Tower
Tribune
Vol. 3, No. 18
January 24, 1972
GERTRUDE TERRY; retiring
member of the Plant Depart-
ment, receives a gift from John
Buckhoff, director of physical
plant, at the 7th Annual Plant
Department Banquet held Jan.
15 in the CC Ballroom. The af-
fair is held each year and oppor-
tunity is taken to honor mem-
bers who have retired during the
year. Other retirees, not present
at the banquet, are Mary Prouse,
John McGinty, Malvina Prud-
homme, Henry Wagner, John
Regan, and Orval Grogan. Mr.
Buckhoff was presented with an
award for “durability” by the
department staff.
Special Senate Meeting Today
To Study Governance Proposal
Senate will meet in a special session
today at 3 p.m. in the CC Assembly Hall
to act on the report of the Governance
Commission. A culmination of more than
two years of work, the commission’s re-
port proposes a new set of by-laws for an
all-university structure of governance.
The question before the Senate will
be whether or not to recommend to the
university community acceptance of the
Series Features
Unusual Music
The music department is initiating a
series of studio events called Free Music
Store. Organized by a group of students
and faculty, it will program unusual
pieces in music and other media to be
performed by university community
members and visiting guest performers.
Concerts will be given on the second
and fourth Friday of each month in vari-
ous halls around the university campus.
The public is invited and there will be no
admission charge.
The opening concert, Off Garde, will
be held Friday in the Art Gallery. Part I
will be a variable capacitance floor, a
technology-in-art composition by Liz
Phillips, which will happen between 1 and
5 p.m. and then again from 7 to 8:30
p.m. Part II, beginning at 8:30 p.m., will
include an electronic poetry reading by
Rich Gold, a composite for three voices,
quadraphonic tape delay and Moog
Synthesizer by William Novak, an adver-
tisement for God by Ginny Quesada, and
electronic feedback tapes by Peter Doell
and Phil Edelstein.
Other concerts will include a pro-
gram of pieces by Hellerman, Rzewski,
Feldman, and other composers to be
performed by the music department stu-
dents and faculty on Feb. 11;a flute con-
cert by Peter Kotik on Feb. 25 with
works by Cage, La Monte Young and
Kotik; an intermedia concert in March by
Jim Fulkerson; and a variety of other
events throughout the spring.
new by-laws. Members of the commission
have been requested to attend the
meeting to give explanations and in-
terpretations where necessary.
Four constituent groups are identi-
fied in the by-laws for the purpose of
electing representatives to an all-uni-
versity Senate. The four constituencies
are the teaching faculty, the non-teaching
professional staff, the service staff, and
the students.
The function of the Senate is seen as
being a representative, deliberative body
of the whole community which formu-
lates general policies, recommends their
implementation by the administration,
and periodically reviews the results.
The by-laws also provide for a Uni-
versity Faculty composed of members of
the teaching faculty and the non-teaching
professional staff. Its legislative powers
shall be delegated to the Senate, but it
will be able to make recommendations to
the Senate on behalf of its membership.
The commission asserted the importance
of maintaining a separate student govern-
ment as well.
Urban Affairs
Registered
As Second Field Program
An increasing student interest in ur-
ban affairs as an area of academic interest
has resulted in the establishment of an
interdepartmental -second field in urban
affairs, effective this semester. The se-
lection of urban-oriented and com-
munity-oriented undergraduate courses
was made by a 14-member faculty com-
mittee headed by Paul Marr, associate
professor of geography.
The 18 courses are offered by the de-
partments of Afro-American studies, art,
economics, geography, physics, political
science, and sociology. They are directly
concerned with aspects of urban life, con-
ditions, government, development, and
planning. Graduate urban and community
courses in the 500 series are offered in
Afro-American studies, history, and polit-
ical science for qualified seniors.
In registering the new second field
with the dean of undergraduate studies,
the committee pointed out that the de-
velopment of cities, the condition of
cities, and the solutions to urban prob-
lems are complex and form the subject of
considerable research in several disci-
plines. Each” discipline has particular
strengths which tend to complement
work in related academic fields. The com-
mittee recommended, therefore, that stu-
dents taking a second field in urban af-
fairs include courses from at least three
departments.
The committee, in a memorandum,
stated, “Selecting courses from at least
three fields will broaden the student’s
understanding of urban and community
affairs and prepare him with a better per-
spective with which to specialize in a re-
lated topic in his major undergraduate
discipline, in graduate studies, or in work
following graduation.” The memorandum
added that participation in the new sec-
ond field, comprised of from 18 to 24
credit hours, is arranged between the stu-
dent and his undergraduate advisor and
departmental chairman. Under university
regulations, at least six credits of the total
must consist of prerequisite courses or
courses at the 300 level or higher.
THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE BRASS CHOIR will be heard in
concert in the Recital Hali of the Performing Arts Center this
afternoon at 4:30. There will be no admission charge. Under the
direction of Irwin Shainman, the choir will play contemporary
Courses listed are Aas 224, Cities and
People: America in the Seventies; Aas
333, Social Problems of the Black Com-
munity; Aas 421, Governmental Programs
and the Black Community; Art 475, His-
tory of City Planning; Eco 341, Urban
Economics; Eco 456, State and Local Fi-
nance; Gog 220, Introductory Urban
Geography; Gog 320, Urban Planning;
Gog 410, Geographic Aspects of Land
Use Planning; Gog 422, Intermediate Ur-
ban Geography; Phy 302, Urban and En-
vironmental Physics Problems; Pos 222,
New York State and Local Government;
Pos 321, State and Local Government;
Pos 323, Urban Government; Pos 400,
Problems in Urbanism; Soc 358, The
Community; Soc 436, Urban Sociology;
and Soc 437, Special Problems in Urban
Sociology.
Serving on the urban affairs com-
mittee, in addition to the chairman, are
John Dewey, Daniel Ganeles, Margaret
Lindsay, Richard Myren, Orville Poland,
Steven Pflanczer, Mary Raddant, Donald
Reeb, Irving Verschoor, Irving Sabghir,
Seth Spellman, Robert Stierer, and Lewis
Welch,
Hesse Exhibit
A Hermann Hesse exhibit, sponsored
by the Goethe Institute, Munich, and the
Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, is underway in the University
Library. It will continue on the main
floor until Feb. 5.
The exhibit, first shown recently in
New York, is comprised of a collection of
books, photographs, and manuscripts re-
lating to the life and works of Hesse. The
Nobel prize winner, who has been well
known in Europe for a long time, re-
cently has achieved a high degree of
popularity in America, especially among
young adults.
In commenting on the exhibit of ap-
proximately 100 items, Wolfgang Elfe, as-
sistant professor of German, said, “To see
the exhibit should be a worthwhile ex-
perience for all those who are either per-
sonally or professionally interested in
Hesse.”
and compositions by Handel and Gabrielli. Choir instruments
are four trumpets, four horns, three trombones, and a tuba. The
Williams College Brass Choir was organized 10 years ago.
Sixty-seven Faculty Receive
SUNY Fellowships, Grants
Sixty-seven faculty members have re-
ceived State University Faculty Fellow-
ships and Grants-in-Aid totaling
$110,417. The grants, announced by
Chancellor Boyer, have been made under
the 1971 SU Research Foundation
Awards Program, upon the recommen-
dation of the University Faculty Awards
Committee.
The awards are of three types, in-
cluding faculty research fellowships of
$1,475; grants-in-aid for varying amounts
up to $1,475; and a combination of
fellowship and grant-in-aid with a maxi-
mum award of $2,950. A total of 480
faculty throughout the State University
107 Vacant Jobs
Cut from Budget
A total of 107 existing, but now va-
cant, positions have been eliminated from
SUNYA’s allocation in the Governor’s
1972-73 Executive Budget announced
last week. Part of a proposed reduction of
$1,239,000 for this campus, the 107 po-
sitions include 23 instructional lines and
84 non-instructional, with the largest cuts
in support positions,
The recommended budget does in-
clude a request for funds to meet a 6%
salary increase negotiated by SPA. That
request is part of the overall SUNY budg-
et.
Largest cash cuts for this campus re-
duced Summer Session’s instructional
budget by $200,000, library acquisitions
by $200,000, and temporary service by
$247,000, including $180,000 in in-
struction and departmental research.
The administration, Senate’s Edu-
cational Policies Council, and the Con-
ference of Deans have been working on
contingency fiscal planning throughout
the intersession. All departments have
been surveyed with requests for suggested
economics that may be effected.
Authorities expect that SUNYA can
meet the recommendations of the Execu-
tive Budget without terminating perma-
nent people on the payroll, provided
there are no further reductions by the
Legislature.
Master Plan Meeting
As part of the campus discussion of
the development of the 1972 SUNY Mas-
ter Plan, an open meeting will be held on
Wednesday at 2 p.m. in CC 370. The
meeting will focus on Symposium E Pa-
pers: The Campus and External Relation-
ships. Copies are available from Gary
Jones, CC 130, or Sorrell Chesin, AD
231. All are invited to express their com-
ments and reactions to the papers.
Campus Exchange
FOR SALE: 1967 Ford %-ton pickup,
low mileage, never used commercially;
$1,195. Call J.N. Sutherland,
TBO ct < 3 1969 BMW 2002, $2,100.
Call 785-3423 after 5 p.m. 1968
Buick Riviera, fullpowe',air conditioning,
many extras, low mileage, excellent con-
dition, Call 371-7850..... . 2 plots of
land, 2% acres, 7% acres. Call Tom Winn,
7-8251.
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system have received awards totaling
$772,693 to enable them to carry out re-
search projects, scholarly studies, or cre-
ative works.
At SUNYA the largest number of
grants was received by faculty in the Di-
vision of Science and Mathematics, who
accepted 32 awards totaling $57,899. Di-
vision of Humanities faculty received 21
grants for $32,562, while awards to facul-
ty in the Division of Social and Be-
havioral Sciences numbered nine for
$11,680. Additionally, three faculty in
the School of Education received grants
totaling $5,135, and one award each was
given to the School of Social Welfare
($2,680) and to the International Student
Adviser ($461).
The largest individual grant to a
SUNYA faculty member was received by
Helen T. Ghiradella, assistant professor of
biological sciences, who was awarded
$2,940 for her study of the “Role of
Modified Cilia in Sensory Transduction.”
Other recipients are Kenneth P. Able,
biological sciences; Donald P. Ballou,
mathematics; Shelton Bank, chemistry;
Thomas Barker, history; Raymond E.
Benenson, physics; and Johannes D. Berg-
mann, English; Louis Brickman, mathe-
matics; Dennis E. Byng, art; Donald J.
Byrd, English; Robert M. Carmack, an-
thropology; Robert M. Cartmell, art;
Lindsay Childs, mathematics; Robert A.
Donovan, English; and Jerome Eckstein,
Judaic studies.
Also, Wolfgang D. Elfe, Germanic
and Slavic languages; Dewitt C. Ellin-
wood, Jr., history; William N. Fenton, an-
thropology; Richard Z. Goldstein, mathe-
matics; J. Mayo Greenberg, astronomy;
John G. Gunnell, political science; Wil-
liam G. Haboush, mathematics; Narayan
C. Halder, physics; K. Drew Hartzell, Jr.,
music; James D. Hlavacek, economics;
Richard J. Hornblower, mathematics;
Alicja Iwanska, sociology; David J. Jack-
son, sociology; Benton Niles Jamison,
mathematics; Joe W. Jenkins, mathe-
matics; and Young Moo Kim, physics.
Also, David Kline, physics; H. Peter
Krosby, history; Wayne R. Lennebacker,
fine arts; James M. Leonard, theater;
Lloyd Lininger, mathematics; Thomas H.
MacGregor, mathematics; N. Bruce Mc-
Cutcheon, psychology; Paul E. McGhee,
psychology; Mark S. Monmonier, geo-
graphy; Erna M. Moore, German; Ricardo
Nirenberg, mathematics; Thomas J.
O’Connor, art; Roger E. Oesterreich,
psychology; Fred W. Ohnmacht, edu-
cational psychology; and Dale K. Os-
borne, economics.
Also, A.G. Davis Philip, astronomy;
Robert M. Pruzek, educational psycholo-
gy; George W. Putnam, geological sci-
ences; Rossell H. Robbins, English; War-
ren E. Roberts, history; Arthur Rosen-
thal, chemistry; Alex M. Shane, foreign
languages; David A. Shub, biological sci-
ences; Patricia B. Snyder, theater; John
M. Spalek, Germanic and Slavic lan-
guages; and Richard P. Stankiewicz, fine
arts.
Also, Howard H. Stratton, mathe-
matics; John K. Stutz, mathematics;
Donald M. Traunstein, social welfare;
Melvin I. Urofsky, education; Frederick
G. Walz, biological sciences; J. Paul Ward,
international student advisor; Donald R.
Wilken, mathematics; Gary A. Wright, an-
thropology; Walter P. Zenner, anthro-
pology; and Ronald J. Zwarich,
chemistry.
Faculty Notes
ROBERT FINK, classics, is the author of
“Roman Military Records on Papyrus”
which was recently published as No. 26 in
the monograph series of the American
Philological Association,
*Round the Campus
Community Service reports that 550 students have signed up for the current semester
and there are 30 on the waiting list. The contact office has moved to Library Basement
Complex 30A. . .Freshman student Debbie Zusman will be appearing in Albany Civic
Theater’s production of “The Happy Time”. She is a theater major and has ap-
prenticed at the Berkshire Theater Festival and at Williamstown Theater. . .A reception
for the Phi Beta Kappa membership on campus will be held tomorrow afternoon from
3 to 4:30 in the Patroon Lounge. . Donald Rittner, a junior anthropology-archeology
major, is setting up a permanent exhibit of North American Indian artifacts, mainly
prehistoric, at the Rensselaer County Junior Museum. . .The Council on Educational
Policy has created a special subcommittee to draft a preliminary plan for assembling of
information leading to the draft of a document defining the University Center at
Albany and its major priorities. On the
committee are the vice president for aca-
demic affairs or his designee, Dean John
Farley, Alan Klein, Sidney Reisberg,
Richard Aiken, and William Feyer-
hern...The State Senate Subcommittee
on Youth Education in Conservation met
here last week to formulate a statewide
plan for environmental education. . .Total
campus enrollment during the fall se-
mester was 13,905 with 10,195 full-time
students. Undergraduates totaled 9,203
and graduates, 4,702:There were 209 non-
degree graduate students in general
studies...The Interfaith Center was in
the national limelight recently when
CBS’s “Look Up and Live” paid a visit.
The subject of “Alternatives” was the
Quaker Project on Community Conflict’s
workshop where 30 members of the pro-
ject were participating.
Humanity Series
A series of four events dealing with
science, society, and the arts will be of-
fered by State University at Albany be-
ginning Thursday. Philosophy professor
Robert Garvin will present an illustrated
lecture on “The Great Appeal of Eastern
Religions to Americans Today.”
The series, entitled The Search for
Humanity, is being sponsored by the Of-
fice of University Affairs. Admission will
be by invitation only.
Subsequent events will be held in
each of the next three months, featuring
professors Dennis Byng and Joel
Chadabe, Harold Blum, and Walter Miller.
Mr. Miller’s lecture is part of the Pinker-
ton Lectureship.
Fulbright-Hays
Awards Available
Opportunities are still available to
faculty members for university lecturing
and postdoctoral research abroad under
the senior Fulbright-Hays program for
1972-73. The list may be consulted at the
office of the faculty Fulbright adviser,
Robert B. Morris, AD 218. Inquiries and
applications should be sent to the Com-
mittee on International Exchange of Per-
sons, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Wash-
ington, D.C. 20418,
Lectureships are available in a num-
ber of countries. in American literature,
biological sciences, economics and busi-
ness administration, English as a foreign
language, medicine, and theater arts. Re-
search opportunities exist in Ireland,
Romania, Yemen Arab Republic, and
Yugoslavia.
The committee will also accept ap-
plications until Jan. 30 for a limited num-
ber of SEATO awards for research in the
social, economic, political, cultural, sci-
entific, and educational problems of
Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
Such research would be carried out in
member countries of the treaty organi-
zation.
Applications for senior Fulbright-
Hays awards for lecturing and research
for 1973-74 will be accepted this spring.
Interested faculty members who are U.S.
citizens should complete a registration
form, available on request from the com-
mittee. Futher information will be sent to
registrants.
Great Dane Sports
The Great Danes face a pair of im-
portant SUNY Conference games this
week, hosting Oneonta at 8:30 Wednes-
day and playing at Potsdam 3 o’clock Sat-
urday afternoon.
Albany is 3-1 in conference com-
petition, having defeated Plattsburgh, Os-
wego, and Geneseo, while receiving a
106-74 drubbing at the hands of Brock-
port, which took a 4-0 mark into a game
at Fredonia Friday. The Danes start the
week in third place, behind 3-0 Buffalo
State, which visits Albany Feb. 5.
Despite its overwhelming strength
and commanding position in the
standings, Brockport may not have the
conference championship and resulting
NCAA tournament bid sewed up. The
Eagles’ star forward, Norman Bounds, is
playing under a shadow of questionable
eligibility. Should he ultimately be de-
clared ineligible, Brockport would have to
forfeit the games it won with him in the
line-up. Thus, it is important for Albany
to win the remainder of its SUNYAC
games and gain second place.
Oneonta, 1-2 in the league, is coming
off an 18-day semester break and may be
rusty. Potsdam is 3-2 against SUNYAC
foes, having lost only to Brockport and
Buffalo.
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In other action this week, the JV
basketball team hosts the Oneonta JV at
6:30 Wednesday, then plays at Mohawk
Valley 8 p.m. Saturday; the wrestling
team is home to C.W. Post at 2:00 Satur-
day; and the swimmers are at Bridgewater
the same day.
Governor’s Talk
Members of the Faculty Wives As-
sociation are now entitled to attend a
series of talks sponsored by the Women’s
Legislative Forum. The talks are held
Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon in Chan-
cellor’s Hall, NYS Education Building.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will
speak on “The 1972 Republican Legis-
lative Program” at the first meeting on
Feb. 1. An open luncheon follows at the
DeWitt Clinton. The luncheon speaker
will be Hugh R. Jones, president of the
New York State Bar. Reservations for the
luncheon must be made by Thursday. For
further information contact Mrs. Albert
G. Sweetser, 371-7674.
more events. . .
MONDAY - Speaker: Francis Norton,
“Chemistry of the Atmosphere”, So-
ciety of Physics Students, PHY 129,
7:30 p.m. Telethon auditions,CC
Ballroom, 4 p.m.; through Wednes-
day.
THURSDAY - SPA membership meeting,
HU 354, 12 noon.
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