tl19861016-000 "SGA denies 'Wit' s13,060 allocation The Grub Street Wit, an on-campus literary magazine published once a semester, was denied an allocation of $13,060 from the Student Government Association (SGA) Tuesday. The amount was reduced to $20 but even that was denied. ""We don't have even the $20 to give because we over-budgeted by $20,000 last year,"" said Senator Dale Graham. ""We do have the money to cover everything we gave out last year,"" said SGA president Melanie Goldsmith. The SGA will, however, be unsure of the amount left for allocations in the spring until they receive a final printout in November, according to Graham. Another factor in the denied funding is the fact that the Grub Street Wit is on probation with the SGA, and according the the Financial Advisory Board (FAB) guidlines they should not receive any funding at all. The SGA moved to Permanently affiliate Kappa Delta Pi. ""We are a service organization providing special education opportunities for our members,"" said Senator Paul Norfolk, president of Kappa Delta Pi. �Vince Russomanno Olympians visit campus Towson State University will host the 7th annual Maryland Senior Olympics this weekend With events being held at the Tovvson Center, University Union, Burdick Hall, and Minnegan Stadium Friday and Saturday. The weekend begins on Thursday with the lighting of the torch in Annapolis by Gov. Harry Hughes. The torch will then be run to Towson State Where it will light a cauldren at a 3 p.m. ceremony. The actual games begin Friday after the Opening Ceremonies at 9am. The games Will then run all day Friday and Conclude late Saturday. Besides the events, other activities will be going on for the participants and spectators. Friday evening 15 acts will be seen in the Senior Olympic Follies held in the Potomac Lounge in the University Union. After the conclusion of the events and awards ceremony Saturday, a banquet and dance Will be held in the Potomac Lounge. That activity will officially end the games. �Robert M. Graham and John Rock Law Deans to speak on admissions Two local law school Deans of Admission, James F. Forsyth of the University of Maryland and Beverley C. Falcon of the University of Baltimore, will conduct a seminar for Towson State pre-law students Wednesday, October 29 at 3 pm in University Union 311. ""We are quite pleased that these admissions officers are coming to Towson,"" said Dr. Jack Fruchtman, the TSU Pre-law advisor. ""We expect that a large number of our students are interested in attending law school, especially in the Baltimore area. This seminar will provide them with a first-hand opportunity to find out about the local schools."" According to Dr. Fruchtman, the two Deans will talk about the law-school admissions Process: the application, LSAT scores, and grade point averages. They will welcome questions and comments from the students on any subject concerning admissions or the law school experience. All students, expecially seniors, interested in law school should plan to attend. �Department of Political Science �ft. Correction The MTA's expanded bus service lines include Nos. 8, 9, 11, 55. The Towerlight regrets this error. Inside Football Victory Coaches comment on Towson's win against the Liberty Flames...pg 4. Tales of Tocos Karen & Lisa take to the road again. Only this time just for fun...pg 7. The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde's satirical play continues at Main Stage Theatre through Oct. 18...pg 8. Groups collect quake fund In the aftermath of a recent earthquake in San Salvador, El Salvador the Sisterhood will be collecting donations to aid the injured and homeless. The Sisterhood is a community service organization located on campus affiliated with the Brotherhood. They will have a table in the University Union on October 21 and will be accepting donations throughout the day, according to Sisterhood member. Lisa Johnson. Though they will not have a designated table, the Sisterhood will continue its efforts for the remainder of the week. This project is in affiliation with the Red Cross, according to Johnson. ""Someone has a responsibility toward this kind of thing. We have the time and energy needed,"" said Johnson. Checks may be sent to the Brotherhood, Campus Box Office 1977, and should be made payable to the Red Cross and earmarked for the San Salvador Relief Fund. �Vince Russomanno Suicide awareness addressed A workshop on how to deal with stress and other symptoms that lead to suicide attempts will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 21. The workshop, sponsored by the Student Activities Board (SAB) will be conducted by Nancy Cerio of the Towson State University Counseling Center. ' ""The main purpose [of the workshop] is to give people an awareness of pressures and problems that could lead to unnecessary depression and possible suicides,"" Rodncy Bourn, chairman of da-,.time programming for SAB, said. The group focuses its activities at daytime students, but all students and faculty are welcome to attend the 12:30pm workshop. After the presentation by Cerio, there will be a question and answer period. The meeting will be held in room 315 of the University Union. �Robert M. Graham The ower 1 Fi Published weekly by the students of Towson State University t Towson, MD 21204 e Vol. 80 No. 5 October 16, 1986 I gave at the office by Alexzmdra Landau Once again the Red Cross Bloodmobile has come to Towson State. Student and faculty donors are trying to break the donor record of 634 pints, set in October 1982. The actual goal is 700 pints in the drive sponsored by the Personnel Department. The Red Cross will welcome any walk-up donors at the Chesapeake Rooms of the University Union until 4 p.m. today. Library faces staff shortages by Vince Russomanno Assistant New. Kditor American Library Association standards suggest that Cook Library is understaffed by 30 workers. The State Board of Higher Education isssued a study comparing state college librarian salaries to other peer institutions. ""We came out looking very poor,"" said Thomas E. Strader, Director of Cook Library. The main problem in hiring qualified librarians and clerks lies in recruitment. ""We get new em-ployees through the state system; we cannot just go out and hire somPbody,"" said Strader. Public libraries offer internships and recruit people right out of high school, according to,Strader. The State sponsoi s clerical tests in the downtown area but does not recruit directly at the high schools. People who show up for these tests are less likely to take the positions than those just about to graduate from high school because of transportation pro-blems, irregular work hours, and low base pay, Strader said. ""What we need is more recruit-ment for lower category job positions,"" Strader said. ""We've been lucky so far and have gotten good people."" Starting salaries at the university library begin at $15,000 while public libraries have been known to offer up to $19,000, Strader said. ""Public Librarian is the second or third highest paid position on the county payroll,"" said Strader. According to the Baltimore County Public Library Personnel Office, Librarian Assis-tant Trainees start at $16,162. Another problem in keeping satisfactory staffing is that hard work cannot be rewarded monetar-ily. ""It's a shame that people who work this hard with students cannot be adequately rewarded for their efforts,"" Strader said. Librarians are often left out of salary negotiations, explains Strader. The faculty contracts are on a 10-month basis, and librarian contracts are for 12 months. There-fore, they are not negotiated together. Administratibn con-siders the library as faculty and ic I '111. Cook Library is 30 staff members below the average for libraries, according to a new survey. Making older students feel the same by Robert M. Graham News Editor Imagine what it would be like to look around in each of your classes and see only students who are anywhere from five to 50 years younger than you. Would you know what to say, or how to act? For 576 full-time day students at Towson State University this semester this problem is a common one. All of these students fall into the catagory of non-traditional students, a term recognized at Towson State and nationally to mean students who are 25 years or older. There is growing concern for the group of students that goes to college after a period of working, after raising children, after realizing the need for more education, or who can finally afford it. Last semester there were 473 non-traditional students could comprise over half of the nation's college sttident body by 1991. At Towson State, the Office of Student Development and the University Union are teaming up to address the concerns of Towson State's non-traditional students. ""We're realizing the need to determine the interests of this group,"" Bob Baeuerle, director of See GAP, page 2 does not include it in their salary negotiations. According to Stra-der, ""this is true on all campuses."" Librarians were not even men-tioned in a study of administrative salaries by the College and University Perscnel Association (CUPA), according to Strader. ""I don't want to sound all sour grapes about this,"" Strader said. ""The fringe benefits of working at Towson are fabulous."" Full use of all campus facilities and the chance to take courses free at Towson State, the Univerity of Maryland, Bowie State, and other campuses throughout the state is ""an extreme calling card to getting staff,"" Strader said. For example, some employees have gotten their Bachelor's Degree at Towson State while working at Cook Library, gone on to earn their Master's at the University of Maryland, and corn� back to Towson State as profes-sional librarians, Strader said. In addition, Strader said that Towson State's library staff problems coald be worse. Since Towson State can draw employees from the surrounding Baltimore area, the hiring problem is not as critical as it is for some insti-tutions, such as Frostburg State College, which have no such com-munity to attract employees from, according to Strader. Replen-ish ing of library staff is unavoidable. ""There will always be librarians moving up and the only way to do th:, in this field is to go from one jo li to another,"" said Strader. Reagan drops campus visit by Robert M. Graham news editor Towson State University was consulted by the White House last week about having President Reagan make his first official state-ment after the Reykjavik, Iceland Summit at the Towson Center. Jay McCabe, director of the Towson Center, said he discussed the possibility with the White House last week, but when the decision was made to get the word from the summit out as soon as possible, a nationally-televised news conference was planned instead. The presidential visit to the Towson Center was also a way to ""Push for Linda Chavez,"" the Republican Senate candidate Meenhe said. Instead, the President campaigned for Chavez at Baltimore's Festival Hall yesterday. Dan Walsh, assistant director of University Relations, said Towson State was one of three area institutions approached by the White House. The others, he said were Loyola College and the J minb Hopkins University. Had the President chosen to make the first post-summit state-ment at any of the three schools it would have been the second time Maryland was granted the privilege. On Dec. 4, 1985, President Reagan went to Fallston to address the Fallston High School students and faculty a few days after the Geneva Summit:. It See REAGAN, page 2 "
