The Towerlight, September 10, 1976

tl19760910-003 "Page 4, Towerlight, September 10.1976 PE complex to open in spring by Steve Haas The new physical education complex, located across Os-ler Drive from St. Joseph's Hospital, ""will be ready for spring occupancy,"" says John Suter, Towson State's Direc-tor of Campus Planning. ""I would say that 80-90 per cent of the work has al-ready been completed,"" he added. The complex, a series of three adjoining buildings, will re-place Burdick Hall as the pri-mary location for major indoor sports events other than swim meets. It is also expected to house the entire physical edu-cation department and most intercollegiate athletic teams. Total completion of the con-struction is expected around November 15. Walsh optimistic for '77 Newell opening by Steve Haas Dining Services Director Al Walsh is confident that the Newell Hall dining facility will open before the scheduled completion date of October 7, 1977. There's no way that's going to happen,"" Walsh claimed of the scheduled date."" Vice President Wayne Schelle has assured me that we can be in there in time for Fall semester next academic year, The dining facility will feature rotating carousel ser-ving equipment which Walsh asserts ""is the fastest (ser-ving) thing I've ever seen."" ""The carousel is a new concept in feeding. It allows for a very good variety of selections. We don't know how many people it can serve because I've never seen it stretched to-its limit,"" he said. Walsh ,explained that three dining rooms with distinct decorative motifs would be situated on the second floor of Newell Hall. Furniture selec-tion for the dining rooms has been ""tastefully done by Fred Miller, of Frederick Miller Interiors,"" according to Walsh. He indicated that current University Union dining facili-ties will still be used for overflow. Walsh documented several changes in Snack Bar services this semester. ""As a labor-saving device, we've switched to a McDonald's type service. It seems to be our most successful change this semes-ter,"" he said. He stated that current snack bar and cafeteria services would continue in the Univer-sity Union after Newell Hall is opened. ""The buildings will be ready for occupancy long before they are actually occupied,"" Suter stated. ""That gives us plenty of time to work out the bugs in the mechanical systems and straighten out any other prob-lems before the people move in."" Occupying over 32,000 square feet of the complex, the new Towson Arena will have a seating capacity of 5,400. The seating limit was originally scheduled for a far larger total, but controversy over possible competition with the Baltimore Civic Center mixed those plans. Towson State University President James Fisher ex-pressed hopes that the arena would have more effect on the campus community than mere-ly another sports arena. ""I'm hoping that proceeds from the operation of the arena will be between $100-$250,000 a year,"" he said. He also in-dicated that the profits would go back into the budget, help-ing keep tuition rates down. Fisher noted that a promoter will be hired to ""beat the bushes"" looking for events. One major ""opening"" promo-tion is in the negotiation stage now. The Physical Education De-partment's transition to the administration and multi-pur-pose wings will occur before the spring '77 semester. Another completion ex-pected by March is the Class-room II building. Suter claims that the construction is a month ahead of schedule, but still won't be ready for the be-ginning of spring semester. Patti William is one of a number of students living in dorm kitchens this fall. TL photo by Ken Vane McCabe says parking 'adequate' by Jim Masseron Parking facilities at Towson State University this fall are more than adequate, explain-ed Jay McCabe, Director of Parking Services. McCabe said that the two new lots, located near the TSU athletic complex on Osier Drive, are now open for student use. Labeled '19 and 20, the lots add 434 parking spaces to the present facilities. Students using lot 19 or 20 may board a shuttle bus to Glen Esk at lots 13 and 14, which are adjacent to the new lots. Despite complaints from commuters about the parking situation, McCabe said there were enough spaces to accom-modate the entire student body last year. He noted that lots 13 and 14 were often only half full throughout the spring '76 semester. ""If students would take the time to get here early and use the bus service, there would be no parking problem,"" McCabe said. With cooperation from the Towson State University Po-lice, Parking Services plans to conduct a survey of all TSU parking lots to specifically determine the parking situa-tion. Results from the survey could indicate if any expansion will be needed in the future. Resident students with 55 credits or less are still not permitted to have cars on campus in order to make more space available to commuters. McCabe added that the fines for parking violations have not changed, nnd will probably remain the same for the full academic year. The yearly hassle of fall registration. TL photo by Beej TSU's new fieldhouse. TL photo by Steve Considine Second Almost Anything Goes to go this Saturday by Kathy Pascuzzi Residents of the York Road area dorms challenged resi-dents of the Towsontown area dorms Wednesday to the ""Second Annual Almost Any-thing Goes Day"". Competition will begin tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Newell Field. ""Almost Anything Goes Day"", co-sponsored by the CA's and the Residence Council, is patterned after the television show from which it takes its name. Competition will ""concentrate 6n things that require no. particular skill,"" according to Mary Mears, spokesperson for the committee planning the event. ""You don't have to be a good runner, or athlete to play,"" she asserted. Among the featured events are a spaghetti relay race, a potato relay race, and a pie eating contest. In the spagh-etti race, the noodles will be cooked, and carried in the contestants mouths; the pot-atoes will be carried under the runners arms (two potatoes to a runner); and the pie eating contest will feature team competition. Mears said that it was all geared to encourage participation. Mears said that the contests were made to look a little ridiculous to encourage participation by non-athletes, ""sometimes you get all the good runners in something like this, but that's not what we're after,"" she said. She noted that the transfer of potatoes would be difficult, and positioning them under the arms of runners could hamper running. In another event during the program, students will try to break the world record for tossing raw eggs and having them caught without breaking. Mears said, ""We'd like to get into the Guiness Book of World Records."" Mears mentioned that she expects the rivalry to be intense. Before last year's competition, demonstrations of area solidarity included raids into the other areas and throwing water balloons. In each event, the winning team is given points. At the end of the day, the points are totaled, and the team with the highest score wins. Last year, the Towsontowne area beat York Road 35-32. TSU police now independent by Jim Masseron Towson State University police are now an official in-dependent police department as of July 1. Due to the suc-cessful passage of a police powers bill in the State Legis-lature. The standard police status has removed TSU police from the supervision of Baltimore County and state police, and enables them to take action against criminals on campus without either department's consent. Greg Roepke, Assis-tant Director of TSU police, said that the police powers bill was important. ""Although it will take some time before we've achieved the quality and efficiency level of state troopers, the police powers bill was a necessary start,"" Peopke said. ""We are growing in size and efficiency just as Towson State College has grown to a University."" Sen ate action Continued from page 4 S.B. #12 - to allocate $300 for reprinting of SGA Manual - Appropriations S.B. #13 - to allocate $2,500 to Planned Parenthood - Appropriations S.B. #16 - concerning SGA membership for part-time students - University Affairs Hearing dates for bills left over from last year: Bill #1 - Class of 77 budget request, Sept. 13 - Appropria-tions Bill #2 - Wind Ensemble FCAI Allocation request Sept. 13 - Appropriations Bill #3 - A.M.A. budget request, Sept. 13 - Appropria-tions Bill #4 - Food Service breakdown, Sept. 9 University Affairs * food service rep-resentatives will be present for question and answer session Bill #5 - Gamma Theta Upsilon budget request, Sept. 20 - Appropriations Bill #6 - to hold $4,000 in escrow for video-tape project passed in last session of Senate 'The TSU police force has expanded to cover new park-ing lots 19 and 20, and the ad-jacent athletic complex area. The department's goal is to eventually form a separate security department to patrol all of the academic buildings and facilities, leaving the re-maining police officers free to act on actual crimes and acci-dents. The department also hopes to acquire, Cross-Campus Drive,, Towsontown Drive, Burke Drive and Osier Drive as part of its jurisdiction. Eventually TSU police wish to share juris-diction of these roads with Baltimore County police. Speaker's Series opens with Colby by Monty Phair Opening the 1976-77 Cele-brity Speaker's Series at Towson State will be William Colby, former director of the CIA. He will discuss CIA operations in Stephens Hall, Friday September 10. William Colby's first in-volvement in intelligence work was in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II. He joined the CIA in 1950, serving in Rome, Stockholm, and Saigon - and head of the CIA's clandestine services. He became director of the agency of September 4, 1973. With the current spotlight on CIA probes and investiga-tion's, Mr. Colby's opinions are valuable. The latest conversation I could dig up was in ""Newsweek"", Jan. 20, 1975 issue, where he is quoted as saying; ""Oh, we need secrecy. There are some 'tradional' secrets that don't need to be secret any more. .There are some 'bad' secrets - mistakes we've made, things that have gone wrong, sure. But there are some 'good' secrets, necessary secrets. .we have people who's lives and rep-utations depend on our sec-recy."" Mr. Colby is against ex-employees of the CIA reveal-ing covert activities in the agency, because it ""puts peoples reputations in bad shape, it puts people in physical danger."" Finally, Mr. Colby said he did not believe in censorship of material to the public, but he also said, ""we're talking about the question of how, and consequently whether you ca run an intelligence service in our free society."" Certainly his ideas on how this dilemna might be solved will prove interesting, if forced to express them in Stephens Hall. A number of speakers, tentatively scheduled for this year include: Sunday, October 7, Timothy Leary, psychedelic revolution-ary, psychologist and educa-tor. Sunday, November 7 - Catherine Mackin, News Cor-respondent for MBC tele-vision. Sunday, December 12 - Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold-medalist. Friday, February 11 - Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize win-ning columnist. Friday February 25 - to be announced. Friday March 11 -John Holt, a remarkable teacher, writer, and social reformer with some brillant new concepts in elementary education. Friday, April 22 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights advo-cate and head of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer-ence. Tickets are now available for the entire series of lectures and may be obtained from the box office in the Student Union. For further information call 321-2244 Car stolen over summer; auto burns in Lot 15 by Jim Masseron The only major crime re-ported over the summer was a stolen car from lot 12, on August 27. The car later was recovered. Someone had their pocket picked at Linthicum Hall on September 1. On September 2 a ""Peeping Tom"" was seen snooping around West Hall by a resident student, but ap-parently left when police later arrived on the scene. In addition, a stolen wallet was reported at the Lida Lee Tall school September 2, and that same day sixty dollars was taken from an unlocked room in Newell Hall. Keith Nowajowski, a Tow-son student escaped injury Tuesday when the engine in his car caught fire in lot 15. The fire would have been CUB outlines fall schedule by Steve Verch ""We will not go University Union Board,"" said College Union Board President Donna Van Tassel, in view of Towson State College being named a University this summer. Van Tassel explained that the University Union Board would carry the initials ""UUB"". The current abbrev-iation of the organization is CUB. These initials may remain if the organization votes to replace ""College"" with ""Campus"". Said Van Tassel, ""We are considering Campus Union Board, but we have to let the organization vote September 14."" CUB, which provides vari-ous types of entertainment for Towson Students, has plans for a very active year. ""We have ten movies, ten coffee houses, four dances, this year's fall homecoming, and a theatre group from Chicago coming. They'll be doing a workshop while they are here,"" added Van Tassel. Six movies are planned for this semester. They are: September 11 ""My Fair Lady"" September 25 ""Tommy"" October 22 ""M.A.S.H. November 13 ""And Now for Something � Completely Diff-erent"" December 4 ""Shampoo"" December 18 ""Nicholas and Bill #7 - to place all supplementary budget requ-ests in moratorium; passed in last session of Senate Bill #8 - Residence Council Constitution, Sept. 14 - Gov-ernment Operations Bill #9 - correction of error in 76-77 Fiscal Budget, Sept. 13 - Appropriations 'Alexandria"" Van Tassel said that semi-professionals would play at all appropriate CUB events. She said that some semi-profess-ionals were coming from Delaware, Arkansas, and Col-orado. ""We're really very exci-ted,"" said the CUB president. She added that the CUB would try to keep ticket prices to the fall Homecoming to $5-6 per couple. routine except that several cars were illegally parked in the lot and the fire truck was almost unable to reach the blazing automobile. One car was towed away and two others moved before the firefighters could get into the lot and put out the fire. Because of the delay, the heat damaged the back of the car, and totally destroyed the engine. Nowajowski said he was pulling out of lot 15 when the engine stalled and suddenly burst into flames. Police said tnat the cause was probably electrical. TSU Police director Gene Dawson was concerned at the fire truck's difficulty in reach-ing the car. ""The negligence of some drivers in this case could have cause injury to the owner of the car"" Dawson said. ""If the fire truck had never reached the car, the fire might have spread and an explosion could have resulted."" Illegally parked cars have been a problem at TSU in the past, and many have blocked shuttle bus routes in lots 18 and 13-14. Police warned that if problems persist, action would be taken in the form of stiffer fines or penalties. College Center replaced University Union opens doors Esmerelda Murgatroyd is a special consultant for Tower-light on loan from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Architecture. by Estnerelda Murgatroyd In a surprise alliterative acronymistic move July 1, the Campus Identification Special Subcommittee of the Joint Administrative systematic Reformative Classification Committee of the Academic Council officially unveiled Towson's new University Un-ion building. The new structure is part of an ambitious development and construction era unprece-dented in the history of Towson State. It was con-structed ""almost overnight,"" said a passing eyewitness, ""and didn't even wake the neighbors."" Construction costs of the Union were kept to a mini-mum, according to the project supervisor, who spoke before a small impromptu gathering of reporters in the lobby of the new building. ""We scrimped and saved everywhere we could,"" he said, ""and man-aged to keep costs under a dollar, with coupons. We managed to get a pretty good deal, we think, as far as the students are concerned."" When asked about the condition of the carpet in the the new building which one reporter noted was worn in places, the supervisor said that ""a few things (had been) borrowed from the old College Center but just for the ceremonies. They will be returned, I assure you."" The Union will feature a university store, a post office, a branch office of the Union Trust Company, a television lounge, a bowling alley, and numerous lounging and eating areas. In an ""amazing effort of conservation,"" the supervisor said that his crew had been able to preserve the College Center, built in 1972 on the site of the new University Union Building. The Center was not significantly altered during the construction of the new facility. A new phase in campus , construction has begun on the Towson campus,"" said a high-ranking university sou- , rce. ""We plan to construct 16 ' new buildings this semester alone, using the methods used in the construction of the Union. The building is pleasantly located near the center of campus approximately two and one half parking lots from your car. Unusual angle of the new University Union building. "