The Towerlight, November 7, 1975

tl19751107-000 "eak as Senate defeats bill ol ini 7er! int he ofl ft: ird na, e Lit rsl cc 311 IC Senators discuss bills LXVIII, NO. 10 TL photo by Bill Stetka by T. F. Troy, Jr. On Tuesday, November 4, Senate defeated the bill aimed at cancelling the speaking engagement of former South Vietnamese Vice-President Nguyen Cao Ky on November 21. The issue passed with a minimum of the vote, to the dismay of some observers who had anticipated a more lively discussion. Senator Nancy Payne, speaking for the Appropriations Committee and the Revolutionary Student Brigade, read a couple of magazine selections pertaining to Ky. One quoted Ky as saying ""I have but one hero - Adolph Hitler."" Several attempts were made this week to determine the student body's opinion on the appearance of Ky in the embattled SGA Speaker's Series. The Revolutionary Student Brigade collected 394 signatures on their petition to cancel Ky's lecture, and tr,t TOWSON STATE COLLEGE SGA held a referendum on the issue to which 211 students responded. Of the 211, 134 voted to let Ky speak, 61 voted not to let Ky speak and receive a fee, and 36 voted that students wishing to hear him speak should pay the $3.00 out of their pockets so that no student funds would be used. For the SGA Senators voting on the issue Tuesday, the evidence indicated that Ky's appearance was not generally opposed. Furthermore, the SGA is now legally bound to pay Ky his $2500 whether they cancel him or not as the contract has been signed. Refusal to pay would constitute breach of contract and make SGA subject to legal action. Based on student interest and the already committed $2500, Senate defeated the move to cancel Ky. Mike Hill, a sponsor of the defeated bill, expressed his approval of the vote, ""I'm happy it was defeated, and the reason is because we did have the referendum, and apparently I was mistaken on the scope of the consensus in favor of Vice-President Ky's coming."" SGA Senate haggled over an unusually large amount Of legislation Tuesday. Among this legislation was: � a formal censure of President David Nevins introduced by Lucy Reed and Fran Schramm will be considered at a meeting next Thursday in the College Center. If passed, the bill will declare Senate's ""devout and absolute disapproval of certain acts committed by said President (Nevins)."" � a $331 allocation to the Chess club. � a bill introduced by Mike Hill which required SGA officials to disclose all organizations with which they are affiliated. The bill was defeated. � a $425 allocation to the Art Student Union, cut down from the original request of $4000. � Senate's refusal to accept the Ice Hockey Club as . a budgeted organization. Fran Schramm, Ann Marie Lowe, the Vice-President of SGA, and Kathy Kolar, SGA Treasurer, argued that ""it would be unfair to bring the club into SGA because we won't be able to give them enough money to finance their activities."" said Ms. Schramm, ""they are better off not connected with us at all."" � a bill to lower the number of complimentary tickets available to a Speaker Series Lecture. Furor over tickets reached crisis proportions when it was discovered that all but 120 tickets had already been given out prior to the opening of the Box Office. The bill passed unanimously. NOVEMBER 7, 1975 Bucher explains Pueblo mission Lloyd Bucher , TL photo by Dave Esposito by Marlene Milder ""If I was capable of being the type of man I should have been then I wouldn't have taken my ship (the Pueblo) out,"" said Commander Lloyd Bucher during his lecture at Stephens Hall. Bucher related the events prior to the capture of his ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, by the North Koreans in 1968. ' � Bucher admitted he felt there was a possibility of being attacked, since he was only 15 to 20 miles outside territorial waters but ""speaking up would have cost me an opportunity to 'command, and I just didn't have that type of courage."" The Pueblo's mission was to collect electronic intelligence, explained the usefulness of collecting this type of data. The object was to gain information on a potential enemy (the North Koreans) and to recognize their fleet and coastal capabilities. With this mission in mind, the Pueblo was manned by a crew of 53. Bucher reported cargo space had been converted to bunk space so that more than the normal complement of 23 people could be accommodated, allowing people with capabilities in reading and analyzing data to be added. Although, in order to prove Filmed programs set this week by Albert Jeschonnek A trial program for TSC students designed to t provide afternoon en- ertainment has been announced by Ed Consroe, SGA Secretary of Or ganizational and General Services. The program will consist of a series of special films to be shown twice a day on the third floor lobby of the College Center during the week of November 11 through 14. The films to be shown are Stevie Wonder Concert, The National Lampoon Show, and Knock Out, a collection of cham- Pionship boxing matches primarily between Ali and Frazier. Due to the recent overcrowded conditions in the College Center, students have found that there are not as many places to lounge as last Year. ""Students have time to kill and no Place to do it,"" noted Consroe. To alleviate the problem, the SGA has decided to offer students another Place to relax between classes while Providing them with entertainment. Surveys will be distributed to those students viewing the films and the results will decide whether the SGA will continue the program on a Permanent basis. However, based Upon the popularity of the system in Other schools, Consroe feels the nroKram will be a success and the by Pete Binns A small fire broke out in the buildings under construction between Smith Hall and Lida Lee Tall, Saturday, November 1. The Baltimore County Fire Department responded, quickly extinguishing the blaze. The fire was caused by a quartz lamp left burning over the weekend by cement-finishers. After a period of time, the heat from the lamp ignited the plywood on which it was sitting, Causing the fire. The fire was reported at ap- proximately 4 p.m. by a student who notified Steve Edgar, working in the College Center, that he had seen a fire in the new Psychology building under construction near Lida Lee Tall. Edgar telephoned Campus Police, who upon investigation found smoke. .A fter calling the fire department, Gene Dawson, director of Campus SGA has already approved funds for its continuation if the students ap-prove. The films are procured from the Videotape Network, a company which buys specials, TV documentaries, and concerts, then rents them out to various colleges and universities for one week. During that week, the films may be shown as often as the school wishes. If the students approve of the prooram, Consroe noted that he would like to reach a balance with the films in terms of ""educational and recreational programs."" If possible, he would like to circulate programs to TSC faculty members who may choose specific films to show in their respective classes. A wide range of choices are of-fered by the Network, including feature films and sports. Subjects range from feminist and black issues to documentaries and old-time comedies. Consroe emphasized the possibilities of combining the film with tapes of the speaker series. If possible, the films would be shown on alternate nights in the dorms and the other nights in the library on dial access. Yet, Consroe noted, the most important thing was whether or not the students want it. Police, and Bill Baeuerle, fire and safety officer, proceeded to the scene of the fire. Vern Biller, building superin-tendent for the construction company Titan-Atlantic, was also notified. No significant damage was reported. Richmond loses heat In a related matter, Richmond Hall was without heat beginning Saturday, November 1 at 11:20 p.m. Heat was finally restored Sunday at noon. A Richmond Hall CA was the first to notify campus police that the heating system was malfunctioning. That call was followed by several others throughout the night and the next morning. The maintenance department responded soon after the first flurry of calls to check the heating ducts in the building. At approximately 2 a.m., when the ducts were found to be ""It's the first step,"" he explained, ""the SGA is taking to provide new forms of entertainment for students ' outside the regular dances and movies. We want to be able to provide more innovative programs."" Student response and par-ticipation is especially encouraged. Anyone wishing to help out during the trial week with such things as surveying and observing as well as students who may wish to work on picking future programs are urged to contact Ed Consroe at extension 2711. Ed Consroe TL photo by Bill Stetka image functioning correctly, Richard Butler, in charge of physical facilities, was notified so that he could check the physical plant The problem eventually was found to be with the power plant. Some maintenance had been done inr Stephens Hall over the weekend, necessitating the shut-down of the steam line to Stephens. As Stephens and Richmond are on the same line, Richmond lost heat along with Stephens. Effective Monday, November 3, there was a slight change in the shuttle bus schedule. The campus runs, previously scheduled for 4:40 p.m. and 4:50 p.m. will be eliminated due to records showing little use of these times. Instead, a 4:40 p.m. trip has been scheduled to transport resident students to Goucher College. New schedules will be available on the buses and in the Parking Services Office, located in Room 118 of the College Center. ��?�?�1011116 neutrality, the ship was not slated to have any weapons on board during this mission, Bucher reported, two 50- caliber machine guns were placed on the ship. This was done because, during the Arab-Israeli conflict, an unarmed American ship was hit. A Pacific admiral at the time decided to ""help the Pueblo."" Bucher highlighted the last 40 hours before the Pueblo fell to the North Koreans. Bucher reported almost two days before he lost command of his ship that people were sent by the South Koreans to assassinate the president of North Korea. At this time Bucher maintains not one U.S. agency considered the U.S.S. Pueblo predicament to send us this message. We were only 15 miles from their coast,"" he added. After the South Korean attack, the North Koreans began their retaliation trip, spotting the United States ship. ""We had Korean interpreters who couldn't speak Korean, hampering our communication with the North Koreans,"" said Bucher, citing the Intelligence community's un-worthiness. ""We could have misinterpreted their meanings, but it looked as if they were going to board."" North Korean torpedo boats then followed the Pueblo and began firing. Bucher commanded material to be destroyed, but found it difficult under the intense fire. ""We stopped the boat, but did not surrender,"" maintained Bucher. ""We destroyed as much top secret material as we could but, I'll admit right now they got a lot of top secret information as they overtook us."" ""People unworthy of positions made Pueblo decisions, and we found out ""you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't,"" he concluded. The Coalition to Oppose Ky TL photo by Kathy Dudek 'Stop Ky' rally set by Steve Haas Despite suffering a setback in the Senate meeting Tuesday, in which the Senate announced its intentions to allow former South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky to appear at his scheduled speaking engagement here November 21, the Coalition to Oppose Ky is still cir-culating over fifty petitions throughout the Towson State campus in an attempt to block his appearance. John Young, spokesman for the coalition group, states that the purpose of their opposition is not to ""interfere with his right to freedom of speech. We disagree with what he stands for and feel that he would be nothing outside of the historical conditions with which he was in-volved, and which to a large part he helped perpetrate."" The Coalition to Oppose Ky is a combination of the Philosophical Discussion Club, the Rainbow Coalition, the Revolutionary Student Brigade, and various other interested faculty and students. Most of the people opposed to Ky's appearance are either carrying petitions around with them or aiding with the table set up outside the College Center to inform passersby of their cause and recruit signatures from sym-pathizers. ""We hope to have six or seven hundred signatures eventually,"" informed Young. ""In fact, we turned in 307 signatures to the S.G.A. Monday, which easily beat the 211 who registered an opinion in the student referendum."" ""Actually, the referendum was a farce and was merely intended to substantiate the claim by the S.G.A. president (David Nevins) that the opposition was only the protests of the 'vocal few,"" inferring that the silence of the majority meant that they supported his decision,"" he claimed. ""A lot of people came to us and said that the lobby counter did not have anyone there or they had closed it for lunch."" ""They didn't announce the referendum till Friday and they closed it up early that day. Then, on Monday, they moved the referendum location to the S.G.A. office and a lot of people who asked at the lobby counter didn't bother going upstairs to vote. The results came out exactly as they wanted them,"" he added. Following the accumulation of signatures, the Coalition to Oppose Ky has scheduled a November 11 rally and teach-in against Ky's ap-pearance in the College Center at 12:30 p.m. The teach-in will be followed by a march to the Administration Building to present the petitions to Dr. Fisher. Evening, part-timers lose free tickets by Mary Worobec Evening and part-time students will no longer receive free tickets to SGA sponsored or funded events, including the Speakers Series, as a result of a bill passed by the student senate on Tuesday. Another bill passed empowers the operations committee of SGA to check officers and members of af-filiated organizations. Any members who are not full-time day students 'will be required to resign their offices and to cease voting membership in that organization. These actions were prompted when last week's Towerlight revealed that part-time students were receiving the same benefits as full-time students but were paying no activity fees. Mike Hill, chairman of the College Affairs committee of SGA introduced the bills, #37 and N38, to the com-mittee last Thursday after he was told about the inequality. ""Thank God for Towerlight"" he said, apparently referring to the probable em-barrassment to SGA if the organization were to extend benefits to part-time students which they already enjoyed. In effect, all part-time students will now be excluded from SGA activities until the matter of in-corporation and fees is decided. SGA, at the request of David Nevins, president of the organization, has been trying to incorporate the part-time students. Such action would mean a mandatory activity fee, to which part-time students would surely be opposed when they were receiving the benefits without paying the fee. Though the matter of in-corporation is still under study in the College Affairs committee, the general consensus is that securing approval for a mandatory fee from the Board of Trustees would be difficult. Definite action by the committee is expected in about two weeks. Dr. Michael Murphy, dean of the evening and summer division, which includes all part-time students, feels 95 per cent of those students would be opposed to SGA incorporation and the ensuing fee. Feelings now lean toward the establishment of a voluntary fee for part-time students who wish to have the benefits of SGA membership. Television and seats added for Masters-Johnson Because of the unprecedented, overwhelming p pularity of the Masters and Johnson lecture, Student Government Association President David Nevins reports several measures have been taken to help ensure students of viewing capacity. Anyone on the ticket waiting list should pick up tickets today. Priority on the list, maintains Nevins, will determine the distribution of the much-sought-after tickets. In order to make certain all seating in Stephens will be utilized, Nevins reports students holding tickets now should be seated by 8 p.m. Tickets will not be held after 8 p.m. Nevins reports approximately 50 additional temporary seats will be added in the auditorium while at least 100 places will be offered as standing room only. Ed Consroe, Secretary of Organizational and General Ser-vices, and Mike MdFall, Secretary for Community Development, worked with those involved with CMS, College Media Services, and were able to obtain closed circuit television throughout various classrooms at Stephens. The lecture will be transmitted simultaneously with the speech and will best accommodate another 150 students. "