The Towerlight, September 1, 1983

tl19830901-000 "A The Towe flight If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. �John Gals worthy PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 By Jerry Trout WCVT, Kramer air the candidates' debate By James Hunt For an hour Tuesday night, they met in Room 100 of the media center and debated the issues. The debate, broadcasted between 8 and 9 and co-sponsored by the campus radio station, WCVT, (along with the League of Women Voters) featured the five Democratic candidates for the Baltimore City Council presiden-cy. The candidates � incumbent presi-dent Clarence ""Du"" Bums, second District Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, former City States attorney William Swisher, community activist John Clark, and National Demotratic Policy Committee candidate Debra , Freeman � answered questions from a panel including Baltimore Sun reporter Ron Davis, News American reporter Camille Recchia and League president Boots Winter-stein. ""The whole debate went well in terms of addressing the issues,"" said Irwin Kran:or, rno:hrator and chi,4 organizer of the debate. Among the issues discussed: the qualifications of each candidate, the quality of educa-tion in the city, and limiting the power of the mayor. Winterstein agreed: ""the debate covered a breadth of issues, which is what we wanted."" She declined, however, to compare Tuesday's debate with the televised mayoral debate last July. ""I sat in the back of the studio for (the televised debate) and right up front for this one, so I really couldn't compare them."" Winterstein added that she thought the candidates did a good job answer-ing the questions, most of the time ""Sometimes they were 'schwaffling',"" she said with a broad smile. As might be expected during an hour-long session under the hot Kleigl lights, the candidates displayed a limited attention span while their fellow candidates were responding to questions. Some fidgeted and stared morosely into the crowd or into space while others appeared ready to nod off. Kramer, meanwhile, sat attentive and nearly motionless, directing ques-tions from the panel to the candidates and politely interrupting them when the one minute and twenty seconds allotted for each response was up. Kramer said he began planning for the event last May and decided he wanted to include ' the League of Women Voters to ""lend credibility"" to the debate. There was a question whether all the candidates would be invited following the appearance of Monroe Cornish on the televised mayoral debate Julj 22. On that which was also sponsored by the League of Women Voters, Cornish ig-nored all the questions asked him and instead talked about John Hinkley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. All the candidates were in-vited. After the debate, he was asked if he thought there were any highlights. ""Not really,"" Kramer said, ""well, maybe the arrival of Swisher."" Swisher arrived eight minutes into the program, after, he said, ""getting lost on the other side of campus."" ""I had to climb about three moun-tains to get here,"" he said, laughing. Campus radio gets a boost Towson State University's F'M radio station WCVT, has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission last July to increase the station's power to 10,000 watts, the station's general manager said. Teresa Hulle, WCVT's general manager, said Tuesday that the next step to making the power increase a reality is to send out a bid for a transmitter, which will be done next week. The process of selecting a con-tractor will take approximately three months, she added. Hulle said there will be no changes in the station's format but because the WCVT will be broadcasting to twice the area it does currently the early morning hours that the station usually does not broadcast will be filled with rock music. She said the station should be broad-casting at 10,000 watts by January after the new transmitter and antenna cable are installed. Hulle added that the antenna will be the same height, however, more bays will be added. Hulle also said Tony Falbe is now the station manager of WCVT. His position at the station is that of educa-tion coordinator but his role was broadened because of the station ex-pansion. His job is to ""keep the station consistent...during the transition period,"" she said. MPS September 1, 1983 Ribbon cutting October 6 Residence By Mike Judge and James Hunt On a ool March day in 1982, five men assembled with shovels on a muddy plot of ground in the Glen. Now, 16 months and $30 million later, four new residence towers and a glass-walled cafeteria have risen on the site. The five men, local public and private officials led by University President Hoke Smith, were break-ing ground for the towers, which opened last Wednesday, without much fanfare, a couple of weeks behind schedule, but within the $29,900,000 budget. Over 700 of an expected 1,600 students moved into the complex on the first day, assisted by Towson Center and Residence staff, who ran the elevators and pushed carts full of clothes, blankets, pillows and other necessities of residence life into the new dorms. 1.1 Towers open for business In most cases, the new residents moved in with a minimum of delay. ""We think this first move-in worked very well,"" said Charlie Eckels, director of events and Conference Services, who headed a committee formed last December to plan the move-in. University police assigted by restricting parking on Cross-Cam-pus drive and in the parking lot in front of the University Union to arriving residence students. Construction on the complex is approximately two to four weeks behind schedule, according to University officials. Most of the remaining work involves sodding the open spaces around the build-ings and touching up the paint in several areas, although several residents complained of workers ""drilling around [their] doors at 7 in the morning."" Construction of a pedestrian foot-bridge across the Glen is scheduled to begin in early October. The addition of the 1600-bed Residence Complex increased the University's on-campus housing capacity to 2,900 students, although the residence population for the fall semester stands at approximately 300 students below capacity. Katie Ryan, director of University Rela-tions, said this deficit was ""about the number we expected"" and Pres-ident Smith expressed optimism that University housing would be filled to capacity in the coming semesters. In the meantime, the University Residence Department closed Ward and West Halls for possible renova-tion this year. The department has planned a meeting for September 8 to study proposals for renovation. New plumbing and electrical wiring are ""priorities,"" according to Mary Lee Farlow, director of Residence Halls. Dowell Hall, located above the Health Center, has also been closed to make room for the Academic Advising and Orientation Center, which moved there from the Univer-sity Union. The towers in the new complex have been temporarily labeled ""A,"" ""B,"" ""C,"" and ""D."" Permanent names for the towers have not yet been decided upon, although one University official had suggested last semester that they be named after trees. The poured-concrete and glass buildings were constructed by the Mullen Enterprise Partnership and were funded by a Baltimore County Industrial revenue bond. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for-mally opening the new complex will take place October 6. :0X .""cW7:1;714 oilcen Parking garage may be cheaper than expected By Chuck Jones Towson State University long-awaited parking garage will probably cost $1.5 million less than what University officials had orig-inally expected and the cost of the garage will not affect parking fees as expected, Vice President of the University said Monday. Donald N. McCulloh, Vice Presi-dent of the University, said that due to low interest rates over the past months the projected cost of the garage is approximately $3.5 mil-lion, down from last year's estimate of $5 million. McCulloh said that because of the lower projected cost of construction the current full-time day student parking fee of $38 will not go up and may even go down in the future. William R. Schermerhorn, Sr., Assistant Vice President of Plant and Police Operations, said that plans for the parking garage are cur-rently being evaluated by officials of the Physical Plant. This action was taken after contractors made bids for the contract, he added. Schermerhorn said the next step after the evaluation will be for the plans to go to the University's Board of Trustees for approval. Parking fees may drop, too After the University's approval it, goes to the Maryland Board of Pub-lic Works, he said. ""The Board of Public Works has the final approval,"" he added. He said that the plans will not reach the Board of Public Works until early to mid-October. After the Board's approval a contractor will be selected and construction will begin. Schermerhorn said construction could be completed as early as next August or September. He said the cost of putting up the garage includes not only construc-tion cost but also the cost of the lease. ""The lease cost is a big factor in the cost of the garage,"" he said. The plans are currently on ""tenta-tive selection,"" Schermerhorn added. Carl J. Kotowski, Manager of parking services, said the current plans for the garage that are now being evaluated are for a three-level structure containing 1055 spaces. Kotowski said the garage, which is planned to be built on lot 11a near the University Union, will create 765 new spaces over the 290 spaces it will take up on the old lot. He said the reason for creating residents-only parking areas was because the parking services thought there would be many prob-lems created when approximately 1,600 more residents registered their cars on campus. Kotowski also said that four lots have been designated as parking areas for resident students, the first time such areas have been estab-lished at the University. He said lots 6, 7 and 15 have been designated as ""residents only"" parking areas. Lots 6 and 7 are located near the old tower residence and lot 15 was, up until this semes-ter, the compact car lot. Kotowski said lot 16, formerly the student parking area in front of the Administration Building, has been designated as both a com-muter and resident student area, to be used as an overflow lot for the residents. He said the University has redesignated approximately 250 commuter spaces to accommodate the influx of more resident students. Kotowski also said that the park-ing situation at the University is ""chaotic"" and suggests that stu-dents who arrive on campus after 8 a.m. ""may just as well go directly to the Towson Center lot."" McCulloh said that because of the reduction in the projected cost the University will not have to pay for the garage with the money collected in the garage fund, which is the money collected from parking fees. The interest accrued on the money in the garage fund will be used to pay for the construction of the garage, McCulloh said. Ronald H. Grieb, financial ana-lyst for the University, said there was $1,448,000 in the garage fund at the end of fiscal 1983. This included the interest collected over past years. The interest accrued over last year was $123,000, he added. The money in the fund will go to lot maintenance and improvements, McCulloh said. ""We'll use the money in reserve for resurfacing lots, adding lights and maintaining upkeep,"" he said. Originally the plan was to pay for garage construction with the money collected in parking fees, he added. 'Kids on the block ' puppets bring the non-hanclii,apped into their world By Amy P. DeNike Ellen Jane turned to Brenda Dubrowski and said, ""I don't mind being called retarded, because that's what I am. In music, retarded means slow and pretty�and that's exactly what I am .. . slow to learn and very pretty."" Ellen Jane Peterson is mentally retarded. She, along with most of her companions in the Kids on the Block program, is disabled, but only in the physical sense. In every other way, Ellen Jane and her friends are strong-willed, understanding, and humorous. And yet they are only puppets. They came to Hawkins Hall last Friday to perform and to focus on ""'mainstreaming"" the handicapped into a non-handicapped society. The day-long workshop, spon-sored by the College of Education and Instructional Technology, was attended by early childhood, ele-mentary and secondary education majors and faculty, staff and guests. Marilyn Nicholas, coordinator of the program and acting director of student teachers at the University, said, ""I felt it was an outstanding and outrageous program. I knew by having student teachers and faculty participate in the program, they would gain a more complete under-standing of what mainstreaming is all about."" The main goal of the Kids on the Block, according to creator and driving force behind the program, Barbara Aiello, is to ""teach all children through handicapped and non-handicapped puppets what it is like to be handicapped and how to appreciate the differences between us."" Aiello feels that puppets commu-nicate ideas and feelings in a unique way. ""Puppets can explain in a non-threatening way. You know, we've never been told you can't talk to a puppet."" she said. Each puppet is made as realistic as possible, according to Aiello. ""When children come up to in-spect the puppets, they are seeing them as real kids. To maintain that, viability we dress them as real kids would be dressed. .. . Our kids wear real glasses, use real crutches and have their own zits. They are as real as we can make them."" During the presentations, each character asks the audience to ask questions about the handicap being discussed. Renaldo Rodriquez, who is blind, was asked if, when he dreamed, he could see his dreams as pictures with colors. , ""I dream of things that I can feel or hear. Since colors are not some-thing which can be felt or heard. I cannot picture them. But, I can feel the heat of the sun, and I know that yellow is the color for heat, so I can feel the color of yellow,"" Rodriquez replied. ""I felt that the audience involve-ment brought out a lot of interesting points,"" said Kay Eldringhoff, senior early childhood major who attended the program. The puppet presentation of Kids on the Block differs from most because the audience sees the pup-pet operators. Dressed in black from head to toe, the operators become mere ""shadows,"" Aiello said. �-�""Nwsiem."".fm"".1,114=1"" . ""After awhile, you won't even notice that we're back there,"" she said. The first member of the puppet troupe to be conceived was Mark Riley, a twelve-and-a-half-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Aiello said he was modeled after a boy she once had in a special education class who was reluctadt to enter a regular classroom. Aiello said that she was tempted to keep him for another year in the special education class, but didn't. ""I realized that he had to be pushed out of the nest, so to speak, but also needed some help along the way. Handicapped kids will do well in regular classes when the pop-ulation understands that being different is okay. We don't all have to do things the same way."" Ellen Jane Peterson realizes that many people do -not understand what it is like to be handicapped. ""When people find out that I am retarded, they sometimes think that that means I don't have feelings. Well, that isn't true. All it means is that I am slow to learn."" .1111L.'""Aik 437568 ulleen Kadau "