Albany Student Press, Volume 57, Number 4, 1970 February 20

Vol. LVII_No. 4

State University of New York at Albany

The Clock Indicates

the Moment. . .

But ‘What Does

Eternity Indicate ?

Friday, February 20, 1970

SUNYA mukes the big time. Niccerson against all evil acts and

intentions.

by Ira Wolfman
Staff Reporter

demonstrate
Demonstrate
DEMONSTRATE
“You can’t jail the Revolution”
Support
SUPPORT
“Judge Hoffman,
Runt!”
Chicago 7
Chicago 8
CHICAGO 10
“The shits are killing us, and
we're digging it.”

You're a

It was an orchestration of
irony, and the 300 unwitting
SUNYA students played a vital
part in the score. The music
flowed only in spurts, and actual-
ly, only the conductors heard the
sounds,

~The first movement—

John Kaufman of the NLOC
(New Left Organizing Committee)
remonstrates the crowd for its
listlessness--its lack of concern and
anger.

‘An hour later, the jury enters
the courtroom- in Chicago.

--The second movement---
Listless students, asking each
other “Is it over?”, wander away
from a short and unsatisfying ral-
ly.

An hour later, the stunned on-
lookers are informed that the jury
has, indeed, “reached a verdict” in
Chicago.

-~The third movement---
The last students wander away
from the Campus Center, still
shaking their heads in wonder.

An hour later, Jerry Rubin,
Dave Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman,
Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis
are found guilty of “crossing state
lines with intent to incite a riot”
in Chicago.

The irony was almost op-
pressive. Just minutes before, Stu
Ewen a “leading theorist” of the

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supposed group named the “Com-
mittee for the Violent Death of
the Spectacular Commodity
Society,” had proclaimed, “Re-
pression is here!”’ An hour later,
US Attorney Foran announced
that he was convinced the verdict
proved “that the jury system
works,”--at least, in Chicago.

The Revolution may not have
been jailed, but its leaders faced
prison terms of up to five years in
addition to the already assigned
sentences for contempt. The cul-
tural war, which, Professor Loren
Baritz of the History Department
assured us, was “what the trial in
Chicago was all about,” had seen a
legalistic victory (though in meek
terms) for the culture of “Pig
Nation.”

Yet, even in the irony of the
movement, (revealed only at a

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STUDENTS RALLY FOR Chicago 8 in front of the Cam;

rendered.

by Bob Warmer

Eugene H. Nickerson, Nassau
County Executive, delivered his
first formal campaign speech for
the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination at the State Univer-
sity of New York at Albany after
announcing his candidacy yester-
day afternoon. His speech was
entirely devoted to American poli-
cy in Vietnam and Laos.

First, Nickerson gave a brief
history of the Vietnam War, in
which he compared his role to
that of Nelson Rockefeller. He
accused the Governor of support-
ing the war since 1954. Nickerson,
however, in 1966, thought“that
the war was wrong, and must be
ended.”

Nickerson went on to blast
Rockefeller’s lobbying role for the
ABM, “which will drain the na-
tion of $50 billion.” Nickerson
believes that the Goverrfar is
hypocritical when he supports. a
$50 billion weapon, but at the
same time backs Nixon’s veto of
$1 billion for education, He also
attacked Rockefeller’s billion dol-
lar Albany mall “that will not

later time) the cool, sardonic and
level rhetoric of Professor Baritz
rang true.

Our cultural war seemed to
have been inevitable. Baritz insist-
ed that, given his (the judge’s)
background, there was no way
Julius Hoffman could have accept-
ed Abbie Hoffmans who called
him a “runt” and the Bobby
Seales who branded him a “fas-
cist” and a “pig.” “The honorable
judge” said Baritz, “expected and
demanded a decent respect for the
judicial system of this nation”--a
respect which the defendents,
based upon their knowledge and
their lives could not give.

The dichotomy between the
protagonists of this war is real-yet
it poses a grave problem. “You

Continued on page Il

house a single family nor educate
a single child.”

Nickerson attacked the Repub-
lican administration in Washing-
ton as well. He called Vietnamiza-
tion a cruel hoax and ‘a sentence
of death for the people of Viet-
nam.” Vietnamization is, as he
put it, a war plan, not a peace
plan, because the program is not
intended to stop the war, but
merely to continue it with a dif-
ferent army. Quite emphatically,
he called Nixon’s program a repu-
diation of American ideals.
“Thieu and Ky rule over a mili-
tary dictatorship” that swindles
the people of their country.
“When the war is over,” he said,
“top South Vietnamese officials
will clei their Swiss bank ac-
counts.’ Rhetorically, he asked
what the people of this war-ridden

the second thrust of Nicker-
son’s address was the rising inter-
vention of American troops into
Laos. He called Laos “another
stage upon which is acted out the
folly of big-power militarism. He
cited figures showing that be-
tween 1955 and 1963, $480 mil-
lion was channeled into Laos as a
“disguised military mission”
called the Programs Evaluation
Office. Expenditures since then
have been classified as top-secret;
therefore, no official figures are
available, but the New York
Times estimated that we gave this
mission $250 million in 1969
alone. Nickerson thus justifies
calling Laos a ‘new ally” and a
“new commitment.” “We have
created in Laos a new elite,” he
said, “ by supporting a select
group of right- wingers.”

ipus Center before acquittal verdict vas

land will have to claim. He called
Vietnam a profitable place if one
is a general. He also called for free
elections in Vietnam.

Nickerson tied our costly inter-
vention in Vietnam and Laos to
the real enemies at home: “bigot-
ry, apathy and poverty.”

by Al Senia

Nassau County Executive Eugene H. Nickerson launched his quest
for the governorship last night by denouncing the state’s antiquated
abortion laws. “I’m for repeal of abortion laws,” he said, “not reform
but repeal--and for leaving the decision up to the woman and her
doctor.”

At two lively question and answer periods--one with the audience
and one private meeting with the press after his speech, Nickerson
spoke out on a number of important issues,

He pledged to support a minority group member for lieutenant
governor on his ticket but felt that “this person must arise from the
minority groups themselves and not be white-picked.”

He declared that “the civil rights of the Black Panthers have not
been respected and went on to warn: “There have been great
injustices in this country that have to be corrected if it is to live or if
it is going to die.” But he said he did not “support guns, or shooting,
or ‘any means necessary.”

He said he “did not support the legalization of marijuana,” but felt
the penalties are “ludicrous” and should be reduced.

He supported the Koch bill in the Assembly calling for alternate
service for draft resisters and came out in support of a volunteer
army.

_ Nickerson went on to rap the Chicago conspiracy trial as “a
disgrace to the United States of America” and called for an
investigation. “American justice cannot survive under a system like
that,” he said.

He labelled Governor Rockefeller’s drug program a “farce” and “a
total failure” and pledged to seek a comprehensive plan to treat the
growing problem of drug addict-
ion. Continued on page 2

Anita Thayer and Gary Gelt
have been named Co-editors of
the Albany Student Press for the
remainder of the semester by
Newsboard, the editorial body of
the paper. William Rohde, ap-
pointed last semester as editor,
resigned his position on Tuesday.

Thayer, a junior Political Sci-
ence major, has worked with the
ASP for the past three semesters.
She was serving as News Editor
upon her election as Co-editor.

Gelt was promoted from his
position as Arts Editor, having
worked on the ASP several pre-
vious semesters. He is a junior,
majoring in English.

Replacing Thayer as Co-news
editors are Nancy Durish and

--hochberg ' Carol Hughes, both juniors.

—

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970

Nickerson
interview
Continued from page 1

The Long Island County Exec-
utive also derided the welfare
systemas “inadequate” and point-
ed to the plan in effect in his own
county as a possible alternative.
Under this system, welfare recip-
ients are guaranteed jubs either by
private industry or by the govern-
ment.

He commented that New York
State does not currently “have
adequate resources to support an
open admissions policy However,
he said he would like to see free
tuition in the State University
system. He went on to state that
“administrators and faculty have
got to welcome students in the
formation of policies.”

Nickerson supported family
planning in an effort to reduce
population but balked at govern-
ment intervention in limiting fam-
ily size. “There should be family
planning...but I don’t think set-
ting an arbitrary limit is the way
to do it,” he said.

Finally, he declined to as yet
support anyone in the Democratic
senatorial primary. But, when ask-
ed to comment on Paul O’Dwyer,
he said he “was very fond” of
him.

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A mixer will be held on Satur-
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the Middle East. 1st meeting,
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Pre-Cana Discussion for En-
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at 6 p.m. in the Assembly Hall of
‘the Campus Center.

“NDC OPEN HEARING”

Assemblymen Steven Sollarz,
Peter Berle, Steven Gottlieb, and
Charles Rangel will hold an open
hearing on the issues before this
year’s session of the New York
STate Legislature. Particular top-
ies to be discussed include: aid to
education, abortion reform, low-
ering the voting age, legalization
of marijuana, and environmental
pollution.

The hearing, sponsored by the
SUNYA New Democratic Coali-
tion, will be held on Tuesday,
February 24 in Lecture Center 23
at 8:00 p.m. The public is cor-
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The College of General Studies
and the Department of Physical
Education are offering a 3-hour,
non-credit course in Driver Educa-
tion on Highway Safety. Proof of
having completed the course must
be provided before a road test
appointment will be made to an
applicant for his first driver's li-
cense.

The course will be given March
23 (6-9 p.m.). Fee for the course
is $5. Enrollment may be made by
check payable to State University
of New York at Albany and sent
to: College of General Studies,
1400 Washington Avenue, Al-
bany, N.Y. 12203, Ad 239 or call
457-4937.

Applications are available for
the Student Ambassador program
of the EXPERIMENT IN INTER-
NATIONAL LIVING. Scholar-
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Handler or the Student Associa-
tion office. Deadline date for ap-
plications is March 7.

There will be a regional confer-
ence for the Moratorium Com-
mittee February 21 and 22 at
Syracuse University. All events
will be held in the student govern-
ment building beginning twelve
noon Saturday the 21st.

Interest meeting for Women’s
Track and Field, Monday Feb 23,
7 p.m., Phys. Ed. building, 3rd
floor loung, women’s side.

Adam Walinsky, former Legis-
lative Assistant to Senator Robert
F, Kennedy and Chairman of the
Committee for Efficiency in Gov-
ernment will hold a press confer-
ence on Monday, February 23, to
announce his intention to seek the
Democratic nomination for the
position of Attorney General of
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3 mae .
THREE THOUSAND DEMONSTRATORS rallied at the Capitol
Tuesday afternoon in demand of welfare rights.

-~-alverson

Unique summer program
offers intensive cultural study

by Donna Santora

“Few entering freshmen in
America have the opportunity
which is being offered to our
students, that of beginning the
adventure of higher learning
abroad, learning another language
in its natural setting, experiencing
another culture and seeing life
fresh and whole from a totally
new perspective.” This statement,
made by Dean. O. William Perl-
mutter, is in reference to the
Pre-Freshmen Summer Language
Program (P.A.L.P.) which is an
eight week, concentrated, lan-
guage-studies endeavor, initiated
and sponsored by SUNYA.

The University began this pro-
gram last summer with a group of
thirty students in Germany. The
successful experience of the Ger-
man venture made it quite evident
that this opportunity should be

Protestors march on Capitol
ask increased aid for poor

by Al Senia

Three thousand demonstrators
from cities across the state con-
verged in front of the State Capi-
tol Building in Albany Wednes-
day. They lobbied for, among
other things, a restoration of
medicaidcuts, an adequate guaran-
teed income for all New Yorkers,
and an end to housing discrimina-
tion.

The demonstrators, black,
white, and Puerto Rican; elderly
and college students, were well-or-
ganized and orderly. The effect
they will have on the lawmakers,
however, will probably at best be
minimal.

‘The days events began at noon
with a rally in front of the Capi-
tol. Speakers, mainly black and
Puerto Rican, chided the governor
and berated the legislators for

their indifferent attitudes toward
the poor.

A picket line was then formed.
The signs carried by the demon-
strators read: “Our Children are
Cold; Our Children Are Hungry”
and “Support Human Needs, Not
Military Machines.” The best sign
of the day said simply: “No
Hagan Sufrir Nuestros Niiios.”
(Don’t make our children suffer).

Then the crowd marched slow-
ly up the stone steps to the doors
of the Capitol amid shouts of
“Dump Rocky” and “Power to
the People.” As they disappeared
through the revolving doors and
up the steps to the legislative
chambers, shouts of “Bread, Jus-
tice, and Dignity” filled the air.

Once inside, they found the
doors to the chambers locked and
security heavy. “We want Rocky
NOW,” they yelled.

But the governor, who had
gone to dinner at the Waldorf-
Astoria the night before, was no-
where to be seen. Ironically, he
was still in New York City where
many of the demonstrators had
come from.

Eventually, the group left the
corridors, the staircases emptied,
andthe scene once again ap-
proached normalcy. There was
another small rally outside and
the buses were re-boarded. The
exodus began; the world was again
safe for the Albany power wield-
ers.

The last chants echoed defiant-
ly in front of the cold, indifferent
building and were carried through
the crisp winter air until they
came to die against the towers of
the one and one-half billion dollar
South Mall Project which loomed
defiantly, a half a block away.

Education rejoined to life;
General College offers solution

by Julian Matthias

Could you stand living with
your professors? If not, why not?
Why must faculty, administration,
and students be separate and un-
equal’ Why can’t the academic
community be a glowing world
indivisible with liberty and jus-
tice for all?”

A task force of twenty one stu-
dents and two faculty members
decided to change what they did
not like on this campus. Their ans-
wer was a “General College.”

The General College will be a
community of students and facul-
ty living together. It is hoped that
this environment will provide its
members with a total learning ex-
perience 24 hours a day, The idea

behind this arrangement is to offer
an alternative to students who are
not happy with the mode of edu-
cation found on the campus.

Probably the main fault this
group finds and will try to rectify
is the separation of life from edu-
cation. Education should not be
just a preparation for life, but an
integral part of life.

It is hoped that education will
not stop with graduation. If edu-
cation and the desire to learn be-
comes a part of you, then you
won’t stop learning when you
stop classes.

According to Doug Gold-
schmidt, subjects will be looked at
“wholistically” so a general over-
view of the matter is learned as
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of “objective analysis,” which
breaks the subject into so many
fragments that the student sees
only a “speck of the world.”

If this General College becomes
a reality, the members will pick a
topic or project and the entire
group will concern itself with it.
One suggested project is the
“building of a city.”

The college would divide itself
into task forees and each would

Continued on page Il

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extended to as many incoming
freshmen as possible.

With past success and future
achievement as incentives for con-
tinuation, the summer of 1970
will offer its second annual pro-
gram of intensive language train-
ing for pre-freshmen students in
eight countries-Canada, France,
Germany, Israel, Italy, Portugal,
Puerto Rico and Spain.

P.S.L.P. offers the student an
innovative orientation to Univer-
sity study. It does so by intro-
ducing the student to the stimula-
tion of another way of life and
provides him with the optimum
conditions for learning a foreign
language in it original habitat.

The progress the student makes
is manifold; for example, P.S.L.P.
could serve as a means of admit-
tance into advanced language or
literature courses, as an effective
form of preparation for later par-
ticipation in SUNYA’s academic
year abroad programs, or simply
as a progressive step in a student’s
study of a foreign language.

All newly admitted freshmen
students (minimum age - 18
years), regardless of field of inter-
est are eligible for this program
and are invited to consider what
this opportunity could mean;
transfer students and upper class-
men will also be admitted and are
urged to take full advantage of
this offer as well. Previous aca-
demic achievement is important,
but individual maturity and moti-
vation are even more significant to
selection and success.

Each group of approximately
thirty students will be directed by

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February 26,1970

Watch ASP for details

a SUNYA staff member who will
serve as a coordinator and advisor.
The programs will be conducted
in a variety of settings and in-
struction will be given by dif-
ferent institutions which meet
SUNYA standards for intensive
language training.

The institutions will vary from
exclusive language training pro-
grams such as the famous Goethe
Institute in Germany to a specially
arranged course of studies such as
at Laval University in Quebec
City.

The programs will last approx-
imately 7 to 8 weeks during the
months of July and| August Stu-
dents will depart from Kennedy
International Airport at the end
of June and return the first week
of September. Before the instruc-
tion commences, there will be a
brief period of travel orientation.

The estimated cost of the pro-
grams will vary from $525 to
$1000, depending largely upon
differences in transportation
charges. The programs in Quebec
and Puerto Rico will be the least
expensive whereas the icost of the
Israel program will be the most
expensive.

The cost includes transporta-
tion, room, board and tuition.
Personal and incidental expenses
can be as little as $100 if one lives
as a student in the country where
one studies which is the most
effective way in which to gain
meaningful experiences.

The credit a student earns will
be established by testing at the
program site and at SUNYA in
September 1970. Normal achieve-
ment will vary from 6 to 11 credit
hours (two to three semester
courses). Beginners in a language
will have the best opportunity for
the greatest amount of growth.
Those studying at intermediate
and advanced levels will have the
advantage of adding refinement to
their ability to write and speak
the language of their choice.

For more information concern-
ing PSLP, one should write or
contact William Derrick, Assistant
Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences, International Studies,
Room 111, Social Science Bldg.,
SUNYA.

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Editorial Comment

LNS-CPS

Hard boiled

It’s very in vogue these days to complain about
student government. At the drop of a hat many
students will run off their monologue:

“T dunno what this place is coming to. | mean
look at Terry Mathias and his sidekick Vic Looper
for instance. Both of ’em just like sitting behind
desks and playing Big Indian. Student government:
what a laugh. What have they done for us anyway?”

Wherever one goes on campus variations on this
theme are heard. By general consensus, from fresh-
man to senior, the word is out: Student government
is not where it’s at. It’s just a haven for aspiring
Establishment types, and not for those who are
really with it.

A closer scrutiny might elicity a different conclu-
sion however. “If you would have a hen lay, you
must bear with her cackling,” goes an old proverb,
and those night-owls up on the their floor are
producing something. Their cackling is often too
harsh , but at least one can look forward to the
egg. (It’s not always edible of course.)

With most of the complainers however, pro-
ductivity usually lags. Far from creating anything,
edible or not, these birds are usually eggless, even
heartless, listening to the shrieking involves no
compensation. Lift them up and what do you find?
If you're lucky, a few soft tail feathers caress the
nest, though usually there’s nothing at all. Occasion-
ally one does find an egg, but that’s a rare bird
indeed.

What does it all boil down to? Just this: Many
students are lazy and self- centered. They come
from good homes and they haven’t had to work for
very much. When they reach Albany’s White Won-

_ der they stay in the same old rut. Instead of homing

in on their problem--too little giving and too much
taking--they spoof the motives of others.

Motive mongering is a fun game of course.
Without making any kind of personal commitment
one can cackle endlessly about why the chicken
layed the egg. Why was it layed? Why was it layed?
Who gives a f--- why it was layed. The damn thing’s
there, and those of you who don’t want to eat it
had better start laying your own.

Common _ Sense

by Perry Silverman

Never before in modern Ameri-
can courtroom history has a trial
been conducted in a manner simi-
lar to that of the Chicago “riot
conspiracy” trial which has just
ended. One of the reasons behind
the unusual occurrences during
this trial can be found in the lack
of discipline on the part of Judge
Julius J. Hoffman, whose main
responsibility was to make certain
that justice was done and the
rights of the accused were not
violated in the process.

Judge Hoffman definitely did
not perform the role required of
the man on the bench. His actions
appeared to be those of a man
who possessed pre-conceived no-
tions about the case and who was
willing to mete out his own brand
of justice if given the opportunity.

Hoffman's _self-righteousness
first revealed itself in his reactions
to Bobby Seale’s outbursts during
the early stages of the trial. The
most proper action would have
been to remove Seale from the
courtroom—daily if necessary. In-
stead, Seale was bound and
gagged, and was placed on public

display in this manner. This could
certianly qualify as “cruel and
unusual punishment” which is for-
bidden by the Eighth Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.

Hoffman escalated from reac-
tion to petty harassment of the
defense counselors and their cli-
ents as the trial continued. De-
fense counsel Kuntsler was
warned from the bench against
leaning on a rostrum in the court-
room upon which attorneys place
their notes while presenting cases.
Hoffman expressed concern over
the possible damage of govern-
ment property.

In addition, the defendants
were denied permission by the
judge to use the public toilet in
the courthouse. Hoffman insisted
that they had to use a toilet which
was enclosed by metal bars’ and
exposed to public view. If there is
any sound reason for imposing
such an indignity upon a fellow
human, it is only known to Judge
Hoffman.

The coup de grace of all His
Honor’s actions against those on
trial was his distribution of con-

tempt-of-court sentences among
the defendants at the close of the

‘trial for their various outbursts.

Shocked at the attempt of the
judge to usurp the role of the jury
in its absence, William M. Kuntsler
cried, “Why don’t you sentence
me too!” He and his legal partner
in the defense, Leonard Weinglass,
were later also sentenced on con-
tempt-of-court charges. Hoffman's
formula for calculating the length
of the sentences will soon be
challenged in the courts by attor-
neys who have volunteered to
assist Kuntsler and Weinglass.

Judge Hoffman’s unrestrained
reactions to misbehavior in his
court has presented an image of
himself as judge, jury, and exe-
cutioner of his own verdict. His
actions toward those who are now
the “Chicago 9” have brought
comparisons of His Honor with
the late Judge Roy Bean (known
as the “Hanging Judge’). Judge
Bean’s brand of justice ended dur-
ing the nineteenth century; Judge
Hoffman’s brand of justice should
have done the same.

The Spark

by BILL O’KAIN

When I was asked to write a
few columns for the ASP I had in
mind several different topics. The
Palestinian Revolution, student-
faculty control of SUNYA, and
the revolutionary socialist move-
ment in the United States were
just a few of the many topics I
would like to write about (and
will write about in future issues).
Being allowed a column in the
ASP gives me an exceptional op-
portunity to get my views across
to many of the students at this
university.

Instead of starting out with a
polemic in the first installment, I
would rather give you a brief
sketch of the personal orientation
of a revolutionary socialist. Due
to an extreme lack of literary
talent I am not going to attempt
to blunder my way through my
own passions and feelings. Instead
I shall quote at length some pas-
sages by Leon Trotsky on revolu-
tionary optimism,

“Dum spiro spero! While
there’s life, there’s hope!] If I
were one of the celestial bodies, I
would look with complete detach-
ment upon this miserable ball of
dust and dirt. ...1 would shine
upon the good and the evil alike.
«But I am a man. World history
which to you, dispassionate gob-
bler of science, to you, book-
keeper of eternity, seems only a
negligible moment in the balance
of time, is to me everything! As
long as I breathe, I shall fight for
the future, that radiant future in
which man, strong and beautiful,
will become master of the drifting
stream of his history and will
direct it towards the boundless
horizon of beauty, joy and hap-
piness!...

“The nineteenth century has in
many ways satisfied and has in
even more ways deceived the
hopes of the optimist....lt has
compelled him to transfer most of
his hopes to the twentieth cen-
tury. Whenever the optimist was
confronted by an atrocious fact,
he exclaimed: What, and this can
happen on the threshold of the

Y f

twentieth century! When he drew
wonderful pictures of the har-
monious future, he placed them in
the twentieth century.

“And now that century has
come! What has it brought with it
at the outset?

“In France - the poisonous
foam of racial hatred [reference
to the Dreyfus affair]; in Austria -
nationalist strife...; in South
Africa - the agony of a tiny
people, which is being murdered
by a colossus [Boer War]; on the
‘free’ island itself - triumphant
hymns to the victorious greed of
jingoist jobbers; dramatic compli-
cations in the east; rebellions of
starving popular masses in Italy,
Bulgaria, Rumania,...Hatred and
murder, famine and blood.

“Tt seems as if the new century,
this gigantic newcomer, were bent
at the very moment of its appear-
ance to drive the optimist into
absolute pessimism and civic nir-
vana.

“Death to Utopia! Death to
faith! Death to love! Death to
hope! thunders the twentieth cen-
tury in salvos of fire and in the
rumbling of guns.

“Surrender, you pathetic
dreamer. Here I am, your long
awaited twentieth century, your
“future.”

“No, replies the unhumbled
optimist: You—you are only the
present.

Leon Trotsky, 1901

“T can see the bright green strip
of grass beneath the wall, and the
clear blue sky above the wall, and
sunlight everywhere. Life is
beautiful. Let the future genera-
tions cleanse it of all evil, oppres-
sion, and violence, and enjoy it to
the full.”

“But whatever may be the cir-
cumstances of my death I shall die
with unshaken faith in the Com-
munist future. The faith in man
and in his future gives me even
now such power of resistance as
cannot be given by any religion.”

Both above quotes from
Trotsky’s Testament

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Communications

Correction: The following
letter was edited in the last issue.
The author has requested that it
be printed in full.-ed.

Chicago 8

Students:

Just before Bobby Seale was
gagged and tied to his seat he
turned to Tom Hayden and Abbie
Hoffman and said wryly “I think
our number is coming up. I hope
they put us in the same clink.
They're uptight and they should
be because the conspiracy will
win.’’ Moments later a witness was
asked a question as to Seale’s
activity. When Bobby demanded
the right to cross examine, Judge
Hoffman shouted at him to sit
down. Bobby stood up facing the
judge and knowing the risk he
took, pointed and yelled “Facist
Pig! I will not sit silent. I have the
right to be my own counsel.”
Hoffman, with the weight of
American corporate power behind
him, pointed back and replied,
“Marshalls gag and bind Mr.
Seale.” Three marshalls rushed to-
ward Bobby. Dave Dellinger, the
old pacificst, a heavy man, yreying
and balding responded. He threw
himself between Bobby and the
marshalls and fought them. More
marshalls moved in. Dellinger was
subdued and Seale bound.

Several weeks later Hoffman
declared a mistrial for Seale, and
sentenced him to four years. His
brothers in the MOVEMENT rose
up around him. He turned to
them and the gallery as the mar-
shalls came for him.His fist wént
up. “Power to the PEOPLE.” he
called. He turned to Hoffman and
looked at him. The marshalls pull-
ed him toward the door that led
to the federal prison as the gallery
erupted with shouts and clenched
fists.

Tom Hayden once said about
Viet Nam: “The government has a
quantitative approach to this war.
They think that if they take a hill
it is a victory. The National Lib-
eration Front knows better. They
know that Viet Nam belongs to
the people who live there. To be
able to place a machine gun on
top of a hill is not to fully control
it if that symbol will raise in the
people’s hearts the will to resist.”

The Trial of the Chicago 8 (10
including Bill Kuntsler and Leo-
nard Weinglass) will have similar
roots for us. If Nixon or the
corporate power that backs him
believe that the removal of 10
courageous leaders will kill our
will to resist they are wrong.
Hoffman is the “machine gun” for
us. This and the “10’s” example

Don’t Forget

To the Editors:

It seems yery strange to notice
how campus issues disappear so
quickly, and yet where once so
very strong and vocal. As one
walks into the Campus Center
lobby, one quickly notices the
newly formed environment groups
working busily at their tables.
Pick up any newspaper and read
about how political parties are
fighting for the lead in who is
doing more to conserve our na-
tural resources. This is all very
good and a long time overdue; but
is it all being used as a coverup to
a bigger and more disgusting is-
sue? An issue that cares little for
the value of human life!

The war is still raging which is
more than one can say for the
anti-war movement. Everyone
seems to have forgotten about
Vietnam, yet only last October we
vowed not to forget about it until
it was all over. Even the atrocities
at Mylai have lost their impact.
We all seem to have been duped
by Nixon terming the course of
the war as Vietnamization - the
expert ad makers of Madison
Avenue couldn’t have though of a
better word. " 3

In 1969 we saw national mora-
toriums, marches, and other group

efforts to try and pressure the
government. Today we are lost -
where do we go from here? Our
pleas were rejected last year, and
our hopes seem dimmer than ever
when we hear that 65% of the
country approves of the current
handling of the war. The only
result of 1969 seems to be that
everyone including the President
is for peace. The questions now is
how the hell do we get all of our
troops out!

We must now carefully study
last years actions and think of
future plans. Possibly through the
new environmental programs we
will hopefully drain the money

‘The point is that something has to
be done; whether it be massive
moratoriums in which students
leave school for a month and go
into the community to organize
pressure groups, or whether we
stay on campus to work on other
programs. In either case a well-
planned national movement is des-
perately needed to~demand the
withdrawal of all American
troops.

Nixon has been trying hard to
make us forget Vietnam, and our
loss of momentum on the issue
seems to show that he’s doing a
good job...It’s a funny thing to
mention the war and hear some-
one tell you that it’s not a popular
issue to discuss anymore, but as
long as men are drafted to replace
the coffins that come back from
Vietnam, the war is alive and
doing well.

David Neufeld

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The Senate

Dear Editor

In her lead article on the Senate
in the ASP on Tuesday, Feb. 10,
1970, Miss Anita Thayer pre-
sented an essential inaccuracy in
her report when whe wrote that
the members of the Senate Execu-
tive Committee “are designated
by President Kuusisto.” The mem-
bers of that committee were elect-

The implications of such a mis-
understanding are basic to the
tone of the report in general and
to one particular comment which
is consequently erroneous: “The
administration attempts to table
indefinitely the Vietnam  resolu-
tion itself after implying that it
would encourage discussion.” A
debatable motion to postpone dis-
cussion on the balance of the
resolution was actually offered
and then withdrawn by a member
of the teaching faculty.

In the interest of being certain
that the “facts are accurate,” may
I respectfully request you to cor-
rect the false impression created?

Sincerely,
Edgar B, Schick

Referendum

To the editor:

The Faculty-Senate, a sup-
posedly representative body, has
made a decision which, I feel, can
only fairly be decided by a refer-
endum of the entire student com
munity. I am refetring to the
decision to radically amend the
Academic Calendar. Since it will
change the academic year for all
students so greatly, the only fair
way to affect this change would
be a universal referendum, includ-
ing not only students, but faculty
and administration as well. I hope
that all students who feel that this
decision is grossly undemocratic
will join in demanding the only
equitable recourse — a referen-
dum.

Sincerely,
Laurie Wittern

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Cleveland, Ohio was the scene
t week of the largest anti-war

yiference ever held in America
: hundred delegates

all parts of the country
it Case Western Reserve

be the focus
vat offensive.

Richard Johnson,

“People shouldn’t be so easily mislead by Nixon’s
peace overtures. If we remember only as far back as
*68 we see Nixon following the LBJ pattern. He
offers a lot but produces very little. Defense
Secretary Laird himself said recently that troop
reductions much below 250,000 would be difficult. ”

A student at Case Western Reserve University

STUDENT

Surprisingly, the conference
was organized and productive. Un-
like the Students for a Democratic
Society conference last year, the
SMC gathering did not end in
disunity. Instead, most delegates
expressed an awareness about the
need for unity. As one SMC or-
ganizer said, “We’ve learned
there’s little to be gained from
in-fighting. Mark Rudd played
that game in ’69 and destroyed
SDS. We aren’t going to let that
happen here.”

He REE

Saturday was the first full work
day. Aside from rumors that the
Young Socialist Alliance tried
packing the Steering Committee
meeting with their own people the
previous night, there were few

signs of disharmony. At 10 a.m.
Jerry Gordon, a Civil Liberties

_ Groups like RYM,

a tional iali
eration, and the

lawyer, addressed the delegates it
the Adelbert Gym. He spoke
quickly and forcefully, pointing
out the gains of the anti-war
movement and ending with an
encouraging example of how ¢f
fective protest can be: “Let me
assure all of you here today of
one point. LBJ is where he i
today not because Ladybird want
ed him in Texas but because the
anti-war movement wanted him
there!”

Following the introductory
speeches, the floor was open t0
discussion on agenda and organi-
zation. At this point factional
differences started to emerge. The
Revolutionary Youth Movement
(RYM), for example, wanted SMC
to organize itself around other
issues besides Vietnam.

“SMC has failed to unite with
the black organizations and peo
ple who are almost without
ception against the war” exhorted
one RYM spokesman.

This was countered by a young
YSA member from California:
“We can’t spread ourselves t0°
thin. The main issue right now
Vietnam. If we try encompassing
the black struggle, the welfare
tights movement, the women’s
liberation fight, and god knows
how many other causes, we're
defeating ourselves. If we don't
center around one issue wef
going to be splintered by Nixon.”
This was the main issue thet
the Intet
Socialists, Women's
Panthers
ted a SMC program embracié
ments related to “anti:
and the struggle for
Fhose committed to #

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_ MOBILIZATION

one-issue thrust rallied around the
YSA banner.
Be EE

The first plenary session was
scheduled for 7:30 that night. At
this session and at the other two
scheduled for the next day (Sun-
day), a program was hammered
out.

Before the first plenary session
however there were workshops to
attend. The Baker Building, a
block west of the gym, ac-
comodated most of these discus-
sions.

The workshop titles read like a
checklist of problems for the 70’s.
The Gls and Veterans and the
Fight Against ‘the War met next to
the Ecology and the Establish-
ment of a National Party work-
shops. Down the hall one could
hear muffled voices from Wo-
men’s Liberation, War Crimes,
High School Antiwar Organizing,
and Black and Third World
Liberation.

Stepping into a class room, one
was impressed by the serious and
democratic tone of progressing
discussions.

“Now wait one minute man.
You know the theory of surplus
value dictates the need for unload-
ing what can’t be sold back to the
worker. How can you say GE or
General Dynamics want the war
over when their selling million in
light bulbs and planes?” said one

burly high school senior. The dis

cussion leader recognized the og:
position and the opposition re.
ceeded to make a counter, :
Of course all worksh
not so orderly. Much
veloped over the one-is
but all in all peo
people listened.
xe

by William Rohde

Sunday was the important day.
The first plenary session, which
met Saturday night, had been long
and loud. RYM pushed hard for
its proposal to combine the black
struggle with the Vietnam issue.
The International Socialists used a
similar tact: they demanded the
inclusion of a broad working-class
campaign because “the anti-war
movement must begin to move
against the war machine as a
whole.” Women’s Liberation,
Youth Against War and Facism,
Individuals Against the Crime of
Silence, and seven other groups all
wanted their proposals accepted
also.

YSA stood firm in demanding a
one-issue program. The “multi-
issue morass,” as one old-timer.

called it, must be avoided. Carol

Lipman, National Executive See.
retary of SMC and a YSA

a
r

even less now. ”
Carol Towner,

“ Nixon never expected the upsurge of anti-war
sentiment in America. If we come out of this
conference calling for mass actions you will see an
even greater upsurge because people trust Nixon

Conference Co-chairman

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TEOMMITTEE

ber, presented the Lipman Propo-
sal a proposal for a “unified ma
action” in the Spring. After mus
debate other proposals were v:
down and the Lipman Po
became the basis for the
program. é

At the third and
session in the —

as the mass
and the studes

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Brignola’s ‘Mixed Bag’ Brings
Jazz to Menand’s Persian Room

by Robert Rosenblum

There is exciting music at the
Persian Room in Menands where
the music of Nick Brignola and his
“Mixed Bag,” has replaced
dancing with listening. This new
group is one that fuses rock
rhythmic elernents and melodies
into the basic concepts of jazz
(improvization, drive, blues, and
phrasing). Brignola and electric
Pianist Don York have a musical
background consisting largely of
jazz while bassist Tom Watso, and
drummer Mark Galleo are rock
musicians.

Brignola is one of the best
baritonists in jazz, an opinion
substantiated by international
Down Beat critic and popular
polls. It was on baritone sax that
he played the opening number, a
Beatle tune called ‘Come
Together.” He used a tape
attachment for a delayed replay
and never have I heard this device
used more creatively. Avoiding
the pitfall of mimmicry he was
able to truly supplement his music
rather than merely add to it in a
superfluous manner.

The Best Number

Paying close attention to the
replay, he dueled with it, setting
jup counter-lines and interlocking
accents, contrasting and inter-
weaving harmonic lines with start-
ling affect. Don York followed
with a soulful statement that
demonstrated that the electric
piano demands an approach quite
distinct from an ordinary piano.

The next song was an uptempo
bossa nova with a harder driving
piano solo by York, but a dissap-
pointing flute comment by Brig-
nola that lacked direction and self
assurance.

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The best number I have heard
in this group’s book is “My Fa-
vorite Things.” It is played in a
manner which truly highlights the
eclectic direction of this group. It
begins with a slow, mournful flute
statement a capella. Suddenly and
unexpectedly Galleo breaks in
with a powerful and fast rock
beat. Don York sparkles at the
piano, playing furiously, mixing
startling melodic lines with dis-
onant, chilling chords.

Enter Brignola

Brignola enters on saxello
whining furiously, while spiralling
out of a fire being fanned by
Galleo, who seems sympathetic to
the various moods of his leader,
and by the wild, almost insane
runs by York. Brignola is once
again left alone slashing and jump-
ing, changing tempos constantly
while occasionally alluding to the
theme. The piano returns fol-
lowed by bass and finally drums.
York and Brignola then demon-
strate their skill in avante garde
jazz by frantically “battling” one
another, with no set rhythmic
basis, but in a circular pattern.
The song ends with an attentive
audience cheering madle. Rarely
has such enthusiasm been generat-
ed in a night club audience.

It appears that Nick Brignola
has, either unconsciously or con-
sciously, come to the conclusion
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ty, emotion, creativity and intel-
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elements of a popular music form
to jazz he has facilitated that task.
On the other hand, through some
sort of anti-philistinic instinct he
realizes that the artist is subser-
vient to his art, so that an overtly
commercial approach is instantly
rejected despite the promise of
personal gains. Perhaps that is a
fair definition of artistic integrity.

French Club Spends
Cultural Day in NY

by Albert Diner

Le Cercle Francais is becoming
one of the most active foreign
language clubs on campus. It of-
fers French Majors and minors a
conversation hour held every
week, where they are able to
speak French while enjoying wine
and cheese.

This club recently sponsored
one of its many highlights of the
1969-70 academic year: “A Day
of French Culture in NYC.” It
was a well planned event in which
41 students took part. The stu-
dents were able to see a play by
France’s most celebrated Theatre
troupe “La Comedie Francaise,”
which is at present in NYC for a
limited engagement festival of
plays by Moliere. The New York
Times reviewed La Comedie Fran-
eaise as “France’s most valuable
export-apart from wine.”

The students enjoyed the play
“Les Femmes Savantes.” Prior to
the trip to NYC, Le Cercle Fran-
cais had the honor of a lecture by
professor H.P. Salomon, who at
present is conducting a seminar on
Moliere, This lecture made the

play more meaningful to those:

students who participated in this
trip.

Alter the play, the students
enjoyed a superb French dinner at
“COQ AU VIN”, an atmostpheric,
cozy restaurant with a very good
French provincial cuisine. Again,
Le Cercle Francais is thankful to
M. Salomon for making this din-
ner memorable. Since this dinner
was obtained at a discount price,
it did not include wine. M.Salo-
mon was shocked when he no-
ticed that the wine was missing.
“What's French food without
wine?” he asked. He called the
waitress, and at his own expense,
ordered wine for 41 students.

What can possibly top a superb
French dinner? Perhaps nothing
else than a concert by Charles
Aznavour, one of France’s most
popular actors, song- writers, and
singers. “Formidable, this Charles
Aznavour, fantastique, how you
say, outta sight”(Wall Street Jour-
nal.) And what can top a concert
by Aznavour? Nothing else than a
back-stage meeting with Aznavour
hismelf. The students were
amazed at the “down-to-earth”
attitude of a celebrity of such
status. The club presented Azna-
vour with some souvenirs such as
an Albany State banner, a set of
the new fold-out post cards, and
what else can you give a French-
man than a wine-glass. M. Azna-
vour smiled when he received
the Whiskey-sour glass with Al-
bany State printed on it. He com-
mented that now “‘at last he’s got
something in’ which to take his
honey in every night.” He signed
autographs for every single stu-
dent. It was really “formidable.”

The only way the French Club
was able to sponsor this trip was
by joining forces with Pi Delta

Phi, the French Honor Society,

which contributed $50. Le Cercle
Francais contributed another $50.
We are thankful to Pi Delta Phi
for helping to make this trip such
a success.

How can Le Cercle Francais top
this trip? It is not easy, but we are
trying. Le Cercle Francais is put-
ting on a play this semester, “La
Valse de Toreadors,” by Jean An-
ouilh, which will be stagedin late
April. In the planning stages there
is a two-day trip to Montreal , the
second largest French speaking
city in the world. There will be an
evening of modern French songs
at L’alliance Francaise in Schenec-
tady, and a French Pavillion at
State Fair. A Bientot.

How would you feel if your father smoked pot?

If it were all right with him, would it be okay with you?
How okay? Anytime he’s home? What about while driving? What about at work?
Even if he’s a pilot? If pot should be legal, can anyone smoke it?

Including the President? The Supreme Court? What about your kid sister?

How about your mother? Think about it.

remind the class of ‘71 that it has A message to stimulate thinking

from NoDoz—the pill that helps you think when you’re tired.
NaDaz keep alert tablets.

been traditional that there be no

Sun & Other Special
Days 4 pm- 1 am

campaigning for class officers.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS.

PAGE 9

ALBERT DINER AND MIKE ATTWELL of Le Cercle Francais
meet Charles Aznavour, French singer and actor, during the club’s

cultural trip to New York City.

‘Rex’ Opens Tonight,
‘Orestes’ on Feb. 25

Experimental Theatre Friday
night Series presents REX! this
evening at 7:30 and 9:00p.m., in
the Arena Theatre of the Perform-
ing Arts Center. REX! is a musical
travesty of the Oedipus story. A
coalition of satire, black humor,
and farce, REX! uses a modern
college campus for its setting.

Director William C. Doscher
uses a large cast in REX!, featur-
ing Gregory’ Haymes, Barbara
Richards, Richard Hefter, and
Eliot Cipas, plus a dancing and
singing chorus with Phil Bennis,
Claudine Cassan, Holly Fitter, Jay
Kuperman, Katie O’Connor, and
Robert Verini. Ron Abel has com-
posed the original music for
REX!.

eke

Orestes, State University Thea-
tre’s third major production of
the season opens next Wednesday,
February 95th, for its five-day run
in the Main Theatre of the PAC.

Dr. Albert B. Weiner of the D
partment of Theatre directs Euri-

pides’ drama of madness and ven-
geance in the fallen House of
Atreus.

Director Weiner was formerly
professor drama at Ohio Univer-
sity, the University of Wisconsin,
and the University of New South
Wales in Sydney, Australia, where
he founded the first theatre de-
partment in the country.

Dr. Weiner has authored several
books, including the version of
the First Quarto of HAMLET,
which was produced on Broadway
last year. Among the plays are
several versions of HAMLET, as
well as MEDEA and ANTIGONE.
ORESTES is the first major pro-
duction he has diretted for State
University Theatre.

Curtain time for ORESTES is
8:30 p.m, Wednesday through
Saturday, and 2:30 matinee of
Sunday. Tickets are available in
the box office from 10 to 4 p.m.,
or by phoning 457-7535. Admis-
sion is $2.00 or free with student
tax.

Tuesday, Feb. 24
14th floor

THETA XI OMEGA
RUSH OPEN HOUSE

REFRESHMENTS

7-9 pm
Stuyvesant Tower

Richardson’s ‘Hamlet’ Suffers
From Bad Case of Melancholy

oy Tom Quigley

Tony Richardson’s production
of Shakespeare’s HAMLET is a
heavy brew of uneven performan-
ces and ambivalent eechniques
that give the film a strance aura.
The Bard-Of-Avon’s famous play
of revenge and social decay has
been filmed in muted color this
time, accentuated by atmospheric
chiaroscuro photography and
lighting, that contrasts the lighter
colors with the oppressive black-
ness of Hamlet’s physical and
mental states.

Essentially what Richardson
has done is to film the staged
production using sparse settings
which consist mainly of hazy
green-gray brick walls, tunnels,
and chambers to evoke the musty,
confining mood of the play.
Richardson’s major flaw lies in his
dependence upon the charismatic
performance of Nichol Williamson
in the title role. This is primarily
why the production only partially
succeeds.

Williamson exhibits an arrest-
ing, almost casually bored de-
meanor as the melancholic prince.
Despite his mellifluous command
of Elizabethan language, William-
son does not possess the vocal
power that his two formidable
predecessors, Olivier and Burton,
demonstrated in their versions.
His voice modulates from a weird
nasal whine to a strangled raging
madness that seems stragely ab-
surd to the audience. Yet his
soliloquies are brilliant.

Williamson frequently utilized
the excellent device of beginning
the major soliloquies in a pensive
tone of bemused disgust and then
glances directly at the audience as
the camera dollys in for the close-
up. This attempt at inducing in-
timacy between the actor and the
audience reduces the detachment
felt by the audience and thus
Williamson receives their un-
divided attentions as he reveals his
schemes.

Once again however, director
Richardson turns something ef-
fective into a fault as he treats us
to a whole series of these close
ups. In fact the entire film is one
long examination of eyes, ears,
noses, throats, and blemishes. This
technique is overdone that the
only portion of the actors ana-
tomies we see extend from the
waist up leading one to believe
that these people have no legs or
stand naked from the waist down.

Despite this excessive flaw
Richardson must be credited with
developing some exuberant
scenes, the greatest of which is the
confrontation between Hamletand
his father’s ghost, wherein he
chases the spectre through the
tunnels of the castle into the
recesses of his own mind.

HUYCK FELT
COMPANY

Interview the man from
Huyck on February 24. He just
may have your career in his
portfolio. Big enough for op-
portunity, small enough for
recognition.

HUYCK FELT COMPANY

We never see the ghost except
as a pool of dazzling light shining
upon Williamson’s face. Yet the
spirit is very real as its eerie,
reverberating electronic voice
echos his command for revenge to
young Hamlet. This is undoubted-
ly the most chilling, macabre
ghost sequence ever devised for a
film version of this play.

The other sequences; the mass
murder finale, the graveyard fight
and the witty exehanges between
Hamlet and -Polonious are high-
lights while the confrontation be-
tween Hamlet and the Queen
mother degenerates into a sloppy,
slobbering interlude of hysterical
incest. “

Marianna Faithful is fragile and
pathetic as Ophelia, but the char-
acters basic weakness and final
insanity induced by family hypo-
cracy and court intrigue, is un-
satisfying. Anyone that’s out of it

deserves something better than
the unbelievable drowning she suf-
fers. Anthony Hopkins as the
usurping murderer, King Claudius,
gives an exceptionally controlled
performance of devine right ar-
rogance. Finally the marvelous
rendering of Polonious as a pa-
tronizing, dirty old lecher is witty
and polished.

This film is obviously intended
to be a showcase for Nichol Wil-
liamson, who has been praised as
one of the greatest of contem-
porary Shakesperian actors. Un-
fortunately due to the sometimes
inspired, sometimes insipid direct-
ion of Tony Richardson what we
seem to get is a sniveling Hamlet
whose melancholy truly gets the
best of his nobility. This has
always been the play’s fatal spec-
tre and now this flaw haunts this
very unusual film,

ACTORS REHEARSE A SCENE from ORESTES. opens
Wednesday and runs through Sunday. eNigas

Jo Mielziner To Speak

At Theatre

Jo Mielziner, whose name ap-

eurs as scenic designer for at least
one Broadway hit each year, will
visit the State University of New
York at Albany on Sunday, March
1, to address the annual Induction
Ceremony of the Theatre Council,
a student honorary group within
the University’s Theatre Depart-
ment.

The ceremony will be held at
8:00 p.m. in the Studio Theatre
of the New University Performing
Arts Center. The public is in-
vited.

Mielziner will speak on “Visual
Imagination Versus Equipment,”
and his address will be of unusual
interest to theatre buffs-
-especially those who enjoy work-
ing with the “backstage.”

Inductions

The current Broadway hit,
“1776,” was designed by Miel-
ziner, who lists better than 275
major productions to his credit.
He began designing in his 20’s
after tutelage under Lee Simonson
of the Theatre Guild and Robert
Edmond Jones, both famous
American scenic designers. Among
Mielziner’s major credits on
Broadway: “Winterset,” ‘Glass
Menagerie” “Death of a Sales-
man,” “Guys and Dolls,” “The
King and I,” “Gypsy,” and “Can-
Can.”

Theatre Council, the theatre
student honorary, will induct
several new members at the cere-
mony and award an honorary
membership to Mr. Meilziner.

8:00 pm

OPEN MEETING
Albany Film-making Society
All interested in making films invited
Showing of Golumbeck’s ‘Dreams’

Tuesday, Feb 24

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Johnny Winter Tomorrow; Tickets Available

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970

THE ASP SPORTS

Fieldhouse?

' Taller and Quicker
Talented Central Connecticut Defeats State 83-77

by Jay Marshall

After battling a taller, talented
Central Connecticut squad even
most of the game, the Albany
State basketball team succumbed
to a secondhalf spurt and dropped
an 83-77 decision to the visiting
Blue Devils last Wednesday night.
In scoring 77 points, State topped
its previous single game high of 76
points against Pratt. Albany was
victimized by Central’s superior
board strength, as the visitors
outrebounded on State 45-32.

Central Connecticut was paced
by junior forwards Bill Hunter
and Bill Reaves, who tallied 24
and 19 points respectively,
Reaves averaging 28 points for
the season, was held to four
points in the first half by Al Reid.
After the intermission break, he
broke loose for 15, many on
short jumpers resulting from
offensive rebounds. Hunter was
the thorn in Albnay’s side all
evening. The 6-4 forward missed

Central’s last game because of
disciplinary reasons, thus Coach
Sauers did not know until game
time whether he would play. Last
night’s performance didn’t hurt
his standing with his coach, as
Hunter rebounded well and led all
scorers.

For Albany, Jack Jordan paced
the scoring with 20 points. All
five starters scored in double
figures for the first time this year.
State scored four more field goals
than Central, but was outshot at
the foul line 23-9.

Albany tailed 58-51 midway
through the second half before
the BlueDevils went on a 10-2
spree to put the game practically
out of reach. The visitors were
forced to switch into a zone de-
fense early in the second half
when Hunter picked up his fourth
foul. However, the Great Danes,
were unable to force Hunter into
his fifth foul. Coach Sauers com-
mented after the game that Cen-
tral’s guards played exceptionally

Sophisticates Lead

In Tight

In League I bowling-action this
past week the second place Chop-
pers edged to within only four
points of the leagueleading So-
phisticates by winning three of a
possible four big points in the
season’s second position week.
Until this last match the Sophisti-
cates, a new team in the league,
had run up a total of 32 points
while losing) only 4. Last year’s
champions, the Choppers, are still
in contention for this year’s
crown as last week’s action saw
them climb well within conquer-
coring range of the league-leaders.
A trophy winner will be decided
from the competition at the lanes
in the remaining four scheduled
matches.

The Sophisticates, who have
been slaughtering the pins all sea-
son long and whose lowest average
bowler is 166, had difficulty as
not a single member rolled his
average in the exciting match
bowled this past Tuesday. The
Choppers, who are only 350 pins
below the Sophisticates in total
wood, had a similar problem with
the lanes as none of their bowlers
reached his average either. The
high series of the contest went to
Joseph Hleboski, a 173 average
bowler, who struck a 501 series.

In other position week action
Kappa Beta grabbed 3 of 4 points
from BPS and the Strikers were
handed 4 points by Potter Club
through forfeit to know together
three teams with identical records
in third place. However, two of
the highest three-game series of
the week were compiled by bowl-
ers not on the top contending
teams. Honors went to Mike Glass
of STB with a 597; Gary Wasser-
stein of BPS with a 559, and John
Brandone of the Circus with a
550.

Art Buchwald
is coming!

March 11, 1970

PLAY CHESS BY MAIL
for information write to
American Postal Chess League
P.O. Box 1022
Greeley, Colorado 80631

Bowling

Thus far in league play, the first
High Individual 3-game series is
held by Alan Zaback of the So-
phisticates, 616, the first High
Individual game by Jerry Sahlman
of Potter Club, 266 and both high
team 3-games and high team single
game by the Sophisticate.

League I Bowling will resume
this Saturday at 10:45a.m. Spec-
tators are welcomed to the Cam-
pus Lanes. There are only four
scheduled weeks of matches re-
maining. The stiff competition

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well. The Blue Devils have a
tougher schedule than Albany,
thus their players were not fazed
by the defensive maneuvers which
the Danes employ against lesser
opposition. This is only to be
expected.

In the first game, the Frosh
posted a 92-72 victory over Ad
irondack Community College.
Werner Kolln led the scoring with
18 and co-captain Dave Velchons
added 16,

The Danes return to action
next Saturday night at Ithaca.
According to Sauers, Ithaca has as
good personnel as Central Con-
necticut. It will take a great team
effort for the Danes to win.

eR EER

Squash-Individuals interested in
entering an AMIA Squash Singles
or Doubles Tourney should report
to room 123 of the Physical
Education Center at 3:30 p.m.
today, Feb. 17. You may send a
representative if you cannot make
the meeting.

League

Race

during these ensuing weeks will
determine who is most worthy of
the League I trophy.

Sophisticates 33-7
Choppers 29-11
Beta Phi Sigma 25-15
Kappa Beta 25-15
Strikers 25-15
Circus 22-18
Potter Club 19-21
Irish All-Stars 15-25
Alpha Pi Alpha 13-27
Upsilon Phi Sigma 12-28
Sigma Tau Beta 9-31

THE GREAT DANE wrest
decision.

team pulled out a close 19-16
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Grapplers win 19-16

by Mark Grand

The Great Dane Wrestling team
pulled out a close 19-16 decision
over New Paltz Tuesday in a
contest in which the outcome was
not decided until the final match.

In that final match freshman
heavyweight Herman Hilliard re-
moved all doubt as he pinned his
opponent in the third period.
Other winners for Albany, all de-
cisioning their men, were Jeff
Albert, 142 Ibs., 101; George
Hawrychak, 150 Ibs., 8-5; and
John Mims, 167 Ibs., 12-3. Mueller
registered a forfeit as New Paltz’s
Bob McClure came up with a
dislocated shoulder after a take
down in the second period.

The New Paltz squade was
much tougher than Coach Garcia

SMOKER

Campus

Center

Friday,

PROSPECTIVE

Ballroom

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8 p.m.

Guest speaker
Pete Gogolak

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anticipated which made the vie-
tory all the more pleasant.

Saturday the matmen face a
tough Harpur team, currently
sporting a 5-0-4 record. In last
year’s match Harpur defeated the
Danes 18-17 and the grapplers are
out to avenge that close decision.
Harpur is led by Captain Tom
Strain, a transfer from Albany.

Coach Garcia constantly expre-
sses his pride in the wrestler and
emphasizes the tremendous
morale exhibited by the boys. The
session started from scratch with
only four varsity candidates and
since has developed into a proud
determined squad. The record
now stands at 2-6 but the coach is
confident that in the end it will
look a lot more impressive.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970

ALBANY STUDENT PRESS

PAGE 11

UniversityShatterbox

‘A New Word on Tenure’

In November 1969, the Council

on Promotions and Continuing
Appointment under the Univer-
sity Senate submitted a set of
recommendations to change the
Guidelines for Continuing Appoint-
ment and Promotion in the
1970-71 SUNYA Faculty Hand-
book.

Last Monday, after approval by
the Executive Committee, the
members of the University Senate
voted not to accept the recom-
mendations. As this draft has been
sent back to committee we may
review some of the features that
made this proposed policy unique
as well as those aspects that de-
monstrate its shortcomings.

The two influences that helped
develop these recommendations
were suggestions by the Educa-
tional Policies Council and sug-
gestions by the Faculty-Student
Committee on Tenure.

CPCA’s reactions to these two
sets of recommendations formed
the body of change represented in
their recommendations.

The Report of the Faculty-
Student Committee on Tenure de-
fines the tenure system as one
whose purpose is to protect aca-
demic freedom. “Tenure reduces
the effectiveness of pressure from

Council discusses MYSK ANIA,

increases Torch appropriation

by Ken Stokem

Central Council last night heard
with surprise the results of the
MYSKANIA Screening Comm-
ittee. The committee nominated
only 14 candidates to fill the 13
Positions on MYSKANIA. A two-
thirds vote of the Committee of 15
was required to nominate any of
the 38 juniors that had applied. A
list of criteria for nomination was
set down and apparently closely
followed.

The committee voted on each
individual applicant and no results
of the voting were released until
all voting had taken place. It
wasn’t until after the tally that
the committee found it had only
nominated 14.

The fourteen are: Jan Blumen-
stalk, Ralph DiMarino, Gary Gelt,
Michael Gilbertson, Mark Goor,
Norma Israel, Sandy Kleinman,
Ken Kurzweil, Dave Neufeld, Jan
Rosen, Susanna Schweizer, Donna
Simonetti, Carol Tibbets, and
Dick Wesley. The list of nominees
was approved by council on a

General College

Continued from page 3

deal with a facet of running a city
or solving an aspect of the urban
crisis. Again, to keep a “whol-
istic” view, the coordination of all
the answers and solutions will be
considered most important to the
Persons involved.

This total learning experience
will not prepare a person to be a
doctor, a lawyer, a candlestick
maker, or any other vocation, but
it will make life a part of the
educational experience and vice
versa.

Right now this program has just
Passed the planning stage and is a
Proposal being considered in the
Academic Affairs Commission,
from where it may go on to the
University Senate. The General
College strives for a real “aca-
demic community.”

It is at least an interesting ex-
Periment and, more likely than
not, will add an entire dimension
to someone’s education.

outside groups (such as political,
religious, and military organiza
tions), and protects the faculty
member from the arbitrary or
capricious actions of the adminis-
tration and his colleagues.”

“Tenure is also a vote of con-
fidence in the continuing develop-
ment of the individual and is a
judgment that the individual will
ultimately merit promotion to full
professor in competition with
other potential candidates for the
same position from within or
without the University.”

‘The report then discusses the
Relation of tenure to Rank Distri-
bution and the Salary Program.
These external factors cannot be
controlled at our University level,
because the State Budget Office
sets the maximum average salary
for each University Center. To
attract and hold the best faculty
the Albany Center would have to
improve its salary rating.

One unusual observation is that
Albany’s faculty has a higher per-
centage of individuals in the upper
ranks (Associate Professors and
Full Professors) than any of the
three other University centers [Al-
bany 59%, Binghamton 51%, Buf-
falo 51%, StonyBrook 45%]. With
so much room at the top, the
salary scale is somewhat diluted at

12-415 vote. There was some dis-
cussion as to whether or not the
committee was properly repre-
sentative but no course of action
was pursued.

Council also passed two bills.
The first was an appropriation of
$3,445.00 to the Torch to in-
crease the number of yearbooks
available this year to 6,300. This
brings the total Torch budget up
to $26,895 from the original
$14,975 budgeted to it.

The second bill'was a statement
requesting the administration to
take the necessary steps for the
immediate alleviation of Colonial
Quad parking lot problems. These
problems were listed as numerous
holes and craters in the parking

Forget the Pot, Baby;
We've Got the Kuta

And we’ve got the Pilaf, and
Beef Kebob. And Persian Snow.
The real thing. Our cook was
the shiek of chefs when he was
sowing his wild Kibbee back in
Baghdad. Now he’s only a shor:
camel’s drive from the campus
on Central Avenue-- jus} past
Route 155. Look for the big
Kebob sign that says “Salim’s”.
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the upper end. The room that is
made for improvement is natural-
ly in elimination of those non-
tenured faculty. This has in the
past created uproars in campus
politics.

‘An important point to consider
about our faculty is that we have
here a higher than average per-
centage of full professors without
tenure. With 34% of our faculty
standing as full professors (next to
a State University average of 26%)
we have made the attractions of
Albany a little less sparkling.

‘A reworking of this imbalance
would result in a more attractive
salary scale for all levels. The
granting of tenure would be more
clearly a vote of confidence in
one’s evenutual promotion to pro-
fessor, for there would be more
space available in these upper po-
sitions. It is this problem of
balance that merits serious con-
sideration.

The Recommendations of the
Educational Policies Council on
Rank Distribution, Tenure and
Salary supports the specific
“working but not inflexible
model” of holding 40% profes-
sors, 20% associate profs., 30%
assistant profs. and 10% instruc-
tors. “The Council believes that

lot, thefts in the area and accum-
ulated now. The bill stated that
Council felt it was the duty of the
University to provide safe and
adequate parking facilities for its
students.

The following appointments
were also announced:

‘Terry Wilbert and Steve Jakway
to Athletic Advisory Board;

Allen Rothman to Library
Council;

Bev Cooper to Equal Employ-
ment Committee;

and Steve Brown to Space Man-
agement Committee.

Next week’s Central Council
meeting will again be devoted to
revising the Student Association
Constitution.

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this rank distribution not only
brings SUNYA-Albany in line
with the major universities in the
nation, but it also offers the op-
portunity to establish an atmos-
phere that will encourage the best
kinds of faculty to come and
remain at the University. The
40-20-30-10 distribution has the
merit of offering the best junior
members on the faculty an oppor-
tunity for advancement to higher
ranks.” This view demonstrates
the idea of selectivity in refining
the permanent faculty by sifting
and sorting on a competitive basis.

The mean salaries should in-
crease with rank but “there
should be some overlap between
salaries in adjacent ranks.” Per-
haps this overlap will become the
balancing factor that will improve
the overall attractiveness of the

University salary schedule—
perhaps not.
CPCA’s Recommendations

were particularly directed at a
more precise articulation to the
criteria. and procedures in the
system. The three over-all factors
to be considered as criteria for
promotions and continuing ap-
pointments are (1) teaching, (2)
scholarship, (3) other services to
SUNYA or appropriate external
organizations. Under item (2), it is
recommended that the faculty co-
operate in evaluation of teaching
by Students and colleagues. This
includes observation of material
and structure quality from all
sides.

The added dimension of stu-
dent participation in course eval-
uation as well as in the considera-

tion of departmental faculty sta-
tus should result in an improve-
ment of the process whereby ten-
ure is granted. CPCA’s recommen-
dation fails to suggest a form of
systematic information that could
be gathered from the students;
according to the Committee on
Tenure, the consistency of this
systematic reporting is the neces-
sary quality of any effective stu-
dent voice.

The procedure of granting ten-
ure must observe the department’s
definition of its needs in the area
of the individual’s competence.
The reputation of the University
will, in fact, depend on the his-
tory of these appointments.

Yarmolinsky
to speak

Adam Yarmolinsky, chief
architect of the poverty program,
former Defense Department
“whiz kid” and now Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School, will
discuss “Law and Disorder” at the
third meeting of the season of
Freedom Forum, Monday, Feb-
ruary 16, at the Linton High
School Auditorium.

Yarmolinsky, one of the more
controversial figures of the Ken-
nedy and Johnson administra-
tions, played major roles in the
Defense Department as special as-
sistant to Robert S. McNamara
and in organizing the Office of
Economie Opportunity as Sargent
Shriver’s chief aide.

Conspiracy symphony

Continued from page 1

may agree with Abbie Hoffman,
who splits this country into two
nations--‘Woodstock nation’ and
‘Pig nation’-- or with Bobby Seale
who envisions three nations-- the
fact is that we remain residents of
one state with one judiciary.” A
mutual meeting without conflict
is impossible. “When the alien
enters into a culture, that culture
protects itself.”

However the protagonists~
Julius and Abbie Hoffman-do
agree. The rules are, “Choose your
side, cross the line and obey the

rules.” In Julius Hoffman’s eyes
the target was clear. According to
Baritz, “What prevented Judge
Hoffman from running a fair trial
was his fear that the entire Ameri-
can government was on trial.”

What prevented the crowd from
reacting enthusiastically is not a
hard factor to determine. In Bar-
itz’ case, the rhetoric was rarely
inflammatory. It was not aimed at
passion but at education and
understanding. “The professor
sketches his perceptions for all to
see.” The logical conclusion may
have been revolution, but this
crowd was not concluding.

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ALBANY STUDENT PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1970

A request for a moratorium on the alteration of
our natural campus environment was made to the
President at his press conference February 16, 1970.

“Everything in nature is related,” said Edward
Shaw, author of the statement. Such things as the
wanton destruction of trees and underbrush in the
campus lake area can upset the ecology. It is
important that we work with nature and not against
it, because nature will inevitably win in the long
run.

Shaw does not question the need for expansion
but he does question “the way the university
‘conforms’ to its natural environment...Expansion
should be sensitive. We have to show more feeling
for our environment.”

Shaw, a student at the University and a member
of PYE Club and Environmental Forum is also
concerned with the architecture of Edward Durell
Stone and its “obscene destruction of that which is
natural.”

“We have to recognize that the architect has a
moral responsibility to nature and to society...
think Stone does not recognize this moral responsi-
bility.”

The text of the proposal by Edward Shaw which
was written in consultation with Dr. Long of the

Chemistry Department is as follows: by Tom Clingan

Man is becoming increasingly aware of the rela-
tionship between himself and his natural environ-
ment; he is beginning to realize the tremendous
complexities that this relationship involves as well as
the awesome consequences that will inevitably
follow if he continues on his present myopic and

self centered course.

Because the University is responsible to society it
must commit itself to the confrontation of the
pressing issues of today. We of the University
community must begin to recognize that the sense-
less destruction of natural assets is taking place here
on our own campus. Even now the quality of the
pond environment is being seriously degraded,
principally owing to the indiscrimate cutting of
trees, both dead and living near the periphery of the
pond, and also to the clearing away of underbush,
is a favority activity of urban oriented

which

Strange as it may seem on this
campus, PYE club once again had
an excellent turnout Wednesday
evening. According to Erich Wal-
thers, PYE is already into “stage
two: action.” For the first ‘time,
anywhere, a scientific survey of
the amount of air pollution in a
given area will be taken. Five
thousand four-inch samples, coat-
ed with silicon oil, will be planted
by the city of Albany. The sam
ples, manufactured for this pur-
pose free of charge by General
Electric in Schenectady, are to be
cared for by these volunteers in
their backyards for a period of
one month, beginning in April.

engineers. (Also not to be overlooked are the stands

of trees behind the infirmary and to both sides.)

We feel it is imperative that the University begin
to follow a rational and sensitive course regarding
the alteration of its natural environment, particular-
ly since the University has adopted a role of
leadership with regard to the rest of society. It is
with these thoughts in mind that we propose the
following: the absolute guarantee that no further

Five thousand volunteers will
be needed to do this work, as well
as hundreds of people to distri-
bute and collect the samples.
Volunteers with knowledge in
Chemistry and Biology will be
trained by the Health Department
to accurately measure the amount
of dust sedimentation, lead con-

scientific.” The project will con-
stitute most of the scientific half;
the phrase “good, solid data”
came up several times. The direct-
ors of the group. largely graduate
students, have placed heavy em-
phasis on how careful and scien-
tific they are going to be. No data
will be released after the survey is
over until it is carefully checked
and verified. Volunteers will be
keeping track of the visibility all
over the 1,256 square mile area.
(Needless to say, people are need-
ed here, too.) The purpose behind
the survey is to show the Gov-
ernment, industry, and the people
of the area just how bad the
present situation is.

Professor Rienow spoke for a
short time about the temporary
defeat of the National Timber
Supply Act. The proponents of
the bill, which would make log-
ging the primary purpose of our
National Forests, had held off on
debate before, hoping by this de-

laying action to dry up criticism.

The bill, HR 12025, is back on
the agenda, due to come up dur-
ing the week of the 22nd. If
President Nixon is worried about
conservation, his Secretary of
Agriculture, Clifton Hardin, is not
she’s quite in favor of HR 12025.
All present were asked to write
their congressmen, as soon as pos-
sible. It worked before, it will
again, if all help.

A pre-Teach-In convention for
New York State will be held on
March 6 and 7 here in Albany.
Local environment groups are
trying to work up a fitting demon-
stration of our awareness of the
problem.

If you've read this far into the
story, chances are you're interest-
ed in PYE. If you haven’t already
joined, watch for the next meet-
ing. All kinds of talents are need-
ed - so many that everyone is
essential. You don’t have the
time? In a few years you may

cutting of trees or shrubs or plants, or alteration of have no Gime at all.
drainage, or introduction of new roads, ete. will be
done until a hearing is first held at which Environ-
mental Forum students and professors in addition

to PYE members and other interested parties of the

centration, total sulphur, and ben-
zopyrene.

It was emphasized at the meet-
“task-

University community are represented.
We sincerely request this proposal be answered

promptly.

ing, and at the specific
force” discussions which follow-
ed, that the main objective of
PYE is “half educational and half

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