Vol. LV No. 45
ALBANY STUDENT
PRESS
State University of New York at Albany
Ah, Spring..
grass
all over
campus
April 15, 1969
Douglas speaks
CC dedication
by Valerie Ives
The Campus Center was
dedicated Saturday. The program
included an address by Justice
William O. Douglas at 2 p.m. in
the Ballroom.
Justice Douglas spoke on
“Points of Rebellion.” He began
by stating that in 1931 the First
Amendment was upheld; it was
unconstitutional to suppress
demonstrations. ‘
Since Truman, he noted, the
factor of militarism and concern
with foreign policy has become
great. Now, there is a change in
the public attitude on militarism.
Today’s youth are questioning
whether it is our goal to destroy
the Soviets. They ask if something
can be done to achieve world
cooperation.
He spoke briefly of the Negro
situation--discrimination in
employment, housing, and
education.
The law is biased against the
Please turn to page 3, col. 3.
Partial system this time
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
William 0. Douglas delivered
“Points of Rebellion” at the Campus Center dedication Saturday
afternoon.
Photo by Hochberg
Another pass-fail considered
At the present time there is a
proposal before the Committee on
Academic Standing, a standing
committee of the Faculty Scnate,
concerning a pass- policy for
the univers‘Ty. The proposal reads
as follows:
BE IT RESOLVED, for the
purpose of undergraduate grading,
that effective September 1969,
the following changes be adopted.
A faculty member shall have
the option of announcing prior to
registration that a given course
which he is teaching will use one
of four alternative methods of
evaluation:
A) Letter grading
B) Written description of
student performance
C) Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
grading (the grade of “S” to earn
credit; the grade “U”’ no credit)
D) Any combination of the
three.
When a professor takes no
action to announce what methods
of evaluation will be used in a
course, the student may elect
letter grading or S/U.
Students on their side may
receive credit for courses taken on
the S/U system up to 120 credit
hours taken at SUNYA towards,
the Baccalaureate Deovce. The
option of a-“vatten evaluation,
where it is available, will be open
to a student only with the
permission of the instructor; there
will be no limit on the number of
courses which he may take with
written evaluation rather than the
letter grade.
According to this proposal, a
professor must declare before
registration, to be noted with
course listings, which of the above
alternatives he wishes to employ.
Some of the advantages and
disadvantages of the committee’s
proposal have been set forth in
the following paragraphs.
A. partial pass-fail system,
which is what the above proposal
amounts would enable
students to explore fields
otherwise restricted by fear of low
grades, and, at the same time,
allow him to accumulate a grade
point averaged for the purpose of
incentive, future employment,
and graduate schools.
In addition, the proposal is a
broad step in the direction of
academic freedom since it gives
the student the opportunity to
decide if his entire course of study
will be completely S/U or entirely
A though E or an individually
weighted combination of these
alternatives.
One of the many advantages for
the professor is that he has more
freedom in the planning of a
course, because he has the option
of announcing which alternative
he wishes to use. If he elects to
teach his course on a S/U basis, he
has expanded his opportunities to
bring in innovations in both
material and method, Tz the event
that a student chooses an S/U
vourse, he has the same
opporunities for exploration and
experimentation,
There are also certain
disadvantages which such a system
tc,
competition, initiate
innovation, if may, instead, relax
initiative in $/U courses. A
Student may devote his main
energies to those courses for
which he will receive a grade on
his transcript. Inherent, however,
in this disadvant is an advantage
of the partial —pass-fail proposal.
Students may choose to be
graded in those courses in which
he intends to delve and explore,
thereby excelling in them.
Another disadvante arises due
to the prerogative granted the
professor since a course or even an
entire field of study may offer the
student no option because all the
professors have decided to use the
same grading system.
In discussing this proposal, the
Committee on Academic Standing
has concluded that the advantages
far outweigh the disadvantages.
However, the studént body mus.
be heard on this subject. Meetings
will be held on each of the
quadrangles for this purpose. All
students are encouraged to speak,
as the committee wants to
consider informed student
opinion in the decision that will
be made within the next month.
The meetings are scheduled as
follows: 1) April 15; 6:30 in
Coloial Quad Flag Room w 2)
April 17; 6:30 in Dutch Quad Flag
Room with Mrs. M. McKenna 3)
April 17; 7:30-in State Quad Flag
Room with Mr. R. Gibson 4)
Alumni Quad — time and place to
be announced with Mr. E. Butler
Pre-registration begins
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original Spun aoe
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ALEX HALEY,’ who assisted Malcolm X_ in ‘writing
Contract controversy
Waterman, Rhoads
by Jill Paznik
Is a faculty member
qualified to pass judgment on the
teaching ability of a fellow
professor?
Is teaching ability the major
criteria upon which a professor is
judged?
What power does student
opinion have on this campus,
particularly within a department?
These are the controversial
questions that have been raised as
a result of the non- renewed
contracts of Dr. Waterman and
Mrs, Rhoads.
Both faculty were on three-year
‘contracts when they came up for
renewal. Neither contract was
renewed beyond the three-year
term. aa 2
(ine decision concerning the
renewal of appointments is made
approximatly one year prior to
the contract’s expiration date. At
this time it may be renewed for
one, two, three years or not at
all.)
Notification
Waterman and Rhoads were
notified of the decision in a letter
which stated, in part, that “the
Psychology Department Personnel
Committee, in consultation with
the remaining tenured faculty, has
reached the decision that the
interests of all concerned will be
best served by not extending your
term beyond the current
expiration date.”
(The Personnel Committee is
elected by the total psychology
faculty from among the tenured
mem bers of the department. Its
members are Dr. Shirley
Brown,the department chairman,
Dr. Morris Eson,Dr. Norman
Greenfeld and Dr. Ostereich.)
No reasons for the non-renewat
were given in the letter although
both professors were invited to
discuss the matter with Dr.
Brown. After such a discussion,
Dr. Waterman is still “not at all
clear” on the ground for the
action. As a result of heretofore
ambiguous answers, Mrs. Rhoads
has not seen Dr, Brown on the
matter. When questioned as to the
reasons for the non-renewal, Dr.
his
autobiography, will speak on campus Thursday. Haley is scheduled
to meet with students three times during the day.
Brown said that if “further
clarification” was requested, the
concerned parties could see her.
Dr. Waterman believes that the
issue is much larger than the two
faculty members
“What are the criteria for
making these decisions?” she asks,
“What priorities of criteria are
considered? Teaching and research
are both valuable; teaching should
have a higher priority.
“Tf there is strong student
feeling that a professor is
competent and has published; that
must be considered.”
This approaches the second
issue which is, “to what extent
student opinion is considered”
both in making the decision and
approving of it.
“Student of these professors
were consulted in no systematic
way (there is no mechanism for
consulting students) by the
department before the decision
was made,” said Dr. Eson.
Student Involvement
Both Waterman and Rhoads are
strongly in favor of increased
participation in departmental
decisions in the field. Mrs. Rhoads
is a member of a faculty
committee whose purpose it is to
promote and channel such interest
for the benefit of all concerned.
She feels that the controversy
raised over the non-renewal has
increased communication, a factor
which she believes’ will extend
beyond the immediate case.It is
the intention of students in the
department, many of whom have
been active in the petition
campaign, to form a psychology
alliance.
‘As of now, there is no direct
student participation on any of
Please turn to page 2
Malcolm X protogee
Alex Haley
Alex Haley, the man who
helped Malcolm X_ write his
autobiography, will give two
lectures and talk with students on
campus Thursday, April 17.
Mr. Haley, journalis;,
writer-invesidence nq visiting
professo” a Hamilton College
(Clinton, N.Y.) is completing a
new book, BEFORE THIS
ANGER, which is the story of his
search for his own African
ancestry and heritage. His
schedule at the University
arranged by the College of Arts
and Sciences, will be:
1:10 p.m. Lecture in Lecture
Room 2 on “The Story Behind
lthe Story of Malcolm X.” This
will be a lecture for American
Studies 100b in which “The
\Autobiography of Malcolm X” is
being studied, but will be open to
jother interested students.
3-4:30 p.m. Informal meeting
jin the faculty lounge in the
Humanities Building. Students
‘and faculty, especially those in
Afro-American history and
literature courses and in writing
courses, are invited.
8:30 p.m, Lecture in Lecture
Room 3 on “Black Saga~A Sage
of Black History.” This lecture,
for the university community, will
be on Mr. Haley’s five years of
research and travel in. Africa,
Europe, and America that. have
gone into, the making of his new
book. i
Please turn to page 3, col. 1
PAGE 2
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1969
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meeting of SUNYA’s New
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April 15, at 7:30 in SS 256.
Final days for senior
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are this week. Sign up now for
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by the TORCH office, third floor
of the Campus Center, west side.
If you have questions, call Jim
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IMPORTANT (Soc 355) Dr.
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Fernando Belaunde Terry,
president of Peru from 1963 to
October 1968 (when he was
overthrown by a ‘coup d'etat’),
will speak at the Graduate School
of Public Affairs (Sayles Hall), on
Thursday, April 17, 1969, at 2:00
p.m. His topic will be, “The
Political Parties in the Peruvian
Democratic Experience,
1963-1968.” Following the
presentation, he will entertain
questions from the audience.
Applications are available in
Campus Center 367 for the
University Student Scholarship.
Dr. W. Warren Haynes, who will
become the Dean of School of
Business in Fall, 1969, will speak
at the Phi Beta Lambda Annual
Installation Banquet on Sunday,
April 27. Anyone wishing to
attend may obtain a reservation
form in the business building
lobby or at the C, C. Information
Desk. For further information,
call Frank Basile at 864-5710, any
evening.
To ALL PROFESSORS WISHING
TO PARTICIPATE IN SECT: If
youhave not received a
Participation slip, you can get
them from the SECT committee
in Campus Center 364, or by
writing SECT,c/o Campus Center.
Those Professors who have not
yet handed their slips in still may,
as the deadline has been extended.
Self-nomination forms are now
available for Central Council and
LAAC. All forms may be picked
up at the Campus Center
Information Desk.
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April 25, 1-4:30 p.m. in Room
125 of the Phys. Ed. Building.
Proof of completion of this course
will be required for licensing in
this state, effective April 1. There
is a five dollar fee, and a learners
permit is required. For further
information, call 457-4937 or go
to Administration 239 to sign up
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Waterman, Rhoads
Continued from page 1.
the committees in the department
although seven students discussed
the immediate matter of majors
being continually shut out of
courses at the last general faculty
meeting (before Spring vacation).
Although Rhoads feels that the
Psychology Department is
changing more slowly from a
small teachers’ college department
to a large University one than
other departments, she is excited
by its growth and the change for
the better in the quality of the
studentiom the most recent
information received, there are
cover 1,000 signatures on each of
the petitions.
Rhoads says she is pleased with
the orderly way in which the
students are expressing their
opinion, Waterman beleives that
the activityof students is a ‘very
legitimate means of expressing
their sentiment, a democratic
means. I can’t think of a better
way to go about it.’
Dr. Shirley Brown
Brown said that she “would
like to have seen student activity
more thoughtfully directed. The
petitions reveal nothing that was
not already taken into
consideration before the decision
was made.
“If the goal was to effect the
process” by which the decision
was made, “the students should
have studied
changed
decision.
“The petitions are irrelevant.
The process (by which the
decision was made) has taken
the
them”
and
the
rules
before
Place; the decision has been
made.”
Asked if the teaching
effectiveness is the priority factor
in determining such cases, Brown
explained that this was one major
factor. Antoher very important
factor for retention is being a
constructive department member
in terms of fulfilling the total set
of department functions.
It has been suggested that it is
the second category which was
not satisfactorily fulfilled by the
professors in question.
On the matter of student
participation in the department,
Brown said the only reasonable
course for such participation is an
advisory group (composed of
students) complementing the
established faculty committee.
Perhpas the increase in
communication and _ activity
between students and faculty will
continue and inerease beyond this
particular case.
As a result, students may find a
way through or within the
structure to “systematically”
make their opinions and decisions
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
OK i
by Kevin McGirr
He speaks about his policies
using New Left cliches, “power to
the people, community control”;
but he wants the people of
Albany to have a real alternative
of the
to the power
two-party system.
William J. f
O’Kain, an |p
Albany State
student, is
running for
Mayor of the
City of Albany,
against the
omnipotent
Erastus Corning,
seven-term
mayor.
He’s an
economics major
and he calls
himself a
Socialist; he’s a
little man
running against a
politcal giant.
He’s soft-spoken and looks like
what people would expect a
Socialist to look like, long hair
and a mustache.
O’Kain asks for some rather
moderate changes such as lower
the voting age and the election of
many public officials which are
now appointed. But he also asks
for taxing Churches, free speech
for high school students, free
medical aid, a referendum on the
war, and the end of police
harassment of minority groups.
These are the issues that the
voting public does not see as
clearly as our college peers.
Mr. O’Kain wants to
redistribute the power, from the
few to the many. He’s for
revolution, without violence; he
wants Blacks to decide their own
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running for Mayor
desires.
O’Kain feels strongly about our
economic system; he calls it,
“brutal, outdated, and
inefficient.” O’Kain feels that
though he'll never achieve the
ideals of a
Socialist society,
his policies will
possibly make
the peoplerealize
that there is an
alternative to the
Present system.
One of his
immediate
objectives is to
gain as much
publicity as
possible, to be
an open chal-
lenge to the
power sturcture.
As oof this
writing he has
received no
answer to his proposal
debate with Mayor Corning.
This Friday he’ll be speaking at
RPI, April 20th he'll appear on a
Philadelphia T.V. (WPHL) panel
discussion with Steven Spender, a
poet, on April 26th he'll speak at
Page Hall during a Conference on
**Black Power and White
Responsiblitiy.”
In the future he’ll be speaking
at Alfred College as well as on
local T.V. stations to participate
in panel discussion.
To achieve the election of
Mayor he has a long road to
travel. He will not be allowed to
collect signatures to get on the
ballot until July 25th.
The State Board of Elections
has already been intimidating him,
making sure he follows every
for a
CPC applications
Community Programming
Commission, which deals with the
initiation, evaluation, and
Promotion of activities for the
benefit of the entire student body
and faculty, is currently accepting
applications for next year.
Applications are now available at
the Campus Center Information
Desk and in all resident units.
There are a number of positions
Haley
Continued from page 1
While the new book will not be
published until this summer,
arrangements have been made to
have a condensed version issued in
“Reader's Digest,” to have it
translated into 14 languages, and
to make a movie of it. Mr. Haley
will write the movie script and
work on the filming in this
country and abroad. A film
production of ‘‘The
Autobiography of Malcolm X” is
now in progress. That book won
an Anisfield-Wolf Award from
“Saturday Review” and was. a
Literary Guild selection.
For Playboy Magazine he has
written interviews with Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., George Lincoln
Rockewell, Phyllis Diller, and
Sammy Davis Jr.
open for next year, including
several atlarge memberships as
well as arts, cultural, recreational,
social and political positions. The
Arts-Cultural members work
directly with the artistic and
cultural events sponsored by
Community Programming and
constantly promote and evaluate
all arts-cultural functions, This
year members worked with a
series of underground films
sponsored by Bell and Howell,
several New York City Theatre
trips, and the upcoming Protest in
the Arts
tenet of the regulations and telling
him that he is wasting his time.
It is not often that the voice of
those who really want to be
heardare given the chance to do
50.
Mr. O’Kain, needing 3,000
“acceptable” signatures in order
to be placed on the ballot, will
Probably require twice that
number inorder to allow for
signatures that are discounted.
It might be the first time in the
City of Albany that the little
poeple will be given a choice
between systemized government
and a real confrontation with
Urban problems. Mr. O’Kain says
that his ultimate goal is “to take
Power from those who control
and give it to those who
produce,”
Douglas
Continued from page 1
poor, he said. Many people feel
that those on payroll are
“third-class citizens.” Charges of
vagrancy are used to arrest people
on suspicion. This problem of bias
against the poor has not been
solved and exists in such areas as
housing.
The problem of hunger is also
great. While people are hungry,
there are laws to stabilize prices
for producers by taking surpluses
off the market.
He went on to say that there is
“disemployment,” due to such
technical developments as
automation, but people still resent
the poor, who they feel are being
paid to be poor.
There is a false pride in the
GNP, because of natural resource
destruction and water pollution,
which should be considered,
Douglas said.
The dedication ceremonies
included a welcome by Mr.
Mitchell Foster, Chairman of the
Campus Center Governing Board.
He introduced Mr. Truman
Cameron, who presented the
Campus Center, through which
“the life-blood of the campus
flows,” to President Collins.
President Collins accepted the
building and commented on the
‘active student participation in all
organizations.
Mr. Neil Brown, Director of the
Campus Center and of Student
Activities, then accepted a plaque
of dedication and said that this
was a dedication of a concept--of
“service to the community.”
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April 22 at 6:30 pm in HU 181.
For further information call:
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Campus Center came of age.
JUSTICE DOUGLAS WAS KEY NOTE speaker and President
Collins accepted the Campus Center officially Saturday as the
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Card drawing begins
Pre-registration will begin tomorrow
at 9 a.m. (The alphabetical schedules
appeared in Friday's ASP). Card
drawing was delayed in order the make
the following changes in courses
affected by the state budget.
Please note the cancellations and
additions to course offerings before
going to pull cards.
CANCELLATIONS FALL’69
0020 A Ant 110A, Cancel all
discussions; 0022 A Ant 110A, cancel
all discussions; 0028 A Ant 314; 0034
A Ant 341A; 0050 A Ant 375; 0174 A
Art 151; 0180 A Art 270; 0198 AArt
470; 0362 A Atm 507 & Lab; 0366 A
Atm 518; Blo 122—L-061, 066, 069,
070; Bio 1221-073, 078, 081; 084;
0754 A Chi 300; 0756 A Chi 301;
1188 A Eco 201; 1196 A Eco 313;
1208 A Eco 440; 1234 A Eco 638A;
2070 A His 131A; 2088 A His 336;
2116 A His 419; 2118 A His 419; 2132
A His 449A; 2134 A His 451A; 2156 A
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019; 2616 A Mus 029; 2632 A Mus
090; 2634 A Mus 101; 2688 A Mus
195A 3134 Por 221; 3236 A Psy 324;
Sci 102A L-188, L-190; 3462 Sci
112A; 3532 A Hsc 574; 3554 A Soc
115; 3558 A Soc 115; 3562 A Soc
115; 3564 A Soc 115; 3572 A Soc
115; 3580
270; 3612
360; 3622
A Soc 115; 3596 A Soc
A Soc 355; 3618 A Soc
A Soc 383; 3630 A Soc
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Spn 102A; 3770 A Spn
776 A Spn 1028; 3786 A Spn
842 A Spn 405; 4850 B Mkt
210; 4852 B Mkt 210; 4866 8 Mkt
360; 5638 E Phi 601; 5644 E Phi 607;
7008 L Lib 578; 7010 L Lib 578;
7046 L Lib 615; 7048 L Lib 618; 7058
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Brubeck and Mulligan;
Miles Davis; Olatunji; and Nick Brignola.
The third annual Spring Jazz
Festival, sponsored by Special
Events Board, will take place on
April 18th and 19th. Titled
“Synthesis ’69,” the intent of the
festival is to present a melange of
modern and contemporary
musical styles.
Friday evening, at 8:30 in the
gymnasium the Dave Brubeck
Trio will perform with featured
soloist Jerry Mulligan on baritone
saxophone.
After disbanding his world
famed quartet three years ago,
Brubeck has since ome out of
semi-retirement to tour the
country with Mulligan. Brubeck’s
joining forces with Mulligan
results in the combination of two
fo the major exponents of the
“cool” or “Post-hop” school
which evolved during the mid
1950's.
In addition to being first-rate
artists in the LP field, both have
had hit singles on the “Top 40”
chart. Burbeck scored in 1961
with “Take Five” while several
years ago, Mulligan’s version of
“Downtown” was a top selling
single.
Also present on. the Friday
evening bill is drummer Elvin
Jones and his trio. Jones is an
avant-garde musician who, despite
the rhythmic, harmonic and
melodic complexity of his music,
still manages to speak the
sometimes subtle language of soul.
Trying to recall Elvin’s
performance in jazz crities polls is
easier to recall than the times he
hasn’t won.
Elvin’s sidemen are of no mean
achievement, either. Joe Farrel,
tenor sax and Jimmy Garrison,
bass, are two of New York’s finest
as they play music that is the
shape of things to come.
Together, these three are a
dominating force in the evolution
of the art form.
On Saturday afternoon, April
19, trumpeters Clark Terry and
Arnie Lawrence from the “tonight .
show” orchestra will join noted
area reed man Nick Brignola in a
jazz worship and jam session.
Clark ‘Terry, who appeared at last
year’s festival with his 18-piece
orchestra, will perform this year
as a featured soloist in a small
group context.
‘The Miles Davis quintet and the
Babtunde Olatunji African Revue
will perform at the Satruday
evening concert.
Doubling with Davis is Olatunji
and his “Drums of Passion.”
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Opening of
Arts Center
THIS SCENE IS AN EXAMPLE of one of the many artistic endeavors
to be performed this week as a part of the State University’s
convocation on the Arts.
Faculty art objects shown
during Convocation exhibit
Two hundred four works,
ranging in variety from delicate
bracelets and intricate ceramic
pieces to an 8 by 15 foot
representation of a cliff section,
willbe among the faculty art
objects exhibited at the State
University of New York’s
Convocation on the Arts this
week.
The convocation exhibition, on
view in six different areas in the
Art Gallery will be one of two
shows running simultaneously
during the three-day convocation.
It will be open from 9 a.m. to
10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday,
April-17-and=18, the final two
days of the Convocation on the
Arts, and will continue through
May 18. Regular gallery hours will
be from 9. am. until 5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, from 7
to 9 p.m.-on Wednesdays, and
from 2 to‘5 p.m: on Sundays.
The convocation exhibition
encompasses -paintings, sculpture,
drawings, prints, ceramics, wall
‘hangings, and photographs.
Elliot to speak
on literature
Thurs afternoon
George P. Elliott, professor of
English and creative writing at
Syracuse University, will talk on
“Literature and Nihilism” at 4:15
‘Thursday afternoon, April 17, in
the Campus Center assembly hall,
State University of New York at
Albany. His address is the latest in
the university’s English
department lecture series.
Professor Elliott is a poet,
novelist, and critic. His latest
work, a book of short stories
entitled “An Hour of Last
Things,” recently was published
by Harper and Row. Among his
other works are a collection of
essays, “A Piece of Lettuce:” a
narrative poem, “Fever and
Chills;” 10 short stories, “Among
the Dangs;” and novels “In the
World,” “Parktilden Village,” and
“David Knudsen.”
The Indiana native was
graduated from the University of
California in 1939 and received
his master’s degree from that
institution in 1941, He joined the
Syracuse faculty in 1963 and has
also taught at St. Mary’s College,
Cornell University, Barnard
College, the State University of
Towa, and the University of
California. Mr. Elliott has
travelled in France, England, and
Italy.
Donald Mochon, director 6f the
Art Gallery, has announced that
34 works have been selected to
constitute a traveling exhibition
which will be displayed at State
University campuses through
December 1970. He said that the
convoeation exhibit, one of the
largest ever gathered in the Capital
District, runs the whole range
from the representational to the
latest abstract expression.
Artists from SUNY’s four
graduate centers, 13 arts and
science colleges, and other
specialized colleges, and from 24
two-year campuses, are
represented .
‘The cliff detail, a recreation of
a section of a bluff near Catskill,
by Manuel Bromberg, professor of
art at the College at New Paltz, is
‘one of the most provacative pieces
on exhibit and critics already are
classifying it as an important
work. It was one of the 34 works
chosen for the traveling exhibition
by William C. Seitz, director of
the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis
University.
Dr. Seitz observed that it is
difficult, perhaps even impossible,
to make assessments about an
artist’s effectiveness in teaching
from viewing his work. “Yet I
cannot but feel that under
artist-teachers of the calibre of
those in this exhibition, art
students at the State University of
New York are in capable hands,”
he said. 5
A second art exhibition, lasting
three days but starting one day
earlier than the convocation
exhibit, will be sponsored by the
Joint Awards Council of State
University.
It will take place from 9 a.m. to
10 p.m. April 16-18 in the new
Performing Arts Center lounge.
Performi Arts
detente’ Wed.
The Performing Arts Center at
State University of New York at
Albany will be dedicated
Wednesday, April 16. Included in
the day’s activities will be a
luncheon, an address by Howard
Hanson, director of the Institute
of American Music of the
University of Rochester, formal
dedication ceremony, dedication
concert, and tours of the building,
erected and furnished at a cost of
$5,500,000.
The following is a schedule of
the events for the three days:
WEDNESDAY:
Theatre--
3:00 PM: Concert Dedication,
SUNYA Band
9:00 PM: Concert,
Chorus and Orchestra
Lab 2 Theatre
9:00 PM: “The Raven Rock”
Nassau Community College
Theatre-Lounge
2:15 PM: Dedication
Performing Arts Center
Theatre Foyer
1:00 to 8:30 PM: convocation
Registration
Art Gallery
4:30: opening of Convocation
and Reception
Ballroom
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Luncheon
6:00 PM: Convocation Banquet
THURSDAY
Theatre
10:00 PM: Electronic. Music
Potsdam
PM: Dedication
Don McLean plays
Guthrie folk music
Guitars and banjos will ring out
at Shaker High School
Auditorium in Latham at 8:00
p.m. on Sunday evening, April 20,
when the Pick ‘n’ and Sing ‘n’
Gather ‘n’ with Michael Conney
and Don McLean will present
“CALIFORNIA TO NEW YORK
ISLAND,” a spirited program of
folk music by the late Woody
Guthrie.
The songs will be woven
together with selected excerpts
from Woody’s writings read by
Lena Spencer, of Caffe Lena in
Saratoga, and Les Urbach of the
State University of New York.
The concert will be a benefit for
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This sloop, however, will sail
the Hudson, not in commerce, but
as a flating museum, manned by a
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3:00 PM: Chamber Concert
American String Trio-Albany
8:30 PM: Concert, SUNY
Buffalo artists
Arena Theatre
10:00 AM: “The Pendulum”
Niagara County Community
College
1:30 PM: ‘Multiply’
Westchester Community College
3:30 PM: Queensborough
Community College
Lab 1 Theatre
10:00 AM: Troyla Harp dance
lecture
afternoon, Rehearsal, Auburn
Community College
8:30 PM: “Ghost Sonata”
Auburn Community College
Lab 2 Theatre
4:30 PM Panel discussion of
Play
8:30 PM “The Raven Rock”
Nassau Community College
Theatre Foyer
9:00-8:30 PM: Convocation
Registration and Information
Ballroom
3:00 PM: Daniel
Brockport dance conceit
8:30 PM: Troyla Harp and Co.
Purchase Dance Concert
Nagrin,
FRIDAY
Theatre
10:00 AM: Recital SUNY
Stony Brook artists
1:30 PM: Concert, SUNY
Binghamton, Ruth Laredo
4:00 PM: Address, Chancellor
Samuel Gould
Arena Theatre
9:00 AM:
Brockport
10:45 AM: Albany
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10:00 AM: Daniel
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Lab 2 Theatre
1:30 PM: “The Raven Rock”
Nassau Community College
Theatre-Lounge
“The Letter”,
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5:00 PM: Reception,
Chancellor Gould
Theatre Foyer
9:00 AM Convocation,
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1969
THE
ASP
SP
PRES
Siena Tomorrow
Smith’s Five Goals, Assists
Spark Lacrosse Club Win
by Tom Nixon
The Albany State Lacrosse
Club opened its season on a
winning note this past Saturday as
they defeated the Mohawk
‘ Lacrosse Club, 11-10.
After leading at half-time, 6-5,
the Albany squad won the game
| with a goal by Steve Jakway.
The most amazaing
performance came from Larry
Smith of Albany who scored five
goals and registered four assists.
Smith, last year’s goalie, moved
into an attack position this year
and proved himself more than
capable of filling the spot.
Although Albany appeared to
be the stronger team in the first
half, the Mohawk Club came back
strong in the third quarter and
almost turned the tide. With the
seore at 10-10, and time running
out, Steve Jakway slipped the ball
past the Mohawk goalie for the
winning score.
Bob Cole, who took over the
goalie chores this year, recorded
twenty-four saves against the
tough Mohawk Club.
Albany’s team has already been
hard hit by injuries as a number of
last year’s outstanding performers
are unable to participate in any
competition.
Bruce Sand, who played the
point on attack last year is
suffering from recurring
mononucleosis. Mike Barlotta
broke a shoulder bone in
pre-season scrimmage against
Siena which the Albany squad
won 7-5. He is expected to return
before the end of the season,
however.
Another midfield man who is
out for the season after breaking
his back is Walt Quillinan who will
be in a body cast for six months.
Despite this handicap, the
Albany squad won one of its
toughest games of the year.
Sears, Moshenberg Shine
As Track Finishes Third
Albany State’s newly
designated “Varsity” track team
opened its initial season this past
Saturday in a triangular meet with
Boston State and Rochester
Institute of Technology.
Golf Tourney
Decides Berths
‘The varsity and freshman golf
teams held tryouts this past
weekend in preparation for the
opening of their respective
seasons.
Each candidate was required to
compete in a 36 hole tournament
with the low seven scorers in the
varsity competition making the
varsity squad and the low six
freshmen qualifying for the frosh
contingent.
In the varsity tournament,
those qualifying were Captain
Dave Breiter, Marv Gertzberg,
Tom Patterson, Brian Hill, Gary
Turton, Ken Jurst, and Larry
Dobris. They play their first
match today against Central
Connecticut and Siena.
Umpires are needed for the New York State Employees’ Softball
League. The league begins on April 28 and continues to the middie of
August. Anyone interested in umpiring for money please contact Mr.
Robert Lewis in Rm. 227 of the P. E. building.
SECT On
Card Pulling Postponed
Week of April 14-19
in Campus Center
Sale
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EDITOR’S NOTE: “It would
seem appropriate that with the
large number of supporters
Presetn at the Lacrosse games
adequate seating facilities could
be provided.
The Danes first home meet on
their “‘grasstex” track ended in a
third place finish, as RIT took
first place with 77 points and
Boston finished with 60. Albany
was a close third with 44 points.
State did relatively well in the
field events, registering two first
place finished and threeseconds.
Junior Tom Sears made his best
effort ever, clearing 6 feet -2
inches, as he took the high jump
event. Saul Moshenberg finished
third with a jump of 5 feet -9
inches.
Moshenberg won the long jump
event as he recorded a school
record of 22 feet-10 5/8 inches,
Ross Anderson was fourth.
Anderson, a freshman, was
second in the javelin event with a
toss of 166 feet-10 inches. That
was good enough to break the
school record set last year by
Scott Price of 157 feet-6 inches.
Smitty
Photo by Cantor
Baseball
by Dave Fink
The varsity baseball team
evened its season record at 2-2
this past weekend. Defeating RPI
by a score of 6-1 on Friday and
then dropping both ‘ends of a
double-header to Oswego State on
Saturday by scores of 4-2 and 6-1.
In Friday’s game, George Webb,
State’s mound ace pitched eight
strong innings, striking out twelve
and giving up only three hits. He
was relieved in the ninth by
The best finish for the runners
was a second in the mile relay
(3:37.2).
Three co-captains were chosen
recently by the team. They are
seniors George Rolling, Don
Beevers, and Royce VanEwa. George ‘“Bibber” Morgan who
The Danes travel to Montclair blanked the Engineers the rest of
State (New JErsey) for a the way.
triangualr meet with the Indians Qn Saturday, despite fine
and Westchester State of pitching by Rich Patrei and
Pennsylvania. Both are very strong
eastern track schools.
Margan State dropped the first
game. The second game was
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SOPHOMORE Larry Smith is
shown “doing his thing” on the
way to scoring five goals against
Mohawk L.C. last Saturday.
Opens
Home Tomorrow
started by Dave Wheeler on the
strength of his fine performance
against Stony Brook the week
before. Wheeler, ill and on
antibiotics unfortunately’ was not
the same and had to leave the
game in the first inning.
This Wednesday at 3:00 PM,
the team will take on its arch rival
Siena who opened its season this
past weekend splitting a
double-header with Hartwick.
Pitching for the INdians will be
right-hander Jack Lamay. State
fans will remember him for it was
he who beat us last year in the
game at Siena.
Thus far this season, State has
been led offensively by the
“Triple S” boys, Jack Sinnott
hitting .333, Jim Sandy batting
.285 and Rich S?iers hitting .313.
Also doing a good job at the plate
is sophomore Jim Lee battting a
fine .300.
Preceding Wendesday’s home
game will be the traditional
throwing out of the first ball by
Mrs. Martha Egelston. This has
been the practice at State openers
for the past fifteen years. For the
past three years Mrs, Egelston’s
son Tom has pitched the opener,
He has since graduated.
Mohawk
The Mohawk Campus will be
open to members of the
University Community for
activities such as boating,
canoeing, softball, volleyball,
picnicking and other recreation
from April 11, thorugh May 31,
1969 as follows:
Sunday--12 noon through 6 pm
Friday~12 noon through 5 pm
Saturday--10 am through 5. pm
These open hours are designed. to
encourage use of this property
when adequate staff coverage will
be available. Groups having
reserved the Mohawk Campus
through the Student Activities
Office will have priority on use of
equipment during the above open
hour periods.
Further information regarding
the Mohawk Campus may be
obtained thorugh the. “Student |
Activities” Office, So Centex;
at 457-6709
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1969
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 7
On My Mind
By BARRY KIRSHNER
If most Americans (including
politicians) were suddenly
stricken by severe sunburn, they
would probably paint their bodies
to its original skin shade and go
about as if the situation were
corrected. This would be
indicative of the American
approach to problem
solving~cover up the symptoms
and the disease willnolonger exist.
Professor Henry Higgins once
commented that women always
straighten ‘up their hair whilenever
‘straightening up the mess that’s
inside.’ This is an applicable
observation of the superficiality
of American life. By listening to
the mass media it is easy to
observe our culture’s value
system. A good person is someone
who can cover up both his body
and mouth odor, keep dandruff
out of his hair and his face devoid
of blemishes.
This improvement of external
features is a significant aspect of
the society’s working. We seem to
be overly involved with things
visible to others while not caring
at all for the ‘mess that’s inside.’
Much time is spent choosing
clothes and making ourselves
‘presentable’ in order to solve
personal ‘social problems,’ where
the obvious solution seems to be
improving our own character and:
not our appearance. At present
there are a disgusting number of
human beings who ‘wear a face
that they keep in a jar by the
door.’
Concentration on external
rather than internal features could
temporarily bring the appearance
of a solution. This solution can
only be temporary because as long
as the roots of the problem are
not healed, the symptoms will
reappear. Where symptoms are
repressed from appearing (as was
attempted in Chicago last
summer), the disease will
eventually appear in a more vilent
form,
It is all too common in this
nation that symptoms are
diagnosed incorrectly as diseases
in themselves. Many Americans
believe that we are solving our
problems; we have built hospitals
to combat mental disease; we have
better trained police and national
guard to combat riots, What
actually does seem to be the truth
is that these problems are also
symptoms. The 10% of the
American population who will see
the insides of mental institutions
are not only a serious problem,
but a reflection of a diseased
society. The significance of voting
is not that a segment of our
populatin breaks the law, but that
this portion of our population is
desperate enough to break with
established authority.
‘Unfortunately many
manifestations of disease are
regarded as disease itself. When
Americans attempt to solve that
old problem of prostitution we
attempt to treat it as a disease
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itself. What should be recognized
is that prostitution is a significan
reflection of the seller’s lack of
economic security, and the
buyer’s lack of emotional
security, reflections of failures in
society. Problems such as these
can not be solved unless the
diseased roots of the problem are
healed. This would necessitate
sweeping ethical changes which
have been long overdue in
American society.
It should be clear that at
present the problem solving
techniques used by this nation
have been tragically
unenlightened. The illegality of
drugs, the repression of student
unrest (as demonstrated in the
Flynn Bill) the use of tactical
police forces against rioting will
be no more effective than the
prohibition of alcohol, because
they are all attacks on symptoms
and not on causes of dieseases.
If we are serious in our
attempts to solve problems, we
better start identifying the real
problems and their real causes.
Conditions now exist which need
to be understood and acted upon.
Certainly the time has come to
stop worrying about the
superficial appearance of society
and its individual members, and
start “straightening up the mess
that’s inside.”
Collins explains
term appointments
by Amy Gurian
“Nobody has been fired,”
President Evan R. Collins stated at
his Conference with students
yesterday. He continued to
explain that Dr. Waterman and
Mrs. Rhoads hold 3-year term
appointments, which will expire
in June of 1970.
There are 2 groups of faculty
members; about one-half, or 400
are on term appointments; the
other half are permanent.
According to Collins, the term
appointment system tends to
“keep the university alive and
changing.” “When the term
appointment comes to its end,
it terminates.” Two hundred or
more positions terminate each
year and no one is guaranteed a
renewal. Appointees are notified
at least one year in advance of
their release.
At the end of the term, the job
usually stays in the department,
which decides on the line, The
department may extend or divide
the position, or merely seek new
candidates.
‘This past year, as an emergency
measure, the lines went into other
departmeists, due to shifts in
enrollment. ‘This €4t, nO jobs can
be filled until preregistration takes
place so that positions may 0%
allocated in departments which
need them.
President Collins has asked
Dean Perlmutter to establish a
review committee to investigate
the recent actions. In reference to
the need for student’s
participation, he pointed to the
fact that the Psychology
Department was the only
department in the College of Arts
and Sciences in which students
have not had representation.
Seniors, annoyed with the
rumor that a fine was imposed on
students who did not participate
in the graduation ceremony, were
assured by Collins that no such
fine exists. “We are not dragging
anyone into attending
commencement.”
The Task Force reports will be
available within the next few
days, and will be referred to the
appropriate University
committees and Central Council.
These reports deal with
administrative organization, the
academic calendar, and an
experimental college.
A modified-semester plan has
been proposed, whereby final
exams would be given before the
December holidays. Two
committees will also present their
recommendations on a pass/fail
system. To explain the Task Force
reports, MYSKANIA is planning
to hold a series of meetings.
When questioned about the
plans to increase lectures next
year, President Collins defended
the policy by saying that the best
in the department would
be available to a. Students. Small
discussion groups coula then be
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Math department
receives NSF grant
A $480,000 grant has been
received by the Mathematics
Department from the National
Science Foundation under the
foundation’s Departmental
Science Development Program.
The award is one of 12 grants in
the program designed to improve
the quality of research and
education in individual areas of
science and engineering at
universities operating at the
graduate level.
The University’s mathematics
department, of which Vincent J.
Cowling is chairman, is the only
mathematics department selected
in the current awards totaling
$7,241,670. Each grant supports a
specific area of science,
engineering, or mathematics in
which the grantee institution
already has sufficient strength to
serve as a base for significant and
further improvement to a higher
level of capability.
Professor Cowling said tha the
award ‘‘was granted largely
because we were able to attract
initially to Albany an outstanding
group of mathematics professors
many of whom have earned
international reputations because
of their contributions to
mathematics.”
The department chairman
Pointed out that the idea behind
the grant is that the department
be able to build a distinguished
graduate faculty. Commented
Professor Cowling, “That is the
reason for awarding the grant to
the department. The students will
benefit by virtue of the fact that
they will have access to very
distinguished and able teachers.
This comes at a time when the
competition for graduate students
is keen and it is extremely
important to be able to present to
potential graduate students a
distinguished faculty.
Undergraduates benefit because
such a high calibre staff provides
them in turn with instructors who
will give them a broader
perspective and broader view of
modern mathematics.”
The objective of the
development plan for the
mathematics department is to
provide a solid core of research
and doctoral-degree activity in the
field of analysis, with particular
emphases on functional analysis
and the related or included fields
of real and complex analysis,
applied mathematics, probability,
and statistics. Two years ago, 15
active research mathematicians
joined the faculty which by
September of this year will
number 40,
Of the initial group of research
mathematicians, 10- are in the
field of functional analysis or the
related fields described above. Of
these,. three work in abstract
functional analysis, five in real or
complex analysis and two in
probability theory. The
development plan, supported by
the grant, calls for the addition of
three professors, an assistant
professor, and four postdoctorals
for the first year; two professors,
one associate professor and six
postdoctorals for the second year;
one professor, one associate
professor, and eight post doctorals
for the third year. In addition,
support for 10, 16, and 20
graduate students will be
furnished for the first, second,
and third years, respectively,
Debate weekend
at Camp Dippikill
The First Annual Dippikill
Debate Tournament, sponsored
by the Albany State Forensics
Union, will take place the
weekend of April 18.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1969
Editorial
Psych Decision
Two teachers have been given notification that their contracts will
not be renewed. And because of the type of people Drs. Waterman
and Rhoads are, the students are upset. Student opinion rates both
faculty members highly as teachers in the classroom. And both have
been greatly involved in the education of students outside the
classroom. Because of these factors, we feel that the University can
ill-afford to lose them.
We feel that a highly regretable mistake has been made. But it is not
too late to correct this mistake.
Student opinion is considered by the faculty to be both valid and
important in the decision-making processes of the University. Acting
on this consideration, Faculty Senate in the Fall of this year provided
for student representation on all of its Councils, including Educational
Policies and Promotion and Continuing Appointmen, both of which
consider matters relating directly to faculty status.
We, therefore, ask the department to reconsider these two cases in
the light of the high degree of student opinion in favor of retaining
these individuals on the University Faculty. We ask that these two
individuals be considered on their fulfillment of the criteria, listed in
the Faculty Handbook and written and approved by the faculty,
regarding that which is expected of the teaching professor: teaching,
scholarship and contributions to the University.
We further urge the department to consider the academic
advantages to itself in retaining these two individuals AND the
advantages to the University as a whole in retaining two people so
active in teaching students, both inside and outside the classroom. All
too few faculty members take comparable interest in student
education outside the formal teaching situation, and the Psychology
department in recent years has been one of the leaders in this area. We
hope that they will continue to consider this aspect of education
important.
This is not the ifrst case in which students have felt a need for
responsible involvement, nor is it likely to be the last. The Univerisity
is responsible for the education of its students and it is the obligation
of the students to speak out when they feel that an administrative
decision will hamper their education.
We hope that responsible student action (petitioning and verbal
communication by the students within the department) will lead to a
reconsideration of the decision in the cases of Drs. Waterman and
Rhoads and that the conclusion finally reached will be in the best
interest of the University.
Blossoming Growth
Almost as if by magic, the vast wasteland we have come to know as
the uptown”campus of the State University of N.Y. at Albany has
been transformed from a dismal blend of white and black sterility into
a blossoming, blooming melange of greenery and people-ry. The
appearance of vegetation in this “moonport” seemingly has conspired
with an amazing invasion by real people---they’re everywhere! In the
quads, on the fields, in the circle, even on the-podium!
This.is Springat its very best. The plants seem to have come alive,
and with them, the campus.
The blossoming has also taken place indoors. Notice how every
time you turn around, another eminent and knowledgeable speaker
seems to pop up. Be it a black power advocate or a prominent
historian, speakers are appearing all over. We've been graced with, ouch
people as Supreme Court Justice Doublas, Congresswoman Chisholm,
and Nathan Wright, eminent author, in the Space of one week.
= Here is an oppertunity for another kind of growth-a growth that
the student is the participary; in. We can learn a great deal from the
speakers coming to “ais campus within the next few weeks; we have
been promisza such diverse men as Ted Sorenson, Nat Hentoff, LeRoi
Jones, Charles Ever, the former President of Peru, and others. This is
an opportunity which should not be missed.
Gray matters--not only in the classroom, but in the lecture room,
where much valuable and interesting information can be attained.
Don’t let apathy hold you back; take advantage of one of the great
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Communications
All communications must be addressed to the
editor and must be signed. Communications are
subject to editing.
Faculty Apathy
‘To the Editors:
Apathy at SUNY-Albany? Seems to be a
perennial complaint, But it is interesting that
student political activism seems much more
noticeable of recent than that of the faculty. The
past few weeks have seen a number of petitions
published in the Sunday New York Times ranging
over the issues of population control, the ABM, the
‘Arab-Israeli war, Hunger in American and race
re ations. In all cases SUNY-Albany faculty are
represented poorly, if at all, while other SUNY
systems, Stony Brook especially, come off rather
impressively.
Is it that SUNY-Albany faculty are all oblivious
to the problems of our time, that they believe that
their names have no influence, or that there is just
no petition ciruculation system among the faculty.
We would prefer to think the latter, but that is
hardly an acceptable excuse. We students might
hope that some among our prestigious faculty might
it in their valuable time to take such a
ity upon themselves, demonstrating their
awareness and concern as well.
Sincerely,
William Batt
Graduate Student
School of Public Affairs
Warm ooze
Dear Editors:
Here I sit and ponder our school’s most recent
attempt to kill the myth, once and for all, the’ her
students are apathetic. Two teachers “ved in the
psych department, Who will ‘je next? What a
dynamic issue. Defendin: profs will be our savior,
our thing, our bag Ladies, that’s a bag of warm
ooze. Eve you have better things to be doing.
‘ook. Yonder by the brand new State Police
barracks is a big hole. In the ground. But I didn’t do
it, Lots and lots of money did it. Why? Glory?
Fame and fortune to our white palace? Believe it or
not I think we're getting close.
It is my belief that if you thought about things
like that, you would see something scary. The big E.
Somebody wanted that hole dug more than they
wanted a bigger library, more than they wanted a
lower student/faculty ration, more even, than they
wanted Waterman and Rhodes. All that nice stuff,
lost to a couple of dirty old men (the big E is a dirty
old men’s club).
What I am laboring to say is that this rah-rah
warm ooze about a couple of profs is beneath you.
There are much more important questions to be
asked than “Who will be next?’
Love to you all,
Paul Nathe
Presidio 27
To the Editors:
Along with others in the Albayy area, we wrote
to Senator Jacob Javits about the very heavy
= when the 27 soldiers in the San Fransisco
Fresidio Stockade received as a result of their totally
non-violent protest on October 14, 1968. The
soldiers were protesting the killing of a
fellow-prisoner, declared a “manic-depressive” by
Army psychiatrist, who W23 shot in the back while
running from a 02rd on a suicidal impulse; shotgun
egal over-crowding; lack of
n nditions’ at the Stockade.
The. 27 young men sab ina citce. sang “America the
ition. ‘They. were
charged with mutiny while they were still singing
and now being brought to trial. The first three
soldiers tried received 15, 14, 16 years
imprisonment. Mr. Javits replied (March 21, 1969):
There seem to be clear indications that the
sentences, and probably the military crimes
charged, in these cases are excessive. I therefore
inquired of the Department of the Army
concerning this matter, and particularly
concerning the legal and factual foundation for
the sentences imposed upon some of the
accused, The Army’s response to my inquiry
indicates an awareness of the factual basis for a
challenge at least to the sentences, and affords
pasis for the hope that these senteences will be
reduced in the military justice appeal processes.
Indeed, one such sentence has already been very
substantially reduced. If the others are not, I
intend to do my utmost (while recognizing the
disciplinary problems involved) in my contacts
with the Secretary of the Army, who has the
necessary authority, to get justice in this
situation and a material reduction in the
sentences.
Therefore we suggest readers might like to write
to the Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor, to
Senators Javits and Goodell and to Congressman
Button.
Sincerely,
Rezsin and Ted Adams
[Professor Theodore 8. ‘.dams]
Perlmutter statement
At noon Friday, 11 April, 1969, an ad hoc
student committee issued a statement suggesting my
name as candidate for presiden of the University.
‘The committee was generous in its praise, and I am
deeply touched and grateful for their confidence.
However, I feel obliged to make abundantly clear,
especially to those who have not read the original
document: I am not, nor have I been a candidate for
this or any other office in the University. Indeed my
fantasies run in the opposite direction, toward
teaching, writing, and zesearch.
‘Their campaign originated and was implemented
without my knowledge.
Dean O, William Perlmutter
College of Arts and Sciences
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