tl19641120-000 "Freshman Class Holds Run -Off Election Marsha Tarbert, SGA V.P. & Election Supervisor Maureen Kelly Resigns Post As Treasurer Maureen Kelly, SGA Trea-surer, has resigned. Miss Kelly had served since her election 1,8t May, when she defeated Aathi Austin, who will succeed her as Treasurer of the SGA, and Steve Ginaitis. In a statement to Tower Light, Miss Kelly gave the following as her reasons for resignation: financial poli-cies are obsolete, and cannot be made to fit the new finan-cial framework imposed by the state; the treasurer has little or no cooperation from �Manivational treasurers; rtianY of whom do not have complete information on the liew policies; the treasurer has too many problems and too little help�there seems to be an attitude extent that the treasurer should stand alone in the midst of finan-cial confusion. b Both President Hawkins and ean Murphy are eager to de- vi se some new policies before (Continued on Page 4) First Results Declared Invalid Because of a protest by fresh-man Harriet Whitney, the re-sults of the freshman class run-off election held last week have been declared invalid and another run-off was scheduled for Wednesday and yesterday. The protest made by Miss Whitney is as follows: ""1) no instructions were given on the ballot as to how the voter indicated a preference and, as I understand it, there was some misunderstanding in the inter-pretation of the markings. ""2) according to the election code, all the votes must be coun-ted by the election committee� this was not done."" Marsha Tarbert, SGA vice- President and elections com-mittee chairman, commented: ""In answer to Miss Whitney's arguements, 1) there is no state-ment made in the election code which provides for ballot in-structions; 2) Miss Whitney did not read far enough in the elec-tion code for Sec. VII, letter f, paragraph 2 (directly following paragraph 1 referred to by Miss Whitney in the second part of her protest, states that 'This shall hold true except in the %. -:*,:a:::.Y."" \ . ... :MM.,"":A V W.."":`:::::.`X:::' V The Towson State College Weekly Vol. XVII, No. 9 Towson, Maryland November 20, 1964 SGA Senate Meets To Discuss Control Of Funds By Office By PAUL VANDERBOSCII TL Senator Foremost among the impor-tant business discussed by the SGA Senate Tuesday aftrenoon was the matter of the Pool Club's Pool Table. The money for the table has been allocated but the Business Office held up action on the request for the table for undisclosed reasons. Thus it appeared to the Lectures on Spiritual Problems To Be Held At Goucher, Towson TWO lectures�one on the Old poestainent and the other on sqltain's ""Angry Young MenWill "" be presented this week. Dr. John V. Chamberlain, associate professor of re- Old Testament I Subject Of , ecture Series ti,����11-1e Psychological Reflec- Z8 on the Old Testament"" be discussed Monday, No-ber 23 at Towson State. 1 is , discussion is of part of Otlir;;"",�n's lecture series on the h' estament. ; 41;1.. Prederick Wood, Chaplain �: assistant professor of re-b: I�11 at Goucher College, is to hti., 110 speaker. The lecture will at rI 6 p.m. and will be held �,allery South of the College ligion at Goucher College. will discuss ""Old Testament Literature: Prophecy"" Mon-day, November 30, at 6 P.M. in Gallery South of the Col-lege Centre. The lecture will include a dis-cussion of the major and minor prophecies, the literary and non-literary aspects, and the shift of apocalypticism. ""Aspects of Britain's 'Angry Young Men' As Seen in Contemporary British Liter-ature and Films"" will be dis-cussed Wednesday, Decem-ber 2, by Sidney James, in-structor in English at Tow-son. Beginning at 6 p.m. in Gallery South of the College Centre, the lecture will include discussions of the more famous ""Angry Young Men""�Alan Sillitoc, Kingsley Anis, and Colin Wil-son. The lecture is a part of the body that the Business Office is regulating the spending privileges of the SGA Sen-ate. This is in direct opposi-tion to the assurance given last May when the new finan-cial policy of the state was enforced that the SGA's spending privileges would not be affected. SGA Presi-dent Masters is to make a report. The body was also informed of the resignation of Mrs. Thelma Brewington, advisor to the SGA, due to health reasons. A list of eight names was approved by the Senate to be submitted to Dr. Hawkins. From the list an advisor and an associate advisor will be selected. National Student Association (NSA) coordinator Brad John-son read a report to the body concerned with future NSA af-fairs. What the valuable NSA program is to include was not stated. Social Chairman Sharon Mulgrew anounced that ""Swinging"" Sammy Kaye will play at the February Sweet-heart Dance. A motion to recommend to the Student Life Council that the Junior Class be allowed to hold its traditional Christmas Dance at an off-campus location carried unanimously. Several budget requests for organizational purposes were approved without discussion. A motion to remove the foreign student request from table failed however. YM-YWCA Lecture-Discussion WRC requested $50 for buses Series on Spiritual Problems in to transport Towson coeds to Contemporary Literature. mixers. This motion carried. case of Freshman Class elec-tions in the Fall at which time the committee counting ballots shall be composed of an equal number of representatives from the Freshman class and the elec-tions committee'."" ""Therefore,"" Miss Tarbert further observed, ""the elections committee found the protest in-valid as stated. The majority of the committee members did, however, recognize certain ir-regularities in the election pro-cedure, and they felt an obliga-tion to re-schedule the run-off election."" In a statement furnished Tow-er Light, Miss Tarbert said: ""Even though it is acknowledged that there were irregularities in the procedure used in count-ing the votes, I disagree with the action taken by the elections committee."" ""The results of the freshman reelection could be a complete reversal of the previous run-off. ""The fact that there were an unequal number of reshman and elections committee members counting the votes, does not in any way altar the accuracy of the vote count. It appears to me that the candidates who won the run-off election are being placed in an unfair position."" Michael Gordon, SGA Parliamentarian�author of New SGA Constitution. TSC Enrollment Sets Record, Is Exceeded Only By Maryland Breaking enrollment records, Towson State College has be-come the largest of Maryland's state colleges, exceeded in en-rollment only by the University of Maryland. As of the close of the re-gistration period October 1, 3,656 students were enrolled in Towson, a record figure. Last year, a total of 2,664 students were enrolled. Ot this total, 2,432 students were enrolled in the day pro-gram. The previous high was 2,102 students, set last fall. Evening College enrollment set another record with 1,085 students registered. The pre-vious high was set last spring when 722 students were enrolled. Off-campus centers have registered an additional 139 students. Total enrollment at Towson for this semester is up 35 per cent over last year's figures. The day program is up 14.8 per cent over last year's enrollment. Evening College, the fast-est growing division of Tow-son State, is up more than 110 per cent over last fall, and more than 50 per cent overl ast spring's enrollment. Total enrollment is up 141 per cent over the past five years. In 1959, the total enrollment was 1515. James Moore, registrar, pre-dicts an enrollment next year of more than 4,000 of which about 3,000 will be day session students. "
