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Vol. LVIII No. 7
The U.S. Is In Laos and the Campus Reacts
Plans Made
State University of New York at Albany Wednesday, February 10, 1971
Rally on Campus;
Protest at Capitol
by Kenneth Deane
and
Harry Weiner
Responding to the recent South Vietnamese inva-
sion of Laos, an open meeting of students last
evening made provisions for a march on the State
Capital this afternoon. The march will be preceeded
by a rally in front of the Campus Center at 12 noon.
Although a confused and chaotic atmosphere
prevaded the meeting, the prevailing impression was
that a more effective means of action than has
previously been taken is necessary to combat the
U.S. government’s aggressive policies in Southeast
Asia.
Among the other proposals offered were a march
on the Federal Building and the Selective Service
Offices, and the halting of traffic on the thruway. A
desire was expressed by a number of the students to
organize a more cohesive movement that would
enable future actions to be more meaningful.
Although the original intent of the meeting was to
agree upon specific methods for a more effective
protest against the war, only this afternoon’s action
was agreed upon. The greater part of the meeting
was occupied by “Profound Profanities,” and the
possibility of a “SHIT-IN” scheduled for this
weekend. The depositing of fecal matter on the
capital steps was considered by many present to be
the most offensive manner of expressing the stu-
dent’s dissatisfaction with government policy.
Tentative plans were also discussed concerning a
demonstration on Saturday, February 13, which
would involve both the University and Albany
communities. It is hoped that such a demonstration
would serve to educate the community at large to
what the group termed as the immoral nature of the
US. involvement in Indochina.
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South Vietnamese Airborne Troops shortly arriving at Khe Sanh for push into nearby Laos. Background,
US Army Chinook helicopter comes in with more troops. Picture taken Sunday before South Vietnam
President Nguyen Van Thieu officially announced invasion. [AP Wirephoto]
U.S. Air Power Used in Laos
Three Americans Killed
South Vietnamese troops and
tanks pressed westward across
branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail
in southem Laos Tuesday behind
enemy forces retreating under the
lash of U.S. air power.
At last reports, the main column
in the scond day of the operation
A large number of students turned out Tuesday night in response to the events in Laos.
had proceeded about 12 miles
inside Laos.
Operating in front of the South
Vietnamese, U.S. helicopter
Cobras attacked enemy supply
depots 15 miles inside Laos.
Field dispatches said the South
Vietnamese had set up two artil-
lery fire bases inside Laos, one of
them 15 miles west of the border.
The object of the South Vietna-
mese incursion is to cut the Ho
Chi Minh trail, the last major
supply route of the North Vietna-
mese to Cambodia and South
Vietnam, and to smash bases.
The South Vietnamese in Laos
are moving under a U.S. air um-
brella. U.S. tactical combat planes
had been flying 300-400 missions
daily against the Ho Chi Minh trail
and other targets in Laos.
Military spokesmen said this ac-
tion had been stepped up 20%
since the South Vietnamese incur-
sion. In addition to the tactical air
effort, SAC B52 heayy bombers
are supporting the effort.
Twenty thousand South Vietna
mese troops and 9,000 U.S.
troops are involved in the effort.
No U.S. ground troops are going
to be used according to the mili-
tary command.
Three Americans were reported
killed and 31 wounded in an
ambush and two fights in the Khe
Sanh area Monday. South Vietna-
mese headquarters said 10 of its
soldiers were killed and 44
wounded Monday, the opening
day of the drive.
The U.S. State Department said
the drive is not an expansion of
the war because “the territory
involved has been the scene of
combat since 1965.” A spokes-
man for the State Department,
Robert J. McCloskey, said the
operation will protect American
lives during continued U.S. troop
withdrawals from South Vietnam.
He said that the operation will be
kept within the southern Laos
panhandle and in the region of
Sepone.
Defense Department officials
said the strategic goal behitid the
drive is to keep the enemy from
mounting an offensive while the
U.S. is turning over its role in the
war to the South Vietnamese.
‘The White House said the deci-
sion to launch the strike into Laos
goes back to January, when there
were consultations between com-
manders of the army of Vietnam
and U.S. forces.
At a press conference to discuss
the move into Laos, White House
Press Secretary, Ronald Zedgler
said that the administration re-
gards the Laotion operation as
definitely consistent with interna-
tional law and the charter of the
United Nations. This analysis fol-
lowed a question: ‘You mean it is
consistent with international law
ito invade a country?”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
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Lettuce Boycott Urged:
Students Aid Workers
ed in the Albany area. By
picketing stores that carry non-
Union lettuce, it is expected that
patronage will drop sufficiently
—thereby forcing the store to buy
only “Union lettuce in order to
stop the picketing and ‘regain eus-
tomers.
Approximately 30 per cent of
the lettuce now produced in the
country is covered by United
Farm Worker contracts. The tar-
get of the lettuce boycott is the
by Stephanie Dikovi
The lettuce boycott has induced
the A&P Food Store chain of
N.Y.C. to buy only Union (United
Farm Workers) lettuce:,.thus, the
rabbits of ‘‘Fun City,” though still
enjoying their favorite meal, are
not crossing picket lines. They are
eating Union lettuce.
With a great deal of effort on
the part of demonstrators and
pickets, the same goal may be
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remaining 70 per cent of the
lettuce now being produced by
scab labor. Through an effective
boycott effort, many larger cities
have eliminated scab lettuce from
the grocery shelves. The overflow
is now being sold in grocery stores
in smaller cities such as Albany.
A group of Albany students,
under the guidance of William
Berg, AFL-CIO representative,
calling itself “Friends of the Farm
Workers,” has undertaken the task
of ofganizing a successful lettuce
boyeott in Albany. Their efforts
have included printing and dis-
tributing leaflets which expound
the cause of the strike, picketing
the non-Union lettuce stores on
South Pearl Street and Central
Avenue, and asking the FSA to
serve only Union lettuce. The
group plans this Saturday to pick-
et South Pearl Street at 11:30—a
tactic which was successful during
the similar Grape Boycott
Perhaps the most ambitious plan
of the group is the possible pre-
sentation of a concert featuring
ither Paul. Newman, Paul Simon
(minus Garfunkle), Peter, Paul &
Mary, or Pete Seeger, and in-
cluding local talent. The proceeds
would go to the strike cause at the
national base and the Albany area
base.
Realization of the goals of the
farm workers during the Grape
Boycott was achieved after five
years of indirect pressure and
maneuvering. In the case of the
lettuce workers, the leadership of
LOVE!
Telethon Aids Children
by Bob:‘Kanarek
SUNYA’s Telethon for Autistic Children will be
held on the 26th and 27th of this month. Since
Monday of this week, T-shirts and buttons with this
year’s slogan, “LOVE, Is the Only Way,” have been
on sale in the Campus Center Lobby, and will be
sold through the 27th. Telethon ’71 proceeds will
go to the Capital District Chapter of the National
Society for Autistic Children.
Autism is an emotional illness about which very
little is known. It is often characterized by severe
withdrawal from people, resulting in the child’s
inability to talk or communicate at all.
The Society has established a summer camp for
autistic children called Camp Rainbow. The pro-
ceeds from the Telethon will be used to widen camp
facilities so that more children will be able to attend
the camp for longer periods each summer. The
Camp is designed to give the child an expanded
educational and social opportunity.
This year, the Telethon will be held in the newly
decorated Rathskeller. Some notable highlights of
the Telethon will include a film dealing with Autism
from the well known television series, ‘Marcus
Welby, M.D.”An hour will be devoted to Interna-
tional Student Talent as well as a Children’s Hour. A
musical comedy entitled “Little Nell,” written by
Steve Hirsch whose rendition of “Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer” (Rudolfo Il Reino Di Nasa Rosa)
won this past Holiday Sing, will be presented. Many
campus folksingers will participate in the drive,
including Hector Rivera, Randye Kaye, Ron Daniels
and Julie Caravello. There may also be a preview of
the play “Peter Pan” which will be performed in
Children’s Theatre next month, as well as a consid-
erable amount of talent from local schools.
Throughout the 24 hour Telethon refreshments will
be sold.
Co-chairmen for the event are Nancy Zollers and
David Seligmann. Dave expressed his hopes that this
year’s Telethon will be an even greater success than
those of previous years, and Nancy added that “the
Society is counting on the support of the SUNYA
community.”
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Caesar Chavez is a boon both
Psychologically and tactically.
Chavez lends a degree of national
Prominence and relevance to the
strike, which aids in garnering the
Publicity so necessary for a suc”
cessful boycott. Hopefully,
William Berg feels, [We will] see
as many bodies out [picketing] 5
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
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The Legislature
Sales Tax and Blaine
‘The Assembly’s fiscal committee
is considering a rearrangement of
the sales tax structure that would
take away the power of commun-
ities to impose a local sales tax.
Under the plan, revealed Mon-
day py Assembly Speaker Perry B.
Durfea, the state sales tax would
be raised to 6 cents a dollar and
this levy would be uniform across
the state.
In other words, a consumer
would pay the same amount of
sales tax anywhere in the state.
The state sales tax now is three
cents a dollar and communities
have the authority to add up to
another three cents in local sales
tax. The result has been a patch-
work of differing sales tax levies
among various localities.
Repeal of Blaine Amendment
One proposal — to repeal th,
constitutional ban on state aid to
parochial schools — has been
abandoned by legislative leaders,
high legislative sources said.
Despite public vows by leaders
| to repeal the so-called Blaine
Amendment, the sources said,
“It’s as dead as anything could
] be.”
Roman Catholic church leaders,
up till this year, have sought the
repeal. Recently, they dropped
their support of the measure in
favor of appeal for immediate aid.
Apollo 14 Lands ;
Ending 9 Day Mission
AP — Apollo 14 astronauts
splashed down safely right on
target in the South Pacific and
were brought aboard this carrier
Tuesday after completing man’s
most successful moon mission.
Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr.,
Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar D.
Mitchell dropped into the South
Pacific, ending a nine-day,
1.15-million-mile voyage.
L. A. Earthquake
24 Known Dead
} LOS ANGELES AP — A power-
ful earthquake staggered Southern
California Tuesday, leaving at
"least 24 dead and forcing the start
of evacuation of as many as
250,000 people because of a leak-
ing dam. Nearly five hundred peo-
ple were treated for injuries at
various hospitals in and around
Los Angeles. Tall buildings
swayed in downtown Los Angeles
when the quake hit at 6:01 am.
PST, just “at dawn. The quake
registered 6.5 on the Richter
scale, according to experts. The
scale grades anything over 7 as a
major quake. The quake center
was in the San Gabriel Mountains,
10 miles from the San Fernando
Valley.
As a consitutional amendment,
the repeal measure requires pas-
sage by two separately elected
legislatures and then the voters to
become effective. The 1970 legis-
lature passed the measure and the
1971 legislature was scheduled to
endorse the measure again to en-
able the question to be placed on
the November ballot this year for
the decision of the voters. If
passed, there was the possibility
that an aid program for the finan-
cially ailing parochial school sys-
tem would be voted in 1972.
The Roman Catholic bishops
said money was needed now. They
said the restriction has been
eroded by court rulings, so at-
tempts to repeal it would be
meaningless and only delay efforts
to help nonpublic shools.
Gov. Rockefeller however, won-
Sell Ma rijuana Like Liquor !
NEW YORK AP — A marijuana
cigarette could be purchased in
the same manner and in the same
store as a New Yorker now buys
liquor, under a law proposed to-
day by a Manhattan state legis-
lator.
Assemblyman Franz S. Leichter
announced that he was introdu-
cing a bill to repeal all present
state prohibitions on the posses-
sion of marijuana and to control
its sale the way alcoholic bever-
ages are regulated.
‘As with liquor, marijuana would
not be sold to persons under 18
years, Leichter’s proposed liegi-
slation provides.
“We must recognize that pos-
sibly as many as one million New
Yorkers use marijuana,” the West
Side Democrat said. “The evi-
dence does not show that mari-
juana is harmful,” he added.
Leichter’s bill would establish a
state marijuana control authority
to license and regulate growers,
producers, manufacturers and dis-
tributors of marijuana.
The authority also would en-
force regulations setting the
strength of marijuana sold at retail
and require a warning on any
package or container of marijuana
regarding possible ill effects on
the health of the user.
Leichter said that the strength
of marijuana can be controlled, as
can the alcohol content of liquor.
Marijuana would be sold at retail
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could aid parochial schools and
still honor the constitutional ban.
He said he still supported the
repeal of the Blaine amendment.
With the action on the Blaine
repealer being held up, the legisla-
lture will try this week for final
‘legislative passage of a constitu-
tional amendment to create a new
state Department of Criminal Jus-
tice.
‘The new agency, which the legis-
lature passed last year, was en-
visioned as a device for improving
the state’s crime-fighting efforts.
It would supervise the activities of
district attorneys, sheriffs and lo-
cal police forces. District attor-
neys, among others oppose the
idea.
only in licensed liquor stores and
all present rules and regulations
pertaining to such stores and the
supervisory powers of the state
would apply, he said.
Under the proposed legislation,
the marijuana would be taxed and
David Michaels, an attorney assis-
ting Leichter, speculated that the
drug would be taxed “several
times the amount of liquor” —
providing the state with a sub-
stantial revenue.”
Anthropologist and author Mar-
garet Mead appeared at a news
conference with Leighter to sup-
port the legislation along with Ira
Glasser, executive director of the
New York Civil Liberties. Union,
and Civil Court Judge Martin
Stecher.
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Miss Mead said she supported
the legislation “in the interest of
children and respect for the laws
of the country.”
The present law, Miss Mead said,
is “unrelated to reality.”
“J do not urge people to smoke
marijuana and the aim of my bill
is not to increase its use,” Leich-
ter said. “But since clearly the use
of marijuna will continue, and in
fact increase, I think it is to
society’s advantage to impose qua-
lity control, to have a system of
distribution which will keep mari-
juana out of the hands of the
young and to end the hyposcrisy
of permitting the use of more
dangerous substances such as to-
bacco and alcohol while banning
marijuana.”
Student Voices Doubt On
Vietnam War Legitimacy
WASHINGTON AP — A Stan-
ford University student accused
Congress today of giving up its
right to declare war and urged the
Senate Armed Services Committee
to approve legislation to abolish
the draft.
Peter Knutson, chairman of the
Stanford Draft Repeal Council,
said his draft age friends are fru-
strated because of being forced to
fight and die in an undeclared war
in Southeast Asia.
The moral dilemma facing
young men today would be simi-
lar to American men having to
fight on the side of Germany in
World War II, he said.
“If during the course of the
Second World War, America had
entered on the side of Hitler’s
Germany,” he asked, “would you
have allowed yourself to be
drafted? Would you have blindly
said my country right or wrong?”
“{ hope you can appreciate the
magnitude of that dilemma be-
cause that same painful choice
faces millions of Americans to-
day,” he said.
He questioned why the Congress
failed to declare war and asked
rhetorically whether it could be
because a majority felt that the
war wasn’t ‘just enough” to war-
rant a declaration.
Knutson made his remarks on
the third day of hearings before
the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee on legislation to end the
draft.
Coca-Cola Enacts
Pollution Program
NEW YORK AP — In the new
spirit of environmental concern,
the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of
New York has announced plans to
set up 17 collection depots in the
metropolitan area where it will
buy glass bottles and aluminum
cans.
‘The company will pay a bounty
of one-half cent per bottle or can,
regardless of brand, and turn them
over to be melted down and re-
cycled.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
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by Bob Warner
The Albany Eagle, a right-wing
publication on campus, deserves
mention because it represents a
significant minority on campus as
well as across the country. One
must call it a publication, though,
and not a newspaper, because it
does not report what it sees objec-
tively, nor does it even make an
attempt to do so. Yet, this publi-
cation by a handful of secretive
YAF'ers must be taken at face
value.
The editors of The Eagle seem
to take the attitude that they are
the saviors of America — that they
alone stand for what is right in
America, and that they have ar-
rived on the Albany scene hope-
fully in time to save the Capitol
District from all left-wingers, radi-
cal as well as liberal. Their evange-
lical spirit, while probably sincere,
is somehow ludicrous.
Therefore, the editors would
like to make us believe, that after
40 years of New Deal Welfare
Statism which has ruined the fab-
rie of American life, they will be
the vanguard of the great Ameri-
can swing to the right. Assuming
that one is willing to take this
propaganda sheet seriously, then,
let us examine what the junior Bill
Buckleys of SUNYA promise us.
The Eagle promises the day
when sanity and rational behavior
will reign on college campuses
across America. The conservative’s
style of sanity, however, is “law
and order” which can only mean,
when spoken in right-wing jargon,
oppression of students and sup-
pression of civil liberties. Their
brand of freedom is the freedom
to kill four students at Kent State.
The Eagle also refers to the lack
Albany’s Right-Winged Eagle
of “law and order” last May dur-
ing the Strike. Of course, it was
only those “free-thinking ‘libera-
tors’ ” who were lawless. The
brave faculty who held classes and
“dared defy” the Strike were the
paragons of the rule of law over
the
common Roman heritage — the
concept of a rule of law. Yet,
those courageous few of the facul-
ty broke the law of the University
Senate and Acting-President Allan
Kuusisto, and denied students the
option to choose one of five
rule of men. That is our
options of course grading as a
result of the Strike. Rome was
notorious for selecting the laws it
chose to obey.
‘Therefore, we can appreciate
The Eagle for what it is — a
right-wing rag, just as much as
Sweet Fire is a propaganda sheet
of the extreme left. When put in
proper perspective, then, The
Eagle is an up-to-date northern
extension of the Birch Society.
The only problem, however, is
that they can sometimes success-
fully veil their rhetoric much in
the same manner as the freshman
from this state, who
bigotry, selfishness, and
violence off as something Ameri-
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Editorial
Comment
Oneonta Says Yes
The student body of the State University College at
Oneonta has approved continuance of their mandatory tax
(see the report on page 3 of Monday’s ASP). The vote was
an overwhelming 1,800 in favor and only 220 students
against. Thus Oneonta has shown us that despite all the
noise from right-leaning students and state legislators, the
vast majority of students still support the court-upheld
mandatory tax.
Mandatory tax on this campus supports many worth-
while student activities which benefit all Albany State
students. Many of these cannot be separated in price for
taxpayers and non-taxpayers. In order to maintain the
existing programming and begin new projects, mandatory
tax must continue.
Oneonta has shown that tax is not on the way out. It
remains the free choice of the student body. And the
students at Oneonta have shown our student body up in
the size of the voter turnout- over 2,000 voted out of a
student population of 4,500. Albany State’s 7,500 seldom
turn out in numbers over 800- or about 10%! This spring,
when our tax comes up for a referendum, let’s see a similar
turnout- whether its pro or con.
Patroon Room
The recent institution of Saturday evening hours and the
$1.50 meal card discount in the Patroon Room restaurant
in the Campus Center is a great achievement. The new
hours, the good food, and reasonable prices, plus the
discount will make the Patroon Room a better bargain
than any off-campus restaurant.
The students and Food Service employees who argued
the FSA hierarchy into this breakthrough deserve our
congratulations. Unfortunately, the decision was undoubt-
edly influenced by FSA’s bleak financial forecast.
Hopefully, students will take full advantage of this good
offer for an excellent meal. If not, the program will
quickly go to an early grave, and the loss is that of the
average student. And, of course, it will be twice as hard
the next time to talk FSA into anything as innovative!
albany student press
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academic year (except during recesses) by the Student Association of the
State University of New York at Albany. The Student Association is locat:
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editor-in-chief
thomas g. clingan
managing editor
Eee . aralynn abare
advertising manager
as te ntanite - jeff rodgers
assistant advertising manager
barbara cooperman
business manager
ebega sas chuck ribak
technical editors
.Sue seligson
ee - dan williams
associate technical editors
. tom rhodes.
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epuaiew . dorothy phillip
graphics
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photography editor
18 + richard alyerson
executive editor
. carol hugites
ae vicki zeldin
associate news editors eo
.. -roy lewis
~ maida oringhet
terry wolf
ene . john o’grady
assistant features editor
. debbie natansohn
news editor
features editor
arts editor
ee eee? linda waters
associate arts editor J
; michele palella
sports editor
ss « bob zaremba
columns editor
aoa - rj. warmer
city editor 4
_ : mike ellis
In 1916 the Class of 1918 created the Albany Student Press. Due to a?
error, we are still in existance and can be found in Room 326 of the Campus
Center of the State Uni
sity of New York at Albany. Our phone numbers
are 457-2190 or 2194 (there’s another one but thats secret) and we f°
funded by a mandatory student tax and we are members of A.P.
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Chief. peace
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
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Snowmobile accidents have once again made the
news in Capitiousland. Recently a speeding snow-
mobile approached a railroad train from behind and
collided with it. The engineer of the train had been
deafened by the roar of his own locomotive, and
failed to hear the approaching vehicle. There were
no injuries, but the train was completely demolish-
ed. In another recent accident a large tree suddenly
leaped into the path of a snowmobile. The tree was
prqnounced dead at the scene of the mishap. It is
our feeling that all trees are a menace to snow-
mobiles, and should therefore be outlawed.
Reporter’s Notebook: We recently had the oppor-
tunity to visit a local church in our continuing quest
for a family-oriented comic book. We observed a
large number of red-bound books, one of which we
opened at random, coming to a passage which
opened with the words,“ In hoe signum,” which is
no doubt an obscenity in some communist language.
Elsewhere in the same book we discovered a passage
which read in part, “Forgive us our trespasses.””
Although we can condone the act of trespassing,
and, in fact, indulge in it at timesourselves , we feel
that these pinkos can never be forgiven for any-
thing.
We have been informed that the Fouler Memorial
on the Northway at Clifton Park has attracted a
large number of worshippers. We would ask, how-
ever, that all visitors remember to close the lid after
they finish their : meditations. Otherwise, the
skunks will get in and alter the atmosphere of the
shrine,
It has been called to our attention that Capitious-
land’s Great Regurgitational Newspaper, hereafter
known as the Times-Onion, has been printing lewd
cartoons portraying one of our great naval heroes as.
an exhibitionist. Upon checking, we found that this
scandal sheet had indeed published a comic strip
showing Donald Duck in full uniform, with the
glaring absence of a pair of pants. These jejune
jotters should not be allowed to print such porno-
graphy in a family newspaper.
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Behind The Closed Doors
An ASP Parody
by Dennis Whitehead
The January 27 meeting be-
tween Melvin Laird and John
Stennis regarding U.S. troop in-
volvement in Laos was notable for
its absolute secrecy. After the
meeting neither Laird nor Stennis
would comment in any way what
had transpired at the session—only
that Laos had been discussed.
The ASP, however, today dis-
covered a copy of the secret testi-
mony which turned up in an IBM
carton at the Registrar’s Office. In
the interest of informing the
American public as to exactly
what is going on in Laos, we
hereby reprint a transcript of the
meeting:
SENATOR STENNIS: ‘After-
noon, Melvin.
SECRETARY LAIRD:Good to
see you again, John.
STENNIS: Don’t smile at me,
Melvin, it turns mah stomach,
Y'all look like you're tryin’ to
lure some sweet li'l ol’ white girl
: : ‘ noon.
into your car with a piece of
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-BEFORE SOUTHEAST ASIA TESTI-
MONY—Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, left, talks today with
Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. Laird went before the senators to discuss Southeast Asia
at the closed-door session.
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there, but I do not like being to tell me that you’re going to
awakened so early in the after- compl
LAIRD: Of course not, John.
candy.
LAIRD: Ha ha ha. Only if it’s in
the national interest.
STENNIS: Speakin’ of that, just
what the hell are you boys doin’
over in Laos anyway? Some son
of a bitch woke me up at 1:30 to
tell me that the Commies got
wind of it. I don’t give a damn
what y’all do to those Gooks over
LAIRD: Let’s not get bogged
down with that again. Besides, we
have a brilliant plan. We'll bomb
the hell out of the country, with
our pilots dressed as civilians.
Then to show that we’re obeying
Cooper-Church, we have newsmen
photograph our ground troops
milling around at the Laotian bor-
der.
STENNIS: Mah God! You mean
They'll be standing at the Laotian
border with Thailand, We expect
to be through Laos in a day or
“two at most.
STENNIS: Just like Cambodia,
eh?
LAIRD: Like I told Dick, IT know
where we’re welcome.
STENNIS: The usual No com-
ments, Melvin?
1970’s Best
Home
LAIRD: The usual, John.
Movies
ASP Humor
by Rich Rini
As something of an amateur movie critic, I'd like
to share with you those movies shown at SUNYA
last year that, in my opinion, were outstanding.
One of my favorites ran daily from January ‘til
May. It was The Grande Illusion, with an all-star
cast including Clif Thorne, Bill Perlmutter, and Al
Kuusisto as ‘“The President.” Running simul-
taneously was Man of a Thousand Faces, starring
Charlie Hennigan. Both of these pictures were rated
“G" for general audiences.
‘A revival of the Wizard of Oz featured Gerry
Wagner as the Wizzard and, of course, all of those
beautiful little munchkins, a rare treat, indeed.
‘A fine double bill shown last spring was John
Kaufman in Lost Horizon and Tarzan’s Greatest
Challenge with Ken Stringer as Tarzan, Dave
Neufeld as Bwana, and Mike Lampert as a cast of
thousands. Stringer’s performance was outstanding,
especially in his tweed loin cloth. However, in
several points of the film the script called for the
hero to smile, an impossible task for the rough-
tough Ken, so Stringer’s grins were dubbed in by
for your column.”
Marney Nixon.
The summer offered only one fine film, Never
Steal Anything Small, starring the staff of WSUA.
The fall brought a bevy of exceptional movies,
including Dr. Kildare’s Revenge featuring the entire
SUNYA Health Service staff. The most powerful
moment of the film comes when Kildare, played
affectionately by Charles O’Reilly, pours Cepacol
over a patient’s ruptured appendix, killing him
instantly.
Unele Wiggley in Babyland, with Louis Benezet as
Br’er Rabbit, was fine children’s entertainment,
And how can anyone forget Peter Haley’s gripping
performance in Exodus, released just last month?
A few sports flicks made their presence known,
too. Dick Sauers earned plaudits for his production
of Gulliver’s Travels, with the varsity basketball
team as the Lilliputians. Also on the athletic hit
parade was Kelly’s Heroes, starting Brian Kelly and
the Albany swimming team. Finally, there was
Great Expectations, starring Bob Ford and a large
though inexperienced cast.
EDITOR'S NOTE
The above parody, by William
Weiss of the Features Staff,
continues our verbal carrying-on
and doodle-slinging with Mr.
Barnett Fowler, columnist for
the Albany Times-Union. Mr.
Fowler has recently granted the
‘ASP an interview, the proceed-
ings of which will appear in one
of next week's issues.
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PAGE 8
ALBANY. STUDENT PRESS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
Arts Communications -
Record Reviewer) Reviewed
Miss Waters:
I guess you are responsible for
that Fool disguised as a music
critic who calls himself Jeff Ber-
ger. If you want to improve the
quality of your staff then remove
him.
Never before have I read such
poor reviews. From his first article
to his most recent travesty in the
form of a consumer guide and a
Chicago concert review. His con-
cept of criticism is finding as
many synonyms for “good” or
“bad” as possible. He never
bothers to explain why he quali-
fies the way he does. There is
misinformation galore. His state-
ment about Alvin Lee being his
own greatest influence probably
comes as a result of his own self
confessed ignorance of Black mu-
sic. Black music is the source of
all rock and anyone who doesn’t
comprehend the former shouldn’t
review the latter.
‘The Chicago review was more of
the same. More subjective judg-
ments without musical explana-
tions. His writings are no more
than advertising hype and does
not belong under the heading of
critical evaluation. I really enjoy
reading reviews - you should print
more of them of all kinds - but I
want to know about music, not
the chairs, or the lines, or the cops
or Patti or Ken. You have so
many superior reviewers in all
fields - Rosenblum, Quigley, Grae-
ber, ete. - that it seems a terrible
waste to give so much space to
someone who apparently acquires
his musical knowledge from
all
someone.
believable.
A sale must be true and believable.
liner notes and Wall Street slo-
gans,
Pete Jacobs
Dear Pete:
Well, obviously I don’t think I’m
a fool writing travesties or I
wouldn’t keep writing, but thanks
for your opinion. That’s what it
all comes down to, you know~
your letter, my reviews: all opin-
ions, collections of words to ex-
press the way we feel. Of course,
all my reviews are “subjective
judgments.” In discussing art,
what else is there? No music is
absolutely good or bad. Beauty is
in the eye of the beholder and
there are truths outside the Gates
of Eden and ete.
You want to know about music,
not the chairs, or the lines, or the
cops or Patti or Ken. If I were
reviewing in an era prior to the
inception of rock, maybe I could
do that, But rock is a sociological
and cultural phenomenon as well
as a musical one. (Would you
want a reviewer of the Woodstock
weekend to talk only about
music? He’d be missing the point.)
Rock concerts are socio-cultural
events as well as musical events.
They are the affirmation of a
culture, a gathering together, a
positive eelebration in a negative
world. I want to capture the
whole mood of a concert of which
the music is an important part,
but not the only part. Interaction
between group and audience af-
fects the way a concert goes,
Police interference can negatively
affect the whole mood of a con-
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too long and unmanageable.
cert. Long lines and delays and
even hard seats can tire an audi-
ence and dull their enthusiasm
which, in turn, can leave a group
uninspired. Concerts create a
mood, a total feeling and I think
it important to report the whole
thing. As for Patti and Ken, it’s
just a thing I like to do -- to
mention the people I go to con-
certs with, Maybe because who
I’m with affects the way I feel at a
concert. Maybe I just like to do it.
Sorry it bothers you.
‘As to my method of criticism,
you’re pretty much right about
what I do, but let me explain
why. Most of my reviews do come
down to various degrees and ways
of saying “good” and “bad.”
Sure, I could qualify my criticism.
I could talk about competent
drummers and inventive solos and
impeccable taste and skillful har-
monies. But what is competence?
What's inventive or impeccable or
skillful? It all comes down to this:
You have a bunch of people
making sounds and what matters
is how it feels and sounds to you.
Does it really matter how talented
Eric Clapton is if I don’t like the
sounds he makes? (Though as it
happens, I do.) There are some
talented opera singers. I just don’t
like opera, When I say that a
record is good, that’s a fact. It’s a
fact that J think it’s good. And
I'm the only person I can speak
for.
My musical knowledge does not
all (or mostly) come from liner
notes or Wall Street slogans (Wall
Street slogans?) but let’s not con-
fuse musical knowledge with
musical fact. There are no musical
HERE’S WHAT WE WANT TO SAY
You can’t have a uniform discount on un-uniform items.
, facts, except if you want to talk
about who recorded what when
and who wrote what and who
recorded whose material and ete.
The rest is subjective. You want
to know about music. What do
you want to know? The best
(only) way to know about music
is to listen to it.
My consumer guides are for peo-
ple who are considering the pur-
chase of an album. If we have
similar tastes and I like the music,
maybe you buy it and you like it
too. I can tell you a bit about why
I liked or disliked an album (as
space allows) but I can’t deliver a
thesis or logical “proof.” And
neither can anyone. I write the
way I feel, being as subjective as I
can be, because where music is
concerned I can only speak for
myself. Nobody ‘knows enough”
about rock fo deliver the final
statement about a record, because
there is no such thing anyway. If I
tried to speak in terms of talent or
the lack of it, I'd either be preten-
tious or irrelevant or both, Talent
is what large numbers of people
currently like, as far as I’m con-
cerned. I don’t trust the accepted
standards. They change too fast.
As for Alvin Lee, I was trying to
point out that many musicians
end up being influenced to a great
extent by their own previous
works and styles; they can.end up
imitating themselves. I didn’t in-
tend to ignore the things that
influenced them in the first place,
which in the case of Alvin Lee
(and many others) certainly in-
cludes Black music high on the
list. To say that Black music is the
source of ALL rock, however, is a
statement I can’t agree with. Cer-
tainly, Black musicians from John
Lee Hooker to Chuck Berry have
been a major influence for huge
numbers of performers from John
Hammond to the Rolling Stones.
But ALL? ALL rock music is
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influenced by only one thing --
the world, and the Black exper-
ience is an important part of that,
especially in the area of music,
but it isn’t all of it. Would you say
that Black music is the source of
Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother?
If so, I disagree. And my “self-
-confessed ignorance of Black
music” --does that refer to my
statement that I’m not really into
Gospel music? And if so, are you
actually saying that one must
really dig Gospel music to review
rock? If so, I disagree again.
I'm really sorry that you and
Charles (see next letter) don’t like
my reviews, but a whole lot of
people have told me that they do.
‘And as long as.they’re around, I'll
keep writing.
Jeff Burger
Dear Jeff,
I would like to congratulate you
on your fine evaluation of the
Chicago concert in Monday’s ASP.
It was extremely well written. No
shit, Man, you're really into music
and life and all that cool stuff.
Someone with all your writing
ability and talent should be wri-
ting ads for dirty underwear. No
shit, You really have a lot of
polish, Have you ever worked for
the Enquirer? They need someone
of your talent to deliver it.
Thanks again for your wonderful
editorial and I'll be looking for
your own down-to-earth review of
CHICAGO III. No shit? Bull Shit!
Sincerely yours,
Charles Kriete
Dear Charles:
In answer to your question, I
have never worked for the En-
quirer. No shit.
Jeff Burger
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 9
The cast of the children’s theater production ‘The Yellow Laugh’ during rehearsals.
Consumer Report No. 2
by Jeff Burger
WRONG END OF THE RAIN-
BOW, Tom Rush (Columbia, C
30402). Printed lyrics, $4.98 list.
A. What do I think? Fine album,
fine album, “Came to See Me
Yesterday in the Merry Month of
” that’s on the album. So is
“Sweet Baby James” and another
James Taylor song, “Riding on a
Railroad.” And a Jesse Winchester
song. And some Tom Rush songs
(mostly written with Trevor
Veitch who plays with Tom).
And, of course, there are the
songs written by people whose
names I don’t yet recognize. Just
like nobody had heard of James
Taylor or Joni Mitchell when
Rush first recorded their songs.
Look, Tom Rush knows a good
Art Couneil
song when he sees it or writes it;
then all he has to do it record it
JACK-KNIFE GYPSY, Paul Sie-
bel (Elektr, EKS-74081). Printed
lyries. $4.98. A plus. You never
heard of him, right? Well, maybe
you'd be interested in the names
of some of his sidemen for this
album. There’s Clarence White of
the Byrds, Buddy Emmons who
invented the steel guitar, Doug
Kershaw, Bernie Leadon of the
Flying Burrito Brothers ~- I could
go on. This is one of the records
that you (I) like almost immedi-
ately. It’s like a new (old) friend.
On a few cuts, he sounds a lot like
Bob “JW Harding” Dylan. On the
other hand, you could say that
Dylan sometimes sounds like Sie-
bel. Siebel has sometimes shared a
concert bill with the Band and
sometimes he sounds like them
too. So what? Mostly, he sounds
like Paul Siebel, and Paul Siebel
sounds damn good. Another
Spo nsors Fil Wi thing: after you've heard his
‘The SUNY at Albany Art Coun-
cil will sponsor William K. Ever-
son, film researcher and historian,
who will lecture and present a rare
silent film, D.W. Griffith’s Heart
of the World, at SUNY at Albany,
Thursday evening, February 11, in
LC 18 at 7:30.
Everson, an Englishman by
birth, has complied the largest
16—millimeter film collection in
the world. Currently a professor
of film history at the New School
for Social Research and at New
York University in New York
City, he has authored several film
books, including The Western, The
Bad Guys, and studies of W.C.
Fields and Laurel and Hardy, and
has been of inestimable help as
researcher to other film writers.
He also heads the Theodore Huff
Film Society in New York City.
Hearts of the World, a tragic
story of World War I filmed in
France and England, has been
neglected as one of Director D.W.
Griffith’s major works due to a
lack of available prints. Released
in 1918, the film stars Lillian and
Dorothy Gish and Robert Harron,
and includes actual front line ac-
tion footage of the French Battle-
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well, you'll know Siebel himself
pretty well too.
UP ABOVE OUR HEADS,
Clouds (Deram, DES 18044)
$4.98. B minus. Not bad. Some-
times dull, Sometimes not. Not at
all. The last song has some really
good lyrics. Sometimes I like to
hear this record, sometimes I
don’t (I think this review is a
reaction to the Richard Meltzer
school of rock criticism. I just
read Meltzer’s The Aesthetics of
Rock and I’m probably a maso-
chist for bothering to finish it.
Don’t waste your time.) Anyway,
I could go into an analysis of the
cultural and social implications of
the trumpet solos on this album
or the spatio-cosmic dimensions
of the last song, first side. could
even use footnotes. But fuck it.
I'd rather just tell you that this
album is not a disaster and neither
is it the best album I ever heard.
I WALK THE LINE, Original
Soundtrack, Songs by Johnny
Cash (Columbia, S 30397) $5.98.
B plus. You like Johnny Cash? If I
can forget his TV show, I do.
(Ditto, the Everly Brothers) Cash
wrote the songs for this album. If
this is the only’ Cash album you
own, you picked a good one. Well
produced, good material, good
backup, Cash- is in good form.
After you've piled all your Pink
Floyd records on the changer, it
might be comforting to know you
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ROCK PILE
by Eric Graeber
JOHN LENNON/ PLASTIC ONO
BAND (APPLE SW 3372)
Anyone who has read the recent
interviews in Rolling Stone with
John Lennon knows that the
former Beatle has gone through
many emotional and psychologi-
cal changes in the last year or two.
This album is one of the more
simplistic records I've heard in a
while, both musically and lyri-
cally. Gone is Lennon’s subtlety
and witticism. There are no ob-
Jheater Ensemble
Jo Jour State
The Community Service Pro-
gram which allows a student at
SUNYA to receive credit for ser-
vice rendered in the community,
has paved a road of opportunity
for ten students in the Depart-
ment of Theatre to create and
establish the SUNYA
CHILDREN’S THEATRE
TOURING ENSEMBLE for the
Spring of 1971. The ensemble,
operating with the cooperation of
the Department of Theatre has
prepared for presentation The
Yellow Laugh, by Arthur
Fauquez. The production will
open on campus on Feb. 19, 20 &
21 in the Studio Theatre. It will
then tour, serving the culturally
deprived young people in Albany
and surrounding areas free of
charge.
Dr.Melvin Urofsky, Director of
the Community Service Program,
has enthusiastically lent his sup-
port and resources to this ambi-
tious project. The students; Gary
Maggio, Barbara Richards, Mary
Carney, Carlos’ Guzman, Lisa
Sarna, Henry Kuivilia, Phil
Edelstein, Claudine -Cassan, Greg
Haymes, William. Snyder have
done all the work themselves
The SUNYA Theatre Council
will conduct their 1971 Induction
Ceremony on Thursday, February
11 at 5:30 in the Lab II theatre.
Mr. John Fernald, the Agnes E.
Futterer lecturer; will be the guest
speaker at the ceremony. New
members being inducted. at this
time are the following:
Robert Verini
Toni Gurbel
Philip Bennis
Edith Collins
Henry Duivila
Eileen Kelly
Arnold Galin
scure Lennonesque lyries or weird
type characters.
This is a personal diary of John
Lennon. I know I personally don’t
like to hear anyone suffer and
there is quite a lot of suffering
done here. So he didn’t receive
any love when he was a child and
has never overcome the death of
his mother (more artfully revealed
in the earlier “Julia’”). Maybe it
would interest a psychiatrist but I
don’t think Lennon’s pain pro-
duces good music.
Even the ballads are surprisingly
tepid, The only song that I can
praise is the myth shattering
“God” in which Lennon re-
nounces the Beatles once and for
all (as well as most of the other
world idols).
As George Harrison says on his
more impressive album “All things
must pass.”” Let’s hope that this
stage of Lennon’s brilliant and
always exciting career passes by
quickly.
EMERSON‘ LAKE & PALMER
(COTILLION SC 9040)
THE NICE were the most effect-
ive group at narrowing the bulg-
ing gap between rock and classical
music. Keith Emerson, the master-
ful keyboards player of THE
NICE has formed a new three man
classical-rock band with two other
English lads whose groups were
split asunder: Bruce Palmer,
drummer of the ATOMIC
ROOSTER, and Greg Lake, bass-
ist of KING CRIMSON.
The major deficiency of THE
NICE was the vocals, but this is
no problem for the new group
because Greg Lake retains the top
form he reached on the excellent
“Court of the Crimson King” al-
bum.
‘The vocals though are primarily
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
The Hebrew Club will meet «1 KiNG GURGO THE INEPT OF VULGARIA
Thursday in the State Quad Flag «| )¢ coMING TO CLAIM THE
Room at 8:30 p.m. There will be * |ppesiDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
Israeli dancing on Thursday at 9
p.m, in the State Quad Flag Room. Rev. John Starley Gravel, crew
member of the Exodus and former
member of the Haganah, will speak
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in LC 3, Hear
@ first hand account of the estab-
~ lishment of the State of Israel.
Ski Club meeting Thursday, Feb.
11 in LC 5 at 7:30 p.m. Trip
Saturday Feb. 13 (limited to 50
peopie) to Gore Mountain,
graffiti
WITH MAX SHULMA
(By he auhorof Rally Round the Pag, Boys... Dobie Cilis...dlea
Everything you always wanted to know about
college... but were too classy to ask
The other night when the little woman and I got home from our
encounter group, I said to her, “Isn't it odd, my dear, that colleges
still haven’t tried non-verbal communication?”
(Incidentally, the little woman I refer to is not, as you might
think, my wife. My wife is far from a little woman. She is, in fact,
nearly seven feet high and mantled with rippling muscle, She is a full-
blooded Chiricahua Apache and holds the world’s shotput record—
908 feet. The little woman I refer to is someone we found crouching
under the sofa when we rented our flat back in 1924. She has been with
us ever since, although to be perfectly honest, she’s really not much
fun to have around. She never speaks except to make a sort of moist,
gagging sound when she’s hungry, and she'll often sneak up and tusk
you while you’re busy watching television. Still and all, with my wife
away putting the shot most of the time, at least it gives me somebody
to hack around with.)
But I digress. “Isn’t it odd, my dear,” I said the other night to
the little woman, “that colleges still haven’t tried non-verbal commu-
nication?” And it is odd. Why do teachers keep talking to students?
Surely they’ve learned by now that talking is no way to communi
It’s been proved over and over in encounter groups, 'T-groups, sensi
tivity groups and grope groups that people don’t really, truly reach
other people with language. How can they? Words, by their very na-
ture, are ambiguous and artificial and conceal more than they reveal.
There is only one way to really, truly communicate with another hu-
man being, and that is to touch him and feel him. This is honest and
natural and basic and beautiful and legal in some states.
‘And yet teachers go right on talking. No wonder they get no feed-
back. Let us say, for example, that a teacher is trying to get a student
to learn Boyle’s law. Talk won’t do it, not even if the teacher talks the
whole semester long. But if one day he will simply and silently reach
out and just hold the student for a minute or two, maybe even dance
with him a little bit, he will find that the student has learned not only
Boyle’s law but probably the fox trot too.
And what is more, the teacher will discover he has a new friend.
No longer will student and teacher snarl and make coarse gestures
when they see each other on campus. Instead they will run together,
clasp and nuzzle, trade hats, and finally, without a word—for what do
friends need with words?—repair to a nearby tavern for that friend-
liest of all ceremonies: the sharing of Miller High Life Beer.
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No beer binds a friendship the way Miller High Life does. I could
tell you why if I wanted to. In fact, I could go on for hours about the
glories of Miller High Life, But I won't, for we all know, don’t we, that
language is not the way to communicate? So here is all I will say:
Get yourself a can or bottle of Miller (a keg if you are a very large
person). Pour a glass for your friend, a glass for yourself, Link arms.
Tie your neckties together. Drink.
Can words describe the resultant euphoria, thé enveloping one-
ness, the ripening occlusion? No; words are useless, Just Miller and a
friend; that’s all you need to know. And if, by chance, you don’t have
a friend, get two Millers. You'll never walk alone.
But I digress. Talking, as we have seen, is obsolete. And of course,
writing is on its last legs too; in fact, I give the literature game another
six months at the outside, Naturally, being a sort of writer, I’m a little
sorry to see this Happen, but on the other hand, I’m not really worried.
The shotput game, thank Heaven, is better than ever, and I feel confi-
dent my wife will always earn enough for me and the little woman.
* * *
The brewing game also looks healihy from where we sit, which is in
Milwaukee, from whose storied environs we have been bringing you Miller
High Life, the Champagne of Beers, for more than 115 flavorful years. Try
some; you'll see why.
John Cupak, Chairman of the
Albany Chapter of the Hudson
River Sloop Restoration group will
give a talk and slide presentation of
the Hudson River's ecological prob-
lems in Bleecker Hall, Dutch Quad
on Feb. 16, 1971 at 8:00 p.m.
The Student Ambassador Com-
OS Ge
Sigma Alpha Eta-Speech Patho-
logy Honorary. Meeting on Feb. 11,
in HU 364, at 7 p.m. Business
meeting At 7:30 p.m. Guest speak-
er and Film, Mr. Pete Maguzu of
Sph Path and Audio Dept. will
discuss the films which are about
Teaching Multiply Handicapped
Children. All welcome. Refresh-
ments served.
% Peter Pan will be flying soon at
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-a.m. until4 p.m. weekdays. Hurry!
Satisfied with the status quo? No
problems, complaints, gripes? Then
sit in your dormitory room and
don’t come to the Grievance Com.
mittee meeting to be held Monday,
Feb. 15 at 4:15 in CC 346,
mittee is having an interest meeting
for all students interested in pro-
grams abroad: Europe, Asia, Africa,
S. America- Affiliated with the Ex
classified
periment in International Living-
Wednesday at 7:30 in the Assembly
Hall
Cathexis sponsors Mrs. Edith E.
DiGuilio speaking about “Grapho-
analysis" (Handwriting analysis) on
Wed. Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in LC 1.
Bring paper and pen.
The Art Council is sponsoring
William K. Everson, film researcher
and historian, showing a D.W. Grif
fith film, “Hearts of the World,”
Feb. 11, LC 18 at 7:30 p.m.
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Lost-Dave lost his brown-rimmed
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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS
PAGE 11
Refer Expanding
Free Clinic Prepares for Debut
by Eric Joss
The Refer Switchboard, since its inception during
this past summer, has been successfully providing
no-hassle help to all who desire it. The idea behind
Refer is not a concrete, easily labeled commodity.
Rather, it is a genuine commitment to the notion
that all people are brothers and sisters, and that as
such we are imbued with a spirit of true caring for
each other. It is this essence of universal fraternity
that has fertilized and nourished the seeds of growth
at Refer.
Refer Switchboard, Inc. (434-1202), operates un-
der the all-pervasive policy of making free aid
available to anyone who is experiencing difficulty,
even though Refer itself is supported almost wholly
by donations. Originally, Refer was just as its name
implies, a referral agency. However, as time has
passed, the breadth of services offered has grown
considerably, as new, unanticipated needs were
perceived. Refer’s willingness to serve is virtually
limitless, and it has refused to be thwarted by
problems which arise that are out of its ordinary
framework, Unusual or unprecedented cases gener-
ate the incentive to develop facilities to cope with
similar problems in the future.
The Clinic
It was the perception of the unfulfilled needs such
as the ones alluded to above that supplied the
impetus for the new Refer Free Clinic which is to
open on February 15. The Clinic will consist of a
waiting room, lab, and treatment room, and it will
be equipped to provide a wide gamut of free
medical services. Included in the work of the Clinic
...hochberg
will be blood analysis, urinalysis, treatment of
venereal diseases, hepatitis, common colds, and
abrasions, and the dispensing of birth control
devices and further information on planned parent-
hood. Refer has an excellent working relationship
with Albany Med, and all cases too serious for the
Clinic to handle will be transferred immediately to
the hospital.
The Clinic is located at Refer Switchboard head-
quarters at 332 Hudson Avenue (phone for Clinic
434-1205), and it will be open initially on Monday
and Thursday nights from 7 P.M. until there are no
more people desirous of its services that evening.
Refer has enlisted the volunteer aid of ten local
doctors, and each evening that the Clinic is open at
least one doctor will be present. In addition, one
fourth-year, one third-year, one second-year, and
one first-year medical student will be on duty, and
they will be further assisted by a nurse, a pregnancy
counselor, and several members of the Refer intake
staff.
The philosophy of the Clinic will be commensur-
ate with that of all Refer’s services. The medical
services offered will come with no financial, legal, or
moral strings attached. Refer embraces an ideology
which is non-judgemental, non-moralistic, and non-
directive. Its sole desire is to aid one’s fellow
human. beings. It is not into savior trips, and it
makes no effort to reform the people who seek its
help. Refer workers merely enlighten the troubled
individual to the alternatives, and then allow him to
make a personal decision concerning his difficulty.
This policy will be adamantly adhered to in relation
to all work at the Clinic, and, as is usual Refer
practice, any records kept will be strictly confiden-
tial.
Around-The-Clock Service
Although the Clinic isatpresent the main thrust of
activity at Refer Switchboard, it is by no means its
only undertaking. Refer has continued to furnish a
vital 24-hour-a-day telephone referral service which
currently handles a load of 40 to 50 calls daily.
These calls cover’ an“extensive range of problems
from unwanted pregnancy to broken homes to
aleoholism to drug hassles, and are made by callers
from age 7 to age 70. Refer has at its disposal a
complete file of community agencies and help
organizations to which it may refer its callers.
Among these are Planned Parenthood of Albany
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Refer's work is handled by its own staff, who are
assisted by volunteer ministers, psychiatrists, and
doctors. Presently, there are ten full-time Refer staff
members, and this force is bolstered by numerous
Part-time workers whose ranks are always open to
new volunteers.
In addition to the 24-hour switchboard, Refer has
responded to unique problemswhenever they arise.
People who are “‘crashing,” and who need a place to
stay, find an open door at 332 Hudson. The Refer
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is in need of a place to cook. Recently, several
members of the Refer staff opened a health food
store called The Store on Lark Street.
Refer refuses to be stagnant and is constantly
looking toward the future extension of its services.
With the iadvent of: the new Clinic, its capacity to
give help has been greatly increased. The work of
Refer manifests a high-grade, unfortunately rare
brand of altruism which has not yet reached its
practical limit.
PAGE 12 ALBANY STUDENT PRESS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
Welfare Families Organize, _
Demand Adequate Income;
Community Effort Grows
by Steve Murphy
Lately there’s a great deal of concern with the underprivileged
people in our society, Our own university has taken a step toward
relevancy by involving students in volunteer services. But volunteers,
who function as parts of different community agencies that deal
directly with poor people, have only touched the outer fringes of the
problem by helping people on a small scale. This help is necessary and
certainly not ineffective, but, the poor are still poor. Something more
is needed—something that goes beyond the usual agency work.
One of the main reasons the efforts of those working for poor
people have met with frustrating opposition is the organized and
repressive system that presently handles poor people. This system,
with its accompanying racist attitudes and stereotypes is based on
dichotomy—the poor vs. the nonpoor. While this is-@ sinaplification of The poor who rent their homes are forced by economics to live in the least expensive
the basis of this system, it does function to keep the poor poor. This i eee
feystatn’ Tends’ the Gone watts Ha ieve tiet-thetre aan re hake housing. These are usually the oldest and most deteriorating structures, ees
can’t get ahead is because more taxes are needed to support the “lazy Those living in public housing often find conditions unsafe and the buildings in
bums on welfare who won't work.” The working man, as well as disrepair: ;
others, must realize that poor people, and poor Blacks in particular, zeae aol
are victimized by our system—more than any other group. Rather
than the cause of a declining economy, the poor are the most obvious
manifestation of the inadequacy of our economic system.
An organized and unified effort on the part of poor people is needed aiden ints jnoono slaegn dee hina Career
in order to eliminate some of the living conditions that are the reasons aly Chloue. Tia Peal sou eeaaee aE eee
why poor people are in need of help. The work of scattered change their priorities from an emphasis on death and destruction to
community agencies and volunteer services is important but will an pace Ga Ed ee
lead to frustration in view of the probability that the poor will To help’ praiotedieity fer all posple NWIED Ras been working for
poor, There is an organized effort in the making here in Albany a change of attitude among welfare clients and sympathetic outsiders.
National Welfare Rights Organization. 58 oe In a country where it seems to be second nature to despise public
NWRO is a nation wide grassroots organization of welfare clients welfare as wasted tax dollars for “lazy, shiftless freeloaders,” welfare
and others with inadequate incomes. Their concern is with all people is now considered by many people as a right—a basic right— rather
whose income does not provide a decent standard of living. The then 5 hidden widmie, ud 4 vite NWHO le playing « wi serecie ce
immediate concern of the group is with the public welfare system that ifdeing <boule new seit
keeps the poor down. The main goals of NWRO are adequate income, NWRO tas" snadyzed’ meey wieconcaptione’ abou walereeed
dignity, justice, and bread (there are still hungry people). welfare clients and compacted them into “The Five Lies About
NWRO recognizes that people are poor because they don’t have Welfare,” that are gaining increasing acceptance. NWRO has estab-
enough money. Poor people have never been able to secure enough lished the following statements as lies that are meant to provide a
income from whatever wages they earn to enable their families to live
: ; scapegoat for the problems of an inadequate economic system:
decently. As a remedy to this, NWRO has proposed a guaranteed 4) More jabe will selva the waltere prabienn
2) Most welfare recipients are Blacks who have moved to states with
high welfare grants to get on welfare,
3) Welfare mcthers are immoral.
4) Welfare is the “good life’—color T.V.better food and Cadillacs.
5) Welfare takes most of your taxes.
Here in Albany, the Welfare Rights Movement is growing. Welfare
clients have been misinformed systematically by the Albany County
Social Services Department. One of the most important current
objectives of Albany’s WRO is to get literature and an information
booth into the Albany Co. Welfare building to inform clients of their
rights. It is in this building that clients experience probably more
degradation and frustration than in anip y‘her circumstance of their
lives. Albany WRO continually meets ‘well organized and strong
opposition every day it attempts to organize and inform people of
what’s really happening with welfare. WRO has to first make
the Social Services Department abide by existing laws before greater
changes in the system can even be within sight. The local group
accomplishes more and more each day. Their struggle is a constant
one—for freedom to live life in a better way.
On the state level, WRO has met with the N.Y.S. Board of Social
Services and demanded to have welfare clients function as part of this
board. As it standsnow, the board is made up of affluent
people—bankers, investors, doctors, industrialists, suburban house-
wives, and even the vice-president of Pepsicola Co. WRO feels that
these board members cannot make decisions or make recommenda-
tions to Rocky with the best interests of the poor in mind. More
complete and honest representation is necessary. The non-poor can no
longer decide one-sidedly how the poor should live.
The Albany WRO is here and it’s alive. They are helping themselves.
They can teach us—all of us—and then we can all help each other. The
more the people organize themselves, the less is their need for
“outside” help. The poor vs. non-poor dichotomy can at least be
blurred and hopefully destroyed some day. The efforts of a few
People must be unified and organized into a whole that has the power
to watch out for itself. The people must be heard—and we all must be
awate ofthe fact that poor people really help themselves—once
they're together. Poor people must have the power to determine their
own lives.
The photos on page 12 of the Friday, February 5,
ASP were taken by Art Goodman.
The problems of inadequate incomes are especially acute among minorities. The
translation of the sign (in Spanish) reads: “We want to live decently.”
-alverson
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