The Towerlight, September 26, 1985

tl19850926-000 "ciraduate job market drops The Job market for college graduates did not expand at the expected rate in the Spring of 1985, according to a College Placement Council (CPC) survey. The job market ""remains better than last year, but falls far short of some of our earlier predictions,"" the CPC survey said. Although placement officials last year expected 1985 to be a record year in jobs for graduates, the CPC manager of statistical services Judith Kayser called 1985 ""an indifferent year"" for jobs and salaries. Starting salaries rose only three to five percent last year, ac-cording to the CPC. In most cases, salaries did not rise as swiftly as the inflation rate. Stanford sociologist Henry Levin suggested that colleges do more to warn students of changes in the job market. ""There's typically a seven to nine year cy-cle between when a discipline is in demand and when it reaches its fruition,"" he said. An example of this can be found in the market for computer scientists. Only 24 more job of-fers were made to computer science majors in 1985, and start-ing salaries rose only 1.8 percent. Liberal arts majors enjoyed the most improved job market of the Year, with a four to seven percent salary increase and a similar rise in job offers. ""There seems to be a re-evaluation of the liberal arts graduate,"" Kayser said. ""These students are able to see the big Picture. Employers are recogniz-ing this."" ""Anyone who can combine a technical discipline with a liberal arts background is the marketable graduate of the future,"" Levin agreed. �College Press Service Forensic season begins The Towson State Forensic Union will travel to Vanderbilt University October 4 to begin the Fall 1985 debate season. Only three debate teams will compete at the tournament, which Foren-sic Union president Jeff Order said is the first this semester to include the top national teams. The topic to be debated is: Resolved, that significant government restrictions on coverage by the United States media of terrorist activities are justified."" The Tigers hope to regain their national top ten status after finishing seventeenth last Spring. The upcoming debate should provide an excellent opportunity for this. ""It can be a bloodbath,"" Order said. Both debate and individual teams are scheduled to compete in the second tournament of the Year, to be held at West Point. All levels of competition will be held at this tournament. --Thomas Richter Ar thritis fundraiser Planned at Union Gamball, the annual fundraiser of the Arthritis M Foundation of aryland, will be held in the University Union on September 28. The fundraiser will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, and gambling. Tickets for the formal event are available through subscription only, and were limited to 400 this year. According to Mrs. Jan White, co-chairperson of the benefit, Gamball is the largest annual fundraiser of the foundation. ""We are their lifeline, we raise more money for them than any other event,"" she said. Gamball has always been held in the Union, she added. ""The Union is a lovely Place to hold it and it accom-modates us well."" �Michele Hart campus notes .1111���??��?, 10 Inside Bimbos and jocks Sting sends S.O.S. but con-certgoers don't hear it ... 12. Tigers winning on every field Football, soccer, field hockey, women's tennis teams victorious ... 3, 4, 5. Animated, unripe bananas Tiger Chips scrutinizes TSU's football team, the stadium, etc. ... 11 Job Fair to be held Towson State will host the Col-lege Job Fair at the Towson Center on Friday, December 27, 1985. This annual event brings together college seniors, recent col-lege graduates and potential employers. The Job Fair will give students the opportunity to explore dif-ferent employment openings. Employers will be able to meet and interview students and alumni holding a wide variety of degrees. The 1984 Job Fair attracted ap-proximately seventy-five employers. Over 2,000 college seniors and recent graduates were interviewed. Colleges and univer-sities in Maryland and throughout the United States were represented. The directors of the Job Fair are currently accepting applications from businesses and organizations that wish to participate in the pro-gram. Interested employers can contact Francis J. I,eMire, Direc-tor of the Career Placement Center at Towson State at 321-2233 for registration information. �Jean Kane Audio loop should aid hearing impaired Towson State University hs received an audio loop for the hearing impaired from the American Council on Education's Project HEALTH (Higher Educa-tion adn the Handicapped). The audio loop is a portable device that can be set up in any lecture hall and the Main Stage of the Fine Arts building to allow the hearing impaired with the ap-propriate hearing aids to hook in-to the system and hear every thing that is spoken. The University office of special needs obtained the equipment from the University. The loop is available from Media Services. �University Report Campus notes are continued on page 2. The (c) A Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 4 Towson. AM 21204 September 26, 1985 Artfrom abroad Towson art students who studied in Italy last semester had their work displayed at the Towson Italian Festival. Sex counseling offered at Dowell health center By Jean Kane Dowell Health Center now offers a peer education program for students with questions about sex, pregnancy, birth control, or related topics. The clinic also offers preventive gynecological care such as breast and pelvic exams, tests and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, free pregnancy tests, and prescription birth control devices at greatly reduc-ed prices. The only charges students must pay are for laboratory work sent outside of the health center. A large part of the services center around the peer education program initiated by health center director Dr. Jane Halpern. In the program, head-ed by health educator Lenore Meyers, trained student volunteers conduct birth control education seminars. The students explain male and female anatomy and pelvic examination. In addition, the seminar directors ex-plain the various methods of birth control, their effectiveness, and their proper use. The Planned Parenthood organiza-tion had operated on campus at one time, but left because it felt it needed to expand. The University's program began in full-swing in the Spring 1985 semester. ""I'd say that on the whole, the program was really successful,"" said Meyers. Attendance at the seminars varies from two to fourteen students per meeting, said Meyers. Because attendance at the seminar is mandatory before a student can receive prescription birth control from the health center, the number of students who attend is much higher at the beginning of the semesters when a great influx of new students arrive at the University. According to Meyers, attendance at the health center con-ferences held Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 4 to 5:39 p.m. average about six people. In addition, students can arrange for individual conferences. Seminars are also held at various times in the campus dormitories. These sessions are arranged for students to attend on a volunteer basis. The student educators were prepared by a thirty-how training program. Halpern spoke to the group about anatomy, and Meyers explain-ed the birth control methods available. The students also spoke to a psychologist from the counseling center to aid them in helping others make decisions. A number of guest speakers were part of the training program including representatives from family planning organizations. Those attending the sessions have been asked to complete evaluations of the program. The comment which shows up on many of the forms, said Meyers, is that the students ap-preciate having other students talk to them. ""It is clear from the evalua-tions that people want and need infor-mation presented in the amount of detail given here,"" Meyers said. Chris Huddleston, one of the peer educators, echoed these thoughts. ""I think it's fantastic, something the school really needed,"" she said. Hud-dleston continued, ""I transferred from Salisbury State, which had a full-scale program operating from its health center. I couldn't believe that with the, high student population of Towson State, the school didn't offer any contraceptive program."" Meyers is currently recruiting new students to work as peer educators. Howard Hansen, who worked with the program last year, explained, ""I join-ed because I had a lot of free time. Once I got the training down, I really started to enjoy it. I may go into counseling or education. Health ma-jors would really like working in the program."" By Franein DiGennaro New law fights fraud By Terie Wolan In addition to being suspended from Towson State, students who forge notes or change grades may be pro-secuted under a new Maryland law, University officals warn. The General Assembly passed a law, which went into effect July 1, stating that students who ""falsely make, forge, or counterfeit"" a transcript, diploma, or grade report many be convicted of a misclmeanor with a penalty of up to a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail. Thomas Knox, dean of judicial af-fairs, said that Unviersity officials are concerned about the rising number of forgery cases and warned that although the University has not turned over any students for prosecu-tion yet, ""we're working with the at-torney general to develop a system where they will help us determine which cases are serious enough to pro-secute."" Five forgery cases have already been brought before Knox this month, a substantial increase over last year. The university judicial affairs system handled a total of fifteen forgery cases last year, Knox said. The cases range in severity from forging faculty or doctors' excuses to changing grades on a single grade report up to changing transcript grades. ""Students are always shocked when they learn there are penalties for this,"" Knox said. Even if students' cases are not prosecuted, Knox said, generally University penalties are a semester suspension for faking a doc-tors' note, a year suspension for forg-ing a faculty note, and a five year suspension for faking grades on a grade on a grade report or a transcript. Under University policy, a student suspected of forgery, a violation of the student conduct code, will be brought before Knox who determines if the case should be pursued. A judicial hearing officer will hold a hearing on the case where Knox will present evidence, somewhat like a pro-secutor, and the student may defend himself. The hearing officer deter-mines guilt or innocence and Dorothy Siegel, dean of student affairs, decides on the penalty. If a student feels the sentence is un-just, that student may appeal the deci-sion first to the University screening committee, then to the mediation See FORGERIES, page 2 Financial aid forgeries rise By Terie Wolan The federal government is crack-ing down on fradulent financial aid requests, financial aid director Marilyn Ojodu warned. The penalty for providing incor-rect information on the aid form has always been a fine of up to $10,000 and/or ten years in jail, Ojodu said, but the students may not be aware that the federal government is tak-ing a closer look at the forms and actively pursuing more fraud cases. Ojodu said, ""these regulations have always been here, but now, they (federal government) are going to put some teeth into them"" by re-quiring college financial aid offices to check 50 percent of the requests and try to prosecute more fraud cases. ""We don't know what the new government requirements which See AID, page 2 Computer additions increase capacity four times By Andrea Riker The Towson State University computers, like those of many in-stitutions around the nation, must be continually updated. The coming of the Fall semester will bring about numerous revisions in the recently installed VAX computer system. The VAX 11-780 computer sys-tem, which was installed in the fall of 1983, is undergoing a series of revisions that began during the summer to produce terminal serv-ers. These servers will allow an in-crease in the number of terminals available. The revised system, the VAX 11-785, is according to associate director of academic computing Dr. Robert Farmer four times as power-ful as the previous system. More revisions will not be expected until the Spring of 1986. The new system is not expected to have an effect on admissions; however, it may encourage high school students who tour the cam-pus and are able to see the number of terminals available. Institutions such as Brown Uni-versity, Carnegie-Mellon Uni-versity, and Dartmouth College have been computerized for some time. Now many of the less corn-pu ter-orien fa ted colleges and universities are making the move towards computerization that they were unable to make earlier. The biggest problem for these more recently computerized schools is financing the systems. Institu-tions such as Southern University are resorting to golf tournaments and selling scrap materials just to get a computer or two on their cam-puses. At Russell Sage College, there are 45 microcomputers that have to serve 3,000 full time students and 2,000 part time students. According to Catharine Ferrara-Hazell, coor-dinator of academic computing at Russell Sage, most departments give three to six assignments on the computer a semester. Ferrara-Hazell said, ""Mathe-matics and computer science now account for 30 per cent of the use. The rest has been picked up by just about every department except fine arts."" The number of applicants at Drew University rose 49 per cent after it was announced in early 1984 that each freshman would be required to purchase and use a com-puter. Following its example, Franklin and Marshall College urg- See COMPUTERS, page 9 The VAX, Towson's mainframe computer, was recently expanded to 4 times its original size. "