tl19681011-000 "3rd annual marathon game slated Nov. 22-25 page 8 Vol. XXI, No. 4 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE BALTIMORE. MARYLAND 21204 October 11, 1968 Salary situation reaches 'peril point' -4 rally remembered Courtesy Tower Echoes.' On April 3, 1968 some 500 stu-dents met on Stephens lawn to rally in support of quality educa-tion in the state of Maryland. Af-ter the rally a group of students established a federation of colleges to open a communication channel to the State House. This year has seen little from the efforts. Agnew delivers address tonight in Burdick Hall . Publican vice-presidential nomee - Maryland Governor Spiro T. new win deliver a campaign 1'ess from TSC's Burdick Hall Eleginning at 7:00 this ""Home-e�"" ling"" will be the Governor's first -INSIDE Letters lrilundercolt _------ Pg. warren Moore Pg. Sports herriRan niifran Drive Pg. Action Week aulletin Board Pg. pg. Pg. pg. pg. 2 national address from his home soil. ""An outstanding evening of en-tertainment has been planned to welcome Governor Agnew,"" stated Chick Lang, chairman of the Agnew Homecoming Commi ttee. Preceeding Agnew's speech, local disc jockey Mike March will M.C. a show including the Sweet Ad-elines (a barbershop quartet), the 'TISC Jazz Band, and Zim Zim- 3 merall and the Dixie Land Six. All but about 400 of Burdick's 5 3,800 seats will be opened to the 4 general public, which, of course, includes students. Very rigid se- 8 curity measures will be in effect with the Secret Service, state and 6 county police supplementing the usual campus force. The 10 college mixer jam session 6 originally scheduled for Burdick Hall the same time will be can-celled. 8 by FRAN MOULDEN ""The salary situation at this place has reached the peril point."" Adequately summing up the mount- , ing concern over faculty salaries, Dr. John C. Matthews observes this is ""the big question"" he and some three hundred faculty mem-bers face within the next two months. The History Department's Dr. Matthews is President of the 100- member Towson local of the Amer-ican Federation of Teachers; AFL-CIO. His group, traditionally more militant than either the Faculty Association or the American As-sociation of University Professors on campus, was formed last Spring. It was then that on- and off-cam-pus interest was raised over the salary issue. Increase, Proposed On Monday, April 1, 1968, the Board of Trustees of the Mary-land State Colleges met in Salis-bury, and among items on their agenda was a proposed increase in faculty salary scales. A motion to afld one step to each rank on the then current scale was unani- New initiation sought mously passed by the Board. The step-up became effective July 1, 1968, but had little significance monitarily to the faculty here. The change meant an increase of $600 yearly per proffesor and $300 per instructor. After deductions, these totals reflected little gain. 500 Students Rally Two days later on the TSC cam-pus, acting upon impetus provided by resolutions of the Faculty As-sociation and SGA Senate, some 500 students staged a three hour rally in front of Stephens Hall to\ draw attention to the salary crisis. Following the rally, student con-cern apparently dwindled and lit-tle follow-up on the salary issue was done. In May, 1968, the Towson local of the AFT was organized. A charter petition, sent to the Na-tional office, reportedly ""bore more signatures than any other college petitions in history."" This fall, a ten-person executive committee directs AFT actions, de-riving power from their local affilia-tion rather than from the national organization as does the AAUP chapter at Towson. Strongly autonomous, the AFT is a labor union which regards the college professor as ""an employed professional,"" according to one AFT journal. The budget for fiscal year 1970, (which will be initiated in July, 1969), holds top priority for the lo-cal. Currently, the focus is on the actions of a joint AFT-AAUP-Fac-ulty Association Committee. Chair-ed by Dr. Arthur Madden, the com-mittee is gathering figures and sta-tistics pointing up the need for a significant salary increase to send to the Budget Bureau, the Mary-land Legislature, the Governor, and to other interested citizens. The Committee, furthermore, hopes to meet with Melvin Cole, the Gov-ernor's assistant for educational matters, and with Edmund Mes-ter, Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Commenting on the budget sit-uation, Dr. Matthews observes that ""the Board of Trustees has passed a satisfactory budget which will preserve the college."" The Board ordered the Administration to bud- (Continued on page 8) Farlow discontinues Spook Week by KATHERINE M. STACK At a special meeting called by Miss Mary Lee Farlow, Directc+ of Residence, the forty-year old tradition of Spook Week was per-manently ended. On October 1, members of the Residence staff gathered to discuss the activities of the recent Spook Week, Septem-ber 26-28. ,Spook Week has the tradition of being the sole initiation rite for Freshmen in residence living. In-cluded among its annual events are a ""fashion"" show, assignments from upperclass spookmasters, and ""tunnel,"" the closing program of each Spook Week. Negative Opinions Expressed In general, the opinions express-ed at the meeting were of a nega-tive nature. It was felt by my mem-bers of the staff that the events of the week were not ""spooking"" and that the activities in their present form must be culminated. It seem-ed to some that the ""spookmasters"" had been carried away with ""get-ting revenge."" In order to become a ""spookmaster,"" a student must have gone through spooking him-self. Miss Farlow noted that there were many injuries which should not have occurred. Reports came in of sixteen accidents, two of which nearly resulted in blindness. A questionnaire was distributed among students investigating their reactions to Spook Week. The re-sult of this survey showed students are in favor of retaining Spook Week but feel that great revision End of the first golden era is necessary. Miss Farlow car-ried this decision one step further by cancelling Spook Week alto-gether. The idea that some sort of social orientation for new students should be retained was supported by the majority of the students at the meeting. Possibilities of getting ideas from other colleges were dis-cussed. Ideas concerning activities that could be arranged before class-es started in the fall were also re-viewed, �pboto by Quante Carol Connelley decorates one of the last spooks in TteSrCmi'snahtied ofstory. The initiation was of October 1. The meeting was drawn to a close with Miss Farlow's final statement concerning Spook Week, which stated that Spook Week in its present form was not to be con-tinued. In addition she suggested that if the men's and women's Residence Councils felt that some type of orientation was necessaPy-, they had until January 1, 1969 to ""formulate a constructive orien-tation program which is neither demanding nor injurious to the participants."" "
