tl19680405-000 "No. 21 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 April 5, 1968 !itroversy Passed Senate Grants ACLU Trial Funds !In Tuesday, April 2, SGA 74Ette passed a resolution giv- 1,11 $500 of student funds to the i'kerican Civil Liberties Union defense of students reclas- 4ed 1A delinquent for partici-tion in anti-war, anti-draft eillonstrations. The resolution passed was an ,rtireended version of SGA pre- Bob Ill Cullison's original, 1tt4er1ded to .specify that the Ititlds be applied solely to the lefense of the reclassified stu-t Ilts and that the money come :clti the $30,000 surplus and '4 active student funds. ,Senate action was precipitat-by endorsement of the resol- 'b'ion by Circle K and the Men's 'esidence Council. Countering the endorsement 1' these two men's groups was tt /student circulated petition Election Results SC/A President� Tom Tate Ray Wacks 411n-off April 4 and 5� College Centre, 9-5 p.m. Vice President-- Charles Johnson l'rea surer� Mike Hollywood I�SA Coordinator� Pat Cox Corresponding Sec'y.� Janice Erdbrink Recording Seey.� (3rd term) Doreen Hatoff Social Chairman� Eydie Pizarro Members-at-Large-- John Kroh, Wayne Miskelly Linda Windel which drew 750 student names expressing disapproval of the measure. The resolution speaks out strongly against the ""arbitrary use of the Selective Service System as a tool for silencing public dissent."" This action fol-lows the October 26, 1967 mem-orandum of SSS director Lew-is B. Hershey to local draft boards ordering them to reclas-sify registrants for partaking in what /these Boards may con-strue as ""contrary to the na-tional interest."" At the present time the AC-LU is pressing the case of some thirty reclassified students, none of whom are Tow-son students. There have been, however, Tow-son people reclassified. Ex-freshman Michael Pierce was reclassified after turning in his draft card in December, as was Phillip Marcus, physical science instructor. Neither of those two will benefit from the funding. The final vote followed an ac-tive floor discussion which saw an attempt to postpone action. Chairman pro tem Michael Rat-liff resigned the chair to enter discussion. From the floor, Rat-liff condemned senate tendency to avoid measures by postpon-ing them. Question was called and the resolution passed 36-5 with 3 abstensions. CLASSES SpeakersUrgeOver500 to Act, Think Positive by LARRY HORWITZ There were 500 students, maybe more. There was old folk singing, songs like ""If I Had a Hammer"". There was Dean Le- Mire wearing a badge that read ""Higher Salaries"". And there were speeches. Bob Cullison, president of the SGA, spoke quietly and almost dispassionately. ""We are mak-ing public our conceim,"" he said. ""Today we are attempting to make known that we are trying to open channels of communica-tion . . . the first step in a dia-logue on higher education . . the second step must come from Annapolis."" The crowd reacted with a standing ovation. Carl Herbert, vice-president of the SGA, stressed The need to ""Think positive"". ""We are not delivering ultimatums, we are just showing student concern."" ""Dedication is fine, but you can't eat it,"" said Herbert out-lining the purpose for the rally. ""We have to dedicate more mon-ey to higher education"". Leonard Steele, who to a large degree precipitated the entire affair by writing articles in the Tower Light and by in- Trustees To Close Half LLT; Consider Tri-Semester Plan The Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Colleges met Monday at Salisbury State Col-lege's Holloway Hall. Three new majors were ap-proved to be offered at Towson State in the future. These in-clude Medical Technology, which will be implemented in conjunction with Union Memor-ial Hospital and an Early Childhood major in the gradu-ate program. A physics major was also ap-proved, but with the understan-ding that this program will be carried out in cooperation with Morgan State, Loyola and Gou-cher. As a possible alternative to the present semester system, the Board of Trustees is consider-ing the tri-semesteral program. Ztedies have shown that colleg-es and universities which have switched to the quarter system where the average number of courses pursued is three or four instead of five or six show marked increase in academic performance. Such a change would also mean that professors would have to reorganize most of their courses to fit the new format. They would have to ""slice their knowledge into fewer but larg-er chunks."" This in turn, would mean that they would have to revise their examinations., The motion to discontinue la-boratory schools was withdrawn because of dissenting opinions. The Board of Trustees had de. cided that the $450,000 could be used in other ways to im-prove teachers' education than in 'continuing laboratory schools. Others disagreed, stating the importance of having school age children on campus for the stu-dent teachers. A seminar will be held before May to hear all points of view before a final de-cision is reached. In speaking on behalf of Tow-son, Dr. Earle T. Hawkins said that because of insufficient fun-ding, only one half of Lida Lee Tall School will function in the next fiscal year. The Advance Planning Com-mittee has retained the firm of Alexander Brown, and Sons to assist Towson , State in develop-ing a financing plan and bond prospectus for the Student Un-ion Building. The proposal calls for Brown to perform its servi ces on the basis of a negotiable bond sale. troducing a motion calling for today's rally in yesterday's his-toric senate meeting, said final-ly that "" . . . the time to be heard is now, not later, now . . . "" And then Mike Ratcliffe, chairman of the SGA senate, said in a short, intelligent statement that ""this rally shows a reflection of student frustration."" Ratcliffe urged support of Cullisonis programs on this issue and urged students to write letters to Gov. Agnew indicating dissatisfaction with the current budget, and more importantly, dissatisfaction with the reluctance on the part of the state administrators to discuss the serious matter of fa-culty wages. The time of the rally, quickly , organized and surprisingly suc-cessful, was one of concern and frustration. The student speak-ers consistently stressed the need for more effective means of communication between state administrators and Towson stu-dents and faculty. The hope was that the student's active show of concern would bring about an active demonstration of con-cern on the part of the Towson staff. And perhaps this hope was realized. The Faculty Committee of the Faculty Association unanimous-ly passed, on the eve of the ral-ly, a resolution urging faculty members to permit those stu-dents involved in the rally to make-up all work and in effect endorsed the rally as more im-portant than class attendance. And even more telling was Whitney LeBlanc's unscheduled speech to the assembled stu-dents, ""I support your concern and I will do everything in my power to encourage my col-leagues to follow your lead."" INSIDE Rally Pictures pg. 4-5 SCA Resolution pg. 2 Thundercolt pg. 3 Bulletin Board pg 6 Sports pg. 6 McDonald pg. 3 "