tl19641015-000 "H The Towson State College Weekly Towson, Maryland OLLIER Vol. XVII, NO. 4 ISHT October 15, 1964 East Consensus Sees Leader Con f. As Beneficial Many tangible suggestions Were received through the work- Shop efforts of the leadership conference last weekend at the Bel Air Fresh Air Camp.And fresh air indeed the leaders had as the night-time temperature O n Friday night dipped very low. No casualties have thus far been reported however. The morning sessions attemp-ted to get at the question of What comprises a prestige col-lege Some opinions on the ef-fectiveness of this effort ranged from very good to very bad. It was felt by many that the afternoon session did not adhere to the theme of ""Towson State College 1'restige."" However, a full evaluation of the conference all Fire Damage At $35,000 THE ABOVE PICTURE and the one below are informal shots of the Leadership Conference of last weekend, taken by Tim Buttner, TL Managing Editor. As stated in the accompanying article, the evaluation report is due to be made sometime within the next two weeks. A general consensus indicates that the conference was very beneficial to all concerned. iS still in the discussion stages u nder the direction of co-chair- Timothy Buttner and Paul :an derbosch. Their report will ""e forthcoming in about two !eeks. Included will be recom-endations as to future actions. In other areas, tentative eval- 1:ation seems to indicate the 40110wi ng: Publicity was effective in all 41,ea5 except in picture coverage. t nia can be attributed to various 'actors. l'he food, entertainment, cor- re 1a and physical ar-ts, 4,4gements committee performed air tasks very well. Only slight mt ifficulty was involved in getting � the camp by a few persons. It was noted by many that the ilest, speaker, Edmund S. De-thong contributed very little to b:e theme. However, the faculty -th""Uel was regarded as one of heee high points of the confer- t . Jam Session With Tempests The junior class is sponsoring a jam session tomorrow evening in the gym from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. for the entire student body featuring Bill Wagners band, The Tempests. A 21/2 year old band, The Tem-pests approximate the rhythm and blues style of James Brown. The group has played in the greater Towson area, at the Uni-versity of Gettsburg. Mt. St. Mary's, Loyola, and other Mary-land and Pennsylvania Colleges. Chairing the affair are Anne Whiteford and Paul Peloquin. Dance committee members in-clude Betsy Snyder, Lynn De-belius, Bonnie Schneider, Har-riet Douthirt, Marge Duffy, Kathi Austin, and Ralph Peters. Storage Dorms Gutted; Two Other Alarms Sounded Towson made television and newspaper headlines last week, as fire damaged a room in New-ell Hall, and East Hall, an ancient structure close to West and Ward Hall, was burned out Sunday evening. East Hall, a former dormitory converted to a storage building in recent years, was swept by flames Sunday. The fire des-troyed the complete interior of the Hall. Wilbur Wolf, the groundskeeper residing in the building, escaped uninjured. Wolf sounded the alarm about 5:45 p.m. as he awoke to the smell of smoke. The fire burned out of control for about forty minutes, as six pieces of equip-ment and 35 men answered the call to the Towson Fire Depart- Mock Election Campaign Gains Momentum;TydingsHereThurs Joseph D. Tydings, the De-mocratic nominee for the Mary-land United States Senate seat, will speak_ on campus next Thursday afternoon, October 22, at 3 p.m. in the College Centre. Tydings has been invited by the Young Democrats Club here at Towson as well as the Young Citizens for Johnson, made up of both Democrats and Republicans. The talk will be presented on behalf of Presi-dent Johnson and is to be billed as a political speech. The talk has been arranged in connection with the ""mock"" elec-tions to be conducted by Tower Light on October 26 and 27. Republicans from the Young Re-pubicans Club have assured this writer that a prominent speaker from the G.O.P., either Senator J. Glenn Beall or his son, will like wise speak to the students in the next week or so in order to create an interest in the elections. One of the main problems that the elections' committee is con-cerned with is the interest that Towsonites will display in the election. For this reason talks have been planned to acquaint all with the issues and the can-didates. It is hoped that all stu-dents will take an active part in the elections to curb the call of ""apathy, apathy."" JOSEPH D. TIDINGS Homecoming Homecoming elections were erroneously listed last week in TL as being this past Tuesday and Wednesday. However, they were to be held yesterday and today. Therefore, results will not be published until next Firady's issue of TL. Josh White has been contrac-ted for the Homecoming Week-end concert on November 8, a Sunday. As yet, no group has been engaged for the November 7 dance. ment. One firefighter was slight-ly injured. Damages in the building, which contained matresses, are esti-mated at $30-35,000 dollars, said Karl J. Moser, college Business Manager. Fire marshals, Moser indicated, were to check the building Tuesday for evidences of the fire's cause. Last Thursday, there was a small blaze in Newell Hall, as a still-lit cigarette was thrown into a waste basket. The basket, situated under a window seat, began to burn, and the window seat caught fire. Three trucks from the Towson Fire Depart-ment responded to an alarm, but the fire had been extinguished by Pam Duncan and Anne Whiteford before they arrived. Moser noted that students might be a bit more careful about dis-posing their cigarettes. It is worthy of note that a false alarm on October 5 was responded to in five minutes, while it took twenty minutes for trucks to reach Newell Hall on the 8th. SGA Senate Receives New Constitution On Tuesday afternoon, the Sturent Senate received a new constitution, drafted by Parlia-mentarian Michael Gordon, for their consideration to be voted upon by the entire student body within the next month at a Constitutional convention. The new document seeks to clarify many of the duplications and confused sections in the old constitution. It is somewhat shorter than the old one and appears to be a well-drafted article. A financial committee report by Richard Moss and a Leader- ;hip Conference report by Mary Joy Kreller were other items brought before the Senate on Tuesday. A resolution presented by Al Henneman was passed as fol-lows: ""I move that the Senate suggest to the administration that once every month during morning class time one hour be alotted for the purpose of general student assemblies (class meetings, etc.)."" "