tl19991025_000 "Monday www.towsomedu/towerlight/ hit ie Published twice weekly by students of Towson University 10/25/99 More students, more funding 3 MTV gets 'Real' for lecture series 9 Tonic rocks Homecoming 11 TU squeaks past Fordham 17 Departments News Campus briefs 4 TU Tech Talk 5 Nation 6 A&E. Sound Bites 14 Sports Fast Break 18 Athlete of the Week..20 Fries, field goals, top menu for TU `Tairgaters Kern Sacchet The Towerlight Hamburgers, hot dogs, red plastic cups and school spirit were common sights, sounds and smells at Towson University's 1999 Homecoming ""Tail""gating Festival Saturday afternoon. Held on Parking Lots 13 and 14, near Minnegan Stadium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the festi-val provided time -for current Towson students and alumni to relax and enjoy a cold beer or a friendly game of football. Sophomore Nicole Amicucci, a member of the Phi Mu sorori-ty, said the most important thing about the whole event was that it brought everyone together. ""It was awesome,"" Amicucci said. ""It was so great to see all of the Greeks intermingling and I think it was good that the drink-ing was allowed."" The University relaxed its ban on alcohol at tailgating events three years ago after a 10-year hiatus. In 1986, a group of drunken students got out of control and rioted, setting fire to a parade float and flipping over a car and some port-a-potties, forcing the ban. Though tailgating was still permitted between 1987 and 1995, alcohol was not allowed until 1996. During the dry tailgating fes-tivals, the numbers of students who attended decreased signifi-cantly. University President Hoke L. Smith allowed alcohol to become a part of the Homecoming tailgating festivi-ties again with the hopes that students would not just use it as an excuse to drink. Steve McKeown, a Towson alum and member of the Sigma See TAILGATING, page 5 Kirk Jacobson/The Towerlight Junior Bo Dunlap and senior Lenny Parrish got into the Homecoming spirit Saturday at the 'Tail'gating Festival. Hundreds of students and alumni turned out to drink, eat and socialize before the football game. Prof. arrested on sex offense charges Martin Schneider The Towerlight A Towson University profes-sor was arrested Thursday at his Harford County home, on numerous sex offense charges, stemming from a child pornog-raphy investigation by the Maryland State Police. Adjunct political science pro-fessor Charles Earl King, 59, of the 1100 block of Hookers Mill Road in Abingdon, was arrested and charged by police investiga-tors with soliciting a minor to engage in sexual misconduct through electronic and tele-phonic communications, distrib-uting images of child pornogra-phy over the Internet, posses-sion of child pornography and perverted sexual practices. ""The investigators were act-ing in an undercover capacity posing as females under the age of 16 when King solicited sexual misconduct from them,"" said Lt. Joe Barker of the Maryland State Police. The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit received a complaint from America Online earlier this year indicat-ing that an AOL user was dis-tributing child pornography. Further investigation by the CCU revealed that investigators from the Phoenix, Ariz. and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. police depart-ments were also working covert investigations on King over the Internet. King was arrested without incident at his home and trans-ported to the Be! Air Barrack for Set KING page 4 Professor Charles Earl King Today High 61 Low 37 Tuesday High 64 Low 39 Wednesday High 64 Low 42 Thursday High 64 Low 41 "
