The Towerlight, November 6, 1981

tl19811106-000 "Vol. 75, No. 10 Arda Towerlight PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensa-tional to read on the train. Oscar Wilde November 6, 1981 James D. Lucas, the county's economic development director and coordinator of the IRB program, outlined the details of the five resolutions at the Council meeting Monday. Kathy Sperling, bond council from Shapiro, Vittori & Olander, a Baltimore legal firm which handles the IRB's in the county, testified on the financial stability of the proposals. TL photo by Edvins Lakrzdins Faculty grants awarded by Jill Miller Towson State University is not only for the education of its students, but also for the education of its faculty; the Faculty Develop-ment/ Departmental Enhancement Grants were developed to aide facul-ty in educational growth. The purpose of the grants, developed in 1978, is to help either individuals or departments develop new competencies and to promote scholarly growth, Dean R. Essl-inger, Director of Faculty Develop-ment said. The Departmental Enhancement Grants differ from the Faculty Research and Mini-grant programs, Which seek to develop new courses and to experiment with new or alter-native teaching techniques, in that the Enhancement Grants are Specifically intended for faculty self-improvement or renewal. In 1981, $10,000 was allotted to the Faculty Development Commit-tee whose purpose is to advise the director of Faculty Development and Vice President for Academic Affairs on how the funds could be Most productively used. The Committee supports in-dividual faculty members in their professional development, such as the creation of innovative teaching methodologies, the development of teaching capabilities in new areas, and other scholarly projects of value to the University, Esslinger said. ""We (the Faculty Development Committee) look on grants as a way of stimulating faculty growth; and although it is difficult to determine What proposals will have the greatest impact on the University in a couple of years, that is how we decide (who gets awarded the grants),"" Neil Gallagher, Chairman of the Committee said. Proposals were submitted from 37 faculty members who requested $31,575. Only 30 percent of the re-quests were granted. ""I feel bad that we can't fully fund all that we think will have a im pact (on the University) because of the large number of proposals,"" Gallagher said. A total of $9,468 was granted to the following 22 faculty members: Harry Bates, physics, for the development of external funding for physics research; Andrea Boucher, physical education, for enhance-ment of teacher preparation in physical education for students with special needs. Georgia Economou, English, for the completion of Doctoral degree in Comparative literature; Phyllis En-sor, health science, for the develop-ment of conpetency in computer assisted instruction for school health and medical inservice educa-tion. Shirley Gillespie, theatre, for the study of the use of theatre arts to enhance language arts for the gifted and talented; John Gissendanner, English, for the travel and related expenses for his dissertation; James Hull, for the development of a soils and vegetation course. Diane Jezic, music, for the development of courses in Arts Ad-ministration, to supplement the degree concentration in music in-dustry management; Soon Jin Kim, speech and mass communications, Dean Esslinger for the completioi; of his terminal degree; James Lindner, general ed-ucation, attendance at the American Language Academy CAI Seminar. John MacKerron, speech and mass communications, completion of his terminal degree; David Mar-chand, music, attending a seminar; Yvette May, early childhood educa-tion, collection and analysis of data collection on HRD Professional Pro-grams. Jane M. McMahon, for financing in higher education; Loretta Molitor, physics, for fundamentals of remote sensing for terrain analysis: a short course for Faculty Development; John Morrison, math and computer science, for a M.S. in computer science at Johns Hopkins University; Herbert Petri, psychology, for studying the at-titude of young toward old in India and United States and its organiza-tional implications; Zoltan Szabo, music, for short and long-range development of Opera at Towson State University; Oc-Kyung Lee, art, for completeion of terminal degree. MD County Council issues bonds for dormitory; work begins February. by Wallace Bruce Reid The Baltimore County Council ap-proved Monday five separate pro-posals submitted by the Mullan Enterprises Limited Partnership to sell $35 million in industrial revenue bonds for the construction of a 1,700-bed dormitory and a 600-seat dining hall. The Mullan firm intends to break ground by February 1982. The resolutions were passed without deliberation by a unanimous vote of 6-0. Councilman John D. O'Rourke (D, 7th), who had earlier objected to the proposals, abstained on each vote. The four, 14-story dormitory towers and a two-story dining hall are to be constructed on a 2.12 acre tract of land adjacent to the Glen and the University Union near Cross Campus Drive. The land, now owned by Thomas F. Mullan, Jr. and Charles A. Mullan will be donated to the state and leased under the five partner-ships. The members of the Board of Public works stipulated that the state should have the option to buy the buildings after 11 years and if the project would fail financially, the state would not assume more than fifty percent of the initial ex-pense not to exceed $450,000. University officials and Council members at a work session October 27 agree on an annual cash payment in leiu of property taxes. In fiscal year 1984 (Fall semester 1983), the University pay $42,000 to the Coun-ty. That, payment will increase by six percent each year until 1994 when it will reach $70,958 and re-main stable for the following 30 years of the lease arrangement. The payment will reimburse fire protection and emergency medical services that the county would pro-vide. As stated in Article 81 of the An-notated Code of Maryland, state property is not taxable. The first year payment of $42,000 is based on county taxation if the land were to be developed for townhouses under its current classification of DR-16. Councilwoman Barbara F. Bachur (D, 4th) said, ""This was a very dif-ficult and creative financing pro-ject. While these resolutions rest in the fourth district . . . what we've done here tonight can be a model for other institutions throughout the state."" Councilwoman Bachur also spoke about the 20-mile radius rule adopted by the Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges in the early sixties that excludes students living within that boundry from obtaining on-campus housing. Currently, 13 of the 4,136 Baltimore County students enrolled ,at Towson State are permitted to reside on campus. The addition of 1,700 students will increase the University's residency from 13 percent of its 9,528 full-time day students to 30 percent. University officials contend that the new dorms will eliminate the 20-mile radius rule and the two-year residency limit. Students from Baltimore City, Belair, and Columbia are being denied housing at the present time. James D. Lucas, the county's economic development director, said. ""My guess is that about one million people will now have access to the dorms. More people will have focuses on higher (DNS) � The focus on the future of state higher education became a little sharper as the governor and legislators heard the faults of both centralized and decentralized systems. Centralized or consolidated higher education systems were criticized most by three national educaticn of-ficials speaking at a conference on higher education, sponsored by the governor's office and the joint legislative subcommittee on higher education. The joint legislative subcommit-tee, along with representatives from the governor's office, has been studying the structure of higher education in the state for the past year. But the subcommittee and the governor, though they have not made any public statement, have been hinting at support for a more centralized structure for the state's colleges and universities. 'Handle with care' brings home-baked goodies by Lisa Colburn Someone, somewhere, saw to it that the food in educational institu-tions is unappealing and imper-sonal. Worse yet, vending machines do little in the way of curbing that home-cooked appetite. But alas, there are two women in Bethesda who have hit upon a way to soothe the cravings of a hard- Working student. Belinda Wilborn and Julie Hurt run ""Handle With Care,"" an operation that provides home-baked goodies by way of home delivery. These two industrious ladies _began the business a year ago when VVilborn, then a part-time student at Washington College, got fed-up With the food served to students. ""It was there that I saw the need and decided to fill it,"" she said. And fill it they have, with everything from cookies, cakes, Peanuts and fresh fruit to mar-shmallow pies. Sound junky? Wilborn and Hurt don't stop there. They get requests for diet-restricted foodstuffs as well as junk food, and they try their hardest to please. Wilborn and Hurt rent a restaurant kitchen each Sunday and hake everything to order. Their business has caught on so well that they've turned to distributors to supply most of the ingredients that go into the savory treats. A ""Handle With Care"" package is a plain brown box with the business' name hand-stenciled on the outside. Wilborn and Hurt per-sonally deliver the boxes for the Metropolitan-Washington area and send the out-of-town orders via United Parcel Service. The cost for their service is $16 if hand-delivered and $16 to $25 plus a $2.60 shipping charge if delivered outside the area. These two ladies exude home-spun goodness, and their packages are prepared thoughtfully and carefully. Originally for students only, the business has grown to in-clude anyone, and orders have come in from as far as the West Coast and Frankford, West Germany. Between the two of them, Wilborn and Hurt have seven children, all of whom are supportive of their baker-moms. They help out, too, as an arm can get tired from shoveling cookies in and out of an oven every Sunday. ""They're really proud of us,"" Hurt said. Birthdays are honored in a special way at Handle With Care. They throw in balloons and favors along with the cake and other goodies. ""A hand-delivered cake or treat can really make a birthday more special,"" said Wilborn. This is prov-ed by the volume of mail received back with compliments to the chefs for making a day a little better. Hand-written notes by the sender are often included, and Wilborn and Hurt have even been asked to put in notes that say the sender baked the goods. ""Sometimes people feel guil-ty that they don't have the time to bake for loved ones when they order from us. They ask us to put in let-ters saying they baked it, and that's O.K. The way things are these days, most people don't have the time to do these things,"" said Wilborn. Last year they were starting out, this year they're growing, and next year they hope to make a profit. ""Just that fact that we're still alive and kicking is a surprise,"" Hurt said. Wilborn and Hurt both agree that women are really taking off in business. Their enthusiasm and ex-citement about their business is an inspiration to the small businessman. ""We've been extreme-ly lucky,"" Wilborn said. Testifying before the conference, Mary Berry, U.S. Civil Rights Com-mission vice chairman and a former campus provost, proposed her own plan for restructuring higher educa-tion in the state. Berry said the state's four-year institutions should become independent, each with its own governing board, and report to a single ""board of control"" responsi-ble for the budgets of the state's col-leges and universities. Under the ""Mary Berry plan,"" as the legislators and educators in the audience began to call it, each in-stitution's governing board would handle daily campus decisions and ""minutiae,"" while the control board would concentrate on ""allocating financial resources, adjudicating between the institutions and keep-ing out of the way of the Presidents [of each institution]."" The control board's director, Berry said, would keep a low profile, concerning herself only with the needs of higher education throughout the state, while the cam-puses became more self-governing. In addition, she said, ""each institu-tion should have autonomy and equal access to the board."" When allocating funds to each in-stitution, Berry's control board would simply designate a lump sum to the campuses, which would then be distributed by campus officials, rather than the line-item budgeting now used. ""There ought to , be broad categories for higher education [from the legislature] and the board of control would allocate it. Once funds were allocated, it would be up to campuses to allocate in broad categories,"" Berry said. Currently, each state institution must be accountable to the legislature for each expenditure it makes and the campus' total budget. University Board of Regents member Blair Lee hailed Berry's suggestion with a hearty ""Amen!"" adding, ""that's what we need, more flexibility."" Lee praised Berry's pro-posal and said hers was a very prac-tical approach. But Berry and the other two speakers criticized centralized higher edcuation systems, saying that states with such systems have found them to be cumbersome and ineffectual. ""As in New York, that kind of system is not appropriate and it makes you regard [each cam-pus] as equal in value,"" Berry said. the opportunity to have dorm ex-perience,"" he said. Lucas said that this kind of finan-cing it is ""quicker and less expen-sive for taxpayers than to have the state build the facility."" The county needs the dorms in order to attract students to Towson State and hopefully encourage them to seek professions in the area. Stu-dents that go out-of-state are less apt to return and work in the Baltimore area, Lucas said. Each dormitory tower will house 426 students and create six full-time jobs and seven part-time jobs. The dining hall will create 36 full-time jobs and 86 part-time jobs. During the 18-month construction period, 1,000 construction jobs will be created. Thomas F. Mullan, Jr. said his firm must go to the bond market in January and if all goes well they will have a shell on the ground by February 1, 1982. Alex Brown & Sons, a Baltimore investment firm, will underwrite more than 60 percent of the bonds, Mullan said. The Robert B. Batter Company, geotechnical services, was making test borings last Monday at the con-struction site. ""The glen will not be affected by the construction,"" Mullan said. ""People have the impression that the glen is a kind of ecological preserve, and that is not so,"" John Suter, director of development, said. The estimated annual bond rate of $3.5 million would be generated solely from the University's Aux-illiary Enterprises Program. Room and board fees will increase from $2,050 to $2,964 or a maximum of $3,091 in the fall of 1983. education Sheldon Knorr ""I don't think it has worked and I don't think they have a first-rate university,"" she said. "" lt would do more harm than good to replicate the New York system,"" she said. That system ""has the worst hardening of the arteries of any system I've ever seen,"" she add-ed. Allan Oster, American Associa-tion of State Colleges and Univer-sities president, told the gathering of educators and legislators that, though the national trend is toward centralization, the belief in cen-tralization of management decisions is outdated. Instead, he said, ""more effective and more efficient manage-ment is more likely to result from in-stitutional control."" Sheldon Knorr, state higher education commissioner, said he agreed with Berry on several points, but not completely. ""I don't agree to the extent that all the institu-tions should be given their own governing board. But a strong cen-tralized board is necessary."" Knorr said Berry's plan was similar to the plan proposed by the state higher education board in some aspects, including its em-phasis on decentralization and fun-ding flexibility. The state board's plan, however, retained the University Board of Regents as the governing board for three campuses, and merged several other schools under single govern-ing board as well. George McDonald, tillery, a civil lifestyle of McDonald war the commander reenactment Civil spoke on War the of Clark's Battery B, ist N.J. Light Ar. group, gave a presentation on the role and artilleryman in the Lecture Hall Monday. Jonilee of women in the Civil War. TL photo by Meriek Jeannier role "