The Towerlight, October 17, 1985

tl19851017-000 "Unqualified teachers plague schools At least 200,000 teachers a day are teaching at least one class that they are not certified to teach, according to a study released by the American Federa-tion of Teachers and the council for Basic Education (CBE). ""Out-of-field teaching (teaching without proper knowledge of the subject) is out of control,"" said CBE director Graham Down. ""The implications for moral, pro-fessionalism, pedagogy, subject knowledge, and student learning are dire, to say the least."" A precise accounting of the problem of out-of-field teaching is impossible, the study found. Many states do not track misassignment of teachers and 21 states allow the practice either totally or on some limited scale. Another finding of the study was that misassignment is not the result of a shortage of qualified teachers, contrary to Popular belief. Many English and humanities classes are taught by unqualified instructors, although there is no shortage of these teachers. Those who teach subjects for Which they are not certified are contributing to the problem of misassignment, the study said, reachers are often reluctant to challenge misassignments. The study suggested that the problem could easily be solved by the schools themselves. ""It may be the only problem currently plaguing education that schools themselves could correct, alone, quickly, without cost, and Probably with dramatic effect,"" the study concluded. �College Press Service APICS budget granted The Student Government Association agreed Tuesday to allot 8227.22 to the American Production and Inventory Con-trol Society (APICS). Senator Larry Kushner, chairperson of the Senate appropriations com-mittee, said that this amount was a reduction of $107.78 from the groups original request. Kushner said that the reductions were made in the organization's supply requests. APICS president Eric Thomas stated that the group would raise the additional money by increas-ed fundraising activities. �Patrick Campbell Preist Work corps Provides free education Through a work program in conjunction with the California Conservation Corps this Summer, students were provided with free education in exchange for out-door work at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Selected members of the Con-servation Corps worked on pro-jects around the Santa Barbara campus for free and received an intensive reading and writing educational program at no charge. The work accomplished around the campus, primarily landscaping, could not have been done if the University had to pay for the services. Members of the Conservation Corps, a state-run job training Program, range in age from eigh-teen to twenty-three years old. Directors of the program feel it gave the corps members the op- Portunity to learn how to use the skills taught in the classroom in their daily lives. Each day, teams of fifteen peo-ple worked in the classroom for two hours and then spent the re-mainder of the day outside on the Santa Barbara campus. The reading material available to the students was donated by faculty members and represented a Wide variety of writing styles. Much of the course writing con-sisted of journals or class inter-views which dealt with the students' everyday lives. The University profitted from �"" Program as well. The work per-iormed by the students was valued at $31,000. �The Chronicle of Higher Education campus notes A-1���?? Inside Back on the track Injury-ridden Tigers hope to recoup against Morgan State this weekend Homecoming blowout Everything you ever wanted to know about homecoming 7, 8. ""Growing Up Different"" matures Baltimore band is attracting attention, air play I () 5 AKA charity drive planned Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority's 'l'owson State chapter are sponsoring a cam-paign during the month of Oc-tober to fight poverty. Donations of canned food, clothing, and toys will be channeled to The House of Ruth, The Epilepsy Association of Maryland, and the Goodwill Foundation. The sorority has challenged all campus organizations to en-courage each of their members to contribute to the drive. Donations will be collected every Monday and Friday during October in the University .Union. �Jean Kane 'Murder' sweeps campuses ower 1 Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 7 ht'Towson, Md. 21204 Oct ober 17, 1985 Campuses across the country have discovered a new way of playing an old game: Murder. University Games, a company begun by a Berkley graduate and a Stanford graduate, has manu-factured a new game, ""Murder Mystery Party"". Stores nation-wide are selling 3,000 copies per week. Each game consists of name tags and the clues needed to solve a variety of murder scenarios. Each player is given an identity and is provided with clues. The murderer is revealed through a series of interviews. In the interviews, each player gives out a little information at a time. 'l'o make the game more difficult, the murderer is permitted to lie and give false clues. The founders of the company feel their game is succesful because its format lends itself well to college campuses, and en-courages groups of people to get together. 'l'o get more informa-tion about University Games, call (4 1 5) 3 2 2-395 3. � �The Chronicle of Higher Education Campus 'notes are continued on page 2. Ghosts in the Glen? An abandoned building in the Glen gradually succumbs to the elements as leaves fall all over campus. 1.1,I? it, I algAtiiii, Division IAA move hits snags By Jean Kane Only $30,000 of the approximately $100,000 needed to send Towson foot-ball from Division II into Division I-AA has been raised so far, according to those responsible for the funding drive. Bill Hunter, Towson State Athletic Director, said that although the original estimate of funds needed for the additional athletic scholarship was $75,000, the goal of the fund rais-ing drive has been changed to meet Athletic Director Bill Hunter Rock expose' staged By Robert Taylor The Towson State Lecture Hall was filled last week to hear and see ""The Truth about Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll,"" a multi-media presentation sponsored by New Life Christian Students. The two-hour presentation included slides, music, and a lecture by Rob Lamp, a drummer from an Ohio baSed rock group called Prism. The lecture was a documentary on the alleged problems with rock music concerning drugs, sex, violence, and the occult. The presentation is one in a series created by Great Commission Inter-national, a Washington, D.C. organization that uses a multi-media approach as part of its ministry. The See ROCK, page 11 � the increases in the cost of University tuition. According to the proposed budget presented to the University Senate last February, fifteen additional foot-ball scholarships would be needed to make Towson a competitive team. This increase would require most of the $100,000. University President Hoke Smith favors moving to Division 1-AA. He pointed out that many of the schools in the surrounding area are not in Divi-sion II. ""Schools we would wish to be associated with over the next ten to twenty years are I-AA,"" said Smith. Smith named various schools which fit into this category: Bucknell, Delaware, Maine, and James Madison. He added, ""For the overall reputa-tion and prestige of the institution, we like to think of ourselves in the category of those schools."" According to the Senate's decision, the Towson State University Athletic Education Foundation (TSUAEF) must raise the necessary money or the team will not move to Division I-AA in 1987. . Hunter said the TSUAEF had raised $30,000; however, most of the money is from a recent anonymous gift of $25,000. The group plans to raise the rest of the needed $100,000 by mid Summer 1986. Hunter is confident the goal will be met. Mike Gill, a University alumni who is heading the fundraising committee, said the program is ""just off the ground."" Under Gill's direction, the TSUAEF Committee has divided the commun-ity into seven target areas. ""We're looking at this from a strategic stand-point,"" said Gill. ""A captain has been assigned to each area to present the purpose of the program, and the value to the University."" Along with the question of raising additional funds, the Athletic Depart-ment has encountered a problem with the division move. The Tigers have still not been accepted into a regional conference. At the February Senate meeting Hunter said -I've talked to the Yankee Conference, but a lot of other people are talking to the Yankee Con-ference as well. The Colonial Con-ference hasn't really gotten off the ground yet. So I can't say 'yes, we'll be in the Yankee Conference,' I can't say 'yes we'll be in the Colonial Con-ference'... I can say there's a lot of op-portunity, and no doubt about it, we'll find a conference."" In a recent interview, Hunter said, ""We are no closer at this moment to being affiliated with a conference than we were when the vote was made to go to Division I-AA."" Participating in a conference gives prestige to a football team Hunter said. Although Hunter has approach-ed representatives of several east coast conferences, none have agreed to include the Tigers. See FOOTBALL, page 2 Apartheid protest held at U MCP By \ liehele Hari University of Maryland President John S. Toll was not at home on the evening of October 9 to acknowledge 130 marchers protesting apartheid in South Africa. The anti-apartheid rally and march was sponsored by the University of Maryland Divestment Coalition, a group of ten campus organizations that formed after � the university decided not to divest its holdings in South Africa. The purpose of the event according to Tim Shaw, president of UMCP's Black Student Union, was to ""show the campus how we feel."" Edward Martin, vice-president of the Black Student Union said, the BSU has been trying to increase student awareness of apartheid. ""Everyday between 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. we have been in front of the student union educating people to the horrors of aparatheid. We've seen ap-proximately 2,000 students across three days."" ""Our mission,"" said Edwards ""is to educate them. If you can educate peo-ple, you can move them."" Shaw feels that ""people are inherently good. When they know what's wrong, and we expose all the realities, (of apar-theid) people will act."" ,Eleven students from the Towson State Young Democrats attended the rally and march. They had hoped to send at least 30 students, according to one member, but did not reach their goal. Ironically, no one from the Towson Black Student Union was pre-sent for the event. The evening began with a rally in front of Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland campus. After a round of speeches condemning South Africa, the organizers asked for a moment of silence for ""the freedom fighers in South Africa."" Candles were passed out to the participants as the march began to move towards President Toll's house. The mostly white crowd began to chant slogans of ""We mean it, no business in South Africa,"" ""One, two, three, four, South Africa out the door,"" and ""Toll, Reagan you can't hide, we charge you with genocide."" The lead marchers including Martin See PROTEST, page 2 - - Towson staged its own anti-apartheid rally on the university union patio October 11. Academicwatchdog group not `targeted'at Towson By Scott Hollenbeck Accuracy In Academia IA I A), a conservative college watchdog or-ganization, has organized students on 1 10 campuses acros the nation to monitor the lecture material and information dispersed in the class-rooms. The aim of ALA is to neu-tralize what they feel is the liberal overtones and ideas in classrooms. The ALA grew out of Accuracy In Media, an organization headed by Reed Irvine, which scours the media for what they interpret as lib-eral bias. The group then attacks the source through letters and pub-lic pressure to counteract what they see as inaccurate leftist opinion. Les Csorba, executive director for AIA, said his group will target teachers in the social sciences ""be-cause they have been most guilty of violating (objective teaching) guidelines."" ""This organization really has ex-ploded with letters and phone calls�hundreds of them�from stu-dents on campuses interested in helping us,"" Csorba said. ""It's not a question of being too conservative or too liberal,"" Irvine said, but a matter of presenting in-formation so that the student re-ceives more than one viewpoint. Csorba said ""any professor�right or left�will be reported and expos-ed if they are distorting the facts."" However, not everyone shares their views. Cecilia Hans, vice-president and chairperson of the board of directors for the United States Student Asso-ciation, said AIA is out to ""censor opinions"" and they think of them; selves as ""self appointed censors.""- ""We feel students are intelligent. enough"" to know what this organi-zation is about, Ham said. ""What a professor chooses to teach in the classroom"" is up to tle professor and no one else. She summed up her message by accusing AIA of having ""incredible See AIA, page 2 "