The Towerlight, October 27, 1983

tl19831027-000 "ut The Towerlight The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins? �Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 77 No. 8 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 October 27, 1983 Trouble on Grub Street Error leaves literary magazine's Spring issue in doubt By Glenn Small and James Hunt Towson State's literary magazine, The Grub Street Wit, which published its Fall issue just three weeks ago, is facing an uncertain winter. Because of an accounting oversight, the Wit has less than half the money it needs to publish a planned second issue this year. Basically, ""the state [Department of General Services] gave the printing [con-tract for the Fall issue] to someone for $3,100, not realizing we only had $4,000 [for the entire year],"" according to Millie Landrum, poetry editor for the Wit. ""That leaves us with $900 for our next issue. The problem began last spring after the Student Government Association (SGA) allocated the Wit $4,000 to publish two issues this year at a cost of $2,000 per issue. Based on that allocation, Wit editor-in- chief Chris Scharpf submitted a purchase requisition with specifications for printing the Fall issue to the SGA. According to the SGA Manual, any material bought or services rendered�such as printing�for SGA-budgeted organiza-tions must be obtained by submitting a purchase requisition to the SGA treasurer. Once reviewed and approved by the trea-surer, the SGA business office sends the requisition to the University Purchasing Department. The Purchasing Department then submits the requisition to the Depart-ment of General Services, which oversees bids submitted by potential suppliers. Jerry Smith, an official in the Pur-chasing Department, said, ""Originally we received [the Wit's] requisition signed by Arlene Campeggi [business manager of the SGA] and Kelley Ray [treasurer of the SGA]. ""We noticed that [the requisition] didn't have the $2,000 stipulation, so we added it at that point,"" Smith said, and sent it to General Services. Apparently, Smith said, General Ser-vices overlooked the stipulation and awarded the contract to the lowest bidder, John Schmitt and Sons, for $3,075. This leaves the Wit with $925 for its Spring issue, a situation one of its editors said could have been avoided if the SGA had reviewed the price submitted by General Services. ""It's really the SGA's fault because they had a chance to see the bid, but did nothing."" Smith and Campeggi disagreed. ""[The Purchasing Department] might have caught the mistake,"" Smith said, ""but normally we accept what the state does because that's the lowest bid. ""But even if we had caught the mistake, technically we would have been obligated to the $3,075 price,"" Smith said, unless the printer could be persuaded not to print or accept revised specifications at a lower cost. ""The State of Maryland makes mistakes. It's not unusual, as big as the state is,"" Campeggi said. ""It was an unfortunate incident."" Campeggi speculated that Editor-in-Chief Scharpf may have underes-timated or misunderstood what the final cost of his specifications would be. Despite the setback, the Wit may still have a Spring issue. Landrum said that the Wit may not need )ut Safety Dance Dow�ltai by Fred Caller! See GRUB STREET, page 2 Residence puddle n ..- -. tol,. - mi -, 14 Vtki - - - W 'ol , _ -_ , _ lot a- it, t.: , ' ', ik.; - - *.-- 'i, 04 t ' 14;1 slt Ali TIN 7' ' , n le "" 1 e ,' ' 4 it fIC ; � �1 . - - - .1.4 ' . ... "" � It � . imam ��!, 4.' ,�4)1,,� , , 44 4 ,... or � 4"".. - .� . .4 .4.. el . 1. r tr.. 1 . . to , 4- - f ' . l - ."" it 4-4 4 t l'i' �� .� .1>+ : � .$ -? ; _ - By Edvms Lagzdins The recent autumn rains have filled the depression where construction equipment sat not too long, creating � if only temporarily � a reflecting pool for the new dorms Collegiate teer-suckers' bow to clampdown (CPS)�This fall's experiments in clamping down on student drink-ing� experiments performed almost simultaneously by a huge number of schools now�have inspired a series of tough new rules on student behavior, but an initial check with colleges across the country indicates students are willingly adapting to their drier campuses. ""We didn't have the 'beer suck-ers' that have always been around before,"" Mike Jewell, a member of the University of Kentucky's Phi Delta Theta house, observes. His house and all the other Kentucky fraternities agreed to hold dry rushes for the first time ever this fall. Bar owners near the University of Oklahoma campus arranged to accommodate a crowd of 5,000 stu-dents at a rally to protest the state's new 21-year-old legal drinking age law, but only 150 students showed up. Dry rushes and parties elsewhere unfolded without controversy. ""I think [the fraternities] are finding it brings good results, and keeps the people away who only come for the free beer anyway,"" said Jonathan Brant, head of the National Inter-fraternity Conference. It also shows ""that fraternities are something besides beer busts,"" he said. Not all student groups are happy about the way schools are going about controlling student drinking, however. ""We're all for"" controlling drink-ing, said Bob Bingaman, head of the State Student Association in Wash-ington, D.C., which coordinates state student activities around the nation and also helped Kansas and Georgia students ward off drinking age hikes last spring. ""But students are responsible enough to sensitize themselves without having legislatures making decisions for them,"" he said. Both legislators and school administrators are making those decisions nevertheless, and at an increasing pace over the last year. Maryland, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Alabama, Virginia, St. Bon-aventure and many others have simply banned drinking on at least parts of their campuses. Frater-nities like those at Kentucky and North Dakota State voluntarily have begun dry rushes and special alcohol-free activities. At Loyola College of Maryland, students must now don special wrist bands to get liquor at campus parties. Students caught violating the new policy�by giving a wrist-band to an underaged drinker, for example�can be kicked out of stu-dent housing. Clinton Case offers a view Discussion brings night-time inside Booth, but few accept safety concerns into the light By Karen Kitz A recent University of Minnesota survey found 51 percent of that cam-pus' women felt ""insecure"" alone on campus at night. Apparently, they are not alone. Some Towson State students � uneasy on campus at night � assembled for an open discussion on campus safety at the Women's Center last Wednesday. Continuing Studies student Catherine Pazdernik, who helped organize the discussion said. ""I had heard about the murders (of two women) at Frostburg (State) and Goucher (Colleges) and I was con-cerned that I had to park so far away and walk at night."" Some of the suggestions for a safer campus offered at the meeting includ-ed: Increased shuttle service � In the evenings, the shuttle runs every half hour. A supplementary shuttle ser-vice, with a student-driven van, was suggested. A Park-and-Ride service - The coun-tY owns a park-and-ride lot between Timonium and Padonia Roads which Towson State may consider using dur-ing the parking garage construction. Better scheduling of classes. � If courses are staggered so one set lets out as students are arriving for the next set, less students will have great distances to walk. More police publicity and visibility � Many students do not know that campus police have full police power and only limited jurisdiction. An emergency phone system � With this a student could pick up a direct line to the police. Reduced access to buildings on campus � Many dorms are vulnerable to improper entrants despite the lock-and-key system because students leave doors open so their friends can enter. More cooperation from the campus community � Students are advised to walk in groups at night, and to get to know the community assistants in the dorms. Donald McCulloh, vice president of business and finance, along with cam-pus police and faculty represen-tatives, listened as students aired their fears. Inadequate lighting seem-ed the most pressing problem. By Mike Judge Another good performance played before plenty of empty seats Sun-day, as the final curtain fell on the Student Government Association's aborted speaker series. Clinton Case performed admirably in the one-man play, ""An Evening With John Wilkes Booth."" Set in April, 1865, Case presented a mon-ologue from Booth, a man known to most as the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, exploring the elements of Booth's character that led him to kill the President. Case spent much of the time talk-ing about Booth's childhood and his problems being the son and brother of two actors who were considered better actors than he. Booth's jeal-ousy of his brother, whom Booth felt was an actor inferior to himself, was well conveyed, as was Booth's frustration that his brother made more money than he. Case's interpretation of Booth's hatred toward Abraham Lincoln was convincing. That hatred was traced from a day in Albany when Lincoln's inaugural train inter-rupted Booth's dramatic rehearsal, to Booth's attempts to kidnap Lincoln during the waning days of the war. Case's Booth mimicked Lincoln bitterly, and termed him an ""orangutan."" Co-authors Case and Lloyd J. Schwartz (of ""Brady Bunch"" and ""Love Boat"") presented a strongly historical and moving play that con-veyed the energy and rebel madness of John Wilkes Booth. Unfortunately, a crowd the size of the Brady Bunch (nearly 50, com-pared to the 40 who saw the previous speaker, Ralph Schoenstein) came to see Case perform. Case took a while to adjust to the small turnout, but he eventually warmed up to the audience and performed well. Case appeared despite the SGA Senate's cancellation of the speaker series last week, since he had been contracted to perform prior to the Senate's action. Case's emotional, riveting perfor-mance deserved better than the sparse turnout it received. He presented an entertaining evening of drama delivered from inside the head of John Wilkes Booth, a man whose actions changed American history. When the- University of Mary-land's underaged population ""plummeted from only 25 percent of the [student body] to over 60 per-cent this year, we just decided to put an end to all drinking on campus, rather than try to deal with all the enforcement problems,"" reports Sandy Neverett, the assis-tant resident life director. ""Since the majority of students can't legally drink anyway,"" adds Anona Adair of the University of Oklahoma, ""there simply cannot be any alcohol on campus."" The crackdown is extending off-campus, too. Town police have been spot-checking parties at Millersville State College in Pennsylvania this fall, hunting for underaged drinkers and enforcing the city's new noise law. Illinois State students now must get permission from town officials 15 days before holding any outdoor parties. Then they have to have security guards at the parties. Marquette, Michigan officials passed a tough new noise and litter ordinance designed to control parties on and near the Northern Michigan University campus. ""We're seeing a real turnaround in the way alcohol is being viewed not only by administrators, but by students themselves,"" says Ger-ardo Gonzalez, president of BACCHUS, a national group aimed at controlling student drinking. ""More and more schools are inte-grating new policies to limit drinking, and show that alcohol doesn't have to be an inherent part of college life,"" he reports. The control efforts began in earnest on many campuses during the 1983-83 academic year, and have accelerated since as more states raise their legal drinking ages and more college towns are embold-ened to try to control student noise. Roughly half the states now have drinking ages set at 21, compared to 20 states a year ago. Several other ""21 states"" have also closed loop-holes that allowed 18-year-olds to drink wine and beer. Arizona and Ohio are currently considering raising their legal drink-ing ages to 21, Bingaman said. Bingaman remains opposed to the laws and external controls. ""We feel education and enforcement of existing laws are the answers, not' singling out college students as being too irresponsible to drink."" Gonzalez, however, contends much of the effort to control alcohol abuse and noisy campus parties is coming from students themselves. ""I think young people are realizing that we have a problem common to all of us, and that there are things they can do to help."" :y Jerry Trout Actor Clinton Case portrayed John Wilkes Booth last Sunday in Stephens Hall. "