Albany Student Press, Volume 56, Number 3, 1969 October 3

Vol. LVI no. 3

ALBANY STUDENT
PRESS

State University of New York at Albany

On

to
Washington!

October 3, 1969

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COUNCIL MEMBERS CONFER before voting on the appropriation for November’s march on
Washington while approximately seventy-five concerned students applied silent pressure.

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Report on pass-fail examines

variety of grading reforms

Editor’s Note: Due to the great
interest in the question of
Pass-Fail, which University Senate
will consider at its next meeting,
we have attained a copy of the
‘Report of the Ad Hoc Committee
on Groding:\Dhivreport examined
the various systems of marking,
and comes to some conclusions
which are both pertinent and vital
to the consideration of the topic.

The report consists of five
parts: background, proposal,
clarification, rationale and
conclusion. We have included
what we consider the highlights of
the report.

At its June 2, 1969, meeting
the Faculty Senate approved a
system of mixed grading; on June
5, three days later, it moved to
reconsider. The new discussion
made it clear that to many faculty
there were faults in a mixed
system, faults in the present
system, and faults in a ‘pure’ S—U
system, but most of all that the
Senate could not evaluate the
proposals in the form and time
submitted. Consequently, they
voted to recommit the matter to
the Undergraduate Academic
Council, who were asked ‘to have
a report ready and available to
members of the Senate by ten
days prior to’ the first meeting of
the fall. It was to be the first item
on the agenda.

In response to the assignment
given it by the Senate, the Council
at its organizational meeting for
1969- 1970 (June 11, 1969)
agreed to establish an ad hoc
committee consisting of Robert
Thorstenses (English, chairman
Academic Standing Committee

1969-70) as chairman, ‘up to four |

more faculty members,’ It was
hoped that most members would
have served on one of the SUNY
Albany groups that had studied
the grading question. Besides the
chairman the group included the
following: Fred Childs (1969),
Richard Collier (1968, Signum
Laudis Scholar), Robert Gibson
(M.A. 1966), Terry Mathias
(1970), William Reese (Chairman
of the Department of Philosophy)
and Warren Roberts, Ass’t
Professor of History.

The committee had five
meetings and some informal
discussions. This Report, written

* by Thorstensen and Collier,

expresses the unanimous
judgement of the group

At least four groups at SUNY
Albany have studied reform of the
grading system.

(1) The Task Force on
Instruction reeommended— ‘the
abolition of the letter grade
system and its replacement
with S or U grades.’ (2) The
Task Force on Academic
Regulations considered several
Proposals but voted to
recommend no change in grading

for the present. Their report
noted that among faculty and
students there was a good deal of
‘enthusiastic support’ for a
Pass-Fail option. (3) The
Commission for Academie Affairs
of the student. government
strongly recommended a total S-U
system and in March conducted a
poll of nearly 2000 students, of
whom over 70 percent favored
pass-fail grading in all courses. (4)
The Academic Standing

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,000 appropriated

or march on D.C.

by Ken Stokem

The Political and Social
Positions Committee (PSP)
appropriation for $3,000, for the
purpose of subsidizing buses for
the November 15th Peace March
at Washington, D.C., came before
Central Council last night. The bill
was passed, after extended debate,
by a vote of 18-2-3,

The passing of the bill was the
result of the efforts PSP and
several student organizations
petitioning Central Council for
funds to supply buses.

In three dayg the petitio:
gathered the Sidhatures of
students and 58'faculty anf
The petitiods were d
immediately following the Central
Council meeting to protect the
identities of those who signed
them from being made public.

Dave Neufeld, chairman of PSP,
lead the arguments in favor of the
bill, He argued that the
appropriation would be an
opportunity to give the students
their money’s worth for paying
the student tax, :

Lennie Kopp, who seconded
Neufeld’s motion, backed up
Neufeld’s argument by saying “It
is time Central Council became
responsive to the wishes of the
students. They want the
appropriation, I want the
appropriation.”

The legal opposition to the bill
was led by Jeanette Beckerman,
Vie Looper, and Bob Iseman. Miss
Beckerman’ inquired about the
liability of the Student

Area man refuses induction,
speaks and lives for peace

by Brian Moss

“I believe that the time has
come for each of us to examine
his own conscience to find
courage and to act.”

With these words, Eric Johnson
refused to submit to induction
into the armed forces of the
United States on Wednesday,
October 1. Johnson, originally of
Stone Ridge, New York,
graduated from Rondout Valley
High School in 1966. He is now
21 years old and a former
Electrical Engineering student at
Indiana Institute of Technology.

Johnson went into the Albany

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ERIC JOHNSON’S DRAFT REFUSAL—demonstration, support, |

prayer music, encouragement, and a statement by Richard Evans.
«bell

Some friends, Dick and Melanie
Evans of the Albany Peace Center,
and John Daniels of the Albany
Friends Meeting went to the U.S.
attorneys’ office early that same
morning and presented Johnson’s
draft card to an attorney.
However, he refused to accept it,
and after a polite discussion let
them leave it on his desk.

At 10:15, Mr. and Mrs. Evans
left the Federal Building to greet
approximately thirty-five
supporters, onlookers and
newsmen on the sidewalk. At that
point Evans explained what was
occuring inside. After a brief

statement, he read a letter of
complicity in the act that was
signed by him and various people
form the Albany and Troy areas.

As the morning wore on, the
crowd of supporters grew to more
than fifty. Two policemen arrived
but restricted their activities to
chasing away double parked cars.

After thirty-five minutes Mr.
Johnson’s supporters organized a
vigil around the steps of the
Federal Building. Some prayed,
some meditated, others stood
quietly chatting with each other.

Also present was Steve Trimm,
who refused induction last
January 20, and was there, as he
said “Just to keep him company,

| because I knowhow he feels.”

Before undergoing the
induction process Johnson issued
a statement which said in part, “I
know that many people will
interpret my refusal as a rejection
of our entire American way of
life. This is now true.

“I do not hate or have
disrespect for laws, our Congress,
or our President. But I know of
no government that is willing to

| voluntarily disarm. I believe that

|, | the time has come for each of us

| to examine his own conscience, to
find courage and to act.”
Expressing the ‘sentiments of
most of Johnson’s supporters,
Dick Evans said, “We are happy
for Eric and for America that he
has found the courage to follow
his conscience despite the possible
consequences.

Association in relation to possible
injury of students, participating in
the march. Looper, who is
sympathetic to the principles of
the Moratorium on death,
expounded on this point and the
point that the use of student
funds for a political purpose may
be illegal, by the presentation of
the opinions of two legal sources,
Chandler Stein, legalcounsel to
the University, and an opinion
solicited from the SUNY Legal
Counsel office, given by a Mr.
Kimberly. A letter sent by Stein
to Looper stated, in effect, that
funds collected for the purpose of
aiding and promoting
extra-curricular activities on the
campus of this University cannot
/should not be used for political
Purposes, such as influencing
legislation.

He also suggested that by
sponsoring the trip Student
Association could be exposing

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Goodell asks
end to war

by Dec. 1970

by Barry Kirschner

Senator Charles Goodell has
advocated ‘progressive’ solutions
to problems he described as
threatening the survival of
America’s political system.
Speaking at the Linton High
School in Schenectady, Goodell
covered a wide range of
controversial issues which have
brought the United States “past
the stage of crises, into a stage of
convulsion.”

In his Monday night address,
New York’s junior senator
defended his proposal to enact a
resolution requiring all U.S.
troops to be out of Vietnam by
December 1, 1970. Goodell
pointed out that with South and
North Vietnam fairly equal in
population and resources, the
South could fight, without U.S.
manpower, if it had a strong will
and a broadly based government.

Goodell pledged, “As long as I
am in the Senate, I will do
everything in may power to bring
Vietnam to where it started, not
reduce, but eliminate bloodshed
and slaughter of American men.”
While he commended President
Nixon for reversing the trend of
the war, Goodell said that the
Nixon de-escalation was
“agonizingly slow.” The Senator
called Vietnam, the “wrong war,
in the wrong place, at the wrong
time.”

Restoration of Congressional
responsibilities was also
recommended. According to
Goodell, Congress should move to
share in the de-escalation
program, more strongly
reasserting its authority to
translate the voice of the people
into government policy.

Concerning domestic issues,
Goodell advocated increased
expenditures for welfare and
education, plus broadened
programs for narcotics
rehabilitation, prison reform, and
aid to localities. He claimed that
the U.S. has the most regressive
correctional svstem in the western

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ittee studied the question 1. PROPOS one
SRremh most. of 1968/69, Beginning in the fall term, 1969, Hance fmeeting will be held Tuesday at Mr. Horace Holidy, one of the

investigating a number of plans
for change. They canvassed
faculty opinion on this campus
and others, including directors of
graduate schools. On May 26 the
Committee recommended in a
five-page report to the
Undergraduate Academic Council
a ‘mixed’ H-S-U system, to which
the Council added a
recommendation for field
examinations. It was this plan
which the Senate was finally
unwilling to adopt at the end of
the year. Still, the year’s work
amounted to a virtual mandate for
change.

It is clear that during 1968/69 a
great deal of attention was given
to the grading problem by many
members of the University
community, and valuable reports
had resulted. The summer ad hoc
Committee on grading was
expected to work primarily from
these reports and supporting
documents, not to look for fresh
data unless it was clearly useful
and veadily acquired; to develop
recommendations for the Senate
to act upon; and to furnish th:
necessary information and
rationale.

all grades for freshmen students
be submitted to the Registrar as
sacisfactory or no-credit.
work is that quality of academic
performance which the institution
expects from its students in order
to earn an undergraduate degree.
‘The mark of no-credit means that
a student has not provided the
instructor with evidence which
would justify the grade of
satisfactory.

Beginning in the fall term, 1970,
such grading shall be used for all
freshmen and sophomores.

The new grading system shall be
under continuing observation and
review by the Academic Standing
Committee of the Undergraduate
Academic Council, which shall
interpret the system, report on its
operation, and recommend
changes as appropriate .

The system shall be in effect until
June, 1973.

Editor's note: the remaining
three sections of the report will
appear in subsequent issues of the
paper.

Refrigerator rentals

initiated at

by Dave Peck

“Rent a refrigerator for $45?
For that price I could hire a
cook!”

These were typical reactions to
the news that this-year, for the
firct time ever, University students
would be allowed to rent a
refrigerator. Over 300 units have
been installed, which means that
about 1500 students will be using
one in their suite. The
refrigerators are manuafactured
by Norcold Inc. of Ohio.

In the past, students were not
allowed to keep refrigerators in
their room. This was because
many of the units were old and
had dangerous wiring or used

SUNYA

ozone gas, a poison. Because so
many students wanted
refrigerators the administration
and representatives of the student
body designed this new policy.

The cost of renting a Norcold is
$45 plus $15 deposit which is
refunded when the unit is
returned in ‘‘satisfactory”
condition, The $45 provides
$4.50 for electricity, $1 for the
administrative charge of records,
contract printing, etc., $3 for
delivery, repairs and cleaning, and
$36.50 to Norcold. If you would
like to rent a unit contact the
On-Campus Housing Office
located in Fulton Hall.

CLASSIFIFDS

Classified Ads may be
submitted at the Campus
Center Information Desk in
care of the ASP;

Classifieds will appear every
Friday.

Please include your name,
address and telephone number

with the ad.

Each word is 5 cents, the
minimum price being 15 cents.

67 COUGAR 3-speed, Vinyl
top, like new. Call 472-6689
before 4:00.

SANDY—681895, Please get in
touch. Barry 457-8743.

FOR SALE 1965 Corvair Good
Cond. Call Tom 482-5318

TYPING—Will do typing.
Theses, (some) term papers. Call
Susan Molloy 489-1989.

Learn Guitar at Last! Call Sue
457-4737.

FOR SALE: Stereo—FM
Stereo-AM radio Combination.
6 speakers and headphones.
Year old. Best offer over $200.
Call 434-2444 to experience the
system. Keep trying, and ask for
John.

|
LOST: In Campwe’ Center,
College Class xing. VERY
important, personal value only.
Reward. Cail 438-6308.

INSTRUCTIONS in Sitar
(Indian musical instrument).
Call 462-1804.

Any HILLEL members willing
to usher at a benefit children’s
theater party on Friday October
3, 12:30-3:30 pm please call
Perle, 7-8815

SATURDAY

Please be prepared to bring a
list. of your officers and their
addresses and phone numbers and
a list of the supplies that will be
needed for this year to the
meeting tommorrow at 10:30 in
SS 134. (to Student Association
treasurers)

The Albany Jewish Youth
Council of the Albany Jewish
Community Center, Hillel Society
of State University and Temple
Israel are co-sponsoring a
“*‘Demonstration of Faith in
sympathy with the plight of the
Jews of the Soviet Union, which
will be held on the lawn of
Temple Israel on Simhat Torah
night, Saturday, October 4th;
after services are concluded.

Recognizing this situation, last
year the Soviet Jewry Committee
of the Albany Jewish Youth
Council and Temple Israel
organized the first Demonstration
which attracted hundreds of Jews.
Again this year a Torah will be
brought out and spontaneous
singing and dancing will take place
on the lawns of the Temple.

MONDAY

Israeli folk dancing, Monday
night, 8:30 in the Dance Studio of
the Physical Education Building,
sponsored by Hillel.

Student Mobilization
Committee to End the War,
Monday, Oct. 6, 7:30, LC 1. To
discuss activities planned for Oct.
15 and Nov. 15. All people
planning to participate should
attend.

TUESDAY

Downtown students: get
involved against the Vietnam war.

NOTICE

Many of you have come into the
Student Insurance Office for your
insurance identification cards. We
are sorry that they are not
available, as yet, We are waiting
for the computer lists to arrive,
and then we will be able to issue
them. Please be patient...and as
sodm as they are ready, we will
place a notice in the ASP.
However, this should not stop you
from coming into the office with
any of your health insurance
problems. We are here to help
you. Thank you all for being so
nice!

Student Insurance Office
Campus Center
Room 361

(between linen lounges), The Oct.
15 moratorium and November
14-15 strike and march on
Washington will be discussed.

Demonstration for the Silent
Russian Jews, in front of the
Palace Theater, Tues., Oct. 7.
Leave Administration Circle 7:30
p.m.

Roderick Chisholm, Professor
of Philosophy at Brown
University, will be at SUNYA on
Tuesday, October 7th. He will
hold a discussion with Zetetiks
(Philosophy Club) members,
Philosophy majors and graduate
students in Philosophy at 10:00
a.m, in CC 370.

Professor Chisholm will deliver
an All-University lecture entitled
FREE WILL AND
DETERMINISM at 3:00 p.m, in
LC 23.

Art Council will sponsor a
lecture by Mr, Kirk Newman,
whose bronze works are now on
exhibit in the Art Gallery, at 8:30
P.M., Tuesday, October 7, in Fine
Arts 319, Tuesday afternoon
there will be a reception for Mr.
Newman in the Gallery at 4:00
PM.

The young Peoples Socialist
League (YPSL) will hold its first
meeting on Tues, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m.
The location will soon be posted.
Those interested in the
Democratic-Socialism of Norman
Thomas, Michael Harrington, and
Bayard Rustin are urged to
attend. For further information
contact Dave Kupilow 457-7926.

WEDNESDAY

1st meeting of SUNY Fencing
Society will be held Wed. evening
October 8, 1969 7:30-9:00 in the
Dance Studio, Physical Education
Building. No experience is
necessary. Practice and instruction
available to all university people.
For additional information call
Jackie 355-4267.

Interest meeting for all those
who want to work on TORCH
70. Wed. October 8 at 7:30 in
Campus Center, room to be
announced

personaly bodyguards of the late
Malcolm X, will address interested
students and faculty on the
MYTHS OF MALCOLM X. He
will discuss such issues as Malcolm
X and his “so-called” change, his
evolution as a black man, a
revolutionist and Black
Nationalist Freedom Fighter. He
will speak at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m, on
Wed. Oct. 8 in LC 18.

Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish
National Honorary, cordially
invites all students of Spanish and
all interested faculty members to
a Coffee Hour on Wednesday,
October 8, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
to be held in the Art Gallery, Fine
Arts building.

This will be an opportunity to
become acquainted with the
group and to submit your name
for the Fall 1969 induction.

Appropriation

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itself and this University to
substantial liability in the event of
serious injury or death of students
participating in the protest march.

In conclusion, he specifically
stated: “I feel that the suggested
use of Association funds (for
renting the buses) would be
improper and illegal.

Mr. Kimberly supporting the
contention that the trip would be
illegal, quoted Section 302.14 of
the Rules and Regulations of the
State of New York: “Manditory
student activity fees for the
support of programs of an
educational cultural, recreational,
and social nature may be
approved by an organization duly
elected by. and_ representative .of
the student body.” In this
statement there is no mention of
use of student tax funds for
religious, moral, or political
purposes,

Bob Iseman brought up the
principle that the bill for the
appropriation might be in conflict
with a section of the bylaws of
the Student Association that
states that political groups on
campus cannot be funded with
student tax money. The chair
ruled against this interpretation
and left further action on it up to
the discretion of the Supreme
Court.

Graduate Record Exam

registration

Educational Testing Service has

announcea that undergraduates and
others preparing to go to graduate
school may take the Graduate
Record Examinations on any of
six different test dates during the
current academic year,

The first testing date for the
GRE is October 25, 1969. Scores
from this administration will be
reported to the graduate schools
before December 1.

Students planning to register

now open

for the October test date are
advised that applications received
by ETS after October 7 will incur
a $3.00 late registration fee, After
October 10, there is no guarantee
that applications for the October
test date can be processed.

The other five test dates are
December 13, 1969; January 17,
February 28, April 25 and July
11, 1970. Scores are usually
reported to graduate schools five
weeks after a test date.

THE CLASS OF 1972 SPONSORS A NIGHT OF

FOAM AND FIRE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 8:30 P.M. MOHAWK CAMPUS
BEER, FOOD, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
BUS TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE

TICKETS ON SALE IN CAMPUS CENTER

SOPHOMORES—BUY TICKETS OCT 3&4

ALL UNIVERSITY—BUY

TICKETS OCT 6&7

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

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FOR THE EIGHTH TIME Mayor Erastus Corning officially began
his campaign for re-election Wednesday night.

Irregularities mar
Who’s Who election

On Wednesday, October 1,
there was an irregularity in the
Who’s Who Election. It was noted
at about 10:25, twenty five
minutes after the polls opened,
that a name was omitted from the
ballot. The polls were then closed
immediately, handwritten signs
were then made and posted in the
lobby stating that polls were
closed and that all those who had
voted between 10 and 10:25
would have to vote again and Miss
Buchalter a member of Student
Activities Staff was informed.
After confirming that the name
was omitted a new stencil was
made up in Mr. Brown’s office
which included the omitted name.
In the presence of Miss Buchalter,
Chuck Ribak, interim ass’t
commissioner and Sandy
Kleinman, interim commissioner.
All ballots except those already
voted ‘upénWére’ run through the
mimeo machine blacking out all
the names on the official ballot.
On the other side of the ballot a
correct slate of nominees was
printed with the same directions
as required by the Election Bill
and ‘Who’s Who American
Colleges and Universities’ official
ballot printed on it.

Each ballot had VOID and the
initials of the election worker
written on the black side of each
ballot as a further check to assure
that only the corrected side of the
ballot would be used. All ballots
that were found not to be
blacked out or the corrected list
not printed, were pulled out,
voided and locked up in the S.A.
office. Also 15 acceptable ballots
were VOIDED and locked up in
SA Office in accordance with
Election Bill.

The two election boxes in use
at the time of the irregularity
were opened in the presence of
Miss Buchalter, Sandy Kleinman
and Chuck Ribak. All ballots were
put into one box which was then
locked again and brought to the
S.A. office. There were ballots
cast at this time,

The number on the student tax
card for the election was changed

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from 1 to 26. The polls were not
opened until every ballot was
blacked out, reprinted, voided and
initialed. The polls reopened at
about 12:20. A list was kept of
the number of people who
revoted.

Attempts were made to inform
‘the student body of the need to
‘ revote in the following ways: a
= memo was sent to all directors
\and resedent assistants to ask that
they inform the people in their
dormitories; and posters were
hung on the podium, quadrangles
and in the Campus Center
announcing the need to revote.

Since the polls were closed for
two hours, the polls remained
open from 5-6 on Wednesday and
Thursday nights.

All absentee ballots sent to
off-campus student teachers were
checked and found to becorrect .

Student

radical

struggles

through mayoral campaign

by Neill Shanahan

The problems of a student
radical engaged in “big time”
politics were made clear Tuesday
as Bill O’Kain, Young Socialist
Alliance candidate for mayor,
discussed his campaign.

“The big parties ignore me
except when I confront them face
to face,”

Saturday, Sept 28 at a campus
center appearance by Albert
Hartheimer, Bill O’Kain
confronted his Republican
opponent. O’Kain’s challenge for
a face-to-face debate was turned
down, Similar notes to Mayor
Corning have gone unanswered.

O’Kain, while ignored
publically, claims he has hardly
been left to his own privately.

“We've had some harassment
by the Board of Elections and
Police,” he said cooly.

“The police came to our
apartment twice at 7:00 a.m,
Once they told my roommate he
could vote, and the next time
they told him he couldn’t.”

“Repeatedly my mail has been
opened,” he said, “When it first
started happening in 1965, I was
corresponding with SDS. It has
continued to the point that
manilla folders from the YSA
Office in New York have now
come with the tape ripped apart.
Our organization has been
harassed throughout the United
States.”

O’Kain was referring to the
Young Socialist Alliance, the
youth organization allied with
The Socialist Workers Party and
with other socialist groups around

Alumni Quad supports
antiwar protest move

by Nancy Zollus

The pulsing issue of the
Vietnam War found itself at
Alumni Quad Wednesday night.
About 75 residents met to discuss
the October 15 moratorium and
the November 15 March on
Washington. They discussed the
most effective way they could
make both events successful.

The downtown campus finds
itself separated from the main
campus both geographically and
spititually. Consequently Alumni
Quad residents feel they could
work separately but in
conjunction with similar uptown
organizations.

Both the Moratorium and the
March on Washington, nationally
supported, are being promoted by
several Albany groups.
Coordinating the SUNYA and
nationwide campus movements
has been the Student Mobilization
Committee.

Michael Avon, originator of the

Alumni Quad meeting, was quick
to inform the residents that this
movement is not a political one
but a moral one. He told the
students, “As long as you can’t
stand killing you belong here.”

Mark Bergman, another Alumni
Quad resident, explained that the
conceived plan of the Moratorium
originators was to set aside one
day in October, two in November,
and continue progressively until
the Vietnam War was over. The
plan envisions that on these days
the students would stay away
from classes and workers would
stay away from jobs, and use the
day informing city residents of
their position concerning this
‘immoral’ war.

The SUNYA Faculty Senate
has left the decision whether to
hold classes on October 15 up to
the discretion of each instructor.

Beyond the Moratorium, tne
Alumni Quad expects to be a part
of the November 15 March.

NOTICE

Buses Are Now Leaving For
The MOHAWK CAMPUS from
Administration Circle

Sat. 12:30 Returning 5:00
Sun, 1:00 Returning 5:00
(8.25 round trip)
Boating, picnicking, and
canoeing are available during
these hours.
Horseback
arrangement,
Call 6709 or 6733.

riding by

lgAs

SENIORS —

who have not had their

yearbook picture taken

photographs will be Oct. 13.

Sign up in C.C. Lobby

the world.

Born in Philadelphia, O’Kain is
a 1968 transfer from Villanova.
As a major in economics, he
became dissatisfied with the
bourgeois ° economies that they
teach you in school.” Undecided
whether to turn to the right wing
or left, he undertook a diverse
reading program that included
both William Buckley and Karl
Marx. In time he identified most
with Trotsky, and now describes
himself and the party as
Trotskyist.

O’Kain paints the political and
social scene in Albany as “very
bad, very poor.”

“The Albany machine is not
quite as subtle as other cities and
the courts are racist-remember
Sam McDowell.”

Sam McDowell is a black who
was sentencerito three years in jail
for allegedly assaulting a police
office-many claim after racial
slurs were hurled at him by the
police.)

“The South Mall project,” he
continues, “is unjust. It’s a
multi-million dollar complex
going up right next to a slum.
Many people lost their
homes-when it should be FOR the
people. And the planning has been
stupid too -- the Motor Vehicle
Building will not be big enough to
hold all the offices that it should.

O’Kain pointed out that
off-campus Albany State students
also bear the brunt of the city’s
iniquities,

“Students pay exorbitant rents
mostly for poor living conditions,
You have to pay up your ass for a

" decent apartment.”

But the concerns of the
candidate and the party go
beyond the immediate campaign.
O'Kain spends much of his free
time in the Campus Center lobby
soliciting support for the Student
Mobilization against the War.

Moreover, he sees the war: as
something “America has to do -
chase around the world for
markets and cheap labor.” He
continued,‘ you find this in every
capitalist society, exploitation and
imperialist war.”

O‘Kain pointed out that the
University maintains connections
with the defense establishemtn
that is conducting the war.

“Albany State has a contract
with the Department of Defense
for ROTSY. We don’t know how
much money is involved and it is
impossible to tell the implications
because nobody talks, nobody
comes out and say what is
happening. You've got to dig.”

The Socialist candidate
indicated that he will continue to
dig for a long time to come.

“As of right now,there:s no end
to the struggle. Radical politics
will involve quite a bit of my
life,” he promised.

O’Kain
for mayor!
.-hochberg

Goodell advocates reforms

continued from page 1
world.

As parts of a solution to these
problems, revenue sharing (for
localities), federal assumption of
most of the welfare burden, and

less strict marijuana laws were
among his suggestions... The
senator stated that reform of our
narcotics programs and
rehabilitation of addicts should be
among our highest priorities,

Senator Goodell, (who was
appointed to fill the vacancy left
by Robert Kennedy’s
assasination), will be seeking
re-election to the U.S. Senate in
1970. His independent positions
(including support of Mayor
Lindsay over Republican
candidate Marchi) have somewhat

alienated Nixon, Governor
Rockefeller and many other
Republicans.

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

THE COLWELL-WINFIELD BLUES BAND share the bill with The
Butterfield Blues Band at tonight’s concert, “Blues Bag 69.”

24 bronze

sculptures

displayed at gallery

Twenty-four small bronzes by
Kirk Newman will be exhibited in
the Art Gallery at State University
of New York at Albany through
October 19.

Mr. Newman’s sculpture, both
bas relief and in-the-round, plays
on the paradox of
commemorating that which is
transitory in bronze, the
traditional material of
pe-nanence. Many of his subjects
are super-ordinary men and
women caught in a moment of
inconsequential gesture. There is a
look of the commemorative

bronze in some pieces, but the
subject's suit is rumpled. They
are, in a sense, 20th Century
Rogers groups with existentialist
overtones,

The artist, who now teaches at
the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts,
was born in Texas but has spent
the major part of his artistic
career exhibiting and teaching in
the Midwest. His work is in many
public and private collections
throughout the United States, He
is represented by La Boetie
Gallery in New York City.

THE EVOLUTION OF CINEMA

by Tom Quigley

Haskell Wexler’s MEDIUM
COOL demonstrates the
vivisectional force of cinema
verite as it slashes through the
horrifying events of Chicago
1968 with murderous accuracy.
The eminent cinematographer’s
prodigious film, his first as a
director, casts an ambivalent eye
upon the environmental catalysts
that preceded the spontaneous
violence in Daleyland during the
Democratic Convention.

Within the framework of a
nebulous melodrama, Wexler
denounces the impersonal “caste”
system that creates polarity
between the sensibilities of black
and white experience, through the
social isolation of races. More
than this however, Wexler accuses
the mass media of instigating and
supplementing the confusion and
dissatisfaction of the ideological
opponents who clashed in the
August heat. The bitterness and
degradation of mankind becomes
the startling denouement behind
the immediacy of Wexler’s
socio-documentary.

Wexler’s anti-hero is a television
news cameraman who records
daily events with incredible
emotionless detachment. He
conducts his private life with the
same brand of organized apathy
until he encounters a newly
emigrated, fatherless Appalachian
family, consisting of a mother and
son on the dole. His concept of
social priorities is radically
transformed when confronted
with the mundane realities of
poverty and human anguish.

Using the man’s previous
emotional attitudes and his final
existential awakening as a
unifying theme, Wexler reduces
the macrocosm of bias to a unique
American malaise. One faction of
society is acutely aware and
dedicated to the eradication of
our social problems while the
other chooses to ignore the
suffering about them.

TIRED OF ALBANY POLITICS
Have. you lived off campus
since Aug. 4?

Then you can vote for the man who will start
Albany in the right direction again

Register on Oct. 4 (10-8)

See Students for Hartheimer booth or
call 463-3116 (Board of Elections) for your polling place

Vote for Al Hartheimer

Wexler rebukes the
brutalization of mankind by the
impervious, _ power-grabbing,
established order while lambasting
the communications media for its
relentless coverage of national ills
with frigid objectivity, thus the
“cool” media of the title. For
example, the unconcerned lens of
the news camera lingers upon the
muddy unrest of Resurrection
City with singular indifference as
well as capturing and contrasting
the “happy days are here again”
nonsense of the convention floor
with the strong, armed police
state reality of the streets.

Wexler gives us a concise view
of our illness; news coverage is an
accurate mirror image of this
society’s preoccupation with
visual violence and misery so long
as it remains painlessly factual, so
long as it never involves the
“viewer.” News coverage is devoid
of any true empathy, thus
reducing its impact on our
emotional senses. We, as living
room spectators cannot feel the
pain of being billy-clubbed into
submission for our political
beliefs; we cannot experience the
revulsion of poverty nor
understand the wrath of black
militancy, bred by the disease of
social mobility, by watching an
inept television news “analysis.”
No matter where our sympathies
lie, we cannot understand or care
unless we've experienced the
involvement of interpersonal
relationship.

Wexler’s sobering focal length
accomplishes the nearly
impossible fusion of empathy and
reality, implying the
McLuhanesque terminology that

we, the audience, are no longer
spectators but actors, assuming
the roles of intrinsic entities in the
dramatic events of our era. We
become instantly aware of the
terrifying machinery of tactics of
the national guard and police as
Wexler depicts the arrogance of
absolute control. He fills us with a
sense of dreadful loss, as the
idealism of Robert Kennedy and

Martin Luther King is
assassinated, His melodramatic
subplot demonstrates the

disturbing emasculation process of
urban oligarchies which threaten
the basic social unity, the family,
with destruction, These are
powerful and difficult subjects to
evaluate with any amount of truth
but the Wexler project sueceeds
with succient brilliance,

Two years ago, the semantical
erudition of Edward Albee,
combined with the emerging
genius of Mike Nichols, gave us
VIRGINIA WOOLF. The
cinematographer for that desolate
black and white film was Haskell

Wexler. His ample technical
experience has understandibly
culminated in the intellectual

virtuosity of MEDIUM COOL.
Wexler is a commercially reared
technician by trade, but on the
other hand a dedicated,
revolutionary film maker who
works inside the industry, proving
you don’t have to go underground
to beat the moguls.

No one can predict the state of
cinema ten years from now, but
only through the observant eyes
of the Haskell Wexler’s will the
American film survive its present
mediocre position to become
America’s sublime contribution to
the culture of the ciyilized world.

Pop, folk performers
sought for annual IMF

The search is on for the
nation’s most talented collegiate
pop and folk performers! The
Budweiser-sponsored
Intercollegiate Music Festival
swings into its fourth year of
national competition with
emphasis on pop and folk music
and a new lineup of regional
competitions.

The Festival is open to
vocalists, vocal groups and
instrumental groups from U.S.

colleges and universities,

Taped performances are judged
to select finalists to compete at
six regional events. Regional
action gets under way on
February 27-28 at the University
of South Florida in Tampa.
Villanova University follows with
its tenth annual

music
competition on March 6-7 on
their Villanova, Pennsylvania
campus.

The Texas Intercollegiate Music
Festival will be held on April
10-11 at the University of Texas

in Austin and April 18-19 have
been set as the dates of the
Southern Illinois University
competition in Edwardsville.
Dates for the regionals at the
University of Colorado and UCLA
are currently being established.

Regional champions will be
flown to the Intercollegiate Music
Festival finals on August 6,7,8 to
battle for national championships.
The winners of the 1970
Intercollegiate Music Festival will
compete against Canadian
national champions in Toronto
for the North American College
Music Championships.

More than 5,000 news media
cover the Festival events. A
worldwide radio audience of more
than 150 million people witnessed
the 1969 competition last year.

Entries for the 1970
Intercollegiate Music Festival
close on January 15, 1970. Entry
forms may be secured by writing:
IMF, P.O. Box 1275, Leesburg,
Florida 32748.

AUDITIONS FOR:

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Sat. Oct. 4 Dutch Quad Flag Room

Sun. Oct. 5

C.C. Ballroom

10-1 P.M.

2-5 P.M.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

PAGE §

State Quad films
diverse in appeal

by Daryl Lynne Wager

Tower East Cinema, a
committee of the State Quad
Program Council, has published a
schedule of the films to be offered
during the current academic year.
Printed here in its entirety, the
schedule reflects Cinema Director
Phil Garvey’s intention, which is
“to select films so that there is
something for everybody.”

Now in its third year of
existence, Tower East Cinema has
begun its second year of fullscale
production, The Cinema is staffed
by members of the State Quad
Program Council, who are elected
annually as representatives of
their respective residence halls,
along with numerous volunteers
from the Quad.

This year’s films were selected
and ordered last spring and
it now remains the task of the
Cinema staff to serve as theater
managers, box office supervisors,
ticket takers and projectionists.

Tower East Cinema has
maintained financial stability
through the payment by State
Quad residents of $4.00 annual
dues, which carries with it the
advantage of seeing the films
for $.25. Last year’s Quad dues
paid for projectors and other
equipment necessary for the
operation of the Cinema, Any
profits made in the coming year
will be used to help sponsor free
films.

‘Blow-up’ was last year’s
greatest box office success. It is
expected that among this year’s
most popular attractions will be:
‘West Side Story,’ “The Charge of
the Light Brigade,’ ‘In the Heat of

the Night,’ ‘The Graduate,’
‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘The Odd
Couple,’ and ‘Bivira Madigan.’

Due to unusually high rental fees,
admission to the first three films
on the above list will be increased
to $1.00 general admission and
$.50. for State Quad residents.
Tower East obtains its films in
a variety of ways. Some film
companies, such as United Artists,
Warner Brothers and Columbia
Pictures, maintain a special 16mm.
division which supplies films as a
special service to colleges and

universities. Other films, such as
those produced by Twentieth
Century and Paramount, must be
obtained from various distributing
companies.

Limitations placed upon the
selection of films stem from the
inability of the Cinema to obtain
films that have been released less
than two years ago, Many highly
successful commercial films are
not released to colleges unless
they are out of circulation in
public theaters.

However, the greatest single
problem faced by the Tower East
Cinema is one that may have no
satisfactory solution, This arises
from the fact that Tower East
films are shown in the State Quad
Flag Room, which was designed
for anything but movie-viewing.

Since the International Film
Group holds its productions in the
better-equipped LC-18, and
because most residents of State
Quad would prefer to maintain
the convenience of being able to
view the films on their own quad,
it would seem that there is no
solution to the problem of
seating, which is limited to two
hundred, including standees. This
is compounded by the difficulty
of arranging seats so that one’s
view is not blocked by the
presence of the ceiling-to-floor
white columns.

Despite these handicaps, State
Quad has managed to secure a
wide range of films, a number of

which will be presented in
wide-screen cinemascope
Another innovation being

considered is the possibility of
arranging a Thursday night film
series, featuring W.C. Fields, Marx
Brothers and - Buster Keaton
comedies. Tower East Cinema
hopes to set up some type of
machinery for sounding out
student film suggestions, Some of
this year’s films, according to
Cinema Director Garvey, are last
year’s suggestions. Above all, he
emphasizes that Tower East is
open to suggestions: ‘“There’s
plenty of room for expansion,” he
said.

Supremes at Armory

by Alan Lasker

Appearing at the Washington
Avenue Armory on October 4th,
both at 5 p.m, and 9 p.m., will be
an extremely talented trio of
beautiful young girls. They
emerged from a Detroit ghetto to
be eventually proclaimed the top
female vocal group of the world.
Gleaming both in dress and
personality, the Supremes will
sing their way into the hearts of
the inhabitants of the tri-cities.

The original Supremes, Diana,
Mary and Florence, after singing
together at parties and church
gatherings, were urged by their
high school instructor to make a
career utilizing their talent. They
commenced by appearing on
amateur shows which eventually
led them to audition for the head
of Detroit Motown Records. Their
favorable showing resulted in a
recording contract in which their
Promoter endowed them with the
name Supremes and sent them on
thier way into a string of million
sellers.

Passionately desiring to be
uniquely herself, Diana Ross is
basically quiet, and particularly

Wants her hair styling, her
clothing, and her make-up to be
hers alone; if she discovers

another member of the trio owns
a dress similar to hers, she will not
wear it anymore. Her major
hobby, fashion designing, allows
her to aid in the designing of the

trio’s stage outfits.

Mary Wilson, the gorgeous and
sexy Supreme, enjoys reading
engrossing novels and creating
cooking sensations. Also a whiz at
picking up languages, she has
shocked many fans during foreign
appearances by addressing them in
their native tongue.

Cindy Birdsong, a former
member of the singing group
‘Bluebells,’ also enjoys dabbling in
the art of cooking.

Tickets for their concert are $4,
$5, and $6, and may be acquired
through the Ten Eyck Record
Store or purthased at the door.

Tower East Cinema schedule

4,5 IN COLD BLOOD . Ath-7 :30 & 10:00, 5th-8 :00
9,10,11,12 WESTSIDE STORY igs te esp lc neon 7:00 & 10:00
17,18 AFRICAN QUEEN
23,2425 THE GRADUATE 7:30 & 10:00
“HALLOWEEN FILMS— 7:00 &
31 THE BAT and THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 10-00
NOV 1 ‘THE RAVEN and THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM . . .7:00 & 10:06
~COMEDY WEEKEND-
7 THE BANK DICK=W.C. Fields -7:80 & 10:00
THE RINK=Charlie Chaplin .
WIFE AND AUTO TROUBLE=Keystone Kops
LEAVE EM LAUGHING=Laurel and Hardy
8 HORSE FEATHER=The Marx Brothers
THE CURE=Charlie Chaplin . .
THE DENTIST=W.C. Fields . . .
THE BOAT=Buster Keaton
14,15 ELVIRA MADIGAN ........
21,22 BAREFOOT IN THE PARK .
DEC 5,6 THE DIRTY DOZEN
12,13 CAT BALLOU (and a Keyston Kops short) . .
JAN 9,10 THE ODD COUPLE (and an old newsreel) 7:30 & 10:00

Happenings
in the arts

FILMS:
--On Campus--

ALL THE WOMEN (IFG) Fri.,
7 p.m., LC-18.

IN COLD BLOOD Sat., 7:30
p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 8 p.m.,
State Quad Flag Room.
--Off Campus--

LAST SUMMER
Theater, Albany.

CRAZY WORLD OF LAUREL
AND HARDY, THE BEST OF

-Hellman

W.C. FIELDS, FRACTURED
FLICKERS-- Madison Theater,
Albany.

THE RAIN PEOPLE and
FOLLOW ME--Strand Theater,
Albany.

THE BEST HOUSE IN
LONDON--Delaware Theater,
Albany.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY-State
Theater, Schenectady.

A MAN AND A WOMAN and
BELLE DE JOUR-Proctor’s
Theater, Schenectady.

THE COVES
ISADORACinema Art
Troy.

EASY RIDER--Fox Theater,
Colonie.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE
SUNDANCE KID--Center
Theater, Colonie.

Music

OF
Theater,

~-On Campus--

BLUES BAG ‘69 with the
BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND
and the COLWELL-WINFIELD
BLUES BAND. Fri., 8:30 p.m.,
SUNYA Gym.

--Off Campus--
DIANA ROSS AND THE

SUPREMES--Albany Armory, Sat.
at 5 p.m. & 9 p.m.

PCA OPE GE RE M1 A
(Guitarist-singer)--Cafe Lena,
Saratoga. Fri., Sat., Sun., 8:30
p.m.

BLUES FESTIVAL AND ART
SHOW--Jr. College of Albany,
Sun., 4 p.m.

FEB
6-7
13-14
20-21
27-28

MAR
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13-14
19-22
APR
10-11
17-18
23-26
MAY
1-2
8-9
15-16
22-23

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Danes Lose To Oneonta;

Meet

The Albany State varsity soccer
team dropped its first game of the
current campaign this past
Wednesday when they wound up
on the short end of a 2-0 score
against Oneonta.

Last week, Coach Schiefflin
predicted a very tight game--that’s
just how it turned out. The first
half ended in a scoreless tie. Both
teams had opportunities to score
but could not take advantage of
them. The defensive efforts on
each side were superlative with
State goalie Terry Jordan and
fullbacks Joel Volinski and Steve
Backus the standouts for Albany.

In the third period however,
Oneonta broke the ice.
Attackman Rick Pozsar snuck
through and projected the ball
past Jordan into the Albany net.
The Danes did not give up trying
though as two of their shots hit
the posts of the Oneonta goal and
a third, due to the backspin on
the ball bounce out after hitting
the goal line.

Oneonta’s second goal came as
a result of a grave detensive

Baby Danes
Edge ACC

by Bob Familant

The Albany Jr. Varsity Cross
Country team, off to a good start,
defeated Adirondac Community
College Thursday by the
comfortable margin of eleven
pints, 22-33, The meet, held
under adverse weather conditions
took place at Adirondac. The
losers’ Jan Miller placed first in
the event with a time of 25:33.
State’s John Stanton placed
second a mere thirteen seconds
off the pace. State’a runners also
finished. Second, third, fourth,

sixth, seventh, and eleventh
finishers were Larry Roberts,
John Comerford, Jim Waters,

Rene Hebert and John Fairhall
respectively. Both John Fairhall
and Jim Waters showed
improvement in their fine finishes,
The distance for the event was 4
2/10 miles, All six runners have
earned the right to represent State
at the LeMoyne Invitational this
Saturday.

In the Varsity ranks both
Dennis Hackett and Pat Gepfert
appear to have an excellent
chance at LeMoyne. Gepfert
finished eighth there last year and
is looking forward to doing even
better this year. Although State
lacks the depth of its opponents
Coach Bob Munsey hopes to
finish among the top seven out of
over twenty teams competing.

mistake by the Danes. One of the
State defensemen attempted to
kick the ball back to Jordan in the
goal so that the latter might clear
it. Jordan, however, was not
expecting this maneuver and
consequently made a vain effort
to stop it as it skittered past him
into the goal.

Looking ahead to Saturday,
Coach Schiefflin expects to break
into the win column against
Harpur, the game being played in
Binghamton. There was
speculation to the effect that the

Frosh Eligible For All Sports

As is the case with many
colleges and universities this fall,
State University at Albany will
have a realligned intercollegiate
sports program for 1969-70. The
reason for the changes is the new
freshman eligibility rule passed by
the Eastern College Athletic
Conference (ECAC) in February.

Previously, freshmen could
compete on varsity teams only in
schools with a male enrollment
under a designated figure. Now, in
all sports except football,
basketball, and hockey, freshmen
may play at the varsity level if the
college and coach decide to
institute such a policy.

At Albany, which currently
doesn’t field teams in football or
hockey, freshmen will be eligible
for all varsity teams except
basketball. Another change
resulting from the ruling will be

SPORTS

The varsity cross-country team,
3-2 in dual meets, will be in
Syracuse Saturday (October 4) for
the annual LeMoyne Invitational,
Junior Pat Gepfert(Colonie) and
sophomore Dennis Hackett
(Hilton) tied for first in Albany’s
double-dual win over Potsdam and
Plattsburgh (25-44-63) September
27. Encouraging to coach Bob
Munsey was the improvement of
the third through fifth Albany
runners, senior Tom Mills
(Baldwin), junior Orville Eacker
(Dolgeville), and senior Larry
Franks (Smyrna).
Breer

Albany will sponsor a wrestling
clinic on campus November 15.
High school coaches and wrestlers
are invited to attend and bring
gear for workouts. The guest
instructor will be Penn State
wrestling coach Bill Koll. There
will be morning and afternoon
sessions. Details will be
announced shortly.

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while you work for Al

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Come any time
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Harpur Saturday

Danes would shift their usual
3-3-4 alignment to a 4-2-4 to add
more scoring punch. Schiefflin
discounted this immediately,
however, saying that the team will
begin to score when the
attackmen begin to do the job
that they are capable of doing.
The coach describes the team’s
present status like this: “Right
now, we're sitting right in the
middle of a powder keg, waiting
for the fuse to ignite it.” He
believes that come Saturday,
everything will blow sky high.

the replacement of freshman
teams with junior varsity squads,
for which those players cut from
the varsity will be eligible.
Exceptions will be basketball,
which will continue to utilize a
freshman team; and wrestling,
swimming, and lacrosse, which
will not field sub-varsity teams in
1969-70, due to inadequate
manpower. JV teams may be
added in these three sports in the
future.

The university will offer varsity
¢ ompetition in 10 sports this
year, most ever at Albany, In
addition to soccer, cross country,
basketball, wrestling, baseball,
tennis, track and field, and gold,
which held varsity status last year;
lacrosse and swimming will
advance from club to varsity
standing during 1969-70.

SHORTS

‘Track and cross-country coach
Bob Munsey is “tickled to death”
at Albany’s acceptance into the
Intercollegiate Association of
Amateur Athletes of America
(IC4A). The association, which
sponsors cross-country, indoor
and outdoor track meets, is the
oldest track and field association
in the United States. The
85-member organization, which
includes many of the top track
powers, is in its 93rd year.

SRE

There will be a fall intramural
golf tournament on Friday Oct.
17. There will be prizes for the
individual winner and the three
man team champion.For further
information and registration, call
Cliff Draper 457-7963.

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Albany defense thwarts Oneonta scot

BOUND

_ by Dave Fink

One of the basic necessities of any society, of any instance when
conflicting forces act against each other, is a peacemaker, an
arbitrator, a judge. Unfortunately, not every one of these people
called on to make decisions have the wisdom of a Solomon.

This fact may be clearly seen when viewing intramural sports at
Albany. Officiating at football games is at times, very poor. It can be
improved to an extent yet from this point on, the fallibility of the
human mind takes hold.

As far as improvement goes, in some instances, the officials simply
do not know the rujes.. In a League II contest played last Saturday,
the referee repeatedly dropped his penalty flag and blew his whistle
whenever there was movement on the offensive line. The rule clearly
states, however, that unless contact is made, the play should be run
thus giving the defensive team the option of accepting the penalty or
the play. This type of ineptitude may be corrected.

Now, however, we are faced with the chance of human error. This,
too, was exemplified in last weeks EEP-KB League I encounter. Potter
Club had possession of the ball on Kappa Beta’s twenty yeard line.
The receiver on the play, was interfered with yet, immediately after,
managed to catch the ball for a touchdown. However, upon the
interference, the referee immediately’ blew the play dead. It was a
mistake but it was not due to ignorance of the rule but was rather a
teflex action (the blowing of the whistle).

The point trying to be made is that since the referee’s knowledge of
the rules is a basic prerequisite, lack of this knowledge, indeed, cannot
be tolerated. One must however accept certain mistakes even in the
case of college and professional referees. In this year’s Orange Bowl,
officials let the Penn State University run two offensive plays with
twelve men on the field. In the Los Angeles Ram-Chicago Bear
encounter last year, officials, due to a mix up, gave the Rams only
three downs in a series crucial to the game. If men who have made
this their profession can make such mistakes, than surely we can
understand infractions made by our intramural referees who, indeed,
deserve thanks for officiating. Everyone wants to play, but noone
wants to make the decisions. The Intramural office is attempting to
groom better referees. For the duration unless players would care to
officiate in their spare time, they should attempt to understand that
these people are trying to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.

APA Scores Over KB, 6-0
STB Trounces Johnson, 16-0

Kappa Beta met APA this past
week in a clash of two of League
I’s_ prennial powerhouses. KB
entered the game with a record of
one and no losses while APA’s
record stood at one tie.

KB won the toss but decided
against receiving choosing rather
to have the wind to their backs as
it would probably be a deciding
factor in the ballgame. KB held
and forced an APA punt which
went out of bounds of the APA
15 yard line (Yes, it was a bad
punt). KB took over and after
failing to move the ball on both
first and second down, advanced
it to the APA two yard line on a
pass from quarterback Eliot

Nirenberg to split end Al Margison in the end zone for the
Zaremba, On fourth down, KB score, The extra point was
attempted a field goal but it was blocked and so APA led 6-0.

no good. APA took over on its The second half was

twenty yard line but could not
move the ball. Late in the firs half
however, APA due to fine
protection from its offensive line
moved down field on a steady

characterized by both teams not
being able to mount a sustained
attack.

In Monday’s League I game,
STB downed Johnson Hall by a

drive. Split end Rich Margison
dropped a pass on the KB two
yard line though and KB’s Al
Cassier intercepted. APA’s next
pass. KB was unable to advane e
the ball however and tried a quick
kick on third down, It was a poor
kick and hence gave APA fine
field position which they
immediatel took advantage of as
quarterback Mike Barlotta hit

score of 16-0. STB was able to
move the ball almost at will on
finely coordinated end sweeps and
fine passing by quarterback Tom
Brenner. STB scored on a pass
from Brenner to end Mike Pavy
and an end sweep by the former.
‘The last two points were added on
a safety when the Johnson Hall
quarterback was trapped behind
the line of'scrimmage.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

PAGE 7

The Good Student

by The Good Student

Communications

There seems to be some confusion over exactly what occured at the
Central Council meeting of September 25. The basic question is just
what does censuring the President of Central Council mean in real,
that is, political, terms?

First of all, it should be understood that a vote of censure is simply
a stern slap on the wrists coupled with an angry warning not to do it
again. This differentiates it from a rebuke, which is simply a stern
slap.

The contention that I am about to raise is one that will surely be
disputed by members of the student government, but these same
people, in addition to being government leaders and office holders are
also, quite obviously, politicians.

Politicians can be divided into three broad, hazy categories: liberals,
moderates, and conservatives. Obviously, these lables are determined
by the stands assumed by the individual student-politicians on the
various government.

The following definitions, quite clearly, are mine and mine alone,
and they are drawn entirely from my rich mine of prejudices and
Political biases. But, I should also add, I believe my views to be quite
definitely more realistic than those views which would simply insist
that such categorizing is impossible and impractical.

The conservative in student government is defined as he or she who,
before stating an opinion, first asks the administration and his friends
or fraternity (that may also read her friends or sorority) what they
think. Inevitably friends, etc., have no opinion and the good
conservative winds up being an administration stooge.

The moderate in student government is defined as he or she who is
in a perpetual stzte of confusion and occasionally abstains to prove his
or her honesty.

The liberal in student government is defined as he or she who has a
cause. It is always the right cause, the good cause, the only cause and
woe to the student who does not weep, fight, and breath for the
cause, There is only one way to vote and that is the liberal way. There
is only one side to every issue, and the good liberal determined to die
for his or her belief. The liberals always stick together because there is
strength in numbers when you're fighting everybody.

On September 25, the liberals decided to censure the President of
Central Council and the conservatives decided to stop them, (As usual,
the moderates were in the middle with no opinion at all). The liberals

won, the conservatives lost, and the President of Central Council was
censured.

President Terry Mathias is a conservative. He is also forthright,
Possibly too conscientiously so, and abstained on the motion of
censure. His Vice-President, Vic Looper, is equally conservative.
Naturally, he voted to uphold Mathias’ administration and voted
against the motion.

Looper’s co-representatives from the Dutch Quad are Leonard
Kopp and Chuck Ribak. Kopp is an ardently self-avowed liberal; he
was one of the sponsors of the motion. Robak is, like Looper and
Mathias, a Stuyvesant Tower Greek. Possibly moderate, he joined
Looper in supporting Mathias and voted no.

Jeff Glasse is listed as a sponsor of the motion. A brother of STB,
he is reported as having abstained on the motion, which may be the
genuinely moderate approach to an issue as divisive as this motion of
censure, One wonders though if Glasse abstained because his fellow
STB brothers divided so vocally on the motion.

Glassey’s fellow representative from the Community Programming
Commission, Barry Ross, is also in STB and is a genuine moderate. He
voted against the motion.

Two other commission representatives showed a clear division of
ideologies, Joe Kaiser and Ralph di Marino, both from STB (this is
becoming repetition) represent the Living Area Affairs Commission.
Kaiser was one of the sponsors of the motion, Di Marino is infamous
for his absurd comment that the student body of the Student
Association should not be permitted to elect the President of Student
Association because said official is also President of Central Council.
Di Marino is an obvious conservative.

The Communications Commission vote is difficult to analyze. Gary
Gold has clearly been a liberal for his three years on Council. Yet he
voted against the motion. I presume that Gold voted as he did because
his years of experience on Council convinced him that censuring
Mathias would be a dangerous precedent for future weak Council
Presidents,

Gold’s co-representative Steve Brown apparently followed Gold’s
lead and voted against the motion. The one faculty member present,
Tom Littlefield, followed no one’s lead at all and abstained,
apparently feeling that the faculty should express no official comment
on the internal politics of Central Council.

This viewpoint should have been equally adhered to by the
representatives of the Pan-Hellenic Council. Tom Libbos, the frat
member, stuck to the traditional attitude of Pan-Hell frat
representatives and didn’t even care; he even half-heartedly abstained.

Jeanette Beckerman, a close admirer of Mathias, volated ethical
considerations and voted no.

The other STB brothers on Central Council are David Neufeld and
Dick Wesley, both from Colonial Quad. Both very vocal and active
liberals (and quite sincere in their beliefs), they were among the ten
¢o-sponsors of the motion to censure Mathias,

Only Carol Tibbetts of Colonial joined the conservative bloc. Nancy
Wolf of Commuters registed a completely neutral position and
abstained. Like Tibbetts, Wolf sttod apart from her fellow
representatives, xt

Skip Counts, Larry Lubetsky, and Walt Silver are the obvious
liberals of Central Council. From Commuters, they were some of the
Sponsors of the motion. They were joined by Larry Smith, apparently
liberal,-though he may have felt it was necessary to display his STB
credentials by casting his vote for the motion.

The State Quad representatives are also clear-cut liberals. Bert
Eversley and Norm Rich co-sponsored the motion, Only Judy Avner
appeared to be a little confused, and she abstained only because she
thought it necessary to indicate some opinion on the matter;
otherwise, she might as well not have come to the meeting at all.

Continued from page 8

one or more of many current crises, which I will
now attempt to categorize...

THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD NOW
SURPASSES THREE AND ONE HALF BILLION,
and it is expected to double before the year 2000
(some experts predict as early as 1980)! There are
millions starving in India and China today. We
cannot expect to be capable of feeding seven billion
people in the near future. Many scientists, including
noted writer Isaac Asimov, predict a series of “Great
Famines”--periods of world-wide starvation-starting
by 1980 at the latest. Is there any solution?
Perhaps. Some sociologists suggest a system of
governmental planning of families, whereby only a
limited number of people--those showing promise of
having a child who would “benefit society”-would
be allowed to have children. There is, of course,
another solution to the problem of overpopulation
and this brings me to category number two...

WORLD WAR THREE IS NEARING. ABM has
been passed--another victory for the war industries.
This move will force the Soviet Union into more
weapons build-up, which will force the United
States into more weapons build-up, which... It is a
vicious circle which spins faster and faster and will
end in a catastrophe which could be triggered by
something as senseless as a religious war in the
Middle East. World War III need not exterminate
much of humanity to have disastrous effects on
society. In the horror and panic that would follow,
the people who were left would blame the holocaust
on the scientists and ¢he politicians. The
technological progress of * centuries would be
shattered. There would be wholesale rebellion
against government in any form. Survival of the
‘ittest would be the word of the day, and the
paragon of animals would turn into a savage. If the
bomb doesn’t succeed in destroying mankind, we
have one tactic left...

WE ARE POISONING OUR ENVIRONMENT.
From DDT in our food and water, to carbon
monoxide in our air, to reactor wastes in our soil
and our seas, we have polluted everything, Without
the sea to harvest a new form of nutrition, there is
little hope of feeding our population. We are just
beginning to realize that, for a world of four billion
people, we have precious few resources--and they
grow fewer with every load of factory waste that
floats into New York Harbor.

There are countless problems to solve and every
possible solution must be explored carefully, for the
effects of a major social, political, or phvsical

change can be more complex than the situations
leading tothe problem. Nevertheless, these
Problems must be solved if the human race is to
survive. And we have little--perilously little--time.

Andrew Aldrich

Trustees’ program
prog

for campus order

(Ed. note: this is the last section of the SUNY
Board of Trustees’ guidelines for ‘order’ on state
campuses.)

7. Enforcement Program. The chief
administrative officer shall be responsible for the
enforcement of these rules and he shall designate
the other administrative officers who are authorized
to take action in accordance with these rules when
required or appropriate to carry them into effect,

It is not intended by any provision herein to
curtail the right of students, faculty or staff to be
heard upon any matter affecting them in their
relations with the institution. In the case of any
apparent violation of these rules by such persons,
which, in the judgment of the chief administrative
officer or his designee, does not pose any immediate
threat of injury to person or property, such officer
may make reasonable effort to learn the cause of
the conduct in question and to persuade those
engaged therein to desist and to resort to
permissible methods for the resolution of any issues
which may be presented. In doing so such officer
shall warn such persons of the consequences of
persistence in the prohibited conduct, including
their ejection from any premises of the institution
where their continued presence and conduct is in
violation of these rules.

In any case where violation of these rules does
not cease after such warning and in other cases of
wilful violation of these rules, the chief
administrative officer or his designee shall cause the
ejection of the violator from any premises which he
occupies in such violation and shall initiate
disciplinary action as hereinbefore provided.

The chief administrative officer or his designee
may apply to the public authorities for any aid
which he deems necessary in causing the ejection of
any violator of these rules and he may request the
State University Counsel to apply to any court of
appropriate jurisdiction for an injunction to restrain
the violation or threatened violation of these rules.

Massive govt. attack launched
to halt mounting drug traffic,

From the people who brought
you nerve gas, the moon flight
and ABM, we now have Operation

Intercept.
Operation Intercept is the
Nixon Administration’s James

Bondian title for an all-out air,
land and sea assault it is
amounting to reduce the traffic of
marijuana and other drugs
between Mexico and the U.S. Its
weapons are hardly less impressive
than those wielded by the
fictitious Goldfinger or Dr. No of
007 fame.

The operation’s arsenal includes
German Shepherd dogs trained to
react to the scent of marijuana,
Navy patrol boats in the Gulf of
Mexico, Air Force pursuit planes,
a web of radar screens installed by
the Federal Aviation
Administration to detect illegal
border crossings, and aircraft
equipped with electronic sensing
devices capable of sniffing poppy
fields from the sky.

Massive numbers of customs
inspectors--the exact number is a
government secret--are pested at
27 U.S. airports in the southwest
authorized to receive international
flights, and at 31 places along the
2,500 mile Mexican border, where
all motor vehicles and pedestrians
are now stopped around the clock
to undergo 2-3 minute searches
for contraband.

Attorney General John
Mitchell’s assistant Kleindienst,
briefing the Washington press had
remarked that the crackdown
would remain in effect : until
marijuana becomes so scarce that

the price per lid is driven beyond
what most, especially teenagers
are able to afford.

When that happens, he said,
young people won’t turn to the
more available harder drugs
because, marijuana being
non-addictive, desperation won't
ensue when they can’t get any.
Rather than switch to psilocybin,
mescaline or LSD, they will
abandon the drug habit.

Operation Intercept parallels a
similar attack on marijuana being
waged in Vietnam, where tens of
thousands of U.S. servicemen are
understood to have turned on.
The U.S. Army has been fighting a
war of suppression involving
federal agents, police dogs,
helicopters and television
announcements.

Military spokesmen say many
soldiers have been reprimanded,
some docked in pay and reduced
in rank, and a few dishonorably
discharged in connection with the
use or sale of pot. Over three tons
of grass have been confiscated and
destroyed, they say.

The TV announcement
portrays a marijuana user
dreamily engaged in guard duty.
He informs a fellow trooper,
“Don’t bring me down, man, I’m
enjoying the world.”

‘After the trooper urges him to
“put out that stuff” to no avail,
the screen dissolves in a mass of
psychedelic whorls, finally
evolving into a scene showing
both men sprawled in grotesque
death, an enemy soldier, rifle in
hand, standing in the foreground.

The anti-drug drives appear to
represent but another
manifestation of the hard line
Nixon has taken on what he refers
to as the “drug abuse problem.”

The administration’s drug bill,
proposed by the late Sen, Everett
Dirksen and currently before the
Senate Subcommittee to
Investigate Juvenile Delinquency,
lumps marijuana, heroin and LSD

together, keeping the same
penalty structure for a first
offense of possessing any of the
three: a minimum of 2 and
maximum of 10 years in prison.

Anyone convicted of a first
offense in selling the drugs will
face 5-20 years in prison and a
$25,000 fine under Nixon’s bill.
Anyone convicted of a second
selling offense will face 10-40
years incarceration and a $50,000
fine. There would be no
opportunity for probation or
suspension of the sentences.

In addition, the bilk contains a
“no-knock” provision whereby
police may enter a home without
identifying themselves.

The Nixon bill continues to be
debated, even within his own
administration. Dr. Stanley
Yolles, director of the Health,
Education and Welfare
Department’s National Institute
of Mental Health, testified before
a Senate subcommittee last week
that the legal punishement given a
convicted marijuana user is likely
to do him more harm than the
joint he smoked (CPS)

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969

Editorial Comment

Candidates’ Forum

The coming elections for University Senate are by far the most
important elections ever held on this campus. The right, which we
have long contended the students deserve--that of having an active
part in the determination of University policy—is now ours for the
taking. It is our responsibility to elect mature, intelligent, and
innovative students to the Senate.

In order for there to be intelligent voting, we strongly believe that
students running for University Senate should make their views
known to their electorate—in this case, the entire undergraduate
community. For this reason, we are opening the pages of the ASP to
the candidates and allowing them to air their views on vital issues
facing the University in the coming years.

All candidates should submit an essay of no more than three
hundred words by 8 p.m., October 8th, to the ASP office, Room 334
of the Campus Center in order for their views to be published.

The questions we feel are of vital importance and would like to see
answered in those essays are the following:

1. What do you see as the goals of the University? What positive
action would you advocate toward achieving those goals?

2. What is your opinion of the necessity for required courses? What
is your opinion of a total Pass-Fail system?

3. What was your reaction to the Trustees’ rules and regulations
concerning action to be taken with regard to campus disorders?

4. Should students have the right to participate in the election of
faculty members to University Senate?

No candidate is restricted to answering solely these questions.
However, no articles received late or above the word count will be
acceptable, and therefore will not be published.

We urge all candidates to participate in this vital educational
process; we urge all students to carefully scrutinize the replies
received.

Our America

This University has never had a sense of solidarity toward any single
national policy. Faculty, studénts and particularly administrators have
remained peculiarly aioof from taking a stand on major issues of the
day.

During no part of our education do we ever have a chance to
discuss the major issues of today in such a way as to promote
concern for their solutions. The gross perversion of the term
‘education’ has persisted long enough.

It is now time to firmly commit ourselves to discussion of the term
‘democracy’ and how the meaning of the word has been perverted by
the bungling structure of the United States government.

One of the things that will be considered within the boundaries (?)
of the discussion must be the question, ‘how can the people of a
democracy, supposedly dedicated to freedom of speech and change
when public opinion changes, how can these ideals result in the
election of a president who refuses to be affected by changes in the
mood of segments of the population.

The answer may be that these ideals do not at all exist in the minds
of most Americans. The words, (freedom, change, public opinion) are
freely conjured up, however, to quell the rising tide of dissent when it
threatens to become a tidal wave.

American masses, uneducatec, uninformed (or misinformed) have
the normal nationalistic reaction to these terms. These masses are
being used as part Of the perpetration of perversion on the part of the
government. Why should the government educate these people to the
extent where the people can threaten the powerful by exposing their
words as illusions.

But, in fact, the masses act as a buffer zone protecting the
government from the dissenters while the latter are being forced into
the government's army.

Democracy? Corruption! Yes, students, faculty, administrators. We
urge you to consider these things, to decide whether they are a large
part of the truth about our America. But, more than this, we ask you
to solidly commit yourselves to a discussion of such important (life or
death) matters that do not seem to be relevant to today’s university
experience.

On October 15 forget the ‘learning process’--we ask you to
to discuss with us the alternatives for the future.

Communications

The deadline for handing in
applications to

FACULTY SENATE,

Alumni Quad LAAC and Central Council

has been moved to WED., OCTOBER 8

All communications must be addressed to the
editor and must be signed. Communications are

subject to editing.

Grads Alive!

To the editors:

I wanted to drop you a note to let you know that
there is now on campus a Graduate Student’s
Association. I searched in vain through the last two
issues of the ASP for any recognition of this fact.
Though you did report the “highlights” of the
meeting of Central Council of September 25, I
notice that you neglected to mention that the
members appropriated $1,500 to the Graduate
Student's Asociation at that meeting.

I believe that this action by Central Council
underlines the importance of the formation of GSA.
The members committed themselves to an
investment in their own futures and in the future of
the entire university community as they made this
grant, as Student Association Vice President Victor
Looper said, to “allow your organization to help
fulfill the needs of the graduate students at
SUNYA.”

Allow me to quote from pertinent portions of the
Articles of Organization of the Graduate Student's
Association of the State University of New York at
Albany:

Our purpose is to create a participatory and
democratic organization among graduate students in
order that we, both individually and as a group, may
influence policies of this university which affect us;
and to provide activities social, intellectual, and
cultural, for graduate students.

Our commission shall be to concern ourselves
with all phases of university life and policy which
relate to us, including curriculum, academic
requirements, residences, participation in the
university community, graduate assistants, and such
other considerations.

The organization is permanent and continuing
and is designed to be the primary organ through
which graduate students at this university may
operate, and may bring reason and pressure to bear
in order to secure their place as members of the
university community,

As we stated in IT’S TIME!, an earlier publication
of the GSA, this university is designed to become
one of the major centers of public graduate study in
the Northeast. According to planner’s projections
Albany will in the next six years enroll in exeese of
20,000 students; well over half of these will he
Persons plirsuing a graduate curriculum, We beliew,
therefore, that it is crucial that graduate students at
SUNYA have at their command a concerned
functioning, and influential organization committed
to their interests. ‘This organization. is the
GRADUATE STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION.

In order to be an Association within which all
Graduate students can conscienciously participate
We must involve ourselves thoroughly in all reas
which touch upon the graduate student at our
university: this we intend to do. Very shortly we
will elect our officers and executive council; we will
form committees to deal with questions concerning
graduate students; and we will fill with members of
the graduate students a number of positions on
various university-wide councils, as welll as on the
University Senate and on the Faculty Student

Association. We will build a strong organization, and
coordinate efforts with graduate councils of all
departments and schools.

Our efforts are already begun. On Thursday,
October 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 we will hold an
“event for the Graduate Student Community,”
featuring Nickle Beer, conversation, and planning
for GSA elections. A formal general session will be
held one week later, Thursday, October 16, from
3:30.

We have a great deal to do, and welcome
assistance and suggestions from all concerned
quarters. And if the ASP is a voice for all elements
of the university, rather than an organ devoted
strictly to the undergraduates at SUNYA, we
welcome your efforts as well.

Sincerely,

Charles Stephenson,

Executive Secretary

Graduate Student’s Association

World Problems

To the editors:

It seems to me that a good share of the students
(or at least a good share of the activists) on campus
feel, as the Vietnam Moratorium Committee
recently stated, that ending the war in Vietnam is
“the most important task facing the American
nation.” I will admit that ending this war is a
necessary step toward achieving peace (and peace of
mind) in this country. However, these students are
neglecting a situation which is much more critical,
not only to the United States but to the entire
world, than the Vietnam war. This situation is the
Possible extinction of the human race! This
extinetion (or perhaps
“dehumanization’’--metamorphosis into a
sub-human culture) or humanity could result from

Continued to page 7

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