The Towerlight, November 6, 1986

tl19861106-000 "Inside Tiger Soccer Towson State will face Drexel in the first round of the ECC play offs . . page 3 The � nt Published weekly by the students of Towson State Universityldimib gTowson, MD 21204 Index 2 news 3, .1 sports 5 features 6 entertainment 7, 8 classifieds 9 visuals 10 editoral 11 perspectives 12 weekwatcher Vol. 80 No. 8 November 6, 1986 leachers want more money and benefits by Keith Ward News reporter A prevelant attitude among Towson State Universitx's_ teaching community is that Uni-versity professors are not beine- Paid what they are worth. This attitude is in relation not only toward salaries, but job benefits and pension plans as well. ""Salaries are bad enough for full Professors, and they are even Worse at the Associate and assist-ant professor levels,"" said Dr. George Friedman, president of the Towson chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Friedman also said that, while there is dissatisfaction among pro-fessors across the country with salaries, dissatisfaction at Towson State is particularly high, es-pecially among part-time and off- Load (night and summer school) teachers, whose pay is at the bottom of the scale. 'Because of pay for off-load teaching, I will not teach off-load again,"" said Dr. Richard Vatz, one of the more vocal advocates of pay raises and benefits. ""I have only met one faculty member who isn't upset over this situation,"" Vatz also said. Part-time Towson State profes-sor Robert Nusgart summarized his feelings about part-time: ""If I had to rely on the salaries paid to part-time professors at Towson as my income, I would think of spending my time elsewhere. I do, however, enjoy teaching here."" According to both Friedman and Vatz, one of the major problems is not that the professors have been getting paid less, because they do get regular raises, but that their buying power is less. Vatz said, ""According to Presi-dent Hoke Smith, faculty members have lost approximately $2,000 in earning power over the last few years. The raises have not kept up with the cost of living."" While Smith concurred with this statement, he added that pro-fessors' salaries are a ""top priority."" Smith said that although he does not feel that teachers are paid as well as they should be, ""we are, however, competitive on a na-tional level�not at the top, but above average."" Smith was referring to the 75th percentile standard, which in-dicates that Towson State salaries are in the top 75 percent among comprehensive universities in the nation. ""Attainment of this percentile constituted a hollow victory for professors,"" said Vatz. ""The pay criterion of the 75th percentile of comprehensive universities [uni-versities which offer master's but not doctorate degrees] neither bene-fits, nor flatters, the faculty. ""Seventy-five percent of nothing is still nothing."" A cause of this problem is the way the University is categorized, according to Friedman. Towson State is grouped with five other schools�Bowie, Coppin, Frost- Kirkpatrick talks about The Summit Kirkpatrick expressed her views on foreign policy as the first lecturer in the SGA Speaker Series, Viewpoints '86. by Karen R. Gatzke News reporter ""The Soviets are like chess Players. We (the Americans) are nicire like poker players,"" J eanne J. Kirkpatrick, the former United States Ambassador to the United N ations, told the crowd of 306 gathered at the University Union f Towson State University Ninday evening. ,""Poker is a very fast game. The ;411nner is largely determined by tack and only marginally by skill,"" 8he said of the United States' pPProach to the Reykjavik, Ice-land Summit and foreign policy STAND protests Speaker by Vince Russomanno Assistant news editor As Jeane Kirkpatrick was 'delivering her speech in the Uni-versity Union as part of the Stu-dent Government Speaker Series, Protesters outside the Union banged on buckets and trash cans chanting, ""Save your money, save Your cash, walk out on Kirk- Patrick's trash."" This ""informational picket"" was �rganized by the SGA affiliated group, Students Together Against uelear Destruction (STAND) and included Baltimore-based chap- See PROTEST, Page 2 with other countries in general. ""Chess has a larger time frame and is whblly deteimmed by skill,"" continued Kirkpatriek with the game and how the Soviets handled the Iceland Summit and their foreign policy. Kirkpatrick, who was the first woman to serve as the chief United States Representative to the United Nations, chinned during a press conference preceding her lecture, the first in the Student Government Association' e annual lecture series, that her major point to the public in her address was ""how to think about foreign policy."" She said she wanted photo by Alexandra Landau pual elpuexaw people to realize ""it is not a sporting eventto see who blinks."" She said the Iceland Summit, held in November, was ""not a failure."" ""I wouldn't say anyone won or lost,"" said the author of a syn-dicated weekly newspaper column. ""We learned a few things about the Soviets and they learned a few things about us."" Kirkpatrick said she believes that American people are ""more fascinated"" than most people about the results of the Summit. She said she thinks the arms control issue and the summit are ""thought of as a contest"" and ""thought of as a test of will or nerve."" She added that she thinks the biggest problem over foreign policy"" is how Americans over-dramatize it and over-personalize it."" She said she believes in an ""full, frank and open public discussion on foreign policy with the American people."" Kirkpatrick who was paid $20,000 tn appear by the SGA said one of the major problems of the American public is that they have a problem of time frame"" in . relations to how long a policy or program will takes to work. ""We have a very short fuse,"" she said. She said ""our allies are perhaps in different time frames playing different games in the same board as the U.S. is using for foreign policy. Kirkpatrick, in a question and answer session with the audience after her speech, said she supports the Nicaraguan contras because Nicaragua has a government ""imposed by force."" ""It governs by force and the force is accompanied by Cuban (Soviet Bloc Supported) advisors,"" she said. She said she thinks the U.S. should ""promote democracy in Nicaragua"" because the Nicara-guan government had declined to permit contras ""free press, free religion and free speech."" Comparing foreign policy to a ""shootout at high noon"", Kirk-patrick ended the speech with this note: ""We would be well to recall that life in the contemporary world between nations is not like high noon. We don't want to be left to shoot it out."" Protesters gathered outside the University Union during Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick's speech Sunday evening. burg, and Salisbury States, and the University of Baltimore�in the IIA category for salary pur-poses. Therefore, there is one scale that the professors at all six in-stitutions follow for salaries. Other schools, such as Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, College Park and colleges that are considered re-search institutions, are in catagory I and have substantially higher salary ranges. A full professor at College Park, for instance, has a salary range of $36,516 minimum to a maximum of $65,395, while the range of a Towson State full professor is be-tween $28,563 and $45,701. ""The immense difference be-tween category I and category IIA pay does not reflect a commen-surate difference in academic ex-pectations, especially as Towson State raises its standards for pro-motion and tenure to levels equal or nearly equal to those applied at many category T institutions. To support this, Vatz pointed to an article in U.S. News and World Report that listed Towson State as one of the top tem comprehensive universities in the East. Salaries also do not compare well with community colleges and even Baltimore County high school teachers, added Vatz. Citing an example of the ""in-equity in the system,"" Dr. Brenda Logue, a professor in the mass communication department, told about a colleague of hers who has the same qualifications and length of service as she, but who earns $6,000 more per year at a corn-munity college. Another issue that has pro-fessors disgruntled is the change in the pension plan. Under the old plan, set up under the Mandel administration, there was an unlimited cost-of-living ad-justment. In 1979, under Governor Hughes, the unlimited COL ad-justment was abolished by one vote in a hotly-contested decision. Friedman felt that Senate Pre-sident Melvin Steinberg was in-strumental in persuading Hughes to kill the unlimited COL ad-justment. ""It was a very unethical thing for them to do,' Friedman said. ""Hughes was anathema to state employees and faculty in parti- Dr. Richard Vatz has met only one teacher who isn't upset over insufficient teacher's salaries. cular. Steinberg talked Hughes into abolishing the unlimited COL adjustment,"" Friedman continued. ""Steinberg said verbatim to me that 'once we are no longer saddled with the debt to retired faculty, we will see what we can do for those professors who are still working.' So far, we have not seen one nickel of our money."" Steinberg denied Friedman's claim, calling it ""fallacious."" Stein-berg contends that what he said to Friedman was that ""once we are no longer saddled with the un-limited cost-of-living adjustment, there will be more funds available for discretionary expenditures, such as pay increases."" Steinberg also said that he, however, has no control over what those expendi-tures will be. Steinberg further claimed that teachers ""have not lost one cent"" because of the COLA cut. ""We were facing serious fiscal problems between 1979 and 1983, and the unlimited cost-of-living adjustment would have broken us. Maryland was the only state in the country to have an unlimited cost-of- living adjustment, and it just wasn't financially realistic. ""I do what's right, not always what's popular, and what I dia was right."" Steinberg said that salaries are in line with the rest of the country, and that the only teachers who are unhappy with the new pension plan are those who do not under-stand it. Vatz countered, saying Stein-berg was ""nothing but callous. He is saying that as long as salaries are low across the board that there is no problem because we're not getting paid less than others in our profession."" Governor Hughes was not avail-able for comment. A result of the minimal salaries on the University is a decline in the number of new professors coming to Towson State, and the number of teachers remaining here, accord-ing to Vatz. Vice President for Student Services Dorothy Siegel agreed with Vatz, saying that ""universi-ties such as College Park and Johns Hopkins get many more top people than Towson because they pay top dollar. ""The salary paid to a profession represents the value that that society places on that job's im-portance,"" Siegel continued. ""It's not education we value, but what. , See RAISES, page 2 Ski Club's operations questioned; Fine faces SGA Judicial Board by Karen R. Gatzke News reporter Former Club Ski president Scott Fine will be tried in a Judicial Board hearing tomorrow con-cerning allegations that he is an agent,for the Ski and Sun travel agency. As an agent for the agency, it is alleged that he steered Club Ski bookings toward the company in return for the commission the company gives him. ""I don't get any commission from Ski and Sun and I never have,"" Fine said. ""They (the SGA) don't have any evidence. They can't -- I didn't do anything,"" he said. He said the services of Ski and Sun have been used because ""they gave us (Club Ski) the largest advertisement budget, paid for us to join the National Collegiate Ski Association (NCSA), gave us posters and flyers and a banner for the football games."" He categorized their service as ""impecable."" He said, ""They (Ski and Sun) never lost any money for security and always gave it back on time. Other companies some-times hold the money for several weeks."" Questions about Club Ski's operations ""started five weeks ago between me and (Student Govern-ment Association Vice President) Chris Krivos,"" according to Fine. Krivos was unavailable for comment. ""This is being investigated be-cause of a written complaint sent to the SGA,"" Fine said. Fine, a part-time student, resigned last Tuesday as Club Ski president. ""I resigned because of these three reasons: I didn't want the aggravation anymore, I wanted the ski club to flourish and because the ski club wasn't going any-where,"" Fine said. ""I didn't want to resign but I felt I was forced into it,"" he added. According to Fine, every college in Maryland goes through Ski and Sun to book their trip to Killington, Vermont. He said the company has 28 schools on the East Coast who book through them for var-ious trips. Fine said that he feels the students of Towson are suffering from the Club Ski Situation. ""Club Ski is two weeks behind because of what is going on,"" he said. ""I wish the SGA would get off their high horse and let the ski club get on their way,"" Fine added. Students fight at dance by Robert M. Graham News editor Three incidents, including a fight at the Homecoming Dance Saturday evening, occured during Towson State University's Home-coming Weekend activities Saturday. Between 20 and 25 people were involved in a fight at the Home-coming Dance held in the University Union, Lieutenant Joseph Herbert, University Police operations manager, said. He said the Baltimore County Police Department was called in to assist in ending the altercation, whose cause has yet to be determined. The incident took place ""in a lobby area of the Union,"" ac-cording to David Garafola, the University Union's Auxiliary Enterprise's acting director. He said the police arrived at the scene ""after the fact."" He said his event staff, students employeed to run University Union events, ""man-aged the situation"" that included only ""12 to 15 people."" Seven people were asked to leave after Event staff members ident-ified them as involved in the alter-cation, Garafola said. In an incident that occured earlier in the day during the Home-coming football game activities, a car was overturned behind the Towson Center on Parking Lot 20, Herbert said. The University Police nave two suspects in the case that is still under investigation by Patrol Pre-game picnicking festivi-ties took a back seat to the folly that followed. Division., Herbert said the vehicle had no registration. It was involved in the Homecoming Parade as part of a float he said. The Baltimore County Fire De-partment was called to the scene after gasoline was leaking from the overturned vehicle. Herbert said gasoline leaked because the vehicle has no gas cap. No injuries were reported in the incident. In another incident during the Homecoming football game act-ivities a spot-a-pot was overturned by people while someone was in-side it, Herbert said. He said the person inside the spot-a-pot was not injured in the incident and did not with to press charges for what Herbert des-cribed as ""a prank by friends."" "