Tower
Tribune
Vol. 1, No. 6
March 9, 1970
Faculty Referendum Held
On Authority
“Any action by the University Sen-
ate beyond the governance require-
ments of the university cannot be con-
sidered representative of the entire
university faculty and staff.’’ Such is
the statement of principle to which
some 1150 faculty members and pro-
fessional staff are being asked to re-
spond either in agreement or disagree-
ment.
The newly-formed Ad Hoc Commit-
tee on Senatorial Authority is seeking
to determine, by. way of a referendum,
the resolutions
adopted by the Senate. A declaration
and statement of principle for consid-
eration by SUNYA faculty and staff
accompanied the ballot card.
It reads: ‘‘The University Senate,
by its action on February 9, 1970, as-
sumed upon itself the role of a politi-
Biology Conference
To Give Perspective
reaction to recent
On Productiveness
“Biological Productivity: A Cur-
” is the subject of.a
to
rent Perspective
“Conversation in the Disciplines”
be held on campus Thursday and Fri-
day. A number of noted ecologists are
among the participants in the two-day
conference which is open to all State
University faculty and students. It is
sponsored by the biology department.
Funded by a $2,000 grant from the
SUNY Research Foundation, the pro-
gram is one of a series in which ex-
perts in a particular discipline gather
to share their experience and partici-
pate in discussions about trends and
developments in that discipline. The
relationship of the productivity of var-
ious biological organisms to the sta-
bility of the earth’s environment will
be a major concern of this week’s con-
versation. :
The conference will begin at 1:55
p-m. Thursday with a session on ‘‘Fun-
damentals of Productivity.” The sec-
ond session at 8:30 a.m. Friday will
be on ‘Methodology and the Develop-
ment of New Concepts,”’ and the third
session at 2 p.m. Friday will consider
“Current Directions.”” All sessions
will be held in the CC Assembly Hall.
R.H. Whittaker of Cornell Univer-
sity, speaking at the first session,
will examine ‘‘Bases and Amounts of
World Primary Production.’’ He will
explain the requirements of an eco-
system for primary productivity and
the various effects of limitations on
these requirements.
A dinner to be held at7 p.m. Thurs-
day in the CC Ballroom will feature
John H. Ryther of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. He will dis-
cuss the prospects of increasing the
production of food from the sea. Cur-
rent estimates are that, at the present
rate of growth of the world’s fisheries,
the total food potential of the sea will
be reached within the next decade.
of Senate
cal arm of the university, beyond the
powers delegated to the Senate. Any
action by the University Senate be-
yond the governance requirements of
the university capnot be considered
representative of the entire university
faculty and staff.’”
Eleven faculty members, called to-
gether by Albert C. Mossin, formed the
nucleus of the present Ad Hoc Commit-
tee on Senatorial Authority which now
numbers 46. Ballots are requested to
be returned by Wednesday at the latest.
After an analysis of the expression
of those participating in the referen-
dum, a determination will be made as
to the next step. Further action is be-
ing reserved now until the views of
the teaching faculty and professional
staff have been ascertained.
Mr. Mossin points out that it is not
the merit or demerit of the Vietnam in-
volvement, but rather the authority of
the University Senate to assume or
imply an official senatorial or institu-
tional position on any such issue,
which is the point to which the com-
mittee’s action is being addressed. He
has stressed the need for this to be
clearly understood.
In a message prepared by Mr.
Mossin, which served as a philosophi-
cal backdrop for the work of the com-
mittee, attention was called to the
February 9 action by the Senate. . .
“the results of which were subse-
quently publicized so as to give the
announced position the coloration of
Senatorial, hence Institutional, policy,
(the action) was, in effect, a vote by
63 individuals without authority or
right to make a commitment on such
an issue for the University or for any
entity thereof, other than for them-
iselves as individuals.”
In an earlier portion, the statement
reads, “To compromise this principle
lof institutional neutrality is to open
the door, through the device of major-
ity vote, to institutional commitments
violative of individual conscience on
matters inherently referable thereto,
and on particular issues may force in-
dividuals into apparent public postures
contrary to personal conviction or un-
resolved doubt.”
WHEN FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS in the fall, intramural warriors of previ-
ous years will have a chance to don Albany State uniforms and compete against
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other college club teams. The 1970 schedule includes six games.
Albany to Have Football in Fall
If Legislature Approves Funds
Athletic director Alfred Werner has
announced the university will field a
club footbali team in the fall, pending
approval of its proposed budget. The
budget would provide for a new man in
the physical education department and
Werner is seeking someone who could
coach football and lacrosse, in addi-
tion to his teaching assignments.
Home games have been scheduled
with Rochester Tech on Homecoming,
October 10, Siena College on October
17, and Hudson Valley Community Col-
lege on November 14. They will be
played on the field encircled by the
track, behind the physical education
building. Permanent bleachers on the
steps of the building will accommodate
an estimated 2,200 pe
ons and tempo-
rary bleachers may provide additional
seating.
Away games have been contracted
at Towson State College (Baltimore)
on October 24, at Marist College
(Poughkeepsie) on October 31, and at
SUC Plattsburgh on November 7. Only
Towson and Hudson Valley will have
varsity squads. The others are clubs.
“The student body here is ca-
pable intellectually or they wouldn’t
be here,’’ said Presideat Kuusisto
at a press conference last Wednes-
day, ‘‘and if they cannot listen to
new, controversial ideas and work
with them, then all our labor is in
vain.”
Dr.
ments in response to
Kuusisto made the state-
“many re-
quests from legislators, civic lead-
ers, and other citizens to bar (Wil-
liam) Kunstler’s appearance’’ on
campus last Thursday. “We have
consistently taken a stand that per
mits speakers to appear on the cam-
Kuusisto on Kunstler
pus representing a wide variety of
points of view,” he ‘explained. “We
do not attempt to assess the merits
of a speaker’s idea, we do not at-
tempt to censor. We merely provide
a medium through which responsi-
ble students can hear ideas and
weigh them.”
“There have been other speak-
ers on the campus involving con-
troversy and in every case students
have and
responded maturely
sanely. .. .we do not feel that as
educators we could do less than to
allow these students to have an
experience from which they may
learn.””
The addition of football
bring to 11 the number of varsity men’s
sports at Albany. In recent years,
would
swimming, track, and lacrosse have
joined cross-country, soccer, basket-
ball, wrestling, baseball, . golf, and
tennis in the expanding intercollegiate
program.
State Theatre Group
To Enact Cartoons
For Drama Festival
SUNYA’s Experimental Theatre has
|been invited to participate in the Yale
‘Drama Festival this year. The f
stival,
which is being held on March 20, 21,
and 22, will bring students and faculty
of theatre departments of the United
States and Canada to New Haven to
view each others’ work, discuss thea-
tre, and hear distinguished speakers
in the field.
The Experimental Theatre, under
the general supervision of James M.
Leonard, of the theatre faculty, will
be presenting a series of enactments
of the cartoons of Jules Feiffer, col-
lectively titled Paranoia Blues.
Douglas Wager, a theatre major, is
directing the production. The cast,
each of whom portrays numerous char-
acters in the course of the sketches,
includes Rae Ann’ Crandall, William
Doscher, Jay Kuperman, Marilyn Lib-
erati, Barbara Richards, and Steve
Sullivan. Gary Maggio will be acting
as technical director. The Wager troupe
jhas established a repertoire of Feiffer
jsketches which have been produced
three times on campus.
Experimental Theatre was formed
to provide the opportunity for theatre
work in addition to the regularly sched-
uled curriculum and the major depart-
mental production season.
Albany Takes First Place
In Growth to
“State University of New York at
\lbany has moved farthest toward full
university status of any of the 14 cam-
puses I visited.”? So spoke FE. Alden
Dunham in his Carnegie Higher Edu-
cation Commission supported study for
the American Association of State Col-
leges and Universities. His book, Col-
leges of the Forgotten Americans, is
a general review of the status of many
former normal schools and teachers
colleges across the nation, with spe-
f 4 schools.
cific reference to |
Art Buenwald
Buchwald to Expose
U.S. Establishment
Noted political humorist Art Buch-
wald will appear on campus Wednesday
at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center ball-
room. The topic of his speech will be
“The Establishment Is Alive and Well
in Washington.”
His visit is being
sponsored by the Forum of Politics
Admission is twenty-five cents with
tax, and a dollar without.
Mr.
column syndicated in 421 newspapers
the attended the
University of Southern California where
Currently, Buchwald has his
across nation. He
he was managing editor of the college
humor magazine, columnist for its pa-
per, and author of one of its variety
shows.
After college, Mr. Buchwald tray-
eled to Europe where his column,
called ‘‘Europe’s Lighter Side,” be-
came popular in
America, and was
eventually syndicated. After 13 years
Mr. Buchwald re-
turned to the United States and began
writing his Washington column which
on the continent,
is published three times a week.
The introduction to his latest book
Mr. Buchwald
introspective and terribly aloof, never
considers as, ‘‘Shy,
leaving his room except to buy Time
magazine to see if they’ve put him on
the cover.”’
Faculty Achievements
GEORGE KLIMA, anthropology, is the
author of a book, The Barabaig: East
African Cattle-Herders, published in
January by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
RICHARD STANKIEWICZ,
been named a participant in the pro-
gram for lectures and presentations in
the arts sponsored by the SUNY Uni-
versity-wide Committee on the Art:
art, has
He will visit a number of State Uni-
versity campuses todiscuss sculpture.
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Dunham’s study recognized all of
the growing pains these institutions
have experienced. In citing Albany’s
progr along the trail he said, “If
realities are disproportionate to the
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aspirations of the place, Albany is in
a hurry to narrow the gap even at the
cost of internal dissension.””
Dunham sees Albany as striving to
become a top-flight research institu-
tion but somewhat schizophrenic. It is
eager to move up, yet worried about
the break with the traditions of teacher
education.
He cited the remarkable effort in
the creation of 19 Ph.D.’s in such a
few years and commented on the stren-
uous recruiting of top academic people
with excellent supporting staff, equip-
ment, and material. Of special note
was the comment that scholarly com-
petence seemed more important in that
recruiting than teaching ability.
Not overlooked was the fact that
Albany was in a better position to
start the transition from its long tradi-
Also
cal
tion of liberal arts programs.
Albany’s phy
plant. Said the author, “Albany pos-
mentioned was
sesses the most striking architecture
to be found on any college campus in
the country.”
“Like UCLA, Albany has come the
full route from normal school to uni-
versity,’? Dunham “Just as
UCLA is no
AASCU, so one might expect Albany
f from this
stated.
longer a member of
soon to di
group of institutions.”
Albany did just that earlier this
month when President Kuusisto in-
formed AASCU of Albany’s intent to
withdraw at the close of the fiscal
year. In response, Executive Director
Allan Ostar s
played an important leadership role for
aid in part, “Albany has
the other institutions in the associa-
tion and we look forward to a contin-
ued close relationship.”
Albany’s decision to leave was
based on the changed nature of the
recent inclusion as
institution and
institutional member in the National
Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges, an organization
the state-supported
serving larger
units.
NO. 33 FIDDLER’S LANE in Loudonville may be the temporary address of in-
coming president Louis T. Benezet if he has not decided on a permanent home
when he arrives in July. The house and 10 acres of land have served for sev-
eral years as the official residence of the state education commissioner. De-
tails of lease arrangements would be worked out by the education department
and State University of New York.
*Round the Campus
The Center for Inter-American Studies is accepting applications until Mar. 20
ity of GUADALAJARA. Forms
for the Semester Abroad Program at the Unive:
may be obtained from William Derrick, SS 110, or from the center with offices
interested in the service of a CHARTER BUS from
Delmar to Wolf Road, get in touch with Mrs. Kulzer at 457-3457 or with Mrs.
7416. . Some 100 persons will attend a CONFERENCE on local
government planned for Mar. 16 at Brubacher Hall under the sponsorship of
-Pearl
at Draper 145. . .If you're
Lomax, 45
James L. Emery, State Assembly deputy majority leader. . Dobeck re
minds Summer Session faculty that
TEXTBOOK ORDERS must be received
by Mar. 26, an earlier date than usual
in the history of the State Senate is a
SUNYA student, Barbara Stuart. The
‘ 19-year-old coed from Binghamton, an
because of academic calendar changes
. . -The SUNYA SAILING CLUB has
been elected to regular membership
English major, says she is interested
in government. Her frontier-crossing
job requires her to be on duty while
in provisional status of the Middle At-
‘ i ae the Senate is in session, a few hours
lantic Intercollegiate Sailing Associa- hours
daily during the first part of the week.
Campus Exchange
FOR RENT: 4-bedroom
house in Altamont, garage, large yard.
year 1970-71
tion...During this month subscriptions
for renewal or for the first time for
CONSUMER REPORTS
cepted, at a saving, by Hudson Winn,
biological sciences. . .The Business
Office is holding ‘‘lost’’ TOURIST
will be ac-
Furnished
available for the school
LITERATURE about South Carolina,
forwarded to it from the mail room. If
no claimers within two weeks, out it
goes. . -An evening course in SCENE
STUDY for the actor will be offered
by the Department of Theatre as part
of its regular summer se.
-The FIRST FEMALE PAGE
sion curric~
ulum. .
Great Dane Sports
the basketball
team’s eventful trip to Buffalo Febru-
ary 25 and 26 by manager Richard
Rini. . .
After the game ‘was postponed
Wednesday evening, coach Dick Sauers
Recollections of
held a brief practice in the gym, un-
aware that a riot was brewing else-
where on campus. Finally, a security
guard. came in and said, “If you value
your life, you’d better get out of
Here.,.7"
Three taxis were called to take the
team to its off-campus motel, but only
two arrived. Sauers, assistant coach
Mike O’Brien, and several players then
tried to hitch a ride. They were picked
up by a local news car and “Doc”
“exclusive’’
gave an interview.
Ron Gilliam, the Buffalo star and
the only black remaining on the Bull’s
embattled team, walked on the floor
just prior to the start of the game
Thursday morning and
standing ovation. . .
received a
Tension reached its peak at the
start of the second half, when a fire
alarm went off and rang for about 10
minutes, while the game continued.
At the same time, a fairly large group
of student radicals had congregated
under one basket and some actually
stood within the playing area. They
were generally ignored and the game
finished without incident.
more events
MONDAY-President’s Conference with Students, C!
and summer 1971. Call Mojmir Frinta,
7-8465 or at home, 861-6942 1-bed-
room apartment on Cape Cod Bay, full
kitchen,
bathroom, living room, patio
on beach Harbor:
available May 15-September 15: com-
and Provincetown
plete seclusion and privacy but near
shopping and town center; season rent
includes all utilities: for one or two
persons. Call Jack Richtman, 7-8417
jor at home, 436-8631.
Student wife and mother
of two would like to care for one child
during the day, excellent location,
Ave-
nue, ample room for playing. Call
Claudia Hartmark, 482-4555.
near Russell Road and Western
WANTED: Ride from Scotia to SUNY
campus, 8:30 a.m.—5 p.m. Call Bonnie
Witten, 7-3921 or at home, 393-4758.
Patroon Lounge, 2:15 p.m.;
Panel Discussion: Population Committee of PYE, LC 11, today
through Thursday, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY-Lenten Masse
4 p.m.
THURSDAY-Film: ‘‘Secrets of Women’
p.m. and 9:15 p.m
FRIDAY
Newman Association, CC 315, today through Thurs-
day, 12:10 p.m. and 1:10 p.m
yond: Revolution and Apocalypse in Contempor:
‘olloquium: ‘“To Antiterra and Be-
Fiction,” HU 354,
by Bergman, State Quad, LC 6, 7:15
toncert: Modern Musicians, CC Ballroom, 7 p.m.; Film: ‘“The Heart
is a Lonely Hunter,” State Quad, LC 7,
“Innocent Sorcerors,”” LC 18,
7 pm. and 9 p.m.; Film:
IFG, 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
SATURDAY-Intercollegiate synchronized swimming competition, SUNYA Swim
Club and WRA, pool, 10-12 a.m., 1-5 p.m.
