The Towerlight, September 9, 1977

tl19770909-000 "Opening performance of 'Man with Bags' is Sept. 13 see page 7 o etti t UMES vs. Towson tomorrow 7:30 p.m. at Burdick Field VOL � LXX � NO 1 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 9, 1977 Newell Dining Hall opens under new management 'Circle-serve' feeds ARAserv takes over 150 people in 10 min. for Dining Services by Ruth Ann Leftridge Newell Dining Hall is open again for the first time in a year and a half. The renovated building features ""circle-serve"", a new concept in feeding. A carousel wheel, which will operate three meals a day, serves 150 people every ten minutes. Newell includes a Snack Bar with 180 seats on the first level and three dining rooms with a total capacity of 580 on the second floor. These seats are distributed throughout several small rooms in the building, including a patio on the first floor and three upstairs dining rooms, each decorated in a different theme. ""We wanted to make it look more like a restaurant than an institu-tional setting,"" said Wayne Schelle, vice president of Business and Finance. Several pieces of very sophisti-cated kitchen equipment are also new to the TSU dining facility. For example, a blast freezer will prepare New VP found frozen ""convenience"" foods from fresh foods. Newell's Snack Bar features ""a pizza oven big enough to take care of the town of Towson,"" according to Al Walsh, director of Dining Services. Non-resident students may pay cash for meals in Newell. Prices for the all-you-can-eat meals are $1.50 for breakfast, $2 for lunch, $2.75 for dinner, and $4 for the ""specials"". Resident students and commuters on the meal plan may use their Vali-dine cards only in Newell Hall (all meals), Newell snack bar (lunch and dinner) and the Susquehanna Room II (lunch only). Commuters may eat in the Patux-ent Room (breakfast and lunch), the Susquehanna Room I and the Towson Center concession stand (both lunch). The Ice Cream Shoppe will also be open during morning, afternoon and evening hours. All hours of operation are flexible and may be changed according to student needs and demands, Walsh said. Kitchen view of the new carousel wheel in Newell Dining Hall. TL Photo by Jim McWilliams Cox says TSU to grow, but not in size by Bill Stetka A six week nationwide search for a new vice president of Academic Affairs ended in June with the appointment of Dr. Joseph W. Cox, a history professor at Towson State since 1964. Dr. Cox was selected for the University's highest academic posi-tions to replace Dr. Kenneth A. Shaw, who left TSU last January after accepting the presidency of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Dr. Cox, who had previously served as coordinator of the social sciences program and as dean of the Division of Continuing Studies, said that the University's highest priority will be ""maintaining and improving the academic climate of a maturing and increasingly sophisticated insti-tution."" ""We can never afford the luxury of complacency,"" he said. ""Our time and energy have been consumed by building new buildings and establishing new programs and new majors."" the new vice president said. ""I hope the construction phase - both physical and academic is at an end, and that we've entered into a new period in the life of the institution."" Although Towson State has ""probably grown to its optimum size,"" Dr. Cox believes that the University is ""obligated to serve the higher educational needs , of the cornmunty."" He is-intent on keeping a ""young and vigorous"" faculty, but that doesn't mean that he plans to dismiss those instructors who, chronologically, are considered old. ""Young' is a state of mind,"" Dr. Cox said. ""Ben Franklin was young at 85, and it was said that John Adams was old at 30, so..."" - 'A university faculty is motivated partly by economic inducements and partly by academic achievement concerns. But we are inspired by good students,"" he said. ""A good faculty is made even better by the presence of bright, eager students. I want to keep that concern here."" Dr. Cox said he will encourage more opportunities for faculty and students ""to do their subjects outside the classroom,"" with such things as special event speakers during weekday afternoons. ""Your vision becomes limited only by the number of opportunities that you can seek. We're only limited by our resources of energy and creativity. This faculty has a lot Dr. Joseph Cox Frijters appointed to Southern Illinois post by Bill Stetka Dr. Ria C. Frijters, dean of social sciences, humanistic studies and managerial sciences at Towson State, was appointed vice president of business affairs at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, during the summer. Dr. Annette Flower, special assistant to the president and affirmative action officer of the University, was named to replace Dr. Frijters on an acting basis. Dr. Frijters, who came to Towson State in 1967, had been dean of the division since 1972. She was selected for her new position by Dr. Kenneth Shaw, former vice presi-dent and dean for academic affairs at Towson State, and now president of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. Commenting on her appointment, Dr. Frijters said, ""My 10 years at Towson State have been a rewarding experience. To have been part of an institutional growth process in both a qualitative and quantitative sense has been quite exciting."" Dr. Joseph W. Cox, who was named to replace Dr. Shaw as vice president and dean for academic affairs, said that a search committee to replace Dr. Frijters would conduct an on-campus search until early October, at which time the committee ""will make a determina-tion as to whether a national search is necessary."" ""It is hoped than an appointment can be made effective the beginning of the second semester,"" he said. Dr. Flower was an English instructor at Towson State for five years until her appointment as special assistant to the president and affirmative action officer in 1974. of both,"" he said. Dr. Cox said studies are being made to determine the feasibility of merging the part time and full time undergraduate programs, enabling students to attend classes at a wider range of times. ""I'd like to see students be able to go to school from eight in the morning until ten at night,"" he said. Dr. Cox said he also enjoys the sight of older and younger students in the classroom, noting that ""there may be a generation gap, but it's my observation that it doesn't exist in the classroom."" However, Dr. Cox emphasized that the part time and full time programs will not be merged unless University officials are ""100 per cent convinced that both the students and the institution will benefit,"" adding that any loss of flexibility would cancel the proposal. Dr. Cox said he would like to give each department money and then ""tell them to come back with an idea on how they plan to accomplish our academic mission."" He suggested that each division could find a speaker who could relate to their courses of study, hold a convention and ""make that the intellectual high point for the division that sem-ester."" ""But it takes effort and imagina-tion. It doesn't just happen,"" he said. ""It's time to step back and assess where we've come from and measure ourselves against the goals we've set to accomplish,"" Dr. Cox said. ""We became so big so quickly that sometimes we came close to losing ourselves in that growth."" ""We have an opportunity at Towson State to be a model of the kind of achievement that a multi-purpose, multi-cultural, multi-racial public higher educational institution is capable of. We can be an example and an inspiration to other institu-tions around the country,"" Dr. Cox said. SGA Lecture Series features Reagan by Stephen Verch One-time actor, governor of California and Presidential candi-date Ronald Reagan will be featured at the Towson Center this Decem-ber, the fourth of nine speakers contracted to lecture in the SGA's 77-'78 Lecture Series. SGA president John Ruark announced the change of location for the series from Stephens Hall to the Towson Center in a letter to past series subscribers in August. The cost of a lecture subscription is $30. The Towson Center has a maximum seating capacity of 6,000, while Stephens Auditorium had a maximum capacity of 442. Accord-ing to Ruark, this added seating should prevent the sell-out situa-tions which characterized Stephens Auditorium, when only 221 students could attend the lectures at no charge. Joining Reagan on the series this semester will be Abba Eban, Pearl . Bailey, and Truman Capote. Abba Eban, former Foreign Minister of Israel and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will be the first speaker of the fall semester. He is scheduled for September 27. Entertainer and author Pearl Bailey will lecture October 30, and author-director Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) will lecture November 13. Gov. Reagan will lecture December 14. The first two speakers of the spring semester will be U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., NY) and S.I. Hayakawa (R., CA), who will participate in a debate February 5. Moynihan is remem-bered by his advocates as the outspoken U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. who upstaged the then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His critics have labeled him the architect of the Nixon policy of ""benign neglect"" toward minorities and the cities. Hayakawa defeated John Tunney in the latter's re-election bid in California, where Hayakawa had been president of San Francisco State University. Hayakawa gained notoriety 'for his tough stance, when radicals occupied campus buildings. Before this he achieved fame as a noted semanticist and his books on the subject have achieved great popularity. Lerone Bennett, Jr., editor of the highly successful Ebony magazine and a leading black spokesman will lecture March 16. Dick Gregory. activist, humani-tarian, author and comedian will lecture April 16. Gregory, well known for his hunger strikes, has written books on nutrition and historical analysis. Popular on the lecture circuit, Gregory began as the first black comedian to work in Hugh Hefner's Playboy Clubs. The final contracted speaker this year is Erica Jong, author of the best seller Fear of Flying. The date of her lecture is yet to be announced. Ruark had communicated through the Walker Agency, the agency handling top college lecturers, with Henry Kissinger and former prime minister of India, Indira Ghandi. Both indicated a desire to speak at Towson but refused to sign contracts. by Ruth Ann Leftridge ARA Food Services Co. will be managing the daily operation of Newell Dining Hall this semester. ARAserv has signed a three-year contract with TSU with renewals due each year. Dining Services will continue to manage the UU dining facilities, including the Special Dining Room, Cafeteria, and Snack Bar. ARAserv currently has contracts with more than 200 four-year coll-eges. The company also handles the food service of several area hospi-tals and industries, including Shep-pard Pratt Hospital. Wayne Schelle, vice president of business and finance, explained that the dining services department would not have had an advantage over any other food service company in Newell. The sophisticated equip-ment in Newell Hall would have been completely unfamiliar to Dining Ser-vices, Schelle said. Six companies Canteen Corp., Macke Corp., Saga, Servomation, Mark Four Services and ARAserv , bid for the Newell Hall contract. Twenty colleges, similar in size to TSU, were reviewed for each company. Through this procedure, ARAserv was selec-ted. Schelle stated that he has not been happy with TSU's food pro-gram for the last three to five years. He described ""constant pro-blems in inventory control and pur-chasing"" and ""labor trouble"" as rea-sons for his disappointment. ""This is their (AltA's) whole bus-iness,"" Schelle said. ""If they don't make it in this business, they are forced to fold."" The vice president of business and finance also explained that Dining Services would never have been able to provide the services that ARA will be able to. ""We're really doing this as an op-portunity to do better,"" he said. Because of the switch from Dining Services to ARAserv , resident stu-dents will receive a refund on the price of their meal plan. Students on the 10-meal plan will be refunded $25, those on the 14-meal plan will be refunded $30, and the 19-meal-a-week students will be refunded $35. This money will be distributed to students in the form of a refund check or as credit on next semester's bill. One of the terms of the contract with ARAserv specified that full-time employees who had previously worked in the UU Cafeteria could have a position in Newell if they de-sired. Of the 14 full-time state employees who worked in the Cafeteria last year, three went to work for ARA-serv in Newell. Four others are now employed in other areas on campus, and the rest have gone to other state jobs. The AFL-CIO union, of which these 14 employees are members, picketed outside the Administration Building August 3. The demonstrators were protesting ""contract state jobs"" explaining that as more and more state jobs go to contractors, state employees are losing their positions. ARAserv intends to hire ""a sub-stantial number"" of student em-ployees, just as Dining Services has done in the past. Sam I3ovara is ARAserv 's man-ager of Newell Dining Hall, and Vincent Jones is the district man-ager. Al Walsh, director of Dining Services, will coordinate the opera-tions between ARAserv and the dining services department. Resident students dine in Newell Hall Cathedral Room. TL photo by Jim McWilliams Rooms available for special-interest groups by Stephen Verch SGA president John Ruark announced this week that he has fulfilled one of his campaign promises made last spring. As ot Sept. 12, two rooms in the just renovated Newell Dining Hall will be available to ""those special interests groups"" (fraternities and sororities) requiring the rooms for meetings and other social activities. Ruark had promised during the campaign that if elected, he would find space for the needs of these ""special interest groups."" When the Newell renovation was com-pleted this summer, two large rooms were made available to the Campus Community. The SGA president persuaded Al Walsh, Director of Dining Services to recommend that the rooms be given to the SGA. Once permission was granted by the Administration, Ruark and his Director of Organizations, Diane Szymanski, began the process of setting up guidelines for use of the rooms. The rooms, complete with six foot tall rubber plants and ""temporary"" wrought iron furni-ture, may be reserved by contacting Szymanski at her office in the SGA lobby of the University Union. Before a group can reserve the rooms, it must first obtain a copy of the guidelines and sign that these guidelines have been read and understood. While any campus group may contact Szymanski for the use of the rooms, Ruark stated that the SGA's acquisition of them should end the noise and problems that had resulted from special interest groups holding their meetings in private rooms. "