tl19610922-000 "The Jolson Story 7 p.m. Sept. 22 S. H. Aud. %L. Vol. XIV No. 2 TOWER LIGHT Reporters Needed Contact May Hughes Tower Light office or Box 332 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland September 22, 1961 SGA Changes Procedure For Submitting Budgets ti With hopes of closing a rift between the SGA Execu-e Committee and the Senate, the Senate treasurer and President explained Tuesday new procedures for campus tr�uPs to have their budget approved. Included in the sweeping realignment of procedure was the announcement by president John Tallman, that from 11�A' on the Executive Committee will also submit a pro-d budget for the coming year. In the past, Tallman explained, it has been the practice of the Execu-tive Committee ""to dip into the till"" anytime it needed funds. All other groups on the campus, which drew their finances from the SGA, were required to have their budgets approved aforehand by the Senate's financial committee. This had caused much dissent. This duty has been amended this fall by the SGA to require that all organizational budgets including that from the Executive Committee, go through two, instead of one, steps. 1) Approval by the Financial Committee. 2) Approval by the entire Senate. Final allocation of money will not be allowed until the Senate has approved the budget, Tallman said. If a group has its budget cut, Senator Leon Sagan asked, will its senator have a chance to fight for the additional money? Tallman replied that was the purpose of bringing the budgets be-fore the Senate prior to approval. Treasurer Don Graham explained that a new procedure would also be invoked in the form for requesting budget approval. A group must submit its budget divided into two parts�social ex-penses and cultural expenses. These should work out to approximately a 60 percent social-40 percent cul-tural ratio, Graham said. Tallman explained that opera-tional expenses such as stationery, posters, etc., should be placed in the cultural category. Sunderland Elected ; lianaging Editor Lowell E. Sunderland 44411 E. Sunderland was elected girig editor of Tower Light \�,11 Week, replacing Marshall Cale, :esigned earlier in the month. itis4/Iderland, 21, is a junior in the gtad and sciences program. He Itated in June, 1960, from d s,41's junior college program lapI 'en worked 14 months for the tal-Gazette Press, Inc., in kI rlmaN3lis. and Glen Burnie as both V4m itcir and general assignment re-entry this fall, he is g in English and plans to t tia 0 the newspaper field after z tion in 1963. 4:4deriand lives in Towson, is a tri t ht and is an alumnus of Tow- '&1�1 School, class of 1958. rYland"" Chosen tee a �ming Theme band My Maryland"" is the %ittiilig:�r Towson's 1961 Home- Cts 4ktt of the group which -.v it. M 4t The theme explained that to be used in its historical Orr, 5arii (4its 4ations that 1%11 are encouraged ki Possible. irt Or evious years, the Home-parade will travel to the fl field Via York Road. Judging t'ats � ep, Will take place on the eld plan to build to begin as For Atmosphere: Vines, Lanterns, Fence Sophomore Dance Is October 30 Editor's Report Kindergartens May Go By Mary Hughes ""Tower Light"" News Editor Last week, the Baltimore City Board of Estimates pro-posed elimination of funds for kindergartens. Educators, politicians, and PTA's immediately rose in defense of the importance of pre-school training. According to city officials, the 1962 budget must be cut or taxes increased. Because the schools receive the largest amount of that budget, officials feel the savings lie there. The elimination of kindergartens would save the city from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000, according to the Baltimore Sun, last Saturday. Actually, the Board of Estimates has no power to abolish kindergartens, but it does hold the power to cut the school budget. The system could still include kinder-gartens, but the money supporting them would have to be taken from some other allotment within the public school structure. On the other side, the president of the Baltimore Parent- Teacher Association, Mrs. Robert E. Hampson, and several city officials have expressed the opinion that elimination of the kindergartens would be a grave mistake. These officials believe that pre-grade education is essen-tial in the experience of a child, and that this slight would be felt in later years. They felt that it was ""short-sighted economy"" to eliminate kindergartens only because of bud-getary problems. Dr. George B. Brain? superintendent of schools, told the Sunpapers that the kindergarten program is an essen-tial and ""its elimination would be a severe blow to our edu-cational program."" However, when I attempted to contact Dr. Brain on the subject, I was informed by his secretary that Dr. Brain had been approached on this subject several times already, and that he had no comment at this time. Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, president of Towson State Teach-ers College, had this to say: ""I think it would be too bad if they (the city) had to economize by eliminating kinder-garten education."" As ""Tower Light"" went to press, the situation was still (Continued on Page 4) in a state of flux. Guillaurne: By Lowell E. Sunderland Towsonites, believe it or not, you're being uplifted physiologically and psychologically each time you 'Colored Halls Stimulate walk the fancy hallowed halls of Stephens. All that repainting jazz a lot of you have been criticizing was done ITS STIMULATING � David F. Guillaume. art instructor and designer of Stephen's Ilan'% new paint job. di�cusses his reasons for chosing yellow, orange, ochre and other shades to decorate the once somber halls of Stephen's. with this precise aim in mind, according to its designer, art in-structor David F. Guillaume. Actually, Mr. Guillatune used research done by a man with the stunning name of Gyorgy Kepes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in lay-ing out Stephen's Hall's new outfit. According to Kepes, color has a direct bearing on the student's physiological and psychological be-ing. The MIT specialist in color engineering did his work backed by the government and has applied it in all parts of New England, Mr. Guillaume said. So the theory goes, that brilliant colors such as red, orange and yellow are stimulating. Deep neutral shades like blue, gray and light green are restful. (Continued on Page 4) ""Twilight Shadows"" will be the theme and scene, Saturday, Septem-ber 30 from 9 p.m. to 12 am. in Weidfield Gymnasium as the Sopho-more Class presents their annual class dance. Towson students will be admitted free upon presentation of activity cards. Others will be charged $1.00. Tickets, under chairmanship of Sue Parkhurst, will be sold in the alcove beginning September 25. Tickets can also be _purchased at the door. Pat Conner and Ann Zech, class Social Chairmen, began planning last May for the first major dance of the year. The Decoration Committee, work-ing through the summer, plan a fountain, home-made Japanese lanterns, a white picket fence, real vines, and crepe paper vines to help create the atmosphere of a garden at sundown. Jeanne Whiteraft is heading up the Refreshment Committee, and Millie Cronin and Barbara Gordon are handling the publicity. Chaperons will be Mr. Whaley, Dr. June Thearle, Mr. and Mrs. Kruppa, and Miss Carolyn Graeser. Making up the receiving line will be Dr. and Mrs. Earle T. Hawkins, Dean and Mrs. Kenneth Browne, Dean Orielle Murphy, and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Onion. Van Bokkelen Hall Has Face Lifted During the summer, many im-provements were made around the campus. A major project was the renovation of Van Bokkelen Hall. The Mathematics and Speech De-partments will have their offices and classes on the second floor. The Speech Department now has eight or nine listening and recording rooms in which to work, and have acquired a great deal of new elec-tronic equipment. The Testing Department has been moved to Van Bokkelen also. Dr. Newlander and Dr. Moser will have their offices on the second floor also. The first floor and the basement will be used by the Art Department. Partitions have been built in the various rooms and the corridors have been completely redone for display purposes. The department has never before had an adequate place in which to display the work of students. Also in the basement, six sound-proof practice rooms have been built, each with a piano. The use of these rooms will be assigned by the Music Department. Each music student will have a specific time in which to practice. The auditorium and stage in Van Bokkelen Hall remain the same. This is the only part of the build-ing which was not touched by the renovating plans. (Continued on page 2) "
