The Towerlight, September 12, 1980

tl19800912-000 "VOL. LXXIV No. 3 PC1.5 0i33tritg PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Contents Sports 7 Entertainment 5 Features 4 Week Watcher 6 Commentary 9 Classifieds 3 September 12, 1980 Instructors question ethics law by Dennis Tully An invasion of privacy suit has been filed by 11 Towson State faculty members in an attempt to block a new ethics law requiring them to reveal their financial holdings. The Public Ethics Act of 1979 requires all state employees of pay grade 19 or above or those making $19,619 a year to disclose all property holdings, stocks, bonds and other sources of income. , ""The privacy suit will be instrumental In obtaining an nilunction, preventing anyone from viewing the faculty Members' statements,"" said Alan Buran, counsel for the Plaintiffs. ""Only those members named in the suit will be affected by the injunction."" Sen. John Byrnes, D-Baltimore, the principal sponsor of the act, said ""the intent was for the public to know who might be in a potential situation of a conflict of interest. The Senator did acknowledge the faculty position and said some amendments are being considered by various corn-aUttees this summer. President Hoke Smith, testifying before a legislative hearing, said, ""The public interest isn't being served by disclosures of faculty members. The right to privacy is a basic right of all citizens. ""They should not have to give up their rights because they work for the state,"" he said. Smith said he felt the disclosure law might hurt faculty recruitment. ""A teacher night decide to accept a job elsewhere if he is forced to submit his financial holdings at Towson,"" he said. Fred Banks, director of personnel, called the disclosure Law ludicrous and cited other major problems with university purchasing agents and contract executives. ,They deal with most of the money but they aren't required to reveal their financial holdings because they make less than the required amount, he said. The University re-cently received a request on some of these people. The disclosure bill will be taken up next January when ul � F General Assembly convenes to correct problems per-taming to the bill. What's the rush? Today is the last day to drop classes without receiving a grade of ""W"" or without paying the $5 drop fee. Today is also the last day to add classes. Notice the multitudes of students rushing up to the Registrar's office to alter their schedules. TL photo by Greg Foster braft opposers advise registrants (CPS)�David Hartman, a 19-year-old political science junior at Cali-forni- aBerekley, said he remembers tile confusion started when he first read about military registration last 'January. It has not ended yet. At first I thought, 'There's no Way I'm going to register,"" he said. ""But then I thought of the eon-saeuences."" Failure to register can Penalties for not registering being considered by Selective Service. See __Page 10. bring penalties of five years in pris-on and $10,000 fine. Not knowing what to do, he con-sulted friends and family, though ""I knew what they would say."" Hartman ultimately decided to register, but he is still confused. ""I Can say I won't go and fight in a !ar,"" he said, ""Of course, it's easy i� talk now. When the time comes... � So it went this summer as ap-i'rnximately four million young men toss the country tried to make up L'etr minds what to do about mili- �ar'y registration. �:James DeVoto of Atlanta said, there was no way to be right about this."" 13eRoto, Hartman, and David �nlardi of Cleveland finally de- 4.`1,ued to register. All recorded on ''neir registration forms that they were complying with the law under Protest. ""I was too scared not to riegister,"" DeVoto said, ""but I feel 2e I'm chickenshit for being scar- MY protest note doesn't make ra0feel like a man."" ha All four young men�the one who �s Yet to register requested anony- ;!itY�had little trouble finding ad- _1,es during their ordeals. A be-wildering number of protest groups ei,t/inPeted for their attention. OUgh DeVoto was the only one to seek out counseling help, all en-countered a lot of protest literature. The Central Committee for Con-scientious Objectors, based in Phila-delphia, distributed ""over 100,000"" protest cards nationally for people to record their anger. Steve Gulick, Philadelphia co-ordinator for the War Resisters League, estimated about 20,000 have filled nut the cards. Vincent Cobb, American Friends Service Committee, an anti-war group associated with the Quakers, said he could not even begin to esti-mate the number of counseling let-ters his group distributed to 18- and 19-year-olds across the country. ""We didn't necessarily wait for people to come to us,"" Cobb said. He said the Friends' Denver office alone chose 52,000 names and ad-dresses from drivers license records, and sent them letters explaining what options were available. At different points during the registration process, protest leaders estimated that anywhere from a half million to people refused to register. The Selective Service System re-ported it still does not know what percentage of the population corn-lied with the law. Paul Mocko of Selective Service said the agency won't have reliable numbers until October. Yet because of the rumors and widespread spec-ulation, they will publish a less re-liable set of preliminary figures, he said. ""No one knows yet,"" Mocko said. ""It's that simple."" Similarly, no one knows how many people registered with written protests on their forms. Mocko said that notes like ""I intend to file for conscientious objector status"" written on the forms mean nothing now, mostly be-cause they do not have any infor- In this issue The Tiger squad came within sec-onds of defeating arch rival Morgan State last Satur-day. Read about it On Page 7. Rebel rock star of the sixties, Bob Dylan is saved, and his music shows it. See the review of his latest album on page 5. mation on classification now. Yet Selective Service keeps the card on microfilm, so they can see the message if and When it becomes relevant. ""We'd much rather have people do that (write a protest mess-age on the card) than not register at all,"" he said. The sentiment ap-plies to those who still have not registered. Many anti-registration groups advised eligible males to write messages on the forms both as a legal means of protest and as a pre-cedent for applying for conscien-tious objector status, should draft classification be resumed. Gulick of the War Resisters RESIST THE EIRAJT Campus poster registration, apply for conscientious objector status, or register and fight. David Barardi, an 18-year-old soda salesman in Cleveland, said the counseling was misleading. ""I'd pretty much decided to reg-ister as a c.o. after I talked to some antidraft guy from Cleveland State or somewhere,"" he said. Baradi went to register only to find there was no box to check. ""I asked the clerk at the counter, but he didn't know anything. He was just a clerk,"" he said. More housing facilities sought by Dana Bennett The department of general services is placing an advertisement in three local newspapers in an effort to locate possible facilities for additional University housing, said Donald Mc- Culloh, vice president for business and finance. The advertisement requests letters of interest from prospective contrac-tors, land owners, builders and real estate agents who may be interested in long-term leasing the facilities that the University needs, said McCulloh. The advertisement will appear in the Sunpapers and the News Ameri-can on Sunday and the Jeffersonian on Thursday. A state law in the Annotated Code of Maryland requires the state to adver-tise its need for leasing rental space. Thirty days after the advertisement has been placed the department of general services may begin to eval-uate any responses that have been received. Because the additional housing will be leased and not bought, students will not have to pay for the dorms until they are actually in use, said McCulloh. The cost of the dorms will be paid by the resident students through increas-ed fees or increased room and board, said McCulloh. Bill Bauersfeld, assistant vice president for business services, said long-term leasing of facilities is the best and quickest way to solve the University's housing problem. This semester 1,800 people re-quested housing, but the University could only accommodate 225. McCulloh said the University would like to have one-third of its student population as residents and two-thirds as commuters. Currently there are 1,262 resident students. McCulloh said the Univer-sity would like to see that number increased to between 3,000 and 3,500. The University is not interested in raising its enrollment numbers, just the number of residents, said Mc- Culloh. McCulloh said he would like the facilities to accommodate those stu-dents who would like to attend the University but cannot because of housing problems. McCulloh said there is evidence that the community wants University stu-dents living on the campus and not in the community. Don Gerding, president of the Plans reviewed for Smith Greater Towson Council of Commu-nity Associations, said, ""Com-munities are distraught over the problems that students bring to communities when they board in those communities."" He said not all students bring prob-lems to the community. Many of the problems are caused by absentee landlords and students who do not care about the community in which they board, said Gerding. Gerding said responsibility is lack-ing on the part of students who are not permanent residents of the commu-nity. ""Students have a general disregard for the I community] residents,"" said Gerding. Students tend to be noisy and leave debris in the community, he said. Gerding said he is in favor of the University solving its housing prob-lems. He said he would like to see the students living on campus instead of in the community. The facilities for housing must be Donald McCulloh within walking distance to the Univer-sity, said McCulloh. ""We don't want to make the res-idents commuters,"" said Bauersfeld. He said he wants the residents to be in walking distance to everything on the campus. The University is seeking about 350,000 gross square feet of space for its facilities. The dining facilities must seat at least 600 people and there must be space for 1,700 beds, said McCulloh. McCulloh said he hopes the facil-ities will be available for use by July 1, 1982. Renovation continues on Van Bokkelen Hall by Christa Marvenko The renovation of Van Bokkelen Hall is on schedule while recom-mendations have been prepared and are being reviewed for the work to be done on the old wing of Smith Hall. The contract termination date for Van Bokkelen Hall is October 10, League, counsels that it is a good 1981. John Suter, director of cam-idea to start leaving tracks for con- pus planning, said, ""We think con-scientious objector status. ""Theor- struction will be completed before etically, it has no legal standing. then, and probably before the fall But we recommend that you keep semester of 1981."" copies,"" he said. The renovated Van Bokkelen will be used for the speech pathology and audiology and mass communi-cations departments. ""The Univer-sity will have one of the best speech pathology departments once the renovation is completed,"" said Suter. On August 18 and 19 a value engineer meeting was held at Tow-son State. A value engineer report was drawn up and included approx-imately forty recommendations for Smith Hall. A value engineer looks at a pro-posed project and finds ways to cut costs. These recommendations were submitted to the department of state planning for review. ""Basically we are short of money,"" said Dr. Jack W. Taylor, dean of natural science and mathe-matics. The Smith Hall project was allo-cated $2.8 million, and the money did not cover the expense. The value engineer recommended Much of that kind of counseling took place directly at post offices during registration. Near the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, for example, leaf. letters distributed handy ""I am registering in protest"" stickers to put on registration forms. A group called Movement Against the Draft distributed flyers in northern Illinois post offices advis-ing. registrants what they should write on their forms (a statement that the registrant wouldn't surren-der his right to privacy) and what not to write on the forms (his social security number). Inevitably, there were complaints that some of the counseling was too general and even counter-produc-tive. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group concentrated on de-fining three general choices for po-tential registrants: they could evade that the University bid the project this fall before inflation raises the cost again, and also to cut $400,000 worth of expenses from the project. Taylor said the estimated comple-tion date will be the fall of 1982, as-suming that construction will not start until next spring or summer. The new wing will house physics, chemistry, and biology students. Presently, the old wing has been partially reactivated, and a few of the old rooms are being used while the construction is under review. Equipment included in this con-tract is work benches, built-in water fixtures, and some electric equip-ment. There have been some restric-tions put on the students and fac-ulty of Smith Hall because of the renovation plan. Classes had to be scheduled at more unpopular times, and some courses are not able to be offered to majors in their respective field. Al-so, faculty office space and teaching areas are cramped. Suter said, ""Students and faculty seem to be pleased to be out of the old hot and leaky rooms of Van Bokkelen and be temporarily in air-conditioned spaces."" Suter said that the students who will be using Van Bokkelen are in urgent need of an academic pro-gram and the required equipment and space to provide them with the education they need to become certi-fied in their field. ""Academically, their need was greater."" said Suter. Dean Taylor said, ""Van Bokkelen was an older building and was in worse shape than Smith Hall."" According to the Department of State Planning, there is a require-ment that before any structure can be considered for renovation it must be at least fifteen years old. A renovation program is tnen submitted to the Department of State Planning explaining the work that needs to be done. The program is then reviewed and discussed by the Board of Trustees and the insti-tution having the renovation. After agreements are reached and the processes are approved by the Department of State Planning, a hearing is held about the details of the project. The request for funds is then re-viewed. The appropriation is based on how much money is available in the capital budget. After being reviewed, the request for funds is then sent to the General Assembly. Proposals for the work needed are submitted to the Board of Public Works. When the money for the pro-ject is approved, an architect is se-lected by the Department of Gener-al Services. When plans are drawn up and re-viewed by the Department of Gen-eral Services, a bid is made and re-viewed. If this bid is accepted and approved by the Board of Public Works, construction may begin. "