Albany Student Press
Vol. LVIII No. 37
State University of New York at Albany
Albany
The Year Reviewed
It was a quiet year. From the roar of Spring 1970, came a different
reaction in the academic year 1970-71. While discontent rumbled
beneath the surface of Albany events, the mass movement of “the
strike” did not present themselves, whether from fear, discourage-
ment, or depolitization.
Student activities primarily directed themselves on local issues. The
year began with a demonstration led by Women’s Liberation members
and concemed parents for a SUNYA Day Care Center. Their success,
however, now seems jeopardized by financial problems threatening
the center's existence. Others worked for an Environmental Studies
Program, a Puerto Rican Studies Project, and even a School of
Communications at Albany State, Concern for updating present
facilities, most notable, the Library, manifested itself frequently at
President Louis Benezet’s biweekly forum and in the pages of the
Albany Student Press.
However, broader concerns were not wholly lacking on campus.
Many students took a very active role in the elections of the fall;
candidates representing youthful ideals were supported through
volunteer campaign work. A march and all-night vigil at the State
Capitol for Soviet Jewry, however, drew sharp comments from its
organizers, who chastized the apathy of Albany’s response.
Violence flared for the first time in the streets of Albany in a large
jemonstration aimed at an area bank. Students marched to “Settle
Accounts” with First Trust, a bank claimed to have actively invested
in the Vietnam war. A confrontation with Albany police occurred in
which Some demonstrators were beaten and four arrested.
Widest support came for the April 24th march on Washington
Busloads of students joined the peaceful assembly once again
demanding peace. A smaller contigent participated in the more
militant May Day actions in the Capitol.
Students faced many different obstacles to airing their views this
year. Increased academic pressures due to an abridged calendar, placed
studying for exams at the same time as the national Spring anti-war
activities, prohibiting many from participating. The year also began in
the midst of a suit against the Student Association which questioned
the allotment of student monies for such things as Free School, Buses
to Washington, and Black Cultural Weekend. The legal hassles
included a freeze on all student group expenditures with the final
outcome of a SUNY Board of Trustees decision to have all money
spent from a mandatory student tax overseen by the President of each
state school (or his designee).
However, steps increasing student participation in university gover-
nance were obvious in the representation on search committees for
key appointments, work on Environmental Studies and Decisions
Committee (and others), and in the ratification of a new, more widely
democratic Student Association Constitution.
One of the first student
actions of the past academic
year was the ib—in” at
President Benezet’s office, when
students demanded a SUNYA
day care center,
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The Albany campus by night.
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SUNYA Building Curtailed
Legislative Budget Cuts
by Roy Lewis
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go
awry.” The envisioned dream of Albany State,
served daily under glass in the Administration
Building and the present superstructure approxim-
ate each other in theory only. The fact of the
matter is that SUNY Albany is quite incomplete.
Hence, a fact of life here has been the permanent
residence of construction crews, noise,and mud.
However, due to budget cuts, construction activity
in the near future will be seriously curtailed.
Indian Quadrangle has been the biggest source
of construction controversy. Scheduled for total
completion by contract in July, 1970, the quad is
now running a year OF so behind schedule. The
eight low-rise dorms, including a dining hall, are
slated for completion by August 1, 1971. Mohawk
Tower, according to Walter Tisdale, assistant to
the President for Management and Planning, will
be finished by December, 1971. Already the in-
covenience of construction on Indian Quad has led
to student action. A student rent strike by a
majority of Indian Quad residents this past year
resulted in a 15% reduction of room and board
rates for the 1970-71 academic year. Students
participating in this strike withheld their room and
board payments to the Bursar and instead deposit-
ed these funds in a special trust account. When an
agreement between the student group and the
administration was reached, and the rebate con-
firmed, these funds were in fact paid to the
Bursar.
Last spring, a sizable tract of land was cleared
on the eastern portion of Perimeter Road for the
expressed purpose of constructing a field house.
Due to severe construction budget cuts, the
completion of this building has been postponed
indefinitely
The academic facilities on this campus are also
scheduled for expansion. Ideally, the Podium will
be expanded by adding three additional buildings
to either end. The East End extension has not
been formalized as of yet. The West End extension
has been another nebulous concept. Originally,
funds for planning this project were appropriated
in the 1970-71 academic year. The actual con-
struction was slated to begin in spring, 1971
However, due to the elimination of capital con-
struction funds, this project has been indefinitely
postponed. There is a possibility of building only a
portion of this extension is also being investigated
if full funds are not available.
The lack of construction funds has also cur-
tailed plans for married student housing, scheduled
to be built on Fuller Road.
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
SUMMER 1971
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Many rumors exist about
Albany State’s famed tunnels. The
best way to find out the truth is
to explore, but the University
doesn’t like that very much,
Actually there are three types
of tunnels. Those under the podi-
um are large and unofficially open
to the public (9 to 5) All build-
ings except the Library and Per-
forming Arts Center are accessible
through them and during the cold
season (or when it rains) they’re
nice to have around. Connections
also exist between the tunnels and
the Lecture Center; these come in
handy when they close the out-
side staircases in December,
The second type of tunnel
connects three of the four quad-
rangles with the podium and heat-
ing plant. Indian Quad does not
Albany State’s tunnels———useful for keeping warm in the winter,
providing convenient shortcuts to class, exploring, and joy—riding on
a bicycle??
silver have a tunnel of this type—it
would have been too expensive.
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These tunnels are not publically
accessible. There are good reasons
for this: the heating pipes make
the constant temperature about
125 degrees Fahrenheit; space is
limited (tunnels are about 4 feet
wide); and they do not really
connect to the podium (the pipes
run through a crawlway at the
podium end of the tunnel).
The last type of tunnel runs
under the residence quadrangles.
Each uptown quad has one, and
University Tunnels Useful
For Travel and Exploration
they run from the loading dock
near the kitchen, around under all
the lowrisers, and back toward the
dining hall. There are connections
to the tower and to the heating
tunnel. Students are not allowed
use of these tunnels. Now used for
moving, storage, and garbage col-
lection, they were originally de-
signed during the heat of the cold
war for access to fallout shelters.
The shelters themselves are now
used for storage.
Theater Program
Still Alive
by Linda Waters
Welcome to the wonderful
world of SUNYArts. When it
comes to theater, Albany State
isn’t the vast wasteland you might
expect from a state school.
The theater program at Albany
is twofold. Besides the normally
scheduled major productions
(there are five), there is a weekly
Experimental Theater program.
The Experimental shows are di-
rected, produced and run by the
students themselves. This past
year, shows done in this series
included “A Funny Thing Hap-
pened on the Way to the Forum,”
“Celebration,” and “Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead.”
and Well
‘The major productions are di-
rected by the faculty, but the
students do a major part of the
work involved in production. The
past year’s offerings included
“Camino Real,” ‘Harry, Noon,
and Night” (a finalist in the Na-
tional Theater Competition held
in Washington, D.C.), “A Scent of
Flowers.” “Peter Pan,” and a
double bill featuring “The Bald
Soprano” and ‘The Measures Ta-
ken.”
Open auditions are held for
every theater production and eve-
ryone is encouraged to part-
icipate. Notices for auditions are
generally posted during the first
week of school.
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Reading the Albany Student
Press may be the only way you'll
know what’s going on at Albany
State. Published twice weekly and
funded by mandatory student tax,
the ASP covers all areas of campus
activity as well as many off cam-
pus events.
The news department of the
Paper covers campus events rang-
ing from an Arthur Schlesinger
lecture to a student sit-in. While
the department's first responsibil-
ity is to report campus events, it
does cover off-campus activities,
augmented by the growing city
news department. Legislative de-
cisions that effect the SUNY
system, the draft laws, the voting
laws, and anything else effecting
the Albany student is included in
the paper’s news coverage. The
ASP adds to its own staff report-
ing through its membership in the
Associated Press and the College
Press Service. Human interest
stories and articles requiring re-
search and in-depth work fall in
the area of features, Articles
about work being done within the
university on geriatrics to the
many facets of the university lib-
rary have been included within
the features pages. Opportunities
for the publication of personal
studies of important events often
fall into the features sphere, es-
pecially in regard to investigative
work done by independent report-
Communications
Workshops Set
Albany State has no courses in
journalism. For the university’s
primary communications media,
the Albany Student Press and
WSUA, this could prove to be
quite a problem. For the Albany
student who is interested in jour-
nalism this could also prove to be
quite a hinderance. In an attempt
to overcome this hurdle a series of
workshops, seminars and lectures
in journalism are being put togeth
er this summer.
Area newspaper and radio per-
sonnel are being recruited to con-
duct the sessions that hopefully
will be given this fall. Attendence
at the sessions will be voluntary
for all those on campus interested
in the facets of journalism. Topics
to be covered will range from
pointers on news writing to ad-
vertising and the actual physical
makeup of a newspaper. Students
interested in working on the ASP
and WSUA are particularly urged
to attend.
Members of the Albany faculty
and staff, and members of local
media, including the Associated
Press Bureau in Albany, have
evinced an interest to help struc-
ture and conduct the sessions that
might prove to be a precursor to
an actual accredited course series
in journalism in the near future.
ers on campus. A relatively young
department within the paper, its
growth and possibilities are
boundless.
To deal with the city of Albany,
the ASP recently began its city
department. Located so close to
the state capital and having dormi-
tories and graduate classes within
the city plus the growth of num-
bers of off-campus students more
than necessitates the coverage of
city news. While the department is
presently a small one, it has un-
dertaken some large assignments
including a three-page special on
the now infamous Albany South
Mall Project. Hopefully, more ar-
ticles on this and other city-
related topics will come this year
with a larger staff.
The sports department covers all
the major university sports events
including football, soccer, basket-
ball, baseball, lacrosse, tennis,
swimming, track, cross country,
wresting, and just about all else.
Coverage is also allotted to the
growing women’s athletic activi-
ties.
Arts on campus are rapidly
growing and well-handled by the
arts staff. The university art gal-
lery’s features frequently are pub-
licized by the staff, as are the
university’s many fine theater and
musical productions and many
area arts events. Regular features
are record and movie reviews
which are particularly aimed at
interesting many different prefer-
ences. Large universiy productions
are often previewed by the arts
department.
A new and popular feature of
last year’s paper were columns,
some treating Vietnam (from
many different perspectives) and
the problem of Soviet Jewry. This
department provided space for
those on the left, the right, the
middle, those with an axe to grind
or a point to make, to present
their cases.
Of course advertising is the
backbone of the paper, and on
and off campus businesses place
ads in the ASP. Classifieds for
those looking for housing or sim-
ply a kitten, are also available.
Since the paper is a public service,
a grafitti section announcing
meetings, lectures, etc., provides
space without charge for groups.
These are all often great aids to
readers in finding needed servicés
in this area.
In order to make the paper visual-
ly interesting and creative, a vari-
ety of art work is used. The
graphics department is often cal-
led upon to enliven a page with its
talent. Cartoons are also a regular
feature of the paper.
All papers have an opinion, and
the Albany Student Press has an
editorial section, complete with
“communications” (letters to the
editor) from the community.
Anyone may have his ideas pub-
lished in this section. Since every
paper also has a function to enter-
tain and to reveal through com-
edy, the ASP has cartoons dealing
with on campus and national
events.
Behind the whole production
is the technical department which
makes the paper a reality. This
department does the actual physi-
cal makeup of the newspaper. The
stories are typed, proofread, cor-
rected, pasted up on the pages and
straightened in our Campus Cen-
ter offices by the technical staff.
The entire paper needs interest-
ed people for writing, research,
selling advertising, pasting up, etc.
Just drop by the ASP offices in
the Campus Center 326 or fill out
our coupon.
Put this all together in a 12, 16
or 20 page tabloid size paper
coming out twice a week, label it
the Albany Student Press, read it,
and maybe even work for it, and
how could you not know what’s
happening at Albany State?
WANT TO
Uptown Operation
For WSUA Radio
by Joel Lustig
For the first time in its nine year history, WSUA, SUNYA’s radio
station, will broadcast to all dormitory buildings on both campuses.
This feat will become possible with the addition of Indian Quad to the
carrier current system. After eight years of operating from the
downtown campus, the entire operation will be located in the Campus
Center.
Completely student owned and operated, WSUA has given hundreds
of Albany students an opportunity to learn of all facets of
broadcasting; news reporting, engineering, announcing, advertising,
and radio station operations. Numerous alumni and current members
have gone on to professional employment in the Albany area and
elsewhere.
WSUA (located at 640 AM) programs “progressive” or “under-
ground” music, with a heavy emphasis on campus and student related
news. The station has also exclusively broadcasted all home and away
Great Dane Basketball and Football games and covers most other
university sports. Over the years WSUA has broadcast speeches by
William Kunstler, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Michael Harrington,
and other noted people to students unable to attend the events in
person.
Election Day is always hectic at the station. WSUA has covered
headquarters in Albany and New York City with an emphasis on races
not given coverage by other media in the Capital District. Members of
WSUA are looking forward to the 1972 Presidential election. Despite
the enormous amount of planning and hard work the experience is
most rewarding and also a lot of fun.
WSUA broadcasts 24 hours a day, everyday the dorms are open. The
record collection consists of over 5300 albums and one of the best
‘oldies’ collection in the country...over 11,500 titles. Musically,
WSUA attempts to reflect the taste of the majority of listeners, but
with attention in other areas...jazz, folk, rhythm and blues, and the
all—request “Saturday Night of Gold.”
Radio has gained in popularity over the last few years especially
among the sixteen to twenty-five year age bracket. Most colleges now
have student radio stations. Thousands more students are becoming
involved in radio asa hobby, as a vocation, and as a science. Radio
Provides instantaneous communication and can be an influence for
social change in this country. Through WSUA and hopefully a greatly
needed School of Mass Communication at this University, a student
will be able to develop his talents in this valuable and powerful
medium.
Although there isn’t at this time such a school, there are numerous
which lend themselves to this area of social science. Various
departments have courses which are applicable to any interested
student. As far as technical experience is concerned, you can learn a
lot about engineering at WSUA with little previous experience. All that
is needed is the willingness to learn. As a service to the students of
Albany State, WSUA has kept resident listeners informed quickly
especially when the other radio and television stations were ignoring
them. The station attempts to be a professional operation with a
direct appeal to Albany State students,
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SUMMER 1971
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Comment
Editorial
Communication-
Your Right
The value of a student newspaper lies largely in that
it is,a student venture. Mandatory tax supports the
Albany Student Press, and since only students pay
this assessment, our responsibility is solely to the
students. We are not hindered by publisher control,
nor by control of University administrators. We are
our own editors.
No one censors any ASP article; our main limitation
is space. However, we do aim for integrity, honesty,
and fairness in reporting. A real committment has
been made by the staff in presenting an objective
reporting of the news to the university commumity,
and of informing the community of all the facts.
All our writing is done by students. Our technical
staff and even our secretary are student personnel.
Members of the Student Association are, in short,
everything. Without them, there would be no ASP. If
you think that you can help, in any way, from
writing to tech work to selling advertising space,
come on up to the Campus Center ‘and make yourself
known. It is your paper, and only what you make it.
The Right to Communicate is no privilege; it is a
necessity. This newspaper is your medium of
communication.
Albany Student Press
The Albany Student Press is published twice weekly
during the academic year (except during recesses) by
the Student Association of the State University of
New York at Albany. The Student Association is
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Avenue, Albany, New York 12203. Subscription
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York,
The ASP assumes no responsibility for opinions
expressed in its columns or communications as such
opinions do not necessarily reflect the views of the
staff.
Staff for this special issue:
Carol Hughes Jon Guttman
Jeff Rodgers Linda Waters
Tom Clingan Bob Warner
Vicki Zeldin Anita Thayer
Aralynn Abare JS. Flavin
Tom Rhodes Mike Lampert
Roy Lewis Joel Lustig
The Albany Student Press is located in Campus
Center Room 326 of the State University of New
York at Albany. Our phones are 457—2190-2194. We
were founded in 1916 by the Class of 1918 and are
funded through the mandatory student activities fee
of the Student Association.
Editorial policy is determined by the Editor-In-
Chief. Communications are limited to 300 words and
are subject to editing.
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‘Non-Student View of Albany’
by Jack L. Schwartz
An ASP Column
Welcome to Vanilla U. I was asked to write this
because the ASP wants to show that it can tolerate a
few uncensored opinions, once in a while.
During orientation, new students are told that
here at State one learns how to “think for
himself,” “find the truth,” and “learn how to deal
with the great problems facing society.” You
probably don’t believe it either; if you do, you
won't by the end of the year. The university is here
to make all of you into passive, ignorant, conform-
ing cogs in America’s death machines. Look at the
courses offered; very few will give a critical view of
this country, and none will be geared to teaching
you how to act on the power structure of America
in any meaningful way. The Board of Trustees are
bankers and real estate people— they certainly
aren’t going to allow free and critical thought that
will lead to attacks on the real causes of pollution,
poverty, war, and repression, because they're the
cause! The Administration even pulled the date of
finals back a few weeks, so that you have to make
the choice between joining the annual Spring
antiwar offensive or studying for finals.
In the past few years, I found a handful of decent
courses and faculty to study with, so I chose the
department with the fewest required courses, and I
take a lot of “independent study.” Ask your advisor
about that, otherwise they won’t tell you.
So much for the bummer end of things. We have a
student government to provide things like theatre
and music programs, which are usually good. The
$400,000.00 revenue from student activity fees is
spent by the Central Council, which meets every
week in the Campus Center, and this year the group
looks like the most responsive bunch of nuts the
school ever elected. In communications, the campus
has this thing, which usually gives the moderate,
bullshit political edge to its news and culture
articles, both local and national. And there is
WSUA-AM, which you won’t listen to if you have
an FM radio so you can hear WRPI from Troy. The
news on both stations is the usual right-wing
newswire, and neither station, as yet,has been
responsive to the wants of the community, On TV,
we get Channel 17 for some good non-commercial
shows.
You will find that the finest people on campus are
the custodial staff, the mailroom people, and the
bus drivers; get to know these people, you may
learn how much we have in common with non-
students.
‘The last thing that I have to say about the campus
is pretty obvious. In fact, if I wasn’t paid by the
inch, I probably wouldn’t write about it. This place
is a prison. Look around you; it all looks the same.
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: the Yippies in New York City.Big deal.
right? It actually looks worse than real prisons. You
can’t walk from one place to another by way of a
straight line— they built it to screw up our minds.
They build frustration into it— if you want to walk
on the grass, or even see a tree that isn’t in a
ridiculous concrete pot, you have to walk off the
podium. Even the goddamn grass is planted symme-
trically. Last year we had the highest rate of
flunk-outs and drop-outs in the school’s history, and
that’s good. Because the quicker you can free
yourself from the mental straightjacket that this
place puts you into, the better it is for all of us.
Besides, after four years you won’t get a job
anyhow; and you can get a real-live diploma from |
The City of Albany, at first sight, is pretty
nauseating. Some of the prettiest architecture in the
country has been allowed to rot. The government is
run by a bi-partisan machine that has kept power by
such tactics as paying $5.00 a vote. The ruling
clique is comprised of Rockefeller, Mayor Corning,
and Democratic County Chairman Dan O’Connell,
and is protected by a judge named Teppedino and a
large, ignorant, and viscious police force. For
intimidation purposes, the large building next to the
campus on the State Quad side is the new State
Police barracks and training center. Go over and ask
for a tour of the place.
For recreation in the area, you can split up to the
Mohawk campus, Camp Dippikill, or Thatcher State
Park,
In downtown Albany, Washington Park is a good
place to relax, except that quite a few of the
“freaks” there are narcotics agents. The park is the
center of the youth ghetto, and further downtown
are the black and poor white ghetto areas. These
neighborhoods serve as a base for a number of
community service, new left, and self-determination
projects and activities. There are a number of
community newspapers, among them The Liberator,
a black community news-and-commentary paper, and
Sweet Fire, a paper my friends put out, which is a
nifty underground paper that provides all kinds of
useful information that no one else will print. There
are two food co-ops which sell non-profit, non-
plastic food, and the Dove Street co-op holds
“people's feasts” every two weeks. Pete Jones’ “Our
Place” serves free breakfasts to the kids in the South
End ghetto. For aid in problems like lousy drugs,
medical needs, and nice people to talk you out of
being depressed, Refer Switchboard is at 434-1202.
The Puerto Rican revolutionary group PROLE has
an office on Dutch Quad, and in the Unitarian
Church on Washington Avenue the Gay Liberation
Front holds weekly meetings and plans attacks on
the sexist institutions of the city. The People’s
Record Co-op will be in operation again in the fall,
selling non-profit albums; the SUNYA Day Care
Center is operating on Alumni Quad; and there is a
strong High School Student Union organizing in the
Tri-Cities area.
There is also a varied assortment of radicals,
organizers, Yippies, and freaks who plan events like
strikes, protest marches, teach-ins, sit-ins, and major
assaults like last year’s Women’s Liberation Front
protest at the SUNYA infirmary, demanding birth
control and abortion aid, the attack on the First
Trust bank in downtown Albany, a major contrac
tor and financer of the South Mall fiasco, and the
Tri-Cities contingent to Washington D.C. on
Mayday.
All of the above activities and projects need
volunteer help, and anyone who would like to
organize something is welcome to discuss ideas with
the people in the political groups working in the
area. For information on anything, call Refer
Switchboard or drop a note to Sweet Fire at Box
311-EE, SUNYA post office. All Power to the
People. Life Power to the Counter-Culture.
Mr. Schwartz is a senior at State, a Central Council
member, former. University Senator, former ASP
reporter, and past resident of the Albany County
Prison, Anything anyone tells you about him is @
slanderous lie and probably true. ILS.
SUMMER 1971
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
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EDITOR'S .NOTE: The following are columns
submitted by several political, social, and cultural
groups on campus, They are aimed at informing new
students of the variety of ideals, beliefs, and purposes
represented here at Albany, However, most groups
did not respond to our request, leading us to publish
only articles from those answering. For this reason,
these are not to be considered the whole of political
and social thought on campus.
Am Yisrael
Jewish Awareness
by David Surowitz
‘Am Yisrael was formed because of disillusion-
ment, not only with liberal institutions and an
America plagued by violence, but also with the
social movements in which young Jews once invest-
ed their energies, including Black Nationalism and a
New Left that has turned anti-Semitic.
“The Nixon years have been all that they promis-
ed to be, years of intolerance, fear, hatred, and
demogoguery,” says M. J. Rosenberg, founder of
Am Yisrael two years ago.
“So now we young Jews will look only to
ourselves and to our own people.”
Our activities include dissemination of pro-Israel
propaganda both within and without the organiza-
tion and bringing an awareness of Israeli culture on
Arab Students Club
Social Political Cultural Group
The Arab Students Club (ASC) is a voluntary
organization which is formed by the students from
all countries of the Arab World. Although the club’s
constitution does not restrict membership to those
who speak Arabic, the present membership happens
to be so, The club is not committed to certain
political ideology; and, although its members part-
icipate in many political debates, the club conceives
of itself as a social-cultural organization.
The aims and purposes of the (ASC) relate to its
members, the Arab community in the area, fellow
students, and the American community at large. To
the Arab students, the club serves as a framework
for cooperation and cultural exchange with the host
country as well as a means of personal adaptation.
To the Arab community in the area, the club serves
as a channel of recreation and as an aid in preserving
the elements of Arab culture among the Arab
community. To fellow students and the host com-
munity, the club serves as a bridge between the
Arab peoples on the one hand and the students and
the community on the other. In this latter aspect
the club aims at the honest portrayal of Arab
civilization in general and the dynamics and prob-
lems of modern Arab society in particular. It is the
eee ne
club’s major concern with this latter aspect that
created a misconception in the minds of some
people on campus that the club is a “political”
organization. Recognizing that being political is by
no means a curse, it is to be noted that the main
reason for such misconception, among others, is the
Prominence of the Palestinian—Israeli problem in
world affairs and the consequent obligation on the
club to clarify the Palestinian Arab point of view.
All this is to say that the activities of the club are
not mainly “political” such as the lectures and
debates on the Palestinian question but also they
include such social and cultural activities as the
annual reception, the Arabian dinner, and the
Arabian night, in addition to participation in some
social and cultural activities with the International
Center and the International Student Association,
e.g., as in the cases of the International dinner and
the International dance.
Finally, the ASC is one of the many Arab clubs all
over the U.S., and it cooperates with them as well as
with the Organization for Arab Students in the U.S.
and Canada to achieve more cooperation and
understanding,
campus, for example, Israeli dancing.
Young People’s Socialist League
Answers
Through Socialism
by David Kopilow
The Young People’s Socialist League is the youth
section of the Socialist Party; the democratic-
socialist party of Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas,
Bayard Rustin, and Michael Harrington. We are the
Albany chapter of a national organization dedicated
to building a society at the service of human needs.
We believe that a great step toward the realization
of human potential can be made through the social
ownership of the means of production and distri-
bution. Consequently the YPSL rejects all concept-
ions of minority rule such as capitalism and com-
munism, and believes that the voluntary, conscious
participation of the people is the only way to the
society it seeks.
We stand:
—For a new, broadly based, democratic American
radicalism: a dynamic coalition of labor, minority
groups, liberals, and young people, united in a
common struggle for basic economic and political
change. This coalition, by effectively transforming
the Democratic Party through the elimination of its
Dixiecrat elements, can provide the mass base for a
movement of the democratic left.
—For democratic control of the means of pro-
duction and distribution: fully democratic and
rational social planning, based on need rather than
profit.
—In opposition to all forms of discrimination on
the basis of race, religion, and sex. The YPSL
believes that the struggle to root out bigotry in our
social life must go hand in hand with the struggle
against economic inequality.
—In support of militant, democratic trade union-
ism. We believe that the millions of workers
constituting the American labor movement repre-
sent a progressive social force of unequaled strength.
—In opposition to capitalism and communism, and
in support of all those struggling for democracy and
self-determination. We work to radically transform
American foreign policy, making principled anti-
Communism compatible with support of democratic
forces struggling for freedom against right-wing and
left-wing oppression.
—In support of the International Socialist move-
ment best exemplified by the mass, labor based
Social-Democratic parties of Sweden, West
Germany, and Great Britain.
The YPSL works to build a majority movement of
the democratic left in which young people join with
trade unionists, minority group members, and liberals
in building a new America. In chapters throughout
the country, YPSLs are working to build that
movement.
Through activities such as Frontlash, a non-part-
isan voter registration project which registered over
100,000 people in California alone. In the Youth
Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle
East, and organization that is mobilizing student
support for a Mideast peace settlement that will
preserve Israel's sovereignty and provide a found-
ation for the social and economic transformation of
the entire region. In organizing support for union
struggles for economic ans social justice. In the
Moratoriam Committee and Negotiation Now!
where YPSLs have worked to maximize chances for
a speedy end to the war in Southeast Asis. In
demonstrations against the Soviet Union’s invasion
of Czechoslovakia and the brutal oppression of
Soviet Jewry.
As we enter the seventies, a decade of enormous
challenges and opportunities, we urge all young
people committed to social justice to join the YPSL.
Choose Soci
New Democratic Coalition
Reform In System
by Bob Warner
The New Democratic Coalition (NDC) is an
extension of the 1968 Coalition for a Democratic
Alternative, now defunct, which was Eugene Mc-
Carthy’s campaign base for the Presidency. The
organization, which is nominally within the Dem-
ocratic party though not officially, formed because
of the Vietnam War, the-unresponsiveness of either
major political party and because America is in need
of radical reform.
NDC believes that the electoral process including
primaries and convesntions must be entirely open
and democratic. Though such a democratic process,
NDC hopes to stop American greed, waste and
exploitation at home. The poor must be housed,
clothed and educated to give them the dignity of
life; the blacks must be given not only equal
opportunity but extra help where they have been
disadvantaged for decades; the urban areas such as
New York City must be made livable, ie. mass
transit and natural resources.
NDC believes, though, that at this stage in
American history the best way to effect these
reforms is through the Democratic party. We feel
that significant change can only come from the
party system but for the most part, we give up any
hope that the Republican party will ever be respon-
sive to those who perhaps need more government
assistance and protection than others. Thus, we
bank our hopes in renovating the party of Jefferson,
Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt.
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SUMMER 1971
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S The State University of New
York at Albany received between
S nine and ten thousand freshman
applications, and admitted into
the class of 1975 some 1500
O students. This year’s freshman
admissions were up over 11%
R from last year.
Although an exact profile of
| | this year’s freshman class was not
available at press time, Thomas
Flemming, Assistant Director of
E Freshman Admissions, stated that
this year’s class would probably
S be academically comparable to
last. year’s entering class.
Resident students in the class
of 1974 had a high school aver-
age of 90.6. and were in the top
7% of their graduating class.
These students had a 91.2 Re-
gents average and scored on the
average, about 226 on the Re-
gents Scholarship Examination.
There will be fewer commut-
ing students in this year’s fresh-
man class, about 200, which is a
decrease of close to 100 stu-
dents. Commuters in last year’s
entering class had a high school
average of 85 and were in the
top 14% of their high school
graduating class. These students
had a 84.5 Regents average and
usually scored 204 out of a pos-
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Co-op Offers Low Price Albums
by Tony Haul
Editor’s Note: The following ar-
ticle was originally published in
the March 26, 1971 edition of the
Albany Student Press, and has
been changed only to update the
original information.
Have you ever wondered why
record albums
are so expensive?
It seems many
students have
and some are get-
ting together to
try and get a
non-profit record
co-op going on
campus. Think
it’s impossible?
Well it might be,
but arrangements
have been made
and the “People’s
Record Store”
has emerged in
the basement of
Anthony Hall on
State Quad.
Although there
are definitely
many problems
involved, the
Anthony Hall
“Conspiracy for
the People” is
selling many al-
bums for a mere
$1.55. All “D”
Albums that would normally sell
for $3.57 in the bookstore will go
for $3.00 and “E’s” for $3.50.
Stores similar to this one have
been setup on the Stony Brook
and Buffalo campuses and are
thriving. Despite initial problems
dealing with a Student Asso-
ciation contract with the Fa-
Association for-
bidding the licensing of those
selling items sold in the
bookstore, the future of the co-op
seems set for the year.
culty-Student
It may be noted here that the
Bookstore makes slightly under a
dollar on each record they sell.
(Because of the absurd pricing in
the Bookstore it’s probable that
more records are stolen than
bought there anyway.)
The Co-op people stressed that
although they still had to deal
with Capitalist companies and
distributers they were starting at
the lowest level to cut out profits
and serve the people.
“If students would get together
and organize their resources and
potential they would realize that
without that much effort they
could cut prices on all items they
blindly buy from stores making
absurd profits.”
The Food Co-op
downtown was
sighted as a
definite example
of this.
The students
also implied that
they felt FSA
had entirely too
much power in
deciding what
students do on
this campus and
that if “We're
| going to accept
that kind of shit
now without
establishing our
own self-
controlled in-
stitutions to
combat our own
exploitation we
were doomed to
complete do-
mination from
big organi-
zations.”
So help support the record
co-op and get yourself some good
music, The Co-op has a stock and
can get the album of your choice
within two weeks by order. The
store is open in the basement of
Anthony Hall.
Living cheaply and
enhancing community relations
by J. Stephen Flavin
Eggs—grade A large, $.38 per dozen
Bananas—$.04 each
Tomatoes—$.25 per pound
Strawberries—$.50 per quart
Watermelon—$2 for a 27-35 Ib. melon
Potatoes—$.05 per pound
Oranges—$.04 each
Apples—$.04 each
‘The prices quoted above are the
prices paid by members of the
Albany Community to the Food
Co-Op, organized and operated by
the members of the community
for their mutual benefit.
The Co-Op belongs to everyone
and everyone shares the responsi-
bility for keeping it going. Food
Co-Ops make possible a savings of
up to 50% in many produce items
by eliminating non-essential costs
incurred between harvesting and
marketing of produce.
The Food Co-Op, located at 111
Dove Street, Albany, operates this
way:
Ttemized lists are dittoed off and
picked up at the Co-Op store
front, filled out and returned
either on Friday between 3-8 pm,
or Saturday & Sunday between
1-6 pm, All orders are paid for in
advance. There is a 10% charge on
all orders to cover heat, light,
electricity and rent for the store.
The food is picked up on Tues-
days between 11 am and 8 pm.
All work done at the Co-Op is
volunteer. No one is paid to col-
lect the order forms, bag the
orders, or pick up the produce
from wholesalers. Since all orders
are paid for in advance, the exact
quantity is procurred from the
wholesalers. Thus, there is no
wastage, no spoilage. If all the
members share in thw work by
volunteering a couple of hours a
week, the savings go directly to
themselves. Paid chasiers, deli-
veries, advertising, clerks, stock-
boys, warehousemen, spoilage,
and profit have been eliminated,
thus, decreasing costs.
The Food Co-Op
serves the
£99
people with better quality food
and returns the “profits” back to
the people. The Co-Op is a way
for people to get together and say
“NO!” to the stores that make a
profit from them.
Though the Co-Op is work o-
riented, members of the com-
munity are invited to partake on
Fridays evenings at the Presbyta-
rian Church, 820 Madison Ave-
nue, 6:30 pm, in a “People’s
Feast.” This social event allows
everyone to sample the culinary
art of their neighbor. Each person
brings a dish of food to feed 6-8
others. Donations are asked of
those not able to cook. However,
“You can’t eat the government's
money.”
The Dove Street Food Co-Op, in
lits sixth month of operation, is
presently filling over 150 orders
'per week. Households are en-
|couraged to order together to save
time filling and bagging orders.
‘Food Co-Ops, because of the eco-
nomic advantages and community
linvolvement, herald a new trend
in consumer marketing. Withing a
few years and with the aid of
computers, all marketing will be
done in this fashion. On campus
residents are encouraged to inves-
tigate means of ‘procurring food
through their own cooperative
efforts; help and advice may be
obtained from the existing food
co-ops in Albany, As more people
contribute their time, the list of
items available may be increased
from the present 30 to approach
those of a retail market,
Many things are possible. More
things are possible to more
people, especially those with full
STATE UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
j The State University Bookstore offers a complete line of:
Athletic Equipment
Camera Supplies
Cassette Tapes
Cigarettes
Class Rings
Cosmetics
Gift Items
Greeting Cards
Jackets
J ewelry
Magazines
Paperback Books}
8:30 - 4:30
daily
Summer Hours
Personal Items
Records
Reference Books}
School Supplies
Stationery
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PAGE 10
Albany State’s basketball team has enjoyed a string of very good
seasons and hopes to continue them this year.
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
SUMMER 1971
by Bob Zaremba
Albany State University prides itself in an excel-
lent inter-collegiate and intra-collegiate sports pro-
gram. The Albany sportsmen bear the nickname,
“Great Danes,” and represent the school in colors of
purple and gold. The athletic affilliations of Albany
State include NCAA, ECAC, and IC4A.
As far as athletic facilities are concerned, the
physical education building provides seating for
2,800 in the main gymnasium and also houses an
enormous indoor swimming pool, with 240
mounted chairs in the balcony. Other facilities
include handball and squash courts, auxilliary gyms,
a dance studio, exercise rooms, class rooms, office
space, and locker areas.
Surrounding the building are 24 tennis courts, an
all-weather quarter-mile track, a football field, two
baseball diamonds, and several fields for soccer,
Sports at Albany State
lacrosse, field hockey and softball.
During this past academic year, State University at
Albany’s 10 varsity teams posted a cumulative
1970-71 record of 84-39-2, by far the best in the
school’s athletic history. Previously, the most wins
had been 65, acheived in each of the past two years.
Only two teams suffered losing seasons, while
wrestling (9-2), track and field (10-0), and lacrosse
(9-2) had their best records ever. Cross-country
(10-3) had its ninth straight winning campaign and
basketball (17-5) stretched its .500 or better string
to 16 years. Track, with its second successive
unbeaten spring, now has won 24 in a row, while
tennis finished 8-1 for a three-year mark of 28-2.
The five spring teams lost just 10 contests while
winning 43 and tying one.
Of course the big sports attraction of the 1970-71
season at Albany State was the inauguration of a
football club last fall. The Dane gridders, coached
by Robert Ford, chalked up a 2-4 record in their
maiden season, and will soon be in
preparation for their sophomore
campaign. An eight game schedule
has been announced for the 1971
squad who will open at home this
year against Utica college on
a September 25th.
In addition to the highly suc-
cessful Varsity sports program, the
University boasts a vast and highly
a successful intramural program,
involving 22 activities, and close to
4,000 active participants.
Ld The sports world at Albany is an
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Off—Campus Recreation
Contrary to popular belief, not
all of SUNY at Albany is white,
nor is it all concrete, nor, as a
matter of fact, is it all at Albany.
About ten miles north, just off
route 87, sits Mohawk Campus,
284 acres of SUNYA with not a
pillar in sight.
The tract, purchased in 1965,
includes three homes, four barns,
an olympic size pool, and a 40
acre lagoon. Charette House, the
central structure, includes a snack
bar, dining area for 45 people, and
a fireplace lounge.
Mohawk Campus provides for
canoeing, boating, volleyball,
football, hayrides, horseback rid-
ing, softball and swimming in
warm weather; plus tobaggoning,
sleigh riding and skating in winter.
Swimming at Mohawk pool, o-
pen during June, July and August,
costs $.50 per day for a person
with University ID. This fee enti-
tles that person to bring one guest
at no additional cost. For any
additional guests, the cost is $.60
per person. Season tickets are
available to members of the Uni-
versity Community.
The charge for horseback riding
is $3.00 per hour per person with
ID. The cost is the same for each
guest. An hour of group instrue-
tion costs$4.00 per person and
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per hour. All horseback riding is
by reservation only.
Boats and canoes are available at
$.75 per hour per craft, and $2.00
per day to take a craft off the
property (by reservation only).
Sailboats and toboggans are avail-
able at $.75 per hour. During the
school year, however, sailboats are
available only to Sailing Club
members.
On Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day during the school year, Mo-
hawk Campus is open during the
day for general use. At night,
groups may book the facility for
social functions.
All reservations for Mohawk fa-
cilities and equipment are handled
by Fred Cook, Campus Center
137, 457-7600.
Conference Picnics
‘Three-day freshman conferences
will have a picnic at Mohawk on
the second day of the con-
ference. This function will serve
to acquaint students more fully
with the facility. At press time,
busses were to be scheduled to
leave for Mohawk at 3:15, 3:30,
4:15 and sometime shortly after
5. They are scheduled to return a
9:30 and 10 p.m.
Faculty will attend the picnics
and group discussions will form
one part of the event.
Other Off-Campus Facilities
Other off campus facilities in-
clude Camp Dippikill, a 748 acre
tract of land with a 24 acre lake,
located 75 miles north of Albany,
and Goodman Place, a large resort
home adjacent to Dippikill. For
more details, refer to Viewpoint
or contact Fred Cook, 4457-7600.
_ Student Government
by Mike Lampert
President of Student Association
This year marks the adoption of a new
Student Association Constitution. For the first
time, the President, Vice President, and all of the
Central Council members were directly elected.
Under the new Constitution, the President is
responsible for all executive and administrative
functions, the Council for all legislative. Both
branches will be setting up subordinate groups in
the fall, and any student is eligible for appointment
to these groups.
These groups will have to deal with a variety of
matters: with financial matters; with controlling
solicitations on campus; with coordinating academic
programming, communications, living area and re-
ligious groups; with the conduct of the athletic
program; with running elections and many other
matters.
In addition to this Student Association structure,
which is responsible for supervising over 60 clubs
and the expenditure of $400,000, students play an
important part in the governance of the university,
Each spring twenty-two undergraduates are elect-
ed members of the University Senate, a body of one
hundred people charged with making broad policy
decisions on educational policy and advising the
university administration on a number of other
matters.
The Senate is organized into nine subordinate
Councils, which do most of the work. These nine
Councils are: Undergraduate Academic, Student
Affairs, Research, Personnel Policies, Promotions
and Continuing Appointments, Education and Im-
provement, Library, University Evaluation and Im-
provement, and Graduate Academic, All of these
councils (except Graduate Academic) and all of the
Senate and Council committees have undergraduate
student members. These members are appointed
through the President of the Student Association.
Thus, if you are at all interested in student groups,
or in participating in determining the policies of the
university, Student Association is an avenue to
achieve these goals.
Tradition Present at
Changing University
by Tom Clingan
Any school founded 177 years
ago has tradition. The important
question is, how much has persis-
ted until the present? Surprisingly
much has, though not as much as
at private schools. Albany State in
the last decade has grown tenfold,
which lessens any sense of tra.
dition among both students and
faculty, most of whom are new to
the school. Alumni, who are nor-
mally the backbone of college
tradition, are generally inactive on
this campus. Though the Admii
stration contains many long resi
dents of Albany State, the men
generally running things are not
old SUNYA graduates, and as
such are not familiar with the
schools traditions. Nor are they
going to force tradition on
anyone. The average student dis-
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plays the attitude that he couldn’t
care less about tradition, anyway.
Tradition survives in peculiar
ways. One is through institutions,
such as MYSKANIA, a group of
about 13 members of the Junior
class elected by the students. Now
only an honorary, it started in
1917 as the student government.
This traditional group now has
official functions only in other
traditions, such as Torch Night.
Torch Night is a ceremony at
Graduation in which the gradua-
ting senior leaves his/her candle to
‘an underclassman, It’s the logical
conclusion of the candlelight cere-
mony that the freshmen go
| through soon after their arrival at
Albany State.
There are objects of tradition,
like Minerva, the plaster statue,
who is supposed to stand in the
Campus Center Lobby. Minerva
has Been around since at least
1888, and until recently was re-
garded as a meeting place (‘‘meet
you at Minerva”). Another object
of tradition was Fraternity Rock
at Camp Dippikill, which has been
covered by undergrowth and lost
| to posterity.
Events have perished in the
march of time, or have been trans-
formed. Thus “Moving Up Day,”
when Juniors became Seniors for
a day, has evolved into Gentle
Thursday, a day of peace, and
happiness.
There are new traditions, such as
Fountain Swimming, which have
become as strongly ingrained as
any traditional annual event. The
past ten years have wiped away
many of the old traditions, and
made others unpracticeable. But
the passing of these traditions
does not mean the end of tradi-
tion at Albany State; for new
traditions are replacing the old
day by day. Tradition is not what
it used to be, but then, Albany
State is not what it used to be.
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SUMMER 1971
The State Capitol Building, home of the New York Legislature, in
the heart of downtown Albany
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Despite recent controversy (including Grand Jury investigation),
the South Mall Project is still under construction, with an anticipated
completion now set for 1975 (8 years late). It is the largest—and most
expensive—construction project in the world,
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The area between the Capitol and Washington Park houses many
people attempting to keep up these houses as private homes rather
than as apartments.
--rosenberg Busses are the major method of transportation to and from
Albany. Every student rides them at one stage or another in his or her
college career; in Albany, the worst part of the journey is the hike
from the bus station to the dormitories. solo:
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A tranquil winter spot in
Albany’s Washington Park, near
Draper Hall. The park is used
primarily by college students
living in nearby apartments,
older people, and some child-
ren. The snow is also a constant
sight.
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