The Towerlight, October 13, 1983

tl19831013-000 "The Towerlight Much reading is an oppression of the rnind, and extinguishes the natural candle. which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. �William Penn Vol. 77 No. 6 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON. MARYLAND 21204 TIGERS BOMB MORGAN , 48-0 f I Towson State's quarterback Bret Rogers sets up to fire a pass under pressure from a Morgan State defender in Saturday's Homecoming game. Towson won 48-0. By Jerry Trout October 13, 1983 Last year's raise was 'embarrassing' Faculty to lobby for salary hikes By Glenn Small Towson State's faculty, discour-aged and ""humiliated"" by the lack of a substantial pay increase last year, plan to lobby the state General Assembly for increases this year. ""Last year we got an embarrass-ing raise, which was further cut because the state [General Assem-bly] was unwilling to fund all of said Dr. George Friedman, Towson State English professor. Friedman, who is president of Towson State's branch of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)�the third larg-est teachers' union nationwide� admits the small pay increase had damaged morale among the Univer-sity's professors. ""A lot of faculty are discouraged because promotions are in short supply [and] salary advances be-come that much more important."" But, Friedman hastened to add, ""I think we are a conscientious fac-ulty, and students don't suffer from a loss of morale [among professors]."" Friedman cites the unwillingness of professors to do ""extra""�such as committee work�as the major damage caused by the lack of sub-stantial pay hikes. Professors, he said, wonder why they should do extra work when they don't receive anything tangible for it. Compared with professors nation-wide, however, morale among the University's professors appears only slightly damaged. The College Press Service esti-mates that from 30,000 to 100,000 university professors are seeking new jobs nationwide. Professors not only want to find higher paying jobs, but jobs in departments where academic needs aren't sacrificed to budget cuts. Irving Spitzberg, retiring head of the AAUP, has said that many pro-fessors are moving because they are simply ""tired of hard times on campus."" Salary freezes, increased workloads, and even restrictions from some cash-short schools on buying needed materials for class work are often what the hard times mean to professors. At the University of West Vir-ginia, the number of course sections offered this fall were seriously cut due to a faculty vacancy rate four times higher than ever before. In Illinois, a number of schools have dropped business and corn-puter science courses for lack of qualified people to teach them, reports Margaret Schmid, president of the University Professionals of Illinois. But ""a mass migration of faculty from institution to institution�the gypsy professor�is an exaggera-tion of the curcumstances,"" says David Poisson of the National Education Association (NEA) in Washington, D.C. More often, the biggest move-ment of professors, according to Nevin Brown of the National Asso-ciation of State Universities and Land Grant colleges, is out of higher education altogether. Dr. Friedman agrees. ""Where the market is good�computer science, math, business�professors are leaving, probably going into busi-ness."" But, he believes, very few are leaving the University. See FACULTY, page 2 'Mainstreaming' begins as University police seek wider jurisdiction program draws federal grant By Terie Wolan Some of the introductory courses Presently required to fulfill Towson State's General University Require-ments will soon take on an added dimension�more emphasis on Women. Sara Coulter and Elaine Hedges, professors of English and co-coordinators of the University's Women's Studies program, are also co-directors of a project which will mainstream women's studies into the curricula of lower level courses of eight departments. The project entitled ""Integrating the Scholarship on Women: Trans-forming the Curriculum"" is being funded by a three-year grant worth $278,672 received last month from the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE). Hedges said the mainstreaming idea came after she observed the Ways other schools had begun inte-grating women's studies into some of their courses. She developed the grant proposal last year, and two Pilot workshops�supported by the University�were presented last sPring. Coulter noted that efforts to mainstream women's studies have, for the most part, been confined to private women's colleges or large research-oriented universities. She believes the Department of Educa-tion approved the FIPSE grant for the University because it was .1.1npressed that a co-educational, teaching"" university was seeking to implement a mainstreaming Program. ""Funding is scarce, but we think that we had a lot going for us, because of the nature of Towson as a teaching university. We have a faculty here that looks on teaching as its first priority,"" Coulter said. The program's main objectives, Coulter said, are ""to introduce the faculty to new scholarship on women, revise lower-level survey courses to include women's studies, take the revised syllabus and teach it, and evaluate the success of that teaching."" In its later stages, the program will also investigate the problems faced by women students in the classroom, and the effects of dif-ferent teaching methods. There will also be conferences with other higher-education. institutions and local secondary schools to share the results of the program with them. The first phase of the program �faculty workshops on women's studies�began this semester and will be held for four More. How long mainstreaming takes ""depends on the faculty response,"" Coulter said. She believes that some faculty have already included the role of women in their courses, but, there is ""so much research now on women that wasn't there when the faculty were in graduate school,"" that further study is necessary. Hedges said eventually she would like to see other departments par-ticipate in mainstreaming and the inclusion of upper-level courses as well. The departments currently involved in mainstreaming women's studies are English, history, soci-ology, psychology, art, education, business, and biology. By Mike Judge Several University police officers, tired of continued problems caused by limited jurisdiction, have joined the Maryland Classified Employees Association (MCEA), in an effort to expand their authority off University property. Ray Lenzi, representative for the MCEA's law enforcement union, is currently drawing up legislation to be submitted to the Maryland General Assembly in January that would give University police concurrent jurisdic-tion with Baltimore County police up to a mile off campus. At the present time, Towson State police have police jurisdiction only on campus properties and not on the roads surrounding campus. During the Residence Complex move-in, University police needed special per-mission from Baltimore County police to direct traffic on Cross-Campus Drive. University police went to MCEA for help in solving problems caused by limited jurisdiction. Under Title 14, Section 14-201 of the Annoted Code of Maryland, University police have no other authority than that of citizen's arrest when they are off University property. According to Lenzi, the lack of jurisdiction is not in the officers' or the public's best interest. A recent incident on Osler Drive il-lustrates: On September 26 at 6:27 p.m., a female student crossing Osler Drive stepped into the side of a car heading Former security guard sought A Baltimore County police department investigation of a man accused of fraud has put Towson State police on the trail of his wife, a former University security guard alleged to have stolen University property. The University police department is currently seeking Belinda Mary McManus, a former University security guard, on two counts of theft and four counts of grand theft after taking University property over a period of two years. Her husband, George David McManus, is being sought by the Baltimore County and Maryland State police departments on counts of forgery, fraud and theft for using various assumed names in an attempt to get jobs at several local hospitals. University police were led to Mrs. McManus after Baltimore County police contacted them on Septem-ber 16 as part of their investigation of Mr. McManus. A Towson State police officer went with the county police to the McManus residence with a search warrant, and items thought to belong to the University were found. An additional search warrant was issued, and the items were picked up and returned to the University. Items found in the McManus home included a 16mm projector, a slide projector, a microscope, and library books valued over $300. The items had been reported stolen over the last two years. Mrs. McManus worked for the University for four years as a secu-rity person, checking the University buildings after hours and working parking enforcement. 'Confusing' Draft-Aid law went into effect October 1 By Marty Kerr .The confusion over the new draft-ski law � which requires all male students born between 1960 and 1965 to the that they have registered for 'Ile draft in order to get federal aid � should end soon. The law went into effect October 1. ""I can't believe that they finally im- Plemented it. I thought they'd realize 11.0w silly it is,"" said Linda Human, ac-ting director of financial aid. . Haman said that the primary objec- 11.0n to the law was that it was selec- Luve enforcement of draft registration cause it singled out students receiv-ing financial aid. 'I hope the students don't see us as ogres in this whole thing,"" Human said, (but), if (a student) doesn't sign the registration form), we are not go-ing to have any choice but to lift (that) student's financial aid."" Confusion about the draft-aid law began shortly after the U.S. Depart-ment of Education implemented the law last spring. A Minnesota judge ordered the government to stop mak-ing military registsration a prere-quisite for student aid, because he felt that the prerequisite violated students' First Amendments rights. Tight squeeze on financial aid ends The tight squeeze put on financial aid for students over the last three years may be loosening, according to aid officials across the country. Thanks largely to education's new status as a hot political issue, aid of-ficials said, the Reagan administra-tion and Congress not only have spared many of the programs that were on the chopping block last spr-ing, but have worked to ease some of the confusion concerning financial aid. ""There's an awful lot of fanfare over education right now, and we are entering a campaign year,"" explains Dallas Martin, director of the Na-tional Association of Student Finan-cial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) in Washington, D.C. ""This year, so far, is going fairly smoothly,"" he observes. Linda Human, acting director of financial aid said, ""we had in increase of students asking for aid for the '83-'84 academic year, which was largely due to the opening of the new dormitories."" Human says that the best time for a student to apply for financial aid for next year is in January. She says that students using the Financial Aid Form (FM') to apply for Pell Grant and Campus-Based Aid should mail the FM' after January 1 and before February 15. Then, over the summer, a U.S. Supreme Court justice overturned the ruling, saying that it should be im-plemented at least until the full Supreme Court gets a chance to review it. However, the deadline for schools to start requiring students to comply with the law kept changing, until the October 1st date was set. The require-ment is now in full effect as of Oc-tober, 1983. ""Even though the deadline has passed, we're giving the students some leeway by assuming that it's our fault that we don't have a registration form from them... It would be terrible to have to cancel some student's aid just because we haven't reached that par-ticular student,"" Human said. National reports from the College Press Service. southbound. Baltimore County police responded to the scene, and gave first aid to the woman, who suffered a broken ankle. University police heard the police radio transmission and responded to the scene. No report of the incident went through the Univer-sity police, although the officers were ""capable of filling out the reports,"" Lenzi said. Five University police officers at-tended a meeting to learn about MCEA on August 18. The five officers joined MCEA and have since been joined by seven more officers. MCEA added a law enforcement division in 1978 to deal with the needs of police officers. ""Police join MCEA because they know we have people who know the specific needs of police officers,"" Lenzi said. The University police officers join-ed MCEA after administration pro-mises that problems of jurisdiction and stress would be solved fell apart. Last spring, administration officials met with David Harris, a Baltimore lawyer hired by the Towson State See POLICE, page 2 Homecoming A few words with the queen The weekend in pictures Tigers defeat Morgan page 2 pages 8-9 page 11 By Jeff Atkinson The Tiger cheerleaders form the ""human pyramid"" at the Homecoming game. "