tl19850906-000 "Grant money used to modify buildings The University has received $50,000 from the federal govern-ment and another $50,000 from the state for energy conservation projects. Physical Plant manager Charles Thomas said the funds will be used for ""modifications"" in Hawkins Hall, the Lecture Hall and the Psychology build-ing. He said the modifications would be to change the ther-mostats, revise the air handling units, and install economy con-trols. Thomas said 10 buildings on campus were put through an energy audit to find out which ones needed work. An outside engineer toured the campus with Thomas and from their tour, Thomas decided which buildings would be modified. The modifications will take place over a year and a half and should not interrupt classroom activity. �Scott Hollenbeck Dean invites graduates to dinner Marion Hoffman, Associate Dean for Student Development is extending an invitation to any graduate student who would like to dine in the residence halls. Dean Hoffman has volunteered to take the student to dinner at the Glen dining hall to acquaint graduate students with some of the facilities and services on cam-pus. Prices are minimal. Any student Wishing to take up Hoffman's offer should con-tact her at 321-3307. The Graduate School Newsletter Communica � tions profs plan research .Communications Sciences and Disorders professor Dr. Charles Lonegan will be on a leave of absence for the 1985-1986 school year. He will be working at Nova University in Florida to establish a speech-language-hearing clinic. Dr. Joyce Schwartz will act as the departmental graduate coor-dinator. Another Communications Sciences and Disorders professor, Dr. Julie Ries, has been invited to participate in a national collo-quium on ""underserved popula-tions"". The colloquium will focus on communication disorders in multi-lingual, multi-cultural populations. Ries will also be researching phonological disorders in Korean and Japanese speaking children with graduate students Nancy Bethke and Bar-bara Brimigion. Funding for this work will come from a mini-grant from the Faculty Development Office. The Graduate School Newsletter campus notes 110.��?�?�� Inside Grid season opens Tigers go for 100th victory Saturday P. 5. Rambo everything Joe Bob Briggs gets the last word on the Rambo craze p.8 Where's Burdick? The lost generation�TSU freshmen on campus .p.13. volowomi Because of the Labor Day holiday, The Towerlight is appearing on Friday. The To werlight will resume Thursday publication next week. The Alaws, eitilid () � *i 4, I Published weekly by the students of Towson State University Vol. 79 No. 1 htTowson, Md. 21204 September 6, 1985 Towson students returned to dormitory life this week to start the '85-'86 academic year. Residents moved back to the campus this week, and were faced with a few changes, including a new resident staff system and the start of a Freshman Center in the Glen com-plex. Crime and arrests up in 1984 By Jean Kane Statistics recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United Crime Reports (UCR) handbook indicate that more crimes were committed at Towson State in 1984 than in 1983 and that more arrests were made during 1984. Every police department in the United States, including those on college campuses, compiles annual data on the crimes committed in within its jurisdiction. The informa-tion is then sent to the State Police which forwards all the data to the FBI. The UCR booklet is the result of that data. Crime on campus rose slightly during 1984 a total of 500 offenses, compared to only 473 offenses dur-ing 1983. This is an increase of 5.7% Dramatic increases were noted in the number of motor vehicle thefts and the number of arson cases. Six motor vehicles were stolen during 1984 compared to three during 1983, a 100% increase. Nine inten-tional fires were reported in 1984 compared to only two in 1983, an in-crease of 350%. Significant decreases were noted in the number of robberies and breaking and enterings. The number of arrests made in 1984 was greater by eighty-one per-cent than the number made in 1983, according to a supplement to the FB I 's crime reports statistics issued by the Maryland State Police which documents arrests. Arrests for rape, robbery, burglary, larceny, assault, narcotics and disorderly conduct increased during 1984. Several things are responsible for the rise in the number of arrests made according to University Police Sergeant Herbert. From 1980 to 1984, the police force hired more of-ficers to increase manpower. In ad-dition, near the end of 1983, the department increased foot patrol around the campus, and crime prevention program was initiated by campus police. Members of the program pinpointed where crimes occurred most frequently. Since the program began, the department has received more public support and assistance which helps to arrest more criminals. Campus crime statistics Crime 1984 1983 Increase total 500 473 + 5.7% motor vehicle thefts 6 3 + 100% arson no. of arrests 9 2 + 350�/a + 81 % U .S. students show poorly in study By Mike Barnes Political science professor David Dent and history professor Wayne McWilliams recently conducted a study on the comparative aware-ness of students around the world. The study revealed that American students were less informed about global events than students else-where in the world. Students from the United States, West Germany, Japan, Canada, and India were asked questions that dealt with the international actions of the U.S., post-war world history, and recent foreign policy issues. The eight questions were designed to measure the level of global awareness. The lowest scores were from the United States and Japan; only 17% of the Japanese students and 19% of the American students answered six or more of the ques-tions correctly. Also, 47% of the American and 46% of the Japanese students ranked in the ""low"" range of scores, with 3 or less correct answers out of 8 possible. The Canadian students did some-what better. 23% of the students scored in the ""high"" range while 40% scored in the low range. But of all the students studied, the West German students are the most knowledgable about global events. 53% of the students from that coun-try scored in the ""high"" range while only 10% of the scores were ranked as ""low"". American students scored the lowest out of all groups when asked to identify among Britain, the Soviet Union, Spain, China, and France, which country was not an ally of the U.S. during World War II. Only 45% of the American New counselor to increase minority enrollment By Michele Hart A new position has been created at Towson State because of a five-year Plan initiated by the State Board of Higher Education. The plan calls for an increase of racial integration at the Post-secondary education level in Maryland. The position, minority ad- Missions counselor, has been filled by Ms. Gwendolyn Mitchell. The job has been created to help at-tract more minorities to the Univer-sity. According to the University In-stitutional Research Department, Itinority enrollment for under- Fraduate and graduate students corn- Dined in the Fall 1984 was 12.7 percent. The goal of the University is to in-crease the percentage of minority students to 18 percent by fall 1989. The minority enrollment last Fall made up 12.9 percent of the undergraduate population and 9.7 per-cent of the graduate students. Blacks comprise the largest of the minority groups with 1,458 students enrolled in the Fall 1984 semester. There were also 209 Asian students, 112 Hispanic students, and 18 Indian students. Mit-chell hopes to attract more minority students of every background. According to Mitchell, her job ""will be basically the same as any other ad-missions counselor, but geared more towards minority students."" Her duties will include recruitment of students, helping students through the admissions procedure, and recom-mending students for scholarships. She will also be working with other University offices to plan activities for minority applicants and students. Mitchell will be working in the Baltimore City and Washington, D.C. area, Prince George's County, Charles County, and New York City. Prior to coming to the University, Mitchell was most recently employed by a center for developmentally disabled adults as a placement counselor. She has held many other jobs in the educational counseling and recruitment fields. She was employed by Bell & Howell to attract students interested in electronics and com-puter sciences. At John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City College of New York, Mitchell was an academic and personal counselor. She also was a financial counselor at Queens College, City University of New York. At the high school level, Mitchell worked as a counselor for the Charlestown Higher Educational Con-sortium, and educational opportunity center. There she provided post-secondary enrollment assistance, undergraduate, career, and technical assistance to high school seniors in a three-county area. Mitchell's own educo.' background includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia where she majored in History. She earned a Master's Degree in counseling and student development from Hunter College, City University of New York. In her new position Mitchell hopes that she will be able to show that Towson State has something for everyone, including minorities. ""I'd like to present Towson as a school with academic programs with which a minority student will be able to attain his or her educational goals. ""I want to highlight the support services available to minorities to help , strengthen the likelihood of success."" al students were able to identify Nica-ragua as a country that the U.S. op-poses, while 75% of the West Ger-mans knew the answer. Dent attributes the poor showing of American students to several fac-tors. One reason, he said, was that many students in this country are not required to study a foreign language while in high school and thus do not take language seriously. ""This closes them off to the world,"" Dent said. Another factor is the condition of our national economy, according to Dent. Students have had to pursue more materialistic goals without regard to more abstract thoughts. A third telling factor has been the influence of television. ""The (study) found students that depend on news magazines and newspapers score twice as high (on the survey) than those that rely on T.V. for informa-tion,"" said Dent. American students are ""middle of the road"" when it comes to political views. This leads to a lack of political commitment and is also related to the fact that there is less internal political turmoil in the U.S. than in other countries such as West Germany. Another reason for the political ignorance of American students is that teachers are afraid to bring up controversial topics in the class-room, a fact Dent attributed to the education monitoring of the radical right. Also, the lack of a draft has made U.S. global involvement seem remote. Dent recommended that an em-phasis on geography would help alleviate some of the problem of stu-dent awareness. Gwendolyn Mitchell "
