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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
March 16, 1970
Senator Seeks
Greater Voice
For Students
Senate will meet today at 3 p.m.
in the CC Assembly Hall. Among the
items on which it may take action are
a series of amendments to the Fac-
ulty By-Laws changing the composi-
tion of the Senate and a resolution
urging the increase of professional
salaries in SUNY.
The amendments are proposed by
Jack Schwartz and ‘vould fix the Sen-
ate at 100 members. The composition
of the Senate would be as follows:
35 undergraduate representatives, 15
graduate representatives, 40 repre-
sentatives from the teaching faculty
(at least one from each school and
college), one library representative,
three representatives from the non-
teaching staff, and six ex-officio
members—President, Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Vice President
for Student Affairs, Dean of the Uni-
versity College, and the two Albany
representatives to SUNY’s Faculty
Senate. All Senate terms would be for
one year. Any changes in the By-
Laws endorsed by the Senate must
be approved by the Voting Faculty.
The resolution to increase sala-
ries is proposed by the Personnel
Policies Council and is part of a
SUNY-wide effort which originated
at SUC Brockport. Its intent is to
achieve p
y with City University
of New York in regard to salaries for
teaching faculty and non-teaching
professional staff.
It advocates the following mini-
mum salaries for 1970: professor,
$21,240; associate professor, $16,760
assistant professor, $13,760; instruc-
tor, $11,960. An across the board
raise of at least 19% is advocated
for non-teaching professionals.
Senate will also consider a rec-
ommended minimum rate of progress
for EOP students.
Two Albany Students
Win National Praise
Gino Danese, a geography major,
is one of 1,153 students from the
United States and Canada who have
been elected winners in the annual
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship,
competition. Patrick A. Foltz, an
English major, is among 1,152 re-
ceiving honorable mention. Founda-
tion president Hans Rosenhaupt de-
scribed the designates as “
intellectually promising” 1970 grad-
the most
uates planning careers as college
teachers.
A list of the winners will be sent
to all graduate school deans in both
countries with the recommendation
that the schools provide them with
graduate fellowships. Some 150Wood-
row Wilson fellowships are reserved
for those designates who fail to re-
ceive funds from the school of their
choice.
Students Press Wagner Issue
Students and others pressed last
week for information about the future
status of Gerard A. Wagner, assist-
ant professor in the department of
rhetoric and public address, whose
two-year contract was not being re-
newed this spring. The concemed
individuals gathered Monday outside
the office of Vice President Charles
O'Reilly who had, earlier that day,
received an 18-page report on the
O. William Perl-
had made
case from Dean
mutter. Dean Perlmutter
recommendations which were shared
with those seeking a decision.
They were that Mr. Wagner be
given a year term, continuing his
present salary; that he be counseled
and assistedin the completion of his
dissertation during this time and es-
pecial attention be given to his
course load ‘‘so that he fulfills his
obligations to himself and his fami-
ly’’; and, since he was not fulfilling
the role he was assigned originally,
that he serve during 1970-71 at the
rank of lecturer. Some supporters
termed the announcement a partial
victory.
A memorandum to President Kuu-
sisto from Dr. O’Reilly described
Dean Perlmutter’s report as ‘‘com-
plex”? and dealing ‘with many fac-
tual matters thatneed to be examined
in relation to other information.”’
Dr. O'Reilly indicated that he would
make every effort to provide the Pres-
ident with his own recommendations
by March 12.
“It would be grossly unfair for me
to review this matter in haste,’’ he
eae ~~ Fe aes
THE MOODY BLUES, who have gained populari
Yugoslavia, Singapore, Sweden, and Brazil, come to Albany on Sunday.
said. “To be fair to Mr. Wagner and
the others involved in this situation,
it is imperative that we follow the
principles of due process and con-
cern for the personal rights of all
involved.””
A special letter drawn up by Dr.
O’Reilly was distributed to all mem-
bers of the faculty and staff. In it,
he called attention to the necessity
of providing them with ‘some back-
ground about a situation which is of
great concern to some of our stu-
dents.”’ A copy of his memorandum
to President Kuusisto was included.
Dr. O’Reilly stated that he had
informed the students that the report
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\was not a public document and that
it might contain confidential informa-
tion. Additionally, the report was
made to him and he would have to
make a recommendation to the Presi-
dent. Dr. O’Reilly described his
meeting with two students, by ap-
pointment, as ‘‘a quiet, courteous
discussion.”” He added, ‘‘They ac-
cepted my reasons for declining to
release the report at that time.” The
decision to release the specific rec-
ommendations contained in the report
was authorized by President Kuusisto.
Women’s Liberation Committee
Investigates Child Care Center
Infant and child day care was the
topic of a meeting last Tuesday
afternoon between students, members
of Women’s Liberation, faculty, and
administration. The group, which had
made the decision to meet after the
open meeting the day before, agreed
to establish itself as a committee,
send out a questionnaire, and begin
exploring space and funding possi-
bilities.
At present the committee con-
sists of Mrs. Barbara Pelton, Mrs.
Susie Childs, Mrs. Elizabeth Ewen,
Mrs. Sally Pollock and Mrs. Suzanne
Loveys, of Women’s Liberation; Seth
Spellman, special assistant to the
Mrs. Carol
President; Biernachi,
Cecile David, from the School of So-
cial Welfare; Ed Taubman, of Sen-
in such places as Australia,
Moody Blues Highlight Weekend
Tickets are on sale outside the
CC Ballroom for each of three Greek
Weekend Concerts, March 20, 21, and
22. The price for each concert is
$2.50 with tax, $5 without. Each per-
formance will start at 8 p.m. in the
gym.
Friday’s the
Rascals with Nick Brignola and The
Mixed Bag. Canned Heat with Tarus
Light Show and The South Wind will
perform Saturday.
Ticket sales for Sunday” night
surpass both Friday and Saturday by
concert features
at least a two-to-one margin. The
reasons could be English performers
John Mayall and the Moody Blues.
Mayall, guitarist, pianist, and
mouth percussionist, will perform
with his three-man drummerless band:
Johnny Almond, on flutes and saxo-
phones; Jon Mark, on acoustic style;
and Steve Thompson, on base guitar.
The five-member Moody Blues in-
cludes Mike Pinder, Graeme Edge,
Ray Thomas, John Lodge, and Justin
Hayward.
ate’s Educational Policies Council;
and Vice President Clifton Thorne.
Women’s
staff member and an additional fac-
ulty member to complete the group.
Liberation will recruit a
Mrs. Pelton will serve as temporary
chairman.
The questionnaire, to be drawn
up by Dr. Spellman with the help of
Women’s Liberation, is intended to
determine the extent of desire for
such a program, the number of chil-
dren involved, and the type of care
preferred by parents.
The gathering favors a graduated
fee for any program, rather than a
completely free operation. This ap-
proach would allow Civil Service
employees use of the service, which
would be barred to them if free. Dr.
Thorne will investigate the feasi-
bility of non-state funding for the
project.
New Program Offers
Diversity, Mobility
Undergraduate students are now
eligible to study at more than 50 in-
stitutions of higher learning in New
York State through the Visiting Stu-
dent Program of the Association of
Colleges and Universities of the
State of New York. The purpose of
the program is to enable a student to
attend another school in New York
for a semester or a year without the
necessity for a formal transfer.
The two basic requirements for
participation in the program are that
the student obtain approval from the
university and that he accept full re-
sponsibility for tuition fees and other
such charges that are in effect at the
chosen school. Under this program
full transferability of Regents Schol-
arships and ScholarIncentive Awards
is assured.
Among participating schools are
Colgate University, Bard College, St.
Lawrence University, Pratt Institute,
Fashion Institute of Technology, and
the Old Westbury Campus.
Interested students should see
Marcia Lembcke in the Office of the
Academic Dean, AD 218.
Sixty-Two German Works
Now Showing in Gallery
Sixty-two German Expressionistic
works in various media are on view
in the Art Gallery through April 5.
All are from the collection of the
Museum of Modern Art. Recent prints
by Robert Cartmell,
printmaking, will be shown in the
instructor in
Gallery Lounge during the same pe-
riod.
Entitled The Passionate Years:
Expressionism in Germany 1905—
1930, the exhibit surveys a movement
spearheaded by younger artists who
opposed the emphasis on materialism
which took hold in Europe during the
two decades prior to World War I. Re-
jecting the Impressionist eagerness
to paint the world as it appears to
the eye, the Expressionists sought
instead to depict the world as it is
experienced through emotions.
The exhibit contains works by
members of the two important Ex-
pressionistic groups which emerged
during the period of intellectual tur-
moil and great artistic creativity pri-
or to World War I: Die Bruke (The
Bridge) in Dresden and Berlin and
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
in Munich.
Also represented are a number of
individual artists who were not affil-
Professionals Urged
To Write Congress
Paul Wheeler and Joseph Norton,
members of the State University-wide
Faculty Senate are calling the atten-
tion of faculty members to a matter
concerning TIAA-CREF.
They comment: “Some states have
begun to threaten the TIAA-CREF
Insurance Program by imposing what
could become fifty different sets of
regulations on the Association. Fac-
ulty who are in thatretirement system
are urged to write Senators Javits
and Goodell, and your representative
in the House, urging Congressional
approval of Senate Bill $1290 and its
companion H.R. 9010. Otherwise,
easy mobility of professional staff
members may be seriously disturbed.”
Also, the SUNY Faculty Senate
representatives have received a copy
of a letter sent to Chancellor Gould
from Robert P. Fairbanks, chairman
of the committee on the University
budget, and containing a resolution
on budget matters.
Blood Drive Friday
A Red Cross Bloodmobile will be
on campus this Friday. in the CC
Ballroom from 9 a.m.—3 p.m. Donors
will be accepted on a walk-in basis.
Each potential donor will receive
a brief physical check-up which in-
cludes temperature, pulse, weight,
blood pressure, hemoglobin count,
and medical history. Donors of blood
are given free blood coverage for
themselves and members of their im-
mediate families in the event of fu-
ture need. Further information may
be obtained from Nikki Smith, AD 320,
17-3929.
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iated with either of the groups but
whose work is closely related. They
include Ernst Barlach, Kathe Koll-
witz, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, and Oskar
Kokoschka.
The Passionate Years: Expres-
sionism in Germany 1905—1930 con-
tains 17 oils, five watercolors, and
five sculptures. Some 35 prints and
drawings are also included since
both groups dedicated much of their
effort to graphic art with Die Bracke
issuing an annual portfolio of etch-
ings and lithographs from 1906-1912.
| *Round the Campus
The University Chapter of the SOCIETY OF SIGMA XI will be installed here
May 14 when the society’s national president will present the charter to Presi-
dent Kuusisto. Roger R. Revelle, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population
Policy at Harvard, will give the banquet address. Serving on the general ar
rangeme nts committee for the installation of the new chapter are James Brad-
ford, H.P. Droebeck, Jerry Feldman, Harry L. Frisch, Arthur Long, Joseph L.
Norton, Eugene C. Ogden, Eugene Rabinowitch, Harold S. Story, Hudson S.
Winn, Jerold J. Zuckerman, and C.L. Andrews, chairman. . . é
Among SPECIAL LECTURES sched-
uled are “‘The Paranoic Machine and
T’’, to be given tomorrow afternoon at
4 in Humanities 354 by Giose Riman-
elli, department of Romance lan-
guages, and “The Civilization of
Provence’’ (in French), Thursday
evening at 8 in Humanities 290: by
Paul Chovelon. . .Governor Rocke- ,
Great Dane Sports
Before filing away the 1969—70
basketball season, a brief review
and preview is in order.
Back in October, the team was
termed ‘“‘rebuilding’”. Gone
three stars from the glory years of
18-4, 18-6, and an NCAA tournament
bid. This year’s squad didn’t equal
were
those marks, but its 13-9 record was
better than most expected. Coach
Dick Sauers called it his ‘‘best de-
fensive team”.
The highlights third
straight Capital District Tournament
were a
championship, earned by upsetting a
strong RPI team; and a victory over
arch-rival Siena. Captain Jack Adams
and key subs Jim Sandy and Ed Arse-
neau were the team’s only seniors,
so Sauers has a strong nucleus re-
turning next fall.
Adams finished with a flourish,
scoring a personal varsity high 22
points in two of his final three games.
His 11.9 scoring average was the
best of his three-year career. Jack
Jordan was the scoring (16.5) and re-
bounding (255) leader. He’Il be back,
as will other starters Jim Masterson
(11.8), Alan Reid (10.0), and Steve
Sheehan (8.0); plus reserves Mike
Hill, Les Newmark, and John Heher,
who missed most of the season with
an injury.
Liddle New Member
Of SU Art Council
Mrs. Nancy H. Liddle, associate
director of SUNYA’s Art Gallery, has
been elected a member-at-large of
the newly-formed Council of Gallery
and Exhibition Directors of State
University of New York. She will
represent four-year colleges.
The council has been established
to encourage the exchange of gallery
information and exhibits among the
diverse institutions of SUNY and to
provide a central agency for obtain-
ing information and consultants on
gallery construction, exhibition ma-
terials, lighting, security, and other
problems related to gallery work.
more events...
Pushing them for positions on
the 1970-71 team will be at least
eight candidates from this year’s fine
13-5 freshman team, and a pair of
transfers who sat out this season.
The promising frosh include Werner
aolln, Chris Burke, Dave Welchons,
Bob Curtiss, Bob Obermayer, Steve
Howard, Tim Minnehan, and Tom
Lawrence. The transfers are John
Quattrocchi from the University of
Connecticut and Bob Rossi fromNew
Haven College.
Sauers had his 15th straight non-
losing season, despite having a team
short both in inches and numbers.
Next year, the players will be slight-
ly taller and considerably more plen-
tiful.
feller has announced the PROMO-
TION of Robert Rienow to the rank
of Brigadier General, State Retired
List, in the New York National
Guard. . .The Ad Hoc Committee on
Senatorial Authority received more
than 500 RESPONSES to its question-
naire on the proper function of the
Senate. Committee members met last
week to consider the action to be
taken in the light of the response. . .
“Tt is appropriate this day to CON-
GRATULATE THE STUDENTS of
the State University in Albany on
their exemplary behavior during the
appearance on the campus of William
Kunstler, attorney for the Chicago 7.
This exemplary behavior came de-
spite provocation to unruly demon-
stration.” The comment was made
in aKnickerbocker News editorial. ..
More than 200 students from through-
out the state attended the pre-teach-
in ENVIRONMENTAL CONE
ENCE sponsored by the SUNY PYE
Club. . .UPCOMING EVENTS: ‘‘The
Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell
of the Crowd,” Experimental Theatre
and Musi production, Thurs-
day and Friday; Chamber music con-
cert, Sunday.
Counci
Faculty Achievements
VINCENT ACETO, library science,
has been appointed a consultant for
the Educational Media Selection Cen-
ters Project of the National Book Com-
mittee. The project is funded by the
U.S. Office of Education. Mr. Aceto
read a paper, ‘Films and Creativity in
the Educational Process,’’ at the an-
nual conference of the New England
Library Association in New Hampshire.
JOHN BOWEN, psychology, has pub-
lished a research report, “Familiarity
Scale Values for 420 Nouns in Twelve
Combinations of Frequency of Occur-
rence and Conceptual Categorization,”
in the journal Psychological Reports.
SORRELL CHESIN, student affairs,
was a contributor to the Winter 1969
issue of College Student Survey with
his article, “Effects of Differential
Housing on Attitudes and Values.”
DONALD FAVREAU, general studies,
will speak on ‘‘The Junior College Up
to Date’”’ at the 42nd Annual Fire De-
partment Instructors Conference in
Kansas City, Mo., March 25. He will
present a paper, ‘Fire Related Col-
lege Programs,”’ at the Symposium on
Training and Education in the Fire
Service of the National Academy of
MONDAY-President’s Conference with Students, CC Patroon Lounge, 2:15 p.m.
TUESDAY-Fil
“Vali, Witch of Positano,” IFG, LC 18, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30
p-m.; Lecture: Archaelogical Institute of America, Albany Area
Society, CC Assembly Hall, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY-Elections: Poll on requirement eliminations, CC Main Lounge,
today and Thursday, 10 a.m. through 4 p.m.; Dialogue, CC Pa-
troon Lounge, 2 p.m.; Greek Follies, CC Ballroom, today and
Thursday, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY-Film: ‘Enter Laughing,” State Quad, LC 6, 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.;
Informal class: ‘New Trends in Jewish Thought,’’ HU 115, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY-Bloodmobile, Red Cross, CC Ballroom, 9 a.m. through 3 p.m.; Film:
“Charge of the Light Brigade,” State Quad, LC 7, 7:30 p.m. land, 10
p.m.; Mixer, EOP, CC Ballroom, 8 p.m. through 12 p.m.
Sciences, National Research Council,
in Washington on April 8-9.
WILLIAM MCHUGH, educational ad-
ministration, has written ‘Collective
Negotiations in Public Higher Educa-
tion” which appears in the February
1970 issue of College and University
Business.
Members of the women’s physical edu-
cation department were actively in-
volved in the annual conference of the
New York State Association for Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation
held in January. BARBARA PALM was
conference manager for the Associa-
tion of Women in Physical Education
in New York State and planned and
supervised 15 different meetings.
MEREDITH FORREST conducted a
demonstration on conditioning for ad-
vanced competitive swimming. EDITH
COBANE spoke on women’s basket-
ball rules and officiating and wa
toastmistress at the AWPENYS ban-
quet.
Campus Exchange
FOR RENT: 3-bedroom furnished
house in Guilderland, available June-
August 1970. Call P. Lee, 7-8680 or
at home, 438-1685.
FOR SALE: 4-bedroom house in West-
mere, $11,000 4-%% assumable mort-
gage. Call Peter Benedict, 7-3975. .
.. . .Varityper headliner Model 820,
excellent condition. Call the Albany
Student Press, 7-2190; if no answer
call 7-2288.
WANTED: Furnished apartment to
rent with heat and utilities paid, pri-
vate bath preferred, for mature, single
woman employed at SUNYA; can pay
up to $125 per month. Call Jane Spen-
cer, 7-4630 or at home, 489-0015.
