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ALBANY STUDENT
PRESS

Vol. LVI no. 1

State University of New York at Albany

Friday September 26, 1969

Mathias

censured
by Nancy Durish

At last night’s Central Council
meeting, in a proposal introduced
by ten representatives, the
members of the Council by a vote
of 10-8-6, officially censured Terry
Mathias, the President of Student
Association.

The move stemmed from a bill
passed last week in Council
concerning alcohol at the
University’s ‘Wild, Wild
Weekend,’’ and Mathias’
subsequent actions taken on that
bill.

According to the bill, the
members of the Council are
censuring Mathias because he,
inspite of his duty to carry out
the “Wild, Wild Weekend”bill,
attempted to ‘obstruct the
enaction of the bill.

Mathias took it upon himself to
reverse the decision of the valid
bill, and since the president of
Central Council does not possess
the legislative mandate necessary
to issue directives dealing with
policy making, some Council
members felt the need for
censure.

The “Wild, Wild Weekend” bill,
passed the night before the actual
start of the weekend event, stated
that the Quad flagrooms were to
be completely open for alcohol. A
question arose over the bill as to
whether it was a valid
interpretation of the University’s
Alcohol Policy.

Mathias carried out the bill’s
instructions by notifying all
administrative persons concerned
regarding the bill the next
morning. Friday afternoon,
however, he issued a notice to
those same people which reversed
the bill, and consequently, no
alcohol was allowed in the
flagrooms during the events.

Mathias explained that after.

speaking to the various

administrators on Friday about

the University’s Alcohol Policy,
Continued on page Il

STUDENTS REACT to world miracles in fountain: Da Mets Weal!!!

Students to occupy
a third of Senate

by Diane McNamara

As a
demonstrations
campuses

and strikes
across the

on

administrators have begun
reassess their roles

participation in the university
community, One vital question
concerns the relative participation
in and control over the
administration of the university.

Not unlike other universities,
Albany State is undergoing a
change in the makeup of its
administration. The primary
target of change is the Faculty
Senate.

Traditionally the representative
body of the faculty, the Senate
coordinates and regulates policy
and activities through a number of
councils which deal with
curriculum, admissions, academic
standing on undergraduate levels,
academic planning, library policy,

Benezet chosen President

The new president of the State
University of New York at Albany
will be Dr. Louis T Benezet,
currently president of the
Claremont University Center,
Claremont, effective July 1, 1970.
Dr. Allan A. Kuusisto will
continue as acting president
during the current academic year.

Dr. Benezet said he looks
forward to his Albany assignment
as ‘a unique opportunity to direct
the growth of a major new
university with a multiple mission
in arts, sciences, and professional
schools.’

Claremont University Center,
where Benezet has been president
since 1963, is the coordinating
institution of the six privately
controlled Claremont Colleges,
the Claremont Graduate Center,
and many joint educational

enterprises. The Center has
pioneered the cluster idea in
which independent colleges share
key facilities and programs.

The State University trustees
appointed Benezet to the post of
president, September 17. He was
unanimously recommended by
the SUNYA University Council. A
committee of students, faculty
and University Council members
were active in the selection
process,

Benezet has formerly been
president of Colorado College and
Allegheny College. He has also
worked in administrative capacity
at Syracuse University.

Benezet has had teaching
experience as a psychology
professor. He has also published
numerous articles on higher
education.

Dr. Benezet is chairman of the

--hochberg

National Science Founation
Committee for Institutional
Relations and is a past chairman
and director/of /the American
Council on Education. He is a
member of the National Advisory
Council for the Upward Bound
program and has chaired the
Association of American Colleges
Commission on Academic
Freedom and Tenure,
Independent College Funds of
America, and the National
Advisory Committee on Agency
for International Develop-
ment-University Relations.

research,
and the entire area of student
result of the many concerns.

to empowered to
and implement policy changes.

resolution
participation on
Senate councils and committees.
The students were given equal
representation on these councils
and committees, but were barred

ciarged with
appointing students to the Senate
councils and committees, found

considered to

faculty appointments,

Although the President is

country, technically responsible for policy
university students, faculty, and decisions,

the Senate is

initiate and

Last fall the Senate approved a
allowing student
the Faculty

from the Senate itself.
Central Council
Student Association

and the
cabinet,
electing or

few were willing to accept the
responsibilities. The result was
that students already
overburdened with Central
Council and Student Association
juties took on these added
cesponsibilities.

Later that year student James
Kahn (Albany ’69) wrote what he
be a valid
constitution for a university
government. It called for a
governing body of 50 students
and 50 faculty members which
would oversee the work of the
Faculty Senate. This proposal was.
given to the executive committee
of the Faculty Senate.

The council did not act on
Kahn’s proposal but it considered
student participation on the
Faculty Senate itself. A
committee chaired by Dr.
Thorstensen of the English
Department and composed of
both students and faculty was

Continued on page 10

Activities Day
smorgasbord

by Tobi Goldstein

A

If you don’t go to Activities
Day this Saturdayl1am to 3 pm,
you won’t be a social pariah. And
if you don’t go to Activities Day
this Saturday (first floor, Campus
Center, balcony area) you won't
be any less welcome at any time
during the year as a member of
the organization of your choice.

However it is to your advantage
to attend this smorgasbord of
events. Frisbees gliding proclaim
the WRA (Women’s Recreation
Association) is hard at work. Skits
will be performed by members of
the Dramatics Council. The Art
Council will sponsor art exhibits.
For an added punch, come to the
judo and karate demonstrations.
And all this to the euphony of
WSUA.

Aside from special
demonstrations each organization
‘will sponsor a booth equipped to
supply you with information
concerning the club and the club’s
activities.

‘Three plaques will be presented
at the mixer Saturday night for
the most popular booth, the most
orignal booth and the most
publicized booth.

Special attention freshmen and
transfers: This is the only time all
year to see the many varied
organizations on campus at the
same time. There will be
something for every interest, and
all interests will be represented.

WHO'S WHO

The annual elections for
‘Who’s Who’ will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday
October Ist and 2nd. All
students with the exception of
first. semester freshmen and
transfers may vote. Voting will
take place in the main lounge of
the Campus Center during the
hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday
and 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. Thursday.

Students must present their
’'D’ and validation card when
they vote.

Applications will be available at
the Campus Center Information
Desk starting Sept. 26 for LAAC
and Central Council - Alumni
Quad and Faculty Senate.
Deadline is Oct. 10th at 5 p.m. at
the SA Office CC 346

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Friday, September 26, 1969

graffiti

Faculty announced

‘The College of General Studies
and the Department of Physical
Education are offering a
three-hour non-credit course in
Driver Training Education on
Highway Safety. Proof of having
completed the course must be
provided before a Road Test
appointment or issuance of the
Interim Permit will be made to an
applicant for his first driver's
license.

The course will be held in Room
125 of the Physical Education
Center by Professor Richard Ellis,
Associate Professor Driver
Education, from 6-9 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 29. The fee for
certification is $5. Enrollment
may be made by check payable to
State University of New York at
Albany and sent to: College of
General Studies, 1400 Washington
Avenue, Albany, N.Y. 12203,
Ad-239. 5

Recruitment Schedule:
Education Program—

October 6, 1969- Malone Central
School, Malone, New
York-Business; Elementary,
Interviewer-Harlié G. Smith,
Superintendent October 29, 1969-
Vestal Central School, Vestal New
York October 29, 1969- Babson
Institute, Babson Park, Mass.-for
students interested in the MBA
Program at Babson Institute.

Genersl Program—

October 9&10-Marines
Interviewers-Cpt. Donald Frank
and Gy Sgt. Yates Oct 15-U.S.
Army Interviewers-Cpt. A.A.
Pandolifi and one WAC Officer
October 15,-U.S. Army,
Interviewers-Cpt. A.A. Pandolifi
and one WAC Officer October
17-U. of Pennsylvania, wharton
School of Finance and Commerce,
Philadelphia, Pa. for grad. school,

If there are students on campus
who are former military service
“medics,” would they please
make themselves known to:

J. Hood, M.D.
Director of Student Health Service
at 457-8622 or 457-8633

Mr, Warren Clark of the United
States Foreign Service, (Dept. of
State) will be on campus on
Thursday, October 9, 1969 to
interview singularly or by groups
at the hours of 9 a.m., 10 a.m.,
and 11 a.m. For further
information call 457-8251.

Physics Open House Rm 129,
October 2, 1969, 7:30 pm.
Sponsored by Society of Physics
Students. Refreshment.

HARTHEIMER RALLY to be
held Sunday afternoon, 2 P.M. in
the CC Cafeteria. Hartheimer to
speak!

The Reading Department in
conjunction with the University
Counseling Center sponsors a free
non-credit course designed to
accelerate your reading ability.
This fall two different class times
are available:

Mondays at 3:00 pm from
Sept. 29 thru Nov. 10 Lec. RM.
24

Wednesdays at 2:00 pm from
Oct, 1 thru Nov. 12 Lec. RM 25

You may enroll in one of these
sessions by contacting the
University Counseling Center:

by phone: 457-8666

for fall semester

This year more than 1960 are
expected to enter with the
freshman class, part of an
expected student total enrollment
of 12,282. This includes 8,682
undergraduates,

The fall term at Albany finds a
number of new department
chairmen including:

‘Tsoo E, King-chemistry

James W. Corbett--physics

Richard Teevan--psychology

John V. Falconeri--Romance
languages

Jai Soo Kim--atmospheric
sciences

Arthur A, Hitcheock--guidance

in person: Rm 115 Bus. Adm. Bldg.and personnel services

National Teacher Examinations
to be held four different dates

College seniors preparing to
teach school may take the
National Teacher Examinations
on any of the four different test
dates announced today by
Educational Testing Service, a
nonprofit, educational
organization which prepares and
administers this testing program.

New dates for the testing of
prospective teachers are:
November 8, 1969, and January
31, April 4, and July 18, 1970.
Tests will be given at nearly 500

you!
Neat?
You bet. And we’ve:got all kinds of

ment designed specially for way out there. And lots for

Suppose you're up in space and you need to tighten
a nut on the outside of your space vehicle.

Well . .. if you use an ordinary power wrench, you
know what happens! You spin around. Not the nut.
But with this new space wrench, the nut turns—not

Space age wrench.

way down here, too. 2 ;

If you're a science or engineering graduate and
you're looking for a good place for your talents, be an
officer, a leader, on the Aerospace Team. The U.S. Air
Force is the largest scientific and research organiza

tion of the space age.
You'll be right where the breakthroughs are... break

fascinating equip-

throughs such as better ways to tighten a nut.
Pretty exciting if you're looking for a new twist.

locations throughout the United
States, ETS said.

Results of the National Teacher
Examinations are used by many
large school districts as one of
several factors in the selection of
new teachers and by several states
for certification or licensing of
teachers. Some colleges also
require all seniors preparing to
teach to take the examinations.
The school systems and state
departments of education which
use the examination results are
designated in the Bulletin of
Information for Candidates.

On each full day of testing,
prospective teachers may take the
Common Examinations, which
measure their professional
preparation and general cultural

Charles F. Stokes--acting
chairman of the department of
music

Dougles E. Lord-international
student advisor

James M. Lewis~-Assistant Dean
of the College of General Studies

Edgar B. Schick--Acting
Assistant to the president

Other new appointments
include:

William A. Robbins~director of
the Two-Year College Student
Development Center

Morrison C, Haviland--director
of reader service

background, and a Teaching Area
Examination which measures
mastery of the subject they
axpect to teach,

Frospective teachers should
contact the school systems in
which they seek employment, or
their colleges, for specific advice

The Bulletin of Information
for Candidates contains a list of
test centers, and information
about the examinations, as well as
a Registration Form. Copies may
be obtained from college
placement officers, school
personnel departments, or directly
from National Teacher
Examinations, Box 911,
Educational Testing Service.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Friday, September 26.1969

Induction refusal

conscience based

by Anita Thayer
““T believe that the time has

_ come for éach of us to examine

| will

his own conscience, to find
courage, and to act.” Eric
Johnson, an area resident,

announced yesterday afternoon at

the Albany, Peace Center that he
refuse induction into the

United States Armed Forces.

As a symbol of complicity in
Johnson’s disobedience, Richard
and Melanie Evans will present
Johnson’s draft card to the U.S.
Attorney General in Albany,

Eric Johnson was a student of
electrical engineering at the

- Indiana Institute of Technology

when he received his draft
induction order. He had been
classified 1-A because he was not
neeting the selective service

ALLAN ‘A. KUUSISTO, acting president of the University until June 1970, continues the Albany tradition... ,yirement of making

of conferring informally with students every Monday afternoon. canter

Moratoriums,marches planned
for anti -war effectiveness

by Jill Paznik

‘End the War In Vietnam! Bring

All The Troops Home Now! Free
Speech to Anti-War GI’s!’

In addition to characterizing
the reinvigorated Student
Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam, these slogans
will be evident in Albany October
15,-and Washington November 14

demonstration at the Capitol, Students are neeaed to work o1
possibly encompassing all area committees orga

door-bell
additionally planned. finance the printing of leaflets,

Student Mobilization
committee and the Anti-War
Committee have combined for

and 15. greater effectiveness and the
Petitions requesting results of this merger will
endorsement and funds from apparently be broader and more

Central Council for the November
march on Washington (expected
attendence: one million persons

concerted support against the war.

An idea for continuing the

Students to be
elected to Faculty Senate

are located in the lobby of the
Campus Center. All Students are
urged by the committee to sign
these petitions.

The purpose of — October's
moratorium is to initiate the
anti-war efforts across, te country
by’ broadening support against the
current genocidal policies of the
government.

October’s

moratorium will
include a

teach-in and a

pressure to end the war calls for
consecutive increases in thelength
of student strikes beginning in
November with a 2-day strike, a
8-day stop in December and a
4-dav strike in January, ete.

It was notea at the mecuug
that another key slogan is ‘War
Machine Off Campus.’ Mention
was made of contractual
agreements by the State
University of New York with
ROTC (on other campuses.)

by Nancy Durish

Central Council, conducting its
first meeting of the 1969-70
school year last week, passed
major legislation which
determines the selection of
students for representation on the
University senate.

The bill states that all 22
indergraduate representatives to
the Faculty Senate be elected by
the undergraduate members of the

Teevan to head Psychology Dept.,
aims for conventional structure

noted that experimentation is the Robert C. Birney, of ‘Insight’,
exciting part of psychology and ‘Reinforcement’, and ‘Color

by Valerie Ives that all the areas of peychology Vision’, published in 1961 by Van

i at been have experimentation. Some Nostrand ani %
Riese ehiteatk of students may aso have the idee programmed bess in sseneny
thepsychology department. A that the department emphasizes psychology, 3 ; se ses
prominent author, Teevan animal research. In the published by McGraw-Hil 0s
formerly headed the department department, four of the faculty Co., Inc.

satisfactory academic progress.

The
refusing induction is a prison
term of 5 years and a $10,000
fine.

Johnson pasea nis decision on
his belief that organized violence
is dishonorable and that strong,
military establishments with the
many means of destruction
available today are a threat to

ork ONhuman existence.
izing
colleges and high schools. A transportation to Washington

ringing campaign is getting buttons and funds to

“Individual men,” according to

Johnson, ‘may be inherently
aggressive and violent, but
organized violence is not

inherently human.”

student body in a general election.

The election, according to
Election Commissioner Jeannette
Beckerman, is scheduled to be
aeld October 21, 22 and 23 in
conjunction with LAAC and
Alumni Quad elections.
Nomination forms will be
available beginning today for
interested students. They must be
returned to the SA office, CC Rm.
346 by October 10th.

The basis for Council’s action,
on the bill stems from the recent
meeting of the general faculty on
Sept. 11, during which approval
was given allowing 22 undergrads
and 11 graduate students to
become full members of the
Faculty Senate.

The faculty motion also called
for the undergraduates to be
seledted in a method approved by
Central Council, and the graduate
students to be chosen by the
Graduate Student Association,

The new body. formerly

maximum penalty for Co.

“Because our ability to kill is so
great, our military strength no
longer protects us, but rather the
military itself threatens our
existence. If we are to survive and
prosper, we must choose
international cooperation Vietnam:
cannot be allowed to happen
gain.”

A rally in support of Johnson's
induction refusal will be held at
10 am October 1 in front of the
Old Post Office Building
(Induction Center) on the corner
of State Street and. Broadway in
Albany. Arrangements are being
nade for students to meet and

talk with Erie Johnson Monaay
afternoon or evening.

Johnson also stated that his
refusal of induction should not be
interpreted as refysing the
American way of life. “JT do not
hate or disrespect our laws, our
ngress, or our President. But I
know of no government that ix
willing to voluntarily disarm,”

Evans and his wife, a graduate

of SUNYA are supporti
Johnson's action to show thee
willingness “to stand with him”
and show their symbolic support,

Evans turned in his own draft
card in January after he had been
classified as a conscienctious
objector because he had no desire
to comply in any way with the
Selective Service. He is currently
awaiting to be indicted.

popularly

Faculty Senate, renamed the
Jniversitv Senate, will be
composed of sixty-seven faculty
members, and the thirty-three
students to be elected in October.
it will handle all matters
concerning academic affairs at the
University, as well as many
problems arising with student
regulations,

The new representation,
according to Vic Looper,
Vice-President of Student Assoc.,
is a major change in University
Governance, and a major step in
the strengthening of cooperation
between faculty and students.

In other action, Council
appropriated $4,000 to be used in
the operation of the Physical
Education Center. Due to this
year’s budget cuts, the gym has
geen forced to operate on a
limited basis, but the money
allotted by Council will ease the
problems and increase the hours
that the gym will be open for
recreational purposes.

of psychology at Bucknell members work with animals and
University, where he had been a eleven with humans. :
faculty member for the past six One change that is taking place
years. in the department is that students
‘As chairman, Teevan aspires to are being integrated into the
achieve a conventional structure department committees. The
for the department, including students will choose their own
ore PhD’s in clinical, social and representatives. : .
experimental psychology. He Teevan received his poe
hopes. that the department will education at Wesleyan ee sy
keep growing and move toward a and the University of Michigan.
major department. ‘The latter and Smith College are
It is sometimes complained that included in his previous academic
the psychology department is posts ;
experimentally oriented. Teevan pr. Teevan is co-author. with

The State University

Bookstore
Welcomes Back the Student Body
and wishes a good year to all of you

Bookstore hoursMon-Thurs 9 am to 8 pm]

,

Fri. 9 am to 5, pm Sat. 9 am toipm

(take SUNY bus)

SINGERS WAN ED

New Inter-College
Mixed Chorus

Rehearsals: Sunday afternoon, 3:30-5:15
405 Washington Ave., Albany

Information: Call Mr. Carruthers

GR4 5917 weekdays

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Friday, September 26, 1969

#3 a
MULTI-TALENTED JOHN BLAIR, currently appearing at the Coffee

House Circuit, skillfully blends music and karate with unique results.

gold

Blair gives audience
a ‘smashing’ time

by Alan Lasker

Guitar strumming, violin
harmonizing, commanding
vocalist John Blair, a fourth
degree black belt, is probably the
only Coffee House Circuit
violinist who smashes bricks with
his hands.

Opening with a medley on
the violin combining “Shadow of
Your Smile,” “By the Time I Get
to Phoenix,” and other popular
tunes with his own creations,
John Blair shocked his audience;
he broke the traditional one-act
folk singing performance by
merging three relatively unrelated
acts into one.

The notes of his violin
blended melancholy and joy with
romanee. Mr. Blair expressed life’s
emotions through the vibrating
sound of a violin and
demonstrated through his
countenance that he was sincere
in his playing.

Proceeding quickly, he
strapped on his guitar and
vocalized several tunes that

carried a message, “If You Want
to Be Free,” the selection I
particularly enjoyed, relates that
in order for one to be free, he
must build himself and not rely
on others to mold him.

Another selection dealt with
love and its power to replace the
empty feelings within a lonely
person.

Part three of his program.
commenced with a Karate form,
utilizing the sais (knife-like
weapons). He proceeded to smash
a brick noting afterwards that a
person’s mind can travel in any
direction and eventually reach its
desired destination; in other
words, brick-smashing is more
psychological than physical. Mr.
Blair concluded his performance

audience to participate along with
him on stage. The volunteers
learned certain modes of
self-defense. Incorporate musical
talent and self-defense tactics with
imagination: the unique result—2
John Blair experience.

The only disturbing event of
the evening was the continual
opening and closing of the door
between the snack bar and the
cafeteria. Not only is it annoying
for tie audience, but most
unpleasant for the performer.
Either the platform should be
placed on the other side of the
cafeteria, or the door should be
locked while a performance is in
session. While Blair was
performing there was just no
excuse for the continual
interrupting and most obnoxious
squeak. Hopefully, the 2eople in
charge will take some action to
insure this does not occur with
future guests.

hoto exhibit
at Art Gallery

“*The- Concerned
Photographer,” a major
photographie exhibit of the work
of Werner Bischof, Robert Capa,
Leonard Freed, David Seymour
(‘Chim”) and Dan’ Weiner, has
opened at the Art Gallery of the
State University of New York at
Albany. The exhibit, currently
touring the United States and
Canada under the auspices of the
Smithsonian Institution, was
organized by The Fund for
Concerned Photography in
collaboration with the Riverside
Museum, New York.

Each - photographer in the
exhibit is shown in his forte. The
Swiss Bischof is seen through his

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THE EVOLUTION OF CINEMA

by Tom Quigley

‘When you ain’t got nothin’ you
got nothin’ to lose...’
(‘Like a Rolling Stone’)

~-Bob Dylan
When I left John
Schlesinger’s Midnigh I

came away feeling like that guy in
the Johnny Cash song who gets a
chair smashed across his teeth.
Midnight Cowboy is a gritty kick
in the groin, a journey through
the reeking back alleys of
underground New York, peering
into the trash can lives of the
creatures who inhabit and haunt

the dead end streets. It is a
nightmare collage of human
isolation, perversion, and the

terrifying, desperate need to be
needed. It captures a side of life
we never witness; a ghetto
country of cripples, hustlers and
deviants who have one thing in
common: their suicidal loneliness.
Isolation is the real, ever-present
horror of this film. The morbid
undercurrent of fear dominates
the story of Joe Buck and Enrico
‘Ratso’ Rizzo, the human jetsam
who latch onto each other in a
furtive struggle to crawl out of the
sewer.

Joe Buck (Jon Voight,) a
roustabout stud from Dellas, hops
a bus via New York for a few
lucrative lays. Well, he finds out
that the green fields of the city
are actually concrete and the
people find it easier to be hard.
After a frustrating boudoir
adventure, Joe forks over what’s
left in his cowhide wallet to a
sniveling, grubby little chiseler
named Ratso Rizzo (Dustin
Hoffman), who promises to
manage Him in the perpetual
orgasm business, Ratso splits with
the dough, and by the time Joe
collars him,’ all that’s left is

fifty-four cents and a few gum
wrappers. Undaunted, Ratso
decides that maybe the

ostentatious cowpoke might make
a worthwhile hustler after all and
begs him to share his apartment in
a crumbling, condemned building.
Ratso has visions of raking in
enough bread before winter hits
so they can board a bus for the
orange groves and milk white
beaches of Florida. Joe agrees to
peddle his flesh; but winter
comes, the till is empty, and our
anticheroes are freezing, amid a
erescendo of ‘orange juice on ice
is vice’ commercials issuing from
dJoe’s radio

When Ratso can no
longer drag his grimy foot around
the gutters ard begins incinerating
with a fever, Joe faces the cruddy
realization that they are both
doomed in their sub-zero
dungeon, The last thirty minutes
of this film show the desperate
lengths a man will go to help a
friend literally on his last leg as
Joe mounts a desperate
campaign to get money for the
bus trip. They finally escape the
miserable hovel and catch their
bus, but not before the grossness
of their existence pulverizes both
of them. The empathy is genuine
and the horror a jolting jab
beneath the belt. John Voight

as Joe is a preconditioned product
:

of his dislocated past. He was an
unwanted child raised 4by a
hairdresser cum whore whom he
called his grandmaw. A passionate
love affair with a country girl
ended one night in a disastrous,
terrifying gang rape by a group of
brutal ranch hands as Schlesinger's

fast cut flashback technique
explores these deep-rooted
beginnings of Joe's sexual
neurosis, '

Voight himself is a remarkable
innocent in search of a broad. The
handsome, muscular actor,
making his screen debut, exhibits
hilarious, absurd naivete as the
longhorned lover who hasn’t quite
got the heart to hustle either sex.
Despite his solid performance as
doe Buck, it is Dustin Hoffman’s
Ratso that gnaws at the memory
long after you leave the theater.
Ratso is an annoying little gnat of
a man; a limping sychophant
whose pathetic plight underlies
the misery of the handicapped
everywhere. As far as ‘normal’
humanity is concerned the
physically handicapped are a
useless subculture cut off from
the mainstream of living, and
unfortunately we seem content to
leave it that way. A stark close-up
of Hoffman’s grimy, fever-racked
face sums up all the abject terror
instilled in these unwanted
people. His line, ‘You know what
they do to people who can’t
walk...Joe I’m scared,’ is an icy
knife in the back, as though
storm troopers are bounding up
the staircase ready to take him
away for final elimination. It is a
desperate moan from a human
being who doesn’t want to be left
alone or forgotten.

Hoffman’s
electrifying performance proves
that he is emerging as one of the
most formidable actors of this
decade. The supporting cast,
headed by Brenda Vaccaro, John
McGiver, Ruth White and Svivia
Miles, execute their walk-through
roles brilliantly. Waldo Salt’s
screenplay, adapted from James

Leo Herlihy’s novel, gashes deep
wounds in the fallacies of the
American dream, and the dialogue
is the stinging salt appliedto those
wounds. Director of Photography
Adam Holender uses every
cinematic trick devised from black
and white dream-flashback
sequences to distorted colors used
during the party sequence to
simulate Joe’s sensations after his
first exhilerating drag on a joint.
John Barry serves as musical
supervisor to a conglomeration of
sounds ranging from folk, hard,
and acid rock to outright blues,
topped off by the sleazy
harmonica of Jean ‘Toots’
Thieleman which sets the mood
for the entire production.,

Put this all together and you get
dohn Schlesinger, who does the
best directoral work of his career.
Schlesinger’s steady hand is
evident in every frame as he
skewers and roasts the ' cherished
institutions and attitudes that
have caused most of the seum and
callousness his film condemns. It
is a bravura exhibition of talent
by the maker of Darling-fulfilling
the promises of his predicted
greatness,

Midnight Cowboy is a slimy
wad of chewing tobacco spit in
our faces. It assaults the
comfortable mythologies
associated with the misery in the
inner city and the people trapped
in its vicious clutches. It forces us
to stare the bleak emptiness of
loneliness and longing *- the face,
showing us what can happen when
one reaches out for another
instead of turning away. Modern
society has made the phrases of
brotherhood and empathy the
foremost obscenities of the day.
‘The Dylan’ quote is ruthless but
coldly realistic: when you're
down and out like the people in
this film. you’re liable to do
anything for a crust of bread, @
warm room, and the sound of
another human voice. Go out and
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS.

Five major productions
in SU Theatre season

A new era in State University
Theatre gets under way officially
when the curtain rises this fall on
the first of five full-length major
productions in the newly-opened
Performing Arts Center.

The season opens with the
pageantry of the ancient Incas and
Spanish conquistadores in Peter
Schaeffer's ROYAL HUNT OF
THE SUN, the tragic story of
Francisco Pizarro, conqueror from
Spain, and Atahuallpa, god-king
of the Incas. The tale will unfold
in great theatricality on the Main
Stage of the Performing Arts
Center under the direction of the
Chairman of the new Theatre
Department, Dr. Paul Bruce
Pettit, ROYAL HUNT is already
in rehearsal and will open October
29th for a five-day run.

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The second major production
of the season is the All-American
classic, RIP VAN WINKLE,
directed by Mr. Edward Mendus.
Joseph Jefferson's 19th century
dramatization of the old
Dutch-American legend is
saturated with the delightful
colors and flavor of Hudson
Valley folklore, The henpecked
title characterl will be recreated
five nights in December, from the
10th to the 14th, in the Studio
Theatre of the PAC.

Dr. Albert Weiner will direct
the ancient Greek tragedy
ORESTES by Euripedes, which
will be State University Theatre’s
first production of 1970, The
curse upon the House of Atreus is
finally resolved in Euripides’ tale
of the fury of Electra, the

madness of Orestes, and thetwith recent photos of proudly hy the

judgment of the gods. The blood
and vengeance of ORESTES
bursts onto the Main stage during
the week of February 25, 1970.

The third week of April
witnesses the production of
ALLADIN, an original children’s
play, written by Dr. Pettit,
chairman of the Theatre
Department, Directed by Mrs.
Patricia Snyder, Dr. Pettit’s
adaptation of the well-known
Arabian tale will be produced in
the Experimental Theatre of the
PAC. The use of narrator and
audience involvement in
ALLADIN promises an exciting
experience for the children and
the invariably large adult
representation in the audience.

A fifth major production,
scheduled for May 1970 is under
consideration, but has not been
announced.

The new Performing Arts
Center contains a complex of five
totally-different theatres, offering
the Theatre and Music’
Departments countless artistic
possibilities in style and scheme of
production. The Main Theatre of
the PAC houses the largest and
most complex proscenium-arch
stage, and the largest audience
accommodation, seating 501 in
the gold and burnished-wood
auditorium. The second largest
theatre in the PAC is the Studio,
or Lab No, 1 Theatre, featuring a
small proscenium stage and a
125-seat muted orange and green
motif. The black and gold Arena
Theatre promises exciting
theatre-in-the round in an
intimate 100-seat setup. Four
blank walls, a large open floor. ‘ “a

space, and gallery in theigy aTUNJI AND HIS DRUMS OF PASSION included fire -eating dancers in native African garb.

Lab No. 2
offer countless
possibilities in audience-actor
relationships. Still under
construction is the fifth theatre,
called the ‘Jewel Box,” an
opulent, chandeliered,
gold-and-white, Raroque creation,
Tickets for all productions of
$.U.T, will be available in the box 2 z
office in the main lobby of the by Michael Sakellarides
PAC, Student Tax card holders Olatunji and His Drums of ‘Tarzan, Jane or Sabu. Music and
may reserve tickets in advance of Passion highlighted Albany dance form a universal language
general public sales. The box State’s “Wild Wild Weekend” on ‘we hope to communicate.” And
office number is 457-8606. Friday night, September 19 witha Olatunji concluded, “People

©. &, program in the gym entitled, “The without a culture are not a
Photo exhibit Bice Man's “Conizibution to people.”

Experimental, or
Theatre,

arouses

Olatunji

. Music.” I sensed an intrinsic faith of
(continued from page 4) Red and emerald lights shined Olatunji’s in peace, goodwill and
clean, almost mathematically brightly on unusually shaped the giving of thanks for the

precise figures from Japan and drums as the crowd waited for blessings of the land. He and his
India. Mr. Freed is represented Olatunji’s performance, sponsored accompaniment. crystallized this
Community Program in an African song of
religious Israelis and of American Commission, to begin. thanksgiving, “Adunda Adunda,”
Negroes in all conditions of life. Three: drummers stirred up a with a different, heavier beat than
Mr. Weiner catches the humor and steady beat as Olatunji stepped the first song.
thé life of New York’s streets. upon the stage, smiling in his The song is recorded on
Robert Capa, perhaps the colorful African garb. He began to Olatunji’s “Drums of Passion”
best-known photographer of war, chant a call which reverberated album. With four women dancers
is represented in the exhibit of 36 joyfully throughout the gym. His in bright red skirts and white
photographs. He covered five wars magnetism turned on, Olatunji’s blouses and barechested men with
in 18 years, including tH: one in yoice and the pounding joyful colorful shell necklaces, their
which he was killed in Ind» China rhythm moved the audience, firsts expressive and graceful
in 1954. Mr. Seymour’s incerests, hesitantly, then unabashedly to movements setting their entire
the arts and children, are reflected move and sway, tapping their feet bodies in motion, the music
in shots of Arturo Toscanini and and clapping their hands. communicates successfully. The
of children maimed by war. Rhythm and chant surgedtheme of joy is sensed
‘The Fund for forth...stronger...stronger...what immediately from the bright
Concerned Photography _ is are the words he is calling? cheerful singing and dance,
dedicated to the recognition of And then the music ceased. i Olatunji sings of the people's
photography as a person's means As the applause subsided, thanks for rain and the harvest
of communication, to the Olatunji welcomed us, this being and for blessings in the New Year.
recognition of the photographer ‘his second visit in a year, to “an The dances are graceful and
as an individual with his very own, 2xciting safari through musical vibrant. Arms, legs and bodies
recognizable graphic style and Africa.” flail; all the body communicates
human content, translating what ‘Contrary to the Hollywood passionately with those driving
ihe sees into frozen reality. ideal, this is not the music for rhythms.

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‘powerful rhythms I was hearing, if
exposed more, would lead the
‘way for the next fifty years of
Pop music. The old blues, rock,
and country rhythms will one day
jsoon bore artists and listeners
alike, and the untapped sources of
black musical wealth will be their
musical salvation.

With beads of sweat visibly
rolling down his forehead and the
rhythm never-ceasing, Olatunji
‘said, “I can just imagine being at
home with thousands of people
dancing and’ singing. Look at
Woodstock, too; you are getting
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with his erotic Afro beat

that of the diamond miners of
South Africa who are paid only
$1.25 a week. Well, you know,
you can’t kill a man’s spirit...”
‘And drums poured forth a rhythm
which seemed to cry “free! free!”

Olatunji spoke of how
important itis for man to take
care of his body. In illustration of
this, Ali, a |dancerjof strange
capabilities. did a dance of
contortions featuring
bone-bending headstands, a dog

position, and a fascinating
“human split.” Ali was so
incredibly limber that the

positions he performed defied the
imagination. He placed his arms,
legs, and trunk in “impossible”
stances like the “fish” and the
“cobra.” =

With Ali’s performance
concluded, Olatunji called him
back for another bow before the
appreciative audience. Olatunji
encouraged \us to try it,too. __

And then dancers poured out in
black and yellow striped costumes
with tall colorful hats. Their
dance was playful and often
erotic. Olatunji recalled, as the
music continued, how the drums
jof Africa are significant in
village-to-village communications,
and how rhythm is considered the
soul of life. “No one can resist
rhythm. It is heartbeat itself!” he
said. Perhaps this is the organic
essence of a sensitive performer’s
philosophy, and the meaning of
this exciting black music for all of
us.

‘And man should respect
nature and life. There are five
things which a man seeks in his
religion: his manner of conduct, a
source of consolation, a road to
prosperity, a place of refuge, and
a place of peace.”

The final encore gave way to
the long applause and then the
drone of the crowds filing out.
The silent gym and its crimson
lights. coalesced . momentarily in
my mind as a place of worship. I
had felt for the first time the
power of Olatunji’s religion.

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graduate students. Applications are available in the Student
Association Office and must be returned by Friday October 3, 1969.

1.Undergraduate Academic Council
2, Graduate Academic Council
3. Student Affairs Council
4. Council on Research . . .
5. Personnel Policies Council . .
6, Council on Promotions and Continuing Appointment
7, Council on Educational Policy. . .

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1. Undergraduate Academic Council considers questions pertaining
to the policies of an academic nature for undergraduates. For
example, U.A.C. considered the 120 credit-hour degree, the Pass-Fail
proposals, and the departmental major.

2. Graduate Academic Council considers similar questions on the
graduate level.

3. Student Affairs Council considers questions pertinent to the
extra-curricular lives of students. For example, the new residence
policies were considered by this council.

4. The Council on Research considers matters pertaining to
research-effectiveness, new programs, publication, etc.

5. The Personnel Policies Council handles matters relating to
academic freedom and professional ethics, faculty economic and
professional welfare, and supervision of the collection and
disbursement of all faculty funds.

6. The Council on Promotions and Continuing Appointment is
responsible for recommendations to the President for promotions in
rank, for continuing appointment, and for developing methods for
evaluating faculty performance.

7. The Council on Education Policy is charged with responsibility
for the campus academic plan, for development of the institution, and
for any attending matters pertaining to the budget:

8. The Library Council established policy for the Library and
guidelines for its development.

In addition, students are needed to serve as members of the board
for Faculty-Student Association, Incorporated. There are six student
members of this board. Some understanding of university structure
and of financing is helpful but not required. Applications are available
at the Student Association Office (C.C. 346) and must be returned by
October 3.

A number of other positions are open also.

1. Ad Hoc Committee (of Central Council to Study the “Rules and
Regulations for the Maintenance of Public Order.” Two to four more
students are needed.

2. Ad Hoc Committee (of Faculty Senate) on Teaching. This
committee will study the student and faculty inter-relationship in an
attempt to effect better understanding of each others points of view
and perspectives. Two or three more students are needed.

3. If you have an interest in working on any matter of concern here
at the University, please see Terry Mathias in the Student Association
Office Campus Center 346. Your interests can be put to good use in
helping to alleviate concerns.

Graziano speaks on

“Democratic Machine”
bv Vicki Zeldin

“We must do away with the
one party system in Albany.”
Such were the words of John:
Graziano, Jr., Republican
candidate for alderman of the
17th district. The candidate was
referring to the Democratic
Machine comprised of men like

they renege on these very
promises.

Graziano appeals to all voters
to forget the image of Mayor
Corning as the man who brought
them a sack of coal during the
depression. Instead, he asks the
voters to analyze what Corning
and his party have done for them

O’Connell, Mayor Corning,
alderman Wallace, who is lately.
Graziano’s opponent, and , The students of SUNYA have

been asked to aid him in his
campain against the corrupt
machine here in the Albany area,
If you are interested in
Participating in this effort or
would like more information on
‘what’s happening, go to the
Young Republicans’ booth
located in the Campus Center
lobby.

numerous others.

According to Graziano, an
admissions officier at SUNYA,
Mayor Corning’s twenty-eight
year dynasty might best be
characterized by the phrase
“Promises, Promises.” Each
election year Corning and his
cronies promise improvements,
-_and after each successful election

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‘The doctors is coming!

SUNYA to have new hospital?

An ASP Satire
by Alfred Leone

It was a dark and stormy night,
Snoopy’s novel was going badly.
Farther down the page, the
Wizard of Id was beseeching the
King to lower his voice and calm
down.

‘Now, just what do you mean,

sire, when you say, “The doctors is
coming?’

The King choked, and, sobbing,
murmured, ‘Read this.’

The Wizard took the tearstained
parchment and read, ‘Honorary
Doctor of Laws Degrees; Knox
College, University of Denver,
University of Pittsburgh, Loyola
University (Chicago), Waynesburg
College, Mt. Union College,

Kuusisto meets students,
‘Ombudsman’ appointed

by Perry Silverman,

In the year’s first President’s
conference with students, Acting
President Allan A. Kuusisto
re-affirmed past encouragement of
student affairs.

Kuusisto advised that he would
keep open present avenues of
communication including weekly
meetings with students.

Dr. Kuusisto then
expressed his interest in student
Participation in university
decision-making and cited some
important developments in this
area,

To increase the role of students
in governing this university,
thirty- three elective seats will be
opened to students on the Faculty
Senate. Also. Kuusisto announced
that students now sit on the State
University Master Plan Revision

NOTICE

New York State Selective
Sewice Headquarters indicates
that undergraduate students
desiring to be considered for a 2-S
classification must complete and
forward Form SS-104 to their
local board.

fa addition, Form SS-109 must
be on file with the local board.
Form $S-109 will be sent to the
local board upon the request of a
student by the Office of the
Registrar. Both forms are available

through the Registrar’s Office.
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Committee and will sit on the
Committee on University
Governance this fall.

In addition, Kuusisto revealed
that in order to bring himself into
closer contact with students’
problems, William Seymour has
been appointed to a position of
‘omnbudsman.’ Seymour will be
available to help in’ solving
academic or other problems of
students that cannot be resolved
at lower administrative levels.

In turning the floor over to the
students attending the meeting,
Dr. Kuusisto was then presented
with a serious situation developing
in the area where Alumni Quad is
located. Attacks upon University
students by Albany teens were
reported, the most serious of
which occurred this past weekend.
Dr. Clifton Thorne, Vice President
for Student Affairs, answered the
comments of concerned Alumni
Quad residents. Thorne
mentioned that he had been in
consultation with Albany police
during the morning, and that
more police security would be
provided to residents of the
downtown dorms. He asked the
residents of Alumni Quad to avoid
organizing vigilante groups.
Thorne stressed that students
living on the downtown campus
should rely upon the local police
and university security guards for
protection,

University of Colorado, Colorado
College, Dartmouth Colleye,
U.C.L.A. Honorary Doctor of
Humanities Degrees; Westminister
Coll...”

The Wizard’s voice trailed off,
and he recoiled in horror as the
door was flung open.

‘The Royal Emissary entered and
sneered. ‘Not to mention Ph.D.,
Columbia University.”

The King became agitated as the
Emissary flourished an
official-looking document and
read:

“By unanimous recommendation
of the Council of State University
at Albany, chaired by J.
Vanderbilt Straub, the State
University Board of Trustees,
referred to by the rabble as the
‘SUNY Board’, decided, in a close
vote, to protest the rabble’s
definition of a ‘SUNY Board’ as
being ‘long and flat and made of
wood’..

The Emissary wiped his brow
and continued:

‘Furthermore, be it hereby
proclained that the SUNY
Board...”

He hesitated, turned red, blew
his nose, regained his composure,
and continued:

the State University Board of
Trustees, in its second order of
business, announces its
appointment as president of State
University of New York at
Albany, said appointment to be
effective July 1,1970, a man of
much experience in the field of
education, Past president of
Colorado College, Allegheny
College, now: president of the
Claremont University Center,
chairman of the National Science
Foundation Advisory Committee
for Institutional Relations, Phi
Beta Kappa, honorary Doctor of
Laws Degrees; Knox Coll...’

The King sprang for his throat
and was restrained by the Wizard.
‘The Emissary was undaunted.

‘There was a fanfare of trumpets.

The King turned pale, and
wailed, “The doctors is here!”

Doctor Louis T. Benezet had
arrived,

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

THE SEPTEMBER CONVOCATION SYMBOLICALLY welcomed all new students into the University
Community with the traditional candlelight ceremony.

Meadows: ‘Restless Campus

and the Unfinished Society’

professed ideals and our actual

Editors Note: In one of the finest
speeches heard on this campus in
a long while, Dr. Paul
Meadows,Head of the Soe and
Anthro) Department, addressed
himself to the problems of the
“Restless Campus and the
Unfinished Society’ In
recognition of the value of the
ideas expressed, we have
excerpted the highlights of his
speech, delivered at the Freshman
Convocation.

The French word for the
university students’ protest
movement in 1968 was not our
word ‘‘demonstration” but
manifestation. “Today,” the
Parisian merchants would explain
to their upset customers, “today
we are having a manifestation.” If
they will forgive the play on
words, the distinction is
intriguing: it suggests that when
ghetto and campus alike have
been demonstrating their anger
and rage, their strength'and their
thrust for power, they have also
been manifesting something.

But manifesting what? The
answers I have been hearing are by
no means unanimous, Thus, the
Gallup poll reported American
parents’ reactions toward student
demonstrators as: “undisciplined
behavior,” “lack of respect for
authority,”’ ‘‘over-indulged
youth,’’ ‘‘just plain
irresponsibility,”  ‘“smuggness,”
among other evaluations. But
Gallup with fine impartiality
reported student complaints
about their elders: “too set in
their ways, ‘lack of
communication,” (ie. “they
won’t listen to us”), “too
conservative,’’ ‘‘indifferent,”
“apathetic,” “racial prejudice,”
among others.

The explanation most
commonly mentioned in
discussions of today’s troubles is
“gap,” particularly ‘generational
gap.” This popular interpretation
has much ‘to support it. There is,
for example, the fact of numbers
alone. Half of the American
people today are under 25 years
of age; over 6 millions of them are
now enrolled in some 2,300
colleges and universities; and a
fast-growing minority of them_
have become activists, both on
campus and in town. ~

But numbers alone do. not
explain the gap. The restless
campuses and towns in turmoil
must be explained in other terms.
Thus, we can by'!' way’ of
explanation start, as physicist

Harrison Brown recently did, with
global matters: with the doubling
during the last decade of world
expenditures for armaments, now
totalling some 200 billion dollars
annually, with massive nuclear
military deterrent systems and the
world spread of nuclear military
technology; with the fact that our
global military budgets are now
equal to the annual income
Produced by the one billion
People living in Latin America,
Asia and the Near East; and with
the fact of Vietnam.

‘The gap can also be explained in
less global terms, in terms which
reflect our own national history
and society. Thus, one can point
to the gap between the incredible
national affluence and the
stupefying national poverty; the
gap between a_ resplendent
technology and an ugly
civilization; the gap between space
shots that land on the moon and
urban renewal programs that land
(when they land at all) in a
bureaucratic wilderness; the gap
between machines with built-in
purposes and human beings with
no purpose at all; and the gap
between institutional promises
and institutional performances.

Il

The simplest explanation of the
gap which dramatizes and which
indeed generates our national
discontents is historical. The
historical approach to our present
time of troubles emphasizes the
fact that there has always been a
major gap in the American
society. We started as a nation in
angry protest over the gulf which
English colonialism created
between the rights of Englishmen
at home in the motherland and of
Englishmen overseas. And then as
a new nation, with marvelous
irony, we armed ourselves with a
piece of paper, a piece of paper
which created for our entire
national history a great chasm
between what we wanted to be as
a nation and what in fact we are:
a gap between our constitutional
ideals of liberty and equality, law
and order and our institutional
practices which violated them;.a
gap’ between republican
democracy and mass democracy;
between Rousseauan popular will
and elitist decision-making;
between common man aspirations
and middle-class dominance;
between nationalism and localism;

between agrarianism and
industrialism.
This chasm between our

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practices has shown up in
countless protest movements and
organized violence over the years
of our nationhood. Indeed, there
has never been a decade in our
national history free of the
clamorous demands of some
national movement or movements
protesting the hypocrisy or failure
or inadequacy or even sheer
absence of our national efforts to
live up to our own national creed.

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What I am saying is that an
historical perspective is crucial
today, if we are to understand and
if we are to come to terms as a
people with the agonizing angers
and threatening hates of our own
time, angers and hates in which
our campuses yarticipate and
which our young people reflect.

But I must also insist that such
understanding requires at least
these two things. It means
knowing in what ways our social
unrest and discontents today stem
from and share the American
culture, what they have in
common with the American
culture. But understanding also
means that we must know in what
ways the hostility and the rage of
our day are different. We must
know both the common bonds
and the differences. For the first
alone will only make us
optimistic, to the point of
unforgiveable complacency; the
second alone, pessimistic to the
point of irremediable nihilism,

To the students of American
social history and American
society there is something very
familiar about the student
movements, the movements of the
Black community, the hippies and
the yippies. The familiarity can be
brought out in a number of
common themes which they share
with American  suffragist,
abolition, labor, peace, public
education, municipal reform,
prison reform, child labor and
other historic movements, ‘One
such common theme is suggested
by a recent comment by Dick
Gregory: “One of the problems is
that the Establishment keeps lying
to you young people 24 hours a
day and then after you catch us
lying, we say it’s\a generation gap.
It’s a moral gap.” For every great
social movement the problem has
always been a moral
between creed and deed, the ideal
and the real.

There is

the theme of a

community of suffering , which,

‘Continued on page li

ABSURDITY

by Kevin McGirr

‘Today class, we're talking about education; you know
learning-or maybe these are two different concepts. If you want to
know about learning you might ask Pavlov or better yet ask Pavlov’s
dog, the dog doesn’t know how to lie. But what are we getting at-I’m
lecturing at you and you're getting bored, I’m preaching and you want
to ery out ‘Bullshit’; |but you are afraid. I’m exercising my ego while
at the same time fearing the truth and locking myself inside my own
ideas about life in the University community.

Oh well, we are here to receive a degree so that we will be better
qualified to improve our society. To get a better job you need a better
education. But to get a better society we need less ‘educated’ people
and more individuals willing to know their own ignorances.

But what are we really saying? Let us go back to the night of
the Convocation when Dr. Paul Meadows spode of student
demonstrations as being manifestations. What Dr. Meadows failed to
point out was that the Convocation itself was a manifestation of
ritualized boredom and lack of creativity.

Surely what Meadows had to say has become cliched; for has it
not become a cliche to speak of poverty in the affluent society,
millions for the space program and budget cuts in welfare spending
sophisticated machinery with specific purpose and human beings left
grasping for meaning and an American defense budget that equals the
total income of Latin America and the Near East.

If you listened, you may come to tthe realization that all that
was said is more important to thine existence than all you may learn
in the classroom at the State University of New York at Albany.

Meadows quoted Dick Gregory as saying, ‘they are lying to us
twenty-four hours a day.’ But I suspect that we believe even as our
mind sleeps, But aside from all that we are here to learn; I don’t know
about anyone else but this type of ‘learning’ givesme a draft

deferment and this is as valid as any other reason for getting an
‘education.’

Can we perhaps learn anything from the University experience?
Yes, we do learn to be dishonest with our professors. Yes, we do learn‘
to fear the grading system. Yes, we do learn to compete with our
fellow students. Are the professors more knowledgeable in their fields
than the student or are they more knowledgeable in society’s games
and University rules? Ask a teacher to dwell on a point that strikes
your interest in the course, and he says ‘it’s not in the curriculum.’

Maybe? Perhaps? the University exists for the perpetuation of
this vastly programmed, structured technological cultural complex.
After all we do need teachers to organize the thought lof Jour
youngsters,

But~I have heard that the University is a refuge for intellectual
confrontation and and question. Ah! we find a dichotomy; can the
University prepare its members for the big world outside
whilesimultaneously allowing doubts about that big world?

We have a problem? No! We are intellectual and we recall from
Psy 101 that this is simply callettCognitiveDissonance. The problem is
simply within one’s futile idealism and not with the system;O0O Blah
dee, OOO Blah daa,

Well my children let us not burden ourselves with too much
reality, after all it’s Friday. If you are confused and are {having |an

existential crisis may I recommend a therapist; Dr. Leary charges very
little.’

SUNY used book sale
reaps profits for students

Students were to redeem all

Due to theearnest efforts of Money and unsold books between

twenty-five University students,
the recent Used Book Sale was an
overwhelming success,

The Sale, sponsored by the
Campus Center Governing Board,
took in approximately $8000 for
Participating students, Used books
were sold from Sept. 15 to last
Tuesday, Sept. 23,

Wednesday and Friday of this
week in 367, Campus Center.

Prices were determined by
individual students with Campus
Center Governing Board receiving
a 10% fee on each book sold.

This Sale, strictly a service to
University students, will be
sponsored again next semester.

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string positions through their
impressive play in pre-season
scrimmages. First year men are
eligible for the varsity this year
under the new ECAC ruling.

Joining Backus on defense will
be juniors Joel Volinski and Al
Rosenberg, while the fourth
fullback slot will be manned by
either junior Tony Salvo or
sophomore Chris Werner.

Senior co-captain Al Nielsen
and Terry Trono will team with
Keleshian at halfback. On the line,
senior Jim Shear, the other
co-captain, is assured a starting
berth. The other two positions
remain undecided, but sophomore
Gavin Lowder probably will gain
one of the nods. Other candidates
inelude seniors Lew Kahler and

Basil Morgan, and juniors
Demetrious Michael and Ron
Spratt.

Coach Schieffelin, starting his
second year as head coach at
Albany, is hopeful of improving
on last fall:s 3-6-1 mark, but
makes no prediction on the team’s
chances. ‘We should have better
depth than last year and the
defense is improved, but we still
need more scoring punch,” is
Schieffelins quick size-up. Last
year, the Great Danes scored 19
goals, while giving up a school
record 38.

The Great Danes face their
longest schedule, 11 games, since
1955. There are four new
opponents, including the Coast
Guard. The other newcomers are
Harpur, Central Connecticut, and
Hamilton, tri, noping sor a
1NCAA tournament bid, shapes up
as the toughest foe for 1969.

The highlight of the home
season will be the October 25
Homecoming game against
Stonybrook.

BLEACHER
BOUND

by Dave Fink

Another fall term has descended upon Albany State. Indeed, it 1s
characterized by many activities- the purchasing of textbooks, the
search for classrooms, the dropping and adding of courses, the well
intentioned and original greeting, ‘How was your summer vacation?’
Oh yes! How could one forget? Fall brings the sight of the able bodied

“State atheletes expounding all their energies and competitive desires in

making ready for the upcoming cross country, soccer and football
seasons (intramural football, that is). Naturally, the entire student
body is affected by these athletic goings on, for if they are not
competing, they are anticipating with ‘silent’ delight the opening of
the home soccer schedule. Elsewhere around the world, soccer is
known as ‘football.’ Obviously, this is the same connotation that the
Albany student gives it.

Please, do not misunderstand. If baseball can be called the ‘national
pastime,’ then one can aptly deem soccer the ‘international pastime.’
It has gained world wideacclaim and it does, in fact, deserve this. And
yet, obviously, as seen from past years, it is not the activity that this
student body would care to watch on a Saturday afternoon in
autumn. Indeed, football is.

The absence of football need not be - this is the absurdity of the
entire situation. One year ago, an Ad Hoc Committee on Athletics
aplan for the institution ot football on a club basis to President
Collins and the Board of Trustees, to the Faculty Senate. This
proposal was accepted by all with two changes; 1) That President
Collins would make a committment to have a club team for one year
only as he would be leaving the school. After this, the succeeding
President could review the situation, and 2) That the students have
equal representation on University Council. Both of these changes
were approved yet, as we all know, there was a cut,in State funds
awarded to the school, thus any new positions wich the Physical
Education Department asked for, including that of a combination
football coach-physical education instructor were denied. This
problem came up before the Athletic Advisory Board which decided
that a precedent could not be set; that being that no man in the past
had been paid just to coach; then they would not stray from this
policy. This means that until we get money from the State we cannot
get a man to coach. This year we can feasibly get the money- yet there
33 another prerequisite involved-student support. Dr. Werner, the head
of the Phys. Ed. department has stated that he was very disappointed
with the lack of interest shown last year. Well, this is a new year. A
new President has been chosen for the school. He would be ready to
review the situation. He could ask for the money. Yet the first step
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me" Spring Sports

by Bob Familant

Albany State had it’s most
successful spring season as nine
varsity sports and one club
finished with winning records.

Lacrosse will become the 10th
varsity sport at State University at
Albany next spring. The stickmen
have earned the promotion after
5-0-1 and 9-1 seasons as a club.
Joe Silvey and John Morgan, both
part-time coaches, did a superb
job in conditioning and training
the players in a sport that made
its first appearance on campus last
year. Awards went to Mark
Werder (MVP); Bob Cole (most
jimproved); Steve Jdakway
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and Kevin Sheehan, (Captains
Leadership Award.) It looks like a
bright future for lacrosse at
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In its first year of varsity

team finished with a winning
record. The Great Danes won two
and lost one in dual meets, had
two firsts and two thirds in
triangulars, and tied for sixth at
the LeMoyne Relays. Don Beevers
was nemed most valuable, Orville
Eacker most improved, and Don
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Freshman. The team is looking
forward to another successful
season this Spring.

The Albany golf team had its
first successful season since 1965,
finishing 8-5. Marv Gertzberg was
named the teams Outstanding
Golfer and Tom Patterson the
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The shining star of the
successful Spring season was the
undefeated tennis team. Led by
senior Ron McDernott the team
posted a 10-0 record. With five of
six starters returning this Spring it
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Judo Club
Second Season

by James McGlynn

The State University Judo Club
for men and women, specializing
in Kodokan Judo, will conduct its
forst meeting on Wednesday,
October 1, in the Men’s 2nd floor
auxilliary gym.

The club, recognized by the
United States Judo Federation,
was established last year at State
to give University students the
2pportunity not only to learn the
affectiveness of Judo, as a means
of self-defense, but also the sport

Fountain, Nidan (2nd Degree
Black Belt), President of the Troy
Judo Club. The men are taught in
the 2nd floor men's auxilliary
gymnasium by Mr. Noriyasu
Kudo, Godan (5th Degree Black
Belt), chief instructor at the Troy
Judo Club. Mr. Kudo has also
carried the distinguished titles of
Tokyo Judo Champion and
All-Japan Judo Champion.

The Judo Club is a growing
one. From a membership of over
60 last year, plans for expansion

of Judo, with its rank, include a possible membership of
achievement, Japanese customs,
and ethicalcode, As a new 200 students, Since there is a

addition this year, Karate will be
incorporated into the instruction.

Formal classes will be
conducted each Wednesday from
4:15 to 5:45. The women meet in
the second floor women’s
auxilliary gymnasium and receive

Judo Club at RPI and the
beginnings of a club at HVCC, an
inter-collegiate tournament is
possible in the near future,
Anyone interested in joining
this new, dynamic club should
attend the first meeting on
October 1. For information, call

instruction from Mr. Robert Jim: 457-7926.
by Jeff Weiner Genta 01 OL ig Aas Ue Mamsoy “wil” loa Hor “eae Are Y ou A Mi 9
State University at Albany’s  2"d senior Tom Mills of Baldwin include seniors Larry Franks of an:

eminently successful coach, Bob
Munsey, faces his toughest
schedule with a team already
crippled by key personnel losses.
The Great Danes, (58-8 under
Coach Munsey for eight seasons),

were elacted co-captains by their
teammates. Mills has shown great
improvement after failing to win
his letter last year. Tom
transferred to Albany two years
ago from Hofstra.

Dennis Hackett a sophomore

Smyrna and Joe Ingrassia of
Nanuet, and juniors Jonathan
Herbst of Oceanside, Bill Meehan
of Rochester, and Orville Eacker
of Dolgeville. None have lettered.

Under the new ECAC tule,
freshmen are eligible for varsity

by Jay Marshall and Nick Faraclas
The Mets have grown up! They have clinched the championship of the
Fastern Division of the National League. And suddenly, they have
quite a few new fans. If you think that you are a true Met fan, if
you've suffered for seven years, then you. should be able to answer

Seen ae rete ed Acctony from Hilton, is perhaps the this year. Summing up, Munsey _these questions.
Soa eo eetate at, brightest spot on the Danes’ says, “We'll run a little seared this

and Montclair
double-dual meet at the Academy.

Wssing from last year’s squad
are five of the top six runners.
This leaves Munsey with only two
returning lettermen to build a
winning record on, Great pressure
as a result will be put on juniors
Pat Gepfert of Colonie, No.2 last
year, and Jim Mastromarchi of
Albany (AHS), No. 5 before being
sidelined by illness at midseason,

Horizon. He was unbeaten in
freshman dual meets in 1968.
Hackett and Gepfert figure to
battle it out for top position.

Paul Holmes of Colonie, a
numeral winner in freshman
cross-country and track and field
last year has shown real promise,
but has hobbled recently by an
ankle sprain.

Other upperciassmen to whom

year, but don’t count us out yet.”
Based on his impressive record,
few figure to do so.

Highlighting the forthcoming
season will be the third annual
Albany Invitational on October
25, Homecoming at Albany. The
schedule includes six dual meets
and three double-duals in addition
to the Albany and LeMoyne
Invitations.

New Coaches Prepare Frosh For

1. What was the starting lineup for the Mets first game?

2. Who got the first Met hit?

3. Who got the first Met home run?

4. Most runs ever scored by a Met team in one game? Against
whom? .

5. Who was the player who came to the Mets with Tommy Davis in
exchange for Ron Hunt and Jim Hickman?

6, Which Met holds the team home run record for one season?

7. Which Met pitcher appeared in the most games in one season?

8. Name the three pitchers who combined for 63 losses in 1962.

9. Who led the Mets in home runs in 1964? >

10. Who was the losing pitcher in the 23 inning game vs. San
Francisco in 1964?

11. Who was the Met player traded for himself (he was traded for a

Encounters

player to be named later which turned out to be himself).

=r

Opening Day

by Mike Schweigert
This Saturday when the Junior
Varsity Cross-Country squad
opens its season in the Hudson
“ Valley Invitational, it will have a
rough road ahead— in more ways
than one. The sixteen man squad,
composed mainly of runners with
little or no previous experience
will be competing against many
Junior College teams who’ve had
the benefit of one year’s running.
Added to this disadvantage is the
unusually late start of practice
—one to two weeks later than

SPORTS

There will be a meeting of all
candidates for varsity and junior
varsity wrestlers on Monday, Sept.
29 at 4:00 P’M’ in the second
floor lounge of the Phys. Ed.
Building. Freshmen may play
varsity sports this year. They are
urged to attend.

SERREEEE

A conditioning program open
to all University Students is now
being conducted in the Physical
Education Building. The program
consists of weight lifting, middle
distance running and _ distance
Tunning. The program meets daily
Monday thru Thurs. from 3:30
to4:30 P.M. Those interested
should report to the special
exercise room on the third floor
of the P.E. building.

 cadatadlatiataciall
Women’s Recreation

, Lewis will

most of the season’s adversaries—
which will make the early part of
a very rough year doubly difficult.
Needless to say, Coach Bob Lewis
is somewhat less than optimistic
about finishing the season with a
favorable won-lost record. Yet he
feels that the mental attitude and
desire of his team makes up for
their lack of outstanding ability.
The Esprit de corps is such that
each success or failure is shared
equally by the team—there are no
stars, only a team operating
within the limits of its capability.

SHORTS

activities to the female student
body.

Sako

On Oct. 2, there will be a
meeting for all those interested in
forming a jogging club, on the 3rd
floor of the P.E. building. There
will be a picnic on Sept. 28 from
3-6 P.M. WRA will also sponsor
wolleyball and bowling
intramurals. On Activities Day,
they will sponsor demonstrations
in Yoga, tumbling and trampoline
exercises.

Dainese

The university will sponsor a
basketball coaching clinic for area
high school coaches November 2,
from 2-5 p.m., in the university
gymnasium. Albany head coach
Dick Sauers, varsity assistant Mike
O’Brien, and freshman coach Bob

The team leaders are co-captains

Rene Hebert and John
Cummerford.

In direct contrast to the
problems of x-country, Coach

John Barrett—taking over for Mr.
Muse who became assistant
Varsity coach—is enthusiastically
optimistie over the chances for
she Junior Varsity Soccer team.
The turn-out was encouraging,
and the competition for positions
is so strong, and the players so
well-balanced that not a single
player is sure of a starting berth.
Coach Barrett plans to test his
yam in a_ scrimmage against
Union College on Wednesday, and
then name his starters for the
yeason’s opener against Fulton
Montgomery the following
Wednesday. The competition is as
trong as it could possibly be,
with many experienced Junior
colleges scheduled. Singled out as
the foes most likely to give the
stiffist competition are RPI and
Hartwick—both home games.

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12. Who won the first regular season game for the Mets?

13. The Mets were involved in the longest scoreless game. Who was
their opponent? How many scoreless innings were completed?

14. Who was the only Met second baseman to lead the league in

errors in one season?

15. Two Met pitchers aside from Craig and Jackson have lost 20 or
more games in one season. Name them.

16. Who was Charley Neal’s roommate?

17. Everyone knows Ron Swoboda wears number 4. What was his
original number? Who took his original number?

Likewise, Ed Kranepool also gave his original number to a veteran.
What was his first uniform number and who did he give it to?

18. Who hit the most lifeting home runs for a Met catcher?
19. Who led the Mets in assists in 1962?

20. Who was the Mets first Canadian relief pitcher?

answers on Page 8

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For here today surely there are
indeed eyes and ears and hands,
but above all, young, idealistic,
angry, mocking spirits.

For this new generation in being
and becoming I myself covet not
only that they find for themselves
what Eliot and many of us have
sought, “the still point of the
turning world,” but also that
unlike Eliot’s J, Alfred Prufrock
they may actually “squeeze the

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know and not forget their own
history. For genesis precedes and
defines exodus.

Running hard against Mayor Corning, eimer

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upcoming election:

John F. Adams, Susan Allen,
Lucius Barre, Diane Battaglino,
Jeannette Beckerman, Sue Sutton

Edward S. Potskowski, Karen
Plete, Gary Restifo, Stephanie
Rice, David A. Ruppert, Susan
Sammartabo, James W. Sandy,

Marsha Halper, Jay Handieman,
Charles W. Hart Jr., Robert A.
Holmes, Robert seman, Joseph P.

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Recentiy anthropologist Loren imtrodueing the rational into the
Eiseley wrote these words, °"¢Oming future.” To these
of Serious and solemn words I should

“Science:” “A yearning for a life like, in closing to add those of
of noble savagery without the 20ther writer, Robinson Jeffers, |
accumulated burdens of history 2 Poet better known to my
seems in danger of engulfing a Seneration than yours. They were
whole generation, as it did the the words of one of his characters,
French philosophers and their Called “Fayne,” a Madonna-like
followers
Those individuals who persist in
pursuing the mind-destroying drug
of constant action have not only

person, who speaks with sad and
infinite wisdom:

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lee, into a ball a = it increasingly chaotic present—they This great age falls like water
QW AEG. Ai CO VELW Neiming 76 alec, by. the) (delibemt ji . :
question,” and that they also“) >. .Gonmens or une cane and new age is at birth,

But without your pain

night
appear here on Sunday afternoon, September 28, a°
2 P.M. in the CC Cafeteria, and once again air his views on “revitalizing Albany.”

All complaints should be judged or processed

~-hochberg

accerding to rules of contemporary conditions and
not based on precedents of previous decisions dating

back to the stone age.

Faculty Senate to admit

student representatives

Continued from page 1

formed to discuss this proposal.
The committee called for interim
student membershiop on the
Senate while formal plans for
student participation could be
formed.

At the Faculty Senate meeting
of June 2, 1969 the issue was
deferred till the September
meeting. One side issue which
developed was whether
instruetors, who are not
represented on the Senate, should
also be allowed membership.

‘The Executive Committee took
the June 2deterraito the General
Faculty meeting of September 11.
A resolution was approved which
allowed for 33 student
representatives on Faculty Senate,

22 undergraduates and 11
graduates.
This brings the total

membership of the Senate to 100
(67 faculty and 88 students).
Also, a committee was formed to
consider the implications of a
university government.
Central Council has approved a
resolution to have the 22
undergraduate representatives
chosen by a general election. At

present arrangements are vemg
made for the elections.
Applications are available at the
Campus Center Information Desk
and must be returned to the SA
office room 346 by October 10th.

Harrassment

Over the weekena of Sept. 20,
Alumni Quad residents reported-
several incidents of harrassment
by teenage Albany residents.

On Saturday night, two
University freshmen riding a
motorcycle in the vicinity of the
downtown campus were accosted
by an unidentified youth who
sprayed something in the face of
one.

The student was taken by
University police to Albany
Medical Center where he was
treated and released.

Later that night, the driver of
the motorcycle and four other
students returned to the same area
and one of the group was jumped.
He was also treated at Albany
Medical Center.

Two lesser incidents: involving
local youths were reported on
Sunday night by University
students.

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

Friday, September 26, B69

Off Center

by M.J. Rosenberg

On October 15, 1969 students all over America will leave the
classroom, put down their books and go out to speak to their
countrymen about the war in Vietnam. They will go to the factories,
and to the shopping centers, to the ghettoes and to the suburbs. The
war on Vietnam thus shall resume on the campus. And, as been said
before, we have not yet begun to fight.

It is about time. We've been patient. All too patient. We
understandably allowed the death of Robert Kennedy and the
Chicago massacre to deaden us. We sat out the Nixon-Humphrey
non-election, fearing that the worst was yet to come.

And we gave Richard Nixon a fair chance. He told us to speak
quietly, that his role in history was to be that of “‘peace-maker.” And
so we silently endured the sickening spectacle of Laird going to the
Pentagon, Mitchell to Justice, and Strom Thurmond to the ultimate
power. Somehow we felt, Nixon would have to end this war. Any man
astute enough to become President after two consecutive defeats,
would not allow himself to be trapped and destroyed by following the
example of his predecessor.

We were wrong. Nixon has affirmed and reaffirmed his contention
that our “committment” in Vietnam is a noble one, and in fact that
our adventure there is “our finest. hour.” He will have withdrawn by
Dec. 15, 1969 sixty thousand troops, leaving behind some 450,000 to
struggle and die while Henry Cabot Lodge, rejected by our people in
1952, 1960 and 1964, labors in Paris to prove that he was right all
along.

The B-52 raids continue. The search and destroy missions continue.
‘The war extends to Laos. President Thieu says that he will not accept
any form of Communist presence in South Vietnam and adds that he
is tiring of the “peace negotiations.” And meanwhile five New

Yorkers a day die. Five kids from Brooklyn, Kingston ana patavia
who are guilty of no crime but misplace faith in their government.

‘The war must end. We have already learned that genuine wars of
national liberation cannot be stopped by big power intervention. The
Americans won out in 1777, the Israelis won three times, the
‘Algerians defeated the French in 1962, and the Biafrans are, despite
the indifference of the “civilized world,” able to hold off the
‘Anglo-Russo-Egyptian-backed Nigerians. The Vietnamese also will
prevail. Like the Biafrans and the Israelis, their back is to the wall.

Our job is to work to bring our fellow Americans home from
Vietnam. We owe this much to the 450,000, to ourselves, and to
history. The anti-war action of Oct. 15 needs the support of every
individual who supports the right of young Americans to life. All
those who oppose this war must participate.

Let no one say we are acting precipitously. We indulged ourselves
with our peaceful ineffective demonstrations all through 1966 and
1967. In 1968, we went out and rang doorbells for a Senator from
New York and a Senator from Minnesota. We won every single
primary and, in the process, unseated a President of the United States.
Today it is as if Eugene McCarthy never stood up alone in New
Hampshire and as if Robert F, Kennedy never lived and died in the
anti-war|cause, On Oct. 15 all this will change.

Because next month we'll be back. Get out your blue-white
McCarthy button, your black bordered Kennedy pin. Clean up your
old pacards and get out your well-worn walking shoes. On October 15,
we march.

Meadows:on students.revolt,

and the beauty of

Continued from page 7
student and other social
movements have been sounding.
“Conceiving of themselves as
exploited sons,” says sociologist
Lewis Feuer in a recent notable
study on the conflict of
generations, “they feel a kinship
with the deceived and exploited
of society as a whole. , Every
student movement has cherished
memories of brothers whom their
fathers destroyed.”

It is as though each new
generation, brought into being not
by the passage of time but by
major shifts in the structure of
society or by the tragic event of
war or civil strife, or by the
strident voices of ‘sensitive and
outraged prophets of reform,
undergoes a de-briefing
experience, a de-briefing which
cuts them loose from the
traditional mission laid upon them
by an older generation and which
sets them out on their own
apparently new mission of
discovery and fulfillment. “We
must,’’ said President John

Kennedy, ‘we must plough new
furrows in the sky,” and thereby
be linked for all time the
furrowsof the frontiering West to
the disciplined technology of the
frontiering space age.

IV

It is probably true that each
new generation tends to
exaggerate the uniqueness of its
experiences with the world.
Nonetheless, there are differences,
and they are probably differences
which will make a difference, now
as they have in the past.

One such difference which
characterizes this new generation
of rebels is the way in which
student and black movements
alike are seeking to unite a
pervasive mistrust of authority
with strong idealistic impulses. It
is not new in America to distrust
and attack authority; but it is
novel to witness the angry attacks
on the legitimacy of authority,

Words For White Ones:

A view

The following is a selection from
the University of Hartford’s New
Liberated Press of September,
1969. Entitled “Words for White
Ones”, it is taken from a
collection entitled “Together.”
The named only
‘angelo.’ This work was brought
to our attention by Guy Nutter,
an alumnus of SUNYA. It is
reproducehere in its entirety.

be done. Many changes to be
made. We can but ask you to
dance with our music. To move
with our motion. Dance, groove,
and frenzy to the savage itensity
of Nixon’s land. Yes, there is
much work to be done.

But within many ot you there
lies a beast. It has kept black
people in chains for many
centuries. Denied us of dignity,
peoplehood, and pride. Robbed us
of richness and slaughtered our
dreams. It is a mind-beast of a
thousand forms. See its colours

author is

Autumn casts leaves upon the

ground and once again the season
changes, You have come here with
great expectations, faces falling
together as children at a carnival
unfolding. And yet you claim you
are ready. You. The white ones.

There is much here you do not
understand. The silent angers on
black faces. The rhetoric of
revolution, The timeless struggle
between justice and oppression.
So many truths to fill your void.

Further, there is much work to

blazing on falgs. See it show its
teeth, Call the beast racism, It is
our sworn enemy. Murderer of
our children. Seducer of our
women. We live to see it
destroyed. This is our mission.
This is our destiny. We the
colonized black people of the
United States of America.

Whose side are you on? This is
the question that we ask of you.
Be you beast or angel? Enemy or
friend? Sage or fool? On what
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paths do your conceptions lie?

It is yours to prove merit.
Yours to cast aside your mask and
be one with the revolution. For
we realize that you, too, have
your chains. Instruments of
deception to bring you down.

Look, look again in that mirror.
What sort of person do you see?
Will you stand at the wayside or
move at the mainstream? That is
what we'd like to know. Like. To
Know.

angelo

Mathias

Continued from page |

he felt that the bill was violating
that policy. After an attempt to
call an emergency Central Council
meeting failed, Mathias decided to
issue a decision reversing the bill,
in order to uphold the present
Alcohol Policy.

Various Council members felt
that Mathias had violated the
Constitution, and the close vote
on censure came after much
consideration and debate on the
issue.

In other matters, Council gave
its endorsement and support to
the work of the Vietnam War
Moratorium and its advocation of
Participation in the nationwide
student strike to be held October
15. Council is also asking the
support of the faculty at the
University, especially by either
cancelling classes on that day or
by not penalizing the students
who participate in the strike,

The reasons for this statement

may be found in the kind of
imagery and style which
characterize this generation of

rebels on campus and in town.
‘The underlying imagery is one of
death. This is a generation born
and growing and grown to
adulthood amid the scenes of
death: Nazi genocide, the
American bombing of Japanese
cities, Vietnam assasinations,and,
haunting the whole scene, the
final, irrevocable death of man
himself residing in the nuclear
bomb and in nuclear deterrent
systems. “Our work,” read the
1963 Port Huron statement of the
S.D.S., “our work is guided by the
sense that we may be the last
generation in the experiment with
living.” It would be a sad mistake
to regard this language as
bombast, as empty poetry. The
words echo Camus’ famous
statement that other generations
have seen themselve as ‘charged
with remaking the world,” but
this one has a task “perhaps even
greater, for it consists in keeping
the world from destroying itself.”

For the young, through
television and cinema and the
printed page and music, the world
has become a total environment.
In this new total world there is for

them the brooding sense of
sumbolic death, perceived, as
psychiatrist Robert Lifton

recently pointed out, “in this
combination of formlessness and
totality, of the inadequacy of
existing forms and of
imprisonment within them.” And
so with Camus’ “rebel,” a culture
hero of this generation, the
utterly necessary appeal is to “the
essence of being,” a quest “not.

for life, but for reasons for
living.” It is not surprising that
they are finding those reasons, not
in the familiar Cartesian litanies,
but in what is for an older
generation the unfamiliar
rhythmns and lyrics of rock-folk
festivals, I cannot urge too
strongly the skeptical or unaware
us to listen seriousty at teas. w..-_
lyrics of this music. For they
express a widespread turning to a
new kind of revolution, as Dr.
Lifton has said, one which is

“devoid of the claim to
omniscience, and of the
catastrophic chain ‘of human
manipulations stemming from

that claim.” It is a revolution of
Mythos, not Logos, a revolution
in human expression, a revolution
in participation, not control.

This is indeed a new kind of
revolution, not ideological, but
open, even fragmentary, formless
yet sensitive to all the new
options for human sensitivity and
possibility. One of the graffiti on
a Paris wall during the student
rebellion says it well:
“Imagination is revolution.” The
aim, I believe, was well expressed
by Daniel Cohn-Bendit in a
conversation with Jean Paul
Sartre: “an active minority acting,
you might say, as a permanent
ferment, pushing forward without

pam

trying to control events.” To
which Sartre replied, with insight
to so unusual among men'over 30:
“I would like to describe what
you have done as extending the
field of possibilities.”

v

To be sure, not everyone over
30 (and perhaps many under 30)
will be so generous as Sartre, For

some this new revolutionary
radicalism, so spontaneous, so
ill-mannered, so ' disconcerting
will be welcomed as a revival of
their own dissident days; others
will retreat into “technical and
professionalized preoccupations;”
and still others will find
themselves entrenched in a kind
of generational warfare. However,
there are some who will indeed
weleome these new visions of a
life-conditioned, not a
life-destructive, world,
remembering T.S. Eliot’s verdict
on their own generation as he
pronounced that verdict in ‘The
Hollow Men:”

“There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars.”

Continued on page 10

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Friday, September 26, 1969

Editorial
Real Relief

Relief from tired education may soon become a reality at this
University.

Faculty Senate will meet in October to decide, finally, the content
and institution of a pass-fail system. We cannot believe the Pass-Fail
(or Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory) will contribute inestimably to the
better learning conditions.

With the current system it is easier to get hung on “getting the
grade” than it is to acquire knowledge. The emphasis now being on
the grade, it is not difficult to disregard personal intellectual
development in favor of studying only those things deemed important
by the professor, retaining this “objective” material just long enough
to pass his tests.

Perhaps with a lack of constraints on the classroom experience,
imaginative professors will- judge the success of a student on a more
individual basis, considering his personal potential and relate this to
the student’s performance in class.

With a lack of competitive A-E grading, it is also possible for the
student to relax and create his own learning environment, rather than
be constrained by artificial pressures (real or imagined).

Students, we would guess, will be more inclined to pay greater
attention to courses outside their major fields since they would not
have to sacrifice their major grade by doing outside work.

We must agree with those who suggest the S-U is more open to
subjectivity. It is time human differences, subjective differences were
considered and respected by the very institution that professes to
educate individuals and not jellied conglomerates.

Although we prefer a system entirely without professorial
evaluation, we feel that P-F will bring us closer to the goal of
education for wisdom and satisfying living.

Comment

Mobilization

The war in Vietnam has extracted a heavy toll from the American
people, a toll which cannot be measured in lives alone.

As far as can be determined, the Nixon Administration has failed to
move any closer to a real peace in the past year. It appears that the
war will continue as long as Nixon is able to stall for time with the
promise that he is only looking for an “honorable peace.”

In order to move decisively towards ending this conflict, the public
must be mobilized into a unified display of the desire to end the war.
An effective demonstration may move the administration to put an’
end to the senseless killing in a war which, since it has begun to END,
has cost over 10,000 American lives.

Towards these ends, we support—and urge all groups an¢
individuals on campus to do likewise— the call for a moratorium on
October 15. We also support—and, again, urge all to do likewise—the
call for a strike on November 14, and a March on Washington on
November 15.

President Nixon has assured us he could, would, and now, will, end
the war. We have heard too much about ending the war since the days
of the “peace Talks.”

We wish to attempt now to “begin the peace.”

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Legal Reform

"fo the Editors,

I would like to acquaint you with a chaotic
conditions in the Supreme Court, Appellate
Division, Third Department and the failure to

institute corrective measures and reforms.

A broad inspection of judicial process should be
initiated, a committee formed to receive, examine
and act upon citizens complaints against the judges,
prosecuting attorneys and unethical, thieving
lawyers, whose conduct borders on criminal
activities.

Many Supreme Court Judges are rude, psychotic,
political sinecures fully cooperating with
manipulating Distraict Attorneys with selected
juries of political ward-heelers.

It is an established fact that 68% of lawyers in
Third Department could not pass a_ state
examination. Most lawyers representing the public,
or clients, or those that have been assigned to them
in police court, appear as, if ever went to law
school.

It is very hard to escape the conclusion that a
double standard is employed by the Appellate
Division, Third Department, to protect obviously
guilty lawyers and label and smear those who dare
to seek justice or dare to demand their money back
from the thieving members of the bar.

Shocking, unbelievable hurdles face a
complainant against the lawyer, who is forced to
follow a labyrinthine judicial procedure justice or
return of their stolen money.

Our professional politicians fill the air with
slogans of ‘Law and Order’ but they do not start at
the top of our judicial system. Thefts by lawyers are

NO Sex Before Marriage '!

To the Editors,

Please do not treat this letter lightly as we, the
writers, most certainly DO NOT.

I am confident, that both you and I fully
realize what this present ‘jet age,’ hascontributed to
the moral decay of increasing numbers of our
youth, i.e.: movies, television, music and fashions,
drugs. z

Indications all point to a very possible, 20th
Century, ‘SODOM AND GOMORRAH.’

WE MUST NEVER PERMIT THIS TO
HAPPEN.. ....NEVER......NEVER!

What can be done?????

To us, just everyday working people, here in
Corning, NY, there is only one answer.....FIGHT

FIGHT, arid keep FIGHTING, until this evil is
destroyed.

From the beginning, we have advocated sex
education in the schools, as we feel, ‘tell it like it is,’
so that when {eonfronted{ with various situations,
one knows how to react.

In our small way, we have decided to do the
following, (which I am sure will be laughed at, and
ridiculed by many.) However, we are dedicated and
determined, and perhaps, being God-fearing people
that you are, as are we, you will |help us,

‘As an incentive to our youth, as something to
be proud of, and look up to, we have founded a ‘NO
SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE’ club, and furnishing
for the small sum of $3.00, a lovely certificate, 8 by

Il and suitable for framing, snowing memversnip in
this club, with his or her name, or the name of ¢
group, organization etc., inscribed thereon, in
addition to buttons and wallet size cards. THIS IS
AN EXCLUSIVE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION’

We are parents ourselves, and we regret the
charge of $3.00, yet this is necessary to cover the
costs of printing and handling, and helps to partially
finance our planned college lecture tours of our
President and Vice President.

We desire nothing for ourselves, save the
realization that perhaps our smalleffectorwill, in
some way, help guide our youth on the only true
path to happiness and salvation........the path of
righteousness.

Our President has appeared on television in
order to further our goal, and already, at this time,
we can boast numerous members, both male and
female, from many colleges throughout the country.

As I stated above, these certificates, we think
are very lovely, and in addition to greatly aiding
youth, you might, as a special project, order them in
volume, and distribute them for whavever amount
you would decide upon, giving the proceeds to your
favorite charity.

Please let us hear from you. (You may send
cash or money order.)

‘Yours for a Stronger Youth,’
NSBM Club

c/o 336% Park Ave,
Corning, NY 14830

at an all time high, the situation is critical, if not
desperate, but the elected officials, 90% of them
lawyers, will protect the members of the most
prostituted profession.

A committee of citizens should be formed to
consider complaints against the public officials,
judges, district attorneys and lawyers. It should not
be totally or partially controlled by any branch of
the government or judiciary,

Such a committee should be composed of
laymen, whose prime purpose is to restore and
render justice to indignant citizens without resorting
to strict legalism forced upon the public by the
selfperpetuating legislative, judicial and prosecuting
hierarchy.

It is paramount that good relations be established
between the public and the judiciary, especially
judges. The committee should permit the
complainants to have their day in court and provide
protection against judges, which on many occasions
are even shunned by the lawyers themselves, by
having the litigants suits transferred or postponed to
other Supreme Court judges.

All Armed Services have an enlisted man sitting at
all court martials, but our musty, heirarchial
Supreme Court, Appellate Divisions are inner
sanctums, barred to the complainant, who may not
face the lawyer he is accusing, because only thus can
the conniving and thieving lawyers be absolved of
wrong doing.

The state should assume responsibility for losses
of those litigants who are victims of erroneous
decisions by judges in surrogate and other courts, if
the committee votes the remedial award to the
complainant.

Respectfully yours,
Joseph A, Lukes
Green Lake Road
Coxsackie, N.Y.

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