The Towerlight, October 27, 1978

tl19781027-000 "� HOMECOMING:Special supplement to the October 27 Towerlight � t!5olvertig VOL. LXXII No. 8 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY October 27, 1978 Towerlight- The Red Cross blood drive held Monday through coordinator Phil Ross said 629 people registered to give 4-0 yesterday collected over 250 points of blood. Safety blood. TL Photo by Joe voeglein Employee layoffs expected Tuition tax credit fails; may be revived in future by Patrick Casey The 95th Congress ended last week with one of the big three Pieces of educational legislation sent to the President's desk. The Middle Income Assistance Act passed }with Houses, while the tuition tax credit was cut from a larger tax -cut bill in Conference C'nrnmittee. Meanwhile, the Senate never got a chance to vote on the Carter Administration proposal to create a cabinet level Department of Educat The Carter administration got its Wish by halting the tuition tax credit and gaining in its stead the Middle income Assistance Act, a program of expanded grants, loans, and work study funds designed to increase aid IP middle income students and their Analysis Thus an administration which carne int() office with talk of e liminating the National Direct Student Loan .Program ushered in a great expansion of this and other federal financial aid programs. The impression is ' that the administration used this legislation to placate middle income families who were denied tuition tax credits, credits said to be highly popular among the electorate. Hut while the administration may have tried to halt tuition tax credits with passage of the Middle Income Act, it is doubtful tax credits will be Inng from the Capitol Hill roster. It's true Congress was unable to see the tax credit through to final Passage, but it did survive both houses, and was sacrificed in conference committee so the tax-cut bill to which it was attached. and to which Congress attached more importance. was more acceptable to President Carter. Carter had repeatedly threatened to veto tax credits if Congress passed them. But support for the legislation was clear in its oassage through both Houses. And if the wave of tax -cut sent iment now sweeping t he country brings an army of tax cutters to Washington when the 96th Con-gress convenes next year. support for tuition tax credits could be renewed and strengthened.. Yet supporters will find it still more difficult to justify such credits in light of the $1.2 billion price tag on the Middle Income Act. The tax cut mood is part of a larger push to halt government spending. and budget-balancing is also high in the minds of many Congressmen , and Congressional hopefuls. And as long as Carter is in the White House, a veto looms certain upon passage of a tuition tax credit. While the new Congress may well find the votes to pass a tax credit , its not quite so likely they can muster sufficient numbers to override a veto. Meanwhile, the Senate 'never got a chance in its final moments to vote on another. Carter administration pet, a proposed new cabinet level Department of Education, Their vole would � surely have been in favor, however, as well over a majority Of the Senate had co-spon-sored the bill by the time it was approved by the Senate Govern-mental Affairs committee. But the Senate's priorities were elsewhere in the crowded final days. (""Thre the Carter administration Enrollment increase projected (CPS)--First estimates of fall enroll- Men! in American colleges and universities see an increase of 2.8 Per cent over last fall's level. The Nation al Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) expects a total of 11.6 million on campus, 320.000 mare than 1977's 11.28 million. If the estimates prove true -- the. Center won't have final figures until the spring -- this will be the second consecutive autumn increase. Many schools, though, are .still trying to recover from the fall of 1976: when enrollment in public colleges and u niversities dropped a precipitious fine per cent. And many administrators are still inrenaring for drops in the future. 1)e mographers say the nation simply won't be producing enough 18-year-olds in the 1980's to allow schools t o maint am n their course diversity and physical plant . Some analysts also think that fewer' 18-year-olds 'ill enroll in college in the future because of a predicted slackening of demand for educated workers. Specifically, by 1980. that number will fall to 3.4 million. Even fewer 18-year-olds will be available to populate the campuses in the early 1990's. 1.'or the moment, though.. the NCES sees enrollment at p u blic colleges and universities hitting 9.1 million, with. another 2.5 million at private schools. has more time to devote to it. the Department should become reality. However much. depends on the composition ,of the new Congress. Conservatives fear the 'department would grab control of educational programs and standards from the hands of local officials. and see in this a nationwide homogenization of education and an increase in educational bureaucracy. Thus a more conservative Congress, which many are predicting. would not be 'quite so receptive to a Department of Education. Another important influence on the proposed Department's future is Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph Califano. Califano has reportedly threatened to quit if the new department becomes reality and steals much of his empire. Califano is an experienced Wash-ington insider. and while he may not he able to stop creation of the Department of Education, his influence will surely be felt 'before he battle ends. on the other side of the issue is the National Education Association. quickly becoming one of the nation's most powerful labor organizations. With a solid and growing grassroots political organization, the NEA will make its voice heard also when the next Congress considers the De-partment Of Education, University imposes spending freeze by Paul Gilmore Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance, will announce today a $190,000 spending cutback from the university's budget for the remainder of the fiscal year. The cutback will result in reduced hours and bodies on contractual, part-time and student employees and less overtime for full-time employees. The cutbacks will also nullify intended purchases of supplies and operating equipment. Schelle announced the cutbacks to combat a decline of $150,000 from last year in student fees and a $50,000 in-crease in miscellaneous costs. ""We're down about 3,000 credit hours in the graduate division from last year,"" Schelle said, explaining the decrease in student fees income. ""We're down to about 11,000 hours in the graduate division and for the first time in several years, we did not over-attain our projected full-time day enrollment. There are actually fewer bodies in the day division this year than there were last year,"" he said. ""I think this will be the most dif-ficult year I've ever seen here,"" Schelle said and warned things could get worse. ""I wouldn't be surprised if we had a second retrenchment level if we don't get some help,"" he said. Fresh fruit preferred DETHOIT. MI. (CPS)---In marked contrast to most nutritionists' belief, a survey of eating attitudes at Wayne State University here shows students prefer a fresh fruit platter over hamburgers. The survey of eating preferences of 1.685 undergraduate and grad-uate students, med school person-nel, and faculty and staff members put the hamburger fourth behind a fresh fruit �latter, soup and a cold salad platter. The top choice of undergraduate St udents was french fries, followed by the fruit platter. Fries did not fare so well with faculty and staff, who did not even list them among their fifteen favorite foods. Faculty responses to the survey also showed that 58 percent of faculty members would not eat a hot dog. and 65 percent shunned chili dogs Schelle blames the current bud-getary problems on the budget alloca-tion from the state government. ""We had a terrible budget this year,"" he said. We got a four per cent general budget increase when the inflation rate was at seven and one-half per cent. Then the governor took away a $25 fee increase last year, I guess because it was an election year, and there we were,"" he said. There has not yet been any specific announcement stating where hours and employees would be cut, but the cuts are to take the following form: � $60,000 reduction in contractual and part-time employees; � $50,000 reduction in operating equipment; � $40,000 reduction in student employment; � $20,000 reduction in supplies. � $20,000 reduction in miscellan-eous expenses. Schelle met with each of the Univer-sity's vice presidents Wednesday to announce the cuts and direct each of them to make a certain amount of cuts in their jurisdiction. Schelle said he hopes to stabilize the budget next year with a fees increase, but he says the fees will not be in-creased enough. ""We recommended somewhere be-tween a $60 and $80 increase in fees for the year. We got a $25 increase. I think we need more,"" he said ""There's always this myth that Towson has a buried treasure out in the front yard somewhere."" Although there will be a $25 in-crease in fees next year, Schelle said the total bill will increase only $17.50 since the University Union -construe tion fee will be decreased., There's a possibility, however, that other fees could be enacted in the spring,"" Schelle said. GAcarpooling begins Monday by Pat Voekel The', Student Government Asso-ciation's carpooling program will begin Monday on the University Union parking lot . Twent y-five spaces from the staff .f.lculty parking areas will be reserved tor commuters riding with Iwo or 'more commuters. Students who reqbest a space must complete a form and return it �Parking Services. After it is checked. the students will be issued two parking permits: one for Nionday. Wednesday and Friday itnd one for Tuesday and Thursda ,� The permits must be displayed the driver's dashboard. SO A president John Shehan set if t he program is successful t semester, it will 'be continut Maybe, said Shehan, it VIll commuter parking problems. The now defunct Com in Student Association tried to orga-nize ii similar carpooling project la- r e a r h e SG A 's program wi. organized by Shehan and Senate.- M ike Burns. Coxmeets Apartheid The Towson Branch of the Baltimore Coalition Against Apar-theid in South Africa (BCAASA) last week asked acting president Joseph Cox to serve as a liaison bet ween the student protest groups and univer-sity organizations that hold invest-mews in corporations that deal with the Republic of South Africa. , The (BCAASA) has asked Paul Wisdom, president of the Towson Foundation and Nlargaret Hartman, president of the Alumni Association propose divestiture resOlut it to their respective organizations. The University, through ft Towson Foundation. Alumni Ass. - ciation and the Alaryland Sta. Treasury. holds approximately $2'.. 000 worth of stocks in corporatiol. � that have invested in South Afrit � The DCA ASA is � part of .? nationwide movement to force ;in end to South Africa's official unlit-. of racial separation by creating int ernat ional economic. Sant ion, against South Africa's govern men Kelley boasts terrorism control by efficient law enforcement by Patrick Casey Former FBI Director Clarence Kelley told a Towson Center audience Saturday that America has escaped the terrorism which plagues other parts of the world through the strength of its political institutions and law enforcement agencies. ""No form of terrorism seems to have proliferated in the United States because we have a very stable government and because we have very stable and professional law enforcement groups,"" Kelley said. Kelley was the second speaker in the 1978-1979 Student Government Association speakers series. ""The skills of the FBI are still intact."" Kelley pointed to the 'kidnapping earlier this year of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and said this country would be better equipped to handle a similar problem. He said the Italians were hurt by the lack of a ""scrambler."" a device which allows police to communicate without interception, and were harmed especially by their prohibi-tions against informants. ""Anytime you divest a law enforcement agency of intelligence networks,"" he said, ""you greatly diminish the security you so dearly need and deserve.... There's no-thing better than to have an informant tell you about Kelley said kidnapping is also less prevalent in America than else-where due to better enforcement skills. ""There's more interest now in trying to make a living..."" -It nas become a great skill in American law-enforcement circles. The solution rate is well over 95 per cent,"" he said. Yet Kelley noted that kidnapping has not really declined. Kelley also dealt with questions about the FBI's credibility in light of alleged break-ins, wiretaps, and ,other abuses of ptiwer. ""You may have become it little alarmed about the FBI."" he said. ""But the skills of the FBI are still intact. And the credibility of the FRU has now been pretty well restored.' He said those who undertook some of these activities were not motivated by chances for personal gain. ""Even though some of these Former FBI Director Clarence Kelley praised U.S. law enforcement during his speech last Saturday at the Towson Center. TL Photo by Joe Voeglem 't hings occurred. I he mot ivat %vas only to do what was thought to he best for the' country in enforcement,"" he said. ""You should have no hesitation w hat soever in su pport ing federal enforcement agencies and your local law enforcement olli-cers.'' continued 00 page 7 (In This Issue 1 Cold War: America's lifters pull their perennial fold in the face of the big bear. TL reports from the world championships in Gettysburg . page 14 Future Booters: Soccer headman Bartos discusses the future of recruit- . ing for his Tiger squad page 14 Spooked! A Towson student traces the history of spookshows. Just the right treat for those who like fascinating tricks page 8 Override: The SGA Senate vetos John Shehan's veto of the Senior Class budget page 7 INSIDE! INSIDE! INSIDE!: See our special Homecoming tabloid for all you'd ever want to know about the times, the traditions, and tinsel of fall's biggest campus event INSIDE! INSIDE! INSIDE! \. "