VOL. LV_NO«9
ALBANY, NEW YORK
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 196
Ginsburg’s
Poetry
Poses Question
by Daryl Lynne Wager
The ballroom of the Campus
Center was filled to capacity last
night as students gathered for a
poetry reading by Allen Ginsburg.
Those unable to find seats sat on
the floor around the lecturn and
lined the walls to hear the bearded
poet.
Ginsburg, who is this year’s
first major speaker sponsored by
the Forum of Politics, was clad in
a dark green shirt, jeans and short
boots. He opened his program
with the chanting of “Hare
Krishna.”
The first poem read by
Ginsburg was thirty minutes in
length. “I hadn’t read that long
poem before an audience before,”
said Ginsburg. The poem, which
stated, “America will be refused
eternity by her own mad son, the
bomb,” touched on such popular
Ginsburg themes as censorship,
social injustice, corruption and
“the secret police.”
Two shorter selections, “I’m a
Telephone,” and “This Form of
Life Needs Sex” followed. The
latter drew mixed reactions from
the attentive spectators; many
found Ginsburg’s profusion of
obscenities offensive.
After the reading of “King of
May,” and a poem which he said
was written in the fifth hour of an
LSD trip, Ginsburg announced
that there would be a short
intermission, during which he
spoke informally with students.
Ginsburg finds college audiences
particularly receptive: “I guess
everybody must be stoned
because they’re paying clear
attention,” he said.
Ginsburg does not insist that
his audience understand _ his
continued on page 3
JUDY COLLINS and the Union Gap performed to a sell-out audience
Friday night in the gym. (story pg. 6)
Thorne Discusses LAAC Bill,
Gives Personal Opinion
by Tim Keeley
Dr. Clifton C. Thorne, Vice
President for Student Affairs,
presided at The President's
Conference with Students
yesterday.
Thorne gave his personal
opinions on the current LAAC
resident bill and discussed
pre-registration that began this
week. i
The final legal decision on the
LAAC bill rests with the
University Council Thorne noted.
“I have tried to anticipate what
the Council might do,” remarked
Thorne. “I personally raise three
points that they may ask.”
The first point Thorne raised
was that of an individual’s choice
concerning hours of open room
visitation, “I feel that the
possibility of choice does not
exist with this proposal.”
Thorne cited residence halls at
the University of Rochester that
have either 24 hour open house,
no open house, or occasional open
house, “Here the student has a
choice of residence.”
“Those presenting this proposal
have forgotten one important part
of staff work. What are the
students likely to decide?”
Thorne commented as his second
point. He suggested that a pilot
study should have been run.
Thorne’s final point was one of
accountability. “The passage of
this bill would require a
completely new method of
administration. The method was
not presented with the bill.”
Vic Looper, chairman of
LAAG, was present to defend the
proposal. Looper contended that
many of Thorne’s questions had
Undergrad Report Implemented
To Improve Academic Growth
by Barry Kirschner
To ‘make the learning
experience of more value for
students” at the University was
the way Assistant Vice-P.r esi dent
for Academic Affairs Paul Miwa
described the purpose of four
special task forces seeking to
implement Dean O. William
Perlmutter’s report on
undergraduate education.
The task forces deal with an
Experimental College, Academic
Regulations, Instruction, and the
Academic Calendar. A major
problem for these groups will be
finding how the transition from
small to large university can be
performed smoothly.
The task forces each consist of
ten members of which there are
seven faculty and three students.
The faculty members were chosen
by President Collins while the
students were appointed by
Central Council.
The committees have been
meeting regularly for several
weeks, but are still in the
organizational stage. It is hoped
that their implementations will be
published before the spring
semester begins. It will take
considerable time before the
recommendations are put into
effect.
Through the recommendations
of Dean Perlmutter and the
implementations of the task
forces, the mechanism for change
will be developed which will guide
the University to twice its present
size by 1975.
The findings of the committees
will go through Miwa’s office, and
then will be acted upon by the
President’s office and the
University councils.
The Task force on the
‘Experimental College’ is led by
Professor William Reese. It will
probe the possibilities of a change
in the academic structure. One
possibility of this is a ‘General
College’ which will seek an
inter-disciplinary approval to a
liberal education.
Professor Arthur Collins heads
The Task Force on the
‘Academic Calendar’ is headed by
Professor Frank Kolmin, It will
work towards finding what the
best possible academic calendar
will be for the expanded
University.
Professor Donald Van Cleve
heads the committee on
‘Instructions’ which will deal with
ways of making the instructional
process more meanineful.
the group working on Academic *
Regulations, which is concerned _
with whether independent study
and honor courses, among other
things, should be expanded. The
arop-policy is also under this
group’s jurisdiction
Brooks Smith
Building.
CampusChestBegins
Fundraising Events
by Fran Dreherer
Campus Chest, an annual event
at the University is happening this
week. It takes the form of various
activities on all parts of the
campus.
Campus Chest, a fund-raising
event, is sponsored by Special
Events Board. Debbie Byron and
Linda Berdan, the co-chairmen,
have decided to donate the money
to charities which are closely
related to the students.
A large sum will be contributed
to “The Project,” which was
started by the mental health
telethon two years ago, and New
York State will mate our
been studied before the bill was
introduced.
He added that although much
of LAAC’s considerations were
not attached to the bill in the
rational, a verbal explanation
would be made when ihe bili is
introduced to the University
Council.
Despite the questions that
Thorne raised, he assured students
that the administration supported
the bill.
Since many
university students are employed
in this program we are helping
ourselves also,
Money will also be donated to
the tutoring program which wes
started by Academic Affairs
Commission, and to other
charities which are undecided thus
far.
The main source of money is
the Telethon, a 24 hour variety
show in the Campus Center
Ballroom beginning at 7 pm
Friday. It features student,
faculty and administration talent,
and will be broadcast on
WRGB-TV (channel 6), for 1/2
hour at 2:30 pm on Saturday
afternoon. Admission to the
Telethon is $1, covering the entire
show.
Boosters will be on sale at 25
cents each in the lobby of Campus
Center from ten to three daily.
People wearing boosters will
receive free coffee all week.
On Wednesday between 11 and
12:30 there will be a Chinese
Auction in the Snack Bar. In this
type of auction runners will
collect money for an
unannounced period of time, and
the last person to have
contributed when time is called
will receive the merchandise.
Films are being shown all week
in the flag rooms of the
quadrangles. Last night “Phentom
continued to page 3
Smith Resists Draft
Explains Reasoning
by Barbara Heyne
“It’s been a long time since I've
spoken to a favorable audience,”
began draft resister Brooks Smith,
addressing a meeting of the SDS
Anti-Draft Committee, November
i:
He made it clear to the
Anti-Draft group that his
resistance is not of the “we won’t
go” type. He and an estimated
3500 others are resisting on the
grounds that the draft system is
wrong.
Tuesday morning, Smith, a
Latham student at the University
of Chicago Divinity School,
refused induction into the U.S.
army at the Albany Federal
Building. Students from the
University and other area colleges
have been demonstrating in front
of the Federal Building since 8:30
a.m. in support of Smith.
The divinity student took his
position against the draft after
realizing that “the ideals of
American democracy were a lie.”
Citing incidents such as Mississippi
in 1964, he stated, “I believe in
theses ideals, but you run up
against incidents in which these
ideals are trampled upon.”
In his travels Smith
encountered people “who didn’t
want to talk or hear about the
war. They didn’t want to hear
that these fine American ideals,
which Ho Chi Minh saw fit to
include in his constitution, were
continued on page 2
explains his reasons for refusing draft induction Tuesday morning at the Albany Federal
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Albany Student Press:
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
JOSEPH HENRY, after whom the
first telegraph.
ysics building is named
his education and taught at the Albany Academy. With his experiments
in magnetism he discovered the principles behind and developed the group is now in the academic year
Peace Corps /College Degree
Program Starts At Brockport
The officials of the Pexce Corps
and the State University of New
York College at Brockport
announced »completion of
arrangements for continuing and
extending the unique Peace
Corps College. Degree Program
to admit a third group of
candidates in June 1969. The
members of the first contingent
completing the fifteen-month
program which combines the
upper division undergraduated
education with Peace Corps
preparation’ are now serving on
bi-national educational
development teams in the
Dominican Republic; the second
NY Strike Ends With Vote
Of Teachers Monday Night
NEW YORK (UPI)—Striking
public school teachers voted
overwhelmingly Monday to ac-
cept an agreement ending a 10-
week-long dispute which kept
most of the city’s 900 schools
closed.
Some teachers returned to the
classrooms immediately and all
schools were expected to be
open Tuesday.
They accepted the agreement
by a vote of 17,658 to 2,738.
Although less than half the
United Federation of Teachers
(UFT) membership voted, it
was the largest turnout in the
union’s history.
Marathon Session
The settlement was worked
out during the weekend in a
marathon bargaining session at
Mayor John V. Lindsay’s home.
Snith Refuses
Lindsay admitted none of the
parties was completely satisfied
with the settlement which
included suspension of the local
Ocean Hill-Brownsville govern-
ing board in Brooklyn.
The Puerto Rican community
was reportedly angered because
one of the three Ocean Hill-
Brownsville principals suspend-
ed as part of the settlement was
Louis Fuentes, the only Puerto
Rican principal in the city.
Longer Sessions
So far this semester, most of
the city’s 1.1 million public
school students have had only 11
days of instruction. They will
have to go to school longer each
day and attend classes on 10
holidays to make up the time,
but there will be no compulsory
summer classes next year.
Teachers will lose only six
Induction
Discusses Draft Experiences
continued from page 1
The turning point in Smith’s
attitude toward the draft resulted
from the October marches on the
Pentagon. As he saw the
destruction caused by the police
and felt its implications about
American democracy, Smith knew
“it was a question of whether I
believe in living by the values I
spouted or refusing to serve and‘
saving my integrity.” Brooks
admitted that it “was not a fully:
rational decision, but one made
on rational grounds.”
As a theology student, Smith
could have received a 4D
classification exempting him from
active duty. He could have applied
for a Consciencious Objector
classification also. However, he
believes “this is like accepting a
4F classificatior. which implies
that drafting is a legitimate
institution.”
“My quarrel is not with
classifeation, but with the foreign
pclicy of the U.S. The draft is
critical if the U.S. is to play world
policeman. Peacetime
conscription is necessary so that
America can fight brushfire wars
in support of pro-American
dictators. This is a part of the free
world we learn about in high
school.”
Smith faces a prison sentence
of two to five years, and a
possible fine “of $10,000. He
admitted to the audience that the
prospect of going to jail “was
most frigktening; it seared the hell
out of me,” But when I put my
actions in context Of students
around the world, in Viet Nam or
South ‘Africa, any sacrifice I could
make seemed trivial compared to
those made in other countries.’
Jen Eyck
ON CAMPUS ROXY
DRY CLEANERS
SHIRT LAUNDRY
Located in Quad Lower Lounges
Dutch Colonial State
Mon.-Fri. 4pm-7pm_ Sat. llam- 2pm
days of pay for time lost during
the strike, the third of a series
since school opened Sept. 9,
Their union president, Albert
Shanker, still must stand trial
on a charge of contempt of
court for refusing to order
teachers back to work.
The local board, one of three
boards set up as an experiment
aimed at decentralizing the
city’s system into 33 local
boards, touched off the strike
by transferring UFT teachers
out of the predominantly Negro
and Puerto Rican area,
A special state trustee was
named to run the district.
The Rev. C. Herbert Oliver,
chairman of the district’s
governing board, stormed out of
the mayor’s mansion Sunday
shortly before terms of the
settlement were announced.
phase of this joint project and is
slated for overseas assignment in
Latin America in August, 1969.
The candidates will be selected
from the ‘ranks of students in
good standing at an accredited
college who are completing their
sophomore or junior year by June
1969. Those selected will be able
to earn an A.B, or B. S. degree
and be eligible for a Peace Corps
assignment in one academic year
flanked by two summers of fully
subsidized and integrated
academic courses and Peace Corps
training. They will be expected to
major in mathematics or the
sciences; those who have
completed their junior year prior
to entrance into the program will
have the opportunity for a
double-major.
At the end of the second
summer armed with the degree, a
teaching license, in-depth cross
cyltural preparation and fluency
in Spanish the graduates as Peace
Corps volunteers will be off on
their Latin American assignment.
As members of the staffs of
teacher training institutions
and or consultants to secondary
teachrs of mathematics or science,
they will be important
participants in the educational
development efforts of their host
countries, During their two year
sojourn they will have the
opportunity to earn up to twelve
semester hours graduate credit.
Peace Corps and college
officials pointed out the several
features which make this joint
program unique including:
academic credit for Peace Corps
training, two fully subsidized
summer sessions totalling thirty
semester credit hours, in-depth
Peace Corps training synchronized
with the liberal arts and
specialized professional
preparation, individualized
Programming, opportunity for
double majors and supervised
overseas graduate work.
“This integrated program is
based on our two fold conviction
that 1) to combine the college and
Peace Corps experiences is to
make both more relevant and
meaningful and the personal
product more valuable 2) to
Proved much-needed skilled
specialists--mathematics and
science teachers--as Peace Corps
volunteers in Latin America is to
make a significant contribution to
all concerned,” said President
Albert Warren Brown, of the
State University College at
Brockport in announcing the
extension of this unique
partnership,
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Albany Student Press
WHAT AM I BID? Campus Chest’s Chinese Auction attempts to raise money tor charity by auctioning oft
items .
Major Cause Of Protest
By Students Is Vietnam
A recent survey of more than
800 deans at the nation’s colleges
shows that Vietnam was the major
cause of organized protest by
college student during the
1967-68 academic year.
Dormitory rules, Civil Rights,
and student participation in
college government were, in that
order, the next most frequently
protested issues on the nation’s
campuses, according to the survey
by the Educational Testing
Service.
The ETS report also notes that
organized groups demonstrating
against most issues rarely made up
more than ten percent of a college
student body. Protesters against
U.S. Government policy in
Vietnam, for example, averaged
about five percent of their
respective student bodies,
according to the deans’ estimates.
Protests not organized in advance
were not included in the findings.
ETS’s questionnaire survey was
completed by deans of students in
860 accredited four-year colleges
and univerisities. Each dean was
asked to note the extent of
organized student protest over 27
educational, social, and political
issues during the 1967-68
academic year.
38 percent of the deans
reported Vietnam demonstrations
on their campuses last year. 34
percent reported protest over
dormitory regulations, and 29
percent over local, off-campus
Civil Rights matters.
Protests over greater student
participation in campus
policy-making was reported at 27
percent of the colleges. In one out
of four colleges there were
protests about the draft and about
the presence of military recruiters.
One out of five colleges noted
demonstrations over governmental
agency and industrial recruiters on
campus.
In a survey in 19665, a similar
group of deans was asked to
provide the same information
about many of the same issue. At
the time, they reported that Civil
Rights was the most frequent
cause for student activis .Campus
food ranked second, and Vietnam
third. Vietnam, then, was cited by
one out of five colleges as a cause
of organized protest, compared to
almost two out of five today.
A comparison of the results of
both studies indicates that since
1965 three particular issues have
triggered protests with increasing
frequency, Organized discontent
with dormitory rules was
registered at 34 percent of the
colleges, as compared to 28
percent in 1965, Student demands
for a larger role in campus
governance increased from 19 to
27 percent. This past year racial
matters, expecially demands for
studies of black culture,
accounted for demonstrations in
18 percent of the schools. Three
years ago, five percent of the
Mark Rudd
To Speak
Here Tom.
Mark Rudd, the student activist
who attained nation wide fame
for his part in the Columbia
University riots of last April, will
speak in Lecture Room 1 at 8:00
p.m, Wednesday night.
Rudd, who is no longer
attending Columbia full-time, has
been notified that his 2-S
deferment is no longer valid.
Rudd’s speech will also feature
deans reported student activism
over racial issues
This picture of student
protests, only partly accurate in
itself (since it was compiled by
deans of students and did not
include spontaneous protests), is
likely to change radically this
year.
A prediction in August by
Brandeis University’s Center for
the Study of Violence already
seems to be coming ture: that
there would be more protests than
ever in both colleges and high
schools, and that large numbers of
them would be race-oriented in
one way or another
Education
Examines
by Kevin McGirr
“Education and integration of
Minority Groups” was the subject
viewed by three Educators
participating in the Education
Conference. Each discussed
different periods in history.
Dr. Human Kuritz of the
Education Foundations Dept.
here at the University, spoke
about “Education and the Poor in
the Eighteenth Centrury.”
Education of the poor was to
perpetuate the poor, Kuritz said,
as common laborers and
reinforece the social structure.
Dr. Vincent Lannie, from Notre
Dame University and author of
‘History of Catholic Schools,”
lectured on ‘Education and the
slides and films of the incidents ™™igrant in the Nineteenth
that occured at Columbia. His talk Cemury”
i; Beeg wonmed ay te OP ee
Sea ate sponses Py catiy attitude of Christian Society
towards the poor. With the
Society (SDS) chapter here at the
University. They are asking a
donation of $.50 to cover Rudd’s
expenses.
growing strength of Calvinism he
said, there was also strong
tendencies towards individualism
which left the poor to themselves.
Campus Chest Begins, will Feature
Films, Telethon, Chinese A uction
continued from page 1
teams, and there will be an entry
of the Opera” was shown in State fee, but no admission charge.
Quad. Tonight, on Colonial Quad
at 6 pm “Orphans of the Storm,”
a D.W. Griffith original, will be
shown.
A Trivia Contest will take place
on Wednesday night at 8 pm in
the Campus Center Ballroom, It
will be conducted in a manner
similar to “College Bowl.” The
entry charge is $5 for each team
of three people. Any team
interested in competing should
contact Debbie Byron at
457-7806.
Various facilities of the gym
will be utilized on Tuesday night,
which is Sport Night of Campus
Chest, Beginning at 8 pm, there
will: be competitions of various
There will be a Beer Party
Saturday Night at 9 pm at
McKown’s Grovee. The band will
be “Light of Morning,” and
admission will be $3 per couple.
Campus Chest will close with a
mixer on Sunday night in the
Campus Center Ballroom, “The
Common Man” will play, and
admission will be $.50.
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Volunteers Needed
For VITA Program
by Gale McAllister
The Volunteers for
International Technical
Assistance, VITA, will hold their
fall conference on Saturday,
November 23 at Union College in
Schenectady.
University students and faculty
members are urged to attend this
conference which will discuss how
they can participate in VITA.
VITA is an organization made
up of teachers, engineers,
businessmen, students, and people
from virtually all occupational
fields who “offer their spare time
for consultation on problems
from the developing nations.”
Most of VITA’s work is done
through the mail. Missionaries,
Peace Corps members, and the
people of the underdeveloped
countries themselves, write to
VITA for answers to their
questions,
Questions range from problems
with rusting typewriters to the
best and most economical way to
build a bridge or irrigation system.
Unlike the Peace Corps or
VISTA, VITA provides the
opportunity for the student to
help the underprivileged of the
world, now.
Students can now, if they are
willing, devote some of their spare
time to help handle the
tremendous amount of mail that
VITA receives each week. There is
something important for every
student and faculty member to
Conference
History
Lannie likened present
attempts by Blacks to decentralize
schools to the rise of Catholic
Schools. Saying that the
imposition of the Protestant Bible
and the fear of ‘Popery’ in public
education forced Catholics to
construct Parochial Schools.
Mr. David Seeley, of
Metropolitan Applied Research
Center, offered a pessimistic view
of the effectiveness of school
desegregation.
He cited low reading scores of
many urban youth as being caused
by increased segregation due to
the flux of whites to suburban
and parochial schools.
Ginsburg
Reads Poetry
continued from page 1
poetry, but he would like them to
listen to his words and their pulse.
Watching Ginsburg as he reads is
as vital to his poetry as is
listening; his gestures and bodily
movements help one to find
meaning in his words.
‘The second part of the program
featured a talk by Brooks Smith, a
draft resister from the Divinity
School of the University of
Chicago who will refuse induction
today for the second time. Smith
received a standing ovation.
do.
Faculty members can help solve
the problems and students can get
a real chance to help by doing
follow-up work which entails
finding out if the answer given the
people solved their problem.
‘A sign-up sheet will be in the
Campus Center all this week.
‘Transportation to and from Union
College will be provided if enough
students sign up.
Professor Edward Reilly,
Manager of the Computer Center,
and Professor James Corbett of
the Physics Department, both
from the University, will speak at
the conference.
All students and faculty
members who are at all interested
in VITA are invited to attend the
conference, and find out more
about the work VITA has done in
helping the people in the
developing nations of the world.
The conference will last from
10:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday,
November 23, and there will be
no expenses except the cost of
lunch.
Diana Ross
Tearfully Pleas
For Equality
LONDON UPI—Britain’s royal
family abandoned its traditional
public reserve Monday, and wildly
applauded American Negro singer
Diana Ross when she interrupted
a royal variety performance to
plea tearfully for racial harmony.
The slim dusky singer from
Detroit had just finished an
emotional rendering of the song
“There’s A Place For Us” from
WEST SIDE STORY with her pop
group The Supremes.
‘As the music faded, Miss Ross
walked to the front of the stage of
the packed London Palladium,
grabbed a microphone and with
her voice crackling with emotion,
said:
“There's a place for us. A place
for all of us. Black and white, Jew
and Gentile, Catholic and
Protestant. So was the world of
slain civil rights leader Martin
Luther King and his ideal. If we
keep this in mind, thenwe can
carry on his work.”
‘There was stunned silence as
Miss Ross, with tears running
down her cheeks, broke into the
opening lines again of “‘There’s A
Place For Us.”
A storm of applause erupted
from the royal box and the rest of
the audience and lasted two
minutes.
Lord Snowdon, Princess
Margaret’s husband, leaned over
the side of the flower-decked box,
clapping lustily. QUEEN
Elizabeth and her husband Prince
Philip were on a South American
tour, but the queen mother was in
the box as was Prince Charles,
Princess Anne, Margaret and other
members of the royal family.
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Confusions
To the Editor:
I should like to clear up a few
confusions left by the article
covering the meeting to support
Mexican and Latin American
revolutionary students Thursday,
Oct, 31 (ASP, Fri. Nov. 1).
First, the meeting was
sponsored by the Young Socialist
Alliance; it was not a meeting of
the YSA. We meet Sundays at
7:30 p.m, and not all of those
who come then are YSAers or
intend to join. Second, the article
impled that the SUNYA students
who spoke were both YSAers.
Miss Judy Bank not only is not a
YSAer, but to my knowledge she
has no intention of joining. She is
a serious political independent
who supports the Mexican student
movement, and it was solely on
that basis that she agreed to
speak. We respect Miss Bank’s
independence. d
Third, the feature speaker, Sr.
Florencio Merced, received very
little attention in the article. He is
a leader of FUPI, Federation of
Puerto Rican University Students
for Independence, the student
wing of MPI (Movement for
-Puerto Rican Independence), and
will stand trial Nov. 12, along
with 84 other Puerto Rican
students, for refusing induction
into the U.S. Army.
Best wishes for greater accuracy
in reporting.
Sincerely,
Carol Anne: French
YSA Organizer
GDI’s ‘Respond
To the Editor:
This is an Independent Shout in
response to the Greek Echo of
Nov. 8: Who are Mr. Soja and
Miss Battaglino kidding? Their
column tops any propaganda put
out by the Communists in the last
20 years.
What are the Greeks really
doing and what is it they mean?
Homecoming and the Scholarship
Cup do indeed’ reflect Greek
spirit.
For esample, consider float
“spirit”, Is it true that Greeks are
fined if they donLt march, with
spirit, behind their floats? Is it
true that Greeks are compelled to
work a minimum number of hours
on their floats, or suffer the
consequences’,
Tt was good of Mr. Soja and
Miss Battaglino to acknowledge
the presence of Independent
floats in the parade. These were
constructed willingly, without
fines or punishment, by many
Independents who can’t be readily
distinguished as they don’t all
dress, think, and act alike in an
effort to impress each other.
Congratulations to the Greeks
for wining the Scholarship Cup
every year; after all, who else is
eligible?
Greek spirit is truly an awe-full
thing, However, we guess this has
slipped a very sizeable number of
Junior and Senior Greek minds as
many “Spiritied” Greeks have
gone inactive.
The words spirit and Greek 5,
are not synonymous.
Independents also have spirit.
(Who won Holiday Sing last year?
Are all campus organizations
made up of only Greeks?)
Greek organizations have many
good points, but we Independents
are not a mise abable, sniveling
minority. The backbone of this
campus is made up of unique
Independents who think for
themselves and enjoy each other,
Respectfuly from
God-Damned Independents,
some
Kathleen Bartnick
Elizabeth Henry
Susan Allen
Linda Miller
Patricia D'Agostino
Stony Tax
To the Editor:
I recently had occassion to read
a letter in the ASP concerning
“Tax Questions,’ and I was
particularly interested in the
comparison of entertainment with
SUNY at Stony Brook. As a
student at Stony Brook, please
allow me to shed a bit of light on
the shrouded myth of our
wonderful position:
First of all, we have this
entertainment if we want it or
not. Each student is required to
pay a $55 activity fee at the
beginning of the year, whether he
is a resident student or a
commuter. From the total sum of
these fees, $100,000 is allotted to
the Student Activities Board
(mon-elected!!) for the
procurement of entertainers, using
their own taste to hire anybody
they damn please.
It is true that for most of the
concerts no extra money is
charged. But free? Get serious.
Admittedly, Simon and Garfunkel
Continued on page 7
Phi Beta Lambda is sponsoring a
field trip to New York City on
November 22. Tickets will be sold
Tuesday, November 19, in the Campus
Center lobby. Bus fare Is $5.00 for
peld members and $5.25 for
non-members. Bus leaves Alumni Quad
(in front of Waterbury) at 6:45 a.m.
and the Uptown Circle at 7:00. They
will leave New York City for Albany at
8:00 p.m. The group plans to visit the
Chase Manhattan Bank and the N.Y.
Stock Exchange.
There will be a Memorial Service for
the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy on
Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. at the
front steps of the State Capito. All are
welcome and urged to attend. __
Cathexis, the sociology-psychology
club will sponsor a discussion by Dr.
Waterman of the Psychology
Department on Thursday, Nov. 21 in
Social Sci. Faculty Lounge on the third
floor.
An informal coffee hour with Dr.
Meadows, Chairman of the Sociology
and Anthropology Department, on
Wed., Nov. 20, at 3:30 p.m. in the
Campus Center Assembly Room.
Discussion will include: student
representation on departmental
committees, details of
sociology-psychology club.
Student Association is still accepting
applications for positions on the
following Councils of Faculty-Senate:
Personnel Policies Council; Research
Council; Council on Promotions and
Continuing Appointment.
There are no special qualifications
required. An applicant need only be a
full time student at the University.
Applicants for the Council on
Promotions and Continuing
Appointment will be screened by
Academic Affairs Commission.
Applicants for the other councils will
be screened by the Cabinet of Central
Council.
the
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Academic Release
This University is rapidly evolving into an institution with an
excellent academic reputation. Yet, the plan for the development of the
University is so academically oriented that it has neglected to provide
for a necessary human need-release.
The constant tension and pressure, under which a student is placed
by the demands of his academic load, is a potentially dangerous
element each student must face. The danger lies in the fact that there is
no chance for the student to stop, take time off from the constant
worry of academic pressure, reconnoiter his wits and start again.
Without this type of release the student is faced at times with seemingly
unsurmountable problems. The more the student feels he is being
plowed under, the less able he will be to perform his class work, causing
more frustration. Consequently, the student will find himself caught in
an increasing state of tension.
In effect, what is wrong is that as the University is making a
conscious effort to increase its academic standing,
it is providing no
element of release to balance the stringent demand of tougher courses.
The University must begin seriously considering providing outlets
through which a student may break away from some of the tensions
and pressures that weigh him down.
Usually the vacation periods are the main facets through which a
student can find a release. But, the Periods between vacations are
usually long and a student finds unneeded tension bui
the weeks of school.
ilding up during
Aside from vacations other outlets can be found for the student’s
emotions. One such outlet is the opportunity of a student to let
“himself go” as a spectator at a sports event. If for this reason alone,
the University should more actively pursue the establishment of a
football club.
There has been latent spirit on this campus for football for years;
that spirit only needs a substantive encouragement to become an active
release for the student.
Other ideas (eg. a one day break after the mid-semester period) could
be explored by the University so that the academic life will not crush
the student. We want an academically excellent University, but we also
want to be able to minimize the pressure and tension that that
University will place upon us.
Primer contributors should check
student mailboxes for notification of
material accepted for the fall .68 issue
of PRIMER. No rejection slips have
been sent out.
Project Help mate bus leaves 6:30 from
Academic circle, 6:45 at Western and
Partridge, downtown, on Thursday,
November 21.
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Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Albany Student Press
“Page 5
May 13, 1968, the
headline flashes “NIXON SEIZED
IN MEXICO.” Nixon, with a
popular mandate, had gone to
Mexico to secure peace. While
driving through downtown
Mexico City in his bombproof
limosine Nixon was surrounded
by adoring youths who tried to
love him to death.
The Mexican government,
fearing that they would be ousted
and replaced by Nixon because of
Nixon’s overwhelming popularity
(in Mexico spitting is a form of
praise), imprisoned him and
demanded that the US admit that
Nixon was sent to incite
revolution.
Vice President Agnew quickly
cabled “Don’t worry Dick stop if
you've seen one jail you've seen
them all stop those Spics are all
alike stop signed President
Agnew.”
The concerned members of
Central Council immediately
called an emergency session to
remedy the pressing problem of
getting back Nixon. The session
convened on stage in the Theatre
Building: and President (Duncan
Doughnut) Nixon called the
meeting to order. Bob Yafman
opened the session by presenting
his proposal to use the bomb on
Mexico if they didn’t give Nixon
back.
He stated “No forty-third rate
country is goin’ to push us
around” with his eyes flashing.
“Wait,” screamed Jim Cahn’t.
“That motion has to go through
Political and Social Positions
Committee first.” “No, no” said
Linda Bird, “you know as well as
I do Jim, that since this is a
communication, it obviously has
to go through Communications
Commission.” But Keith Meely
suggested that since this motion
concerns the conscience of
Central Council and the lives of
the Mexicans (not to mention
President Nixon’s life) it should
go through Religious Affairs
Commission.
Loop-along-Vie interjected that
since Nixon was living in a jail, the
motion was obviously a matter for
LAAC. Walt Dougherty pointed
out that since Mexico did not
have a line in its budget for
imprisoning Presidents, we could
profit on student tuition which is
used for realty speculation. Johns
Hopkins and M.LT. run missle
design centers. Princeton runs
C.I.A. conventions; Michigan U. is
good in counter-insurgency; Penn.
U. researches chemical and germ
warfare; Rochester manages a
secret center for naval analysis in
Virginia...
These are but a few of the
thousands of facts which swell the
pages of James Ridgeway’s new
book, ‘The Closed Corporation,”
American Universities in Crisis.
Ridgeway, whose fame as a
muchkraker of first-rate
competence is growing, asserts in
this Random House publication
that Universities are an integral
part of that nasty monster known
as the Establishment.
A recent review of the book (N.
Y. Times) suggested that
Ridgeway’s compilation “may
well become a handbook for
student protesters.” By comparing
the University to an “industry”
(with total annual revenues of $10
billion, an annual growth rate of
10%, and a $12 billion investment
fund) Ridgeway clearly portrays
the intellectural community as a
group of bureaueratic, power
hungry participants in the Great
ASP
Long Island University makes a
simply freeze its budget for
violating finance policy.
Whereupon Jim Cahn’t pointed
out that Finance Policy does
not state that we can freeze
budgets except for specific
reasons outlined in the policy; but
Linda Bird countered that there
was a precedent for this action
since Drama Council has its
budget frozen for spending money
on socket testers in violation of
Line 13 of their budget which did
not include funds for socket
testers.
“Point of Information” cried
dim Losehigh, “what is a socket
tester?” The Doughnut opened
the question to the floor and after
a two hour debate on what a
socket tester was, Central Council
unfroze Drama Council’s budget.
Dr. Houser then asked “But
what about President Nixon?” To
which everyone looked perplexed
until a smile of recognition came
over Linda Bird’s face and she said
“Oh, yes, he’s in Mexico.”
Duncan immediately stood
up and shouted “No I’m not, I'm
right here.” Jim Cahn’t asked why
Bob Yafman would present a
motion to bring Nixon back from
Mexico if he wasn’t there. After a
two hour debate on this issue,
Terry resolved the entire problem
by suggesting that we submit a
referendum to the students of the
University (including those who
haven’t paid their tax) and let
them decide whether or not
Duncan Nixon is here.
You, the student, may vote on
whether President Nixon is here
or not by writing yes and no on
your student tax card and mailing
it to box 11043, Stuyvesant
Tower.
THE RED
FLAG
Carol French
Thank you, Mr. Rosenberg. I
was unable to find an idea for this
column until I read yours. Since
you said that “campus Marxists”
are irrelevant, and, in another
context, mentioned the Socialist
Workers Party, I decided a reply
might be fun.
You view the world as a static
entity, and assume that because it
is, so it always must be. Therefore
you can say that because the
“proletariat” is reactionary now,
therefore it always will be.
Because Fred Halstead and Poul
Boutelle did not do as well as
Wallace nationwide (or Dick
Gregory or Henning Blomen in
New York State) therefore their
candidacy was a waste. You look
only at the events; you do not
consider the multiplicity of
causes.
I do not disagree that workers
' The Way It Is
by Ray Bertrand
A new scene commences. A
new government takes control.
What are the pertinent problems
of the new administration? What
are Nixon’s solutions? Answers to
these and other questons as Mr.
Knowledge again imparts his
immense storehouse of wisdom to
the ignorant masses.,
Q. What does Mr. Nixon mean
by “black capitalism?”
A. The president-elect recently
cleared up that situation by
stating that his staff has arranged
openings for 300 domestics in
Scarsdale, N.¥.
Q. Is Nixon really a peace
candidate?
A. Yes, By February, the War
on Poverty will be'concluded by a
treaty between Howard Hughes
and Ralph Abernathy.
Q. Can you explain Nixon’s
ambivalent proposal to take direct
action concerning Vietnam before
Inauguration Day? A. No.
Q. What are the advantages to
superiority in the arms race, a
stress point (correction: the stress
point) in Nixon’s campaign?
A. That’s a foolish question. It
is apparent to me that if the
United States has a ecided
Society. -
Educators are seen playing the
“reward structure” game, gaining
for themselves huge salaries from
grants, contracts from often
peripheral consultantships, and
their own private companies for
their own private grabs.
One of his most remarkable
annuciations is that “university
officials sit on the boards of about
one quarter of the 200 largest
corporations, six of the 10 largest
life insurance and _ utility
companies, five of the largest
merchandising companies,” etc.
The message that Ridgeway
attempts to transmit is therefore
adequately received. But on
examination, the message itself is
a ratherhollow one, for certainly
the University must be more than
just a “Closed Corporation.”
In fact, whenever the student
revolutionaries (wherever they
may be hiding) decide to adopt
Ridgeway’s thesis, they will be
expousing all the evils, but none
of the goods, issuing from the
University. To a revolutionary, of
course, that comes firsthand. But
for the rest, some recocnition of
the good must also be
acknowledged.
For example, it must be
Femembered that it is the
superiority in weapons, we can
completely annihilate the Soviet
Union more times than it can
completely annihilate us.
Q. As the war in Vietnam
gradually comes to a close, we ask
ourselves what were the
advantages of our entanglement
there. Can you answer?
A. Yes. We went to Vietnam in
order to prevent a forceful,
tyrannical, dictatorial takeover by
the communists by compelling the
South Vietnamese to side with us.
The war gave US industry a
much-needed shot in the arm by
opening jobs in defense and other
related fields. Also, by sending
our boys to Asia, we have kept
down the population of our great
land (although we have been
keeping up the population of
South Vietnam).
And, also, if we are lucky,
which we indeed have been, some
of our boys will not return home.
But in order to keep a strong,
moral, intelligent nation, we have
drafted only our dummies. (Let’s
face it; who needs them?) The list
of good, sound advancements
University product (like Mr.
Ridgeway) which has given us the
shorthand revolutionary slogans
like the “Establishment.” It is the
University atmosphere which has
produced the liberal elements in
society from social welfare to the
living theatre.
It is the University which is the
patron of the arts; creator of
philosophic, sociologic, and
psychologic insights; leader of
civil rights, international
understanding, the “new polities,”
and so on, ad infinitum,
What should be realized then,
before one gets overly excited by
Ridgeway’s accusations, is that
there are two lists one can draw
up on the role of the University in
society.
Mr. Ridgeway does a service by
giving us the bad one; but let us
not forget that we can look in
more than one direction.
brought about by the war is
virtually endless.
Q. With all this majority,
plurality business, I wonder is
there a sane solution to our
process of electing the president?
A. Certainly. Abolish the
popular vote and let the electors
decide with no _ outside
interference.
Q. What did George Wallace
consider to be the strong point, I
mean his major qualification, in
his drive for the presidency?
A. Mr, Wallace has been very
active in the field of civil rights
enforcement.
Q. If an international field were
in the running for the high posts
on Nixon’s staff, who would be
the foreigners, and what would be
their positions?
A. I can only think of one:
Christines Keeler for
vice-president.
Q. How can the United States
prevent itself from losing face in
the Pueblo crisis?
A. By invading North Korea
and forcing the 84/erew members
of the Pueblo to lose their necks.
Q. Did Nixon’s “Compromise
with the South” i.e., the choice of
Agnew as vice-president, pay off?
A. Definitely. Jt was indeed a
compromise. In return for the
important states of North
~ Carolina, South Carolina, Florida,
and Tennessee, Nixon
relinquished his hold on New
York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and
Maryland.
Q. Did Richard Nixon have Wilt
Chamberlain campaign for him
because he was a Negro?
A. No. Nixon has never been a
Negro. (I can’t stand these stupid
questions.)
SUPPORT
CAMPUS CHEST
| __ALL WEEK
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
A community candlelight
memorial service for the late
Senator Kennedy will be held
Wednesday, November 20, at 7
p.m. on the Capitol steps.
SLEIGH RIDE
Dec. 13, 1968
8pm
WINTERLUDE
DINNER DANCE
Dec. 14, 1968
9—Ipm
right now are conservative, that a
good share of them are racists.
Nor can one dispute the numbers
who voted for Wallace. However,
this simplistic view is not the
whole.
One should also consider that
American workers have the
bloodiest history in the world
labor movement, including battles
with the National Guard in the
Colorado Mine Strikes and the
Pullman Strikes, as well as the
battles of the 30's.
Working men won for
themselves their present position;
it was not a gift from a benevolent
big business. They are still
fighting, from the Chicago bus
strike to the Delano grape strike.
This is the first time this
century that lubor has not taken a
no-strike pledge during a shooting
war, so one cannot say workers’
are completely “dead.” And you
didn’t read ‘Labor,’ the
newspaper of the transportation
workers union, after the abortive
railroad strike of June, 1967, so
you don’t know how angry
workers can get when they are
doublecrossed, as the railroad
unions were by LBJ.
You see, he lied when he said
that vital shipments would not get
through if the workers struck.
They had submitted a written
agreement to work all vital
shipments of medicine and
material for Vietnam.
The conservatism of working
people now is due to their very
understandable desire to keep
what they have, and to gain more,
if possible, No one likes to see
taxes and inflation eat away at
income.
Workers who yoted for Wallace
rather than Halstead did so for at
least 2 good reasons:
1. The anti-Communism
instilled in all of us during the
past 20 years cannot be
immediately overcome.
2, Halstead has little access to
the mass media news coverage
that helped publicize Wallace’s
campaign, People didn’t know
about him.
They voted for Wallace
primarily out of frustration with
the Democratic and, Republican
party, and only secondarily out of
racism. They are frustrated
because no one—Democrat or
Republican—seems able to retard
inflation, or cut taxés, or balance
the budget.
‘And when working people
realize that they can gain more by
fighting than by not fighting, they
will, They have always used
whatever means were necessary to
make needful gains. Because they
seem conservative now does not
mean that they will never
radicalize.
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‘THE UNION GAP gave a disappointing performance on Friday night
University
Concert
Page Hall will be the scene of
the University Concert Band’s
Annual Fall Concert on November
22, At 8:00 pm Mr. William
Hudson, associate professor of
Music, will begin the pmgram by
conducting “Chorale” by Vaclav
Nelhybel. This piece is based on a
medieval Bohemian chant
entreating St, Wenceslaus, the first
King of Bohemia, to save his
people from the plague. For
centuries it has been sung by the
Bohemians in times of war and
danger. The beginning of the
“Chorale” creates a foreboding
atmosphere which develops into a
humn of hope at the end.
Nelhybel combined modern sound
with Middle Age and early
Renaissance techniques to
produce an ancient theme which
would appeal to modern
audiences,
John Barnes Chance’s work,
“Incantation and Dance,” is
divided into two sections. The
first section, Incantation, is a
quiet mysterious suggestion of a
primative plea. The second section
symbolizes the dance of the
spirits - .
Next on the program is
“Espana Rhapsody,” based on
one of Emmanuel Chabrier’s first
major works, “Espana.” It’s
exotic sounds are produced by
vivid harmonic and rhythmic
contrasts.
“The Second Suite for Military
Band in F” by Gustav Holtz
consists of four parts: March,
Song without Words, Song of the
Blacksmith, and Fantasia on the
“Dargason.” The four completely
different atmospheres produced
by these sections provide a very
interesting contrast.
The featured soloist of the
evening will be Irving E. Gilman,
flutist, a graduate of Oberlin
Conservatory of Muisc. He was a
faculty member of the Manhattan
School of Music, the University of
Michigan, and Wayne State
University, and performed with
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
for 12 years before joining the
staff of Albany’s Music
Department. He will play “Night
Soliloquy” by Kent Kennan,
accompanied by the band.
tice
The Duel of Sexes, an
arrangement of scenes from the
works of George Bernard Shaw,
will be presented by the
University Readers on Saturday,
November 23 at 8:00 p.m., and
Sunday, November 24 at 3:00
p.m. The production will be
staged at Richardson 291, the !
studio theatre on the downtown
campus.
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Band
Friday
The theme of the program after
intermission will be a series of
international marches. These will
include “Radetzky” by J. Strauss,
U. Zehle’s “Wellington March,”
and “El Capitan” by John Philip
Sousa. These selections will help
the listeners understand and
distinquish the differences
between the marches of different
countries.
Albany Student Press.
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Judy Collins,
Union Gap
Give Mediocre Performance
by Alan Lasker
The Council for Contemporary
Music presented Judy Collins and
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
in concert on Friday, Nov. 15.
‘The long awaited evening began
with an unanticipated whimper
instead of the expected bang The
audience-to-be was kept waiting in
the corridors of the gymnasium
for 45 minutes after the predicted
door opening time. I imagine the
people would not have minded
the delay as much as they did, if
someone would have explained to
them the reason for the holdup.
However the explanation never
came, causing impatience and a
degree of disgust.
At this point I feel it necessary
to say that the University
contracted two groups with high
potential, but inefficiently ran the
concert. Judy Collins was forced
to perform with apparatus that
functioned improperly. This not
only annoyed her audience, but
interfered with her performance,
There just was no excuse for this
sort of nonsense! A University
that can organize and produce a
concert should take care of the
all-important details of checking
the equipment before its use.
I am well aware that Judy
Collins has many devoted
followers and that they might
have enjoyed her performance for
the simple reason that it was Judy
Collins performing. However I
think from an impartial
Theatre AlumniGroup
To Sponsor Lecturer
Gyorgy Szekely, the 1968-69
Agnes E, Futterer lecturer in
dramatic art at the University will
speak Monday, November 25, at
8:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of
Campus Center. It will be the first
of two public lectures by Dr.
Szekely sponsored by the Theatre
Alumni Association and the
university’s department of speech
and dramatic art.
Mr, Szekely will speak about
“Passion and Intellect: Highlights
in the History of Theatre.” By
observing the passion of the actor
and the intellect of the literary
man, he will focus attention on
repeating patterns throughout the
world which have contributed to
the formation of theatrical art.
Mr. Szekely, a native of
Hungary, has had a distinguished
career as scholar, author and
director, and has earned a highly
respected position internationally.
He was appointed a director of
the Hungarian Institute of Theatre
Research in 1957. His work
include organizing and building a
well-known documentary system
of living theatre from which was
made a study of structural and
organizational problems of theatre
culture. Prior to the appointment
he was managing director of the
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He is an elected member of the
Board of Hungarian Theatre
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the International Federation for
Theatre Research, the guest
lecturer has traveld and lectured
internationally.
He is author
publications including
“Avant-garde Tendencies in
European Theatre,” “Method and
Analysis ofTheatrical Genres,”
“125 Years of the Hungarian
National Theatre,” and “A Short
History of the English Puppet
Theatre.” In 1967 Mr. Szekely
visited the United States as a guest
to the A tts Convocation of St ate
University of New York.
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viewpoint, her performance left
something to be desired.
Judy Collins, whose songs dealt
mostly with the subject of love,
was greeted warmly by her fans as
she entered the gym. Her opening
number, “Both Sides Now,”
depicted life’s illussions that many
of us encounter; the so many
things we would have done if it
weren’t for the “clouds” that
obstructed our way.
In my mind Miss Collins failed
to generate a warm sensation to
her audience. Her devoted fans
might have been pleased with her.
However those individuals, who
had come to hear her perform for
the first time would not have been
impressed with her performance.
It seemed as though none of her
songs were introduced and that
each song followed one another
without cessation,
Miss Collins’ facial expressions
clearly demonstrated her
involvement with what she was
singing. However she proved too
involved in her performing and
seemed to forget she had an
audience. While performing one of
her selections, the microphone
went dead. Knowing this however,
-she continued with her lengthy
song even though the vast
majority of her audience could
not hear her. In fact, at the close
of her show, even her avid fans
were disappointed when she did
not return with an _ encore
selection after they gave her a
standing ovation and many rounds
of applause. k
Following the twenty minute
intermission, Gary Puckett and
the Union Gap appeared. They
attempted to appeal to
everyone-the country mustic
enthusiasts heard “Take Your
Pleasure;” the psychedelic music
lovers were entertained with “She
Walks;” for the pure rock
admirers “Young Girl,” Lady
Willpower” and “Woman, Woman”
were featured; and for the
conservative music listener, “By
the Time I get to Phoenix” and
“The Dreams of the Everyday
Housewife” were included,
One selection that I particularly
enjoyed was their anti-war
selection entitled “My Son,”
Basically the chant was to
re-awaken people to the meaning
and value of a human life.
“The Union Gap” attempted to
flavor their performance with
humor, creativity (as could be
seen in their rendition of
Rosemary’s Baby), and variety,
but fell short to be considered as a
number-one group.
On the whole the concert was
only mediocre, when it should
have been good. Neither Miss
Collins nor “The Union Gup”,
who are top performers, would
have won over any new fans from
this performance at State,
Auditions
For ‘Fairy
Tales In NY’
Auditions for the State
University Theatre’s seeond major
production, FAIRY TALES OF
NEW YORK, will be held
Wednesday, November 20 and
Thursday, November 21 at 8 p.m.
in Page Hall,
Directed by Pauo Bruce Pettit,
Chairman of the Department of
Speech and Dramatic Art, FAIRY
TALES OF NEW YORK, by J.P.
Donleavy, is a comic and satirical
play which successfully captures
the essence of the American ethic.
J.P. Donleavy, author of the
widely acclaimed novel, The
Ginger Man, is England’s formost
ss Halglipe writer in the avante
lene,
FAIRY TALES OF NEW
YORK, was first performed in
1960 and won for its author the
Most Promising Playwright Award
of the Evening Standard. The
American premiere in 1962 was
directed by Paul Bruce Pettit for
Arena Summer Theatre in Albany.
Performances of this play are
scheduled for March 12 to 16,
1969, On April 15, 1969 the play
will again be performed as part of
the Dedication of the University
Performing Arts Center.
Auditions are open to all
university students November 20
and 21 in Page Hall. Call back
auditions will be November 23,
fourth Annual
Thanksgiving Fe
What Do
Thankful
Readers
Dr. Robert Morris, Dean Q The
University College Will Speak
On: ‘Change And The University-
Selections For Thanksgiving.
Sun. Nov. 24
Campus Center Assanbly Hall
Everyone Is Welcome
Sponsored By The Commission
stival nv
We Have To Be
For?
Club:
7:30PM
For Religious Affaires.
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
Albany Student Press
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Communications Continued From Page 4
are playing here this year, but that
event is sponsored by the Junior
Class and tickets (a sure sellout)
will go for five dollars apiece.
Surely the Junior Class, or any
other class, at Albany can work
the same deal at a definitive
profit.
Beautiful, isn’t it? But what
about the poor schlemiel who
couldn’t car less about concerts
but winds up paying his fee so
that someone else can see them?
And what about the eight or
nine hundred students who way
down deep inside really groove on
Don Gardner and the Falcons or
Shep Woolly and the Undertakers
but who have no say in the
throwing around of their money?
Or what about the thousands of
dollars spent to obtain six of the
best groups in the country to keep
students on campus during the
three day moratorium?
Most surely our position will
change next year. But meanwhile,
students in Albany should not
forget that the school was built
for them, If you don’t like the
way Tax is being handled, open
your mouth and tell somebody
upstairs. Then somebody upstairs
will have to ask the rest of the
students, and if he doesn’t do it,
you do it.
If you can present a list of a
few thousand names of people
agreeing with you, you can press
for a system like ours if you like
it, or any other feasible system.
So if you want Janis Joplin
instead of Don Gardner, and so do
three thousand other people,
make your plea known to people
who count.
Best Wishes,
Lee Gruenfeld
Stony Brook, N.Y.
Equal opportunity employer.
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There’s a lot to be done. Interesting,
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engineer and scientist.
For example, in our Applied Research
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Albany Student Press
Nix On Sports
The winter sports season is about to begin at Albany State. On the
varsity level, it appears as if both the basketball and the wrestling teams
will be suffering. The freshman teams, although it is always difficult to
predict how well they will do, again look as if they may be hurt by lack
of participation.
The Great Danes basketball squad has been beset by a number of
misfortunes. Stef Smigiel, who was one of the top substitutes last year,
and was expected to make a valuable contribution to this year’s squad,
is no longer in attendance at this school. Bob Wood, who was sidelined
last year with a virus infection, dropped out of school midway through
this semester. Wood, although there was a question of whether or not
he would be given permission by the doctor to play this year, certainly
would have been an important performer if he had participated. A third
setback suffered by the team was the development of calcium deposits
on Scott Price’s ankle. Without Price in the lineup, the team will be
woefully lacking for rebounders.
I would surmise that while the hoopsters will probably still have a
winning record, it doesn’t seem feasible that they will be able to secure
the NCAA bid which they barely missed last year.
The varsity wrestling squad is extremely short of wrestlers this year.
While they have a good set of wrestlers in the lower weight classes,
there is only one man on the squad over 152 pounds. As a result of
such a large shortage of wrestlers, the team will be able to win only if
they capture each of the lower weight’ classes to stand a chance of
winning.
The freshman wrestling squad is suffering from the same lack of
participation. At present, they have only a sprinkling of the projected
wrestlers taking part in the workouts.
The frosh basketball squad does not appear to have the same trouble
as they have more than enough ball players out for the squad. It would
seem that the freshman team may well have an outstanding squad as
they have a multitude of talent to choose from.
It remains to be seen whether or not the wrestlers will be able to
salvage a representative showing and whether or not the basketball
squad will be able to maintain their winning ways despite the loss of
three possible starters.
AMIA also promises some interesting developments as League I
competition promises to be particularly stiff this year. APA, who won
the Commissioners Cup last year, has their whole team back and in
addition pick up a couple of last year’s freshman ball players. Potter
Club also looks strong as does KB.
Tuesday, November 19, 1968
AMIA Causes Controversy —
Doody Involved
Marcus,
The AMIA basketbail leagues
are once more in the process of
taking shape with the close of the
football season and the approach
of winter. Ten teams recently
registered in League I and,
Photo by Phil Cantor
already, controversy has hit the
hardcourts.
The ‘‘controversy” centers
around the rosters of two teams
entered in the league. Although
the rosters are not official yet,
both Potter Club and APA have
made it known that they intend
to play former varsity basketball
athletes on their League I entries.
Larry Marcus (Potter) and Tom
Doody (APA) are the students
involved. Each played the
maximum three years of varsity
basketball and are still enrolled
undergraduates at the University.
The rule in question is number
seven under the AMIA rules of
eligibility which states, “Any
undergraduate who has lettered in
a varsity-sport may not also be
competing in intramural AMIA
competition in that sport unless
he is cleared through the
Intramural Office and the Athletic
Director.”
According to the ruling, Coach
Robert Burlingame, co-ordinator
of intramural athletics, cleared
Doody and Marcus for play.
Immediately, several team
captains registered their protests
of the ruling.
In defending his decision,
Burlingame argued that the rule
was developed, not to protect the
For Women
Details concerning the
intramural swim meet to be held
on Tuesday, December 10are now
in order, The meet will take place
from 7 to 9 p.m,; all students are
expected to be prompt. It will
offer everyone a chance to try out
her racing skill against her fellow
students. So that all competitors
will be at an equal level of
experience , no intercollegiate
swimmers will be allowed to
compete.
Those who wish to enter
competition may sign up
Thursday, November 21, at the
dinner lines at all quads, Uniess
otherwise specified, each entrant
SUNYA Wrestling Squad Opens
Informal Season Against Union
Last Friday, the Albany State
Coach Garcia feels with the
addition of a 115 pounder and a
This Thursday, the squad will
by Leslie King
will belong to her quad team.
However, any group of students,
including commuters, may form a
team independent of the quad
teams by calling Linda Myers at
457-4727 from 7-10 p.m. on the
same night. Each person may
enter no more than two events.
This event is for enjoyment. No
great ability is necessary, one need
merely know how to swim. Z
intramural teams against “near
professional” competition, but to
protect the varsity program from
being drained of the best players
who for various reasons chose not
to play varsity ball after having
lettered in it in a previous year.
Both APA and Potter Club have
strong entries in League I. Besides
Doody, the Apagogues will have
center Bill Moon, forwards Jack
Sinnott and Denny Elkin, and
versatile guard Gary Torino—all
returning along with a fine bench.
The Club, hard hit by
graduation, will feature forward
Pat Reed and sophomore Richie
Adams, along with Marcus, in
their hardcourt battles this year.
Kappa Beta, another strong
contender for League I honors,
will be led by senior Howie Dobbs
and junior Dave Goldstein.
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