The Towerlight, September 5, 1975

tl19750905-000 "Newell closing causes problems With the renovation of Newell Dining Hall soon to begin, the food service operations in the College Center have been expanded in order to accomodate resident students in addition to the usual commuter load. ""There will be some problems,"" commented John Suter, Directo? of Auxiliary Services, and there are some physical changes in the offing. Suter remarked that the second floor cafeteria must be made available to resident students as well as commuters. Therefore an effort would be made to discourage people ""from just sitting around"" while rtr,t others have purchased food and are looking for a place to sit down and eat. Suter mentioned the possibility of minimum purchases, but noted there would be ""no policemen""; rather, the emphasis would be placed on the voluntary cooperation of students. To further alleviate crowding, another snack bar, due to open today, has been installed in the third floor multipurpose areas. Offering a limited menu, the new area will also include additional tables and chairs located on the third floor patio. Although SGA President David Nevins has expressed concern over the possibility of crowding and long food lines, the overall view expressed by Suter is optimistic, particularly SEPTEMBER 5, 1975 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE VOL. XLVI, NO. 1 Speakers series underway Moshe Dayan's guest appearance in Burdick will begin the second annual Speakers Series sponsored by the Student Government. The speech, which the SGA anticipates will draw at least 2,500 people, will begin at 8:30 on Sunday evening, September 20. ""Last year's series was good,"" said David Nevins, SGA president ""but this year's line-up is better."" Nevins did express disappointment with last year's series attendance but feels more students will join this year. Nevins reported the majority of speakers selected came from a survey taken last year by the SGA. Updating the series was another concern of Nevins, and he feels this has been done by including such speakers as Moshe Dayan and Nguyen Cao Ky, who were not expected in the country for the fall series when the survey Was originally conducted. Season series tickets which were available to the community for $19.00 were sold out in two days, reports Nevins. The SGA sold slightly less than half the total number of seats available in Stephens Hall Auditorium while turning down over 300 additional ticket requests. Because Nevins feels the students should be able to acquire the tickets for the speakers without fear of a sellout, he decided to leave the rest of the available seats open to the students. ""I've gone out on a limb for the students,"" said Nevins, realizing his decision to stop selling series tickets meant 'a loss of ""a sure $7,000,"" but added he had faith in the student body. Nevins is looking into the Possibility of transcribing the lec-tures and selling the copies at a minimal fee as well as broadcasting the speeches. Currently, all speeches are video taped and can be seen in the library. Students, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni may pick up free tickets. The limit is 2 tickets per I.D. card and the person picking up the tickets must be the person depicted on the I.D. card. A schedule of the series is listed below. September 20 Moshe Dayan in Burdick Hall September 28 F. Lee Bailey in Stephens Hall Auditorium October 24 Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher in Stephens Hall Auditorium November 7 Masters and Johns in Stephens Hall .Auditorium November 21 Nguyen Cao Ky in Stephens Hall Auditorium February 5 Dr. Margaret Mead in Stephens Hall Auditorium February 27 To be announced March 26 Issac Assimov in Stephens Hall Auditorium Israel's legendary man of action and one of the most charismatic personalities on the world scene today, General Moshe Dayan is a man of many facets. He is a military strategist, law graduate, government leader, farmer and archeologist, and former Minister of Defense. A native-born Israeli, Dayan was reared in the pioneering tradition which brought the state of Israel into being. His early years were occupied doing farm work and with membership in Haganah, the underground Jewish defense organization established during the British Mandate in Palestine. Imprisoned by the British in 1939 for two years because of his work in Haganah, with the advent of World War II, Dayan nevertheless joined the British Army as a Jewish volunteer and was commissioned an officer. It was during this campaign that he injured his eye, donning the black patch which was to become his trademark. In 1944, Dayan went back to working his own farm, until the Arab invasion of the newly established State of Israel in 1948. In the Israeli War of Liberation, General Dayan was a commander on several fronts, including Jerusalem. Because of Dayan's knowledge of the Arab countries and their language, upon implementation of the U.N. truce he was given crucially sensitive assignments which tested and proved his capacity as a diplomat as well as a soldier. In December, 1954, at th:., age of 38, he was recalled to Israel from a mission to the United Nations to accept the top post of Chief of Staff of Israel's Armed Forces. After the Sinai Campaign of 1956, Dayan gave up his military post to study political science and Middle Eastern affairs, where he distinguished himself as a brilliant student and an original thinker. When the Egyptians removed U.N. forces from the Sinai and blocked the Straits of Tiran in May 1967, and war with the Arabs seemed inevitable, Dayan was requested to take the reponsibility of Minister of Defense, as he and Yitzhak Rabin engineered the smashing victory of the Six Day War. After the surprise Arab attack on Yom Kippur, 1973, Dayan again achieved a military victory, capturing land in Syria and actually crossing the Sinai Canal, thus cutting off Egypt's third army, before a cease fire was suddenly called and a separation of forces achieved. Having retired from military service once again, General Dayan remains an influential member of the Labor Party in Israel's Knesset. He is now in the midst of writing his memoirs soon to be published simultaneously by two publishers in England and in America. Registrar anticipates minimal confusion, progress Anticipating an enrollment of between seven and nine thousand fulltime day students, Registrar William Reuling noted no ex-traordinary problems in this year's fall registration. Commenting that 73% of students registering through the mail received Complete schedules, Reuling still expected over 1000 persons per day for the three days of in-person registration. A major change in policy, noted by the Registrar, was the addition of the September 2 in-person registration day. This day was set aside for students with no schedules or decimated schedules. These include late admissions, persons who missed Triad pre-registration and students with three or more errors in their Pre-registration schedule. Reuling, commenting on com-plaints from some students on the new policy, expressed the view that those who had little or no schedule Should not have to compete with those merely augmenting or revising a complete schedule for the remaining courses. Additional faculty and Triad advisors were available to aid those students with major schedule problems. Other important changes in ""in- Person"" registration included lengthened operating hours and expansion of the free drop/add period to the second and third days of classes. Students making schedule changes at this time will be assessed no fee. The Registrar further advises that no schedule changes will be made ti the first day of classes. This day is reserved for clarification of ad ministrative details. Students are reminded that change of schedule cards are available in the academic departments, and need not be procured through the registrar's office. Reuling attributed some par-ticular registration problems to the commuter composition of the college. Students whose on campus time is restricted by the necessity of off campus employment have more scheduling limitations than students with unrestricted time. Another area concerning Reuling was the high demand for courses between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Registrar noted the declining student interest in Teacher Education and an increased call for Health, Mass Communication, and Business Administration, thus overloading those smaller depart-ments. He commented that the reduced financial position of the college did not allow for permanent hiring of full time faculty to meet increasing course demands. Reuling remarked that the alternate scheduling computer alleviated hassels for many students. If, in processing a schedule card, the computer finds the noted section closed, the request will be skipped over, and the rest of the schedule processed. When completed, the 1 The Towson Cheerleaders are in desperate need of a manager. Any faculty, staff, alumnus, student or community member is invited, welcomed, requested, to apply for the position. Further information is available from Dr. Thomas Meinhardt, ext. 271. computer will return to the deleted course attempting to find another section of the same course. Response to the ""cancelled preregistration post cards"" was favorable, Reuling commented. TSC designated Bicentennial college by Marlene Milder Towson State College officially became one of the six Maryland campuses designated as a Bicen-tennial State College or University by the Federal Government. Nancy Hammann, Commissioner of the Maryland State Bicentennial Commission, presented President James Fisher the official ""notification"" this week in the President's office. Community College of Baltimore, Anne Arundel Community College, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Notre Dame are in-cluded in the government selection with Towson State being the first state college or university to gain such recognition. Towson met the two requirements established by the Federal Govern-ment's committee after establishing a recent committee representative of the college community and developing several projects which would cover the three aspects of the Bicentennial. The Bicentennial's central theme includes Heritage, Festival, and Horizons. John Horst, Towson's Bicen-tennial Coordinator, outlined Towson's plans for fulfilling the Bicentennial requirements. Plans include acquiring Bicen-tennial tapes and films for the college, with hopes of expanding this collection in the coming years to include an assortment of educational and cultural films and tapes. Another project the college will undertake will be to restore the historic Auburn House built in 1790, for the purpose of establishing a campus dining club for members of Towson State College community and friends. ""The real mission of the college in the Bicentennial year is not just to look back,"" said Horst, ""but to project ideas, plans, and concepts of national value for the next 200 years."" Those on the Bicentennial Committee include: Edward J. Consroe, Sarah L. Lewis, Clarke Porter, Frances Schramm, Wain-wright Smith, Ronald Wolfe, Michael McFall, Marlene Milder, Richard Blocher, William Carey, John Horst, Helen Kaltenborn, Richard Metz, Rev. Adam Kittrell, Alvin Tilghman, Edward Williams, Douglas Martin, Gilbert Brungardt, Paul Douglas, Robert Z. West, Kay C. Turner, and Kate Himnler. concerning the newly installed food coupon system. Under the new system, residents may buy coupons which may then be used for purchases at any food service facility on campus. Students are permitted to purchase food for carry-out, box lunches, or even birthday cakes. Groups of students desiring food for resident activities may use coupons to purchase services as well as meals for friends and guests. Upon proof of payment, each student will be eligible to receive coupons having a total face value of $408 fifteen percent above the purchase price. As the coupons are essentially cash, Auxiliary Services will provide a banking service to minimize the risk of loss should coupons be lost or stolen. Initially, Auxiliary Services will issue coupon booklets valued at $50 each or approximately one-eighth of the total value. Students may then request additional booklets as needed until their allotment is exhausted. For those few who may desire to purchase additional coupons once their allotment is exhausted, booklets valued at $10 will be available. Coupons represent cash! Lost or stolen coupons will not be replaced. The new plan offers the student a chance to eat in any dining facility around campus, and to pay for what ""he or she eats and nothing more."" In outling the new system, Suter ex-plained that it would best provide equity of cost, flexibility, and reduction in waste - three main concerns of the Auxiliary Service. Responding to increasing food costs, and in an effort to streamline operations, Auxiliary Services has installed 8 NCR 250-6000 electronic cash registers in the College Center food service areas. At a cost of $40,000, the new data recording system should provide information on the demand for various items, thereby eliminating the wasteful purchasing of unpopular items Director of Auxiliary Services, John Suter, explained that the system provides a perpetual in-ventory of foods in stock. Suter noted that such surveys of stock were formerly costly and time consuming to perform. The accurate and timely information provided by the NCR 250-6000 should help control costs and make pricing more equitable. Cashiers now punch itemized keys with specific prices. For example, when a student buys a hamburger and soda, the cashier presses those keys labeled ""hamburger"" and ""soda."" The register totals the. purchase and deducts the items from the existing inventory, thereby providing Food Services with what Suter termed ""good hard cost data."" Suter noted previous pricing problems resulted from fluctuating food prices, and said the system would provide a ""better averaging of costs."" Craig Dillon, account manager for National Cash Register, noted that cashiers no longer need remember long price lists. Also students are now assured of paying the same price everyday for the same item. Other attractive features of the system are keys for error correction, and multiple sale tabulation. ""This should speed things up,"" Dillon remarked. Food Services expects to soon attach change dispensers to registers, and .to eventually connect all machines to a master register. The master register will total food pur-chases from all cafeteria areas, allowing for a centralized information gathering operation. Head cashier Rosetta Rudolph voiced guarded optimism for the success of the new registers, con-ceding there is ""a lot to learn on them."" She noted the importance of resident students presenting their food coupons before sales are registered on ' the machines. However, another cashier, whose training on the machines had con-sisted only of a demonstration, called the NCR 250-6000 ""a pain in the neck. Below is the allocations for organizations for 1976 as passed by spring. SGA Executive $45,650.00 Tower Echoes 19,000.00 Towerlight 15,000.00 Talisman 2,600.00 WCVT 13,285.82 Class of '76 10,915.00 Class of '77 3,675.00 Class of '78 6,625.00 College Union Board (CUB) 4,050.00 Accounting Association 557.56 American Marketing Assoc. 645.16 American Society for Personnel Administration Tri-Beta Biology Black Student Union Christian Community on Campus Creative Interpreters Guild Concerned Veterans 396.73 971.06 560.00 10,998.00 403.00 450.00 275.00 final Budget SGA and its the fiscal year the Senate last Ecumenical Campus Ministry Forensics Union Gamma Theta Upsilon International Student Union Jewish Student Assoc. Movie Company National Student Speech Hearing Association Newman Club Outdoor Adventures Unlimited Philosophy Discussion Group Rugby Club Science Fiction Club Student Gallery Student Nurses Assoc. MaryPIRG 225.00 3,885.00 470.00 2,050.00 1,500.00 2,000.00 and 550.00 700.00 1,630.00 100.00 742.00 350.00 2,325.00 825.00 400.00 $153,879.33 Shoplifter fingered by Bill Stetka A student was arrested in con-nection with a shoplifting incident at The College Bookstore Tuesday afternoon, September 2. According to Al Duke, general manager of the bookstore, plain-clothesmen inside the store spotted the suspect concealing a tire gauge from the bike accessories section of the store. After the student was caught, Baltimore County police were called and a warrant was taken out. Last year, 12 people were arrested in connection with shoplifting incidents at the bookstore, and $35,000 was lost to the store through shoplifting, said Duke. ""Most sholifters take expensive books, "" stated Duke, as opposed to Tuesday's incident in which a $2.15 item was lifted. ""We have plainclothesmen in the store guarding against shoplifters. What a lot of people don't realize is that they can be arrested even if they don't leave the store,"" Duke said. Duke also said that two registers have been added to the bookstore during the early rush to speed up lines. The two registers bring to seven the total in operation at the present time. Another time-saving device being employed is having checks and credit cards validated outside in front of the bookstore. ""This will save time for � those standing in line waiting to checkout their purchases,"" commented Duke. ""We accept BankAmericard and Master Charge, and our check cashing service will cash personal checks up to $25.00."" Duke said he expects more problems than ever with a shortage of some textbooks, but says the bookstore cannot be blamed for this. ""The college has opened extra sections of some classes recently, and there is no way we'll be able to have enough books for perhaps the first week of classes or more."" The bookstore now has a special teletype machine which can place orders directly to the book publishers. This should speed delivery of books to some extent. Duke also said that there have been relatively few price increases in books this year, due to the stabilized cost of paper. Only three of the major publishers upped their prices, not nearly as many as a year ago. Al Duke "