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Vol. 2, No. 24
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
March 8, 1971
Band in Concert
Saturday Night
The University Concert Band will
perform a concert featuring original
music for winds on Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
in the PAC Main Theater. There will be
no admission charge.
Conductor Charles Boito will lead
the band in works by Grainger, Holst, and
Handel in the first half of the concert,
ending with the Water Music Suite. The
wind ensemble will perform works by
Mozart and Dyorak to open the second
half of the concert, and the band will per-
form selections from Man of La Mancha.
The program spans a great deal of
musical history and covers each major
period from Handel’s famous Baroque
suite to Holst’s modern Prelude and
Scherzo, Hammersmith. Fifty-nine per-
formers are in the band.
week, Some students took full advantage of the unfamiliar but very welcome warmth
and brightness.
Electronic Music Festival Starts Wednesday
FSTVL 71, an 11-day festival of
“electronics, music, and merriment” will
be held on campus from Wednesday
through Mar. 21. The festival, which con-
centrates on electronics and their use in
music, is sponsored by the Music Depart-
ment, Student Association’s Music Coun-
cil, New York State Council on the Arts,
and Chancellor’s Office for University-
wide Activities. Seven events are planned.
The festival will open Wednesday
with the third of the music department’s
series of Electronic Music Concerts in the
Art Gallery. The performance will begin
at 8:30 p.m. and there will be no charge.
Pieces featured on the program are
Larry Austin’s Quartet Three, Ron
Perera’s Alternate Routes, and Louis de
Pablo’s collage, We.
On Friday the Music Council will
host composer Salvatore Martirano for a
two-event evening of his works. The first,
at 8 p.m. in the PAC Main Theater, is L’s
G.A, The piece is scored for three films, a
gas-masked politico, helium bomb, and
two channel tape, and uses as its text the
words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. It
has been termed a “savage and searing
artistic indictment of the American
culture of death.”
Student Financial Aid Forecast:
Hopefully Bright, Possibly Cloudy
University officials are cautiously
optimistic about forecasts for student
financial aid during the coming year.
Donald Whitlock, director of finan-
cial aids, said current recommendations
for funding were sufficient to sustain the
level of aid maintained in the past, but
that actual award levels could not be
determined until there was action by the
New York State Legislature and the
United States Congress.
“We fully expect some recommenda-
tions to be cut,” he said.
Whitlock added that aid schedules
for Scholar Incentive, State University
Scholarships, and Regents Scholarships
were under review to determine the effect
of new tuition rates which will take effect
next year.
“We hope to resolve the problems in
a manner that will result in generally little
net tuition increase for those receiving
such aid,” he said.
New York State Education Opportu-
nity Grant funding has yet to be resolved,
Whitlock said, pending the final budget
decisions by state legislators, expected by
April 1.
“We have strong hope that funding
will be granted in the same percentage
amounts as for 1970-71,” he said.
Federal fundings must await national
legislative action, though the university
has been recommended to receive $1.6
million in National Defense Loans, Col-
lege Work-Study, and Federal Educa-
tional Opportunity Grants. Whitlock said
some cuts were expected.
The deadline for
applications was March 1.
financial aid
As the politico intones the words,
films mount images of death, doom, vio-
lence, and atrocity, and the tape builds to
an overwhelming climax, before the in-
dictment ends and a prediction of things
to come emerges.
At 9 p.m. in the Art Gallery,
Martirano will unveil a new instrument
for the synthesis, performance, and
spatial movement of sounds, “The Mar-
Vil Construction”. Built by Martirano
and James Divilbiss, the machine consists
of 25 styrofoam speakers and a small digi-
tal computer for the synthesis, mixing,
and moving of sounds.
Single admission to both Friday
night events is $1 with student tax, $3
without. Tickets may be reserved by
calling 7-4879 weekdays between 12
noon and | p.m.
Other events scheduled for FSTVL
71 are Fred Rzewski, piano, on Mar. 15;
Kenneth Gaburo, intermedia-dance-choral
concert, on Mar. 17; John Cage and
Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD, on Mar. 19;
SUNY composers, electronic tape con-
cert, on Mar. 20; and Joel Chadabe and
Jerome Hanley, Experiment in Theater,
on Mar. 20-21.
Student Tax
Referendum
Students at the 27 state-operated
campuses of State University will
participate in campus referendums this
spring to vote on whether student activity
programs will be supported by fees
collected on a voluntary or mandatory
basis.
Chancellor Boyer, who made the
announcement, said that common and
detailed guidelines for the holding of the
referendums will be submitted to the
university’s Board of Trustees for con-
sideration at the regular March meeting.
Elections on the fee issue will be sched-
uled this spring on all campuses and the
new policy will become effective in
September 1971.
In explaining the new procedure, Dr.
Boyer said: “If the students at a campus
decide upon a voluntary activity fee, the
students themselves will be responsible
for the collection and disbursement of
the funds. If, however, students favor a
mandatory fee, then strict accountability
to the state is required. The collection,
budgeting, and expenditure of such fees
must take place under the control of
university officials.”
Recent court decisions and the 1970
recommendations of the State Comp-
troller led to the interim procedure last
fall in which student budgets, supported
by mandated fees, are reviewed by the
college presidents, At that time Chan-
cellor Boyer called for a university-wide
review of the student fee issue in order to
develop a permanent policy for the
coming academic year. The study has
involved campus presidents, student
government leaders, and appropriate state
officials.
Chancellor Boyer said the decision
for a referendum and for administrative
supervision of funds when the fees are
mandated recognizes the responsibility
the university must assume and reflects
the sentiment of the majority of presi-
dents and student leaders.
At least $7,500 was raised Feb. 26-27 in the 24-hour, mara-
thon effort of Telethon ’71. More than 300 students combined
their talents and energies for the benefit of the National Society
for Autistic Children. In their attempt to reach beyond the
university community to the residents of the Capital District
area, they were greatly aided by Albany radio station WABY.
The station offered to broadcast many of the events of Telethon
“live” when plans for local television coverage fell through.
Bob Badger, the station’s general manager and an air per-
sonality, made the necessary arrangements to cover the event.
He said the station planned “to broadcast as many sound-ori-
ented presentations as possible throughout the full 24 hours. We
also plan to do several interviews with experts in the field of
autism and to talk with some of the students involved in this
intercollegiate effort.”
Sean Casey, WABY’s key man during the broadcasts, vowed
to stay awake for the entire 24 hours. He expressed the senti-
ments of the WABY staff by saying, “‘All of us at the station
want to do two things, basically, we want to lean a little on that
phone number so that more of the general public off campus
will be able to participate and possibly make a pledge or two...
This is also our way of saying to the students involved: ‘We
know what you're doing, and we're with you.”
Other WABY personalities on hand were Paul Flanagan, Lee
Sommers, John Bulmer, Johnny Williams, and Doug Cole.
$7,900 Raised in 24-Hour Telethon
71
A PERSONAL GOAL of staying awake for the entire 24 hours
of the Telethon kept WABY’s Sean Casey at the microphone
broadcasting Telethon events and urging the public to con-
tribute to the cause.
Class of 1975
Freshmen
Projected To Reach 1600
Rodney Hart, director of admissions,
reports a projected total enrollment of
1600 in next year’s freshman class, a
figure which is 75 more than last year’s.
Expected are 1300 regularly admitted
freshmen and 300 Educational Opportu-
nities Program students. Additionally,
900 transfer students, most of whom are
from State University two-year colleges,
are expected.
To date applications for the
incoming regular freshman class are in
excess of 10,000. For the EOP program,
more than 1,000 applications have been
received. Information from Central
Administration indicates that the
Admissions Office is not in a position to
confirm any projected EOP enrollment
for 1971-72. Being awaited is verification
of the number of students who can be
supported in the program.
Mr. Hart said that there have been
more than 1,000 transfer applications
received here, although the processing
center indicates another 1,000
applications have been processed in
recent days. One hundred were accepted
for the spring semester and the fall quota
is 800.
Currently, of the 1300 regular fresh-
men, 200 will be from the commuting
area, defined as locations fairly accessible
by car or public transportation. The 200
will be competing against other students
in the same area. It is possible that the
university will be in a position to offer
them housing.
The mean figures for the resident
freshman class this year are a high school
average of about 91 and a Regents aver-
Students, Clergy
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Prepare ‘Live-In’
In an effort to establish a closer tie
between university students and church
clergy and laity, a “live-in” will be held
on campus Friday and Saturday. It is
being sponsored by the College of
General Studies, the Campus Ministry of
the Capital Area Council of Churches,
and the Troy Campus Ministry.
Involved will be students from
SUNYA and from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. Ministers will be admitted to
the program only if accompanied by two
or three lay people from each of their
churches.
Rey. Frank Snow, of SUNYA, and
Rev. Andy Smith, of RPI, said the two-
day event would provide an opportunity
for participants to meet students, faculty
members, and administrators of the two
institutions.
There will be discussions and semi-
nars in issues which are of particular con-
cern to the members of the university
community. Also planned are encounters
with some of the activist student groups
of the “counter-culture”.
The meeting will start at 5 p.m. Fri-
day and continue until Saturday at 5 p.m.
Those attending will eat and sleep on the
campus for the 24-hour period.
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age of 91. They placed in the upper seven
percent of their high school class. The
mean figures for the commuting freshmen
are a high school average of above 85 and
an 85 Regents average. Their class place-
ment, on the average, was in the upper 14
percent.
In the legislated Full Opportunity
Program are 80 commuting students, 60
veterans, and 60 resident students.
Despite the disappointment of being
passed over by the NCAA tournament
committee, the basketball Great Danes
ended their season with a tenth straight
win last week, defeating Oswego, 73-65.
The victory gave Albany a 17-5 record.
Just hours before taking the floor,
the Danes learned that Montclair (N.J.)
State and Hartwick, a team Albany had
beaten earlier this year, received the final
two invitations to the College Division
East Regional in Buffalo this weekend.
Spacial Problems
Aired At Forum
Problems in campus construction and
space were discussed at last week’s
Forum. Student Affairs Vice President
Clifton Thorne said it “would be foolish”
to plan on the Indian Quad tower for
next academic year, due to financial
troubles of the contractor and the fierce
competition in area construction.
Discussing proposed new facilities,
President Benezet expressed hope the
podium extension would be approved and
could be started this year, but predicted
that the field house probably would have
to wait another year.
Some faculty and students from the
Department of Theatre questioned the
wisdom of converting two PAC lounges
to classrooms, since the lounges were
used constantly and the classrooms have
been nearly vacant. It was agreed that the
matter would be investigated further.
Rent reduction requests by Indian
Quad students are being pursued with
Central Administration and the outlook
appears promising for such reductions.
Tennis, Anyone?
Sign-up deadline is March 26 for the
SUNYA tennis tournament, open to all
faculty, staff, and students. The tourney
will start at 4 p.m., April 14 on the Dutch
Quad courts.
There will be competition for men
and women in singles, doubles, and mixed
doubles, providing there are at least eight
entries. Admission will be one can of new
tennis balls. Call Belinda or Georgann
(7-4535) to participate.
more events
MONDAY - Teach-In, Women’s Lib, 10
fam, CC-395, 11° am. CC 375.
Russian cultural film, Russian Club,
CC 315, 1 p.m., also Tuesday in CC
315, 2:15 p.m.
TUESDAY - Film: “Don Juan”, IFG, LC
23,7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY - Film: “Macbeth”, Free
School, Assembly Hall, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY - Film: “Ashes and Diamonds”,
IFG, LC 18, 7 and 9:15 p.m. Film:
“Viva Max”, State Quad, LC 7, 7:30
and 10 p.m.
SATURDAY - Film: “Finian’s Rainbow”,
State Quad, LC 7,7 and 10 p.m.
Round the Campus
John Bailey Fernald will be heard Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock in the Studio
Theatre of the Performing Arts Center in the second of the 1970-1971 Futterer
Lectures sponsored by the Theatre Alumni Association. His topic will be “Anton
Chekhov and His Revolution”. . .The Student Activities staff will accept requests for
space in the Campus Center for the Fall 1971 semester from Wednesday through Mar.
20. University departments are asked to contact the Reservations Office, CC 137;
students, the Student Activities staff on the third floor. . Melinda A. Yates, an English
major, has been named a finalist by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation and will be recommended to graduate schools for assistantships and
fellowships. . Students looking for an unusual experience might respond to an appeal
from the office of State Senator Donald Halpern for assistance without pay. Help is
needed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons. Call Mrs. Ford at
472-7060, 7061...The low bidder for transplanting the Academic Stage 3 site,
Dane Cagers End Season in Victory;
Jordan Passes 1,000 Point Milestone
Braving a raging snow storm and the
knowledge that there would be no tour-
ney for their team, a good-sized and
extremely enthusiastic crowd turned out
for the finale. The loyal fans greeted the
team and Coach Dick Sauers with long,
standing ovations, thus taking some of
the hurt out of the evening.
Less than two minutes into the game,
senior co-captain Jack Jordan swished a
15-foot jump shot for his 1000th career
point and became only the sixth man in
Albany basketball history to reach that
milestone. He finished with 13 for the
night and 1,011 for his three varsity
seasons.
The other co-captain, Alan Reid,
went out in style, leading the Danes with
22 points, his best effort of the campaign.
Jim Masterson and Steve Sheehan also
played their final game.
Sauers said this was “‘as good a team
as ve had” in 16 years at Albany. He
termed Jordan “the best rebounder for
his size” the school has seen. Jack lead
the team in rebounds for three straight
years, despite standing just 6-0.
Looking forward to next winter, the
coach noted that he will have a solid
nucleus returning and hopes to gain help
from this year’s freshmen and a few
transfer students.
Faculty Notes
RAUL CASTAGNINO, Romance lan-
guages, was awarded first prize in the cat-
egory Essays 1968 for his work,
“Literatura Dramatica Argentina”. The
award was the highest literary honor be-
stowed by the city of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
MICHAEL CHERNIAVSKY, history, is
the editor and contributor to a volume of
interpretive essays on The Structure of
Russian History, covering medieval and
imperial Russia. It is published by
Random House.
JAMES CROWLEY, Milne, has published
a pictorial volume on the American circus
entitled, “Circus Days.” Publisher for the
work is the Historian Publishing Com-
pany, Troy, N. Y., of which Dr. Crowley
is co-owner.
RONALD LEY and DAVID LOCASCIO,
psychology, have published a report, “Ef-
fects of Associative Reaction Time and
Meaningfulness of Stimulus Terms in For-
ward and Backward Paired-Associate
Learning’? in Psychological Reports,
1970.
JAMES MANCUSO, psychology, is co-
author of an article, “Failure of a Moral
Enterprise: Attitudes of the Public To-
ward Mental Illness”, in a recent issue of
the Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology.
budgeted for $83,000, was Clover Leaf
Nurseries of Loudonville, with a bid of
$67,890. . Paul Sanasardo, an instructor
for the school of modern dance at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, will give
a modern dance master class in the dance
studio of the Physical Education Building
tomorrow at 7:30. There will be no
charge for members of the university
community, a $2 charge for the general
public. ..The Office of International
Studies has information about a summer
program in African studies at New Paltz
and about fellowships provided by the
American Institute of Indian Studies for
graduate students in Southeast Asian
studies. . Positions available: Dean of
Graduate Studies, see Vice President for
Academic Affairs; Director of Libraries,
see John Farley of Search Committee.
Caucus Discusses
Women’s Rights
The Caucus on Women’s Rights at
SUNY held meetings on campus Thurs-
day and Friday. Presiding were Judy
Miller and Joan Schulz, members of the
statewide steering committee.
Agenda items were numerous. They
included a report on a meeting with
Chancellor Boyer and reports on letters
sent to Vice Presidents Phillip L. Sirotkin
and John W. Hartley relevant to their
hiring of women on their staffs.
Also discussed was the matter of
working for women’s rights with the
newly-elected bargaining agent, Senate
Professional Association, and problems in
defining and identifying discrimination
against women.
Of particular interest was the status
of an affirmative action suit brought
against SUNY by the National Organiza-
tion of Women. It was noted that Albany
is one of five campuses to be investigated
for sex discrimination by a federal com-
pliance officer from the Equal Employ-
ment Opportunity section of the Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Under consideration are ways to
assist the College of General Studies in
preparing courses in women’s studies.
Tie Lines Added
Tie line connections for campus tele-
phone service have been added to the
Glens Falls area and the west side of the
Hudson River in the Kingston, New Paltz,
and Newburgh areas. Supplemental pages
have been produced for campus tele-
phone directories and may be obtained
from the Communication Services Office
by calling 7-4347.
Campus Exchange
FREE: Webcor stereo with AM/FM radio,
blond cabinet, radio needs one tube,
stereo works; also automatic washer in
working condition. Call Herb McAllister,
355-1081.
FOR SALE: Scott 70W stereo receiver,
model 340B, $165. Call Mel Leibowitz,
371-5188 after 6 p.m.
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