The Towerlight, October 8, 1976

tl19761008-000 "See page 2 VOL LXIX N() 5 A.ottittitg TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Soccer vs. Loyola Tues. night at 8 OCTOBER 81 1976 In the Senate: Finegan vetoes part-time student bill by Tom Troy Jr. SGA President Joanne Finegan Tuesday vetoed a Senate bill intended to bring evening and part-time students into the SGA. Senator Charles Klein called for an override of Finegan's veto but was unable to compile a two-thirds vote of the Senate. ""That, as far as I know, is the first time a veto has not been overridden in at least a year,"" observed Richard Andrews, SGA Parliamentar-ian. The bill that was vetoed would have allowed evening and part-time students to join the student government for a fee of $10. Finegan said, To confer all Senators listen to discussion on speakers bill. TL photo by Ken Vane Box office to surcharge tickets to SGA events Assistant Manager of the University Union, Robert Raeuerle, said the TSU box Office will soon be charging a surcharge on all tickets to SGA Organization events. Money collected as sur-charge will be used to make Physical improvements to the box office. These improve-nients include a marquee to advertise coming events, ticket windows, a phone answering machine to play a recording of coming attrac-tions and a consultation service. Previously, a 25-cent sur-charge has been required for all tickets sold to off-campus organizations. ""We're really just getting in line with what other colleges and universities are doing,"" said Baeuerle. Mark London, manager of the University Union, said, ""We checked with other schools and found that the ten cents (surcharge) was really a minimal amount."" A ten-cent maximum or five cent mini-mum surcharge is being planned for TSC. According to Baeuerle, im-provements to the box office should be started by October Shuttlebus service to Union sought � next semester. According to McCabe, the main obstacle at the moment is the safety factor. He says the buses definitely have a problem squeezing through lot 11. Several parking spaces will have to be eliminated from the lot to facilitate bus movement. Final approval of the plan, however, must come when it is proposed before the Traffic Committee, whose term doesn't start until October 15, The proposed expansion a service is being planned to coincide with the opening of the new Physical Education complex. Parking Services is already in the process of scheduling the new routes for next semester. by Mike Laughter A plan to expand shuttlebus service to the University Union for next semester is now under Consideration. SGA Vice-President Nancy Payne feels the expanded service is necessary to facili-tate movement of students to the student center. She feels ,at present they don't use the buses because the only stop, Glen Esk, is itself quite a Instance from the center. The feasibility of the idea is i2der study. Both Jay mcCabe, parking services s,�unervisor, and Charles tckels, director of special services, are optimistic about the plan being implemented or November. It's now a ""question of scheduling,"" he said. the rights and privileges shared by all other members of the SGA on these students for $10 is not fair to the constituency you currently represent - the full-time students."" Finegan suggested that ""more research"" is necessary to arrive at an equitable plan. The Senate spent a good deal of time arguing a new bill introduced by Jeff Woodard that would change the present system of taking Speaker Series lecturers out to dinner. Until now, speakers have been escorted to dinner by members of the executive branch. Jeff Woodard, Spencer Leckron, and others, argued that senators and lay students should be repre-sented at these dinners. The bill has been re-committed for consideration next week. A vacancy is now open in the Senate for a ""senator-at-large."" Jeff Arrington re-signed to devote more time to his soccer team. Petitions of candidates are due in the Senate Office on Thursday. Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. Senate appropriated $832 t(. the Md. Model State Legisla-ture, and $600 to the Movie Company. Nancy Payne Jeff Woodard Payne, Woodard still at odds over his ouster as chairperson by Tom Troy ""I'm not trying to be an adversary to Jeff,"" said Nancy Payne, vice president of the SGA, this week in response to charges made last week of racism and incompetence by Senator Jeff Woodard. The issue that divides Payne and Woodard, apparently, is the University Affairs Com-mittee chairpersonship. Woodard discovered two weeks, ago that he had been voted outof the position in favor of Senator Mark Land. ""It wasn't my idea (to oust Woodard), She explained. ""I was approached by a number of people who wanted him out but didn't feel that they could take the action, or didn't want to be the bad guy. I had to do it, and I knew full well what the repurcussions would be."" Woodard feels he was deceived. ""It was unjustified. She should have approached me if I was doing something wrong, which I wasn't. In-stead, Nancy asked me to bee on the Appropriations com-mittee and she did it in a way to make me look like I was indispensible to the committ-tee. ""I was suspicious when she asked me to be Appropriations because of my 'strong stand.' She said to me 'it's not like I'm trying to remove you from the chairmanship, because I think you're doing a fine job.' ""I think the basic strategy by losing two of my bills and kicking me out of the chairmanship is to get me to resign from Senate. But I'm going to stay with Senate and continue to work for bills that will bring equality to the SGA. And probably plan on running for SGA president next year,"" said Woodard. ""That was a very petty thing for him to do,"" said Payne. ""He wanted to be vindictive and that (the lost bills) was the only thing for him to latch onto. He thought I had hurt him so he had to hurt me back."" ""Basically, in my struggles with the SGA, I've tried to stress equality and I feel that equality should be given me in turn, whter whether it be in the press or in the senate,"" concluded Jeff Woodard. think that the reporter didn't do a good enough job of researching the story, because if (he'd) found that the bills were in Nancy Payne's desk, (he) would have had a better, more fuller story."" added Woodard. Payne admits that one of the lost bills was found on her desk, but blames it on carelessness rather than rac-ism. ""The filing system here is atrocious. We lose things all the time. From now on there's a new policy: a bill has to be handed directly to me or Donna (Serdehely, SGA sec-retary), none of this mishmash with the hopper."" But Woodard is suspicious. ""The Iota Phi Theta bill had already been typed up and was on the secretary's desk. When I picked it up to read it, she said not to go anywhere with it. So I put it back down, and then it was lost, and I would say it was Nancy's fault,"" said Woodard. Woodard said he was ""surprised"" to see his exple-tives quoted verbatim on the Please turn to page 5 Top SGA executives refute charges of 'power struggle' by Bill Stetka The three top elected officials of the SGA this week eefuted charges made by Gerry Hartung and Mark Lewis that there was a ""power struggle among the top executives."" President Joanne Finegan, Vice President Nancy. Payne and Treasurer Erik Perkins all flatly denied that there was a problem in their branch of the SGA, adding that they were surprised to hear comments such as that made. Last week, after resigning from their posts as secretaries of Development and Services, Lewis and Hartung remarked that a ""power struggle among the top executives has to Stop.'' Hartung said, ""This year, already, everybody wants to be president."" Payne remarked that ""Ger-ry and Mark weren't around much to see"" what was happening in the SGA. She added that, for the three executives,"" the roles of president, vice president and treasurer are getting more well . defined ."" ""We're settling into our positions,"" Payne said. Finegan said ""I see no basis in what they said. It's totally unfounded."" She added that it sounded like a case of ""sour grapes"" to her. Payne said there was one incident where she wrote a letter to the Academic Council with the ""Student Govern-ment"" view on a particular matter. Finegan reminded her that it was not the ""Student Government"" view, but was Payne's own personal view on the matter, and asked her to make that change. Payne agreed. ""If that's what they're referring to, something's wrong,"" Payne said. ""I send a lot of letters, but Joanne sees them."" She added that the two ""hash out differences"" in opinion, but that it's never that serious. Perkins, who is the only underclassman of the � three elected executives, said he has ""no aspirations of higher office"" now or in the future. He said he would like to stay as treasurer. Payne said her ""prime concerns"" as vice president are handling Senate business and other ""duties that are funneled down"" from the president. Richard Andrews, the Sen-ate parliamentarian, who was quoted by Hartung as being the Finegan administration's biggest mistake thus far. said ""1 am not aware that there is a power struggle in the SGA, and I am there all day every day .': � . � He added that � Nancy disagrees with Joanne occas-sionally with things that come UI in Senate,"" but Andrews said this, to his knowledge, has never created any type of power struggle. ' � ""If someone was usurping power, sure Joanne would tell them in no uncertain terms,"" Andrews said. The parlimentarian, in ex-plaining the roles of the three officers, said the ""Vice presi-dent has one foot in the executive branch and one foot in the legislative branch"" because of her association with the Senate. ""Erik has just about equal financial power with the president,"" Andrews said, but added that the president has more power of influence ""in that the administration will take Joanne's word before they take Erik's."" 'Priorities' stall bookstore computer completion by Stephen Verch Nearly $8,000 worth of a $44,400 computer system in-stalled in the bookstore last spring is collecting dust, Al Duke, manager of the book-store, said recently. Duke offered some possible explanations for the delay in putting the system to use, and some of the possible repercus-sions. The target date for the system to be completely operational, including time necessary for programming, was originally winter 1975. Programming for the remain-der of the system is now targeted to begin in the third quarter of '77. ""I think it's a question of college-wide priorities. The bookstore is just one depart-ment. Our equipment hasn't been in a year yet. Other departments may have other Blood donor registration set Registration for the Annual Red Cross Drive will be held on Oct. 11, 12, 13, and 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor of the University Union near the bookstore. An even-ing registration period will be held Oct. 11 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Union be the cafeteria. Actual donations will be taken Oct. 1S. 19, 20, 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the main lounge on the second floor of the union, priorities."" said the bookstore manager. The electronic system is the result of a decision by Duke and others to replace the older, manual National Cash Register, which continually broke down and required repair. This new system, also an NCR product, was designed to do more than just speed up checkout procedures for stu-dents. It is supposed to provide for almost instantan-eous inventory accounting for any item in the bookstore. The system would make use of the Maryland State Computer Information System, located in Stephens Hall, and involve an NCR terminal hookup in the bookstore. Duke said that the bookstore is not completely ready for the computer hookup. He said that there were ""a few gray areas where it is not economically feasible to put an expensive price sticker on an item."" He was referring to the rectangu-lar stickers that incorporate a light sensitive printed code which is picked up by the wands used by the cashiers. The wands then transmit the code to the register which records the information. Those items for which tags are not ""economically fees � ible"" include such products as pens and pencils, since it is hard to place stickers on them, and they are hard to wand. If the entire system were hooked up, a cashier's wand at one of the checkout booths would pick up coded informa- Please turn to page 5 Towson students living at Goucher list 'advantages and disadvantages' by Steve Haas , ""The only thing that's really I-about living here is that there's no guys,"" reports Sandy Snider, describing her view of life as a Towson State student living at Goucher College. She is one of 112 Towson State female students residing lu Heubeck and Stimson Halls on the Goucher campus, which is located just off Dulaney Valley Road. Until this year, there were some men living in the dorms at Goucher. Various _Incidents"" caused the kioucher administrators ""not In invite them back,"" accord-ing to the Towson State il irector of Off-Campus Hous-ing, Jim Pickering. The Goucher campus seems 8 removed from Towson State a highway from a country �,ad, yet it is only a mile away. ne place is so quiet. It's a astoral setting within sight of he Baltimore Beltway and nitomizes the old Hollywood ,ereeption of college as ,hallowed halls"" set amidst the beauty of nature."" The campus abounds with rees and it is sheltered from the outside world by them. The school is predominantly old stone buildings, unlike the stark concrete behemoths aris-ing ominously from the TSU campus. From the outside, the proliferating advances of the world beyond Dulaney Valley Road seem to have bypassed Goucher. Into this setting, the crew of freshman and transfer stu-dents return each day from the faster-paced, over-crowded existence of Towson State students. More than 60 of them live in Jeffrey House, which consti-tues an entire wing of Heubeck Hall. The rest live in scattered parts of Stimson Hall, less than fifty yards away. Abby McLain has been in Jeffrey House for two seme-sters and is now president of the house council. She ex-plains, ""It's a really open, quiet atmosphere here. Tow-son is rather hectic on campus."" Linda Flick, a freshman in her first semester in Jeffrey House, claims, ""I'm going to stay here as long as I can. It's nice having the benefits of both schools."" The ""benefits"" are numer-ous. The women pay a semester room price that is midway between the Goucher and Towson totals, ""but the rooms here are bigger,"" Snider said. They have the option of using the Towson or Goucher meal plans. As a means of equalizing the two plans, Towson officials ""arranged with Goucher to allow the students to use Towson food coupons in their dining halls on weekends,"" Pickering said. The shuttle buses do not run between Goucher and Towson during weekends. Consensus among the girls, however, indicated a strong preference for Goucher food. They pay a median price for the board plan, too. Other benefits include easy access to the Johns Hopkins campus and their own Goucher ID cards, which prove surprisingly valuable. Naomi Montague, a sopho-more transfer student from Connecticut, referred to the Goucher image of being sort of ""elitish"" and existing for the purpose of meeting future Please turn to page 4 Stimson Hall is one of two Goucher College dormitories housing Towson State StUdents this year. TL Photo by Steve Haas "