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MONTCLARION Happy Hallow Faculty to Vote On Strike Action unanimous decision cannot be that a tuition hike will serve to By AnnKaren McLean reached, he explained, then it will be reduce enrollments at the state The Council of New Jersey State up to the individual SG A 's to support colleges. Smaller enrollments would College Locals has begun movement or oppose the strike, without the necessitate smaller faculties, hence towards a strike action that could backing of the NJSA. massive faculty layoffs. prove "highly detrimental to the Messina expressed his concern Frank Mason, the state's student body of M SC," according to that the faculty strike may have an negotiator, has informed the Council SG A presided Mike Messina. adverse affect on a unified fight that the state needs time to "assess Council president Marcoantonio against the tuition hike pending for its position" in the Union package. Lacatena stated that the individual the state colleges. Genova concurred, He has stated that no further action state college locals will meet next noting that the state could use the will be taken on the issue before Dec. week to vote to authorize the council faculty demands to justify a tuition 1. to "call a strike when we feel it is hike. Lacatena and Messina agreed that necessary. Unfortunately, I think a LACATENA ARGUED that the that date is unreasonable because the strike is a bigger possibility now than faculty demands for job security will state's budget will be completed by it was last February,” he said, "probably help organize the tuition that time, and negotiations after that referring to the faculty strike fight." The union leader explained time will be virtually impossible. narrowly averted last winter. At a bargaining session between --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ' l the state and the union on Oct. 23, the union presented a package of Softer Exhibition demands that include a salary increase and job security. MESSINA STATED " A faculty strike is not to our benefit...we Removed from MSC should be concerned with getting the education we paid for." He expressed his desire that theSG A's of the state By Donald Scarinci colleges "remain a third party in the Over half a dozen of Sasson Soffer's metal sculptures were strike situation. That vandalized last Wednesday evening resulting in removal of the decision — whether or not we exhibit from campus, according to Harry Rosenzweig, cultural should support the strike on a programming director. statewide level — has to come from In a meeting with Vincent Calabrese, vice president of the New Jersey Students' Association administration and finance, the insurance company and the (NJSA). sculptor, it was decided the exhibit would be taken down and President of the NJSA Angelo removed from MSC. Genova said that the matter is at the The work is presently being stored in Life Hall and will remain present time "subject to discussion," there until further plans are made, said William J. Kervick, director and will be finalized at a meeting on of business services. MONTCLARION/Rod Benmuvhar Saturday. "A ll the member colleges ACCORDING TO Kervick, the artist claims four pieces with a have to be in agreement as to total value of $22,000 were completely destroyed, and two pieces JUSTICE LECTURE: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas addresses a whether or not they want to support valued totally at $7000 require repair. group in the Student Center ballrooms Tuesday night. the faculty strike," said Genova. If a Softer, said Rosenzweig, was hurt personally by the news. He explained, "Something like this is a very personal thing to a sculptor, it's like someone hitting your own child." Rosenzweig views the incident as a tragedy for MSC. He said the Douglas Lecture Leaves tragedy isn't in the damaged sculptures alone, but in the blow it caused to the morale of those who worked so hard to bring them here in the first place. Unanswered Questions Kervick said he attributes the vandalism to the fragility of the sculptures and their location in "a bad spot." He said if the insurance company saw the exhibit before they accepted it, they By Peter Fischl would probably have dropped the coverage. KERVICK REMARKED the art is easily destroyed. When you industrialization and non-industrialization purposes. "Y o u have the right to organize and march on the think of metal, he explained, you think of something almost state house or on the Congress," lectured Supreme "What did it cost us to get where we are today in indestructible; but that is not the case with this work. "It is done in Court Justice William Orville Douglas on Tuesday terms of other values?" he asked. He defined "other such a way that the pieces are balanced and welded in very fine night in the Student Center. values" as pure air, water and wildlife. tangents,” Kervick assessed. "Law and the quality of life today" was the topic "ORGANIZATION" SEEMED to be Douglas' key As a result of the damage, Kervick said he is "reluctant to ask discussed at length by the 82 year old justice. word. "People sit back and say, let the experts handle the state to display that kind of item again unless it is under a 24 it," commented the justice who sees the hour guard." Somehow, the champion of the liberalist conglomerates as an enemy of the people, "but then James Lockhart, director of security, said he would not be able movement fell short of his reputation. Conservatively the corporations get it by default." to offer a full time security guard to watch the sculpture because dressed in a white shirt, tie and grey suit, Douglas there is no room in his budget for one. urged the people to organize. "B e militant," he said; Speaking of corporations, he mentioned that "only Rosenzweig agrees that people should be made aware of the but he did not say how. 18 nations in the world today have a gross national product equal to the sales of General Motors." expense, time and difficulties of a public art exhibit. If people know "YOU CAN'T just write letters," he explained, other people are watching ard care what happens on campus, maybe Turning for a moment to the energy crisis, Douglas gesturing often with his hands. "You've got to get incidents like this would never happen, the programming director explained plans presently under investigation to erect down to Washington and bang on a few doors." added. a solar energy plant in Arizona that could produce However Douglas failed to say whose door should be SOFFER MIGHT consider other college campuses for his work, enough power to light every school in <f'e United banged on. said Rosenzweig. He noted that the artist has pieces at N YU and States. "But," he injected with a note of sarcasm,"the The only specific criticism expounded by the Harvard which have been "reasonably secure." reason nobody likes solar energy is because nobody elderly justice involved ITT's payment of one million In regard to the insurance money, Kervick said Softer would owns the sun." dollars to the C IA for the subversion of the late Dr. have to submit a formal claim in writing stating exactly what he Allende's Marxist government in Chile. Following the speech, there was a question and would expect to get. answer period during which the Justice evaded Kervick said if the artist put in the claim of $20,000 to $25,000 An ardent conservationist, Douglas devoted much questions, answered them in an effort to circumvent as he is expected to, he would have to justify the value and show of the time to the ecology issue citing Vermont and the issue, or ignored them. that he has actually sold things in this price range before. Oregon as leaders in "classifying" land use for V J 2. MONTCLAftlON/Thurs.. Oct. 31, 1974 COLLEGE GIRL to babysit. Especially In the mornings when schedule permits. Must have own TODAY, THURS., Oct. 31 MON.,MOM MNov.aw A4 transportation to Glen Ridge High School Vicinity. Call 742-1213. H A LLO W E EN : All day. LECTURE: Arthur Pont on "Eastern Mysticism-A Christian T R IC K O R T R E A T : for Unicef. 9 am to 3 pm, Student Center Understanding." 7:30 pm, Student Center Meeting rooms, fourth WORKING PARENTS need male or female students available for Lobby, Sponsored by CINA. floor. Sponsored by Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. occasional babysitting for two active FO RU M : "Inflation and Your Future." Noon to 4 pm, Student SE N IO R R E C IT A L : Patricia Ferrara, oboe. 8 pm, McEachern boys. Must really like kids. Own Center Ballroom B. Sponsored by Economics Club. transportation desirable but not Recital Hall. Free. absolutely necessary. Edgemont M A C M EETIN G : Open to all. 6 pm. Student Center purple LEC TU R E: Imus in the Evening. 8 pm, Memorial Auditorium.