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- The Towerlight, October 31, 1985
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- The October 31, 1985 issue of The Towerlight, the student newspaper of the Towson State University.
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The Towerlight, October 31, 1985
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tl19851031-000 "Minority fellowships offered The Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowships for Minorities will soon offer a total of fifty fellowships to attract minorities to the faculties of American colleges and universities. Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, black Americans, Mexican Awericans/chicanos, and Puerto Rictins are the groups who will be eligible to compete for the fellowships. These groups have been determined to be the Most underrepresented in the United States' Ph.D. population. The Foundation will offer 40 three-year predoctoral fellowships and 10 one-year dissertation fellowships. The awards will be Made in the following areas: behavioral and social sciences, humanities, engineering, Mathematics, physical and biological sciences, and for interdisciplinary programs made 'IP of two or more eligible disciplines. The fellowships will not be awarded to those students working toward degrees in areas such as business administration, health sciences, library science, or journalism. Students working toward terminal master's degrees, Ed.D. degrees, D.E.A. degrees, or practice-oriented professional degrees in areas such as law, medicine, or social work will also he ineligible for the awards. The winners of the national coMpetition for the fellowships will be able to use them at any accredited nonprofit United States higher education institution that offers the Ph.D. Or Sem. degree in the eligible fields. Each of the predoctoral fellowships will give the student a $10,000 annual stipend and $8.000 to the institution to cover the cost of tuition and fees. Students with dissertation fellowships will receive a $18,000 Stipend for the year-long tenure Without a institutional grant. Students who are beginning graduate school or are within one Year of completing their 41ssertation and plan to work trovard a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree 41� 11Y participate in the fellowship `stapetition. �University Report Sex still campus notes ?��������1�1, By EdvItil,�grdins Inside A babe in the belfry Lance Kalibber, ace de-tective, is back in a Hal-loween adventure 13. Museum of Zoology Student volunteers are helping expand, organize the museum 7 Tigers on a roll The Tigers upset Dela-ware State in an effort to claw their way to the top of the rankings 3. Selling out the U.S. for $$$$$ Traitors' motives are no longer ideological but avar-icious 13. thrives in students honor Raley universities , ""Sex in the halls of academia is alive and well and as prevalent 48 ever,"" said Ellen Sherman, author of an article on campus ;;x in the November issue of thouse magazine. Her article to some extent stiPported the claims of many 111 versity officials, who report inat sex on campus is Periencing a downward trend. 'he general feeling toward sex on c441Pus, Sherman said, is the result of a change in attitudes 4bout life. , ""Attitudes are a blend of 8'kties liberalism and eighties e�nservatism. Students know 1(1t)re, and what they know, they :low earlier, all of which is :Suiting in a new wariness as as a new sophistication soont sex."" tt. Sherman's article was partially eg,,ei result of surveys taken at ,;'Peges across the country. 0daY's students are more Ptical,"" one response from a efin ,,'Ini.yersity read, ""Casual sex is '4 1tely on the outs."" Another trend noted in the omhrvey is that while marriage is i h'' the upswing, there is an ;.'ereased reluctance to marry 'brit after college. Sherman tars this on a growing desire 14. ernployment after school Ilther than going straight into ill arried life. Corrections ci4 A photograph was incorrectly pr:tItified on last week's visuas Om as being Phi Kappa Sigma's 6�14 in the Homecoming parade. In 4.t. it was a joint entry from the 11.11 Sigma Kappa fraternity and the ta .11 Epsilon sorority. e Also, i last week's Campus Note ,k(theerning the Alumni thssoeiation's fifth annual Phone- :, it was incorrectly reported $8� $8,200 was raised. In fact, 274�00 was raised. rorsh.e 7'owerlight regrets the or- The Student Government Association (SGA) unanimously passed a resolution honoring Leonard Raley, Director of Alumni Services. The resolution, in part, praises Raley for his ""influential development of and the alumni services"" and his ""support for the SGA."" Raley graduated from Towson State in 1978 as a business major. He then served three years in the Admissions Office before his appointment as Director of Alumni Services. Raley leaves November 1 ""with mixed emotions"" for a similar position at the University of Maryland, in what he terms ""a career move'. He stated that the honor ""caught me by surprise. I though that kind of thing was reserved for deans and chancellors. It is a heck of an honor coming from the students, who made this job worthwhile."" He added that he would be ""sad to leave his colleagues"" but ""TSU won't get rid of me easily, I hope to stay active with volunteer work for the University."" In another action, the senate voted to permanently affiliate Alpha Epsilon Rho, an honors broadcasting organization. During the deliberations, Senator Chris Krivos stated that the ""organization was in shambles last year, but is now one of the top organizations on campus."" A ""very happy"" Karen Hamilton, Vice-President of the organization, said that the group ""tries to bridge the gap between the amateurs and pros."" She also expressed praise for Dr. John L. Mackerron, the faculty advisor for the group, saying, ""It's been his baby, he spends a lot of time working with us."" �Patrick Campbell Priest The Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 9 htTowson, Md 21204 October 31, 1985 Campus notes are continued on page 2. Towson gothic Edvms Laodins Not the Bastille, or Dracula's castle, or the Castle of Otranto; just Stephens Hall, staring out onto York road like Charon's boathouse, University receives 'poor'audit Ily 'I% He Wotan Towson State received a poor rating on a Maryland State audit conducted last spring,. The University's rating which has been marginal for the past few years, fell to poor for the first time due largely to a lack of internal controls in its financial operations. The audit report, which covers from November 30, 1983 to January 27, 1985, included 18 criticisms of the univer-sity, among them, failing to maintain internal control, failing to reconcile financial records often enough, failing to have adequate security on com-puter files, and failing to maintain transcripts for all full-time faculty. Two of the 18 remarks were repeated from the.previous audit, one item has been mentioned in two previous audits. Internal control involves dividing up financial workers' duties so that it is more difficult to embezzle money because no one person is responsible for seeing a transaction through the entire process of accepting, recor-ding, and depositing receipts. While in several instances internal control was not effectively maintain-ed, the report does not note any evidence of mismanagement or embezzlement. Donald McCulloh, director of business and finance, said ""I am very concerned that we got a poor rating. I am not as concerned about the content of the poor rating, these procedural problems. I would be much more con-cerned if money were missing."" While McCulloh classified the criticisms as procedural, he did acknowledge the importance of following the safeguards. 'Die auditors are pointing out that poor procedures can lead to that mismanagement of�funds. 3 It's a kind of thing that leaves you open,"" The auditors found little internal control in both the finance office and the University Union bookstore. I could say we had staf-fing needs, I could say a lot of things. But these would only be excuses, not reasons. I have no excuse. Donald McCulloh In the bookstore, ""the employees who received the collections from respective cashiers also reconciled the collections to the recorded cash receipts and prepared the bank deposits,"" the report said. ""However, there were no independent verifica-tions that all recorded collections were deposited."" In the finance office, the report notes that the accounts receivable supervisor who was responsible for preparing credits to student accounts ""also received the related cash receipts. This situation precluded ef-fective internal control since one employee had virtually complete con-trol over the related collection and record-keeping functions."" A University response to the .auditors' findings was included in the report. In each case, the University Outstanding women lauded by university By Jim Pickering Twelve local prominent black women were honored in an awards ceremony last Sunday in the Potomac Lounge. The ceremony was sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs. According to Camille Clay, acting director for the Office of Minority Af-fairs, ""there is too little recognition given to the successful black woman, especially in the Baltimore area."" Clay added that this type of event brings further awareness of the ac-complisments by prominent black women to the community."" Clay stressed the need for both the Univer-sity and student body to become ac-tive in this endeavor. Eleanor Alexander, decorative arts historian and one of the honorees, was the guest speaker. Alexander served most recently as Assistant Director and Decorative Arts Curator with the Afro-American Museum Project of the Ohio Historical Society. She discussed the life of the nineteenth century middle class black family, having done extensive research in this area. Her discussion included a slide presentation. ""Blacks during this time (the 1800s) were considered quasi-beings,"" said Alexander, ""like children, not yet capable of certain responsibilities, such as owning a nice home."" She said, ""black middle class families who had nice homes became role models for those who did not."" Other prominent women honored in-cluded Victorine Adams, retired coun-cilwoman who has the distinction of being the first black woman to be elected to the Baltimore City Council; Eva Anderson, choreographer and Artistic Director of the Baltimore Dance Theatre; Pauline Brooks, an entrepreneur who, from 1971-1973, served on the President's Task Force on Education and Training for Minor-ity Business Enterprise, Anna Curry, librarian and Director of the Enoch Pratt Library ( Pennsylvania Ave. Branch); Elizabeth Edmonds, prin-cipal and one of the most distinguish-ed black female educators in See AWARDS, page 11 maintains that it is in the process of making the corrections suggested. In the case of student reim-bursements, McCulloh said the receipts the supervisor handled were checks, not cash, so the University felt there was control. However, in 1984, it was reported in the Sun that a Community College of Baltimore employee had embezzled $388,880 in funds by allegedly forging reimbursement documents and draf-ting reimbursement checks to nonex-istent students. When asked how the CCB case might be similar to the University system of check reimbursement, Mc- Culloh said he was not familiar with the case. In each case, ""the procedures can be and should be corrected by the end of 1985,"" McCulloh said. The most frequently given explana-tions in the University responses for failing to follow established procedure were a lack of personnel, staff turn-overs, and computer malfunctions. In two cases, failure to promptly deposit cash in the bookstore and in the finance office and failing to pro-mptly report overdue accounts to the state Central Collection Unit, addi-tional personnel will be hired to im-prove efficiency, the University response sad. Regarding the explanations given in the report, McCulloh said, ""I could say we had staffing needs, I could say a lot of things. But these would only be excuses, not reasons. I have no ex-cuse."" See AUDIT, page 2 Some excerpts from thik audit report cash receipts: ""The Accounting Procedure Manual. ..states that oil receipts sholl be deposited daily or as often as Is practicable,..However, our tests disclosed that cash ocelots received at sever�, loca-tions were not promptly deposited."" federally sponsored student aid funds: The University may request federal funds as grant expen-ditures are being mode, However, the University did not always request reimbursements when the expenditures were be-ing made. ""...state funds which would hove otherwise been available for In-vestment purposes were used to finance these expenditures...we estimated that the State lost in-vestment Income totaling approx-imately $38,600. A similar situa-tion was commented upon in our preceding audit report."" In each case, the Untversity response stated that the Univer. sity is currently making the auditors' recommended changes. Private colleges freed from federal guidelines by ruling By Michele Ilari The following is the first of a two-part story on the ( 1?ights Hestoration Art, bill that could trigger sweeping changes American education. Some private colleges and univer-sities across the United States can now legally discriminate against women. This is due to a 1984 Supreme Court ruling that excused Grove City College in Pennsylvania from pledg-ing not to discriminate against women in all departments of the college. Formerly all colleges and univer-sities that received any federal money were required, under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, to guarantee that, ""No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance..."" Grove City and two other schools, the University of Richmond and Hillsdale College went to court to escape the law. According to the College Press Ser-vice, ""they've argued Title IX should not cover whole colleges, but only pro-grams that get or use the federal goverment's money. As far as many women's groups are concerned though, Title IX is the only tool with which to open admissions to some degree programs, build up female student scholarships, and add more money to women's athletics. The Supreme Court ruled that Title IX applied only to programs receiving direct federal financial aid, exactly what officials at Grove City were hop- ' ing for. ""We don't want to lose the authority to control our own destiny,"" said Robert W. Smith, director of public See GROVE CITY, page 2 "
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