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Opinion

October 13, 2015

Editor-in-Chief Carley Milligan Senior Editor Cody Boteler News Editor Sam Shelton Arts & Life Editor

Assoc. Arts & Life Editor Annie Sragner Assit. Arts & Life Editor Robert Wood Sports Editor Assist. Sports Editor Jordan Cope

The Towerlight is going to talk about race Increasing transparency to address inequality

Staff Writers Tim Anderson Tyler Beard Tyler Young Nilo Exar Caitlin Wolfarth Christine LaFrancesca Kristin Helf Kati Day Sarah Rowan Helen Grafton Hailey Miller Ryan Permison

Photo Editor Patrick Burke

Staff Photographers Cody Boteler Adrilenzo Cassoma Carley Milligan Joseph Noyes Chris Simms Allen Stewart Video Producer Sarah Chmielowiec Staff Videographers Stacey Coles Joseph Hawkins Tyisha Henderson

One initiative I was determined to put into action this semester at The Towerlight was the addition of headshots next to each writer’s byline. While this may be something we are still trying to make uniform across the paper, I feel that allowing readers to see who actually wrote an article helps to make us as student reporters more accessible.

I also think that this helps to increase the transparency of our articles. We aren’t just hiding behind a byline, we are showing readers who we are, what we look like and how to contact us via our Twitter handles.

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This initiative, I realized, became an especially important addition in light of this week’s cover story about race and diversity. As you can clearly see from Senior Editor Cody Boteler’s and my own headshots, we are white. And writing about race as a white person is a tricky thing indeed.

It’s pretty clear, to me, at least, and I hope that it is apparent to those who read the cover story – and we apologize for the extreme length

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of the article, but there was so much worth talking about that we didn’t even get to cover – but the issue of race and diversity is an incredibly important and under-discussed conversation both nationally and on Towson’s campus.

Therefore, it has been imperative to me since the start of the semester that this conversation, among others, was brought to light. The trick, however, was how we would take on writing about something

The trick, however, was how we would take on writing about something that neither Cody nor myself have experienced having lived under the protection of white privilege for our entire lives.

that neither Cody nor myself have experienced, having lived under the protection of white privilege for our entire lives.

We found that the best way to start would be to conduct thorough conversations and interviews with those who had experienced these acts of racism on campus, and in turn, had begun taking part in organizations and programs to combat this inequality. We hope that this will help readers to see that we tried our best to be allies to these students by creating a platform for them to share their thoughts and experiences.

As always if you have any questions, comments or concerns after reading the article please feel free to reach out to editor@thetowerlight.

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Black women not represented well in the media

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There seems to be a stigma in mass media regarding the image of Black women today.

Generally, when one sees an AfricanAmerican woman they are reflected in a negative or simply neutral light.

Either they are overlooked, or they are stealing the show with similar characteristics no matter what show is on.

These issues show that we have let film and TV show directors and producers go far beyond the point of joking, because now we almost expect to see a misinterpretation of a Black woman or two in any film or movie we watch.

In a survey conducted by Essence

magazine, 1,200 women felt the images were "overwhelmingly negative," falling typically into categories including: “Gold Diggers, Modern Jezebels, Baby Mamas, Uneducated Sisters, Ratchet Women, Angry Black Women, Mean Black Girls, Unhealthy Black Women and Black Barbies,” according to an article by the Huffington Post.

We need to start being more involved in the way we are being portrayed. It isn’t fair to us that this is the kind of living the media has subjected us to.

This cannot be the image we are bathing our children in. The negativity that surrounds Black women – darker skin tones, in particular – are becoming an inaccurate connotation that envelopes us without even allowing us the chance to redeem ourselves for the damage we haven’t even caused.

Stereotypes aren’t something that should be view as acceptable simply because no one has spoken out against them. This is the perfect time to completely revamp the definition and social cues of the Black women today.

Characters like Olivia Pope from Scandal are just a breath of fresh air in the media. She is strong, independent and smart as a whip, but today, what she has done won’t cause nearly as much stir as “Love & Hip-Hop Hollywood” would.

In short, the media need to be producing a somewhat equal amount of positive, negative and neutral scenarios and character traits. There definitely is not an easy way to gauge this however, as any form of media will tell you that they are “scratching the surface” and that there are more positive characters to come to combat the

negative stereotypes.

But are those characters strong enough to revert the damage our community and our women are enduring due to this mocking?

Deep Fried Feminism and The Big Picture are both web-only this week.

Check them out online at www.thetowerlight.com.

Look for next week’s issue for our columns.

Opinion

October 13, 2015

Towson University 150th Anniversary

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Clearing land to prepare for the construction at the new Towson location

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The Administration Building (Later renamed Stephens Hall) under construction in 1914

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York road. After actively campaigning by

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school, the State agreed to purchase property and build a new campus.

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Richmond relocated the MSNS to its new location on the 88-acre Towson campus.

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Three former county farms were transformed into the Maryland State Normal School at Towson with the construction of three

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buildings: the Administration Building, Newell Hall, and the Power Plant.

Richmond remained principal until 1917 when she resigned to become Dean of the school. In that same year, Henry S. West

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was appointed to serve as principal of the Normal School.

Henry West Principal, 1917–1920

Students in the Library of the new Administration Building in 1918

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Talk about it To join the ongoing conversation about racial issues on campus, in Baltimore and around the country, The Towerlight reached out to a number of Towson students who are already involved in those issues to help explore the complexity of them.

The majority of students interviewed expressed concerns about the disparity between what the University is doing to improve race and diversity relations on campus, and what students say they have actually experienced as a result.

Many of those students spoke about some of the same issues and shared the same concerns.

This is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a sampling of things that are happening on campus.

We’re limited by space and time. We know that the issues we’re bringing up, and the students we talked to, are all deserving of much more column space than we are able to give. *** Vanessa Agbar is attorney general in the Student Government Association and former president of the African Diaspora Club. She’s also a first-generation American – her parents are from Nigeria.

Last year, when Agbar was still president of ADC, she went to an SGA meeting where the senate was voting on allocating funds for an ADC event.

She said that, while she was there, it felt like the SGA was “interrogating” their cultural event.

“That’s [the senate’s] job, in a

sense, to make sure it goes along with the financial policy, but the way it was done, it didn’t feel inclusive,” Agbar said.

One of the reasons that she got involved with SGA was to try and keep that kind of situation from happening to other students, she said.

“I wanted to make a more inclusive environment for Towson students,” Agbar said.

Agbar has suggested adding to Towson’s curriculum to help make required courses at the University more inclusive.

“I feel like there should be a core that deals with race issues,” she said.

“Something to enlighten students.

What you don’t know can hurt you, regardless of what ethnicity you are.”

All students must complete the 14-category core curriculum at TU in order to graduate.

Cores 10-14 are designated as “perspectives” courses. They are “Metropolitan Perspectives,” “The United States as a Nation,” “Global Perspectives,” “Diversity & Difference,” and “Ethical Issues and Perspectives.”

A student could make it through cores 10-14 without taking a course about racial diversity. As the core curriculum stands, a student could complete the entire core curriculum, and in many cases their entire degree, without taking a course that discusses racial topics. *** Fresia Blanco is a sophomore immigrant from El Salvador and vice president of Towson’s chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens.

Blanco immigrated to the United States when she was three years old, and was able to gain citizenship relatively easily because her mother already had citizenship. Her time in the States

has not all been easy, however.

“My dad was arrested when I was seven and deported,” Blanco said.

“He’s been gone for like 12 years.

Immigration is definitely something that’s impacted my life.”

On campus, Blanco sees a lot of “cliquey” behavior in classes.

“In every class I don’t really feel like I have that one person I can talk to unless it’s someone of color, and that’s kind of sad,” Blanco said.

To start bridging those culture gaps, Blanco said, people just need to start talking.

“Just getting the conversation going, that’s what we want to do with awareness,” Blanco said. “Just talk to people, because it could make that big of a difference.” *** John Gillespie is a social justice activist who has become heavily involved in working with the Center for Student Diversity, his professors, friends and colleagues to better understand problems surrounding race and diversity at Towson.

In April, he worked to organize a protest the week following the death of Freddie Gray where hundreds, possibly thousands, of students from local schools marched from Penn Station to Baltimore City Hall.

This semester and throughout the summer, however, Gillespie said that he has put much of his energy into reading, studying and educating himself about the complexities of diversity and social justice in order to better understand how he wants to further his activism, through what he calls “radical love.”

He hopes to spread this love in educational settings, such as last semester’s teach-ins, because he feels this is one of the best ways to work with

and talk to students, regardless of their race.

Because he grew up in Cecil County, which according to census data was 89.3 percent white in 2014, Gillespie said that he has had more experience approaching the conversation of diversity and racism with white individuals.

Gillespie said that one of the problems with Towson is that it is “the kind of racism that won’t admit that it’s racist.”

“Racism without racists is so much more difficult because it’s just like you have to dig deep and show that what you are doing is causing harm to someone,” he said.

Once he recalled, when he was in a room full of white Towson students, they replaced the n-word in Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” with his first name while singing the song as a group.

“They said, ‘I ain’t sayin she a gold digger, she aint messin’ with no broke John,’ and that became the chorus of the song,” Gillespie said. “I grew up in a pretty racist place, and that was one of the most direct senses of racism I ever faced. But the difference is once again in Cecil County they knew they were being racist, but here they had no recollection of the fact that that was racist.”

Gillespie said that one way to bridge the social gap between students of color and white students on campus is to involve the Interfraternity Council, where he feels a majority of white students with power to influence others are.

“The best way to draw white crowds is you involve IFC fraternities in it and

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you tell them, ‘you are gonna get CAP if you come,’” Gillespie said.

CAP, or the Chapter Assessment Program, is the tool the University uses to assess each chapter’s participation and performance in personal, campus and community involvement.

Gillespie feels that there should be a way to enforce that the fraternities and sororities are staying for the entirety of these diversity events and truly engaging in them.

The student interest in these conversations will only start when professors attend cultural competency workshops, he said.

“I think it needs to be something that is implemented in our institution from the educational, professorial level, where we are teaching students about this in class, but also the professors have to be knowledgeable on the topic as well,” Gillespie said. *** Korey Johnson won a national debate title and led thousands of students through the streets of Baltimore all before her senior year of college.

She’s actively involved in issues of racial justice on campus and in the surrounding community.

One problem that Johnson sees on campus is a lack of nonwhite faculty, in particular, nonwhite tenured professors.

Johnson said she remembers being incredibly excited to take a class in the Honors College called “From HipHop to Barack: 21st Century AfricanAmerican Literature.” The class was taught by Tara Bynum and it was the first time Johnson saw an honors class focusing on racial issues.

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Story continued from Page 7: Talk about it Bynum was a member of the English department before she left after being denied tenure.

“She really meant a lot to the Black student body,” Johnson said.

“To see her not get tenure hit a lot of us, because professors don’t return when they don’t get tenure.”

Johnson said that the current process for getting tenure is like “a popularity contest” and she is currently working to research the topic and try to reform the process.

For students of color, the problems with having exclusively, or almost exclusively, white faculty can be based in academics or personal comfort.

Johnson explained that entering classrooms filled with white students and white professors day after day can become uncomfortable. Blanco said that she doesn’t always feel comfortable approaching a white professor to discuss her grades.

Gillespie said that he’s had to make academic sacrifices because of the lack of professors of color on campus.

“Even the professors that I do plan on doing independent research projects with I love, but I know for a fact that they would not do the content justice the same way a Black professor would.”

In Fall 2014, of the 595 tenured or tenure track professors at Towson, 456 identified as white, 27 as AfricanAmerican or black, 16 as Hispanic or Latino, 10 as “unknown” and two as “two or more races,” according to a document from the Office of Institutional Research. *** David Ward is the co-chair

of the Council of Diverse Student Organizations and has played an active role in the CSD and other multicultural clubs at Towson for the past two years. He’s also a white man.

Ward has also begun taking part in occasional self-motivated “experiments” in which he and a friend take turns approaching white students to explain to them, using an identical script, why it is important they educate themselves about racial issues.

They have found that when his friend, a black man, approaches students, he is met with resistance.

Ward is generally received with a more open response.

“It’s really annoying because I guess people see him as the angry black man and it’s like, he’s saying the same stuff that I’m saying,” Ward said.

Ward used white anti-racism activist Tim Wise, who visited Towson on Sept.

23, as an example of this approach to reach white individuals. “[It] is a shame that is has to be this way, but some white people just won’t listen to a black person talk about the same stuff,” Ward said.

These experiences have lead Ward to contemplate what his role, and the roles of other white anti-racism activists, can be in the growing national conversation about race and social justice.

He has found that knowing when to play his part, echoing the voices of the leaders and people who have actually experienced racism rather than just witnessed it, and oftentimes being a silent ally willing to help in any way needed, are the best ways to do so.

Ward said he encourages white students to listen to the leaders of the movements, to venture away from the comfort of friend groups, connect with a new and diverse group of people and explore different opinions in order to seek the bigger truth.

Ward said that an individual’s future in America is often determined simply by the life they are born into, and that oftentimes, those living in poverty are unable to improve the quality of their lives because of the inescapable system put in place by white, educated, wealthy people.

“Someone like me, or someone like these frat boys, we don’t have to think about that if we don’t want to,” Ward said. “We can live our whole life and we don’t have to think about anything like that, and it’s just a damn shame that these little kids are born into it. That’s all it is, I was just born in a different shade.” *** Bilphena Yahwon has had several years of experience working with a wide array of Towson’s multicultural groups and the CSD, and has held a position on the CDSO. She’s also written and self-published a book about her social justice work and her life as a refugee who came to America from Liberia with her family in 2001, called “teaching gold-mah how to heal herself.”

Because of the role she has taken on campus as a social justice activist, Yahwon said she has received public hate from Towson students, in particular on the popular social media app YikYak. At times, she has

Cody Boteler /The Towerlight From left to right, Bilphena Yahwon, Korey Johnson and John Gillespie, student social justice activists. feared leaving her room and traveling campus alone.

“I’ve been doing this for five years now and it’s exhausting doing social justice work at Towson,” Yahwon said. “Your spirit gets broken so many times. I’ve had students call me out by name, I’ve had videos of me posted on white supremacy websites, I’ve had people send me pictures of skulls and KKKs in my email.”

Like Gillespie, Yahwon feels that a change in student’s understanding and acceptance of other races and cultures can only start in the classrooms, which in turn can only be implemented by the University. This, she said, is how students will start to see a change on campus and act on that it in their own lives in response.

“If professors aren’t being forced to take cultural competency work-

shops why would they care? Students are getting stuck because they are force fed this very fantasy and whimsical idea of what diversity is. They hear it, they hear it, they hear it, but they are not necessarily eating it up and digesting it,” Yahwon said. *** This is a sampling of things that are happening on and around this campus, not a comprehensive survey.

Every student that The Towerlight interviewed said that one of the ways to start addressing issues of racial inequality was to talk about them, and to talk openly without fear.

The Towerlight will continue to participate in the conversation by keeping you up-to-date on events that are happening and by investigating topics, like tenureship, that are connected to issues of racial equality.

TUPD honored for efforts toward student safety The Towson University Police Department has been named one of Safe Campus’ 2016 Top 25 university administrative departments making a difference in student safety. ​TUPD ranks number 13 out of 4,706 eligible college and university administrative departments in the United States.

The department was nominated based on its efforts to improve campus safety within the past year. The Safe Campus Board of Advisors, made up of senior-level higher education administrators,

voted to decide the top 25 winners. ​Deputy Chief of Police Joseph Herring describes campus safety as “a continuing effort that goes on from semester to semester.” ​“The main thrust of what we do is in partnership with the students, faculty and staff,” Herring said.

“We do a lot of education pieces and a lot of crime prevention pieces and presentations.” ​TU has consistently been ranked as the safest campus in the University System of Maryland. In addition, TUPD has been the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Crime Prevention for 30 consecutive years. ​At the end of the spring semester, TUPD partnered with the Student Government Association

to launch the SaferMobility app.

This app helps users protect themselves against potential crimes, and includes features such as mobile escort and real-time video. ​SGA President Kurt Anderson said that he “hopes to see the SaferMobility app being used as widely as possible by the end of the year.” ​According to an Oct. 1 WBAL story, only 700 of the more than 23,000 students, faculty and staff had downloaded the free app.

“We’ve spent a fair amount of money on bringing SaferMobility to campus, along with TUPD putting a lot of time and resources into the project,” Anderson said. “We’re hoping that every Towson student will have the app installed on their phone

so safety will be at their fingertips.” ​Both TUPD and SGA went through a lengthy review process for the app, according to Herring. They spent the summer modifying it to make it more useable for students, and have started their main marketing piece this semester to try to encourage students to download the app.

Herring also described the partnership TUPD has with the community and how it makes a difference in keeping campus safe. ​“We really do appreciate the unique environment we have here,” Herring said. “That is the biggest and most basic primary reason that we are able to keep crime low on campus. The community is engaged, they pay attention to

what is going on around them, and their expectations are high.” ​Herring continued, “Our officers like engagement with the students. They don’t want to bother people, but at the same time we expect them to be friendly, and they are.”

In addition to SaferMobility, TUPD offers a number of presentations and defense-training classes for students to better ensure their safety on campus. These classes and presentations are often advertised through the Towson Tigers Today daily announcements, or on flyers and bulletin boards throughout campus.

Herring advises students to “take advantage of it all.”

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Preview of Democratic presidential candidates CNN to air Party’s first debate on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 8:30 p.m.

DESMOND BOYLE Staff Writer

The Democratic Party’s first presidential candidate debate will air on CNN, Oct. 13, at 8:30 p.m.. ​The frontrunner is former first lady and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s campaign began in April of this year, and since then, support for Clinton has decreased dramatically.

In a poll of potential voters conducted by CNN and ORC International in May 2015, 57 percent said that Clinton was untrustworthy. ​T his honesty problem for Hillary stems from a scandal about Clinton’s alleged use of her private email to share confidential national security information.

This practice of using a private email server for such an important role as secretary of state has garnered heavy criticism from both Republicans and Clinton’s fellow Democrats. Controversy also arose

when Clinton admitted to deleting thousands of emails she deemed private and personal information.

Since August, Clinton has seen her support drop from 58 percent of democratic voters to 47 percent, while her biggest challenger, Bernie Sanders, has risen 10 points to 27 percent of the vote from likely democratic voters, according to a Sept.15 CBS News article.

Currently serving as a Vermont senator, Sanders has gained traction by garnering support from voters who are tired of traditional politicians like Clinton. Sanders has concentrated on issues that include reducing income inequality, student debt from college and finance reform in campaigns and lobbying.

Sanders became an independent during his tenure in the Senate and identifies as a democratic- socialist.

The clash between Sanders and Clinton can be highlighted by examining the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Clinton advocated for the TPP as a means to increase trade between the United States and nations in

Asia, and thus increase profits for many corporations in the United States. According to an Oct. 7 article from The Washington Post, Clinton has recently changed her view on the TPP. Sanders opposed the TPP from the outset, claiming the cost of taking jobs away from working class citizens would not be worth benefiting profitable corporations.

Aside from Clinton and Sanders, there are four other candidates who have announced they are running. Jim Webb of Virginia, Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig are all polling around one percent nationally.

Chafee is a former Republican and governor of Rhode Island who has become more liberal over his tenure in government. Chafee has centered his campaign on reducing military spending by decreasing the amount of United States military presence around the world and promoting peace through diplomacy.

Webb is a former senator from

Virginia where he built a reputation for raising taxes to improve infrastructure. Aside from fiscal policy Webb is fairly moderate, having supported conceal and carry laws while opposing immigration reform that would have made amnesty easier for citizens.

Martin O’Malley is a former Maryland governor who became known for raising taxes repeatedly during his tenure as governor.

O’Malley was governor of Maryland when the state abolished the death penalty and legalized same-sex marriage. Recently, O’Malley has tried to set himself apart by focusing on bringing aid and shelter to Syrian refugees more than other

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candidates in the party.

Lessig has centered his entire campaign around drastic reforms to government, the economy, and climate change in order to reduce the huge rates of inequality in the United States. As an outsider to politics, Lessig has thus far been less successful than republicans Donald Trump and Ben Carson at capturing support from Americans who are fed up with politicians.

Lessig and potential nominee, Vice President Joe Biden, will not be participating in the debate. A recent CNN article said that Biden is waiting until later in the month to make clear his intentions in the 2016 race for presidency.

Jim Webb of Virginia, Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig are all polling around one percent nationally.

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Interim President talks TU growth, future Chandler advocates for new science, health professions buildings

Loeschke announced she would be taking a leave of absence due to health reasons. When she later resigned her position in December 2014, Chandler became interim president. Loeschke died June 25 This article originally appeared after a battle with adrenal cancer. online at baltimorewatchdog.com.

In April, Chandler announced Towson University Interim that he would enter his name for President Timothy Chandler advoconsideration for the presidency. cated for the construction of new He said TU’s 150th anniversary science and health professions celebrations have forced the univerbuildings, along with other projects, sity to look forward into the next at a town hall-style meeting Oct. 7.

150 years. He said that the festivities He said the two new buildings have been a “campus-wide effort.” would richen the experience for “We are Towson, and we are out Towson students and would meet there,” he said. “And people are the demand of the University’s rapreally realizing what a great place idly growing STEM and health prothis is. Our trajectory is very much fessions programs. up and away.”

Chandler said the College of During a Q&A session followHealth Professions has grown 179 ing Chandler’s primary address, percent over the past 20 years, Graduate Student Association Vice even though there is no centralized President David Houston drew location for the program. According attention to the lack of graduate to the 2009 University Master Plan, student housing on campus. the College of Health Professions Graduate students are not curhas been scattered between six difrently permitted to live in onferent buildings. campus residence halls, though Chandler also said that the Fisher Housing & Residence Life has free College of Science and Mathematics off-campus listings available. has grown 130 percent since 1994.

“I’ve noticed “The level of through talking to a demand and the level few other graduate of growth continues to students that a huge drive the need that we have for these two new The level of demand portion of people’s decisions to go elseand the level of buildings,” he said. where was housing,” Renderings set up growth continues to Houston said. “Are at the meeting illusdrive the need that there any future plans trated what the scifor graduate housing? we have for these ence building could I noticed that’s a siglook like. two buildings. nificant factor for a Graphics included lot of students.” breakdowns of what TIMOTHY CHANDLER Chandler respondwould be included on Interim President, TU ed by saying that each level of the pro“housing in general is something posed five-floor structure. that we are looking at very closely.”

To help secure funds for the He said undergraduate students building, Chandler has taken lawwho live on-campus are typically makers through what he has called more engaged, more involved and his “haunted house tours.” In a premore successful than those who vious interview with The Towerlight, live off campus. What needs to Chandler said that such tours have be figured out, he said, is how to entailed leading visitors through the extend that engagement and sucaging Smith Hall on some of the cess to graduate and transfer stuhottest days of the year. dents who may not be able to afford According to a chronology comto live close to campus. piled by Cook Library, Smith Hall “It’s tough to buy a house,” opened in 1965. During the town Chandler said during the town hall. hall, Chandler said that the earliest “It’s expensive to come and live the new buildings would be comhere, and for graduate students, pleted would be 2020. that’s obviously very true also. It’d Chandler took over as acting be nice to have some ‘subsidized’ president in August 2014, when the late President Emerita Maravene on-campus housing for our gradu-

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Patrick Burke/ The Towerlight Towson University Interim President Tim Chandler speaks during a town hall-style meeting Wednesday, Oct. 7. During the town hall, Chandler spoke to the University’s need for new science and health professions buildings. He also praised TU’s recent endeavors and answered questions posed by audience members. ate students. So, we will be looking at all of those things.”

Chandler said on-campus housing “for all levels,” including graduate students and faculty, is part of

the school’s updated Master Plan.

Other audience comments included inquiries into guidance for junior and pre-tenure faculty, campus sustainability and green initia-

tives, and the university’s involvement in the greater Baltimore area.

“We are a place that is very much on the rise,” Chandler said. “People are taking notice. They really are.”

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Entrepreneur Fair

Cody Boteler/ The Towerlight Students line up for free Rita’s and business resources during the Oct. 7 Entrepreneur Fair on The Beach.

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Fetty Fall Fest Hunting for Hooligan Rap artist Fetty Wap will headline Towson Fall Fest November 6 at SECU Arena.

“We’re so excited,” Campus Activities Board Director Brianne Wade said. “It’s ridiculous.”

Student ticket prices will be $30 for the floor, $25 for the lower bowl and $20 for the upper bowl.

Students will be able to purchase tickets online from Ticketmaster.

“I’m expecting it to sell out before it gets to the general public,” Wade said.

According to Wade, tickets will go on sale on Friday, though the exact details may change. She encouraged students to keep up with CAB on social media for times and instructions on purchasing tickets.

Students will be able to purchase two tickets at the student price.

That way, they can bring a guest.

Tickets for Fall Fest will be sold exclusively online. Wade said selling tickets online would help students get tickets.

“Students who are off campus

or commuters aren’t going to have to take off work in the morning to get in line and wait for hours and hours,” Wade said.

There is no concert taking place during Homecoming Week.

Wade securing SECU Arena during Homecoming Week can be difficult.

To pick an artist for campus concerts, CAB goes through a middle agent who represents a large number of artists. CAB approaches the agent with some budgetary information and what kind of artists they’re looking for.

The agent gets back to CAB with available artists, and the negotiation and contracting begin.

Wade said that the process of choosing which artist to pursue and finalizing the contract took a few months.

Wade also said that Fetty Wap requested the three openers Bas, Cozz and Omen.

“It made it easier on us,” Wade said. “The headliner always has to confirm the opener.”

Selling Fall Fest tickets online can act as a sort of trial run for Tigerfest, Wade said. She said that CAB is waiting to get Fall Fest under their belts before starting to plan the annual spring concert.

LAUREN MCMILLAN Contributing Writer

With the release of his new EP, senior mass communication major Hunter Warch, who goes by the pseudonym Hunter Hooligan, hopes to bring attention to Baltimore talent through his life-long passion for music.

“I could sing before I could talk, so from really early on I was really into music,” Warch said.

Warch began working in studios around Baltimore recording his music, producing for other artists and working with other producers to help them publish their playlists.

He said he decided to give himself a musical education by listening to the first records ever made: anthropological recordings of chants.

The EP he’s planning to release in two months, titled “Proof of My Youth,” has a mix of songs he’s written in his early teens and songs that he has written more recently.

“It’s ten songs that are acoustic, stripped down versions of songs I’ve written and there’s one song I wrote when I was 16,” Warch said.

“There’s a song I wrote maybe six months ago. There’s a really huge

Courtesy of Hunter Warch Senior Hunter Warch plans to release his EP “Proof of My Youth” in two months.

variety of material.”

Warch plans to debut a video for the most recently written song on the EP called “The Least The Last The Lonely and The Lost.”

He explains that jazz, blues and women in music inspire him.

“I think women in music have always been doing the most interesting things,” Warch said. “I think women have a really amazing perspective that gets expressed through music and I just connect with women a lot.”

Warch hopes that through success with his music, he can bring

attention to his friends that are local artists and to Baltimore’s music scene.

“I hope that in five years I can be a part of what brings national attention to the Baltimore area music scene because there’s so much happening here that people just don’t know about, but if people did know about it I think they’d love it,” Warch said. “There are really amazing people here doing what they love and doing things that are different and innovative and pretty groundbreaking, but the national attention is just not here.”

Growth for Guinea from TU students HELEN GRAFTON Staff Writer @what_the_helen

When Towson junior Oumou Diallo returned from LeaderShape in 2014 she brought home with her a vision of empowering kids for a better education.

Diallo is now the founder and president of the student group Hope of Guinea, a nonprofit organization that helps underprivileged kids in the African country of Guinea.

“I came up with the idea to create it because there were some people on campus who were interested in the idea,” Diallo said.

The job of the on-campus organization is to support the larger organization in whatever way possible.

“We raise funds, do clothing drives and do anything we can to support the international organization about their mission to sponsor

kids from primary school to high school,” Diallo said.

Diallo and the rest of Hope of Guinea even had the opportunity to attend the Clinton Global Initiative. This initiative of the Clinton Foundation is a meeting of the world’s leaders to come up with possible solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

“We were entered into a commitment challenge to see who can raise the most funds in two weeks and Hope of Guinea won the challenge by raising $6,000 to go toward our commitment,” Diallo said.

Their commitment entails building a community center in Ratoma, Guinea. This would, “have an education side as well as decrease the illiteracy rate, increase jobs by having workshops and job trainings and have a self-sustainable garden,” Diallo said.

Construction on the community center is set to begin at the end

of 2017.

Since the on campus organization started, they have grown dramatically. They now have eight executive board positions and over 30 committee members.

The organization is divided into three pillars: education, scholarship and service. This way, the organization can accomplish more at one time and hopefully make their presence more known on campus.

“My focus is to raise funds, obviously, to help the kids through school and toward our commitment; however, my first priority is to let people know that we are here and we are making this impact on an international scale,” Diallo said.

Not only does the organization help children in Guinea, but they also help out the Towson community.

They hold monthly community service events in and around

Towson as a, “way to say thank you to Towson community for having us and helping us with this organization and supporting us through our journey,” Diallo said.

“

We were entered into a commitment challenge to see who can raise the most funds in two weeks and Hope of Guinea won the challenge by raising $6,000 to go toward our commitment.

OUMOU DIALLO President of Hope of Guinea

Last semester, Hope of Guinea was the African Diaspora Club’s

cause of the year. They also collaborated with Half the Sky to show a movie screening, as well as with the Black Student Union to hold a school supplies drive.

Diallo also had the opportunity to travel to Guinea through her internship at the United Nations.

She says it was amazing to see all the money and supplies that were raised being put to good use.

“I got to see where our donations from Towson went, such as the school supplies that went to the kids. I got to go and take pictures and reported back to everyone at home,” Diallo said.

Hope of Guinea will be holding their annual fundraising gala in Silver Spring, Maryland on Oct. 24.

There will be many student dancers as well as bands performing.

The event is open to all Towson students to see what has been accomplished by the organization in the past year.

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Passion and strength lead dancer to success JESSICA RICKS Staff Writer

Senior dance major Jessica Pinkett has known for almost her entire life that she wanted to be a dancer.

“I can’t envision myself doing anything else. I tried many different things but the thing that brings me the most joy is dance,” Pinkett said.

Pinkett started dancing when she was four years old at a studio called Baltimore Dance Tech. She received most of her dance training here until she was 17. She also danced in her high school, Carver Center for the Arts, where she got a degree concentrating in dance and performing arts.

She also did a few Alvin Ailey summer programs on scholarship, out of state summer intensives and a competition in Los Angeles called ACTSO (Afro-Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics).

Now as a Towson student, Pinkett participates in many dance programs.

She is in Sigma Rho, a dance group that helps within the dance department, but also outside of the University in order to integrate arts into the community. She is now a company member of Ballet ADI in Rockville, Maryland, and she is an apprentice with Ailey II. “I have wanted to be part of the Ailey Company ever since I knew of their existence,” Pinkett said.

After participating in Ailey summer intensives and seeing what she needed to do to in order to push herself, she made the decision to audition for the Alvin Ailey first company. She didn’t make the cut, but not landing the audition didn’t stop her.

“It, more so, was a learning experience than anything else,” Pinkett said.

“I wasn’t discouraged by any means. I saw a lot of beautiful dancers and met a lot of beautiful people. I was able to see my idols who I looked up for several years teach me in this audition process so I gained so much more than I lost.”

She was then asked to audition for

A 90s musical reunion CAITLIN MOYNIHAN Columnist @cmmoynihan

All the 90s babies out there, get ready to have your brain explode. I preface this column to make it clear nothing is confirmed by anyone with a truly official title, but yet, here I am freaking out about it as if I already bought tickets.

It has almost been 20 whole years since two of the most influential and perfect bands were tossed into existence. I am obviously talking about the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, because duh.

Although I am only a mere 20-yearold myself, I feel a great connection to these bands. I grew up listening to their music, and my two older siblings would often force me to be part of their homemade music videos.

Everyone who says that they don’t freak out every time “Wanna Be” or “I Want It That Way” begins to play would definitely be a liar in my book.

While those songs alone create some major #tbt feelings, I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to have a Backstreet

Boy and Spice Girl collaboration.

Fortunately for me, these impossible dreams may soon become a reality. In an interview with Rolling Stone, BSB member A.J. McLean hinted that there is a potential tour in the works that would feature both the Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls.

Let that sink in for a minute. Two of the biggest 90s pop bands could be on tour together.

Commence freak-out.

I couldn’t care less about whose idea it was, I only care about this actually happening and coming to a venue that is reasonably close to Towson.

That being said, I know that I would honestly spend a hefty amount of money and travel a reasonable distance to satisfy my 90s kid dreams. There have been no comments about this possibility from any of the Spices, but I am still clinging to the hope that this is a possibility.

If any member of the Backstreet Boys or Spice Girls management is reading this, may I suggest that you have the boys do the choreography to “Wanna Be” and the girls sing “Everybody?”

Now that would be a show.

the second company, Ailey II, by artistic director Troy Powell. Among the 80 women who auditioned, she was one of three who were given apprenticeship to the company.

Pinkett said she is inspired to dance by many people and things: her mom, dancers Misty Copeland, Judith Jamison, the dance department’s own Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, professors, friends, nature and things she reads.

“There are so many things that inspire me to dance but I think it’s my own drive that keeps me going,” Pinkett said. “It’s a physical thing.

It’s something you feel and something that grants me comfort and warmth and understanding.”

For the remainder of her time at Towson, Pinkett wants to reach out to the community and help others utilize their resources to reach their goals. She wants to continue teaching and doing master classes, collaborating with other artists and

Courtesy of Mike Washington of Aura Creative Company

Jessica Pinkett is an apprentice with the Ailey II dance company. musicians, and even put on her own dance production.

After graduation, Pinkett plans to do everything she can to excel in her dance career, including audition-

ing for other dance productions and companies as well as the Alvin Ailey first company.

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De-stressing with SGA yoga CHRISTINE LAFRANCESCA Staff Writer @LaFrancesca27

Last Friday in the Potomac lounge, Towson’s Student Government Association hosted “Yoga with SGA,” which featured three, hour-long yoga sessions held by Sid Yoga instructors.

Sid McNairy, founder and owner of Sid Yoga, has been at his York Road location for four years and is passionate about helping students engage in physical activity.

“I was an athlete in college,” McNairy said. “I also coached football when I was in college in northern Illinois. I want students, athletes and other-wise, to understand how much yoga and meditation can improve your life, along with help you find strength and stability, both mentally and physically.”

Missy Ronan, a sophomore who chairs the Government Operations Committee in the student senate, was worked to help plan the event.

“I wanted SGA to have an event that featured an alternative way to

deal with stress,” Ronan said.

The idea for the event came to her after she got more involved with yoga in the last couple of semesters, she said.

McNairy has been inspired by various yoga teachers and coaches such as Rodney Yee and Baron Baptiste.

Baptiste’s techniques are now the core foundation of many Sid Yoga sequences. McNairy is confident in these practices and ensures that they are keys to living with power.

“I went to Goucher and was on the swim team,” Pilar Gimenez, an instructotor at Sid Yoga, said. “Once I graduated, I really missed doing something physical everyday, but was looking for a change and something new to try. Stepping into Sid’s was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”

McNairy and Gimenez were excited to see that many Towson students participated in both the yoga and meditation seminars and hope to get even more students in the studio, both as members and teachers.

“We have a 300-hour teacher training program that we are really glad students have taken advantage of,”

McNairy said. “A lot of student athletes have come in to see the kind of job opportunity that awaits them.

That’s another reason why I push our teacher training program so intensely. I want students, especially athletes, to know that there are options for them once they graduate.”

As students concluded their mediation session with Gimenez, students shook her hand and thanked her for her guidance.

“That’s what it’s about,” Gimenez said. “I love when I can tell that students really got something out of one of our sessions. I makes me feel accomplished, like we’re helping them find relaxation and peace.”

Ronan said that McNairy was very cooperative when planning the event.

“He was awesome, he was wonderful,” she said. “He was really excited about the event. He wants to do it pretty regularly.”

Ronan said that she and McNairy discussed doing yoga events on campus around every midterm.

-- Cody Boteler contributed to this article.

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Pumpkin goodies BRITTANY PATRICK Columnist

So, I may have hopped on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Not the lattes, per se – I’m not a huge coffee drinker.

Nevertheless, I’ve been curious about other ways I can take advantage of this autumn-induced pumpkin combo, and how I – and every other autumn-happy girl out there – could benefit from it.

Taking a look at the typical ingredients that go into all the pumpkin spice goodies, the answer was obvious: a scrub! Using these four all-natural ingredients, I created a mixture that will keep my skin, and hopefully yours too, feeling seamlessly vibrant and beautiful this autumn. The first is cinnamon. Say goodbye to bacteria, and hello to blood flow. This spice is wonderful for your skin, and will help clear out the bad stuff and smooth you out.

Next, is raw honey. I always make sure to add this into my homemade facial scrubs. It’s a powerhouse ingredient packed full of positive benefits.

Honey is rich in antioxidants, naturally antibacterial and used in a lot of acne treatments. Because it is extremely moisturizing and soothing, it helps your complexion glow. Lastly but definitely not least, it can clarify your face by opening up pores.

In addition, brown sugar is an exfoliating ingredient. Gently massage into your skin with your fingertips, allowing that dead summer skin to disappear.

The last ingredient is organic puree pumpkin. I had no idea this stuff was so good for your skin. When first adding it to my scrub, I thought it would add a nice texture and cooling feel, without knowing that it would actually benefit the face. It is an excellent treatment for all skin types, especially damaged or sensitive skin.

Mix these ingredients up in a small bowl. Use as little or as much of each as you want. I love recipes like this where you can personalize it for your own skin. There are no rules here, make it yours. Put your scrub in a jar, store it in the fridge and share these pumpkin spice benefits with everyone this fall.

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Movie Review: “99 Homes”

American economic blues Veggies and values JESSICA RICKS Staff Writer

Vegetarians, vegans and any student curious to know more about the meatfree lifestyle is welcome to join the Veg Club.

Many of the people who join the club are already vegetarian, or are at least open to that lifestyle, yet the transition is always a little bit challenging.

“Growing up eating meat your whole life and living with meat eaters, I definitely had to learn new ways to get my protein in, and I’m still trying to learn how to cook,” Vice President of Veg Club Sarah Elsayed said.

Veg Club will be volunteering with the SPCA and will have a speaker, Chris Dtrick, who is a big vegan activist in the Baltimore area, this semester.

“I feel like Towson has a really big environmental initiative and we really tie into that,” President of the Veg Club, Skylar Moore, said. “Especially next semester I want to work a lit-

tle more closely with environmental groups at Towson.”

Vegetarianism and veganism isn’t just about health and animal rights, it has implications on many other aspects.

“I think a lot of people, when they hear a plant-based lifestyle, they think it’s just about animal welfare,” Elsayed said. “And that’s a big sector of it but there are a lot of people that care more about the environment, world hunger, their health, so they do it for those reasons.”

The club also brings awareness to the environmental and health consequences that eating meat causes.

“I know personally for me when I went vegetarian and vegan, it opened up so many doors and exposed me to so many concepts,” Moore said. “I think I really gained a lot of knowledge doing that. I think Towson values diversity so much that this really is another form of diversity.”

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RYAN PERMISON Staff Writer

The mortgage crisis of the late 2000s hit the economy pretty hard.

Many families were evicted from their homes when the banks took ownership of their property. This brings us to the newly released film, “99 Homes.”

In Florida, Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is doing all he can to provide for his son, Connor, and his mother, Lynn (Laura Dern). However, one day, real estate agent Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) evicts them from their home.

Out of desperation, Dennis agrees to help Rick evict other families from their homes so he can earn enough money to buy his own house.

The relationship between Dennis and Rick is a tense one. As Rick takes Dennis under his wing, the jobs become more dangerous with the payoff becoming much greater with each job.

Each time Dennis gives homeowners the bad news, he loses a piece

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“99 Homes” was released in theaters on Sept. 25. of his soul. From start to finish, you get the idea of how bad this part of American history will become.

With each passing moment, the tension and emotion in this film rises.

It shows just how far a father is willing to go to provide for his family. We learn more about Nash’s and Carver’s background as the movie progresses.

The supporting cast does a great job of adding to every scene. The acting, pacing and direction of the film

are the things that mainly stood out to me.

I know Andrew Garfield has done several movies before this, but this is the best performance of his career. He has come a long way since his days as Spider-Man. Michael Shannon has made a habit of playing the antagonist in several movies.

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Home Sweet Home Tigers nipped by huskies JORDAN COPE Assistant Sports Editor @jordancope26

Towson returned home to SECU Arena and extended its Colonial Athletic Association winning streak to five games after defeating Northeastern 3-1 Sunday and Hofstra 3-0 Friday.

“It’s really awesome when we get to play at home,” redshirt junior Candace Steadman said. “I think it’s a really good environment to play in and the fans really help out with how we play.”

Against the Huskies, the Tigers set the tone with a 25-17 win in set one and a 25-16 win in set two.

In the first set, Northeastern held a 9-7 lead, but Towson went on a 4-0 run to take an 11-9 lead in the middle of the set.

Later in the set, the Tigers went on a 5-0 run to take a 22-16 lead and won eight of the last nine points to clinch the victory “We can’t really take anyone lightly,” Steadman said. “We just come out and play hard as we always do and try to get a win.”

In set two, Towson and Northeastern exchanged points and were tied 3-3 early. However, the Tigers went on a 5-0 run in the middle of the set to take a 14-7 lead before clinching the set 25-16.

“Northeastern definitely has a really good outside,” Head Coach Don Metil said. “They run a lot of crossing pat-

terns so we had to find their attackers and make sure our blockers blocked accordingly.”

While the Tigers dropped set three 26-24, the team took set four 28-26.

The Tigers jumped out to an early 4-1 lead after going on a 3-0 run.

However, the Huskies battled back, forcing the Tigers to go on a 3-0 run to close out the set and earn the win.

In Friday’s victory over the Hofstra Pride, Towson won 3-0.

In set one, the Tigers and Pride were tied 3-3 early. However, Towson later went on a 3-0 run to take a 6-4 lead.

In the middle of the set, the Tigers and Pride remained neck and neck until Towson went on a 4-0 run and scored on six of its last seven opportunities to earn a 25-23 win.

“The first thing I saw was a lot of sloppiness, we had so many careless unforced errors,” Metil said. “It was amazing that we were in the game through the middle of the set. Luckily we turned things around and played a little bit better but there is no need for us to come out and be that tight in our own gym.”

In set two, the Tigers earned a 27-25 victory. Towson took an early 9-3 lead after going on an early 6-0 run.

While Hofstra battled back and took a 24-23 lead late in the set, the Tigers held on and closed out the set with a 3-0 run.

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DESMOND BOYLE Staff Writer

The Tigers lost two double overtime games this weekend to Hofstra and Northeastern.

On Friday, Towson took on Hofstra in a rematch of last year’s CAA playoffs in which the Tigers were eliminated as the Pride won 3-0. This game, the Pride dominated possession early on as Towson struggled to handle Hofstra’s high tempo and suffocating pressure.

Hofstra was rewarded for its aggressive play after about 20 minutes following incisive passing that tore apart the Tiger defense. Midfielder Kristen Desmond crossed the ball from right to left and found forward Jenn Buoncore

all alone as the ball was lifted over Towson’s defense and goalie.

Buoncore then shot the ball with pace into an open net.

The Tigers struggled early on, but as halftime passed and the game progressed, the Tigers worked harder and began to create chances on long balls over the top of the Hofstra defense.

Towson finally put the ball into the back of the net after junior midfielder Emily Marshall sent a high arced cross over several Pride defenders before sophomore Maddie Bove latched her foot onto the cross and tapped the ball into the back of the net.

Hofstra ended Towson’s hopes of completing the comeback in the second overtime. Pride forward Jill Mulholland dribbled her way around

one Towson defender before lashing her shot into the bottom left corner of the net.

Towson was forced into a comeback situation once again against Northeastern on Sunday.

Northeastern scored a bizarre opener after the referee ruled that Northeastern had scored despite it appearing as though Towson’s junior goalie Taylor Sebolao had kept the ball from crossing the line.

The Huskies then scored with five minutes left in the half from a corner kick. Towson struggled to retain possession for most of the game before making dramatic adjustments with 20 minutes to go.

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Davis not worth crushing the bank TIM ANDERSON Staff Writer @TimmyWade94

Before we know it, it will be April.

That is what fans of the 20 nonplayoff teams were telling each other two weekends ago.

For the Orioles – one of those 20 non-playoff teams – this offseason comes with the heightened duty to try to prolong the magic that has aided them to four consecutive .500 seasons for the first time since 1982-1985.

With contracts expiring, dispositions apparently souring in the front office and star players pressuring those in charge to do whatever it takes to keep those on the current squad, the Orioles have their hands full with more than just hot chocolate this winter.

But, before we know it, it will be April, and questions will have to be answered, players will have to be signed and the others replaced.

And there are some big ones that the Orioles will have to make decisions on this offseason.

Angelos name.

The biggest one goes by “Crush.”

But the Orioles and their fans need Before we know it, it will be April, to wake up and smell the Old Bay. and we will be remembering game 162 There are times when it made sense when Chris Davis hit his last two home to pay Davis whatever he would garner runs as an Oriole – his 160th and 161st on the open market – and some may in parts of five seasons with the team, see now as one of those times. But the an exuberant statement of “pay me, reality is that Davis is more fickle than or else.”

Maryland weather. In matching, say, Or at least that is what we should be a $16-20 million offer to keep Davis, remembering. the Orioles would be making a highMany experts rank Davis as one of priced gamble: would they see more the top five free agents this offseason, of the 2014 Davis who hit only also known as the players who .196 or the 2013 Davis who will be paid a crap-load slugged a team-record 53 of money. After leading home runs and drove the American League in 138 runs? Will it two of the last three be more of the 1.000+ seasons in home OPS Davis, or the runs and providing, 200+ strikeout Davis? at times, the team’s IN THIS CORNER A high-priced gamble only source of offense, like that would show a a lot of teams looking for commitment to win from the a power-hitting first baseman franchise that has never been shown will throw money at Davis. Teams like before. But, it would also be a comthe Mets and Blue Jays will be more mitment to disappointment in three than happy to pay Crush close to $20 or so years. million a year for him to enact his What some fans – and apparently nickname.

Adam Jones – do not realize is that you And Baltimoreans will throw cannot pay everybody. Giving Davis their hands in the air and curse the

close to $20 million a season takes funds away from bolstering the rotation, solidifying the bullpen or building a lineup around Davis that will help the team compete in 2016 and beyond.

It’ll take at least $15 million a year for about five years to keep Davis in orange and black, and that is being conservative. Sabermetricians predict that keeping Davis would only give

the Orioles about 75 wins next season with their current roster, a mediocre number when considering the expected salary.

The team could just as easily sign two or three players for the same price they are paying Davis and see a better return in their investment.

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October 13, 2015

Back to the drawing board CHRIS WELLS Staff Writer @cgwells

Towson men’s and women’s swimming and diving both lost their first dual meet of the season at Colonial Athletic Association against rival William & Mary on Oct. 10.

Head Coach Pat Mead plans on putting the Tiger’s defeat behind them and moving forward.

“We’re getting back to work first thing Monday with a 6 a.m. workout,” Mead said. “Sometimes you have to lose to remind yourself what you are fighting to win.”

Junior Macey Arnold performed at a high level and won the 200-yard (1:51.71), 500-yard (5:01.61) and 1000yard freestyle (10:14.45) events.

Senior Jenna Van Camp also had a strong meet and won the 100-yard (1:05.01) and 200-yard breaststroke

(2:20.76.) events.

Senior Charlotte Holz won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:07.12.

“Macey Arnold, Jenna Van Camp and Charlotte Holz led the fight against a very talented William & Mary team,” Mead said. “Our women will need to learn from this loss and become better in all aspects of their training if they hope to be competitive at the end of the year.”

On the men’s side freshmen Jack Saunderson flashed his potential winning the 200-yard butterfly event with a time of 1:50.43.

Tiger’s dominated the 1000-yard freestyle event taking the top three finishes led by junior Tim Schade (9:29.78), sophomore Matt Sieffert (9:37.46) and junior Brandon Ress.

The youth of the team was evident in defeat as Coach Mead expected more from his large group of freshmen.

“We are very young it seems in many areas,” Mead said. “Some might say this is going to be a rebuilding year from the looks of things.”

Though the dual meet season may prove tougher than expected, Coach Mead is looking forward to individuals prospects of a strong postseason.

“I am excited about the conference championships, there are a great number of people with potential it’s just a matter of who wants to do the work necessary to be great,” Mead said.

Looking to get their first dual meet victory of the season, the Tigers will head to Georgetown University on Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.

“We will have lots of work to do so our dual meet season might be rough, but the end will be solid,” Mead said.

“Again, we will get back after it on Monday with a new enthusiasm and desire to be great.”

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This past Sunday, the Tigers (2-11, 0-3 CAA) traveled to take on the Hofstra Pride (11-4, 1-1) in a conference match, but lost 9-0.

The Tigers got off to a slow start, getting behind 5-0 in the first half of play. Scoring in bunches, the Pride got on the board twice in the 13th minute of play and three more toward the tail end of the half.

The Tigers were very active defensively in the first half despite the five goals, with Stacey Mackintosh and Erika McKay both recording defensive saves.

Goalkeeper Emilee Woodall made 12 first half saves and the Tigers stopped three first half penalty corner opportunities.

Her defensive performance earned her praise from the referees and the coaching staff.

Head Coach Carly Campana said that Woodall “played great.”

In the second half, Hofstra scored four more goals while shutting out the Tigers to get a 9-0 victory in the conference match up.

For Hofstra, Simca Schoen scored a hat trick with her third goal of the game in the 45th minute.

The Pride outshot the Tigers 21-0 in the second half as well. This ended up leaving the Tigers behind in shots taken

44-3 (33-2 on goal).

When asked about the shots taken total after the game, Campana praised them for playing hard all game, but said they need to “play for each other and apply the concepts and skills taught at practice.”

She also said that she can see the potential of the team and that, “they just need to put it all together.”

Woodall made three second half saves to finish with 15 saves for the game, and sophomore Megan Boyle

came in as a sub for her for the final 18:18.

Using this game as a lesson, the coaching staff is looking forward to a bright future with this young team, choosing to measure success based upon “input of work, the use of our minds, and our ability to play with and for one another for an entire game.”

The Tigers travel next week to play a non-conference game at La Salle on Oct. 18 at noon.

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Tigers downed by dukes in shootout TYLER BEARD Staff Writer @tylerbeard2

No. 5 James Madison had 455 yards of total offense in its 51-30 win over Towson on Saturday afternoon.

“I’d like to congratulate James Madison, Coach Withers and their entire team,” Head Coach Rob Ambrose said. “There’s a reason they’re ranked as high as they are and they’re really impressive. I’m proud of our guys in how we responded, figuring out how to fix the little things and if we didn’t spot them 14 points, maybe we’ll be able to win big ball games like this.”

The Tigers’ (2-3, 0-2 CAA) special teams struggled with a fumble on the opening kick return, missed two extra points and also allowed a 92-yard kick return touchdown late in the third quarter that put the Dukes (6-0, 3-0 CAA) ahead 34-23.

“It’s heartbreaking but at the end of the day, it’s just another play, another down,” redshirt junior linebacker Jordan Mynatt, who blocked a punt in the third quarter, said.

The Dukes scored the first touchdown of the game in just two offensive plays after the team recovered

freshman cornerback Lyrics Klugh’s fumble on the kick return.

However, Towson responded with a 10-play drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown run from junior running back Darius Victor. The running back gained just 44 rushing yards, but played through an ankle injury he suffered in the game against Elon.

The Tigers were held scoreless after Victor’s touchdown until redshirt senior quarterback Connor Frazier connected with junior wide receiver Christian Summers for a 9-yard touchdown pass, which cut the James Madison lead to 17-14.

“As the receivers go, we’ve just been working together each week trying to get our chemistry down,” Frazier said. “Each week, I think we are getting better.”

Frazier finished the game with three passing touchdowns and a team-high 54 rushing yards.

The Tigers were able to keep up with the Dukes’ offense in the first half and only trailed 24-17 at halftime after a 41-yard field goal from senior kicker Sam Hurwitz.

However, Towson struggled in the second half against James Madison’s quarterback Vad Lee, who finished the game with five passing touch-

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Quarterback Connor Frazier drops back in the pocket to pass in Towson’s loss to James Madison. downs.

Lee helped the Dukes build a lead in the third quarter against the Tigers and his 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Ravenel extended the team’s lead to 41-23.

“I said this before the game and I’m going to stick with it,” Ambrose

said of James Madison. “This is the most talented two-deep in all three phases of the game that I have seen in the CAA since I’ve been here.”

Towson’s bright spot was that its defense managed to hold James Madison to its lowest yard-total in the first half all season.

Senior and junior linebacker Eric Handy finished with a career-high 14 tackles and also recorded a sack.

Towson will look to get its first win in the CAA in its upcoming away matchup against the Stony Brook Seawolves (2-2, 1-2 CAA). The game is at 6 p.m.

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Towson’s men’s basketball team began practice this week, which kicked off the 2015-16 season.

“I really like this group,” Head Coach Pat Skerry said. “They are a talented group that is committed versus being interested. They’ve worked hard and I’m excited, but we have a lot more work to do.”

Towson has brought in four new players to the team this season, including redshirt junior forward Arnaud William Adala Moto, who sat out last season after transferring from Wake Forest.

“He’s definitely the biggest addi-

tion we have this year,” Skerry said.

“He’s a guy that plays at a fast pace.”

Moto averaged 6.9 points and 5.2 rebounds during the 2013-14 season his sophomore year at Wake Forest and is a former four-star recruit, according to ESPN. Due to NCAA transfer rules, Moto sat out last season.

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They’ve worked hard and I’m excited, but we have a lot more work to do.

PAT SKERRY Head Coach

The Tigers also added three new faces with redshirt freshman guard Jordan McNeil and freshman forwards Alex Thomas and Dennis

Tunstall.

McNeil, a graduate of nearby Mount Saint Joseph’s High School, chose Towson over schools such as College of Charleston, Toledo and UMBC. Joining sophomore Byron Hawkins, McNeil adds another weapon to Skerry’s young backcourt.

Thomas, a transfer from Coastal Academy who also had to sit out last season due to NCAA transfer rules, is a 6’9” forward who averaged 17.1 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game as a senior at Hawthorne Christian Academy in New Jersey.

Also in the front court is 6’8” forward Tunstall who is a three-star recruit out of Life Center Academy in New Jersey, according to ESPN. In his senior season, Tunstall averaged 16.9 points for LCA. “All of these guys have great length and athleticism,” Skerry

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Head Coach Pat Skerry at a game against Hofstra last year. said. “They’re here because they’re great offensively, but what’s big with freshmen is how can they not hurt you defensively.”

The collection of incoming fresh-

men and transfers join a core group of players remaining from last season’s disappointing 12-20 finish.

Towson’s first game is an away game against La Salle on Nov. 16.