tl19690425-000 "Senate Approves Requirements Revision SOME 60 students were present at the Coilege Senate meeting, Monday, which approved the Ad Hoc Committee's proposed general course requirement revision. Seated left to right are Senate members, Dr. Corinne Bize, Dr. Donald Minnegan, and Dr. John C. Mathews. Vol. XXI, No. 24 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 April 25, 1969 HEW deadline nears TSC sends Board four proposals by CAROL CONNELLY With approximately 70 days left before the HEW deadline, the Board of Trustees has made no definite decision concerning the in-tegration of Maryland State Schools. The Board is now in the process of gathering together all the in-formation and proposals of the faculty and student committees from each state school, the Hollan-der report, and the open meeting sources they hope to come up with held on March 25. With these an adequate solution to the prob-lems, says Edwin C. Masters, ex-ecutive director of the Board. The Towson State College Inte-gration Committee, headed by Rob-ert Smith of the sociology depart- Inent, is a student-faculty commit-tee that has been studying the prob-lem of integrating Towson State f0r 15 months. They submitted the Inside TL film critic Larry Horwitz Writes a post mortem on this Year's Academy Awards pres-entation, including his opinion on who the winners should have been. See page 3. Editorials Peatures Snorts Bulletin Board Bally page 2 4-5 _ 8 8 41.01.1. following four proposals to the Board for consideration: 1. That state-wide scholarships be established and offered with the following provisions� (a) That the black students with scholarships be admitted only to the State Colleges with now pre-dominately white student enroll-ment; That the white students with scholarships be only admitted to the State Colleges with predomin-ately black student enrollment. (b) That these scholarships be $1200 per year per scholarship, in order to make it possible for the students to live on or near the campuses. (c) That at least 1200 of these scholarships be offered per year on a state-wide basis. 2. That at least one permanent staff member be appointed to each State College, whose full-time ac-tivity would be specifically to seek to enroll the black or white stu-dents in their area who heretofore have attended their colleges in small or negligible numbers. 3. That two shuttle buses be scheduled to operate continuously between Morgan and Towson State Colleges to facilitate student par-ticipation in the academic and ex-tra- curricular program of the sis-ter campuses. 4. That Towson State College participate in an Upward Board Program, designed to offer supple-mentary pre-college education to high school inner-city juniors and seniors who could then meet Tow-son State College requirements. Also to be considered are the recommendation made by Sidney Hollander who was hired by the Board to study the integration problem. His five-point proposal, printed in the Tower Light on March 28, 1969, mainly concerns changing of attitudes and increas-ing understanding between the pre-dominately white and black schools. The Board also held an open meeting on March 25 attended by several hundred people. The thir-teen to fourteen speakers presented further proposals to correct the sit-uation. With these suggestions, the Hollander report, and the re-ports from the committees of each school, the Board will draw up some sort of plan of action. New system to become effective in September by TOM WALKIEWICZ The General Education Require-ments revision formulated by Dr. Pritam Merani's Ad Hoc Commit-tee was finally approved by the College Senate at a special meet-ing last Monday. The meeting attended by about 60 students was not expected to result in a vote, but after review-ing proposals submitted by the Ad Hoc Committee, the Math Depart-ment, the English; Department and a student group, the Senate voted 16 to 6 to accept the Ad Hoc Com-mittee's proposal. After being warned by President Hawkins about outbursts of en-thusiasm, students were dead silent upon announcement of the vote, but after Dean Murphy asked, ""Can we applaud now?"" the room resounded with student cheers. Most students expressed surprise that the Senate did act on the pro-posal which has been on the .agen-da for three Senate meetings. One student commented, ""This is the first time I've ever seen Senate actualy come !to a vote on some-thing."" CDC plan similar to 18 credits The vote came after Wayne Sehelle, Director of Business and Finance, moved that the Senate de-ckle .on one of the four proposals at that meeting. IStanley Pollack, chairman of the Art Department explained that the proposal the Council of Depart-ment Chairmen was preparing was similar to the 18 credit student proposal. He cautioned that rush-ing to a decision might result in a plan wich is not practical in terms of implementation. English plan presented The plan prepared by the Eng-lish department and presented by W. Frank Guess was similar to the Ad Hoe Committee proposal; and observers predicted a close vote between these two plans, but the Senate accepted the Ad Hoc plan on the first ballot. When asked if the Council of Department Chairmen would con-tinue to work on their ""more lib-eral"" plan, Pollack stated that, work on the plan would continue, but no longer on a priority basis. The new system, prepared by a committee appointed by Dean Fal-co, will require that students take a certain number of courses from each of four groups of disciplines. Teachers satisfy requirements Although the new course require-ments are meant to affect all stu-dents, those who wish to be certi-fied to teach must satisfy the re-quirements of the Maryland State Board of Education, outlined be-low. SECONDARY EDUCATION ACADEMIC Subjects: a. Secondary School Teacher A standard professional secon-dary school teacher's certificate in academic subjects shall be issued to a teacher who meets the follow-ing requirements: 1) a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. 2) at least the number of semes-ter hours listed in one of the fol-lowing requirements: a) English-24, exclusive of such courses as drama, speech, and the-atre. b) history-24, including 6 se-mester hours in U. S. history. c) geography-24, provided that a qualified social studies teacher with 15 semester hours in geogra-phy may teach this subject. d) social studies-36, which shall include 18 semester hours in his-tory (including 6 semester hours in U. S. history) 6 semester hours in economics and one course in each of the following: sociology, political science, and geography. e) mathematics � 24, provided that 18 semester hours are accepta-ble if the applicant completed three or more units of senior high schoor mathematics and the 18 semester hours are composed entirely of gen-erally recognized college mathemat-ical content. f) a single foreign language- 24, provided that 18 semester (Continued on page 7) Committee upholds election of Johnson The Student Government Associ-ation elections committee ruled on Monday that the protest of the SGA presidential election filed by candidate Thomas Tate was with-out sufficient grounds, and thereby upheld the election of Charles Johnson as President. On April 18, following the pub-lication of the outcome of the SGA election, presidential contend-er Tate posted a protest of the 'election. Tate based his protest on the following three points: 1. that Johnson, as SGA Vice- President was the head of the elec-tions committee which allegedly set by MICHAEL VOGELMAN up the rules for the election; 2. that Johnson violated election policy by porsting signs in Linthi-cum and in Burdick; and 3. that the Tower Light over-stepped its duties in presenting an editorial which was ""not unbiased"" and which endorsed the candidacy of Johnson. At the elections committee hear-ing on April 21st, Tate explained the last charge by stating that it is a question ""whether a Student Government Association subsidized newspaper which is paid for by everyone on campus�has the right to take a stand in an election con-cerning individual candidates."" Tate prefaced his remarks ask-ing the committee to consider the ""moral and practical nature"" of his charges. He further hoped that the decisions of the committee would aid in establishing precedent pol-icy for the future. Speaking in his own defense, Johnson refuted Tate's points: 1. that SGA President Ray Wachs handled the mechanics of the elec-tion with the exception of the Or-dering of the machines; 2. that he did in fact display two posters in Linthicum and two name tags in Burdick; (Continued on page '7)"
