tl19711022-000 "Vol. XXIV No. 7 tow erli g Towson State College Towson, Maryland 21204 October 22, 1971 New York Pro Musica to perform tonight Towson State College's 1971- 72 Public Performance Series will present a concert by the New York Pro Musica, per-l'ormers of baroque, medieval, and renaissance music, tonight, October 22 at 8:3() p.m. in Stephens Hall Auditorium. The Pro Musica Concert Ensemble, which opened its season at the Founding Artist Recital at Kennedy Center in Washington, will present music from the Spanish and English Renaissance. Under the direction of Paul Maynard, the group includes Brenda. Fairaday and Judith Hubbell. sopranos; Daniel Collins, countertenor; Ray DeVoll. tenor; Rodney God-shall. bass; Lucy Cross, lute, psaltary. recorder, sackbut; Shelley Gruskin, flute, krummhorn, shawm. dulcian, vielle; Frederick Renz, harpscichord, organetto, regal: and Mary Springfels, viols, vielle, recorder. The program will feature both sacred and secular madrigals from late 15th century Spain, a time of great political stability after the union of Castile and Aragon, under the joint rule of Fer-dinand and Isabella, which contributed to the production of a large quantity of music. Works from Elizabethan and Jacobean England will also be lea hired. For ticket information contact the College Box Office, 823-7500, extension 624. Fisher views college presidency at Morgan symposium By Mike Dilworth President James L. Fisher and Alexander Schure, President of New York In-stitute of Technology, spoke on -The College Presidency Today"" at Morgan State College, Friday evening, Oc-tober 15. The symposuim, in Murphy Auditorium, was held in recognition of the in-auguration of Dr. King N. Cheek Jr. as the seventh President of Morgan. Both men stressed total commitment for presidents to live their jobs fully while they traced - the various trials and tribulations that face their office constantly. Of the state of change and turmoil in higher education since the early 1960's Fisher said. ""Some persist in blaming the Vietnamese war, a new awareness of the plight of the Poor, the domestic racial situation. the wanton destruction of our natural resources, the generally declining quality of American life. To deny the basic im-portance of these issues to our citizens or to our students is to be unthinking or immoral. But to a growing number of per-sons in higher education, they stood of symptoms of a deeper Problem. That was the very nature of the American university. We wcre as the ancient woman, unable or unwilling to look at our-selves."" Fisher continued, ""We had Pushed our most promising Young people into the university ovens of dehumanization and from World War II to the 1960's the situation intensified. Students rose up for reasons that were pure and symptomatic. They were really saying to us, � 'I'm here. I'm somebody. You tell me I'm important and you treat me like I'm a disease!' And when the students struck we were surprised. Historians will shake their heads and wonder how our assembled wisdom could be so unseeing."" ""But as I've implied, today there is emerging a new breed of presidents, the kind of person who places human needs above institutions and whose priorities are consistant with his goals. These men and women are growing in number and in impact. ""The days of presidential detachment are over. If justice needs a voice, the president must have the wisdom and courage to say what must be said and at the same time he must protect the precious neutrality of the university. For he must preserve at all costs the right of others in his community to be and become tinneutral. And if he sees. inequity or inefficiency, he must deny it. Ile must be able to fight antiquated and unfair systems and not bend. If faculty or students need defense he must defend them. If they need criticism, he must render a honestly; because the system is- far nenind the needs of these people. It is preparing themior the non-existent world, Ile must be the first to speak out....He must blow the trumpet loudly, because today he can do no less."" Expressing total com-mitment Fisher said, ""For me the college presidency is my life. It is the process of joint consumption; I consume the Office as it consumes me. The presidency is with me on'public platforms and in private places. 'l'o think that I can truly shed it on vacation, on the tennis courtg, in the exercise of poetry, painting. and the pages of philosophy, or in the corn-pa ny of tested and loved associates amounts to childish naivete."" A student in the audience S.G.A. Senate meeting later asked of the two presidents, ""At institutions like yours, are you doing anything to increase the enrollment of' black students?"" ,Fisher replied, ""Historically institutions like Towson, which have been ostensibly white and implicity racist, must take obvious and measurable steps to make themselves more attractive to black students."" Ile continued, ""It is widely recognized that this can be best accomplished through the IcIdition of black staff and faculty at such institutions. These staff serve as acceptable models for black students."" Fisher went on to explain the increase in black faculty, students, and administration at ,,Towson since his taking office in 1969. New social fund policy The SGA Senate met Tuesday afternoon and ac-cepted the Pistol, Rifle and Gun constitution along with several bills. The movement on the floor to recall the Black Student Union constitution (Towerlight, Oc-tober 8), was defeated. The BSU constitution that was approved this summer was accepted by the Senate. Bills .passed by the governing student body, were the Pollution Follow-up Bill, the Security Follow-up Bill, and the amendment to the Financial Policy of the SGA. The first two bills were sponsored by Blaine Taylor, and the amendment was sponsored by Neil Van Dyke, SGA treasurer. The Senate also approved a Final Examination Bill, which the Academic Standards Committee has to accept. It specified that teachers must give four tests and have the option to give a final examination. If a final is given it will only be forty percent of the total grade. Taylor's two bills enacted the following: The pollution bill called for the SGA president to appoint a three member committee to inspect both the cafeteria and the snack bar. 'rhe security bill was to threefold impact including the enactment of a recom-mendation from the SGA Committee on Security Practices, the asking of Gene Dawson, as director of Security, to appear at the first S(;A open forum, (to be held following this bill's passage,) and that Dennis Ward, Head of the Student Marshall Program, appear at this same forum. The Van Dyke amendment, said that Article V, Section I should be changed from the organizations having to give a certain percentage of their receipts to the social fund to all organizations that sponsor any social events would keep all of the gate receipts. This money is to be atcredited to the ac-count of the sponsoring organization. This was done to stimulate social activities by the various organizations. Van Dyke's amendment also included that all the money in the present Social Fund be used to cover the debt .of the Student Government Association of Towson State College. The Student Senate also approved an amendment to the. Mens' Residence Council and the Womens' Residence Council constitutions. This amendment would Eike a provision for a joint judicial board. To date the residence councils have no judicial boards, as they were disbanded early last spring. There were three resignations that were an-nounced: Pat Welsh from the Academic Council, Mike Ilamlin from the position of Executive Assistant, and Kathy Davison from the position of Executive Secretary. "
