Towerligh, April 17, 1986

tl19860417-000 "Heavy knapsacks hard on shoulders Although the fitness craze of he eighties is running rampant hrough college campuses across the country, many people may ot be as fit as they think. According to Ron Sendre, a entral Michigan University professor of sports medicine, a health hazard has developed from the overuse and misuse of the �pular book packs seen on every krnerican campus."" The malady, 4111ed ""knock-down shoulder,"" en cause numerous problems for tudents. ""A heavy backpack changes i,our center of gravity,"" says kndre. ""Your abdominal area is thrust forward, and your iheulders are brought posterior."" When a student carries a h,eavy bag in this manner, he halts causing damage to his keture. Knock-down shoulder, vhich is a drooping shoulder kused by carrying a bag on one koulder, is just one of the hossible repercussions. Other kinful possibilities are sway lack, shoulder tension, head khes, and nerve damage. Sendre suggests a simple 'ernedy for the problem. ""Lighten he load is the best advice I can ilve,"" he said. 13ut many students can not lyoid carrying heavy books Cross campus, so Sendre sug lists wearing the bags the way they were designed. .""I've never seen a backpack 1th just one strap,"" he said. Rather than taking the time to ilraw both straps on, they just . ampus otes from 11 over Campus Notes Inside The root of the problem Greedy people, not lawyers or insurance companies, are to blame for outrageous insurance lawsuits 13. The real world cometh Graduate Bill Gates says life after college isn't terrible, just...different 13. Palm Ilrow on one."" However, making an effort to hten the load may not be bough. Sendre cautions that out- 'shape students need ""a '3Inplete work-out program with 'eight machines"" and flexibility tercises in order to protect hemselves from knock-down heulder and other related toblems. College Press Service study done by a Texas A&M lliversity professor shows that Bt scores on multiple choice arnS tend to be higher for dents who change their ewers frequently ... Two kidents were arrested in tinection with a cross burning the university of Alabama. S cross was burned on the Iwn of house slated for ,etipation by Alpha Kappa li Pha, an all-black sorority, on a all-white sorority row ... According to a study done by e National Governors 880ciation most governors put Ming for higher education at e top of their budget lists. The akly also found though, that ,08t governors don't feel they 41 be able to get increased measures through their te legislatures ... Virginia hlitary Institute has decided to ard posthumously the diploma ,refused to grant to a student 1. years ago after the student qicized the institution in a aduation speech. College Press Service egal Line uccessful he Maryland Legal Line at �Wson State, started as a Ision of the Cope-Line received ,713, 900 calls during the first rnonths of operation. Answering questions in nearly j areas of the law, the Legal is a free service run in )tinction with the Maryland 4te Bar Association and is lffed by university students. We see it as a chance to Vide not only the University, ""I the community at large with Ilervice,"" University Relations ,!ctor Dan Walsh said, bue to the success of the :1gram,"" Walsh added, ""we are ia2idering the possibility of i qIng more tapes."" Already the vice has such topics as .aring a lawyer, writing a will, lag for bankruptcy, and 15 iding child support. qudent can utilize the Legal 11 by calling 321-COPE, or Ing statewide toll-free 40-638-8862. Vince Russomanno Springs goes wild Police officers in Palm Springs, California, donned riot gear and fired tear gas to control thousands of youths�many of them college students on spring break�who rampaged the resort, pelting police with bottles. More than 200 police officers arrested about 100 people among a crow& of several thousand who jammed the streets, forcing authorities to close the main roads leading into the city for nearly five hours. The near-riot began in mid-afternoon when about 800 students began blocking state highway 111. They threw rocks and bottles at police, who declared an emergency and called more than 100 reinforcements from surrounding towns, city officials reported. Before the crowd was brought under control, young men were jumping into convertibles and the backs of pickup trucks and ripping bikini tops off women. Chronicle of Higher Education Bennett wants campuses cleaned up Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called on his audience to ""actively rid their campuses of drug pushers, drug users, cheats, and exploiters."" According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bennett said that four-year residential colleges and universities have to stand up to their committment to ""develop the mind and heart and character of young people."" Bennett believes that few institutions are willing to deal with these issues on a regular basis. ""It's not just a matter of law enforcement, but matters of general tone, environment, and what the Greeks call ethos,- Bennett said. ""In general, a faculty and an administration ought to know right off what is wholesome and what is decadent, and if they do not, then maybe they should remove themselves from the education of the young."" Another issue discussed by Bennett was a system of recognizing the most successful institutions in each state. Each governor should develop a plan for ""rigorous assessmenk"" of colleges and universities to determine which are providing the best education in the state. ""They should at least investigate an award system for those institutions that are doing the best job under whatever particular auspices,"" he said. Chronicle of Higher Education The Published weekly by the students of Towson State UniversityowerlightTowson,MD 21204 Vol. 79 No. 24 April 17, 1986 Rolling along A wheelchair race around campus Monday kicked off Handicapped Awareness Week, a week of activities designed to change attitudes towards the handicapped, that continues through Friday. By - Alex Landau AIDS seminar focuses on ending prejudices By Elizabeth Buck 'rowson State will offer a free seminar on Acquired Immune Defi-ciency Syndrome Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Psychology Lecture Hall. The seminar, which is titled ""Ac-curate Information to Discourage Separatism,' will examine the medical aspects of AIDS, the pre-ventive measures to discourage its spread, and the impact of AIDS on the public and public policy. The course will be one of the first offered by a Maryland college or university. ""There was a two day seminar at Dundalk Community College, with one day for the faculty and one for the students,"" said Dr. Mary Jane McMahon, University health science assistant professor and seminar facilitator. ""But, this is the first we know of that is being offered to the general public."" Originally, the seminar was to be an informal course offered by the College of Continuing Studies, but continuing Studies decided to in-clude McMahon in the arrange-ments. ""They called me, and it was decided that the seminar would be a one day event offered to the general public for lree,"" McMahon said. The focus of the seminar will be on the impact AIDS has on the pub-lic and public values about the disease. ""The whole idea is not to present information. Anybody can offer a seminar providing information. We want to work on positive attitude development,"" McMahon said. However, the first part of the seminar will deal with the medical aspects of the disease. McMahon ex-pects to have a physician speak, although plans are tentative. ""The purpose of the doctor is to dismiss any misinformation about the disease, but the focus will be on value clarification,"" said McMahon. Jack Stein, a specialist on commun-icable diseases and a representative from the Health Education Re-source Organization (H.E.R.0.), will speak about the social consequences of AIDS. After the medical and social as-pects of the disease are discussed, the seminar will be divided into several groups of approximately 10 people. There will be informal dis-cussion about the disease in each group. ""These groups will deal with value clarification. We want to clarify what people believe about AIDS and how it deals with public policy. We'll consider the AIDS policy here at Towson and discuss if it is a good or bad policy. ""We really want to make the pub-lic aware of the issues surrounding the disease and develop the at-titudes in a positive direction in sup-port of AIDS victims and their families and the community,"" McMahon explained. Although the seminar is open to the public at no charge, those in-terested in attending should contact the College of Continuing Studies to reserve a place in the course. Par-ticipants rnay bring a lunch or use the Glen Dining Hall during the forty-five minute lunch break. New minority counselor hopes to recruit more black students By Maria Vailas In an effort to attract a greater number of minority students to Towson State, the administration has appointed Christine Plater as the University's minority admis-sions counselor. The position was created in response to a desegrega-tion plan set up between the state and federal governments to in-crease the number of black students in state colleges by 1989. Plater is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park and American University. She has worked at Syracuse and Ameri-can Universities, and the Uni-versity of Maryland at Baltimore before coming to Towson State. As minority admissions coun-selor, Plater said she will be involv-ed in assisting students through the admissions process including evaluating transcripts to admit and admissions counseling, and recruiting primarily in Baltimore City, Prince Georges and Charles Counties, Washington D.C., and New York City, where there is a large number of minority students. Plater stated ""recruitment of students is very competitive due to the large amount of good univer-sities in the area and on the east coast."" She added ""it is especially difficult to recruit minority stu-dents due to the decrease in num-bers of minority students entering college"". Since 1980 the number of black undergraduates who attend fulltime at state colleges and universities of Maryland has fallen 16 percent. Na-tionwide the percentage of black students at U.S. colleges has de-creased from 9.4 percent in 1978 to 8.5 percent in 1984�a loss of 55,000 black students, according to The Baltimore Sun. Associate Director of Admis-sions, Angel Jackson, said black enrollment is dropping possibly due to ""the financial instability of many families, the appeal of the work place, and the number of students entering the military"". She added that to meet the goal of the state desegregation plan Towson should have a minority population of 18 percent on campus by 1989. The current minority population at Towson is approximately 10 per-cent. According to statistics by the In-stitutional Research Department at Towson State, of the 613 black students in Maryland that applied to Towson for Fall 1985 first-time admission, 251 were accepted and See ADMISSIONS, page 2 CIA, Congress need to work together , Turner says By Michele Hart The biggest mistake the CIA has made in the past few years has been to develop an adversarial relation-ship with Congress, according to Admiral Stansfield Turner, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Carter. ""If they 'Congress] have to order cooperation from the CIA it will not benefit anyone,"" Turner told a small audience in the Chesapeake rooms of the University Union Wednesday, April 10. ""They've made a mistake,"" Turner continued, ""they thought congressional oversight was the Admiral Mansfield Turner, director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Carter administration, was on campus April 10 as the final speaker of the 1985-86 SGA speaker series. source of intelligence leaks."" Turner feels that if the CIA and Congress cannot work together the security of the nation may be jeopardized. ""You cannot pursue an external intelligence program without some sort of checks and balances, Turner said. ""The CIA has Con-gress to help them share that re-sponsibility."" But the CIA not only has to co-operate with congress Turner said, it also has to cooperate with other countries. ""We need to continue and increase our efforts with other coun-tries,"" he said, but he emphasized that we cannot develop high expec-tations of what can be done through intelligence, not only with coun-tries, but with people. ""Spies are only one part of in-telligence,"" Turner said. There are other areas that have to be assessed when it comes to intelligence in-cluding how far to go in asking others to collect information for the U.S., how well that information is interpreted, and what to do to keep others from stealing information. According to Turner the collec-tors of information for the U.S. are usually foreigners. ""They are the ones who risk their lives,"" he said, ""in the real world it's not like a James Bond movie."" It is hard, Turner said, to tell who is in intelligence and who can be trusted, and who is going to give or sell information to others. ""You're always going to have insecurity and intrigue,"" Turner added. He said that is one reason alleged spies such as the Walkers, who were accused of selling navy secrets to the USSR, can go undetected for so long. ""Navy counter-intelligence was not up to snuff in the Walker's case, and it happened because, in part, we are a free nation,"" said Turner. ""Another great risk when dealing with traitors is that people get too enthusiastic and go too far to find them,"" Turner said. All of these fac-tors combined make intelligence dif-ficult business, Turner feels. Terrorism has also given the CIA problems recently, Turner said. ""But let's not overestimate the power of intelligence over this ter-rorist plague,"" he added. ""The United States is particular-ly vulnerable to terrorism,"". accord-ing to Turner. This is due to the feel-ing held by many countries that the U.S. is to blame for their problems and that we could rectify their pro-blems if we wanted to. The U.S. is also so susceptible because terrorists ""know they can get more mileage from the media because we are a free country,"" Turner said. See TURNER, page 2 "