tl19690221-000 "Vol. XXI, No. 16 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 February 21, 1969 $1/2 million Physical Plant fails to move past the bidding stage A half-million dollar Physical Plant Building, projected to be built and occupied by last month, has failed to get past the bidding stage on campus, and in some o- Pinions, the College seems reluc-tant to do any thing about it. $300,000 appropriated Four fiscal years ago, the isum of $300,000. was appropriated for the construction of Physical Plant facilities to replace the under sized quarters that department occupies in the Barracks and power plant. The new edifice was to house a central storage area, a central re-eeivirig area, a complete security headquarters, carpenter and main-tenance facilities, and adequate locker room area for the College's service workers and maintenance Personnel. Sums surpassed monies At the time of the original ap- Propriation, bids were sent to con-tractors and were returned with stuns surpassing the allotted mon-ies. A change in the site of the Proposed building resulted in in-creased costs and a deficiency of $200,000. to the estimated price tag of $500,000. Originally, the Physi-cal Plant construction was to take increases in staff size, the amount is insufficient. It does not provide for the money to construct the new Physical Plant and fails to take into account the additional 120,000 square feet of building to open with the Albert S. Cook library ad-dition. Leon Herring, Director of the Physical Plant, points out that at the current time, the fourteen ser-vice workers scheduled for hiring this July will be placed in the li-brary leaving Linthicum Hall and Burdick Hall crews still understaf-fed. Past budgets have failed to take into consideration the demands made by the opening of those two buildings and, even in July when additional staff joins Towson's eighty service workers and fore-men, conditions in Burdick and Linthicum will remain much the same. Budget problems and what is felt to be a reluctance on the part of the ""proper people"" to push for the additional funds are stall-ing the new Physical Plant. ""More could be done"" Herring observed that ""if they really wanted a building and felt the need for it, more could be done."" The granting of all requests for additional funds to the TSC bud-get, regarded as highly unlikely by Presidents 'Earle T. Hawkins, appears to , be the sole way that the Physical Plant will acquire its new facilities in the near future. Analysis \Hacks uses first veto to defeat recinding of scholarship program As a result of last Tuesday's SGA Senate meeting the Leader-ship Aid Scholarships are now back in effect. The proposal was res-cinded (repealed) at the February 4 Senate meeting but SGA Presi-dent Ray Weeks, by vetoing the proposal at last Tuesday's meeting made it null and void and thus the original scholarship program remains in effect. Lists advantages In repealing the program Feb-ruary 4, the Senate voted on the basis of a number of well-worded but unchallenged argu-ments which attacked the principle of giving money to students work-ing in certain positions. President Weeks, however, in vetoing the motion, answered each of John- 'ston's arguments by pointting out either their factual errors or their basis in some rather subjective value judgments. In general, he refused the rational behind the re-scind motion and went on to list the many advantages of the Schol-arship program which were re-sponsible for it being passed in the first place. Maintenance Dept. needs ignored by FRAN MOULDEN The total outlook on the Physical Plant operation at this College and on activities related to the Phy-sical Plant operation are in need Place near Osler Drive on the south Bide of Towsontowne Blvd. Later It was decided to move the site to the north side of Towsontowne Blvd. to the spot occupied by the old lacrosse field, Complaints re-ceived from residents and commu-nity association representatives of the residential area directly behind the lacrosse field necessitated a re-designing of the proposed building With more acceptable materials re- Placing the original materials. Thus, costs rose and the $300,000. already allotted was insufficient. Under the fiscal 1970 budget an-nounced by Governor Marvin Man-del in January, the Physical Plant Will receive increased funds over last year's budget. However, in light of the money needed to main-tain and increase service in the campus's buildings and in light of Photo by Moulden The Service workers locker-room in Steph-ens Hall holds facilities for 80 men and women in a space 20' x 40' with no lava-tories. At left is the time clock for the 80. oif overhauling. The faculty has undergone and apparently weather-ed its ""impending crisis,"" the stu-dent body has succeeded in making its influence felt in diverse areas, and even the adminieitration has gotten in its voice with regard to their own salaries. However, there continues one neglected area of this College and a facet of the ac-ademic community that cannot be over-looked when expansion, ad-vance planning, and budgeting are considered. The Physical Plant operations of this College are most capably handled and conscientiously admin-istered. Still, deficiencies over the years have resulted in too few em-ployee n to cover the thousands of square feet of floor area in this College not to mention the grounds. Lack of cooperation has made the Photo by Moulden A typical unfinished door in the area job of upkeep and maintenance no easier, and the attitude on the part of some members of this .College community that the Physical Plant is a peripheral activity, an evil .to be endured, shows a total ignorance of fact. The facts are as follows: At the present time, the eigihty service workers and foremen both male and female, occupy locker room-dressng room area of approx-mately 20' by 40' in Stephens Hall. There are no lavatory facilitieg at. tached and no provision for -loom, ate chaning areas for male and fe-male employees. At the present time, it seems that the College does not feel it is important enough to initinate strong push for the additional funds necessary to complete the new Physical Plant facilities. The right pressure by the right persons could succeed in moving the powers that be in Annapolis to provide the extra money needed to construct this most necessary facility. At the present time, the Phy-sical Plant activities are budgeted for a five-day work week. If it becomes necessary, as it most nearly always does, for work to be done during a weekend (such as clean-up after jam sessions, meetings, games), then by new Maryland law, all employees must receive time and a half overtime pay. Permis-sion to pay this must be obtained and the money is tightly regulated. Fees occasionally leveled at spon-soring organizations do not pay for the salary of the weekend help. At the present time, the Physical Plant looks forward to having 120, (Continued on page 9) INSIDE Editorials Features Thundercolt Warren Moore Sports Bulletin Board 2-3 4-5 4 4 6-7 10 The fact that the Senate went along with the move to rescind might be construed as a ""vote of no confidence"" for the students who would benefit from it, namely, the Photo by Walkiewicz SGA president Wacks SGA officials and the publications editors. Weeks however, did not recognize it as such and, not belie- , ving that the people who voted to rescind really feel that way about these people, said he ""could not alloy) the motion to stand."" Other action in the Senate in-cluded the failure of a resolution which would have given all stu-dents, the right to vote at SGA Senate meetings. Course requirements referendum results due on Monday Monday morning, Towson State's students and faculty will learn if new, more flexible general course requirements will become a reality. On that day the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education Requirements will see its nine months of work completed and will discover wheth-er or not the proposal is accept-able to the faculty. On Monday, the results of the facufly referendum on the commit-tee's final proposal for the new requirements will be compiled and released. The referendum, called by Dean of the College, Joseph Falco after the Council of Department Chair-men failed to vote on the proposal, will indicate whether or not the plan will be forwarded to the Col-lege Senate and then to the Board of Trustees for their respective approval. According to Dr. Pritam T. Mer-ani, chairman of the committee, obtaining an OK from the Senate and the Trustees Should not be difficult, but an approval from the faculty is questionable. The ballots, asking a ""yes"" or ""no"" vote, were distributed on Monday, February 17 to all fac-ulty members. Today is the dead-line for returning the ballots to Dean Falco. Osler bus soiled* Mond,y, Wednesday, Friday�The bus will operate approximately every 15 minutes starting at 7:15 a.M. and ending at 900 a.m. After 9:00 0..m� the follow.ng schedule will be in effect: Depart Osler Drive: 9:30; 10:30; 11:30; 12:30; 1:30; 2:30; 3:30; 4:15. Depart Campus: Stephens, Smith, Linthicum): 10:00; 11:00; 12:00; 1:00; 2:C0; 3:00; 4:00, Tuesdays and Thursdays�The bus will operate every 15 minutes, once again starting at 7:16 a.m. After 10:00 a.m., the following schedule will be in effect: Depart Osler Lot: 10:15; 10:45; 11:30; 12:15; 1:00; 1:45; 2:30'; 3:15. Depart Campus: 10:30; 11:15; 11:50; 12:45; 1:20; 2:00; 3:20; 4:15. "
