TL20061012-01 "Oct. 12, 2006 www.thetowerlight.com The Towerlight Published by and for the students of Towson and Baltimore -- twice-weekly While battling in the trenches Jermon Bushrod and the Tigers draw motivation from symbol of sledgehammer Sports, page 28 Caret signed deal in June to teach occupational therapy to Chinese students News, page 7 Thursday INSIDE Calendar........3 Perspectives........4 News.......7 History.....13 Beyond.....13 Arts......17 Puzzles.......22 Classifi eds......23 Sports.......28 on the Sharon Leff News Editor This semester marks the trial run for the University�s new intentional advising process, which requires students to meet with their advisors prior to registering for spring classes. For Fall 2006, only freshmen, athletes and stu-dents in the College of Business and Economics will be required to meet with their advisors to lift the hold on their account. The other five colleges will implement the process in Spring 2007 for fall registration. Assistant provost Kimberly Lauffer said inten-tional advising is designed to ensure that students have a faculty advisor in their major area of study to whom they can turn to for academic advice, to rec-ommend what classes they should take, when to do an internship and what minors might be of interest. �The idea of the intentional advising process is not to provide roadblocks to students. It�s to ensure that students are getting the info they need to make wise choices to maximize their experience at Towson University,� she said. The process is meant to help make sure students are not taking duplicate Gen Eds and are on track to graduate on time. Advising in some departments has already start-ed. Finding enough advisors for all students may be a challenge for some majors, where the number of students significantly outweighs the number of available advisors. Some departments are instituting group advising sessions. According to John McKusick, academic advisor in the academic advising center, about 1,100 students are undecided. Of the 1,100 students, 650 are freshmen, Jazzmen Tynes Assistant News Editor Junior Stephen Sholes plans to tailgate with friends before this weekend�s Homecoming game. For Sholes and his friends, the game is important but drinking is the highlight of the event. �Watching the game is fun. We�ll prob-ably eat one hot dog, but mostly we�ll go to drink,� he said. Meteorologists are calling for clear skies on Saturday, but the University�s tailgating policy may rain on some student�s beer-guz-zling parades. �We want beer to be a part of the event, but not the central focal point of the event,� said Deb Moriarty, vice president of student affairs. She said the University plans to encourage the use of wristbands for students who are 21 years of age and up. �We�re trying to have a system in place where students who are of [legal drinking] age can drink without the police having to question whether they are actually of legal age,� she said. Cleaning, coloring, swirling Advising for Homecoming 2006 adds new steps to reg ister Cutting clean-up after tailgating Two students (above) help pick up trash as part of Adopt-a-Campus, which took place during Homecoming week, and is a new quar-terly TU event. Getting psyched for the week-end, students Chalk the Walk (above right) with cheers and Greek symbols. During Wacky Olympics, two girls (right) are cheered on while spinning around a bat during a relay. For more photos, see page 9. ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Administration encourages cups and cans in hopes of lessening trash See ADVISING, page 10 See RULES, page 9 Louis Jay/The Towerlight Patrick Smith/The Towerlight College of Business & Economics only ones to implement program this semester Andrew Mister/The Towerlight "
