Physical Plant Chief to Resign by Gerry St
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OfdMm Of The Who Resurrects Bis Beginnings Volume 3, Number 6 College at Lincoln Center, Fordham University April 13, 1983 Physical Plant Chief To Resign By Gerry St. Onge from Romania, as an electrician at Rose Hill. In 1961 he was on a budget of approximately $3 million, is responsible for made Director of the Physical Plant Department of the newly maintaining the operating condition of facility at all times- Physical Plant Administrator at CLC Michael Renn will retire constructed Law School. A few years later, his responsibilities including the provision of heat, ventilation and electricity. It's as of June 1983 after 27 years with Fordham. were increased when he managed the construction of the responsibilities also include the maintenance of the building and Renn, 70, decided to retire in order to devote more of his Lowenstein building in the late sixties. In 1966 he received the the grounds as well as supervising the maintenance of the energy to his wife Josephine. "It is my time now to pay her back Archbishop Hues Medal, given in honor of the founder of For- telephones and any electric equipment used by the various for what she gave me," he said. He also plans to write his dham, for outstanding service to the university. Three years later, departments. autobiography where he will tell of his experiences in war torn the Lowenstein Building was opened for business and Renn's So far, Renn's successor has not been found. "If I had my eastern Europe, and his successful assimiliation into American position of central power on the Lincoln Center campus was society. established. choice, I would clone him," said Dean George Shea. These sen- Renn first came to Fordham in 1956, a year after he emigrated The Physical Plant Department, a 20 person crew operating Continued on page 13 Council Science Proposes Symposium BS Program CAH&UIO Succeeds By Karen Bruere By Cory Abate The third Annual Symposium on Science, A proposal has been made to the Administra- Technology and Society's values sponsored by tion concerning the possibility of CLC offer- the Division of Science and Mathematics was' ing a Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in certain held on April 6. Activities for tile symposium, science and mathematics programs, according entitled Immunobiology: Medfcal Frontier, in- Copy of the falsified flyer distributed at CLC to Chairperson of the Science and Mathematics cluded poster sessions, video films, and two lec- Division, Samiha Mourad. The proposal was ture series. announced at the College Council meeting on According to Associate Professor of Biology March 9. Dr. Grace Vernon, Immunobiology, the in- Presently, students who pursue the Mathe- vestigation of how our bodies cope with matics, Natural Science, Computer Science, and ° fighting off disease, was selected by the Divi- Psychology programs receive Bachelor of Arts CLC's Women's sion because "it's on the cutting edge of life (BA) degrees. According to Mourad, students science research." Vernon added that "answers in the science field have enough courses to be to questions posed by Immunobiology will pro- eligible for a BS. "We would like to get some- vide us with the knowledge to eradicate many thing along this line," she said. Group Target of diseases." "It is certainly a possibility," said Dean Shea. The Symposium was designed to enable "The recommendation has been forwarded to students and faculty to broaden their academic the Academic Vice President [Joseph F.X. backgrounds by relating actual research to McCarthy]." The approval of the Univesity and classwork. Chairperson of Science and The State Education Department are required, Harrassment Mathematics Division Dr. Samiha Mourad, he said. No change in the overall program By Drew Olevnick sheets were removed from two bulletin said that "it is very important for students to would take place, according to Shea. He also relate learning to real-life outside the classroom said that in some subjects both a BS and a BA boards on the fourth floor. Then, approxi- A self-defense workshop sponsored by the mately ten days prior to the event, SAFE and to know how to communicate these ideas track would exist. However, it is not now to laymen." certain. CLC Women's Group has been the target of received a letter, allegedly from a member a far reaching campaign of harassment in of the Women's Group stating that the According to senior science major Jimmie Shea said that "it is impossible to predict" the weeks leading up to the event. workshop was cancelled due to a shortage Cortes, the poster session allowed CLC students when the decision will be announced, since "ac- of space in the Pope Auditorium. The let- to display their research for the CLC commun- tion at two higher levels is required." No persons or groups have claimed re- sponsibility for the actions, which include ter, which went into great detail to explain ity. "We can do it," he said. "Research isn't "It would not change the requirements that the distribution of false flyers and leaflets, the circumstances for the cancellation, was isolated to people in labs faraway." much," said College Council member, William the mailing of a falsified letter to Safety and signed by one Lisa Green. According to The keynote speaker for the lecture series was Finneran, "but when a company hires a student Fitness Exchange (SAFE), the organization Robin McArthur of the Women's Group, director of the Laboratory of Molecular Im- they may prefer a BS. A BS is more acceptable running the workshop, and the interception there is no such person in the group and the munobiology and Immunodeficiency of Sloan- in the business world." of a contract bound for the Women's Group letter was in no way affiliated with the Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Charlotte office. The incidents failed to stop the group. Cunningham-Rundles, who discussed recent workshop from being held; it went off as The previous day, March 24th, McArthur advances in immunobiology including bone scheduled on April 4th. phoned Tamar Hosansky of SAFE to in- marrow transplant and monoclonal antibodies. The campaign apparently began about Continued on page 3 According to Cunningham-Rundles, these ad- four weeks ago when workshop sign-up vances have enabled immunobiology to "move out of the ivory tower and into the marketplace and clinic." Details On Workshop ...3 Editorial. Associate Professor of Chemistry Dr. Joan Roberts, opened the discussion of the herpes virus. Dr. Carlos Lopez of Sloan-Kettering spoke on areas of research in immunology presently being applied to the studies of herpes, Continued on page 5 THOSE NASTY HABITS, THAT A$m$L AMGERJ Yes, You Can Change .*m. Your Ml Ways. Alt About Curing Habits I A nd Suppressing A nger Crnirr Ynrbook Danitl NrtiCarnni Dr. Grace Vernon page 2/The Observer/Aprilrl3,1983 US.G. ELECTIONS April 25 (Monday) 12 - 9:15 April 26 (Tuesday) 12'9:15 April 27 (Wednesday) 12-9:15 April 28 (Thursday) 12-8 Please bring Fordham I.D. to voting area on the plaza. VOTE! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! April 13,1983/Tht Observer/page 3 meaning of the present copyright law and the cumulative use and/or compilation of the law's validity in today's high-priced world of material being copies. For more extensive XEROX CRIMES: college textbooks. reproduction permission from the publisher In a memo issued to the faculty of CLC Deal must be requested according to the AAP. But Copying Law Keeps Fordham On Its Toes George Shea cautioned faculty members to "be the nature of a violation of these three stan- especially careful not to reproduce printed dards goes unspecified by the law. While the law By Jessica Roe With V. Gioia lishers through the Association of American materials illegally" but conceded that, "the laws does not prohibit the use of photocopies a rul- Publishers (AAP) have instituted a suit against give instructors considerable'latitude" in re- ing in favor of the publishers in the NYU suit New York University and specific NYU facul- For many students and teachers a Xerox producing materials. could seriously effect teaching on college cam- ty who they feel are guilty of violating the "fair machine may be the biggest boon to education It is this latitude that is open to broad inter- puses where the use of photocopies has become use" aspect of the copyright act. The copyright since chalk. But to many publishers and authors pretation. As it stands now the 1976 copyright a staple in the education system. the use of photocopies as classroom sup- law protects a wide range of materials including law allows for photocopies only under certain According to Assistant Professor of Psychol- - plements is a mugger ripping off their royalties. textbooks, magazine articles, scripts and other circumstances. According to the law a "fair use" printed material but the major concern of the ogy Harold Takooshian, "Xeroxes are essential To combat what they see as a violation of the of photocopies allows for brevity concerning to education," because in fields such as psy- 1976 federal copyright law such publishing NYU suit deals with the whole or partial repro- the amount of material photocopies, spontane- duction of textbooks. chology changes are being made rapidly and heavyweights as Random House, Simon and ity (referring to timeliness) in the usage of textbooks can not keep pace. This sentiment is Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and six other pub- The suit raises questions about the scope and copied material and an undefined limit on the Continued on page 9 How To Protect Yourself ." = AS OI Grab h i •; hair jTd was hosted by A Safe Space, a community double hin over - Internship str ike forceful Iy on By Helene Cropper group located on 14 Street in Greenwich Village.