Vol.28 No.3 ROSARY HILL COLLEGE, BUFFALO, N.Y. ' MARCH 18,1975 The Urge To Merge

by DEBBIE TOCCO “Even without consolidation, “If the State lets us call it issued to students graduating Rosary Hill js going to survive,” ‘University’ these would become from “Rosary Hill Division of X said Dr. Robert Marshall. The colleges of a University,” Dr. College.” Dr. Marshall would like aim of consolidation is to raise Marshall said, “What we name it to see the identity of each college the academic quality of Rosary depends on the source of financial participating in the merger Hill and a few other area private aid and encouragement.” preserved to the greatest extent colleges. “It would be to our possible. benefit and to their benefit to Dr. Marshall is not in favor of consolidate. It’s not to our benefit bussing students from campus to Although the issue of consolida­ if other colleges fold. We don’t campus for classes at U.B. is tion is not primarily an issue of offer whey they _do,” Dr. currently doing. If a student is survival for Rosary Hill, the Marshall explained. ; ' living at Rosary Hill and taking financial plight of the colleges most of his or her courses on a involved could be a decisive The possibility of merger is, on different campus, it would be factor in the merger movement. a scale of ten, about six and a best for that student to live on the Dr. Marshall said, “ It would be half. Dr. Marshall commented, other campus during that semes­ wise even if they weren’t in “If it happens, I would like to see ter. For those inevitable courses trouble. They had the idea- ten it within twelve to eighteen that must be taken on a different years ago. It’s just easier now.” months.” campus Dr. Marshall said, “It A consolidation would cut down would be easier to bus the facul­ expenses. “I see the majority of Conceivably, the merger would ty.” . savings in the administrative work like this: Rosary Hill would area and in a divestiture of probably merge with two other Dr. Marshall is convinced that property,” Dr. Marshall added. private colleges (total student the academic standard provided population not to exceed 3,000). will improve because of the inters Dr. Marshall sees a possibility e The new conglomerate would be play between those colleges of all divisions of X College being called X College. Hypothetically, merging. Consolidation will not housed on one campus eventu­ mm there could then exist the Rosary necessarily effect the academic ally. Rosary Hill has the neces­ Hill Division of Liberal Arts at X foundations of RHC. Thesis and sary property available to build divestiture of property of the Although Dr. Marshall has College, Y Division of Health Co-seminar Would be retained as upon to accommodate the expect­ other schools. “ If you were going admitted that there is more inter­ Sciences at X College, and Z requirements of the Rosary Hill ed student enrollment. Monetary Jo build a college today, would est iru. merger on the parts of Division of Education at X Division of the new college. backing of the construction could you put it in the city?” posed Dr. other administrations, he has College. Degrees would conceivably be conceivably come from the Marshall. assured that the possible merger has nothing to do with the fact that the RHC administration is ; Currently non-contracted. “ It’s a ! completely different question,” Rosary Hill Response: i he emphasized. | Before the merger becomes a Question: What is your opinion “When I first came to Rosary l reality, a study will be conducted of the possibly merger of Rosary Hill in 1973 I was impressed with ! to determine whether or not there Hill College with other private Merger the small college atmosphere. I ! should, in fact, be â merger. If colleges in the area? mean the ‘close-knit family’ of ! the conclusions of the study indi- Place: Rosary Hill College administrators, faculty and I. cate that a merger would be Campus “It would probably be a good Personally, I can see many students. I-feel,that this close­ beneficial, it must be determined idea but. there are certain advantages to this concept, being ness, which is unique to Rosary in what ways the merger will “The question to be asked at problems that would have to be adopted by this college. However, Hill, will be missing if the merger take effect. this point is ‘With what colleges worked out — problems being: the final determinations of this takes place. The decision to would Rosary Hill merge?’ It which campus would be used as a plan would involve extensive merge is not mine. I just hope “A particular person in the seems to me that the only private central facility and who would preparations, planning and skill­ that the people involved make the community, well-respected and institutions within the vacinity make administrative decisions full management.” right decision. To Dr. Marshall neutral, a recognized leader in worth merging with would be and what facilities if any, would Dr. Stephen Adorian, and the rest of the administra­ the community,” according to Canisius College and Niagara be closed and who would detef m- Admissions tion, I wish them the best of Dr. Marshall, will head the study. University, which I do not believe^ ine those closings. In practical­ luck.” Dr. Marshall continued, “Who­ would consider such an action. ity, I would find it an extremely “If it’s the only thing to keep Brian McQueen, Student ever the leaders of the Rosary Hill College has been hard plan to implement iq Rosàry Hill herej it’s good. But if - community are who put this thing known for its academically Buffalo, New York because of the Rosary Hill can survive on its together v will put together a superior educational system, < distances between the colleges own, then nq,” consulting team.” This team will above that of other private insti­ involved.” Dave Domboski, Student “The most important thing is decide if and how Rosary Hill tutions in the area. Such an Lames Chase, Student that Rosary Hill continues be­ should merge with area private attempt to consolidate with those cause we can offer a form of colleges. ~ remaining likely candidates “ It has been my experience “It’s inevitable with the education that is just not avail­ would therefore, in my opinion, ' that many of the Universities and decrease in perspective college able in the State system. Merger “If I’m involved, the student be a hindrance to our present College systems in the country students, that some type of may bring difficulties, but will be,” Dr. Marshall added, “I academic standing. Keeping in . are considering adoption of thè merger appears to be necessary they’re well worth risking and propose we all become equal mind the. sole purpose for an ‘cluster college’,, concept. The in order to. provide quality overcoming.”. partners in a new college. A good educational institution, a merge basis of the concept is small private education. Since V . " Fr. Don Wangler, viable academic unit is what should only be considered if a “da group interaction. For example, consider "Rosary Hill College to Campus Ministry you’re after.” or die” situation is imminent for the University of Buffalo has a be one of the strongest of those Rosary Hill College.” . Health-related college, a Social considering consolidation, I be­ Christine Barto, Student Sciences college,. Living Learn­ lieve that it would be to the bene­ NOTEi I would like to thank all ing centers, and so on^Eurther, it fit of the various institutions in­ of these students, friends, faculty “I’m for it if anyone can is my understanding that if volved to join together to make a “If it means the difference be­ and administration alike who convince me that it’s genuinely to Rosary Hill College were to strong institution of private tween dying out and continuing have been helping me through anyone’s advantage.” merge with other private colleges education.” as a viable institution than I’m all my injury. Peter Siedlecki, in the area it too would adopted Sister Marie Therese Dixon, for it.” * Thank you, English Faculty the cluster college concept. Math Faculty Linda Etzel, Student Dennis W. Morley Page 2 THE ASCENT MARCH 18,1975

Dear Editor MEMO TO: The Campus^ Community

Dear Editor:

On behalf of Phi Beta Gamma MEMO1 TO: The Campus 2. The Middle States Associa­ r Fraternity, I would like to thank Community tion has informed t us that Dr. all the people who helped us in FROM: S. Marita Lannan, Francis J. Mertz has agreed to raising money at die Mardi Gras O.S.F., Vice President for serve as* chairman of the team for the Allan Johnson fund. Academic Affairs S.M.L. that will come to Rosary Hill Col­ lege in the fall. Dr. -Mertz is I would also like to thank Larry Executive Vice President of St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, Griffin, Manager of Food Ser-\ There are three pieces of in­ vice, for contributing a bottle of New Jersey. He earned his B.A. formation which I should like to from St. Peter’s College and a Seagrams blended whiskey; and shâre With you. also a fellow brother, who con­ J.D. from New York University. To the Editor: tributed a bottle of Great Western I wish to address this to the un­ Granted, parents may or may not Champagne. $32.00 wasf raised 3. ;Dr. Marshall has appointed signed letter in the March 4,1975 approve of their son or daughter from the raffling off of these bot­ 1. Dr. Alvin P. Lierheim/er, (reappointed) the following edition of The Ascent. I do have to smoking pot, but this is not the tles, and then given to the Allan Associate Commissioner for faculty members as chairmen of agree with one statement made issue. The way the law, not Johnson fund. Higher Education, has informed their respective concentrations in it. Dr. Marshall did state on a parents, is written, is that it is us that our proposed program for a three-year period. local television show that he illegal to use, sell or have mari­ Again, Thank You. leading to a B.A. in Humanities doesn’t play the role of loco juana in your possession. has been registered on an interim Business & Economics, Mr. parentis. Well, I’m sorry if this Sincerely, basis until such time as a formal Ralph DeVito; Education, Dr. comes as a surprise, but neither Perhaps drugs are just another Russ Lupi, ^ visit is. made for evaluation Edward McMahon; History & does Tom Steinberg or the Resi­ way of coping with the boredom President of Phi, Beta _ purposes.'IUsually such a visit is Government, Dr. John Starkey; dent Assistants. > of giving here on campus, byt Gamma Fraternity planned to coincide with that of Psychology, Dr. Richard what have you, the students who Middle States.) Cimbalo. The conception of the people wrote the unsigned letter done to which I have spoken with, in­ get activities here on campus, cluding faculty, administration and w hat’s wrong, with off- and students, has been that Yin campus involvement? Maybe it’s loco parentis” means in place of about time you MADE a life here Veterans! What's The Difference? parents. To my knowledge, the on campus arid get involved. law is not considered parents. Name Withheld Institutional Training^ No 1 2 , Ea Add On December 3,1974, Congress Dep Dep Dep Dep enacted the “Vietnam Era Full Time (12 hrs. and ffioi'e) $270 $321 $366 $22 Dear Faculty and Student Body, indeed. Rosary^ Hill College can . Veteran’s Readjustment Act,” 240 ‘ 275 On Saturday night, .February boast of basketball players and % Time (9,10, llh fs.) 203 17 increasing benefits and financial % Time (6,7,8 hrs:) 135 160 182 11 22. a basketball team represent­ fans who enhance the excellent entitlements for our type of ing your College was defeated by reputation of their school. Less than half-time or Educational Institutional Train1 Active Duty Enrollment ' a team of our seminarians 59-56 ing. This increase was made at our gym. The final score was In earning the respect of those retroactive to September 1, 1974. not important; the experience of who attended the game, Rosary To illustrate, the graph below the encounter was significant. Hill College scored a victory not Tuition cost, not to exceed rate of shows the new rates and general $270 mo. for full-time indicated by the meaninglessness requirements to receive them. It was a pleasure for us to. host of a final score. 195 mo. for % time (This table is forVeterans under 130 mo. for Vz time or less, > this group of young men and the chapter 34 only.) fans who accompanied them. ' Good luck in the future and but more than lA time 65 mo. for lA time. Their values of poise, re­ please know that it will be our* Note: Rates differ during sponsibility, sportsmanship, and pleasure to welcome you here summer school. tions evaluated at less than 30 per Loan programs, these are be­ genuine Christian * charity de­ again. cent disabling no longer must coming increasingly difficult to signate them as a “c4ass” team Sincerely, Other programs which felt sub­ de m o n s t r a t'e p r o no u n ce d g e t; - Thomas J. McQueen stantial increases were the Work employnaeni handicap to be eli­ Study Program, the Tutorial gible for Vocation Rehabilitation Dear Members of the Campus Assistance Program and the Trainirig. . Community: Vocational Rehabilitation Pco- Any questions about the above We would like to extend a Allen Johnson Cerebral Palsy- •^gram. In addition, veteran’s who There are also Educational areas should be directed to Bruce sincere thank-you to everyone . Fund, Versailles Volunteer Fire served after World War II and loans available to veterans under Hart, the Vet-Rep-On-Campus. who contributed to the AJlen Company, Versailles, New York before "the Korean Conflict, or the GI Bill; if the veteran is Mb'. Hart is on campus every * Johnson Cerebral Palsy Fund. At 14168. after the Korean Conflict who qualified to receive it. However, Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 Rosary Hill, we contributed have , service-connected condi- as with all Federal Education p.m. and is in room DS 230. , $153.00 to the fund drive. A special mention of appreciaj tion should gcLto the members of ' As of February 27, 1975,.a total Phi Beta Gamma Fraternity as of $7700.00 had been collected. well as all the Individuals who The goal of $10,000.00 is expected participated in the collection ef­ to be reacheaVery soon. Anyone' forts. „ * wishing to make an individual Gratefully, . ponafion may do so by mailing it Richard Pemick directly to: Barbara Sheehan

The Ascent Rosary Hill College

Student Publication

Buffalo, N.Y.

Tuesday, Maich 18, 1975 Vol,28No.3 , Co'-Editors-in-Chief ...... Darryl David Amato -Tony Violanti Managing Editor ...... ,.. Debbie Tocco Contributing Editor ...... -Linda Neider Contributing Editor ...... John Wroblewski News S ta ff__ Karen Klifick, Cathy Jensen * Marie Fortuna “Acting” Photo Editor ...... Debbie Vullo Business M anager...... — Chris Siembida Art Contributor ...... John Keller Staff: Janet Elmer, Qru Hettrich, Mike Ostrowski, Lynne ' Schimminger, Sue Moore, Mary Ramage, Shelly Bove.

X MARCH 18 ,1975 THE ASCENT Page 3

What's the Future of RHC Theatre Arts?

by CATHY BALL JENSEN

“The most important thing Cheryl revealed that the in- Sister Marita produced figures Sister Marita acknowledged, 7 The recommendation from the that's happened is that the spirit ming freshmen have some showing a dwindling number of “It’s a very substantive change. student faculty meeting will go the concentratiôn used to have is istrange notions about the pro­ students in Theater Arts in the The* students, here like RHC but to the Educational Policies Com­ dead. We’re tired .of paying $4000 gram of „Theater Arts here. “A last five years. “This program is thqy want to be theater people. mittee. The EPC’s recommenda­ and still having to fight fdr some­ girl came in the other day. She ynpossible to maintain. JVe had It’s rough at times to decide what tion will be passed on to Dr. thing.” Cheryl Arnold, president didn’t know there wasn’t a dance to look for viable alternatives. are the priorities. They’ve looked Marshall. of the Theater Arts concentra­ program. She thought the stage What we’re looking at now is a at alternatives, at foundations. tion, looked across thekxafeteria. in the theater was a classroom.” B.A. in English with a sequence They really worked hard, but She continued, “We^kee|> talking Cheryl glanced downwards and in Theater, like Education has. without success.” Dr. O’Neil ‘shares Sister to the administration to see if we said, “We tell them ‘you can get Isn’t it always the English Marita’s belief that Theater Arts can/havethe quality we once had. through with a not-so-bad educa­ teacher who is asked to put on the may be more integrated into the We can’t get what we’re entitled tion. But it’s not worth the plays? As far as employment, college with this, move. “We hope On Thursday, March 6, the Theater Arts will be a more vital to. There’s all kinds of ridiculous money. The first year is great. both of these capabilities are Theater Arts concentration held courses listed in the catalogue * You get individual attention, you good assets.” part of college life. Perhaps Art the meeting in which they would students will be able to get into that we don’t have. Gene have conferences with your decide what recommendations Lenahan is a tech major. He goes professors. It builds confidence. scene design. The quality m the they would give in regards to '.program won’t be diminished. to U.B. or Buff State to complete You get the Basics. But aft«1 that their concentrations continuance. his requirements. He still pays — nothing.” We’lJ have the same program and $4000 though.” Dr. O’Neil shared the outcome of the same faculty . , A.B.A. in that meeting. English is also better in the job . gfev \ \ v ;.^ * £ -*■'. £ $\ ¡ ¡ t ¡ 3 -■ - • ,, Cheryl is presently a. market. It might enhance the sophomore Theater Arts major. chances of graduate school.” “Next year there will be no junior She placed the folder on the class. We’re all leaving. I don’t table. “If we maintain -this se­ quence, we won’t be losing. There “We made a commitment to Theater Arts has been one of know about the freshmen. Maybe the on-cam pus people to “Instead of eroding, we wanted they’re like we were last year. will still be productions to enrich the concentrations most severely' college life.. When I first came complete the B.F.A. and B.A. in to make a positive step and re-' hit by the recessibn. Decreasing You’re doing what you finally Theater Arts. This is with the generate. The students would like want to do. But you really get dis­ here there was* a Drama Club, enrollment and the high cost of a •open to everyone, There are very minimum-faculty of two. We to see the program go out grace­ Fine Arts program will ul­ couraged fast. Sometimes I feel asked for recommendations from fully rather than limp out,” said bad saying these things but as a others with performance in them. timately result in the disconti- I know it seems like a step back­ the two and for student reaction the Chairman. nuation of Theater Arts in its student/1 have to look at what my and input. We’re going to drop the money is getting me. It’s not wards, but in terms of student in­ present form. volvement,'it , could be enrich­ B.F.A. for incoming freshrjlen worth it Anymore. Every person and retain the B.A. for one year.” in the Theater would stay here ment.” It has been said that “theater but ydu can’t take the risk any- Ç jS S F pebple” are a breed different iiiore. I never wanted to; leave from the others in the main­ here, never.” She stopped as if to stream of life. Though this new contemplate on the words she had program has . became an Sister Marita Lannan, Vice5- spoken. She leaned her head to She continued, “We had to economic inevitability, the President for Academic Affairs, one aide. “The worst thing*of it is make this decision in view of the Theater Arts majors are not comments, “Fine Arts is the —we’ve run out of solutions. The Both Sister Marita and Dr. situation in the country and the easily reckoned to its positive most expensive area. In theater sophomores last year stayed on Elizabeth O’Neil, Chairman of world. We can’t go from semester aspects. This feeling is a difficult you need money for royalties, blind faith. They stayed to. keep the English and the Theater Arts to semester" That’s how we got one to express to other.s. A s_ costuming, staging . . . If you tiie concentration alive, and they concentrations, have talked with into this, on what may be. Rather Cheryl ended the interview, she can’t put on a quality program, can’t transfer. They’re getting the Theater Arts students. They than bring freshmen in for a B.A. pointed out, “You don’t realize you shouldn’t have one. And if the shitty end. Theater is money. know how the students feel. But or B.F.A. in Theater, we’ll bring what you’ve got till you lose it. I you don’t have students, you To get quality theater, you need they see this change as an un­ them into English with a se­ think someday they’re 'gonna can’t afford one.” moneyrNo money, no quality.” avoidable one. quence in Theater Arts.” realize it.”

Panel on 'Higher Education In Period of Recession'

by MARIE FORTUNA In answer to where the jobs stress situation. I pay attention to “I’d advise freshmen to get in­ the only fconsideration ANY­ “Maybe the optimum vocation are, Dr. Marshall said, “There the interpersonal relations. volved in part time work or a BODY' should take. Is the in­ today is wine waiter in a lumber are 40 openings for college presi­ That’s the way social agencies summer job to build rapport so dependent exploration of one’s camp,” Dr. Marshall joked. dents/’ Audience chuckled. operate,” Jack Wiley said. that you will be able to get full interests a luxury? Every hour, time, work later. Chances are you spend in- a bank is an hour Panelists discussed whether “What professionals need skills better that way then they are if spent away from Keats, Shelley college education would help in are power’politics. They need you come in cold after gradua­ and Aristotle,” he exclaimed. After the panel, Dr. Paul persons jind jobs^ insights into community or­ tion,” Mr. Carballada suggested. (The audience laughed and Hennin added, “I would always ganization. That’s where the jobs Mr. Ralph DeVito, chairman of applauded.) prefer to be well educated rather Mr.4 Jack Wiley, Director of will be,” he added. Business and Economics than well trained. If I am well Program and Staff Training at Concentration said, ^‘Labor “Is Co-Op for every one?” educated, people will be glad to the YMCA, praised the Co-Op “I’d be much more inclined to Department statistics are wrong asked Dr. Moran. Linda Oswald, train me. program at Rosary Hill. “I have hire a person who has had the persistently. First we read personnel director of Sample, 198 Resumes in my file. Mostly' practical experience Co-Op,pro­ engineers are needed. Then Inc. felt that Co-Op is an the right from persons who have B.A. vides than I would to hire a col­ engineers are NOT needed. Now track. She also believes college degrees in the social sciences. lege graduate without the ex­ there’s a shortage.” How to train education itself with out Co-Op is Sharing a bit of her personal Keep as many options open as perience,” Mr. Carl Carballada, students for specific jobs when. valuable. experiences Dr. Hennin^ saidj “I possible. Graduate School is. one Vice-President of Manufacturers What skills are needed? Where can do any work without humilia­ option. Co-Op program is and Traders Trust Co. admitted. are the jobs? That’s what the tion, because I have a sense of another,” said Mr. Wiley. educators wanted to know. Dr. “Co-Op experience will put you identity. I have worked as a land1 “If I could put a student in the Moran felt people” should not put 10 or 20 points ahead. But a scaper, as an embassy assistant, “The YMCA has some Rosary bank for a year as part of his their lives totally in the hands of liberal arts degt#e shows me, a anii as a dqpr to door sales per­ Hill students as part ofrCo-Op. education, we could teach him the market.” person has the ability to learn, to son. I can do it. I have a sense of What I watch for in employees is management skills. How to make survive. We need the liberal arts my own identity which I gained the potential for leadership in a loans for example,” he said. “The economic reward is NOT imagination,” she said. through my fine education.” Page 4 THE ASCENT MARCH 18,1975 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To ...

by TONY VIOLANTI

done counseling m all phases of soft sells and no sells at all. I’m a Why don’t people call her Diane care. soft sell. I try to get students to or Mrs. Carbonelli? talk about themselves. For most “I started a woman’s liberation people that’s the most interesting “People call me Dee because I movement at Hartwick. Women’s subject to talk about. always put that on my jbooks lib is a misnomer. Liberation when I was m college and it stuck involves equal rights for all. Men as a nickname,” Dee said. “I should have the right to do what “I won’t sell Rosary, Hill to don’t feel old enough to introduce they want. All people should ha we someone who might just end-up myself as Mrs. Carbonelli. the option to fill whatever role transferring to another school. I Respect doesn’t come with a title, that suits their particular needs, sometimes have trouble with it comes from what you are.” whether man or woman. It’s only Rosary Hill’s image. I’m a girl, in the last five or ten years that representing a private school. Are funny things—^ still people have been questioning People think of it as a CatJjolic happening to Dee Carbonelli? their roles.” school — Rosary Hill doesn’t sounds Jewish.” • “The first time I went out on Eventin' her serious roles, thé road for Rosary Hill, I got lost strange things keep happening to Dee quickly lit-up a cigarette near Watertown, New York,” Dee. ' as she talked about her job. Dee said as she leaned back in her chair. “I finally wound-up on “Once people have a stereo­ a side road. A cop came by and “Once I had to drive a girl type, it’s hard to rg-educate told me to follow him. He pulled student to the hospital,” Dee said them. Being a female in ad­ away but my car wouldn’t start. as a silver chain bracelet jingled missions work has advantages The transmission was broken. on her supple right wrist. and dis-advantages. It works against me because it re- “When I applied for the “On our way to the hospital a informces the stereotype of admissions job at Rosary Hill, I Diane Carbonelli cop pulled us over. I was driving Rosary Hill. It works for me if a was suffering with a severe cold. my husband’s car and his name male Will look at me and my My husband came with me for Once while visiting a high help that I live on Tootsie-roll was on the registration. The cop presentation. You can tell the the jpb interview and he school on her job as an pops, I’m addicted to them” Dee looked at that, then he asked to * guys who flirt by their first answered most of the questions. I Admissions Counselor, Dee _ said as she held up an almost see my license. I had just gotten questions. Some of these high kept nodding my head. Carbonelli got lost trying to find empty plastic Tooste-roll pop married and my license was in school guys are pretty big.” the ladies room. Dee was trying bag. “They’re good, they keep my maiden name. The cop was “Another time on the road, the to find her way back to the the pimples growing strong.” making memervous and the girl Today the role of admissions office let me use the college school’s guidance office when a in the car was just shaking to counselor’s has changed. “It’^ President’s car. I stopped at a hall monitor stopped her. Dee Carbonelli is a physical death. I told the cop I wasn’t tough for small colleges to gas station and when I was ready “Students have to use the other image of the All-American girl. speeding and asked him why he survive,” Dee said. “Years ago, to leave, the car wouldn’t start. I door/’ said the monitor. “It was Her'lightesome body is accented stopped me.,‘I wanted to see what admission counselors could sit called the school, then 1 called bad enough ta be stuck in the by dark hazel eyes, freckles and the inside of a Javelin AMX back in their iat chairs and wait my husband. Two mechanics haliway but I also had to go to the sandy brown hair. She’s in her looked like,’ the cop said.” for students to come 'to them. worked on the car but it still bathroom like a racehorse,” Dee mid-twenties but she’ll probably They just can’t do that any­ wouldn’t start. Finally, I gave it laughingly recalled. A student look' like 17 forever. Her As an Admissions Counselor, more.”. . v- one last try and it worked. I still finally showed Dee the way back appearance belies her Dee visits high schools and junior have no idea what was wrong to the office. experience. Dee has seen the colleges, to tell prospective Dee pointed towards a small with the car.” } » world, and dealt with harsh students about Rosary Hill. “My metal filing cabinet on a book­ “Two minutes later the hall realities. job gives me an opportunity to case in ha* office. “Each of those Dee Carbonelli has a monitor came- ba

Reprinted by permission * about them. Horse and rider in “I guess it was “Gunsmoke” George’s independence opened possible, then he should be American Horseman and the' perfect accord. Nothing unusual, that got me started,” George the door to double pleasure in allowed to. No one has the right to Author C. Feb., 1974 written by unless you know that George is notes, “Do you remember Ches­ owning Little Ott. Frustrated by hold a person back just because Holly English Payne. Edited for handicapped. Born with cerebral ter, the sheriff’s deputy with the needing assistance to mount; he happens to be handicapped. It Ascent by George Krantz. palsy, he is fulfilling a childhood bad leg? He used to ride all the George set out to teach Ott to is up to that handicapped person dream — to own, train, and ride time, and being young and kneel on command so he could to discover what his own limit­ ations are and for him to decide Presently, I am Jn th e , his own horse. impressionable as I was, I step aboard with ease. Playing it figured that if he could ride, I by ear at first, George began by what he is going to do with his * Medical Records curriculum.' Daily rides in the green rings could, too.” teaching him to tuck his head life.” Five years ago I began a and paddocks of Tally Ho Stables, down to his chest. Extending the friendship with Little Ott; an surrounded by leggy show horses left leg came next, then combin­ When asked what his parents unusual name, a unique horse. and racing trotters, George is far ing both steps. “A piece of carrot think of their one-time cerebral away from a childhood filled with is the reward for tricks well palsy poster child riding almost To see George Krantz and his the awkwardness of heavy metal George’s riding started slowly. done,” says George. daily, George claims they think Little Ott loping around the ring braces. After two operations at * He was first able to try riding at it’s great. Ott’s blacksmith point­ . at Tally Ho Stables in Brookville, the age of 12, the braces were no. the age of 17 while vacationing, “Tricks became as satisfying ed out that compared to the aver­ Long Island, you probably would longer necessary,^ with his family on a farm. He im­ to me as riding,’,’ he continues, age horse, Ott might be consider­ not notice anything unusual mediately decided he wanted to “and I imagine they are és ed spoiled. “But he has to be,” keep riding, renting horses not important to me as shows and explains the blacksmith, “This is far from home. Eight years later, jumping are to the rest of the a vary special horse for a man he met Ott. “He’s a great horse,!’ stable.” They frequently perform with a special situation. To find a exclaims George, “He had to be for the children around the stable horse and owner so well suited to pretty patient with me at first. and their repertoire includes each other is rare.” You should have seen me the first bowing, shaking the head “Yes” v - N |§! summer — I was like a little old and “No,” crossing the front legs I sold Ott shortly before lady. It took me an hour to get with the head drooping ‘!like a coming to Rosary Hill, but we ^him tacked up and out of the stall, drunk horse’! and the funniest had four great years. You at least five minutes for me to looking trick- curling the upper know, I never did find out how ease myself into the saddle and lip as though he were laughing. then I would go out into the ring he got his name. After, visiting for a record-breaking 10-minute George dislikes asking for help. him during the Thanksgiving ride. I would get very sore if I “Î don’t think of myself as being . recess', lean report that he has rode longer than that. Now I have handicapped,” he says, “I judge a fine home, he remembered ridden for as long as an hour and myself by what I can do, jiot by a half. That isn’t much for the how I look. I beliéve that if some­ all of his tricks and I have not ■ average rider, but quite an one really wants to ride and he is forgotten him. improvement for me.” determined and it is at. all MARCH 48,1975 THE ASCENT Page 5 Rosary Hill Reach Out Part I: Social Work Field Experience V

Part I: Social Work Field Experience by MARIE FORTUNA

Editors Note: This is the first in a series on Marie Cieplirtski, who does RHC student services to and group work and individual coun­ involvement with the commun­ seling, started 4jje ‘Big Sister’ ity. program. She gets frustrated sometimes: “Lots of the girls “I chose Roswell Park Memor­ have -Character disorders. That ial Institute as my placement be­ requires lengthy treatment. You cause I wanted to work in a medi­ have to get them motivated. cal center .with the terminally Sometimes they don’t really want to come for counseling.” ill,” said Louise SalamOne. Some social work field experience students: left to right — Robin Gabner, Pat Ardino, “Skip” Mahler, Len Williams, Louise Salamone, Pat McCue, Dick Pernick, Barb Lutner, Mike Schiffier. Fourteen students from the Field experience gives Louise Social Work Concentration work and Marie opportunities to test in various community agencies Louise Salamone’s duties Related, “She seemed to be a “I really enjoy my work as their potential for social work and institutions as student social include anything that meets the pillar of strength. She had lived caseworker,” exclaimed Marie and their interest in the particu­ workers. Interviews with two of immediate needs of the patient. with uncertainty and tension for Cieplinski, “I do intake and lar field they have chosen. They them follow. years. The brain tumor had been follow up.” Marie chose Ingleside learn how to apply theory to . $ “IJielp hirtrget medical cover­ discovered four years earlier.” Home, a residential center for actual practice. They gain the / “Dying is so lonely,” Louise age and financial assistance,” adolescents in crisis, as her ability to work well with the regu­ lamented, “The hardest part of she said, “I contact his relatives. “Tests showed the boy (now 8 placement. / v i lar staff. They discover other my work is knowing when a Most of all I help patients gain the years old) had an inoperable community resources and other person wants to talk about her deeper self acceptance they brain tumor,” she said “The disciplines. They learn hojv best fears. I’m glad I read Elizabeth - need.” mother came apart. I was able to to help the clients. Kubler-Ross’s book “On Death * help her by sharing her concerns. “The girls have emotional and and Dying.” I had a chance to I could relate to her very well be­ behavioral problems,”,. Marie What each student learns he or identify each of those different cause i have' a four and a half said, “Lots <*f girls’ family struc­ she shares with others during the phases a person goes through. “The in-coming patient has to year old son myself.” tures are very bad. The volun­ weekly seminars. Denial, anger, bargaining, cope with role change,” she teers in the ‘Big Sister’ program acceptance.” . ■ t continued. “ A change from thp “Facing the death of a patient will help a lot. The girls need a -Other students presently in role of an independent person to squarely is '¿ornetifnes difficult role model. And they need a field work a re :,Barbara Lufkin, “A helping person needs to that of a patient. The person’s for the doctor, too,” Louise noted. friend outside the agency. They Shannon Shipston, Robin Gabner, have a lot of insight to sense reaction^to this. role-change M - are inside all the time. The girls Harold Mahler, Patricia McCue, when a person is ready to talk,” , varies. Family reactions vary, 1 “This doctor had just lost two who are pregnant even go to Jackie Navarro, Richard she explained,“To feel with the too. The patients and their of his patients and the third (Hie school inside Ingleside.” Fernick, Pat Ardino; Mike Schif- person what he or she is feeling, families always need help with was in the Jourth and fatal stage fler, Leonard Williams, Clara that’s what I want to do.” adjustment to a whole set of new of the same disease,” she contin­ Schillaci and Lisa Rafferty. A roles.” ued, “He felt a sense of personal partial listing of agencies they ... “We’re all afraid to die,” failure. He couldn’t tell the wife “They need to get out more,” service are: New York State Louise said, “People have ego “Once I had to accompany a that her husband was dying. I she admitted, “Twice monthly Division for Youth, Linwood' defenses for a reason. It’s defin­ woman to Millard Fillmore was able to help him. And I help­ we take the girls out to a nearby Community Services, Children’s itely wrong to break down those Hospital where her child was ed prepare the wife for the death school. They use the gym, the Rehabilitation, Gateway and The defenses.” tested for a brain tumor.” Louise of her husband.” pool table.” Psychiatric Clinic.

: '■v— . Co If er - Distado Wedding SA Plans Activities by JOHN J. WROBLEWSKI “You had to practically beg Association plans a three day people to vote, but when they “Spring Weekend” to bé held off- hear about a mixer with free campus, with live music and on- beer, they come,” said Dennis campus activities as well. Also Morley, Chairman of the Student funded are student clubs, Governing Board of the Student recognized by S.A. individual Association. students presenting papers, and game room equipment. “We’re sick of people complaining and asking what “The idea is not to stereotype we’re doing with their money.” us,” said Dennis. Deftnis said, nursing a broken shoulder, “in the first place, it’s The Association has-voted upon not their money.’-’ a resolution which bans S.A. parties, T-shirtS, or mugs funded Thdre has been confusion with student money. Also, past among many students who- members of the Association ere believe that the Student Asso­ going to have to start paying to by JOHN J. WROBLEWSKI ciation is getting all the money get into S.A. functions. Only collected from the student fee. As current Association members Richard “Ma Hen”. Colfer and Deborah DiStacio, two former this money goes into the general now get in for free. Rosary Hill resident students, were married Feb. 22 in Lindenhurst, budget fund, this is not the case. Long Island. Dick was art influential member of the Phi Beta Gamma Dejmis’ biggest problem is fraternity, and took part in Student Government as President of the “We would like to have just half apathy. No one wants to go Resident Student Association. Debbie, also involved in resident their money,”;Dennis said. through the work of arranging a politics, arranged a modern wedding service, complete with folk coffee house if “no one attends.” music, and a gospel reading from Dick’s proud father. With less thap-$6,000, S.A. has Meetings of the Association are ambitious "plans for the usually not closed, and any The couple will be residing in Dick’s home state of Maine until remainder of the semester. They interested students can* get in September. Their address wjll be available through the Ascent office have already scheduled movies, touch with the chairman at Wick c'o John Wroblewski. mixers and coffeehouses. The Desk. # MARCH 18,1975. Page 6 THE ASCENT t

Ten Best Movies4 v-‘„ . / |of - the p Year m . f“ / % T ^ * Crowds Escape to the Cinema

by DARRYL DAVID AMATO Thé movie business in the first six months of 1974 was slack. Few Supporting players continued With “The Godfather” and its folks saw two of the year’s finest the upgrade begun in ’72. Sam sequel, Mr. Coppola has not only — “The Sugarland Express” and Waterston excelled as the like­ directed the definitive gangster “The Conversation.” “The Great able, accommodating Nick picture, but he has preserved on Gatsby” gof unjustly panned,” Carraway of “The Great Gats­ film for life some classic scenes by critics and audiences alike.v by.” William Atherton and of the Italian folk experience — Michael Sacks ably abetted ■fhe twoYwéddings in “Godfather Then, in mid-’74, some things Goldie on, “The Sugarland I,” , the opening funeral proces­ happened. There were more de­ Express.” Melanie Mayron and sion and New York’s Little Italy liberations on Watergate. A Geraldine Fitzgerald triumphed holy festival in “Part II” come President resigned. The price of in the “Harry and Ton to’ ^ cast. first to mind. • sugar, and almost every other “The Godfather Part II” com­ supermarket item, went up. Peo­ bined the phenomenal talents of THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS ple got laid* off. People got fed Robert DeNiro, B. Kirby, Jr., — SECOND BEST PICTURE OF ■ up. So, as in the previous re­ Michael V, Gazzo, Lee Strasberg THE YEAR-! A number Of cession-depression,1 they took and John Canale, all in meaty wonderful talents merge - and umbrage in the nearest movie mobster roles. emerge in this well-scripted, house. Where they got the three well-edited film, based upon a bucks to get in remains a With “The Conversation” and true incident that transpired in mystery. My guess is that a lot of “Godfather II” to his credit, Texas in 1969. Palatable Goldie ‘families forsaked the trip to-íbé Francis. Ford Coppola emanates Hawn plays to perfection the in­ r~ Falls this year, ahd instead, as the most ambitious, artistic curably romantic hysterical spent their summer leisure time director of the year. Also superb mother Lu Jean. She helps her watching Barbra Streisand make and promising is Steven Spiel­ confused, loyal husband (William strained mirth* in “F6r Pete’s berg, director of “The Sugarland Atherton) escape prison, then Sake” and listened to Helen Express.” convinces him to hijack a police Hayes speak English to her car and a state trooper (Michael Volkswagen in “Herbie Rides • Yes, 1974 WAS a good year, Sacks) in order to reach Sugar- Again.” almost as good as that golden land where they hope to reclaim 1972 movie season. The year’s ten their baby who has been adopted. . By Christmas ’74, Americans best, in order of preference, are: were seeing the gamut, every­ Thá*e are so many admirable thing from the blockbuster THE GODFATHER PART II — things about this movie. I think I sequels (“The Trial of Billy BEST PICTURE OF THE like the escalating carnival «Jaek,” “The Godfather Part II”) .YEAR! The final chapter -in atmosphere best. ‘Sugarland’ isa Dreste Baldini, as 11-year old immigrant Vito Corleone, gazes to corny porno comedies (“The Francis Ford Coppola and Mario clear4exposition on,how modern longingly at the Statue of Liberty in “The Godfather Part II.” Groove Tube,’’ “Flesh Gordon” ) . Puzo’s driving film chronicle of ihass hysteria can turn common Crowds, escaping the American the Corleone Mafia family r We petty criminals into American LENNY—Dustin Hoffman and watch,v in awe as Coppola un­ folk heroes. Also hilarious is the THE CONVERSATION — pblitical-ecóndmical disaster, Francis Ford Coppola’s earlier Valerie Perrine enliven the swarmed to the film disasters twines the 1959 inherited criminal gradual increase of tail-gating rise and self-afflicted moral des­ patrol cars from one to an innum­ 1974 masterpiece, not as sweep­ downhill, depressing life story of (“Airpdrt 1975,” “Earthquake,” ing and etertainipg as his ‘God­ “obscene-mouthed” comedian “The Towering Inferno” ); cent of MichaelX^orleone; inter­ erable' motorcade. Lenny Bruce and his drugged-up twined with the hard knocks saga V- " fathers,’ but certainly just as personal and perceptive. Gehev wife Honey. Bob Fosse adapts a For moviegoers4, jp théâtre Of his immigrant father Don Vito)* The first 105 minutes of this quasi-documentary style which, who paved the American road to picture are the most hysterically Hackman, as a sad and lonely owners, film producers, direc­ surveillance expert, is the contrary to expectations, raises tors, writers, actors and criminal power for himself in the funny minutes of high-powered the. pathetic, dramatic level of 1920’s. comedy capers ever put on film. centerpiece. Audiences did not actresses alike, 1974 was a pros­ flock to “The Conversation.” It the couple’s lives. " perous; year. Gene Hackman Just preparé yourself for an in­ A1 Pacino continues the cold­ evitable catastrophic climax. ran no more than two weeks in - (“The Conversation’’); Richard most cities. Perhaps this thriller - Dreyfuss (“The Apprenticeship ness of Michael, the all-business, all-mighty, unreachable, under­ . CHINATOWN — The funniest, on the dangers of bugging was too CALIFORNIA SPLIT — Robert • of Duddy Kravita” ), Dustin Hoff­ reminiscent of the Watergate man (“Lenny” ), Art Carney world bastard boss-of-bosses. We sadest, most enigmatic detective Altman’s wierd, wild, Very, very feel the absence of Marlon thriller within memory. Jaok wiretapping mess, an American funny simultaneous celebration (“Harry and Tonto”) and Albert tragedy we were trying to forget Finney (“Murder on the Orient Brando as Don Vito and Richard Nicholson and Faye Dunaway and castigation of gambling. Castellano as Clemenza, but simmer together on the corrupt, when we went to the movies in George Segal and Elliott Gould _ Express”) share Best Actor ’74. No matter, it’s still one of the honors. In the Best Actress cate­ - Robert DeNira’s young Vito and fizzling streets of Los Angeles, are out to rival Newman and B. Kirby, Jr.’s young Clemenza Circa 1930. Something’s rotten in finer contemporary film master- Redford as celluloid buddies, but gory, Goldie Hawn (“The Sugar- works. It deals with problems land Express” ) ranks first, with are more than-^adequate 4jA, but everything’s perfect in the most richly comic per­ compensation. “Chinatown,” including the that deserve our fear, worry and formances come from an extra­ Delores Taylor, the stalwart urgent retribution. pacifist in “The Trial of Billy penetrating details, ATe clever ordinary cast of no-name extras. Jack,” running a close second; Nino Rota’s music, mainly symbols, the cunning foreboding followed by Valerie Perrine jubilating mandolins and of events, Róman Polanski’s (“Lenny”) and Faye Dunaway lamenating violins, heightens the direction and Robert Towne’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT (“Chinatown”). tragedy’s emotional effects. script. EXPRESS — A parade of film THE THREE MUSKETEERS prominents assemble for an ele- — The wittiest,combination gapt, colorful production of a satire-slapstick we’ve seen all glittering, exquisitely mysterious- year. Richard Lester directs the whodunit. A brutal, ceremonial perfect cast (including Charlton stabbing occurs on an Express Heston, Faye Dunaway, Michael train through Europe. Albert* York and Raquel Welch) in the Finney is the clever detective most enjoyable', most hand­ who carefully, slowly somely dressed filifi version of materializes the motive and the Dumas classic. cracks the case while the pas-' sengers (among them, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Anthony Perkins, HARRY AND TONTO — The Wendy Hiller, Jacqueline Bisset first picture about old age that is and Michael York) fidget, lie and neither patronizing, lamenting deny. What the sleuth uncovers is nor overly sentimental. It is real, a startling plot ofyevenge. Out. of humorous and moving. Art concern for those who have not Carney is impressive as an alive read the Agatha Christie novel, and kicking 72-year old widower. we will refrain from divulging the squalid surprise. THE APPRENTICESHIP OF The resourceful Paul Dehn DUDDY KRAVITZ — does to adaptation and the orchestral Jews ^ h a t ‘^The Godfather” did direction by” Sidney Lumet allow to Italians — not incrimination, ‘Orient Express’ to steadily'chug but sharp examination and vivid along on the tracks of suspenseful characterization, the best of entertainment. It is an enjoyable which is Richard Dreyfuss’ por­ Martin Balsam (center) and Albert Finney (extreme right) get ready to board the train in ride, well worth reserving a seat trayal of a ferocious, ruthless “Murder on the Orient Express.” x on. opportunist.* MARCH 18, 1975 THE ASCENT Page 7 Sci-Fi Conventions - * Star Trek Lives... And Uves... 0 by KAREN KLINCK The highlight of the coir came The con opened on Friday in Being his irrepressible self, Costume call was fun, even if it Saturday morning when Gene New York City’s Commodore Asimov yelled back, “Here, take was disorganized. One little boy Roddenberry announced to a Hotel. In one side ballroom they a better look!” and pulled his came in a dress uniform kilt. Another year past, another mass of people that the stock­ ran films continuously: ST epi­ shirt open, turning in a slow Someone else came in a Promise year gone, and February is on us holders of Paramount Pictures sodes; “Genesis II,” “Planet circle to allow everyone to get a Margarine box to the recorded again. With it comes the annual had been informed in their 1975 Earth,” and the Blooper reel. The picture. strains of .“Promise . . .” (Too established Star Trek Conven­ newsletter that a motion picture last is what everyone really bad Shatner wasn’t there to see tion, this year’s was the fourth. version of Star Trek was on the comes to see; .. and it’s worth it! I won’t criticize the entire Con, that.) There were two sets from This year the regular group had agenda. Mr. Roddenberry also But each year it keeps getting that would be about the same as Planet of the Apes, and three split with one of their members, said that he had been given a smaller. This time it ran at least taking on the entire Creation. I groups of belly dancers. One boy who held his own con in January. more-or-less free hand with the eleven minutes less than 4ast. wouldn’t care to worry about 9000 had a beautiful reproduction of But that didn’t prevent the budget. There was a minor And if three or more fans get to­ + people and guest stars and the “Mirror; Mirror” Spock, and February con from drawing over amount of pandemonium for a gether they can tell exactly what people in the wrong places and no ong_can figure out why he 9000 people, many of whom had minute or so as this pronounce­ was cut. The film room was in hotel regulations and all the other didn’t win Most Authentic in the gone to the other one, too. ment sank in. operation all day Saturday, million and one details that are ST WorlcL As the group in back, except for about three hours that involved. But there are a few ■'* wht^had oeen keeping score jon evening when Costume Call went gripes: who’d actually ’win, said, (or through, all day Sunday, and rather, bellowed) “ YouBlew It!” Monday until the Convention / to the announcer onstage and in­ directly to the judges. ; ended; 1. The Way The Press Was Treated, not well at all. I quote One of the best parts of any con The “Andromeda Light Show” ‘here from the official program is the dealers’ room — in this was back: a conglomeration of booklet : “The'Press Room is set çase, all three of them. Tips year ST and colored lights. Isaac up so that the Major Media will was even more fun: the fanzines Asimov was there, and Hal have the first three rows.” This were there. Now a fanzine is a Clement. And, of course, David was later made the first five true labor of lové". If the editors* Gerrold. The guests were Gene rows, and I have yet to see / are lucky* they’ll break evén. Roddenberry and his wife Majel or hear of one story, even one More,often they lose money. Yet Barrett; Williajn Theiss, ” the mention of the Con in any major they print a second issue, and a .show’s costume designer; media, be it newspaper, maga­ third, whenever theyJiave the William Shatner, and George zine, TV or radio. And the major money. Sometimes the artwork is Takai. All were very nice, most media took full advantage of it ; 2. horrendous and the stories going out of their way to be help­ Flashcubes: they weren’t juvenile, if that good. These ful. allowed, and the light was not things exist because to the ST \ ' * - ; ■. ’ .' such that they wouldn’t be needl­ fans (Trekkie is becoming a ed. Furthermore, we weren’t in­ nasty word) that world is a much formed of this until we got there, better one and they’d like to William Shatner’s first rap ses­ so we had no way of making „ strive toward it. So they writê’in sion with the con-goers was'. 4 . alternate plans; volumes. Some have been run­ memorable. He was slightly up­ ning since before the .show went set because his jacket hqd been 1 1 1§| " :- off the air. wired for sound and was*some­ 3. The Costqme Call was ex­ what uncomfortable. He pro­ tremely disorganized; 4.. David • Come Monday afternoon, ceeded to remove it, arid im­ GerroLd’s conduct r during the' everyone is saying sorrowful mediately a male voice bellowed Costume Call. I don’t care goodbyes, exchanging addresses from the audience, “Take it all* whether it’san adtor not, after he that are promptly lost, trying to off!” shakes his hotel key after ia joke and already looking back ■ . - • ■ female who isn’t wearing much'of wistfully at the fun we had. Shatner. replied, “It doesn’t anything and she wins in a cate­ take much persuasion!” gory she does not belong in (ue.,. Till next year. she was misrepresenting her _ Costume, * being in Star Trek Or until there’s more money. Thai came Isaac Asimov, SF’s World when it had nothing to do There are other^ST cons, some­ “Dirty Old Man,” He walked out With that) H looks bad. Other than where. We’ll get there somehow. mi stage and a female yelled, the fact that the Helpers were If I don’t see you there, I’ll write. Magda and Spock in Star Tre^ episode “Mudd’s Women’’ “Hey Isaac, we love your bust­ rude to everyone in sight, it was a Try the other one in another ling!” great time. place. Till next yearr

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Boskone XII by KAREN KLINCK 1 From Buffalo to Boston is an committee has given the Skylark groups on the erteating of worlds, eight-hour drive, not counting Award (a lens mounted on a the making of other races and rest stops. But since the Bpskone Wooden base, in name and form animals, how-tos on editing and conventions are held in Boston, to commemorating Smith’s t>vo writing, and a discussion on get- % Boston we went. The 1975 series) to the person “who in the ting a book to print, which also Boskone (XID was all its reputa­ opinion of the Association, has had Don Wollheim, head of DAW tion said it would be. contributed significantly .to books, on the panel science fiction, both through Boskone takes its names from work in the field and by the Boskonian Council in E.E. exemplifying the qualities which Gordy Dickson won/the Skylark “Doc” Smith’s Lensman novels. made ‘Doc’ so well-loved by all Award for 1975, which was pre­ It is a regional science fiction who knew him.” sented by Ben Bova, last year’s convention held annually under" winner. the auspice's of the New England *This.year’s Guest of Honor was Science Fiction Association, Inc. Anne McCaffrey (“Dragon- The movies were an oddly as­ This year’s con had approxi­ flight,” “Dragonquest,” “Rest- sorted lot. “Zardoz” was shown, mately 800members (that I know oree,” “The Ship Who Sang,” and we were unlucky enough to Sci-Fi con guest of honor Anne McCaffrey *of). Each year a Guest Author “ Decision at Doona,” “To Ride catch it. “Bambi Meets Godzilla” and Artist'are chosen, and the Pegasus,” and others) and the was a two-minute oddity, George “Space'Patrol” and “Evolution,” con has speakers, panels, an arr Official Artist was Bormie Dal- Pal’s “Atlahtis” is outdated, and a Canadian cartoon.” ''There were, of course, parties. show, auctions,* awards, a cos-, zell. Among thp other authors someone let both Flint flicks and In fact, there are those who claim tume contest, parties (!!!) and there were Hall Clement, Larry a large group of Roadrunner The art show was marvelous. (in jest, we would hope) that all movies. There is also a dealers’ Niven, Gordon Dickson, Lester cartoons in. These were all better Someone thought of putting SF plots are conceived by writers room where you can buy films, del Rgy, the ever-present David than the first two mentioned. enough light, in the room. wheq they are half- to three- photos, bboks and other assorted Gerrold and Ben Bbva, writer “Future Shock” and “The Seven Boskone drew fantastic artists quarters drunk.* All in all, a most paraphenalia. Each year since and editor of “Analog” maga­ Faces of Dr. Lao” were also this year, both amateur and enjoyable time. We’re looking Doc Smith’s death in 1965 the con . zine There were discussion shown, as were an episode of professional. forward to next year. Page 8 THE ASCENT ' MARCH 18,1975 \ I'd Walk a Mile to Find A Place to Smoke

(CPS) — The hazy view of the to $300 and in New York City Service study, smoke contains lecturer through pipe smoke may penalties for smoking in college carbon monoxide, a well-known soon be a memory if the current classrooms, supermarkets, poison; cadmium, a trace metal by DRU HETTRICH wave of state and local anti­ elevators and other public places which has been linked to certain smoking laws continue. range up to $1,000 or one year in chronic lung disorders, and benzo The Joy of Sex jail. (a) pyrne, a hydrocarbon which about kisses, how, when and has been found to cause lung A Gourmet Guide to Love wheres. Fetishes can be fun if In several cities, new and Making by Alex Comfort, M.B., stringent laws that outlaw Arizona and Nebraska have cancer when inhaled by labor­ done with that head; strictly for atory animals. PhD. fun. Nothing is immoral if both smoking in a variety of public barred smoking in Elevators and $4.95 Fireside partners enjoy it. It is a share places, including classrooms most areas of concert halls, However, at one campus, the museums and hospitals, and University of Oregon-Eugene, Most sex manuals are dry experience. Pickles and sauces, have been enacted. the dessert part of the book, goes Colorado is currently debating smokers have begun to fight affairs, discussing sex in medical In the past, colleges and such a bill. ! terms, making the act of inter­ into mirrors, leather, ice, bathing back. course unappealing arid sterile. and feathers. There is much universities fashioned rules pro­ In response to a recently-enact­ Masters and Johnson gave us the more. hibiting smoking in classrooms Nationally, Rep. Edward Koch ed policy that limits smoking to but set no penalties or fines for (D-NY) has advocated a two- only a few places in the univer­ technical information (how many \ violators. Administrators have cent-per pack hikfe in taxes to homosexuals there, are in a city Throughout the book there are sity union, a “Smokers Liber­ illustrations that accent the text. described these regulations as “discourage cigarette smoking” ation Movement” circulated .a block), Dr. David Rueban gave generally “unenforceable” or . and raise nearly $600 million a us the wrong answers to every­ They do not play coy. The beauti­ petition to gain an area for ful pen and ink drawings of have left enforcement to the dis­ year for research into disease smokers to study. The group has thing we wanted to know and cretion of individual professors. linked to smoking. porno literature is male oriented Raymond and Foss are realistic asked for official recognition as a and striking. In fact, the draw­ and fantasy prone. Most of us Advocates of the new laws have campus organization. —learn through experience and ings are the best part of the book. -But the teeth of the new« laws pointed to research which indi­ “It’s hard to take pride in being second-hand info. If you can’t get the idea from the have been heavy fines and penal­ cates that smoke present in the pro-smoking,”-_said a group text, the drawings will make it ties. In Washington DC, smokers air can be hazardous to health. spokesperson, “but we feel we Liberal times are upon us. It’s perfectly clear. in elevators can- now be fined up According to a Public Health are being oppressed.” not cool to a(Jmit to ignorance when sex is involved. Actually This book looks at sgx honestly , having to go out and buy a book and more importantly, with about sex is not good for your humor. We" take ourselves too image. We know the anatomical seriously in regard to sex. Every How About The Day parts and basics, we know that failure is a major catastrophe there is more than one position resulting in severe emotional but 'we are sadly deficient in the scars. Impotence, rape, frigidity extra enjoyments to be had. and hairtrigger problems are After Tomorrow, Henry? dealt with in a direct way without The American lover is all the “oh, you poor dear” over­ (CPS) — Occasionally Henry caught up in the “I’ve got to tones. Look, it happens to the best Kissinger will say something that Question: Can you tell us any­ make you come” syndrome. Sex of us. isn’t particularly newsworthy, thing about the meeting? has become a battleground of, but that doesn’t stop the Depart­ holding off so that your partner This book has been criticized ment of State from issuing a news Secretary Callaghan: Frank, Question: Do you expect.any­ can have orgasm. It makes for a because of its no holds barred ap­ release anyway. friendly and constructive. thing in the way of important very uptight time. This book proach. That approach is pre­ developments on Cyprus today? , preaches enjoyment, pure and cisely the reason why it should be Below is the complete trans­ Secretary Kissinger: We really simple. Why not just relax and praised . Healthy sex is made pos­ cript of an official press release reviewed the world situation and Secretary Kissinger: No, not enjoy it? Play at it, have fun, kick sible only when the act itself is concerning an informal meeting theJVIiddle East, energy, Cyprus, today. back and party. brought out of the closet into the with the press by “the honorable some odds and ends of the NATO lit bedroom or kitchen or. . . Henry Kissinger and British meeting and I would say this: it Question: Tomorrow? - The author has compared his Almost everyone does, why Foreign Secretary James Callag- would seem to me complete book to a cookbook. He gives should we insist on keeping sex a ,han” following a meeting in agreement and a very friendly Secretary Kissinger: Not recipes for enjoying sex that are forbidden fruit, and unfathom ­ Brussels, Dec. 13. atmosphere. tomorrow, either. delicious.^The basic ingredients able subject? It is an integral

are all there. ,He diseusses posi­ . part of our lives. If it wasn’t for « ______------W ------W “ i f W “ ------* tions, body structure, birth sex we wouldn’t be here. Cultiva­ control, beds and attitudes. Then tion of knowledge of ourselves is there are the main courses. Fore­ important and sex is very much a play is just that, play. We read part of us* u ^Poet’s Gomti SONNET 15 a summer, a fall, and a winter did pass >£•- when one moonlit night, her face did appear making dry my lips and wider my eyes since before this night it was my belief that,like swift days to my dazed sight, we^never again each other to see. yet when Summer’s warm sweet brerith does visit - how tells one of Winter’s stay just before? green trees and navy skies are not of Winter and show no signs of snows and grey light! oh how my love lies like Summer’s twin . « 1 - V 7 since i, like Winter, seemed gone from her sight! < A summer, a fall, and a winter have passed SONNET 12 (Sequel to 11) and via these three too has true love so fast! Daryl W. Smith But without that grief dies Beauty’s relief , and grieving — for which those flooded eyes sent their rain spilling over cheeks as do rivers their shores yet I know Love does ride some battered Ship whicn, with each restless wave, still afloat remains. But mistaken I may be for Thinking The glorious sun, amidst Fall’s broken clouds rekindled the hearts’ starving cool furnace Time’s breath is but all much too short since those leaves we cannot see on Winter’s trees almost tomorrow beg Spring’s and Summer’s sun to rid sweet white snows for their green to show whatever kind or amount of Love there be my heart finds test in its consistency Daryl Smith ' In the darkness of my room, with the soft light of night shining through my window • I look back at the night when there was someone here to share the night with. Where has it gone? I ask it, yet I receive no answer. Where has it gone? I wish I could find it now Help me find it, help me find it? Daniel Mackowiak 4 * M ' . M ...... * 44 ...... H