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I ...... ·- - ,. ·~· . -y 1l1c Ithacan. llhac,1 .:\ew York Oct~ber, 26, 1972, VoL XLVJ.No9 Ithacan, Cayugan Disband OCT 2 71972 lfHACA COLUGE LIBRARY Sei:iais Th_e_i:e ai:.~.. according to our info.nnation, I~ regards to ·The Ithacan is only another Perhaps the pain, the bitterness, the numbness than ten completely independent college manifestation of the general apathy which generated by the turbulent 60's is responsible. It newspapers in this country. And now there is one characterizes much of the student body of ithaca would seem that the same generation which, ten less. The Ithacan, independently incorporated College. (And perhaps we should not limit this years ago, was revolting against the apathy of the since t969, will cease publication following this prognosis to I.C.) One-third or more of the SO's has now reverted to the social mood of those issue. "quiet" years. How can we chastise our parents for Student Congress here is composed of This one cannot ·be blamed on Job Hall. This a lack of social concern? How dare we berate them representatives who were never elected. There was year's Ithacan has received more cooperation and for their concern with money, with alcohol, with . no reason to hold elections among their assistance from the administrators of this college suburban mate-swapping'? Consider for a moment constituencies because they were the only students than it could ever have expec,ted. No, the problem, how you would react if Mom and Dad stopped interested in the job_ When it comes time to sadly enough, lies with you, the Student Body. sending that generous allowance every week. appoint or elect students to various Congress and For eight long weeks the Editorial Board of this campus committees, the Congress Chairman, at a Check out the Haunt or the Someplace Else on a newspaper has implored the students of Ithaca meeting of that body, finds himself compelled to Friday afternoon-or A Salty Dog on a Friday College to get involved in their STUDENT literally beg people to join one committee or evening. Walk down the hall in any dormitory, on newspaper. "'.e ·advertisements in our pages. ran another. How many of you even voted in the last any floor, and catch the scent of ounce after You didn't answer ·them. We accosted you in the Congress election? Is nothing important save that ounce of marijuana as the smoke fdters out from Student Union, in Friend's Hall, in your dorms after-dinnerjoint, some good music, and maybe a beneath every door. What makes us so different and asked you to write, to· sell advertisements, to little studying if you have the time? from .our parents? What gives us the right to call help type or lay-out a newspaper. You smiled, ourselves a concerned generation? shrugged. and said .. I'm too busy."-Or you laughed Let us not limit our discussion to newspapers and asked "Are you crazy?" And some of you and Student Congresses. A small group of Ithaca College students, Cornell student'>, said .. Sure. I'd love to help out" and you never dedicated students has spent many weekends students in general--you blew it! You threw a came. A few of you did come, did write, did sell helping disaster victims in the Elmira area temper tantrum for ten years and when you didn't ado,;-and we couldn't thank you enough. It was following the flood there this last summer. Why get your way immediately you gave up. When your help that kept us going. were there not hundreds more willing to give up Lyn do~ Johnson and Richard Nixon didn't end Five or ten students. however, depending on the some time to assist fellow human beings in need? the War, you chose to forget it. When the poor of particular ·week. have been doing 90% of the wmk .J\lhy did the Free Bunch Federation, the bastion the nation didn't ·get rich quick you chose to invoh·ed in publishing a weekly newspaper. About of political activity on this campus,,have only two forget them. When blacks and whites, yellows af'ld fh"e of us are flunking out of school because S0-90 persons in attendance at its first official meeting of reds:) didn't come together as one, big, happy hours a week at The Ithacan doesn't leave much the year'! Why, on a college campus-which is family you chose to forget each other. And since time for studying. And where are those students supposedly the "center of enlightenment "·-is Ithaca College is,1't the paradise that you'd like it who are indignant when the Ithacan comes out there almost no communication between black to be, many of you, even as you go on living·here, late going to be when fiw of us are "asked to leave and white "communities?" And why is much of have chosen to forget Ithaca College. the school .. for academic reasons'? the small amount of communication which takes There are a few people on this campus who have One wonders wh.it caused this slate of affairs. place between these two groups unqualifiedly not forgotten all these things. Certainly we at The Our first impression is to look at ourseh·es and try -- negative and hostile? Have you even thought about Ithacan are not going to slip into a hole and forget to understand what we did wrong. Perhaps we this? our responibilities · as individuals to the varying made the mistake· of thinkinsz there are still . The Editor of the I.C. yearbook (who also has societies of which we are a part. We will be found ffltdents here who are concerned with the tragedy filled the position of Copy Editor for The Ithacan) at Job Hall, at Student Congress and _Community of Indochina _or the political inequity of will tt:nder her resignation to Student Congress on Council meetings. We will be working with the Tuesday night. It is expected that her entire staff_ Free Bunch Federation, the Rest of the News, and South Africa. But if you did!l't like our political will foUow suit. Do you have a right to complai,i? anyon~ e~se who CARES. We will still be actively orientation or the content ·of our copy. why didn•t What ha\'e you done for the Cayugan? What did concerned with Ithaca CoNeie, Tompkins County, }'.OU ·write somelhinJ yourself--we would h:ne ~host who complained about last year's yearbook the United States, Indochina, and the rest of the printeti it. ,WI!_,· didl1·1 you get. iawoh'ed? As much Jo to make it better? And what about those world. But we will not continue to forsake our as. we di..ajl'tt ¥1'ith the basic' philosophies of ~Ir. --organizations who last year refused to,accomodate · educatiQns, mill ·our health, aRCi deny ourselves D;aly ofth~ Hislory Department. we·can·t help but &he yearbook· staff (3-5 people) and get their any kinti of a personal life in order to publish a . respect him and th31lk him for acknowledging our pktures taken and then complained when they <Jid newspaper that only a smaH minority of you existence -by taking the time to write ·length}' not find their photographs in the book? deserves. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once coniments to us. - Wh~t are the roots of .this social apathy -\\-hich said, "Never before have we had so little time in 'It is our assumption-that the apathy ·of late in_- ~eem~ to haYe engulfed just about all of us? ~hlch to do so much." ' ~ . - ·..... ' , ; .\.""~l ·,• ~ .. ·:•"'•., -,·.~·-. \, \,V•> • • '-" •' - ,.,.-.-.. -.. .... ,,.-• .,,_ •• -....,-,--,.--._.,,,.. -~ •-~ • • ._ .,..,. -.'lo7 -,--" '• .,.. •·• Ji , SE 11 JI , .CLIIU il:'!cu~:..,~~- ~tlii'itfe'ihO~e_il?pfH . E.C. hH an AfrD wls, she came ca,.. Boise came back lO-Utiaca back from the west because of 99t flls111ad totether. the· neon. signs and too much blacktop lil'the mountains. FREE CLASSlffEDS ,". !- - - - .;j .ii~ -· It's Apt. number 9. Cniy cat ,et well Handle, To my friends of u,e Ithacan staff, Gamma Delta Pledges: Maybe soon I'll be able to'spend I'm really.sorry and ud to see It Srnlle-we love you! some time with you. Sorry I end. I know I, I newer find a job - Tfl• Sisters can't visit Moaner with you 1h15 quite like this one. Although I Center· weekend. know I wasn't a staff member it Fqr Sale: GE wuher/dryer was kinda fun having a small combination, 3 yn. old, sood z- I part of It aH. I just wish some co,nditlon, runs well, You bl- your big chance! feelings could have bllUI a little coppertone. ASklng $1 60.00 or different. I'll miss you all and I'll best offer. Call 272•5154 .Encourag. Happy Bu-lhday Don "''" my wort<. Good luck with evenings or 273-2121 -ays.