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Vol. 3, No. 12
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
November 15, 1971
Senate To Hear
Priorities Report
A special meeting of the Senate will
be held today. at 3 p.m, in the CC As-
sembly Hall. Purpose of the meeting is to
enable Phillip Sirotkin, executive vice
president, to report to the Senate on
budgeting requests, hiring projections,
and student enrollment projections. His
report will be in compliance with terms
of Senate Bill No. 197172-01 on priori-
ties. No other business will be conducted.
At its regular monthly meeting last
Monday, Senate approved the concept of
a modified semester plan for 1972-73 but
raised questions about specific dates for
class periods and recesses proposed by the
administration. As a result, dates for the
1972-73 calendar will be a topic for dis-
cussion at the Campus Forum today from
2-3 p.m. in the CC Assembly Hall. Presi-
dent Benezet will preside.
Senate passed a bill to recommend
university sponsorship of a group auto-
mobile liability insurance program for
university employees. The program would
be underwritten by the Connecticut Gen-
eral Insurance Company. Several Senators
asked the Personnel Policies Council,
which sponsored the bill, to continue to
search for a company which would offer
a similar program to students.
Five appointments to Senate councils
were approved. They are Richard Aiken
and Stephanie DiKovics, undergraduate
representatives to the Educational Poli-
cies Council; Gordon Thompson and
Vicki Gottlich, undergraduate repre-
sentatives to the Council on Promotions
and Continuing Appointments; and Don-
ald Lewites, graduate student representa-
tive to the Graduate Academic Council.
Lack of quorum prevented a vote on
a bill urging membership in SPA.
Symphony Orchestra
In Concert Tomorrow
The University-Community Sym-
phony Orchestra, with Nathan Gotts-
chalk, conducting, will be heard in con-
cert tomorrow evening in the Main Thea-
ter of the Performing Arts Center.
The program will feature Mozart’s
“Concerto in Eb Major for Two Pianos”
with Tamara Knell and Findlay Cockrell,
of the music faculty, as piano soloists. Al-
so on the program will be Wagner’s Over-
ture to “Die Meistersinger von Nuren-
berg” and Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 8 in
G Major”
The concert will begin at 8:30. There
is no admission charge.
AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS OF NEGOTIATIONS at the local level, a contract has
been signed between Chapter 691 of the Civil Service Employees Association and
SUNYA management. Signing the document is Lewis P. Welch representing manage-
ment. Seated with him is Frank Gilder, vice president of the chapter and chairman of
the negotiating team. Looking on (I. to r.) are James Cooney, CSEA; Kenneth Wolven,
CSEA; Sorrell Chesin, management; Robert Whittam, CSEA; Daniel Grygas, CSEA;
and Grace Smith, CSEA. The contract supplements statewide CSEA agreements by
specifying working conditions and personnel benefits unique to the local unit.
FSA Gives Students and Faculty
Greater Representation on Board
Recent changes in the by-laws of
Faculty-Student Association have given
greater representation to students on the
voting membership and have granted con-
stituent membership to the entire uni-
versity community.
Prior to the changes, adopted at the
fall membership meeting, there were 25
voting members of FSA: seven adminis-
trators, seven faculty, seven under-
graduate students, and four graduate stu-
dents. The new voting membership num-
bers 27 and includes five administrators,
nine faculty, nine undergraduates, and
four graduate students. Thus, faculty and
student representation has increased at
the expense of administrative net loss of
members.
The changes were necessary to cor-
rect an inadvertent inequity which arose
from changes made in the Board of Di-
rectors last April. As a result of giving
students more representatives on the
board, it happened that some directors
did not qualify as members.
Prior to the changes in April, the
board had consisted of seven adminis-
trators, and one each faculty, under-
graduate, and graduate student. Now, it
numbers three administrators, three facul-
ty, and four students (three undergradu-
ates and one graduate).
Defeat of Transport Bond Affects SUNYA
President Benezet has received word
from Chancellor Boyer concerning
budgetary restrictions as a result of the
defeat of the mass transportation bond
issue. The Division of the Budget has sus-
pended action on all new requests for re-
lease of funds; therefore, no vacancies are
to be filled, no out-of-state trips are to be
authorized, no new contracts are to be
awarded, and there are to be no equip-
ment purchases for new construction,
At the last Campus Forum meeting,
President Benezet indicated that defeat of
the bond issue would have an adverse ef-
fect on the university, adding that it was
“a serious omen for the university.” The
university may be asked to cut additional
money from its current budget.
President Benezet said that he had
asked for 64 new faculty lines, but added,
at that time, that probably only vacancies
could be filled and replacements made for
those who leave.
In a related change this fall, President
Benezet was made chairman of the board
of directors, while John Hartley, vice-
president of management and planning,
assumed presidency of the board.
In an effort to involve all members of
the university community in FSA, a new
class of FSA membership was created. As
a result, all students and employees of the
university now are constituent (non-
voting) members of FSA. As such, they
have the right to inspect FSA books and
records at any reasonable time and for
any reasonable purpose. They also may
attend all meetings of constituent mem-
bers (there will be one before the end of
the current semester) and may attend
meetings of the voting members unless
specifically excluded by a two-thirds vote
of the voting membership.
Service Fraternity
An organizational meeting will be
held tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in PHY 129
for students interested in forming a cam-
pus chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a na-
tional service fraternity. The purpose of
the fraternity is to develop leadership,
promote friendship, and provide service.
Membership is open to any male stu-
dent who desires to render service and is
in good academic standing. APO is not a
social fraternity, and thus its members
may belong to both.
Service projects planned include
serving as leaders for inner city scout
troops, conducting leadership develop-
ment discussions, cleaning and repairing
local youth camps, working with the Tri-
Cities Volunteer Action Center, and vari-
ous on-campus projects.
APO is the only national fraternity
recognized by the State University. With
more than 550 chapters, it is the largest
New Judiciary
Up for Review
The Judicial Workshop Steering
Committee, of which Leila Moore is tem-
porary chairman, has completed a pro-
posal for a university community judicial
system. It now is being reviewed by the
Central Council, Graduate Student As-
sociation, Educational Opportunities Pro-
gram, Senate Professional Association,
Civil Service Employees Association, Se-
curity, and Faculty Student Association.
The entire proposal will be published
in the Albany Student Press tomorrow,
providing an opportunity for university-
wide reaction, Indication of approval or
disapproval and added comments may be
placed in a designated box at the informa-
tion desk of Campus Center. The deadline
for responses is next Monday.
Based on all reaction received, a final
revision will be made. The proposal then
will be submitted to the Committee on
Student Conduct, Student Affairs Coun-
cil, University Senate, and University
Council for endorsement.
The 30-page document is the result
of the Judicial Workshop Steering Com-
mittee’s efforts, underway since last Feb-
tuary. Participants in the workshop
ranged widely in terms of representatives
from various segments of the university
community as well as interested individu-
als from Albany and from other schools
within the state.
The aims and purposes of the docu-
ment are described as adhering to the
basic concept of a community judicial
system in which all members of the uni-
versity community are subject to the
regulations established by the com-
munity. The intent of the proposal is to
outline the principles upon which such a
system would function and to set forth a
general structure out of which the system
could operate.
Serving on the committee have been
nine faculty members, 20 students, 24 ad-
ministrative staff, and six others including
a member of the University Council who
is a lawyer.
To Organize
of all national fraternities. Among SUNY
units, APO chapters are located at Oswe-
go, Buffalo, Binghamton, Brockport,
Oneonta, and Fredonia. Further informa-
tion may be obtained by calling John
(7-7798) or Chuck (7-7985).
RA Selections Start
The selection process to choose Resi-
dent Assistants for the 1972-73 academic
year will begin Sunday with a mandatory
interest meeting at 7 p.m. in LC 7. All
interested students must attend that
meeting to pick up applications and re-
ceive pertinent information concerning
the selection schedule.
Any student unable to attend must
contact Robert Dietrich at 7-4331 by Fri-
day. To serve as a resident assistant, a stu-
dent must be a junior, senior, or graduate
student and in good academic standing at
the university.
Empire State College Opens |
Second Unit at Draper Hall
Eighty-nine students have begun
courses of study at the second learning
center of State University’s Empire State
College which was formally opened Fri-
day, Nov. 5, on the downtown campus.
The center, although physically located
on the SUNYA campus, will be adminis-
tered through Empire State’s head-
quarters in Saratoga Springs.
The first of the college’s eight
planned regional learning centers was
Danes To Host
Pace Gridders
Albany concludes its second season
of football Saturday at 1 p.m., as host to
Pace College. Several men will be playing
their final game for the university, among
them quarterback Bill Flanagan, co-
captain Tom Heister, All-State guard Pete
Moore, and cornerback Ted Merrill.
Also ending their college careers are
Dave Benedict, Jim Butler, Nick Conte,
Booker Evans, Gary Klipp, Cleve Little,
Bob Mollenhauer, Ron Spratt, Royce Van
Evera, and Dave Veit.
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Football ends just in time, because
the first winter sports event is scheduled a
week from today, when the swimming
team hosts the Great Dane Relays at 4
o’clock. Columbia University, RPI,
Lehman College, New Paltz, and Fulton-
Montgomery Community College will
complete the field.
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Seven cross-country runners are in
New York today for the IC4A College
Division meet.
Study Abroad Night
The Transnational Forum will host a
reception for all students interested in
participating in a semester or a year’s
study abroad or in the Summer Language
Abroad Program. The event is scheduled
for tomorrow from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in
HU 354.
Each program will have a booth dis-
playing some of the things students have
brought back from overseas, and students
will describe their experiences. Interna-
tional costumes will be worn, interna-
tional music will be played, and old-
fashioned American doughnuts and cof-
fee will be served.
more events...
MONDAY - Speaker: Richard Orville,
“Atmospheric Electricity”, Society
of Physics Students, PHY 129, 7:30
p.m. Speaker: Joseph Heard, “Mind
and Man”, Christian Science Organi-
zation, CC Assembly Hall, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY - Discussion: “Interstate Re-
lations in Southeast Asia: Small
States, Large States, and the Indo-
china War”. Perspectives on South-
east Asia. LC 19, 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY - Speaker: Israel Scheffler.
“Scientific Revolutions”. philosophy
and physics departments, HU 354, 8
p.m.
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opened recently in Manhattan. A third is
scheduled to begin operations soon in
Rochester.
Fifty-one students participated last
week in an orientation program at the Al-
bany center. There is no semester system
within Empire State. Students will be ad-
mitted monthly, building to an enroll-
ment of 400 by next March. Those
enrolling through the Albany center will
work toward either the Bachelor of Arts
or the Associate in Arts on a full or part-
time basis.
At the formal opening, President
Benezet expressed pleasure over the fact
that the campus could provide space for
the center, stating: “Empire State has
been a stimulus to all of us in the campus
units. We shall watch its progress with
keen interest and no doubt benefit from
its findings on education that goes on
outside the formal classroom.”
The Albany center is located on the
lower floor of Draper in space formerly
occupied by the Learning Disabilities
Center,
Faculty Notes
NATHAN GOTTSCHALK, music, con-
ducted a performance of the Honnegar
“King David” for orchestra, chorus,
soloists, and narrator, with the Pioneer
Valley Symphony Orchestra in Greenfield
(Mass.) in May.
LEONARD GORDON, educational
psychology and statistics, co-authored an
article, “The Measurement of Bureau-
cratic Orientation in Japan,” which ap-
peared in the October 1970 issue of /n-
ternational Review of Applied Psy-
chology.
IRVING SABGHIR, management, is the
author of an article, “The Taylor Act: A
Brief Look after Three Years,” which ap-
peared in the 1970 Supplement to the
Report of the Task Force on State and
Local Government Labor Relations, spon-
sored by the National Governors Con-
ference.
’Round the Campus
Dorothy Davenport, assistant to the director of international programs, will be the
program guest at a meeting of the Faculty Wives Association Wednesday morning at 11
in HU 354, She will show slides of the locations of the programs, pictures of students
who participated in the programs at various locations abroad, and will recount some of
the experiences enjoyed by approximately 200 students last year. Mrs. Roy Klages is
in charge of the arrangements which include a baby-sitting service for young children
and a Dutch treat luncheon, All faculty and staff will be welcomed. . .The two-year-
old scholarly journal, Terrae Incognitae, the Annals of the Society for the History of
Discoveries, of which Bruce B. Solnick, history, is executive editor, has located its
headquarters at Union College. . Several students enrolled at Skidmore College for the
first year in the University Without Walls are raking courses here this semester. . .The
Department of Judaic Studies is offering three new courses during the spring semester:
introductions to the Talmud, the Pentateuch, and to contemporary Hebrew litera-
ture, . Gilbert Williams and Roberta Singer, students in the library science school and
David Mitchell, faculty, will read some of
their poetry at an informal program
Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Room 76 of the
library school. Williams has arranged a
small exhibition of the works of a series
of poets, being hosted this month and
next by Siena College, with Harriet
Adams, SUNYA rare books librarian, in
the University Library. . .Two new public
services in the library are professional as-
sistance in use of catalogs and indexes
and preparation of special bibliographies
and reading lists, as well as preliminary
literature searches for both students and
faculty. The former is handled by Sara
Knapp and the latter by Elizabeth Salzer,
erstwhile head of the inter-library loan
section. ..The administration of the Late
Afternoon, Evening, Saturday, and Sum-
mer Session programs has been brought
within the Office of Vice President for
Research. Paul A. Saimond now is as-
sociate dean of graduate studies and
acting director of LAES and Summer Ses-
sion programs...The Division of the
Budget recently allocated $190,000 for
the equipping of existing boilers here
with cyclone dust collectors and for the
extension of the present stack at least 30
feet above the roof of the service
building.
Arrested on Campus
Carl Sims, a former student, was ar-
rested on campus Oct. 27 on a charge of
third degree assault. He was remanded to
the Albany County Jail where two days
later he was charged with second degree
robbery, the result of an incident also on
campus, eight days earlier. An accomplice
has not been identified.
SUNY PR Council
Elects New Officers
New officers were elected and new
directions in State University manage-
ment explained as the SUNY Public Re-
lations Council held its fall meeting on
campus last week. H. David Van Dyck,
director of SUNYA’s Office of Com-
munity Relations and immediate past
president of the council, retains an ex of-
ficio place on its Executive Committee.
New officers include Louis Herborg,
SUC Oswego, president; Norbert Haley,
SUC Cortland, vice president; Ruth Legg,
Community College of the Finger Lakes,
treasurer; and James DeSantis, SUNY
Buffalo, secretary.
Members of SUNY’s Central Office
addressed the council on such matters as
regionalism, the budget outlook, and
governmental relations.
Books Exhibited
The American Institute of Graphic
Arts “Fifty Books of the Year 1970” and
the “Seventh Annual University Press
Books” exhibitions will be shown con-
jointly in the University Library be-
ginning today and continuing until Dec.
3. The exhibition is being held in the
lobby of the library’s main floor.
Sponsoring this year’s exhibition in
the Capital District are the State Uni-
versity of New York Press, the SUNYA
Department of Art and Art Gallery, the
School of Library and Information Sci-
ence, and the Mohawk Paper Mills, Inc.,
Cohoes and Waterford.
Funding Given for Research, Programs
Vice President for Research Louis R.
Salkever has reported that funds received
by SUNYA during September for pro-
grams and research totaled $927,936. Of
the total, the amount for sponsored pro-
grams was $320,988 and for sponsored
research, $606,948.
Among the grantors are Environ-
mental Protection Agency, Ford Foun-
dation, National Institutes of Health, Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration, National Science Foundation,
Public Health Service, The Research
Foundation of State University of New
York, State Education Department,
Union Carbide Corporation, U. S. Depart-
ment of Justice, and U. S. Office of Edu-
cation.
Recipients of grants for sponsored re-
. search include John N. Aronson, chemis-
try. $25,000: Charles Edwards, biology,
So8 Tsoo E. King, chemistry,
Colin S. Izzard. biology,
$29.027: Donald C. McNaught, biology,
$19,072; Nan Lin. sociology, $25,500;
Akiho Miyashiro. geology. $40,000; Yash
P. Myer. chemistry. $25,000; Jon T.
Scott, atmospheric sciences, $19.388 and
$5,000: Ronald Stewart, ASRC, $23,203;
and Raymond G. Stross, biology,
Sis23s7;
Funds for sponsored programs have
been received by Sidney Decker, edu-
cation, “Faculty Senate Committee Re-
port”, $4,960; Richard Ellis, education,
“Institute for Large Group Methodology
in Traffic Education Programs”, $3,590;
John A. Ether, education, “Teacher
Corps Sixth Cycle - In-service Grant”,
$107,634; Samuel H. Hays, Public Execu-
tive Project, “The Public Executive Pro-
ject”, $71,000; and “Executive Develop-
ment Program - Albany Neighborhood
Police Unit”, $9,363; Richard A. Myren,
criminal justice, “Graduate Research
Fellowship Educational Allowance”,
$2,799; Paul A. Saimond, graduate
studies, ‘“‘NDEA Title IV Graduate
Fellowship Program”, $104,400; Gordon
J. Simpson, business education, “In-
service Workshop in Office Technology”,
$7,242; and Patricia B. Snyder, “Interna-
tional Children’s Theatre Conference”,
$10,000.
During August new sponsored
funding totaled $504,531. Of that
amount, $74,434 was for sponsored re-
search and $430,097, for sponsored pro-
grams.
Recipients of grants for sponsored re-
search are Duncan C. Blanchard, ASRC,
and Tsoo E. King, chemistry.
Funds for sponsored programs have
been received by Sheldon A. Grand, edu-
cational guidance, “Teaching and Trainee-
ship Grant in Rehabilitation Counseling”;
James J. Heaphey, Comparative Develop-
ment Studies Center, “Comparative Legis-
lative Development”; and William A.
Robbins, Center for Two-Year Colleges,
“Development of Special Competencies
in Two-Year Colleges and Urban Cen-
ters.”
Grantors in the August group were
National Science Foundation, National
Institutes of Health, Social and Rehabili-
tation Service, Agency for International
Development, and the State Education
Department.
Campus Exchange
FOR SALE: Concertone 800 tape deck,
six tape heads, three motors, auto-reverse,
sound-on-sound; was $450, now $200.
Call Dave Jenks, 7-4632 or
46231555 01% AM-FM-AFC portable
stereo phonograph, detachable speakers,
bass, treble, balance; sacrifice. Call
785-6549...... 1969 VW Bug, good con-
dition, Call 472-7795.
FOUND: Brown and white plaid man’s
peacoat, found week of Oct. 25 in AD
253 (conference room). Can be claimed
at the Security Office.
