tl19701023-000 "Today! Senator Joseph Tydings 1 p.m. in the College Centre Patio Lounge. cowerlight Vol. XXII, No. 6 Towson State College, Baltimore, Maryland 21204 October 23, 1970 Nixon appoints James L. Fisher, Towson President, to advisory commission James L. Fisher photo by Thoma: Several weeks ago President James L. Fisher received a call from the White House inviting him to serve on a presidential advisory commission on ""Matters of maintenance of academic pursuit and campus order and other related matters."" He left Wednesday for Washington. D.C. to participate. The Commission hopes to provide for Nixon a better un-derstanding of the role of dissent and the importance of dissent in a democracy. According to Robert H. Finch, Chief Assistant to President Nixon, they invited college presidents who have been fairly successful in encouraging dissent on their campuses, presidents from campuses where dissent is respected but at the same time channeled. ""It is an excellent opportunity to express my position on the American college situation today and to communicate this directly... it is a rare and very important opportunity. The degree to which it might have influence is open for speculation,"" comments Fisher. Fisher further stated that he has requested position papers from four respected members of the TSC community who together cover most of the political spec-trum ""so that I might have the advantage of their ideas as I participate and make recom-mendations to the White House,"" he said. The five other college presidents serving on the commission include .Glenn Dumke, from the State University of California, who is chairman; James Perdue, State University of New York; Harold Enarson, Cleveland State; .Harold Hyde. Plymouth State (New Hampshire); and Whitney Halladay., East Texas State. British challenge TSC debaters The Towson State Debate Council will once again host a touring British Debate Team in an exhibition sponsored by Towson's Special Events Committee. The debate will take place October 29, in Stephens Auditorium at 8:15 p.m., with the Towson team proposing the Resolution: That it would be better had television never been in-vented. Opposing this resolution will be Anthony Speaight and Stephen Milligan, both 1970 graduates of Oxford University. Speaight has a degree with honors in modern history and is continuing his studies for a career as an advocate lawyer. He has debated since he was eleven and thinks of himself as a ""Romantic Radical"" with such heroes as Cicero, St. Thomas More, and Eugene McCarthy. Speaight is the nephew of the distinguished British actor and writer, Robert Speaight. Milligan has a degree in Politics and is currently working for the Economist as a journalist. He is very Lanmuch involved with the ruling Conservative party d hopes to be elected to Parliament and eventually become Foreign Secretary. Debating for Towson will be Ronald A. DeAbreu and Patrick P. Moon. DeAbreu is president of Towson's chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the national honorary debate fraternity. DeAbreu had debated in the British style in his native Guyana, and for the past three years has represented Towson on the East Coast debating circuit. He has also debated in Arizona, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Canada. Moon was educated in Japan and the United States. Although President of the Towson Debate Council, his achievements are in individual speech events and he has never debated publicly. He states that privately he debates starting each day. In the face of adversity, he laughs; in the face of the university, he cries. Moon calls himself ""an in-strument of the Lord"" because he has been nailed so many times. He lists as his heroes: Winston Churchill, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, J. P. Donleavy, and his parents. Moon claims no famous relations but hopes to start some. Last January Coach Nykedym of the Speech Department and two two-man debate teams returned from the Western Ontario University International Debate Tournament with the first place trophy. They had similar successes at the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament in Connecticut, which will be held in Houston this year; the Penn State Debators' Congress; and the Elizabethtown (Pa.) College Invitational Tournament. It seems unlikely however that TSC's oft-awarded debators will return to any of these tournaments this year. As a student activity, the Debate Council is dependent on the Governance Board for funds. This years subsidy is not expected to be sufficient to cover even a single return trip. This weekend the Varsity Squad begins their season at the University of Maryland where they will compete in Impromptu and Extemporaneous Speech and After Dinner Speaking. The novice debaters began the season with victories at Frostburg State last weekend. Craig Schloer, a freshman from Wheaton High in his first outing for Stephen Milligan Anthony Speaight photo by 'uante Patrick Moon Towson, won the individual trophy for best Negative Novice speaker. He also teamed up with senior Larry Couchman to win the Ronald DeAbreu second place negative team trophy. Debating as well for Towson were Sara Day and Andy Eble. "
