Tower Light, December 6, 1968

TSC Takes Marathon . Pictures— pages 4-5 Vol. XXI, No. 10 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE • BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 21204 December 6, 1968 Ad Hoc Committee works to revise requirements of TSC’s present system Ye Olde Barrel! Investigation results Towson takes by JANICE FOX Results of the three-part investi¬ gation into integration on Morgan State and Towson State campuses ''’ill soon be presented to the Board °f Trustees of the State Colleges °f Maryland. Last December, two integration committees were appointed by the board of Trustees. The Towson Committee, consisting of ten Tow¬ son professors and three students, 13 headed by Robert Smith of the Sociology Department; the Mor¬ ion State committee is headed by br. Marvin Forbstein of the MSC Education Department. In addi¬ tion, the Sidney Hollander Associ- ates, a private research team, was ^bed by the Board of Trustees for tbe purpose of finding out why so few Negro students apply at Tow- f°n. They will submit their find- and suggestions sometime in December. The Towson committee has the specific purpose of making recom¬ mendations to increase the pef- ^entage of Negro students here. °Wson’s committee made sugges- .... becomes Towson’s once again as TSC teams capture the ’68 Marathon with 1173 points in the 75-hour tilt. TSC Coordinators Chip Reed (left) and Rick Brown receive congratulations of National Beer’s Roger Goss. steps for more integration tio Pro ns to inaugurate a scholarship clua 3hi gram for Negro students in- ing seventy-five full scholar- "aiPs, one-third of which would c*ude full residence allowance. Another recommendation would 4uire Towson students to earn elve of their college credits at °rgan and, similarly, that Mor- students be required to earn -j, ^Ve of their college credits at State College. A perman- integration committee would established to evaluate the pro- i ftln. One of their duties would A tj t0 maintain a constantly func- “Department of Com¬ ets,” which would provide a close liason between the commit¬ tee and the black and white stu¬ dents. The Towson report further states that both the TSC and Mor¬ gan integration committees are making substantially the same rec¬ ommendations to their respective Presidents. TSC chairman Smith states, “Our job was to study the present situation dealing with integration and make recommendations. Tra¬ ditionally Towson has been consid¬ ered a “white school", and Morgan a “black school"; this situation must be changed." Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, Presi¬ dent of Towson, feels that inte¬ gration would be helpful from the educational point of view and would bring about a better under¬ standing between students of dif¬ ferent races. In the November 6 Sunpaper», Dr. Martin Jenkins, President of Morgan, is reported to have said that Maryland State Colleges must take mandatory steps to eliminate segregation in the system because voluntary methods have not done the job. While the State College Trustees have repeatedly endors¬ ed the principle of integrated cam¬ puses, the system remains half black, half white. Frostburg, Sal¬ isbury and Towson generally are identified as white campuses with Coppin and Morgan predominate¬ ly Negro. Dr. Jenkin said, “The basic prob¬ lem goes back to this racism in our culture where whites learn that they should not associate with too many Negros. There’s a very great hesitancy about associating with Negroes, once their numbers reach a certain tipping point.” Robert Smith states that pres¬ ently there is a “vicious circle" wherein Negro students consider¬ ing Towson are discouraged by the spareness of Negro enrollment here. Perhaps, Smith speculates, they feel that social life for them would be non-existent. Since its first meeting on March 7 this year, an Ad Hoc Committee has been working on a revision of the general education require¬ ments of the College. The com¬ mittee has presented its final ver¬ sion to the Dean of the College for approval. Presently, the College requires each student to take 62 credits of specified courses as a part of the 120 needed for graduation. Under the new proposal the stu¬ dent would choose from 37-48 cred¬ its from four large groups: Group I is comprised of the de¬ partments of Drama, English, Phi¬ losophy, Art, Music, and Speech. The student is required to take six courses of which at least two, but no more than three must be in the English department; and no more than one course may be taken in any one of the other de¬ partments. Group II consists of the depart¬ ments of Biological Science, Health, Mathematics, Physical Sci¬ ence, and Psychology. Four courses are required each in a different de¬ partment. Group III includes the depart¬ ments of Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, and So¬ ciology. The four required courses must be taken in at least three different departments. Group IV is the department of Physical Education, which will re¬ quire two courses or no more than one credit per semester. A study of general requirements of certain public and private col¬ leges and universities provided the committee's starting point. Com¬ mittee members submitted two pre¬ liminary proposals to the faculty for comment and recommendation before drafting the final revision. The committee’s report calls the recommended revision an attempt “to guide the student towards a broad liberal education by requir¬ ing that he choose courses within certain areas . . . recognized as basic to a liberal education.” Flexibility was one of the chief aims of the committee in draft¬ ing the proposal. It is the hope of committee members that this flexibility will provide a greater breadth of studies and afford the student more time for the in-depth studies required by his major. The faculty was in general agreement that the general re¬ quirements needed changes. How¬ ever, many departments balked at the idea of dropping their courses from the required list. Old purchasing policy is revised; state consent needed before buying by TED OSTERLOH An old but uninforced policy at Towson State, requiring organiza¬ tions that purchase individual items costing over $26.00 to sub¬ mit their requests to the Depart¬ ment of Budget and Procurement through the SGA office, is respon¬ sible for a recent change in pur¬ chasing procedure on campus. Until October, Towson’s campus organizations were purchasing in¬ dividual goods without the prior consent of the В and D but the method has been changed. The old policy has been revised and is now being strictly enforced by Mr. Jos¬ eph Creel, former member of the Board of Trustees and the new Comptroller of Towson State and the SGA treasurer. Michael Hollywood, SGA Treas¬ urer, explained that the new set¬ up is due to a state law. Legally, the SGA is a state agency and everything that is purchased must be done through the State. All items costing over $26 must go out for bid, the item being pur¬ chased from the firm offering the lowest price. The policy holds for physical merchandise only. Things such as band contracts do not have to be submitted to the Department of Budget and Procurement; a contract is made between the band and the sponsoring organi¬ zation. Hollywood noted that the new policy has created more work for him and that purchases now take much longer because each item may demand two to three weeks to be processed. SGA Vice-President Charles Johnson observed that or¬ ganizations will probably spend more money now because prior to the new ruling, items could be purchased immediately and through 'personal contacts. If a group, for instance, knew of a source for a certain product at discount, for¬ merly they could purchase it from that source, but the new policy does not permit this. Draft . . . Your Spring course schedule between now and December 19. Information and exam schedule on page seven .