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- --FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 . 1976 Statesmannd Stony Brook, Ne^w York Volume 20 Number 33 - -'- ' 'Dittnbu fit ofcffd ot dy Wendaw n FidPi* a J __~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i[ Polity Protests Dormitory Closings CONFRONTATION: Polity President Gerry Manginelli and Secretary Kevin Young confront Executive Vice President T. Alexander Pond and Public Safety Director Robert Cornute in the Administration Building. Disc Mhatr Wrhen oll thm AForme Bvew I IBj L*AWmamQNCZ IMUNu - mustao n-'BI**''u-uain unra asur oemonM reieM»ts» mne -recomeniuduamtion was iiigiier wnei aui biie cuior were _,ilmm y 50 students, lby - n - _"-nC anted thebody (the Resknee dopen and down when they were dosed. PoUT' PresidentPo~ty Pr~sidentFnyBarr"iy ,M1angineflll, '.., we won'to' go,"o" theh pOtest went to Life Advisory Comitte)" which, he Gray Colege Senator Mitchell Schme converged on the Administration University President John Toll's office a d d e d, were unanimous said that he disagreed with him and felt Building yesterday afternoon to protest and occupied his conference room. -ecommendations. "What is sacred to that anyone could break into a closed the closing of most dorms for Although Toll refused to see the me is the [decision-making] process,"'dorm and have "a four-week picnic" for intersession. delegation, Assistant Student Affairs said Adams, who added that he did have stealing property. Kelly D Senator "bThese people," said Douglass Vice President Emile Adams, Acting the power to override the decision on Michael Durand doubted that Phelps College Senator Keith Scarmato, "are Residence Life Director Roger Phelps, housing, but only under mitigating was really concerned with the welfare of representative of the whop :tudent and later Public Safety Director Robert circumstancethe students. Comute sad that with body and [have ] the entire campus Comrnute sat down with them. Higher Vandalism Rate one-third to one-half of the student behind them." After occupying the Adams claimed that the current Phelp cited that the vandalism rate(Continued on page 5) t " [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ F- Construction Fund Calls HSC Ceiling Legal By DON FAIT they were proved flammable. turned out not to comply with The flammable ceiling tiles The manufacturer originally the codes," said Curley, adding in the Health Sciences Center claimed that the tiles were that "Up till now the comply with all applicable non-flammable. According to Construction Fund has born building ordinances, according C o n s t r u c t i o n F u n d the cost of replacement." to officials of facilities Coordinator Joseph Curiey, the He said that eventually they planning and the State remaining tiles, although may file a claim against the University Construction Fund. flammable, are located in areas architect for the cost of Associate for Campus , where they posed no serious replacement, which according Planning Al Ryder said, '"The health hazards. These areas are to George Marshall, Director of plastic grids are part of mainly small offices, with Environmental Safety, cost electrical fixtures and are not fewer than 10 occupants. several hundred thousand actually 'ceiling tiles'. These Curley claimed that if a fire dollars. may cover a certain area in were to break out in one of At a public hearing compliance with the code." these rooms, although the conducted in the Union The material does cover the ceiling grid might catch fire, yesterday, occupants of the entire ceiling area in many any flames and gasses would be Health Science Center testified rooms of the HSC. The panels, confined to that room. that the ceiling tiles in question made of metal-plated styrene Bought and Installed were located mostly in plastic, are easily ignited and When asked why this ceiling secretarial offies, out of range bum quickly, producing toxic material was installed initially of public activity. At ameeting smoke and gasses. if not safe, Curiey replied that conducted jointly by The panels originally the architectural. firm that Assemblyman George covered much of the area of designed the building specified Hochbrueckner (D-Coram) and the Health SciencesCenter, but those materials. But according Setauket resident Letetia were replaced by aluminum to state law, all plans should be Bradley, occupants of the panls of similar design in reviewed by the Construction building said that the material hih-risk areas, such as the Fund. "The contractor bought existed in only 20 percent of library, corridors and the and installed what was the structure's ceiling makeup central elevator cores, After specified, what was specified (See story on pa~ 2). It for less than two seconds. wI 'A -- I I -41 or I News Briefs Hochbrue ckner Holds Hearing By ROBERT S. GATSOFF the nation, and causing pollutio a; - The tint beadr into the with its waste." ] Move to Block Hopital State Uif Ooo Kissinger Warns of Soviet Power Fund wA eld in the Union She then told Hochbrueckner yesterday by State that her organization would Growing Soviet military power is the greatest long-term tuhreat Assemblyman George move to block the opening of facing the West, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Ksinger told ~Holrmt (D-ot m). the HSC's 540-bed University North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO foreign ministers Speakers ranging from lospital, which is still under yesterday in his farewell , sources said. dbgnmtled students who have construction, until the present Kissinger, who leaves office Jan. 20, also brought assurances from been exposed to carbon sewage treatment plant X President-elect Jimmy Carter that the United States will trengthen monoxide since the Health upgraded. In addition, she called military and diplomatic ties with the alliance. Sciences Center opened, and for the construction of an 1he secretary's 45-minute speech came in a closed-door session, handicapped students who face on-campus tertiary waste but officials who attended passed its substance to reporters. difficulty moving across campus treatment plant with ground According to those officials, Kissinger stressed the importance of and through building, to water recharge for the sole use detente, but said accomodations with Moscow, no matter how community residents who blame of the University. successful, are no substitute for military security. the University for their pollution Frank Krotschinsky, a Stony He urged NATO to reject a Warsaw Pact proposal that the two problems spoke at the hearing Brook undergraduate confined blocs agree by treaty not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. which ran all afternoon. to a wheelchair, spoke of the Kissinger said the proposal is an unacceptable restraint on Western Although there was no large problems he and the other options in the event of attack, according to U.S. delegation sources. crowd present at any one time, handicapped students there wm a constant flow of encountered when using people to the hewing. University facilities. "One big Carter Reassures Russia Strong's Neck Civic problem is with the elevators," - Association President Jean he said. "Quite a lot of the President-elect Jimmy Carter sent a public message of reassurance buildings are inaccessible when to the Soviet Union yesterday declaring through a former defense Beckwith complained of "the the elevators are broken, which secretary that he has a "deep desire to find the basis of incredible amount of sewage happens quite often. It's understanding" with the Russians. that this city, the State impossible to use the Library, at The informal message was expressed by Cark Clifford, who University of New York at Stony Brook, is dumping least the upper floors, if the headed the Pentagon under former President Lyndon Johnson. He Library." into Pet Jefferson Harbor" after elevators are broken." told reporters after lunch with the President-elect that he got the Other problems of the impression Carter will instruct his secretaries of state, defense and undergoing only secondary Hochbrueckner said he was aware of the problem with handicapped were discussed treasury to "join in finding the basis for this understanding." treatment in the "antiquated including inadequate ramps, Warren elevators installed in the and outlawed" sewage plant undersized bathroomstals, and a adjacent to Port Jefferson Library and other campus Assembly Toughens on Crime shortage of parking spaces buildings. "A fire in the Harbor. She then commented on reservned for the handicapped. basement destroyed some of the Assembly Speaker Stanley Steingut announce; esterday that a bill the"absurdity of building a "There are only 43 said to mandate prison terms and to provide other stiff penalties for Health Sciences Center, circuitry in the elevators," 'handicapped' parking spaces in those convicted of violent crimes against the elderly will be prefiled probably the most modem Hochbrueckner. "It's good while over -200 special some ways that this in the shortly for quick action by the state legislature when it convenes in center for giving health care in handicapped stickers are given January. out each year," said Monica Steingut, at a joint news conference at the State Office Building Roth, a handicapped student in with four other Democratic Assembly sponsors of the bill to amend the School of Social Welfare, the state's Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Law and Family Court who is getting field experience Act, called it '"the toughest piece of legislation I've seen in a long working with handicapped time." students on the main campus. The Brooklyn Democrat said the bill calls for mandated prison "A handicapped parking space terms for serious crimes against anyone 62 years and older, increased should be within 200 feet of the penalties, tougher restrictions on pleabargaining, denial of youthful building it is serving. There are offender treatment in such convictions, and removal of juvenile none of these spaces for the new criminals for intensive rehabilitation. Student Union, Library or Lecture Center because of where Millions to Assassination Probe they were built." After Roth finished speaking, I The House committee investigating assassinations of President Hochbrueckner asked her to John F.