tl19670322-000 "The beginning of Spring is marked by the vernal equinox, which occurred yesterday at 12:37 p.m. (EST). At that time, the Sun crossed the equator making night and day of equal length. Yeah, Sun!!! Bill Yakaitis Heads Orientation Staff by LARRY HORWITZ The new officers of the Student Orientation Committee were elected last week and have been announced. The new officers who will serve under remaining President Bill Yakaitis are: First Vice-President, Dwight Dingle, Second Vice-President, Examination Scheduling Re-adjusted By LINDA COLEBANK Rumors have been confirmed by the Registrar's office con-cerning the extension of the exam period for this semester. The final examinations will be spread over nine days of a two- Week span. Reading day will be May 15, a Monday. Exams will begin on the 16th and con-tinue until Friday, the 26th. This date was the original time for the completion of exams. The extra week will be taken from the regular instruction period; therefore, the last day of class for the Spring semester will be Thursday, May 11. May 12 will be final registration in the gym for the next semes-ter. The nine-day exam schedule Is an attempt to eliminate the conflicts that arose in the old ai(-day schedule. There were tudents with three or four exams on one day, or even two at the same time. Because of t4ultiple sections of history, riglish, physical education and cither large required courses, 12 ()f the 30 possible exam periods had to be specially set aside, ��Phich left only 18 for all other course offerings in the school. Under the new plan, these ril�oblems should be alleviated, tM nce there will be six days with possible exam periods and th ree days with four possible )(4111 periods. Sally Eagle, Recording Secre-tary, Sindena Bollias, Corre-sponding Secretary, Louis Cam-meron, Treasurer, Ginny Geor-gulas, S.G.A. Senator, Sue Mattingly and Historian, Bar-bara Watz. Culminating a series of teas, meetings, nomination sessions and election meet-ings last Thursday's election meeting also accomplished other important things. Com-mittees were set up to hand-le such functions of S.O.C. as the Picnic, Smoker, Tea,, Moving-In Day, and Spot-light '67. All these programs,"" said President Bill Yakaitis, ""are de-signed to help the freshman feel that he's part of the college situation as well as an indi-vidual."" One of the problems that this highly selective, well organized organization has met is the difficulty of gearing the program to 'clay-hop' as well as to resident students. ""We hope to more and more include the day-hops in our activities this year,"" said Yakaitis. Spring 1/414 Sprung! ""These flowery waters and these watery flowers � From snow that melted only yester-day."" � Robert Frost. It's that time of year when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of . . . composing sweet, endearing lines (see Let-ters to the Editor, Page 2) . . . outdoor activity (see Sports, Page 5) . . . money (see ads, Pages 6 & 8) . . . love (see Shakespeare's Sonnets, Library). It's that time of year that prompted Geoffrey Chaucer to remark ""When that Aprill with his shovers soote-The droghte of March hath perced to the root,e . . ."" And again, Emily Dickinson observed that ""These are the days when birds come back,�A very few, a bird or two, taking a backward look."" More practically, classes close for the Spring Vacation period tomorrow after the final class. School will re-convene on Monday, April 3. The Albert S. Cook Library has posted its hours for the va-cation period. The Library will be closed on Friday, March 24, through Easter Monday, March 27. It will re-open on Easter Tuesday and will be open 8:30- 5 p.m. through Friday, March 31. The Library will be closed on Saturday, April 1, and open on Sunday, April 2 from 2-6 p.m. Normal Library hours will be resumed on Monday, April 3. Sports-wise, the Towson nine will open their Spring Baseball schedule against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Tow-son's field on April 1. April 1 also marks the dead-line for applications for finan-cial aid for the Summer and Fall semester. Dean Francis LeMire, Assistant Dean of Stu-dents, has these applications available in the Business Office and Office of the Dean of Stu-dents. The second eight weeks of the semester officially begins on April 3, and terminates Thurs-day, May 11. Vacationers may also look forward to Registra-tion on Friday, May 12, and beginning of exams on May 16. As we celebrate today the First Anniversary (1 day) of Spring, we cannot help but be moo Vol. XIX, No. 19 reminded of ""March 14"", a poem written by Dave Ettlin of the Tower Light staff: I pick out from the soggy fields an earthworm smell which sings to me in death its heralding of spring. I see upon that branch which yields fresh buds a touch of green, and see in that another song of spring. I sing to dying earthworms, to the buds upon maternal trees the lines I know annually of birth and death, to grow and mellow, die and be reborn in loves which reaching from the drenched, just-thawed wormfields, that giving raindrops spermlike to my face and thundering the pains at birth in spring cry out ""I am spring, I am Love."" The Health Center wishes to clarify that Spring Fever is not caused by a virus. What more can we say? TOWSON STATE COLLEGE March 22, 1967 Fall Registration Anticipated The office of the Registrar has released the schedule for next Fall's registration and proce-dure. The last day of the first eight weeks of this semester is after the last class on Thursday, March 23. For Evening school students the last day will be the last evening class on Thursday, Nominees Vie For Posts As Elections Approach Nominations for the April 10- 14 Student Government Associa-tion elections have been submit-ted to the S.G.A. Nominees are as follows: For President of the S.G.A.� Robert Cullison, Michael Ratliff, Christian Wilson. For Vice- President�Carl Herbert, Char-les Reed, Charles Singman. For Treasurer�Jess Barkley, Vir-ginia Georgulas, James Kolb. For Corresponding Secretary �Beverly Barlett, Janice Erd-brink, Retta Vieser. For Re-cording Secretary�Doreen Hat-off, Roberta Polsky, Helen Pryor. For Social Chairman� Beverly Berlett, Patricia Rohde, Anne Weber. For Member-At-Large (three) �Lone Tidemand, Jim Saxon, Bill Trimmer, Sue Markel, Win-nie Joyce, Steve Geisz, Dwight Dingle, Linda Connolly, Rick Brown. For N.S.A. Co-Ordina-tor� Pat Cox, Jay Morgan, Ray Wacks. For Parliamentarian� Susan Miskelly, Bruce Stevens, Tom Maguire. Petitions for these nomi-nees are due in the S.G.A. Office by 5:00 p.m., March 23. At this time, a meeting of all S.G.A. candidates will be held. In conjunction with the up-coming elections, the Publicity Committee has released the fol-lowing data. Requisitions for space should be filled out in triplicate in ad-vance of the filing date. Pub-licity filing times are Wednes-day, March 22, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and Thursday, March 23 from 12:30 to 1:30 and 3 and 4 p.m. All requisitions re-quire the signature of the S.G.A. Publicity Chairman, Paula Her-minau. (Continued on Page 6) March 23, 1967. The second eight week period will begin on April 3, 1967. All students see their advisors on the following dates. It is important that these dates are observed in order to facilitate the counseling process for both the advisor and other students. Advisor schedule: April 24, 1967 April 25, 1967 April 26, 1967 April 27, 1967 April 28, 1967 May 1, 1967 May 2, 1967 May 3, 1967 HART-KUTZ KUAA-MUNR MUNS-ROST ROSU-TELL TELM-ZZZZ AAAA-CADE CADF-EFFE EGGF-HARS All students should return their registration materials as soon as they have completed see-ing their advisors. Registration wil not be accepted after May 4, 1967. On Friday, May 12, final re-gistration will be held in the gym. All students will register except those with failures or low academic records. This will be final registration for the semester beginning September, 1967. Incoming freshmen will register during the summer. For the next semester, Sep-tember 11-13 will be used for registration for students who have to change schedules be-cause of failures or low academ-ic records. Late transfer stu-dents will also be registered at this time. Classes will begin September 14, 1967. September 15-19, schedule changes Win be accepted with the $5 drop and add fee. October 11 will be the last day to drop without penalty. On Other Pages Full picture page coverage of Sports Day Page 5 Resume of registration statistics Page 8 Burkleigh citizens protest TSC parking Page 2 Fall semester catalogs available Page ti ""Guys & Dolls"" review Page 3 Cartoon Page 2 Committee of Responsibility Page 3 "