The Towerlight, September 17, 1976

tl19760917-000 "Things We've Heard see page 2 o b)�et t Ban k con test (Ira wing to night at 6 pan. VOL. LXIX,NO. 2 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY .SEPTEMBER 17, 1976 :loupon books $25 short; tilackburn admits mistake, promises compensation by Kathy Pascuzzi Mel Blackburn, business in ager of Dining Services, aid im he ""made a mistake"" in iving students who bought a 1370 food plan only $345 in soupons. He added that Starting Monday, the $25 lifference will be made up to students in special coupon looks. The books will be Oarked for each month, and vill be available in $5 Ilcrements. At a hastily called Senate seting yesterday,, dining !Jrvices officials said hat the ipOssibility of a cash refund is eing considered."" Pat Royals and Paul Corgill, loth students on the $370 Ilan, first discovered a short-ge in their September allot-flent of coupons. They then eked to count samples from rtober, November and Dec-inber coupon books. Corgill aid that he figured out that tie shortage for all students In the plan comes to about 40000. ""It sounds to me like , 're trying to make up last ear's deficit,"" he said. Blackburn met with Corgill, 1GA Senator Debbie Leslie, r SGA President Joanne negan on Wednesday. lackburn said ""there was no tent at all,"" to cheat utlents, and added that last rear's deficit was settled .., . seperately. He said that the coupons ""arrived on the first day of feeding' � and he had ""no opportunity to verify the coupon count."" Blackburn also said that he""encourages students to count their books, there could be a printing error, or pages could be left out."" He said that this was no printing error, though. The coupon books were printed to specifications, he said, and the specifications were wrong. The business manager said that he""wasn't particularly concerned"" about the mistake itself, since ""that is correct-able."" ""I'm worried about the way it looks,"" he said. He added that his concern was ""what to do."" He plans to announce the reimbursement by putting notices in student's mailboxes. Another concern, he said, is to keep such a thing from happening again. ""I guess I'll have to quadruple-check,"" he said, ""I only triple-checked the coupons this time."" Senator Leslie is a member of the University Affairs Committee. She said that this committee most often handles topics regarding Dining Ser-vices. Leslie and a roommate noticed a shortage n their September allotment of cou-pons, too, and were told by Dining Services that since each month's allotment will contain a different number of coupons, the apparent short-age would be made up in later months. They did not ask to count the rest of the coupons. Leslie said that at Thurs-day's meeting of the Univer-sity Affairs Committee, ar-rangements were made to meet with University officials to discuss the shortage. In addition to solving this immediate problem, Leslie said she hopes to discuss other difficulties students are hav-ing with the Dining Services program. She thinks that provisions should be made for people with smaller appetites, and for those who must be off-campus for large periods of time. The senator said that student teachers are the main group with this difficulty. Leslie hopes to ""see that something is set up"" next semester to help these stu-dents. Blackburn, in discussing alternative programs, said that ""there's really no way to truly customize a meal plan."" He said that the ""closest we could get"" was the coupon system, in which the student pays directly for what is eaten. Blackburn could offer no solution for the problem of unused coupons. He mention-ed that students were free to sell coupons to any other student, and to recoup their losses partially in that way. A A.ndrews questions legality Venetoulis teaching course In a letter addressed to the lembers of the Baltimore Ounty Council, Richard And- Ws, SGA Parlimentarian, 8 week outlined his views at Theodore Venetoulis, laltimore County Executive, ll acting improperly by teach-rig a course at Towson State. Venetoulis �is currently Oaching POSC 470 ""Topics on tolitical Science"" as an asociate professor. In explaining his actions, 1ndrews said, ""It's against Ile (county) charter for him to 10 this."" There are two rticles of the charter which, lecording to Andrews, Vene- Delis is breaking, ""but only he if he doesn't get paid."" ' 'It's a bad precedent,"" said indrews, ""because the next kecutive could sell insurance r Practice law or medicine."" University officials say that lle county should determine frhether the executive is Feaking the provisions of the barter. Andrews disagreed, saying at the university had a 1 osioral obligation"" to con-ker. ""If he is breaking the ��', they shouldn't help him employing him,"" he said. Kenneth Shaw, Dean of .L eademic Affa'irs, said that the course, by its nature, is esigned for a practitioner to I)ch it."" He also said that , it enetoulis expressed an inter- St in teaching such a class. Shaw explained that he feels here is no problem in the �ounty Executive teaching Uch a course. ""I hope if there 1 controversy, it comes out of ontroversial things he said in lass. If there is, we're elighted,"" he said. , When asked if he thought 118 efforts would bring about Psy changes, Andrews said, I don't know, I really don't bow. But I intend to pursue :. If the Council doesn't act, 11 write to the State's I ttorney.,, The SGA Parliamentarian hene said he wished it hderstood that he had ""no endetta"" against Venetoulis. 'I wouldn't care who it was,"" Is said. ""I don't like to see pYone walking over the ratter:"" 1 Ted Venetoulis photo by Mark Gail William Colby photo by Tom Messina Finegan protests WJZ rudeness Joanne Finegan, in a letter mailed to WJZ-TV and the Federal Communications Commision this week, comp-lained of ""rude and distract-ing"" action taken by a WJZ film crew which covered portions of the lecture given by William Colby last Friday. The crew which arrived late for the lecture and left early, covered the lecture in a ""decidedly unprofessional"" manner, according to Finegan. ""As president of the Stu-dent Government Association, and being present on the stage at the time, I was appalled when your crew appeared about one-half hour into the lecture, and proceeded to noisily and very conspiciously set up lights and microphones at the stage,"" the letter stated. In the letter, Finegan said that ""our series does not need the kind of coverage which distracts and antagonizes our patrons, and further actions of this kind will not be tolerated, at least as long as the SGA sponsors the Speakers Ser-ies."" In an interview immediately after the lecture, Finegan said that the coverage by the station_ was ""personally dis-tracting and unnecessary."" ""I'm not a news person myself,"" she said, ""but I know what's polite and what's not polite."" Finegan said that if the station wished to cover one of the Speakers Series lectures they should set up their equipment before the lecture began and then leave it up till the lecture ended. ""They had no permission through me,"" she said. ""I'd rather not have their publicity and interest. I'd rather let people who paid get what they paid for."" Colby defends CIA, wants mistakes put into proportion"" by Pete Binns William Colby, former director of the Central Intelli-gence Agency, defended the CIA and its goals in a lecture in Stephens Hall last Friday. Colby admitted that the Agency ""may have done some things in the past which were mistaken or wrong."" He said, though, that ""it is important that our people understand what true modern intelligence is about, so that if it makes mistakes they will be put into proportion."" Mistakes made by the agency, he said, should be considered the exception rather than the rule, as mistakes made by the armed forces or local police are usually thought to be. He argues that few people would ask the Army to disband because of a few mistakes and that it would thus be unfair to argue that the CIA should be disbanded because of its mistakes. Colby argued that even with its mistakes the CIA is necessary because of the existence of ""secret societies."" Unless American. leaders know about high-level decisions made in other countries or about ""research in some secret laboratories,"" he argued, ""we could wake up someday with a surprise as we have in the past."" The former director ex-plained three important as-pects of American intelli-gence, as he saw it. ""We didn't have intelli-gence at the beginning of World War II,"" he said, but America wanted to find out about ""far-away"" lands that American troops would be going to. He explained that in order to meet this need, all relevant information from such sources as universities and businesses was collected and centralized. That material was then supplemented by material collected through ""other various types of intelli-gence gathering."" The second aspect outlined by Colby was that technology was applied to intelligence gathering. Through the use of advanced technologies in the area of photography, space research, and computers, Colby said that ""we can reach over the edge of the earth. .to find out things even in the backyard of a closed and secret society."" Colby referred to the third aspect as a ""novel idea to have American intelligence operate under American law,"" while violating the law of the ""target nation."" He added that ""this fact gives people the impres-sion that all intelligence acts are secret, bordering on the illegal. When the Watergate scand-als broke, Colby said that the Agency had ""looked back at the CIA history to see if any illegal activities had occured."" He said that some were found but that they were over-emphasized. ""We forgot one thing--that not only does government have to do the right thing, but it has to convince the American public that it is doing the right thing."" Colby also discussed the supervision of the CIA by Congress. Such supervision is supposed to insure that the agency does not break the law. ""In the past, I'm afraid this supervision has not been very intense,"" he commented. Colby concluded the lecture saying that the Central Intelli-gence Agency helps American government in its efforts to ""produce peace by bringing out problems, finding ways to solve them, and negotiating the problems"" with foreign powers. He asserted that America met threats ""in the fifties and sixties through the use of intelligence gathered by the CIA. ""It may again be necessary, he said, to give assistance to good decent people"" who are being ruled by a despot or a ""racist."" ""It's better than ""wringing our hands"" he said, ""or sending in the Marines."" `Overassigning ' of dorm space puts students in kitchens by Kathy Pascuzzi This semester opened with about 60 students living in dormitory kitchens and rec rooms. Mary Lee Farlow, Director of Housing Services, said that this was because of a Housing Office policy of ""overassigning"" available dorm space. Farlow says some students always ""fail to show up"" to occupy some of the dorm's regular rooms, and others leave the University within the first few weeks of classes. She said that the policy of overassigning dorm space provides a temporary place to stay for students awaiting vacancies of these types. She also mentioned that these students do no have to sign contracts for off-campus hous-ing when they want to live on-campus. Farlow said that ""only a few"" students are living in kitchens now, but she's ""unsure"" how many there are, since the situation chan-ges daily. She mentioned that about 12 men did not receive permanent room assignments last fall, and spent the whole semester in dorm kitchens. Farlow said that she had not heard of anyone who is ""very unhappy"" about living condi-tions in the kitchens. In fact, sometimes, it's hard to get students to leave when a room has been found for them. ""Often, they get to like the house - their roommates, the CA's and FRAC's."" Farlow tries to reassign students like these to rooms in the same house. ""I try to find someone who wants to live where we have an opening,"" she said. Diane Wright, a student who lived in a kitchen in Prettyman Hall until early this week, said about kitchen life, ""It's really neat!"" The main benefit over life in a regular room, she said, was the additional space in the kit-chen. She also said that the CA's and FRAC's tried to Please turn to page 3 Finegan cites concert as priority by Stephen Verch The three primary officers of the Towson State Student Government Association re-cently announced the specific goals that each will seek via their particular offices for the upcoming year. Joanne Finegan, Nancy Payne, and Erik Perkins, SGA president, vice-president, and treasurer respectively out-lined their objectives in a series of interviews with Towerlight. Before assuming office last May, the three officers ran as a complete ticket in the March SGA elections. Finegan and Payne were cast into late run-off elections as neither they or opposition candidates received the 50% plus one vote that is required to sustain a victory majority. However, Perkins handily defeated his opponent Donna Van Tassel, current College Union Board President with roughly 63% of all ballots cast in the primary election to secure himself the SGA trea-surer post. Finegan and Payne later emerged victors against pre-sidential candidates Gerry Hartung and vice-presidential candidate Mark Lewis in the final run-off balloting held one week later. Upon her ticket complete sweep of the three offices, Finegan said, I feel we'll have the best conditions now for a successful administration."" In a recent interview, the former SGA vice - president echoed her past confidence and explained what directions her administration will pur-sue. ""I think I'm really getting assimilated into it (the pre-sidency). This summer was a summer of learning, but I think I've got a good grip on it,"" she said. Finegan stated that much of the work she was involved with this summer was the set-ting up of this year's speaker series. As promised in her campaign, Finegan sought student opinion through Towerlight ads listing possible speakers. The SGA president then spent this summer im-plementing the results of this poll. With her -vork on the speak-ers series planning now com-pleted, she has been able to ""take a broader perspective"" of the SGA, its functions, and areas that could be improved upon. One such area mentioned by Finegan concerned SGA fac-ulty relations. She feels that feedback from the Towson fa-culty could prove valuable in determining possible avenues of SGA involvement. Citing the faculty grants program as ""our only contact"" with the faculty, she added that is an evaluative, proce-dure- oriented program. Under the faculty grant program, the SGA, based upon general stu-dent nominations, bestows cash awards on those faculty members judged excellent. The one-time SGA senator also suggested a visiting scho-lar program that would begin on a small scale and ultimate-ly evolve into a full-time visit-ing professor program sup-ported entirely by SGA funds. This would be part of what Finegan calls an ""SGA com-mitment to excellence in edu-cation."" On another issue, Finegan indicated a warm feeling for the chamber she once presided over as the appointed SGA vice-president under former president Ann Marie Lowe. Calling the Senate ""a group of committed people --- a pri-mary group of students to go to"", she said she would seek out the senators for help with the Student Information Ser-vice and positions on certain University committees that re-quire student representation. Pointing out the long transi-tional period her administra-tion has experienced (former Lowe cabinet secretaries Hari tung and Lewis still maintain their offices in the SGA lobby of the University Union, she said that she would formally submit the names of Matt McGlone and John Shehan to the Senate for confirmation as Secretaries of Institutional and Community Development Organizational and General Services next week. Though she mentioned dif-ferent ideas and programs, Finegan maintained that she was still deeply committed to SGA - sponsored concerts, namin this her number one priority of the year. ""We're still shooting for a late October date. I'm still optimistic (that an SGA spon-sored concert will be held),"" Please turn to page 3 Joanne Finegan photo by Jose Simms TSU students with ID cards will be admitted free to all home football games this year. Tickets may be picked up at any of the four ticket booths at the northwest and southwest ends of Burdick Field. An additional bus has been made available for students wishing to go to the moonlight cruise tomorrow. students wishing a place on this bus can sign up at the box office. "