tl19800919-000 "VOL. LXXIV No. 4 o ettigIi PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Tigers slip up at the Rock Towson State's football team dropped its second game of the year last Saturday to Slippery Rock State College. The Tigers will face New York Tech tomorrow night in the team's home opener. TL photo by Greg Foster Irv& SGA signs Beatlemania for October 24 concert by Jeff Pierce For the first time, the Student Government Association will spon-lior a concert, said Steve Horn, SGA President. The concert, ""Beatlemania in Concert,"" will be held October 24 4,t8 p.m. ""The contracts have been 4/led and will be sent out Wed-nesday,"" said Horn at the SGA Sen-ate meeting Tuesday. A contract was signed by the or-ganizers of ""Beatlemania"" and the SGA where the group received $20,000 as a payment and 60 per-cent of the profits. ""We expect to 'take a few thousand dollars pro-fit,"" said Horn. The concert is part of the SGA's attempt to re-vitalize Homecoming. Hera said he has been trying to find a way to make Homecoming a ""Big weekend."" ""Beatlemania in Steve Horn Concert"" was chosen because of its wide popularity. ""This is not just a concert, its a multi-media trip into the 1960's, said Horn, Tickets will go on sale to stu-dents the first week of October, and to the general public the next week. A limited amount of seats have been reserved for students in the center arena of the Towson Center. The multi-media production first opened on Broadway, where it sold out for a year and a half. Four New Yorkers, with the help of media tricks, re-created the musical career of the Beatles from their first ap-pearance on the :'Ed Sullivan Show"" in 1964 to their last album in 1970. Slide machines and projectors are used to display images of events of the 1960's on screens behind the performers. Each image is cued to specific lines of a Beatle song. Contents Sports 6 Entertainment 4 Features 3 Commentary 9 Classifieds 5 September 19, 1980 Faculty opposes SGA Glen renovation plans by Genene E. Elborn The Student Government Assoc-iation's plans to renovate the Glen for more events are opposed by some faculty, students and staff members. The Glen was originally set off for the science department to study nature, not for beer blasts or other large events, said Linda Sweeting, associate professor of chemistry. Those opposing SGA involve-ment are concerned with hasty de-cisions involving the environment that they must live with after the students leave in four years. ""Rare wild plants were planted and need protection. The Glen can not withstand high levels of traffic without damage to the environ-ment,"" said Sweeting. ""I feel threatened by their con-servative attitude. College is de-signed for the students. The faculty must be comfortable but the main concern is for the student,"" said Steve Horn, SGA president. ""We're trying to look out for the faculty, students, and administra-tioin but the faculty only seems to be looking out for themselves,"" said Horn. Fifty-five faculty, student, and staff members suggested in a let-ter to the editor in Towerlight, Sep-tember 12 using the University Un-ion patio, the field behind the Tow-son Center, or the patio behind the Lecture Hall as alternative loca-tions to the Glen. These locations were suggested because they can withstand more traffic. Linda Sweeting Horn said he opposes these other locations because they do not offer the isolation, self-containment, and convenience of the Glen. Areas near classrooms would cause noise prob-lems. Renovations are also opposed be-cause more events are likely to leave more trash in the Glen. This restricts its academic and contem-plative usefulness, opponents said. SGA manpower will hand pick the area clean and help maintain it. More trash cans are in the Glen now and each organization is required to clean after its event. Bill Schermerhorn, physical plant director, and his staff will restore picnic benches, barbecue pits, stone-work on buildings, and existing sidewalks. ""Our goal is to beautify and re-store the area, not commercialize it, Horn said. ""The Glen can be used for beer blasts, cookouts, dorm get-toget-hers, and science activities. It can be the best of both worlds,"" he said. Though no professors have ap-proached him, Horn said he is ready to speak with them and to work in conjunction with them to restore the Glen to its original state. Follow the Yellow Brick Road ? This may not be the yellow brick road but it's a beginning. Maintenance and construction crews are helping to change Towson Teacher's College University. to Towson State TL photo by Cindy Sheesley Foreign student population increasing steadily Local by Rich O'Brien An increasing number of foreign students are coin-itig to Towson State and the trend seems steady, Said Thomas Knox, dean of international students. Knox estimates that over the past few years the increase has been 10 percent each year. The foreign student population this year is 180. Knox said he thinks the number is unusually high for a University such as Towson State. ""I don't know why we have so tnany; we don't recruit overseas,"" he said. The number of students cannot be traced to scholar-shflps either, he said. Foreign students pay their own Way here, with funds from their governments or some other source in their own country, Knox said. Academic excellence and the low cost attract for-eign students to the University. The University's ,8 1ence and business administration departments are eig attractions, Knox said. Word of mouth seems to be the way most foreign students find out about the University, he added. About 60 percent of the foreign students at the luniversity are Iranian. The rest are from Nigeria, ndia, China or other Asian countries. Only a few are European. Knox said that the last year has been difficult for 'he Iranians in particular. ""They are a little less visible right now, in reaction to the hostility that was shown by the American students."" Knox said the political problems with Iran have put the squeeze on them financially. Because of the dif-aculty in sending money from Iran to the United S_ tates, the University has extended deadlines for some Iranian students who could not get money in time. ""The embassies are very helpful in these matters lind we can call overseas if we have to,"" Knox said. He assists the students in finding employment if ,liecessary, to help solve some of their financial prob- L,e,rns. In many cases 'Knox works as a liaison between 'no student and the Immigration Service. Another problem tor toreign nth:lents is housing. because of various problems, students often arrive for late admission and there is no available housing. Knox coordinates with various agencies finding the students places to live. Also, Knox said many students arrive without suf-ficient fluency in English to do well academically. The minimum test of English as a foreign . language score to enter the University is 500., Typically, foreign students take the test in their own countries before being accepted here but because many seem to fall below that level, the University offers an English as a second language program. The three courses, beginning, intermediate and advanced, are designed to bring non-English speaking students up to the level where they can absorb the material they are studying here. Knox said he sees still greater increases in the international student population. It cannot continue indefinitely, however, because by law the foreign stu-dent limit is 20 percent of the total student body. y. Knox said, ""I think within the next 10 years Towson State might need a separate International Students office."" Thomas Knox National The expected decline in U.S. College and university enrollments over the next 10 years could be more than offset by a deliberate effort to raise the number of foreign students, an authority on international educa-tion has suggested. Asserting that such efforts hold ""tremendous pot-ential,"" Wyn F. Owen, director of the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, estimated that the number of foreign students in the United States could be increased from about 300,000 today to some 750,000 by the end of the decade. To reach that goal, he said, U.S. colleges and uni-versities would have to raise the proportion of for-eign students from the present 2.5 per cent to about 6.5 per cent. Owen noted that the 6.5 per cent already had been . exceeded at some major institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (18 per cent), Harvard University (12 per cent), and Stanford Uni-versity (11 per cent). At several others�including Columbia University and the Universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin�foreign students account for 6 to 10 per cent of the total enrollment, he said. Owen presented his proposal for stepped-up re-cruiting of foreign students at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association and elaborated on it in an interview. To succeed, he said, the idea would have to be activ-ely promoted by the institutions. They would have to show that their programs were good enough to satisfy the needs of foreign students, he added, although he expressed confidence that the foreign demand for Am-erican education, particularly at the graduate level, would grow in any event. Owen maintained, however, that American colleges were not taking full advantage of the opportunity to enroll foreigners. Despite a recent increase, he said, the proportion of such students in the U.S. was lagging substantially behind that of several other Wes-tern nations-17 per cent in Canada, 13 per cent in France, 7 per cent in the United Kingdom, and 6 per cent in West Germany. Whether the U.S. share will increase to the level suggested by Owen will depend to some extent, he observed, on the ""receptivity"" of federal and state governments. He said it was widely but mistakenly assumed that the federal government was footing a large part of the bill for foreign-student training in this country, when it was actually paying for only about 5 per cent. ""Washington is somewhat a dry trough,"" Owen told the meeting here. He said American academic institutions were carry-ing about 12.5 per cent of the costs. Most of the re-mainder is paid by foreign students, their families, or their governments. Owen also criticized the federal government and pri-vate foundations for financing the development of edu-cational institutions abroad at the expense of upgrad-ing U.S. -based programs for foreigners. He explained that he was not opposed to giving American faculty members additional professional ex-perience abroad, but he said such efforts should not be allowed to cut into resources in this country. Reprinted by permission of the Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. Copyright 1980. In this issue... Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and the rest of the Stones have an-other album and it ain't no Hot Rock. Review on page 5. Sports editor Tom White provides a guide for the fledgling golfer. Polish up your putter and read about it on page 7. "
