tl19690411-000 "Vol. XXI, No. 22 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE � BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 21204 The candidates Photo by Quante From left to right are some of the candidates: Jim Haupt, sole candidate treasurer, Wayne Mis-kelly one of the candidates for 1970 Senator, and Richard Neidig and Torn Walkiewicz the two can-didates for vice president. Board approves campus credit exchange program At their latest meeting the Board of Trustees passed a new policy Whereby a student in good stand-ing may spend up to three consec-utive semesters on another college Campus and matriculate toward a degree on his home campus. The colleges involved include Bowie, Coppin, Frostburg, Morgan, Salis-bury, and Towson. Another program which has been In effect for the last several years allows students to take courses st Goucher, Loyola, Morgan, and Tow-son. But this program is limited to upper level courses and only to Courses not offered at the home college. No extra fees According to Dr. Joseph Falco, bean of the College, the new pro-gram ""gives the students an oppor-tunity to live with other students on another campus away from his h�rne campus."" A. student may take courses at any of these colleges and pay no extra tuition or fees. They need Pay only the usual cost of atten-dance at their home college. Not transfer credit Courses taken are not treated as transfer credits, but as credits ac-tually taken 'at the student's home eanipus. 'While the students are free to ,bring these courses back to their ',113/11e -college, each department has ts own requirements concerning Its major. Most departments. re-quire One-half of the major courses t.,.? 'be taken at the borne campus. nowever, if a student spends three aernesters at another college, in all Probability he will take more than hisif of his major courses away ,.usuirn his home campus. The prob- 'clu is being investigated and de- Partmental requirements will prob- 4131Y have to be revised. ; ItnY student who is !interested 'a either of these cooperative plans Should fill out the necessary forms in the Registrar's office and obTain approval by the Dean. It is the re-sponsibility of the student to reg-ister at the other college at the time of their registration for the course(s) he is to take there. April 14 - 16 April 11, 196f Elections include question slate by MICHAEL VOGELMAN Elections for Student Govern-ment Offices for the 1969-70 term will be held next week, Monday, April 14 through Wednesday, April 16 in the College Centre. Polls will open at 10 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. on the first two days, but will re-main open until 5 p.m. on Wednes-day to accommodate student teach-ers. This will be the first election held under the terms of the new SGA constitution (as amended) ratified by SGA Senate last fall. For the first time the student body will elect the entire slate of SGA officials. The student will elect the top three officers: president, vice-presi-dent, and treasurer. He will then choose eight of the candidates run-ning from his class to represent him in senate. The president-elect will, with the advice and consent of senate, ap-point students to the lesser SGA offices. The ballot will also include Tow-son's first list of election ques-tions. Ranging from Vietnam to student boycott, these questions are designed to plumb TSC opinion on current trends in student affairs. The questions constitute by no means a referendum, but they will aid the new officers in planning next year's policies. It is also hoped the opinion poll will inspire a greater voter turn-out. The questions read as fol-lows: 1) Should the U. S. resume the unconditional bombing of North Vietnam? 2) Shound the draft be repealed? 3)4 Which 0 fthe following re-quired course plans do you favor: a. the present system b. the ad hoc committee plan C. the 18 credit plan Information concerning the first plan can be found in any College Catalogue. The second two are discussed at length in several is-sues of Tower Light of this year on file in the library and in the TL office. According to SGA vice-president Charles Johnson, this is an important question, because ""College Senate meets on April 21, and the findings of this question, could help sway opinion there."" 4) Should the SGA donate $10,- 000 for inner-city scholarships? 5) Are you in favor of charging ""Moderate and justified"" - Nixon students to attend activities such as concerts, dances, jam sessions? 6) Should student monies be spent for special interest organi-zations? (meaning ""unusually small groups of students"" and political and religious groups) '7) Would you support a stu-dent boycott of classes for legiti-mate purposes? By boycott, the SGA means only a ""peaceful boy-cott much like the one at Coppin this winter."" Next year each of the 5,000 stu-dents here will pay $30 in student fees. The SGA offices have ex-pressed their hopes that a greater number of students will vote this year. Vice-president Johnson com-mented, ""I'd hate to think that a person who received only 300 votes has at his disposal $150,000 in stu-dent funds."" A full listing of Offices and Candidates appears on page 6 Finch rules on student disorders by TED OSTERLOH On March 22, President Richard M. Nixon issued his much awaited statement on campus disorders. He referred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Robert A. Finch's letters to all college and university presidents telling them that federal support would be with-drawn from all students found guilty of violating criminal statu-tes during campus disorders. The President stated that Secre-tary Finch was doing his routine duty but that ""the state of our campuses have (sic) for some time been anything but routine."" He called the new regulations ""mod-erate and justified"" and stated that withdrawing privileges was an old university disciplinary measure. ""Congress has done no more than to withdraw federal assistance from students judged, by a court of law, to have violated a criminal sta-tute."" Little respect Such students, he declared, are ""assaulting the process of free in-quiry. Any society that will not protect itself against such an as-suit exhibits precious little re-spect for intellect. . ."" Of more importance to President Nixon, was the danger of institu-tions of higher learning losing their independence, creativity, and integrity. ""Intellectual freedom,"" he asserted, ""is in danger in Amer-ica."" Physical violence and intimi-dation are becoming an accepted, or normal aspect of disagreement of opinion in colleges and univer-sities. Violence leads to submission The President contended that the violence was directed toward a purpose, to ""politicize"" the stu-dents and educational institutions. This ,he said, would lead to sub-mission, to repression and ""cul-tural calamity"". ""It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die,"" when "". . the voices of reason and calm are discredited."" President Nixon reasserted two basic principles of higher learning saying that the federal government shouldn't enforce them, that it was the responsibility of the university and the community. The first prin-ciple was that universities and col-leges must be independent.' ""American society . has cre-ated the most democratic, most op-en system of higher learning in history."" The second principle was that violence or the threat of it should never be allowed to intimidate the university community. However, the President acknow-edged that campus unrest stems from real grievances in the minds of the students and that these is- Campus disorders HEW secretary Finch has ruled that students found guilty of violating crimin-al statues during 'campus disorders will have federal funds revoked. This ruling would apply to such demonstrations as the seizure at Columbia last spring, pictured at right. sues should not be ignored. examples, he cited the depersonali-zation of educational institutions, new reforms in universities, and student unrest reflecting ""a deep and growing social unrest."" The laws that Secretary Finch As --Courtesy Associated Press based his actions and letter upon (with the exception one subsec-tion) specify that a person must be convicted of certain types of crimes, mostly pertaining to dis-orders in colleges and universities, (Continued on page 5) "
