Tower
Tribune
Vol. 2, No. 26
OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
March 22, 1971
Hatfield To Speak
At Commencement
United States Senator Mark O. Hat-
field, of Oregon, will be the commence-
ment speaker Saturday, May 22. The top-
sic of his address has yet to be announced.
Senator Hatfield in 1966 was elected
to the U. S. Senate after having served as
the first two-term Oregon governor in the
20th Century. Before entering politics he
was associate professor of political sci-
ence and dean of students at Willamette
University.
The future commencement speaker
serves on the Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee, the Commerce Committee,
the Senate Select Committee on Small
Business, and the Select Committee on
Equal Educational Opportunity. He is
counted as a fiscal conservative but re-
fuses to cut into the budget for invest-
ment in human welfare such as aid to
education, air and water pollution con-
trol, and health care programs.
Abolishing the draft by the creation
of a volunteer army and the elimination
of wasteful spending in the military budg-
et have been two of Senator Hatfield’s
continuing concerns. The McGovern-Hat-
field Amendment To End The War sought
to end the flow of funds, except econom-
ic aid, to South Vietnam and Laos in the
absence of a Congressional declaration of
war. The amendment provided for the
withdrawal of troops from Vietnam after
December 1970 and for the curtailment
of funds to Cambodia. The Senator has
been a strong supporter of efforts to in-
crease U. S. activities in oceanography.
Mark Hatfield
To Consider
Senate
Granting ROTC Credit
The University Senate will meet this
afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Campus Center
Assembly Hall.
The Undergraduate Academic Coun-
cil will present the pro and con arguments
of granting up to 12 hours of credit for
ROTC work done at other universities.
The Curriculum Committee of the coun-
cil has voted unanimously to establish the
credit.
The Senate also will consider sep-
arate bills to approve a Ph.D. program in
library science and a Ph.D. program in
anthropology effective as of June 15,
1971. The Personnel Policies Council will
present the guidelines for the Outstanding
Teacher Award to the Senate for
consideration.
President Discusses Budget Cuts;
Faculty-Student Ratio Threatened
The implications of Governor
Rockefeller’s announced intention of
“slowing down the rate of expansion of
the State University” as part of his budg-
et cuts were discussed by President
Benezet at last week’s Forum. Dr.
Benezet was disappointed but realistic
Attitudes Surveyed
On FSA Services
Students in two marketing psychol-
ogy classes of Ross L. Goble are con-
ducting a sample survey of about 1,000
students to determine attitudes con-
cerning the Food Service and the Book-
store. The project is underway at the
request of the board of directors of
Faculty-Student Association.
The survey has been programmed by
Harold Pazer, professor of management in
the School of Business. Interviewers are
talking with students in their residences
on the uptown and downtown campuses.
Each session takes about 20 minutes.
Professors Goble and Pazer and
selected graduate students will do a pre-
liminary analysis of the data but the 75
students in the two classes will complete
the analysis and write the report. The
undertaking represents the first system-
atic attempt to evaluate attitudes in the
two areas.
about the belt-tightening, noting that it
was part of a general recession. “Our
task,” he said, “tis to see where cuts can
be made without compromising the level
of teaching, research, and service” at
SUNYA.
One fairly certain result will be an
increase of the current 1:13.6 teacher-
student ratio, perhaps to as high as 1:16.
Other areas which probably will feel the
pinch include EOP, student financial aid,
the library, and funds for research, equip-
ment, and supplies.
University budget officer John A.
Hartigan said the current freeze on all
vacancies in faculty, administration, and
staff probably will continue into the new
fiscal year. Despite some 170 unfilled
vacancies, the university will enter the
new year in the red.
Dr. Benezet disagreed with a “curi-
ous illusion” held by the public that if
higher education were managed more
efficiently, it could serve more people
with less money. “If you want quality
education, you must be willing to pay for
it,” he concluded.
On another topic, several students
expressed strong dissatisfaction with the
S-U grading system which creates prob-
lems for those attempting to transfer to
another institution or to gain admittance
to graduate school.
Donated Lake George Site
Set For Radio Telescope
Two-hundred acres of land in the
Adirondack Mountains have been given to
the SUNYA Foundation. Mr. and Mrs.
Howard A. LaRose, of Lake George Vil-
lage, donated the property “with the
hope that we shall in some small way pro-
mote higher education in our Empire
State.” Mrs. LaRose is a member of
SUNYA Foundation and president of the
Lake George Historical Society.
According to President Benezet, the
land will be used as the site for a newly-
acquired radio telescope. The Carnegie
Institution of Washington donated the
radio telescope to Dudley Observatory,
representing SUNY A, Rensselaer Institute
of Technology and Union College, pro-
vided the costs of moving the telescope
could be met. The SUNYA Foundation
received a $10,000 grant from the Gener-
al Electric Foundation to help defray the
moving expenses.
The sensitivity of the instrument re-
quires its being located in a protected val-
ley, sheltered from strong winds, heavy
snowstorms, and any direct radiation
from radio and TV stations and radars.
The 200-acre site, located in the Town of
Bolton was found suitable by project
director Joseph Erkes, Department of
Astronomy.
The telescope will be the largest in
the state and one of the largest
fully-steerable instruments in the
country. Dr. Erkes emphasized that
teaching and research will be the major
uses for the instrument. Since the field of
radio astronomy is a relatively young
discipline, first-hand radio telescope
experience is not available at most
schools.
“Student laboratory observations
have an aura of excitement because so
few people have actually observed these
radio sources. A student may repeat an
observation but he will still be only the
second or third person in the world to
make the study,” says Dr. Erkes. “Some
students will be able to perform original
experiments and graduate students can
conduct diverse thesis projects.”
Speaking for the university, President
Benezet remarked, “the 200-acre gift
from Mr. and Mrs. Howard LaRose is a
major event in SUNYA history. It makes
possible the establishment of a scientific
instrument that will have untold effect in
our region.”
points out to President Benezet and others the site of the gift of Adirondack property.
Orchestral, Chamber Music Slated
A program of chamber music will be
presented tonight in the Recital Hall of
the Performing Arts Center at 8:30. The
program will feature Professor Charles F.
Stokes of the music faculty.
Entitled “Music For Strings and With
Flute”, the concert will include works by
Bach, Stamitz, Mozart, and Kuhlan.
The performers, members of the
music department faculty, include Marvin
Morgenstern, violin; Karen Tuttle, viola;
Charles Stokes, viola; John Goberman,
cello; and Irvin Gilman, flute.
On Friday, Professor Irvin Gilman
will give a flute recital assisted by Rene
Prins, oboe, Ruth McKee, bassoon, and
Findlay Cockrell, piano. Works by
Quantz, Eldin Burton, William Grant
Still, Donjon, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi
will be performed.
The University Community Sym-
phony Orchestra, directed by Nathan
Gottschalk, will perform Sunday at 7:30
p.m. in the Main Theatre. The program
will include Mozart’s “Symphonia
Concertante” with soloists Ruth McKee,
bassoon; Charles Boito, clarinet; Daniel
Nimetz, horn; and Rene Prins, oboe.
Handel’s “Concerto Grosso” will also
be featured in the program with student
soloists Mimi Zweig, Joseph McGauley,
Richard Noyes, and Susan Morton.
University Council Members
Elected to New Association
Two members of the University
Council, J. Vanderbilt Straub and Mrs.
Kenneth S. MacAffer, have been elected
to temporary office in the newly-formed
Association of University Councils of
State University of New York. Straub
also has been elected to the temporary
board of directors. Permanent officers
will be named at a later date. At the
organizational meeting held on campus
last month, Robert Ecker, of Cobleskill
Ag and Tech, was elected temporary
president.
Joint Project
To Study Society
A study of “Steady State Society” is
being undertaken by the Center for the
Study of Science and Society, in coopera-
tion with the Institute on Man and Sci-
ence at Rensselaerville. Open lectures by
leading thinkers in economics and science
will be given this spring on campus and at
the institute.
The ideal of ever-accelerating eco-
nomic growth faces several challenges.
Among them are the threatened exhaus-
tion of many limited natural resources;
pollution; and diminishing returns of
growing production in terms of improve-
ment of the quality of life.
Wise restraint of further growth and
a new system of ethical and economic
values are needed. Kenneth Boulding,
professor of economics at the University
of Colorado, will speak on “The Theory
of Deteriorating Systems” at 2:30 p.m.,
April 2 in the Campus Center Assembly
Hall. On April 31, at the same time and
location, a panel will discuss “Prerequi-
sites of the Steady State Society.”
Banquet Manager
Named by FSA
Lester Hines, past maitre d’ of the
Patroon Room, has been promoted to a
new Food Service post, Malcolm Corbiey
announced last week.
Corbiey, director of Food Service,
noted that “With the increase in banquets
and special functions requiring food serv-
ice, we have created the position of ban-
quet manager to handle the additional
work,”
The new duties of Hines will include
co-ordinating the special catering events
on campus and overseeing the operation
of the Patroon Room. Corbiey also noted
that the new Iroquois Room atop Indian
Quad and the proposed $1 million eating
facility in the West Podium extension will
come under Hines.
Hines is a graduate of the Culinary
Institute of America and had been
associated with several restaurants in the
New York City area before coming to
Albany.
Bruce Veeder, a graduate of Albany
and part of the Veeder restaurant family,
is the new maitre d’ of the Patroon
Room.
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The purposes of the organization are
described as providing a representative
organization for council members and
trustees of state-operated campuses of
SUNY; promoting study of the responsi-
bilities and duties imposed upon council
members and trustees by statute or other-
wise; encouraging review and discussion
of administrative, academic, fiscal, and
other problems of such units of SUNY;
providing a ready means for the inter-
change of information among its mem-
bers; establishing more efficient liaison
between the said units of SUNY and its
Board of Trustees; and strengthening the
State University system generally.
Plans are being made to hold the first
general meeting of the association in the
fall when the full membership is expected
to discuss the program of the organiza-
tion based upon a white paper being de-
veloped by the directors as an outgrowth
of the discussion of purposes of the group
as outlined in its by-laws.
James H. Warren, vice chairman of
the SUNY Board of Trustees, stated
during the meeting that the activities of
the association could contribute greatly
to the efficiency of SUNY.
Round the Campus
Jerome Chodorov, university-wide playwright in residence, will speak today at 11 a.m.
in the Studio Theatre and again on Wednesday morning at 11 in the same theatre. A
reception will be held for him today at 4 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center lounge
. ..The Women’s Recreation Association will sponsor a sports workshop for junior and
senior high school girls in August. Sessions will be devoted to field hockey, basketball,
and gymnastics. . Syracuse University has been sending 30 people to attend five-day
seminars conducted by SUNYA’s Center for Humanistic Education. . Area members
of the Bowdoin College Alumni Association will make a tour of the campus on
Saturday. . .There is an opening for a graduate student on the search committee fora
successor to Dean Perlmutter. If inter-
ested, apply to Graduate Student Associa-
tion, CC 333. . Pre-registration will begin
next Monday at 9 a.m. in the U lounge of
Colonial Quad and continue through 4
p.m. on Friday, Apr. 30, excepting vaca-
tion. Order is by alphabetical sections. . .
The Community Programming Commis-
sion of Central Council has approved con-
stitutions of the State University of Al-
bany Friends of Farm Workers Organizing
Committee and the State University at
Albany Coalition for Soviet Jewry. . Mu-
sic notes: Dennis Helmrich, of the facul-
ty, will accompany Daniel Collins in a so-
lo recital at Alice Tully Hall in New York.
He will play piano, harpsichord, and or-
ganetto. Seventeen music majors will par-
ticipate in the University-Wide Chamber
Music Festival-Workshop at Fredonia.
Department chairman Nathan Gottschalk
will guest conduct the Maine All-State
Orchestra Festival in Skowhegan.
Great Dane Sports
John Quattrocchi has been elected
captain of next year’s basketball team. He
will be only the second junior to serve in
that capacity during coach Dick Sauers’
16 years at Albany. The other was Jim
Constantino ’67.
Quattrocchi also received two tro-
phies at the recent post-season basketball
banquet: the Free Throw Award for his
84.1% accuracy and the 100% Award.
The latter is given by Sauers to “my kind
of player,” based on a point system,
which gives credit throughout the season
for such things as loose ball recoveries,
steals, offensive rebounds, play execu-
tion, and defense.
Senior co-captains Jack Jordan and
Alan Reid were honored as Most Valuable
and Most Improved players, respectively.
Jordan led the Great Danes in scoring for
the second straight year and in re-
bounding for the third season. Reid in-
creased his scoring average from 10.0 to
11.7 and his field goal accuracy from
35.3% to 47.7%. He also was credited
with much-improved defensive play.
Jordan and manager Rich Rini re-
ceived watches as three-year letter win-
ners and eight other varsity players
earned letters. Harry Johnson topped the
Albany Chapter of SPA
To Meet, Elect Officers
The Albany Chapter of Senate Pro-
fessional Association will hold a meeting
Wednesday to elect officers from the slate
proposed by the organizing committee,
and to take action on a proposed
constitution.
The slate of candidates for officers is
as follows: president, Vincent Aceto,
library science; vice president and state
assembly representative for teaching pro-
fessionals, James A. Riedel, GSPA, and
Edith Cobane, education; vice president
and state assembly representative for
non-teaching professionals, Alfred
Dascher, library science, and Gary Pelton,
purchasing; secretary, Margaret Hout,
library, and James Kiepper, education;
and treasurer, Martin Herlands, University
College, and J. Paul Ward, international
students.
list of nine freshman numeral recipients
by being named frosh MVP.
Jesco ok
Four Albany wrestlers competed in
the NCAA College Division Champion-
ships in Fargo, N.D., last weekend. All
were defeated in first round matches and
coach Joe Garcia attributed their rusti-
ness to a two and one-half week lay-off
since the end of the regular season.
The Danes were scheduled to partici-
pate in the New York State Champion-
ships in Rochester March 5-6, but a heavy
snowstorm prevented travel. The team
concluded its most successful dual match
season ever, 9-2, on Feb. 23.
The Albany entrants in the 350-man
NCAA field were Jeff Albrecht, 142 Ibs.;
Jim Nightingale, 150 Ibs.; Phil Mims, 158
Ibs.; and Tim Coon, 190 Ibs. All but Coon
are underclassmen.
| Faculty Notes |
VINCENT ACETO, library science, has
been appointed Research Editor for
School Libraries, the journal of the
American Association of School Librar-
ies. He is also chairman of the AASL
Research Committee.
JAGADISH GARG, physics, has been
listed in the recent publication of Marquis
Worlds Who’s Who. He has also been
selected chairman of an International
Conference on the “Statistical Properties
of Nuclei” to be held on campus in
August.
more events...
MONDAY - Second Annual Albany State
Film Festival, Arts Council, LC 7, 8
p.m.
TUESDAY - Film: “Great Chicago Con-
spiracy Circus”, IFG, LC 18, 7:30
and 9:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY - Asian Studies Seminar:
“Application of Marxism and Lenin-
ism in China’s Development”,
William Woo, Hu 354, 3:30 p.m.
Film: “The Holy Outlaw - Father
Dan Berrigan”, LC 1, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY - Film: “The Heart Is a Lonely
Hunter”, State Quad, LC 7, 7:30 and
10 p.m.
Policy Analysis
Center Proposed
In Governor Rockefeller’s budget for
1971-72 is a proposal for a Center for
Governmental Policy Analysis to be es-
tablished, reportedly, at SUNYA. The
sum of $450,000 is recommended to sup-
port a “think-tank” for New York State
government which was begun in 1970-71.
The center is seen as blending the
expertise of university professors, pro-
gram specialists in state government, and
consultants in the analysis of social pol-
icy. Its purpose is described as enlarging
the state’s capability to deal with intri-
cate social issues which require integrated
action with other levels or agencies of
government, demand the skills of an
interdisciplinary team, and lend them-
selves to the use of newly developed
problem-solving techniques.
Some of the projects which would be
undertaken are analysis of the economics
of pollution abatement in New York;
determination of the state’s responsibility
in maintaining an effective public trans-
portation system; development of medi-
cal services in general and to such special
need groups as the elderly, the urban
poor, and rural residents in particular;
and review of the state’s middle-income
housing policies.
Tribute to Author
The Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures will sponsor an April 19
symposium in tribute to Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel
Prize in literature. The tribute will begin
at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center Assembly
Hall.
Participants in the symposium, for
which there is no charge, will be Profes-
sors Pervushin of McGill University,
Gibian of Cornell University, and
Obolensky of Albany.
Solzhenitsyn’s most famous works
are One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosi-
vich, Cancer Ward, and The First Circle.
Campus Exchange
FOR RENT: 3-bedroom duplex to sublet,
2 baths, modern kitchen, basement, large
yard, walking distance from SUNYA;
married couple or family; available June
20 to Sept. 1; $200 per month plus
utilities. Call Mrs. Hartmark,
482-4555. .....5-bedroom, furnished
house near Altamont school, study, den,
screened porch, all appliances including
washer, dryer, dishwasher, disposal, large
fenced-in yard; $300 per month, security
and references required. Call Stauffer,
861-6244.
FOR SALE: AKAI Model 9 stereo tape
recorder, new. Call 842-1227 after 6
DANG eae Land, over 14 acres, easy com-
muting distance, absolute privacy. Call
Tom Winn, 7-8251 or at home,
765-4678...... Siamese kittens, $15.
CallMrs.A.Westbrook,765-4453...... 15
cruiser, lapstreak hull, 40 h.p. electric
motor, trailer, cover and top, battery like
new; $900 complete. Call Walt Hamlin,
7-4928 or 462-1455.
