The Towerlight, September 22, 1978

tl19780922-000 "ottittIt VOL. LXXII No. 3 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY lit September 22, 1978 The longest yard Towson State quarterback Ron Meehan walks to the sidelines slightly shaken 11P, as the closing minutes of the Tigers' 21-14 loss to James Madison run out. It was their first loss of the season. TL Photo by Greg Foster Speech at 8 Wallace to kick off Faculty voices complaints Board modifies Cox plan by Paul Gilmore and Judy Wilner The Board of Trustees for State Col-leges and Universities announced the procedure for the search for a presi-dent for Towson State University earlier this week. The Academic Council and the Towson chapter of the American Association of University Professors immediately protested the procedure since it was not in accordance with the plan the Academic Council devised at their August 30 meeting. Margaret Kiley, president of the Towson chapter of the AAUP, sent a mailgram to Charles Foelber, chair-man of the Board, reaffirming sup-port for the procedures outlined by the Academic Council. The mailgram was delivered to Foelber at the Board's monthly meeting held at the University of Baltimore last Tuesday. The point of controversy in the plan is the number of faculty members that are to sit on the search commit-tee. Under the plan approved by the Board only one faculty representative will sit on a committee with one stu-dent, one appointee of the Board of Visitors, and one appointee of the Alumni Association. These four members will join four members of the Board of Trustees to complete the committee. The plan proposed by the Academic Council, which is the same plan that was used to find a replacement for president Earl T. Hawkins a decade ago called for five faculty members to sit on a committee with two students, and an appointee from the Board of Visitors, the Towson Foundation and the Alumni Association. That committee would have corn- Mike Wallace, co-editor of CBS-TV news magazine show ""60 Minutes,"" will open the Student Government Association Speaker Series tonight at 8 P.m. in the Towson Center. Wallace will be introduced onstage by Jack Bowden, Channel 2 news reporter. He will speak on ""Confron-tation Journalism."" Wallace, along with former CBS newsmen Dan Rather and Morley Safer, are co-editors of ""60 Minutes."" Wallace interviews newsworthy per-sonalities. He has interviewed newsmakers including John Ehrlich-man, CIA Director George Bush, H.R. Haldeman, Alexander Haig, Eldridge Cleaver, and Donald Segretti. He has covered stories on child abuse, Americans working in Iran, kidnappings in Italy, and child por-nography. He covered the Vietnam War from 1967-68, has covered political conventions for CBS News since 1964, and reported election results since 1968. Subscription ticket sales lag by Debbie Pelton The 200 SGA Speaker Series subscription ticket sales this year lags far behind the 700 sold last year. John Shehan, SGA president, said he is ""definitely disappointed"" by the low sales, but added he did not believe it ""is indicative of the quality of the speakers."" Shehan said he expected a better response because the SGA ""ran the gamut"" on advertising for the series. Advertisements appeared in the Bal-timore Sunpapers, Washington Post and a daily Pennsylvania paper, Shehan said. Radio stations were sent news releases about the series and letters and flyers were mailed to past subscribers and Towson area busi-nesses. There is also a showcase display promoting the series on the second floor of the University Union, said Shehan. Shehan said the series will not fail if the subscription ticket sales don't in-crease. ""Our main responsibility is to the students,"" said Shehan, and if stu-dent tickets are used, ""this means the SGA is serving the students."" All the student tickets to Mike Wallace's speech were given out. This year the Series is ""trying to get back on its feet again,"" said Shehan. He said he thinks the SGA has to rebuild the credibility it lost last year."" Cyr wins award by Theresa Gilmore Dr. Gordon Cyr, associate professor of music, was awarded the 1978 Maryland Arts Council Fellowship for Music Composition this summer. Cyr won the $5,000 fellowship for his composition, ""Rhombohedra,"" which was written for a wind ensemble. The piece was written in 1974 fpr Towson State's celebra-tion of composer Charles Ives' 100th birthday. When the piece was performed, Cyr arranged the band to resemble a rhombohedron, a geometric object with six faces. James Paulsen, art instructor, designed a rhom-bohedron for Cyr to put onstage. Cyr said he favored this competition over others he entered because there was no upper age limit placed on entrants. Cyr attended a conference for the American Society of University Composers where there was a discussion about Placing age limits on competition entrants. He applauded the man who asked, ""Why do contest makers think that Just because a composer is past his 30th, 40th, or even 60th birthday that he is no longer in need of [financial] assistance?"" Cyr's other works include ""Tabb Songs,"" dedicated to Tnwson State faculty member Ruth Drucker and her Pianist husband Arno Drucker, and ""Tetramusic,"" a Chamber composition originally designed for a quartet. Cyr would like to spend the prize money getting his Previous works recorded. Dr. Gordon Cyr pleted the first stage of a two-stage search procedure and recommended three to five names to the Board for screening. Acting president Joseph Cox pro-posed this plan to the Board but they opted for a one-stage system that they have used since 1972. ""We think it is a balanced process,"" said Foelber following the Tuesday meeting. ""It is fair, it is proper, it is within the guidelines of our board. We have used this process in two or three instances over the past five years and it has worked very well,"" he said. The university faculty, however, was not satisfied. ""No one faculty member can adequately represent the whole faculty,"" said Herbert An-drews, chairman of the Academic Council. After she heard of the Board's final decision, Riley said ""I am very disap-pointed about the Board's decision. There are several departments in the university and they are so different it is impossible for one person to repre-sent that wide an area. ""But, we're going to try,"" she said. The committee will be chaired by Edgar Berman who will be a non-voting member and will include Mar-shall Moore, Joyce Phillips and James Sensabaugh, all from the Board. The university's appointees to the committee will be SGA president John Shehan; Bob DiCicco, chairman of the Board of Visitors; a faculty represen-tative to be announced Monday; and John Wighton of the Alumni Associa-tion. Cox said he was pleased with the four-to-three voting majority the university's representatives held on the committee, but he was upset with series He began work in the 1940's for the Chicago Sun. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he worked as a news reporter for station WMAQ in Chicago. Wallace joined CBS-TV in 1951 where he began as a broadcaster on news, feature and entertainment programs, and became a correspon-dent in 1963. Wallace has won many professional honors during his journalistic career, including awards from schools of journalism at Ohio University, Col-umbia University, and the University of Southern California. He is also a member of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. General admission for the lecture is $5. Students may obtain two free tickets with a validated ID card. For more information, call the University Box Office at 321-2244. Fisher honored James L. Fisher was appointed President Emeritus of Towson State University by the Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges at its September 19 meeting. The board said the appointment was ""in recognition of his untiring efforts on behalf of Towson State University and its educational advancement."" the limited number of faculty representatives. The committee will begin work as soon as the university's represen-tatives are known, said Cox. ""Dr. Ber-man is ready to go next week,"" he said. Shehan said he is also upset with the representation of the committee. ""I'm disappointed that we don't have more faculty and student representatives . . . but it is important to realize we have a job ahead of us. We can't let petty feelings get in the way,"" he said. Foelber said the search will involve visiting the prospective presidential candidates on their campuses and bringing them to the campus to expose them to the university com-munity. Charles Foelber, chairperson for the Board of Trustees of State Colleges and Universities. TL, Photo by Lester Shugarman BEOG tangles delay applicants by Patrick Casey A number of prospective Towson State students may have been unable to enroll this semester because they had insufficient funds due to new procedures for proces-sing federal financial aid applica-tions. Hundreds of thousands of stu-dents across the nation have been unable to enroll because their Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) applications were not processed in time. New computer safeguards against fraud and the use of different forms than were used before are the primary causes of delay. Failure by some students to provide basic information such as Social Security numbers or birth dates has also caused delays. Towson was not as hard hit as some other schools in the area which have larger numbers of low-income students. Harriet M. Griffin, director of financial aid, said she is unable to say exactly how many Towson students were hit by BEOG problems. Griffin said approximately 700 students who stated their intention Discrimination case dropped by Katherine Dunn Wayne Schelle, vice president for business and finance, was informed Friday that after reviewing the case of Bates vs. Towson State Univer-sity, the Maryland Commission on Human Relations found no proof of religious discrimination against Towson State. The Commission held a hearing July 24 to rule on a complaint by junior Stephen Bates, a member of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Bates com-plained of religious discrimination, by the University because it refused to rent space to the Unification Church. The Commission decided that since the University does not let any religious groups use its meeting facilities for recruiting members, there was no probable cause for charges of discrimination. Bates said he would use the facilities for recruiting, including passing out literature and teaching basic Unification Church philo-sophy. Schelle said Bates ""could still sue in federal court, but our attorney's don't feel he will. After losing with the Human Relations Commission, which is quite sympathetic, because of the cost of lawyers, the chances are very small."" Bates could not be reached for comment. to enroll at the University applied for the BEOG. Of those 700, 40-to 50 complained about BEOG tie-ups to the financial aid office. Griffin said ""about ten to twenty per cent"" of those who complained were able to have their bills deferred until problems are overcome. Deferments were granted to students who either had some other form of financial aid to back them up, or to students who were able to get their BEOG index (an indicator �of BEOG eligibility). Griffin said she has heard nothing from the remainder of students who visited her office, and she is unsure whether they paid their bills some other way or simply did not enroll. Griffin also said some others of the 700 who originally applied for the BEOG may have run into problems and ""just said forget Griffin said a Mailgram was sent last weekend to all students whose BEOG applications are delayed. She said that BEOG would be able to provide one-half of a student's grant for the semester if their application is stalled. Griffin urges any students who has problems with BEOG applica-tions to visit the financial aid office immediately. In This Issue Man for All Reasons: Howard Hammen is the multi-talented Tiger. on the fields of fall page 12 Urban Urchin: City Boy to open Towson Center show for Hall and Oates; receive the raves of our record watcher page 11 .La Dolce Vita: Exploiting the pleasures of travel study in the cradle of the Renaissance page 8 Changing the Change: University refund policies undergo an alteration; the new fit could be important to you. page 4 The Rev. Speaks: Jesse Jackson joins the Towerlight roster of columnists with an indictment of the FBI .. page 3 "