tl19811016-000 "VOL 75 NO. 7 avverli ht PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them Shakespeare October 16 1981 Lullaby in Birdland A fond feathered favorite teases a Towson State blood donor at the Red Cross bloodmobile. The bloodmobile comes to campus twice each year. The bird does one last cheer before migrating south for spring training. TL photo by Edvins Lagzdins Board passes Knorr's plan The last plan that called for the restructing of higher education in Maryland used coordination and centralization as a means to acheive a more efficient system. The most recent plan, approved Monday, calls for the abolition of one of the segmental boards and the decen-tralization of the system. Sheldon Knorr, state commis-sioner of higher education, said local boards would create support for higher education. Knorr proposed a plan to mergo the Baltimore area institutions that received little state support. The State Board for Higher education Monday approved a plan that would give Towson State, along with four other members of its segment, their own governing boards. The plan would also create a con-sortium of the colleges and universi-ty presidents in the Baltimore area. Seperate boards for Towson State, Frostburg, Bowie and the University of Baltimore would be established under the plan. The schools currently are governed by the Board of Trustees for State Col-leges and Universities along with Salisbury and Coppin. A new board would be created for Salisbury and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Cop-pin would be governed by the same board as Morgan State University. Although the plan was approved by SBHE, the plan can not be im-plemented without it being passed by the Maryland Legislature. Joseph Popovich, director of research for the SBHE, said the creation of seperate boards would create a strong advocacy base for the institutions. The members of the individual boards would become supporter of higher education. Higher education needs strong ""grass-roots' ' support, Popovich added. Local boards, Popovich said, might lobby more efficently for funds and programs that would benefit the institution. The consortium proposed by the plan would coordinate and develop programs for the Baltimore area schools. Popovich said, the institutions would be able to share their resources, develop joint programs, and stop duplication. ""Good deci-sions are made when there is a good environment for decision making,"" Popovich said. President Hoke Smith -said, that it would be premature to make a statement about the plan without examining the specifics of it. University offers credit for travel study by Loraine Mirabella Towson State is offering a diverse variety of travel-study trips during the 1982 January minimester. Each trip in this program, which is spon-sored by the division of continuing studies, is led by University pro-fessors who provide instruction. Travelers may choose to earn col-lege credit or to go as non-students. Trips are offered to such places as the American Southwest, Galap-agos Islands, Columbia, and many t.iropean cities. Course registration Is to be held on campus October 13-16. ""Students rarely have an oppor-tunity to be immersed in a dif-ferenct culture,"" said Frank Mullen, associate director of the Division of Continuing Studies. Students are accompanied by a faculty member who has expertise in a certain area and knowledge of a certain country, Mullen said. ""It is Part of a learning experience that students gain through actual ex- Perience rather than through text-books,"" he added. Dr. James Lawlor, associate pro-fessor of education department con-ducts an education trip to London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam from January 3-21. Lawlor said, ""The opportunity is to travel and see another country and it's historical and educational sights, and the opportunity to engage in educational areas that relate to their (students) major or interests."" A knowledge of other people and places is gained, said Dr. Lawlor. ""Sitting on a double decker bus in London, or sitting in a pub having a beer, being treated nastily by Pari-sians, or being treated warmly by people in Holland, is an experience."" said Lawlor. Lawlor said students are able to see some of the ""marvelous sights"" of revious trips such as Windsor Castlooin England, Versailles, the Louvre, Heineken Brewery and the Van Gogh Museum. Various majors and interests can be explored on a trip such as this, Lawlor said. A nursing major has the opportunity to visit hospitals while a mass communication major can visit a newspaper. ""This is a good way to travel for Ahe first time,"" said geogrpahy department chairperson, James DiLisio. DiLisio, who conducts the geography trip to London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, said he personally feels this trip is ap-propriate for geography majors because ""Our laboratory is the field."" DeLisio also said that he feels that besides the educational ex-perience, maturity and self-confidence about international travel can be gained. Furthermore, the trip to Europe is flexible, enabl-ing students to strike out on their own, instilling them with a sense of responsibility, he added. ""Students can appreciate other points of view and other peoples. It is good to get out and see how we in-terface with other countries."" ""You realize many Americans are deficient in foreign languages. Misconceptions are corrected. There is a realization that other cultures are not inferior and that Western Europe has a standard of living which is much higher than ours,"" said DeLisio. ""This is a change to see, first-hand, important historical and cultural sights,"" said Armin Mruck of history who is leading the history trip to Munich, Frankfurt, Inns-bruck and Paris. For the history ma-jor this is especially significant, Muruck said. This particular tour includes museums in Munich and the museum concentration camp Funding sought for dorms by Wallace Bruce Reid In the midst of what has been called an ""avalanche"" of bills to authorize the sale of industrial revenue bonds fearing a Reagan administration cutoff of their tax-free status � the Baltimore county administration has tIrged the county Council to vote on the authorization ?f. $35 million in IRB's for the construction of a new nigh-rise dormitory complex at Towson State. The Council met on Tuesday to hear statements from 11 legal representative for the Mullan Enterprizes Part-nership, the construction firm that applied for the bonds. The planned facilities are to be constructed on a 2.12 acre piece of land adjacent to the glen and the Universi-tY Union near Cross Campus Drive, now owned by Thomas F. Mullan, Jr. and Charles A. Mullan. The project, pending final approval of the State 80ard of Public Works, would be the first school-construction project developed and funded through the Private sector. University officials say they feel that the addition of 1,700 residency spaces would satisfy a dire need for on-earopus housing. The new dormitory would increase the University's residency from 13 percent of its 9,600 full-time day students to 30 percent. Dainel O'C. Tracy, of the Cooke, Howard, Downes arid Tracy law firm in Towson, said that the firm ap-plied for $35 million in IRB's to construct the facility to accomodate 1,700 students. A 600 seat dining hall is 4Iso proposed. The Council will take the issue to vote on Monday, October 19, before the University seeks final approval frorn the state Board of Public Works. University of- 'Ciels hope that the issue will be on the Board's Oc-tober 21 agenda. The race to authorize the use of IRB's � attractive because of their low-interest, tax-free status � is in response to rumors of the Reagan administration's plans to eliminate the bonds' tax-free status, a representative from the Council said. James D. Lucas, the county's economic development director and coordinator vof the IRB program, said ""Our best information is that the earliest a bill would be introduced (in Congress), is October 21."" Tracy said that it would only be speculative, but if the sale of the bonds is approved by the Council on Monday, and the financing is approved by the Board of Public Works on October 21, then there would be no change in the completion date of August 15, 1983, set for the dorms. Tracy also said that the anticipated cost of construc-tion is $29 million but the bond council for the Mullan firm has advised application for $7.5 million for each of the four, 14-story residence towers and $5 million for the dining hall totaling $35 million. Five separate partnerships have been created to develop the dormitories and dining hall: Campus Limited, Towsontowne Limited, University Limited, and Yorktown Limited each applied for $7.5 million in bonds to construct the four towers, and Tigerstowne Limited applied for $5 million to construct the dining hall. Alex Brown & Sons will underwrite the entire project and the Mullan Partnership plans to oversee the con-struction if the proposal is approved. The dorms would be used as convention and con-ference halls when the University is not in session. It may be five months before the bonds are sold and the bids are accepted, Tracy added, but Lucas said that letters of interest from several lending institutions ac-companied the proposal at Tuesday's Council meeting. Continued on page 1 4 Dachau in Munich. The culture and social life of these cities can be ex-perienced by attending theaters and concert.s The travel-stuoy program also provides the opportunity for students to meet foreign students, plus other Towson students, and enables them to know their instruc-tor on a more personal level. ""Students become much more tolerant people, richer people,"" Mruck said. Aside from these January travel-study programs, a three month pro-gram in the arts is being offered. Thsi trip to Florence, conducted by Haig Oundjian, .ssistant professor of art, from March to May, includes side to Venice, Rome and Milan. ""Florence is the center of the rebirth of arts. Students go for the cultural benefits, they become part of this rebirth and are living the history of artists. The Italian people are very friendly, the food is great and you meet people from other countries,"" Oundjian said. Credit for these trips can be earn-ed in various ways. Students who take the trip led by Mruck are given a reading list of three books and must attend biweekly pre-orientation sessions, consisting of lectures, films and disugssions. While on the trip students are re-quired to write a journal of their daily imressions. The students reports are then compiled into a booklet which is kept in the ar-chives. Three upper division credits may be earned this way. It is possible to earn from one to four credits as a participant in Lawlor's education trip. A series of questions regarding the student's likes, dislikes and resons why and a written report are required. A total of fifteen credits, a full semester's work, is earned by tak-ing the three month art program trip to Florence. Before making the trip there is a month of class preparation, in order to acquaint participants with the culture they will come in contact with and the equipment they will need. In addition there is a short course in Italian. Although the price of each trip varies, all are quite reasonable. This is due to advance scheduling and the number of agencies consulted, said Frank Mullen. Off season traveling and group rates also reduce the cost, resulting in half the cost of the same trip in May or June, DiLisio said. On the trip to Europe such as the one led by Dr. Mruck, inexpensive, European style middle class hotels are taken advantage of. Jackie Dur-bin of University Relations said Continued on page 2 Draft protest The first draft card burning since the Vietnam War was sponsored by Section 12 on the southside of Lin-thicum Hall. Dan Mahone is holding a mock draft card, bearing President Reagan's name. TL photo by Edvins Lagzdins "
