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VOL. XXII AGRICULTURAL & TECHNICAL COLLEGE, COBLESKILL, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1967 NO.4 INAUGURATIONI WALTON A. BROWN TO BE INSTALLED AS SEVENTH PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE by A nne Swiskey ward Brewer , harpsichordist from The Inauguration of Dr. Walton City; Mr. James Car­ A. Brown as President of Cobles­ ter, violinist, a lso from New York k ill College will take place on City, as are Virginia n land, oboist Saturday morning, O{~to ber 21, and W.imberley Curter, violin ~ 1967 at 11:00u. m. in the Bouck ce11i st. Hall gymnasium. Although Mr. Dr. Brown, who took office on James J. Warren, Vice-Chu'rman December 1, 1966. succeeded Dr. of the State Univer si ty Board of Edward J. Sabol who resigned Trustees will preside al the cere­ to accept the position of Presi­ mony, Dr. Samuel B. Gould. dent at Sauk Valley Junior Chancell ol' of the State Univer­ College, Sterling, Illinois. Al­ sity, w ill officiate in the actual though he came to Cobleskill ins tallation. from Atlantic Community College, An academic procession wdl New J ersey, where he served as begin the program; delegates President, Dr. Brown is a native from the State UniVC1'sity, State Vermonter. A former resident Education Department, faculty, of New York City, he has served vi llage, students and alumni, in­ in education on the primary and cludin g former chief administra­ secondary levels in New York tors of the College, will be in­ S tate. cluded. He received his Bachelors De­ Assisting at the Inauguration gl'ee in 1950 from the University wiJl be Mr. Grosvenor at the of Vel'mont; his Masters Degree organ, Mr. Guernsey at the from P urdue University in 1951; CariJIon, the College chorus and his Ed.D. from Columbia Univer­ the High School band. Credit sity in 1958. should also be given to those other departments and individu­ The Brown family, which in­ als on campus too numerous to cludes two children, reside at the mention here, without whose President's house, which is located valuable assistance on the sid e­ adjacent to the Horticultural and lines, the program would not be Agricultural Complexes. able to takeplace. In the short time he has been An Inauguration Concert is on campus, Dr. Brown's presence scheduled fol' Friday· night, Oct. has been felt throughou t all 20, 1967 at the BOlick Hall thea­ phases of campus life. An active tre. The 120-voice student College and interested man, he has con­ Choir and the Col lege-Commun­ tinually kept abreast of what has ity Orchestra, as well as sever al been "going on", as well as ex­ top guest performers engaged for PRESIDENT WALTON A. BROWN ecuting the time consuming and the concert, wi II present a musi­ varied administrative duties of cal program that promises to be with the Tanglewood Chorus and another soloist with the Tangle­ his office. a musical highlight of the year varied soloist concerts; Dr. Henry wood Chorus; Miss Patricia Grig­ Although the highlight of the at Cobleskill. . Wing, Tenor, who has also per­ net, oboist, who has performed lnaugura tion ceremony is to be Among the guests performers formed with the Tanglewood as a member of the Cincinna ti Dr. Brown's inaugural speech. are: Miss P hyllis Bryn-Julson, Chorus and made numerous ap­ Symphony Orchestra and is cur­ those students who were on cam~ soprano, whose li st of distinguish­ pearances along theEa~t Coast; rently First Oboist of the Albany pus last year arc already familiar ed performances includes Singing Mr. Donald Millet', Baritone, Symphony OrChestra; Mr. Ed- (Continued Page 3) 2 H ILL· W HIS PER S Friday, October 20, 1967 EDITORIALS DATA PROCESSING whether he wants to lead the the musical talent of The Fugs, middle class life cherished by so The Velvet Underground, or The It seems that everything nowadays appears on some sort many, or whether he wants to American Underground. of card with rectangular shaped holes punched in it at multiple live boldly and li ve in a !Smaller Next consider art. There are spots w h ich to the huma n brain represent something similar to "non conformist" group that reg­ very few middle class people who a Sopwith Camel that was recently hit by the Red Baron. AI· ulates ideas and habits just as have ever seen an original paint­ though these cards h ave little significance to the purchaser, rigidly as their opposing group ing by Van Gogh, Picasso, or da does. Vinci. But these men are accept­ r egistr a n t, or the m a n on the str eet, to the world of business, ed by near ly everyone as the government, and public institutions they represent a specific This mass conformiity demand­ ed by even the non ' conformists greatest artists. Mass conformity action which has taken place to either their benefit or dismay. is easily seen when examining the and acceptance have made their Relerred to as I BM cards, these cards are the basic books cultural aspects of society. First, names great.: Mass conformity and records 01 the data processing .fields. These are the sentences, consider literature. The perfect and acceptance has also made paragraphs or stories that tell and show r esults, ideas, and lacts. middle class student is· subjected Andy Warhol the king of the non Ironically, the only people they are valuable to are those in data to the readings of the great conformist artists. processing. classics. The books of Homer, Politics is. probably the best But actUally how m a ny people are counted among th ose Chaucer, Steinbeck, and Fitzger­ example of the loss of individual­ labeled "programmers" or Key-Punch operators, or any 01 the ald are required readings. These ism in the . The other positions held within a D.P. center? Only a very select Ibooks are. necessary to help cn­ Democratic and Republican par­ ties are the two accepted parties few that have had the specialized training cim qualify for tnese lighten the thoughts of every stu­ dent. But how much value do in the United States. Regardless labels. Their numbers are lew but th eir task s are stagg~ring. these books actually have for of the views of these two parties With the world becoming more populated, more complex and students today? Personally, I and the views of third party more troubled, t he human m anua l processing techniques of past would say they have very little candidate, the number of middle decades could never begin to cope with what can be accomplished meaning for me. The obvious class people who would cast a by those few . and their machines. Yet so little is really known alternative to solve the problem vote for \ any other party is very a bout these centers and how they operate, the people in them of the dislike for classics is to. small. It is widely thought that and their tasks because of their complexity and scarcity at the turn to the books of the non the Republican and Dem.ocratic present time. conformist groups. But unless one parties are the only parties that We at Cobleskill are very fortunate to have our own Da ta has read poems by William Bur­ any respectable person could vote Processing cen ter for both administrative, faculty, a nd instruc­ roughs, Gregory Corso, and Allan for under any circumstances. The exact opposite· is true in the case tional phases. But how much do you know about it? About its . Ginsberg you have failed again to read the required literature. of the non conformist society. people? How they accomplish what they do, and what exactly The only choice left up to a per­ What respectable radical could do they accomplish? . . son is whether he rather have vote for a Republican or Demo­ Therefore, HILL WHISPE RS has produced an ON CAMPUS The I liad or K addish as required crat? Anarchy, socialism, fascism, article covering our D.P. center in an a tte mpt to acquaint the reading. and communism are the accepted student body with it. HILL WHISPERS hopes it will give a Music, art, and political viiews ideas of the non conformists. little insight into th e world 01 Data Processing, a nd your cen fer. also help to determine a person's In all of the cases considered, FGG social acceptability. What cultur­ music, art, and politics, the mid­ ally enlightened student is not cl le class and the non conformists awed by the name Mozart, Beeth­ form a rigid opinion or idea, and Letter to the Edi tor PL~STIC PEOPLE oven, or the Beatles? Much of any deviation from this accepted these peoples' individual fame thought is a threat to that par­ Editor, Hill Whispers: majority of them would wait lies in the fact tha t they are ticular groups' security. Plastic people or people who until they heard the decision of <:'.ccepted by mass opinion, not by Both the middle class and . the ca n b e molded, shaped or another before they would decide individual appreciation. The non ranks of the non conformists are formed into anything are walking which one to choose. These are conformists must counter this growing rapidly, but with their throughout Cobleskill's campus the plastic people. musical success by forming their growth, individuality is slowly today. r have concluded that there is own musical geniuses. No non being l ost. The fear of ostracism Students are too easily per ­ no place left for the individual conformist would ever condemn (Continued Page 3) suaded. They are so afraid to in our society. Middle class life in think for themselves, afraid to the United States is merely a believe in some one thing they game of observing, copying, con­ HILL W HI S P E R S STAFF- 1 967- 68 r egard as right because of fear. forming, and finally attempting Editor·in·Chief They fear today's society wilJ to outdo the Smith family down reject them. the street. After becoming tired· FRED G. GEERKEN There are a select few who of this a person can reject this Sports Reporter Business Manager have the' ability to think for life and try to find comfort by Bob Dermott Dick Ziatniski themselves. One example is a associating wi th the non conform~ nominee for freshman class pres­ ist groups. But a problem arises News Reporters ident. Although I do not agree when you final1y realize tha t non J udy Ellrott, Anne Swiskey, Sue Van Derlofske, , with his thoughts, he still ex· conformity is nothing but con­ Sandy LaMothe, Kathy Coahn, Barbara Tallman, Linda Shustz . presses his beliefs and feelings forming to somewhat radical freely without fear of other thoughts. The only difference be­ E xchange Editor Typists Photographer people. The only trouble with this tween the conformi ty of middle Barbara Tallman is that too many people follow class life and life in a non con­ Anne Swlskey Angelo Bracco him because they do not have formist group is that each group Layout Manager. Peg Chase their own beliefs. They need a has a different standard of ideas Judy Ellrott Barb Harris Faculty Adviaor leader, and he just happens to be or customs that must be accepted, Dale Brown there. or else a person is viewed as Judy Fitzpatrick David Johnson It students were given the being somewhat strange. The only Rose Gregory choice of heaven or hell, the choice a person actually has, is Friday, October 20, 1967 H I L L WH I S PE RS

A SMALL COLL EGE COLUMN INAUGURATION - cont. This year's Freshman class "appears to be a little more con­ or with many of his views on many scientious about their studies; a subjects. little more eager." They also A COLUMN ON SMALL COLLEGES Shortly after he took office, a appear to be taking their elec­ convocation was held in the by Kathleen Coahn tions seriously, he feels. Bouc1< Hall gymnasium a t which T he coopera tive and fri'endly Cobleskill 1967 time Dr. Brown advocated more v.tmosphcre which exists between A Proud Year- initiaitive in student self-govern­ students, faculty and administra­ - for a freshman president ment. "It is felt that students tion is onc that Dr. Brown finds - f or a growing sch ool must spend more time and energy appealing at Coblesk i1 1. CobJeskill governing themselves- get out on - for a gr eat freshman class has about it a "personal touch"­ the front line, so to speak" It is - for the departing class whi~ h observed it all the student is not lost in the his firm belief that the well­ shuffle and finds it easy to When I began her e the campus was educated student is one who will A comrade of mine identify himself with the college take responsibility in the freedom or some particular phase of it. And we grew togeth er that they create for themselves. For it was as new and un tr ied as Since that time, there has been Cobleskill's future is bright. A I was a noted change in student partici­ liberal arls program is being pation in student government, worl

Just exactly what is our com· corrected to D.P, language, and puter. then printed as your Perhaps 10 Well, Jet's see. years from now the computer Who prints the master for the will a lso revise the schedule, and student directory? CLYDE! then there will be no more "drop­ Who printed up the master add" li nes .... schedule? CLYDE! Who, or what, processes final Even though the computer can grades? CLYDE! be helpful in registering students, 'Who processed the registration it can also be helpful in eliminat­ cards, section lists, and perman· ing some, too! As our f:nllis are cnt records? CLYDE THE COM· graded, the final grades are PUTER! plugged into the computer by Who carries on the instant courl:ies. There they are rated mailing to high schools, prints up according to each student and the all mailing addresses and labels, quality point average is computed and even the deficiency reports? as well as the credit hours at· OUR BOY CLYDE! tempted and the credit hours Who scores many tests given completed. Students are then by teachers using the mark-sense rated by semester and those not rBM test scoring cards? CLYDE! in good academic standing are OOMPUTER GNOMES : Arlene, Pat, Mr. Ashworth, Oherie, Who electronically put you in listed. All this is done by the and Helen_ your classes for this semester in computer but the final decision 1/6 the normal manual time? on dismissals are made by hu­ ALIAS CLYDE. mans. The computer can't kick Did you lrnow that in Wheeler The heart of the computer is you out of college-so far . 110 there is a very impressive what it can "remember"-what Choice of electives would be it can store. Our's has the capa~ looking djsplay of machinery. It tremendous if the scheduling was Always keep in mind that a bility of storing 4,000 different is our Data Processing Ccnter­ done by the D.P. center in this computer is by far the dumbest a lphabetical, numeric, and special area. The only draw back is that contraption ever created. It is so two rooms tuB of equipmen t characters. In the near future, a the quality of education would be dumb, that you have to tell it whi ch the college rents at a cost matter of days in fact, the center lost if it ","as maintained this what it is, Computers ' do not of over $2985 a month- a price will have doubled the capacity way. T hat's why EACH schedule think. They process. They will with an additiona l unit of stor­ is first compil ed by hand, then worth its noise. For QUI' center tell back to you or digitally age; then D.P. students will be coded and fed into the machine, (Continued Next Page) is busy sixteen hours a day serv­ able to write more sophisticated ing administrators and faculty. programs which are systematic ar we lJ as the business students. pl:'Ocedul'cs used in problem solv­ It devotes its twenty miles of ing. T hey consist of two parts: wiring to student instruction 60% the flow charts which show sym­ of the time and makes such bolically ' (with illustrations) the courses as Functional Wiring steps that arc needed and from Computer Programming. Systems these charts the coding sheets are and Procedures, and Installation transcribed into the language to Management possible. All its fas­ be used by the computer. ci natin g buttons are available to students under supervised work A vital asset of the D,P, center labs. ii s its disl{ storage machine. The component is directly linked with The colJege can increase the the computer. Each di sc looks freedom of students' cho'ces in similar to a large record and it subjects by getting morc done in magneticall y stores information 1(>58 time. Certainly j ' is an Ii ke a tape recorder. When the expensive service, but it would information is needed, the disc is be morc expensive to pay the electronically scanned by t he staff to do the job m anually; not computer fol' the materilll asked because the human brain is ~dow, for. The disc cun stoi'e and retain bu t muscular action is. over 2,000,000 characters. "Is This Automation 1 1" Friday, October 20, 1967 H ILL W H ' I S PER S process the information that some ticability. The University is also human stored in it. To put it contemplating a project called bluntly- it is a big adding ma­ Remote Access at the University chine with a typewriter attached. Centers. At the centers would be high capacity computers which Administrative duties for the would be able to lio the data center are staggering. It helps in processing work of the other col­ Public Relations. high school leges in the area that would activities, vehicle registration, tl'an::>mit the work over lines. One s e 1 e c t ive service, scheduling, practical application of the com­ drop-add, marking, permanent puters is in computerizing libra­ files and etc., etc., etc. ries. where a machine will im­ mediately give the name of the PRESIDENT BROWN com­ borrower and the due date of the mented on the Center: book to anyone requesting the "Most co1ieges having a regis­ information." tration of 1500 students would Dr. Brown attended a special have some kind of data process­ school for college presidents and ing equipment but most of them he studied computers from an would not be able to justify it ad m ini strative standpoint. Dr. because the administrative serv­ White is going to a similar school ices would not require it- Drop­ and Miss Parke and Mr. Gaffney Add has certainly been better­ have already attended such in­ In the near future it will be a struction. Arlene, Helen and Pat Review Finished Programs. reality that students will be able Dale Brown to li sten to lectures that they Sandy LaMothe Burton. This year the freshmen other c.'Omputel' languages such as have misses through the Comput­ are taking a course in Functional COBOL, Autocoder, and Fortran. er Assisted Instruction-a piece Editor's Note: Credit must be Wiring, which is learning the Business Stat. consits of funda­ of furniture similar to a desk given to the members of the techniques of wiring unit record mental statistical theory applied with a TV screen and a dial DP 281 Systems Class for the panels. Since practical experience to decision making in business which will enable you to dia1 to writing of "Instructional Data in wiring is essential, this course through different appJications. the class session tha t was missed Processing" and "The Industrial i~ taught in four lab hours. Sec­ Installation management includes and see and li sten to it .The State Needs of Data Processing Per­ ond semester Principles of Com­ ph y s ical planning; operations University is now investigating sonnel," and "Humorous Side Of puter programming is required. planning; procedure development ; this, but is not sure of its prac- D.P. Instructors." Here the student first learns how and personnel selection, supervi­ to program the computer to do sion, and evaluation. Each stu­ certain tasks by using onc of the dent is also required to take many computer languages known three semesters of Accounting as SPS (Symbolic Programming and one semester of Office System). Machines. In the Senior year, the student General Ed. courses include must take Systems and Proced­ two semesters of English, Physi­ ures, Computer Programming I ca 1 EeL, two semesters of Math. tlnd II, Business Statistics, and Economics, Sociology, llnd Gen­ r n s t a ll ation Management. SYS­ eral Psychology. tems and Pl'o~edu res is an ex... ploration of systems through the Labs playa large parl in data study of practical business prob­ processing because 'hands-on' ex­ lems. Computer Programming I perience is the most important and II teaches thc student how to key to learning. In these two write pl'ogTum linstl'uctions in (Continucd Page 8)

Mr. ' Ashworth Explains About The Printer . INSTRUCTIONAL DATA PROCESSING Data processing is a relatively The data processing curriculum new curriculum here at Cobleskill consists of % D.P., Business, and but it has been growing by leaps Accounting courses and 1h Gen~ and bounds in its three shollt eral Ed. courses. It is necessary years of existence. In 1964, when that the freshmen first under­ D.P. began, the D.P. Center was stand the unit record equipment contained in two small rooms because this leads up to the holding unit record equipment electronic computer system. In­ and a 1401 Computer. This was troduction to Data Processing quite adequate for handling the (DP 181) covers the basic func­ handful of D.P. majors. Because tions in manual, mechanical, and of the large number of students electronic systems and the stu­ now enrolled in the curriculum it dents learn how to operate each has been necessaI'y to extend the of the unit record machines. T his Center into two more rooms. course is presently taught by Mr. The "Chief" Inspects The Results. ' 8 HILL WHISPER S F r iday. October 20, 1967 Instructional Data - cont. the studen t get valuable experi­ managers and supervisors, 95,000 gets in the fieild now, shows ence over the summer. Therefore, systems analysts, 175,000 pro­ competence, and keeps up with hour classes held once a week per i t sets up a Summer Work Ex­ grammers and 80,000 machine the latest of the ever happening course the studen t applies the operators. In this same year there new developments of the field, is principles tha t were taught in perience Program whereby the was a great shortage in each of 'ussured a good future. lecture to problems he may en­ student can work in a DP in­ these categories for qualified Many of the graduate DP counter when he begins wor k stallation and receive two credit personnel. majors of 1967 who didn't decide after gr aduation. In DP 181 and hours for it. The school will send Here at Cobleskill, many of Lo get their service obligations DP 183 the student learns to a letter to a prospective employer the DP majors supplemented over with first, stepped into good operate and the wir ing of unit telling them wha t the student has their classroom instruction with paying jobs which will give valu­ record equipment. In DP 186, studied. T hen jf the student gets summer work experience. Some able experience and training. 287, and 288 the studen t 1s d i~ the job and enough students in wor ked for the S tate at Albany, Four of the graduates are rectly concerned with writing DP get jobs in DP, the school and others worl{ed in private in~ worldng as programmers with programs in the different com­ will hold seminars worth two dustry. The duties performed by Agway in ci ti es spread t h rou gh ~ puter languages. He wHl write, credit hours. most of these people were mostly out the state.. One is working for test and debug his program The people behind all this are operating machines, with a little Remington in Ilion, Eastman utilizing the 1401 system. Mr. F ullum, Mr . Bostrom, and programming done after they be­ Kodak of Rochester li ned two, The college a lso tries to help Mr. Bur ton and Mr . Littlejohn. came familiar witih the system. starting them at $7,200 a year. This experience will prove very AnoLher graduate of last year is valuable when these people start teaching Data Processing in Her­ looking for full~time jobs. kimer. He is with the Board of There are about 120,000 pro~ Occupati onal Cooperation Service Ilrammers in the United States there. One other graduate went today, and there is a crying need on to study data processing fur­ for 55,000 more. As stated earli er, ther at Albany. eomputers are used increasingly Industry has a very real need in a widening fi eld of op ~ rati o n s, for .. trained dala processing per­ end the need for programmers is ponnel, and Cobleskill is do:ng its going to increase each year. T he part by helping students obtain futU re of data procesing is prac~ the education needed for these tlcally limitless, {tnd anyone who jobs.

FREEMAN ASHWORTH

Manager of Cherie Poses By The "Disc." Data Processing Center

The Industrial Needs Of Data Processing Personnel There is a great demand fo r efficient instructions, which will da ta processing in the business automatically check themselves world today. The present need is for errors, and make up the input greatly undersupplied and in the (data to be processed) for the future the demand for qualified computer run. per sonnel will grow tremen· There is presently a shortage dously. of trained data processing per­ S P EC IAL MESSAGE .... American industr ies, as well as sonnel, and therefore companies the various levels of government, must train many of their own insurance companies, banks and employees to fill the vacancies. WHO G.UARDS THE DATA BANK? large institutions, do an increas· It follows naturally tha t a grad­ Freeman Ashworth - Data Processing Manager ingly large amount of their rec~ uate with an A.A.S. degree in ord keeping a nd decision making Data ProceSSing will be afforded It is a profoundly erral\eous truism, repeated with the fast and efficient e l ec~ many oppo'rtunities for good pay ~ all copy-books and by eminent people when they are tronic computers. These comput· ing jobs with large established making speeches, that we should cultivate. the habit ers, in order to be economical, firms, who will further train of thinking of what we are doing. The precise op­ must not err. They will not make them and make them even more posite is the case. Civilization advances by extending errors if they a re properly pro· in demand. Managers for data the number of operations we can perform without grammed, and if correct i n form a~ ~ J' ocess i ng installations can ask thinking about them. Operations of thought are like tion is fed into them. F rom this for $20,000 a year and get it. cavalry charges in a battle-they are strictly limited we can see that in dustry need s Salaries of analysts vary from in number, they require fresh horses, and they must well trained data processing per· $12,000 to $15,000 a year. A sonnel 10 set up the in fol'lna Li on pl'Ogrammers sala ry can range only be made at decisive moments. flow system design lo program from $9,000 to $12,000 a year. In Allred Nor th Whitehead the computer with the most 1966 there was a need lor 40.000 (Continued Next Page) Frida y, Octo ber 20, 1967 HI L L W HIS PER S , SI)ECIAL MESSAGE - cont. A f ew days back I was approached QY a couple of a ttractive staff members of Hill Whispers and was asked to write an article on data processing. The scope of data processing has en­ larged to such a degree that it would be just as easy to write an article, say, on the topic of literature, or on 'fun and games', \ To save myself a nd you from the belaboring task of wading through the nuts and bolts concept of dp, I would like to touch briefly upon our responsibilities as handlers of classified and persona l infor ma tion. Possibly Mr . Whitehead was cor rect in his statement of how naUons progress. Computers and systematized data accu­ mulation/handling are opening doors into the unknown much fas l~r than the bulk of us can assimilate this new born know­ ledge. From a scientific Viewpoint, this is great. Where does this whirlwind of knowledge begetting more knowledge stop? It has been said that man has unearthed more knowledge of the unknown in the last twenty years than he had from the time of his be­ ginning up to that time. I will not take issue over the validity of tha t statement; doubtless the last twenty years has brought forth a wellspring of knowledge. And nowhere in history have so many people enjoyed so much or such a high 5tandard of living as has the present American society. Where does it all stop? Or does it stop? As we learn more and more about the unknown, our in­ Helen Warms Up The Sorter. dividual lives become more and more opened to the public. This data is being collected in a data bank along with infor mation THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF THE freshly collected on the atoms and the stars and the ocean bottom. Who is responsible for data in this bank? Who guards DATA PROCESSING INSTRUCTORS it? The day for a time shared computer with a remote control The following paragraphs nre Our newest member of the D.P. unit in ever ybody's living room is in the very near future. Who devoted to the beloved D.P. (Dumb Programmers) instructors will regulate what data people can extract from this data bank? (Dumb Programmers) instructors is Mr. Stephen 'Crazy-Steve' li'ullum. He attended that well­ . When I was a boy, I told a buddy of mine of my fondness here at Cobleskill College. We known upstate college, Platts­ for a member of the then weaker sex. I told this in the strictest hope to add a humorous touch to burg, which we all know is noted of confidence. The confidence lasted until he got out 9f sight. what may seem to be the dull for its Home Economics courses. It was spread around among the fellows like the seeds of a s.ide of Cobleskill . . Upon completion of his require­ busted milkweed pod in a September wind. The hearty guffhaws Many of the students here at ments, he graduatcd many years and chortels and knee·slappings !! I won't go into the miserable CobleskB1 are not too familial' later. With his degree in hand, details ... Needless to say, it taught me a precept: Information wi th the Data Processing courses he journeyed across the open rem ains a secret while only ONE person knows about it. recently esta blished here at Cob­ plains of Nebraska through the leslo ll. Righ t ? Well, we happen great Rocky Mountains and into There is information data banks need to have. There is Californi a, all for the sake of a other information that data banks should l).ave. There is info,· to have one of the best football­ playing theology minors that ever job. After a few years wi th the mation data banks should have no business having. At some time came out of Gannon College. Occidental Company, he retired in the near future a doctrine, determining the utilization of in­ Right Mr . Burton? to become a hippie. But since he formation in a data bank, will have to be formulated. Certain couldn't produce enough output Under his instruction, are some he was extradi ted back to New information concerning people should be classified information. of the basics needed for Com­ York State to work for our be­ Our society has gone along with J ohn Donne's philisophy that puter Programming, I think. One loved college. 'No man is an island unto himself.' It will have to examine the of the many courses that he other extremity as well: I'ND man's life should be a n open book.' teaches is Functional Something­ Here, we all know him for his Wliat information should a data bank be allowed to collect? or-other, which deals with .. uh .. instructions in ... and ... However, What should the ,estrictions be upoll the use of this information ? computers ? Well, anyway, this he could not forget his old alma i ~ Mr. Bur ton's first teaching maler, and many times he pleases F or example, it is one thing to collect information f rom his classes by bringing in some of people concerning the ir income taxes. This is vital to the economy assignment deali ng with Data Processing and we think it may hi s own homemade cooldes. None­ It of a nation. would be something else, should this information be his last! High t? Don't get us the-less, 'Crazy-Steve' is delving be used to produce mailing lists of all the people in the nation wrong, we happen to know that into one of the more complicated having incomes over $10,000.00, etc., etc., etc., etc. I leave you since he is a math major, he may aspects of computers. If he suc­ with the posed question, Who guards the data bank? be leaving us for some big coJlege ceeds, he will have been the first in the East. Saigon University I programmer to have a computer think they call it. produce chocolate-chip cookies as output. For those of you who can't CON G RATU L AT I ONS place Mr. Burton, just look for All kidding aside Mr. Fullum, his fellow basebal1 coach, Mr. we are glad to have you here. to the new officers of the Price. They go under the name But can we ask you one favor ? of "Mutt & Jelf". Until the call Could you please put a few more FRESHMAN CLASS . . ...' . of the computer beckons you a Irnonds in those brownies ? once more Mr. Burton, keep Mr. Robert Bostrom, or more Doug Dalton, J oh!) D. McQuire, , smiling and don't forget, keePI famillnrly known as "The Kom- Sue Brown and Karen Brown those shoulders high. . .RIGHT? (Continued Page 10) 10 HILL WHISPER S Friday, October 20, 1967 DATA INSTRUCTORS providing proof of his desire to learn as much as he could about puter Kid". having decided to computers. With this in mind, bestow upon the students here at Cobleskill College his vast knowl­ we can understand why Mr. B. is edge of computer systems, came so anxious to come to class each with hopes high last January to morning and decipher our pro­ conquer all Data Processing stu­ grams. dents and has yet begun to re­ "To r ead or not to read", are linquish his position or his Cherry his ' familiar words to all those Tobacco. who are cherished by his instruc­ Having graduated from Mich­ tions ·And we would like to say ig- un State UniVel"sity with an in final tribute to Mr. B., NO overwhelming amount of awards, DIAGNOSTICS, END OF RUN. Mr. B. wasted no time in coming These are some short quips on to Cobleskill. At M. S. U. he our valuable D.P. instructors. In was the only student interested all seriousness, they a re a great enough to extend a normal four bunch of guys! year course into six years, thus The DP 281 Systems Class

"YEAH, Eo -THIS IS THE'" ROOM ." Guest Artists To Highlight Inauguration Concert Little is being spared to make ments his full-time tcaching schedule Dr. Brown's Inauguration Concert a at Syracuse University with per­ musical highlight of the year at formances in opera in Binghamton State University Agricultural and and New York City. Technical College at Cobleskill. Mr. Miss Patricia Grignet, oboist, of Gosselini<, Director of Music at the State University College at Albany College, has announced that in ad­ has been a member of the Cin~ dition to the 120-voice student College cinnafi Symphony Orchestra lor 4 Choir and the College-Cornrnunity years. She has been active in several Arlene Runs The Collator Thru Its Paces. Orchestra, a group of distinguished chamber music groups in New York guest soloists will be featured in the City and has been a partiCipating Mohawk Students Charge Discrimination program to be presented on the · mtist at the Marlboro Music Festival evening of October 20. These in­ for the past two summers. She is Threatening to quit Mohawk The students said they would clude the following: currently First Oboist of the Albany Communi ty College are several leave Mohawk if action were not Miss Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano, Symphony Orchestra and teaches oboe, woodwinds, ensemble playing, Negro Students charging the city taken, and would demand refund of Syracuse University, for the past of discrimination in public serv­ four summers has SW1g with the and chamber music at the State of their tuition and other ex­ ices. Tanglewood Chorus and has per­ University of New York at Albany. The men say they have epdured penses. fonned as soloist in concert with Mr. Edward Brewer, harpsichord­ a series of incidents involving The Rev. Alan Sorem, assistant the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She ist, from New York City, is the has also concertized with the Con­ h 0 u s in g, restaurants, barber pastor of the First Presbyterian Director of Music of Judson Church temporary Chamber Player s 0 f in New York and is a member of shops, automobile repairs, and Church and a member of the the like. Columbia and Rutgers University the New York Ensemble, Manhattan local Human Rights Council, and is leatured as a sololst on a Barogue Ensemble, and Trio da Representatives of the State promised to find needed living new Columbia recording of con­ Camera. He is also on the faculty Commission for Human Rights quarters by Monday. temporary music to be released this of Columbia Teachers College. are investigating. Dr. WilJiam L. Freshman Wonder L. Scott of fall. J ames Carter, viOlinist, from New Gragg, president of the Fulton­ Rochester, a spokesman for the Dr. Henry Wing, tenor, of Elmira York City, ·is principal second violin­ Montgomery Community College, protesting group, said he had College, also has per(onned as a ist of the American Symphony Or­ told the Students: found the words "Nigger, go soloist with the Tanglewood Chorus chestra and is also a member of "I recognize tha t you fellows home" scrawled on his auto. He and has made numerous avpearences the New York Barque Ensemble. have a problem. We will do said he had spent four years in as a soloist in New York State and Virginia Bland , obist, from NeM' everything to help you solve it." military service, including Viet­ along the East Coast. Dr. Wing York City, is a performing member The students, not the only nam, and "I come back to this," teaches voice and choral music at of Ihe Judson Chamber Ensemble. Negroes in the daytime enroll ­ "How Can we concen trate on Elmira College. Wimberley Carter, violin-cell i s t, ment of more than 800, met with dissecting a frog in the biology Mr. Donald Miller, baritone, of [rom New York City, is a perfonn­ college a nd Human Rights offi­ lab and dissect a racial problem Syracuse University, another soloist ing member of the Ameriean Sym­ cials Thursday and Friday. too?" he asked. wilh !he Tanglewood Chorus, aug- phony Orchestra.