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Vol.LVII No.13 State University of New York at Albany Wednesday, February 24,
Nixon Requests
Student Aid
by G.C. Thelen Jr.
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) - President Nixon renewed his
request Monday for a revamping and $644-million
expansion of college-student aid so an additional
million low-income young people could receive
federal education subsidies.
Repeating his commitment that “no qualified
student who wants to go to college should be barred
by lack of, money,” the chief executive told
Congress in a special message:“*The program which
I'm again submitting this year would benefit
approximately one million more students than are
currently receiving aid.
“Tt would assure that federal funds go first, and in
largest amounts, to the neediest students, in order
to place them on an equal footing with students
from higher-income families.”
Students from families making over $15,000 are
five times more likely to attend college than young
people whose families earn less than $3,000, he said.
Congress killed a virtually identical administration
plan last year, largely because at least 300,000
middle-income students would have lost eligi-
bility for interest-subsidy loans.
The President’s proposals again failed to meet the
request of higher education organizations for direct
government aid to colleges and universities.
But Nixon did renew his unsuccesstul request of
last year for a National Foundation for Higher
Education within the government to finance educa-
tion and explore methods for direct federal aid to
institutions. The budget request for this foundation,
however was $100 million compared to $200
million in 1970.
Dr. Sidney P. Marland Jr., commissioner of educa-
tion, agreed that colleges desperately need direct
aid. But the administration decided to make low-
income students the No. 1 priority in part because
no workable formula for institutional aid has been
developed, he said.
Under the President’s student-aid-proposal, the
eligibility maximum would be $10,000 a year
taxable income for a family of four.
Maximum government aid would be $1,400 a year
per student through a mix of grants, work-study
payments and subsidized loans, except for students
attending high-cost colleges who could receive an
additional $1,500 a year in subsidized loans.
In general, lower-income students would receive
mostly grants and work-study payments while high-
er-income youngsters would receive subsidized
loans.
The President's proposal would increase govern-
ment subsidies to colleges from $970 million this
year to 1.6 billion in fiseal 1972.
President Nixon has renewed his request to Congress to revamp the student aid programs so that “no
qualified student who wants to go to college [will] be barred by the lack of money.”
[AP Wirephoto]
Students Ask Support for
Puerto Rican Studies Dept.
by Vicki Zeldin
News Editor
Some sixty students, predomi-
nantly Puerto Rican, sat in at the
President’s office Tuesday after-
noon to back up their request for
the formation of a Puerto Rican
Studies Department.
The Student Association’s constitution comes up for student ratification on March 8,9,10. In order to
pass, it MUST have a 60% affirmative vote of 20% of the student body.
graphic by jon guttman
The group sat quietly, as four of
their number met with President
Louis Benezet from 4:00 to 6:30.
The students were seeking the
President’s support for the initia-
tion of the department for the
1972-73 school year.
The probability of the depart-
ment’s formation took a step for-
ward this past fall when a com-
mittee was set up to study the
feasibility of its creation. What
the students wanted was some-
thing in writing rather than a
verbal statement from the
President in support of the pro-
gram. The President had voiced
support for the concept in Octo-
ber.
The students present in the red
carpeted area near the President’s
office read newspapers, conversed,
often in Spanish, and played jacks
while waiting for some informa-
tion on the progress of the meet-
ing taking place in Benezet’s
office. The group, apparently well
organized, left to eat dinner in
shifts so a sizable number would
be present in the building at all
times.
There are, currently, three cours-
es being given in the field of
Puerto Rican studies. These in-
clude: Puerto Rican Literature,
Family, and Culture. Desired by
the group present, however, was
an actual department devoted to
Puerto Rican Studies.
The meeting with Benezet broke
up at 6:30. The four students and
the President came out into the
crowd waiting to hear the results.
The President informed the group
that he supported the idea of the
department in principle, but reaf-
firmed the fact that the decision
to initiate the department was not
solely at his discretion. “I can not tell
the Social Science Department
what to put in their curriculum,”
he said. The group left the build-
ing after being addressed by
Benezet and their representatives.
Even if the concept of a Puerto
Rican Studies Department is ap-
proved by the various committees
within the University it still must
be approved by the Board of
Regents. The formation of any
new deparmtent is always depend-
ent upon budgetary support.
Further information regarding
what definite action will be taken
on the request will be available on
Thursday.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1971
' lethon Aids Autistic Children
by Barbara Bernstein
An ASP Feature
It all starts Friday at 7 p.m. sharp.
Albany State’s fourth Telethon, a mara-
thon event of talent, games, contests, and
auctions, will run from 7 p.m. Friday until
7 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds will go to the
National Society for Autistic Children.
Months of preparation have gone into
Telethon. People were contacted, audi-
tions held, and literature on Telethon’s
—-potskowski
This weekend’s Telethon promises
talented acts by both organizations, such
as Beta Zeta sororoty (above), and individ-
uals (below).
The Telethon’s proceeds will go to the
National Society for Autistic Children.
--potskowski
purpose and highlights was distributed.
The Co-Chairmen, Dave Selismann and
Nancy Zollers, worked closely with stu-
dents from State and area colleges, the
Campus Center staff, and the National
Society for Autistic Children.
Puzzling, disruptive, heartbreaking.
Those are three terms which describe the
malady known as infantile autism. The
average individual probably knows little of
this condition, or of how seriously it
affects a child and those around him.
Autistic children are usually born to
highly intelligent parents, In fact, the
children themselves often show flashes of
high intelligence and special abilities. The
tragic thing is that although they look like
normal children, often they exhibit bi-
zarre, disturbing behavior: grimaces, ges-
tures, spinning and twirling motions, flap-
ping of the arms, and temper tantrums.
‘They appear to be in a world of their own,
isolated and uncommunicative.
The major problem shared by autistic
children is inadequate language develop-
ment, Those showing retarded speech de-
velopment are often mistakenly diagnosed
as mentally retarded, Autistic children
who do speak evidence echolalia, in which
phrases and words are repeated without
any meaning to the child. Pronoun reversal
is also common.
Meanwhile, while research is being con-
ducted, other things are happening. It has
been found that autistic children can often
benefit from special education. The “talk-
ing typewriter” has been quite helpful.
Hidden language abilities were discovered
in some of the children working with this
device.
This puzzling, disruptive, heartbreaking
disease is being researched, and its mys-
teries are being discovered. But the re-
search and the special schools and camps
being set up to treat autistic children cost
a great deal. The National Society works
to raise funds and to educate people about
autism.
This is where Telethon can make such a
great contribution. Some of the highlights
are a children’s hour on Saturday morning,
entertainment by the international stu-
dents, a Marcus Welby MD film, “Little
Nell”, a musical comedy by Steve Hirsch,
plus a dating game with professors, a
stump the band contest, and a version of
The Newlywed Game featuring pinned or
engaged couples.
In the weeks before Telethon there were
“pre-sales” of vest crocheted by mothers
of autistic children, umbrellas, buttons
and shirts imprinted with Telethon ’71's
motto, “Love is the only way.”
A great deal of effort, time, and planning
has gone into Telethon ’71. Now it all
depends upon the students and the com-
munity to lend their support. Come to
Telethon. Bring a friend, bring a date, take
astudy break, But come.
by Harry Weiner
An ASP Feature
Rring!
“Hello?”
“Nancy?”
“Yes, this is Nancy, Who is
this?”
“Oh, Nancy. This is John.
Nancy, I’ve got to see you. My
world is coming to an end. My
roommate is driving me crazy. My
suitemate won't talk to me be-
cause I’ve been kidding him about
his hair. I’m running out of
money and I’m failing out of
school. Nancy, I’ve just got to talk
to you. What are you doing to-
night?”
“Well, I was going to wash my
hair and....”
“Forget your hair. I don’t mind
the frizzies much anyway. Come
on!”
“Oh, all right. Where should I
meet you?”
“You're a doll. Okay—meet
me in front of Minerva...”
“WHO?”
“Minerva.”
“Would you run through that
again?”
“Minerva!”
“Okay, what's the catch;”
Hardly anyone speaks about
Minerva anymore, The statue of
the Roman goddess of wisdom
that has graced the Albany State
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Minerva to Return
campus for so many years made a
sudden and unexplained disap-
pearance last year, and little has
been said since then concerning
her whereabouts. But in line with
the ASP’s policy of searching out
even the most puzzling mysteries
of this concrete concoction, we
are happy to report that Minerva
is alive and well and living in room
B-28 of the campus center, in two
distinct pieces.
According to Mr. Thomas
Wilhelm, an assistant director of
the campus center and the man
who has taken on much of the
responsibility for returning -the
statue to her rightful place and
condition, a sorority prank during
one of last year’s hell weeks was
the immediate cause of Minerva’s
downfall (sorry!). Although no
one is exactly sure what happened
on that fateful might, the result
was a rather large crack along the
statue’s natural seam (for all those
non-art majors, a natural seam is
where the two halves of the statue
are moided together), and exten-
sive damage to the arms and head.
The task of putting minerva
back together has fallen upon the
shoulders of Walt Cowley, a stu-
dent here who is working towards
a Masters degree in Art. Perhaps
the greatest problem facing Mr.
Cowley is the substance with
which he is working— plaster.
Most of the commercial organiza-
tions contracted by the campus
center were afraid to touch the
statue because of its age and
substance, and the lowest cost
estimate recieved from any of
them was $2000. At any rate, Mr.
Cowley feels he can repair all of
the cracks, put the two halves
back together, paint the statue,
and have it enclosed in a pexiglass
showease for under $1000. If all
goes according to schedule,
Minerva might even be returned to
her pedestal within the next four
weeks.
The Class of 1967 will pay the
repair costs. as they have already
done once before. (Some years
ago, it seems Minerva made an
unscheduled visit to one of the
men’s rooms on the downtown
campus and had an accident.) AS
“guardians” of the statue, they
purchased the marble pedestal 1o-
cated in the campus center lobby,
where Minerva has stood since the
opening of the new campus.
There won’t be any fanfare
when Minerva returns; one day
you'll just notice that some
crushed-up coke cups have been
replaced by a rather large addition
to the campus center’s fur-
nishings. To new students it will
be an attraction, and to old stu-
dents and alumni it will be the
return of one of SUNYA’s oldest
traditions,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1971
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
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Aid for Non-Public Schools
Teacher Corps Plan
To Assist City Schools
by Bruce B. Detlefsen
AP Education Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York State’s tenta-
tive plan for assisting money-short nonpublic
schools this year is to create a ‘ teacher corps’ to
help meet special needs of inner-city pupils attend-
ing such schools.
Details of the proposal remained to be worked
out. But the thrust would be to ease the financial
pressure on private elementary and secondary
schools in urban centers
The state-funded teacher corps approach to help
nonpublic schools remain open has emerged as
the most likely alternative to the parent assistance
plan embodied in the so-called Speno-Lerner bill
Two options were under consideration as the
proposal was headed for the bill-drafting stage.
One would be to have administrators of inner-city
nonpublic schools find qualified teachers of their
own choosing for such nonsectarian courses as
reading,” mathematics and science and receive reim-
bursement from the state.
The other, regarded as less likely, would be for
public school teachers to teach some nonsectarian
subjects in nonpublic schools, also at state expense.
When Rockefeller disclosed this week that a new
kind of aid to nonpublic schools would be forth-
coming, he said that, if private schools shut down,
the cost to taxpayers would be greater than pro-
viding some additional assistance to keep such
schools
The closing of Catholic schools in particular would
hit hardest at the state’s major cities, since 60 per
cent of the children who attend Catholic elementary
and secondary schools in New York are enrolled in
the “Big Six” cities.
Gerry Wagner as he appeared at a speaking engagement last year.
--benjamin
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Gerry Wagner Pleads Guilty
To Marijuana Possession
Gerard Wagner, a former assist-
ant professor here, was given a
conditonal discharge after plead-
ing guilty to a reduced charge of
criminal possession of a dangerous
drug, sixth degree. As a condition,
he must refrain from violating the
law for a year.
Wagner had previously been
charged with the criminal sale of a
dangerous drug after an alleged
distribution of “reefers” during a
peace march last May.
Wagner was the center of a
student protest last spring after he
was informed by the RPA depart-
ment that his option for re-hiring
would not be picked up at termi-
nation of his contract in June.
‘At Monday’s trial, Wagner gave
his address as Willowbrook Farm,
Surprise, Greene County and his
occupation as “writer.” He also
said that ‘he has completed all
requirements for a doctor of
philosophy degree with exception
of a dissertation. ’
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will not publish
on
Wednesday, March 3, 1971
Pronouncing sentence, Judge
Schenck told Wagner that ‘I
tion as a teacher of youth
deliberately flouted the law in the
would not be concerned if you
had smoked the ‘joint’ in question
in the privacy of your home. You
presence of a number of young
people; some of whom were pre-
sumeably students...and here’s the
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wouldn’t be here if that had been
the case.”’ He went on to say that
“I am however, very much con-
cerned that a man in your posi-
point, In practically every one of
these cases, the hard drug addict
made his first contact with illegal
drugs by using marijuana.”
Doctors To Be Drafted
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department asked the Selective
Service System to draft 2,100 doctors this year in the first callup of
physicians since 1969. t
The Pentagon said the call up of physicians, osteopaths and dentists
was needed because too few medical school graduates have volun-
teered for military service.
Beginning in July 1,531 doctors of medicine, 77 doctors of
osteopathy and 536 dentists will be drafted into the Army, Navy and
Air Force for a period of two years active duty.
Dr. Louis M. Rousselot, assistant secretary of defense for health and
environment, recommended to Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird
last month that he approve a call up of physicians after two warnings
to the medical community went unheeded.
In an open letter last August, Rousselot reported a 40 percent drop
in voluntary applications. This decline was believed to total more than
2,000 medical school graduates.
Rousselot indicated in an interview last month that the situation had
not improved since his last warning went out five months ago.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1971
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Communications
Fowler Foulup?
To the Editor,
I was interested in reading the account of your
interview with Barnett Fowler as written by Dennis
Whitehead. May I say it was well done, particularly
in view of the amount of material you had to
handle.
Along with whatever corrections Mr. Fowler may
request, may I also ask a point be clarified? At one
point you report Mr. Fowler stating he received a
letter from me speaking of the damages incurred
this year. There is some misunderstanding here. Mr.
Fowler was sent a copy of a letter I wrote in
response to a request for information from one of
his readers, by the reader. At no time in this issue
has there been any direct written communication
between Mr. Fowler and me.
May I also clarify the fact he reported. While it is
true there has been in excess of $5,000 damage
done, more than $3,600 has been collected from the
offenders. This is standing policy at this university.
‘As with any outstanding fee or fine, failure to pay
results in withheld grades and re-registration per-
mission. I hope that having and using all of the
information in context will give a point of view not
now present in Mr. Fowler’s comments or in your
account of them.
Sincerely,
H. David Van Dyck
Assistant to the President
for Community Relations
Soviet Jewry
To the University Community,
When a system of government, in full knowledge
of its acts, attempts to deprive three million of its
citizens both their human and their national rights,
it becomes the duty of man everywhere to protes
To do otherwise is to abregate the tenuous
connections we all have with humanity.
The fact that there are only sixty synagogues in
the whole of the vast territory covered by the Soviet
Union provides mute testimony to the systematic
destruction of Soviet Jewry, by the Soviet authori-
ties. This fact has been well publicized by the
various campaigns for Soviet Jewry, yet most of us
still lie dormant while horror continues.
On Simchat Torah, the Jews of Russia gather at
their synagogues and transform themselves into men
and women unafraid of the informers, the agitators,
and the secret police who taunt them the whole
year around. They sing whatever Hebrew songs and
phrases they know, dance to whatever tunes they
are aware of, and pray with a depth that would
leave most of us ashamed at our own arrogances.
They proclaim, despite the pressure not to, their
desire to remain Jews, to unite with their fellow
Jews in spirit, and to reaffirm their desire to go to
Israel.
It is for the purpose of informing the University
community about the plight of Soviet Jewry that a
group of students have gathered together and
created the Coalition for Soviet Jewry. Our major
aim is to create a sustained awareness of the
problem on campus and to get both faculty and
student to act and protest of the abuses being
perpetrated by the Soviet system. We see ourselves
as an educating group: providing speakers, films,
and cultural activities geared toward the creation of
that awareness. We deem most important, to im-
press most of you who share with us a concern for
humanity with the urgency of this problem. We
need your support~ your active support-- to get
things done. Will you help us?
On Wednesday, February 24, in Lecture Center 1,
Rabbi Gedaliah will be speaking on the plight of
Soviet Jewry. He is a man who has been to the
Soviet Union 8 times-- the most recent having been
last. summer. He is aware of the needs, the desires,
and the capabilities of the Jews within the Soviet
Union. Also he is knowledgeable about Al Tidom
~organization dedicated to helping the Jews in the
Soviet Union.
Please announce to your classes, friends, and
colleagues that Rabbi Gedaliah will be speaking in
LC 1 at 8:00 p.m. on Feb. 24.
Barry Silverberg
Correction
To the Community,
In the February 19, 1971 issue of the ASP, a letter
was printed from Eugene Myers, which charged
Bookstore Manager Bob DiNovo with lying about
book order cuts. Through an FSA employee, the
ASP obtained a copy of the text book order card
sent in by the professor in question.
The card is dated October 30, 1970, and requests
twenty-two copies of two different texts. The
Bookstore ordered the books and on December 8
and December 17 all copies of each book were
received (in plenty of time for the Spring rush).
Mr. Myers apparently was misinformed when he
was told that twenty-four books had been ordered
by the professor. If someone is lying, it’s not
anyone down at the Bookstore.
‘Tom Clingan
Editor-in-Chief
Albany Student Press
Off The Draft
To the Editors:
Your editorial statement, “Keep the Draft,”
should have been about five paragraphs longer, first
because if covers an extremely sensitive issue which
deserves more discussion, and second because it is
full of unsupported assumptions about the nature of
an American volunteer army.
You state that it would be unwise to replace the
draft with a volunteer army, because such armies
have “toppled governments” throughout history,
because they are full of “lifer” types, because they
are more costly, and because draftees “keep the
army human.”
To begin with, I see no advantage in haphazardly
toppling governments (our own among them) with a
conscripted army rather than effectively toppling
them with a volunteer army.
And then I’m not so sure that the American
volunteer army is going to be all that effective. The
forces in America now working against the whole
concept of military preparation are much greater in
quantity and in quality than in any country
throughout history; among those forces are the
news media, the peace movement, and the American
notion - honored, if not followed - that ultimate
control of the army rests with civilians.
We should not, then, be afraid of an army of
“lifers,” especially not one which will cost more to
the taxpayers. I would challenge, though, the
assumption that a system which replaces the Draft
will be more costly; and I would also challenge your
assumption that a volunteer army would be com-
posed of “‘a patriotic, conservative officer class and
a largely-black population of enlisted men.” I can’t
reply to your arguments for. these assumptions,
however, because there weren’t any.
Finally, the notion that a draft system “keeps the
army human”. is totally inconceivable. Who reaps
the benefits of this “humanity?” The Vietnamese
families we reluctantly wipe out? The American
families we patriotically split apart?
We are not rationally discussing the nature of the
military in-American society; behind this discussion
is the ideal - possibly even shared by the President -
that someday there won’t be any need for an army
at all. Ending the draft is a flimsy first step, and the
number of better methods of achieving the ideal is
almost painful to think about; but at least, for now,
let’s stop looking for “equitable” ways of forcing
men to fight overseas and let’s start putting them to
work ending the war at home.
John O’Grady
Comment
Editorial
The Cost of Eating
When the Board of Directors of the Faculty-
Student Association meets next month, they should
have on their agenda the announcement of meal rates
for next year
This has been a bad year economically, with many
students losing what jobs they have. On top of this,
the University has raised the tuition. Only God and
the Dormitory Authority know what room rates will
be next year. The last thing anyone needs, but the
first thing they'll get is a meal price increase from
FSA.
Inflation hits everyone. even non-profit FSA. But
in such a year of increases, is FSA’s only solution
another increase?
Resident students are forced to buy meal plans,
which then subsidize not just the Bookstore, but the
Barber and beauty shops, and even Mohawk campus,
International Students, Alumni, Faculty recruitment,
and every R.A. and Dorm Director on this campus.
On top of this, add the badly-managed Food Service,
which is where we started anyway. Resident Students
can no longer be coerced into subsidizing everyone’s
enjoyment. FSA’s past in this is clear: some of these
subsidy programs must stop: the captive clientele of
the Faculty-Student Association, supposedly not a
profit- oriented organization, must not bear increase
after increase when over 4% of the total Food Service
meal card money is not spent on meals!
The law binding residents to the inefficient FSA
must be repealed. When a better meal can be
obtained at the Snack Bar than at the Quadrangle-
and for less money, then something is wrong, and the
answer is not jacking the price up further, nor a
protective law keeping residents at FSA’s mercy.
Students have a right to know, right now, what
board prices will be, so that they can choose other
ways of getting their daily bread. And if there will be
an increase, they have a right to know why.
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_The Albany Student Press doés not exist. It’s all a figment of your
imagination. If by some chance it should materialize it would be located in
the Campus Center building of the State University of New York at Albany.
To reach it one should call 457-2190 or 2194, but there probably won't be
an answer. There's @ rumor that the ASP was founded by the class of 1916,
is a member of AP and is funded by mandatory student tax, but | wonder.
Letters to the editor are limited to 300 words and are subject to editing bY
the editor-in-chief. peace.
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The Soviet authorities are systematically attempting to obliterate
Jewish culture within the Soviet Union. To this end, they have closed
hundreds of synagogues, leaving only 60 for a conservatively
estimated three million Jews. Furthermore, they have prohibited
Jewish education from continuing by closing Rabbinical semi
forbidding the publication of Yiddish literature , and prohil
establishment of Jewish educational facilities.
‘The Soviet government has actively supported the growing wave of
Anti-Semitism in the USSR. They have excluded Jews from all areas
of importance, and have devised regulations preventing Jews from
entering the universities, from working in their former places of
employment, and from exercising the limited rights guaranteed by the
Soviet constitution. In short, they’ve succeeded in reviving the wave
of terror so reminiscent of the days of Stalin.
Although the Soviet authorities have, in the past, allowed, and even
aided to a limited extent, the attempts of nationalities within its
borders, to revive and embellish their cultures, they have forbidden
the same rights to Soviet Jewry (tenth in size of the 108 nationalities
of the USSR). In addition, they have forbidden Soviet Jews to
emigrate to Israel.
The blatant reminder of these injustices is evident in the recent
planning and execution of the Leningrad Trials(of which more are
planned!) in which twelve people (ten of whoni were Jews) were given
extremely harsh sentences for “crimes” they never committed. Two
defendants were condemned to “death by firing squad” while the
other ten sentences ranged from four to fifteen years hard labor in
forced labor camps.
Through a worldwide outery of horror and disbelief, the Soviet
authorities were forced to reduce the sentences, Considering the
conditions within the Soviet Union, imprisonment in a forced labor
camp means slow death. It makes one wonder as to the real
humanitarian bent of the Soviet system.
We must vigorously protest the denial of human and national rights
to the Jewish People within the Soviet Union. We must show the
The State University Barber
Soviet Internal Policy
Persecutes Nation’s Jews
by The Coalition for Soviet Jewry
An ASP Column
*"NO...FIRST YOU WITHDRAW, THEN WE REMOVE THE ROCKET!’
The Soviet Union's dual policy of opposition to Israel and persecution of its native
Jewish population is far from coincidence.
Senior Portraits
(class of 1972)
Soviet government and its arbitrary legal system that the world is
watching their continuation of the “genocide” that so many have
hoped was part of the past. We must not sit by as we did when the
noble Czechoslovaks were denied their liberty as humans and
nationals, but must join together and prove that human dignity and
human lives have value.
‘At the same time, we must make aware the evident connections
between Soviet Middle East policy and the refusal of the USSR to
allow Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. We must continue to appeal to
the “saner” elements within the USSR to allow the exit of Jews. In
brief, we must act in full moral support and express our solidarity—in
mind and body— with the crisis Soviet Jews now face.
To further that action, we hereby propose the formation of a
coalition of interested persons and groups at SUNYA campus to
promote a sustained awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry: in the
face of the massive campaign launched by the Soviet authorities
against them. We propose the following:
The intensification of discussion, on this campus and within the
community, of the plight of Soviet Jewry. To further this end, we will
provide a series of speakers to heighten awareness to this problem.
Our present plans include a mass demonstration and vigil at the capital
to express concrete solidarity with the oppressed Jews within the
Soviet Union. We will, furthermore, disseminate various materials to
combat the Soviet vilification campaign.
Our goal and aim is to get the campus and community to show its
indignation over the deprivation of human dignity to the Jews within
the Soviet Union. It is an aim that one can participate in regardless of
race, religion, or nationality.
Our organizational meeting will take place on February 24th, in one
of the lecture halls (check your clipboard for the exact location). Our
guest. speaker will be Rabbi Gedaliah, a man knowledgeable of the
humanitarian activities of Al Tidom, an organization dedicated to
keeping alive the human dignity which the Jews within the Soviet
Union have so far shown. We hope to see as many of you as possible
there next Wednesday.
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Kay ten Kraft as “Angel”
Have A
“Celebration”
This Weekend!!!
In the late 1950’s two young men named Tom
Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote a piece of enter-
tainment called “The Fantasticks”: This play is still
running on Broadway as of this date, and has been
produced in’almost every major city in the world.
“The Fantasticks” was presented at SUNYA in the
spring-of 1968. Now, the Music Council is proud to
present another Jones-Schmidt musical, “Cele-
bration”.
This play is a ritual performance of musical
comedy. The plot concerns the struggle between the
forces of Good and Evil, as represented by Orphan
and Mister Rich, for the possession of Angel, a
young actress, The conflict is narrated by a master
of ceremonies, Potemkin, and a group of Revelers,
the dancing chorus which assists and comments on
the action.
John Kearns as “Orphan”
WEDNESDAY, FEBR
Fridey February 26 - 8:30 En.
Sotturdey February 27 - 83042301"
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The play will be presented this Friday and
Saturday, at 8:30 both nights, A matinee will be
presented Saturday afternoon at 2:00.
Admission is $1.00 with Student Tax, and $3.00
for the general public.
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The play is directed by Michael Reynolds, who
did such an excellent job in‘The Roar of the
Greasepaint-The Smell of the Crowd”, “Diary of a
, musical play Madman”, and “Orestes” last year. From all
by Tom Jones accounts, those who have seen dress rehearsals and
er cae previews have been quite impressed. We suggest that
M ik you go if you have a chance, and that you get there
early in order. to be assured of a seat.
You won’t be disappointed.
Tickets ot PA.C, Box OFfice = 10-% dally
$18 with Student Tax FS without
by Michael Reynads
prstled by Student Associction
Michael Reynolds as ‘Potemkin’
Bob Hebert as “Mister Rich”
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1971
graffiti
The new “Graffiti” page is a service of the ASP. All notices
about Speakers on campus, club meetings, arts happenings,
athletic events or just plain ete, are welcome. They should be in
at least two days prior to publication. Unfortunately they are
subject to editing because of space.
Any questions should be referred to Sue Seligson, Technical
“WITH MAX SHULMAN
(By the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys... Dobie Gillis...ete.\
Don’t let success get you down
Once there was an upwardly mobile man whom I will call Case-
ment R. Glebe (not his real name). Even as an undergraduate Mr.
Glebe didn’t fumble and dither and grope for the meaning of life like
some lazy long-haired slobs I could name. He knew exactly what life
was about. Life was working hard so you could get good grades and
graduate with honors and find a swell job and get married and move
to Westport and have three children like every other decent American.
And that’s precisely what Mr. Glebe did. He graduated magna,
got a swell job in the advertising game, married a girl, whom I will
call Mavis Davis (her real name), who was not only service-oriented
and achievement-prone but also had a real r d they bought
a lovely home in Westport with electric has ating and within
three years they had three fine sturdy little bc lopsy, Mopsy and
Seymour.
To his sons, Mr. Glebe was a loving but stern father. He raised
them to believe in his own guiding values—ambition, self-denial and
hard work—and the hoys responded brilliantly. Flopsy, the oldest,
finished high school as valedictorian and was accepted by Harvard
Mr. Glebe was, of course, very proud and happy. The following y
Mopsy was also valedictorian and was also accepted by Harvard.
Again Mr. Glebe was proud but, to be perfectly honest, not quite so
happy, for now he had two sons in Harvard at the same time, which
is something no man in the world can afford, not even an advertising
man.
e build
board h
Good grief!” he cried
one night to his wife Mav ar Seymour gets
out of high school. If he makes Harvard too, Tam r
He ran at once to Seymour's room and found the industrious lad
doing his homework in modern Sanskrit, urban entropy, ethnic alge-
bra and societal dysfunction. “Son, have you ever thought of becom-
ing a moral degenerate?” said Mr. Glebe to Seymour. “Wouldn't you
like to drop out, maybe have an identity crisis, wear beads, get busted
in Amsterdam, stuff like that?”
“That's rich, Dad,” said Seymour, chuckling, and went on to
graduate as valedictorian and thence off to Harvard.
Poor Mr. Glebe! So distraught was he with financial worries that
one day his mind finally buckled and he made a disastrous error. One
of his accounts at the advertising agency was Dullbrau Beer which,
frankly, was just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill kind of beer. Still, Mr.
Glebe had managed to think up this real catchy advertising slogan:
Drink Dullbrau . . . it's better than nothing
Well sir, sales were not entirely what the Dullbrau people had
been hoping for, so they insisted on a new slogan. And Mr. Glebe, the
poor devil, his mind unhinged by fiscal problems, made the above-
mentioned disastrous error. Here was his new’slogan:
Drink Dullbrau .. . it's better than Miller High Life
Well sir, I guess I don’t have to tell you what happened! Every,
body in the country just stamped and hooted and laughed till they
wept. “Dullbrau better than Miller High Life, the Champagne of
Beers?” they cried, stamping and hooting and laughing till they wept.
“How droll! Why, uo beer is better than Miller! In fact, no beer is re-
motely as good as Miller!”
Then everybody finished stamping and hooting and laughing till
they wept and went back to drinking Miller High Life and enjoying
every distinctively delicious drop. Dullbrau, of course, went out of
business. Mr. Glebe, of course, got fired. His sons, of course, had to
quit school.
Today, alas, the once prosperous Glébe family is destitute and
living in a macrobiotic commune in the former Dullbrau brewery. Ex-
cept for Seymour. Though out of college, Seymour remained in Cam-
bridge and now works at a three-minute girl wash on Harvard Square.
* * *
We, the brewers of Miller High Life and the sponsors of this column,
offer our heartfelt sympathy to the luckless Glebes. And to the rest of you,
we offer Miller High Life, the Champagne of Beers, in cans, bottles and
meetings
There will be a meeting of Pi Omega Pi, Beta Eta
Chapter, on Thursday, February 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the
BA Faculty Lounge.
: Professor Barry Smith of Smith College will speak for
the Zetetics (undergraduate philosophy club) Thursday,
February 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Hu 354 on “Civil
Disobedience and Obligation to Obey the Law.” All are
invited.
Ukranian Student Organization meeting this Thurs.
Feb. 25 at 7:30 in the RPI Student Union. If you're
interested or want further information, call Martha at
237-7722 or Kathy at 457-8979.
Scuba Club will meet tonight at 8:00 in LC 12. A film
will be shown and plans for the Florida dive will be
discussed. All members and interested persons are
welcome.
Medical Technology meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 24,
Humanities 137, at 8 p.m. Speaker will be Mr, Tunni-
cliffe, Pathology Dept. of Albany Medical Center.
Everyone welcome. Refreshments will be served.
DODO DODD”
the arts
Union College announces its New Performers Weekend
-Two Concerts for the Price of One. Friday, Feb. 26;
speakers
Pi Mu Epsilon, in conjunction with the
Math Club, is sponsoring a talk by Dr.
Muchenhaupt, entitiled Peg Puzzies It will be
held Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in ES
143. Everyone is ‘invited. Refreshments
will be served. Plans for a winter weekend,
(tobogganing and beer party) at Mohawk
Campus will. be announced.
On Thursday, Feb. 25, at 8:00 Michael
Harrington, Chariman of the Socialist Party,
U.S.A. and author of The Other America,
will speak in LC 18. His topic will be “Why
we Need Socialism in America.” All are
urged not to miss this rare opportunity.
Find out what’s really happening to the
Jews in Russia. Gedaliah (real name cannot
be used) has been to Russia eight times,
working for the Jewish Underground. Hear
him speak on Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. in LC 1.
Mr. Thomas Boyatt the Assistant Secretary
for Middle East, in the State Department
will be speaking on the topic of U.S. Foreign
Policy in Middle East on Wednesday, Feb.
24, at 3 p.m. in Campus Center Assembly
Hall. This speech is being sponsored by
International Student’s Association.
DDD DDD DQ DDI DS
etc., etc.
Manhattan Transfer, at 8:30 in Memorial Chapel. Satur-
day, Feb. 27; Freeway, at 9:00 in Memorial Chapel. A
single $1.00 ticket may be used for entrance to both
concerts. Call 346-8686 for further information.
Coffee House Circuit presents Chris & Brian Thurs.
Feb. 25, 8-11:30 p.m. and Sat. Feb. 27, 9-12:30 p.m. in
the CC Cafeteria, sponsored by CCGB. Free Coffee.
Attention: Telethon is now in
the Ballroom .See you there!
Draft Counseling
Mon. 10-12(C.O.’s only); 1-
Tues. 11-12(C.0.’s only); 1-
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Wed. 1-3
¥ 4 a Thurs, 1-3
Cathexis presents a film, The Equation of Murder, on For information, call Ira at
Wed. Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. in LC 3. 457-5096. ;
Three Friday Evenings
Feb. 26 — Man’s Function in Universe
Mar. 5— Planetary Planning
Mar. 12 — New Educational Strategy
The TOWN HALL
One Evening $4.50 / The Series $12.00
Students $3.00 / The Series $7.50
Single Tickets — Town Hall, 123 W. 43 St.
Single & Series Tickets by mail:
New York Studio School
8W. 8 St., N.Y.C, 10011
Sponsored by the New York Studio School
with the support of the New York State
Council on the Arts
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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Phone 673-6466
Love is the Only Way! Besides,
you get free coffee! Support
Telethon °71. Buttons $.50 on
sale in CC Lobby 10-3 p.m. Daily.
Hurry!
Ethnic Greeks (and
Philhellenes)! Learn your
language—Enjoy your culture.
Join the Modem Greek Studies
Association Contact John
Nicolopoulos, Social Science 376,
457-8648 or 472-6724.
Kosher for Passover Food—this
is the last week to sign up. There
will be a table in the Campus
Center until Friday. FOR MORE
INFORMATION call Sam Bogen
4574996,
Colonial Quad Board will
sponsor a bus trip to Boston on
$1.40 Dinner For
We Make Possible
Saturday, March 20, Round-trip
fare is $2.25 with Colonial tax,
$6.25 with student tax, and
$10.00 for non-students. Tickets
will go on sale March 1-3 in the
CC lobby.
Smokey’s friends
don’t play with matches.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1971
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 11
Dr. Hood:
Advice, But No Pill
by Liz Klvana
An ASP Feature
A “Conception Control Program” is under consideration by the ad-
ministration and Dr. Janet Hood, director of the infirmary. Organizations such as
PYE and Women’s Lib, as well as groups of individual students feel that a birth
control service should be available on campus. As an appropriate concern of
student health, an on-going program will be organized with an emphasis on
education and consultation, There is debate, however, about whether a
contraceptive distribution service should be established at the infirmary.
Dr. Janet Hood, a strong advocate of the principle of birth control, has been
actively involved with Planned Parenthood since 1941 and pushed for abortion
reform. However, in an interview, she expressed hesitancy about the distribu-
tion of the pill on campus. She believes that since SUNYA is not an isolated
campus, it is easy enough for students to obtain desired means of birth control.
The infirmary refers students to Planned Parenthood, Albany Medical Center,
and to off-campus doctors. It attempts to provide as much information and
consultation as possible. Dr. Hood feels that the advantages of convenience do
not outweigh the problems of organizing an on-campus service.
If the service were to be set up at the infirmary,the average girl would have to
pay a much larger fee than if she went to an already established organization.
Planned Parenthood, for example, is supported by charitable contributions;
doctors donate their time, so costs are minimal. The expense and difficulty of
hiring a team of doctors, nurses, and clerks and purchasing equipment for the
infirmary would be burdensome. Students, who pay no health fee now, would
end up shouldering much of the cost. 5
Dr. Hood strongly believes that this is the wrong time to push for the
distribution of contraceptives on campus. In a few months the New York State
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Dr, Janet Hood, Director of Infirmary.
--alverson
Senate will consider a bill for lowering the legal age to 18. As the law stands
now, parental consent would be required by the infirmary for persons under 21
who desired the pill. She believes that should much attention be drawn to a
controversy about a contraceptive service on campus now, the fight to lower the
legal age may be affected along with any long-term plans for the service.
There is a possible alternative. Both Planned Parenthood and Albany Med
offered to come uptown with doctors, nurses, and equipment a few nights a
week to handle student appointments. Because of the time-saving element and
convenience, it would be advantageous to have a knowledgable , recognized
organization provide the service on campus. :
The President of the University said ‘‘no” to this proposal earlier in the year
however, because of a legal problem. A commercial organization can operate on
state property only througl: contractual agreement. Planned Parenthood is an
incorporated organization. and although it does not make a profit, fees are
charged. Dean Chesin, in explaining the legal problem involved, cited another
reason the Planned Parenthood offer was turned down. It was felt that bringing
in outside people whose main function was family planning would not best
meet the needs of a young college population. However, discussions with
Albany Med and Planned Parenthood have been resumed and, there is hope that.
some type of program will soon be under way.
Conception, Misconception * and Contraception-Information, Planned Parenthood
Movie, questions and answers. Thursday night, February 25, 7:00 in the CC Assembly
Hall.
[AP Wirephoto]
Youth for Muskie
by Ann Blackman
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON AP — Muskie-for-
President staffers are launching a national
campaign to tap the energies and votes of
the country’s 11 million newly enfran-
chised 18-21 year olds.
“We're forming a Youth Coalition for
Muskie,” said Lanny J, D Davis, 25-year
old youth coordinator for the Maine sena-
tor, now No. 1 in the race for next year's
Democratic presidential nomination.
“We want to go beyond the large,
well-known universities and into the high
schools, small colleges and vocational
schools,” Davis said in an interview. “We
want to recruit young blue collar workers
from the factories, construction trade and
service industries, as well as young pro-
fessionals.
Davis plans to speak at vocational
schools, factories, junior Kiwanis and Ro-
tary clubs and college campuses. His staff
of 15 full-time volunteers, all veterans of
the peace movement, plans to go into each
state and set up tables in big city office
buildings to recruit secretaries and clerical
workers.
“We've divided the country into seven
regions and we plan to form a youth
coalition in every state,” he said.
When most people think of youth, they
think of college students, said Davis, “but
there are six million young people out
there who hold down full-time jobs and
who have been overlooked. If given a
chance, I think they’d work for a candi-
date.”
Davis, former chairman of the Yale Daily
News and a 1970 Yale Law School gra-
duate, regards a youth coalition as one
way to narrow cultural differences be-
tween young white and blue collar wor-
kers. And he sees Edmund Sixtus Muskie
as the bridge.
“I sense something new is happening in
the country politically,” he said. “The old
geographic, economic and ethnic group-
ings don’t mean much anymore. The
young people I see are wary of party
politics, but they’re willing to work for
someone whom they feel they can trust.”
Davis contends most students don’t
think President Nixon will end the war
and are looking for another man to sup-
port. “They won’t work for someone who
merely talks of ‘the necessity of negotia-
ting a just peace while their friends contin-
ue to die over there,” he said. “They don’t
want rhetoric. They want out.”
Food Co-op
‘An independently-run Food Cooperative
has opened in downtown Albany. Located
at 111 Dove Street, it is-a storefront where
one may fill out an order form for fruits
and vegetables, eggs, and brown rice.
These are sold at wholesale price, plus
twenty percent markup to cover the oper-
ating costs of the Co-op. There wiil be one
specified day each week for picking up
orders.
‘The idea of organizing a food co-op as a
service to students and the community
had been under consideration for several
months. Its aim is to provide the consumer
with produce at a reasonable cost. The
volunteers involved hope to eventually
expand the Co-op to include refrigeration
facilities, which would enable them to sell
dairy products as well as produce. Orders
may be placed Thursday and Friday from
3-8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from
1-6 p.m. The Co-op prefers that orders be
made in large quantities, so order in
groups.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Kuusisto Remembers
by J. S. Flavin
An ASP Interview
“College Presidents are always on a probationary
period. They can be dropped any time the Board of
Turstees loses faith, The President is the only man
on the staff without tenure.”
Dr, Allan Kuusisto, former acting president at
SUNYA, has been found alive and well. Kuusisto is
now President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
in Geneva, New York, a man without tenure.
“I didn’t put myself up for the job of president at
Albany, and I intended to remain as a vice
-president. In November (1968) came the first offer
from Hobart. I decided to take the president’s job in
January.” This was all before the trouble started in
the spring. Albany had demonstrations and a strike;
Hobart had an undercover agent, Thomas “Tommy
the Traveller” Tongyai.
“My worst nights at Albany were during the Gerry
Wagner episode and Kent State and Cambodian
invasion. I operated on a basis of concensus between
the Vice Presidents and myself. I resolved dif-
ferences between the administration and the Central
Office (Thurlow Terrace Complex) on issues of
budget, new positions to be created, special salaries,
key administrative appointments, some personnel,
but not Wagner, that was a local issue. Mrs.
Kathleen Kendall, RPA chairman recommended
non-renewal of Gerry Wagner’s contract; Dean
Perlmutter issued a statement (based on his study of
the situtation) that Mr. Wagner’s contract could be
renewed for one year as a lecturer. After my
statement on Vice President O’Reilly’s recommen-
dation not to rehire Wagner, students assembled on
the podium and in disgust some of the more raucous
bitterly heaved rocks.
After Kent and Jackson State and the “allied”
invasion of Cambodia, the mood of the student
body became more volatile. With large demonstra-
tions, firebombings, and the possibility of police-
student confrontations looming, “I decided to close
the school. There was no dissension among the
vice-presidents on the question of safety. We were
worried about the possibility of loss of life. How-
ever, the Central Office (Chancellor’s office ~
Thurlow Terrace Complex) said no unit could close.
The Central Office compelled Buffalo State the one
state school that closed to reopen. We couldn’t close
the buildings, so we decided upon a flexible
arrangement by letting each class determine the
approach to make up class work: some classes
dismissed, others met, and there were many options
on grading.””
Dr. Kuusisto also reflected on the William Kunst-
ler lecture. “Administrative fiat is the power of the
administration to make decision on its own without
consulting other divisions in the unit or the option
of the president to ultimately decide and reach his
own decision when there is endless discussion in the
cabinet.” - Instances would be to close during a
snowstorm or call police on campus. Student groups
sponsoring Kunstler’s speech demanded the gym.
Other student groups had the gym reserved and
Kunstler could speak there only when those who
had reserved the gym waived their rights. “The
tactics used against Vice President Thorne were
symptomatic of the pressure on us last spring.” At
Hobart, Herbert Marcuse spoke last fall. “There was
a storm in town as in Albany when Kunstler came.
People were calling on me to cancel the engagement.
Marcuse spoke to a tremendous crowd. In both
instances we came out fortunate; brash acts by
administration, students or police could have meant
disaster.”
“The role of security,” at most college campuses,
“has been tzaditionally that of watchmen for fires
and burgularies, but with the rise in muggings
between townies and students, and on campus
disruption, there has to be a strengthening or
increase of the security force.” Hobart, and Albany
have both hired new heads of security. Hobart, and
many other campuses, suffer from “bad town
relationships. The schools are isolated from the
e left many bad
communities. Last year’s actions hav
_.rosenberg
memories. The Grand Jury indictments, Tommy the
Traveler, and the trial have had a sobering effect,”
and the fall has been a time of reflections.
Commenting on the trials and student activism
across the country, Kuusisto noted “a pattern to the
indictments, They tend to exonerate the establish-
emtn and prosecute the leftists.”
Definitely relaxed and poised as President of
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Kuusisto has
“more leeway to determine his own fate. I’m not in
an elaborate bureaucratic agency dependent upon
other offices for guidelines, policy and budgets.”
However, in a private school “we are in a financially
more difficult situation. We can’t call on the state
treasury like a public institution, We are dependent
upon gifts and tuition fees.”
With alumnus gifts and applications down from
previous years because of adverse publicity con-
cerning the activities of an untrained undercover
agent, Thomas Tongai, and his late night raid and
subsequent student disturbances, balancing the
budget at Hobart and many other small private
colleges may consume increasing amounts of the
president’s time. Though Hobart was acquitted of
“recklessly tolerating coercive conduct” approxi-
mately 300 applications in and an admittance
schedule calling for 500 new students, Hobart
College is not able to call upon the state offers for
support.
Dr. Kuusisto recalled his year as acting presdient
at Albany as a “turbulent: but exciting year. Hobart
is a small place, the people are friendlier. we are like
one big family. Albany is getting too big.”
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Potential of Drugs
An ASP Column
Name Withheld
Atter taking a good look around our campus,(or almost any other
one you might care to observe), it will have to be admitted that grass
is quickly becoming an American institution. It is being used by an
estimated 50% (atleast) of students in college, and is rapidly
extending its reaches into higher and higher levels of our society, as
well as the junior-high and high schools.
Unfortunately, however, grass is turning into this generation’s
equivalent of alcohol. Having turned on with at least 150 Albany
State students and associating with countless others who have been
stoned, I have noticed one thing which is all too common:
The majority of people who use dope (grass and hash), use it as an
excuse to lower the levels of their powers of communication and
reasoning, in many cases to the point where it becomes harder and
harder to understand what is going on around them; nor can they
effect any type of intelligent verbal communication. Often the fact
that someone is stoned is used as an excuse for a lack of any creative
type of ‘thinking’ or work. How many times have you heard someone
say, “I’m sorry man, I just can’t dig what you're saying, I’m really
wrecked,” and then watched them wander off to iisten to music or
engage in some other form of activity providing either a physical or
emotional pleasure, but not an intellectual one; for example, balling,
going to the movies, listening to music, or going to a concert.
I can’t really put this down, because balling or going to see “
Fantasia” is fantastic when you’re stoned; however, getting stoned
should be productive for an individual mentally also. Grass, unlike
alcohol, has this potential, but it is not used to the extent that it
should be.
Try a simple tist on yourself, Next time you get stoned with a few
people, have a tape recorder going. Cut out the music for a while and
To Be O bs cen e. attempt fo lave a/ccrious cap about « heavy subject (love polucs
music, etc.). The next day when you are straight listen to the tape.
Ask yourself if any productive ideas or concepts came out in the
discussion, or even if any points or concepts were made clearer by a
N 0) t H e ar d “stoned rap”. Did the levels of communication go up or down?
If they went up, congratulations, You are using dope to your
An ASP Column advantage:, raising the level of your communication and the co-
by Barry Kirschner herency of your thoughts. If not, you are fulfilling the prophecies
Dear Mr. Editor: made by the “
“It gives me something to do with my hands.”
‘older”” generation that dope is harmful, or at least not
beneficial to its users.
I would like to question the good taste of a man who spoke here
Monday named Anthony Burgess. The lecture was entitled “The Se ee tO pa eee ee ro
Limits of Obscenity”,but we in the audience knew what it was COO anes 3 poln pouseay
immediately; pure, unadulterated filth. effectively organize your thoughts and communicate them intelli-
‘As soon as that libertine delivered his metaphor about art, ( and
even life), being a “sculpture of feces”, I knew that the evening #8 ty exeulat the following ex.
wes going to be one blush after the next. And how the man eee
Hus ie is Deine obecon cb y saying se waerio’ | Uidactic sends! Go to a lecture or speech given by a _ person who is talking about a
Doesn’t he know the relationship between means and ends? His : see oe
Geaciines would-onie babe Mrtadiek, dist! subject which interests you. Concentrate on what he is saying and try
‘And what kind of artist uses “whatever form is going”, as a to organize your thoughts and feelings: in your own head. Bring along
vehicle to communicate his message? I’m only glad that he could
not yet speak of his next book which he is calling, (God forgive
me), MF. I don’t know what this means, but after hearing the i 2 : :
author, I am convinced that it is immoral. What happened to the Sit and observe a group of your friends with a pen and paper in
sobarcld dave of Oecipus? front of you. Write down every relevant “stoned thought” that goes
According to Mr. Burgess, women’s fashions are pornographic. through your mind about the people there, your feelings as to what
He says that clothes are an instrument to make women “move”
men. Obviously, the speaker would rather have everyone move
without clothes. How the man suggests we can reward porno- acca vaeme me anuing sone
graphy as an art form, also left a bitter taste in my mouth = gas
iit does Me Balvea chose to joke about? He jects about Rap (or listen) to people whom you feel are more together in their
how it is now proper to speak about“ feces”, because our great thoughts than you are. Focus on what they are saying, and try to
technology has made it possible to recycle waste products. Is organize your thoughts to try to reach the level that they are
there no sacred object? 7 communicating on. Raise yourself up to their level; don’t, by the fact
One of the few legitimate things said by our novelist speaker,
was’ a protest he made about the American printer of his book Bogie vopcrectonsd, force, dieat 9 corse down te soutes
entitled The Clockwork Orange. It is understandable that an Finally, begin to respond to other people on an intelligent level.
author would get upset at a printer who deletes the final chapter Start talking and communicating when you are stoned on a level
of his book in order to make it end on a violent note.
Unfortunately, Burgess followed this with a complaint about
certain printers Yalstakenly printing, “public hairs Instead of The methods suggested above will not work instantaneously. It may
something sounding very close to that. se ae ; ' ‘ y
Mr. Editor, I appeal to you to try to see what you can do about ake weeks of concentrated effort to get to the point where you want,
thig senseless pornography: but believe me, it is well worth the effort.
Sincerely,
Priscilla B. K. Goodbody
P.S. Maybe you should start by cleaning up your own house!
If you would really like to try to raise the levels of your thought and
gently, and in turn tune in on someone else’s thinking, you might
a pad and pencil to write down important ideas or concepts that strike
you.
they are saying, and the interactions within the group. If it won’t
cause too many hassles, try and discuss what you wrote down with
which is higher than the one you use every day. When you can do this,
you're there.
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