The Towerlight, September 2, 1982

tl19820902-000 ".111. The Tovverlight 76 No. 1 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 September 2, 1982 lcohol sales estricted By Bruce Reid Towson State administrators this week approved hat they term a ""liberal"" set he of recommendations from campus Alcohol Concerns Committee to comply ith .a two-month old state law restricting the sale and istribution of beer and light wine to some 18-year olds. ihe law, which took effect July 1, raises the legal .:inking age for beer and wine to 19 for persons born ter June 30, 1964. Anyone who turned 18 before July 1 will still be legal-allowed to drink and purchase light spirits under the .andfather clause, or phase-in of the law. .Campus administrators were confronted with the task complying with the new drinking age law and ?enitoring the sale of alcohol at large-scale dances and atdoor events. Students who are legally able to drink will be issued ristbands, and students under the legal drinking age ill be allowed to enter events where alcohol is sold but Ill not be issued wristbands. We don't want any events held where some students ould not be able to attend because alcohol is sold,"" said Imes Spivack, head of the Alcohol Concerns Commit-and associate director of the Counseling Center. The committee estimated that 20 to 26 percent of the udents attending an event where alcohol is sold would ) under the legal drinking age. ""We thought about it, and we don't want to do !Ailing intrusive,"" Spivack said. ""Taking alcohol out I an event] would be a more drastic step."" Hut the wristbands as identification of legal drinking :e will be used with a wait-and-see attitude, Spivack id. The effectiveness of the wristbands and the will-gness of students to cooperate with the new policies ill be investigated in the coming weeks, he said. Many other state-run colleges and universities have iveloped similar policies to deal with the sale of alcohol i campuses where freshmen classes may be split by the 1�v drinking age law. Frostburg State College in Allegany County has used ristbands to identify students old enough to drink for C past two years. We did not want to split the freshman class into two (nips,"" said Thomas L. Bowling, assistant vice presi-int for student services at Frostburg. Unlike Towson State, Frostburg restricts the sale of ohol to weekends and distributes it through a liversity-run catering service. ""In talking with people across the state ... as long as ? exercise diligence in identifying persons under age'. See ALCOHOL, page 10. Photo by John O'Loughlin Returning to campus after a long summer vacation is a distressing experience for some students. Towson State submits budget By Bruce Reid The Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges yesterday submitted Towson State's $52 million budget request for the 1983-84 school year to the state Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning. The request in-cludes a 7 percent increase in tuition and fees and a 46 percent increase in room and board fees. Tuition has increased steadily for the past decade but the large in-crease in room and board costs is directly related to the $30 million pricetag for the new 14-story dorms under construction. Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, said state revenues will not cover the total budget request, thus the need for a hike in tuition. The Board of Trustees placed a ceiling on the state allotment to the University which is $389,000 under the total request, McCulloh said. See BUDGET, page 2 niversity proposes Union parking garage By Stacey Parker Plans for a new parking garage on lot 11, facing the University Union will be presented to the Board of Trustees of State Universities and Colleges finance com-mittee September 9, said Donald McCulloh, vice presi-dent of business and finance. McCulloh said he foresees no problems in moving ahead with plans for the garage, but must convince the finance committee ""that financially we can do it."" The finance committee must then make a recommen-dation to the full board. The garage is expected to cost $5 million. The Univer-sity already has approximately $1 million collected from parking fees over the years. :hapman leaving post, says totinority problems unsolved By James Schoettler Julius Chapman's office is almost pty now. Boxes filled with leinorabilia are packed, ready to be loved. After 12 years as Towson tate's Dean of Minority Affairs, hapman is leaving to become ex- :Utive vice president of Voorheese ollege in South Carolina. ""To emphasize black culture in to-itY's society is less in vogue than ears ago,"" Chapman said, reflec-jog on his time at the University. When hearing of black student's lroblems, people have lost that sen-itivity to their needs."" Chapman leaves ""not satisfied by long shot"" with the current status If minorities on campus. He thinks lifficult problems remain. ""A big one would be the attitude 'n the part of some faculty and lerne administrators,"" Chapman .laid. ""There is resistance to the no- Ion that black students have tad-lue problems."" He has a graciousness about comes off strong and firm, yet gentle too,"" said Harriet Griffin, iirector of financial aid. ""We're real- Y going to miss him."" r,""He cares about students and Ye learned a lot from him,"" Griffin ""Q. ""He always knew he wouldn't )e here if it were not for the itudents, not just black students, Lay students."" Hiring of minorities by the University also concerns Chapman. ""Initially, the largest number of black faculty and administrators were at Towson in the early 1970s,"" Chapman said. ""It (hiring of blacks) has stabilized, leveled off, has not kept pace with the growth of the student population. That is a weakness because our students need to see black people in a variety of settings. They need role models to show them what they have achieved."" ""Having black faculty can change how black students feel about them-selves,"" Chapman said. ""And as a result, society is benefitted."" In 1982, 3 percent of the Universi-ty's faculty and 9 percent of admini-and professionals (counsellors, librarians, etc.) were black, said Elaine Solez, affirmative action of-ficer. Chapman criticized so-called ""University experts who are not black who claim to know all there is to know about being black."" ""They (experts] tend to do things based on tnat knowieage tney ciaim to have that runs counter to what the black community and students !talus Chapman will clear out his desk after ../tilversity's Minority Affairs Office. Photo by Bob Tarletoz 12 years as head of the who were born black, live black, and want to die black, want."" ""Sometimes those individuals are very influential in terms of policy, structure, and direction,"" Chapman said. ""And of course they can sabatoge efforts of members of the community whose primary response is to identify and address the needs of the black community."" Chapman also recommended changes in the way the Student Government Association handles minority issues. He criticized ""the fallacy of the student speaker series."" ""The SGA decided who the speaker was going to be (even though) that speaker might not he acceptable to the black community,"" Chapman said. There should be a survey in the black community as to who would serve their needs best, he said. ""The University's climate has im-proved to the extent that we have the first SGA black president in the University's history,"" Chapman said. ""He has been a great asset in helping with a lot of events, especially relative to the black fraternity's and sorority's,"" said Dave Thomas, SGA president. ""He has helped them get things done with and through the SGA. (His leaving) is a great loss to the University."" Chapman praised the Black Stu-dent Union as an organization that has helped blacks on campus to in-crease their involvement within the University community. ""We have to do certain things to enhance interaction so they (minori-ty) students can grow,"" Chapman said. ""Black students saw that (BSU) as a way for holding on to their culture and promoting it as a social outlet,"" Chapman said. ""There was early resistance to the BSU,"" Chapman said. ""People would say 'why isn't there a white student' without recognizing the real purpose for which it was formed and that was to help the blacks sur-vive in the environment."" See CHAPMAN, page 2 ""We have this in reserve to defray the cost of construc-tion,"" McCulloh said. ""Some bond source is needed"" to come up with the rest. Student parking fees would increase to $60-$65 a year, and faculty parking to $25 to $30 a year when the garage is finished, McCulloh said. He said this is ""not a significant increase for Oils type of garage."" The Money will help pay for the low-rise structure and its Maintenance. The garage could be finished by the time the new dor-mitories are completed next August. ""It only takes six to nine months to build. It depends on timing,"" McCulloh said. The garage will add 700 parking spaces to the existing 350 surface spaces on lot 11. Originally, parking lot 5 near Linthicum Hall was proposed for the garage, but Hoke Smith, president, felt the Union lot would be a better choice, McCulloh said. The Union lot would accomodate 400 more vehicles than lot 5, and would provide needed parking for events at the Fine Arts building and University Uninn ""There is still enough parking on campus, but a lack of parking around the core of campus,"" said Carl J. Kotowski, parking services manager. Kotowoski said more parking stickers are issued than there are spaces available because not everyone is on campus at the same time. Students are often frustrated at not getting a space close to campus after paying for a sticker, he said. ""During the first weeks of school, parking will be hec-tic,"" he said, even at the Towson Center lots. He advises students to arrive at least a half an hour before their classes begin to allow enough time to find a space. Students often waste time driving around the lots close to campus, when they could save time by parking at the one further away, Kotowski said. In the meantime, students still must find spaces and get to class on time. photo by John O'Loughlin Student parking at Towson State can be trying. Kastner to direct Lida Lee Lida Lee Tall Learning Resource Center will begin classes on September 7 under the direction of Donald L. Kastner, newly appointed principal. Kastner said the schools will ""keep many previous tradition,"" however he torsees some changes in the Donald L. Kastner structure of the learning resource center. Kastner listed four immediate goals for Lida Lee Tall. 1. To provide the students of Lida Lee Tall with an interesting and ex-citing learning program that will develop their abilities to the highest possible level. 2. To continue to develop a pro-gram that will place the laboratory school on the ""cutting edge"" of good methodology. 3. To develop a specific statement of mission for the school. 4. To develop an interaction and exchange with the public institu-tions of higher learning in Mary-land. Kastner plans to work closely with the music and physical educa-tion departments at the University to provide the Lida Lee Tall students more variety of education this year. ""This could be very in-teresting and exciting for the students,"" Kastner said. University students will still be able to use the center for observa-tion work, Kastner said. Presently the schedules for the observation periods are still being worked out. James Lawlor, director of the center for applied skills in educa-tion, and coordinator for student observations said he doubts if there will be any substantial changes in the coordination of student observa-tions. Lawlor said he is now surveying student observation needs and is hopeful observation will get under-way by the start of school. In addition to the new principal there are, five new teachers this year. Darlene Piskor and Teresa Wicklin two Towson State graduates, Debra Bungo, a graduate of Allegheny College, Marilyn Zeligman, a part-time art teacher also employed in the Baltimore City public school system, Cynthia Lawrence, librarian staff member of the former production of center at the Universi-ty, and Eleanora Hall, the new resource room teacher, a Morgan State graduate. Of the eight teachers employed at Lida Lee Tall last year, Shirley Der-rickson, Earl Slacum, Alice McGill and Elsie Ludlow are returning to the Learning Resource Center. The former librarian is now with Cook Library, and one other teacher retired while two others were not rehired. Job outlook grim for college grads (CPS) � The job market for this year's college gra-duates isn't good, and it may even be betting worse. That's the prognosis offered by placement and employment experts around the country, who add that even the so called ""hot majors"" � engineering and com-puter science students � are getting significantly fewer job offers than their counterparts a year ago. ""The job market is definitely softening for college grads,"" said Jack Shingleton, the placement director at Michigan State University who administers a yearly survey of business college recruiting plans. ""Disciplines such as social science, arts and letters, and education are experiencing the greatest underem-ployment. Even the engineering and computer science majors are not as well off as they were two or three years ago,"" he said. The College Placement Council, a trade association of campus placement offices, reports job offers to June Employers and placement experts blame the reces-sion. Hundreds of top corporations have instituted hir-ing freezes, cut back on the number of college grads they employ, and cancelled their college recruitment pro-grams. ""We're not hiring at all, and we don't plan to in the near future,"" said a spokeswoman for Sperry-Univac's Mini-Computer Division, which several years ago was aggressively recruiting college grads. Likewise, Xerox cut the number of college graduates it hired by 20 percent, and company officials expect the situation to get worse before it gets better. And Exxon, tradionally a major recruiter of engineers and other high-technology majors, is currently recruiting only at selected schools. ""Our recruiting efforts have been curtailed dramatically,"" said an Exxon representative. ""With the economy the way it is, things are very slow."" See GRADUATES, page 10 "