tl19691003-000 "totverlight Vol. XXII, No. 3 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 October 3, 1969 TSC satisfies HEW ultimatum; black student programs begun by STEPHANIE TOLEN As a result of more aggressie admissions procedures for recruit-ing black students, Towson's Ne-gro enrollment increased 100 per-cent over last year. These newly implemented pol-icies include: 1. A greater attempt will be made to visit high schools in the Baltimore-Washington. D.C. area, which have a high percen-tage of black students. When pos-sible, black students presently en-rolled at Towson State will ac-company the Admissions Office rep-resentative and talk candidly with the high school students. 2. The Admissions Office works losely with agencies that can iden-tify needy or disadvantaged stu-dents and provide them with a catalog and financial aid infor-mation. - Groups tour campus 3. Groups of black students will tour the TSC campus and some groups will stay overnight in the dormitories to see how they would like campus life. Wayne Sigler, Assistant Direc-tor of Admissions, says that they are trying to get younger students interested in Towson, because by the time they are seniors in high school, their choice is already made. Now they try to have the name ""Towson"" before the prospective student by the ninth grade. These new programs are the re-sult of a 120-day ultimatum issued by the Department of Health, Ed-ucation, and Welfare last March. HEW announced that ""the six state colleges and the University of Maryland were radically segre-gated,"" thereby breaking a fed-eral law, and warned the Board of Trustees that it had 120 days to submit a satisfactory proposal for desegregation. In an attempt to satisfy HEW's demands, Towson hired a larger number of black faculty and ad-ministrative personnel this year. Four black administrators were hired in the following areas: fin-ancial aid, counseling, admissions, and coordination. Ten faculty members currently teach in six separate departments, while 127 other black employees work on campus. According to Kenneth A. Shaw, Acting Dean of the College, Tow-son is counting heavily on Julius Chapman, newly appointed Coordi-nator of Opportunity Programs, ""to provide much of the staff work to turn a positive commitment in-to constructive action."" Chapman will assist as a cata-lyst in recruiting black students and will coordinate on-campus spe-cial services, including reading and writing skills, laboratory, spe-cial tutoring, counseling, and gen-eral student advising. College sensitizing He will also work with the stu-dent body, faculty, and other state colleges to make the exchange pro-gram work and will attempt to sensitize the entire college com-munity to problems in intergroup relations. Another program includes a full-time black counselor who is avail-able for consultation in the Coun-seling Center. For those students who need improvement in their basic reading and writing skills, a skills laboratory will be avail-able in a few weeks in Tempor-aries 16F and 17F. Black stu-dents will tutor the individual stu-dents who need special assistance. More funds needed According to Dr. Joseph W. Cox, Assistant to the Dean of the Col-lege, efforts to encourage black ap-plicants to Towson ""will have to be more aggressive,"" than before. It ""requires a change in patterns of thinking in regular high schools"" and involves a lot of publicity. ""Maryland just doesn't have the scholarship funds in existence. ?����?? ?�?�� Both state and federal govern-ments are going to have to make more funds available."" There are 112 black students presently enrolled at Towson, which is slightly greater than two per-cent of the entire student body. Students must be welcome In a letter to Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, former President of Tow-son State College, Dr. Eloise Sev-erinson, Regional Civil Rights Di-rector from HEW, said that ""it is important for the sake of all students within the institution that people from all backgrounds and from minority groups be made to feel welcome at Towson State College."" She continues that HEW was ""gratified to observe that Tow-son had already undertaken sev-eral projects in pursuit of this goal well in advance of HEW's late summer investigation of the campus situation. Representatives from HEW ex-pect to ""revisit Towson in approxi-mately one year to assess its com-pliance status."" SGA plans Viet prayers, march On October 15, there will be a nationwide moratorium on the Viet-nam War organized by the Nation-al Vietnam Moratorium Committee. The Student Goverment Association is not a part of this national pro-gram but it will sponsor a day of education, consciousness, and con-cern about the War. The Coalition for New Politics and the SGA have put together a combination of activities designed to dramatize student concern over Vietnam. The CNP's program involves a series of films on the War, includ-ing a documentary produced by, a Towson student, a rally, an open forum, door-to-door canvassing, and a prayer meeting. The rally will feature speakers and folksingers but will also have activities; scheduled an open platform for statements corcerning the war, both pro and con, from any one who wants to speak. A prayer meeting and a march to the Towson courthouse, where a list of the war dead will be read, will complete the day's ac-tivities. Plans are also being made to can-vass the Towson community for support of Congressman Charles Godell's (R, NY) House bill, which calls for the withdrawal of all Uni-ted States troops from Vietnam by December 1, 1970. The SGA's participation in the day will involve draft counseling for students wishing to know Selective Service laws as they relate to them individually, sponsorship of the film program, and possibly a talk by a US Senator on the war and related aspects of it. Congressmen support students; will act on moratorium day Fred Harris, the Democratic US Senator from Oklahoma, is heading a campaign within Congress to gain support for the nationwide Viet-nam Moratorium on October 15. Twenty-four congressmen have a-greed to support this protest and will attempt to propse a resolution to withdraw troops from Vietnam on a systematic basis. The senators are also trying to gain speaking platforms in the Sen-ate on that day and plan to disrupt SGA studies academic reform; grading system is one target by JOSEPH KETZNER Hoping to inspire scholastic ref-ormation, the Academic and Edu-cation Reform Committee, headed by Tom Walkiewicz, Student Gov-ernment Vice-President, expects to present suggestions for change at Towson in the near ftuure. Walkiewicz observed that, ""the receptiveness toward student initi-ated reform has given us the incen-tive to get out and try to change some basic faults in the kind of education we are getting at TSC."" Administration use ""The primary goal of the com-mittee will be to formulate a pre-liminary report based on research and opinion samples which we hope will be used by the administration as a basis for formal steps toward change. We need to show them that students are interested and capable of working for reform."" One of the more controversial subjects under study is the grad-ing system, long thought to be out-dated and inflexible. Grading system study The chairman concedes that no faculty members are on the com-mittee but states that he is ""keep-ing in touch"" for faculty sugges-tions on changes pertaining to the grading system. ""At this point we are not sure what kind of reform will be sug-gested. We are going to look very hard at various applications of pass-fail as well as A, B, C � no credit systems, whereby a student its daily ""business as usual"" by cutting attendance. President Richard Nixon feels that nationwide dissension will only prolong the war by causing the Vietcong to wait things out rather than negotiate. Harris feels, how-ever, that this is ""the same old thing that we have heard before."" Senators Franch Church (Idaho) and George S. McGovern (S.D.) and representatives John Brademus (Ind.) and Morris K. Udall (Ariz.) are planning to draft the proposals. Other senators involved are Sena-tor Charles Godell (N.Y.), Senator Mark 0. Hatfield (Ore.) and Sen-ator Eugene J. McCarthy (Minn.). can elect at any a D grade."" The committee is scheduled to report back to the SGA Senate on October 21. The outcome of its ef-forts will be determined by admin-istration reaction. time not to record Photo by Quante TOM WALKIEWICZ, SGA Vice President and chairman, confers with Neil Van Dyke and Pat Tur-ner, Senators from the Class of '72, at the first meeting of the Academic and Educational Reform Committee. Ittside: Ot- Football Learning Trtt 3 Rookie Week . Warrcn Ahlo-re 4 "
