tl20041018_001 "Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Monday, 10/18/04 Library adopts new loan policy 5 Towson Web site to be revamped 5 Nathanson plays to Paws crowd Hippodrome aims for Broadway acts Departments Opinion 2 News 5 Nations 7 PawPrints 8 Arts 13 Entertainment Briefs 13 Sound Bites. 14 Now Showing. 15 Sports 20 In this corner. 20 Face-Off. 18 Classifieds 16 Edwards rallies Md. Democrats Lisa Johnson/The Towerlight Vice Presidential candidate, Senator John Edwards, addresses democratic supporters in the Jenkins Gynasium at Anne Arundel Community College. Senator's late arrival doesn't deter locals' support at campaign stop Friday afternoon Sarah Breitenbach The Towerlight ARNOLD, Md. - Patient Democrats got what they came for Friday afternoon after waiting almost four hours for Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards to arrive at a rare Maryland campaign stop. Supporters entered the Jenkins Gymnasium at Anne Arundel Community College around 4 p.m. and waited until nearly 8 p.m. for Edwards to arrive at the rally. The Senator's flight to Maryland had been delayed in Cleveland, Ohio, a key battleground state, because a light on the aircraft indicated a generator failure. Supporters waited for the senator to tunes of Outkast, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Queen, among others. Chants of """"Three more weeks"""" and """"We want Kerry, Bush is scary"""" echoed through the building as local political figures, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Mayor Martin O'Malley, Sen. Paul Sarbanes, Anne Arundel County Executive Janet Owens, House Speaker Michael Busch, Maryland Attorney General Joe Curran and Rep. Benjamin Cardin filtered in. Dignitaries lauded Kerry and denounced the Bush administration prior to Edwards' arrival. """"This election is not about us - it's about you,"""" Busch said. He called the 2004 election the most important since the elections of Roosevelt and Kennedy. """"It's about whether we're going to capture America back and give it back to the working people,"""" he said. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley also spoke, accusing the Bush administration of not supporting domestic needs. See CANDIDATE, page 6 Adjuncts receive raise, full-time load increases Sarah Breitenbach The Towerlight The makeup of Towson's faculty may be changing as adjunct professors are being better compensated than in the past and more classes are being taught by full-time staffers. Adjunct faculty members received a $200 raise effective for the Fall semester, increasing their pay to $2,300 per three-credit class. Provost James Brennan said adjuncts were long overdue for a raise. """"[The previous payment is] not fair to the adjuncts who are very talented people and quite frankly we were not being very competitive with other institutions in the area,"""" Brennan said. He asked the deans of each college to retain 10 percent of last year's budget for adjuncts to help compensate for this year's increase. The funds held back by the colleges developed an account of $250,000, and another $250,000 was """"stashed away"""" from other resources, Brennan said. """"We've been redistributing money for the last [few] years,"""" he said. """"I think students would be glad to hear that the extra money they pay for tuition is going into faculty."""" Although more funds are available, the increase in pay limits the number of adjuncts each department can employ. See PROFESSORS, page 6 Today High 61 Low 53 Tuesday High 67 Low 55 Wednesday High 64 Low 53 Thursday High 66 Low 55 [V'/'i Friday High 72 Low 58"
