tl19690207-000 "Photo by Quante SCAFFOLDING decks the exterior of the new library building sched-uled for occupation next fall. The next major campus addition should be the Arts building or the College Union, to be begun in 1970. Campus facilities expand to fit growing population by STEPHANIE PANOS As the student population at Towson grows, the facilities to accommodate them must expand. A new library is currently under vonstruction; additional parking Space for 600 cars is available this semester; work has begun on reno-vating Stephen's Hall Auditorium; additional rooms and equipment have been added to Linthicum Hall; plans are now be:ng develop-ed for the Fine Arts and College Union Buildings. Construction on the new library is on schedule at present, and it should open in time for the Fall, 1969 semester. The library, which w:11 have a capacity for 500,000 volumes, is costing $4.3 million to build. The current library build-ing will be come an Educational Technology center once it is reno-vated. (Continued on page 8) vol. XXI, No. 14 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21204 February 7, 1969 Inconsistent with cuts Senate rednds leadership...said by TOM WALKIEWICZ requested As a result of last Tuesday's SGA Senate meeting, the Leadership Aid Scholarships will no longer be in effect. By a vote of 26 to 6, The senate rescinded (repealed) the resolution which would have given 9 students working in certain cap-acities in the SGA or one of the school publications a total of $2050. a year. Expense inconsistent The motion to rescind, presented by Jim Johnston, contained a num-ber of well-worded attacks on the form to certain students while oth-ers may work just as hard in non-principle of giving money in any paying positions. He also pointed out that the expense of such scho-larships was inconsistent with the cuts recently made in the budgets of the various campus organiza-tions. Checks already received The scholarship program, passed last semester by a slim and some-what questionable majority, was to go into effect this semester and checks for the first month are al-ready in the hands of the students. It has not been decided whether the students will be asked to refund the money which amounts to one eighth of the total yearly amount Agenda publication fails Other action in the Senate in-cluded the failure of a resolution which would have required that the SGA publish an official agenda of each Senate in the issue of Tower Light which is published before that meeting. Included in the agenda would be presented and the time and place of each meeting. The resolution was introduced in an ef-fort to give the student body ad-vance notice of impending resolu-tions which might be of interest to them and to make them gentrally more aware of the operations of the Senate. Resubmission seen Opponents of the resolution point-ed out that because of the dead-line for submission of such infor-mation is the Monday prior to Fri-day's publication, senators would have to prepare resolutions more than a week in advance of a meet-ing. Also, since resolutions could only be printed in summary form, opponents wanted to know who would be writing the summaries. It is expected that the resolution will be resubmitted when more de-tails about its actual operation are formulated. CPA passes The Senate passed a resolution which established a Committee on Political Action which will study issues on the national, state, and local levels which are of interest to the student body and make re-commendations to the Senate for possible action. The committee will be composed of the presidents of four campus political organizat-tions, two senators, and a chairman appointed by the SGA president. The committee's immediate func-tion will be to look into the possi-bility of having the present Mary-land State Legislature appropriate more money for higher education in Maryland. The senators who did not attend the meeting are asked to submit their names, campus mailbox num-bers and the name of the organi-zation they represent with the sec-retary in the SGA office. Sweetheart dance features Elgart &chests 1The highlight of the 1969 TSC social season, the Sweetheart Dance, will be held Saturday 'night, Feb-ruary 15 front 9 until 1 in the Fifth Regiment Armory. The or-chestra of Les and Larry Elgart will provide the music for this for-mal affair. ""Love is Blue"" is the theme of the dance, at which the 1969 Sweet-heart couple will be announced. Voting for the pair will continue daily until next Tuesday; ballot boxes are in the College Centre. Tickets are, of course, free to TSC students and may be obtain-ed from Mrs. Eeibold in Temp 1-A. Inside Letters 2 Cartoon 2 Free U. __ 8 Sports 3 Bulletin Board 8 Happenings 7 Impasse marks general course requirements effort by TED OSTERLOH ISince March, 1968 the Ad Hoc Committee on General Education Requirements has been meeting to draw up a new set of requirements for TSC's 4500 undergraduate stu-dents. Presently, their efforts have Dr. Merani ended in an impasse. In January, the Committee sub-mitted a third and final draft pro-posal to Dean of the College Jose-ph Falco and the Council of Depart-ment Chairmen for their consider-ation and approval. Although they failed to vote on the plan, the Coun-cil approved a resolution calling for the Committee to continue re-search and to devise alternate plans, and then to re-submit their proposal, implying that the draft was not acceptable in its current state. The seven-member Committee, after nine months of research, decided that they ""had done their job"" in delivering a proposal as an ""advisory group"" to Dean Falco who, had appointed them. The Committee is headed by Dr. Pritam Merani and composed of Dr. Gilbert Brungardt, Dr. Ruth Conrad, Dr. Joseph Cox, Dr. Wil-fred Hathaway, and Dr. Arthur Madden. Representing the student body on the committee is student Government Presiden Ray Weeks. Except for Weeks, all members have a faculty ranking in the Col-lege. As expressed in their final re-commendation, the Committee at-tempted ""to guide the student to-wards a broad liberal education by requiring that he choose courses within certain areas which are re-cognized as basic to a liberal ed-ucation."" They stressed flexibility and polled the entire faculty during their deliberations. Their goal was a system under which the student could sample some courses in each area o fstudy. They do not approve ""complete total license"" on the part of the student and stressed that ""greater freedom to the student calls for greater responsibility on his part."" The drafts of the pro-posal were drawn up accordingly. In order to attain maximum fa-culty involvement, plans were mail-ed to faculty for their opinions and many responses were returned and considered. The Council called for a slight revision of the first draft and the Committee acted upon their recommendations. After the second draft was sub-mitted to the Council, the English Department and the Math Depart-ment of the College returned with alternate plans. Both were referred to the Committee which felt that the Math. proposal was ""too radical at the present time"" in allowing for each academic department to set up general college requirements Dr. Conard, Dr. Madden for the majors in that department; the English Department's plan was found ""too restrictive' in its con-centration on English, History, and the sciences. When the final draft, printed in full in Tower Light last week, came before the Council, no vote was taken. It is felt that, had a vote been taken on the original proposal, the recommendations would have passed. The Council did act, however, in passing two resolutions. The first asked the Committee to reexamine its plan and research more alternatives. The second measure provided for (Continued on page 7) "
