‘THE ALBANY
STUDENT =
ALBANY, NEW YORK
VOL. LIv NO. 11
“Food For India”
2,500 Students
VolunteerForFast
by Barb Grossman
Today students at the Univer-
sity will participate inthe second
“Food for India’’ fast. The drive,
to secure money for food and ag-
ricultural help for the starving
people of India, was organizedand
is sponsored by Sigma Tau Beta,
with the approval and support of
Central Council. Co-chairmen
are Bill Clevelandand Andy Zam-
belli.
The participating students,
about 684 from Alumni Quad,
459 from State Quad, 774 from
Colonial Quad, and 644 from
Dutch Quad will give up their
evening meal. In return, the Food
Service will donate the money
provided for this meal (about
5 cents per person) in the form
of a ch to UNICEF's special
fund for the people of India.
With over 2,500 students who
have signed to participate, more
than $1,900 could be donated. This
is an increase of about $600 over
the amount collected last May in
the first faste for India when
1751 students agreed to give up
their dinner,
At that time, the University
responded to the need of millions
» of Indian children and adults,
who were on the brink of starva-
tion due to a widespread drought,
by contributing $1,313.75. The
University was one of about 50
universities and colleges who
contributed to UNICEF's Applied
Nutrition Program then,
The money was used to pure
chase 10,000 Ibs. of CSM pow=
der (a corn-soy-milk protein mix-
ture) — enough for daily milk
serving for 4,000 children for an
entire month — and garden tool
kits for 60 school nutrition pro-
jects. The results of today’s fast
will be used for similar projects.
Last Spring’s drive was so suc-
cessful that C, Lloyd Bailey, Ex-
ecutive Director of UNICEF was
prompted to write the University
a letter of thanks. However, be-
cause of the sacrifice of many
University students, today’s fast
for India is expected to be an
even greater success.
Adams To Present
Paper This Month
On City Problems
Dr. Harold W, Adams, assoc-
jate professor of public admin-
istration in the Graduate School
of Public Affairs at State Uni-
versity of New York at Albany,
will present a paper at the an-
nual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement
Of Science later this month.
Professor Adams will present
his views on “City Problems:
Whose Solutions?” The meeting
will be held on Dec. 30 in New
York.
Adams, who joined the Univer-
sity faculty in 1966, holds de»
grees from the University ofCon-
necticut, the University of North
Carolina and Clark University.
“FOOD FOR INDIA" Fast sponsored by the brothers of
Sigma Tau Beta today will raise money to aid straving
chil-
dren of India by contributions made on behalf of the students
through UNICEF.
Pilgrimage For Peace To Be
Organized Late This Month
The Interfaith Pilgrimage for
Vietnam Relief co-sponsored by
Clergy and Laymen Concerned
about Vietnam, theCatholic, Jew-
ish, and Episcopal Peace Fellow-
ships, anda Quaker Action Group,
seeks to bring home tothe Amer-
ican people the ‘invisible suffer-
ing and obscured humanity of the
Vietnamese people.’”
The organizers of the move-
ment aspire ‘to liberate menand
women of religious faith and good-
will from their oppressing com-
plicity in the endless bloodshed
of Vietnam by encouraging them
to transcend the barricades of
hostility with gifts of reconcil-
jation and relief for the count-
less innocents victimized by the
war,’?
From December 23-29 the
movement will cross the nation
and attempt to ‘‘overcome the
walls of war which even now deny
the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man.’’ ‘Such is
the challenge,’”’ according to the
Interfaith Pilgrimage organiz-
ers,” posed by the U.S. Trading
with the Enemy Act and its ap-
pended regulations which pres-
ently rule those living in the Com-
munist-controlled areas of Viet-
nam out of bounds to humancom-
passion and humanitarian relief.’
It is hoped by the ‘‘Pilgrims’”
that the participants will first
undertake to confront theproblem
and inspire some concern intheir
home communities on December
23 by undertaking a public walk
to their local post offices to mail
equivalent parcels of medical aid
to the Red Cross organizations of
North Vietnam, South Vietnam
and the National Liberation
Front.
‘Then on December 27, individ-
uals and groups are encouraged
to being their journeys to the
Peace Bridge at Buffalo, New
York, which spans the Canadian-
American border.
At 10 a.m. on Friday, De-
cember 29, a worship service,
briefing session and press con-
ference will be held at a large
church (to be announced) in Buf-
falo and at approximately 2 p.m.
those assembled will move out for
the Peace Bridge, and, depend-
ing on the disposition of the
American and Canadian authori-
ties, ultimately join with sympa-
thetic Canadians in a final pub-
lic meeting in Toronto.
Several prominent American
clergymen are expected to lead
the procession across the Peace
Bridge. The organizers of the
Pilgrimage have stated that
“regardless of how many are
moved to share in this Pilgrim-
age, it is vital that all who do,
appreciate the distinction be-
tween Holy Obediance and hos~
tile defiance, that our witness
might call forth the best in all
men and humaniiy over enmity
prevail.”
Weekend To Feature
Formal, Gy
by Nancy Durish
The University’s winter sea-
son officially commences today
with the formal presentation of
Winter Weekend. A series of
three events, beginning tonight
with the Danish Exhibition Gym-
nastics Team, comprise the
weekend,
Tomorrow, the University’s
first formal, Winterlude, will
take place. The traditional Holi-
day Sing will round out the week-
end’s program on Sunday.
Two performances in Page
Hall, at 7:00 and 9:00, will be
given by the Danish Exhibition
Gymnastic Team tonight. The
team, composed of twelve men
and twelve women, is a world-
touring troupe whose most recent
performance was in Australia
last month.
They will perform a variety
of regular gynmastic stunts using
hoops, balance beams and clubs,
as well as performing a number
of Danish folk dances, dressed
in their native costumes. Al-
bany’s Fencing and Modern Dance
Clubs will also give demonstra-
tions during the program.
Tickets are on sale intheCam-
pus Center at the price of $.75
with student tax and $1.00 with-
out student tax. The evening will
m. Team
terminate with the opening of The
Rathskeller in the Snack Bar
after the performances.
Saturday, the All-University
Formal, ‘Winterlude,’ will be
held in the Campus Center Ball-
room from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.,
with music by the Tom Ippolito
Dance Band,
The main attraction of the
evening, according to Co-chair-
men Joe McCullough and Linda
Bosco, 1s the floor show. It fea-
tures comedian Stan Burns,
direct from the Americana in
New York, and Alice Samson, a
singer from the Playboy ClubCir-
cuit.
A gala dinner will be served
in the Ballroom, decorated ina
gay holiday mood. Liquor, at a
standard price of $.75 a drink,
will be available to the students,
and proof of age will be neces-
sary. Dress is formal, but there
is a black suit option for the
men,
Holiday Sing, the grand finale
of the weekend, starts at 7:00
in Page Hall, with a reception
afterwards in the Campus Cen-
ter.
This year Special Events Board
is trying to develop a new con-
cept inactivities. They are group-
ing a number of events together
to form outstanding weekends.
Rice’s Machine Staged
By Mann In TV Studio
Elmer Rice’s expressionistic
drama, ‘*The Adding Machine,’
is presently being staged in the
Hawley Television Studio on the
downtown campus of the Univer-
sity. Theplay premiered Wednes-
day night and will be performed
tonight andtomorrownight at 8:30
Te
3 The drama is a joint produc--
tion of State University Theatre
and the T.V, studio andincorpor-
ates on experiment in mixed
media. Further, director Mar-
tin Mann has staged the produc-
tion in a boldly revolutionary
DAISY DIANA DORETHEA Divore, (Karen Prete) and Zero
(Scott Regan) find a brief moment of freedom in ‘‘The Adding
Machine’’. The play will be presented tonight and tomorrow at
8:30 in Hawley T.V, Studio.
and strikingty modern style.
Scott Regan enacts the role
of Zero, the drama’s pathetical-
ly ill - fated antagonist. Karen
Prete has been triple-cast: as
Zero’s nagging wife; as Judy O'=
Grady, who becomes involved
with the law because of Mrs.
Zero’s meddlesome suspicions;
and Daisy Diana Dorethea De-
vore, whom Zero works with but
who never knows Zero’s feel-
ings for her.
William Snyder also has more
than one part: he plays Zero’s
boss; the policeman who arrests
the former for murder; the pre-
siding judge at Zero’s trial; and
Charles, who explains the mean-
ing of Zero’s life to him. Edward
Kramer plays Shrdlu, a murderer
like Zero.
Mann has previously directed
“Stop the World! I Want to Get
off”? and “A Clearing in the
Woods’? at the University. Help-
ing him in his present produc-
tion in Freda Scott, stage manag-
er, and Barbara Weinstein, as-
sistant director.
The Hawley Television Studio
was formerly Hawley Library
when the University was located
downtown. It was converted into
a TV studio for the Center for
Instructional Resources.
A parking area is directly be-
hind the building, which is it-
self located to the east of
Draper Hall and opposite the
Albany High School Annex be-
tween Western and Washington
Avenues. Entrance to the thea-
tre can be made from either
Western or Washington Avenue
entrances,
Tickets are no longer avail-
able at the S,U,T, box office at
the Campus Center, Because of
the limited number of seats avail-
able, the weekend tickets have
been sold out,
‘Adding Machine’To Play ThisWeekend
vo. (Review, Pg. 13)
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Friday, December 15, 1967
:
Shogan, Traver
Take Laurels
In Speech Contest
by Dave Ungleich
Robert Shogan, a junior who
spoke on the ‘Electoral Col-
lege,’”” took first place in the
Speech 101 contest which was
held at Page Hall Tuesday night
at 7:30, Second place was taken
by Frank Traver, also a junior,
who spoke on Vietnam,
Shogan pointed out the dan-
gers of the Electoral College
system and the need to change
it. He showed that, although rare,
an election for the President
and Vice-President could be de-
cided by the House of Represen-
tatives and the Senate. In such
@ case, the members of the
House and Senate would not have
to abide by the wishes of the
public,
Traver in his speech likened
the “doves” of today to the
peace seekers in Neville Cham-
berlain’s time. He reminded the
audience that people considered
peace so desirous that they out-
Jawed war with the Kellogg
Briand Pact in 1928, The first
nation to sign the pact was Ger-
many,
Jeff Wasserman, a freshman,
captured third place with his
speech on Civil Rights. Wasser-
man stated that “the final deci-
sion cannot be legislated but must
be in the hearts and minds of
men,’?
Runners up in the contest were
Gail Buchner, a freshman who
spoke on “Universal Suffrage”;
Douglas Chesser, a sophomore
speaking on ‘‘Homosexual and the
Law’; and Providence Tocco who
spoke on the ‘*Dangers of Tech-
nology.’?
Trophies for the first three
Places were awarded by Dr, Paul
Pettit, Chairman of Speech and
Dramatic Art,
Wurzburg Program
Offers Students
Study In Germany
by Elizabeth Anderson
Thirty students from the State
University at Albany and State
University College at Oneonta
are now studying for one year
at the University of Wurzburg
under the auspices of the Wurz-
burg Program. They left this
summer after intensive prepar-
ation in the German language and
culture. They will attend classes
along with German graduate stu-
dents and take a normal course
load of 12 hours.
The classes are held inamuch
more formal atmosphere than
most American universities, Due
partly to the students being older
(German students enter the uni-
versity at a later age) and the
mutual respect is reflected in
the grave attitude shared by the
students and professor. The class
is conducted in a more organ
ized and systematic fashion,
The present students are liv-
ing in dorms or in private homes.
Next year, all the students will
live in the dorm, The rooms are
designed for double occupancy.
The estimated cost of the whole
Program is between $2100 and
$2500, This includes transpor-
tation by the airlines, the pre-
paratory course, tuition for the
State University, room and board,
Scholarships and loans assist-
ence is available,
The student entering the pro-
gram should have a B average
in two years of German or the
equivalent. He should supply his
academic record, and have a
personal interview, The program
is restricted to those students
interested in the German lan-
guage and history. '
According to Mr, John Winkel-
man, the program's advisor, the
program has a practical immed-
iate and obvious benefit for those
wanting to teach German and inti-
mate feeling of German life and
understanding the role of Ger-
many in the world today.
Anyone interested in applying
should contact Winkelman in HU,
208, as soon as possible to fact-
litate planning of the program.
LEONARD SCHAPIRO, one of the world’s leading authorities
on Communism in Soviet Russia, spoke on “‘The Russian Revo-
lution: Pro
Form of Politics.
ses and Reality”’
at a lecture sponsored by the
Shapiro Sees Failure
In Russian Revolution
by Jill Paznik
Staff Reporter
“Fifty years after the Russian
Revolution there is still no free-
dom of the press and no free
elections.” The ‘failure to
achieve good government” is evi-
dent,
A good government, Mr. Leon-
ard Schapiro explained, “is one
which the people can feel is their
own, achieved by actual participa-
tion and which takes into account
those who are governed.’”
The elements of justice and fair
play in addition to the ability
to protest were also cited as
characteristics of good govern-
ment.
Russia, said Shapiro, has had
a tradition of people with noble
ideas with little practicality,
therefore certain aspects of the
society are not attributable to
one person.
The traditional element of auto-
cracy, he said, is also imbedded
in the Russian past. ‘The period
from 1906 till the war was the
only time that it was possible
to speak of anything having to do
with the nature of a represen-
tative government. ‘‘There was
a lack of sincere desire to make
a democratic constitution work.”?
Prefacing the ‘Lenin Phase,’
Shapiro said, ‘If a government
decides to govern alone it must
do so with a certain amount of
force; the Bolsheviks made that
decision.”
Lenin’s attitudes, it was ex-
plained, were summarized by
his handling of the Socialists
at that time. He could not of-
ficially eliminate them, how-
ever he told his subordinates
that he would not mind if the
Socialists were eliminated un-
officially (by “cooked-up charges
and illegal arrests’?). '
Freedom of discussion and
even dissent was the rule but
only within the party. It was
the right of the Communists to
critisize and debate.
“at the Tenth Party Congress
discussion was warn eee se
monolithic party came exis-
tence, These things were intended
as temporary measures.
Tt: eee felt that the party
was in great danger due to the
effectiveness of the criticism
coming from the Menshiviks and
from inside the party. If you
tolerate effective criticism you
put yourself in a position of
allowing those who critisize
to share in the ruling. This Le-
nin was determined not to do,’
“Stalin made the present situa-
tion in which the government be-
comes a system of manipulated
organs whereas before they were
real centers of discussion.’
Another of Stalin’s marks was
his collectivisation which Sha-
piro considered an agonizing and
*thorrible process of virtual war
against one’s own people.’””
It was said that Stalin’s ec-
onomic reforms could not be
distinguished from their politi-
cal aspects hacause these re-
forms had the effect of binding
the party together-after purging
it.
These purges were for the pur-
pose of eliminating a large num-
ber of people whom Stalin con-
sidered as real or potential ene-
mies.
“If you pursue a policy of
violence of that kind you must
pursue it to the end because
if you do not, you invite resis-
tance.”
When Stalin died Khrushchev be-
came Premier and he brought out
subjects which had not been taught
before. This was because of pres-
sure from within the country and
because of his own conscience.
“That in a system of that
kind is courageous and honest.””
With this openness Khrushchev
created a new spirit of hope,
He started but did not finish and
no one can see the end.’”
He brought into the open Stal-
in’s use of police force. In addi-
tion, Khrushchev’s party re-
forms had repurcussions that re-
duced some in status.
Whereas Stalin had put the
party in the background by using,
in addition, the police along with
other instruments, Khrushchev
“reasserted the primacy of the
party,’ subordinating other in-
struments of the state to it.
After Khrushchev, a new typeof
government was established in
the form of a ‘two-man dictator-
ship.” The party has no clearly
defined place while the techni-
cians are becoming steadily more
important,
“Regression in the supres-
sion of literary freedom in addi-
tion to freedom of discussion in
certain academic _ fields, (s-
pecially history), ‘thas become
policy in Soviet Russia today.”
Shapiro made a number of
forecasts for the future of So-
viet Russia, He said that already
the ‘incidence of acts of illegal.
ity has been reduced, however,
it is ‘doubtful that there will
be a return to the rule of law”
because there has been “no en-
trenchment of the supremacy of
law; there is nothing built into
the system against the arbitrary
taking of law.
“There have been increasing
signs of courageous protest be-
cause there is some chance that
you might get away with it?
This is very far from dissent
and freedom of expression. What
it will lead to one cannot say,
“That there should be change”
is reflected in the “genuine de-
sire of authorities to increase
participation in party govern-
ment; a desire to turn the party
meeting into a form of discus-
sion.
“There are signs of pluralism
and groups forming outside party
control, (A true totalitarian state
controls every single group with-
in the society, however, pres-
sure groups do not exist.)
“Growing interest of the fu-
ture is primarily for technical
efficiency, technical advance,’
This accounts for the “growing
importance of the technician, The
technician needs certainty, pre-
dictability,
Students Want Division
In Room-Board Rates
by. Vic Looper
‘The following questionaire was
administered by LAAC to de-
termine student opinion on the
present board policy and other
feasible alternative policies, The
information gathered will be a
help in ascertaining student opin-
jon concerning the policy and
possible changes that might be
instituted,
A total of 2141 students an-
swered the questions, The ques-
tions will be stated first and
then the number and percentage
of those that answered, Other
refers to those who incorrectly
marked the poll or those that
left it blank.
1, Would you be in favor of
the separation of payments of
room and board?
Yes 1659 77.3 No 410 19,3
Other 72 3.4
2. If a plan whereby room and
board payments were separated
had been instituted for this acad-
emic year, which of the follow-
ing would you have chosen?
a. Room and board. b. Room but
not board. c. Board butnotroom.
d, Neither room nor board.
a. 1274 59.5 b, 685 31.9
c 34 16 d, 25 12 Other
123 5.8
8. Are you in favor of the
present meal plan, whereby one
receives breakfast and dinner
each day of the week?
Yes 497 23,3
73.0 Other 79 3,7
4, Would you be in favor of
the addition of a third daily
meal under board contract @0
meals per week-no Sunday even-
ing meal), Yes 861 40.3 No 1158
54.0 Other 122 5,7
5.. Would you be willing to
Pay a reasonable increase in
board in order to add the third
meal? Yes 526 61.1 No 304
35.3 Other 31 3.6 Only those
that said yes to 4. could vote
for 5.
6. Would you be in favor of a
14 meal per week contract where-
by one could choose to eat any
14 meals per week (your choice
of breakfast, lunch or dinner any
day of the week for a total of
14 meals per week)?
Yes 1830 85,4 No 272 12.8
Other 39 1.8
7. If you had had a choice of
the plans stated in questions 4,
and 6, for the present academic
year, which would you have
chosen? No. 4. 348 16.4 No.
6 1723 80,4 Other 70 3.2
8 Would you be in favor of
having meal tickets valid in any
dining hall on campus?
Yes 2029 94,7 No 91 4.3
Other 21 1.0
Two questions were inter-
related. Question number 5 only
referred to those who had
answered yes in question 4. Ques-
tion 7 asked the student to choose
between the two plans that were
offered,
The results between Colonial
and Dutch Quad were almost the
same but the results from State
and Alumni were somewhat dif-
ferent because of the Freshman
that reside there,
More Frosh participated in the
poll than upperclassmen pro-
bably because the poll was ad-
ministered on the dinner liner
and a higher percentage of Upper-
classmen live off-campus than
Freshmen,
No 1565
Another reason is that upper-
elassmen have taken so many
Polls that they may now consider
them a part of everyday campus
life whereas the Freshmen have
not participated in as many and
considered them more seriously.
The greatest difference was in
response to question 8. The rea-
son for this was probably that
the Freshmen have to commute
between Campuses and they often
have to go home to eat and then
return for some meeting or acti-
vity whereas the upperclassmen
do not.
Employment Office
Urges Seniors
To Seek Jobs Now
NEW YORK CITY — College
Seniors who expect to go to work
after graduation in June are urged
to visit offices of the New York
State Employment Service during
the Christmas recess,
Alfred L, Green, Executive
Director of the New York State
Labor Department’s Division of
Employment, pointed out that al-
though the employment prospects
of college graduates continue to
be good, the best kind of place-
ment requires that both Employ-
ment Service specialists and ap-
Plicants will be given as much
time as possible to search for
and to consider job opportuni-
ties.
“The Christmas retess,’? said
Green, ‘4s a good time for
seniors to come in and discuss
career opportunities. Employ-
ment Service specialists canthen_
look for suitable openings and
arrange for interviews later, pos-
sibly during the Easter recess.’?
College seniors are especially
invited to visit the Offices, Such
Offices are located in New York,
White Plains, Rochester, Syra-
cuse, Buffalo and Albany.
The address and phone num-
bers of the Professional Offices
of the New York State Employ-
ment Service are given below,
New York City—444 Madison
Ave. 688-0540, White Plains 300
Hamilton Ave, 761-3285, Roches-
ter 500 Midtown Tower 232-3480,
Syracuse 614 James Street 442-
8121, Buffalo 295 Main Street
854-4750, Albany 194 Washing-
ton Ave. 474-4980.
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SINCE THE TARGET is Jeffrey
thrower Vicki Shepsky, secretary of Student Association, the
direct hit resulted in a ‘defacement of a symbol of student
government” by an “‘irrate’”
coffers of Campus Chest.
employee and helped fill the
Rathskeller Opens Tonight;
To Host Wassail Party
Liquor will be sold to students
for the first time tonight, De-
cember 15, at a Wassail Party
from 10 p.m, to 1 a.m, in the
Rathskeller. Sponsored by the
Governing Board of the Cam-
pus Center, a Wassail Party is
Walt’s
SUBMARINES
Call IV 9-2827
or IV 2-0228
FREE
DELIVERY
(Three Subs Minimum)
Sunday — Friday
9 p.m. — 12 Midnight
College Preferred
Thank You
a traditional Christmas social.
Mark Cunningham, general
chairman announced that an egg-
nog and a hot cider, both laced
with liquor would be available
for fifty cents per four ounce
serving. Cunningham is being
assisted by Stephanie Rice and
Mitch Foster.
In compliance with regula-
tions set by the State Liquor
Authority and the Alcohol Com-
mittee of the University, posi-
tive proof of age must be pre-
sented. University students must
present identification cards.
Christmas music, decorations,
and food have been planned to
carry a traditional Christmas
motif. The Wassail Party fol-
lows performances of the Dane
ish Gym Team in Page Hall at
7 p.m. and 9 p.m,
In addition to being the inaug-
ural event of the Rathskeller,
the Wassail Party is the first
event to be sponsored by the
newly formed Governing Board
of the Campus Center. Sponsor-
ed by Community Programming
Commission,
hkin and the pie-
Council Overthrows Bill
Limiting Use of S.A. Funds
Central Council defeated a bill
introduced by Margaret Dunlap,
which states that, ‘Student As-
sociation monies shall not be
used to finance any group which
advocates any specific partisan
political viewpoint or specific
religious viewpoint’! by a razor-
thin 9-10-6 margin at the meet-
ing last Thursday night,
The main arguments present-
ed for the bill was that Student
Association funds should not sup-
port a group that is a lobbying,
partisan group that presents to
persuade others to their point
of view.
Opposing arguments stated that
a great deal of these organiza-
tions are somewhat educational
e.g. Young Americans for Free-
dom (YAF) since they provide
speakers and that Student As-
sociation should have a greater
breadth of programming, It was
also stated that Community Pro-
gramming Commission had pass-
ed a resolution which recogniz-
ed the necessity of funding po-
litical groups.
Most of the controversy was
centered on YAF; since the or-
ganization was allocated an ap-
propriation the previous week,
M.J, Rosenberg stated ‘YAF is
a national, conservative organ-
ization that lobbies and opposes
all progressive legislation and
that a group of this nature, wheth-
er of the right or the left, should
not receive funds,’”
He stated that no other school
gives money to these types of
groups and that Council would be
very unique if they give funds,
Paul Breslin, chairman of Fi-
nance Committee, stated that
of the $328 given to YAF, it
is all to be used in an educa-
tional nature except for the $10
for the National Charter Fee,
James Kahn, vice-chairman of
Finance, countered this state-
ment by saying that the money
for publicity could be used in
almost any way. Dick Long-
shore also disagreed on the ‘‘ed-
ucational’’ value of YAF,
The question was asked if oth-
er groups received money, Jeff
Mishkin, chairman of Central
Council, said no other political
groups get money, Judy Mills,
also a member of Finance, said
that the Committee has approv-
ed Young Democrats’ budget but
they have not yet received any
funds.
by Vic Looper
Ed Potskowski, yice president
of YAF and Bob Iseman, its
treasurer, stated that there is a
need for other speakers besides
those of Forum of Politics which
has not has a conservative speak-
er in two years.
Dunlap replied that Forum can
have any type of speaker they
want and the YAF members
should join Forum to insure that
it represents all points of view.
Another idea brought up was to
give more funds to Social and
Political Problems Board so
that they could sponsor more
speakers.
Doreen Frankel said that Coun-
cil should not evaluate YAF sep-
arately; it should consider the
broader question, whether any
political group should receive
funds, She stated that if Council
gives money to one group it must
give to others of this type.
Frankel said that this would
cause an expansion of budgets in
this area and a competition for
funds. Breslin stated that this
happens in all areas e.g, Ski
Club got a budget and now Sail-
ing Club will want one,
Gary Schutte, from the floor,
said that Student Association
should not be a political support-
ing organization and that it should
not give funds to apartisan group
which would be contrary to some-
one’s beliefs, Bill Cleveland said
that since Student Tax is volun-
tary a person would not have to
support what he deemed an offen-
sive group,
Mr, Neil Brown, director of
the Campus Center, stated that
it is highly desirable to have a
breadth of speakers and that
they should not only be permit-
ted but encouraged to speak,
The University needs a wide cov-
erage of programming. This posi-
tion has been supported by the
Trustees, and the facilities are
made available free of charge,
After considerable debate An-
dy Mathias moved the previous
question, A vote was then taken,
After counting a tie vote, Pres-
ident Mishkin announced that
he was against the bill. He did
not break a tie because under
Council rules the President is
a full yoting member.
A bill was presented to re-
_Scind the YAF budget but this
9AM.
ADS 212, BIO 120,
HIS 547,
PRY 412, PSY 53(
SPI
on FRE 1073,
200,
SOC 488.
BIO_ 405,
BIO 420,’ BUS 605, CHM 940A,
CLL 805, (x) ENG 268, ENG 340,
ENG 563, ENG 635,” ENG 707,
FRE 471, GER 860A, (5) HIS 328,
LIB. 605) MAT
MAT 102, MAT 110, (MAT 223,
MAT 588, MOT 062, MUS 255,
ART 875, (EW ‘999, FIN333,
OAM,
(x,y) ACC 811, ACC 411, ACC413, 2108, ‘EN
Be Sar, aN seo, amar ext, ONS, ee
BIO 301A, CHM 420, CLL $14,
CLL 582, CSI 303, CST 501A,
CWL 244, DRA 370A, DRA 525,
ECO 5024, ENG 652, FRE 305, ~
Fre 401, (3) HIS 191A, HIS 133,
9AM,
ace ss, ART 150A, ECO3O1,
Gay), ExD FRE 315;
(y) HIS 846A, MAT-422, MoT343,
PHE 111A, POS 953, SOC 355,
bill was somewhat anti-climatic
since the major arguments of
funding political groups had al-
ready been presented. M.J. Ros-
enberg stated that it would be
rather inconsistent to rescind
their budget in light of the pre-
vious action. This bill failed by
a large margin since a 2-3 vote
is needed in order to rescind a
bill,
Council passed a resolution
which ‘supports the lawful rights
of all students to freedom of ex-
pression . , , to demonstrate,
protest and dissent, or support
and assent in any manner that
does not seek to restrain or
deny these same rights to
others . . . and states its oppo-
sition to the actions of those who
seek to physically interfere with
the orderly conduct of Univer-
sity business.”
Couneil also pagsed another
resolution which expresses its
categorical rejection of Lt, Gen,
Lewis Hershey’s statement that
recommends that students or oth-
er Selective Service registrants
who violate the SS law, lose
their deferment, be declared de-
linguent and be drafted.
Council in its statement re-
garded his action as irrespons-
ible and incredibly unjust. Coun-
cil questioned the desirability of
retaining Hershey in his current
position, They urged that Pres-
ident Johnson suspend the Direc-
tor until an investigation of his
abilities makes clear the wis-
dom of permitting him to con-
tinue,
The question was raised as
to what effect this would have,
Mishkin answered that it is up
to the citizens in a democracy
to state their opinions and try
to change things they disagree
with, Rosenberg said nearly
everyone would be for this bill,
even Central Council, A letter
and the resolution will be mailed
to President Johnson to let him
know of Council’s decision,
Council also made the follow-
ing appointments: Traffic Court,
Steve Adlow, Kathleen Blotniek,
Charles Burch, Marvin Cole,
Cheryl Heater, Steve Rubenstein
and Barry Weinstein, Paul Bres-
lin was appointed to the Faculty-
Student Committee on Resi-
dences.
January Examination Schedule
Tuesday, Jan. 16
ADS $31, (s)BIO 125, BIO 222,
CLL 212A, DRA 207, ENG 351,
ENG 580, MAT 362, MAT 363,
mr 450, (IPOs 150, Pos 380,
100,
s¥ 630,
SAU 350, “soc 241, S00 AIT,
Wednesday, Jan. 17
12 NOON
RUS 3004, RUS 3014, SAU 351,
SOC 958, SPH 301, SPN 305,
Thursday, Jan. 18
12 NOON
90,
%y,¥) GO 101, (y,y) MKT 210,
PGS 934, (3) SPN 108, SPN 122,
(PSY 204, PSY 512, PSY 733,
SAU 8214, SPN 924, SSW520CW.
— Jan.19
NOON
Ace 441; ADS Mo, ANT 341,
BIO 224, BIO 906, CHM 531,
CLG 101A, ENG 110, ENG 270a,
ENG 542,” 51
MGT 631, PHY 200, PHY.s114,
POS 821, PSY 324, PSY 673,
RPA 544, SPN 516A, SST 301.
GANT 110,(3)B05 210, ENC 92,
MAT
ACC 451, ACC 522, AMS 100A, (y)
(gx) ENG 214,
MUS 105, (x,x,y) PHI 110,
PSY 982, (y) SCI 102, (x)SCI113,
3PM,
ANT 375, OWL 19, ECO-200,
ENG 64
FRE Sin, (y,2) tas 206, ts 869,
522A, MGT 330,
9AM,
ART 350, ART $70, ASY 123,
BIO 101A, BIO 201, CSI 500A,
ENG 210A, ENG 560, GER 202,
HIS 403, "LIB 601, MAT 372,
MFL 301, MGT $10, MUS 266,
OR 101A, SOC 252,
PHY 112,
SoC 281, SPN 571,
aps “110 cra 208,
MKT 430,
9AM,
ADS 317, ADS 361, ASY 104,
HUM 338A, SCI 112A,
Saturday, Jan. 20
ART 150B, PHI 212, POS 932.
ete} Jan. 22
(8 ace ait, Abs 211, ART 285,
CHM 490, CLL 102A, CLL 1034,
(@) CLL 1044, G) ENG 397,
ENG 673, (xy,2)_ FRE 102,
( FRE i2i, FIN 391, 4
Tuesday, Jan. 23
9PM, 12 NOON
ACC 312, ACC’ 461, BIO 122, ADS 215, ANT 212, ART 255,
BIO 424, HIS 408, PHY 111, (x) CST 201, ENG 301, FRE 101
PSY 310,
PM.
ADS 450, ART 475, BUS 101,
CHM 121A, CHM 216A, CHM 218,
CHM
436, (@) COWL 114,
ECO 100B, ECO 311, ECO $20,
ENG 625, GER 205A, GER 400,
GPS 82}, HIS. 4384, LAW 421,
LIB 604 MAT 4114, MUS 109, (x) ‘GER 101,
IB 603, MUS 190, PHI 514, POL 101, oP) GER 201,
sol, (Y) POS 120, POS 587, PSY $27, 412,
(G2) SPN 107A,
(x) FRE_ 107A,
SPN 211A,
SCI 301, SSW 301.
CO $00, ENG'258, ENG 575,
ATM 300, CWL 528, ENG 206,
HIS 401, (3) LAW 220A, LAWS21,
LAW 422, PHE 302, PHT 318,
PHY 1054, PSY 209; RTF 101,
RUS 101, SAU 201, (x) SPN 121,
PRE los, G) PubattAa, GEOIOS
MET S24, MUS 103"DHY 216
RDG 802, SAU 208, S00 S30.
Wednesday, Jan. 24.
12 NOON
ACC 212, BIO 202, CLL 1014,
GER 102, ENG 285, GOG $08, ITA 101A,
(w) HLH 101, MGT 110, MKT 960, MUS 101,
SPH 103, SPN 301,
Gym) SPR 101K, SPN 1084,
Thursday, Jan. 25
12 NOON
ART 155, ART 980, CHM 342,
GER 300A, BIS 366A, IS 9794,
‘MGT 220, PHI 312,
NOT!
Pairs of conflicting
courses are indicated with match-
ing prefixing letters: x, y, 2, ¥)
t. Each such letter represents
student. (36 conflicts)
ANT 240, ms a7fay GD BLAT122,
() PSY 101, PSY 211, SOC 270,
ewe as, ENG 307, HIS 4494,
MGT G) PHE 301,
Gy) Pov 2 260, ‘SPN 107B,
3 P.M,
ACC 382, ADS” 214, CSI 302,
20
MAT S01, MATT 454, MKT 542,
SOC 115, SOC 180,
cw. 132, 4) BeOt00A, Fass,
() FRE 122, FRE 301, MAT2:
MKT 440, PSY 338,
‘ADs 882, ENG'312, GoG 103,
MAT 104, MAT 111, PHI 210,
Page 4
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Friday, December 15, 1967
President Replies &
To Open Letter
President Evan R. Collins re-
plied to the open letter present-
ed to him last week by the Stu-
dent Faculty Committee to End
the War at his conference with
students Monday.
President Collins separated
the letter into twoissuesandcom-
mented on them.
The first issue concerned the
letter issued by General Lewis
B, Hershey, director of the See
lective Service. The second dealt
with whether the University
should allow recruiters from the
armed forces on campus.
Hershey’s letter, which di-
rected draft boards to take de-
ferments from those who illegal-
ly protest against the draft,
brought a barrage of protest from
all over the country.
President Collins called this
action of Hershey’s a violation
of the Constitution and the
due process clause as wellas the
traditional academic freedom of
a University to handle things on
its own campus.
Since this statement violated
so many of the basic principles
of the nation and could not stand
up in court the President said
that it did not really warrant
making a public attack on Her-
shey.
The President backed up this
statement by referring to acourt
decision which ruled that an ac-
tion taken in 1965 by Hershey to
reclassify draft protesters in
Ann Harbor, Mich., was declarea
unconstitutional.
The Justice Department issued
a plan this week to prosecute
illegal draft obstruction which
is a substitute to the plan of
Hershey’s which would reclas-
sify draft protestors. The Se-
lective Service said that either
the Justice Department’s or its
own method would be open to
the accused to appeal through.
President Collins further stat-
ed that since the Justice Depart-
ment had issued this statement
the conditions that existed last
week have changed. The state-
ment has put the prosecution of
accused illegal protestors in le-
gal terms.
In reply to the second ques-
tion of the letter Collins com-
pletely ruled out the possibility
of barring recruiters oncampus.
The President defined this issue
as being whether this University
should be an open campus or not.
President Collins stated that
the University is an opencampus
and that it will continue to be
so. The students should have com-
Plete access to speakers, books,
ete. This would also include the
opportunity of any student to re-
ceive the information ofany legal
job recruiter,
Collins called Hershey’s action
a “damned fool thing’’ and specu-
lated that the Selective Service
Director may be delicately re-
moved from his post.
One of the largest attendances
was noted at the conference Mon-
day. About 45 people were pres-
ent at the Monday afternoon con-
ference. Most of them came to
ask the President why the Uni-
versity was being closed so late
for the Christmas recess and
why intersession is to be so short.
President Collins answered by
outlining the requirements the
University must fulfill in mak-
ing out its schedule. There must
be 75 class days for eachsemes=
ter course allowed in the calen-
dar. Usually this time is spread
over 15 weeks.
Such scheduling of longer, ex-
am periods; earlier summer dis-
missal, reading days, andthe lack
of regular Saturday classes all
contribute to make the vacations
rt.
THE ROULETTE WHEEL spun for those who
“purchased
chips”’ to support Campus Chest at Casino night. The casino
was held in conjunction with the Masquerade Ball.
Campus Chest Revenues
May Hit $1,000 Mark
Campus Chest revenues total-
ing $650 have been deposited in
FSA, An additional $400 is ex-
pected to be donated to the fund
according to Linda Lizik, co-
chairman of the event. This
money will be given to four
charity organizations.
The groups are the World Uni-
versity Service, National Scho-
larship Service and fund, United
Negro Fund, and Care. The World
University Service gives its
money to students through a di-
versity of campus religious and
service groups.
The national Scholarship Ser-
vice and Fund is for Negro stu-
dents. It finances college coun
ceiling services and helps to pay
for the education of these stu-
dents.
The sale of boosters and th
European Flig
auctions netted about $225 each.
A booster for $.25 permitted a
person to an unlimited number
cups of coffee. The coffee was
supplied free to the chest by
Food Service. Donations from
the faculty have almost reached
the $100 mark.
The tree trimming contest had
to be cancelled because no one
was able to purchase Christmas
trees. The original idea was
to use the pine trees near the
Campus Center but the students
were barred from this action.
The University does not have
full rights to the trees yet since
there are still contractual obli-
gations on them. It will not be
until July 1969 when the con-
tracter is no longer required to
replace a tree if it is defective.
hts Offered
To University Community
The opportunity to fly to Eur-
ope this summer is available
to members of the University
Community. Provisions have
been made with two major air
lines (Pan American World Air-
ways and K,L.M, Royal Dutch
Airlines) to provide a choice of
flights to Europe next summer.
‘These are not charter flights,
but regularly scheduledcommer-
cial flights. Students may enjoy
economy class benefits at char-
ter rates on these flights.
Flights A and B are $245,
flights C and D $265. (Based
upon a minimum of 50 adult
passengers per flight.)
The fare is half price for chil-
dren (those under age 12 as of
the date of departure) and ten
per cent of full fare for infants
(those under two as of the date
of departure.) There is a non-
refundable handling charge of
°$2.50 for each child and adult
passenger which must be remit-
ted with the deposit. There is
no handling charge for infant
fares. After arriving in Europe,
students are on their own until
the return flight to New York.
The group must fly together on
both legs of the journey.
Independent arrangements can
be made for the student’s stay in
Europe. Information can be ob-
tained from any travel agent.
The Faculty - Student Associa-
tion Flight is ready to assist at
all times, also.
These flights are arranged as
an accommodation for the faculty
and students of the State Univer-
sity of New York. They are not
organized by the State Univer-
sity, which takes no responsibil-
ity whatsoever for them.
All participants will be requir-
ed to file with Faculty-Students
Flights certification of their eli-
gibility to take part inthe flights.
Faculty members may satisfy
this requirement by means of a
letter on State University unit
letterhead, stating their faculty
status. Students should procure,
from Registrars or Faculty Ad-
visors, letters stating that they
are enrolled in their college.
The Travel Group may include
the spouse and dependent chil-
dren of a member of the Group
Travel organization from which
the party to be transported is
drawn, In the case of dependents,
a letter attesting to faculty or
student status should be accom-
panied by the signed statement
of the State University member
that the traveler is his spouse,
dependent child or parent.
Each individual will be re-
sponsible for obtaining and pro-
cessing his own passport. Six
weeks is usually required to
process the passport.
For further information write
to the Faculty - Student Associa-
tion Flights, c-o Dean of Stu-
dents Office, SUNY at Stony
Brook, Stony Brook, New York,
11790. Attention: Mr. Sundberg.
Northway Taxi For All Your Taxi Needs
Ss atisfaction — 24 Hour Service
Unlike Any Other Service - Prompt, Dependable,
Reasonable
ew - Located at 1533 Central Ave. Northway Exit #2
Y ou Can Reach Us at 869-8850
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ing Com
Page Hall will be the scene
of the traditional Holiday Sing,
Sunday night from 7 to 10. This
year’s Sing, with 25 groups par-
ticipating, will be the largest
ever. The audience will also
view two added attractions, the
performance of a special faculty
group and of a modern dance
troupe.
Many of the singing groups
this year are unique in their
selections. Some are singing
copyrighted songs and others are
performing their own lyrics to
Popular songs. The judges for
the Sing will be music profes-
sors from area colleges.
Hawley Library will not be
available for closed circuit TV
this year, but the Sing will be
broadcasted live on WSUA for all
of those who cannot attend.
. 25 Groups To Enter
petition
This year the Sing should be
especially interesting. TXO has
won the Sing’s trophy two years
in a row, and should they win
again this year, will take home
the trophy permanently. How-
ever, the competition is tough this
year, and first place isbeing hot
ly contested by many groups.
Mary Mencer and Tony Cas-
ale, this year’s Co-chairmen,
both feel very pleased in the
types of groups entered and their
choice of selections, and want to
emphasize that the purpose of the
Sing is to promote holiday spirit.
A reception will be held in the
Campus Center Ballroom immed-
jately after the Sing, and all stu-
dents, even if they did not attend
the Sing, are invited to come.
Refreshments will be served and
the winning groups will perform
their selections.
THE HOLIDAY SING, which is held annually, will be held
this Sunday at 7 p.m. in Page Hall. Limited seating will be
available.
Group Flight* Round Trip
A PAN AM
B PAN AM
Cc K.L.M.
D K.L.M.
London**
London**
Amsterdam***
Amsterdam***
**$245.00 round trip
EUROPE
68
FOR APPLICATION WRITE:
FACULTY — STUDENT ASSOCIATION FLIGHTS
c/o DEAN OF STU DENTS OFFICE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
STONY BROOK, NEW YORK 11790
ATTN.: MR. SUNDBERG
*These are NOT charter flights, but regularly
scheduled commercial jet flights where you enjoy
class benefits at charter rates.
Children Half Fare; Infants 10% of Fare
See Story
Weeks
a
Depart Return Europe
June 10 September4 12
July 1 September3 9.
June 26 August 21 8
August 8 September 12 5
**%$265.00 round trip
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Page 5
SIDESHOW WAS NOT only produced, directed and performed
the students
by University students, it was also paid for by
through the tax and admission price.
Association Members’
66-68 Benefits Listed
Dionne Warwick Concert
“Anatomy of a Murder’? (IFG)
“Seven Samurai’? (IFG)
“Sunrise” (IFG)
Stan Getz Concert
“Jules and Jim’?
Homecoming Formal
All-University Reception, Carousel ’66
“Zero de Conduit” (IFG)
“1Altant”? (IFG)
“The Pit and the Pendulum” (IFG
Lysistrata (S.U. Theatres)
“Ten Days that Shook the World’?
“Mondo Cane’ (IFG)
“Time in the Sun” (IFG)
“Thunder over Mexico’?
Jay and the Americans (Council for Cont. Music)
“The Wild One’ and ‘Scorpio Rising”?
“Touch of Evil’? (IFG)
Charles Rosen, Pianist (Music Council
The Memorandum
“Birth of a Nation’?
“Royal Gambit”? (Dramatics Council)
Basketball Record Hop (S.E.B.)
“David and Lisa’? (CRA)
Christmans Surprise Package (S,.E.B.)
“The Maltese Falcon” (IFG)
“ta Strada’ (IFG)
Jonathan Beghan (FOP)
Telethon
Harrison Salisbury Lecture (FOP)
“Tyan the Terribie’’ (IFG)
“Tyan the Terrible’ (IFG)
Carey McWilliams (FOP)
Norman Thomas (FOP)
Loving Spoonful Concert
“An Evening with Charlie Chaplin’ (IFG)
Carnival
Clarion Wind Quintet
Brecht on Brecht
“psycho” (IFG)
Jazz Festival
15 3.00
35 50
35 50
35 +50
1.75 2.50
35 50
3.00
no charge levied
. 50
35 50
free 1.50
35 50
50 “15
35 50
1.50 3.00.
35 50
35 50
free 3.00
free 1.50
free free
free 1.50
no charge levied
free 225,
50 15
85 50
35 50
no charge levied
1,50 2.00
Free 1.00
50 “15
50 “15
no charge levied
no charge levied
1.50
2.00
2.50
35
1.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
50
2.00
no charge levied
no charge levied
50
1.50
2.00
26.15
15
2.00
3.00
WSUA, FINANCED BY Student Tax money broadcasts from
its offices in Bru. The radio can be heard on every quad except
State and Indian.
69% Of Under
Give Mone
“Did you pay your student tax?’’ This
year’s student tax returns have made this
question one of concern to the leaders
of the Student Association.
Many students do not realize that only
69 per cent of the undergraduate body paid
student tax this semester. Hence, Stu-
dent Association’s revenues for the fall
semester approach only $69,000.00 of a
total projected budget of the Student As-
sociation of $150,000.00. At this point,
Student Association needs to raise $90,-
000.00 to fulfill its financial commit-
ment to the various organizations.
Many students also do not realize that
the entire $23.00 payed under student
assessments does not go to the Student
Tax area of the financing Student As-
sociation. $9.00 of the Student Tax is
distributed as an athletic fee design-
ed to support the collegiate athletic pro-
grams.
As a result of this misconception stu-
dents often ask whether or not they will
receive $23.00 worth of benefits each
semester, and later decide that they
don’t feel benefits derived equal amount
invested.
For this reason the Student Tax Com-
mittee has been discussing the possi-
bilities of splitting the student assess-
ment so that students may pay either
the Student Association assessment, the
athletic assessment, or both.
According to Paul Downs, vice pres-
ident of the Student Association, and Chair-
man of the Student Tax Committee, Fi-
nance Committee will now have to re-
evaluate the budgets allocated in Spring
67, and eliminate unnecessary expens-
es in appropriations.
Downes further stated that the present
figures from the Business office indicate
that only 69.59 per cent of students paid
tax this semester as compared with 91
per cent in Fall 1966.
Activities Sponsored by Student Association: Fall Semester
Event With ST
Janis Ian and the Buffalo Springfield
Activities Day (LE.B.) Free
“Monkey Business’? (IFG) 25
. "Throne of Blood’? (IFG) 25
“That Man From Rio’? (IFG) 35
Homecoming 767; Homecoming Concert
SEB) and Contemporary Music Council! .00 per ticket
“Nosterater” & “Freaks (IFG) 25 ~
“Private Life of the Master Race’?
(Drama Council) Free 1.50
#814" (IFG) 225, 40
“Sideshow”? (All-University Reception) 50 1.00
Buffy Sainte-Marie (CCM) 1.00 1.50
“The Grand Illusion’? (IFG) 25 40
The Eastman Wind Ensemble
(Music Council) free 1.00
Prof. Leonard Shapiro (Forum on
Politics) free
“The Magnificent Ambersons”’ (IFG)
Campus Chest
Campus Chest Masquerade Ball 1.00 single 1.50
1,75 couple 2,00
Danish Gymnastics team ari 1.00
Holiday Sing
Projected Events for Spring Semester
Feb. 2 Special Events Board Mixer—C.C, Ballroom 8-12 p.m.
Feb, 8 Piano Recital—Page Hall
Feb. 9 “Manchurian Candidate”?
Feb. 10 Varsity Basketball
Varsity Wrestling
Feb. 13 “The Lost Squadron’?
Feb. 14 Varsity Wrestling
Feb, 16 L’Aventura
Greek Week Concert
Feb, 17 Varsity Basketball
Feb. 21 Varsity Basketball
Feb, 23 Ikiru
Feb, 28 Basketball
March 1 “Fantasticks”?
March 1 “New American Cinema’?
March 11-23 Theater Production-Arthur Schnitzler
March 25 Pre-Registration
March 29 All-University Concert
April 5 “Richard I] (IFG)
French Touring Co.—Page
April 8 Band Concert—Page Hall
April 26 IFC Film
May 2 Orchestra Concert
May 3 IFC
May 4 Louis Armstrong Concert
May 8 University Theatre Production-‘Hamlet*?
May 14 Choral Concert
May 17 IFC
erad Students
To S.A. Tax
“Tam not in favor of cutting budgets.
On the other hand, if Student Tax does
not provide the necessary income to sub-
sidize the organizations and activities,
the only alternative would be to cut the
budgets. For example, I would not like
to see organizations inhibited by their
lack of sufficient funds.
“If the trend of the Student Tax reve-
nues continues to decline, the Student
Association will suffer. Each stu-
dent can help broaden the activities on
this Campus by paying his Student Tax.’’
Each year the Student Association pro-
vided an assortment of events. Below
is a partial listing of the events, the
price with Student Tax and the charge
levied to non-Student Tax payers.
This -list of activities is not com-
plete, but it still indicates an idea of
how much students pay to enter into
an event. Furthermore, Student Tax pay-
ment of $14.00 to the Student Associa-
tion, also provides this newspaper.
The Word, Primer, Observation, and
Campus Viewpoint are free to stu-
dents who have paid their Student Tax.
A student does not have to pay to
listen to WSUA, which is financed by
the Student Association. Student Tax mon-
ey pays for Activities Day, Parent’s
Day, the All-University Reception, Cam-
pus Chest, Holiday Sing, Campus Car-
nival and State Fair which were spon-
sored by Special Events Board with the
aid of Student Association monies.
All productions of the State University
Theatres and all concerts sponsored by
the Council for Contemporary Music are
financed by the Student Association.
If a student participates or holds office
in any activity or organization constituted
and financed by the Student Association
he must have paid his Student Tax.
Without ST
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE’S
appearance (above) and Janis
lan’s (below) were made pos-
sible by the money of Student
Association.
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Friday, December 15, 1967
Page 6
COMEDIAN STAN BURNS will be appearing at ‘“Winter-
lude’’ tomorrow night as well as Alice Samson, a singer from
the Playboy Club.
War Crimes Tribunal
Convened Last Week
by David Saltman
Collegiate Press Service
ROSKILDE, Denmark (CPS)—
The Second Intel War
Crimes Tribunal convened last
week in this small town outside
Copenhagen.
The Tribunal — sometimes
called the ‘Russell Tribunal’?
in honor of Bertrand Russell,
its founder — sent its third
message to the United States
government asking for an official
American representative. The
U.S. representative would have
the right to cross-examine wit-
nesses and present evidence ger-
mane to charges of American
“twar crimes’? in Vietnam, ac-
cording to Yugoslav jurist Wladi-
mir Dedijer, the chairman of the
Roskilde session.
The Tribunal is concerned with
three questions this session:
1, Has the United States gov-
ernment and weapons forbidden
by the laws of war in Visham?
2, Have Vietnamese prisoners
been subjected to inhuman treat-
ment, and have civilian popula
tions been subjected to unjust
reprisals by Americans?
3. Is the United States govern-
ment guilty of genocide, accord.
ing to the accepted juridical de-
finition?
The Tribunal is composed of
seventeen jurists, scientists,
writers and philosophers from 12
countries. Lord Russell, the
British philosopher and mathe-
matician, is the honorary chair-
man of the Tribunal, though he
does not attend the sessions.
This is the second Tribunal
held in Scandinavia. The first, -
in May of this year, was held in
Stockholm. Another tribunal, in-
dependent of the ‘‘Russell” tri-
bunal, was held in Tokyo this
August.
Both of these earlier tribunals
found that the U.S, had committed
war crimes in Vietnam, through
the use of fragmentation and
guava bombs, cannister bombs,
butterfly bombs, wind-blast
bombs, and dum-dum pellets. All
are banned by the Geneva Con-
vention. The Tokyo tribunal also
decided that the U.S. is ‘sys-
tematically” slaughtering cle
vilian populations by chemical
and gas warfare, including pol-
soning food and water.
The U.S, was invited to send
representatives to both meetings
but did not.
On the opening day of the
Roskilde session, Prof. Maurice
Ollivier, a French weapons exe
pert, testified that the U.S. had
increased the use of fragmenta-
tion and guava bombs since the
May Tribunal inStockholm. Prof.
Ollivier has visited Vietnam exe
tensively during the period, in-
cluding a large part of North
Vietnam.
Fragmentation and guava
bombs contain hundreds of small
steel pellets which are spewed
out upon explosion. They are
easily deflected when they enter
the human body,
“This means the wounds are
nearly impossible to treat surgi-
cally,” Prof. Ollivier said.
“*Fragmentation and guava
bombs are being used only on
civilian populations,” he testi-
fied, ‘They have absolutely no
effect on military targets.’”
“The U. S. government has
placed contracts for the produc-
tion of 40,784,000 tons of steel
pellets for use in Vietnam-bound
guava bombs before May, 1968,
he testified.
‘'The American government is
also experimenting with the third
generation of fragmentation
bombs,” he said, ‘*They are now
replacing the steel pellets with
steel needles.’? No needle bombs
have been used yet in Vietnam,
he added. The plant to manu-
facture them 1s located in San
Jose, California, he testified.
“Vietnam is being used as a
field of experimentation to im-
prove the efficiency of American,
weapons,” Prof. Olliver said.
“Sixty-seven weapons used in
Vietnam have been visible im-
proved ona trial-and-error basis.
‘An example is the use of laser
beams,” he said.
The opening session alsoheard
from Arturo Trombadori, an
Italian Resistance hero during
World War II and the Vietnam
correspondent for the Italian
paper ‘L’Unita.’’ He gave
graphic eyewitness accounts of
American bombing raids on iso-
lated villages in North Vietnam,
far from the cities or military
installations.
Johnson May Act On Draft
As Pressure Begins To Mount
Washington (CPS) — There
are indications that President
Johnson is finally getting ready
Religious Groups
Serve Students
Tryads or Trinity Young Adults
serves the Methodist student on
the University campus. This
group is affiliated with the Trinity
Methodist Church in Albany.
The Fellowship of Episcopal
Students (FES) instituted in the
Spring of 1966, provides an op-
portunity for Episcopalians
attending the University to parti-
cipate in worship as a religious
community.
Presently FES is involved
in an intercity project working
with youth groups. A prerequisite
for participation in this project
is a training program with an
intercity specialist, This train-
ing period centers around the
needs of the local youth and pre-
pares the students to lead dia-
logues discussing such topics as
Black Power and community or-
ganizations with the youth groups.
The majority of the activities
in which the Fellowship partici-
pates are channeled through the
Church of the University Com
munity. Working ecumenically
with the other religious organi-
zations on campus is strongly
advocated by the Fellowship of
Episcopal Students.
‘Activities appealing to a wide
range of interests are sponsored
by Tryads. Various discussion
groups which explore religions
are only one aspect of the organi-
zation. On December 16 mem-
bers will go Christmas caroling,
and all interested parties are
invited to join in the holiday
festivities,
‘The largest percentage of stu-
dents comprising Tryads are
from the University. Students
from other schools in the area
and from other religious sects
are encouraged to attend the
religious group.
Tryads was instituted six years
ago. Thé liaison between the
Church and the Methodist mem-
bers of the University community
is made by the advisors, Mr. and
Mrs. David Cook, members of the
Trinity Methodist Church.
Lutheran Students
CreateChurchSpirit
The Lutheran Student Associa-
tion at the University, a local
member of the Lutheran Student
Association of America offers
worship for its members within
the parish structure of the First
Lutheran Church in Albany. The
association, however, opens its
meetings to those of all religious
affiliations.
The association is financed
through the New York Synod of
the Lutheran Church through its
youth programs in the First Lu-
theran Church, Advised by Rev.
William Rittberger, the associa~
tion works as a part oftheparish
rather than as a separate group.
Members participate in supper
meetings, discussions on modern
theological and moral problems
and films, Social activities
strengthen the bond between
members, and those involved in
the ecumenical spirit.
Formerly involved with other
Lutheran students in tri-city
schools such as Albany Junior
College, Albany Pharmacy, and
others, the Lutheran Student
Association is now working within
the university community.
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
181 Western Avenue
William H. Rittberger, Pastor
Services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
Coffee Hour Every
Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
to clear up the draft issue, as
pressure for action mounts from
education organizations and
graduate schools all over the
country. There are further in-
dications, though, that he may
resolve the issue in a way that
will discriminate heavily against
students in the social sciences
and humanities,
According to Gustave Arlt,
President of the Council of Gradu-
ate Schools, (CGS), it is likely
that the president will hold a
meeting of his advisors on the
draft sometime in the middle of
next week, and resolve some of
the basic questions not taken care
of by the draft law.
For Arlt, as for the nearly
400 graduate school officials here
for annual meeting of CGS, the
President has already created a
serious problem by putting off
his decision on the draft this
long. The council and other
groups have been urging swift
action since the 1967 draft law
was passed last June.
“'There’s a feeling of consider-
able gloom and pessimism here,”
said Arlt explaining that the gov-
ernment’s inaction made it diffi-
cult for graduate schools to know
whether or not the male students
now applying would be drafted.
There are two basic questions
that the President must resolve
with regard to the draft: first, he
must - decide how to select
draftees in such a way that they
won't all come from the same age
group. Second, he must decide
what academic fields are to be
designated as critical, Graduate
students in critical fields will be
assured of getting draft defer-
ments,
It is the second question that
has Arlt and other education of-
ficials worried most. It is report-
ed that the National Security
Council, which is charged under
the draft law with designating
certain fields as critical, has
recommended that all students in
the physical sciences (including
mathematics), the biological
sciences and engineering be
granted deferments,
The White House has offered
no comment on any ofthe reports
about the draft that are circulate
ing. If this one is true, however—
and education officials believe
widely it is — then firstyear and
prospective grad students in the
social sciences and the humani-
ties will bear the brunt of this
summer's draft calls.
” Education organizations have
uniformly opposed such a plan,
The Commission on Federal Re-
lations of the American Council
on Education (ACE) has proposed
that deferments ‘‘be provided
only in narrow and critically
needed specialties,’’ Others, like
the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Cole
leges: (NASULG), have said a
student’s academic field should
not determine whether or not he
is drafted.
Pressure in favor of the plan
has come from manpower exe
perts within the Commerce and
Labor Departments, who stress
the need for more scientists in
a society heavily dependent on
technology.
The President’s decision on
how to select different age groups
for the draft is also ofconcernto
educators. The President himself
originally favored random selec-
tion, and there is considerable
support for that system among
educators, but Congress has
made random selection impos-
sible.
‘According to the law, the presi-
dent must designate one age level
as the ‘prime age group,” and
then make draft-eligible males in
that group highest in the order
of call,
The Defense Department, how-
ever, can call for a certain
‘¢age-mix,” saying that it wants
X number of 19 years olds, X
number of 22 year olds, etc. The
President then will be obliged
to come up with a selection sys-
tem that supplies the ‘correct
mix.’?
One way of doing so has been
proposed by the ACE’s Com~
mission on Federal Relations.’
According to John Morse, the
head of the Commission, they
have recommended that all draft
eligible males be put into one
draft pool, Then, according to
Morse, the Commission recom-
mends that draftees be chosen on
the basis of the day and the
month they were born — that is,
those born in January would go
before those born in February
regardless of the year of their
birth,
Morse believes that a plan
something like the one proposed
by his Commission will be put
into effect by the President, It
has disadvantages, though, for,
as Arlt says, fellows with birth-
days in January, or February
will be taken for sure, whereas
some born in November won't
have to worry.’”
If there are some differences
of opinion among graduate school
officials about what the president
should do, they all agree on one
thing — the President must act
right away.
“If we don’t get action by
Christmas, it’ll be just too late,”
Unfortunately, for those stu-
dents, however, the White House
has been keeping education of»
ficials as much in the dark as
everyone else,
Fraternities, Sororities
Plan For Greek Week
by Barbara Grossman
The second week in February
the soroities and fraternities of
the University will join together
to present their annual Greek
Week. Preparations are being
made to make this one of the
most outstanding Greek functions
of the year.
Due to several problems, the
co-chairman of Greek Week,
Linda Klein and George Lie
bowitz, have been unable to set
up a definite schedule of events.
A tentative schedule of the main
activities includes the Smoker
and Coker on February 9. On
Saturday, February 10, the
Follies, a talent show featuring
members of various fraternities
and sororities, willbe presented.
More people are still needed to
perform in this show.
On the 18th and 14th there will
be open houses in the Greek
dorms and on the 15th a speaker
from outside the University will
speak, Phylis Diller, Agnes
Moorehead, and Al Kapp are being
considered as possible speakers.
On Friday night, the 16th, there
will be a concert. Saturday will be
Olympic Day, and on Saturday
night there will be a beer party
and possibly a Greek basketball
game with Sienna.
The Olympics this year willbe
reduced to only three or four
events, but it is hoped that there
will be many participants and
supporters. The beer party will
not be held at Raphael’s this
year, so the number of tickets
will have to be limited, and no
tickets will be sold at the door.
The greatest problem the co-
chairmen are having with Greek
Week is engaging entertainers
for the concert. The Faculty Stu-
dent Association (FSA) has been
approached for funds, but FSA
has not held a meeting yet to
vote on the request.
Consequently, it is not known
how much can be used for the
concert. However, it is expected
that the amount may be $8000;
this figure may be added to by
various beer companies,
The Greeks will also be sell-
ing buttons, distributing Greek
Week Books, and manning a Greek
table inthe Campus Center, Other
features of Greek Week will be
planned in the next few weeks and
will be announced soon.
Friday, December 15, 1967
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Page 7
Expanding System Creates
by Carl Lindeman
This is the last article of a
five-part series dealing with Uni-
versity growth. The last four ar-
ticles haye dealt with the
community, source of students,
expansion of physical facilities
and curriculum as factors in
discussing University growth.
The importance of maintaining
communication patterns among
the administration, the student
body and the faculty is another
factor important in University
growth.
Presently the State Univer-
sity system has 125,000 under-
graduate students and 8,200 grad-
uate students. By 1975 it is ex-
pected that 234,000 students will
be enrolled as undergraduates
with an additional 22,000 grad-
uate students.
As the number of Students and
faculty members increase new
patterns of organization must de-
yelop. The administration must
adapt to an increasing and more
complex institute. What may de~
velop is an increasingly imper-
sonal organization.
As the University grows the
number of administrative depart-
photo by Klaus Schnitzer
Can World University
Achieve Understanding
by Fredda Jaffee
Generally, we piace little value
in international responsibility.
Yet the characteristics of the
times, with its increasing tech-
nology and impending nuclear
warfare have led nations into
international agreements. Our
world is a contracting one. The
responsibilities incurred in most
of these agreements cannot be
fulfilled without similar interna-
tional loyalties.
‘The United Nations, though ap-
parently floundering, is the most
formidable attempt to date. The
Pan American Union, Schumann
Plan, and Common Market are
only a few of the many organiza-
tions which are attempting tocor-
relate small national states into
an integrated whole. It has been
suggested that in this era of exe
panding ideas, devastating wea-
pons and shrinking hemispheres,
the only alternative to an inter-
national world government may
be a universal hecatomb.
The idea of a World Univer-
sity would seem to be the acces-
sory or rather necessity of such
doctrines. In such an institution,
students would be taught the his-
tory and culture of the entire
world from a relatively unbiased
viewpoint. This college would be
designed to develop a totally new
concept of the world and educa~
tion. It would serve as a feed.
back mechanisn: in our soal of
achieving world understanding (If
such an ideal is within our reach.)
The idea of an international or-
ganization of higher learning was
first proposed in 1919 in order
to ‘synthesize and correlate
branches of knowledge .. . the
best method for generating a kind
of central impulse for the intel-
lectual life of all Humanity.
There have been numerous pro-
posals submitted and many at-
tempts by projects and experi-
ments, but as yet they have been
unsuccessful in the materializa-
tion of a feasible, unified struc-
ture. s
Recommendations have been
made by the League of Nations,
the United Nations, UNESCO, and
the Quakers (Friends World Col-
lege). However, there seem to
be too many conflicting factors
which must be resolved before
a World University could begin
to take shape. These include
language, location, financial sup-
port, selection of faculty and
students, organization, proced-
ure and curriculum. Obviously,
these are far from trivial, and
will require an inordinate amount
of interest, patience, planning
and creativity.
T am not sure whether it is
realistically conceivable at the
moment to hope for a rational
solution of world conflict. These
problems are awesome and all.
encompassing. The Wo-?* Uni+
versity might prove to be a base
of attack, stimulating ideas and
sentiments among the educated
everywhere, which might hope-
fully trickle down to ‘“Every-
man.” Through an inter-national
community of those pursuing
knowledge we might ultimately
penetrate the barriers of antagon-
ism which seem otherwise im-
mutable.
Critics of the idea have point-
ed out that political disagree
ments would create sharp dissen-
sion and hamper the proper func-
tioning of the World University.
However, study at aninternation-
al level might effectively disen-
tangle conflicting ideologies and
possibly bring about unification.
“The War Game” is an excel-
lent, stirring and downright re-
yolting portrayal of the blight of
man in the consummation of his
self-destruction: the effects of
thermo-nuclear warfare. At one
point in the movie, a statement
by Pope Paul is inserted, bear-
ing the comment that we must
learn to live with the bomb...
but perhaps mankind deserves an
alternative to this conjugal-bliss-
with-the-bomb, and a World Uni-
versity might be the answer.
We have reached the heights
of sophistication in world eradi-
cation. .“. why not allow our-
selves a fighting chance by using
world education as a means of
arresting our own destruction,
Impersonal
ments will undoubtedly increase.
The danger of such increase in
departments may create a lack
of communication within the ad-
ministration itself and between
the administration and the fac-
ulty.
Within the administration the
chances of conflicting orders or
a lack of orders may increase.
There may also appear a lack
of knowledge of what other de-
partments are doing within the
same administration,
A side-effect of this will be
a confusion of directives to fac-
ulty and student leaders,
An administration that is both
impersonal and lacking inner co-
hesion will create anatmosphere
in which no one is sure what
anyone else is doing.
What may be desired is the
need for administrators to ex-
pand their knowledge in under-
standing other departments rath-
er than just their own department.
A workable knowledge of other
departments will lead to an under=
standing of the department’s
needs and, thereby, increase the
chain of communications.
A further problem of communi-
cation that may develop as Uni-
versity population grows is the
rganization
relationship of student govern-
ment to administration and stu-
dent government to the student
population.
If students fail to convey to
their student leaders problems
which they are encountering ad-
ministrators are hampered. What
may develop, and usually does,
are misconceptions about the
University. The administrationis
hampered in dealing with these
misconceptions because they are
unaware of them.
Student leaders are likewise
hampered because they are un-
aware of the rumors also.
Communication of ideas and
grievances within any growing
institution are necessary for fur-
thering growth. There must be
channels of communication be»
tween administration and stu-
dent, faculty and student, facul-
ty and administration, student
leaders and the mass of students
and between administrators.
An enormous gap between the
various segments of the Univer-
sity may exist presently. But if
the problem is viewed and the
deficiencies discovered the exe
panding University of the future
may avoid the problems of com-
munication.
Quad To Install
Thinking Techniques
by Gary Gelt
The directors of State Quad
rangle, Miss Susan Goldin, Miss
Nancy Matthews, and Mr, Robert
Fairbanks, have recently under-
taken a mammoth task. The job’
is far more difficult than com-
pleting the Flag Room, installing
Screens, and furnishing the
lobbies. They are attempting to
‘reconstruct’? the minds of each
and-every resident of State Quad.
The directors feel that beneath
the mud, mire, and rubble of con-
struction that now characterizes
the Quad, students who are de-
finitely questioning the entire col-
lege experience live. The obvious
questions about when the dining
room will be ready and the U
Lounge opened are merely dis-
guises for the more serious ques-
tions about thinking, learning, and
living.
The first evidence of the new
policy on the Quad were signs
throughout the dorms proclaim=
ing meetings with the general
purpose to think. In fact, the
theme of this movement is
“think”? and the purpose is to
start each resident thinking about
his existence and reasons for
attending the University.
The program does not wish to
have the residents sit around
most of the evening and discuss
Vergil’s Aeneid or the theories
of Thales, but would like to have
everyone be able to use his mind
creatively and put his knowledge
to practical use.
The directors realize that State
Quad cannot be a Utopia where
the students spend the evening
in quiet contemplation, Until the
system is changed so that marks
are not stressed as much as they
are now, a residence hall of
“thinking human beings’? is not
completely practical. The hall
should be oriented so that the
student can receive the most
from his education despite the
way his education may be run,
The directors feel that State
Quad may be the best place to
institute such a program for two
reasons. The first is that many
of the residents are freshmen
and therefore more likely to
receive this program thanupper-
classmen who have established
their goals and aims and the
methods they will employ to ob-
tain them.
State also has only six dorms
open and thus have only about 600
residents, A program of this sort
must begin ona small and gradual
basis and-then spread out to
others,
These think sessions are known
as brainstorming. A small group
of people get together and for a
few minutes of concentrated
thinking put forth any ideas that
may come to their mind. These
ideas are not discussed but mere-
ly recorded by a member of the
group. The results-are then re-
viewed and examined.
A typical brainstorming ses-
sion may fail to yield the lofty
idea which the session tries to
evoke. However, if one good idea
is produced the entire session is
successful because a good idea
is often rare when everyone has
ceased thinking and merely
exists,
The directors of the Quad are
quite excited about this program.
The residents have already lived
on State for almost an entire
semester. They have lived with
the mud, the sand, the incon-
veniences of construction and
still managed to endure. The
“think” policy will just be
another challenge for them.
to 5 p.m.
Winter Recess
Library Hours
Thursday, Dec. 21 8 a.m.—5 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 22 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 23 — Monday, Dec. 25 Closed
Tuesday, Dec. 26 — Friday, Dec. 29 9 a.m.
Saturday — Monday, Dec. 30 — Jan. 1, Closed
Tuesday, Jan. 2 9 a.m. — 12 midnight.
Happy Holidays
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS.
Friday, December 15, 1967
Christmas is a contradiction this year.
At a time when everyone is so preoccupied
with peace it seems ironic that the United
States is engaged in a war whichis
incurring the wrath of the majority of the
people in the world, and threatening pos-
sible thermo-nuclear halocaust.
We have allowed ourselves to be drawn
into what is essentially a Civil War on
the side of a government which has con-
sistently shown its inability to represent
the populace since the withdrawal of the
French. The French had to suffer through
years of futile war and the loss ofits best
troops only to conclude that the forces
of nationalism and reform are stronger
than all of their bullets and bombs,
By historical forces greater than we
realized, we have allowed our country
to be lured into fighting a war against
an alien ideology which was seen a few
years ago as the embodiment of all that
was evil. We do not have an historical
mission to expunge communism from the
world and remake it in our own image.
We have given up the execution of the
war entirely to the Pentagon which has
fought the war on the model of World
War Il with the addition of a few heli-
copters. Experts on guerrilla war have
consistently maintained that a guerrilla
war can only be fought by giving the
people the reforms they desire, gaining
their confidence, fighting the guerrillas
with counter-guerrilla forces.
Let us state unequivocally that we do
not favor the allocation of Student As-
sociation monies for partisan politi-
cal groups on campus, and find the in-
decisive action of Central Council on
this matter appalling.
We do not feel that groups of a par-
tisan political nature should be financ-
ed by general student funds; especially
as such groups are subject to influence
and pressure from their outside affili-
ations. For this reason we think organ-
izations of this type should be self-
supporting.
More appalling is the fact that many
of the Council members who voted to
defeat a bill which would have preclud-
ed S.A. from financing these groups, do
not really believe in the philosophy of
financing these groups.
The consideration that not enough con-
servative speakers are presently appear-
ing on campus was the argument which
swayed the votes of many of the Coun-
cil members, i
Confused Issues
Instead the Pentagon has poured in
more troops, bombed villages controlled
by the Viet Cong, disrupted the economy,
and prostituted the populace. Search-and-
destroy missions involving thousands of
troops have usually succeeded in captur-
ing only a few suspicious-looking civilians.
If this be our mission, we can only
hope that this country will immediately
re-examine its position in the world.
At one time, we were envied around
the world for our noble experiment in de-
mocracy and our unwillingness to involve
ourselves in the quarrels of other na-
tions. We do not advocate a return to
isolationism, just a return to our senses.
Our actions are despised in virtually
every country, even among our allies.
Our country is being torn by what has
been termed the greatest internal turmoil
since the Civil War. Our youth are being
sent to fight what they view asasenseless
war with senseless goals. The country
has lost its faith in its President and
its administration.
We strongly urge the Administration
to extricate itself from this quagmire
that is Vietnam by seriously negotiat-
ing with the Viet Cong and the North
Vietnamese government, through what-
ever means are necessary. We can only
regain our respect in the world by mak-
ing peace, not war. This indeed would be
a Christmas present for all of humanity.
It apparently did not occur to the
Council members to correct this dis-
crepancy by sending a directive to For-
um of Politics, (whose speakers have
been largely liberal) to present a fair
share of conservative speakers or the
Forum budget would be frozen.
Whether or not Council wishes to cor-
rect this mistake is still to be deter-
mined. We favor its immediate correc-
tion. Presently, there is talk of setting
up a non-partisan board which would as-
sure all partisan groups of equality in
speakers. Whether a functional organ
will arise from this will also remain
to be seen; however, until this time we
favor immediate demands made to For-
um to include some conservative speak-
ers in its program.
It is a shame that Council, as in the
case of the Supreme Court, consistently
not only confuses issues, but refuses to
begin to correct mistakes immediately
in the existing organs of the government.
From Under The Gavel
by Jeffrey Mishkin
President of the Student Association
Last Thursday Central Coun-
cil, by a vote of nine in favor,
10 opposed, and six abstentions,
rejected a policy that would have
prevented the Student Association
from providing funds for any
group which advocates any speci-
fic partisan political viewpoint
or any specific religious view-
point. One immediate result of
this action was that the Young
Americans for Freedom maine
tained their newly acquired bud-
get. Another immediate result,
‘one that scarcely needs mention,
is that this decision is now under
strenuous attack.
Many of the arguments in sup-
port of the policy ofnon-financial
involvement of the Student Asso-
ciation with partisan groups are
sound. Traditionally, govern-
ments have always kept them-
selves separate from these or-
ganizations. Further, from the
standpoint of administrative ex-
pediency, life would be much
simpler. Central Council has in-
deed left itself open to requests
for many additional allocations.
Yet Central Council would not
adopt the policy. Was this merely
a horrendous mistake, contrary
to all reason? No. The position
taken by the Council cannot and
must not be labeled obnoxious,
illiterate, unfounded, or une
tenable. The decision is con-
troversial — fine — but it is not
indefensible. First of all, most
of the opposing arguments are
based on what must be considered
a’ very imprecise analogy be-
tween the Student Association and
the Federal Government. The
Federal Goverment levies taxes
on all its citizens, while the
Students Association is financed
by payment ofa voluntary assess-
ment, Another distinguishing fea-
ture of the Student Association is
that it budgets and is therefore
publisher of this newspaper — a
clear indication that basic differ-
ences do exist between the goy-
ernment located in Washington
and the government located inthe
Campus Center.
The question, however, re-
mains. Why reject a policy of
financial separation from politic-
al and religious groups? To
answer we must define the pur-
pose of the Student Association.
The Student Association exists
primarily to provide for the stu-
dents of this University a mean-
ingful life outside the classroom.
To accomplish this objective,
funds must be granted so that we
may maintain a broadprogram of
activities that are of a caliber
commensurate with the desires
and expectations of the Univer-
sity community.
Those who espouse the policy
of separation will contend here
that, yes, the Student Association
should provide a wide breadth of
activities and in fact is doing
that now, They will argue thatwe
need not give any money to any
partisan political yiewpoint since
we already have a budgeted or-
ganization that. caters to all
political outlooks, namely,- the
Forum of Politics. I think it is
about time that we all stopped
talking about what should be and
objectively evaluate what is. The
Forum of Politics does not, by
any gymnastics of the imagina-
tion, cater to a variety of politic-
cal attitudes. The group is
partisan, will always be partisan
towards the beliefs of the leader-
ship, and is presently and signifi-
cantly, financed by Student tax
monies, It might be argued that
membership in the Forum of
Politics is open to anyone and,
instead of giving money to any
‘one point of view, why not just
encourage everybody to join the
Forum of Politics. This sug-
gestion is patently absurd. We
will not be able to elevate the
Forum of Politics to a none
partisan level by injecting into it
a number of partisan groups, It
would still represent only the
position of the majority.
Be that as it may, argue those
who seek to keep Student Asso-
efation funds out of partisan
coffers, partisan political groups
are now existing on campus with-
out Student Association monies
and are managing quite well to
propound their point of view.
The two most common examples
cited here are the Students for a
Democratic Society and the
Faculty-Student Committee toend
the War in Vietnam. But again I
ask that we objectively evaluate
what is. Both these groups are
managing to exist, granted. Yet
I would seriously question the
quality of the program either has
been able to mount. The S,_’
table in the Campus Center sy
for all intent and purposes, re-
verted into little more than a
private study area. And neither
of the two groups has been able
to bring to the campus a speaker
of high caliber who would aid
their cause and stir some much
needed dialogue. This void does
not stem from lack of committ-
ment, or initiative, or concern.
It stems simply from a lack of
resources.
So Central Council, motivated
by an all to apparent absence of
quality programming in certain
areas, rejected the policy of
financial separation. This rejec-
tion however, will certainly not
in itself completely solve the
problem and in fact, as noted
above, may well lead to several
administrative headaches. 1
therefore would like to suggest
a course of action that may help
bring the two opposing views
closer together. I believe that if
an existing organ of the Student
Association, which is based on
the equal representation of sub-
ordinate groups, such as the
Political and Social Concerns
Board of the Community Pro-
gramming Commission, could be
granted a large fund for speakers
and programming, available to
all groups constituted under it, a
compromise solution may be ef-
fected. In this way the Student
Association could keep its funds
separate from partisan groups
except for purposes of program.
ming. Some groundwork will un-
doubtedly have to be done, but I
am reasonably sure that this plan
will be workable. I cannot stress
strongly enough the need at this
time for compromise and good
faith,
Go Gently
All Ye Sinners.
Happy Holidays
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Page 9
The Right Way
by Robert Iseman
After reading MJ, Rosen-
berg’s column, Off Center, in
the December 8 issue of the
ASP it became obvious that one
of two things was happening:
either Mr. Rosenberg was trying
to smear YAF through a deliber-
ate distortion of facts, or he is
totally ignorant of the principles
espoused by YAF. In hopes of
enlightening Mr. Rosenberg and
allowing the student body to read
the truth, the following is a copy
of the YAF Sharon Statement,
adopted at Sharon, Connecticut,
September 9-11, 1960, ‘IN THIS
TIME of moral and political
crisis, it is the responsibility of
the youth of America to affirm
certain eternal truths, We as
young Conservaties believe:
THAT foremost among the trans-
cendent values is theindividual’s
use of his God-given free will,
whence derives his right to be
free from the restrictions of
arbitrary force;
THAT libery is indivisable, and
that political freedom cannot long
exist without economic freedom;
THAT the purposes of govern-
ment are to protect these free
doms through the preservation
of internal order, the provision
of national defense, and the ad-
ministration of justice;
THAT when government ventures
beyond these rightful functions,
it accumulates power which tends
to diminish order and liberty;
THAT the Constitution of the
United States is the best arrange-
ment yet devised for empowering
government to fulfill its proper
role, while restraining it from
the concentration and abuse of
power;
THAT the genius of the Con
stitution — the division of powers
—is summed up in the clause
which reserved primacy to the
several states, or to the people,
in those spheres not specifically
delegated to the Federal Gov.
ernment;
THAT the market economy, allo
cating resources by the freeplay
of supply and demand, is the
single economic system compat-
ible with the requirements of
personal freedom and constitu-
tional government, and that it is
at the same time the most pro-
ductive supplier of human needs;
THAT when the government inter-
feres with the work ofthe market
economy, it tends to reduce the
moral and physical strength of
the nation; that when it takes
from one man to bestow on
another, it diminishes the incen-
tive of the first, the integrity of
the second, and the moral auto-
nomy of both;
THAT we will be free only so
long as the national sovereignty
-of the United States is secure;
that history shows periods of
freedom are rare, and can exist
only when free citizens con-
certedly defend their rights
against all enemies;
THAT the forces of international
Communism, are at present the
greatest single threat to these
liberties;
THAT the United States should
stress victory over, rather than
co-existence with this menace;
and
THAT American foreign policy
must be judged by this criterion:
does it serve the just interests
of the United States?”
COMMUNICATIONS
Peace Vigil
To the Editor:
A deeply moving gesture of
human concern will take place
this Christmas season inthe form
of an interfaith pilgrimage start-
ing in Buffalo going across the
Peace Bridge and into Canada,
On Dec. 29, a procession of
clergy, laymen and students un-
der the co-sponsorship of Clergy
and Laymen Concerned about
Vietnam, the Catholic, Jewish
and Episcopal Peace Fellowship
and a Quaker Action Group will
walk across the bridge to deliv-
er parcels of medical aid to
sympathetic Canadians to be sent
on for Vietnam relief. A worship
service, briefing session, and
press conference will proceed
the crossing and earlier in the
week participants will be going
to their local post offices to mail
packages of medical aid to Red
Cross Organizations of North
Vietnam, South Vietnam, andthe
National Liberation Front,
It must be stressed that this
move is in no way politically
oriented. Although people who
participate are liable toprosecu-
tion under the Trading with the
Enemy Act they are willing to
risk the threat of prosecution
because of a higher concern for
the suffering of human lives,
It is hoped that an interfaith
pilgrimage will awaken in our
own people an awareness of what
the peace spirit of Christmas
means — not in abstraction, but
in action,
If you are interested in going
on the pilgrimage and want fur-
ther information or need addres-
ses of the Red Cross groups in
order to send medical supplies,
please get in contact with Walter
Clark (457-7934) or Sheila O’-
Leary (482-8575),
The Arab Cause
To the Editor:
M. Jay Rosenberg’s Off Cen-
ter piece “Israelis, Arabs, and
the Rest of Us” needs ananswer;
not because it raised any intel-
lectually debatable questions—
it’s replete with naive cliches—
but simply because it appeared
in the ASP which is a publica.
tion of an academic institution,
and caters, I hope, to educated
Gf not cultured) people.
This piece could not have been
written by a member of the
JUST third camp, ‘The Rest
of Us,” and I was never before
aware of the presence of any
Ctd. on Page 10
College Is:
A turtleneck sweater, a beard,
and a pipe,
beads, bells, sandals and other
such nonsense,
walking across the podium seeing
someone you’d like to impress,
then breaking all your teeth as
you smile and walk into a pillar,
being embarrassed as you try to
open the door to the snack bar.
looking for magazines in the
Mbrary.
studying all night for a test,
getting a B on the test, then
forgetting everything the day af-
ter.
walking out of the dinner line
and dropping your tray,
finding that that professor who
wears $100 suits, $60 shoes, and
has a degree from Princeton is
really a homosexual,
sitting up all night talking with
your room mate,
not having enough hours in the
day to do everything you have to
going drinking every night.
the football team, and winning
the homecoming game.
a line to wait in before you
can do anything,
by Don Gennett
Off Center
by John Lippman
Deep down within the phantas-
magoric fire that burns within
the very bowels of every man,
lies a demon of hideous and
hoary visage, A satanic figure;
howling firey blackened oaths
of the vilest of natures. It lurks
within all of us and it is the
Supreme Force of Evil inherent
in Mankind, It is the moral re-
strictions of society that force
us to keep this hellion chained.
And yet, have not all of us ona
dark lightning streaked night felt
and heard the shrieks and im-
precations and chain rattlings
of this imp within? The heart-
beat is trebled, the brow seeths
in an effluvia of sweat, the eyes
illumined with a phosphorescence
more often associated with a
deranged state of mind, belie this
creature’s existence and control
over our body and mind.
Mike ‘* Fingers’? Moran was the
toughest kid on the block. It all
started when he began pinching
fireballs and Lika Maids down at
Mr. Murray’s Corner Candy Em-
porium. And from then on he
was ‘‘Fingers.” But what strange
conspiracy, what twisting of
fates, what grand order of celesti-
al design, what colossal coming
together of lives brought ‘Fin-
gers’? and myself to that same
dormitory on that cold Decem-
ber night where I had gone to
spend my last ten pennies on
a bit of nourishment for the night.
Clutching my coins tightly I de-
scended the staircase and pe-
rused all of the vending machine
offerings. Ipassedgleaming rows
of candy bars, pastries, milk of
different flavors, hotdogs, ham-
burgers, cheeseburgers, ice
creams, sodas, cakes and more.
I stood back and admired the
panorama of Victuals. While thus
contemplating the succulent eat-
ables ‘Fingers,’ dressed in the
very latest of modulating styles,
came tripping lightly down the
steps in search also of food at
this late hour. His very presence
filled the room andI involuntarily
withdraw a step. ‘You fear me???
said ‘‘Fingers,’? I tremulously
nodded. He laughed not unkindly.
“Draw near, then, and feast with
me; a fellow humanbeing seeking
sustance in the night till this
heaven sent thunder pass away
this moody night.’ I approached
timidly. “Please sir, but 1 only
have these few coppers for my-
cepacol, aspirins, plenty of rest,
and drinking lots of fluids,
a blue and gold jacket,
mono
a Jaguar XKE parked, next to a
Corvette in the student lot.
intensive starvation at all times,
being broke,
staying for a class the last day
before a vacation, and finding
out that it was canceled.
looking out of Stuyvesant Tower
into VanRensselaer Hall witha
telescope,
spilling a drink on your date
at a formal,
being closed out of four out of
five courses.
the C curve
Academic Probation
Terminal Probation
being back on Appeal, and get-
ting four D warnings,
opening the door for a girl by
pushing on the side that doesn’t
open,
& tosh pause,
Self but would share them gladly
with yourself should you be so
gravious as to accept my humble
hospitality.?” «Child, tonight you
shall sup as a King,’’ he said.
With this he extracted from some
hidden pocket tools with whichhe
quickly stripped a candy mu. -¢
of every Peter Paul Mounds t
it held. My jaw went slack in
peasant amazement. ‘But the
authorities ... ’? I wailed!
“‘Fear them not my little urchin
friend.”” Thus saying he ransack-
ed the ‘Hot Food’ vending
machine of its store of cheese~
burgers. Then delirious andnear
mad with this sudden wealth and
possessed of a ‘courage that I
knew not whence it had come I
imperiously pointed to the milk
machine, and‘*Fingers” literally
tore it apart. My appetite now
whetted I ran from machine to
machine cackling fiendishly as
“Fingers” made short work of
all of them. Or as he put it in
his Ganglandese he‘‘settled their
hash.” But then I asked for his
secret so that I might pass it on
to others. But here he balked.
He explained: You may only look.
You have been privileged to see
more than most men see in a
lifetime. Think not lightly on it.
That you know I exist is enough.’?
We, stood for a minute, wrapped
in the solemnity of the occasion
with the litter of the nights
debauch about our feet. I aim-
lessly kicked a Drakes Coffee
Cake and shuffled my way home
amid Good and Plenty Boxes and
Campbell’s Chicken Soup Cans,
Pizza Burghers destined to go
uneaten, Melting Sidewalk Sun-
daes on a Stick, Hostess Blues
berry Pies, Hershey Almond
Bars, Wise PotatoChip Bags, and
sparkling 7-Up cans, rolling about
the floor emptily. Night was over
and ‘Fingers’ had gone. The day
was here and I walked sadly back
to the dorm,
Review Of The New Right Wing
by Roy Bertrand
A few columnists of late have
used their entire columns to
write about YAF (Young Ameri-
cans for Freedom), explaining
why they’re not worried about
it. I’m not even going to mention
SDS (Students for a Decadent
Society) in my column to prove
my lack of concern. , . The
peace-marchers say conserva-
tives are stupid! At least we
don’t pay our way for a 500 mile
trip just to get pushed around
and ridiculed. . .
A major reason why YAF was
given an allotment by Central
Council was that the only speak.
ers Forum of Politics ever pre-
sents are left-wing extremists...
I wonder what attracts applica»
tions to State more: our high
academic rating or our ever-
growing disgusting reputation as
the Berkeley of the East?...
Members of the right wing are
extremely grateful to the hippies
for their idiotic appearance, It
attracts many more voting adults
to our side. . . Hippies aren’t
dumb, though, If the new pro-
posed sales tax for Albany county
passes, marijuana just might re-
place cigarettes. Things seem
pretty bad when you have to pay
up to 5 per cent for the right to
buy something. . .
I really don’t know what the
draft protestors hope to accom.
plish, Are they looking for even
stricter penalties for draft eva-
sion? They can’t think that the
draft will be abolished just be-
cause a few weirdos want it that
way. If they do, they’re just
experiencing one of their many
fantasies, . . Have you wondered
why philanthropies aren't so
pushy this year about Christmas
gifts for jobless families? It’s
because with our creeping social-
ism today, if you don’t feel like
working, it’s Christmas all year
long. . . All the race riots seem
to take place in our most liberal
cities. There haven’t been major
riots in the Deep South, I hope
that this doesn’t indicate that
the Ku Klux Klan is more ad-
vanced than we are...
Protest and dissent have to be
condoned in a republic. I don’t
think that anyone would disagree
with that. People have their right
of free speech guaranteed by a
constitution which has been in
effect longer than any other. But
must we who agree with our
form of government be compell-
ed to listen to this endless
barrage of anti-UnitedStates pro-
paganda on the campus of a
state-supported institution? Is
this the place where doctrines
aimed at opposing what the
majority of ‘citizens deems its
national interest should be foster-
ed? In the 1930s when Naziism
was the main threat to the Free
World, were the teachings of
Hitler proposed by students and
faculty members in state uni-
versities? Then why, in 1967, do
we allow the doctrines of Marx
and Lenin to be advocated on
these campuses? Oh, I know,
Lefty, there is no such thing as
international Communism, and
the commies in Russia are really
good guys, but I’ye heard that
trash before. I will believe that
the Reds are sincere, and that
they keep their word, only when
they do keep their word and do
what they promised at Yalta, and
that is to give Eastern Europe
its freedom.
457-2194.
Linda Berdan
Managing Editor
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Sports Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Editor
Associate Sports Editor
Photography Editor
Associate Photo Editor
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Friday, December 15, 1967 e
Student Gov't
“Central Council Seat
Self nomination forms are
available at the Campus Center
Information Desk for filling the
vacant Central Council seat from
Colonial Quad. Forms must be
turned in by 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Tax cards must be turned in for
a day with the forms. Election
for the seat will be held January
3-5 in the Campus Center main
lounge from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Activities -
Holiday Sing
Will song leaders please be
on time for their rehearsals.
All groups must rehearse in
order to perform. Ifthereareany
questions call Tony Casale, 7938
or Mary Mercer, 7739.
Colonial Quad
The quad will sponsor an inter-
dorm Christmas decoration con-
test. Each dorm entering is
to decorate the area between its
front doors. Judged on original-
ity the first place decoration
will receive $25 and a trophy.
Judging will be Sunday, and the
winner announced at the Christ-
mas dinner,
January Graduates
It is important that all Jan.
grads stop at the Office of Stu-
dent Affairs Hu 264 for the pur-
pose of completing the second
part of Student InformationQues-
tionnaire. This matter should be
taken care of on or before Dec. 22.
Grade Deadline
The deadline for making up in-
complete grades from this spring
semester and summer sessionis
today.
End The War: Discussion
The Student Faculty Commit-
tee to End the War is sponsor-
ing an open discussion on Viet-
nam from 4:00 to 5:00 Weds. in
SS rm 131,
Food Service
If students haveany complaints
concerning Food Service they
may call Darlene Olson at 457+
7895 or by campus mail to box
242 Tenbroeck Hall, DQ.
Arab Student Club
An Arab Student Club, which
has been recognized, by the Uni-
versity officials, has been
formed. The club wishes to dis-
seminate true and adequate in-
formation about Arab people and
seek an understanding with the
American people. Anyone wish-
ing to take part in the clubs ac-
tivities may contact Nabila Mango
at 463-0745 or Box 6072 Albany,
N.Y, 12206.
Binghamton Bus
Tickets for seats on the Bing-
hamton Christmas Charter bus
are on sale today from 11:45 to
12:15 in the Campus Center.
LAST CHANCE,
Jamaica Bus
There are still tickets avail-
able for roundtrip bus trip to
Jamaica, N.Y, (Bus Terminal)
for the Christmas Vacation.
Leaving, Wednesday, December
20 at 6:00 and returning Tues-
day, January 2 at 5:00. If inter-
ested please contact Steve Adlow,
phone 457-8821.
TODAY
Work in fabric Acrilic, and
stained glass by Lois Gregg,
associate dean of students Cam-
pus Center Gallery until Jan,
“The Adding Machine,’? at
Hawley TV studio at 8:30 p.m,
Performance tomorrow night
also.
Wassail Party will be in the
rathskeller from 10 p.m. to 1
a.m. Drinks will cost $.50 each;
Graduate Student and Faculty
Coffee Hour, Ed. 335, 9 a.m.
Graduate Personal Library
Contest Judging, University Li-
brary, 9 a.m.
Women’s Swim Clinic, Public
Bath, Ontario and Central, 1-
2:30 p.m.
“In Vivo Assembly and Disas-
sembly ofthe Mititic Apparatus,”
by Dr. Lionel Rebhun, Bio 248,
3 p.m.
Danish Gym Team, Page Gym,
7 and 9 p.m. Admission $,75,
Tickets at Campus Center.
IFG, ‘Shoot the Piano Play-
er,” Draper 349, 7 and 9:15p.m,
Graduate Student Dance (Semi
formal), C.C, Ballroom, 9 p.m.+
1 a.m. Tickets: $1.25-person,
$2.50-couple.
TOMORROW
Fencing Society—Foil for Be-
ginners in Lr-3 at 10 am.
Outing Club winter mountain.
eering trip in Adirondacks, In+
formation call Rick Nelson, 457-
4607.
Fencing Society, Foil for Be-
ginners, Lecture rm. 3, 10 a.m.
Student Ambassador Commit.
tee, Hu 290, 2 p.m.
“The Folkus” in concert, 8:30
p.m., Page Hall, tickets $1.00,
available in C.C,
SUNDAY, Dec. 17
Tryads—speaker for Salvation
Army—Capt, David Maxendale
at Trinity Methodist Charch at
10:45 p,m.
Chess Club, Bru. Rm 2, 1:30
PMs
Holiday Sing Page, 7 p.m. and
the reception, Campus Center
Ballroom, 10 p.m. — 1 a.m,
MONDAY, Dec. 18
President’s Conference with
Students, Patroon Room Lounge
at 2:15 p.m.
Form of Politics, Hu, 123 3:10
to 4:30,
Freshman Class Council, Hu
110 4 p.m, — 5 p.m.
Dr. Andrew Holowinsky ‘De-
velopment of Chloroplast in Re-
lation to Chorphyll Synthesis,’
Bio 248, 4 p.m.
Beta Phi Sigma, Hu 30, 7
Pp.m.—9 p.m.
Hillel, Hu 137, 8 p.m. — 10
p.m.
Prof. Donald Atwell Zoll, ‘An
Obituary for the Artof Politics,”
Lr Sayles Hall, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY, Dec. 19
ISC Rush Committee, Hu 17,
7pm, —9 pm.
Men’s and women’s swim
teams, Public Bath, 7 p.m.
Outing Club, Hu 124, 7:30 p.m.
—8:30 pm.
Co-Ed Gymnastics Club ¢ram-
poline, tumbling, etc.), Page
Gym, 7:30 p.m.
Christian Science Organiza-
tion, Hu 23, 7:30 p.m.
Christmas readings, 8 p.n.—
Assembly Hall Campus Center.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20
ISC, Hu 18, 7:30 p.m.—9 p.m.
Fencing Society—Epee and
Sabre for beginners and ad-
vanced, Lr. 3, 7:30,
_ MATH TUTORING
MATH TUTORING for ‘needy?
Frosh: Mon, 24 Ch. 24, Tues.
11-12 Ch, 30 and 12-1 Ch. 24,
Wed, 11-1 Ch, 73 and 7-8 p.m.
Ch, 24,
PlacementNotices
Tues., Dec. 19
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp. 6 semester hours in ac-
counting. Job as Bank Exam-
iner.
Thurs., Jan. 4
Federal Service. Entrance Ex-
am 9:15-12:00 Management In-
tern option 1-2:30. Sign up in
placement service.
Fri,, Jan. 5
-_ Connetquot High School
Mon,, Jan. 8
Hunt Wesson Foods,
Grant
Tues., Jan. 9
Mobil Oil, Connecticut Mutual
Life
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Arab Cause
Ctd. from Page 8
Israeli student on campus. How-
ever, Rosenberg is exhort
ing “The Rest of Us"””—to which
he theoretically belongs—to iden-
tify with the Israelis.
King Hussein’s worldwide tour
was meant to soberly put fourth
and clarify the Arab cause and
Position that have been blurred
and distorted by Zionist propa-
ganda which has mislead some of
the ‘Rest of Us’ to vomit in
cessant streams of verbal
diarrhea the worst example of
which is Rosenberg’s caliber,
King Hussein’s effort was the
first of its kind by a high rank-
ing Arab official compared to
the semi-residence in the U.S,
of Israeli officials like Mr. Eban
and the full residence of many
a Zionist Organization that
blatantly advocate a Jewish
State from “the Nile to the Ew
Phrates.” King Hessein came
especially to the U.S, to show—
without parasitic coercion or the
support of anti-defamation lea-
gues—those who are willing to
see that there are always two
sides to a coin and that the
Middle East is NOT only an
Israel. He came not to sell Jor-
danian bonds, not to solicit tax
deductible contributions from
American citizens and not even
to raise funds for the succor of
more than a million and a half
homeless Arab refugees,
England and America never
ceased to support the State of
Israel. They jointly created it
against the will and welfare of
the indigenous inhabitants; Eng-
land by allowing Jews to immi-
grate to Palestine while it was
a mandate and America by re
cognizing the new state before
it even gained any land, They
jointly protected it, financially,
militarily and politically; and the
past years have enough evidences
for any one who can read. The
most recent of these is the de
claration by Mr, Johnson immed-
ijately before the 5th of June
that the American Government
supports the “territorial in-
tegrity’? of ALL nations of the
Middle East, This declaration
was mysteriously dropped from
the Official U.S. policy stand
after the Arabs were defeated,
‘The question then is to whose
welfare and security was the
President’s declaration made?
America and England have tre-
mendous economic and strategic
interests in the Middle East; and
to acquiesce and satisfy all the
whims and pranks of an illegi-
timate child is to lose more
ground to the Russians than they
lost with the creation of the
State of Israel, The interests
of England and America are the
interests of more than 250 mil-
lion people, and consequently the
interests of the Free World,
which should be given priority,
That is not taking into consider-
ation the interests of a hundred
million indigenous inhabitants of
the Middle East! The statement
by Rosenberg that “the Arabs of
Jerusalem were granted citizen-
ship” is void of truth. Reports
by U.N, officials reveal the fact
that the I.D. cards of all Arabs
in Israel are stamped with the
letter “‘B’ which denotes a
second-class citizen, ( have in
my possession some of these
reports for any one interested.)
In a Jewish State you have to
be a Jew to enjoy the full rights
of citizenship. Israel is for Jews
ONLY, South Africa and Southern
Rhodesia for Whites ONLY. We
should always remember that
Nazi Germany WAS supposed to
be for “‘Aryans”? ONLY!
. , Ahmed M, Metwalli
YAF Again
To the Editor:
An organization called the
Young Americans for Freedom
has been the focal point of much
discussion since its inception
here at State early this semester.
The time has come to separate
fact from fiction. Unmistakably
»fased statements made by people
who know next to nothing about
YAF cannot be allowed to stand
unchallenged.
YAF, founded in 1960, is a
nationwide Conservative youth
organization with over 400
chapters in 50 states. On the
National Advisory Board of YAF
are 39 members of Congress,
and such distinguished Ameri-
cans as Gen, A. Bradshaw, Wil-
liam F. Buckley, Gen, Mark
Clark, Gov. Ronald Reagan, plus
many professors, business and
religious leaders.
The Sharon statement, which
sets forth the basic beliefs of
YAF, is open to all for examina
tion, Those who are ignorant of
what a Conservative philosophy
is, are in no position to explain
YAF’s credo, Just what is a
Conservative? Congressional Re-
presentative Durward Hall (R-
Mo.) clearly answered this ques-
tion in a national column this
summer: ‘All he wants is to
keep the nation financially sole
vent, to allow the maximum op-
portunity for each individual to
go as far as his talent, skill and
incentive will take him, to
strengthen and improve our free
enterprise system, to keep taxes
from soaring out of sight, to
maintain a strong national de-
fense against the admitted intent
of the Communists to bury us, to
maintain the basic principles set
forth in the Constitution, and to
be eternally vigilant in the de-
fense of our basic liberties and
freedom.” This is YAF, Mem-
bers of YAF are proud to be
Americans and feel no shame in
displaying the American flag.
Conservatives have traditionally
acted as a restraining force on
those who wish to reduce the
Constitutional rights of the
states.
Selling computers, rocket ene
gines, and radar units to East
European nations will not bring
the fruits of American capitalism
to these ‘enslaved nations”—it
will bring us one step in the di-
rection of national suicide, Many
of these strategic products can
very easily be resold to Russia
and or North Vietnam. Senator
Karl Mundt elaborated on this
East-West trade in a speech be-
fore the Senate this year: ‘It is
indeed a sorry day in American
history, Mr. President, when
dr President and State Depart-
ment concentrate their efforts
on such matters as setting up
new consular regulations with
Russia, in an effort to expand
even further our already uncon-
scionable traffic in blood with
Communist countries by propos+
ing to expand East-West trade,
rather than concentrating on what
is required to cause Russia to
reduce or stop her steadily grow-
ing shipments of oil, weapons,
and ammunition to the North
Vietnam Communists, who use
them to kill America’s finest
fighting men.’? Communists
possess a mutual ideological ine
terest — the desire to establish
their system in every nation in
the world, William Randolph
Hearst Jr., Editor-in-Chief of
one of the nation’s largest news~
paper chains and one who has
been sent on Presidential fact
finding missions, earlier this
year wrote on Russian and
Chinese aims: ‘*And anybody who
Says they have stopped trying to
take over the world is either
misinformed, blind, a boob or
is one of them.” he went on to
write, ‘One thing is certain:
The Communists, whether they
be Russian, Chinese, Albanian
or Cuban, are never going to
give up trying. He believes
that the people of a nation have
the right to decide their own
form of government. But, when
a nation tries to impose its
ideology or form of government
on another nation through
violence and war, then the victim
of such coercion is entitled to
any assistance necessary to halt
the offender. YAF does believe
that ‘the United States should
stress victory over, rather than
_ coexistence with Communism.’*
History has shown that the Com-
muniste are following a policy
of attempting to convert the world
to their ideology — through any
means available. Communist ex-
pansionists have been active in
almost every corner of the world.
With America’s present no-win
policy, the Communists in Viet-
nam and elsewhere know that if
their offensive fails, they will
not lose any territory. This only
encourages more aggressive
“wars of liberation.”” Such wars
destroy lives and drain our
resources and morale. Is
burning draft cards and plucking
daisies truly giving support to
our men in Vietnam? YAF” en-
gages in constructive projects—
collection books, gifts, soap, and
blood for shipment to Vietnam,
One of the most important things
YAF can do to support our armed
forces is to prevent more Viet»
nams, Nations, whether or not
they be Communist, must be
made to realize that their exis-
tence will be threatened if they
choose a course of violence to
achieve their goals. Ask your-
self “Is peace so precious as
to be purchased at the price of
slavery and chains?” YAF says
NO,
Edward S. Potskowski
Common Trap
To the Editor:
It seems as if once again a
member of the new right wing
(Ray Bertrand in this case) has
fallen into the common over-
emotional trap of name-calling:
those whose beliefs the review-
er objects to are branded fol-
lowers of Alan Ginsburg (after
all it is true that probing be-
neath the surface of a poem
proves you are a degenerate,
does it not?) It seems Mr. Ber-
trand has flattered himself in-
to thinking Alan Ginsburg his
arch opponent, and that all those
ideas he objects to are found in
his poetry. Mr. Bertrand goes
on to show how those whose
ideas he disagrees with are pot-
smoking, f loving society
drop-outs, In between all his
clever puns he throws around
the word democracy as if it
were a specific moral code, Since
when is democracy a license to
condemn people’s private ac-
tions and their thoughts? How
many times have we heard the
right wing advocates say that the
protesters are lucky to live in
a society where they have the
liberty to speak their minds then
go right on to condemn their ac-
tlons as being adverse to this
very democracy’s functioning?
What is the proper way to act?
Carry placards praising the right
to protest?
“qf every male participated in
this action’? (raft card. burn-
ing) would the U.S, survive he
asks. That would be the major-
ity then, wouldn’t it, and as he
previously stated we must, in
a democracy, bow to the major-
ity’s rule, The reviewer should
not contradict himself when the
opposite side is in the major-
ity, What survival is he hoping
for, that of people who have ob-
jected to injustice, or that of
flags and eagles?
He asks if terror is how a
democratic society accomplish-
es its goals, Obviously it is what
is happening, for if Mr. Ber-
trand would stop worrying about
the reality of trees he would
see this is precisely what the
U.S, is doing in Viet Nam, War
is not as glorious as it sounds
to those who prefer to condemn
peace while comfortably watch-
ing “reality’’ within their lim-
ited confines, It is easy to bea
hero in Albany. It seems as if a
monolithic national mind is Mr,
Bertrand's idea of democracy,
for to him dissent is undemocra-
tie and idealism for misfits,
I vaguely recall having heard
of a mass mind somewhere be-
fore,
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
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Universit
y Readers Present
Christmas Poetry, Prose
nan. Miss Wiesen stated that her init
eo he annual Christmas Read- group will be reading selections he other readers, under Flsis
ox ings, a variedcollectionofpoetry an chosen by herself that are Girection roading CWOrke thay
ave Pas) and prose onthe subject ofChrist- Girected primarily to children. Cae
aS a See ae kee caned in theAS- As Miss Wiesen explained, "Ti°h ainected the 1966 Christ~
ye fembly Hall of the Campus Cen these selections have a certain mas Readings program and last
2 ef ter at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, De- charm that she simply definedas Dae imine pie caret
0 Coley Buln “«corn.?? She feels that these read- f*°The People, Yes"
5 The University Readers are ing version o ‘eople, Yes’
°. ao ings are fully appropriate to the ang an evening of humerous poet
= once more sponsoring this joyous, yet serious atmosphere yous cptiae seceatioraoton
Ac AS as event, under the directionofRob- ¢ Christmas and of this annual na ees
2 UPS ert Fish of the Department of program of dramatic readings. aS, "Plmer Gantry!)
+4 Mme, there was tere: premayc sre jot tes he a appear Ml suits with Hon! mater an member of Drama=
ig \e appropriate amount of zes!
Sa Sung man The majority of this year’sse- and color will be those pleces eS Cowell, first performed at
UMNO LOasS Va ry Herpone Will De. Read by the stt- to be read by Aldrlel’s and Miss 979° Freshman Skit and. last
i
Nae oor. public address class, RPA 210, Demine’s group. year’s Revue, “‘Carnival.””
= beginning te Poa ete, eo tre ibeckine "rhs ‘year, ite wees well
elles oral interpretation Nancy Miller, Paul Downes, Pal- received by eritics and audiences
i ma _ Calaluca, and Terry .
Fash divided the class into two Barbarossa, These students all ee ee ae
its own director, Tee fest ca, Chose thelr own works. of the Master Race’? (directed
t a ae x. The first sec- ~ Aldrich stated that his selec- by tallies OM Leceard) aad ene
eee lected Judi Wiesen to be tions will be concerned with the 13g Reception, “SIDESHOW.”
° eir director and the second idea of Christmas as it is cele- ;
chose Gary Aldrich and Eileen
Deming to co-<direct,
Miss Wiesen is directing Ellis
Kaufman, Natalie Feldman, Char-
lene Strong and Maureen Kee~
Humor Key
brated at home, in some pieces
with memories of this event.
In addition, Alex Krakower and
Stratton Rawson (of the Univer-
sity Readers) and Ruth Friedner
Point
Aldrich, a junior drama major
and member of the Statesmen,
has been previously acclaimed
for his vocal performances in
“CAROUSEL, '66,” ‘Carnival,’?
and “SIDESHOW.” He is also a
former cast member of the Leon-
ard production.
Miss Deming, a sophomore
(A ° > ° speech education major, has
In ‘MacBird@’ Reading Wie: meaty ch ésows,
2 most notably for the two most
by Herb Greenblatt were an effective triad which recent Receptions, ‘‘Carnival,’’
Ty gave elucidating socialeomment. the Brecht play, and, at present,
: s Some sensitive feathers might Joyce Levy and Steve Brock- Martin Mann’s current produc-
La Qnt after ni Qh+ Nc _ have been ruffled, but this cock- house, who played the daughter tion of Elmer Rice’s The Add~
ed r~ame¢ca c : fight satisfied even the squeam- and crony of ‘MacBird’ respec- ing Machine.’
.< So ocing Ne (os ish with the humor of its tively, enacted their parts pre- All four directors emphasized
Vary rich. +h ZN, One savagery. The Golden Eye has cisely as the play warranted,as that the prose and poetry selec-
Ss
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rarely seen such a large aud-
lence, andthe audience has rarely
seen such sparkle in the Eye as
“MacBird,’?
The teehnical assistant, Lucius
Barre, cooled the glare of a pa-
tient, but overcrowded Eye, with
refreshing wit, as he introduced
the play and players. Background
music ushered in Shakespearean
atmosphere; Stratton Rawson af-
fected “a hilariously pretentious
prologue; and it was begun.
The parallelism of this parody
on ‘MacBeth’ was achieved by
calumny via carricature of the
camp of Kennedy (King Ken O’=
Dunc - Stuart Salomon) and the
camp of Johnson (MacBird-Wil-
liam Rhode). Robert Ken O’Dunc
was played by Michael Ruther-
ford.
The effect of reading parts in-
stead of acting put extra power
in the text. The verbal scenery
and graphic music provided more
than ample background.
Invective was tossed about as
freely as pigskin in touch foot-
ball. Neither the Ken O’Duncs
or the MacBirds went unscath-
ed (nor any others within the po-
litical spectrum).
Memorably, MacBird labeled
Robert Ken O’Dunc a ‘twerp.’
To paraphrase MacBird, ‘Ah can
tolerate attacks own me, but ah
can’t tolerate attacks onthe Prez-
idaint,’ (after he had attained
the highest office),
did Bob Cutty, the aide to ‘King
Ken O’Dunc’ and the senator.
This production deserved the
more commodious facilities of a
theater where a larger audience
could have been comfortably seat-
ed. Those students who missed
this production deserve a second
opportunity to be regaled.
tions to be read in the program
are not the run-of-the-mill
choices but, rather, more inter-
esting and entertaining sampl-
ings. The presentation will last
approximately one hour long. No
admission charge will be requir-
ed for the 1967 Christmas Read-
ings.
Fourth Time Around
by Igor Koroluk
After last Friday night’s Doors
concert at RPI, I heard the same
comment over and over, ‘Great,
but too short.’? That’s how good
the concert was because actually,
the Doors were on for an hour,
respectable time for any group,
and yet the audience was so en-
raptured that time lost all mean-
Jim Morrison, their vocalist,
proved to be all the freak he was
predicted to be. Most of the time
he stood in wierd contorted po-
sitions, softly caressing his mi-
erophone, and then as his vocal
dynamics accelerated, so did his
body, moving, literally jumping
about the stage.
Morrison’s voice along with
Ray Manzarek’s classical, cathee
dral-like organ combined for the
eerie, dark, supernatural, haunt-
ing sound characteristic of the
group.
My chief criticism of the con-
cert was the small selection they
included. Of their recorded songs
they played “Break On Through,’*
“Alabama Song,’? ‘Back Door
Man’? (incidentally, with a very
slick and effective transition
trom the former to latter), ‘*Peo-
ple Are Strange,’? ‘“‘When The
Music’s Over”? and “Light My
Fire,??
As you see from the above,
they still are depending rather
strongly on material from their
first album, which could mean
that they have not perfected their
presentation of songs from their
new disc. Unfortunately, their
new recordineludes some of their
best (and my favorite) material.
To be very frank, I was quite
apprehensive about what thequal-
ity of their performance would
be after hearing and reading so
many conflicting comments on
er Rrakower andiisassisiants the music together, ling inthe Doors and’ especially Merri
Alex Krakower and his ass: ie music er, in the rs and espec! orri-
ee Found shat Cyc mT Dan Stimmerman (‘Earl of War- gaps left by an only three man — son wove a spell over the aud-
Ma We took OUtTSA ren’) and Stratton Rawson (the instrumental backup. His impro- fence, captured them and then
Sepia es othe So ‘Ege of Head’ - Adlai Steven- visions in the super-extended © let them go when they really
e ie) dar o si = Pp son), who were standouts. “Light My Fire”? and “The Mu- wanted to remain, What more
ZA . UY anadin Ellen Rogers was an aptly sic’s Over’? were magnificent, could be said but, ‘Great, but
On MS NZAA na soo n shrewish ‘Lady MacBird,’ Wil- although his range is hampered _ too short’?
rad Znougn Mone +O liam Rhode convincingly played because of the classical effect Since reconsiderations seem
. = ACK 4 ‘MacBird’ and was most amus- he is trying to achieve. The con- to be the vogue among columnists
MALS MIS WH ZS * ing in the role. Beth Sabowitz, stant dialogue between his organ ois year, I think I will add a
Jay Kuperman, and Phil King, and Morrison’s voice was prob- lew of my own, Last week I
Arcams Come truc. nef ‘Hippie,’ ' ‘Socialist,’ and ably the most impressivefeature wrote the ‘Country Joe and the
‘Black’ witches respectively, of the group. Fish” had a ‘Jade East’ style,
| well, after further listening this
i aepeene en cannot hold for
2 their new album although it is
& characteristic of their first.
f= Weiuter qe we Secondly, it has been brought
i= SO, to my attention that Ioverempha-
2 sized my personal opinions of
A Buffy Sainte-Marie and, there.
e ant t fore, neglected those of the aud-
ience — I apologize, but after
= ea} itis may colina te
out a\ss, new “eButtalo fel :
* Springfield” al-
from. SFanQgg BRINGS bum, I think that neither I nor
on Mis Naaad: the audience gave them enough
ne Aica ee Cee os ponvetast gave too
much attention to Janis Ian. The
= eae Oey “springfield” are definitely one
of the superior groups from the
= moray None. West Coast,
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Friday, December 15, 1967
In the Gallery of the Fine Arts Building are two exhibits,
that by Australian Painters and the other by Jack Bosson of
the Art Department both of which are worth seeing.
Australian Exhibit
Shows Diverse Styles
by Gail Safian
The exhibit of Australian Paint-
ings now showing at the Art Gal-
lery in the Fine Arts Building
has something for everyone. The
range of styles among the 150
paintings is extraordinary from
realism to abstractionismandall
the grades in between. Thereare
the blobs of colour that look like
blobs of colour, but there are al-
so figures of men that look like
figures of men, and trees that
Choral To Perform
Handel’s ‘Messiah’
Today, Tomorrow
‘Two performances of Handel’s
“Messiah” will be presented by
the Capitol Hill Choral Society,
under the direction of Judson
Rand, on Friday, December 15
and Saturday, December 16, at
8:30 p.m. at Chancellors Hall,
Albany. As in the past, the Chor-
al Society will sing the Messiah
in its entirety.
Soloists for the two perform~-
ances, all of whom are young pro-
fessionals from the New York
City area, are; Emily Derr, so-
prano; Joan Kersenbrock, con-
tralto; Carroll Alexander, tenor;
and Edward Pierson, bass.
Miss Derr, who has had ex-
tensive experience as an ora-
torio soloist, has toured as so-
prano solist with the RobertShaw
Chorale and the Robert D, Cor-
mier Singers.
Joan Kersenbrock, a native of
Nebraska, is contralto soloist
at New York’s Incarnation
Church, She has made numerous
appearances as oratorio soloist
under Thomas Dunn's direction.
Carroll Alexander has had ex-
perience in Broadway musicals
and is well known in New York
as a church soloist and concert
performer,
Bass soloist, Edward Pierson,
a member of the New York City
Opera, has sung the bass solofor
a number of oratorios and has
appeared frequently as a concert
singer.
The Capitol Hill Choral
Society, now celebrating its 15th
season, has performed the ‘Mes
siah’? nearly every year of its
existence. The 150-voice chor-
us, which appeared at’ the Sara-
toga Performing Arts Center in
August, 1966, will return there
again this summer to sing with
the Philadelphia Orchestra under
Eugene Ormandy’s direction.
Tickets for the “Messiah” can
be purchased from members of
the chorus, at area music stores,
and at Chancellors Hall on De-"
cember 15 and 16.
look like trees. The only fault
of the exhibition as a whole is
its size — there are so many
paintings that it is impossible
to absorb them all; the Gallery
looks full to overflowing.
Many of the paintings are mor-
pid or depressing innature, bear-
ing anair of desolation that we can
only associate withthe emptiness
of Australian deserts and bush
country. Russell Drysdale, one of
the most noted of the artists in
the collection, paints these rusty
dry colours on his canvases. His
skies are orange tinged with
greens and browns, his subjects
gaunt, abject men, their listless
wives and lost-looking children. ,
The oppressiveness of his ‘*The
Ruins, Lake Callabonna’’ is
eerie. It shows a man and boy
standing among some large
pieces of driftwood, with a large
expanse of dry, dusty land ex-
tending behind them. Everything
is still, and everything is that
dusty dry, red orange.
This disturbing quality is
present in many of the paintings
in this collection. ‘Mourning
Bride’? by Arthur Boyd, for ex-
ample, done in almost surreal
expressionistic manner, shows a
bride in a wedding gown falling
in grief upon the stiff, wide-eyed
body of her husband, who lies
in an open coffin. The coffin rests
on the foot ofa large blue-skinned
figure wearing a green shirt and
plack pants —presumably Death,
Another, ‘‘Woman in Bath’? by
Brett Whitley, is equally disturb-
ing, but for a different reason.
It is a large canvas, approximate-
ly six by seven feet, with the bath-
tub taking up two-thirds of the
space. But then there isan empty,
looming third of purple’ back~
ground which just sits there,
exasperatingly blank. Undoubt-
edly, Whitley designed the com-
position to have just this ef-
fect, the knowledge of which per-
haps makes it all the more dis-
turbing.
In complete antithesis to this
feeling is the tapestry by John
Olsen called ‘Joie de Vivre’?
which has all the exuberdnce of
a New Year’s Eve Party. Froma
clown form in the center, radiate
ribbon like lines.
An unusual set is an eight-
piece group of scenes from the
Odyssey. Each little painting is
only about 4 x 5 inches in size,
and minutely detailed.
‘The large variety of schools
represented in this collection
makes The Australian Painters
a unique and interesting show.
As in any large collection there
are some good and some bad
works, but in general, the span
of the styles and the sometimes
peculiarly Australian concepts
make it a worthwhile experience.
Profiles in the Performing Arts
by John Webb
For the first time this season a large crowd
turned out for the band concert on Friday night
featuring the University Concert Band under the
direction of William Hudson. Probably the fea-
ture which attracted so many people from the city
as well as from the University was the incorpora-
tion into the program of a performance by Findley
Cockrell. Many of those attending this perform-
“ance still had the echo of the Eastman Wind En-
semble ringing in their ears, so our band really
had quite a challenge on its hands.
They performed a rather varied repertoire con-
sisting of “Overture and Caccia’” by Menotti,
“symphony No. 6 for Band” by Persichetti, “Crown
Imperial’? by Walton, two numbers by Gershwin
—“tSelections from Porgy and Bess,’’ and the fam-
ed ‘*Rhapsody in Blue,” and closed, as usual, with
a march — Sousa’s ‘Manhattan Beach.”
‘The opening number, ‘‘Overture and Caccia”
by Menotti is from his opera “Last Savage,’””
first performed in 1963, and was arranged for band
by Philip Lang. It was a very clever number con-
sisting of opposing themes played simultaneously.
One very noticeable feature was the highly diffi-
cult clarinet part which, although having its rough
spots, seemed to be quite adequately performed.
it was a rather lengthy number, and became rath-
er tiresome before it finally came to its abrupt
and unexpected ending.
Persichetti’s ‘‘Symphony No. 6 for Band’? was
probably the best performed selection of the en-
tire concert. This symphony had its first per-
formance in 1956, and is one of Persichetti’s
“largest works.’? The crescendos and decrescen-
dos which were used quite effectively in this num-
ber were very very well executed, as were the
syncopated off beat entrances by the various in-
struments throughout the piece. The brass per-
formed quite brilliantly producing a clear tone,
thus adding great spice through its entrances and
good use of dynamics.
One great weakness seemed to be inherent in
this number, and this was lack of good clear tone
quality. There seemed to be an overabundance
of flutes and clarinets which at times simply took
over with breathy sounds, injuring the tone quality,
despite the accomplishment of the brass. This was
particularly noticeable in the very expressive
Adagio. The best moments tone-wise were at double
forte.
The tympany in this number was outstanding.
The entire percussion section performed admir-
ably, but the tympany really made the number the
spectacle that it was. This instrument can be so
effective if well utilized, and Rich Glassbrook
certainly did that. In addition to the brilliance
of the part itself, Glassbrook was really excit-
ing to watch as he played.
The third selection, ‘‘Crown Imperial’? hada very
stirring main theme which reminded me of a west-
ern on television, but I don’t know which one.
The brass again saved the day by overcoming
the bland and rather lifeless sound which came
from the clarinets. The tympany again shone
admirably. It was a good number.
Then came the section of the evening which every-
one had been waiting for — Gershwin’s ‘Selec-
tions from Porgy and Bess,” and above all Cock=
rell’s performance of ‘Rhapsody in Blue” with
the band. Well, it was alright. I am glad to see
that such a thing was attempted, and I hope to
see more of it; nevertheless, it was weak.
The Porgy and Bess selections included such
well-known tunes as “I’ve Got Plenty of Noth-
ing,” ‘Bess You is My Woman,” ‘Summer-
time,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.’” The band
played this well, particularly once the number was
under way (after a well-covered slip by the trumpet).
I did not, however, like the arrangement, despite
the fact that it was done by Russell Bennett.
(No fault of the band.) These watered-down med-
leys are all alike — you simply can’t find one that
is really good anywhere. This particular one lost
most of the Gershwin flavor and subtle rhythm,
and was filled with abrupt theme changes which
detracted from the over-all continuity.
Then came the big moment — ‘Rhapsody in
Blue.’? The clarinet performed the very diffi-
cult opening quite admirably, but then the band
proceeded to lose the feeling for the number and
progressed rather roughly until it came to the
famous instrumental theme played without the
piano. From that point on things began to jell,
and they really did quite a respectable job.
Cockrell was rather severely over-powered by
the band’s volume, thus his smooth touch were
lost. In addition, he played his part too fast at
points. I really felt that this work needed con-
siderably more polishing.
One thing which surprised me was the band’s
size — it seems to have grown. They performed
some very difficult music, and quite well at
that. One thing disturbed me, however, and that
was the tone quality and balance. As I mention-
ed before, it seemed to be dominated by a large
woodwind section (particularly clarinets and flutes)
which deadened the tone making it rather bland.
In this respect the brass saved the day.
I always enjoy watching Hudson direct. He has
a sedate yet classy style which certainly adds
to a concert performance. It was one of the band’s
better concerts. Their improvement during the
past three years has been marvelous, but I shall
be looking forward to still greater improvements
in the future.
Tryouts For
“Affairs”
Films
by Dave Bordwell
Auditions for the third Uni-
versity Theatre production,
“The Affairs Of Anatole,’
will be held Mon., Tues. and
Wed. Jan, 8, 9 and10,
Richardson 291, 7:30 p.m. Di-
recting the production will be
Paul Bruce Pettit who did
“Lysistrata” last year,
Written by Arthur Schnitz-
ler, “The Affairs of Anatole”?
is comprised of seven epi-
sodes in the love-life of Ana-
tole in Vienna at the turn of
the century, and the play
includes four male and seven
female roles, The play will
eerie March 13-16 and
“The Doors’, playing before a capacity audience at RPI
Somebody once said that the
wide screen ‘is suited best for
filming battleships and people
in bed. Though it has refresh-
ingly little of the latter, Rob-
ert Wise’s ‘‘The Sand Pebbles,’?
which I have finally gotten round
to seeing, fully exploits the form-
er. Wise extracts the maximum
from both advantages of the wide
screen: compositional depth of
field and its splendid possibilities
for spectacle.
The film is concerned with the
action surrounding a U.S. gunboat
during the Chinese Civil wars of
the 1920s. It has many of the war-
film cliches we have become used
last weekend, brought comments of ‘‘Great, but too short.”’
(See review page 11).
to since “Sergeant York" (e.g.,
during a battle, a sneaky enemy
is about to dispatch your buddy,
and just in time you dispatch the
enemy), In its handling of the hu-
man relationships — Captain vs.
crew, pacifistic missionary vs.
militarist captain, sailor in love
with Chinese whore, sailor inlove
with pretty missionary — it is
not much above comic-strip stuff.
What makes ‘The Sand Peb-
bles’ interesting, though, is the
way it loads its conventional
form with a measure of sub-
stance. In part this is due to
the excellent acting of Steve Mc-
Queen, Richard Attenborough,
and Richard Crenna. McQueen’s
Jake Holman, ship’s engineer and
plot’s protagonist, is a Heming-
‘wayesque loner, obsessed with
getting his job done right, at
pottom on no man’s side but his
own — the sort of role Bogart
might have played 20 years ago.
Attenborough, as the sailor who
loves the Malay girl, andCrenna,
as the by-the-book captain, flesh
out parts that could have become
stereotypes.
Moreover, the picture is give
en body by Wise’s remarkably
complex treatment of the story’s
political issues. The first shot
is an overhead view of a bustling
Oriental port, a flotsom of drab
browns and grays; suddenly a
gunboat moves into the frame
and sailors in white disembark
and spread through the crowd:
a perfect visual metaphor for
the Americans’ intrusiveness
that we see again and again in
the film.
Continued on Page 13
Friday, December 15, 1967
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Page 13
The Spectator
A View of
by Robert B.Cutty
the Arts
In their latest album, the Beat-
les presume that their audience
is prepared for an entertaining
trip concocted from the imagina-
tion of the Liverpool quartet,
“The Magical Mystery Tour,’?
‘Tour’ is an actual musical
comedy, a television show writ-
ten, produced, and directed by
the Beatles. Packaged in a strik-
ingly colorful album (complete
with cartoon drawings of andpic-
tures from the show), the Beat-
les’ new record is a surprising-
ly pleasant, enjoyable romp
through various styles of mod-
ern musical composition.
The opening number, ‘*Magical
Mystery Tour,” is a frolicsome
burst of joyous sounds, an in-
vitation to the ‘tour’ (itself pos-
sibly a satire on the chief events
of the ‘life voyage’’)
Used with incredible skill is
the piano (heard noticeably at -
the end of the song, producing a
modern jazz effect) and brass
(@mployed in a short interlude
before the final verse in a par-
ody of the Tiajuana Brass or
the Baja Marimba Band),
The next song, ‘‘The Fool on
the Hill,” has the airy beauty
of a pastoral tone-poem. Its light,
airy quality is deceiving: the song
sadly details the alienated plight
of the ‘fool’? who sits on the hill
(‘far from the madding crowd’s
ignoble strife’ with apologies to
Goldsmith),
His head in tne clouds, he
buries himself in the problems
of the world, Used with marve-
lous success is an electronic
flute, whose whining pipings are
a delicious understatement tothe
complaint of the ‘‘fool.’?
‘Flying,’ the number that fol-
lows, is an instrumental. This
pleasant tune soars gracefully on
the wings of a slow, easy beat
that is soon joined by percus-
sion and. guitars, then comple-
mented by a quiet voice arrange-
ment. The number concludes with
an Oriental-sounding stressing
of the organ.
Harrison’s composition was
the song ‘Blue Jay Way,” simi-
Jar to his other musical writings
in that it is concerned with the
difficulty of human communica-
tion and understanding.
The organ (so popular at pres-
ent with folk-rock groups, as in
The Association’s ‘‘Requiem for
the Masses’’) is the major instru-
ment employed in this piece,
aloug with some string instru-
ments.
The singer of ‘‘Blue Jay Way’”
is alienated and suspect by so-
ciety for his perception of real-
Films
Continued from Page 12
Wise’s attitude is ambivalent.
As a whole, theChineseinthepic-
ture are either noxiously servile
(“Yes boss you betcha.’”)
or mindlessly violent; the Amer-
ican crew, with few exceptions,
callously exploit and torment the
Chinese. In one kind of war pic-
ture, the captain’s chauvinism
would be dominant, and in anoth-
er the missionary’s Christianity
would win out. (Viet Nam skulks
in the background here, and Wise
has beefed up the film withcasual
hints in that direction.)
But ‘*The Sand Pebbles’? shuns
both to conclude with a view of
Holman, slumped by a crated en-
gine, with the captain and the mis-
sionary sprawled on the ground
before him — all killed by Na-
tionalist Chinese snipers. This
grouping, as formal as a
Renaissance panel, has a note of
futility surprising in a Holly-
‘wood super-production.
“The Sand Pebbles’? is an ex-
ity. Yet he insists that others
are confused, that they ‘thave lost
their way.”
‘The loveliest song onthe album
is ‘Your Mother Should Know,’?
of the English music-hall variety
So favored by the Tessie O'Shea
class of singers. Steeped in the
rich vein of corny sentiment, the
song is as modestly inoffensive
as the low whisper of past mel-
lowness and just as beautifully
unassuming and romantic.
Before I discuss the final
number of the show, “I Am the
Walrus” (the comedy routine?),
I will quickly complete-one gen-
eral musical note on ‘all the
songs concerning the background
instrumental accompaniment.
Though this influence was
greatly muted in ‘Sgt. Pepper,’
drums, bass, guitars andpercus-
sion are very muchinevidencein
‘Tour,’ employed with handsome
results to create a domineering,
hypnotic beat.
In ‘Walrus,’ the strings are
very important, including bass
and viola. The song uses a multi-
tude of sound effects and unusual
voice harmonizations, with afan-
tastic ending that combines
sound, music, voices and chant,
mixed together in a maddeningly
fascinating finale.
At this point, we enter the
hazardous, controversial terri-
tory of opinionated interpreta
tion. What does the ‘walrus’ sym-
bolize? One idea is obvious: the
face of this creature is usually
marred by deep wrinkles andfea-
tures a large, bushy “mustache,”
the very picture of an old man,
Throughout the song, the idea
of punishment of youthis implied:
the boy lets his “face grow
long’? and is derided as ‘‘naugh-
ty,”? as is the girl who lets her
“knickers down.’?
The ‘penguins’ (normally di-
minitive in size) are criticized
for ‘singing Hare - Krishna’
(studying Oriental culture) when
they ‘‘should have seen themkick-
ing Edgar Allen Poe’ (a dream-
er, concerned with the collapse
of the Universe as reflected in
the men — meanderings of the
mind).
The ‘walrus’ weeps for the
“dead dog’s eye” ripped open
as if to symbolize the modern
philosophical interest with the
visions of the “inner eye.’? He
praises social conformity (¢I
am he as you are he as you are
me and we are all together’).
He disdains ‘‘stupid bloody
Tuesday” (the Rolling Stones
song ‘Ruby Tuesday”? was a slap
at conventional middleclass
morality). He calls the cham-
pions of the new moral code
“‘pornagraphic priestesses.”
eiting film. The one-eighty-odd
minutes go by quickly, except for
some pachydermous interludes
provided by Candice Bergen’s
tacky simperings and Marayat
Andriane’s tedious Oriental pase
sivity. Wise has put a lot intothe
picture — some absorbing vis-
uals (swift tracking shots, strik-
ing compositions), a sense of ac~
tion and masculine expertise (Mc-
Queen running the ship’s engine
looks like he really belongs
there), and some fluent cutting.
I have my doubts about the
overall style, though; by and large
it is detached and anonymous,
bearing no stamp of a personal
vision. Indeed, Wise leaves us
disturbed at the finale, confront-
ing the tableau of death I men-
tioned that it is legitimate to
ask if this nihilism is deeply
felt by the same man who made
“The Sound of Music.’? But may-
be I’m being harsh. The overall
maturity of ‘‘The Sand Pebbles’*
does much to raise hopes for Wise
as a better-than-average com-
mercial director.
‘Machine’ Leaves Audience
Folded, Spindled, Mutilated
by Francine Holz
Presented in arena style in
the Hawley T.V, Studio, and di-
rected by Martin Mana, ‘The
Adding Machine” used mass me-
dia, masks and numerous other
devices which added a freshness
and excitement to the production.
One could not help but acknowl-
edge its carefully planned and
polished nature. But, unfortunate-
ly, a “production” is all that it
was.
The reason for this lies not
so much in the performance as
in the script itself. Rice’s play
is based upon the life of an
everyman named appropriately,
Mr. Zero. Plagued by a nage
ging wife, tormented by his sex-
ual desires for the prostitute
across the hall, and frustrated
by his inability to approach the
girl-at-the-office, Zero is ine
deed a failure.
After twenty-five years with
“the company,’’ he is replaced
by an adding machine. At his
home during a typical business-
man’s party a policeman sud-
denly arrives to arrest Zero:
he has murdered the boss.
Tried, convicted and sentenced
to death, Zero descends to the
underworld, and because, in mur-
dering his boss, Zero was for
one moment true to his emo-
tions, he finds himself in the
Elysian Fields.
Rejecting the “immoral” past-
times of the abode of the good
and the girl-at-the-office (Miss
Daisy Devore) whom he meets
there, he is condemned to work
out his time on the adding ma-
chine in hell, only to return
for another try at earthly ex.
istance.
What indeed has Rice said
to us with all this? That peo.
ple are victims of machines,
systems, bosses and codes and
that the truly virtuous man re-
jects these and lives by his
true feelings? Certainly, this is
not a new idea. As a play “The
Adding Machine’ neither takes
us to the heights nor the depths
of the questions.
The actors, however, did much
to enhance the play with their
well delineated and skillful per-
formances. Ed Kramer, as Mr.
Shrdlu, who warns Zero of the
Elysian evils, gave one of the
most enjoyable and believable
performances done ina longtime.
Certainly, he captured and held
the audiences imagination from
his first flustered entrance,
Karen Prete as the three wom-
en in Zero’s life, was adequate,
but uneven, Her best performance
came at the beginning with her
Portrait of the nagging wife, which
was both delightful andconvinc-
ing. As a sexual object (the
prostitute, Miss O’Grady) and as
the adoring innocent (Daisy De-
yore) she was less convineing,
and often sounded as if she were
reading lines rather than acting,
Scott Regan, in the lead role
of Mr. Zero, did an admirable
job. His great moment came
during the trial when, shaking
with intensity, he progress-
ed from good to superb. Finally,
William Snyder also deserves
recognition for the ease and pol-
ish of his role as the boss,
The real emphasis in the pro-
duction was technical, however.
Throughout the play, T.V. sets
and a movie screen were used
to present pictures of the char-
acters’ thoughts or other appro-
priate motifs. Certainly, the most
startling sequence was Miss
Prete’s strip and subsequent ges-
tures.
It may have been that the se-
quence was too long or merelyin
bad taste, but somehow it fell
short of the desired effect of
sensuality.
Another technique employed
was the use of masks to make
each character look like Mr. and
Mrs. Zero. Later, during the
trial, Zero symbolically tears
off his mask as his soul is final-
ly revealed. Thus, metaphorical-
ly, the audience is shown that all
people hide behind false exter-
fors and that when they reveal
their true selves, they are re-
jected. Thus Zero, upon re-
moving the mask, is condemned.
This proves most effective.
Less effective was the actors
interminglings and directing
lines to the audience whichseem-
ed to alienate rather than involve
most people.
Scene changes did not live up
to the perfection of other tech-
nical aspects for they took en-
tirely too long breaking all mood
of the play.
Perhaps the most startling as-
pect of this production was its
stark ending which left allcharac-
ters on stage. As one viewer
phrased it ‘I feel folded spindl-
ed and mutilated by an ending
that leaves me unsure as to what
to do.”
Cmema I-
by Ray Starman
Earthy, robust humor charac-
terizes the new film version of
Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of
the Shrew.” Starring Richard
Burton and Elizabeth Taylor as
the bickering lovers, and Cyril
Cusak as Taylor’s long-suffer-
ing father, the film begins in ex-
citement and steadily gathers mo-
mentum to a solid and matri-
monally profound ending.
The plot itself is probably so
well known that it needs little
mention, but as the title implies,
Burton, as the swaggering
Petruccio, eventually conquers
and tames the blustering,
screaming Katerina, gaining a
gold-laden dowry as wellasanew
wife.
The acting is uniformly good.
Burton is alternatingly crass and
subtle, rowdy and reserved.
Wearing a full beard, he’s a thin
man’s Falstaff, but with a cley-
erer aptitude. Miss Taylor is
perfect in her role. She too sways
between emotions of coy charms
and out-and-out anarchy. Whether
smashing chairs or dusting them,
she projects earthy vitality with.
out sacrificing a nobler concept
of womanhood.
Cusak is brilliant as Taylor’s
befuddied and tired father, who
is determined to get both of
his daughters married off be
fore he dies. In one scene where
Taylor is supposed to be dressed
for her wedding and is to walk
with her father, Cusak waits ner-
vously for her to open her bed-
room door and appear ready for
the ceremony,
After moments of silence, she
finally comes out dressed and
serene, and the look on Cusak’s
face showing absolute surprise if
not astonishment, equally
matches if not outdoes the aud-
ience’s response to the fact that
she isn’t throwing anything at
anybody or screaming taunts and
threats of a mostly undecipher-
able origin,
Not directed as the filming of
a stage play, but carried through
cinematically, we see close-ups,
overhead and medium cinema
shots to accentuate the difficult
Scenes. It is a bawdy but taste.
fully done film and the violence
of some of the funniest scenes
Makes Burton’s and Taylor’s
“Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” look like a climactic
‘scene from ‘Ozzie and Harriet.’”
The technicolor was not done
with crayolas, and its effect
heightens the late - medieval
and early Renaissance atmos
phere. As a comedy, its domes-
tic humor holds up excellently
and outweighs much of what is
Passed off today for wit and
humor.
Frank
expected
Was
someone
running
the
stop sign.
The last thing
The very last thing.
Stop signs don’t stop cars. Drivers stop cars. Make sure
you do and make sure he has. There’s very little satisfaction
in being dead right when you're dead.
Wherever, whenever you drive . . .
drive defensively. Watch out for the
other guy. He may be the kind who'll
stop at nothing.
Publaned to save hves in cooperation with The Advertaug Council and the Natlnal Satety Counc!
Watch
out for the
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Friday, December 15, 1967
Playing in Page last weekend to the stiff competition of
several other planned events, the Freshman Class presented
an extremely successful show.
- Bosson’s New Works
Produce Excitement
by Gail Safian
“The New Paintings’? of Jack
Bosson opened at the Art Gal-
lery in the Fine Arts building
Thursday, Dec. 7. The artist,
a member of the Department of
Art, has achieved through form
and color a vibrating excitement
for which he strove less success-
fully in the past. In his exhibi-
tions last year, his paintings vi-
brated because red and green
always vibrate when placed to-
gether. Now, although the color
has by no means been relegated
to a secondary importance, it
seems to join together with the
forms, angles and curves to pro-
duce new and exciting dimen-
sions.
Bosson’s brushwork is flat;
there is no texture but the plane
of his paintings is by no means
thus, The various areas of color
seem to move and change before
the eyes. The largest of Bosson’s
Paintings, ‘‘Mesmeroid’’, is es-
pecially effective in this manner,
It is an imposing and exciting
panel of colors which catch the
eye and carries it up and down,
in and out, among the various
levels and planes,
In the course of his growth
as a painter, Bosson has moved
from whole, ‘clearly defined fi-
gures, to abstractions of them,
enjoying the way the forms work
together. Although the edges are
at times ambiguous and tend to
oscillate, they are never vague.
He concerns himself with de-
veloping, improving, and clarify-
ideas,
“Alan’s Blue” is a refresh-
ingly clear, crisp, painting. A
gentle blue background or shape
,@epending on how you look at
it) is juxtaposed with two clean-
ly cut black shapes, underlined
with a yellow curve of color, and
accented with a rose-colored
form. In Bosson’s earlier work
he was almost exclusively con-
cerned with nudes; now he has
enlarged the forms so that we
are left with only the curve of
a waistline, or the fullness of
a breast. Thus we can com-
Prehend more fully the beauty
of the line itself, the erotocism
falling secondarily and perhaps
more meaningfully into a sug-
gestive and generalized, rather
than blatant, position. A total
feeling can pe derived rather
than a self-conscious ‘Playboy’?
snicker. Bosson feels a strong
relationship between sensuality
and art, and his forms are con-
cerned with the organic and geo-
metric.
The artist was trained in ab-
stract expressionism, but his
work now is sort of an anti-
thesis to it, He remains an ab-
stractionist; his expressiveness,
however, lies not in the element
of the picture, but in the total
compostion. He calls himself a
classicist in his concept of art
in terms of balance. His con-
vasses are getting larger, and
larger, striving to be almost en-
vironmental in impact.
Bosson has a great conscious-
ness of the interrelationships
between forms, and in the use
of positive and negative space.
that recede and shapes
that come forward.) One of the
paintings on the balcony, en-
titled ‘Where you Are,’ plays
with this idea quite effectively.
There is a bright, two-toned
‘4rame” of orange geometrical
shapes around the edges of the
painting, Being the brightest,
sharpest form, the orangeseems
to come forward, to be in front
of the other areas of the paint
ing, including a white space which
is really the border on one side.
In the middle is a black shape
and two blue shapes with a white
form in the center, Now here
is where the ambiguity occurs.
We may consider that we are
looking through the back, which
then becomes an inner frame,
to the blue beyond, The central
white space can fall between the
two blues, or behind them. Or
the blue forms can be viewed
as being in front of the black,
thus making the black a back-
ground. Where - you ~- are-
in ‘Where You Are’? constant
ly changes, becoming an almost
visual game.
Bosson finds that artists tend
to take themselves too seriously,
becoming too conscious of their
Great Moments of Creation. This
is not to say that Bosson is not
serious about his work, but that,
as an expression of himself, he
enjoys it, and is relaxed within
it.
Continued to Col. 5
“Damn It!”: Poignant—
View Into Freshman Life
y Judi Wiesen and Ellis Kaufman
In addition to some run-oi-
the-mill beer parties, a movie
that will be seen on the late
show shortly, several Campus
Chest fund-raising activities, and
countless other events, the fresh-
man class contributed to last
Saturday evening’s activities by
presenting their ‘variety -
musical-fantasy,’ ‘Damn It,’?
Because ‘Damn It” was a
once-in-a lifetime event, and the
other campus activities were
common occurrences, “Damn It*?
deserved a much larger audience
than it had, The show was a huge
success and it it a damn shame
that not too many people saw
Freshman Problems
“Damn It” was a composite
of show tunes and original songs
written by Steve Hirsch and had
a story based on that of DAMN
YANKEES, Although the show was
mostly musical, its dialogue re-
vealed a human story; that of
a freshman’s problem upon en
tering college,
Our hero, Narcissus, is a
mixed-up, ‘stupid, ugly fool.’?
After a few agonizing weeks, in
college Narcissus finds that he
has not improved at all. When
his frustrations overpower him,
Lucifer the devil, appears and
offers to transform him from his
present state into Mark Dash—
Big Man On Campus.
Lucifer explains that he has
helped all famous student lead-
ers to achieve their status. Nar-
cissus, is unable to resist Luci-
fer’s offer. And with a typically
theatrical flash of light and a
crashing noise, Narcissus be-
comes Mark Dash,
Mark becomes president of
the freshman class, captain of
the football team, and president
of the fencing society andamem-
ber of “Padder Club.” Girls are
hanging from his. . .limbs, but
he is still unhappy because he
loves Willow, who is too far
beneath him and therefore out
Mark’s discontent and decides
that the only thing he needs now
is a mistress. To do the job,
he produces Lola—a beautiful,
sensual blond who takes Mark
away to the pleasures of the
bedroom, To complicate matters,
Lola who was assigned only to
seduce Mark, falls in love with
him, With her love for him, she
convinces Mark that he must
return to his normal state of
being. And thus, Mark returns
to his former self, Narcissus,
non-enterprising but content,
Excellent Songs
Each song, besides being mus-
ically entertaining, added to the
story line, Although some of the
songs were popular favorites,
they were well integrated into
the show. Steve Hirsch’s origin-
al songs had the professional
flavor of Broadway. Mr. Hirsch
has written an admirable variety
of signs including: ‘‘What’s to
Become of Me?’ which was so
well expressive of the feelings of
an incoming freshman and ‘*Pic-
ture Yourself” a bouncy, melody
forecasting Narcissus’ future.
Any one of these (nd several
other) songs could be taken out
of the context of the show, and
easily become a popular song
hit, Mr, Hirsch is indeed a tal-
ented musician of. unlimited po-
tential; he has produced beauti-
fully effective melodies and also
excellent lyrics.
Talented Director
“Damn It”? was conceived and
directed by Jay Hershkowitz.
Don’t let his 5’4? appearance
deceive you; he is a true “‘super-
Frosh.” For Hershkowitz to at-
tempt such a production is an
accomplishment; to have it be-
come such a success in an in-
credible wonder. Working with
only his small troupe behind him,
without any professional help, and
only a limited amount of equip.
ment, Hershkowitz has produced
a full-scale freshman show. In
addition to directing the show,
of reach. Hershkowitz was forced by his
Lucifer cannot understand cast to play the role of Mark
Now — Dec. 17, Exhibition of Jazz Posters, Gal-
lery Lounge of the Fine Arts Building.
Now — Dec. 28 — One-man Show of new paintings
by Jack Bosson,*member of the Art Department Fac-
ulty.
Now — Dec. 28 — Display of Australian Paintings
by_a representative selection of artists, Main Gallery
of the Fine Arts Building.
Tonight and tomorrow — ‘‘The Adding Machine’’
by Elmer Rice, Hawley Television Studio (former Haw-
ley Library), 8:30 p.m.
At the Albany Institute
Print Exhibition of 130 prints by the country’s fore-
most printmakers working in all media. Opens Dec.
10.
Sculpture by Carl Baumann, thirteen pieces by this
Albany architect and urban planner.
Paintings by Betty Warren, recent oils and pastels.
Cinema series, six programs of film classics be-
ginning with “‘The Thief of Bagdad,’’ Jan. 7 entire
series, $5.50. Write Albany Institute Women’s Coun-
cil, 125 Wash., Ave., Albany.
Every Sunday afternoon, organ recitals by outstand-
ing area pianists at the Cathedral of All Saints, Swan
and Elk St., 4:30 - 5 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 16, Holiday Sing, Page Hall, 7-10 p.m.
Reception, 10 p.m. Campus Center Ballroom with win-
ning groups performing.
Tuesday,
Selections, Campus Center
Be
Dec. 19, University Reader’s Christmas
Assembly Hall, 8:30 p.m.
ei
Dash, He did this admirably
and his rendition of ‘What Kind
of Fool Am I?” showed a true
understanding of the song and
@ fine sense of dramatic feeling.
Other Characters Excellent
A more sinister Lucifer could
not have been cast than Bill
Doscher, His excellent delivery
of lines and songs was compli-
mented by his sly devilish ap-
pearance, Arnie Post was amus-
ing as the typical beer-drinking
college freshman,
Marshall Winkler, as Narcis-
sus, has the unassuming inno-
cence so necessary for his role,
His musical and dramatic contri-
butions to the show were highly
effective; he was very, very
cute, Jo Earl, Portraying Willow,
Was a lovable sweetheart as any
freshman could want,
Mary Carney’s vibrant enthu-
siasm in playing her secondary
role was indicative of the youth
fulness of today’s freshman, Mar-
sha Burek, portraying Lola, mas-
tered the split nature of her
character well,
When Lisa Brier danced onto
the stage in the finale, she was
nothing short of a spectacle of
electrical excitement,
“People” Highlight of Show
Rae Ann Crandall’s beauty and
the lilting charm of her voice
were quite exciting. The emo-
tional impact that her version of
“*People” had upon the audience
was phenomenal,
The finale of the show brought
tears to our eyes especially when
Rae Ann Crandall came forth and
said that it was the end of the
show and the ‘sweet beginning’?
of a freshman’s life. The cast
joined Miss Crandall in sing-
ing “‘Sweet Beginning,’? Because
that song was so expressive of
the feeling of the show, we feel
that it would have been better
had the entire production been
entitled “Sweet Beginning,”
Let it be the responsibility of
the company of “Damn It” to
see that this is only a “sweet
beginning” of bigger and better
freshman shows in future years,
Bosson
Continued from Col. 2
Much of the art that is creat.
ed nowadays is abstract in na-
ture, and difficult for the non-
artist to comprehend without ex-
tra or inside information, Mr.
Bosson thinks that the reason
the public does not understand
the new art is because they are
basically not interested. Any
artist of worth paints not for
the masses but for himself, Even
Da Vinci, although his work was
approved of, and ‘understood’
by the masses, surely strove for
and felt more than just a satis-
fied feeling that he has achieved
pretty good skin tones on Mona
Lisa’s face, Now the artist has
removed recognizable forms and
developed a new vocabulary of
expression, In time, if they care,
the public will come to recog-
nize and understand contempor-
ary abstract art. The emotions
expressed now are essentially
the same as they were five hund-
red years ago when people wept
before paintings of. the crucific-
tion. Only the means and the
method have changed,
Bosson’s paintings, especially
his newer ones, are full of the
stuff of life and visual excite
ment, Once you get past the view
“I can’t see what it is so I
don’t like it,’? and let the colors
and planes carry you inward, you
will enjoy his show,
Friday, December 15, 1967 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
Frosh Hoopsters Split
Grapplers Fall To Oneonta
The freshmen basketball team, still in the process of gelling into a disciplined team,
split last week’s two games, winning against Plattsburgh, 96-87, then losing to Albany
Ever since Albany instituted its freshmen program Business College, 95-76. There is an obvious lack of organization on the court, but the
some years ago, the frosh have received little or no frosh are experiencing the same problems every freshmen team must overcome: (1) they
notice. Upperclassmen have always ignored them, as have not yet played long enough together to know eachother well enough.(2) all the players
they do everywhere; it seems to take a Lew Alcindor come from different background and are having some :problems adjusting to Coach
Page 15
Dune
Shote
by Duncan Nixon
Associate Sports Editor
or a Calvin Murphy to get the upperclassmen to attend
frosh events.
However, freshmen attendance has also been unim-
pressive. This is due no doubt to lack of publicity about
the teams (many freshmen in
O’Brien’s game plan. The per-
sonal and raw talent is there,
and as the season progresses,
the freshmen can be expected
past years have even been to become a better than adequ-
unaware of the existence of some of theteams.) This lack ate team.
of attendance is also due to freshman teams’ tendency to In the Plattsburgh game, truly
lose.
This tendency does not necessarily mean that the
frosh don’t have any talent, but rather it stems from the
fact that the frosh are frequently competing against two
year schools. This is a special handicap in team sports
like soccer and basketball w
are of maximum importance,
ere teamwork, organization
and a year’s experience of
working together can be overwhelming.
One need only look at this
realize that the overall recor
year’s freshmen teams to
‘d may not be a real indica-
tion of the strength of the upcoming talent. The frosh
cross-country team was powerful as their
record
shows, their only loss in dual meets came at the nands
of a powerful two year school. The frosh booters were
2-5-1 but three of those losses were at the hands of
strong Community Colleges.
booters were probably one of
their record does not show it.
Thus although the frosh
the best teams we have had,
The freshmen grapplers showed quite a bit of promise
in their opening match on Saturday, but they fell toa
strong Oneonta squad, partly due to two forfeits. None
on the schedule, however, are five two year schools, not
of which is likely to be a push
squad also has some fine pros:
over. The frosh basketball
pects, but they have already
gone down to two defeats at the hands of two year schools,
and they still have five more to go. So it is obvious that
one can only judge a frosh tea:
on its record.
m on its raw talent and not
League II Underway
TXO, APA Impressive
by Nelson Atkin
Important action took place
last week in AMIA League II
basketball as League I play was
delayed by the shortage of facili-
ties,
In the big game of division A
Theta XI Omega rolled over
Potter Club 51-37, while else-
where in the division Brubacher
beat Sigma Lamda Sigma 50-
35. Division B also was in action
in key games as Alpha Phi
Alpha IIB’s defeated Kappa Beta
47-23. Other action had Water-
bury beating Sigma Tau Beta
49-25, and Theta XiOmegalIB’s
nipping the Hudson AC 25-15.
TXO in beating Potter estab-
lished itself in its division as
the team to beat, for Potter at
the beginning of the season ap-
peared very strong. Key men for
TXO in its victory were Cas
Galka with 15 points and George
Margan with 21 points. The high
man for the losers was John
Rogers with 14 points.
In the Brubacher, SLS game
the pacer for the Boys from Bru
was Dave Golden with 18 points,
while the big man for Sigma
Lamda Sigma was Fred Yauger
who scored 19 points.
‘Alpha Pi Alpha seemingly the
big threat, before the season
started, in League II really show-
ed their potential as their three
leaders Jack Fairbank, Steve
Thomson, andJohnCareripoured
in 14, 12 and 12 points respec-
tively.
Aside from APA in League IIB
a close race seems to be shaping
up for the rest of the teams with
the top prospects being Water-
bury, Theta Xi Omega, andSigma
Tau Beta,
APA, BPS Powerful;
Extend League II Lead
In League II action Saturday A’
.PA and BPS continued their win-
ning ways as both squads took all five points. Thus the two teams
remained deadlocked at the top,
with Tappan Hall still in third.
League II continues to show considerable balance as there is very
little to choose between the middle six teams. No report of League
T action was turned in for Saturday’s games.
League It Standings
1, APA 205
1, BPS 20-5
3. Tappan Hall 15-10
4. TXO (A) 13-12
4, ALC 13-12
6. POTTER 12-13
6, ALENCITES 12413
8, TXO (B) 11-14
9. UPS 8-17
10. POTTER 917 1.24
TOP BOWLERS
High Game
Brown 211
Hettescheimer 208
Kaye 207
DiCarlo 202
High Series
Glenn Sapir 555
Ed Brown 554
Bruce Hettescheimer 528
Mike Slezak ~ 515
a comedy of errors, Albany built
up a 20 point lead and coasted
from there. Allthe starters scor-
ed in double figures. Terry Jor-
dan led the way with 27. The ABC
game was another case, With the
game tied at 60, ABC simply ran
wild against Albany’s faulty full
court press,
The Albany State freshmen
grapplers opened their seasonon
a somewhat sour note Saturday
as they fell to the Oneonta frosh
by a 24-13 count, Forfeits at
160 and 177 hurt the baby Great
Danes chances considerably, as
they won three of the matches
that were actually wrestled.
Winners for the Great Danes
were; Pete Ranalli at 130, Dave
Jones at 137, and Roger Jones
at 145, At 123 Albany’s Kevin
Sheehan was just edged out by a
3-2 score. Ranalli was next and
he wrestled well, outpointing his
opponent by a 6-1 count. Dave
Jones followed Ranalli and he
too dominated his opponent, as he
piled up points before finally
pinning his man in 7:19.
At 145 Roger Jones made quick
work of his opponent as he put
him away in 3 minutes and 18
seconds, Ted Long wrestled 152
for Albany, and although he lost
by a 4-1 score he did show that
he has sufficient wrestling skills.
At this point the score stood at
Albany 13, Oneoneta 6, However,
two forfeits and two losses in
the last four matches resulted
in the final score of 24-13.
The frosh hoopsters will be
in action tomorrow when they
will host Hartwick at 6:30 p.m.
preceding the varsity encounter
at 8:30 p.m, The frosh grapplers
will not be at home again until
February 10.
THE DANISH GYMNASTS will be performing tonight at7
and 9 p.m. Their balance beam exhibition is a highlight.
Albany Hosts Gymnasts
In Eighth World Tour
The twenty - four member
Danish Gymnastics team will be
performing tonight in Page Hall
at 7 and 9 p.m. The team which
consists of 12 male and 12 fe-
male members is now making
its eighth world tour.
The group has performed fre-
quently in the U.S., with tours in
Mid-West and New England to its
credit. The gymnasts were also
favorably received in New York
City, and they come to Albany
directly from a tour in Australia,
Folk Dances Also
Highlights of the nights per-
formance are expected to be the
girls performances on the
balance beams, and the mens
vaulting and tumbling. The gym-
nasts will also give an exhibi-
tion in various Danish Folk
Dances.
Admission to noth perfor-
mances will be $1.00 general
admission, and 75 cents with
Student Tax. Unfortunately the
seating capacity at Page is exe
tremely limited so those interest-
ed are advised to arrive early.
AT THE
9 p.m.
DRESS INFORMAL
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1610 Central Ave. (Next to Holiday |
DOWNSTAIRS
EMBERS
Fred Renolds and his
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Best Wishes
Of The
Holiday
Season
From
Your
STATE
UNIVERSITY
BOOKSTORE
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Friday, December 15, 1967
Jock
Scraps
by Glenn Sapir ;
: Sports Editor
this writing a Secmunysy ususrcre 2-2 won-lost record.
The realization that these two losses came at the hands
of two quite powerful teams, Williams and Buffalo makes
it clear the word mediocre is quite out of place. Further-
more, the loss to Williams was a cliffhanger, while the
drubbing given by Buffalo saw our hoopers put themselves
out of the game in the first half, only to show their true
merit by playing even with the Bulls in the second half.
There is no doubt that the ’67-68 version of the Sauers-
men is a very gifted squad of ballplayers.
The game this Saturday against Central Connecticut
should be another close ballgame. The Cardinal Mc-
Closkey Gym should be packed once again as the visit-
ors always bring with them a fine squad. Perhaps a
key to the success of our basketball team will be the
play of center Scott Price. Scott’s play is almost always
good, but the amount of time Price gets to play often
varies, accordirig to his foul situation. The victory
over Plattsburgh demonstrates the basis for my rea-
soning that Price is the key to our basketball success.
In this game Price played an obviously more cautious
ballgame and consequently never entered into foul trouble.
Yet Scott Price garnered 23 rebounds to keep the Danes
in charge in the latter part of the game. Price played
as much as Doc needed him, played cautiously, and dom-
inated the boards. That is the reason Plattsburgh was
defeated. Without Price, a dominating rebounder is
lacking although Rich Margison, Larry Marcus, and
Jim Caverly have. all shown an ability to chip in with
the backboard chores. Price is needed to get the fast-
break off in time. Price’s stature is such that when he
stands still, he is an excellent pick. Price’s scoring
ability should not be underestimated either.
Tomorrow night fans will see a good ballgame. The
Play of the center from Clifton Springs could be the key
factor in this and all Albany games. Fouls could deter-
mine the outcome. Scott always plays well, but how much
time will he get to play?
Sports Calendar
Friday, Dee. 15
Varsity Wrestling vs. Cortland,
Away, 7:30
Frost Wrestling vs. Cortland,
Away, 7:30.
Saturday, Dec. 16
‘Varsity Basketball vs. Central
Connecticut, Home, 8:30.
Frost Basketball vs. Hartwick
College, Home, 6:30.
Dec. 28-29-30
CapitalDistrict Christmas Tour-
ney, vs. Siena, R.P.I,, and Ham-
ilton, Home.
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Frosh Basketball vs,
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Saturday, Jan. 6
Varsity Basketball vs. Brooklyn
College, Home, 8:30,
Frosh Basketball vs. Alumni,
Home, 6:30,
Varsity Wrestling vs. Farleigh
Dickinson, Away, 2:00.
Frosh Wrestling vs.
Away, 1:00,
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aE REE ER
One Busy Hoop Week Down,
Central Conn. Tomorrow
SUNYA’S JACK ADAMS (22) HITS TWO OF ALBANY’S 96
POINTS in its hoop victory over Plattsburgh.
Grapplers Buried,
Oneonta On Top
by Tom Nixon
In their first dual meet of
the season, the Albany State grap-
plers lost to the Oneonta Red
Dragons by a score of 27-5,
this past Saturday. The Great
Danes were able to record only
victory and a draw. In record-
ing 27 points, Oneonta scored
five decisions, all of which, but
one, were decided by more than
two points, and two pins.
Watts Only Winner
Erie Watts, who was the only
winner for Albany in their Invi-
tational two weeks ago, again was
the only victor for the grapplers.
Wrestling in the 123-pound di-
vision, Watts recorded a 12 to
2 decision over Tim O'Hara.
Oneonta then went on to win
the next seven weight classes
before Albany was able to reg-
ister another score.
Bill Schempp opened up the
scoring for Oneonta by regis-
tering an 8-3 decision over Gary
Smagalski in the 130-pound di-
vision. In the 137-pound divi-
sion, Bill Clark of Albany lost
a 4-2 decision to Jay Moore.
Wrestling for Albany in the
145 - pound division was Craig
Springer who wrestled most of
last year, and in the Invitational
this year in the 152-pound spot.
Despite his drop ofa weight class,
Springer dropped an 11-6 de~
cision as he suffered five take-
downs at the hands of Dan D’-
Amboise of Oneonta,
Frank Berry, who also urop-
ped a weight class so thathe could
wrestle in the 152-pound division,
lost to Bob Anderson by a score
of 18-8. Both Berry and Spring-
er seemed to be lacking stamina
as a result of their heavy work-
outs in order to make the lower
weight classes.
Oneonta registered pins in both
the 160 and 167-pound spots as
Bryan Lambe pinned Francis
Weal, who was filling the spot
left open by Berry, in 6:46, and
Don DeLuca pinned Marshall
Gladstone in 3:46.
In the 177-pound class, Roger
Gorham of Albany lost a 9-3 de-
cision to Gary Lehr. E
Roger Saul, wrestling for only
the second time, gained the only
other points for Albany as he
was able to wrestle George Mill-
er to a 9-9 draw. Saul, who just
started wrestling this year is
showing great promise and looks
as if he may register some unex-
pected victories for the Great
Danes this year.
The Great Danes wrestle their
next four matches away before
they return on February 10th
for a match with Maritime.
Poverty Loses
“Operation: South End Christ-
mas Dinner” behind its slogan
“What's Christmas without Tur-
key,’? is sponsoring a drive to
give underprivileged Albany fam-
ilies a turkey for Christmas.
Monetary donations or pledges
can be made Wednesday, Decem~
ber 20 in the Campus Center.
Interested groups may contact
Chairman John Canfield, 482-
6863.
by Don Oppedisano
A highly touted Central Con-
necticut State basketball team
invades the Cardinal McCloskey
High School gymnasium tomor-
row night to do battle withthe Al-
bany State Great Danes, who will
try to improve on their 3-2 rece
ord, Game time for this big one
will be 8:30 p.m. and free bus
service will again be provided.
The visitors will be minus
their scoring leader from last
season, Paul Zajac, who aver-
aged over 25 points a game.
However, three of the five start-
ers will be returning from a
17-8 club that went to the finals
of the Northeastern NCAA Small-
College Tourney.
In recent action, the locals
won two, a 96-88 decision over
Plattsburgh, and an easy 107-75
win over Utica Tuesday, and lost
one that coming at the hands
of a powerful University of Buf-
falo quintet, 92-69, last Saturday
night.
The Plattsburgh-Albany score
is not really indicative of howfar
superior the Danes were over the
Cardinals. After holding a
precarious four point leadat half-
time, the Dick Sauers’ coached
quintet ripped off 15 straight
points at the start of the second
half to put the game out of reach.
Rich Margison led the Albany
scoring with 20 markers while
Scott Price added 17.
At Butffalo’s Clark Gym, the
Bulls got off to a fast start and
were never headed. The closest
Albany got was six points, 21-
15, midway through the first
half. However, in the end the tal-
ent and strength of the Bulls was
too much for the Danes to over-
come. Price led all Dane scor-
ers with 19 as Margison chipped
“a with 17.
The Utica game was nocontest
as seven Albany men hit for
double figures. The purple and
gold opened a 22-12 lead midway
of the first half and increased
it to 46-29 at intermission. Sau-
ers emptied his bench with 1144
minutes remaining after the lo-
cals had bulged their lead to 37
Points, 82-45,
Kansas Korn
1. Who led the National Foot-
ball League in touchdowns scor-
ed in 1966?
2. Through the 1966 season,
Carl Yastrzemski did not have
a career batting average above
300, true or false?
3. Winner of last year’s Na-
tional Invitational Tournament
(basketball) was —.
4, How many times has Juan
Maricchal won the Cy Young
Award?
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