tl19691107-000 "McLuhan speaks 1,404 Senate approves frats, campus alcohol LAST MONDAY, November 3 the College Senate passed two proposals of interest to Towson students. One concerned the establishment of college-recognized fraternities at TSC, the pther deals with allowing alcohol in restricted areas of the campus. Fraternities The era of the non-existing fra-terniti and sororiti at Towson State College may be rapidly corn-ing to a close after the College Senate ratified a bill for the estab- Vol. XXII, No. 8 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 November 7, 1969 Juke box THE JUKE BOX in the Col-lege Centre is owned 'and run by the Select-O-Mation Company, not by the Col-lege Union Board. The com-pany changes the records but any-one who wants a new record can request it through the CUB. In the past few weeks, the rec-ords have been brought up to date. records change slowly Round two . . DC awaits by STEPHEN KIRSCH The New Mobilization Commit-tee to End the War in Vietnam is organizing one of the largest anti-war demonstrations in American history. The demonstration will take place in Washington DC and San Francisco on Saturday, No-vember 15. According to the New Mobilization Committee, the spe-c: fic purposes of these marches will be to stop the war, stop the war machine, and stop the death machine. Nixon is fooling people The Committee believes that the Nixon administration is fooling the American people by withdrawing a few troops from Vietnam, which will supposedly bring peace. Con-cerning this, the NMC says, ""It will not stop the killing. It will not bring peace. It will not prevent other Vietnams."" The last sentence above implies NMC's purpose: to stop the war machine. New Mobilization Com-mittee claims that the US has not Photo by Thomas by DAVE BAKER In recent weeks there have been complaints by students that the records in the juke box are not changed often enough. In an in-terview, Charles Taylor, President of the College Union Board, ex-plained the situation. Taylor said that the juke box was owned by the Select-o-Mation Company and did not cost the CUB or the college any money. In fact, the ""school realized some profit"" from the machine. Company replaces records The records are replaced by the company in what Taylor called ""a complicated process."" ""When-ever someone comes to the CUB office to complain, they are given a piece of paper and are asked to write down the names of the records they want. This paper is immediately turned in. It then goes to the snack bar manager, Jim Ward, who contacts the com-pany and tells them the songs wanted. ""Then the company comes and puts the new records in. This (Please turn to page 5) lishment of such societies. Unofficially, the bill has been ac-cepted by TSC President Dr. James Fisher, and after he signs it, will be presented to the Board of Trus-tees for final approval within the next two months. In gaining acceptance through the Senate, the measure met only slight amending. The Senate spent about 30 minutes discussing cer-tain sections, especially pledging procedures, of the motion. Al Haste, representing the math department, brought debates to a swift conclusion. He suggested that if anyone could present ""any serious objections permitting the establishment of fraternities, let that be discussed and not every section of the bill."" There were no objections and Student Government Association President, Charles Johnson, mo-tioned for a vote, which he prompt-ly received in favor of the bill. Frats will initially be regulated by a Governing Council composed of two faculty members, four stu-dents, and a representative from the Dean of Students' office. Stipu-lations and their selection are es-tablished in the bill. The Council will have the power to establish and enforce rules, reg-ulations, and any fraternal proce-dures. The Council will be a subcom-mittee of the SGA and will only exist until that time when frater- (Please turn to page 6) Alcohol 1 A forty-five minute debate high-lighted the November 3 College Senate Meeting on the issue of al-cohol on campus. The bill liberal-izing the present policy of com-plete prohibition on campus passed Senate and now awaits TSC Pres-ident Dr. James Fisher's signature. However, before the President signs and introduces it to the Board of Trustees, he will consult the Attorney General of Maryland on the legality of the bill. Basically, the bill involves the following: 1. the privilege to drink alcohol-ic beverages in a special dining area which has yet to be specifi-cally designated. 2 the organization of a govern-ing board on an experimental basis to administer alcohol policies 3. allowing dorm and residence halls to establish their own policies concerning consumption in individ-ual rooms. The greatest part of the debate centered around point 3, which did not exist in the initial bill. Since the highest degree of deviance from alcohol rules occurs in the dorms and residence areas, and the Sen-ate felt that the discipline there should be left to the disgression of the residence councils. The Senate, in effect, washed its hands of involvement in the mat-ter. Marshall McLuhan, director of of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada, will lecture on ""Old and New Media and College Unrest"" at Towson State College Friday, November 7, at 8 pm in Stephens Auditorium. McLuhan says ""yes"" to the ques-tion ""would the unrest be less if the news coverage were less?"" If wars were never even mentioned, McLuhan says, ""there wouldn't be next big war protest this month changed its expansionist policy, which started t he Vietnam War. I In suport of this, NMC says that the US is obligated to defend 42 countries, along with numerous se-cret military agreements support-ing Fascist and semi-Fascist gov-ernments. U S permanent war The Committee also contends that ""Pentagon bases and a mil-lion troops overseas are there to defend governments favorable to American trade and investment and to subvert and overthrow re-gimes that are unfavorable. The US today is engaged in a perma-nent war for the almight dollar."" Until the US decides not to sup-port such governments there is the possibility of more Vietnams, says NMC. The last reason for the march to Washington is to stop the death machine. The domestic problems of the US such as racism, health, taxes, pollution and decaying cities NOVEMBER 13 14 15 March Against Death A Vietnam Memorial SUN. NOV. 16 �Continuing activity by constituent groups. TIE WAR MACHINE I THE WAR THE DEATH MACHINE This is part of a pamphlet being distributed by the New Mobliza-tion Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which explains the reasons for and the activities of the march on Washington, D.C. have arisen through the lack of funds and the priorities of the Defense Department. Because of these, NMC says that the Amer-ican Society has became a death machine to all its citizens. They want to end the war and redirect the energies of this country to these domestic problems. As for the march on Washing-ton itself, there will be a 36-hour (Please turn to page 5) any. By the same token, if the slaughter houses were on all me-dia every day, meat would disap-pear from our diet at once. ""Photographic news coverage killed public hangings. Television coverage makes the Viet business difficult to get on with."" McLuhan believes ""the interface between print culture and electric culture not only creates student unrest, it creates a collapse of all existing organizations in business and other establishments of the world. This has nothing to do with ideology or concepts."" McLuhan co-authored The Med-ium is the Message with Quentin Fiorre and his work The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typogra-phic Man won the Governor Gen-eral's Award for critical prose. He has authored many other works. He has served as chairman of Ford Foundation Seminar on Cul-ture and Communication and co-editor of Explorations Magazine. He was director of Media Project for the National Association of - Educational Broadcasters and US Office of Education. Among his other writing are Ex-plorations in Communications, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of In-dustrial Man, and Understanding Media. ......... Inside Pg. 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