The Towerlight, October 26, 1979

tl19791026-000 "for Ilea ex. pus VOL. LIOCIII No. 8 AirotverJ PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Contents Sports 7 Entertainment 5 Features � 3 Newsbriefs 10 Commentary 11 Week Watcher 9 Classifieds 10 � Bielski breaks all-time career scoring record by Gerry Jackson Randy Bielski booted two extra points and two field goals Saturday enabling him to pass Larry Jones and become the football team's .all-time leading scorer. Bielski's eight points in the Tigers' 20-3 victory over Class Glassboro gave him a total of 147 points in his career enabling him to pass the record of 140 points set by Jones through 1973 and 1974. The record was Bielski's seventh record which he has compiled over his illustrious career. Bielski is also the squad's weak safety and the second leading tackel on the year with 52. This is Bielski's fourth year as the Tiger kicker and his third year as a starter at safety. He has also seen duty at punter over his career. He was a two time all-state selection at Safety and a Kodak Division III all-American in 1977. His other records at Towson are Most field goals in a game (3), Most tackles in a game (24), Most tackle� in a season (102), Most extra points in a career (58), most field goals in a Career (29), and most pass inter-ceptions in a career (15). Bielski has hopes of being drafted by a pro team this year and if he is he would become the first Towson State player to be drafted. Several other Towson players have had tryouts but none have made an extended stay. The latest Tiger player to receive a tryout was Randy's brother Rick this year with the Bears. Bielski noted that he has scouted by the New York Giants and in addition filled out several question-naires for NFL teams. However he said that being drafted was not all that imp�rtant to him. he said, ""I'd just like to have a tryout somewhere and be looked at."" Bielski's father played in the pros and is presently an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts. Bielski noted that he worked out with his father and the ex-colt Toni Linhart over the summer and he said that this helped him improve his kicking game. Last year the Senior gridder switched his kicking style from side-winder to the conventional approach. Bielski said that he decided to make the switch, because the conventional approach allowed for greater accuracy. ""There is more room for error when you come from the side,"" said Bielski. He added, ""When you kick straight on and miss you don't miss by that much, but when you come from the side and miss you can miss way wide."" He also noted that his father who was also a kicker, referred to him as a ""flake"" when Randy kicked from the side. Randy Bielski the football Meehan. The giving Bielski [361 gets set to put a foot into held by quarterback Ron field goal attempt was good, the all-time Towson scoring record. His boot in the first quarter gave the Tigers a 10-3 lead. Towson went on to win the homecoming contest, 20-3. TL photo by Greg Foster $5000 designated for student grants by Halaine Silberg The Maryland State Board of Higher Education has allocated $5000 to Towson State in the form of student grants, follow-ing a request by Dr. Joseph Cox, vice president and dean of academic affairs. These grants are to be used by under-graduate students to support student research, creative activities, or special in-dependent study projects in any chosen discipline. Although the projects will be comprised primarily of student work, they Must be undertaken in cooperation with a supervising faculty member, said Dr. Jack Taylor, dean of natural sciences and Mathematics. Taylor headed a student grant commit-tee to impose guidelines on the grant allocation. ""For the student to be eligible he must have a declared major, a 3.0 grade Point average and be enrolled in the University during the period of the grant. Supplies, regerence books, photocopying, photography and equipment cost can be funded. ""Also, performances and exhibits can be funded. Travel expenses can be funded as well as food and lodging expenses outside of the Baltimore, D.C. areas. A final writ-ten project report will have to made by the student and the supervising faculty member by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1980,"" said Taylor. Other guidelines pertaining to the grants include the opportunity for group projects and a restriction to projects outside of nor-mal course requirements. These specially funded projects, however, can be used to earn credit, said Taylor. All applications must be submitted to Taylor in the administration building by November 19. Recipients will be notified on December 7. Taylor said he hopes to award 10 to 15 grants this year. The grants will be awarded to the Stu-dent Grant Committee, whose function is to set up guidelines and a working mechanism for itself as well as make judgements to allocate the funds from the Board, said Taylor. The committee is made up of faculty from various disciplines in order to en-courage a wide variety of majors to be represented in the grant allocation. The committee will award grants on the basis of certain qualities projected in each pro-posed project, Taylor said. Fulfillment of general guidelines, feasibility, originality and importance of the project are the main criteria he cited. Another factor involved may be the ex-perience of the faculty member par-ticipating in the project, said Taylor. He said the grants are important, because any experience that a student can gain, carrying him beyond normal classroom responsiblities is helpful to future employment possibilities. ""The per-son learns the discipline better,"" he said. Taylor said the grants will not only be helpful la the individual student but to the University as a whole. ""There are reasons that good students leave universities as well as weaker students and middle-of-the-road students,"" he said, explaining that a high priority of the University is the recruit and support students of varying levels and degrees. He said the grants may be successful in ""activity recruiting strong students."" Cox agreed in saying that the university's re-quest for these funds was the result of a several year attempt ""to find ways of sup-porting the activities of outstanding students, particiularly in the honors pro-gram."" Continued on page 2 October 26, 1979 Escapees steal car at Burdick Katherine Dunn Baltimore County police have captured the three men who stole a car from two women in Burdick parking lot Tuesday night. The three men escaped from the Baltimore County jail at 7:30 Tuesday night along with three other men. The six sawed through a window with a hacksaw to escape from the jail which is just across Towsontown Boulevard from the 'rower. Three of the men followed the two women, Jodie Nicodemus, 19, and her sister, 18, up the steps behind Burdick Hall. One of the men told them they left the lights on in the car. When Jody went to the car one of the men pushed her and tried to steal her keys. She tried to throw the key to Kristie, but they landed on the ground. The men grabbed the keys, pushed the women out of the way, and stole their car. The women, who are not students, later identified men as three of the escapees. They said the men were black, 20 or 21 years old and they were all wearing jeans .and T-shirts. The County pnlice recovered the Nicodemus' car near Liberty Road and Patterson .Avenue Wednesday morning. According to the County police two of the men who stole the car turned themselves in and the other was apprehended by the State Police after trying to hold up an A&P store in Carroll County. All three were taken back into custody by Wednesday night. Only one of the remaining three men is still at large. � The other two were picked up near Belair Road later Tuesday night. Cheri Nicodemus, the mother of the two girls and Towson State student, said she is considering legal action against the University. Although things were handled well after the incident, she said, it would not have happened if there had been enough security at the University. She said her tendency now is not to follow up on any action since her daughters were not hurt. The reason for a lawsuit would be to get better lighting and more security, she said, not for personal gain. She said she had appealed to President Hoke Smith and Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic affairs. ""We are under strength and have been for every national study for a school our size,"" said Cox. ""It's like the crosswalk on Osler drive. It falls into the same kind of category. We know we have a need."" Cox said the University has tried for a long time to get money to strengthen the campus police force, but because they cannot get any, they try to make up for it by improving the lighting as much as they can. ""It's the same as the bridge. We've been through every channel and maybe this will dramatize it,"" said Cox. Mrs. Nicodemus said she understands the problem of funding additional lighting and additional security police. The University cannot get money for lighting or security because the legislature will not approve it in the University's annual budget. Last year, after two students were sexually assualted on campus, University officials made an extra effort to get additional money for an east campus lighting system, but the additional funding was not approved by the legislature. The east campus system would have provided more light in front of Stephen's and Richmond Halls. The Burdick lot was not included in that system and has not been of great concern until now. Interim department of education left leaderless WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)� Since 1970, Congress has Consider-ed more than 130 bills that promised clout and administrative efficiency Y centralizing education programs into one cabinet-level department of education. On September 27, it finally passed one of those bills, and sent it for signature to President Carter. In the meantime, key depart- ,Ments of Education, which the new uepartment of Education will rePlace but which continues to control most federal education Programs until its replacement, have been virtually leaderless since July 1. That was the day U.S. Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer resign-ed a victim of government ethics guidelines. For other reasons, but in quick order, he was followed out of the federal education bureaucracy by Patricia Graham, head of the National Institute of Education by deputy commissioner Leo Kornfeld, and by Joseph Califano, secretary of the Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare (HF6W) in which the Office of Education is housed. Several departees, moreover, have not yet been replaced. The In this issue Doggin' it. What's life like under those little striped umbrellas? Page 4. Off-Broadway on Osler; the Towson State theater sea-son begins. Page 5. A new columnist graces these pages this week�and it's certainly something different. It's Dr. Yes . . . on health. Page 11. confusion has had an effect on education, politics, and, to a lesser degree, on education program administration. ""There is literally no one running HEW's education shop,"" grumbles Rep. John Erleborn (R-I11). The Office of Education has been ""Unable to formulate education policy."" As assistant commissioner at the Office of Education did confide to College Press Service that, while Erleborn's complaint was an over-statement, the leadership vacancies are inhibiting planning. Not know-ing how long it will be until the vacancies are filled is aggravating the problem, according to the source. The timing problem is even worse now that the Office of Education will be re-organized and folded into the new Department of Education, a process that could take up to six months. But the creation of the new department does mean that, at last, there will be replacements. Political gossip said that President Carter withheld nominations of people to fill some of the vacancies for fear of giving the House, where support was thin, an excuse to defeat the Carter-backed bill establishing the department. ""These (nominations) are always touchy,"" confirmed Robert Sand-strom of the White House press office,"" and we determined that a 'go-slow' approach to filling the vacancies would be at least detrimental to the (department of education) bill. We had assurances that an immediate filling of the vacancies wasn't necessary for efficiently administering the (edu-cation) programs'', given a reasonably-short time span."" Now that the bill is on the President's desk, ""I think we'll see positions getting filled up pretty quickly."" The vacancies, though, did cause some political problems. Califano, for example, was pushed out at HEW the day he was to testify on higher education legislation before the House Education and Labor Committee. A Califano aide deliver-ed the testimony instead. ""It makes it a little harder to deal with (legislation) that complex,"" a committee staffer observed at the time. ""We know Califano, and we know how to work with him. The timing was pretty bad."" Califano's July firing came immediately after the announce-ment that Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley College, would soon fill the vacant spot of HEW under-secretary for education. But then Patricia Harri, former Howard University administrator and Hous-ing and Urban Development Secretary, was named to replace Califano. Harris said she would assume the undersecretary duties herself. Leo Kornfeld, the Office of Education's deputy commissioner, left his position when the adminis-tration discovered he had overspent his budget. Kornfeld had gained wide respect for his work minimiz-ing financial aid loan defaults and simplifying aid application forms. Yet some Office of Education insiders ay Kornfeld overspent his budget L. an estimated $5 - $7 million in the process of doing all that. it was bad politics in the current congressional climate. Kornfeld's position thus was the one that was politically easiest to fill. Thomas Butts, once Kornfeld's policy advisor, was named acting deputy commissioner on August 22. ""I don't expect any bottlenecks,"" Butts said. ""We have strong people in the basic grant area."" He added that Kornfeld had already re-organ-ized the financial aid operation in anticipation of the transition to the department of education, so there should be no delays in the delivery of financial aid. ""We re-organize already, and now our job is to try to make that re-organization work out."" The most critical vacancy is the one at the top left by Boyer. The Carnegie Foundation named Boyer as its next hear last November, saying he'd actually take over duties in 1980. But many critics, mindful of the consultating work the foundation does for the Office of Education, pointed out there was a potential conflict of interest in the arrange-ment. Boyer resigned as com-missioner July 1, although federal regulations that would have allowed him to stay on through the rest of 1979 were implemented at the same time. He was temporarily replaced by HEW Assistant Secretary for Education Mary Berry, who kept her old job while she was acting education commissioner. Federal rules said she couldn't wear both hats for more than 30 days, so Berry stepped down on August 3. There has been no education commissioner since. Berry, according to Hedy Ratner of the Office of Education, does maintain an important influence over education policy, though her role is not official. Meanwhile, she is a major candidate for what will now be the biggest federal education job: secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. Other candidates are Ford Foundation Vice President Harold Howe II, Duke University President Terry Sanford, and California public school super-intendent Wilson C. Riles. Yet most observers say the leading candidate for the new post is former New Mexico Governor Jerry Apodaca. "