AO e- I-) r Sa- "I',) MIONDAY OCTOBER 28 1974 Stony Brook, New York Volume 18 Number 19 Distributedfree of charge throughout campus and community every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday <______________~~~~~.^ He . - r el----------'-, ---- IN 00, Mount Dedication; I Communications Major The Suffolk Museum dedicated its new Fine Arts building yesterday. I Housed in the new building is the I May Begin in September largest collection of William Sidney By MARY PAT SCHROEDER political sdence cou_, ch Mount paintings in existence. The and DAVID GILMAN 'Political PKganda and sow dedication was highlighted by the The Stony Brook Communications socoogy c such as "Ma acceptance by Mrs. Ward Melville of a Department is aiming for State icato could be d Mount portrait donated to the I certification as an interdisciplinary major with "amre" commui -ta couEs museum's collection. Mount was a for next fall, according to Professor of form a *public a Oro- k mid-19th century American-artist who, Sociology and Communications Gladys reaserh" major. lived in Setauket. Iang. The failure to secure such Aodigto Long& aseerh KStorv on Paloa 2 certification, however, would not of thisp does, Mt m a A &W- A I preclude the University from offering "at upon the ei an least a concentration in interdisciplinary major. 'I see w of Getting Sleepy* communications," according to Lang. doing this even while we go lhogh tde The audience at the first Sunday The Communications Department was pocess, of getting certicatko for an Simpatico Series concert of this initiated three years ago in response to interdisciplinay miort" said . season left the Union Buffeteria student and faculty requests for a amazed and looking like it was in a communications pgram. EGL 107 and A ry of P f s k 108, two journalism courses, were the formation of the propoed trance. The performance of hypnotist, fint to be incorporated into the program. "The Great Gardino" entranced the intrdicipinry maior. "We bane WOBd entire audience in spirit and some The workshops, which terms as for a a supr."ItI *Sad , 'Incubators," are three-credit courses members in actuality, as his act "whbkc include es ip t,- _e consisting of an academic, a research, and reseach funds."".e adde ta so included subjecting several members and, where posible, p for, the admi hasJm t own fte of the audience to post-hypnotic components. The academic component progr much coopedton. suggestion. consists of assigned readings and guest Other fledging detmMnts a" Story on Takl -rtTo/Pl.I 9 speakers from the different fields. Last prograshav encoutered sfimiar week, WNEW-FM disc jockey Pete prbe One am s is or Lost in Little Time Fornatele was a guest speaker. Last year, Black Studies. Becae y few Saturday, the football team he discussed governmental regulation and students in the p , aois difseiult to the financial organization of radio obtain a ubstantial budget "At ,our traveled to Concordia where they stations with members of the radio operational budget Is palt,"ac were beaten 18-14. The Patriots threw workshop. to Back S D o=ald the game away in the first quarter An interdisciplinary communications lackma "Our "enSib"OK1 w sWtun allowing three touchdowns on errors. field would encompass the ffd of without on 4oraco.dea Coach Fred Kemp was happy with his sociology, psychology, political science, develomna bu7dget:| e wki Wk- team for not folding after the first and threatre arts, Lang said. Film, art, an opefational budt, which to quarter, but was still disappointed and photography courses, for example, defay mailing ad telpbone mfts, fo with the fashion in which they lost. could be combined with "core" example, a deelopenl budget Is used communications courses in order to form to purchase library and to pay Story on Page 12 a "visual arts" major. Similarly, various visiting lecturers. s Aj - - - a.-.--i Hochbrueckner Condemns Construction Fund By - - = W ; 7S70:X0f -X 0 Afu0f f Aid t ;0 000 0 ff:;00000070uX00:d RICHARD t 0 M. TOWNE ; 0 seeing 14 == that = the contractors 04 i: live 0 : = = up to X _ their 0 0 _ _ , ______ Democratic candidate for the Second Assembly contracts and that the work is of the highest District, George Hochbrueckner, has charged in a quality." newsletter released last week, that millions of Costigan, when informed on Friday of dollars have been wasted in shoddy construction at Hochbrueckner's charges replied, "I'm very the State University at Stony Brook. concerned about the quantity and quality of Hochbrueckner's charges stem from a construction at the State University at Stony month-long probe by his staff into the practices of Brook. As a result of prodding by myself and the State University Construction Fund. The others, a review body has been set up in the investigation was headed by Professor of Physics Construction Fund to analyze all existing and Barry McCoy. future construction. In construction of this "These millions of dollars were not wasted by magnitude there are going to be some problems the students or faculty or the local but the basic aims have been well met." administration," Hochbrueckner declared in his On Friday, Statesman contacted McCoy and letter. 'They were wasted because nobody in the when asked who he worked with on campus to Construction Fund cares whether the contractors gather the information, McCoy replied that his do an adequate job or not. The attitude of the contacts had all been faculty members, and in one Albany administration seems to be sit's only the case, a member of the administration. The public's money, so why worry about spending it Construction Fund had not been contacted at all wisely?' " during the investigation. Director of Design and Construction for the Several detailed examples were cited by State University Construction Fund at Stony Hochbrueckner to illustrate the abuses uncovered. Brook, Joseph Curley, stated that He said that the campus-wide heating and cooling Hochbrueckner's charges "have nothing to do with system, when originally installed, was constructed reality. The events in the report never happened, with a prior knowledge that the poor insulation or ever came close to happening. We are very hard material being used would eventually result in on the construction companies and we watch them failure. Hochbrueckner said that the system soon very closely." did fail, and as a result, the steam pipe system had Hochbrueckner lays the ultimate responsibility to be completely reinsulated and the cooling lines for the construction waste on incumbent reinstalled. Assemblyman Peter Costigan. "Costigan has never Hochbrueckner also said the new biology bothered to find out how the public's money is building at Stony Brook was built without a TILES IN FRONT of the new Biology building hkm de 1omM. I being spent. He should take a direct interest in (Continuedon page 2) The building has not yet opened. L N - N __________________________________^ -~~~~~~~~~~ol - William M .ount Gallery Opened As Museu]m Dedicates Building By JASON MANNE The Suffolk Museum dedicated its Fine Arts Building Winegate Scandal Hits France yesterday and put the largest collection of William Mount The scandal is called France's 'Vinegate," and one of the 18 paintings in existence on exhibit. defendants charged with misdeeds involving some of the most The dedication ceremonies expensive and prestigious French wines says he will become known were highlighted by a speech by as "the Nixon of Bordeaux."' The trial of the alleged $800,000 fraud Mrs. Ward Melville and the opens today . Charges include illegally using chemicals to upgrade presentation of a Mount painting vinegar wines into a product of table quality and mislabeling cheap to the museum. Riviera wines with such premier Bordeaux names as St. Emilion, Mrs. Melville said that she and Pomerol and Medoc. her husband, Ward Melville The scandal grew even to involve President Valery Giscard "have never seen the [Mount] dlEstaing, accused by some Frenchmen of holding off the collection as a whole." The investigation until the propitious time for his election campaign last Suffolk Museum owns about spring. three quarters of the known Statesman/Jason Manne It broke into French headlines -in early summer 1973, at the Mount paintings in existence. MRS. WARD MELVILLE accepts the gift of an original Mount height of a boom that doubled and tripled the prices of Bordeaux Mrs. Melville accepted a painting painting donated to the museum on the occasion of the opening of wines over previous yean. The boom became a massive bust as the by Mount from Norman Hirschl, the new Fine Arts Building. confidence-sapping scandal evolved. a local art dealer, for the paintings by Mount as well as paintings are characterized by museum. about 300 of his drawings. The scenes of local people going Barking Up the Wrong Tree Painted by Memory Suffolk Museum acquired much about their daily life. Researche trying to develop a birth control pill for dogs and cats Hirschl said that the Mount of its collection through gifts by In his diaries Mount once may be barking up the wrong tree. The quest for a dog and cat portrait was acquired by him in local philanthropist Ward described his goal as "Never contraceptive s aimed at curtailing the stray pet population, but his business as an art dealer. He Melville. paint for the few, paint for the l owding and animsl population control experts say part said he was presenting it to the William Sidney Mount was many - painting fanmliar objects of the problem could be solved by responsible pet owners. museum on the occasion of the born in Setauket in 1807. has the advantage over writing, Srgi-al contraception - spaying and castration - is the only Fine Arts Building dedication.