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Editorial Comments To Tell We Support The Truth Bill Baird Aside from a few freshman students with a genuine concern and a high degree of involve by STEVE DICKINSON tacks on people not of the Catholic faith by these ment, it is impossible to find the Corning Com people, all in the name of God, of course. I call Bill Baird’s visit to Corning Community Col munity College freshman class. Either they have this hypocritical. It is a little difficult to see the all been swept away by some scheming sopho lege made many of us take a long hard look at real world through a stained glass window, isn’t more or they are suffering an acute case of apa- many of the issues we have been confronted with it? thia. Since there is no known cure for this dread in the past decade, namely abortion laws, con ful disease, we must all work together to find a Mr. Baird returns to court next month to traception, morality, morality and the law, and fight again for the rights of all of us. If he wins, suitable antidote. we win. If he loses, only he is punished by im The 1970-71 academic year has reached the religion. Mr. Baird can be labeled by some as a prisonment. Mr. Baird needs your help, if only three-quarter mark and still the class of '71 has crusader for the rights of women to choose to by a letter to the clinic. The address is: the load of organizing the bulk of campus activi have the number of children they wish to have. ty. It is a tribute to the sophomore class that any I prefer to see him as a crusader for the rights of STOP work is done at all. But what about 1971-72? Who all of us—rights that the hierarchies of different 107 Mar. will burden the task when the sophomores are Hempstead, Long Island groups of power have chosen to call privileges gone? The class of ’72 must gel soon or there will we do not deserve. The phone number for any kind of assistance is: be nothing left for them to do but wither away 516 JE T 2626 in obscurity. In naming the Roman Catholic Church as the In the next few weeks, seminars and work chief obstacle in his struggle to allow us to re shops will be held to bring the freshman class gain our rights as individuals, Baird outlined a out of storage and hopefully on to the produc tion line. These are being held not only to insure major force in the Corning-Elmira area. The col the success of the 1971-72 academic year, but to lege is situated in an area over which the power involve the freshman class in campus matters. ful few of the Catholic church has a great deal Unless these workshops are attended heavily, of control, not only over those of that faith, but they cannot be beneficial. The class of ’72 stands the Catholic Church would impose their “morali on shaky legs until they become fortified with a ty” on all of us. sense of concern. Will the real freshman class please stand up? I join Bill Baird in his questioning of the “Morality” of the Catholic Church. Mr. Baird described the riches of that church while, not a mile away, 12 people try to live in one room, The where parents must sleep in shifts to keep their children from being bitten by rats in their sleep. Why, Mr. Baird asks, shouldn’t the Church sell the jeweled crowns, the golden crosses and can dlesticks, and marble to feed the people they pro Staff fess to care for with the comforts of religion? These points may seem abstract only until we look around Corning and see the cases that ap Meetings: Friday at 1:00 ply. The Crier itself has been actually brought to the pulpit by the Catholic Church and attacked Deadline for Friday Issue: for its advocation of contraception and abortion Preceding Friday at 2:00 law repeals. Although our name was mentioned, I feel it unnecessary to name the specific church and priest as this case is only one instance of at- T he Crier Business & Office Staff Published by Sheila Finnell, Mary Smythe, the students of Sue Frank, Joannie Scouten, Corning Community College Anita Gordon, Andy Zadany REPRESENTED FOR NATIONALREPRESENTED ADVERTISING FOR BY NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY Layout Staff National Educational Advertising AdvertisingServices Services A DIVISION OF John Munch, Anita Gordon, READER S DIGEST SALES & SERVICES. INC. Tom Grady, Joannie Scouten 360 Lexington Ave., New New Y ork, N.Y. 10017 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ......................... Steve Dickinson Photography Staff MANAGING EDITOR .. Tom Putman BUSINESS MANAGER ..... 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All opinions expressed os student reaction do not necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board. the Crier/April 2, 1971 page 2 Light Side, Dark Side Appeal for an Army Intelligence??Environmental Alternative by DICK GREGORY - Dear Environmentalist; Longtime followers of this col umn will remember that I began Almost one year has passed since Earth Day 1970 and although both years of the new decade by some progress has been made in protecting the environment, much, calling attention to the army's almost too much, remains to be done. Many approaches have been at practice of snooping on private tempted by individuals and organizations to bring about positive en citizens. In 1970, I reported the vironmental action, but our environment is still rapidly deteriorating. then-fresh revelations of Chris Perhaps a crisis of this magnitude can not be effectively met by topher H. Pyle, former captain in small, uncoordinated groups or by organizations founded on an often Army Intelligence. And this year distant national level. I projected a possible similarity We are not by any means suggesting an abandonment of past ef between America's army surveil forts, nor are we proposing an entirely new ideological framework. lance and the activities preceding What we are suggesting is a regionally co-ordinated approach to the the military takeover in Greece. ecology crisis through the development of a "United Ecology Front of Central New York". This could be a decentralized network of all col So it comes as no surprise to leges and conservation-type groups in the area which would facilitate hear the recent testimony in Sen the the exchange and utilization of information and resources and the ator Sam J. Ervin's subcommit pooling of scientific expertise pertaining to both local and national en tee hearings on Constitutional vironmental issues. Such a coalition would permit the use of common rights of former army agent and united tactics which, when agreed upon, would hopefully be more Laurance F. Lane, now a legis effective than those presently employed by most groups and individu lative aide to Rep. Robert H. Gia- als. One of the key products of the coalition would be the publication imo (D-Conn.). Mr. Lane spoke of a regional environmental newsletter of which we feel there is much of one dossier sent from Army need. Similar coalitions and confederations have been recently or Intelligence Headquarters at Fort ganized in Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota, and other areas are fol Holabird, Maryland, to Fort Car- lowing suit. son. Colorado, where he served a Thus, we extend an open invitation to all students of your school year and a half. Ervin's subcommittee was told because they are trying to overor group to be represented or to personally attend a conference to The dossier was on Dick Greg that the average American is the throw the government. What is discuss the formation of a "United Ecology Front of Central New ory. Mr. Lane said the dossier subject of from 10 to 20 dossiers the justification then for spying York”. The conference will be held at Hobart College on April 4th at “was so tainted it was unusable. containing private information. upon the man who had long head 2:00 p.m. in Gulick Lounge. For additional information, please con I was amazed . It was com Professor Arthur R. Miller of the ed the number one black organ tact us at (315) 789-5500, extension 206 during office hours. pletely subjective, based on un University of Michigan Law ization trying to work within the If you really care about healing our sick environment, we urge substantiated information and un School told the subcommittee system? The National Urban you to attend this conference. The formation of this coalition could be reliable sources with no attempt that America was headed toward League has a proud history of the most significant environmental step to be taken in our area since to be objective." a "dossier dictatorship.” job training, employment seek Earth Day! Sincerely, As the subject of such subjec As I have hinted many times ing, self-help and educational Brent B.