tl19610217-000 "5 TOWER LIGHT Vol. XIII, No. 14 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland February 17, 1961 Freshman Advisory Council Chosen For 1961 - 1962 Freshman Advisory Council for 1961-1962 has been Chosen by the Membership Committee, which consists of faculty and residence staff members and members of the Present Freshman Advisory Council. This committee has bennis Younger as its chairman. The following were chosen for riext year's FAC: Fred Abt, Pete Adams*, Ellen Alford, Yvonne arbosa, Linda Blood, Olive Bloods-worth, Alice Brakeall, Joy Brown, SallY Caliss, Ruth Clark, Della Coard, Chuck Croner. bick Disharoon*, Jim Doran, Audrey Fairall*, Al Florian, Shir-ley Fultz, Nancy Holter, Helen Ilarris, Darla Heckner, Bob High-ith, James Hughey, Cindy Hug-girls, Barbara Ibex, Karen Jorgen-son, 41 Koehler*, Fayla Lancaster, :ean Latka, Janis Leilich, Gale Liezewski, Susan Mapp*, Mary Ann IleNeal, Charlotte Murphy, Pris I� lewman, Anita Orange, Mary larie Powell, Pat Ryan. ? Leon Sagan, Marjorie Schwartz, � ""irrl Shank, Irene Shepherd, Rich-trd Sours, Elaine �Stairs*, Carroll wam Elyssa Tippett, Jean Tracey, '�an Tracey, Bonnie Waters, Eric wissil, and Anita Wolf. Note: The asterik ( 1 * ) akst year's members who were (:'sen to serve a second year as a ?4' resbman Advisor. indicates President Hawkins Discusses Budget At III-College Council April 17 Deadline For Loan Applications The Committee on Loans has an-nounced that April 17 is the dead-line for receipt of applications for federal aid from the National De-fense Student Loan Program for summer school 1961 and the 1961-62 academic year. Application forms may be se-cured from the Business Office. After filling them out the students may send them to Miss Nina Hughes, chairman of the Committee on Loans. Full-time students in good aca-demic standing who satisfy all re-quirements of the standards and practices of the college are eligible if real need for financial aid exists. Interest on the loan is three per cent, and it begins to accure and repayment begins on any outstand-ing balance of a loan one year after the borrower ceases to be a full-time college student. However, military service, for no longer than three years, will prolong the be-i: ViarYland's Operating Budget, i'Llich is drawn up by the Legisla-i44 and includes funds for capital tiliProvements, can have items added � it through pressure of lobbyists, I t',..)(151aitied Dr. Earle Hawkins, S.T.C.1 tk esident, at the recent meeting of "" All-College Council. ht,I4r1 Maryland there are two ilt,migets, he added. One is drawn t; �Y the Governor and approved the Legislature (they can cut this but tI cannot add to it) and the tI tiler is the Operating Budget. Rawkins mentioned that stu-v: in other colleges and uni- ir7""-s 3ities have actively campaigned tstheir state to gain further bone-for their campus. Co ilstruction Proceding e.oh�.outl7ruction taking place on the 1 :lerh corner of the college cam- Q4 (I 13 being done by the Mullan 1,ritracting Company which is b:.?tirtg a modern four-story office g. 011'1,11:is office building will have a tar'ng lot for approximately 400 kki5. Dortion of the campus was 44 t� the contractors to be used kviii ritrance, and in return they %lleotal"" care of some of the tkoit':'e' landscaping. When the t* IN lot is completed, it may be L:1 Or student Parking in 1ttig 3 only. Towson Campus the ginning of repayment and interest accrual. A student borrower who later becomes a fulltime public elementary or secondary school teacher may have ten per cent of the principal of his loan forgiven for each year in full-time service as a teacher, up to a total of five years. Bridal Consultant To Give Pointers Lyle, Evans Sweetheart Couple Amidst crowds of people, the five Sweetheart couple-nominees marched up the isle towards the heart of flowers. The couples walked through the heart to the tune of the lush Glenn Miller Band. In the massive 5th Regiment Armory, people left their seats to watch Barbara Tait announce the results of the school-wide balloting for the Sweetheart couple. The moment arrived and Mr. Dick Evans and Miss Carolyn Lyle were for-mally initiated as the Sweetheart Couple, 1961. The Sweetheart Couple, the court, and everyone then danced to such memorable tunes as In the Mood, Tuxedo Junc-tion, and Moonlight Serenade. Carolyn Lyle graduated from Towson last year and is presently teaching in the secondary schools of Prince George's County. While at Towson she was an F.A.C. mem-ber and president of the Glen Players. I Dick Evans is the president of the class of '61. His other activi-ties include membership in the Circle K and the F.A.C. Dick and Carolyn became engaged on June 1, 1959, and they are planning their wedding for August 5, 1961. Mrs. Truax from the Bridal De-partment of the Hecht-May Stores will demonstrate and speak infor-mally about linens, glassware, silver and other household items Monday at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria. Girls will be able to register with the bridal register at Hecht-May and in return will receive some household items including a bride's book. All women students are invited to attend this demonstration which is sponsored by the hostess club. Questions concerning what silver goes with what china and other similar queries will be answered. Also there will be demonstrations of table settings. Alumni Work With Glen Players At the Glen Players meeting, February 15, scenes from T. S. Eliot's ""Murder in the Cathedral"" were presented. A group of recent Towson graduates participated which included Bill Fallowfield, Dan Higgs, Bruce Johnson, and Jay Butler. Present students who acted in parts were Sharie Lacey, Lois Porterfield, and John Silford. Poling To Give Christian Science Lecture Here Editorial . . This space had been reserved for an article about the Junior Class Assembly which had to be canceled because of lack of participation. How spiritual awakening brings freedom will be the topic of a free public lecture to be given here at Towson State Teachers College by Sylvia N. Poling of Phoenix, Arizona. A Christian Science teacher and practitioner, Miss Poling is on ex-tended tour as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lecture-ship. She will speak in Van Bok-kelen Hall auditorium under the auspices of the Christian Science Organization. Her subject will be ""Christian Science Reveals the Door to Life More Abundant."" Miss Poling became interested in Christian Science as a college stu-dent. Active in public education for a number of years, she holds degrees from Arizona State Univer-sity and has also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. She resigned from the teaching profession in 1950 to devote her full time to the pub-lic practice of Christian Science healing. Eight years later, she become an authorized teacher of Christian Science. Coffee Hour For Students Interested In Working On Tower Light Wed., Feb. 22nd 2:30 - 4:30�Student Centre Card Room. Why? by Ron Engel ""Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or die."" How many have thrilled to the nationalistic spirit which these words by Tennyson in his Charge of the Light Brigade have envoked? No doubt many have ridden with the valiant brigade as they have charged into the mouth of Hell. Yes, not only rode, via the Tennyson lines, but were inspired by this poem of action and deterministic spirit. The critics of Tennyson said that this poem was not his best, as surely it was not, but the spirit which is captured within the lines inspires many a reader. Perhaps we should examine this spirit a little closer. The Brigade was made up of soldiers, who were trained to follow a command with blind obedience. They certainly fulfilled with such valor, but what has this got to do with Towson? We certainly are not engaged in physical combat! am sure that if we were asked to do as the Brigade did, there would be only a few volunteers. I wonder if the rest of the British forces present during the Crimean War thought the Brigade was a clique? The small volunteers at this school have been called a clique, by those who hide behind excuses. Let us reflect on the state of our college. The pro-fessors and the current magazines are crying out against the ""let John do it"" attitude of the American public. But we all know that college people are not the ordinary run-of-the- mill public, we are active in the college community. The activity in the college community is but a training ground for the eventual emergence of the student into the state-community. This generalization about the informed college person active in the college-community may apply to the majority of colleges�but not to Towson! Students at Towson just do not give a damn! They do not care what the college community is doing; they are not active in their classes. Now, if a student is not interested in his own class, how can he be expected to be active in any other group on campus? The class comes foremost above all groups and organizations on campus. Without the classes, there would be no campus! This slov-enly attitude and apathy towards class activities may be found in its most acute stages in the Junior and Senior years. This disease permeates every class in the college and does a good job of ruining the school and the class. The mem-bers who are the most diseased will try to wrap themselves in excuses, but those few who are active see the diseased nudity of excuses. I hope that I have made some people very angry! Maybe you can try to rekindle your class spirit which you have allowed to go out. No class asks you to go into the ""mouth of Hell,"" just go to class activities and meetings. No one will suffer if you do not come; no one, that is, but you. Lie around and use excuses for your shield, and you will be keeping alive the spirit of apathy and laziness which has contaminated this college. Seminar Scholarship Applications Available Scholarship applications are now available for the Ninth Interina-tional Student Relations Seminar � (ISRS)), an eleven-week U. S. Na-tional Student Association seminar designed to provide American stu-dent leaders with the background : and skills necessary to deal with ' contemporary problems of interna-tional relations existing among na-tional and international student or- Timm aqt Jo swed tie in suotieztue2 Seminar sessions, June 18 to Sep-tember 1, 1961, will be held at the University of Pennsylvania and USNSA International Commission offices in Philadelphia, with the final two weeks spent at the 14th Na-tional Student Congress, larAest student meeting of the year in the U. S. to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Fifteen participants will be se-lected from USNSA member cam-puses for their proven intellectual ability, leadership and language qualifications, background in inter-national relations and experience in extra-curricular activities. All participants receive full schol-arships of approximately $950 cov-ering travel, room and board, books and research material. Application forms and informa-tion brochures are available from chairmen of academic staffs dealing with international affairs, deans, student body presidents, college newspaper editors and NSA coordi-nators, and may be received, on request, from the International Stu-dent Relations Seminar, Interna-tional Commission, U. S. National Student Association, 3457 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 4, Pa. ""Tower Echoes"" is looking for pictures of Freshman Week and Spook Week for yearbook. Those with pictures are asked to contact Pat Cribbs, Box 336 or Ruth Carr, Box 326 as soon as possible. Use in the "
