game, the announcer's voice echoed across the building. As one student put it, ""I had flashbacks of the Civic Center."" Eckles said, ""That was the first time we used it and we weren't sure if it would happen. We will have a meeting to see what could be done to correct it. (the poor sound system)."" Ticket prices for the general public to hear Woodward and Bernstein will be $5.00, $4.00 and $3.50. Academic Council passes guidelines for students By Cecelie Snyder The requirements which incoming students must fulfill in order to graduate have been revised by the Academic Council. By a vote of 15 to 6, at its regular November meeting, the Council passed a motion made by the Curriculum Committee to approve a proposal to change the criteria. The new set of requirements will go into effect in September, 1977 and wil apply to all incoming freshmen. Transfer students will have the option to choose either the present set or the revised set of requirements. Continuing students will not be affected. Under the new criteria for graduation, students will have to take at least one upper-level writing course in addition to freshman composition. The revisions are generally designed to give ""more structure to ensure that they (the general education requirements) provide a firm basis for the liberal arts and science education, including an adequate level of literacy,"" accord-ing to the cover memorandum for the proposed changes. Students will be encouraged to take courses which they would not have to take in the resent grouping. Kenneth Shaw, vice president for Academic Affairs, said that under the present require-ments, students can, for example, take many courses in fine arts or no courses at all in fine arts. In the new grouping students will have expo-sure to two fine arts experiences. Shaw said, ""We feel that each student should have a little bit of all."" Richard Andrews, vice chairman of the Council and a full-time student, pointed out after the meeting that all of the voting students opposed the proposed changes. 'Drops' end Nov. 12 Next Friday, Nov. 12, is the last day students can drop classes. If a class is not dropped by that date and the student stops attending, he will receive a final grade of 'F' for the course. In order to drop a course, a student must have a drop card signed by the instructor, and take the card and $5 to the Finance Office in the Administration Building. From there they must take the card and a receipt to the Registrar's office to officially drop the course. President Fisher smiles even in extraterrestrial beings wielding fundraiser. the face of death as he is kidnapped by deadly hot wax gun during Dancethon TL photo by Steve Converse "