tl19630111-000 "Senate Meets Tuesday 3:15 SH 220 WEEKLY Founder's Day Convocation Tuesday 10:30 Vol. XV, No. 12 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland January 11, 1963 Governor Tawes Axes Capital Budget Request fEACREAS. TOWso: FORMER DEAN � Dr. State, stands by a plaque has been named in her held Tuesday afternoon. Anita S. Dowell, first dean of Towson in the college's new health center which honor. Open house for the center was Towson Invited To Join ISA, Red Cross Program Towson has been invited to join the International Students Association of Maryland which has recently been formed under the auspices of the United Na-. tions Association of Maryland. The purpose of the associa- The purpose of the associa-and foreign students closer together and to promote closer ties between the for-eign students and the Mary-land community in general. Members of this newly formed group are drawn from many col-leges and universities throughout the state and are representative of several nations. In addition to printing a Thonthly bulletin, every month the group SUOIISOI'S one social event, one cultural event, and one guided tour. They also intend to partici-pate on a voluntary basis in the Red Cross Blood Pro-gram and a Speakers Bureau. [Members of the organization receive many fringe benefits such as free tickets to Baltimore Sym-phony performances at the Lyric Theater. Activities are coordinated through a Central Committee Which, as the organization grows, Will ideally consist of three dele-gates from each campus in Mary-land. Towson's senate will dis-cuss sending representatives to the Central Committee at Tuesday's meeting. Membership in the organization is open to all interested students in the state, both Americans and those from abroad. Nominate Heart Couple By Mon. ""Nominations for the Sweet-heart Couple should be in by Monday, January 14,"" Sue Park-hurst, SGA Social Chairman. announced recently. The couples who are nominated for the Sweetheart Dance, to be held Feb. 9, must be students at Towson. They cannot be mar-ried or divorced. ""Choice of the people should be personal, Miss Parkhurst said. ""but students usually look for couples who are outstanding aca-demically, active, and make a nice looking pair."" Students should keep in mind, however, that anyone can be nominated, she added. Elections for the Sweetheart Couple and Court will be held Thursday, Jan. 17, and all stu-dents, are asked to vote. Elec-tions will be handled as those of major class officers, Miss Parkhurst continued. Five couples elected from the nominees will be announcA Thursday evening. One of these will be, named the Sweetheart Couple the night of the dance. Governor Tawes' slicing of $3,- 300,000 from Towson State Teachers Collegjs capital im-provements budget request for the coming fiscal year was met this week by m:xed emotions from college president Dr. Earle T. Hawkins. The college's request of $5,189.- 000 for new buildings was cut to $1,882, 000 by the Governor in budget recommendations that will be sent to the General Assembly for final approval. Sliced from the request from Towson was money for a new men's dormitory and a new phy-sical education plant, including gymnasium. Most of the allotted money is designated for building a new science building oa the Towson campus. ""We were gratified to get the new science building,"" Dr. Hawkins said, ""but we hope there is some way we can get the remaining money. We definitely need the other buildings, regard-less of what type program we have."" ""We're glad we got nearly $2 million, but we would certainly like to have about $2 million more as requested."" A 'furor has broken out since the Governor's recommenda-tions were announced Sunday on the role of the teachers col-leges in the future of Maryland's system of higher education. The Maryland State Teachers Association immediately criti-cized Governor Tawes for the cut in budget requests from the five state teachers colleges, Mor-gan State College, and the Uni-versity of Maryland. The Governor countered by stating intentions to recommend more funds for buildings if th? General Assembly decides to ex-pand the teachers colleges into liberal arts institutions, or state colleges. To be considered at this ses-sion of the General Assembly is the Curlett Commission's report on the state of higher education in Maryland. The Commission report recommends state college status for the teachers colleges under a new control board. The Teachers Association said in a statement that it was ""sorely disappointed"" that the reques: for Towson State had been cut. ""How can we talk about mak-ing Towson a general State Col-lege when we do not even have a plan for sufficient faclities to prepare prospective teachers who are seeking admittance now?"" the association queried. Governor Tawes answere -1 by saying there are many prob-lems to be ironed out before additional construction at the teachers colleges can be ap-proved. ""For example,"" he said, ""will Towson State need new buildings to make it into a major dormi-tory boarding school or will it be primarily a liberal arts college for Baltimore area students who would live at home?"" He continued, ""We're on safe ground on what we have already appropriated for all the teachers colleges). Those buildings will be needed whether the Curlett Commission plan becomes law or not. ""If it does become law, we can always send down supplemental appropriation bills to the Gener-al Assembly before it ends April 1."" The Governor also sad that liberal arts students a:tending the teachers colleges under the projected expansion program would have to pay their full share of the costs of their educa-tion. Towson State currently has an enrollment of about 1.900 stu-dents, the vast majority of whom commute to classes. A growing 'number of students Talisman Seeking More Short Stories For Contest Entries are running light for Talisman's annual writing con-test which closes January 15, ac-cording to editor Victor Petro-ciao. ""We'd like to have some more short stories,"" the editor said. ""There have been a lot of poems submitted, and some of them are pretty good, but we're running slow on short stories."" Talisman, to be published in the late spring, is offering cash prizes to the top entries in fiction, poetry, and miscellaneous cate-gories, the latter including such writing as non-fiction and plays. Faculty judges for the contest have yet to be named. Writers are asked to submit manuscripts on regular size typ-ing paper, double-spaced. The writer's name should appear only on a title page accompanying the work. Entries can be given either by Petrocino or Dr. John Lewis, the magazine's faculty adviser. enrolled in a liberal arts course of study installed at the college two years ago by the State Board of Educat:on pay tuition compar-able to that of students at the University of Maryland. The liberal arts program leads to a bachelor of arts degree, while those taking teacher edu-cation earn a bachelor of science degree. Those in the teachet education earn a bachelor of science degree. Those in the teacher program commit them-selves to teaching two years in the state's public school system upon graduation. in exchange for state-paid tuition. 'Janus' Comes Here From Morgan State Alpha Psi Omega, the honorary dramatic fraternity, will play host to the Ira Aldridge Players of Morgan State College tomor-row, 8:15 P.M. The group will present ""Janus,"" a modern farce, in Stephens Hall Auditorium. There will be no admission charged and the public is invited. ""Janus"" is the pen name of a famous pair of authors who turn out a best seller annually; a quiet New York teachers and his consort, the respectable wife of a midwest tycoon, who comes to New York every summer osten-sibly to study. For the first time, the husband decides to drop by and see his wife in her metropolitan dig-gings. He arrives just as the teacher is coming through the dumbwaitee with provisions.. . ."" The cast includes Brenda Powell, James Jeffers, Tony Ewell. Sylvia Brooks, and Har-mon Watson. The play is directed by Clifton Lamb and the Associate Director is Dr. Waters Turpin. This will be the first time that the Morgan players have performed on the Towstm stage. The show is part of the cultural exchange started last year by the touring of the spring production. ""The Beaux Strategem."" This spring, the Glen Players are scheduled to tour ""Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"" to Morgan and other colleges as part of the exchange plan. "
