The Towerlight, October 12, 1979

tl19791012-000 "VOL. LXXIII No. 6 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Let it snow?! IQuite to the disbelief of students, winter came to TSU Wednesday. No ""'snowmen were seen decorating the campus and freshmen will have to Wait a few months for their first experience at ""traying."" For the benefit of freshman: fraying is sledding down administration hill on traYs. Servomation reports a shortage of trays during every semester.) The snowfall was little more than an inconvenience, although those with World Series tickets may disagree. The game, however, went on as usual and so did school. TL photo by Bill Bridenbaugh Could be mandatory Contents Sports 9 Features 3 Entertainment 8 Week Watcher 11 Newshriefs 12 Opinion 13 Classified 12 October 12, 1979 Council debates prerequisites by Debbie Felton The Academic Council Monday postponed voting on a motion that would make course prereqisites mandatory. The Council meets the first Monday of each month. The original motion would require that students meet course prerequisites ""or obtain written permission from the department involv-ed before registering for a course."" It also states ""departments should enforce course prere-quisites . . ."" The action would allow instructors to require a student drop a course if he does not have the designated prerequisites. A substitute motion read, ""Students must meet prerequisites or obtain written permission from the instructor or the department chairperson in-volved before registering for a course."" Some Council members argued that the mo-tion, if passed, could not be enforced. Other members said the rule would be too restrictive for students who may not need the course prere-quisites, and may limit intellectual challenges for such students. The Council voted to refer the item back to the Executive Committee and it will be considered at the Council's next meeting. President Hoke Smith said the motion was ini-tiated because instructors now have no way to remove a student from their class if the student does not have the course prerequisites or if the instructor does not think the student has the nescessary knowledge to successfully complete the course. Smith said that instructors do not usually have time to spend on in-depth tutoring for certain students. Dean Thomas Knox, associate dean of students and director of academic advising, said he has negative feelings about the proposal. He said the motion ""realistically won't have any impact."" continued on page 2 !WCVTfootbail games turn to dead air, why? by Karen Gardner Towson State's student run radio on station, WCVT-FM, has repeatedly rio gone off the air during football game Play-by-play broadcasts made from Other colleges. )6 The two most recent incident's were during broadcasts from Guilford Col-lege and Randolph-Macon College, in! when the signal went dead for almost le the entire third quarter. Eugene Daniller, WCVT's general li Inahager, said the station is so far tillable to determine the reasons for the Cutoffs. ro broadcast the games from other III Colleges, the play-by-play announcers telephone in the plays to WCVT. The station then broadcasts the game and the public service announcements and commercials. Possibly, the solution to unex-pectedly going off the air, said Daniller, is to keep its play-by-play announcers in close contact with the disc jockeys during the public service breaks. Previously the announcers did not know if the game was on the air or the station break. Now the disc jockeys adjust the volume so they can com-municate with the announcers. Daniller said the WCVT equipment failure is definitely not the cause, nor is there a lack of money. WCVT is planning to purchase two new pre-amplifiers and a beeper so the station can keep in contact with its engineer in case of a breakdown. A couple of years ago WCVT ex-perienced the same problem but then the station had ordered the wrong telephone lines. Daniller said he knows that is not the reason for the braodcasts recently going off the air. Daniller also said he and the other members of WCVT have a few theories as to why the play-by-play broadcasts have been going off the air, but they have no definite facts yet. Fonda, Hayden to speak hon nuclear controversy � '111 1); 1): jSI Lic in rj il tb tlo irf by Dawn Porter Actress Jane Fonda and political activist Torn Hayden will open the 1979-80 Student Government Asso-ciation Speaker Series ""Spectrums of Controversy"" Sunday. Fonda, star of the recent motion Picture ""The China Syndrome,"" and her husband Hayden, will address' the controversies Sur-r ounding ""Nuclear Energy and Current Events,"" at 9 p.m. in the I owson Center. Protesting nuclear energy, the couple began a 30-day college tour of the country earlier this month. The anti-nuclear energy move-ment gained national recognition when Fonda's film ""The China Syndrome"" depicting the possible dangers of nuclear power was released earlier this year. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident, which occurred during the film's run, strengthened the movement's support. The Academy Award winning actress has always been contro-versial, but her anti-nuclear activities have caused a new wave of anti-Fonda commentary. Recently Fonda's name was removed from a list of potential commencement speakers at the University of California-Davis' Medical School. University officials said only that Fonda's appearance Tom Hayden In this issue 704 tolbts.,1*** Filmed in Balti-more � Pacino shines in "". . � And Justice for All. Page 8. Jane Fonda They call the Bues ""The Fami-ly."" Don't our Birds deserve their own nifty nickname? Towerlight has the answer. Page 4. Our local squeeze is also a national problem. Dorm space is short on campuses all over the United States. CPS reports. Page 2. would be ""inappropriate."" William J. McNamara Mayor of New Britain, Connecticut, urged people to boycott a Fonda and Hayden lecture at Central Con-necticut State College. McNamara said the lecture should be boycotted because Fonda's 1972 trip to Hanoi ""caused agony and suffering for our GI's in both combat and in prisoner of war camps."" McNamara who is campaigning for re-election, said that while he objected to the Fonda speech ""as an American and an anti-communist,"" he would not pressure the college to cancel it. A spokesman for the College's program council said the Mayor's criticism has increased ticket sales. ""Nobody knew (Fonda) was coming ,before. We expect to have a full house,"" she said. Anti-Nuclear activitists like Fonda and Hayden have caused the nuclear industry to organize a public relations campaign of its own. According to Scott Peters, a public relations specialist with the Atomic Industrial Forum, the industry will send out two person ' 'Truth Squads,"" which will be comprised of an energy consultant and a utility company technical assistant. Peters said the teams will travel across the country, following the anti-nuclear speakers and attempt-ing to refute statements made by people like Fonda and Hayden. Fonda's current commitment to the anti-nuclear power movement is reminiscent of her previous political stands, particularly her anti-war campaigns. Her 1972 visit to Hanoi and search for facts about the Vietnam was resulted in a docu-mentary entitled ""Introduction to the Enemy"" and feelings of contempt from. the American people. Also politically active during the Vietnam war, Hayden was a member of the ""Chicago Seven"" indicated for protesting during the 1968 Democratic National Con-vention. He founded and was a leader of the students for a Democratic Society. A contributing editor to the ""Rolling Stone Magazine'. Hayden has written five books and hundreds of newspapers and magazine articles as well as political an-thologies! WCVT-FM has mysteriously disappeared from the air-waves during recent play-by-play broadcasts of football games from Guilford College and Randolph-Macon College. Members of WCVT have some ideas why the broadcasts have been interrupted but no one is sure. TL photo by Bill Breidenbaugh Murray discovers SGA cannot control day care by Karen DiPasquale and Dana Bennett The Student Government Associa-tion discovered Tuesday that it has no control over the money allotted to the Day Care Center. Milissa Murray, SGA president, told the senators and the other SGA executives that she discovered that at a meeting with Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, Ron Garrison, acting assistant for finance and systems management and David Nevins, director of ad-ministration and marketing services. Murray said she found that a fund for college advancement and im-provement existed at one time, which utilized five percent ($4.35) of the ac-tivity fees for cultural events and other events that some organizations requested. The total student activity fee paid by each student was then $87. But evenually, that fund dissolved and the five percent was redistributed to the SGA, University Union and Athletics, with three dollars sub-tracted for the Day Care Center. The Center was treated as a separate group and funded apart from any other organization. It was not an SGA organization. The 1977 SGA agreed to relingquish control of the Day Care Center funds and the Board of Trustees of State Col-leges and Universities accepted the SGA's decision. ""The money (for the Day Care Center) came out of the SGA budget originally and they (the 1977 SGA) gave it away,"" Murray said. Burns said the Senate did a good in-vestigative job on the Day Care Center matter. ""No one would have known anything about it if the Senate hadn't initiated the investigation,"" he said. Murray said the Senate vote in December of whether or not to con-tinue funding the Center would not mean anything. Burns said the discovery will not change anything the SGA is trying to do. The SGA could still get the Day Care Center funding method changed if it wanted to. However, if the Senators did try, Murray said they would have to go to Dorothy Siegel, vice president for stu-dent services. And the change would have to be approved by the Board of Trustees. If the Senate does choose to initiate some action against the Center, it is unlikely that the administration would fund it, said McCulloh. The administration cannot do anything about funding the Center un-til it knows to what degree, if any, the SGA is going to fund the Center. If the SGA does not fund the Center and the administration decides to pick up the funding, the money will come from either general or special funds, said McCulloh. The general fund is the money that the University receives from the state. The University would have a difficult time convincing the state to fund an organization that is used by so few students. For this reason it is very unlikely that the state will fund the center, McCulloh said. Special funds are monies which are within the University's budget. In order for the money to come through these funds, either tuition will be rais-ed or organizations that are currently funded by special funds will suffer. ""It is doubtful that money for the Day Care Center will come from special funds,"" said McCulloh. Dorothy Siegel said, ""It is not fair for the administration to impose a mandatory increase in tuition because the money the students pay for tuition should benefit them in some way."" By raising tuition we would merely be disguising the fact that the money could still be going to the center. Whether the money comes through the SGA or through the adminstration the students will still be the ones who pay for the Center. ""The administration does not have $27,000 extra floating around,"" said Siegel. If we did, we would return our extra funds to the state or else to the students."" ""If the SGA does not fund the Center, there will no Center,"" said Siegel. ""The Senate created it, they should fund it and not pass the buck."" Siegel believes that each group neds to decide the priorities of its own budget. She also said she can only make suggestions to the SGA and can-not tell them how to decide. And if the Senate was to vote against keeping the Day Care Center, it should be phased out over the course of two years. This would allow staff members time to find new jobs and also provide the parents with time to finish their education or at least make other arrangements for their children. Milissa Murray doesn't believe that the administration will not fund the center. She feels the administration is saying that it does not have the funds in hopes of forcing the SGA to fund the center. Murray said that if the SGA does not fund the Center, she will submit a written proposal to the administration to fund the center. "