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Tribune
Vol. 1, No. 22
STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
August 10, 1970
UC Dean to Assume
Academic Supervision
Of All Undergraduates
Robert B. Morris, dean of the
University College, will assume new
duties in the fall as a result of changes in
the offices of the President and the Vice
President for Academic Affairs.
Dr. Morris will have the title of Dean
of Undergraduate Studies and will take
on the responsibilities of an
undergraduate academic dean as well as
those of Dean of the University College.
He will thus supervise the academic
affairs of all undergraduates, including
advisement, honors programs, academic
probation, and interpretations of
academic policies.
He will also serve as an assistant to
the Vice President for Academic Affairs,
where his primary duties will include
working with the Undergraduate
Academic Council.
The Registrar and the Director of
Admissions will now report to Dr. Morris.
In recent months they had been reporting
directly to the Vice President for
Academic Affairs. Previously, however,
they had reported directly to the
Academic Dean.
William E. Seymour, who has been a
special assistant to the president during
the past year, will serve as an assistant to
Robert B. Morris
the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Mr. Seymour had served for a time last
year as an “ombudsman”, spending a
portion of the week in the Campus
Center to answer questions and help solve
problems brought to him by students.
The President’s Office has indicated that
that practice will not be continued by
personnel from that office, but an
expanded information desk will be
maintained in the Campus Center.
Seth W. Spellman will continue to
serve in the President’s Office, with his
title changed from special assistant to
assistant to the president. In the past he
has been active in minority group affairs
on campus.
Inauguration of Benezet
Slated for September 2
Louis T. Benezet will be inaugurated
as the 12th president of State University
of New York at Albany on Wednesday,
September 2. The inauguration ceremony
will coincide with the 1970 opening
convocation.
The ceremony will begin at 3:30
p.m. with a procession of faculty and
university officials. The assembly will
meet on the field south of the Campus
Center. Participants in the program will
include Mauritz Johnson, vice chairman
of the University Senate; David Neufeld,
president of Student Association; and J.
Vanderbilt Straub, chairman of the
University Council. The investiture will
be made by the newly appointed
chancellor of the State University system,
Ernest L. Boyer.
At 5 o'clock a university-wide
reception will be held at the Campus
Center; and at seven in the evening, a
dinner for invited guests will be held in
the ballroom to honor the new president.
Before coming to Albany, Dr.
Benezet had been president of the
Claremont Graduate Center in California.
He had previously served as president of
Allegheny College from 1948-55 and of
Colorado College from 1955-63.
In commenting on his outlook for
the future, Dr. Benezet remarked, “There
Enrollment Shows Increase in Commuters
Projected enrollment figures, housing
facilities, new appointments, and new
programs —— all are in the news as
SUNYA plans for the opening of the fall
semester. Reflected in the planning is the
university’s response to increased
accommodation requirements and
changing student needs.
Director of Admissions Rodney A.
Hart puts the number of
undergraduate students expected on
campus at about 2,450. In that number
are 1,535 freshmen, 65 under the
assigned quota of 1600. Eight hundred
ninety are on-campus residence students,
new
345 commuting students, and 300
Educational Opportunities Program
students, the majority of whom are
resident students. Those transferring in
from other institutions total about 900.
The original quota for the new
freshman class was 1200. Later it was
increased by 200, and still later, on May
1, by another 200, making a total
increase of 400. There were 8,917
freshman applications and in that number
were 719 who reside in the commuting
area, described as being high schools
located in about a 30-mile radius from
the campus.
Accepting an increased number of
commuting students does not
significantly affect the average academic
qualifications of the entering class,
according to Mr. Hart. The average
commuting freshman has an 85 high
school average, 84.5 Regents average,
ranked in the top 14% of his class, and
earned a Regents Scholarship
Examination score of 204 out of a
possible 300. Incoming resident students
have a 90.6 high school average, 91.2
Regents average, rank in the top seven
percent of high school classes, and earned
a RSE score of 226.
Garry Petre, associate director of
residences, reports that about 5100
students are expected to be housed on
campus, an increase of 300 over last
year’s total. Eleven hundred graduate
students and undergraduates will be
located at the Alumni Quadrangle. There
Pierce and Sayles halls are being
reconverted to accommodate about 240
persons. Included will be transfer,
continuing, and graduate students.
Two residence halls, Adirondac and
Cayuga, will be ready at the Indian
Quadrangle. Occupancy of four-man
suites on the uptown campus will be
increased to five and on the downtown
campus some two-man rooms will have
triple occupancy.
While still university president, Dr.
Kuusisto in June appointed Harry
Hamilton, director of the EOP, to the
new post of associate dean for the Office
of Innovative and Developmental
Programs. He will be responsible for EOP,
the Full Opportunity Program announced
by Governor Rockefeller earlier in the
year, and other innovative and
experimental programs.
Dr. Kuusisto said at the time of the
appointment that Dean Hamilton would
be aided by faculty and staff concerned
with the development of the new
programs, adding that the office is
intended as a resource to foster new
educational programs on campus.
Melvin I. Urofsky, assistant
professor, educational foundations, has
been named assistant dean. He will work
with Dean Hamilton on a number of
emerging developments.
Acting Vice President for Academic
Affairs Charles O’Reilly has pointed out
that the new office will “provide a home”
for a number of new programs as they get
started. Some of the innovations under
consideration are environmental studies
and community involvement programs as
well as an experimental college and
general college.
are some held-over anxieties from the
disturbed days of the spring. We are not
the masters of national or world events,
and we must respond to them as
concerned citizens who believe in
humanity as well as in scholarly
accomplishment. I would presume we can
do it as a society of rational men and
women working together.
“There is evidence on many sides of
spirit and imagination among faculty and
students to make our university a place of
relevant learning in its first forms. With a
little patience, a good deal of humor, and
a determination to make the most of our
resources, we shall have a good university
year in 1970-71.”
New Registrar
Arrives Monday
Thomas C. Burnette will begin his
duties as registrar of the university on
August 17. He succeeds Harold
Kristjansen, who has accepted a similar
position at Vassar College.
Mr. Burnette comes to Albany from
Tuskegee Institute, where he has been
student and employee for the better part
of 34 years. He received his B.S. degree
there in 1940 and, after military service,
returned to his alma mater in 1946.
He has been there since then, except
for the year he spent at the University of
Chicago to earn his Master of Business
Administration. At Tuskegee, Mr.
Bumette served as assistant to the
registrar, registrar, and acting director of
operations analysis and research.
The new Albany registrar is a
member of the American Association of
Collegiate Registrars and Admissions
Officers and of the National Association
of College Deans and Registrars. He also
has served on the executive committee,
the advisory council, and the program
classification structure task force of the
Western Interstate Commission for Higher
Education.
Search Committee Seeks Applicants
For Director of Campus Security
Active recruiting is currently
underway for a Director of Campus
Security at Albany, a new position
recently approved by the Division of the
Budget. A search committee has been
named by Milton Olson, vice president
for management and planning, to screen
applicants for the $15,000 a year job.
On the committee are David
Anderson, a student; John Buckhoff,
director of the physical plant; Sorrell
Chesin, assistant vice president for
student affairs, Regis Deuel, associate
professor of marketing; Seth Spellman,
special assistant to the president; and
Robert Stierer, assistant vice president for
management and planning.
The position calls for a man with a
bachelor’s degree and previous experience
in security work, preferably in an
educational institution. He is expected to
have demonstrated both administrative
ability and the ability to relate to people.
He will be in charge of organizing and
administering the campus security
program and will be in a position to
recommend policy in regard to security
matters. Nationwide newspaper
advertisements have been used to aid in
recruiting.
Eleven other new positions on the
campus security force are currently
pending approval. If all positions are
approved and filled, it will bring the total
campus security force to 47.
Summations by Lawyers
Conclude Student Hearing
The final session of a university
hearing for Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen,
doctoral fellows charged with deliberately
disrupting a geography class during the
student strike last May, was held last
Monday in LC 7. More than 100 persons
were in attendance through the five-hour
session.
The findings of the hearing
committee will be sent as a report to
President Benezet. He will review the case
and either support or revise the
committee’s recommendations. Penalties
range from reprimand to dismissal.
Students to Come
From 38 Nations
One hundred thirty-one new
international students will be on campus
in the fall, according to figures from the
International Student Office as of July
23. They will join the 140 international
students who are continuing here. The
new students represent 38 countries on
five continents.
Twenty-four of the students will be
undergraduates, with 89 studying at the
master’s level and 18 seeking doctorates.
Graduate international students will be
enrolled in every school and college
except the School of Social Welfare and
the School of Nursing. Their major field
preferences total 28, with the largest
numbers--II each--studying economics and
library science. The undergraduate
students are evenly divided with 12 each
studying for the B.A. and the B.S.
The largest group of international
students, 85, comes from Asia. Other
continents represented are Europe, 18;
Africa, 12; Latin America, 12; and North
America, 4.
Training Leaders
ABE Institute Goal
The fourth annual Adult Basic
Education (ABE) Institute on Curriculum
Development here ended Friday,
following a final banquet held the
previous evening. Bernard Haake,
assistant commissioner for instructional
services in general education, State
Education Department, was the guest
speaker.
The institute was supported by a
$94,000 grant from the U. S. Office of
Education for the purpose of training
curriculum leaders and developers for
ABE. Preparing experienced ABE
personnel who are in positions to
implement curriculum development and
change in ABE programs currently
operating in urban areas was the
institute’s overall objective.
Nearly 80 participants from 39
states, including Alaska and Hawaii,
attended the institute. Taking part in the
program were 17 consultants and nine
panelists, the latter from the Albany area.
John A. Ether, curriculum and
instruction, was project director and
Anthony R. Pacelli, ABE research
specialist, School of Education, program
director.
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“Campus Exchange,” call 7-4630.
Professor Stanley Blount, chairman
of the geography department, preferred
charges against the Ewens, who were part
of a liberation class which failed to
immediately leave a room that had been
regularly scheduled for Mr. Blount’s class.
At the first session of the hearing,
Mr. Blount testified that the Ewens’ delay
in leaving the room constituted a
“deliberate disruption” of his class.
During most of the second session, six
witnesses were brought forth to establish
a case for the defense. Five were students.
A letter from Fred Childs, a graduate
student, was read into the record. Mr.
Childs visited the room shortly after Mr.
Blount had brought his class in. He
observed that members of Mr. Blount’s
class were seated generally to one side of
the room. Members of the liberation class
were conversing with one another, with
Mr. Blount, and with students from his
class. Mr. Childs’s conclusion from the
remarks that he heard was that each
group in the room was astonished at the
other’s presence, and any wasted time
was the result of a mutual
misunderstanding.
In his concluding remarks, Fred
Cohen, legal representative for the Ewens,
affirmed that the university had not
proved its case. The negotiations were
reciprocal; therefore, the cause of the
delay could not be attributed to the
deliberation of one party.
To conclude the case for the
university, attorney Edward Bogdan
maintained that although the strike made
for some extraordinary situations,
infraction of the rules could not be
excused. The authority of the professor
should have been recognized.
| ‘Round the Campus
An Albany newspaper has applauded editorially the appointment of Ernest L. Boyer
to succeed Chancellor Samuel B. Gould. Dr. Boyer has served as vice chancellor since
October 1968. Comments the Knickerbocker News, “Unusual times call for unusual
men and Dr. Boyer seems uniquely fitted to guide the huge and complex State
University system during what undoubtedly will be years of trial, turbulence and
change.”. . Sorrell Chesin, assistant vice president for student affairs, will attend a
two-day program on student protest and the law to be conducted later this month by
The Institute of Continuing Legal Education on the University of Michigan
campus. ..The State University Construction Fund is accepting bids on a contract
estimated at $169,000 for planting here. The project, scheduled for completion by
next June, provides for planting at various areas of the campus. . .Teams representing
Administration and Computing Center
have won their opening-round playoff
games and will meet for the
CSEA-SUNYA softball championship in
September. . Positions available: assistant
to the director, Two-Year College Study
Center, School of Education, William A.
Robbins, director; assistant dean, School
of Social Welfare, William S. Rooney,
acting dean. . Susan Darbyshire is editor
of Computing Center Newsletter
published bi-monthly by the SUNYA
Computing Center. The July issue is now
available at the director’s office. ..The
Stan Musial Regional Baseball Tourney
will be held here Aug. 27-30.
Campus Exchange
FOR RENT: 2-bedroom unfurnished
apartment, one block from downtown
campus. Call 465-1233 after 6 p.m.
FOR SALE: Land. Call Thomas Winn,
TS25 1.0 ss 1965 Chevy SS convertible,
white, 283 engine, power steering and
brakes, automatic transmission, manifold
vacuum gauge, very good condition. Call
459-4547...... 1966 Ambassador,
power steering and brakes, automatic.
Stereo tuner/amplifier, SONY 355 tape
deck, TV, speakers. Call 438-7925
evenings.
Faculty Notes
DEWITT ELLINWOOD, history, has
written an article, “The Future of India
in the British Empire: The Round Table
Group Discussions, 1912,” which
appeared in The Nanyang University
Journal.
LEONARD GORDON, educational
psychology and statistics, is the author of
an article, “Measurement of Bureaucratic
Orientation,” which appeared in the
Spring 1970 issue of Personal Psychology.
JOSIAH GOULD, JR., philosophy, is the
author of The Philosophy of Chrysippus,
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published by the State University of New
York Press.
BERNARD JOHNPOLL, political
science, is the author of a book, Pacifist’s
Progress - Norman Thomas and the
Decline of American Socialism, to be
published in September by Quadrangle
Books, Inc.
ABRAHAM LUCHINS, psychology, is
co-author of an article, “Strengthening
Motivational Factors to Tell the Truth,”
which appeared in the Journal of Social
Psychology.
SUMMER SESSION DRAWS TO AN END, and with it a
campus atmosphere quite different from that of the academic
year. The pace is at once more hurried, as a semester's work is
crowded into six weeks’ time, and more relaxed, as the student
population is cut in half and people take time to enjoy the
summer weather.
