tl19690502-000 "Vol. XXI, No. 25 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE � BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 21204 May 2, 1969 Special Events money bid fails passage in SGA Senate Tuesday by TOM WALKIEWICZ ISGA 'Senate last Tuesday failed to allocate an extra $5000 to the Special Events Committee for pro-grams next year. The Committee, which presently gets $15,000 from the State and $10,000 from the ,SGA had shown need of money for programs which ""are already cut to the bare mini-mum."" Senators speaking P sairxst the pro-posal pointed out that it was not certain how much money the SGA had left to allocate from this year's budget and that the committee hasn't tried hard enough to get financial support from outside busi-ness concerns for its programs."" Although committee member Ron De Abreu explained that it was too late to seek outside funds for the programs, the motion failed to get the two-thirds vote it needed to pass. It will he reconsidered, how-ever, at the next Senate meeting. President-elect Charles Johnson then moved that Senate approve his recommendations for adminis-trative poistions in next year's SGA. Since, under the new consti- TSC students take three awards at MPA meeting Towson State College students won three of five top awards for research papers presented at the annual meeting of the Maryland Psychology Association, April 25 at the University of Maryland, College Park. John Bickley, a senior, placed first with a study of obscene words: ""Recall & Taboo Words: A Func-tion of Meaningfulness, Vividness, Familiarity & Indecency."" His ad-visor is Dr. ,Stuart Miller. In his study, Bickley tested sub-ject's recall of a series of obscene Words, graded to degree of obscen-ity. The research indicated the words with the greater taboo were more readily remembered. Paul E. Emberger, Jr., also ad-vised by Dr. Miller, won honorable mention for a paper entitled: ""The Effect of Intra-List Organization on Retrieval Plans in Paired-Asso-ciation Learning."" Four students, advised by Dr. Betty Raskin, teamed up to win honorable mention for a study of ""Effect of Different Types of Tail Configurations on a Modified H-V Illusion."" The students are Mar-sha Ayers, Patricia Reaney, Steven Van Kirk, and Charles F. White. New President visits campus President-elect Dr. James Fisch-er will be on campus today as well as the rest of the weekend. Today he will meet with members of the administration and faculty as well as hold a press conference at 2:00 P.m. in the Special Dining Room. (His weekend stay will include a tour of the campus and a general Inspection of his new home and Place of work. Dr. Fischer and his Wife, Barbara will enjoy the hos- Pitality of Dr. and Mrs. Hawkins during their stay at the president's home Glen Esk. This will 'be Dr. Fischer's first appearance on the campus since he was named as suc-cessor to Dr. Hawkins. Dr. Fischer will leave his post- Correction Last week's Tower Light front Page picture was miscaptioned. Miss Marguerite Verkrugen was Pictured, not Dr. Corrine Rixe, as printed. TL sincerely regrets the error. Dr. James Fischer tion as vice-president of Illinois State University to assume his po-sition at ITowson, in July. At this time, Glen Esk will be filed by an additional four inhabitants ranging in ages from four to fourteen. This will be the first time that children reside in the presidential home at Towson. tuition, the only offices specified were the top three elected offices, all other positions in the new ad-ministration are created and filled by the new president. Although some of the old SGA posts are simply given new names, there will be some new positions including an integration director-ship, to be named by two students. These people will coordinate stu-dent efforts and SGA funds toward the integration of Towson State. Johnson's recommendations were accepted unanimously by the Sen-ate and he is expected to announce his appointments for these positions at the next Senate meeting on May 13. Johnson also announced that vol-unteers to man the polls for next week's class election can sign up in the SGA office. Class elections held May 5-7 The nominees have filed, the pos-ters are up, and, next week, class elections will be held. From Mon-day, May 5, to Wednesday, May 7, members of the Classes of '70 and '71 will vote for the officers of their respective classes. Voting will only be held for these two classes, as this year's Fresh-men have already elected officers for next year. The polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and voting will be done on paper 'ballots instead of machines. Charles Johnson, 'SGA Vice Pres-ident and chairman of the Elec-tions Committee, stressed the fact that only people with ID cards will be allowed to vote. 1����� Bibble, baubble, bubble Jurgen Bohl plays a whimsical adventurer who winds up a senti-mental statue in the Glen Players ""Christopher Columbus."" The show 9 double-bilis with another Ghelde- . rode Play, ""Blind Men."" Montanaro directs Players in 'Blind Men', 'Christopher Columbus' ' Two plays directed by Towson State artist-in-avsidence Tony Mon-tanaro will be presented consecu-tively, May 3-10, 8:15 p.m. by the Glen Players in the College's Stu-dio Theatre. 'The plays, 'Michel de Ghelde-rode's The Blind Men and Christo-pher Columbus, ,employ both act-ing and mime, a media in which Montanaro is a noted performer. He appeared on campus in the pro-duction of ""Silent Images: An Ev-ening of 'Mime."" Playwright Ghelderode, in This Note to the Director, describes Christopher Columbus as, ""Dances, lights, music, some acrobatics, pathos, absurdity, tragedy, a mes-sage for those who like them. This play is spectacle land enchantment and plays swiftly without pause in the pespective of dream."" Jurgen Bohl, a native of Ger-many now residing here, iscast as Christopher Columbus. He recently appeared as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. Len Harman, stage manager, de-signed both the lighting and the set. The costumes for the produc-tions were designed by Mrs. Geor-gia Baker of the Towson Theatre faculty, Lure Haynie is the assist-ant to Harman. In the cast of The Blind Men are: Mac Lang, Mike Littman, Larry Smith, and Bob White. The cast of Christopher Columbus con-sists of : Christopher Columbus, Jurgen Bohl; The Players�Jerry Whiddon, Tom Kurtz, Dwight Schultz, Howard Rollins, Mara-vene ,Sheppard; The Mimes�Jim Secor, Charlene Chapnick, Gail Burgen, Ann McDonough, Ginny Worsham, Jo Matkins, Sheila Ke-hoe, and Lani Morrison. For ticket information and res-ervations, see the Box Office in Temp 1A. Companies bid for College Union contract The new College Union, to be lo-cated parallel to the senior parking lot across from Smith Hall is pres-ently being advertised for 'bids. Five companies have already re-quested specifications. Dallas Gar-ber, Director of the Student Union, estimates the cost of the building to be $5 million, or $25 to $30 per square foot. According to Garber, the College Union will be entirely self-support-ing. The college will pay only for the initial building, grounds, and insurance. Some of the highlights of the building include shower facilities for commuters, a barber shop, a 'browsing library, 8 bowling alleys, and 16 ping-pong and billard ta-bles. Also included is a branch of a local bank, various lounges, and a Food Service Department which will provide catering throughout the building. A sculpture garden will provide a natural transition from the fine arts building to the various stu-dent and staff offices, and conduits will be installed for closed-circuit. TV originating anywhere on the campus. An intercommunications system will also be installed, which will broadcast events in one room to any other or will pipe music to any of the rooms. Since we are entering the astro-logical Age of Aquarious, Garber and several students are working on an original ground breaking ceremony, trying to incorporate in-to the ceremony the ideas of love, peace and brotherhood. At 2:30 p.m. on May 15 the bids will be opened at the Department of public improvement, and the con-tract will be awarded 30 days from that date. The building will be un-der construction between 18 and 24 months. "
