The Towerlight, October 20, 1978

tl19781020-000 "VOL. LICXII No. 7 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY October 20, 1978 1 Starbuck ( played by Monty Kimbrough ) calls for rain to end a drought in 'The Rainmaker."" The play will be presented on Oct. 20-22, 26-29, and November 2-4. Financial aid officers welcome passage of middle income act by Patrick Casey Area college financial aid officers have expressed approval for the ac-tions taken on financial aid legislation during the hectic final moments of the 95th Congress. The tuition tax credit bill was re-jected, while the Middle Income Assistance Act was approved and sent to the White House. Both bills were designed to provide increased aid to middle income students and their families. The $1.2 billion Middle Income Assistance Act raises eligibility for a minimum $250 Basic Educational Op-portunity Grant to a family income of $26,000, and raises eligibility for in-terest subsidies on educational loans to a family income of $48,000. The act also authorized increased funding for College Work Study pro-grams to $600 million, and for Sup-plemental Educational Opportunity Grants to $450 million. The bill was high on the Carter ad-ministration's shopping list, and the Election '78 Few show at speakout by Susan Serio Rill Pheil, vice president of the Greater Timonium Council, said he wasn't surprised at the poor voter attendance at Monthiy night's ""Meet The Candidates Night"", held at Dulaney High School. ""Candidates Night"" was an oPportunity for the voters to meet the candidates in an informal setting, as opposed tti listening to prepared speeches. Pheil said he expected several hundred people, but only about 50 actually came. Most of the candidates who were asked to appear either came in Person or sent representatives. Initially, there was some doubt Whether Rep. Clarence Long, B-2nd, Baltimore Co., would come. ""He probably won't show up. He avoids getting into debates,"" Pheil said before the meeting. However, Long did show up, about an hour after the meeting began. ""I try to come to as many of these things as I can,"" he said. Tom Kelly, President of the Greater Timonium Council, which co-sponsored the event, . said this type of format is beneficial because, ""people are tired of hearing candidates speak, and they are tired of speaking."" He said that by meeting the candidates face-to-face ""you can corner them."" One woman attending the meet-ing said she thought meeting the candidates was ""kind of intimidat-ing."" She said. -The only people who bother to come to these things are people who have a cause or a specific gripe."" Baltimore County State's Attor-ney, Sandra O'Connor, running for re-election, cited apathy as the reason why few young people attended. ""If parents don't show up for meetings like this, how can you expect young people to come?"", O'Connor. said. She recommends candidates go into the schools, and encourages programs like student pages and internships to increase student awareness of election issues. Kelly said Baltimore County residents can expect to see more ""Candidates Nights"" at different community centers throughout the county as election day nears. He said, ""It does the community a great service."" Job future for teaching grads looks hopeful by Evelyn Hoopes Baltimore city and county school systems have revealed that ""their Pool of eligible teachers is dried 11P,"" said Dr. James Binko, Professor of education. Binko said that one reason for the recent teacher shortage is that word has gotten out that generally no jobs in teaching are available. ""When students hear about de-clined enrollment, school closings and elementary schools packed with teachers, they generalize,"" he added. Physical education, the most Popular major, art, music and elementary education are less Promising areas for hiring, said Plink�. He saiii the school systems are concentrating on more indivi-dualized instruction of basic skills like math. ""If there are more teachers,"" said Binko, ""the stu-dents will learn more."" Binko suggested elementary edu-cation majors pick up an area of concentration to develop talent in a specific subject. Specialization will qualify graduates to teach up through the junior high school level, he said. Education majors specializing in the general sciences, math or the social sciences are presently in demand, said Binko. The social sciences major ""used to be very popular here but that is no longer the case,"" said Binko. The number of students graduating with a social science degree has declined from approximately 100 students five years ago to 25 to 30 majors more recently, Binko said. The university has never gene-rated enough teachers in math or the general or natural sciences, Binko said. Baltimore County, the single largest employer in �Maryland, still has to seek out-of-state industrial arts teachers because this major is only offered at Coppin State College and the University of Maryland, said Binko. Binko recommended teaching ""as a means of both guaranteeing employment and doing something service-oriented."" Binko said he could guarantee this year's freshman, teaching jobs in math or science in four years. The Center for Applied Skills in Education (C.A.S.E.) will conduct its third annual telephone survey after January 1, 1979, to check the employment status of last year's education major graduates, Binko said. ""Something close to 390 partici-pants in last year's study"" are expected to take part in this year's evaluation, said Binko. The survey results will be announced in April. Linthicum entrance to close by R. L. Krummerich Linthicum Hall's main entrance, a favorite rendezvous point of stu-dents, will he closed off sometime in the next six weeks. Education Street, the $1 million internal campus walkway project, will require storm drains for waterflow off the new red brick surface. Architectural plans call for the placement of those drains directly in front of Linthicum Hall's main doors. Students and faculty will be limited to the two rear doors on the north side of the building. A section of the red brick surface will be open for travel in about four weeks. A pathway will reach from Linthicum to the southeast wing of Smith Hall while providing access to the Psychology building, Hawkins Hall, the Lecture Hall, and the University Union. President's signature is certain. Earlier, the controversial tuition. tax credit bill, which would have granted a $250 per student credit to families with college students, was axed in a House-Senate conference committee. It had been attached to the big tax cut bill, but was eliminated to make the tax cut more palatable to Presi-dent Carter. Carter had threatened to veto any tuition tax credit legislation. Harriet Griffin, director of financial aid at Towson State, hailed Congress' passage of the Middle Income Act. ""I'm tremendously happy about it,"" she said, ""it's really going to give a lot of our students a lot of help."" Griffin also brushed aside charges that the new program would increase confusion and red tape for financial aid applicants. ""Students will be doing the same thing with filling out forms,"" she said. ""Only more of them will be filling out the forms . . . more students will be eligible for money."" Griffin was pleased with the rejec-tion of the tuition tax credit. She said it would have distributed money to those not deeply in need, and too little to those who have real financial needs. Only Robert O'Neill, director of financial aid at Loyola College, voiced any support of the tuition tax credit, and even his support was qualified. O'Neill said he would support tax credits only if they were added to cur-rent programs. He said, ""If we're talking about added dollars, great. If they would subtract it out of other aid, I would be opposed."" O'Neill supported the Middle In-come Act, but argued for even greater expansion of loan and work study pro-grams. ""What I'd like is full funding of all National Direct Student Loan needs, and funding of College Work Study programs without need constraints,"" he said. ""After all, students are work-ing for the money."" Tom Taylor, assistant director of financial aid at University of Mary-land- Baltimore County, also lauded Congress' action. Taylor called the Middle Income Act, ""the kind of program that will get to people who are on the fringes of eligibility for financial aid."" Taylor also agreed with rejection of the tuition tax credit. ""There are no guarantees that the money [from a tax credit] would go to the student,"" he said. ""The most ef-fective way to get aid to the student is through the financial aid office."" Judy Munaker, director of financial aid at Goucher College and vice presi-dent of the Maryland-Delaware-DC Financial Aid Association, also welcomed Congress' action. Munaker was especially pleased with rejection of the tuition tax credit. ""I'm glad the tax credits didn't get through,"" she said. ""I think in the end they would have been harmful to higher education, both public and private."" TSU false alarms cost county a fortune by Katherine Dunn Eric Sievers of 919 Beaverbank Circle, Towson, was served with a criminal summons last Friday for pulling a false fire alarm in Linthicum Hall October 5. The summons means Sievers, LI continuing studies student. has agreed to appear in court, but it is ""not an admission of guilt."" said Gene Dawson, director of campus police. This alarm was in addition to the five false alarms at Towson State in September. Three real fires broke out but they were minor. The Baltimore County Fire Department has responded to 99 fire alarms at the University since January 1, 1977, said Captain James Thorne of the Towson station. ""Most are malicious fire alarms,"" he said. In the history of the. University there has been only one serious fire. That was in Newell Hall during its renovation, said John Suter, director of campus planning. Md. battles HEW charges by Patrick Casey Reports of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Maryland's three-year battle with the Depart-ment of Health Education and Welfare over college desegregation left many with the impression that Maryland experienced final defeat and with it the loss of $88 million in federal educational aid. But the state's case is still alive and well according to Assistant Attorney General David Feldman, Maryland's Chief of Litigation, who is defending Maryland against HEW's charges. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court refused to hear Maryland's plea to make permanent a prelimin-ary injunction against further HEW action. However, the preliminary injunc-tion will remain in effect until it is disbanded or made permanent. The case now returns to United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, where HEW is expected to seek a new ruling disbanding the preliminary injunc-tion. Feldman is confident the state will be able to fend off HEW's charges. ""We've been very successful in the litigation to date,"" Feldman said, ""and I see no reason why that success won't continue. No Final Decision Feldman said the Supreme Court's action merely postponed final action in the case, and that Maryland and HEW will most likely find themselves back in the high court for an authoritative answer. Feldman said if HEW seeks to void the preliminary injunction in the Fourth Circuit, ""I can assure that the state will respond, and that the preliminary injunction will be said to be proper. Whichever party is dissatisfied will appeal to the Supreme Court."" The results of an HEW victory in the case would be uncertain, as they have offered no specific guidelines for desegregation. However, the loss of tens of millions of dollars of educational aid is certain should continued on page 5 ""Smoke is the major cause of death in most fires. It is important that students react to all fire alarms as if they were real fires,"" said Phillip Ross, campus safety coordi-nator, about the large number of false alarms at the University. Ross cited the fire last December 1:3 in which seven people died and 15 were injured in a dormitory fire at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. A rash of fire alarms at Providence may have kept some residents from getting out in time, said one student. Ross said the more false alarms, ""the more students become'desym-pathized."" They become unable to react quickly and in a real fire, casualties could be high. Another problem with false alarms, said Thorne, is it costs the county $100 per piece of'equipment IA) respond to each alarm. They usually send eight pieces so it costs $800 each time they respond whether there is a real fire or not. If equipment is tied up there is an increased chance of a bad accident and someone getting killed."" said Ross. When the alarm sounds at the University ""we bring everything Towson's got. This house is vacant. If there's another call we have to go way beyond to Cockeysville or as far as Brooklandville or Parkville,"" said Thorne. ""Even for pulling the local alarms in the halls, if you get caught you could get up to two years in jail or a $200 fine or both,"" Thorne said. A new law went into effect July 1, 1978 to cut down on smoke related deaths. The law requires smoke detectors to be installed in each sleeping area of each dorm, Ross said. Detectors are now in some of the What's all this fuss I hear about Josh? such diverse topics as sex, revolu-tion and the bible. McDowell holds degrees in economics, languages and history and has received numerous speak-ing awards. He has spoken on behalf of the Campus Crusade for Christ at more than 500 campuses in 42 countries. Josh McDowell, a 35-year-old representative of the Campus Crusade for Christ will discuss biblical prophecy today at noon in Stephens Auditorium. A native of Union City, Michigan, McDowell last year spoke to more than 500,000 students, addressing new dorms said Ross, but only in the lobbies. New detectors need to be installed in each sleeping area, said Ross, which means in ea6h, room. Approximately 650 new detectors will have to be put in, said Ross. Engineering services is now putting together a contract to go out on hid. Ross said. Ted Johns, supervisor of engin-eering, said the detectors could be put in one of two ways. The University could buy the detectors and have a contractor install them or the U niversity could both furnish continued on page 6 Kelley to speak tomorrow Former. FBI Director Clarence Kelley will speak October 21, at 8 p.m. at the Towson Center as part of the Student Government Associa-tion Speakers Series. Dennis Hill of the Baltimore City Police Department, will introduce Kelley who will speak on ""Terror-ism and Kidnapping."" Kelley, who was appointed to the directorship of the nation's largest investigative organization by former President Nixon, retired this past February after a lengthy career in law enforcement. He graduated from the University of Kansas City Law School in 1940, and joined the Bureau shortly thereafter. Kelley advanced steadily within the Bur-eau, and served in many sections of the country, including Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Washington, D.C. After 21 years in the FBI, Kelley was named Kansas City Chief of Police. General admission is $5. Free student tickets are available at the University Union Box Office. In this issue Struttin' Strider: Ned Poffenberger's feet have tramped a successful path across the greens of Maryland, mak-ing him the superstar of Towson cross country page 14 DEE-FENSE: Dulaney grad and All- American Randy Bielski is leader of the big D as Tiger gridders seek to stop onrushing opponents . page 14 Data-big: Is computer dating the wave of your future? TL takes a double-barreled look at romance via punchcard page?? Season Premiere: Ann Richard Nash's ""Rainmaker"" marks the open-ing of TSU's theatre season page 11 ,Protest: Anti-apartheid forces de-mand that the University sell its stock in corporations dealing with South Africa page 6 "