It’s new. It’s nifty. It’s eTU.
Welcome to the inaugural issue of eTU, Towson University’s faculty/staff newsletter. With each weekly issue, you’ll receive timely features, photos and facts in an attractive, easy-to-read format—all for a few moments of your time and a few clicks of your mouse.

Jan Lucas, writer/editor

Straight talk about campus crime
Perceptions and reality at odds, says police chief
Col. Bernard Gerst is as interested in myth-busting as crime-busting these days. [more...]

Lighten up, Mr. Newell
First principal’s descendants hope to help restore 125-year-old painting
M.A. Newell, his purposeful Victorian features softened by time and grime, keeps watch over the campus from the top floor of Cook Library. The oversized portrait, painted midway through his 24-year stint as TU’s first principal, [more...]

Our Town coming to our campus
TU welcomes visit by The National Players
America’s longest-running classical touring company will perform one of America’s most loved plays on Tuesday, January 20, at 8 p.m. in Stephens Hall Theatre. [more...]

Recent Media Highlights
Caret takes positive approach to Towson, university relations
Towson Times, January 8
President Robert L. Caret spoke to reporter Loni Ingraham about his dream “to make Towson, or a significant part of Towson, a college town,” adding that it would foster a better town/gown relationship--and boost the economy.

Make all polluters pay
The Sun Op/Ed, January 5, 2004
Jeffrey Michael, Department of Economics, advocated taxing agricultural polluters to generate funds for better pollution control technology. “If it makes people feel better, we could call it a user fee for the bay,” he wrote.

Md. home values rise fastest in a dozen years
The Sun, December 31, 2002
John Hopkins, RESI, told Sun reporter Larry Carson that the state’s fast-rising home values--and the economic housing segregation produced by high prices--are blocking many middle-and low-income people from the suburban home market.