The Towerlight, October 23, 1986

tl19861023-000 "Goldsmith tells SGA of Smith's task force 1 Student Government Association President Melanie Goldsmith announced to the Senate yesterday that the SGA, along with the University Union Auxilary Enterprise, and Events and Conference Services will be under task force investigation. ""The President [Dr. Hoke Smith] will set up a task force studying the Student Government and the University Union. The task force will report on their effectiveness and give an evaluation to the President,"" Goldsmith said. Dr. Helen Giles-Gee has been aPpointed by President Smith to research statements against the SGA by Dorothy Siegel, Vice President for Student Services, ""that were not necessarily true,"" according to Goldsmith. In other SGA action, reporting from the Government Operations Committee, Senator Jeff Rinaca announced that meetings with Dr. Mary Lu Larsen and Provost Patrica Plante found that ""teacher evaluations are taken very seriously by the individual departments but students do not have confidence in them."" The Government 0�)(,rations Committe,, plans to educate 8tudents about the importance 4,4' teacher evaluations in the form of a pamphlet or a full Page ad in the Towerlight, according to Rinaca. Speaking for the absent Senator Crystal Berkabile, Senator Paul Norfolk announced that an alcohol awareness group will be brought to this campus. It's time that students became, aware of what alcohol does and that other options are available at University Union functions,"" Norfolk said. Vince Russomanno Circle K to climb steps for charity Towson State University's circle K Club is sponsoring the ,,,t/1 Annual Stair Climb for ,,`'Yetic Fibrosis on October 25, 1.�rM, I 1 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will climb the ,8teP8 of the World Trade Center 1 Baltimore's Inner Harbor. ""Jand Prize is airfare for two to Email. The Circle K Club's goal this year is $10,000. ""We're very ""Ptimistic about reaching it,"" saYs Cheryl Satterfield, Circle K president. First, second, and third prizes are a weekend ski trip for two, a day trip to Atlantic City for two, a_nd dinner for two at the Chart /louse in the Inner Harbor. Other prizes include CF shirts, ean visors, and barrel bags. . Entry forms can be obtained al the Circle K Club office on the fArkt floor of the University union. , Registration will be in front of tile World Trade Center on the gLay of the event. Donations can `L),e given to the Cystic Fibrosis '�lIndation at the registration desk. Keith Van Eron, of the daltimore Blast, will be among the climbers. Music will be played in the stairwells for the climbers. Clovvne and a disc jockey are the outside entertainment. ""Cystic Fibrosis is the number �ne genetic killer of children and Young adults. It causes excess mucus in the body, eventually choking the lungs and major organs."" sass Cheryl Satterfield. ""But now the complicated pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fit together and there is new hope?! Donna Densford Parking cut for fireworks In order to prepare for the Home coining fireworks display, there Will be only a limited number of Parking spaces available in the Parking Garage on Friday, October 31. The top level of the garage and all perimeter spaces facing Burdick field will be closed to insure that falling ashes from the fireworks do not damage any ears, -Parking Services Correction In the October 16 issue of the Towerlight it was reported that the ""Grub Street Wit"" was denied an allocation by the Stadow r. ,�--nment Association ol 413,060. The correct Funount of the denial was S1,360. The Towerlight regrets this error. Campus Notes Inside Deadly Friend of a truly had movie 111-T Invitational Tom Capbell captured the only title for the Tigers at the TSU Invitational tourney . . . pg 4 Mach V Heavy-metal Baltimore band makes its official debut at Club Potpourri page 8 Shattering the myths 161)1'010r im wlint? . pg 13 Packard wants more research at colleges A proposal made to the White House by David Packard, chairm j of the Hewlett- Parkard Company. could double the amount of federal support for basic research at universities by 1990. If implemented this plan would raise government spending for research at the college level to 9 million dollars by 1990. Pacicard is backed up in his efforts by John A. Young, president and chief executive officer at Hewlett-Packard and Roland W. Schmitt, chief scientist for the General Electric Company. The three men have met personally with White House chief of Staff Donald T. Regan, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. According to a National Science Foundation source, the White House ""listened with a positive attitude"" to the proposal. Chronicle of Higher Education Olympians compete for national spots Participants in last weekend's Senior Olympics at Towson State University had an extra reason to -rin in their events. Not that V- needed it, nut it didn't hur that O.� winners of each event would ualify for the National Senior ti, inpas to be held in late June 1987 Probably the most interesting of the winners who will get to go to St. Louis in 1987 is Roland Van Lill. He won the 100 meter freestyle beating his own record in the event with a 1:31.11. Beating his old record by 1.11 was good for Van Lill since he was the only contestant in his event in the 80 to 85 age bracket. Van Lill is second in the country in the 50 and 100 freestyle events for his age bracket. The events ran all day Friday and Saturday. Over 790 people 55 and older competed in the Seventh annual event. The contestants were bracketed by age. Robert M. Graham The owerl Published weekly by the students of Towson State University htTowson, MD 21204 Vol. 80 No. 6 October 23, 1986 Siegel initiates budgetary curbs Vice President for Student Services Dorothy Siegel announced to SGA President Melanie Goldsmith last week that the SGA's autonomy would be severly limited immediately. by Rob Taylor Contributing Writer The Towson State University Student Government Association (SGA), one of the few wholly auton-omous associations in the area, may lose some of its independence as a result of recent actions by the University administration. Dean of Student Services Dor-othy Siegel told SGA president Melanie Goldsmith last week that she would ""limit the authority"" of the SGA, Goldsmith said. Gold-smith also received a letter from Siegel outlining a new policy for SGA budgeting. The letter basically iterated existing SGA policy, with the ad-ded proviso that all expenditures over $2,500 receive a counter-signature. The changes would affect the large SGA executive budget, which the SGA uses to fund the speaker series, student movies, the book exchange, and other SGA-sponsored events. Many events sponsored by the SGA exceed the $2,500 limit. Goldsmith said she was upset by the changes. ""There have been no problems"" with the executive budget, she said. � Goldsmith also complained about what she considered er-roneous information Siegel used in making her decision. ""The have been no problems"" with the ex-ecutive budget, she insisted. ""If they had come to me and told me there was a problem,"" Gold-smith continued, ""then I would've been willing to work with them."" Her concern was with the fact the University simply announced that the SGA autonomy would be limited. Siegel defended her moves as necessary. ""This was not done lightly,"" she said. But, ""controls have disappeared"" in the executive budget. ""The community was not in-formed"" about SGA expenditure. Siegel added, saying that in Towerlight .should take more re-sponsibility in reporting the SGA's budgeting. ""All we ask is that it [the SGA] be more responsible,"" Siegel said. University President Dr. Hoke Smith said that the move was not to restrict the SGA but to ""make sure a limit which was there all along was"" being observed. Like Siegel, he also questioned ""the extent with which the decisions of the SGA were publicized."" How-ever, he said that he was ""not aware of any specific problem"" with the SGA. Smith said that some of the controversy stemmed from poor communication between offices. ""Not everybody is informed of things they should be,"" he said. Somethings that should have been communicated ""dropped through the cracks,"" he said, adding that he was ""not blaming anyone."" Smith met with Goldsmith to ""discuss the possibility of creating a committee to look at the total environment in which the student organizations operate."" At Tuesday's SGA senate meet-ing, Goldsmith said that such a CPDR losses support, quits by Vince Russomanno Assistant News Editor A planned protest Tuesday by the Committee to Preserve Di-versity in Residence failed to rally adequate support against Greek housing on campus. As a result, the Committee has given up its fight to prevent the conversion of Richmond Hall to an all-Greek dormitory in the Spring. ""There is no way we can get a protest going. We need masses,"" said Paul Deluca, President of Richmond Hall House Council and spokesperson' for the CPDR. The Committee was looking for a turn out of at least 200 students, but only 35 students showed � p for the protest. ""There is nothinf, vve c an do with a group this size,"" said Deluca. The Committee %.1aims to have many people who say they support their cause, but consecutively fewer people actually act upon their convictions. ""They would say 'I do notbelieve this is happening', but they do not do anything about it,"" said Duluca, "" It shows that students at Towson are not in-volved in the campus."" The committee placed flyers annoucing the protest all over campus, many Of which we al-legedly *AA n down by Greeks, said Dann fierkowit , President of the University Re,- ence Government (URG) and CPDR supporter. ""We are not exactly giving up completely"", said Berkowitz. The URG voted its support against on campus Greek housing in its meeting on Monday, according to Berkowitz. In an effort to keep the issue alive, a 12-foot banner stating ""Save Richmond Hall"" will be hung across the dormitory in time for Homecoming and will remain there for the rest of the semester, according to Mike Morgan, CPDR member. Deluca urgued the group to con-tinue displaying its dissatisfaction with Greek housing next semester by letting the administration know when something is going wrong, for example, when traffic is blocking the area or when the noise level is too high. ""I just think they (the admin-istration) are making a big mistake. I hope the University has the money to fix the place after it has been trashed,"" said Elyse Berkowitz, one of the supporters who attended the protest. ""I want first pick of where I'm going to live next semester since they are kicking people out of Richmond. I think we should get our own dorm, we are like a family,"" said Mary Beth Dornbirer, junior and Richmond Hall resident. task force would be formed. Senator Dale Graham opposed any move to limit the SGA's autonomy. ""The students will lose if we [the SGA] lose our auton-omy,"" she said. Union to stop fake ID use; card reader to check IDs by Robert M. Graham Newt, Editor The University Union at Towson State University has a new tool to use in preventing students from obtaining alcohol at campus events with false iden-tification. The Vali-dine card reader, the same card reader used in the dining halls to count meals each week, will soon be installed in the University Union to verify the actual age of each person bearing an identification card at an event where alcohol is served, according to Bob Baeuerle, director of the University Union. Before issuing a student a wrist-band allowing him or her to con-sume alcohol at an event, Uniot, employees will run the student-identification cards through the card reading machine. rhe machine will read the actual age of the cardholder from the magnetic strip on the back of the new com-bined meal card/identification card. Students who try to consume alcohol using a false or altered identification card determined by the machine will have their iden-tification card confiscated, Baeuer-le said. He added that the student would then have to retrieve his card from the Judicial Affairs department. Baeuerle said all resident students who were issued meal cards this semester have cards that can be checked by the Vali-dine system. Also, about 1,200 people who went to TRIAD last summer, freshman and transfer students, can be checked by the new system. . � Towson State has at its com-mand six of these card readers, David Garafola, acting directOr of Auxiliary Enterprises, said. Four of those six machines will continue to be used at the Glen and Newell dining halls. One of the remaining two would be put ""between the two [dining hall] sites, in case they See READER, page 9 An identification card reader identical to the one pictured [above] will soon be installed in the Union to allow for verification of student's ages at all events where alcohol is served. "