tl19790928-000 "PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY "" Signs suPporting the student Day Care Center appeared on campus this week after the SGA began an investigation of the Center's funding. The Center is now Partially funded by the SGA, but some senators feel the SGA should not fund it. The children and parents made the signs hanging from the ramp between Hawkins Hall and the Lecture Hall (above) and hanging on the back of Lida Lee Parents ight SGA study by Pat VoelkeI Students with children attending the ""jay care Center object to the '')GA's investigation of the center's funding. The SGA is investigating the al location of approximately $15,050 th at comes from the SGA activity lee� Milissa Murray. SGA president, said the Center is being examined bec ause it is a unique organization that is routinely allocated money owithnut being analyzed. ,r,he parents said they were not O Why the Center is under n v estigation and knew nothing .4,1/nut it until Murray's letter was in I owerlight tSeptember Some parents � said they believe ti center is under attack because, is Parents, they are a minority. '.'F'verybody that doesn't have a child sees things in a different Perspective,"" said Sherry Miller, Parent and student. ""Parents are a minority,"" said ""1' parent. ''The SGA always makes special gestures to minor-ities. Why not us?"" Many of the students said they will have to quit school if the SGA discontinues the center's funding. The cut would mean a $20 a week tuition raise for each of the 40 families that use the center, said Harriet Douthirt, director of the day Care Center. Now the tuition is on a sliding scale based on the individual student's income. ""Without the Day Care Center, I couldn't continue my education,"" said Earl Basemen, father of a 2 year old son. Other parents said that the cost of raising a family and going to school plus the added $80 a month to their existing fees, would be impossible to afford. ""It just wouldn't be workable,"" said Arlene Enders, a senior. Approximately 38 of 40 parents will have to quit school if the funding is stopped, one parent said. Many parents said a major reason continued on page 2 in this issue Booze rules�is this the return of the beer blast? Day Care. The campus responds. Page 10. Gridders Glow. The Tigers make it three in a row in the mud and muck of Randolph Macon. Catch the Tiger win. Page 6. Tall school (below). The parents also began circulating petitions to show the SGA, who will make a final decision in November, that even students without children in the Center still support it. TL photos by Cindy Sheesley HO Rose Gillasso r- \ Weekend Weather�Chance of rain today, temperatures in the 70's. Chance of showers tomorrow, ending Sunday. High in the 70's both days. September 28, 1979 Senators investigate Day Care by Katherine Dunn Most of the Student Government Association senators say they are in favor of discontinuing SGA funding of the Day Care Center. An SGA investigation is currently under way to determine whether the SGA should stop funding the Center which now has 45 children enrolled. The money for the Day Care Center comes from the fee paid by every full-time student. Each student pays a total of $87: $40 for athletics, $25 for SGA and $22 for University Union ser-vices. Part of each of those three fees goes to the Day Care Center: 81 cents from athletics, $1.75 from SGA and 44 cents from Union services. The total of $3 per student is then multiplied by approximately 9,000 full-time day students to reach the total of $27,000 for funding the Center. The $1.75 from the SGA, although paid through the SGA budget, actually comes from administration to the Center. It is not allocated as it is to other organizations by a request that must be justified during Senate budget hearings every spring. The Center receives the same amount each year ($15,350 total from SGA) but the SGA has no jurisdiction over what it is used for. ""I can't help but question the fact that 9,000 pay for it and only 40 use it,"" said Milissa Murray, SGA President. The question according to almost all the senators is not whether the Center is good or bad but who should fund it. All the senators agree that day care is a good idea, but nearly all of them feel SGA should not fund it. Breakdown of SGA funds Accounting Association American Marketing Association Art Student Union Black Student Union Campus Union Board Christian Student Movement Creative Interpreters Guild Economics Club Forensics Union Geography Club Grub Street Wit Inter Fraternity-Sorority Council International Student Union Jewish Student Association Mass Communications Association Residence Council Society for Advancement of Management Tower Echoes Towerlight VVCVT Executive Budget Fixed Expenditures All figures are approximate. $ 150.00 1,226.00 -0- 4,057.00 7,125.90 540.00 -0- -0- 3,431.00 337.56 2,135.00 2,035.00 675.00 2,140.00 945.00 5,200.00 -0- 26,000.00 10,015.00 29,484.38 19,235.00 68,461.25 Total: $ 183,283.09 Speaker Series Salaries Phone Security Scholar Aid Insurance Admissions Tax ""I think the Day Care Center is cer-tainly worthwhile; no one questions that,"" said Michael Burns, SGA Vice President. ""But I question it for other reasons. First, why is this group bet-ter than all other organizations and gets special money without question'? Second, it is not a student-run organi-zation. ""Third, we're economically hard-pressed. More and more organiza-tions are asking for more money. Can we afford to utilize a Day Care Center that only serves 40 students? ""Fourth, the parents say they won't be able to stay in school without the Center, but is it SGA's responsibility to keep students in school? Where do we draw the line? ""It should at least come every year and ask for a budget,"" Burns added. ""There are other organizations that don't get that tremendous of an amount of money but bring great benefits to the rest of the campus,"" said Jim Manfuso, senator. Tower Echoes, Towerlight, and WCVT that get as much as the Day Care Center serve a lot of students."" ""We're not going to close it,"" said Murray. She is in favor of transfer-ring the funding to another depart-ment, as are nearly all senators. Murray said she thinks student ser-vices should pick up the funding. Keith Hark, senator, said he would be in favor of dropping the Center if the funding could not be transferred, but he said he is sure that if it was dropped another department would pick it up. Hark said he would have to continued on page ) FIXED EXPENDITURES $ 10,000.00 37,000.00 9,000.00 2,000.00 9,561.25 300.00 600.00 $ 68,461.25 SOURCES OF DAY CARE FUNDS Fee Athletics Total Amount 40.00 University Union Operations 22.00 SGA 25.00 Amount for Day Care .81 .44 1.75 Parking relief in sight Relief from chronic on-campus parking problems may arrive even-tually from new parking garages and improved MTA bus service. Increasing enrollment coupled with a lack of parking and limited mass transit service prompted the University to seek aid from the State government. The 1977 capital budget included $350,000 for parking construction, part of which is funding the development of plans for a parking garage by the firm of Williams and John Suter, director of campus planning, said, ""The $10 increase in parking fees levied in 1978 was done to establish a fund to service the debt for a bond needed to raise money to pay for the garages."" Additional apropriations have been authorized by the Board of Trustees of State Colleges and Universities. Suter said ""The 1.6 percent inflation rate in the construction industry makes the final rice difficult to estimate."" A spokesman for Williams and Sholadio said the site behind Linthicum Hall has already been chosen and an additional structure near the South York Road exit might also be possible. ""It has not yet been finalized,"" said Neil Munshi, product manager of Williams and Sholadia. -Our main interest is to come up with a structure that blends in with the design of the campus."" Over the past few years, several programs designed to ease parking burdens were initiated, including: *Destination of certain lots as ""compact car lots,"" increasing space without construction, *Prohibition of on-campus park-ing for freshman and sophomore resident students. *Expansion of car pooling servic-es. *Installation of anti-theft bike racks. Meanwhile, administrators are concerned about the bus service to the school. Dorothy Siegel, vice president and dean of student services, became concerned over the summer that students caught in the gas crunch would turn to bus service for relief. Donald McCulloh, vice president for business and finance, who in for business and finance, who in turn informed Marilyn Waranch, assistant director of administrative marketing, who called Ruth Silver-stone of the MTA. Silverstone said, ""No one from the University has contacted us yet to complain. We don't know to change anything unless customers complain.'' She added that after the Waranch call to MTA , officials surveyed the area and determined that service was adequate, and that it will be monitored to tell if adjustments are needed. Silverstone said bus service drops sharply after 9, when the business rush hour ends. Yet many students begin classes at 9 or 9:30 or 10:00 a.m. The number 8 bus provides the main service for the University, however, students are often left standing on York Road or Green-mount Avenue by buses too full to stop. Dr. Alfred WoLkowitz, associate professor of English. who rides the 8 said, ""I have not been late for class yet but only b�cause I caught a cab when I saw that I would be. I caught cabs twice last week."" Siegel called the MTA attitude ""a catch-22 situation. They don't initiate bus service because there isn't a need. Students don't have the need because there isn't adequate bus service."" "
