tl19670310-000 "St. Patrick's Day Dance March 17 S.G.A. Election Schedule Page 6 Vol. XIX, No. 18 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND March 10, 1967 Slave Sale, &Ball Highlight WUS Week The week of March 13 to 18 has been designated as W.U.S. Week this year at Towson. As has been previously explained in last week's open letter for the Frosh Dance Views Wearin' Of The Green All Irish eyes will be shinin' March 17, especially at the Bal-timore Civic Center's Howard Room Extended where the Freshman Class will sponsor the St. Patrick's Day Dance. The dance will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music will be provided by Lawrence and the Arabians in the Howard Room the entrance to which is Gate W-8. Tickets for couples will be sold during the week of March 13-17 on a limited number per hour basis. A specified number Will be sold each hour to insure that everyone will have an equal chance to obtain a ticket. Guest tickets will be $2.00. Dress will be semi-formal. (Green tie is optional.) In a story last week on exam cheating, it was writ-ten that thefts had been corn- /flitted by a member of the Janitorial staff. The person responsible was a member of the school staff but not a inember of the janitorial Staff. The Tower Light regrets this error. SGA, W.U.S. Week is a week set aside for the purpose of raising funds to send to the World University Service. This money would help finance the programs that W.U.S. sponsors in over 30 countries around the world. The activities for W.U.S. Week will begin Monday evening, March 13, at 7:00 in the Main Lounge of the Student Centre when the co-eds of Towson sell such ser-vices as back-scratches, shoe shines, car washes and other original' services at the Chin-ese Auction. The Faculty will make their contributions to W.U.S. Week when Dr. Hartley takes the stand as auctioneer for the faculty auction Tuesday, March 14, at 3:00 in the Patio Lounge of the Student Centre. The faculty has a knack for corn-ing up with unusual and in-teresting items to be sold at this event, such as a rare photograph of a member of the administration, or a pair of paint-splattered blue jeans from a member of the Art Department. Wednesday night, the students face the faculty in the annual Student-Faculty Basketball Game at 8:30 in the Gym. This year the Faculty team will in-clude such all-time greats as Dean LeMire, Mr. Grossman, Mr. Chen, Mr. Mahoney, Mr. Slowinski, Coach Szlasa, and Mr. Pugh. To carry the ball for the student body, the W.U.S. Committee has enlisted the aid of Alan Diem, Dick Stienke, Dean Terry, and Fred Shakelles. This is never a conventional (Continued on Page 6) Admissions Applications Below Expected Number By HENRY PITTS %Maryland colleges report that e admissions applications for _Iltember, 1967 are slightly be-iv the expected number. At ,ti()Wson the freshmen applica i - ' �'Is are below the expected tt, i'cher but transfer applicants te above expectations. The Admissions Office ex-tl(* LS to have 1350 freshmen 'Ild 650 transfer students :11.er in September of 1967. :}le Admissions Office must tept, approximately 30% to Z% more students than the d.441ired number of enterants .ttil to the fact that many 4"".4dents do not come to Tow- 44 after acceptance. Mr. Slowinski, the Director of Admissions, reports that as of February 15 there have been a total of 2191 applicants. Of these, 1856 are freshmen and the remaining 335 are transfer students. He goes on to say that on the same date last year, there was a total of 2147 appli-cants, 1924 being freshmen and 223 transfer applicants. To date, there have been 1000 fresh-men accepted of which approx-imately 700 to 750 will enter in September. With still another month in which applications are expected, it seems unlikely that there will not be enough applicants. (Continued an Page 8) YO:VW. (left to right) WFBR's Lou Corbin, Mr. T. Karwaki, The Honorable Mr. Tran Van Dinh. Dr. D. Firman, Alan Diem, Dr. S. Gottlieb, and Dr. Wm. Neumann convene for the showing of U.S. Go�ernment film, ..Wh? Vietnam'"", during Monday's Teach-In on Towson's campus. �Moralty Does Count'-Tran By FRAN MOULDEN ""Twenty Year's War,"" a dramatic Teach-In on Viet-nam was presented to some 400 people in the George L. Smith Science Ltcture Hall on Monday, March 6. The Teach-In, sponsored by the International Relations Club, was the result of planning begun in January, according to I.R.C. President Raymond Wacks. Towson's Student Government' Asso-ciation, the American Friends Service Committee and the Inter-faith Peace Mission lent support to the program. Dedicated to the late scholar and correspondent Bernard Fall, the Teach-In began at 7:00 p.m. before a standing-room-only crowd. Special closed circuit television enabled more to view Myers Assumes Post As Bowie State President The Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Colleges will approve the appointment of Dr. Samuel Lloyd Myers as the fourth President of Bowie State College at its meeting today on the campus of the College. Dr. Myers is a 47-year old United States Department of State official. His current position is that of Advisor, Regional Integration and Trade, Bureau of Inter- American Affairs, United States Department of State. Prior to this assignment. he served as Professor and Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences of Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1950 to 1963. The President-Elect is a graduate of Morgan State College (AB-1940). In 1942, he received the MA from Boston University, and in 1949, the Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Additionally, he has taken post-doctoral work as a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, and the Foreign Service Institute. Washington, D.C. Dr. Myers served in the United States Army from 1942-1946 and was distinguished with the rank of Captain. Following the war, he served as a Research Assistant at Harvard University and as an Economist with the United States Department of Labor. The Myers' appointment culmi-nates a lengthy search which was conducted by a Board Com-mittee, the Chairman of which was Robert B.Watts , a Munici-pal Court Judge in Baltimore City. More than twenty-five candidates have been considered and Dr. Myers is the unanimous (Continued on Page 6) the program from elsewhere in the building. Religious, faculty, and stu-dents in addition to many outside visitors attended the background session, discussions, and the open forum which constituted the program. Even while the opening De-partment of Defense film, ""Why Vietnam?"" was being shown, several members of the Student Mobilization Committee were distributing literature to those entering. The Committee is an organization of the anti-war groups. S.G.A. president Alan Diem stated the goals cif the Teach-In through its definition as an at-tempt by the academic com-munity to use available facilities to review a topic of common interest. Diem stressed the flexibility of proceedings and in-troduced the film. Following the showing. a geo-graphical background stressing the significant contrasting vari-ables in North and South Viet-nam was presented by Dr. David Firman of Towson's Geography Department. The earlier history of Viet-nam was reviewed by Mr. Thomas Karwaki of the History Department. Mr. Karwaki, a specialist in Asian history, traced the development of Viet-nam through the Indo-china Federation and Pottsdam Con-vention to the recognition of South Vietnam by non-Commu-nist nations. Former Ambassador of South Vietnam, the Honorable Mr. (Continued on Page 8) "
