tl19620309-000 "� Editorial No Quorum; Excused Absences? Towson's Senate has been experiencing extreme diffi-culty in keeping a quorum during its meetings. Although a sufficient number of Senators are present to open the meet-ing, this number diminishes steadily, until the body is forced to dismiss because of a lack of quorum. In the present Student Government Association Con-stitution, Article II, the Legislative Department, Section 2, Membership,, reads: 1. Student Senate Representatives are ex-pected to attend all meetings of the Student Senate. Members will be allowed two un-excused absences per semester from Stu-dent Senate Meetings . . . 2. Representatives who miss more than two unexcused meetings are automatically dis-missed from the Senate . . . The organiza-tion they represent will be notified and if a new representative is not elected within a month after notification, the organization will lose its representation for the rest of the year. 3. If a representative finds he can not fulfill these requirements, it is his duty to re-sign . This section of the Constitution was written to elimi-nate the possibility of not having a quorum at meetings. Yet, a technicality seems to have arisen. This concerns the definition of ""absence."" Senate is presently operating under a policy that if a Senator is present during the roll call, or when the attend-ance sheet is passed around, he is counted present for the E'ntire meeting. Of course this means that Senators may leave any time after their presence has been noted without any danger of accumulating ""unexcused absences."" Tower Light feels that this present policy is unfair to the Senate. Under this policy there is no way to assure Senate of a quorum at any meeting, once roll has been taken. We feel that Senators should be penalized in some way ter leaving a meeting before it is adjourned. Of course, a more basic problem for the Senate should he the present S.G.A. Constitution, or more correctly, the v.alidity of the constitution under which this organization Presently operating. Under Article V, Review, Section 2, it is stated that: A complete evaluation of this Constitution and the constitutions of the various student undertakings, clubs, groups and organizations shall occur every three years. At this time the Constitution shall be revised. The constitution under which the S.G.A. is presently nDerating is dated ""SEP. 1958."" This means that we are coMpleting our fourth year under a constitution which should have been revised at the end of three years. Other organizations were threatened with the loss of !heir budget if they did not present a revised constitution cit the end of each two years. However, who is to penalize the S.G.A. for not following this procedure? Or, can this tn'ganization operate under a ""do as I say, not as I do"" Doi icy? , Tower Light feels that the S.G.A. should stop complain-ing about the inadequacies of the constitution under which they are presently operating and present the Senate with a 4,evised Constitution. After all, if members of the S.G.A. `lad time to write an Integrity Code and draft plans for a '1ndicial Board, they should certainly be able to find time , `t� revise their Constitution, a task we feel more important Flan the latter. 4 PRESS I ness Manager Editor .... '.stiutnge mgr The TOWER s'lehers College at Towson, Maryland. Printed by The COUNTY Paper, Towson, Maryland. TOWER LIGHT Editor-In-Chief Fawn Wilson Managing Editor Lowell E Sunderland Faculty Advisor Vernon Wanty Donna Walker Art Department Sue Berman Mary Hughes Sports Editor Lou Winkleman Irene Orantas Photographer ... Dave Helm LIGHT, is the official student publication of State Vol. XIV, No. 19 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland LIGHT1 March 9, TOWER 'The Beaux Stratagem' Encircles Glen Players; Slated For 15, 16, 17 Ranking System For TC Faculty Begins Sept. '62 A professorial ranking system will go into effect next September in all of the State Teachers Colleges in 1VIaryland, Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, president of Towson, stated recently. l'he State Board of Educa-tion, which is the Board of Trustees for all of the Maryland STC's, reconunended that such a system be instituted to facilitate the granting of salary increases. It was telt that the salaries of the colleges involved are not as high as they ought to be, Dr. Hawkins commented. The reason for this is that the Budget Bureau has a hard time comparing the salaries of the STC's faculty with those of the University of Maryland's be-cause of the lack of a ranking system, the president explained. Therefore in May, 1960, the State Board voted that the faculty of the Teachers Colleges be transfered to a faculty ranking system. The scale used is the same as that of the University of Maryland. There are four ranks: In-structor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Pro-fessor. Two criteria were used to trans-fer the faculty of Towson to the various ranks: the degree held and the number of years teaching experience. The transfer to a ranking system meant a considerable salary in-crease for some faculty, while for others it meant little difference, but every faculty member will receive a salary increase over his present one. Promotions will involve con-sideration in five areas: degree held, years of teaching exper-ience, quality of teaching, pro-fessorial growth, and service to the college and the com-munity. There will be a faculty com-mittee which will make recommen-dations to the president on the basis of the five areas of consideration. In all colleges the president makes the final appointments, explained Dr. Hawkins Residence Applications Students interested in living in residence this semester may still apply. Applications are available from Miss Starr in the Newell Hall business office. The cast and crew of The Glen Players production of ""The Beaux Stratagem"" are going around in circles. Dr. C. Richard Gillespie, director, explained that the group has ""adapted for our audience, staging and costumes the acting style, sets, and dance from the period in which the play was written."" The play, written by George Farquar during the 17th century, will be presented on March 15, 16, and 17 at 8:15 p.m. in Stephens Hall Auditorium. The actors move in a series of curves and circles, using a smooth, flowing walk to keep with the flowing action of the play itself. The scenery, designed by junior art major Robert M. Keane, is an adaptation of the wing and drop sets of the period. ""I first did research into the architecture and style of the period and abstracted my set from that,"" Mr. Keane ex-plained. Drop and wing sets consisted of a series of fiats placed parallel to the audience with a drop at the back of the stage. The wings slid in slots in the floor and permitted quick scene changes. Four problems faced Mr. Keane in designing this set, Dr. Gillespie explained. There had to be several sets, change had to be done rapidly, the play is going to be toured, and the set had to catch the ""fun and spirit of the play itself."" Mr. Keane's adaptation con-sists of a group of three flats joined in a triangle. The triangles will be rotate, with a different side facing the au-dience for the various scenes. The costumes, also following the flowing lines of the play, were designed by Bonnie Waters, also a junior art major. The costuming is based on the early Georgian period, although the play was written earlier. The Queen Anne period, the true costume period for this play, was a transition period in costuming. ""We felt the Georgian period WS more fun than the re-storation period in costuming,"" Dr. Gillespie smiled. Because most of the men's costumes were too difficult to con-struct, most of these are being rented. All of the women's costumes and a few of the men's are being made. The dance at the end of the play is based on English country dances of the period but they have been ""jazzed up"" to appeal to the modern audience, the director concluded. Ex-Governor McKeldin To Speak March 14 Theodore R. McKeldin, former Governor of Maryland from 1950 to 1958, will be. the guest speaker of the International Relations Club Wednesday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. Opinion Contest; $2050 In Awards Scholarship awards totalling $2050 are at stake this month in a ""Silver Opinion Competition"" being spon-sored by Reed & Barton, America's oldest major silversmith. Towson is one of a few colleges and universities selected to take part in the contest. First grand award in the com-petition is a $500 cash scholarship: second grand award is a $300 schol-arship; third grand award is a S250 (Continued on Page 2) Re-registration Of Cars The Business Office stated to-day that all faculty, staff, and students must re-register their cars within 48 hours after they place their new license plates on their cars. His topic, ""United States � New Directions in Foreign Policy-"", will be one of the eight discussions in the ""Great Decisions, 1962"" program. Mr. McKeldin will consider the following questions: Has the Kennedy Adminis-tration launched any new dir-ections in U.S. foreign policy? If so, what are they and what are the principal arguments pro and con? What are US. global aims? What directions are we follow-ing in trade and aid? What are the prospects for disarmament? Fact sheets on each discussion are available on reserve in the library. 'Beaux Stratagem' Tickets All students must exchange student activity numbers for tickets for ""The Beaux Strat-agem."" No one, student of other-wise, will be admitted without a ticket. Tickets are $1 for non- ;tudents and free for students. "
