The Towerlight, October 28, 1982

tl19821028-000 "The Towe flight Vol.76 No. 9 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 , October 28, 1982 Scarborough Hall residents seek answers to bills By John B. O'Loughlin, Jr. Residents of Scarborough Hall ; tuLaY not have to pay for damages to td Pirr rooms after the residence received a number of ,caMPlaints regarding the bills from Last semester. TarrY Smith, assistant vice presi-dent for auxiliary services, said upon ri.,eviewing the bills which went out ,tlas month, he has decided some of e Charges should not be collected. ""We want to be fair about this,"" 'alith said. ""We want to make it as easY as possible for the students to nl�ve in and out."" iStnith's decision comes in the wake 111I Complaints by residents of Scar- �rough Hall about bills they have 'ecaived for repairs and housekeeping. It not fair,"" said Brian Dudley, 11s0Phomore Scarborough resident. he someone broke into my room did $80 damage nobody cared. ""naw they expect me to pay for dam-apc )ge tolousy paint 'cause I hung some etiers on my wall."" eh 4"", a Problem arose when students a ec, iced out of their rooms last spring 'r n as sumed they were free from esPonsibility. (CO Young, a community assistant in Scarborough, said the prob-y iws ith the key sign-out card. :ling said students think once the Cru is signed they are cleared of any ms,alages the CA did not find during -leek-out. ten The card will have to be rewrit-re said Collins Downing, the y aldence area coordinator for the Road side of campus. Students have the option of waiv-ing check-out when they turn in their keys at the end of the semester. If students waive room check-out ""they are responsible for any damages found in their room,"" Downing said. Some students did not waive room inspection and checked out with one of the CAs. After the CA assesses damages, the student signs a card agreeing to what damage was found. When some students received bills this fall, however, the damage assess-ment was different from what they signed for. ""After the students had left, I went through the building myself and rechecked the rooms,' Downing said. ""The CAs can't be expected to move furniture that might be hiding dam-age. It's not their job."" ""It's a question of legality,"" one Scarborough resident said. ""The Uni� versity can bill you and just expect you'll pay. If you don't they just tack it on your bill for next semester. It isn't fair."" Smith agreed, saying, ""If I move out of an apartment and at that time the landlord informs me of damages and I sign a statement, he can't call me up six months later and tell me he forgot to add the damaged drapes in the living room."" Downing said the damage to Scar-borough Hall is more noticeable because the building was painted in January. ""That paint is supposed to last five years,"" Downing said. ""If we allowed the amount of damage done last See SCARBOROUGH , page 2 Students have complained about bills. By Edvins Lagzdins It sure beats class! Paul Spangler, a Towson State sophomore, enjoys the view while working atop the new dorm com-plex. See story page 2. By Edvins Lagzdins Microcomputer explores jobs By Terie Wolan The Career Counseling Center is using a new micro-computer, Discover II, to assist students by providing programs for self-assessment of interests and information about various occupations. The computer is a gift from Joanne Harris-Bowlsbey, the originator of the Discover I and II systems. Harris- Bowlsbey, a former staff member of the counseling center, is currently employed by the Discover Foundation. Discover II is composed of two sections, said Ruth Lisansky, co-coordinator of the career counseling services. The first section is ""a decision-making program that will help students by looking at internal factors�inter-ests, skills, experiences and values,"" Lisansky said. Then, on the basis of this interest inventory, the com-puter will provide you with occupational titles. There is a further breakdown of information concerning a specific occupation the student is interested in, such as the economic outlook, the range of salary, opportunities for advancement, training or education needed, and what kind of tasks the job will entail, she said. Karen Lampher, a counselor at the center, said, ""Stu-dents could come in if they had no idea what they want to do at all, and run the entire program. Other students could have an idea of what they want to do and just find out more about one occupation."" The system has 400 occupations listed, can store infor-mation requested, and has a printer readout. According to Lampher, the Discover I system that was previously in service was very useful, ""there were appointments all the time to use it"" and reservations usually had to be made two weeks in advance. Compared to the Discover I model, however, ""Discover II is much quicker. Discover I was a mini-computer, which used the telephone to connect it, which sometimes caused delays. Also it was a longer version, Lampher said."" Brown, Bell resign/ AD talks to SGA By John B. O'Loushlin, Jr. Chris Bell, Student Government Association senator, resigned last week and was made deputy director of organizations. Bell, who had been a senator since last year, left the post because he ""felt constrained as a senator."" Dave Thomas, SGA president, then appointed Bell to the deputy director post. Blane Brown, one week after Bell was appointed his assistant, resigned Mon-day as the director of organizations. Brown said health problems forced him to resign. At the SGA meeting Tuesday, Thomas announced Bell could not fill the vacancy left by Brown. He cited a rule in SGA procedure which prohibits the holding of an office by a person who has held a different SGA office that same year. ""Although I resigned, my term as senator is not up,"" Bell said. He will continue as deputy director of organiza-tions, Bell said. In other SGA action this week, Thomas announced the formation of an SGA judicial board, which will work with assistance from the political science department. Thomas said the board, which is cur-rently a committee, will become a separate branch of the SGA and will set rules for impeachment proceedings and recommend impeachments, among other things. ""They don't have power over the senate,"" but the board will be there ""so the senate doesn't have too much power,"" Thomas said. Thomas also announced the forma-tion of the ""Fill the Dorms Committee"" which was initiated to help promote the new dorm complex currently under construction. Thomas said the committee will in-form students about a ppssible price differential between the new dorm and existing ones, availability of housing and the lifting of the 20-mile radius limit which currently bars some students from living on campus. He said the committee will send representatives to area high schools in the hope of recruiting students who were discouraged by the lack of resi-dent space at the University. Thomas also announced last week that Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has been placed on probation for violating the University's alcohol policy. Thomas said he placed them on pro-bation instead of suspending them because this chapter is trying to receive national recognition as a fraternity and a suspension would impede that goal. By Chuck Jones Joseph McMullen, athletic director, addressed the Student Government Association Tuesday after receiving complaints about the conduct of University athletes at recent parties. McMullen spoke in response to accusations made by fraternity mem-bers regarding the alleged assault of a pledge by six football players. McMullen said 10 percent of the football players give the team a bad name. ""Every telephone that's torn off the wall isn't done by a football player. A good many of them are, but not all of them,"" he said. McMullen's address came in the wake of a report by Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity members which cited violent behavior by members of the University football team last Thurs-day night at a frat party. ""What I want to know is what are football players doing out at 2 a.m. on a Friday if they have a game Satur-day morning?"" he said. McMullen said he realizes there will always be problems with the players and wants suggestions from the SGA on how to solve them. He noted no first-string players were involved this time. McMullen said most incidents like this are alcohol-related and added, ""I'd like to put Hooligan's out of business."" He said he is looking for new and better ways to deal with the player conduct problem and wants SGA members to be ""frank"" with him about the difficulty organizations have had with athletes. ""We have to keep taking stronger stands,"" he said. McMullen added he is sure some players get preferential treatment but he has faith in the judicial system. McMullen said one disciplinary action he takes toward his players is cutting them from the squad for a while if a serious problem arises. He wants to ""let them know I mean business."" But he added, ""Cutting people doesn't solve anything .. . surgery isn't always the answer."" In the past most coaches have only benched a player for one game when disciplinary action was needed, he said. ""There has to be something drastic enough [done] to make a difference,"" he said. Last year coaches made surprise and scheduled visits to athletes' dorms to check up on them. McMul-len said the program worked well and he does not know why it is not being implemented this year. Credits or not,Towson State course sends in the clowns By Glenn Small Ste'rh de Towson State classroom bustles. Orl,tuts work eagerly; some using the Th:""lothod; others, the wet-method. he -0,13r�fessor offers his assistance as obsec,eck-s each student's progress. He (104,C ,es a student having trouble. ""I der ,, gun, k you're using enough pow- �i ;t' tie tells the beginning student, Rea1i,%.1 out the exact area of concern. her mistake, the student M adds more powder. an ea otL nwhile, the instructor has found 4 iier student needing help. Discover- ,41e problem, the professor asks, You try the alcohol?"" ""Yes, I w long ago?"" used it a half hour before I came."" ""Oh,"" the professor said, ""It usually works better when you use it right before you begin. Try that next time and see."" Is this introduction to chemistry, inorganic combinations? No. It's fundamentals of clowning, make-up application. What institution of higher learning would offer such a course? Towson State would, and does. The fundamentals class is taught at the University informally by Martin Kurland, a professional clown who takes clowning seriously. The 8 week course, which Kurland also teaches at Anne Arundel Com-munity College and for various Baltimore area high schools, covers clown history and background, make-up application, costuming, clown ethics, magic, balloon sculpture, and more. The 46-year-old Kurland brings to the classroom 22 years of practical ex-perience as a clown, and makes his students aware that ""real"" clowns are special. To children, Kurland explains, clowns are not people, they are demi-gods. So students learn that a good clown will not just put make-up on his face, but will cover all exposed skin, in-cluding the back of the neck and the ears. Clowns don't wear make-up, it's their skin. In addition, students learn clown ethics. Students are taught not to smoke cigarettes, drink alcoholic beverages, or eat food when in front of an audience or in costume. The ethics are those of the professional clown organization called Clowns of America of which Kurland has been a member since its beginning. Most of his students join Student journalists get the axe afAt,931-IQUERQUE, NM (CPS)-A week tile College Board nervously SchnT�eci Minority student scores on the eeitZstie Aptitude Test (SAT), an s':axl,about the scores in the Univer-flan7LINew Mexico Daily Lobo has in-- -'"" campus racial tensions, spark broa sit-in at the newspaper office, aticil,lg,ht on the resignation of one editor, Th`naY cost another her job. _ 13, editorial, which appeared in the ""bi�,""r 13th edition, was called hDie.Q'7,rearbi,M,ination Is Sometimes ,� and went on to say that the perhajc 01 class of 1981's SAT scores nan' 0-"".e;w hat everyone knew all along: whit'esl,',1,es are academically inferior to The a (to daY after the editorial appegred,t the ze_n, ca -pus new"" groups began a sit-in a 00 offices, pledging to stay until 13'atz c litor and resi editorial writer Mark a4 and editor Marcy McKinley 11 halsak resigned soon after the sit-in began, and the Student Publications Board temporarily suspended McKin-ley until she readied her defense. The week before, the College Board, which administers the SATs and other standardized tests, released scores ar-ranged ""by ethnic group"" for the first time. ""There's been an honest controversy on the board for the ten years we've col-lected the information about whether to release it to the public,"" says College Board spokesman Fred Moreno. In a preface to the report, board President George Hanford warned the statistics ""lend themselves to misinter-pretation."" The report showed that the white college-bound high school seniors of 1981 got higher scores than most other ethnic groups. Asian/Pacific American students got the highest math scores. Black students scored lower than the other six racial and ethnic groups. The data showed scores closely tied Clowns of America when they complete the course. As early as the 2nd class, students are in white face. Kurland gives his students a lengthy demonstratioh, and then they go to work. They apply a coat of white base first, and then proceed to paint eyebrows and a smile. Kurland demonstrates proper outlining techni-ques, and tells his students where to get good buys on brushes and make-up. After students have put on their clown face, each student must stand in front of the class and listen to construc-tive criticism from Kurland and the en-tire class. Everyone says what they like and what they don't like about a stu-dent's clown face. Each week, as the class progresses, students practice their make-up skills, and add clothing and a wig, all the while developing their own character whom they will eventually name. By the end of the course students have a full costumed clown character with a funny name, and when they become that character they abandon who they really are to be a clown. Students will not, Kurland teaches, either tell their real names or answer to them while in the clown costume. It's all part of his pro-fessional approach to clowning. Kurland tells about when he began as a clown, working in hospitals, for birth-day parties and store openings. Back then clowns did not teach you anything, Kurland said, they considered their secrets tricks of the trade. But now it's different, Kurland adds, with clowning growing tremendously each year. Although his students eventually become his competition, Kurland, who owns and operates a family entertain-ment business called Clowns Unlim-ited, says he doesn't mind. He would rather see professional competition than those who he calls ""greasers."" Greasers are people who throw on some make-up and clothes, and pretend to be real clowns. They ruin the reputation of clowns, Kurland said. The current clowning course ended two days ago with students taking their ""final exam"" at St. Joseph Hospital's pediatric ward. The emphasis of the class has been make-up, costume and character; students getting themselves established physically as a clown. An advanced clowning course is offered at the University beginning next Tuesday. Many of the fifteen who took the fun-damentals class at the University plan to take the advanced clowning course, and some of Kurland's Anne Arundel See CLOWNS, page 2 to parents' income level and educa-tional level. In general, the poorer the student's family, the worse he or she scores. Perhaps in anticipation of a political reaction to the release of the scores, the College Board followed the report up with a press release showing how dramatically black students' scores have gone up since 1971, and how significantly that rise contributed to the overall increase in SAT average scores in 1981. The board ultimately decided to release the data because ""of the number of requests (for the informa-tion) we get from researchers,"" because ""of the charges of secrecy often leveled at the College Board,"" and because the data ""reinforce the board's position that, in order to increase ac-cess to education, this country's going to have to do something about making up the deficit in the educational ex-periences of minority students."" Inmates can wash t heir time away By James Hunt Everyone, it seems, is trying to save money these days and the Baltimore County government is no exception. Faced with declining federal revenue to help maintain county property from parks to police cruisers, the county government has been tapping an unexpected resource to fill the gap: prison inmates. Since the middle of last summer the county has allowed ""carefully screened minimum security inmates"" to work for the Department of Recreation and Parks and the Department of Central Services, according to Charles H. Hickey, county sheriff. Hickey's assistant, Henry Stewart, directs the program at the county's work release center. The center, formerly the Baltimore County Jail, is on Burke Avenue across from the Residence Tower. The inmates there are put to work performing such tasks as cleaning parks and washing county vehicles. In return for their services, the inmates' prison sentences are reduced, Hickey said. A spokesman at the center described it simply as ""a county program to wash its own cars and save money"" and said that security at the facility was ""not an issue"" since the program includes no ""serious offenders."" Hickey termed the program ""excellent . .. the best run in the state."" After the county jail was moved to a new building on Kenilworth Avenue last year, the work-release program was moved to the Burke Avenue facility. Minimum-secu-rity inmates were then added to the program to ""give them a constructive outlet and integrate them back into society,"" Hickey said. in this issue John Simpson takes a look at vandalism at Towson State in the first of a two-part series page 3 Towson State received a rude welcoming to big-time football by the Blue Hens of Delaware last Saturday page 7 Will there be trick-or-treat this year or in years to come? Steve Blake gives his thoughts while John O'Loughlin reminisces about Russia page 9 "