Albany Student Press
Friday, October 9, 1970
State University of New York at Albany
Vol. LVII No. 25
S.A. Funds Are Unfrozen
Trustees Delegate Power
by Al Senia
Features Editor
Student Association has re-
sumed normal operations as a
result of the actions taken by the
Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees at a meeting
held last Tuesday.
The freeze on S.A. funds was
lifted as of October 6th, and
money is once again being dis-
pensed to all Student Association
funded groups on campus.
The trustees, who had been giv-
en control of all student funds as
a result of a decision handed
down by Justice Harold Koreman
of the New York State Supreme
Court, made the following de-
cision:
“Resolved that effective im-
mediately and until the end of the
current, academic semester, the
chief administrative officer of
each state-operated campus where
the payment of a student activity
fee has been required...shall de-
velop and utilize appropriate pro-
cedures by which he...can review
and certify that the appro-
priations of the representative stu-
dent organization are of an edu-
cational, cultural, recreational, or
social nature before any funds so
collected are dispersed.”
What this means is that the
power to dispense student activity
funds has been given to the presi-
dent (or his designate) of every
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SUNY campus where a mandatory
tax is collected. Legally, he must
decide whether the funds request-
ed by the student governments of
his campus will be used for a
Political, social, educative, or
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recreational purpose before ap-
proving them,
This presents little problem here
at Albany State where President
Benezet has already approved the
entire Student Association budget
for this year.
However, presidents at other
SUNY schools, where co-opera-
tion may not be so easily forth-
coming, are extremely concerned
about the decision. It could pave
the way for administrative censor-
ship over student government
operations.
‘A meeting of student body
presidents has been scheduled in
Albany for October 24th to dis-
cuss the problem. ‘There should
be about seventy people ready for
blood,” Albany State’s S.A. presi-
dent Dave Neufeld said in com-
menting on the prospects for the
meeting.
Student government presidents
have already met once. Last Sun-
day, representatives from Buffalo,
New VP’s,
Security Head Cited
by Jeffrey P. Bernstein
President Benezet called for
“shrewd screening” so that “illogi-
cal and improbable candidates”
will not be considered for the two
vacant vice-presidential posts. He
announced a policy of “pitiless
exposure” of the candidates by
two yet unnamed committees.
Benezet hopes to have a final
decision by the second semester.
Official recognition was then
given by Dr. Benezet to the “un-
freezing” of Student Association
funds. He announced the future
appointment of an advisor to
work with the Central Council in
helping determine “appropriate”
use of these monies, The presi-
dent’s designee will serve only in
an advisory capacity, however.
Dr. Benezet read United States
Attorney-General Mitchell’s letter
which was addressed to presidents
of select American universities an-
nouncing his intention to dispatch
delegations to discuss campus un-
rest and related issues, if invited
to appear. Sporadic outbreaks of
laughter accompanied the reading
of Mr. Mitchell’s letter to which
Dr. Benezet replied favorably.
Tentatively, the delegation will be
here October 21 and will be avail-
able for discussion in the Patroon
Lounge during the afternoon. Dr.
Benezet added that Martha was
not expected to attend.
The search for a director of
campus security was as evident a
problem as the trial of students by
a university judicial committee
(versus a civil court) was. Dr.
Benezet said that the university is
not a refuge, but that the problem
of a judicial committee is that the
pressing of charges for individual
injuries must go to civil courts.
Stony Brook, Oswego, Oneonta,
Broom Tech and the Association
of Two-Year Colleges met and
discussed the available options.
The concensus of opinion on the
option that was eventually chosen
was described by Neufeld: “They
don’t like it.”
No Other Choice
As unpopular as that decision
might have seemed to other
SUNY presidents, Neufeld had lit-
tle choice. His alternatives were
limited to basically three:
Council could drop mandatory
tax and replace it with a voluntary
system, This was deemed un-
feasable since it was estimated
S.A, revenu~ would drop drastic-
ally if this were done. Probably,
every organization’s budget would
have had to be cut back at least
20%.
The effect at other SUNY cam-
puses would have been even more
crippling,
“We would have gotten about
80% of our current revenue,”
Neufeld said, “but some of the
other presidents estimated that a
voluntary tax would give them
only 20% or 30% of their current
money.”
So it was decided to drop this
alternative for the present.
Secondly, he could have tried
negotiating a deal which would
have kept the funds for the Free
School, Strike Committee, and
other so-called partisan groups
frozen.
But this course of action was
tantamount to an admission of
defeat since Neufeld feels such
organizations are “educational,
cultural, recreational, or social” in
nature.
“Legally we are held to these
four areas,” Neufeld said, “and I
claim that we have NEVER vio-
lated them.”
In other words, Neufeld felt that
freezing their funds would be
self-defeating and “damned un-
principaled.”
Continued on Page 5
Greeks celebrate the coming of Indian summer with typical spirits.
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Fredonia Approves
Campaign
The faculty of State University
Fredonia has approved a program
to allow students time off from
school to campaign in the Novem-
ber elections.
Despite the fully-outlined pro-
gram, however, the resolution by
the Board of Trustees appears to
make it certain that no such time
will be allowed.
It was clear that the intention of
the faculty at Fredonia was to
Provide ample opportunity for
electioneering by students, while
at the same time keeping the
university open and classes in ses-
sion.
The onslaught of renewed hot weather brought some classes outdoors once again.
...potskowski
Program
Other schools and school sys-_
tems have enacted similar plans
including Princeton and City Uni-
versity of New York.
The Fredonia State faculty reso-
lution read as follows:
“Students (with the execption
of those engaged in activities in
which attendance is required un-
der college regulations) who wish
to leave the campus for the pur-
pose of engaging in full-time poli-
tical campaign activities during
the two-week period (October
18-November 1) immediately pre-
ceding the 1970 general election
be permitted to do so under the
following conditions.
1. The student shall have full
responsibility for making up the
work he has missed, including all
exams, classwork, and assigned
Papers; however, there shall be no
penalties for missing examina-
tions, classwork, or the handing in
of assigned papers during that
period.
2. A written statement of intent
to participate and a statement
that arrangements for such partici-
pation have been made with some
candidate, party, or group, shall
be filed with the Student Per-
sonnel Office at least two weeks
before October 18 by each partici-
pating student. However, the stu-
dent shall not be required to
divulge the name of the particular
candidate, party, or groups that
he intends to campaign for.”
The resolution left the choice
completely up to the individual.
No person would be penalized for
leaving the school, while students
not involved in political move-
ments could attend classes.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1970
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Anyone interested in serving on
the committee which will select
the new Vice-President for Aca-
demic Affairs and the Vice-
President for Management and
Planning please fill out an applica-
tion in the Student Association
office by next Monday.
Peererret sy
Spanish Club—The _organiza-
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officers for this. year has been
changed to Monday, Oct. 12 at 3
p.m, in Humanities 39. All inter-
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invited to attend.
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Any students interested in per-
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Students intending to apply for
creative writing (poetry) please
submit samples of your writing to
Robert Judd, HU 375.
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Dunkin’ Donuts comes to State
Quad along with some far-out
music. Sunday, Oct. 11, State
Quad Flag Room at 7:30 p.m.
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The Fencing Club will meet
Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Dance Gym on the third
floor.
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Sanford Rosenblum, the Stu-
dent Association Lawyer, will be
in CC 346, Tuesday, Oct. 13 from
7-9 p.m. Anyone interested in
discussing anything with him or
just meeting him is welcome. We
hope to make this a regular bi-
weekly event. No appointments
are needed Tuesday.
Perreerer ts
The 1970 Homecoming Concert
will feature Sergio Mendes and
Brasil °66 with Seales & Crofts.
The concert will be Sat., Oct. 17
at 8 p.m. in the Gym. Tickets are
on sale in the Campus Center
from 10-2. The cost is $2.50 with
tax and $5.00 without.
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Cider Party for students and
faculty of the School of Nursing,
Tuesday, Oct. 13. Open hours
between 2:30 and 4:30 in BA
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University Concert Board will
present Miles Davis and Nick
Brignola on October 23 in the
Gym. Tickets are $1.50 with tax
and $4.50 without.
Elections for LAAC and Central
Council, Oct. 12-14: State Quad
and Dutch Quad—flagroom,
4:30-6:30. Colonial Quad—
U-Lounge, 4:30-6:30. Alumni
Quad—Waterbury Main Lounge,
4:30-6:30. Residents of Indian
Quad and commuters may vote in
CC Main Lounge from
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Oct. 9. Admission: $0.50.
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Jim Burnett, radical student ac-
tivist at Berkeley, member Nation-
al Committee of the Socialist Par-
ty, now professor of political
science at York College, will speak
on Wednesday, October 14 at
8:00 in HU 254. His topic will be
“The Labor Movement, Force for
Reform, Revolution, or Reaction,
a Radical Analysis.” Sponsored by
The Young Peoples Socialist
League.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
New University Conference
New Protest Plan
by Candy Carallaro
Students wishing to activate rad-
ical ideas were encouraged Tues-
day by David Levitt to work
through the New University Con-
fernece, as an alternative to for-
merly established methods of pro-
test.
xevitt, N.U.C. representative tc
this area, explained that it was
organized by former members of
SDS, because of the failure of that
institution, and disillusionment
with campaigning for peace can-
didates. The students found a
need for an institution on the
university level.
N.U.C. was founded in Chicago
in the winter of 1968. The Na-
tional Convention, which has met
each summer since then, formed
four basic programs, and devel-
oped a national organization.
“Moby Dick” is the fall offen-
sive to the war in Southeast Asia.
Through this program, N.U.C.
hopes to demonstrate that be-
cause of political graft, being
“lured into” working for peace
candidates does not help to stop
the war. It offers students alter-
nate methods of protest.
To “liberate” the women of
students and faculty, N.U.C. insti-
tuted its Day Care Center pro-
gram. Since the Center is for
Persons from all factions of so-
ciety, free, and client controlled,
Levitt pointed out that it also
demonstrates the human relation-
ships that would develop after a
socialist revolution in this coun-
try. So far, Day Care Centers have
been established in Bloomingdale
and in Columbia, and it was sug-
gested that SUNYA. might succeed
Pro-Arab Israeli
To Speak Sunday
by Barbara Muller
A new proposal for peace in the
Middle East will be presented in
an address given by Uri Avnery, a
member of the Israeli Parliament,
on Sunday, October 11, at 1:30 in
LC 18.
Avnery, the spokesman for es-
tablishment reform and the youth
of Israel, has caused much contro-
versy by his revolutionary ap-
proach to the settlement of the
Middle East crisis. Ever since the
Six Day War of 1967, he and his 5
year old pro-Arab political party
have advocated reconciliation
with the Palestinian Arabs,
The party proposes that a feder-
ation be formed between Israel
and Palestine that would mutually
occupy Jerusalem as the capital,
and also mutually settle the refu-
gee problem. The basic concept
behind the federation is to en-
hance the possibilities for eventual
unification of Israel and Palestine,
and the confederation of all the
states of the Middle East.
During World War Two, Uri
Avnery came to Israel as a refugee
from Hitler. Later he joined the
Irgun, a terrorist organization op-
posed to the British presence in
the Middle East, and he served as
a combat soldier in his country’s
war of independence.
ae
in forming one, with N.U.C.’s
help.
High school teachers are viewed
by N.U.C. as vital allies in the
struggle against the establishment.
Therefore, a program has been
started, to “devote energies to
bring together radical high school
teachers.” “Open up the School”
was initiated to deal with the
functioning of the University it-
self, Through this program,
N.U.C. hopes to establish open
admission policies, work against
overcrowding of dorms and class-
rooms, demonstrate how grading
and teaching systems divide the
people involved, and any other
projects which are dictated by the
needs of each individual univer-
sity. In this way, hopefully the
university can be made integral to
life in America, so that people will
study and work in it, because they
chose to do so.
If Levitt succeeds in estab-
lishing a chapter at Albany,
SUNYA will be the first university
in the state system in N.U.C. To
establish a chapter of N.U.C., only
interest and the payment of dues
by several members is required.
This will entitle the university to
two representatives, one male and
one female, to the yearly con-
vention, and to the publications
of N.U.C, These include a news-
letter twice a month, reports from
other chapters, and other
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Campus Political Organizations
Mobilize for Campaign ’70
by Michael Avon
With the 1970 elections 25 days
away, many Albany State stu-
dents have taken to the streets.
This time the streets have become
a political scene of solicitation
with students canvassing for their
favorite candidates. Student cam-
paign leaders on this campus are
Education
Goal of Free School
by Sharon Cohen
“Anyone should be able to
teach anyone else anything he
wants” is the basic premise of the
Free School, initiated at SUNYA
last spring. It was organized by a
group of students interested in
“innovative education,” and is de-
signed to coordinate activities and
courses that would not ordinarily
be offered on campus.
Some of the course offerings are
chess, survival training, painting,
black theology, folk guitar, rac-
ism, dance, and “setting your life
style.” Free School is also organi-
zing a festival of the winter sol-
stice, and a weekend seminar on
the future of the university. It
offers any courses in which inter-
est is displayed.
The Free School was founded,
New Course
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Chess
Zen, Calculus, and other Nice Things
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Wed., October 14 7:00 p.m.
Wed., October 14 4:00 p.m.
Thurs., October 15 6:00 p.m.
Sat., October 17 10:00 a.m.
Mon., October 19 8:00 p.m.
on the Free School office (CC 320)
chanelling their groups efforts to
local _as well as statewide and
Long Island campaigns.
“The only way to stop a war is
to have a congress that wants to
stop it,” said Dave Hirsch at a
Movement for a New Congress
meeting on Tuesday night. The
Princeton based organization has
chosen about 60 “swing districts
that are vital for peace.” Hirsch
and Hollie L Hawkes, the two
leaders of the New Movement at
Albany, are concentrating their
efforts for Republican Dan But-
ton, and Democrats Ned Pattison
and Al Lowenstein.
Button is running against Sam
Stratton in this the 29th Congres-
sional District. Both candidates
are incumbents, Reapportionment
has placed them in the same dis-
trict. “Stratton must be beaten,”
says Hirsch. “He’s been suppor-
Highway Course Offered
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safety will be given on October 19
at SUNYA. Sponsored by the
College of General Studies and the
Physical Education Department,
the course will be given in Lecture
Center 15,
The fee is $5 per pupil and class
will be from 6-9 p.m. Registrants
must bring their driver’s permit to
be certified upon completion of
the class. Since enrollment is
limited to twenty and the $5 fee
must be paid in advance, early
registration is urged.
To sign up for the course, con-
tact Mrs, Posner at 457-4937 or
go to Administration Room 239,
College of General Studies.
ting all of the military appropria-
tions,”
Pattison is running against Carl-
ton King, a Republican- incum-
bent, in the 30th Congressional
District. Lowenstein, a freshman
congressman, is running against
Republican Norman Lent, a State
Senator, for the congressional seat
in the 5th district. If there are
enough interested students, Low-
enstein Headquarters in Long Is-
land will supply buses, to get
students to Long Island for week-
end campaign work.
Cathy Bertini, President of the
Young Republicans, is the full
time co-ordinator for Governor
Rockefeller’s campaign in this re-
gion. It is her responsibility to
train campaign workers at door-
to-door and phone canvassing.
Bertini claims that the Young
Republicans are “supporting all
Republicans including U.S. Sena-
tor Goodell.”
The New Republican Front,
which Dan Duncan, its president,
calls “the only ‘Nixon Republi-
can’ club on campus, is supporting
James Buckley, not Goodell, for
U.S. Senator. Although Buckley is
the Conservative Party’s candi-
date, Duncan claims he is more in
line with Nixon-Republicanism
than is Goodell, Bertini says that
Nixon doesn’t necessarily repre-
sent all Republicans,
Duncan was a member of the
Young Republicans last year. A
split which was formed in the
club, when its 1969 President
Fran Batista “Attacked Nixon and
other Republicans as being tog
The objectives of the Free
School include providing the op-
Portunity for anyone to offer a
course, get together to form a
workshop, meet others with the
same interests, and “broaden in-
tellectual and personal experi-
ences.” The School is also trying
to organize activities to provide
“interaction with the le<al com-
munity,” and a tutorinl program
for the Albany community as well
as the University.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1970
What do the Palestinians Want?
by Michael Howard
The Arab inhabitants of Pales-
tine fled in fear for their lives in
1948 after the creation of the
state of Israel. Since then a whole
generation has grown up in the
refugee camps and in the cities
around the borders of Israel, ac-
cepted neither by Israel nor the
Arab states and ignored by the
world. With the August cease-fire,
agreed to by both Israel and the
Arab governments, the world
thought it could ease the tensions
in the Middle East without con-
sidering the plight of the Pales-
tinians. The recent hijackings, the
product of the new generation of
Palestinians, exploded these
hopes. There can be no peace in
the Middle East that does not
recognize Palestine and its right to
live.
What do the Palestinians want?
In general terms, the answer is
simple: they want to be allowed
to return to their homeland under
conditions of first-class citizen-
ship. This does not mean the Jews
who have recently settled there
must leave Palestine—the guerilla
organizations are quite explicit on
this point, What it means is the
formation of a secular, democratic
state in which Arabs and Jews are
equals, socially and economically
as well as before the law. Thus
Arabs must be given substantial
economic assistance in resettling
to give them the same economic
and educational opportunities as
Jews. In addition there must be an
end to the prejudicial Israeli im-
migration laws, under which any
Jew from anywhere can come and
be an Israeli citizen, These are the
basic demands of all the guerrilla
organizations.
What is important to realize
about the Palestinians’ struggle is
that it goes much deeper than that
of one of Arab against Jew. The
conflict within Jordan should be
proof enough of this. But what is
true in Jordan is true everywhere
else in the Arab world, All of the
Arab states are run by small elites
who prosper while large numbers
of their countrymen barely sur-
vive. These elites owe their pros-
perity to profits with the West,
mainly in oil, together with mili-
tary and economic aid from the
United States and the Soviet
Union. Some get more aid from
one of these giants, others from
the other; but all benefit from a
system including both.
American Imperialism
When people speak of American
imperialism they mean this system
whereby the rich and powerful of
a country put their country’s re-
sources (in men and materials) at
the service of United States cor-
porations for their own profit and
at the expense of the deteriorating
condition of their own people. At
the same time these groups are
given military aid by the U.S. in
case these people rise up in rebel-
lion, To the extent that Russia
participates in this system it is
appropriate to speak of Russian
imperialism as well.
Jordan’s elite is particularly tied
to the U.S., in that its military
force is entirely maintained by the
U.S. and its economy is main-
tained by Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait, the two major oil coun-
ties. Since 1948 this elite has done
its best to keep the Palestinians
weak and disorganized while at
the same time appearing to sup-
port the Palestinian cause, Now its
pretense has been exposed and it
must rely on pure terror to main-
tain its rule, having earned the
hostility of Palestinians and Jor-
danians alike.
Those elites receiving aid from
the Soviet Union—mainly Egypt,
Syria, and Iraq—will not be as
eager to serve the U.S. as Jordan,
but still they are part of a system
in which the U.S. plays a large
role. Whether they are willing to
risk the destruction of their ar-
mies and their severance from the
American economic system in
support of the Palestinians is
doubtful.
Popular Front
The Popular Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine—the organiza-
tion responsible for the hijack-
ings—is already speaking in terms
of an international people’s re-
volution to overthrow all the es-
tablished governments in the Mid-
dle East. Indeed, while their or-
ganization at the moment is
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specifically for the liberation of
Palestine, its membership is inter-
national. Two of the hijackers
were from the Sudan; and the one
who was killed on the Israeli
airliner was an American citizen
who had spent most of his life in
Nicaragua. Their call for revolu-
tion extends even to Israel.
In the beginning Britain allowed
the creation of the state of Israel
not out of concern for the Jewish
people but in order to establish an
ally in the Middle East with which
to protect her control over the
Suez Canal, In 1957 Israeli troops
fought alongside British and
French troops against Egypt. Now
the West is concerned with oil
rather than the Suez Canal, and
the dominant power is the U.S.
ratner than Britain. At the same
time Israel is becoming a puppet
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of the United States government.
As Israel’s economy becomes
more and more strained by the
necessity to maintain a costly
military machine, it will become
more and more at the mercy of
the political needs of the United
States government (specifically,
the Republican party) and the
economic needs of the American
empire. Its role will be that of the
protector of American oil and the
supporter of Arab military cliques
and potentates.
Fighting the Role
To fight this role it is necessary
for Jews in Israel to work in
solidarity with the Palestinian
guerrillas in order that their peo-
ple no longer flourish at the ex-
pense of another people and in
service to American imperialism.
People fear that Jews who work
against Israel will only be con-
tributing to the destruction of
their own people. Against this we
must observe that the guerrillas
who took part in the recent hi-
jackings were not anti-Jewish. No
Passenger returned to report any
special treatment directed against
Jewish passengers, although at the
time the U.S. State Department
was making charges that this was
the case. The point has been
raised that Jewish rather than
non-Jewish passengers were held.
But we must remember that many
American Jewish passengers were
also not held, and those passen-
gers who were kept either had
joint American-Israeli citizenship
or had been to Israel. The point
was to cause trouble for Israel, so
that she would have to recognize
the existence of the Palestinians.
The Present
At present the Palestinians are at
war with the American-financed
Israeli army, and both the Pales-
tinians and the Jordanians are at
war with the American-financed
Jordanian army. But when the
commandos captured and blew up
American and British jets they
were at long last tangling with
their real enemy, American cor-
Porate capitalism, compared to
which Israelis and Jordanians are
merely hired gunmen. The guer-
rillas know this—the hijackers said
that their next target would be
American oil wells. Against such
destruction all governments in the
Middle East are united. With
American help they will do their
best to destroy the Palestinians’
ability to fight. In doing so they
will only arouse their own people
against them,and the liberation
struggle will re-emerge on a larger
scale than before. Sooner or later,
the U.S. will find itself “forced”
to intervene in what could de-
velop into a second Vietn#m—a
second major front in the Re-
volutionary War against American
Imperialism,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS \
The Tales of Schwartz
Yes, Jack Schwartz, there is a pig media. “But the ASP wants to do a story on your summer trial.”
“Twenty-five words or less?”
“No, Jack, the ASP is going to be objective, fair and respected this year.
This conversation occurred during the Crib-in outside President Benezet’s office. Schwartz toyed with a
by Michael Lippman
ASP Feature
Revolutionary balloon, his story developing in spurts of information.
His arrest centered around participation in the library demonstration, the first action of the May strike.
‘About two hundred took part in removing books from the shelves, rearranging them on the shelves, and
stacking some outside. Of all taking part, Jack Schwartz was identified and arrested. :
“Henighan (Security Officer for SUNYA) and his gang-busters came to my apartment at eight in the
morning. They woke me up and I didn’t know what was happening. The charge was Second Degree
Criminal Tampering, a really meaningless charge. The warrant even had my name spelled wrong.”
‘As Schwartz tells it, the following hours sound like either the peak of official inefficiency, or a well
planned attempt at disruption.
“They took me to Albany Med and tried to pin a murder on me. Some guy was dying and raving about a
long haired blonde kid who'd done it. They all pressed around him and tried to get him to pick me, but he
was gone.”
Schwartz was eventually brought to the city jail and “interrogated.”
“Just like in the old movies. They told me they had others who had implicated me and that I should
cooperate: but I was the only one they had.”
‘After the questioning, Schwartz was taken to the county -jail while the 250 dollar bail was raised. Legal
complications (‘They couldn’t release me without official stationary and Judge Teppedino didn’t have
any”) forced him to spend the night.
“The whole idea of jail is to dehumanize you. There wasn’t any toilet paper in the cell. The place is
filled up with kids and everyone is there illegally because they don’t know what they can do about it.”
The bail problem was finally straightened out and he was released to await further action by the court or
the University. However, little of importance happened during the summer.
“No one would do anything. Acting President Kuusisto said he couldn’t do anything because he was
leaving, Benezet couldn’t do anything because he just got here. ““The school wanted a scapegoat. The chief
TROL
bon
Jack Scnwartz, with his bag of tricks, pauses to flash a friendly
greeting.
Budget
Continued from Page 1
The final alternative was to have
the trustees unfreeze Albany
State’s funds by giving the power
of dispensation to SUNY A’s presi-
dent.
The major drawback to this was
that it would affect every campus
in the SUNY system since the
action would have to be carried
out on a statewide basis.
Unofficially, Neufeld had as-
Surances that President Benezet
would co-operate. For, as Benezet
had stated at Wednesday’s forum,
he had never vetoed student
government funds in his past years
as an administrator.
Thus, it appeared this was the
most reasonable alternative. Neu-
feld found himself in a poor posi-
tion—all activities had been frozen
for three weeks and the effect on
the campus was grave.
Even the Albany Student
Press—which had been funded by
U.S. Student Press Association—
could publish no longer and was
threatening to file a separate law
suit on its own behalf.
Clearly, immediate action was
needed. The third alternative
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Defrosted
dent governments at the other
state institutions.
S.A.’s Future
Currently, the student govern-
ment here at Albany State is back
to functioning normally. Tech-
nically, President Benezet has con-
trol over S.A. funds.
“So far he has acted in good
faith,” Neufeld said last night.
“This is a perfect example of a
time when the community was
threatened and we all had to work
together.”
Legally, the case now goes to
the Appellate Division of the
State Supreme Court where, ac-
cording to Neufeld, “we hope to
make the arguments more legal in
nature and get away from the
politics of the case.”
Chancellor Boyer, meanwhile, is
studying the present policy on
student activity fees and will
make recommendations to the
Board of Trustees by December.
Will Albany State’s student
government at last be able to
function effectively for the re-
mainder of the year? “I’m hopeful
we won’t function regularly but
better than ever,” Neufeld said.
seemed the most logical. Neufeld
attempted to have the ruling ap-
ply soley to Albany. Legally, this
was unsound.
So, the price for getting Student
Association funds back was
steep—the autonomy of the stu-
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witness against me was John Bird of
Geology. He was on the Research
Council defending war research and
_ 1 introduced a bill in the Senate last
year to abolish this in all forms.
That’s where he knew me from.
Bird said I removed piles of books
but I had two witnesses on the
library staff who said I only took
charge was subsequently
_ lowered to Disorderly Conduct to
which Jack pleaded guilty and paid
a $100 fine.
“We could have won but it would
have taken about six months and
too much money. There were more
important things to do, like helping
Vernon Bowen who was arrested
for the cafeteria action in April.”
He spotted John Henighan across
the hall. “Hey, there’s Henighan. Hi
John, the ASP wants to do a story
on you!” Plainclothesman Heni-
ghan smiled weakly, his cover
broken again.
Campus security
homeground.
“undercover”
Henighan
Schwartz
by Rita Riggione
Asp Feature
“I’m not out to get Jack!”
declared Chief Investigation Of-
ficer John Henighan when ques-
tioned about the arrest of a
SUNYA spring Book Demonstra-
tion participant, Jack Schwartz.
Allegedly, Jack was often in-
volved in minor violations of cam-
pus regulations and Mr. Henighan
referred to them: “If I had want-
ed to, I could have arrested him
any number of times.”
Campus Campaign ’70
Mobilized fo
continued from page 3
conservative,” helped initiate
Duncan to form the New Repub-
lican Front. Batista is now an
Albany State graduate student. He
is the Campaign Manager for Re-
publican John Graciano, who is
running for Albany County Clerk.
Along with Buckley, the New
Republican Front is supporting
Rockefeller, Carlton King and
Ray Scuse, an incumbent Repub-
lican assemblyman from Albany.
Unlike the Young Republicans,
however, the New Democratic
Coalition isn’t only supporting
candidates of its own party.
Along with their plans to canvass
for their candidates, the President
of NDC, Steve Villano hopes to
set up a day care center in Al
bany’s South End for election
day. This will allow mothers to
r November
supporting Arthur Goldberg for
Governor and Basil Paterson for
Lieutenant Governor. They've
also endorsed Richard Ottinger
for U.S. Senator. “We used to run
our own candidates, but we found
that although we thought we were
right, we couldn’t do anything
because we never won,” said Dave
Kopilow, State president of
YPSL.
Besides organized groups, some
individual students have started
campus political organizations for
some of the candidates. Allen
Reiter is running Adam Walinsky’s
campaign for New York State
Attorney General on campus. Mi
chell Frost is trying to solicit
support for Buckley, while Bill
Berman is running Goodell’s cam-
Paign on campus.
vote and leave their children su-
pervised.
The Albany State Young Social-
ist Alliance is supporting the can-
didates of the Socialist Workers
Party. These candidates include
Clifton DeBerry for Governor and
Jon Rothschild for Lieutenant
Governor, as well as Kipp Dawson
for U.S. Senator.
The State organization of the
Young Peoples Socialist League is
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There was the question of
whether Officer Henighan was le-
gally justified in arresting Jack at
his off-campus apartment. Maps
show that Jack resided within the
one mile radius which allows cam-
Pus police to issue warrants.
Georgia Lee and Robert Burnstein
received warrants on the night
that Jack was arrested. Officer
Henighan stated that he possesses
two additional warrants for stu-
dents he was not yet prepared to
identify,
According to Henighan, those
students were arrested because
they were easily recognizable,
even amid the confusion of some
200-300 demonstrators. So,
faculty and staff members signed
complaints against them.
“As long as they are noi de-
stroying property or interfering
with regular activities, strikes are
all right with me!” asserted John
Henighan. However, as a man who
works between forty and sixty
hours per week and attends
SUNYA as a junior majoring in
sociology, Henighan had mixed
feelings for dissenters. “As a stu-
dent, I resent having classes inter-
rupted by liberation or anti-war
classes...Let them do it on their
own time,” he concluded.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1970
THE ASP SPORTS
Baltimore in 6
Gridders Set For Historic Opener
by Mike Piechowicz
Baseball's World Series takes a
back seat to football tomorrow
when the Great Danes of Albany
State meet Rochester Institute of
Technology. The game marks the
beginning of club football at
Albany and the two o'clock kick-
off should be before a packed
house, or hillside, as the case may
be,
R.LT. is undefeated in two
starts this season and is ranked
19th in the nation among club
football teams. Their offense
takes full advantage of two fine
runners, Joe Widay and Pat
Muscarella, Widay is an impressive
outside runner who powers
sweeps with his quickness and
exceptional moves, while Musca-
rella hits the hole quickly and has
rushed for over one hundred yards
in each of Rochester’s first two
games. Quarterback Rich Knaack,
an area product, scrambles well
but passes very little. R.LT. on
the whole seldom passes.
Last week they pulled out a
Dane Booters Lose 4-1
by Dave Fink
The Great Dane varsity soccer
team traveled to Oneonta on
Wednesday and came away on the
short endof a 4-1 margin.
The score was tied at halftime,
1-1, but the second half was the
story of the home squad out-
hustling State.
Oneonta opened the scoring at
9:25 of the first period on a goal
by Carlos Camacho, one of many
foreign bom players for Oneonta.
This is, indeed, a great advantage
for them in that most of these
men have been playing soccer all
their lives instead of going down
to the neighborhood playground
to shoot baskets.
State tied the score at 10:50 of
the second quarter when Larry
Herzog took a pass from team-
mate John Streeter and sent the
ball skidding past the futile lunge
of the Indian’s goaltender.
Streeter was moved up from the
junior varsity just two days before
the Oneonta game and obviously
was able to hold his own on the
varsity.
Camacho broke the tie at 3:16
of the third period and then
added another marker at 13:21 of
the same stanza, This gave the
Oneonta forward the coveted
“hat trick,” signifying the accom-
plishment of scoring three goals in
one game.
‘The home squad’s Mario Bianchi
added the fourth Oneonta goal
midway through the fourth quart-
er but the outcome was, by this
time, no longer really in doubt.
According to Coach Bill
Schieffelin, the team’s problems
are quite evident. “We're not play-
ing together. We have trouble con-
trolling the ball at midfield and
thus theopposing team has posses-
sion in our end too often.” He
added that besides the fact that
they were more aggressive and
consequently, on this day any-
way, a better team, the Danes
made too many mistakes. It is
well known that the team which
makes the fewest errors stands the
best chance of winning.
Schieffelin doesn’t feel that the
team is improving. Naturally, it is
easier for a man to make progress
when his spirits are high and two
consecutive losses does not help
morale.
This Saturday, the Danes host
New Paltz. The visitors, are, stated
Schieffelin, “man for man, the
best team in the State University
conference and probably the best
team we'll meet all year.” State
lost a 4-3 squeeker at New Paltz
last year and since their personnel
has: changed little since last sea-
son, the Danes stand a good
chance of knocking off the south-
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14-12 win over Plattsburgh with a
T.D. toss in the final 30 seconds
of play. That throw was the first
R.LT. touchdown pass in three
years. Physically, they’re a small
team that averages out to about
190 pounds on both lines. On
defense they have a standout in
senior middle line- backer Bob
Peters. Stopping this man could
be the key to Albany State put-
ting some points on the score-
board.
On the home side of the ledger,
Albany could very well upset
highly ranked R.LT. State’s
“forte” in its two scrimmages was
defending against the rush. Elim-
inating the ground attack will
reduce Rochester to little more
than tackling dummies, and the
difficulties the Danes have had
defending against the pass should
be neutralized by R.LT.’s limited
Passing game.
Starting .u the backfield for
State will be Bill Flanagan at
quarterback, Rudy Vido at full-
back, Larry Petersen in the swing-
back position, and co-captain
Bernie Boggs at tailback.
The defensive line, which must
stop the R.LP. backfield if State is
to stay in the game, will bSteve
Finn and Marty Levi at tackles,
wiht Butch McGuerty and John
Soja holding down the ends. Finn,
however, will need medical clear.
ance to play tomorrow. Several
weeks ago he suffered a slight
concussion and his starting status
is questionable. The loss of Finn
would be a hard blow to Albany
as Coach Ford calls him, “...perh-
aps our best defensive lineman,”
Offensively, Albany State will
“try to establish Vido inside, try
to control the middle linebacker
Peters, and then throw the ball a
little more than we did against
Middlebury,” stated Coach Ford.
The game boils down to Albany
beating a rugged defense and stop-
ping R.LT.’s one-two punch of
Muscarella and Widay.
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When October 10th becomes the
memory of a well spent autumn
afternoon, and one team is revel-
ing in victory while another is
sulking in defeat, Albany State’s
first football game will be a thing
of the past. The physical and
mental errors that cropped up as
if from nowhere will be drilled
upon and drilled upon until they
are no longer a cause for concern,
so they can try it again next week.
Albany is a new team, and one
thing a new team is sure to have
more than their share ois mis-
takes. It’s almost as if there were a
set number of errors to be com-
mitted on a given Saturday, and
better teams are exempt from
many by virtue of their superior-
ity. Somebody has to take up the
slack. Albany State has been
working since last year to keep
from being that somebody. To-
morrow we find out just how
hard.
Sailing Club
State University at Albany
hosted the first Women’s Sports
Institute held in the east on Octo-
ber 2,3, and 4. Some 170 women
coaches and officials of volleyball
and basketball participated. High
schools and colleges in 12 states
were represented.
The institute is sponsored by the
Eastern District of the Division of
Girls’ and Women’s Sports, a sec-
tion of the American Association
for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation, Edith Cobane,
chairman of the women’s physical
education department at Albany,
and Marilyn Conklin of Connect.
icut College are co-chairmen of
the institute. Claudette Delama-
ter of Albany presented a lecture-
demonstration on “Injury Preven-
tion and Care.”
Regatta at Cornell, held on the
weekend of September 26-27, the
SUNYA Sailing Club won a berth,
in the Middle Atlantic Inter-
collegiate Sailing Association’s
War Memorial Regatta to be held
later this season. “A” division
skippers Glenn Faden and Jack
Arthurton and “B” division skip-
pers Chris Follows and Jon Sar-
galis, along with crew members
Ralph Schupp, outraced rivals
Hamilton, Marist, and Bucknell to
qualify for the finals along with
the teams of Cornell and Hobart.
In addition, skippers Chris Fol-
lows and Jon Sargalis earned posi-
tions in the district. monotype
(skipper without crew) elimina-
tions for a MAISA championship
to be held later this year at the
U.S. Naval Academy.
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On October 3, the club traveled
to the N.Y. Maritime College at
Fort Schuyler, to compete in a
quadrangular with the University
of Delaware and Southampton
College. Maritime won the event
with Albany finishing second. Six-
teen races were held, with spinna-
kers being flown throughout the
day. Skippering for Albany were
Glenn Faden, Chris Follows, and
Jack Arthurton; Henry Maduro
crewed.
AMIA
AMIA football is well into the
second half of the season with no
clear champion decided in any of
the three leagues.
In League I, STB is the front-
runner and both Potter and APA
will have to go some to catch
them.
League II finds a tight race
between TXO, the Hicks and BPS.
STB leads League III but they
are closely pursued by the
Alchemists who lone loss was a
result of a forfeit.
The question of playoffs and the
teams involved will be decided
early next week.
The standings are as follows:
STB
EEP
APA
ALC
GDx
KB
TXO
Hicks
BPS
9th Floor
Grapplers
Huns
Indians
Fresh Cream
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PAGE 7
Janis Joplin (1944-1970)
Peace
The Evolution of
the Cinema:
Festival Of Religion And The Arts
To Be Held At RPI Oct. 26-Nov. 3
Lectures, cultural events and an
All Saints Liturgy will highlight
the eighth annual Festival of Reli-
gion & the Arts sponsored by the
Chaplain’s Office at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute from Octo-
ber 27 through November 3.
The festival will open with the
unveiling of a 15th Century Ital-
ian wood sculpture, “The Crown-
ing of the Virgin.” The sculpture
was donated to the Chapel and
Cultural Center at RPI by Robert
Petricca of Pittsfield, Mass., an
RPI alumnus and a trustee of the
Newman Foundation. The unveil-
ing will be at 8:30 p.m. October
27 in the CC. All are welcome.
On Wednesday, October 28, the
Alcoa Lecture will be given by
Alan Gussow. Mr. Gussow, an
ecologist, was featured in the re-
cent ecology edition of LIFE Mag-
azine. The lecture will be at 8
p.m. and is open to the public
without charge.
At 4:15 p.m, on Thursday,
Myra Breckenridge
by Tom Quigley
“You've got to S-M-I-L-E”
---Shirley Temple
Two years ago a young director
named Michael Sarne made an
auspicious screen debut with a
low budget beautiful people satire
called JOANNA. Sarne’s style was
a combination of visual and liter-
ate camp without pretension that
showed the sure handed control
of a promising new auteur.
Michael Sarne is now respon-
sible for a film, rather a so-
mething, that is the sum total of
nothing. That nothing is MYRA
BRECKINRIDGE.
Gore Vidal’s transsexual satire
makes a miserable screen trans-
lation, primarily because of the
Szoverffy
To Lecture
Joseph Szoverffy, professor of
comparative literature, State Uni-
versity of New York at Albany,
will lecture on “The Emerging
Modern World,” in 15th and 16th
Century literature, Tuesday, Octo-
ber 13, at 4 p.m. in the Hu-
manities building, room 354.
Szoverffy, director of graduate
studies at Boston College, received
his Bachelor of Arts from St.
Emeric College, Budapest (Hun-
gary) and his Ph.D, in Germanic
studies from Budapest State Uni-
versity and has additional speciali-
zation in Latin and folklore.
sorry scenario, erratic editing, and
the incredible star combination of
Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex
Reed and the indomitableMae
West.
Sarne attempts to repeat the
rapid pace of a Thirties’ musical
comedy that distinguished his first
effort. The banal performances,
coupled with the lurid dialogue,
prove, however, that a blue movie
cannot be disguised with tech-
nicolor, no matter how much Hol-
lywood gloss it’s dipped into.
Plot development is almost
non-existent and the inhuman
treatment of transsexuality is de-
grading and vicious, Myra is the
fulfillment of all of Myron’s
dreams. Myron is a_ sissified
psychotic whose vindictive aim is
to destroy the “myth of American
Manhood.” Myron gets gelded,
but the only ones getting screwed
are members of the audience.
This fluffy Freudianism fronts
for a story line that is one long
stream of one-line obscenities and
double entendres that are com-
pletely devoid of humor and sub-
tlety.
Raquel Welch is better than her
average sexpot self in the title
role, but her bitchy, clipped dia-
logue is pure snobbery. John Hus-
ton overdoes the leering, dirty old
man bit as Uncle Buck Loner. Rex
Reed, the film critic turned actor,
plays Myron, proving that he
knows as much about acting as he
does about films,
The most unforgivable sin is
Sarne’s treatment of Mae West.
Mae returns to the screen main-
taining her super sexual mystique
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and her hard mouth, Yet, despite
a few funny lines and her attempt
to rise above the muck, the Queen
of swagger is caught in the quag-
mire like everyone else.
‘As for technique, Sarne’s style
is devoid of any freshness, aban-
doning camera movement for te-
dious, static positions. He finally
hits bottom by editing film clips
from great comedies, dramas and
musicals of the Thirties and early
Forties to further disjoint an al-
ready pointless movie. The trage-
dy is that the older clips add
quality and humor to Sarne’s
shredded mess,
The: purpose of true satire is to
exaggerate and mock. It is usually
vulgar, funny and sarcastic, but
always subtle. Evidently, Sarne
and Vidal have not learned that
transsexuals and practitioners of
kinky sex are human beings,
They are not all self destructive
and actually do enjoy life. And
despite the fact that life is a
four-letter word, it’s not all that
bad as this inhumane film would
have us believe.
MILES DAVIS
is coming
October 23rd
watch ASP for details
October 29, an illustrated lecture,
“The Historic Hudson,” will be
given by Emil Sticht in the C+CC.
Mr. Sticht is connected with the
Bell Telephone Co. Also featured
Thursday will be the film, ‘‘Oedi-
pus the King,” starring Sir Chris-
topher Plummer. The film will be
shown at 8 p.m. in the C+CC
without charge.
Folk and religious dances of
India will be presented in the
C+CC Friday at 8:30 p.m. Fea-
tured dancers will be Bihari Shar-
ma and Thambal Yaima of Mani-
pur, India.
Saturday afternoon from 1 un-
til 5 p.m. a one-act play festival
will be conducted in the C+CC.
Robert Kreiger, drama critic for
the Hearst Newspapers, will be the
commentator for the event. One-
act plays will be presented by
player groups from various col-
leges and universities. Any college
group that wishes to participate in
the festival may obtain further
information by contacting Rev.
John D. Kirwin at the RPI’s Chap-
lains’ Office.
Pete Seeger will perform in a
concert Saturday evening in the
RPI gym. This is the only program
in the festival for which an ad-
mission will be charged. Proceeds
will go toward the drive to clean
up the Hudson River. The concert
will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are
$2. each.
All are invited to take part in
an All Saints Liturgy Sunday,
November 1, at 10:30 a.m. in the
C+CC. The liturgy will feature a
rock band, liturgical dance, dra-
matic readings and other multi-
medic presentations,
Monday will feature another
illustrated lecture at 8 p.m. in the
C+CC. The lecture will be given
by Christopher Jaffe, an RPI a
lumnus.
The festival will close Tuesday
evening, November 3, with a pro-
gram entitled “Sound and Light
on Election Night.” The program
will consist of a religious program
featuring politics. It will be con-
ducted by the Rev. J. Andy Smith
Ill, Protestant Chaplain, and
Charles Saile at 8:30 p.m. in the
C+CC.
Anyone wishing further infor-
mation concerning any of the
events in the festival should call
either the RPI Chaplain’s Office,
270-6518, or the Chapel and Cul-
tural Center, 274-7793.
Santana, an outgrowth of the
Woodstock Nation has now be-
come one of today’s “super
groups.” The New York Times
recently said that “Santana is an
Afro-Cuban laser beam—narrow of
focus and deadly of aim—that will
blow out the back of your head.”
Also appearing will be the Elvin
Bishop group, a new group that
basically evokes togetherness.
They are eager to please both the
audience and themselves, and in
doing so create a verbal and mu-
sical interchange that is something
to see and hear. They play a
combination of musical elements;
blues, rhythm and blues, rock and
comedy. The music is typical of
their outlook on life—honest,
moving and filled with good hu-
mor and wit.
Tickets are available now at the
R.P.I. Field House and at all
Ticketron outlets.
Sergio Mendes
and
Brasil '66
Sat., Oct. 17th
in the Gym
SANTANA
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in the RPI. Field House in Troy,
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Editorial Comment
The Year Starts Now
The budget is unfrozen. For Student Association, the year
begins now.
This is the year when Student Association must forge an entirely
new image and thrust or face stagnation and irrelevance. This is
the year Student Association must visibly become progressive,
must untie itself from the cycle of internal and relatively
insignificant affairs. This is the year when Student Association
must contront the problems and needs of students at Albany
State, and those problems and needs are much deeper and more
significant than those of organized clubs and activities.
The essential fact of this university is that the great body of
students are disorganized and have chosen to be so. Sailing and
athletics and even participation in the media and in organized
representation themselves, while desirable and necessary, do not
relate to the body of students. For the vast majority, such
activities do not relate to life ambitions and objectives, and thus
to making the four year stay at Albany State as productive and
meaningful as possible.
Yet, parliamentary procedures have it, and traditions and
temperaments and time-allotments have it, that thes become
priorities. Representatives easily find themselves in the elitist and
illusory position of dealing with these groups and not with the
unorganized body of the constituency. Little surpirse therefore
that Student Association in former years has had an extremely
poor record of leadership and has attracted only sporadic interest
of the student bodies.
Significant movements, representing latent needs and
frustrations and goals have circumvented it, calling on Central
Council only for recognition and funding. The strike, the
moritoria, student power, Third World, all have received funds,
but little organized leadership or assistance. Elected student
leaders play games if they do not lead. In short, they become
followers.
It is the primary function of Student representatives to confront
the inadequacies of the educational system, of the bureaucratic
process, of racism, of budgetary policies and priorities. It is the
function of Student Association to investigate and to effectively
take a stand on these issues.
Student Association slowley grows irrelevant and bureaucratic.
The year starts now.
Southern Comfort
You miss a friend when she’s gone. You miss the voice that
inspired you (that’s a corny word: inspired). You miss the voice
that comforted you, helped shape your ideal in some way, showed
you that you could feel whatever you wanted, do whatever you
wanted, be whatever you wanted, and still have her as a friend.
So long, Janis. We never really understood you. We dug your
Southern Comfort and your gutsy blues but we all said “that is
you, not me” and set up the barriers. And Janis, that’s just what
you sung about, and we’re still doing it, and so maybe,
somewhere, you’re still singing the blues.
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Day Care: The Basic Issues
by Alan Alpern
How is a woman to fulfill her
educational and vocational poten-
tial when she has children and is
forced to be a full-time home-
maker? The demand for a student,
faculty and staff Day Care Center
on this University campus was first
made in January, 1970 and many
of those concerned feel that the
Day?-Care concept as originally
viewed by the parent, the very
person who would be using this
facility, has been subjected to a
systemic destruction of content.
The Day Care supporters say
that from the time the Admin-
istration admitted to the need of a
Day Care Center, in May,1970
under pressure of the Student
Strike, issue after issue has been
fabricated (space, money, etc.) to
stall progress on the Center, and
more important to allow for the
substitution of the Administra-
tion’s concept of a “model” Day
Care Center. Women’s Liberation
argues that not one purpose of the
Center as seen by the parent has
been retained in the token center
which the Administration is offer-
ing.
The Administration’s center en-
tails a maximum of 45 children,
when the facility is legally capable
of serving 120 children, and a
survey last spring of only 600
questionnaires showed a need for
283 children. Use of the Center
has been limited to students only,
when the original demand was for
its use by students, faculty, and
staff. Adjusting itself to the size
of 45, a competitive system for
determining use of the Center has
been established whereby use
would be determined by financial,
rather than practical or total need.
The Administration feels that its
low fee Center, a substitution for
the original free Day Care con-
cept, would still be a great “com-
munity” service. A Women’s Lib-
eration spokeswoman said the Ad-
ministration has continually en-
joyed putting forth the facade of
working with the women, when in
reality it has worked in opposition
to the program detailed in the
original demands of the concerned
women, parents and their support-
ers.
when the Administration
constantly argues that there is a
lack of funds for the Day Care
Center.
A Women’s Liberation spokes-
woman noted that all of this is
part of the Administration’s refus-
al to recognize the basic issue of
this entire struggle, the oppression
of women in a male dominated
society. Many students may well
remember the ease and efficiency
with which the Strike Committee’s
“un-official” Day Care Center ran
during last spring’s strike. It
would be beneficial to the entire
University Community if the Ad-
ministration would finally engage
itself in a meaningful commitment
to the Day Care concept as set
The most recent issue has been
that of the residents of Pierce Hall
who objected to having the Center
in their dorm, which is remini-
scent of the problem of Narcotics
Centers several years ago, when
everyone felt we should have
them, but not in my neighbor-
hood. To satisfy these students
the Administration gave them a
representative on the Day Care
Board of Directors (women and
Parents combined have three out
of fourteen members) and addi-
tional funds to make their “sub-
standard” dorm more liveable,
when the Administration con-
stantly argues that there is a lack
of funds for the Day Care Center.
Corruption and Nepotism in FSA
by Bob Warner,
Associate News Editor
The Faculty-Student Associa-
tion (FSA) which — monopolizes
nearly every non-academic
function on campus, must be
either drastically overhauled or
abolished in favor of a better
system.
The FSA problem is two-fold:
the visible corruption and its im-
mediate manifestations which
cause it to be unresponsive to
students; and the broader issue of
whether students are best served
by a paternalistic, undemocratic
bureaucracy or by a genuine asso-
ciation controlled by and for the
benefit of the faculty and student
body alike, for the present organi-
zation is composed neither of
faculty nor students to any signifi-
cant degree.
The immediate pressing ques-
tions that should be asked of FSA
pertain to the charges of nepo-
tism, the poor wages paid to
student food workers, and the
disbursement of net profits at the
end of each year.
The charge of nepotism stems
from the fact that four members
of one family work for FSA, two
on an executive basis. (The name
will be witheld for obvious rea-
sons). This does not directly hurt
students, but it indicates a breach
of ethics on the part of FSA. It
seems, then, that the organization
exists for the benefit of its top
workers, and not for those who
support it financially, i.e. the stu-
‘dents,
The wage issue, naturally, is a
bread-and-butter fight between
food service workers and FSA.
Food service workers are paid
$1.60 an hour, which is 25 cents
below the State minimum wage.
This is not illegal, however, since
non-profit institutional organiza-
tions are exempt from the law.
But it is immoral that a university,
which commits itself to intellec-
tual integrity, pays its student
workers insulting wages.
The disbursement of FSA pro-
fits, which one year (67-68) went
to the improvement of the Mo-
hawk and Dippikill campuses, is
an outrage. That profits in the
range of $90,000 should not be
given either to food service or the
bookstore so that prices might be
lower is uncomprehensible. The
Mohawk campus does not directly
benefit nearly one-half the stu-
dent body, while deflated meal
contract prices or bookstore pri-
ces directly benefits all.
‘The aforementioned three grie-
vances, however, need only re-
form, But is that all that is needed
of FSA? Couldn’t such an organi-
zation be student and faculty
owned? This is certainly an ex-
citing prospect to explore.
The creation of a student-facul-
ty cooperative would solve the
question of paternalism vs. self-
determinism. In other words, the
governance of FSA by those who
directly benefit from it would be
“a solution to the o-ganization
which exists ndw; it is presently
under control of only the Presi-
dent and the Vice- President for
Management and Planning. Such a
hierarchy, which only tokenly
recognizes students, has simply
refused to relinquish its paternalis-
tic role. “FSA knows what is
best,” so therefore students better
keep their minds on their work.
“FSA is in charge; it has every-
thing under control.”
Therefore, simple: reform seems
not quite good enough, since Mr.
Cooley (Executive Director of
FSA) will never give up his deci-
sion-making power. He will
always know what is best, better
that the lucky beneficiaries of his
beneficence.
He has appointed an Assistant to
the Director of Students Affairs
of FSA, which on the surface was
a good step. However, Peter Blais,
a senior, the occupant of the
newly created position, no matter
how sincere he might be, serves at
the pleasure of Mr. Cooley. If
Blais pushes too hard or rubs
Cooley the wrong way, he is out
of a job. Blais cannot really be
effective when he derives his
strength from his target, and not
from an independent constitu-
ency.
FSA may or may not democra-
tize itself from within; but it is
entirely possible that Student
Association will assume the po-
wers and responsibilities of the
organization from without.
