The Towerlight, September 15, 1978

tl19780915-000 "r Quest for replacement begins � How to find a president by Evelyn Hoopes The Board of Trustees of State Colleges and Universities will announce their decision on the search procedure for a new Towson State University president at their September 19 meeting at the University of Baltimore. 'e, Joseph Cox, acting president, e said the university intends to use a 'd two stage plan to find a president. ck ,fhis was the same procedure used 10 years ago when Earle T. Hawkins resigned the presidency. A Towson State committee will nominate three to five names and the Board of Trustees will screen and approve one of these candi-dates. This plan is contingent upon it cly or [ 0 he the Board of Trustees' approval. The Executive Committee of the Academic Council met early in August and voted to establish a 10-member search committee to find a replacement for former President James L. Fisher, who resigned September 1. The Academic Council has elected five of the required 10 people. The Alumni Association, the Towson Foundation, and the Board of Visitors will each appoint one person to the committee. John Shehan, SGA president, will serve on the committee and will also appoint one other person. The five people chosen by the Acad,emic Council, from each academic division, are: Patricia R. Plante, professor of english; Bill L. Wallace, professor of communica-tions arts and sciences; William F. Pelham, professor of physics; Margret A. Kiley, professor of education; Lena B. Lee, assistant Professor of nursing. Following the election, the Aca-demic Council unanimously ap-proved a motion to require each of the divisional Search Committee � members to meet with faculty members in their particular divi-sions to get their opinions on what criteria the new president should fulfill. Dr. Cox, in a meeting last Friday with Charles Folber, chairman of the olvertig Board of Trustees, stated his feelings on the situation. ""I have the assurance of the chairman of the board and the vice-chairman of the board that the Towson Community will be involved in the process from the beginning."" He added that, ""I have their word that the majority of a search committee will be from the Towson community."" John Shehan, SGA president, sees ""no higher responsibility than that of helping to find the next president of the University."" He is very confident that the search will be ""a good one"" largely because of the direct student input from the beginning of Dr. Cox's term as acting president. Vol. LXII No. 2 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY September 15, 1978 4ddresses 200 in concert hall o 1::f Cox requests supplement at 4,5 ny ay as he ; hi a- 4:(1 (1- a st ye Al, ye y. 0 se t v � Dr. Joseph Cox stressed his quest for ,c I the University presidency at his State is of the University address last Friday. 1 TLPhotobyFrancisLing 1( ews and 'Pub split by Judy Wilner The Department of News and ublication has been divided into we departments. The move was made to increase 'fficiency and provide better. service the community, according to Joan vI Briskin, vice president for laiversity relations and director of levelopment. Th e Department of News Ser- Ices, directed by Joyce Muller, will airnarily be responsible for pro-hieing news and features for the eneral community while the )ePartment of Design and Publica-i ion, headed by Michael Dunne, Jr., - till Provide photographs, designs, 1 :raPhics, and brochures, Briskin aid. Briskin, former assistant to Dr. ares L. Fisher, explained that the rernendous output in these areas it.ised the division into two eParate departments. This way the iniversity can capitalize on each lirector's special talent, she said. Although the departments of 4ews Services and of Design and 'ublication function in a public , elations capacity, Briskin considers lerself an administrator, not a PR ierson, She said the departments' di- ; ectors are the ones who deal with he people. Briskin was recently appointed losistant vice president of university elations by Paul E. Wisdom, vice 'resident of institutional develop-nent. She retains the title director If development which she received 11, February when she joined the livision of institutional develop-nent. ������ Correction Last week, it was incorrectly reported that a debt in last year's SGA Speaker Series account would affect this year's account, The fund is renewed every year. (Can we have our budget back now, by Paul Gilmore Acting President Joseph W. Cox said he did not intend to be a ""lame duck acting president"" and he has re-quested a $150,000 supplemental budget upon recommendtion by the State Board of Higher Education in his first state of the university ad-dress. Cox spoke before about 200 faculty members in the FIne Arts concert hall last Friday. ""After a good deal of soul-search-ing, I have decided to be a candidate for the presidency,"" Cox said. ""There are two reasons for my decision: first, not to be a candidate would be to be a lame duck acting president which I most emphatically do not intend to be; and secondly, and much more im-portantly, I want to be a candidate."" Budget to fund programs Cox said he has requested the sup-plemental budget to 'fund honor pro-grams, mini-grants, scholarly jour-nals, and a visiting scholars program, and a unique student sabbatical pro-gram. Cox said the program is similar to the faculty mini-grant concept in which a student could ""take a semester or a summer off and spend that time on a directed study or research project which might range anywhere from writing an original musical composition to completing an honors thesis."" Cox said as acting president, he will spend much of the year off campus ""in the external campaign to keep Towson in the forefront of the public mind."" Cox said he would continue the im-age building campaign for the institu-tion former president James Fisher pursued actively during his tenure. ""I realize there are some risks in-volved in my pursuing too aggressive a stance. Nonetheless, I'm committed to the strongest possible external course,"" Cox said. Cox also called for stricter entrance and graduation. requirements for the university. ""Entrance requirements, while rising, must remain broad enough to encompass a represen-tative slice of the community we serve . . . Our exit standards must re-main constant and indeed rise. The more we demand of our students and ourselves, the better prepared they and we will be for the competitive 1980's,"" he said. Cox then turned to some of the more pragmatic problems of the university including dormitory space. ""The only serious limitation we have physically is dormitory space,"" he said. ""That is a priority which I believe cannot be placed too high in our planning and thinking ?or the next several years . . . I, along with Mr. Schelle [vice president for Business and Finance 1 and Mr. Wisdon [vice president for Institutional Devel-opment], will continue to explore every conceivable avenue to achieve that object."" University fares well financially Cox said in the past year the univer-sity has generated a substantial amount of revenue on its own. ""The Towson Center in its first year through the celebrity-public events series brought 180,000 people on cam-pus and generated a small profit,"" he said. ""It is my intention to reinvest $5,000 of that into faculty develop-ment."" Cox also said last year the universi-ty received $3.6 million in governmen-tal, corporate, Foundation, and in-dividual gifts which is up $1 million from the 1975 figure. He also stated the Alumni Associa-tion is ""really coming into its own"" citing a bequest of $7,500 that was donated last weekend by an alumnus. Cox also spoke briefly on the topic of the increased emphasis the university was placing on athletics. ""As with anything, there are advan-tages, problems and precautions in-volved in an increased emphasis on athletics. I recommend that as a com-munity we commit ourselves to a three-year, good-faith trial run, and then review the experience and decide whether: 1 we accomplished our ob-jectives, and 2) what were the advan-tages and disadvantages of the ex-perience,"" he said. Over the next few years, Cox said, the university will attempt to dissolve the barriers between day and evening school. ""The task force on day/evening in-tegration is finalizing its recommen-dations and it is quite likely that a reorganization will occur. A first step will be the creation of a part-time day degree program. I believe that by the early 1980's there will be no distinc-tions at all on this campus between students and their programs based on the number of credits for which they enroll,"" he said. Cox also mentioned that the univer-sity had this year admitted more students with Scholastic Aptitude Test above 550. He also mentioned the university met its projected enroll-ment and that enrollment was the ceiling level for the university accord-ing to the State Board of Higher Education's master plan. Senate meets At the first S.G.A. meeting Tuesday, a bill was passed to allocate $1,290.00 to the Towson Foundation for insuring the Shector collection in Albert S. Cook Library. After this three-year insurance expires, the collection may be given to the University. John Shehan, S.G.A. president, delivered a ""State of the 'Senate"" message in which he urged the senate ""to, meet the needs and wants of the community."" Shehan stressed the need for committment and the necessity to get involved. It's pigskin season! TLPhotobyJordanMyers Pep band, cheerleaders, hot dogs and oh yeah, a football game. Tigers romped over Mansfield State in their debut at the Towson Stadium. (Story page 12). $25 parking fee supports decks by Robert Krummerich Fees for parking stickers went up to build up the funds neededsto pay back the debt in the bond issue that the University took out for construc-tion .said John Suter, Director of Campus Planning. Recent construction of parking spaces in this area has averaged $3,200 a space and Towson State is planning to, construct a 600 space parking facility. ""The state,"" continued Suter, ""included $350,000 for parking in 1977 which could . be used any way we see fit, for parking. We need $1,450,000 in order to come up with the $1,800,000 debt servile. The Engineering firm of E. A. Barton is currently conducting traffic and parking analysis of the campus. Data collection, begun in Spring, will show parking and traffic patterns and the conditions of the lots. Results of this research will be used to justify the parking construc-tion and future improvements. teox's hour)s Cux's hours - Dr. Joseph -.Cox. acting president of the University, will have open office hours for KAadents Thursdays from 2-4 p.ny HEWfaces possible division by Patrick Casey As the 95th Congress draws to a close it seems likely that one of its final orders of business will be the passage of the Department of Educa-tion Act of 1977, which will establish a Department of Education as a cabinet level office. To date, the legislation has won committee approval in both the Senate and the House of Represen-tatives. It is sponsored by thirty-eight Analysis Senators, including such luminaries as Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., Sen. Frank Church, D-Id., Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., Sen. Edward Ken-nedy, D-Mass., Sen. Lowell Weiker, R-Conn., and Sen. Charles Percy, The bill has also been placed high on the Carter administration shopping list, although the amount of influence that it has on Congress is questionable in light of the Carter track record with the 95th. Passage is assured in the Senate with the large number of senatorial sponsors of the bill, but a stronger fight seems imminent in the House, although passage is still likely. The act received unanimous ap-proval from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, while proponents had to fight to win approval by the House Government Operations Corn-mittee by a 27 to 15 vote. House opponents of the measure have attempted to slow its progress by tacking amendments onto the bill whenever possible, at times elim-inating some provisions which the Carter administration felt important. The legislation's main thrust is the reorganization of 172 federal educa-tion programs which are either buried under the Health and Welfare parts of HEW or sprinkled like snow across the landscape of the federal bureaucracy. These scattered programs employ 23,000 people at a cost of $17 billion per year in departments as widely scat-tered as the Department of Labor, the Agriculture Department, and the Department of Interior. Proponents feel that the consolida-tion of these programs under a single cabinet level department will give education a greater voice in govern-ment and will make government more responsive to education. As stated in the act, ""Existing Federal programs in support of education are fragmented and often duplicative and should be better coor-dinated in order to promote quality education."" Some special interest groups have already balked at the shift of their programs to the Department of Education. Among those programs likely to be excluded from the new department are the Labor Depart-ment's Training and Youth Services Act, the Agriculture Department's School Lunch Program, the Interior Department's Indian Education Pro-grams, and the Independent National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities. Conservative Congressional op-ponents of the department fear that it will increase federal influence over state and local educational efforts, which they believe should remain at the lower levels of government. These opponents feel the depart-ment will cause a nationwide homogenization of education, pointing toward language in the bill such as ""Education must be broadly conceiv-ed in terms of all those forces, institu-tions, and agencies which function as education influences in the United States . . ."" Opponents of the department also argue that, contrary to the claims of supporters, the bureaucratic tangle through which education must plod will be woven more broadly and deep-ly. They point to the bureaucratic structure of the department, which will include a secretary, an undersecretary, four assistant secretaries, an office of civil rights, a federal interagency committee on education, a national advisory com-mission on education, an inspector general, a deputy inspector general, and a general council. They also note that the department fails to fulfill Carter administration promises of reducing bureaucracy, since educational programs will merely be shifted from other quarters of government rather than pared down or eliminated. Many believe that the department will, for good or ill, increase federal spending in the area of education. The likelihood of this effect appears greater with the advent of Proposition 13 style revolts against high local tax-es, the bulk of which go to education. The effect of the proposed depart-ment on higher eduction is, at this point, conjectural, since the depart-ment will neither create nor eliminate programs. Promises of greater effi-ciency await the test of time should the legislation be passed. ' In the end, the debate is reduced to whether or not the federal govern-ment should play a greater role in American education. Even if the new department is more efficient at delivering federal educational assistance, it is exactly this efficiency which opponents of greater federal control fear. Two proposed sites for the new decks are behind Linthicum Hall and behind the Union and Burdick Halls. The topography of these spots would eliminate the need for ramps, creating more internal space, said Suter. Programs now being proposed call for a Widening of present roads, construction of new ones, and modifications of Campus entrances; Also under future consideration is a pedestrian walkway above or lielow Osler Drive. Either a ramp or a tunnel will be constructed for safer crossing since Several accidents have taken place there: Assault reported by Katherine Dunn Patrick Smyth, 24, of 1806 Bank St., was arrested Sunday morning for sexually assaulting a Towson State student in her unlocked dorm room. The girl woke up around 2:15 and saw a man kneeling beside her bed. He held her down and removed her clothes. She then fought him off, ran down the hall and called the police. Later Sunday morning Officer Ed Harris of the campus police saw Smyth walking down York Road. Harris stopped him as he was walking from the residence hall where the girl had been assaulted. Harris took him to the hall where he was positively identified. Smyth, a non-student, was arrested and charged with sexual assault. He was held on $2500 bond. His trial will be held on Nov. 14. n This Issue On Guard: High school All-State goalie Marty Guolo brings � his netminding feats from the shores of Loch Raven to the halls of TSU. page 11 Cry Foul!: The Tigers' new field hockey mentor protests the treatment afforded her charges in the land of the ??? ?? by the University page 12 A Fond Farewell: A review of the Who with reference to the late, great keeper of the beat page 9 Waiver Reversed: Jigsaw makes the insurance company an offer that they can't refuse page 3 Towson Tinsel: Two of our locals make the big trip to the far coast for a behind-the-scenes look at the silver screen page 6 Lot Full: What you can do to cool your neels when you can't find a place to ool your wheels page "