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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4,1970
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SOE in Transition
The School of Education at Albany State has for some time
been a sort of veneer on the University, getting attention mainly
as a sluice for funnelling out undergraduates who want to avoid
their subject disciplines and get quick jobs as teachers.
Undergraduates seriously interested in becoming good teachers
have been faced with a set of required courses stagnant from years
of neglect.
Right now, the School of Ed is moving in the direction of
significant structural change, but it is moving slowly and is not
quite sure of the direction it's going in. The changes would
respond to the loud but unorganized student criticism of last
semester, to several long-standing complaints from individual
professors in SOE and to the general ancient malaise students have
suffered in education courses, since we ceased being a small
teacher's college.
Changes are slow and haphazard for a number of reasons.
Criticism may be aimed at Education professors for courses which
are dull and seem to lack substance; at the SOE administration for
not responding to student discontent sooner; at the University
Administration for giving SOE no powers of advisement or any
other status among the rest of the University schools and colleges;
at the State of New York for an education budget which
encourages the funding of graduate departments at the expense of
undergraduate courses.
The first important step toward changing the situation at
Albany was initiated last spring by the Dean of the School of Ed,
Randolph Gardner; he created a Student Advisory Council and
provided for funds and a graduate-student organizer to keep it
going. This semester several professors, notably Dr. Berger of the
Foundations Department and Dr. Cochrane of English Education,
have outlined plans which vary from the unrealistic to the
ingenious and quite practical. And President Benezet has
instituted a Task Force on Deucalion to investigate administrative
problems.
But most criticism should be directed at a large, potentially
powerful group which has so far made few constructive inroads
into the system: undergraduate students who take Education
courses.
Student reaction to Ed courses has been characterized by
assorted feelings of tolerance, apathy, somnolence, and disgust.
Yet no constructive ideas were forthcoming until last spring when
a handful of students with concrete suggestions attempted to
organize and put to work several hundred strike-bound students
interested mainly in attending rap sessions. What traces remain of
last spring's activity in this area are largely the result of Dean
Gardner's efforts. And this year, organization of undergraduates
remains a demanding task: Two showed up at a hearing last
Monday on the Berger Proposal to make all undergraduate Ed
courses elective; eight students responded to announcements and
phone calls about a meeting of the Student Advisory Council
Tuesday night; classroom reaction has become more vocal in favor
of change, but so far few students have devoted extra-curricular
time to the Teacher Ed Program.
The last paragraph of the Berger Proposal ends with the
exhortation: "Why do we have to wait for students to tell us what
is wrong?...Why not...initiate the change ourselves?" Faculty
mem hers-as well as a number of graduate students-have already
made first steps toward change, and all Ed professors, with few
exceptions, have either shown a tolerance for student criticism or
have expressed great anxiety that not enough students are being
heard.
Despite the disappointing figures mentioned above, there are
already a good number of undergraduates interested in finding out
what's going on and in having their say. Right now, and especially
next semester, they have a number of opportunities: Student
Advisory Council, the Berger Proposal hearings, a newly-formed
committee to improve Methods courses, and the responsiveness of
their own Ed professors. Let us give some direction, and perhaps a
bit more impetus, to the forces for correction already set in
motion
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State Uniuerfitij of New York at Albany
Tuesday, December 8, 1970
LAAC Requests
Haley Resignation
Corning
To the Editor:
It was a pleasure to have an
interview with you last week, and
I have but one observation, and
that is regarding the comments of
Mr. Walter Tisdale and Mr. Buckoff.
I would like to make it absolutely clear that those who had the
responsibility for planning the
sewer system of the State University were one hundred percent
aware of where sewage was going
from the University, whether into
the sewage treatment plant at
Westerly Island or into Patroon
Creek. For Mr. Buckoff to try to
relieve the Slate University of its
responsibility is unrealistic. I
doubt if he would have appreciated it if the City had refused to let
the drainage from the Univeristy
go into the City of Albany sewer
sy.,tem.
The State University is a polluter as is the Tobin Packing Company, and other sewage going into
Patroon Creek. The responsibility
primarily rests with the people of
the state and nation whose interest in cleaning up the waters of
this country is comparatively recent.
I would also like to point out
that the City of Albany did build
a sewage treatment plant prior to
1920—modern when il was built.
The people of Albany have spent
over $5,000,000 on its construction and operation, and because
of the fact that none of the
municipalities on the other side of
the Hudson constructed any treatment facilities, the people of
Albany in effect received no belief i t. from their more than
$0,000,000 expense. 1 might also
point out that il has been generally recognized that the City of
Albany took the local lead in
furthering, enthusiastically, the
State's Pure Waters Program.
Sincerely yours,
Erastus Corning
Mayor of Albany
Rules
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Albany Student Press
Vol. IVII No.38
features editor
John o'grady
assistant features editor
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FIVE CENTS OFF CAMPUS
To the Editor:
It seems that many people on
campus feci justifyably outraged
at the national bullshit that they
seemingly can't do much about:
senators who are both directors of
large banks and committeemen
for financial policy, judges who
start racist country clubs and then
rule on discrimination suits, presidents who articulate about "uniting our divided country" and smilingly accept hardhats.
Yet 1, for one, am just as angry
at the bureaucratic bullshit that
goes on in our own university; the
rules without reasons, the arbitrary privileges, the unnecessary exploitations. Meaningless rules such
as allowing only three people to
visit someone in the infirmary;
arbitrarily established privileges
such as not permitting a student
to have a kitten in a suite yet
allowing a dorm director directly
below to have a dog, strictly
selfish exploitations such as forcing anyone who resides in university dormitories to buy an FSA
meal plan (How are they related?)
or implementing a clever bookstore policy in which getting the
discounts on textbooks is made
such a hassle that nobody ever
bothers.
Dig it: if we allow this kind of
shit in a micro-community of
15,000 people what kinds of shit
will we allow in the macro-community of 200 million that awaits
us all?
Michael Dickman
communications
Not Enough?
To the Editor:
As a staunch member of the
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY, I
am very proud of the way the
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY candidates, headed by former subway
dispatcher Steve Emery for Governor, conducted themselves in the
recent campaign.
In contrast to other so-called
Marxist parties, the SLP candidates did NOT make a chap bid
for voles by indulging in reform
bait promises bul stressed the
validity of making the much
needed imperative change from
capitalism to socialism.
Sooner or later the working class
majority is hound to accept the
solution offered by the SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY, the sooner
the better!
I noted the remarks made by
Basil Paterson as reported in the
Oct, 6 ALBANY STUDENT
PRESS.
To be against the wur in Vietnam is NOT enough. In order to
get rid of war entirely, capitalism
has to be abolished because it is
capitalism with its profit motive
that breeds war.
The logical thing to do is to
work to bring about Socialism
where production will be for use,
with the industries of the country
belonging to ALL the people,
NOT to a few as is the case today.
Nathan Pressman
Member of the SLP
Palestine
To the Editor:
The ideas of Mr. Bob Warner in
this article are those of a person
totally ignorant of the real situation in the Middle East. He fails to
recognize that the basic issue is
that Israel has had unjustly displaced a peaceful people giving
them misery in place of a paradise. It is this trend of ignoring
the desires of the Palestinians that
characterized the efforts of the
Zionists, the British, and the Arab
statesmen and that complicated
the problem and made it insoluble.
We, Palestinians, are not
opposed in priniciple to the desire
of the Jews to have a state of their
own, but we are definitely opposed to anybody who encroaches
upon our land and occupies it by
force. What is dangerous in the
logic of Mr. Warner is that he
reiterates the Israeli configurations of the situation without
reflecting upon them. Thus, Israel's non-acceptunce of the Palestinians, the original owners of
the country, is just and reasonable; the Arabs are notorious,
they have rabid minds, and they
hate the Jews! By the same token,
it is only just and reasonable that
Israel would take over land by
force expanding its territories and
building new colonies and settlements as in the West Bank, the
Sinai, and the Golan Heights. This
is why we say that Israel is expansionist and imperialist. If Israel is
democratic, it is only in the sense
that Great Britain or France was
democratic with the British or the
French and despotic with the
"backward subjects." If Israel
were a forerunner of economic
socialism how could you explain
the fact that she has been continuously financed by capitalistic individuals, firms, and states right
from the beginning till the present? What we should realize is
that, if we should correct the
injustices done to the Jews in the
West we should not achieve this
by creating further injustices to
the Palestinians in the East. Finally, the decision to assimilate in
another country or not is fur the
Palestinians to make not for their
oppressors.
Bashir Khadra
GSPA
Dr. Harry Hamilton, the Director of EOP, receiving a plaque from President Benezet. The plaque, which
was given to Hamilton from students, faculty, and administrators, was awarded for his "constant concern
for all students."
...benjamin
Clingan Named Editor
ASP Sets Goals For Future
Growth and change will direct
the Albany Student Press in the
coming semester, according to
newly elected Editor-in-Chief
Tom Clingan.
Plans for a thrice weekly
publication, expanded coverage
and staff, and membership in an
advertising cooperative will hopefully be completed by the next
semester. The increased revenues
through the business venture will
provide most of the funding for
the expansion of the paper when
coupled with projected additional
appropriation
from St uden t
Association.
The printing of three issues per
week is the culmination of an
extensive re-organization of the
Albany Student Press begun Ibis
semester under the leadership of
Neill Shanahan. This had let! to
several innovations this semester:
sixteen page issues, highlighting
the general format of twelve page
issues, some use of color, and a
new arrangement for more efficient production.
Next semester's goals will allow
many of the editors of the ASP to
examine and evaluate their positions on the paper with the overall
direction of their education at the
university. The absence of a journalism school and courses has
been a barrier to expansion of the
paper. An increase in productivity
necessitates an increased staff,
both technical and reportorial.
Action through various committees seem to indicate the university's interest in this area, but
as yet this has been a seriously
neglected area of study.
"With the stress on educational
communication on this campus,
it's surprising to find absolutely
nothing in the field of journalism," commented Clingan, accurately summing up the opinion of
most of the ASP staff.
Membership in the Associated
College Media will also allow foi
the growth of the Albany Student
Press, according to Business Mana
ger Chuck Ribak and Ad Manage*
Jeff Rodgers. By increasing th'
revenues through advertising, crt
ativity can he expressed through
the use oT color, more pages, am
the printing of more issues.
The Associated College Media l
a new venture under the directioi
of ;i local business man, Davi
Ca vena ugh, which includes mos
of the col lege newspapers anc
radio stations of the Capital Are.
as its membership. Working with
the business staffs of these college
media, the organization aims at
increasing advertising income
through the union of all the
schools, thereby creating an attractive market for local advertisers.
Clingan was elected to the position of Editor-jn-Chief by majority vote of the Albany Student
Press staff on Friday. He previously served in the position of
Technical Editor of the paper. Mis
election came about as a result of
the resignation of Neill Shanahan
who is unable to continue as
Editor next semester.
by Bob Warner
News Editor
David Peck, a member of Central Council and Chairman of the
Grievance Committee, accused
Peter Haley, the Assistant Director of Food Service, of antiSemitism, last Thursday night.
The charge centered around a
bill introduced by Ken Stokem
that called for the dismissal of
Haley. Council was asked to endorse this resolution which had
been passed by LAAC.
Council refused to pass judgment on the hill, however, and
tabled it for one week. Yet many
Council members and outsiders
had their say beforehand. There
seemed to be three main positions
In the much heated debate: one of
complete proponance of the bill,
one of doubt as to the validity of
anyone's documentation, and one
of outright antagonism to the bill.
Peck's charges, were based on a
few signed affidavits and his own
personal accounts, which indicated, he said, that Haley had not
only been rude, but had "been
proven to be anti-Semitic." He
referred to what he called Haley's
"hostile" attitude toward the
kosher meal plan. He also said
that Haley refused to permit a
student to break the lunch contract, which had been recommend
by a doctor for reasons of health.
The skeptics of Peck's argument
against Haley could not, they said,
sit in judgment of a man's job on
such little evidence, and therefore,
requested Haley's presence the
following week so that he could
answer the charges. It must be
noted, though, that Council has
no power of employment in this
case; it may only recommend action.
The strongest opponents of the
hill defended Haley's character
Senate Sets Academic Calendai
I
by Boh Schwartz
graduate courses once a week on
Mondays, and the holding of
The Administration presented classes on the Wednesday before
its proposed 1971-72 calendar to T h a n Itsgi vi ng. Th e S e n a t e
the University Senate, yesterday. approved the hulk of the calendar,
The proposed calendar, which was however,
originally drawn up by Dr. Schick
The Senate passed a recantand his colleagues in the Aminis- m a it da lion from
President
1 ml ion, has been approved by the Benezet that an "Environmental
Educational Policy Commission of Decisions Commission," which
the Senate and both the Academic would make recommendation!
and Religious Affairs Commis- concerning the use of land and the
sions of Student Association. Al- development of the University's
though President Benezet stated fiic ili ties in relation to tha
thiil no long range permanent problems of the school's ecopolicies have been determined ye! logical environment. This commisregarding the relationship of the sion will have the right to oppose
calendar to religious holidays, the , the rcconunmeudations that are
new calendar will suspend classes drawn up by the central adminifor Hush 1 lash ana
and Yoni stration of SUNY.
Kippur.
John Buckhoff of Security reThe Senate brought up a few ported to the Senate that the bill
minor objections, (hough, to the passed which concerns parking vionew calendar, such as a luck of a lators will he supplemented startreading day before the finals, and ing January 1H, 1971, the start of
the fact that there are 13 Mondays in the schedule. This effects
Continued on page 10
African dancing during Black Weekend.
and competence. Some Council
members were outraged that Peck
could accuse a man of such a
controversial charge without, as
they put it, sufficient documentation.
On another controversial bill
that was introduced by five members of Council, Council narrowly
voted to table a bill that would
have "disbanded" Central Council
and frozen all Student Association
budgets.
The intent of the bill was to
create a push for a new SA constitution by March of 1971; the
decapitation of Council was a way
of getting students to come out
and vote on the constitutional
referendum. Some students, however, noted the setbacks of such a
bill. Some said that the break-up
of Council or the refunding of
student tax monies if the required
20% of the student body did not
vote, would be an incentive for
students to stay away from the
polls.
The Council seemed to be in
agreement, though, that a new
constitution was imperative.
Council, in other action, endorsed the LAAC proposal which calls
for the reduction in room rates
for residents of Indian Quad. Poor
living conditions were cited as the
prime motivations for the bill.
Council endorsed the recommendation by a white ballot, which
designates wholehearted and
unanimous support.
Council, by a 21-0-4 vote,
appropriated
$ 1 , 0 7 5 to
BLACKSPHEMY, the black literary magazine.
Council recommended to FSA,
by a vote of 25-0-1, that
Commodore Cleaners and Launderers be granted an on campus
monopoly of dry cleaning service
outlets. Roxy Cleaners, the present dry cleaning service, decided
not to participate in the bidding.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, DECEMBERS, 1970
John poll Denied Promotion
from without
CORNUCOPIA
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scholarship." In discussing scho- senior faculty and the department
larship and publishing, he asserted chairman who did not recommend
News Editor
that "publications must make a him. Their decision now goes to
Dr. Bernard Johnpoll, Associate contribution to learning not just the University Council on ProProfessor of Political Science, has to a discipline." He also felt that motions and Continuing Appointnot been recommended by his it is unfortunate that the defini- ment.
department for promotion to a tion of scholarship "is in very set T h e U ndergraduate Political
limits."
full professorship.
Science Association met yesterday
Johnpoll felt that GSPA has and decided to set up an Ad Hoc
Johnpoll came to SUNYA in
"spat"
in
his
"face,
and
has
spat
Committee which would attempt
1966, and since he has been here,
he has published three books and in the students' faces." "I feel to have the promotion decision
has just received a contract for that I am no longer bound by the reversed. An open letter to Webb
normal ammenitles of notice, and Fiser, chairman of the departanother
Johnpoll deliniuted the reasons if I decide to leave I might just ment, expressing dissatisfaction
with the senior faculty's decision
for his not being promoted, as he not show up in September."
Johnpoll expressed his apprecia- was formulated. A petition was alu nderstands it. According to
so to be drawn up
tion
to
his
students
and
the
deJohnpoll, he is considered a trouble maker by his department, and partment's junior faculty mem- A visibly shaken Bernard Johnhe remarked that "I think that bers for supporting him in his bid poll closed his discussion by saymaybe this school is so bad that it for promotion. The Under- ing, "I don't want the kids to do
graduate Political Science Associa- anything to destroy the school or
needs one."
tion (comprised of students) had
Another factor affecting the turned in a favorable recom- themselves because of this decidecision is that his books are not mendation for his promotion as sion." "It's interesting," he conconsidered by his colleagues to be did the junior faculty. The final tinued, "that a grandfather can
major contributions to his disci- decision, howewr. raited with the win the support of students and
junior faculty members."
pline. He stated in defense that all
his books dealt, with political failure and they are therefore important. His works have been reviewed by two important men in
the field of Politeal Science, one
from Harvard and one from Claremont College (Calif.), and both
have been met with favorable reviews. He has also been offered]
$3,000 by the Macmillan Co. for a
work that they have not yet even
seen.
The third item that Johnpoll
mentioned as being instrumental
in the denial of his promotion was
that he did not hold intellectual
discussions—classes were not considered intellectual discussions.
Johnpoll stated that he had a
hearing difficulty as a result of a
war injury that made such discussions difficult. He also stated that
with both writing mu\ teaching he
would like some free time.
Johnpoll also said that he had
been accused of leaking a "university secret." He dismissed this
charge as being unfounded. He
also stated that at the beginning
of this school year he was offered
a pay raise if he would withdraw
his name from the promotions
list.
Johnpoll feels that the "publish A black child entertaining himself on Albany's north side.
or perish ethic is silly, because
-Simmons
there are other ways of showing
byVicki Zeldin
World News
The Irish government, which has assumed extraordinary powers,
is tracking down the extremist group Free Ireland; the group, the
government claims, has been engaged in conspiratory acts. FretIreland, which seeks the reunification of the Republic of Ireland
and Northern Ireland, has been accused by government officials of
attempted or planned kidnappings and armed robberies.
Senator Edward Kennedy charged that many refugees in South
Vietnam have been returning to Vietcong conttolled areas because
the Thieu government has been remiss in aiding war victims.
Kennedy accused the Nixon Administration and the Saigon
government of possibly falsifying refugee statistics.
National News
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Today's issue of the Albany
Student Press is the last of the
fall semester.
The ASP will resume publication on Friday, January 22,
1971.
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President Nixon urged Congress to restore the funds for the SST
which the Senate had cut last week by a 52-41 vote. Nixon called
the vote a "devasting mistake." He said that the money invested
in the SST up to now would be wasted, the aerospace industry
would be seriously hurt, and the United Stated would be relegated
to second place in aviation.
The Defense Department has "secretly ordered" the Air Force
to substantially reinforce 500 Minuteman missile silos to guard
against attack. Though Congress has not authorized such monies,
DOD is preparing to spend up to $1 billion for the project.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
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State News
Governor Rockefeller is planning to seek state control over
many municipal functions in New York City such as sanitation
and police protection. The governor said, after the election, that
his top priority next year will be the "straightening out" of the
city's financial and administrative problems. Many observors,
though, believe that this will ignite another feud between Lindsay
and Rockfeller, because the Mayor has repeatedly spoken on
behalf of home-rule for the state's major cities.
Mayor Lindsay has requested that the state finance more than
its current share of 50% toward the four-year colleges of the City
University system. In his proposed budget, the Mayor asked that
the state pay two-thirds of the cost for the four-year institutions,
and eventually the entire financing of the CUNY senior colleges.
UNIVERSITY Concert Board
announces the
OPENING OF 6 NEW POSITIONS
FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE BOARD
ANYONE INTERESTED MUST ATTEND A MEETING ON TUES., Dec. 8
IN LECTURE CENTER 1 AT 7:00 P.M.
EOP
Dr. Harry Hamilton, Dean of Innovative Studies and Director of
the Educational Opportunities Program received a plaque from
the students, faculty and staff "for his devoted service, immeasurable patience and steadfast and constant concern for all students
who enter our domanin." The plaque was presented Dec. 1 at the
Holiday Soiree in the CC Ballroom. Dr. Benezet was in attendance.
Campus Center Governing Hoard
Due to several complaints about the presence of animals in the
snack bar and cafeteria a new policy of not allowing animals in
these areas has been adopted. The presence of animals in the
serving areas is a violation of N.Y.S. health laws and can result in
the closing of the snack bar and cafeteria.
Used Hook Sale
Collection in CC Assembly Hall-Sun., Jan. 17 5:00-9:00, and
Mon., Jan. IH and Tues., Jan 10 9:00-9:00. Sale in CC Assembly
Hall-Thurs., Jan 2\ through Sat., Jan 211 9:00-9:00. Return of
monies and books CC ;J7fvTues., Jan 2(3 and Wed., Jan. 27
9:00-9:00 and Thurs., Jan, 2H 9:00-3:00. All books and monies
not claimed by Wed., Dec. 16 from first semester's sale become
the properly of CCGB.
Sailing Club
Dr. Wilkie will sp(>ak on his experience of sailing his yacht from
New York to Miami. Dr. Wilkie is an enthusiastic Hudson River
sailor and has written articles for Yavftting and well as for the
Hudson River Sloop Restoration Inc. He will speak Tuesday at
7:il0 p.m. in the Physics Lounge,
Holiday Sing
STU won both first place and the Chairmen's Trophy (for most
enthusiastic group) in the Holiday Sing competition on Sunday.
Gamma Kappa Phi and Friends placed second and Livingston
Tower came in third.
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As part of SUNYA's exchange
program with Nanyang University
in Singapore, next semester Alb a ny will host
Professor
Slametmuljana, an Indonesian
scholar.
Professor Slametmuljana is now
Visiting Professor in Malay Studies a I Nanyang
University.
Formerly he was Dean of the
Faculty of Arts at the University
of Indonesia, Jakarta. His fields of
special interest are Indonesian philology and history; currently he is
writing in the field of modern
Indonesian history, in parts of
which he himself was a participant.
During his visit to SUNYA,
Slametmuljana will teach a course
in the History of Modern Indonesia since the IHth century. (History 163) Also he will give special
lectures on Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
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ASP Interview;
"^
Submarine Magnate Speaks
fail to see any suggestion of promby John O'Grady
- »cuity in a greasy meat patty just
Features Editor' —
Louis G Scorca, currently oc- because it's longer than it is wide.
cupying the position of Executive
Deliveryboy for one of-the na- Q: The Nation's economy is
tion's largest submarine concerns another field now receiving wide(Walt's, Inc., of Albany)", has for spread popular attention. How
many years been an outspoken can we combat inflation? A: 1
influence on intestinal and world have no idea how anyone else
affairs; his union, the General does it, but at Walt's we have
Association of Submarine Sand- eliminated the sales tax on deliverwich Executive Deliveryboys ies and substituted a 30-cent deliv(GASSED), represents two-thirds ery charge; the money therefore
of this country's submarine firms, goes toward paying for our car
including Walt's, Mike's, Milton's, windows instead of Governor
University Sub, Stalengrisi's of
Rockefeller's limousines.
Flushing, and Polaris. Herewith a
Also, vast improvements in our
selection of his more important submarines have contributed both
comments:
to the economy and to the environment: In 1961 we increased by
Q: Sexual traditions in the United 6.2% the density of our Russian
States have undergone radical Dressing, ensuring that a single
changes in tne last decade; would Roast Beef Sub would cause comyou speculate on some of the plete gastric satisfaction and that
reasons for these changes? A: Hot money would not be thrown
Pepperoni has probably influenc around on more of these popular
ed sexual freedom in the United taste treats. In 1964, we decreased
States more than any other single the price of our lettuce, tomatoes,
factor, owing to its composite salt, and salad oil (necessitatinga
qualities of heat, spice, and small but non-inflationary insmoothness. Some have speculat- crease in the price of our bologna,
ed that the introduction of the ham, turkey, roast beef, salami,
Meat Ball Sub back in 1957 was etc.). And, finally, as early as
an initial cause, but 1 personally! 1966, Walt's decided to put all of
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thrown away. We feel we have
effected a near ecological revolution by this improvement in our
packaging.
Q: Would you care to comment
on causes of student unrest? A:
Student unrest could probably be
eliminated completely if those
persons with weak stomachs told
us emphatically to go easy on the
salad oil.
Q: Getting more personal, if I
may, what is your reaction to the
recent robberies perpetrated
against you and your firm? A: My
union, GASSED, has taken it
completely upon itself to bring
the perpetrators up on charges
u n der the Taft-Hartley Law,
which specifically forbids coercion or obstruction of business.
The security police on your cornpus have unfortunately not been
very cooperative in our efforts,
being abnormally concerned with
the fact that the robbers were
armed with pistols and knives, a
detail not under the jurisdiction
of the Taft-HartleyLaw and therefore irrelevant to the case.
I feel compelled here to a3d that
we are now carefully scrutinizing
the possibility of bringing charges
Attention:
Louis G. Scorca
(from 1959-60 Yearbook,
Sicilian High Institute of Technology)
young
against the president of your Q: May I ask you to state your
University under this same law, if background prior to becoming a
he doesn't get rid of those damn famous submarine magnate? A:
barricades around the dormitory Yes, I used to sweep floor of a
areas. Furthermore, students tra- delicatessen in Sicily. My buckvelling at less than 40 miles per ground really lends nothing to a
hour on the gravel in front of each better understanding of my opinq u a d r a n g l e are a similar ions of of my greatness,
obstruction to the free flow of
business and may consider them- Q: Can you give us some perspecselves criminal mischiefs in danger tive on the future? What lies
of prosecution.
ahead for tne Submarine Industry? A: Well, I've already mentioned our interest in ecology;
we've a plan underway now to
clean up all the rats In Patroon
Creek and dump them in sonw
hot sauce with anchovies This
would provide a basis for ;m experimental, "antipollution" sub,
which we have tentatively named
"Walt's Hot Rats Special "
Organizationally, however, the
Submarine Industry may be in
trouble. You must remember thai
1 am only one man and thai my
union, GASSED, powerful as it is.
represents Submarine Executive
Deliveryboys only. In the future
there has got to be more action of
such items as my recent proposal
for u Consolidated lleterost'Xuiil
Encystntion of Every Submarine
Employee (CHEESE), an organ.Zillion crucial to future coherent
planning and politicking Right
now I feel un urgent need for a
Presidential Institute on Submurine Sandwiches to relieve
some of the industry's less complex problems.
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HtmariK JiiH Peace
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DECEMBER GRADUATES
LAFAYETTE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1970
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At the heart of the Middle Eat crisis lies the
question of Israel's existence. While there is much
room for criticism of the manner in which the
world's powers helped create the state of Israel
without nearly adequate concern for the fate of
either Arab or Jewish populations, there can be
today no moral or human justification for attempts
to annihilate Israel. Israel is a legal, physical and
human reality. Its 2 to 3 million inhabitants know
no other home. They have invested their lives' labor
in its soil and industry and have built one of the
world's most democratic and socialist societies.
There are those who take the myth of "Arab
Socialism" at face value and claim that Israel is an
extension of Western imperialism. This is far from
the truth. The Arab regimes range from feudal
sheikdoms to military dictatorships, but in none of
them do the people have any say in their government. All of them are characterized by gross
extremes of wealth and poverty, and by the
degradation of women and the denial of rights to
religious and ethnic minorities. The opposite is true
Israel in each case. The two major imperialist forces
that seek to exploit the people and resources of the
area, United States oil interests and the Soviet
Union, support the Arabs. The U.S. corporate oil
interests in the Middle East total three billion
dollars, ALL of which is in Arab territory. It is
preposterous to state that American capitalism
supports the Israelis because there are no United
States investments of any consequence located in
Israel. The much heralded American Phantom fighter planes were bought by the Israelis, not donated
by the UniLcd States military-industrial complex.
The Palestinean guerilla movement itself is tainted
by the blood money of American capitalism. American oil money largely goes toward the financing of
the Arab armies. The Arab states in turn "donate"
this military equipment to both Yasir Ara fats' Al
Fatah and Dr. George Mabashs' Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, the two largest commando organizations.
The Refugee Problem
While it is true a large number of Palestinian
Arabs were displaced by the state of Israel, only the
bloodthirsty can believe that the solution to their
plight lies in the destruction of Israel.
First, the Arab governments and guerillas issued
forth a propaganda barrage at the time stating that
the Jews (not Zionists, but Jews) would be driven
into the sea. Azzam Pasha, the Secretary General of
the Arab League, announced, "There will be a war
of extermination and momentous massacre which
will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and
the Crusades."
In order to enable the Arab armies to move with
greater ease, Arab civilians were ordered to leave
their homes by Arab leaders. The Jordanian newspaper A-Difaa, representing Arab refugees, .stated
that "The Arab governments told us 'get out so thai
we can get in,' .so we got out, but they did not get
in."
Secondly, as in all wars, many civilians were
caught between the fighting armies. With their backs
to the sea, the Jews were forced to stay and suffer
the artillery barrages. The Arabs caught in the
fighting were able to leave.
Finally, the Arabs, in some cases, did flee for fear
of the Israelis. The Arab propaganda machine
played upon these fears and warned the civilians of
the area that they should flee or die at the hands of
the Jews. These "warnings" escalated the already
tense racial situation.
Israeli Democracy
In Israel there is a remarkable degree of democracy. There are many parties which have full
freedom of activity. There are even two small
CommunUt Parties, one of which h u consistently
opposed the policies of the Israeli government. The
government, currently led by the democratic-socialist Israeli Labor Party, is selected by
democratic elections in which the right of opposition is freely exercised. The judiciary is independent, the press is free, and the military is subject to
civilian control. While it is debatable whether or not
Arabs have complete equality of opportunity in
Israel, they do have complete political and civil
rights, as well as the freedom of worship. As earlier
stated, women have great freedom in Israeli life,
while inthe Arab countries they remain largely
servants of the Arab men.
The Real Reasons Behind the War
Moreover, the claims of the Arab states that it is in
the name of the displaced Palestinean population
that they are making war against Israel rings hollow
upon examination of the policies of these states.
Neither the UAR nor Syria has yet been willing to
admit within its borders those refugees who would
prefer finding homes with the Arab countries to
waiting for the illusory return to Palestine. Remarkably, each of these states proclaims that the territory which now comprises Israel actually belongs
within its own domain, none talk of the re-creation
of an independent Palestinean nation.
There are two real reasons why these Arab states
are bent on war with Israel. The first is territorial
expansion. Israel, through the use of modern agricultural techniques, now contains some of the most
fertile land in the area as well as various other
resources which the Arab dictators are anxious to
yet their hands on. The second, and more important, is the desire of Arab rulers to exploit an
external issue in order to divert the attention of
their oppressed and impoverished people from the
need for radical domestic change.
Opposition to Israel
Also worth noting is the fact that virtually all of
the world's most reactionary and anti-democratic
forces have coalesced behind the cause of Arab
victory—Communist Russia and fascist Spain, western oil interests and the American New Left,
Castro's Cuba and Red China. In light of all these
factors no socialist, no democrat, no humanitarian
can countenance a compromise with the threat to
annihilate Israel.
The American New Left, accepting a basic revision
of Marx made by Mao and Lin Piao, see the Middle
Eastern crisis as part of the "revolutionary struggle"
between the white rich, developed cities of the
world (represented by the Israelis) and the nonwhite, poor, underdeveloped countryside (represented in this case by the Palestineans).
Those who accepted this definition didn't have to
worry about being relatively weak in the United
Slates. They were, after all, the representatives of
downtrodden mankind itself.
But in fact there is of course no such unity in the
non-white or underdeveloped world. The massacre
of the Indonesian Communist Party was carried out
by non-whites against non-whites, so is the continuing genocide in the Sudan (the Muslims of the
north versus the non-Muslims of the south) and so
was the civil war in Biafra. There is, in short, no
simple color code which solves all political problems. It is necessary to determine what kinds of
policies white men and black men carry out before
you can decide to support or oppose them.
The "New " Guerilla Movement
The situation of the million presently homeless
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UGHTFOOT
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Palestiniean refugees remains the second major Issue
in this tragic controversy, These people are subject
to the most inhuman of living conditions and to use
as a political football in a conflict not of their
making. Out of this desperate situation arose a
"new" type of Palestinean terrorist organization. No
longer were the guerillas to be the pawns of the
Arab governments, as they had been between
1948-67. Though they still receivemostof their arms
from these governments they supposedly oppose.
Now the leaders of the various and warring fedeyeen
groups proclaimed a kind of mixed and jargonistic
"Marxist"- Leninist-Maoist faith. The .ideology,
which lacked an kind of democratic principles or
realism was no more able to unite the guerillas than
it was ' to unite the late American SDS.
Suddenly, over the past three years, the Palestinean guerillas became "a second major front in the
revolutionary war against American imperialism."
All was forgotten—the hijackings and bombings of
civilian passenger airliners, the bombings of school
buses, and twenty years of threatening and trying to
totally annihilate the Jews in Israel—not the Zionists, or the state of Israel, but the Jews. The
anti-Zionist rhetoric is a recent development of the
Arab military defeat in the 1967 war. The traditional role of Israel as the underdog was reversed as
they were now denounced as the aggressors. Utilizingnewspeak, guerilla terrorism was explained as an
example of "just revolutionary violence necessary in
the liberation struggle of this oppressed third world
people."
For a Just Settlement
But Israel is a living entity, its existence cannot be
nullified by anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish rhetoric. A
just, non-military, political settlement must be
negotiated between the nations involved in this
conflict, not imposed from the outside by the great
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1970
WE
RIGHTEOUS
BOMBER
Lightfoot,Rush,And Ho Bomb
by Jose Luis Torres
and Carlos Arroyo
"To what degree of your misunderstanding
Do you understand?
To what degree of your rhetoric
Do you truly and honestly perceive?"
.Ramon Colon
After attending the second performance of We Righteous Bombers, a play by Kingsley Bass, Jr.,
d i r e c t e d Spencer Jackson, I
noticed how far from revolutionaries the so-called revolutionaries of today are. The play was
supposed to be portraying the
counter-revolution of the American revolutionaries. All the revolutionary rhetoric used in the play
only helped to show how ridiculous this rhetoric really can be.
Though truthful in essence, it was
most boring to hear this rhetoric
over and over again.
The play itself was too long, the
opening with special light and
sound effects last too long and got
the audience tired. The acting in
general was very poor, except for
Ramon Colon, Booker T. Mallory,
and Linda Smith who gave very
convincing performances.
The content of the play itself
was stereotyped. The roles of each
character were phony and many
times sounded too poetic to relate
to any street situation. I feel that
Kingsley Bass had very good intentions in writing the play, but he
wrote it in a manner that could
not be related to the actual Black
revolution of today.
An interesting thing about the
play was that the leading role of
Murray Jackson was played by
Ramon Colon, a Puerto Rican,
which shows that Blacks and Puerto Ricans can relate to the same
struggle towards liberation.
Board
Replies
by Michael Glass
During the past semesier, we
have had seven concerts, and as
the saying goes, "You learn from
experience." Each concert has
brought its own problemThere
have been over a thousand dollars Holiday Sing ended with a jingle when STB was announced as the winner of both the Chairman's Trophy
worth of damage, numerous cases for most spirited group and the much coveted first prize trophy. Gamma Kappa Phi came in second, and
of people being taken to the Livingston Tower was third.
hospital because of drug abuse
••benjamin
and overdoses and arrests made
because of vandalism, fights, and
various other reasons. With all
these cases, one fact has stood out
above all: every problem has been
with kids under eighteen.
This is the main reason for requiring a college I.D. or proof of
part instrumental piece; one part
by Jeff Burger
being 18 years of age or older. We
the cast, but surprisingly well.
hope that by limiting sales to the
I mentioned that it might be is on each record side). It is
above mentioned gro/ups, we will
The
Strawberry
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be eliminating most of the bullshit
(MGM 2SE-14ST) is nothing to if you own most of it on other Orchestra and before I played the
that's been going on, and therescream about, only because most LP's. That's because it can be record, I prepared myself for
fore insure better concerts
of it is taken from other albums interesting to hear music in a new shopping center Muzak. It isn't. It
probabl> familiar to you. Just the context and a new order; you're is beautiful and soothing and
Concerts arranged by this school
same, it's damn good, and worth used to the steady place occupied really fine, especially "Pocket
are funded by student tax, and
getting maybe even if you have by each cut on the LP's you now Theme" on the fourth side. All in
therefore are present for the benemost of the cuts on other albums. own. On this record, you're listen- all, an amazingly good album confit of our students.
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is excellent. Somehow they hold suddenly there's Neil Young with posed mostly of old material.
want to see it happen, there are 6
together and make one well said CS&N singing "Helpless." Pretty
new positions open on University
statement, even though they often powerful change: you hear "HelpThe music department will
Concert Board. If you are intercontradict each other. (Lennon & less" in a whole new way than present its annual choral festival
ested in applying there is a manMcCartney's "Give Peace A Chan- you heard it on the CSN&Y al- this Thursday and Friday. Dedatory meeting this Tuesday, Dec.
ce" says an entirely different bum surrounded by other CSN&Y cember 10 and 11. The concerts
8 in LC 1 at 7:00 p.m. Applithing than Thunderclap Newman's material. The changes are always will begin at 8:30 and will take
cations will be available only at
"Something In the Air"). It effective and refreshing; the music place in the Main Theater of the
the meeting. See you there!
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done by original performers witti excellent.
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the one exception of "Give Peact The album also includes the and everyone is invited to atLefri AhtrtitiK Without Delay
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the idea that h e w a n t e d lt tnat
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After their sets, I interviewed
perfect night to go to the gym, This guy is a professional and a
maybe because Gordon Lightfoot folk classic. The reasons why are each performer. Here are portion!
and Tom Rush were scheduled t o a |i in his performance. Among the of those interviews:
play there. I got there about nine, so ngs that he played: "Softly,"
ASP: Tell us about your new
, .
, . ,.
. "Boss Man," "Sit Down Young
n
album.
flashed my psychede c press card, „ "
„ „„
.„
r, .
j
» j . I .,
Stranger," "Pussywillows CatRUSH: It's called "Wrong End
and walked into the gym.
. . . „ „ „ . . , „.
«, ,.
.,
of the Rainbow," which is the
I came upon a *'
rather freaky tais,
MB^Je»» Did She Mention My
"Ribbon of Darkness,"
name of the title song, which I
looking gentleman who, for all his
"I'm Not Saying," and "Mounwrote. It's on Columbia and
freakiness, appeared to be officialtains and Marianne" ("Dedicated
should
be in the stores in a few
ly involved with the proceedings.
to American friends living perweeks.
"Are you with Tom Rush?" I
manently in Canada").
ASP: Who would you list among
asked. "I'm Tom Rush," he anMy favorites included Kris Krisyour musical influences?
swered. "Oh," I said. Tom was
tofferson's "Me and Bobby
RUSH: Well, I started in Camenjoying a cigarette under the No M c G e e „ | l n d „ F o r L o v i n , M „ a n
bridge, Mass., playing with Erie
Smoking sign. He was smiling.
old tune of Gordon's which
Von Schmidt, Baez and Jim KwetThe concert got under way Mped~make~Peter7Paul and Mary
kin, among others. So them. And
about a quarter to ten with a per- f a m o u s y e a r s a g o T h e 8 e t e n d e d
a cat named Robert L. Jones. And
ormance by a chick named w j t h mo0leI
Lightfoot
superb
another maned Jeff Moldor.
Leona I have the feeling that I s o n g w h i c h shows just how good a
ASP: What music are you listenwould ye liked her a whole lot s o n g w r i t e r h e ; 8 ; . . B a r | y M o r n i n g
ing t o lately?
better if I d been familiar with the R a i n „ T h e r e w a 8 , O U ( J
,aU8e
RUSH: Oh, Otis Redding. And
-hoehhttg
songs. As is she was pretty good, a n d t h e i n e v i t a b l e 8 t a n d i n g OVathe Brewer and Shipley Band.
byt not at all outstanding.
tion
Ligntfoot
returned
t o play
And the Stones. Their new album, Song" is the only one I play by Tyaon taught me a lot of what I
When Tom Rush appeared, we "Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
the live one. They don't even have myself at this point and the other know.
were ready for him, and he was D u r i n g the set, Gordon was acASP: Say something brilliant
to be good because they're so fa- two guys were already halfway to
more than ready for us. He was c o m p a n i e d b y R e d s h e a o n lead
about the differences you notice
mous. But they're fantastic, unbe- a bar.
accompanied by Trevor Verch,
i t a r a n d Ricbati
Haynes on
between Canada and the U.S.
lieveable.
Gordon Lightfoot
whos been with him for two b a 8 s . G o r d o n alternated between a
GL: Well, I wouldn't want to
ASP: You seem to spot talented
ASP: How long have you been trade places with an American
years now, and by James Rolles- 12 string and a 6 string guitar,
songwriters long before anyone
playing?
ton, who's only been working "Twelve string for strummin', six
now.
And it's too bad that Vietelse. You recorded Joni Mitchell
GL: Well, I'm thirty-one now. nam has been virtually forgotten.
with him for a month. Both arc s t r mg for pickin'," as he later
and James Taylor songs, long beI've been playing professionally
very competent and they comple- explained.
A8P: How did you think the
fore most people had even heard
for twelve years, since I was nine- concert went tonight?
ment Rush's music perfectly. The
After the concert, six of us
of them. How do you spot talent?
teen. But I got my first paying gig
word for the group is together.
squeezed into a tiny Volkswagon
GL: Well, I thought the audiRUSH: I have good taste in muwhen I was twelve, made five dol- ence was just great. I was sort of
They began with a smooth and a nd headed downtown, skidding
sic.
lars.
Before
1
started
writing,
they
pretty song called "These Days." a n d sliding in the snow. EveryASP: Have you ever thought of were calling me a country singer. rushing through song after song. 1
Then came "When She Wants b o d y w a s feeling good. The conadding a drummer to your group? Now some people call me a folk was trying to play as many songs
Good Loving My Baby Comes To Cert has had its subtle effect on all
RUSH: Been thinking about it singer. But I'm just a singer, you as I could for the people in the
Me" and "Colors of the Sun." 0 f o u r lives. After it was over,
time that I had.
for two years; haven't gotten know?
Someone in the audience called Vicki got hit with a snowball. And
ASP: Were you given a limited
around to it yet.
ASP: Have you heard Bob Dy- time for your set?
a request for "Circle Game." the next day, Chris came by to
ASP: Did you dig the audience lan's version of your "Early
"Shut up," said Tom; a moment borrow an onion. Jane is mumGL: No, I just knew it had been
tonight?
Moring Rain?"
later he smiled and flashed the bling schitzo plans for the future
a long night and I wanted to play
RUSH: Yeah, I thought they
GL: Yeah, I think it's fantasic. I just enought and stop before the
peace sign. He didn't play the in her apartment next door. Rich
were a great bunch to play for.
son
think the whole SelfPortrait A audience got tired. It was pretty
Estill hasn't gone to sleep. And as
ASP: Did you hear that amazing Ibum is great, just fantastic.
Tom closed his set to a standing f o r K a z s n e . s c r a s n e d o u t o n m y
late. But we were out there for
applause after your encore? '
ASP: Where are you from?
ovation. He returned alone for a l i v i n g r o o m n o o r w i t n a blanket
something a bit over an hour.
RUSH:
Yeah,
I
would've
played
GL: Ontario, home of Joni Mitsolo e encore, "The Child's Song." w r a p p e d over her head. She's
ASP: What projects are you
some more, but "The Child's chell and Leonard Cohen.
Tom has proven himself to the s | c e p i n g right through a Lightfoot
currently involved in?
ASP: Who were you influenced
satisfaction of the entire audiGL: Well, I don't like to do teleby?
ence: ufter the encore, he left to
vision usually, but we're taping a
applause that went on for as long
GL: Well, Bob Dylan. And Kris Johnny Cash show this week.
as any applause 1 can ever rememKristofferson. Bob Gibson. Ian
ber hearing.
A short intermission followed; it
was characterized by the noticable
and pleasant absence of a bomb
scare. Then suddenly the lights
wore dark again and Gordon
Lightfoot was on stage without so
much as an introduction. You Rot
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Comment
School of Journalism
It is m o s t disturbing that at a time w h e n j o u r n a l i s m is b e c o m i n g
a meaningful, if faltering, realtiy on c a m p u s e s , i n d e e d , at a lime
when the n a l u r e and influence of the media in general is growing
On The Other Hand...
Council's Responsibility
News
Editor
T h e a c c u s a t i o n b y a m e m b e r of Central Council t h a t Peter Haley,
t h e Assistant D i r e c t o r of F o o d Service, is a n t i - S e m i t i c , is a m o s t
serious c h a r g e . In t h a t light, t h e n , the accusor, David P e c k , s h o u l d
reflect o n t h e c o n s e q u e n c e s of his a c c u s a t i o n s .
F o r t h a t m a t t e r , t h e entire Council s h o u l d give serious t h o u g h t t o
t h e m a t t e r . When a m a n ' s j o b a n d r e p u t a t i o n are at s t a k e , great pains
s h o u l d b e t a k e n t o prevent, as h u m a n l y possible, the d e f a m a t i o n of
his c h a r a c t e r . AH t o o often people are h u r t because of a b r e a k d o w n in
c o m m u n i c a t i o n and a lack of careful c o n s i d e r a t i o n of the conseq u e n c e s of w h a t we d o . This d o e s n o t imply, however, t h a t the case of
Peter Haley should be forgotten. Indeed the facts s h o u l d b e b r o u g h t
o u t a n d just action s h o u l d be p u r s u e d on the basis of the case's merits.
Such evidence as b r o u g h t o u t by Mr. Peck and Mr. S t o k e m , the
i n t r o d u c e r of t h e bill t o o u s t Haley, was n o t sufficient to r e c o m m e n d
Haley's dismissal.
T h e r e will always be a few instances in which every person will
s o m e h o w r u b a n o t h e r the w r o n g way. P r o b a b l y , the p r o p o n e n t s of
the bill were quite sincere in their motives. Yet, o n e ' s personal
dealings with a n o t h e r w o u l d n o t by itself c o n d e m n a m a n to the
firing s q u a d .
In all p r o b a b i l i t y , Haley has t o some degree, merited such lesser
criticisms such as rudeness t o s t u d e n t s . But t o d e n y Haley's right t o be
h u m a n , the right t o have faults and weaknesses, is t h o u g h t l e s s and
rather callous.
It is u n f o r t u n a t e , t h o u g h , assuming thai the evidence was true, t h a t
Haley chose to ignore the kosher needs of Jewish s t u d e n t s . This wus a
m i s t a k e . Council should discuss this with Haley, t h o u g h , instead of
trying t o remove him from t h e University. T h e act of firing a person is
an admission of total failure on the part of hol.li parties t o c o m e to a
reasonable a c c o r d . It especially p u t s a b u r d e n on the e m p l o y e r or
those w h o hold Haley's j o b in their hands to seek a reconciliation, for
the act of firing a man is final and irrevocable.
U n d e r those circumstances, regardless of the fact t h a t Council c a n ' t
fire Haley, but can only r e c o m m e n d his dismissal, every m e m b e r of
Central Council should have a clear conscience before he votes to
r e c o m m e n d the firing of Peter Haley, U n f o r t u n a t e l y , by the mere
i n t r o d u c t i o n of the bill, he lias been hurt already. Hopefully, h o w e v e r ,
Haley will be assumed i n n o c e n t until proven o t h e r w i s e .
consider creation of a School of J o u r n a l i s m . At A l b a n y S l a t e right
n o w , (here is no major, in fact there are n o courses or credits
o b t a i n a b l e , in J o u r n a l i s m .
by Mitchell Frost
O n e m u s t b e very careful of one's choice of w o r d s , especially in this
by Bob Warner
by leaps and b o u n d s , A l b a n y S t a l e c o n t i n u t e s n o t t o seriously
era of inflamed e m o t i o n s .
I ' m sure we all r e m e m b e r the u p r o a r Spiro A g n e w caused w h e n he
described a Polish friend as a " P o l l a c k . " I ' m sure he d i d n ' t mean
a n y t h i n g b y it, b u t how t h e newspapers gobbled it u p ! In his
" r e t r a c t i o n " he explained t h a t w h e n h e heard Poles refer t o each
o t h e r as " P o l l a c k s " he d i d n ' t k n o w they were insulting e a c h o t h e r .
J u s t a m i s u n d e r s t a i n d i n g ; a mistake. Later he referred t o a close friend
of his as a "fat J a p , " the fact t h a t t h e remark was i n t e n d e d for a close
friend m u s t m a k e it plain that it was m a d e in jest. B u t again a
retraction was d e m a n d e d ; and so Spiro apologized t o a n y o n e w h o felt
offended, b u t said t h a t he would n o t apologize for t h e spirit in which
it was i n t e n d e d . I think these t w o e x a m p l e s m a k e clear t h e p o o r
reception given t o any remark (however i n n o c e n t l y i n t e n d e d ) which
c o u l d be c o n s t r u e d as a slur. Mr. Agnew certainly m e a n t n o offense in
either case, b u t o n e m u s t b e very careful of o n e ' s c h o i c e of w o r d s .
I was talking t o a friend of mine recently, a n d eventually t h e topic
t u r n e d t o race relations. He was explaining t o me his father's
c o m p a n y ' s policy of preferential hiring of blacks (a policy h e
s t a u n c h l y o p p o s e d ) and he got so e m o t i o n a l l y c a u g h t up in w h a t he
was saying t h a t the word " n i g g e r " slipped into his c o n v e r s a t i o n . It
s h o c k e d me for a minute, as I am always s h o c k e d when t h a t word is
used, b u t he eventually calmed d o w n and apologized for using t h a t
t e r m when I b r o u g h t it to his a t t e n t i o n .
T h e word " n i g g e r " is one word I hate with a particular passion. It is
an ugly and demeaning word. Those w h o use it usually m a k e t h e word
take o n a general meaning, identifying all blacks, a s : " T h e niggers did
t h i s , " or, " S o m e niggers moved i n t o the n e i g h b o r h o o d . " Such people
are called bigots, and they usually are. I'm sure m o s t of y o u agree
with me, a n d I'm sure if I used the word " n i g g e r " on this c a m p u s I'd
be in a lot of trouble, as black people's disgust for the w o r d is far
greater than mine.
In fact, the use of any degrading slur affixed indiscriminately on a
general group of people must likewise be d e p l o r e d . So while I deplore
the use of the word " n i g g e r " 1 also d e p l o r e the use of the w o r d s
" g u i n e a , " " w o p , " " k i k e , " " p i g , " . . . p i g ? ? ! ! C e r t a i n l y ! ! ! When I hear a
policeman called a " p i g " while he is keeping o r d e r at, say, a " p e a c e "
d e m o n s t r a t i o n , and while serving as the general target of obscenities
and vulgar gestures, 1 am reminded of the s t e r e o t y p e of the white
S o u t h e r n m a r c h , where some rednecks m a r c h en masse past s o m e
blacks calling t h e m " n i g g e r s " and making threats against their lives.
H o w can s o m e o n e deplore the use of the word " n i g g e r " and then
turn a r o u n d and use that same t y p e of slur against a p o l i c e m a n ? 1
w o n ' t go into the obvious necessity of a police force in an ordered
society (I assume if you've got the intelligence to go to college you
u n d e r s t a n d t h a t m u c h ) , but it should be obvious t h a t those w h o use
the word " p i g " are just as c o n t e m p t a b l e as those w h o use the word
" n i g g e r . " U n f o r t u n a t e l y , those w h o m a k e a profession o u t of calling
policemen " p i g s " are revered on m a n y college c a m p u s e s a b o u t as
m u c h as those w h o m a k e a profession o u t of calling blacks " n i g g e r s "
are revered in some sections of the S o u t h . Certainly, o n e m u s t be very
careful of o n e ' s choice of words.
It
may
very
well be thai
college papers
t o o often
fail to
a d e q u a t e l y discharge their responsibility to the university comm u n i t y . It may very well be that the politicization of s t u d e n t
papers h a s been
accompanied
by s o m e political naivete. Y e t ,
universities such as Albany S t a t e which c o n t i n u e to ignore the
growing need for schools of j o u r n a l i s m are not in a position t o
level criticism at these trial and error efforts. T h e y have failed to
discharge their o w n
responsibility-both
in the larger academic
sense, and in the n a r r o w e r sense of bolstering and aiding the
growth of a meaningful college news m e d i a .
The ASP So Far
The
ultimate
goal
must
always
be
the
development
of a
first-class s t u d e n t j o u r n a l . As the university grows, so its need
grows for a news media with the quality of writing,
the e x t e n t
of coverage and the efficiency of organization which only years of
effort can bring.
In l i m e , the goal will he met. It will be met because q u i t e a
n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s c o n t i n u e to spend long h o u r s w o r k i n g toward
it. It will be met simply because they have decided it will be m e t .
T o t h e m we arc deeply appreciative. T o Carol and T o m and
Aralynn and C h u c k and Vieki and Hob and Jeff and J o h n and
Linda a n d Dave and Sue and Dan and J o n and Sue we can only
express
our deepest
t h a n k s for
the c o u n t l e s s hours and
the
excellent spirit.
T o o t h e r s , w h o do not see their n a m e s on the m a s t h e a d we are
equally
appreciative.
They
are
the
ones
who
supplied
input
lliey w r o t e the s t o n e s and a t t e n d e d the meetings
short
notice.
Thank
you
the
often on
Mike Avon. Hob Baklassann, Candy
Cavallouc, S h a r o n C o h e n , Ken Deane, S t e p h a n i e DiKovics, Hob
Kanarek,
Kalhy
Kelly, Roy
l e w i s , Mary Ann Meyer, Martha
N a l h a n s o n , Maida H u n g e r . Steve S a l a n l , Huh S c h w a r l / , Harry
Weiner. Terry Wolf.
T o the features staff, the " r e s e a r c h e r s , " w h o gave the paper tor
the first lime, some degree of d e p t h , we e x t e n d our g r a t i t u d e :
Tim Hoclnn. Michael Kllis, J o h n l a n l u l l . Cecil ( i i s c o m h e , Vicki
G o t t l i e b , Boh K a l i a n , Mike l.ippnuui, Keith Morrison, Debbie
N a l a n s o n , Rita Riggione, J o a n n e Rtnaldi, Al T h o m p s o n , Laurie
Wistreieh.
T o those w h o , w i t h o u t
hours " p u t t i n g
any incentive at all. worked the late
the paper to b e d , " did the p a s t e u p s and
the
typing and the proof reading we give a special t h a n k s : Steve
Brown, Linda C o y l e , K a l h y D u n n , Jeaunie I lyrics, T o m J o r d a n .
Ginger J o y c e , Debra K a c m a n . T o m R h o d e s , Paula S l r a l l o n , Larry
Travis, K a l h y Whalen, and Warren Wishait.
And t o T o m Clingan, next semester's e d i t o r : a special " g o o d
luck."
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Communications
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Photo
Racism
To the Editor:
A few weeks ago blsick w o r k e r s
at the Polaroid plant in Cambridge, Mass. discovered t h a t Polaroid, like m a n y o t h e r U.S. corporations, is making m o n e y from t h e
apartheid policy of S o u t h Africa.
A p a r t h e i d is the s y s t e m of strict
segregation of all non-white people. Blacks are confined to specific areas, a pass is required for
a n y o n e to leave their district. All
blacks are required by law t o
register with the s t a l e and m u s t
carry identification cards at all
times. This identification s y s t e m
is being m a n u f a c t u r e d by Polaroid, ll enables the S o u t h African
government to p r o d u c e a p h o t o graph, fingerprints, and t h e I.D.
n u m b e r of any black witli two
minutes.
Nut only is Polaroid sustaining
apartheid by supplying the essential t e c h n o l o g y , but its fear of
offending S o u t h Africa has led to
overt racism within the c o m p a n y .
When c o n f r o n t e d by Ken Williams, a black worker, as l o why
there were no blacks in the International Sales D e p a r t m e n t an official replied, "We can't have blacks
in o u r I n t e r n a t i o n a ! Sales D e p a r t
menl because we w o u l d ' t be able
to send them lo S o u t h Africa."
T h e workers, pissed off by this
situation, have organized the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movem e n t , and have c o n f r o n t e d Polaroid with these three d e m a n d s :
ThiU
Polaroid
immediately
cease all business dealings with
.South Africa
thai Polaroid issue a s t a t e m e n t
in
South
Africa
condemning
S o u t h African Fascism
that Polaroid give Ihc rquiva
lenl of all past profits from Soul h
African o p e r a t i o n s to the S o u t h
African Liberation Movement.
T h e workers are making de
ma n ds 1 hat si like a I t be e c o n o m i c
m o t s ul apart heal, rather than
bemoan nig the i n h u m a n conditions that I he system inflicts.
They are exposing the contradiction of Polaroid's rhetoric o p p o s ing apartheid while reaping large
profits from oppressed S o u t h African black workers. This contradiction is carried further when
o n e considers that the S o u t h African government would not exist
without the investment of large
American c o r p o r a t i o n s , like Polaroid
This is mi i m p o r t a n t struggle
because it challenges I be basic
c o n c e p t s of American imperialism
and represents a threat to all U.S.
invest mi'tits in S o u t h Africa, A
sucessful
boycott
of
Polaroid
could spriuidlo these o t h e r corporations and eliminate the profitable
situation provided by apartheid.
Your help is crucial for t h e
success of t h e b o y c o t t . T h e holiday season provides an excellent
o p p o r t u n i t y for all of us to s h o w
solidarity with this struggle, BOYCOTT ALL POLAROID PRODUCTS!
is morally j u s t " d u e t o the past
history of t h e persecutions of t h e
Jews. Does y o u r i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of
w h a t is "morally j u s t " also e x t e n d
t o studying the history of Palestine so as t o have a b e t t e r understanding of the desires of p r e s e n t
day Palestinians w h o have also
Karen Leeds
been " p e r s e c u t e d for so long o u t
Paul J o h n s o n
of political e x p e d i e n c y a n d human d e p r a v i t y . ? "
1 wonder w h a t y o u r moral interp r e t a t i o n of the Balfour Declaration is? Britain, o u t of her magnanimity, offered Palestine as a
T o the E d i t o r :
h o m e land, not a political s t a t e
I would like to thank t h e liHOH
t h o u g h , t o the Jews. Could n o t
s t u d e n t s w h o cared e n o u g h t o
this be interpreted as a deprivaforgo their meal for the Food Fast
tion of the Palestinians' right t o
of 19 N o v e m b e r . A check for
self-determination?
$2046.-10 is being sent to t h e
To c o n t i n u e , yes, I do agree t h a t
Navajo C o m m u n i t y College, Many
the " p r o b l e m of t h e Arab refugees
Farms Arizona for a d u l t and
is n o t as s i m p l e . " I can only read
youth education.
h a t e , ignorance, a n d a deliberate
Frankly, t h o u g h , I was surprised
misrepresentation of the facts as
and dissappointed in the a m o u n t
they are stated in you article:
of a p a t h y still p r e s e n t on this
" . . . t h e rabidity of the Arab mind
c a m p u s . Alter last year's strike I
has made any reconciliation imtruly felt m o r e people would he
possible. T h e hate infused i n t o the
less c o n c e r n e d with themselves
Arab masses, b o t h refugees and
and think of o t h e r s for a c h a n g e ;
non-refugee, is a just rationalizaobviously 1 was wrong. 1 heard
tion for Israel t o wash its hands
m o r e excuses why people just
clean of the s i t u a t i o n . " You negcould not miss one meal, meals
lected
to add that the Palestinians
a b o u t which c o m p l a i n t s have been
were driven out of the c o u n t r y
high, all of which makes m e a bit
t h a t they have lived in since time
cynical a b o u t the " c o n c e r n e d " immemorial. You claim t h a t they
"involved"
generation college
Palestinians w h o left " I s r a e l " were
s t u d e n t s are professing t o b e .
"terrorized by Arab p r o p a g a n d a . "
Maybe if we arrange projects like
How much propaganda was necesthis around finals and in s o m e
sary after t h e Massacre of Deir
way make missing a final a reward
Yasin, which is d o c u m e n t e d by
for participation we would see less
" I s r a e l " herself? Also, why should
a p a t h y , afterall, look how cono t h e r Arab countries absorb the
cerned everyone became a r o u n d
refugees when they have a counfinals time last spring.
try of their own—Palestine?
To those li-1% of you residents
As for the United N a i t o n ' s acwini were involved, thank y o u .
tions on the Middle East, are you
Next semester a n o t h e r group will
c o n d e m n i n g the United Nations
be sponsoring a Food Fast for a
for trying to correct a mistake she
different cause, m a y b e by then we
c o m m i t e d in 10487 1 t h o u g h t you
will all feel like participating.
would appreciate the moral justice
R o b e r t Cole
of this action. Along with this,
Chairman,
you stated that " A r a b s are cerFood Fast fur t h e American Indians
tainly
notorious
for
breaking
cease-fire a g r e e m e n t s . " I would
r e c o m m e n d that y o u consult tho
P.S. Apologies to those w h o went
records of the United N a t i o n ' s
to Walt 's and asked for a discount.
General Assembly a n d t h e SecuriOriginally it was agreed to have a
ty
Council. You will thon find o u t
10-15% discount on each s u b , b u t
w h o is tho aggressor and w h o is
after began advertising this, Walt's
tho rightful defender.
backed out.
Also, you accused tho Now Left
of being anti-semiUc
Finally, you stated t h a t " I s r a e l "
is " n e i t h e r fasclstic, dictatorial,
racist, nor d e s p o t i c . " Do you have
any explanation for the policy of
Collective P u n i s h m e n t against the
T o t h e Editor:
Palestinians of the occupied West
In reference to your ASP Colu m n : "Israel's Right to Live," on
Bank and of Gaza Strip? Is it t o o
November 17, 1970, 1 would like
different from Nazi tactics?
to point out some of the inconI wish you tho best of luck, a n d
grueacies and misrepresentations
h o p e you will be a little m o r e
in your article.
objective.
Sami A. Khasawnih
You claim t h a i "u -Jewish S t a t e ,
Apathetic
Fast
Palestine
Again
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8,1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
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For the seventh consecutive year
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new gadgets to the suburbs?
A f t e r t h i r t y years o r m o r e of
n e g l e c t , there's n o q u e s t i o n o u r cities
need help.
But w h a t k i n d o f help?
W i l l another thousand sanitation
m e n be the answer t o d i r t y streets?
W i l l d o u b l i n g the p o l i c e f o r c e
finally bring crime under control?
Can n e w rent laws f o r c e
l a n d l o r d s to p r o v i d e m o r e l o w i n c o m e housing?
A l l the o l d , o b v i o u s ideas have
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ideas a n d n e w t e c h n o l o g i c a l
developments.
G e n e r a l Flee t i n has b e e n
w o r k i n g o n the p r o b l e m s of cities for
a n u m b e i of years n o w . A n d in t h a i
lime we've c o m e up w i t h some
things w e think will help.
Garbage
G e n e r a l Electric research has
c o m e u p w i t h w h a t is p r o b a b l y the
m o s t r e v o l u t i o n a r y idea i n garbage
d i s p o s a l in years. O u r scientists are
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special strain of b a c t e r i a c o n v e r t s
garbage into a h i g h - p r o t e i n f o o d
for c a t t l e .
The process is still s o m e t h i n g of
a " l a b o r a t o r y t r i c k , " b u t it c o u l d b e
in t h e p i l o t - p l a n t stage in as l i t t l e
as t h r e e years.
placed in the laboratories of
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the student participates in research studies related to the expressed primary field of interest
ot each student.
The program provides a stipend
of $825 for a period of 10 weeks
during the summer vacation
period. Additionally, transportation and other costs are also prepaid. Ths program further provides round-trip transportation to
a post- training conference and
return to the student's home. The
conference is composed of all
student trainees and an opportunity is given for the presentation of individual research reports.
The deadline for application for
the Program in Dental Research
for College Students is February
15, 1971. Information and application kits are available from Dr.
Michael B. Freedman. AD 218.
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Crime
You m i g h t n o t expec I a c o m p a n y
like G e n e r a l Electric t o be d o i n g
anything about crime.
Hut the tact is, GE has b e e n
w o r k i n g w i t h the Syracuse p o l i c e ,
l o o k i n g lot ,i n e w a p p r o a c h to t h e
p r o b l e m . O u r sc icntists t h e r e c a m e
u p w i t h a w h o l e n e w c o n c e p t in
police organisation c ailed " C r i m e
Control Teams."
In t h e i i fust y e a i , these teams
w r i c 11 e d i t e d w i t h c u t t i n g c r i m e
f t 2 % in o n e large, r e p r e s e n t a t i v e
n e i g h b o r h o o d of Syracuse. A n d the
i one ept has sun e b e e n a d o p t e d by a
i H i i n b e i o l o t h e r cities.
Housing
l o m e e t the c r i t i c a l n e e d for
new l o w - i n c o m e housing, General
Electric is p a r t i c i p a t i n g in t h e
D e p a r t m e n t of H o u s i n g a n d U r b a n
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Breakthrough
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n e e d e d l o i m p r o v e his e f f i c i e n c y
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m a l l e i of h o u r s .
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ideas G e n e r a l Electric has c o m e u p
w i t h l o h e l p cities a l the same t i m e
thai w e c o n t i n u e to i m p r o v e
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gadgets to h e l p p e o p l e .
W e don't think our h o m e
p r o d u c t s are at all unnecessary o r
f r i v o l o u s . If they seem that w a y , it's
because p e o p l e have f o r g o t t e n h o w
m u c h they rely o n t h e m . To w a s h
dishes To w a s h c l o t h e s . To k e e p
w a r m . To k e e p c o o l To e n t e r t a i n .
A n d o n MU\ o n .
N e w ideas tor the cities a n d
n e w g a d g e t s ' ' l o r the h o m e b o t h
have the same e n d in m i n d , after all.
To h e l p p e o p l e live b e l t e r .
W h y are w e running this a d (
W e ' r e r u n n i n g this . i d , and
o t h e i s l i k e it, l o tell y o u the t h i n g s
G e n e r a l Electric is d o i n g t o solve
Ihc p r o b l e m s o f m a n a n d his
e n v i r o n m e n t today.
The p r o b l e m s c O I K c m us
bee ause they c o n c e r n y o u . W e ' r e a
business a n d y o u are p o t e n t i a l
customers and employees.
Bui t h e r e ' s a n o t h e r , m o r e
i m p o r t a n t reason. These p r o b l e m s
w i l l affect the ( u l u r c o f this c o u n t r y
a n d this p l a n e t . W e have a slake in
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DKiversity Senate
Continued from page 1
the second semester. He stated
that those people who haven't
paid their parking fines for 30
days will get a warning, and if not
paid within 30 days after the
warning, the parking privilege will
be revoked and those violators of
the revocation penalty will have
their cars towed. In addition,
Buckhoff reported that a shuttle
bus, running every seven minutes,
will be available to those people
who are forced to park far away
from the podium.
The Senate passed a bill proposed by the Graduate Academic
Council that graduate students receive credit for taking courses at
cooperating institutions such as
Albany Law School and medical
courses in connection with Union
University. The Council's proposed bill which increases its
graduate student membership
from 3 to 7, was also approved.
In other old business, the Senate
passed a bill proposed by the
Council on Promotion and Continuing Appointments which will
require all departments to notify
any faculty member of the department's consideration notification
date of employment status."
The Senate recommended that
the Paucity Senate, at its next
regular meeting, extend iUs authorization of the current Semite
structure up until July 1972.
The Senate approved "in principle, the granting of annual awards
for outstanding teaching performance by members of the
faculty," the procedures for granting the awards have yet to be
worked out.
The Somite requested President
Benezot to transmit a resolution
listing faculty grievances over
salaries and fringe benefits to the
Cenlnil Council oi'SUNY. In addition, the Senate asked thai the
resolution be forwarded to all
potential bargaining agents of the
faculty.
In final action, the Senate narrowly referred back to the Undergraduate Academic Council, a proposed bill which would allow a
student to recoive official University recognition of a double
major. If passed, the bill would
allow a student to use one major
to satisfy the second-field requirements of the other major.
MISERY IS:
THE ASP SPORTS
Jordan, Sheehan, Quattrocchi Foul Out
Dane Netters Fall Short
Albany State narrowly missed
upsetting a powerful Stony Brook
five this past Saturday, as Werner
KolIll's 30 foot desperation shot
at the buzzer missed the mark and
left Albany on the short end of a
67-66 score.
The loss made history, for it was
the first time in Coach Richard
"Doc" Sauers* 16 year career with
the Danes that he has ever lost the
first two games of the season.
Stony Brook, who finished 18-6
last year and now stands at 3-0,
led most of the way. They opened
up a 60-50 bulge with eight minutes left but saw it slowly dissolve
us theDanes battled back.
With 2:54 remaining, the
Patriots still led, 67-64, and the
score was frozen until Al Reid
made good on a jumper with 8
seconds left to put things at
67-66. The Danes were then
forced to foul with only a few
seconds on the clock. Doc called
his last time out, and instructed
his squad to gut the ball to Reid,
should Stony Brook miss the one
and one opporlunity to ice the
game. The foul shot was missed
and Albany came down with the
ball. Il went to Reid as planned
but Al was double teamed and
had to pass off to junior Don Joss.
Joss whipped it to Kolln who let
loose with a desperation heave as
the buzzer sounded. The range
was fine but it was off to the
right.
Using up the last time out before the foul shot made it
impossible for the Danes to set
up any kind of a play. If Doc had
another timeout to work with, he
no doubt would have used it and
set up a shot, possibly for Bob
Rossi, who wus on the bench at
the time.
Fouls once again plagued the
Danes as Jack Jordan fouled out
with 7:15 remaining and took his
twenty fi"e points to the bench.
Sheehan and Quattrochi soon
joined him as they both picked up
their fifth and final personal in
the second half.
Both teams shot for 10% from
the floor, but foul shooting was
again a problem with the Sauersmen hitting on only 18 of 33 fret
throws.
The Danes stay on the road this
week against Plattsburgh Wednesday, and against Binghamton
Saturday. The team will be looking to avenge last year's 20 point
defeat at the hands of Plattsburgh
who stands at 0-2 for this season.
Binghamton was not on Albany's schedule last year and are
1-1 in their play this season.
Sauers had won 13 and lost only
one in his encounters with Binghamton up to last year.
Two victories next week would
even the slate and ready Albany
for another exciting Capital City
Tournament to be played here on
the 28th and 29th of December.
Varsity Ma tin en Drop Opener
Gargia says the team has improved tremendously but has no
The 1970-71 edition of the var- depth. "If someone gets hurt, we
sity wrestling team made its debut have no one to throw in there."
Saturday in the Sixth Annual Again, this is caused by a problem
Albany Quadrangular Meet. The that plagues all coaches of Albany
visiting teams were Union, Dart- — experienced students not going
out for the team and the inability
mouth and Williams.
to recruit because of the school's
admissions policy.
by Dave Fink
The Dune Grapplers finished
second in the meet with 53
points. Union was first, tallying
78, while Williams and Dartmouth
were third and fourth with 52 and
37 points, respectively.
This Wednesday, Albany travels
to Troy to meet RPI. The Danes
have lost to the Engineers for the
last 2 years. For that reason and
also because RPI coach Eugene
Monaco was a former westler
under Garcia, State is, according
to the latter, going to "go after
thf i tails."
Saturday, they meet Rochester
in the Gym in the first dual meet
against the westerners ever.
Albany recorded two first place
victories as John Luiz won the
134 lb. competition and Jeff Albrecht took the I <I2 lb. class.
Freshman Tom Hull was pinned
by Al Culabro of Union in the I 18
lb. final and thus finished second.
Oo-ca plain Phil Munis lost a 3-2
squeaker and took second in the
158 lb. competition. The Danes
taking third place were Larry
Frederick
( 1 26 lb ), .Jim
Nightengale (150 lb.), Cliff Wess
(167 lb.) and Tin Coon (Mil) lb)
Coach Jot- Garcia had lo forfeit
the Heavy weigh I class as starter
Herm Milliard was out with an
injury.
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Swimmers Smash Records
In Loss to Stony Brook
by John Carter
The varsity Mermen of Coach
Brian Kelly lost to a powerful
R.l.T. swimming team Saturday
by a score of 74-35. While the
margin of victory was quite high,
the Dane coach was far from
displeased. The R.l.T. team was
vastly improved from last year
due to an ambitious recruiting
program. The Albany team is
handcuffed in the field of recruiting by strict academic requirements and lack of scholarships.
Besides feeling that his team had
performed well for this early in
the season, Coach Kelly was
pleased because four new school
varsity records were set. George
Dempsey set a new mark in the
1000 yd. freestyle, sophomore
Andy McGrorty broke the fifty
yd. freestyle record, freshman
Lennie Van Ryn added a record in
the 200 yd. individual medley,
and Bill Hart made his mark in the
200 yd. backstroke. To set that
many records this early in the
season is highly encouraging for
the future. Another reason for
optimism concerning Dane swimming is that the next meet (Saturday ) against Bridgewater State
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Kent State
A Look Beyond the Slogans
On Building A
At the outset, let's not be too Victorian about it; we're trying to
finance, research, and build a new ecologically feasible town. First
things where they fall. We are the Ebeneeser Howard Project and
Business Committee of Student Association. What we're trying to do
isn't very simple, but let us explain.
The time is right for developing and constructing new towns.
Various states, and private corporations, not, to be sure, out of any
mother instincts, have built or are building new towns; most of them
are old towns in new clothing. While it may be true that these new
towns have better transportation schemes, (a rare phenomenon),
cleaner sewage systems (a real rarity as priceless as Monet), or more
parks, few new towns have a conception of social values and social
relationships envisioned by urban planners going back to the time of
the Greeks. New types of social relationships aren't explored, nor
assumptions reached i before they're implemented under crisis pressure
(day care centers, community control of schools, community control
of the community, and on up the escalation ladder).
When we talk of new towns, we have to talk about ecology. It is no
longer deaireable of practical to develop infrastructures (a la SUNYA
sewage) and industrial systems (Tobin waste) which are wasteful of
natural resources, despoil the environment and poison us. New towns
shouldl be the staging ground for innovative (less destructive and
by
hv Joe Welch
An ASP Feature
• •»
puerile) infrastructure, methods of recycling, and solid waste disposal
(let's end giving garbage to the local equivalent of the Mafia). What
better location for trying new systems is there than a new town?
Usually, the large potentials for education in the process of
designing, constructing, and running the new towns are excluded on
behalf of efficiency. We believe the process surrounding any new town
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quiet here now, but things are going to start again."
Things were to start again in May. We can see
fromthe above that Kent State was not a "quiet
Midwestern Campus"; nor was the rhetoric of
Vice-President Agnew the incitement ot riot. Now
we shall examine the killings themselves and what
preceded them.
On May 2, 1970 the initial violence occurred. On
that day Kent State students burned the local
ROTC building, set fire to the school's archery shed,
attacked firemen fighting the fires, chopping their
fire hoses with axes, rampaged through town threatening local merchants that they would further
damage their stores if they did not post anti-war
signs in their windows, intimidated passing motorists, and vandalized private planes at a local airport.
That evening the Guard was dispatched to Kent.
They were stoned by the mob upon entering Kent.
On May 4th, the date of the killings, students
assembled on the University common inviolation of
a directive issued by the University Vice-President in
Charge of Student Affairs. The crowd was ordered
to disperse several times but did not do so. Tear gas
was used against the crowd, but was ineffective due
to wind direction and velocity. The Guard, believing
that their supply of tear gas was exhausted (later
one grenadier of tear gas was found to have a small
amount still in it) then began to retreat toward
Taylor Hall. The crowd became increasingly hostile.
To the chant "Kill, Kill" and the usual stream of
obscenities, the Guardsmen were pelted with a
barrage of missiles. Of the 74 Guardsmen ithere that
day, 58 were injured by these projectiles. James
Young, a Kent State student and an eyewitness to
the incident, commented: "The Guardsmen were
surrounded, endangered. People were throwing
stones and sticks; tear gas used against them would
have been ineffective. If the Guardsmen tried
fighting their way through, these people would have
mauled them." Many of the Guardsmen were
knocked to the ground by the force of the blows
they s uffered. Students were observed carrying
rocks in sacks to the confrontation. Others brought
gas masks to the scene.
As the Guard reached the top or Taylor Hall hill,
they became surrounded by the mob, which numbered 2,000 students, approximately 500 to 600 of
which were incendiary militants. Some members of
the crowd charged the Guard in a menacing manner,
then a volley rang out.
Four students were killed; eleven others were
wounded. Whether a shot had first been fired by
It has been seven months since the tragedy
occurred which took the lives of four fellow
students at Kent State. Since then a myth has grown
up about the incident, a myth which has neither
been inaccordance with the facts nor helped to
quiet an already ugly student temperament toward
society,
This myth, in its more extreme forms,runs thusly;
At bucolic Kent State University, a group of
frustrated, angry students (just like you or I)
protested their country's actions in Cambodia. Their
dissent was stifled; their rights were ignored; their
campus was invaded by the National Guard, who
with slight provocation fired on the students, killing
four of them (all of whom were innocent bystanders).
This conception of what happened at Kent has led
to a wave of resentment from students across the
nation. It is still responsible for much hostility
among students today. How much of it is based on
fact, we shall now see.
Conditions at the Kent State campus during the
academic year 1968-69 had been so violent as to
warrant investigation by the House of Representatives' Committee on Internal Security on June
24-25, 1969. The probe founds SDS "hard core"
strength at Kent State to be between 15 and 25
members, with another 150 to 200 students attending meetings and demonstrations. From this base of
student radicals, Kent State was continuously faced
with disruption through the Fall 1968 and Spring
1969 semesters.
On April 16 violence came, as campus radicals
were determined to disrupt disciplinary procedures
taken by the University after a disruptive demonstration the week before. On the 16th, about 100
radicals converged on the disciplinary hearings held
by the student judicial council. They stormed
through two sets of chained and locked doors by
using such devices as a seven-foot bar. SDS supporters were halted finally by Universitv police. At this
confrontation radicals threatened to kill the police.
Also of interest is a speech made by Yippie leader
Jerry Rubin to an audience of 1,500 students at
Kent State. To this audience, one month before the
shootings, Rubin fulminanated: "Until you people
are prepared to kill your parents you aren't ready
for the revolution... The American school system
will be ended in two years. We are going to bring it
down. Quit being students. Become criminals. We
have to disrupt every institution and break every
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someone other than the Guard is still not known for
sure. It has been reported that one of the bullets
taken from one of the wounded students came from
a non-military weapon. Later many guns were found
after a search of the campus. Whether this was the
case or not, it is not difficult to see why the
Guardsmen fired. To see the incident as a premeditated act of homicide is the view of a hopeless
ideologue. As the Portage County Grand Jury
found, the Guard "fired their weapons in the honest
and sincere belief that they would suffer serious
bodily injury had they not done so."
Much criticism has been leveled at this Grand
Jury. Yet its report on Kent State is well-reasoned
and factual. According to Ohio Attorney General
Paul W. Brown "every witness with first hand
knowledge of the situation was subpoenaed." It was
much more comprehensive, he said, than the
so-called FBI or Justice Department Reports onthe
same subject. Brown stated also that critics of the
Grand Jury did not understand "procedures used in
presenting evidence to a grand jury." It should also
be noted that the Grand Jury found that the Guard
should not have been deployed to clear the commons since they would be "placed in an untenable and
dangerous position." It also recommended that
"Non-lethal weapons more appropriate in connection with campus disorders should be made
available to the National Guard in the future,"
although it still maintained that "Guardsmen should
still be furnished with weapons that will afford
them the necessary protection under existing conditions."
The picture I have presented is sure to offend
some readers. It will come as a rude shock to realize
that a cherished belief is built on a gossamer basis,
and that a false picture has been created to serve
partisan needs. Yet there comes a time when the
facts must be presented, a time when the wounds
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suspects that an individual is using
drugs.
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RA position, a confidentiality gap
which states that the RA does not
have the option of witholding
confidences from his director.
What that does, is preclude any
confidential agreements that may
have been made between an RA
and a resident student. How then
can a resident student believe that
by telling something to an RA, a
person who is supposedly in a
better position to help him than
the average student, he will be
assured assistance with confidentiality? The resident student cannot believe that- it would be
foolish to do so. The Resident
Assistant who follows the inflexible job guidelines set down by
the Office of Residences and also
tells a student to confide in him is
stabbing the student in the back,
since he knows full-well that the
"good RA" (according to the job
description) does not have the
option of keeping confidences and
neither does his director.
Only by violating the "confidence ruling" of the Office of
Residences can a Resident Assistant use his position to benefit
resident students. Hence, the RA
must break his job contract to
best serve the students in his hall.
There is also a myth which exists about the wonderful rapport that
RA's have with the infirmary. It goes something like: " in the event
of physical mishaps it is the RA, not the student, who should call the
infirmary." All of this is nonsense. The infirmary disregards the words
of RA's as readily as it dismisses the concerns of resident students.
But perhaps the infirmary should be praised and not criticized for at
least putting things in proper perspective. What makes a call for help
from an RA any more important than one from a resident student? If
the reasoning behind the "RA-.s-the-clearinghouse-for-the-infirmary-"
theory is that the RA can better judge the seriousness of an injury,
then it is insulting to students on two counts,
First, who and what says that the RA's are better judges-three
lousy interviews? There are some students in Steinmetz Hall who have
far more first-aid training than I do. Secondly, whenever preliminary
judgements about the seriousness of injuries are involved, it is a
truism that the injured student is the one who suffers from faulty
judgment. I would rather err on the side of sending more chronic
complainers to the infirmary than misjudge a serious injury, thereby
jeopardizing the health of that student. Hence, it can only be of
benefit to students if every suspected illness is monitored to the
infirmary-it is one way of preventing epidemics and the underestimation of an injury. The argument marshalled against this position is
that the infirmary is sadly understaffed. So? h that the Fault of the
students? Must our health be jeopardized because the University
chooses to squander $1500 on each RA rather than hiring more
doctors and nurses for the infirmary?
It is a continuing paradox why the University considers resident
students to be responsible enough to have liquor in their rooms,
24-hour open house, no requirements, pass-fail grading and increased
The Necessity of RA's
independent study, but yet so irresponsible that they need to have an
RA around to let them into their room when they have stupidly
Last winter, I submitted a
locked themselves out. In my judgment, the best way to make a
13-page paper to the Office of
person responsible is to give him some responsibility. People use
Residences questioning the necescrutches because crutches exist.
Currently, there can be only one
valid reason to apply for an RA
job: financial assistance. It is a
really soft racket-room, board
and tuition and your own room
for pretending to be doing things.
Probably the most invalid reason
for being an RA is because one
wants to help people. Why can't
wool mtllon
people help people without a title
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next to their name? Must one
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Why can't all of the residents of a dorm be trained in emergency
procedures at the beginning of each school year? If the University is
incapable of doing so than it should not be in the housing business to
begin with. If resident students are incapable of learning such
procedures then they should not be in the University.
The procedures for handling dormitory-type emergencies are not so
complex that elaborate training sessions must be held. In more than
one instance, last year as an RA in Tappan Hall and this year as an
RA in Melville-Stein metis, I have seen resident students properly
evacuate a building without the aid of an RA. Resident Assistants are
not in the buildings 24 hours per day. So what happens if a fire starts
during the time when one or both RA's are not present? Are the
students rendered immobile because there is no Resident Assistant to
tell them what to do? And what about when an RA sleeps through a
ringing fire alarm (which happens quite frequently because of the
cheap and inefficient fire-bells which are installed in each hall)? Who
then clears out the building?
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years ago. It is a sweet idea whose time has come... and gone. The
very existence of the job is a threat to the personal development of
resident students in this University.
If one of the purposes of a University is to allow the individuals
who inhabit it to develop a sense of personal and community
responsibility, the RA position is an impediment toward the
achievement of that goal. Why must the responsibility of clearing out
a dorm during a fire rest on the shoulders of only two residents of
that dorm? Are not the other 100 residents of that living unit equally
responsible for making certain that they and their neighbors have
evacuated the building? Of course they are. But, the argument goes,
the RA's are paid to clear out the building; they are trained to
respond to emergency situations. Yes, that is so, but that is also the
crux of the problem.
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Department on
Colonial Quad Board is sponsoring
free buses to Colonie Shopping Center for Christmas. The buses will
leave Colonial Quad at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
and 7 p.m. on Saturday and will return at 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45
and 7:45.
Witchcraft: Medieval and Modern,
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S ociology
Thursday, Dec. 10 at 2:00 In the CC
Ballroom. Guest speakers will be Dr.
Rossell Hope Robbins of the
English
Department
and Dr.
Thomas Szasz of the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. Dr. Robbins,
author of The Encyclopedia of
Witchcraft, will talk about the medieval repression of witchcraft and Dr.
Szasz, its role in modern psychiatry.
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help people. In fact, in relation to
drugs the RA is in an absolutely
untenable position. If I were a
resident student with a drug problem I would never confide in my
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sity of RA's on this campus and
pointing out how students were
being abused by the drug policy,
the room inspection policy and
the rulings on co-educational
living which are being made by
people who are not affected by
the decision in the tiniest way. At
that time, I also submitted some
recommendations for altering the
RA position-a position which has
remained stagnant over the years
while the calibre of students admitted to this University has continued to rise. Some of my questions were verbally answered by
the new Director of Residences as
soon as he took office in September. However, there have been no
substantial changes in the nature
of the potition.
The menial task of evening lockup is still done by RA's-a job
which the Burns guards could do,
since they do very little anyway.
The RA's do not have to be the
key distributors for their hall-a
quad business manager should be
decentralized and given offices on
each of the quads-and they
should also be able to share the
professional help of the Counseling Service so that students with
emotional problems can gain immediate assistance. The infirmary
could, with the increased funds
gained once RA positions are
eliminated, establish Nursing Stations on each of the Quads in the
event of very serious and immediate emergencies.
' The- Resident Assistant at
SUNYA is an unqualified and
ill-equipped anachronism whose
very existence is stunting the
growth of personal and communal
responsibility among students in
his hall. I am tempted to ask all of
the RA's in the University to
resign in the best interests of the
students in resdsidence, but I fear
that the only result would be that
the Office of Residences would
fill our vacated positions with
people who would be more obedient to their masters.
We are living in a time when
things are reversed--four men are
given medals by former Vice-President Richard Nixon for insanely
piloting a helicopter 23 miles west
of Hanoi and young men are being
imprisoned! daily because they
believe in peace. Until such timeas the University recognizes the
detrimental effect that the Resident Assistant position has upon
the students in residence, I am
asking all of the current University RA's to practice selective civil
disobedience and to refuse to carry out any contractual obligations
that do not serve the best interests
of the students in residence.
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Vol. LVIII No. I
Political activity at Albany State has not been totally apparent this
fall. Nevertheless, politics are being discussed and formulated on a
broad spectrum of views.
The followint articles probe the various political organizations on
campus, their ideals, their plans, and their philosophy.
by Mike Ellis
Judging from a relatively quiet fall semester this year, it appears thaL
the momentum of the past spring's student movements has slowed
considerably. The left-wing organizations on campus are apparently
victim to the general conservative swing of the national mood and the
resultant apathy of many.
One victim of the present malaise is the Young Socialist Alliance, a
self-described "multi-national revolutionary socialist youth organization dedicated to the construction of a socialist America and a social- *
ist world." The YSA holds the view that change will come through a
working-class revolution for socialism in the advanced capitalist
countries.
The organization is basically action-oriented, seeking to put
Marxist-Leninist theory into practice. They see sis the most probable
means for success mass actions in the street. YSA looks on the MayJune '68 French workers' demonstrations and the Postal and UAW
strikes as showing the crucial power workers' groups have in affecting
a country.
State's YSA group plans speeches by members of the Palestinian liberation movement, anti-war people, Women's Lib, Black groups, and
Chicano groups in the coming semester. During the holiday break the
YSA national convention is to be held in New York City on December
27-31.
A group which holds views somewhat in the same vein is the Student
Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. SMC is a broad
coalition of people around the central issue of Viet Nam. Their three
basic demands are an immediate withdrawal of all troops from Viet
Nam, the freeing of all political prisoners in he United Stales, and an
end to university complicity with the war.
Locally, they plan to have a speaker from the Kent SMC during the
spring semester, and will work with local and New York City highschool groups to organize free-speech movements, They are also extending support to groups such as those at Fort Haywood, active-duty
Gl's who marched in the October 31 si national demonstrations and
are experiencing some difficulties with brass. SMC's national anti-war
conference was held just this weekend in Chicago.
YSA and SMC (and SDS) share the distinction of being denounced
by FBI director Hoover this September in his Open Letter to College
Students. Hoover stated thai they sought to mislead the student
through many tactics: cutting him off from his home, convincing him
his college is a tool of the establishment, asking him to abandon his
common sense by accepting wiltl accusations, enveloping the student
in a mood of negativism, encouraging disrespect for the law and hate
for law enforcement officers, saying any action is right if it's idealistic
in motivation, convincing him he's powerless to change things by
democratic means, and encouraging him to hurl bricks and stones instead of having logical arguments with those who disagree with him.
YSA disagreed with most of Hoover's accusationsin anOpen Letter to
U.S. students from the YSA, which documented various government
activities considered indicative of a Nixon assault.
One of the more moderate hut active leftist organizations is the
Young People's Socialist League. They are a democratic socialist
group who seek change within the existing system. Their strategy includes gaining influence in the Democratic Party and with the large
segment of reform-minded Americans that they see changing the
direction of the party toward a true progressive position.
YPSL follows the philosophy of Norman Thomas and seeks to model the United Stales somewhat after the social systems that exist in
Sweden, Germany, and England, although they see many flaws in each
country. In the past election, they endorsed the Goldberg-Patterson
Ottinger ticket. Locally, their plans next semester include getting ;i
lettuce boycott started in support of Chavez's farmers group and more
speakers in the spring. On December 26-27 the Socialist Parly USA,
the parent group, is sponsoring a National Conference in New
York. YPSLKeeks a fast withdrawal from Viet Nam than at present and
u voice for all groups concerned in settling the Mid East and Viet Nam
conflicts.
Perhaps the least radical left wing group on campus is the New
Democratic Coalition, a group of reform democrats seeking to change
the National Party into a more democratic institution, with less boss
control and more direct grass roots influence in selecting candidates.
They unofficially aided the Movement for a New Congress in the recent election, which ondoresed Button, Lowenstein,and others with
general anti-war domestic reform policies.
NDC was formed shortly after the '6H election by KennedyMcCarthy reformers after disillusionment with the way the democrats
came to arrive at Humphrey. Locally, they hope to have speakers such
as Ralph Nader and O'Dwyer work for the lettuce boycott and perhaps against Tohin Meat Packing, a local polluter.
State University of Neio York at Albany
Friday, January 2 2 , 1971
by Jean Corigliano
Will Tuition at
SUNY be Raised?
How does it feel to be a conservative on a liberal campus? Dan Duncan of The Young Republican Front and Bob Going of the Young
Conservatives don't mind. They know that west of Albany is another
ballgame and they think they're winning it. Conservative students are
often accused of being apathetic and complacent. This is an accusation which especially annoys Albany's young conservatives. They recently helped elect a U.S. Senator, their man is President of the
United States and on this campus they've probably eliminated the
mandatory student tax. If their other efforts succeed as well, they will
prevent S.A. funding of theFree School and Day Care Center and the
closing of the university for political reasons.
The Young Republican Front is a newly founded organization consisting mostly of ten to twenty ex-Buckley campaign workers. It aligns
itself with the ideals and policies espoused by President Nixon and the
mainstream of the Republican Party. They find Albany's Young Republicans too liberal and the Young Americans for Freedom too conservative. Consequently, they founded their own group which, at this
point, seems more concerned with campus problems than national
politics.
The Young Conservatives are a YAF affiliate with approximately ten
to fifteen members on campus. Theyhold to the traditional American
viewpoint that democracy is the best political system yet devised and
that capitalism is the only economic system which is compatible with
the ideals of a democratic society. They beleive that Communism is
the greatest threat to democracy and that "The U.S. should stress victory over, rather than coexistence with, this menace." Bob Going repeatedly stressed the need to "dismantle the bureaucracy" and take
power out of the hands of the federal government and place it with local and state governments.
Both of the conservative leaders 1 spoke with opposed campus
policies which they felt violated the rights of individual students.
Their opposition to the Day Care center is based on the belief that the
financial responsibility for the care of children should rest with the
family and not the society (in this case the University). Implicityin
their arguments was the belief that a mother's place is with her children. On the whole, conservatives are opposed to the Women's Liberation Movement. They feel as Bob Going does that "women are being
degraded by Women's Lib."
Conservatives believe that the Free School is political in nature and
therefore should not be funded by the Student Association. They also
object to student taxes being used to fund an activity which is open to
non-students without charge.
The YAF has recently hired lawyer to bring suit against schools
which close for political reasons. They feei that the university has a
commitment to keep classes open or refund tuition.
Conservatives may be in the minority at Albany State, but they see
themselves as part of a national majority. Unlike many of their con
temporaries, they view the future of the nation with optimism.
They're a part of the system and they think "the system works pretty
well."
by Terry Wolf
Will tuition be raised at Albany State next year?
This is the question being considered by Chancellor
Boyer and the Board of Trustees of the State
University system.
Although there lias been no official decision, the
possibility seems imminent. According to Neil
Brown. Dean of Student Life, there are already
many commitments to expand programs and construction across the state. Money from tuition is put
into the State University Construction Fund. This
fund is desperately short of money even though
expansion is continuing in order to meet increasing
demands and needs,
However, the additional money may not come
from the students as might be expected. While it is
hard to predict the full effect that an increase would
have, the Student Incentive and Regents Scholarship
programs may be uble to supply some of the
necessary funds by increasing the maximum allotment for tuition or by simply transferring funds
from the scholarship to the construction fund.
Tuition fees for non-residents and other university
casts will also be carefully considered before a
decision is reached.
The new semester has begun bringing with it all the fun of new classes, new teachers, new people, and
new book lines.
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18 Year Olds Given Vote
Will Cast Ballots in '72
by Roy Lewis
Other influential factors are the rising costs of
construction and the study being conducted on the
open enrollment and full opportunity programs.
The university has an obligation and commitment to
keep pace with growing enrollments and expanding
programs. As Mr. Brown commented, "The university can not stay where it is."
Fortunately, some relief is expected due to the
predicted decrease in college applicants, the growing
independent study programs, community service
projects, the study abroad programs, the availability
of apartments, and extended summer programs.
Robert Acquino, the bursar, indicated that a final
decision will be made soon by the State Legislature
when they vote on the budget for the fiscal year
1971-72. Any increase would be effective throughout the entire State University system. In the
meantime, university committees are working to
keep costs as stable as possible.
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As a result of a recent Supreme
Court decision, the right of an 18
year old to vote has become a
partial reality. In a 5-4 decision
handed down on December 21,
1971, the Court upheld a Congressional Act lowering the voting age
to 18 in all federal elections. The
Court was highly divided with
four justices arguing for the 18
year old vote in all elections,
citing the fact that the 18-21 age
bracket is a discriminated class.
Four other justices claimed that
the discrimination issue was not
relevant and that furthermore
Congress had no such power to
lower the voting age, except by
Constitutional
Amendment.
Justice Hugo Black cast the decid-
ing vote in favor of the 18 year
old vote, yet at the same lime
restricted it to federal elections
only.
So far 18-21 voter registration
has been slow. On January 20, the
Albany county Board of Elections
reported 1 On such registrations.
Providing one claims Albany as
their legal residence, it is possible
to register any day at the Albany
County Court House. Students
living in dormitories are not
Albany residents, and those living
in apartments who wish to claim
Albany as their legal residence
must have their Albany address on
their driver's license. Another interesting aspect of registration was
pointed out to this reporter by
Action has been taken by the
New York State Legislature to
lower the voting age in state and
local elections. A state-wide referendum to this effect will be on
the ballot this November. Both
Governor Rockefeller and State
Attorney
General
Louis
Lefkowitz support the 18 year old
vote.
Joe Galu of the Associated Press.
If a bonafidc resident will be 18
before November, 1972, which is
the next scheduled federal election, they may register now. This
means that it is possible to have
persons as young as 16 registering
to vote.
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