The Towerlight, October 29, 1976

tl19761029-000 "Foot/mil U.S So fish II 1'� See pow,8 ottierit Swine litt shots WetitteS v e !Mae 3 Vol. LXIX, N o . 8 Vassar Clements in concert Clements concert seen by 228 people by Paul J. Gilmore A small crowd of 228 people was present on the third floor of the University Union last Sunday, to hear the first SGA-sponsored concert in two years. Rich Mountain Tower and Vassar Clements and his Newgrass band played to the small but enthusiastic audience for ap-proximately two-and-a-half, hours. ""Entertainment-wise it was a great success,"" stated Matt McGlone, SGA Secretary of Institu-tional and Community Develop-ment. But, ""financially, by no meets was it a success,"" he added, pointing out that only 170 persons paid to hear the concert. The remaining 58 attended on compli-mentary tickets. McGlone, who was the director of the event, speculated about why the concert did not do very well. ""I tried to keep it on campus,"" he said, explaining why little advertising was done off-campus. ""I think the students deserve that, but they didn't go for it,"" he said. McGlone also said that by the time he realized ticket sales were not going well, it was too late to start serious off-campus advertising. Vassar Clements himself ex-pressed a concern over the financial state of the affair. ""I hope they don't lose a lot of money,"" he said after the concert. ""I guess I should get over that feeling, but I never do,"" he added. McGlone could not give an exact figure indicating how much money the SGA lost, but he did give a brief account of his expenses. Against $765 in gate receipts, McGlone had to pay Clements $1,500, plus the cost of Rich Mountain Tower, lighting, sound, and advertising. ""I'm working on something now to recover our loss,"" McGlone stated. This unspecified project would carry very limited financial risk for the SGA, according to McGlone. Contestants set to swing in weekend's Dancethon by Steve Jones ""Dance Around the Clock,"" or 'l'owson's version of '""rhey Shoot Horses, Don't They,"" will be held in the main Lounge of the University Union, from 9 p.m. Saturday until 9 P.m. Sunday. The dance marathon, which is sponsored by the Maryland Associ-ation for Retarded Citizens (MARC), and coordinated by the American Society for Personnel Administra-tion and the Campus Union Board, is expected to be a major fund raiser for the organization. This weekend's competition is the Preliminary event, with the finals of the marathon planned for the weekend of December 3 to 5, in Burdick Hall. In order to participate, contact either G. E. Woodford (321-2275), or Carol Baron (321-2268) at the University, or Sue Dagurt at the MARC office (366-3410). A dancing couple can be,sponsored by a school organization, community civic or service organization, or can enter on an individual basis. In addition to the dance mara-thon, there will also be a pie-throwing cohtest, according to Woodford. He expects to raise $500 from the pie-throwing contest, and expects to collect between $1,500 and $2,000 overall. Woodford said he would like to ""see the support of every member of the Towson student body"" in some capacity, either as an active participant or as a monetary contributor. Each participating couple must arrive two hours prior to the dance for final registration and instruction.. Each couple will have a coded container registered to them at the dance. Filled containers and large sums of money are to be taken immediately to the Dance Marathon Coordinator. Contributions can be made to a dancing couple up until the final minute of the Marathon. The winners will be announced as soon as all the money has been counted. In case of a tie, duplicate prizes will be awarded. There are only a few rules involved in running a dance marathon. Couples will be required to dance continuously during danc-ing periods and to remain on the dance floor. Excluding emergencies, any individual who leaves the dance floor during dancing hours will be disqualified from the Marathon. If one of the partners of the dancing couple drops out prior to the preliminaries on Saturday, a new' partner may be substituted. How-ever, once the marathon has begun, couples may not exchange or substitute partners. To win each marathon (prelimi-naries and finals), a couple must survive the entire contest and raise the most meney. The top three finishing couples in the preliminaries will be eligible to compete in the finals. In the finals, the first-place couple will collect the $1,000 grand prize. TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY ! October 29, 1976 Carmichael urges black unity by Ruth Ann Leftridge and Kathy Pascuzzi It is ""only through the organization of our people that we will be free,"" 'said Stokely Car-michael, black revolutionary. In an appearance sponsored by the Black Student Union last Friday, Car-michael told a predominantly black audience of the importance of unity among blacks. He paced in front of the audience, questioning students about the degree of organization of blacks in various parts of the world. In response to his question, ""Are we organized at Towson State Univer-sity?,"" the crowd shouted, ""No!"" Carmichael, a representative of the All African Peoples' Revolution-ary Party, often referred to ""the enemy,"" whom, he said, blacks should ""struggle consistently"" against. ""The enemy is always on the case,"" he said. ""When we come to fight him, we must fight him without mercy."" To fight the enemy, Carmichael urged the formation of an army. This army would be made up of blacks from various parts of the globe. He also talked about black people's self-image. He said that blacks should only say good things about each other because, ""Once you say something had about your peopk, you're helping the enemy."" Carmichael said the blacks' fight for self-respect is difficult because, ""Everywhere in this society, we are told Africans are no good."" Television, radio, movies and textbooks say, ""we ain't no good,"" he said. Carmichael added an attack on American attitudes, saying, ""This country is doing everything possible to make us ashamed of ourselves."" Ile said this is due to the ""backward"" capitalist system. Car-michael said that America is ""the most pOlitically backward country on the earth."" He explained that many Americans oppose communism without understanding it. Carmichael returned often to the need for struggle because ""even your life itself is not more important than the people's liberation."" Dean Julius Chapman, TSU's director of Minority Relations, said, ""I liked the format of the lecture. It involved people."" Chapman also called the lecture ""very motivational and inspiring."" The Minority Dean said he ""found what Stokely had to say inspiring and I think it was needed. ' ' ""As far as the Towson community reflects the general society,' Chapman sees a need for more organization among blacks on canmus. Full year offreshin an composition suggested Stokely Carmichael Proposed general education requirements criticized by Pete Binns Smooth passage of proposed changes in the general education requirements seems to be in some doubt this week after a recent flurry of memoranda and letters written by the Academic Council and faculty members who are against the 'proposal. The proposal is the work of a task force, established last year by the Curriculum I Committee of the Academic Council. The purpose of the group was to update the present requirements. Among the proposed changes is the requirement of one college-level writing course other than freshman composition, and the rearrangement of academic disciplines into groups different from those in the present set of requirements. In a Sept. 29 memorandum sent to the faculty, Henry Sanborn of the economics department, criticized the task force proposal and suggested some possible revisions. Sanborn's suggestons include the requirement of one year, rather than one semester, of freshman composi-tion. He also objects to the proposed requirement that students take four ""Humanities"" courses, including courses from at least three of the four disciplines of English, history, philosophy, and modern languages. According to Sanborn, this would direct more students into history and fewer into the other social sciences�anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology. Yet the primary and secondary schools provide more training in history than in any other social science."" Officer reprimanded in Glen incident by Bill Stetka Director of Campus Police Gene Dawson has ""verbally reprimand-ed' ' a Towson State University Police officer following an Oct. 13 incident involving three TSU stu-dents in the Glen. ""The officer was wrong and he has been verbally reprimanded,"" Dawson said. after investigating What several students termed ""police harassment"" in the Glen. Dawson would not say that it was ""harassment."" terming it ""a mistake on the part of the officer."" ""I've never known him to harass anyone,"" Dawson said. Dawson said that the officer was at the Smith Hall loading dock when he ""heard some noise"" in the Glen below. Some, profanity w as being used. according to Dawson, and the officer in question went down and ordered the three students to leave the Glen area. �Mere was some reluctance to show their ID cards,"" said Dawson, who added that when the students did show their student identifica-tion, the officer then should have turned away. He said the Glen has been a frequent hangout of juveniles, some of whom do damage to the area. ""The Glen is as much a part of this University as the first floor of the University Union,"" said Dawson about student use of the Glen. He said there is no rule to keep students out of the Glen regardless of whether or not there Was a scheduled event in the Glen. 'All I can say is he was wrong,"" Dawson reiterated. Dawson also stated that, from the description given, the man referred to as a police officer in another Oct. 13 incident ""definitely wasn't anyone in my department."" In a Letter to the Editor in today's Towerlight. a student claims he was approached by a ""well dressed man in his thirties"" who asked him for -.aid ht. has .1 : 1 who that mail may have been. uut ruled out anyone in the Tsu Pn!i. Department. Da w soh that he had no pi i n rthesna.c . w ho were ill their thirties. 1-h, also ,iiggested that it was not a Baltimore County detective because ""they would notify us if they were coming on campus."" Dawson said that without a better description, he could not tell who the man might be. Both Dawson and Bob Ryan, one of two Towson State plainclothes policemen, said that several Towson State staff personnel kept an eye on the Glen area. Ryan said that there are ""other staff members who are concerned"" about juveniles who use the Glen as a place to drink beer, and about the damage that has been done to several structures in the Glen. Dawson added that the area is patrolled at random times, as is the rest of the campus, because ""it's isolated and anything can go on down there."" Dining Services will donate 25 cents from every whole pizza sold tonight at the Tiger's Lair to MARC (Maryland Association for Retarded Citizens). Sanborn suggests eliminating the humanities category entirely, put-ting the disciplines presently pro-posed for that category into other categories. History would be put back with the other social sciences. In a written statement dated Oct. 20, the members of the department of geography and environmental planning said they ""unanimously oppose"" the task force's proposal and agree with ""many of the revisions suggested by . . . San-born."" The statement says that ""the task force's handling of (the humanities category) leaves no choice for students taking a BS degree . . . BS students need no foreign language and are therefore lock-stepped into the three other disciplines."" Around 90 percent of Towson students choose the BS program, according to Tom Knox, �associate dean of students. Donald Craver, co-chairperson of the English department, said he ""certainly agree(s)"" with the proposal to extend freshman com-position. He said the course could ""spend more time on things students need and extend into areas"" as well. Joanne Finegan, SGA president and member of the Academic Council, has also voiced objection to the requirements proposed by the task force in an Oct. 27 memoran-dum. She agrees with Sanborn and the geography department that history should remain in the social sciences. Finegan also raises new objec-tions, one of which is that ""from the Please turn to page 5 President Fisher congratulates Carrie Lee Johnson as Homecoming Queen. TL Photo by Brian Folus Hanks says Senate 'didn't understand' ESU 's supplementary budget request by Stephen Verch Responding to last week's Senate decision not to approve a $3,330.30 supplementary budget for the Towson State Black Student Union, BSU President Erik Hanks com-mented that, ""They (the Senate) turned down a bill that they didn't even understand."" In a vote that was split along racial lines, 11 white senators voted against the allocation, while six black senators voted in favor. According to Hanks, his organi-zation had planned a myriad of cultural events and would have to cancel some events due to a lack of necessary funds. ""We will not be able to sponsor those cultural activities which are so sorrily needed by black students. Black students feel isolated at Towson,"" said Hanks. Oct. 15, the BSU submitted a supplementary budget request of approximately $6,600 to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The committee was scheduled to meet the following Monday and talk with BSU representatives. Over that weekend, Hanks stated that BSU officers met with two black senators, Tony Tubman and Sophia Stevens. After talking about the supplementary request, it was decided that a new request would be submitted Monday at the committee hearing. This request was $3,330.30. ""We figured that the $3,000 would be a lot more suitable to the Committee. Our overall opinion was to shave as much as possible off the original request,"" said Hanks. ""Every dime we asked for was justified."" The ""shaving"" of approximately $3,300 from the original request resulted in dropping two more planned dances, an additional guest speaker, and switching to another organization (the Ira Alridge Play-ers) for a fashion show that would be less expensive. Hanks said that in his opinion, ""The white senators had already decided in their minds not to vote for the supplementary budget."" In reaction to Hank' comments, Jo Lee Lesser, a white senator, stated what she thought the Senate's reason was for disapproving the supplementary request. ""We're not doing it (disapproving the budget allocation) because they're black . . . it's because they've still got $9,000 in the bank,"" said Lesser. Senate Parliamentarian Richard Andrews also felt the Senate did not approve the request because of the over-$9,000 currently in the BSU budget. ""The Senate said it was not going to allocate a supplementary budget to any organization that still had plenty of money in its budget,"" he said. Lesser explained that while the supplementary presentation by the BSU on Oct. 18 was well received, the committee declined to vote either favorably or unfavorably on the matter. It was decided that the committee would readjourn the next day at 3:30 p.m. to vote on their reaction to the request. 'On the surface, the supple-mentary request looked fine, but we have to investigate these matters before we go around giving out students' money,"" said Lesser. With four of the committee's seven members present on Tuesday, Oct. 19, the vote was 4-0 to report the request unfavorably to the Senate meeting that day. The four senators who voted were white. Black Committee members Jae Boston and Sophia Stevens arrived late to the Tuesday committee meeting and were informed of the vote, said Lesser. Though either of the two could have requested another vote, Lesser stated that neither did. When it was reported unfavorably at the Senate meeting, a very heated debate ensued and the result was a defeat for the BSU on a vote that saw only the six black senators vote for the request. Hanks mentioned that the BSU will submit another supplementary request within approximately two weeks. "