Vol. LVII_ No. 9
ALBANY STUDENT
The State
University of New York at Albany
Up against
the wall
Tuesday, March 10, 1970
Students manifest the need for student power i
Vice President O’Reilly’s office in the Administration Building.
Child Care Center on Campus:
Administration Not Committed
by Aralynn Abare
“To commit or not to commit”
was the question at yesterday’s
open meeting, sponsored by Wo-
men’s Liberation, with Vice-
President Clifton Thorne concern-
ing the establishment of a child
care center.on campus.
Dr. Thorne was to report at the
meeting any progress made on the
demands submitted to him by
Women’s Liberation two weeks
ago, but the group wanted, as
Sally Pollock put it, “a commit-
ment”, ie. a “yes” or “no” as to
whether or not Dr. Thorne backed
the effort. He would not give it.
“T really don’t know yet wheth-
er or not the university has the
responsibility for these young-
sters,” he said in a later interview,
“however I favor a full and open
Corning
discussion of the problem as a
legitimate and proper one to be
solved.”
The remainder of the meeting
was devoted to opinions from the
over 200 students, staff, faculty
and administration in attendance.
Dr. Harry Hamilton, director of
EOP, questioned the obviousness
of the proposal’s soundness which
is based on the “highly question-
able” assumption that the univer-
sity should provide a day care
center at all. He asked about the
possibility that, in the long run,
the center might become an incen-
tive to overpopulation. He also
cited the university’s “high num-
ber of other priorities.”
Sally Pollock, a leader of Wo-
men’s Liberation, expressed the
hope that the university “make
women for the first time in his-
Ottinger
At PYE Conference
by David Peck
Students from all over the state
packed into. Lecture Center 24
Friday night to hear Mayor
Erastus Corning and Congressman
Richard Ottinger open the state-
wide PYE Planning Conference.
Over 300 students came to
SUNYA last weekend to make
preparations for the April 22
nationwide teach-in.
Mayor Corning stated that
the teach-in will be the “largest
demonstration in the history of
the world.” He stated that Albany
has “raised the dollar signs on
sewage plants.” He also inplied
that the Tobin Packing Co, Inc.
shouldn’t be attacked as a pol-
luter.
A member of the New Left
Organizing Committee stood up
and charged that Corning has been
polluting Albany for thirty years.
He answered that he “Takes
second place to no man in his love
for his environment.”
Another member of the NLOC
claimed that the United Traction
and Transport Co. (bus line) is
one of the largest polluters of
Albany and that Corning is pro-
ably personal friends with the
. ners of the company. He ans-
wered that diesel motors cause
only one-tenth of the pollution
that a car does. Corning then left
the meeting.
Congressman Ottinger, who is
running for the Democratic Sena-
torial nomination this year, told
the audience that the Water Re-
sources Committee of the U.S.
government said that we will be
out of fresh water in the year
2010.
Ottinger said that “One day
we'll tip the balance of nature and
then it will be too late.” The
internal combustion engine causes
two-thirds of the pollution of the
air,” he pointed out.
“Nixon’s program on the en-
vironment is, in my opinion, a
complete fraud which provides
niether muscle nor money. We
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tory, top priority.” She also asser-
ted that “day care is more impor-
tant than a field house.”
“A commitment means no-
thing;” said Dr. Seth Spellman,
assistant to the President in Social
Welfare,“‘the question is too com-
plex for a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.”
John Kaufman, a leader of the
New Left Organizing Committee,
charged the administration with
“dishonesty” in dealing with stu-
dent affairs.
Professor Ceile David of Social
Welfare noted the “bills before
the current legislature to provide
more day care centers.”
The session ended with the
scheduling of a meeting of Dr.
Thorne, Dr. Spellman, Prof. David,
in addition to three or four
members of Women’s Liberation
and Ed Taubman of Educational
Policies Council, for 1:30 today.
WAGNER SAVED ?
by Mark Belkin
Students attending the President’s news conference were expecting
President Kuusisto to make public the recommendations made by
Dean Perlmutter concerning the renewal of appointment for Gerald
Wagner. The students involved in the Student Power controversy were
Promised they would be informed of Perlmutter’s decision today.
President Kuusisto refused, however,
would not make public the Dean’s de
The students were tired of wait-
ing and being detoured everytime
they attempted to use the “proper
channels” for change. Jeff Wasser-
man, a student active in the move-
ment to save Wagner had previous-
ly arranged an appointment with
O’Reilly and invited the concern-
ed students present at the press
conference to join him.
One hundred and fifty students
decided to converge on the admin-
istration building. The students
wanted Vice-President O'Reilly
(who now had possession of the
recommendation’s content).
During the first few minutes in
the Administration building it was
decided that Jeff Wasserman and
Richard Arrizo should be the
policemen for the students.
Before entering O’Reilly’s
office Arrizo told the students to
“be cool.” Steve Berger, speaking
through a bullhorn, emphasized
the need for the students t0 “be
patient.” Many of those present
wanted an immediate decision.
One student shouted that waiting
for O'Reilly “‘is a tacit admission
that they have the power.” Still a
majority of the students did not
want to take immediate action
against the administration. The
concensus seemed to be that the
students should wait until they
could regroup and plan future
strategy for dealing with the
administration.
It was obvious that the issue
‘was now more than Gerry Wagner.
Bill O’Kain echoed the belief of
many students when he said, “the
issue is: now Student Power, a
demand that affects every student
on campus.” While the students
waited for Arrizo and Wasserman
to relay the information given to
them by O'Reilly tension was
Skip Counts and friend in a quieter moment at the somewhat
overcrowded President’s Conference yesterday. The “cozy crowd” is
apparently still on vacation.
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honor this commitment and
ion.
growing. A member of the Stu-
dent Power organization said, “We
want an answer today.”'A student
shouted out, ‘What if they re-hire
Gerry for a year?” Someone re-
plied, “That’s to pacify students
for a year. We don’t want some
bullshit tenure cat who’s busy
publishing instead of teaching.”
The students seemed to feel pow-
erless since all legal efforts they
made were ignored by the Admin-
istration. Ed Shaw said, “Students
are treated like shit. They don’t
give a damn about us.”
Finally the meeting with the
student spokesmen and Vice-
President O’Reilly ended. Wasser-
man told the students they were
only allowed to read two para-
graphs of Perlmutter’s statement.
The statement recommended
“that Mr. Wagner be given a year
term, continuing his present salary
level,” and “since he is not fulfill-
ing the role he was assigned origin-
ally, that he serve during 1970-71
at the rank of lecturer.”
A few students felt it was a
partial victory but this was over-
whelmed by voices shouting “no
victory.”
Dean Perlmutter’s recommend-
ations could still be overridden by
Vice-President O'Reilly and Pres-
ident Kuusisto, although Kuusisto
has stated previously that he
would not “buck the findings of
the Dean.”
Bob Norton, an instructor in
the department of Rhetoric and
Public Address and a close friend
of Gerry Wagner, told the stu-
dents not to take immediate
action against the statement. He
wanted the students to leave the
administration building because
any foolish action would probably
be harmful to Gerry. Norton
claimed that this concession was a
partial victory and “Gerry would
be happy” with the concession.
The fate of Gerry Wagner is still
unknown and the students still
have no legal channel for assuring
that their voice is heard.
The Student Power organiza-
tion is planning a meeting for
today at 8 p.m. The momentum
of the movement seems to be
growing and the students’ deter-
mination is escalating. A student
suggested that the students are
“tired of being deceived by the
policies of the S.U.N.Y.A. admin-
istration in the same way the
American people are being de-
ceived by Nixon’s policy of Viet-
namization.”
The text of the paragraphs of
Perlmutter’s recommendations re-
leased to the press follows:
1. That Mr. Wagner be given a
year term, continuing his present
salary level.
That he be counseled and
assisted in the completion of his
dessertation during this time and
especial attention be given to his
course load so that he fulfills his
obligations to himself and his
family.
2. Since he is not fulfilling the
role he was assigned originally,
that he serve during 1970-71 at
the rank of lecturer.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
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sophomores for the English | Hen-
ors Program are now being accept-
ed by Mr, Knotts. Those interes-
ted should submit a short letter of
application to him in HU 333 by
March 10.
Sailing Club--TONIGHT--
Tuesday-meeting in Physics
Lounge, 7:30 p.m. for all interes-
ted in sailing and racing. Beginners
welcome.
The New Democratic Coalition
will meet Tuesday March 10, at
8:00 p.m. in CC 375. Where do
we go now?
There will be a meeting of all
groups planning to participate in
this year’s STATE FAIR on Wed-
nesday, March 11, in Hum 254 at
7:30 p.m. At least one represen-
tative from each group musi at-
tend. For further information call
Pat Schumann 457-4012 or Pat
O’Hern 457-4997.
Anyone (particularly art stu-
dents) interested in participating
in a workshop and possibly a class
in tye-dying, batik, and other
fabric design, please contact Ellen,
457-3012, soon. We are trying to
start a class and need enough
interested people.
BUSINESS STUDENTS: The
next meeting of PHI BETA
LAMBDA (business club) will be
Wednesday, March 11, at 7:30
p.m. in Room 229 of the business
Building There will be a film and a
guest speaker from the New York
Telephone Company. Everyone is
welcome.
Geography Club will meet on
Wednesday, March 11 at 8:00
p.m. in LC 5, Harry Margulas of
Rutgers University will speak on
“The Use of Psychology in Eco-
nomic and Urban Geography.”
Karate Club will meet Thurs-
day, March 12 at 4:00 p.m. in
Gym’s Dance Studio.
Central Council will hold its
meeting in Dutch Quad Flagroom
Thursday March 12, 1970. All are
invited to attend.
Biology Club presents Daryl
Winter, Dept. of chemistry speak-
ing on: “Aspects of DDT,” on
Thursday, March 12 at 8:30 p.m.
in Biology 248, All are welcome
to attend.
Joe O’Connor’s talk on “The
Biology of Thermal Addition to
the Aquatic Environment,” has
been rescheduled for April 9, at
8:30 p.m, in Bio 248,
BENEFIT CONCERT for un-
derpriviledged children of the
Capitol District. Sponsored by the
university Concert Band cottmis-
sion, Friday and Saturday night
March 13 and 14 at 8:30 in PAC
Main Theatre.
Among the performers will be
the Statesmen, Findlay Cockrell,
Dennis Helmrich, Marjory Fuller,
William Hudson and others.
The Albany Public Library will
have a special program featuring
experimental films on Thursday,
March 12, at 8:00 p.m., at Har-
manus Bleecker Library.
Among the films to be shown
will be AMERICAN TIME CAP-
SULE; ANGEL; MAKAK’S BAG-
GAGE; THE DOT AND THE
LINE; WHY DO YOU SMILE,
MONA LISA; LIQUID JAZZ; and
PRIMORDIUM.
The program is free and open
to the public.
On Thursday, March 12th,
there will be a meeting of all the
RPA students in HU 354 at 2:00
pm.
Wash, wet, soak, hunt,
squint, wash, soak, wet, cry a little.
Contact lenses were de-
signed to be a convenience. And
they are up to a point. They're
convenient enough to wear,
once you get used to them, but,
until recently, you had to use
two or more different lens solu-
tions to properly prepare and
maintain contacts. You
needed two or three differ-
ent bottles, lens cases, and
you went through more than
enough daily rituals to make
even the most steadfast indi-
viduals consider dropping out.
But now caring for your con-
tacts can be as convenient as
wearing them. Now there's Len-
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Lensine is the one lens solution
designed for complete contact
lens care . . . preparing, cleans-
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dust
a drop or
two of Len-
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you insert
your lens pre-
pares it for
your eye. Lensine makes your
contacts, which are made of
modern plastics, compatible
with your eye. How? Len-
sine is an “isotonic” so-
lution. That means it’s
made to blend with the
eye's natural fluids. So
a simple drop or two
coats the lens, forming a if
sort of comfort zone around
it,
Cleaning your con-
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sure cause of eye irritation and,
in some cases, it can endanger
your vision. Bacteria cannot grow
in Lensine. Lensine is sterile, self-
sanitizing, and antiseptic.
Let your contacts be the con-
venience they were designed to
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Lensine. Lensine, made by
the Murine Company, Inc.
The India Association at
SUNYA presents KANYADAN a
1969 color movie with English
subtitles, March 14 Saturday at 7
p.m. in LC 18, Admission is $1.25
pea ee ee
Auditions for International
Night will take place on Sunday,
March 15, in the CC Ballroom.
For further information call
457-8956, or 457-8383.
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Reminder...all_art works for
“Observation” must be in the Art
Office, FA 215, by 5:00 Monday,
March 16.
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Interested in seeing PLAZA
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and $6.75 seats for only $8.00.
The bus will leave on Thursday,
March 19, 1970 at 3:30 p.m.
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The Center for Inter-American
Studies will accept applications
until Friday, March 20, 1970 for
the Semester Abroad Program at
the University of Guadalajara. Ap-
plication forms may be obtained
from Assistant Dean William Der-
tick, SS110, or from the Center
for Inter-American Studies, Drap-
er 145.
EARTH PEOPLE - There will
be a semi-urgent meeting of all
people working on visual presenta-
tions, photo essays, slide presenta-
tions, displays, demonstrations,
ete. for the April 22 Environ-
mental Teach-In. Please meet in
Earth Science 223 at 7:30 Thurs-
day. Come with beautiful ideas!
Auditions for Rock band for
“Your Own Thing” this week and
next. Contact Ron Abel-
457-7535.
Any junior or senior who
has:
1, a 2.75 overall cum
2. fulfilled the calculus se-
quence and taken one course
above Mat 214
8. a 3.2 cum in their math
courses
is eligible for membership in Pi
Mu Epsilon, the Math honorary. If
you are qualified please contact
either Dr. Martin (ES 113) or Dr.
MacGregor (ES 121) for the ne-
cessary forms.
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Financial Aid
to be Reduced
All students requiring financial
aid for the coming academic year
of 1970-71 are advised by the
Office of Financial Aids to pick
up application forms at their ear-
liest opportunity. As soon as Fed-
eral funding commitments are
made during the month of March,
Financial Aids will commence
making commitments to students
for the coming year.
The Nixon Administration, at
this point, intends to reduce again
the funds for National Defense
Student Loans. On a national
basis, NDSL monies were reduced
by thirty-five million between
1968-69 and 1969-70; an addi:
tional cut of twenty million ap-
pears imminent for 1970-71. Fin-
ancial Aids advises that students
write their respective Congress-
men.
Loan collections and student
attrition have permitted Financial
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National Defense Loans for this
Spring semester 1970. Eligible stu-
dents are advised to apply imme-
diately if their financial needs are
not being met.
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Local Officials
Discuss PYE
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must stop talking and start doing.
Federal legislation has been de-
signed to protect polluters. The
air is filled with speeches and
vice-versa.”
Ottinger then outlined his plan,
The most important step, he
stated, is to insist that the laws we
now have to be enforced. There
are enough laws on the books to
prosecute many polluters. Many
states are afraid that if they crack
down the polluters will leave and
go to another state. For this rea-
son. Ottinger would like the Fed-
eral government to prosecute.
Another important point of his
program is citizen action through
pressure groups and use of the
courts. Citizens stopped the
Storm King hydroelectric plant
from being built. The plant would
have destroyed marine life in a
large segment of the Hudson. The
court made this a very important
ruling by saying that a citizen
group with no direct economic
stake in the matter can now go to
court.
Citizens also stopped the Gov-
ernor from filling in part of the
Hudson for a highway. Ottinger,
along with Senator Nelson, has
proposed an environmental “bill
of rights.” New York passed a
similar bill last year. He would
also like to see an agency of the
government set up to concern
itself with the environment.
Some members of the audience
doubted that the system of gov-
ernment we now have can cope
with the problem. Ottinger feels
that with a “complete reorient:
ation of society’s values we can
clear up our environment.”
He believes that “we can cer-
tainly provide the money that we
need to service.” Some people
have their doubts.
Student power advocates wait for administrative recommendations
regarding Gerry Wagner.
silver
| week:
by Liz Elsesser
In the tradition of last week’s
press conference, the Patroon
Lounge was again left with stand-
ing room only. The issue this
the Gerry Wagner case.
Students demanded to know what
Dean Perlmutter’s recommen-
dation was regarding the renewal
of Wagner's term here. The pre-
sident stated that an 18-page re-
Port was turned out by the dean
and was being reviewed at the
ime by Vice-President O'Reilly.
To this there was angry hissing
and a very heated discussion be-
gan.
It was allegedly promised that
the final decision would be reveal-
ed on March 9th as to whether or
not Wagner had been rehired.
However, the president announ-
ced that this has been moved up
to Thursday, March 12th. The
students were completely aghast
at this procr:stination. According
to President Kuusisto, he would
not revoke the Dean’s decision. If
50, the students asked, what does
O'Reilly have to do with it? And
if O'Reilly differs in opinion from
Perlmutter, wouldn’t he be over-
‘Changing Traditions’ Bring
Fourteen to MYSKANIA
By Carol Hughes
“Traditions are often changed,”
stated Terry Mathias as he tapped
the fourteenth member of the
MYSKANIA of 1971.
An obvious effort to gloss over
the blatant disregard of the Stu-
dent Association Constitution
marked this year's tapping cere-
mony. An ultimatum had been
Abortion Change
Proposed
by Susan Kellman
The New York State Assembly
will have its annual confrontation
with the abortion question
shortly. Bills for complete repeal
and abortion reform have been
introduced by Constance Cook
and Albert Blumenthal
respectively. Much of the liberal
contingent (including Blumenthal)
is supporting repeal, but will
accept reform as a compromise
solution if necessary.
The major controversy facing
abortion legislation today, deals
with reform of the present law, as
opposed to total repeal, of this
same law. The present law states
that abortion may be performed
only when the mother’s life is in
danger. Those wishing to modify
the existing abortion statutes
claim that the law has been
outmoded by _ technological
advances.
Supporters of reform feel that
the law we live by today could be
stretched to encompass a mother’s
mental health, as well as her
physical condition. The first
attempt at reform was introduced
by Assemblyman Percy Sutton.
Under the Sutton Bill, abortion
could be made legal in certain
cases that threatened a mother’s
health-both mental and physical;
however, abortion could also be
legal if it was considered probable
that the baby might in some way
be born with a defect, or that the
baby was a result of incest or”
rape.
The Dominick-Blumenthal Bill,
introduced in 1967, seemed to be
a great step towards repeal.
Under this bill abortion would be
extended still further than
Sutton’s bill and would include
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women with four children, girls
under the age of fifteen, and
women considered to be
incompetent on either mental or
socio-economic grounds.
Many people feel that only
total repeal can do the job, while
others feel that mild reform can
bring it up to date.
In 1830, when abortion
legislation was first enacted, it
should be noted that the major
concern was purely medical.
There were at that time, no
antibiotics and no methods of
transfusion, and medical abortion,
therefore, was a highly dangerous
operation; with today’s medical
advances, however, abortion has
become a simple and relatively
safe procedure.
Vice President Clifton Thome meets
delivered to this year’s
MYSKANIA by the 14 candidates
saying that either all be tapped or
else no tapped person would take
the MYSKANIA oath.
In light of this statement,
MYSKANIA 1970 informed the
14 nominees before the ceremony
that all would be tapped. How-
ever, the import of this action was
not revealed to the audience of
near 150 persons who attended
the tapping.
‘The action was represented by
MYSKANIA Chairman Mathias as
a break with tradition, with no
mention of the constitutional
change necessitated.
The new MYSKANIA members
(in order of their tapping) are:
Mike Gilbertson, Sue Schweitzer,
Jan Blumenstalk, Dick Wesley,
Sandy Kleinman, Ken Kurzweil,
Gary Gelt, Carol Tibbets, Dave
Neufeld, Mark Goor, Ralph
DiMarino, Donna Simonetti,
Norma Israel, Jan Rosen.
The results of the Class Officer
and Alumni Board Elections were
also announced. The election of
the Class of 1973 was invalidated
by the Supreme Court upon the
recommendation of Election
Commissioner Jeannette
Beckerman.
The officers of the Class of
1972 are:
President, Thomas Labarbera
Vice President, Gordon Thomp-
Liberation Front for a University day care center.
with interested individuals regarding the demands of the Women’s
son
Secretary, Dale Padnick
Treasurer, Sue Levey
The winners of the Class of:
1971 were announced by Paul
Lieberman who deplored the race
this year as “disgusting,” in reiter-
ating that some traditions in class
elections are still valid. This was a
reference to the tradition that
candidates for the officers of the
class of 1971 should not campaign
since some were also running for
MYSKANIA.
Whether campaigning was the
reason or not, the new officers for
the class of 1971 was an almost
complete upset of the incum-
bents, with the exception of Sec-
retary. The officers are:
President, Greg Thompson
Vice President, Wayne Schult
Secretary, Bonnie Weatherup
Treasurer, Tom Pekich
Elected
were:
Jeannette Beckerman
Philip Franchini
Vietor Looper
Terry Mathias
Stephanie Rice
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“Confront the Policy Makers”
stepping the President's authority
in doing so?
The consensus of student opin-
ion was that Vice-President
O'Reilly is hostile to
our cause.” They did not feel,
despite reassurance from the Pres-
ident, that the Vice-President will
turn out a fair decision, And again
O’Reilly’s role was questioned.
The students did not trust
O'Reilly nor did they recognize
his right to pass judgement in this
case. What they wanted was the
President's final decision and com-
ment immediately, not Thursday.
Another student attempted to
appeal to the President’s feclings,
stating,“Administrators are more
worried about due process than a
human being.” Kuusisto said that
he will “attempt to act exped-
iciously but will not make a de-
cision under such circumstances.”
The circumstances he referred
to were the hostile remarks and
warnings that were an integral
part of the discussion. Kuusisto
again stated that he “Doesn’t like
the coercion present”, to which a
student remarked,‘You’d better
get used to it-there will be
more!”
Dean Perlmutter had listened to
student requests. The students
want to make decisions in co-
operation with those around them
and most of all be assured that
this situation does not recur. If
the University is a pluralistic com-
munity, the students should have
certain rights. This would imply
that the students make decisions
in conjunction with the adminis-
trators.
The students adamantly asked,
“Why can’t we see the recommen-
dation if it is available?” A little
more circumvention of the issue
and a little more name calling
took place and the circumstances
had not changed nor had any
questions been answered satis-
factorily. Realizing the futility of
confronting Kuusisto and the cir-
cles they were talking in, it was
suggested that O’Reilly be con-
fronted personally. A disillusioned
student summed it up:
1. “Kuusisto is not going to
give us any answers.”
2. “The real issue is ‘whether or
not Wagner is rehired’, the me-
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CURE Reorganizes
For Spring Reform
by Maida Oringher
The Committee for Undergrad-
uate Requirements Elimination
(CURE) aims to bring about the
elimination of all undergraduate
degree requirements.
Established in October, CURE
had planned to meet with several
faculty members but was side-
tracked by two other proposals -
the establishment of a new degree,
and a program for departmental
majors. The committee, however,
has reorganized this semester and,
with the unanimous endorsement
of the Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee of the Faculty Senate,
plans to bring its program before
the Senate on April 20.
In order to inform the total
university population, CURE is
currently distributing publications
stating its policy. Opinion polls
will be held on April 15 through
April 17.
This new program would effect
the entire university not only in-
coming freshmen. CURE hopes
‘for immediate action on their
proposal since “many students are
hinging their summer plans on
University action.”
Open hearings are scheduled for
the evenings of April 7,8 and 9.
Involved in this program are
Philip Cantor, §teve Villano, Steve
Bookin, Susan Elberger, Aline
Lepkin and Vernon Bryant.
PAGE 4
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
Peace Corps Representatives
On Campus for Recruitment
by Ken Deane
For those students who have
long decried) the state of world
and who have become in-
creasingly frustrated in their ina-
bility to influence the course of
events, an opportunity now pre-
sents itself for them to become
engaged in a meaningful organ-
ization, which seeks to alleviate
some of the world’s most pressing
problems.
On March 10, 11, and 12
representatives of the Peace Corps
will be present on the SUNYA
campus, speaking to classes of
seniors and graduate students in
education, business, and science,
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in order to recruit individuals who
are interested in contributing their
services for a worth-while pur-
pose.
All students who have a special
knowledge of mathematics, sci-
ence, and agriculture will be par-
ticularly considered.
Service in the Peace Corps en-
tails a six month training period
and two years of actual working
experience in a host country,
either directly with the people or
in coordination with government
officials. Individual preferences
and abilities will be taken into
careful consideration.
The forthcoming visit was
arranged by the Peace Corps’ per-
manent coordinator and recruitor
on campus, Morgan Little. In
speaking with Little, a former
Peace Corps member working in
India, one is introduced to the
significant work which the organ-
ization performs and to the wide
range of opportunities it provides
to those individuals “who have a
CORRECTION
The Albany Student Press wish-
jes to correct a typographical error
which occurred in the Friday,
March 6, 1970 issue.
In the article “Bust and Near
Bust” by Al Senia, the last two
paragraphs in the story concerning
Dutch Quad should have been the
conclusion of the State Quad arti-
cle.
It is reiterated that no drugs
were found in the near-bust in
Stuyvesant Tower. Outside police
were not called in.
The ASP regrets this
since complications and misunder-
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Qualification for positions arc
largely based upon this criteria.
Little emphasized the grea
need and opportunity there exist
for black and Puerto Rican volun
teers.
With regards to the recent con-
troversy over Peace Corps workers
protestations against our involve-
ment in Vietnam, Little state that
he believed that each volunteer is
guaranteed the same liberties as all
Americans and should be per-
mitted to say what he will, as long
as he does not interfere in the
affairs of the host government.
Little professed a willingness to
aid or speak with any organization
or individual requesting infor
mation concerning the Peace
Corps’ activities and recruitment
policies. His office is presently in
the EOP complex.
The representatives will be in-
terviewing students in AD 159 on
Tuesday and Wednesday, March
10 and 11, from 10:30-12:30 and
2:30-4:30; and on Thursday,
March 12 from 1-4 p.m.
by Bob Warner
Central Council, which met last
night in the Colonial Quad flag-
room, voted (9-0-10-) to prosecute
MYSKANIA 70 for attempting to
seat all fourteen candidates when
the constitution only permits
thirteen. Lenny Kopp, introducer
of the bill, was directed by
Council to plead the case before
Supreme Court.
Kopp’s argument was entirely
based on the principle of the rule
of law over the rule of men. He
vigorously maintained that since
“we are run under a constitution
ratified by the student body”
Council must always follow it or
else “anarchy” will ensue. He also
blasted MYSKANIA 71 for
‘‘blackmailing’’ the present
MYSKANIA.
Kopp cited the oath by which
Councilmen swore to uphold the
constitution, saying that they
were obliged to defend it at all
times. As Kopp put it, this is a
purely legal question, because
emotions, though probably valid
in the MYSKANIA 71 petition,
should not interfere with the rule
of law.
Terry Mathias, a present
member of MYSKANIA, felt that
the incoming non-academic hon-
orary were right in petitioning the
present MYSKANIA. to seat all
fourteen candidates because of
the “human element”.
Dave Neufeld, a member of
MYSKANIA 71, felt that the case
should be brought to the Court,
but hopes it is defeated. He said
that human feelings are above the
constitution and that the Council
should be flexible and not bound
Three thoughtful
to the constitution in every single
case.
The crux of the opposition was
that one person should not be
blackballed out of the entire slate
of candidates. This was felt as
cruel to the person who would be
excluded from MYSKANIA, It
would have been a “disgrace”or a
cut down for one person to be
excluded from the honorary, and
the other thirteen to be tapped.
All fourteen candidates insisted
that either all of them be admit-
ted to MYSKANIA or none at all.
The text of the MYSKANIA 71
letter is as follows:
We, the fourteen candidates for
MYSKANIA 1971, cannot forget
the human element involved in
the selection of candidates.
Tomorrow, after tapping, one
person who is as qualified as the
other thirteen will be sitting alone
in the audience because a popular-
ity contest has deemed it so. We
cannot endure this.
Therefore, we present the fol-
lowing to MYSKANIA 1970:
Either all fourteen candidates are
tapped as EQUALS or all candid-
ates will refuse to take the
MYSKANIA oath. We expect
your final decision by noon in the
SA office.
Tradition must be meaningful,
not binding.
Lenny Kopp, with a second by
Dave Neufeld, called for a roll call
vote.
In a bill introduced by Dave
Neufeld, Council “wholeheartedly
and unanimously” in a “white
ballot” voted to “appeal to the
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The University Council, the
Board of Trustees of this univer-
sity, would be thus made more
attuned to students needs if at
least one undergraduate were on
the board, Neufeld maintained.
Steve Brown, chairman of the
Communications Commission,
suggested that Council run buses
for Easter or at least regulate
ticket prices that are charged by
students who hire buses. A ques-
tion, however, was raised: if
Council did take up Brown’s sug-
gestion, would Council attempt to
make a profit off the student
body.
Dick Wesley said that Council
cannot tell what prices should be
charged, while others favored
Council’s running the buses on @
non-profit basis. The ASP reporter
told Council that it would be
outrageous for them to make a
profit off students who they rep-
resented and suggested that
Couneil go as far as to subsidize
buses for Easter and possibly take
a loss so that students may travel
home for the vacation for as little
money as possible.
Lenny Kopp said that next
Thursday he will offer a bill to
attempt to close school for Pass-
over, since 40% of the university
is Jewish. He maintained that
Harpur closes on this holiday and
suggested that Albany do the
same, considering that on Easter
the school is closed.
Jeannette Beckerman, Election
Commissioner, announced that
the Class of’73 election will be
held March 23-25, concurrent
with University Senate elections.
‘She: also said that self-nomina~
tions for the Senate close on
March 19 and that about 100 stu-
dents, so far, have nominated
themselves.
TORCH was given money to
print 800 more yearbooks which
brings the total to 6300.
Between April 15-17 a poll will
be held by CURE (Committee to
Eliminate Undergraduate Require-
ments) to ask whether or not
students want to cut down re-
qrirements or even eliminate
them.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 5
THE ASP SPORTS
Buffalo State 81 Mont.State 72
NCAA Regional:
Danes Down Brooklyn; Adams Scores 22
by Jay Marshall
The Albany State basketball
team ended its 1969-70 season
last Saturday night by downing
Brooklyn College 83-69. The vic-
tory boosted the Danes’ record to
13-9 and marked the fifteenth
consecutive season that Coach
Sauers has had a winning record at
Albany.
Saturday’s game marked the
last appearance in an Albany uni-
form for three Albany seniors.
Coach Sauers made.a fine gesture
in giving reserves Jim Sandy, and
Ed Arseneau an opportunity to
start in their last game. Captain
Jack Adams went out in fine style
by leading Albany scorers with
twenty-two points.
The game was close until mid-
way through the first half when
Albany ran off a 22-4 spurt to
take an eighteen point lead.
Brooklyn trimmed the lead to
40-28 at half-time and came with-
in five during the second half. The
Wrestlers
The varsity wrestlers traveled to
Harpur Saturday to participate in
the SUNY Binghamton Invita-
tional Wrestling Tournament. Of
the eight teams entered, State
finished fifth.
Albany had no _ individual
champions but fine performances
were given by Herman Hilliard,
who took second place in the
heavyweight division, and Jeff Al-
brecht, Jim Nightingale and Phil
Mims who finished fourth in the
142 Ib. weight class, 158 Ib
bracket and 167 Ib division, re-
spectively. Albrecht was just beat-
en out for third place by a lone
point.
According to Coach Joe Garcia
these guys did a “heckuva job of
wrestling” when you consider that
they had to compete in as many
as three matches during the day.
He explains that the fact that
these man never had competition
for a starting position in their
respective weight classes because’
so few came out for the team,
lended to their just running out of
gas by the end of the tournament.
Overall, the squad finished
3-8 for the season after a very
disappointing start. With the grad-
uation of only two men, Captain
Sport
Shorts
Softball - An AMIA organizational
meeting for softball will be held
Tuesday, March 24, at 4:00 p.m.
in PE 125.
Peeeeed
There will be a meeting of all
candidates for the 1970-71 varsity
basketball team at 4:15 Wednes-
day afternoon, March 11, in room
209, physical education building.
ee
There will be a meeting of all
persons interested in trying out
for the varsity and junior varsity
golf teams this spring at 4:15
Tuesday afternoon, March 10, in
room 209, physical education
building.
ores
Softball - An AMIA softball um-
pire meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, March 19 at 4:00 p.m.
in PE 125.
ke
Swimming - AMIA Swimming
meet is scheduled for Tuesday,
March 17. Entry blanks can be ob-
tained in the AMIA Office, PE
134.
Kingsmen who suffered a 2-22
season could not rebound with
Albany as Al Reid, Steve Sheehan,
and Jack Jordan controlled the
boards.
Perhaps the finest player on the
court Saturday was Brooklyn’s
5-5 guard, Dennis Ozer. The
Brooklyn captain penetrated Al-
bany’s defense countless times
and made pinpoint passes which
his teammates converted into lay-
ups. He picked up at least ten
assists and could have had many
others, if his teammates had held
onto his passes. An excellent ball-
handler, Ozer also scored fifteen
points in his last game for Brook-
lyn. There is always a place for
the small man in the game of
basketball, as demonstrated by
the play of Ozer and Adams.
This game was Coach Sauers’
350th at Albany and his 237th
victory. Congratulations to both
the coach and the team.
Take 5th
George Hawrylchak and Alex
Domkowski, Garcia has a fine
nucleus for next year’s team. Ken
Fishman who the coach says is
extremely receptive and learns
quickly did a fine job after com-
ing out at midseason after never
having wrestled previously
Albrecht, who compiled a 14-4
record this year and who wrestled
in the 134,142 and 150 lb.
brackets is only a freshman and so
will be a bright spot for three
more years. Wrestling at 158 Ib.
which Garcia considers to be the
toughest weight class, Nightingale
ran up an 11-8 slate. Mims, also a
freshman was 10-3, while both Al
Murcer and Tim Coons did credit-
able jobs in the 177 Ib. class.
Finally, Garcia sees Hilliard as
the vanguard at what can indeed
be a very powerful team next
year. “‘He is the best anchor man
that I’ve had in 10 years at
Albany,” says the Coach.
AMIA
Potter Club, led by Bob Rossi
and John Quattrochi upset EOPI
for the League I Championship
68-65 Sunday night. Rossi and
Quattrochi combined for 50 of the
Clubs 68 points, hitting 26 and 24
respectively. Both boys are trans-
fer students and are sitting out a
year of varsity eligiblity. Quat-
trochi should be next year’s var-
sity playmaker. The Brothers
featured a well balanced attack
with 4 players hitting double fig-
ures. Willie Graham led the Bro-
thers with 16 points. The Brothers
had beaten Potter twice during the
regular season.
In the League II champion-
ships, the Nads defeated EOP II
50-44. The Nads reached the fin-
als as winner of the League II B
division while the Brothers had
won IIA. The Nads thus com-
pleted an undefeated season. Only
the latter and the League III
ChampioniGolden Rods can boast
this record. They were led by
Steve Keminshine and Rich Nuss-
baum who scored 11 and 10
points respectively. The Brothers
were once again led by Ron
Spratt, who scored 12 points. The
Nads are all freshmen, so we
should be,seeing alot more from
them in the years to come.
CAPTAIN JACK Adams, Jim Sandy and Ed Arseneau ended their fine varsity careers Saturday night as
the Danes downed Brooklyn, 83-69.
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Synchronized Swim Sat.
by Aralynn Abare
Synchronized swim teams from
thirteen colleges and universities
will assemble here Saturday,
March 14, for the second annual
Eastern Intercollegiate Routine
Competition.
Sponsored by WRA and the
SUNY Swim Club, the DGWS
sanctioned event will take place in
the SUNY pool from 10 a.m. to
12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5:30
p.m, Admission will be free.
Besides SUNY Albany, partici-
pating schools include Penn State,
SUNY Stonybrook, Brandeis Uni-
versity, SUC Brockport, Connec-
ticut College, SUNY Buffalo,
Mount Holyoke College, Hunter
College, SUC Geneseo, Elmira
College, University of Vermont
and Brooklyn College.
The more than thirty routines
in the competition will incorpor-
ate beginning teams (four or more
per team), intermediate duets, in-
termediate teams, advanced solos
and advanced solos and advanced
groups (two or more per team.)
Albany is entering a beginning
team and two intermediate duets.
Coach Pat Rogers, when asked
of the probable highlight in the
program, recommended the ad-
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by William Rohde
On a sunny September day in 1968 a new figure
appeared on the SUNYA campus. He was tall, rather
heavy, and decked out in fancy tan cowboy boots,
blue jeans, and a well worn brown corduroy coat.
His name was Gerry Wagner.
At first he might have been mistaken for a folk
singer passing through. It turned out that Gerry
Wagner was not a folk singer passing through. To
the contrary, he was a bonafide faculty member-
assistant professor and all. He had been hired for
two years by the Department of Speech (now the
Rhetoric and Public Address Department) to round
out a program weak in “communication theory.” As
it turned out many realized Gerry Wagner was giving
them more than they bargained for. It all started
when Kathleen Kendall, Acting Chairman of the
department, handed him a letter December 15,
1969 telling him his contract wouldn’t be renewed.
For Gerry Wagner it was the last straw. As far as
he could see there was no reason for terminating his
contract. He felt that the hundreds of students
regularly seeking him out for help and advice was
proof enough of his value as a teacher. Furthermore,
he was angered by the way his non-renewal was
granted. The letter he received on December 15 gave
no reasons why he had not received renewal. “It was
a cold, abrasive way of dealing with a human
being.” says Wagner.
The issues involved in Wagner’s non-renewal are
complex. It isn’t simply a case of individual animosi-
ty over an unfavorable decision. According to Fred
Cohen, a lawyer and friend of Wagner's, the main
issue is procedure: “The way it stands now there is
no due process for term renewals. Teachers in
Gerry’s position are in a sense Academic Niggers
who are at the whim of their departments. They are
expected to ride off into the sunset if they are not
rehired.”
By due process Cohen is referring to the lack of a
specific criteria for non-renewal. Wagner, for exam-
ple, received no reasons for his non-renewal. He
tried several times to obtain this information. In
letters to President Kuusisto; Kathleen Kendall; 0.
William Perlmutter, Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences; and Charles Colman, Associate Dean of
Humanities he requested specific reasons. Only
THE GERRY WAGNI
Colman replied, and, according to both Wagner and
Colman, the letter simply stated that “proper
procedures have been followed.”
The vagueness and the absence of information in
the letter seemed uncalled for--after all, a man’s
career was at stake. Interestingly, however, it’s all
perfectly “legal.” There is nothing in the Faculty
Handbook for 1969-70 which says faculty members
must be told why they are not renewed. It simply
states that non-renewal for instructors and assistant
professors must be given “‘no later than February
15.2
The procedure involved in the Wagner decision is
equally vague. According to Dean Perlmutter it is
“normal procedure” for individual departments to
handle firing and hiring. Concerning his own role,
Perlmutter emphasized that, “Hiring of staff is
purely a departmental affair. | did not personally
meet or interview Gerry Wagner when he was hired.
The department recommended his appointment and
I routinely endorsed it. Likewise they made the
decision not to renew.”
In effect, Perlmutter is saying it is normal policy
to let departments decide. The problem here is also
procedural. Just as a faculty member in Wagner’s
position need not be given reasons, so department
chairmen need not follow any specific criteria for
determining renewal. The Guidelines on Continuing
Appointments in the Faculty Handbook state that
three things should be taken into account--teaching,
scholarship, and services to SUNYA or appropriate
external groups. It in no way outlines how a
department chairman is to determine if a man meets
these qualifications.
In Wagner's case Acting Chairman Kendall used
confidential questionnaires circulated in Fall 1969
among RPA faculty members and majors. According
to Kendall, six of the eight faculty members
receiving the questionnaire responded. The RPA
majors were composed of two groups, those that
graduated in the spring of 1969 and those that were
majors during the fall semester. Three of eight of
the first group, and three of fifteen of the second
group responded. Thus out of twenty-six students
polled by Kendall, six responded. After receiving
written replies from those who wished to respond,
Kendall relates that she “conveyed the wishes of the
department to Elmer Mathew, Dean of Personel,
who subsequently wrote the letter informing Wag-
ner of his non-renewal.
“The Rhetoric and
Public Address Depart-
ment has acted accord-
ing to established
University policy.
Under this policy a
department is not obli-
gated to give reasons
for non-renewal.”
Kathleen Kendall, Acting Chairman
of the RPA Department
The “Save Gerry” campaigniec
President Kuusisto
Associate Dean Colman
receives one year t
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
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Kathleen Kendall
Dean Perimutter
Photographs by Benjamin
There is a conflict here, however. Although
Kendall polled six of the eight RPA staff, and
although she attempted to elicit responses from
majors in her department, she did not reveal the
content of these responses. Furthermore, many
argue that since only six of twenty-six students
replied to the questionnaire the results do not
represent a majority of student opinion in the
department. In her defense Kendall states that she
promised to keep all responses “strictly confi-
dential,” but there is still the fact that no one is sure
how the faculty and students responded.
Another discrepancy revolves around the two
factors Kendall established for determining qualifi-
cation for renewal. Wagner was told that he was
terminated because he had not received his Ph.D
and because he was not furthering communications
in the department, but he ‘got nothing in writing.
Wagner says that he never promised to finish his
dissertation in a prescribed time: “I told Dr. Pettit
(former chairman of the Speech Department) that I
would not be bound to any particular date for
completion of my dissertation. The precise words I
used were, ‘I hope to be finished with my disserta-
tion, but I will not be bound to a date. ” This
conflicts with Kendall and Dean Perlmutter’s ver-
sion. According to them he agreed to have his Ph.D
by September of 1968. “Subsequently he kept
moving the date forward,” says Kendall.
These allegations have been flying back and forth
for three months. It is hard to substantiate them
because there is nothing in writing. Kendall admits
that all Wagner’s commitments were verbal, and
statements by Dean Colman and Dean Perlmutter
support this.
The second factor is equally vague. Kendall states
that “Gerry Wagner’s failure to further communica-
tions in the department was another point leading
to the final decision.” She further implies, referring
to the questionnaire she circulated, that other
members of her department agreed in this appraisal.
Again there is no way of substantiating this since no
information has been made public. When asked
whether she personally felt Wagner had advanced
“communication theory” she replied, “I don’t think
he has advanced it significantly. The standards of
the RPA Department are always improving, and we
need someone with a solid background in com-
munication theory.”
“A man up for re-
newal may not tave a
right to employment,
but once employed he
has the right to a stand-
ardized procedure
which informs him why
he was not renewed.”
Fred Cohen, a lawyer
and a friend of Gerry Wagner.
Wagner’s reply is quite different. He states that he
made no commitment to teach specific courses.
“Further,” says Wagner, “it was Dr. Richard Wilkie,
then chairman of the RPA Department, who
interviewed me for the job, not Mrs. Kendall.
Therefore how can she claim to know what I said?”
Wagner does admit he was brought in to add a more
modern approach in communications. “It’s true I
have my M.A. in communications theory. I followed
through with regard to my specialty by submitting
five new courses last year to the Curriculum
Committee, although only one was accepted.”
RR
What would Gerry Wagner have done if he
weren’t renewed? He says he would have gone to
court “if there were no other avenues - open.”
Wagner’s friend, lawyer Fred Cohen, defines the
bases for bringing such a case to court as legal and
ethical.
“The legal issues are subtle and a bit sophisticat-
ed. We are trying to establish a procedural format
that will provide a measure of fairness for others. It
is unfair that an individual should be non-renewed
without receiving any reasons. It’s not right that a
man should receive a letter on December 15 that he
won't be rehired.
“It’s wrong because a man doesn’t know what’s
in his file. He doesn’t know what a chairman may
write to a chairman at another school when this
man applies for a job elsewhere. This kind of thing
jeopardizes him in the job marketplace.
“A man up for renewal may not have a right to
employment, but once employed he has the right to
a standardized, fair procedure by which he knows
exactly why he was not renewed. This is the essence
of the legal argument.
“Ethically, no man should be treated as a
commodity to be kept or discarded. Gerry Wagner,
like any other person in his position, has the right to
due process-- the right to know.”
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Gerry Wagner has been rehired for another year.
Because all sides have accepted this decision, mat-
ters will soon return to normal. On the third floor
of Humanities, in the offices of the deans, and in
the Campus Center the name Wagner won’t be heard
as much. For a while things will be quiet, but few
will rest easy. Somewhere another teacher is coming
up for renewal.
PAGE 8
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
COMMUNICATIONS
RA’s Respond
To the Editors:
In response to your editorial
comments, Friday, March 6,
1970, above your article “Bust
and Near-Bust.” I, an RA on State
Quad, was frankly astounded, not
at your statements, but at the
overwhelming generalizations that
could be and, in many cases,
definitely were inferred by stu-
dents concerning the RA position.
In itself, your statements were
realistic because students must be
aware of the decisive role an RA
may play when put in a position
such as the one deseribed in the
article. However, many have taken
this warning as a blanket state-
ment that every RA is always a
policeman. To state that RA’s
“are required to act as policemen”
and “have no choice but to act as
policemen when given the option”
refutes the possibility that an RA
is a persona person who, like
everyone else, has a free will and a
choice in any situation. Although
university policy sets down ex-
pectations for him, he neverthe-
less has the prerogative to inter-
pret and carry out those rules in
any manner he sees fit.
Although many RA’s may feel
bound to a literal interpretation
of university policy, be it concer:
ing drugs, hot plates, or unreg
tered overnight guests, to place all
in that category is an injustice. To
say that all RA’s are policemen is
analogous to saying that anyone
who smokes grass will inevitably
go on to opium or heroin. Your
implication may be totally correct
for some individuals, but a stu-
dent must consider an RA first as
a person. To categorize a person
as a policeman simply because of
a title is a refutiation of all that
makes him an individual. Each
student must therefore approach
his RA as an individual, and tailor
his trust and expectations accord-
ingly.
Lorraine Collotta
Karen Falleson
Kathy Spiak
Hoods and capes
Sirs:
In a pedantic, pathetic, almost
whimpering self-evaluation.
MYSKANIA 1970 at last respond-
ed to the long standing and richly
deserved criticisms directed
toward that organization. By abdi-
cating the last vestige of its illicit
governmental function,
MYSKANIA has ;attempted’ to
placate its critics and justity its
continued existence as a non-
academic honorary with cere-
monial duties.
In this redefinition of role, the
members of MYSKANIA have
failed to acknowledge their great-
est sin, that of esoterism. The
University is an institution dedi-
cated to the pursuit of truth and
the proposition that no know-
ledge is justly secret or privileged.
By its esoterism MYSKANIA is
more anti-intellectual than non-
academic.
It is ironic, therefore, that the
members of MYSKANIA should
be permitted to don special aca-
demic regalia at ceremonies that
are purely academic. Hoods and
capes would be more appropriate
William R. Martin
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Power Play
Brothers and Sisters:
The motion is beginning. The
anger and despair which for years
we have spent on ourselves is
moving on the real enemy, We are
serving notice that our lives, our
culture, our institutions, our eco-
logy, belong to us. This univezsity
is not the place for police. The
days in which they can move on
this campus with immunity are
ending. The government and cor-
Porations have no right to our
resources. There will be no field
house. The institutions will meet
the needs of their people. There
will be a day care center here. For
those prepared to implement this
Program there will be an open
meeting of the New Left Organiz-
ing Committee Thursday night.
All Power to the People!
NLOC
1972 Pays Up
To the Editors:
According to the Editorial of
Friday’s ASP, funds from the
Class of 1972 was appropriated
for an ad that appeared in that
Tuesday’s paper. This is not true.
Although the ad concerned an
invitation to an open meeting, it
also included the names of the
then-incumbent officers. Some
felt that this was also a political
move. Therefor after some con-
sideration the people concerned
decided to split the cost between
themselves. No vouchers have
been drawn and no bills have been
paid out of class funds for this
purpose.
We appreciate the chance to
clear up any misconceptions.
Sincerely,
Tom LaBarbera
Rich Friedlander
Sue Levey
Dale Padnick
Experimental College...
by Daniel G. Small
Experimental College is a group of students and
teachers who are trying to consider the educational
process in a different perspective. One of the basic
assumptions of the traditional system of education
(American and European, elementary and ad-
vanced), is that the student does not know enough~
what is “good for him” or what he wants--to direct
his own education.
What happens, then, is that the student is led
through a maze of courses and programs, told what
to study, how to study and then checked to see if
he did indeed “get something” from this experience
by means of tests covering what the educator
considers important for the educatee to know.
Rarely is the student asked what he wants to
learn or what he is interested in, instead he is told
what to take-in the way of prerequisites and
distribution requirements~after deciding what cate-
gory or branch of knowledge he will concentrate on.
More specifically, the courses he takes are already
structured for him by the instructor and the
department--he is not permitted to think or work
out his program for himself.
This process of structured education sometimes
works admirably well. It has turned out some
remarkable men and women in all fields and is at
least adequate for the functional needs of our
society. Sometimes, however, it fails miserably.
Along with its exceptional product and its average
and quite acceptable product, it has its rejects and
isfits-those who for some reason do not “make
it” through the system, those who fail.
The failures and misfits are recongizable enough:
no degree, poor job, poor status for those who fall
out of the cart on the way to commencement;
rebellion and radical attempts at change for those
who may measure up but don’t want to be mere
passengers during their educational trip.
Unfortunately, however, these are not the only
failures. We have been hoodwinked into believing
that successful competion of the educational jour-
ney, symbolized by a degree, stamped, sealed, and
signed, means that we know something, are experts
in an area, are qualified for some occupation~in
short, are educated. A successful graduate, then,
may be something, may have learned skills or gained
knowledge that he can use in a career, but he may
not know what or who he really is, or why he chose
the field he did.
The educational system as most of us have
experienced it does not allow the individual to
develop autonomously because it does not believe
he can..‘Learn to know yourself,” says our edu-
cational system,‘but do it this way.” We who are
directly involved in Experimental College, and
others whose thinking lies in the same direction, feel
that the individual ought to have more freedom in
deciding how he will live and how he will learn. This
is essentially a faith in the ability of the individual
to direct himself.
dohn Holt compares the university as he would
like to see it to a library or other public facility
which offers entertainment and/or an educational
experience, without insisting that the person using
the facility absorb an arbitrary amount of informa-
tion and later prove it on a test: “Why shouldn't a
school, college, or university be like a museum, a
library, a concert hall, a lecture hall, a sports
facility?
Why shouldn’t it, like them, say to the public,
‘Here is what we have to offer you; here are the
possibilities. If they appeal to you, come in and use
them, for as little or as long as you like’?...Nor is
there any necessary reasons why universities should
worry so about qualifications. This will seem start-
ling at first. But after all, when I borrow a book or
record from the Boston Public Library, nobody
gives me a quiz to be sure I will understand it. It's
up to me to decide how I want to spend my time
and to run the risk of wasting it.”
We who believe in this capacity for self-direction
are asking simply for the opportunity to experience
it. This is what Experimental College is all about.
We are asking to be allowed to take upon ourselves
the responsibility for a portion of our educational
experience here at SUNYA I believe that there are
many more students and teachers here who would
welcome the opportunity to find within themselves
the interests and directions they will pursue. By
granting students and faculty this option, whether
within the existing: structure, in independent study
or through the development of a program such as
Experimental College, the University would be
saying an emphatic Yes! to its fine motto Let
Each Become All He Is Capable of Being.
by Rich Stenberg
I am sick of being a non-feeling and non-leaming
entity. For too long has this life meant separation
from others. Captain America told us that people
talk freedom real well, but show them a free man
and they'll kill him. People - we've all been living on
this campus without each other - now is the time to
change. Kuntsler and Froines told us to be ourselves
- once you find your own truth, life will truly
become worthwhile.
This is part of the reason why the EXPERI-
MENTAL COLLEGE is starting its spring awaken-
ing. As one of a group who is receiving fifteen
credits to freely do with his life what he cares to I
can say let us all do what we want. If we all come
together and WORK TOGETHER (yes, talking is
good, but , alas, talking doesn’t get the work done),
we can change this place of education into a living
experience. Living experience - what does that have
to do with education? When we all realise that each
of us is an individual with definite needs and
attributes we will realise that each is essentially
good. We have to open up our heads to things other
than exams. Imagine taking a semester where you
enjoyed yourself-and shouldn’t learning be enjoy-
able?
Take a semester where you read all the books you
have wanted to read - or better yet, maybe just
going off and thinking out your head, or enjoying
nature. Is that goofing off? Not if you believe in
yourself. We've all been striving for false goals - let’s
reevaluate.
Spring Awakening
Let’s open the university. Let’s ask the President
to stop classes (and not with profs cheating) and let
people exist in an open university for a few days.
Even this idea has been subverted into now calling it
closing the university.
The EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE is now accept-
ing applications for life. We have reserved the
Ballroom for Monday 23, 7:30. We are going to talk
about where the EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE has
been and where we can all go together. Help us to
restructure this university.
by Ed Tick
William Kunstler spoke of the “Festival of Life.”
It has been our fervent desire and meager attempt to
bring the Festival of Life into the academic com-
munity. We of Experimental Colllege have tried to
open for this university only one of the possibilities
of a total learning experience, without polarization
of intellect and feelings, without unrelated disci-
Plines, without irrelevance to us. We have wanted
not to be educated, but to learn. We have wanted
our experience and our growth to be for us,
whoever we are, to satisfy our needs and our desires,
whatever they might be. Needless to say, we have
met much frustration. But we have learned, we have
grown, we have taken the time to honestly look at
ourselves, our peers, our university community, and
education in general.
It is long past time for each of us in this
university to stop and take an honest look around.
It is long past time for each of us to ask ourselves,
“Am _I satisfied? Am I getting what I need and
want? Do I even know what I need and want? How
can I find out about myself and how can I fulfill my
needs? How can I help others fulfill theirs?
So much of the problem of education and indeed,
of the world, lies in the dehumanization of life, of
the warped value system we have lived and learned
under. We must appeal to ourselves and to each
other as people, with all our faults, limits, fears, and
vulnerabilities; but more than that, with all our love,
honesty and tremendous potential. We can be, we
need to be, creative and productive, thinking and
feeling. We need to deal with these things on the
level of life! We do not need to be programmed and
we should not be. We should refuse to be pro-
grammed.
It is much easier to recognize what we do not
want. We can all knock the system. Our words are
beautiful and our intellectual arguments in the
rathskellar are ever so enthralling. But we can see
some direction, we can take steps, we can work
together. Many people are trying in small ways:
Experimental College, General College, Student
Power, CURE, Pass-Fail Committee, Women’s Lib-
eration and various political and social organiations.
How many of us kno: * what we really want? How
many like sitting in a lecture hall or sleeping in a
classroom? How many of us like having our most
ecstatic moments in Thursday night drinking bouts
or Friday night movies? Ecstasy exists in Life.
Learning exists in Life. Life is Ecstasy and we can
make our education a meaningful and total life
experience.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Editorial Comment
Everything that was wrong with local press coverage of William
Kunstler could be summed up by quoting the Times Union’s headline
on the Kunstler story last Friday: “Kunstler Says Nixon Uses Courts
Like Nazis Did.”
By quoting one point in a lengthy speech for a headline, the Times
Union immediately gave the impression that Kunstler’s analogy of
Nixon and the Nazis comprised a major portion of this speech. The
article by Marty Schwartz continued this impression.
Schwartz devoted the first three paragraphs of his story to the
Nixon- Nazi analogy. He then discussed Kunstler’s statements about
Reagan, Kelleher, and the first amendment.
Schwartz then spoke about John Froines in a similar manner. He in
no way mentioned what Froines had to say about the jail food crawling
to the cell, but instead discusses what Froines said about Hofiman’s
wife “contributing heavily to one of the late Illinois Sen. Everett
Dirksen’s campaigns.”
Finally, Schwartz never mentions the enthusiastic reception
Kunstler received. Schartz speaks vaguely of 6500 people and
contents himself by recording numbers rather than reactions.
The nature of the quotations Schwartz saw fit to include in his
article was such that we wonder if Schwartz was in the gym only
physically and mentally picketing outside with the veterans’ organ-
izations.
GG.
Gi, ESGBERT —THERES SOnETHING)) (HERE -
ABOUT A FRATERNITY MAN
THAT DOES SOMETHING To ME!
Reflections on Leadership
by Barry Kirschner
What exists today is a society in which there is an inverse
relationship between the desirability of titles and the people who earn
them. Those who we call the honorable are actually the least
honorable; those recognized as most altruistic are actually the most
selfish.
The processes for selection in organizations, whether they be
Political or social, seem to sieve out those unwilling to make whores
of themselves and their convicitons. Those most willing to prostitute
ideals and caress the backsides of higher ups are most likely to end up
with ‘the system’ working for them.
On the national scene we can look at people like the president and
his most recent opponent to fit the whorish image. If anyone has been
keeping tabs of developments closer to home they realize that the
critieria for recognition within the university is also paradoxical;
certainly bearing little positive relationship with dedicated service.
No more blatant example of this paradox can be found than our
elections for MYSKANIA class officers. The correlation between
being elected and deserving election is at best random. Do candidates
actually believe that there will be a positive response to a poster
saying vote for Sam (or Samantha) Schmuck? Walking on the podium
would be embarrassing to a self-respecting member of an enlightened
electorate--someone who asks questions of candidates like--what are
you concerned about?
What it boils down to is that people are concerned not about
correcting a nation’s perversions and its manifestations, but about
achieving a reputation and a status unrelated to their meaningul
contributions. This is what allows people to seek positions not as a
mean to solve some real problem, but as an end to satisfy a hungry
ego.
What is most frightening about this condition among our ‘elite,’ is
that it is but a reflection of the attitudes of ourselves. If our leaders
seem like the ‘scum of the earth,’ we must also consider that they are
elected because we admire their antics. Just as Americans can look at
Richard Nixon and be proud, we can look at our newly elected
Officials.
Ths significance of this phenomena is a corrolary to Leo Durou-
cher’s “nice guys finish last,” that being assholes are in the lead.
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All Power to the
People
by Jack L. Schwartz
T have been informed that since my first gem
slipped past the Editor of the ASP and appeared in
print, there has been a new subscriber to the
paper—the New York State Joint (?) Legislative
Committee on Crime. So, hi out there, fellow
law-and-order freaks!
Meanwhile, back in Nam, (you DO remember
Viet-Nam, don’t you?) the U.S. has found a new
way to stop the tide of Asians moving towards
Communism—by destroying young Asians. In
Operation Ranchhand, the U.S. uses 2,4,5-T, a new
defoliant that has produced a shocking rate of birth
defects. The producer of the killing agent is Dow
Chemical, and it has been discovered that 1,305
miles of the U.S.-Canadian border has been sprayed
with it, causing death to fish, small animals, and
cven sheep upon increased exposure.
RK
State Senator Samuel Greenberg has disclosed
that at least $4.8 million of $7.1 million used for
construction of our campus has been wasted. Less
than 10% of our campus space is used for class-
rooms, so naturally the next thing to build is a
fieldhouse. Maybe they intend to house the resi-
dents of Indian Quad in it! Dorm fees and tuition
will go up next September, as a result, while
Rockefeller’s pals on the State University Con-
struction Fund fill their bank accounts with the
people’s taxes.
Other travesties of students’ rights on campus
lately have included the passing of a new calendar,
which allows us start school a week before Labor
Day, and take finals the day directly following the
last day of classes. Incidentally, the calendar was
not passed in Senate while there were student
representatives voting.
State cops, from-the Bureau of Criminal Inves-
tigation, with the aid of student informers, probably
wire-taps, power-hungry drom directors and R.A.’s
(and of course Cliffie Thorne), have been busting
our brothers and sisters on. drug charges. “The law is
on the side of the state police,” Thorne oinked, but
whose laws are they? Protect yourselves—remember
that an R.A. or Dorm Dictator can be stopped quite
easily if resident students get together and stand up
to illegal searches and seizures!
In University Governance—or should I say Ad-
ministrative rule—I noticed a small article in the last
ASP that states the ‘“‘qualifications” for self-nomina-
tion of Senate hopefuls. Bullshit. Ignore them. If
you want to, lie on the form about your marks—no
one in the “student government” will bother to
check them. Congratulations. to Richard KENDALL
for his election to the Senate—it’s sort of like
Carswell on the Supreme Court, the way Senate gets
packed with anti-democratic faculty and chicken-
shit students.
The faculty senate of the SUNY system gave a list
of demands to Rockefeller, including such benefits
(for faculty only) as legal counsel and paid sabbati-
cal leaves, as well as exorbitant pay hikes. Do you
remember the reaction to our demand for the gym
for Thursday night, and how ridiculous they think
all of our demands are?
peer
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, in a
new book, has said that “revolution may prove to
be the only honorable alternative to oppression by
the American Establishment.” He goes on to attack
the Pentagon, the CIA, FBI, government and cor-
porate bureaucracies, and racist practices by police,
employers and educators, as adding to the suppre-
ssion of freedom in our country. American Protest-
ors need not be submissive—a speaker who resists
arrest is acting as a free man,” he says, and then he
credits the first “‘agnewist” statement—‘The streets
of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are
filled with students rebelling and rioting...we need
law and order” to the saint of the Silent Majority—
' Adolph Hitler.
It is obvious that a revolution is already upon us,
witness the recent outrages over the sentencing of
the Chicago Conspiracy. The liberals had their
chance to change things, and ended up with Bobby
and John Kennedy, Dr. King and Malcolm being
gunned down. They got the police riot in Chicago,
the nomination of Humphrey, and the election of
Nixon, and now the wave of government violence
being used to put our radical brothers and sisters in
jail forever; those that survive. Our rulers think that
they can stop freedom with wiretaps, informers,
police raids, prison and guns. They cannot. Self-
determination for people shall come, despite these
fascist tactics. All Power to the People!
MEET THE
Albany Student Press
SUNDAY at 7 PM
in the Patroon Lounge
We welcome all comments, complaints,
and whatever else you have on your mind.
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
The Moody Blues, top recording group, will appear in concert here
on March 22 at 8:30 in the gym.
Campus Center.
Area Talent
Benefit For
by Allen Reiter
The Contemporary Music
Commission is sponsoring a Be-
nefit Concert For Underprivileged
Children of the Capital District at
8:30 p.m. on Friday the 13th, and
Saturday the 14th of March. The
proceeds from the concerts, as
well as those received at the Cam-
pus Center desk of the Commis-
sion will be given to the orphan-
ages of the Albany area.
The list of performers is !ong:
The University Concert Band,
under the direction of William
Hudson; The Statesmen, conduct-
ed by Karl Peterson; The Univer-
sity Percussion Ensemble, under
Thomas Brown; Findlay Cockrell,
Tickets are now on sale in the
Marjory Fuller, Irvin Gilman,
Dennis Helmrich, Vincent La-
Fleur, Ruth McKee, soloists from
the University Singers and The
Statesmen, and the Drama Depart-
ment Dancers.
This impressive array of perfor-
mers will present a program that is
varied in both style and present-
ation, ranging from flashy piano
duets by Cockrell and Helmrich to
selections from Hair, West Side
Story, My Fair Lady, Carousel,
and The Sound of Music.
The Albany orphanages, long
since in financial difficulties, with
their budgets strained to the limit,
are in dire need of financial assis-
tance. This benefit can help them
to provide far better for their
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MOODY BLUES To Show
Talents At March Concert
In 1964 at the height of the
rhythm and blues craze, a group
from Birmingham took the British
pop scene by storm with their
second disc. The song was “Go
Now” and the MOODY BLUES
took it in triumph to the Number
One position. The Sunday, March
22 concert of Greek Week will
feature this group,
After “Go Now” two other
singles reacher the lower chart
regions for them. Then - nothing.
The turning point came in a
club in Newcastle. The boys were
rehearsing and didn’t really notice
the man who had come in to look
at the club’s air-conditioning
plant.
It was when they discovered
that he was a business man who
wanted to finance them and pro-
vide them with the equipment
they badly needed, that they sud-
denly became attentive.
“Days of Future Passed,”
their next album was a tremen-
dous success - and opened up a
To Perform In
Needy Children
children than they could hope to
do otherwise. There is no admis-
sion charge for the concert; dona-
tions would be greatly apprecia-
ted.
ACHTUNG!
The ORESTES review, originally
scheduled for publication today, will
have to wait until Friday, since I've
run out of space.
Linda
whole new musical region as the
boys joined forces with the Lon-
don Festival Orchestra to fuse the
gap between pop and the classics.
It all hapzoned towards the end
of 1967 - and it was another
turning point. A ‘single’ from the
LP, “Nights in White Satin,” took
the Moodys back into the British
charts. It reached our Top 20, in
fact, but soared on the coveted
Number One spot in France (and
stayed at the top there for 11
weeks), Portugal, Holland, Bel-
gium and Switzerland.
As before, the emphasis was on
music - and unique, progressive
ideas. And it was music made by
the Moody themselves. Not a
session musician in sight at any of
the recordings. When these five
can play more than 30 in-
struments between them, who
needs session musicians?
The group includes Mike Pin-
der, Graeme Edge, John Lodge,
Ray Thomas and Justin Hayward.
Annual Student Film
Festival Tonight
Albany State Filmmakers will
present the First Annual Student
Film Showing tonight at 7:30 in
Lecture Center 2. Sponsored by
the Art Council, the program will
feature nine 16mm films made
last semester in Dr. Lennig’s Intro-
duction to Filmmaking course.
The movie story lines vary. A
young man mentally isolated from
society appears in Stephen Sulli-
van’s film “Antique.” In “The
Marksman,” Dave Riley handles
the situation of a man not in
harmony with the world. While
.the mild-mannered misfit in “An-
tique” is content to fumble in
Vicotrian dreams, the Marksman
takes out his frustrations with a
gun.
Audrey Kupferberg’s “Foot
bridge Home” and Walter Silver's
“You Eat What You Are” both
concentrate on food. “Footbridge
Silver’s film stresses the prepar
ation of a bizarre stew
Three eerie films have been
contributed by Rena Abelson,
Harold Arbit, a former film stu-
dent, and Douglas Stewart. Rena’s
untitled film offers an atmosphere
of witches, impressionistic natural
settings and love potions to relate
the tale of a deceived coed. Stew-
art’s “7:18” captures the emtiness
that faces every person when life
is no more. In “Juli,” Arbit’s
actress portrays a young girl
troubled by a sexual trauma of
her childhood. Michael Ruther-
ford, also a graduated film stu-
dent, will present “Winter
Flower.”
“Free Time,” a film made by
Dr. Lennig, is included in the
program. The camera follows a
pretty Albany State student from
the tedium of class to the freedom
Home,” telling the story of a and beauty of the countryside on
coed’s inability to accept her a spring day.
home and mother after spending
her first months away at college
Admission is free.
Music Council To Sponsor
Recital Tomorrow Night
Robert Gartside, tenor, and
Keith Humble, pianist, will appear
in the recital Hall of the PAC
tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. ina
song recital that will include
works by Dowland, Ravel, Ives,
Schoenberg and Schumann. Gart-
side is presently on the faculty of
Boston University and Humble is
a member of the University of
Melbourne faculty.
The program will start with a
group of anonymous Rennaisance
songs and then feature a group of
songs by John Dowland. Next will
be a collection of songs by Mau-
rice Ravel, among which will be
the “Deux melodies Habraique.”
The next selection on the pro-
gram will be Keith Humble’s
“Trois Poems d’Amour,” and a
collection fo Ives songs, for their
interpretations of which the pair
has won extensive critical acclaim.
The program will then conclude
with selections from German Ro-
mantic lieder by Schoenberg and
Robert Schumann. The
Schoenberg songs are early (op.
12 and 14) expressionist words,
and the Schumann songs are also
fairly early words, written just
after the composer’s marriage.
The concert will be sponsored
by Music Council. It will begin at
8:30 p.m. and is free with Student
Tax.
SUNY Theater Department
Announces
by Mary Eileen O’Donnell
ALA-ED-DIN, the fourth major
State University Theatre pro-
duction, is in intensive rehearsal
now, preparing for its April 15th
opening for a five-day fun in the
Experimental Laboratory Theatre
of the PAC. Written by Dr. Paul
Bruce Pettit, Chairman of the De-
partment of Theatre, ALA—ED—
DIN is directed by Patricia B.
Snyder, of the Theatre Depart-
ment faculty. The play is sub-
titled, “A Tale from East of the
Spri
Rising Sun,” and features a large
cast of 35, including Ala-ed-din,
the Princess, the Caliph, the
Dreadful Magician, the Jinnis, as
well as a host of dancers, guards,
and slaves. The play promises to
be a visual delight for children of
all ages.
Auditions for YOUR OWN
THING, State University Thea-
tre’s fifth and last major pro-
duction of the season, will take
place in the Studio Theatre of the
Performing Arts Center, at 8 p.m.
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OWN THING is a musical based
on Shakespeare’s TWELFTH
NIGHT. It will be presented for
five days from May 13 to the
17th. Persons auditioning for
YOUR OWN THING, are asked to
prepare an up-tempo song and
bring the sheet music for it with
them to the audition.
Experimental Theater, in con-
junction with the Music Council
will present THE ROAR OF THE
GREASEPAINT—THE SMELL
OF THE CROWD, in the Arena
Theatre of the PAC, the weekend
of March 19. GREASEPAINT is
directed by Ron Abel.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 11
Jeff Wasserman, one of two student power representatives meeting
with administrators, announces Perlmutter’s recommendations-benjamin ,oas¢” The campus is tense and
Economists Release Report:
Shows Cities Short- Changed
by Donna Santora
Discriminatory distribution of
state aid to suburban localities at
the expense of our big cities
constitutes a basic example of one
of the gross inequities that faces
New York State today. In a re-
cently released study made by the
Mayors. of the State’s largest
cities--Albany, Buffalo, New
York, Rochester, Syracuse and
Yonkers, the problem of unequal
allocation of state funds was
examined and studied by three
SUNYA economics professors:
Doctors Kuan-I Chen, Robert Pet-
tengill and Jagindar Uppal.
Categorical state aid was found
significant in several fields--educa-
tion, general government, high-
ways, health, safety, social welfare
and “miscellaneous.” These seven
areas served as the criteria upon
which the comparisons were made
between the cities and suburbs.
The University report made it
clear that all of the state’s “Big
Six” cities suffered from a dis-
proportionate pattern of state aid
that substantially favored the
more affluent suburbs. As sum-
marized in the final report, the
economists maintained that “state
aid to local governments should
be in proportion to need, raised
where costs are higher and re-
duced where tax-paying ability is
higher.”
The study further maintained
that “about half the people in the
state live in its six biggest cities,”
but “much more than half of the
state’s needy citizens dwell
there.” It went on to explain the
urgent needs of our cities where
incomes are lower and rents are
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where large numbers of poor fami-
lies live in miserable housing.
In the cities, educational
achievement is stifled — schools
are more crowded, more expen-
sive to maintain, build and staff
than in the suburbs. Health needs
are also proportionately greater
than for people living in the sub-
urbs, yet the suburbs receive the
larger share of the state’s aid to
localities.
At the same time that needs are
greater in cities than in the sub-
urbs on a per capita basis, state
aid to city dwellers was found to
be much less. In 1966-67, before
the enactment of the special ur-
ban aid legislation, this was es-
pecially true. The study pointed
out that then the suburbs of the
“Big Cities” got 2% times as much
state aid per resident as did the
people in the urban centers them-
selves.
The discrimination against the
urban areas became more appar-
ent when categorized aid by func-
tions was examined. The report
found that the suburbs of the big
cities got 16 times as much aid as
the cities did for health services, 8
times as much for highways, 5
times as much for miscellaneous
expenses and 2 times as much for
education.
The problem of education was
found to be in a class by itself.
Expenditures in the field were by,
far the largest burden for city
taxpayers, amounting to nearly
50% of the total tax burden in the
“Big Six” cities in 1966-67.
Half of this educational ex-
pense was borne by city residents
400 Police on UB Campus
400 policemen were called on
to a calm Buffalo campus Sunday
morning by acting president
Regan to “protect academic free-
dom.” Yesterday, they were still
patrolling the campus in groups of
20 or 30. A general strike is in its
eleventh day, organized by the
Strike Committee which is coordi-
nating the peaceful activities of
the strike.
The presence of the police has
mobilized and polarized large seg-
ments of the University commun-
ity and the strike is receiving
wide-spread support. Various de-
partments have endorsed the
strike and the student demand
asking for President Regan’s resig-
nation.
This evening Jerry Rubin will
speak and there will be a “pig
and half by the state budget. For
suburbs, however, the report
found that the taxpayers “‘shoul-
dered only 44% of their school’s
costs, the state taking care of 56%
- another case of discrimination
against the cities and an expensive
one!””
In short, the urban areas of the
state need more financial help,
not less. The conclusion reached
by Professors Chen, Pettengill and
Uppal gives the cities a meaningful
incentive for joining ranks and
continuing the battle for fairer
allocation of state funds. For
now, more than ever, the cities
have a reason to come together as
they have never really done be-
Fore, to demand it!
waiting. The student radio station
and the Buffalo Spectrum are both
taking steps to insure that their
funds cannot be cut if President
Regan decides to follow any fur-
ther the stance of S.1. Hayakawa.
by Linda Hanley
Editor, The Spectrum
Buffalo, New York--
(CPS)-While most of the nation’s
attention has been focused on
Santa Barbara, students at the
State University of New York at
Buffalo have battled police on
campus and boycotted classes.
The worst disruption in the
University’s history was the result
of a Wednesday night (Feb. 25)
sweep through the student union
building by club-wielding campus
police. Two students were beaten
and taken into custody in the
lobby of the crowded building as
police allegedly were pursuing
vandals whe had tossed a rock
through the President’s window.
Within an hour cityire-inforce-
ments, including the ‘Tactical Pa-
trol Force, arrived to vacate the
building where incensed students
had thrown up barricades and
destroyed windows and furniture.
A three hour battle on the campus
grounds ensued. Seventeen arrests
were made and several injuries
were reported.
A noon-time rally Feb. 26 cul-
minated in a march by 1000
students to the administration
building, but Acting President
Peter F. Regan was not in his
office. The crowd then moved
through the campus, hurling rocks
at the Clark Gym headquarters of
ROTC, burning a truck at the
Defense-Department-sponsored
Project Themis construction site
and smashing a campus police car
into the Security Offices building.
Action Called For
Continued from page 3
thods are irrelevant because every
possible type has been used.”
3. “We need and the adminis-
tration wants this student dissent
to prove that this is really a
university.’
Behind Wagner’s case, however,
is the students’ quest for power.
Waving the red and black banner
and flashing their buttons, the
students asked, “Who has the
power here?”
The conference closed with Jeff
Wasserman’s story of his attempts
throughout the day to meet with
Women’s Lib
the vice-president, all of which
were unsuccessful. He had man-
aged to secure a definite appoint-
ment at 4:00 P.M. So he proceded
to invite the entire roomful of
200 students to this meeting. With
a final thunder of applause the
meeting was called to a halt.
Before the President left, how-
ever, a commitment was obtained
from him: A statement would
appear on Dean Perlmutter’s rec-
comendation in the ASP.
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Throughout the afternoon masses
of student police demonstrators
confronted cordons of city police
in full riot-gear but there were no
arrests.
Molotov cocktails were hurled
at the building housing the Facul-
ty Club Thursday evening. The
files of some alumni and incoming
freshmen were destroyed by a
blast at Admissions and Records;
three shelves of books were
burned in the library basement
and the English Department an-
nex was firebombed. Scattered
incidents of property violence and
large strategy caucuses took place
throughout the weekend, in ad-
vance of a University-wide strike
meeting on Monday. Classes were
boycotted Friday. By Saturday
morning Feb. 28 the police had
withdrawn from campus.
What provoked the recent inci-
dents was the physical presence of
police on campus and not, as had
been reported in the commercial
press, the boycott by the Black
basketball players. It was that
boycott which resulted in a dem-
onstration Feb. 24 on the gym
court before the Buffalo/Stony
Brook game. The campus athletic
program has been under attack by
Black athletes since the start of
the year. The players say the
program is unacceptable, charging
racism, and some have boycotted
the basketball team all season
demanding a renegotiated pro-
gram. Police were called in, the
gym was cleared, but there were
no confrontations. Several police
broke windows as they exited
from the building, and a Univer-
sity official overheard one officer
remark: “You may have won this
time, but wait till next time.”
Many of the issues which be-
came points of contention in last
year’s rebellion-ROTC, Themis,
tenure, open admissions, self-
determination for students--are no
nearer resolution than they were
12 months ago. In fact, many
have been bottled up in commit-
tee for nearly that entire time.
Four out of the six demands from
March 1969 are repeated in this
year’s list of nine.
Among the new additions are
the call for Dr. Regan’s resigna-
tion and the abolition of the
campus police.
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PAGE 12
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1970
STUDENT POWER
An ASP Feature
by Vicki Zeldin
“Justice for Gerry Wagner” is on the walls and red and black badges
are on the students, and the group responsible for this new “trend” is
Student Power.
Student Power became more than just a phrase, and became an
organization over the Gerry Wagner issue. In interviews with some of
the leading figures of this new organization, there was a consensus
that the Wagner issue was the spark thal ignited the fuse forming
Student Power. But it is not only Gerry that students are fighting for.
He is their symbol, and they know it? and Gerry knows it and
hopefully the administration knows it too. What is more basic to this
organization’s struggle is what it feels the role of the students should
be in this university.
What Student Power is fighting for is student power. Power to be a
part of the decision-making apparatus of this university. As Dave
Wollkind, a post doctoral research associate in math and a member of
the group, said, “who should know better than the students if an
instructor is good?” As Joe Green, a junior. a member of the
University Senate, and a member of the group, said, “I want to be an
active agent in my education, not a passive agent.” And as Gerry
Wagner said, “who has the right to say that no bills can be posted here
(poles on perimeter road)?” What is basic to all these statements is a
desire to put power and authority where it belongs.
In an interview with Skip Counts and Rich Ariza, both active
members of Student Power, some of the goals of Student Power as
they see them were spelled out. Skip spoke first of his general
“dissatisfaction with the incompetence of the administration,” speci-
fically Dr. Kathleen Kendall and Dean O. William Perlmutter.
Both Counts and Ariza felt that Kendall used unjust power when
she abolished the RPA faculty-student committee of 8 and 8 whose
purpose was to make major policy decisions within the department,
and took the Gerry Wagner issue into her own hands. Counts and
Ariza both want to see a reinstatement of this committee of 8 and 8,
and also extend the idea of an equally represented student-faculty
committee to evaluate and formulate all university policy.
‘They want to see an end to “publish or perish” because as they put
it, “to be a good instructor one doesn’t need to have a doctorate.”
Under longer range goals Ariza spoke of abolishing Central Council
and its subsidiaries and replacing them with an “All University
Government.” Also there was a mention that Student Power would
look into the racial issues concerning the construction firms hired to
work on campus.
Both Counts and Ariza see Student Power as a supportive group.
They said that they would lend assistance and leadership to any group
that came to them for help. Several groups have already come to
them. Among these are PYE, that wants to know why the trees
behind the Campus Center were pulled down without their being
consulted, and the Experimental General College, that wants to know
how to get more of the funds that it should rightfully be receiving.
In an interview with Joe Green that was cut short by the Sunday
night “Gerry Wagner happening” much of what Counts and Ariza
spoke of was repeated. Green, too, wants to see the committee of 8
and 8 in the RPA department reinstated. He also spoke of extending
this committee idea to other areas of the university.
Green, a member of the University Senate, is sponsoring a bill along
with Rich Kamp (another Student Power member) to reinstate the
RPA committee of 8 and 8, in essence to rescind Kendall’s actions.
Dave Wollkind who is 27 and a past math instructor here last year,
the author of several published works and now doing post doctoral
benjamin
ch here is very intensely involved in the ideas of Student Power.
concerned with the research orientation in the University. He
said in essence that research is the main priority with education
running a poor second.
Wollkind said that rather than a “publish or perish” attitude there
should be one of “produce or perish.” By produce he meant in the
sense of doing service for the community and the university. (He
spoké of Wagner's involvement with Interact as an example of this
service.) He said that once the ““Damacles Sword of research is pulled
out of the professor-the chances for better instruction and for a better
rapport with the students are enhanced.”
Speaking of teachers in general he said, “either they have it or they
don’t. No matter how intelligent a man may be there is a certain
something that either makes him a good prof. or a bad prof., and
students are the best judges of this.”
Wollkind would like to see an ‘organized mechanism to gauge the
feedback” from the students regarding instructors. He spoke of using
a questionnaire, either a verbal one or a written one or both. He cited
Perlmutter’s meetings with students concerning Wagner as a good
approach.
SECT’s questionnaire was the right type of idea, but it was not
effective since it was optional for the professors. In Wollkind’s words,
“since it is optional the real winners never give the questionnaires.”
In addressing himself directly to the Wagner issue he said that this
was a terribly unfair, extreme case, and that it must never happen
again. He spoke of the obviously strong student support for Wagner
and seemed to be in complete disbelief at the administration’s lack of
reaction to it. He reaffirmed his belief that the students should be in
on deciding who teaches and who does not. Speaking of Kendall he
said, “putting Kendall in charge of the RPA Department is like
putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”
As for the other goals of Student Power he referred to making this
an “Open University,” and referred to Wagner’s earlier cited state-
ment. He felt that it is not up to the adminstration to decide who to
open and who to close the university to. It is up to the students.
When asked about the use of violence as a means to achieve certain
of the organization’s ends Wollkind replied, “We are using purely
academic protest since we feel that it is the best way, but what do you
do when all legal channels are exhausted?”
In speaking with Rich Kamp and Claire Fritz, both among the chief
organizers of Student Power, about the overall impact of Student
Power they said, ‘want to get the students together on university
problems, at present we are completely apolitical.” They, too, spoke
to the committee of 8 and 8 in the RPA Department, and Joe Green
and Kemp working in the Senate to rescind Kendall’s actions.
--suver
Fritz and Kamp want to put an end to the yearly teacher dismissal
battles. “Last year it was Waterman and Rhodes, this year it’s Wagner.
We want to establish a precedent and form a student-faculty review
board to deal with teacher tenure and dismissal so that this won't
occur again next year.” They both would like to see a 50-50
representation of faculty and students on all department review
boards and also in the University Senate.
On long range goals, they, as Ariza and Counts, spoke of Student
Power as having a supportive role. They mentioned working with
PYE, NLOC and Women’s Liberation as examples.
Fritz expressed the hope that Studen. Power would in the future
work to keep the State Police off campus.
All and all Student Power seems to be relatively self explanatory.
What it is working for is student power. Power to have a say and an
effect in the decisions and policies that affect no one more than they
affect the students.
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