Towson University is removing the acting track within the theatre major and replacing it with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting as early as fall 2012, according to acting track coordinator and associate professor Steve Satta. The transformation of the program began eight years ago, Satta said, when the theatre department sought accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Theater (NAST), meaning Towson’s theatre department must maintain a certain level of rigor, diversity [...]

Frank Warren, creator of popular blog PostSecret presented at Towson Wednesday, Nov. 16, courtesy of the Campus Activities Board. Warren was one speaker featured during Towson’s Love is Louder week,  a national anti-bullying campaign. Towerlight: When did you start PostSecret? What was going through your head when you did?  Frank Warren: The blog started in February of 2005. My whole life, I felt that I had this rich interior life of inside jokes and sexual thoughts [...]

During the first week of school, members of the department of sociology clad in “Liberal Arts Search and Rescue” T-shirts helped guide lost students in the newly completed Center for Liberal Arts building to classrooms, administrative offices and bathrooms. Even though the guides are gone, some students still may not know their way around very well. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Interim Provost Terry Cooney said there are other options for these [...]

S&J’s crab ranch will open its doors Friday, Sept. 9 on West Pennsylvania Ave. The shop was initially set to open Thursday, but the Grand Prix caused a delay, according to co-owner Steve Recher. Recher said they’ve been fixing up the restaurant and preparing the staff for the restaurant’s grand opening for the past month and a half. Recher said he and his business partner James Kahn were looking for a place in the Towson, Timonium area [...]

With the grand opening of the new College of Liberal Arts building, the use of the former liberal arts building, Linthicum Hall, has been severely limited, according to Director of Facilities Management, Architecture and Engineering David Mayhew. No classes are being held in the building, but it currently serves as the base for Towson’s janitorial services, ABM. Their future offices in Burdick Hall will be finished later this year. Smith Hall is the next academic [...]

It has been more than a year since Towson became the first smoke-free campus in Maryland.   For many students, this meant being able to breathe clean air and avoid clouds of smoke on their way to class. For others, this meant having to take a farther walk to designated off-campus sites and sidewalks to smoke freely.   “It’s dramatically changed the culture of campus, in terms of both clean air and where smoking takes [...]

While some college students regard fake IDs as a rite of passage to drink and have a good time, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein stressed their illegality Thursday by announcing federal charges against a University of Maryland, College Park junior who is accused of making and selling illegitimate driver’s licenses from his dorm in 2009. Theodore Stephen Michaels, a straight-A triple major, could face decades in prison if he’s convicted of the 16 counts returned [...]

A concert that started in a stadium on a bright, sunshine-filled Friday ended with about 4,000 drenched attendees seeking refuge from a lightning storm in a crowded arena or heading home in frustration. Because of weather conditions, a lack of organization, and a lack of communication, students who came to Tigerfest were unsure when each act was performing or where, according to Director of Student Activities Dirron Allen. Allen said CAB had never released set times at [...]

The Student Government Association’s proposed resolution to support the administration and auxiliary services’s textbook rental program failed at their meeting Tuesday. The proposal was discussed for 45 minutes of the two hours the SGA met, their longest meeting of the year. The SGA debated the pros and cons of the rental program, which included a fixed price between $45 and $60 per class every semester to be paid by students. The fee would cover all [...]

Results for the Student Government Association elections were announced to a packed Loch Raven Room Thursday evening. With a total of 3,444 undergraduate student votes this year, Matt Sikorski’s Got Towson Love ticket was just seven votes away from being elected as a full ticket. The voting held throughout Wednesday and Thursday resulted in a split ticket, with three Got Towson Love candidates and two Towson State of Mind candidates. None of the Doc’s Dream Team [...]