tl19741018-000 "VOL. LXVII, NO. 7 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE OCTOBER 18, 1974' 11 TSC President James Fisher addresses the SGA Senate. Fisher speaks: Funds allocated by Bryan Harness The SGA Senate passed several bills .,,t) Tuesday, which allocated a total of ' nearly $7,500 to three student 101 organizations. Talisman, the Towson State College ed, solv Literary magazine, was voted $L970.53, of go , a and received $529.47 from the Towerlight budget, so that it may publish this year. Five thousand-clellars was allocated to the Speakers Series, and an additional $475.00 was voted to the Concerned Veterans. The Senate defeated Senate Bill 25, which was an act to provide for the admittance of new organizations into the Student Government Association, and establish requirements for their ad-mission. The bill, if passed, would have given the President authority to admit new organizations into the SGA, as long as the organizations had a Constitution which displayed a ""willingness"" to abide by the laws set forth by the SGA. The bill was defeated after a brief debate by a six to five vote. Fisher talks Towson State College President Dr. James L. Fisher addressed the Senate. Fisher expressed concern with what Carrington he called the ""new apathy."" ""Without students we would be much less here,"" he said. He commented that the role of students was more important than people realized. Fisher, in commenting on the radical movement, said he felt ""comfortable,"" and hoped that its displacement had gone into society. He expresssd concern, howeVer, in that every period of change was preceded by a period of student unrest. Fisher also said that Part-Time students would play a major role in the future. He called them the most ""discriminated."" Hughes tickets now on sale Tickets are currently available, in the College Box Office, for the Dorothy Pittman Hughes lecture, Friday, Oc-tober 18. The Day Care expert will speak at 8:30 p.m. in Stephens Auditorium. Student tickets are free, all others are $2.00. Nancy Dickerson tickets are also available now. Carl Rowan and David Brinkley tickets will be available beginning Monday, November 21, at 8:30 a.m. The tickets are for students, faculty, and staff. Uncertainty troubles Towson State Fall and winter energy situation by Jeff Given Towson will be facing the energy crisis this winter with a great deal of uncertainty and unknown factors reports Wayne Schelle, Vice President of Business and Finance for the College. The main reason for all the doubts is the fact that the college has been unable to obtain on oil contract. Up until now, Towson has been receiving oil on an informal basis along with a lot of other people and institutions. However, the supplier has refused to guarantee that there will be oil or stability of the prices. College' in a bad position Schelle notes, ""The great deal of uncertainty about the supplies of oil and natural gas has put the college in a bad position."" Half of the buildings on the campus are heated by fuel oil and the other half is heated by natural gas. A few years ago this move looked smart before the scarcity of natural gas; however, the natural gas heated buildings can be converted to oil. ""The uncertainty about the fuel situation makes our position tenuous and un-certain."" he reports. On the positive side, the college does. have the benefit of State purchasing power on its side and also an energy priority plan by the state that places educational institutions at a second level priority. The first priority level belongs to jails and state hospitals. Over 100/0 saved last year Last year, Schelle indicated, the 2ollege's conservation plan saved 100/0 over what had been used the year previously, This goal was achieved by extensive advertising on campus, the assistance of students and faculty, and certain buildings being closed com-pletely during the minimester. There were even students hired to turn off the lights after night school. Temperatures have been lowered to 68 degrees in the winter and raised to 78 degrees in the summer in an effort to conserve energy. Schelle added this action was greeted by the complaints and dismay of many students and faculty. The college has developed a con-tingency plan in case an emergency oil shortage does develop this winter. In case a severe energy crisis materializes, there are tentative plans that would allow commuting students to sleep in the college center in sleeping bags at a minimum cost. Schelle's staff is in the process of compiling reports on how the college could operate if forced to operate at levels 20% - 30�/o below what we jet Senators discuss passage of bills. ..sp.*.�1111111111111010.,.- - r***������,- photo by Dave Carrington Vice President of Business and Finance Wayne Schelle. previously have used. This would include lower temperatures, some curtailing of social and athletic activity, and using only enough energy for minimal academic requirement. All of this is to be put into effect only in the event of a severe energy shortage. At the mercy of other agencies ""Learning, living, and eating facilities will have high priority should an energy crisis arise, "" states Schelle. He feels that we are at the mercy of the gas and electric company to provide the energy resources we need to operate. He mentioned the spiraling cost of energy and specific efforts of the college to find some means of decreasing electricity rates. One of these efforts is a plan to combine meters for a total volume of usage rather than many seperate meters. Schelle concludes, ""I am concerned and this concern has been transposed photo by Dave Carrington into plans but my concern is not one of panic. I believe we will get through the year succcessfully."" Notice: Tickets are available for those on the waiting list for the Homecoming Dance, plus approximately 20 extra tickets. These extra tickets will only be held until 3 p.m. today. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Concerned parents mount attack by Sue DeBolt Concerned parents of children currently serviced by the Student Day Care Center have banded together to formulate plans. to find funds for next year's budget. Earlier in September, the College Advancement and Improvement Board allocated the 1974-75 academic year budget but would no longer fund the center because it was an on-going operation. In a Friday, October 11 meeting, parents planned to combat the problem by first attempting to educate the Student Government Association Senate concerning the Student Day Care Center. Parents hope to convince the Senate to pass a bill sponsored by Vice- President David Nevins, to transfer $9.75 from Athletic funds to day care in the student fees. Positive p.r. campaigns Vance Degemova, Day Care Center Student Teacher, told parents that they must ""begin a positive p.r. campaign with the senators and SGA. Strategy includes sending letters to all senators, inviting them to visit the center, taking the children around campus so that the students would be aware of the center, contacting all parents of children in the center to involve them in the fight, sending concerned parents to talk to Towson State College President James L. Fisher who is a member of the five man college executive council who would make the final decision on whether any - funds could be transferred within the 7 student fees and sending out letters to the classroom sections of Early Childhood. At press time, there was no date as to when the Senate bill would come to a vote. Currently in the Senate Welfare Committee, the bill will be discussed in an open committee meeting Monday, October 21 at 2 p.m. in Senate Room 324 in the College Center. Committee members include Tim Daly, Tim Tignanelli, Brenda Barrett and Lucy Reed. A task force composed of students, faculty and administrators was created also by the Student Services Division to look into a variety of questions con-cerning day care on and off campus. Its recommendations are due by February 1975 but Associate Dean of Students Rosemary Malcolm has said she doubts the report will be due by then. In favor of center In a Towerlight interview, Fisher said he was in favor of day care on campus but that students should financially support it. ""It would be midleading"" to say the administration could fund day care in terms of fiscal conditions at TSC and in Maryland. In answer to the questions as to whether he, as an executive council member, would be in support of a transfer of funds from athletics to day care, Fisher said, ""let the people speak."" Economic crisis affects recruiting The effect of the economic crisis in higher education on recruiting new students was the topic of the speech by Towson State College's President, Dr. James L. Fisher, at the conference of the National Association of College Ad-missions Counselors recently held in New York City. ""Never before has the question of ethics of survival been brought up in terms of the continuation of higher education,"" said Fisher, speaking to members of the association which will sponsor a College Admissions Fair at the Baltimore Civic Center October 29 and 30. ""The most recent problem of declining enrollment and the hard sell, bounty hunting tactics used by ad-missions offices to halt student decline,"" Fisher said, ""can only add to increased public skepticisim and distrust of higher education first demonstrated through student unrest."" He said ""higher education's major problem is the lethargy of educators in bringing about substantially renewed programs and not the admissions process itself."" But he pointed out ""that the admissions dilemma reflects the nature of the problems affecting all higher education."" It is the admissions office, Fisher believes, which can do much to dispel this skepticism and reinforce and reassure the prospective student of the value of the educational experience and of the institution itself, he added. Admissions officers, Fisher said, ""must be able to assess and honestly convey to prospective students the nature of the institutions they serve. And they must possess an unflinching integrity which will permit them to add to their president's understanding of their institutions."" Naturally, Fisher said, ""no degree of excellence or efficiency of operation can eliminate the necessity of having a quality product to offer prospective applicants."" "