'Alfred Review' Reviewed Student Group Stages Teach-In
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FIAT LUX ALFRED UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER • SINCE 1013 ALFRED, NEW YORK, MARCH 4, 1969 Phone 587-5402 'Alfred Review' reviewed Student group stages teach-in; Where's the literature? By IRWIN BERLIN RQTC and curfews discussed By COREY SULLIVAN University was going to hire ishing curfews. She said that The Phoenix is dead, but the Alfred Review is indeed alive. one instructor anyway. people who are not ready to Perhaps floundering is a better word. David Smith, the Editor- The Student Action Commit- To allay any misconceptions live without curfews should in-Chief of the Review, writes that the works included in the tee staged a teach-in last the trustees may have gotten not be in college. Winter, 1969 issue best reflect Alfred's artiiiiic community.( May- Thursday at 4 in the Parents from the referendum results, She also mentioned the dou- be so. ' Lounge. The purpose of the Golby says students should go ble standard, saying that if And Smith admits that those works included in the jcljrnal teach-in was to present stu- to Rochester and show the women have equal academic have reached some small pinnacle of "success anid precision." dent views on ROTC and cur- trustees their true feelings. responsibility as men, they To an extent this is true. He also- hints ¡ .at there is a vei {.table fews. should also have equal "social reservoir of material that remains to be perfected. For the sake Steve Golby, the first speak- responsibility." of the Spring, 1969, issue, I (hope so. er, said the Action Committee The last scheduled speaker, wants to arrange some form of Ernie Steiner, put forth the A complaint to be made is the overwhelming absence of "peaceful demonstration, such idea of a university as a group literary prose. Another gripe is that which fills the p^ges of the as picketing," when the trus- of students and teachers. She literary magazine is in part fair-to-middling poetry and art. tees vote On voluntary ROTC concluded by saying that we These latter range from a musical score, drawing, woodcuts, in Rochester, March 14 and 15. the students have the power and glasswork, to photographs, painting, pottery and prints. He stated that he did not to do something. This, of course, does not imply that poetry and prose are not think students knew all the Before the last speaker was art. facts when they voted in the recent referendum on ROTC. able to speak, there was some it could well be imagined thatt the blown-glass objects and For those who thought that amount of discussion among the pottery are attractive pieces; however, photographs of a minimum of 25 seniors would the students present. They blown-glass and pottery, no matter how lucid, rarely can cap- have Ito register for ROTC to were posing certain questions, i ture a true quality. Perhaps the fault |*s the ofif-w)iice and gray keep it on campus, he said Who has ultimate authority to paper used. that the . Defense Department decide what courses will be of- Some of this non-literary talent is successful, as Smith has sets the minimum number of fered? already implied. Notable is the drawing by Bevan Ling, which ROTC Students in accordance They disagreed on what is balanced and pleasing to look at. with the size Of the school. methods should be used to ef- A strong latiice^work photograph by Chairles Vanidler Merlin Only one ROTC program ha? fect a change in the curfew tests one's visual perception, which is never quite accurate. Gary ever been dropped from a policy. Some approve of the Morrell's photograph of a stairway inverted on its sidle is a good college campus, he added. This means being employed by example <0% wnat happens to a familiar object when ¿hown in was done for failure to comply AWS, while some advocated unfamiliar circumstances. with other regulations, he Steve Golby using extra-legal means, such 1 Bruce Davis- second speak- as a "sit-out," to "embarrass" There are poems in the Review that demand the reader's said. er, opened his speech by read- the administration. attention, preferably total immersion to fully understand their Golby added thalt what lie ng an article by a Stanford One girl presented her own intricacies. termed a "fallacy from the psychologist. This article, reason for discontinuing cur- The poem by Normarn Bielowicz races to a climax, with president's office," that physi- which was reprinted in the fews. Stressing her responsi- tight, thought provoking swiftness. It ends abruptly, but not cal education programs cost- Congre«sional Record of June bility, she said that if she unUil it leaves a satisfied impression as in sexual release. £?.eve ing $50,000 would be necessary 21, 1968, says that democracy wants to take a walk in the Wortman also impresses wiflh a strange conglomeration d£ the to replace ROTC, has been re- needs people who can make middle of the night she would five senses in a poem entitled "To Bethink Was, To Be Thinking futed by the phys. ed, depart- their own decisions. like to feel free to do so. Is." It necessitates youir involvement and is worth your while. ment. Too often, according to the But too many of the stu- That department claims that 1 Who is Valentine? Apparently Alfred University houses ,only two more faculty mem- article, people are willing to dents did not seem as respon- a Samuel Clemimens under the giudise of a Mark Twain. In any bers would be needed if ROTC give authority to the govern- sible as she. The teach-in it- event, the bits of writings by Valentine are exceptional for their were dropped, and that the ing officials, who are willing self, after progress reports content and free expansive style. to take this authority. The. ar- and some views on itihe ROTC ticle pointed Out the danger and curfew issues had been A miust for the manic depressive at Alfred is the Short Chamber Soloists in becoming dependent on an given, quickly became a free- item by TOny Munroe about an ordinary man who peppered omniscient authority figure. for-all. himself to death. include Berkofsky Curfews No one addressed himself Th!at abouit wraps up the Alfred Review's review. Next, he read a recent Fiat to anyone else's questions; no Pianist Martin Berkofsky, article which put forth Dean dear formulations were made Assistant Professor of Music Troxell's views on curfews. He on which everyone, could ag- and Artist-in-Residence at Al- Said that, in his opinion, Dean ree. Weiss discusses Letter of Law fred, is a member of the Wat- Troxell is responsible to her The conversation finally de- By AARON WEISS respect, loyalty, respect for erford Chamber Soloists which students' parents. generated into the same famil- Appearing in last week's the flag an dcounbry." Most will make its New York debut Since parents (those respon- iar cliches on apathy and the FIAT was a letter from assis- students didn't come to col- at Carnegie Recital Hall March ding, at least) demonstrated in same bandying on methods tant ceramics Dean W G. Law- lege to learn manners, morals, 15. a recent questionnaire that and means students should rence. The letter concerned it- and patriotism. Most students The group, which consists of they do not require curfews, use. In Short, the teach-in did self with the faculty vote on should have learned these at seven musicians, was formed he thinks that curfews should not say anything that was re- ROTC. He made a statement home. As far as patriotism I during the fall. The average be abolished with no violation ally new. that the department is one Of would be more patriotic if we ape of the members is 24, of Dean TroxeU's responsibili- CPC to sponsor the most popular on campus. I got out of Vietnam. which makes it one of the ty. would like to knoiw where he I fail to see Dean Lawrence's youngest concert groups in ex- The next speaker, Ruth Buffalo orchestra gets his information. statement "The calible of re- istence. Hammer, described curfews as , Based on the last student marks and discussion again The Waterford group origi- a "superficial" mode of cre- The Buffalo Philharmonic referendum a majority of demonstrated the intellectual nates from the Eugene O'Neill ating responsibility. While she Orchestra and its conductor- males wanted voluntary. (Ex- nairrowness of the faculty." By Memorial Theater Foundation appreciates parents' fears composer Lukas Foss will pre- act vote 250 vol., 181 for 1 his letter I question his intel- in Waterford, Connecticut, and about promiscuity, she says sent a concert at Alfred Thurs- year, 65 tor 2 year.) What is lectual narrowness. will be appearing there in re- curfews • do not prevent pro- day at 8:15 in the Men's Gym. sad is that what happened to Lastly Dean Lawrence ques- cital this summer. miscuity. The concert, sponsored by McCarthy people is happening tions what kind of students The musicians plan to pre- She continued that curfews the Cultural Programs Coun- toi Alfred students. The admin- Alfred would attract if we did sent "no admission" concerts do not prevent people from cil, will include Richard Wag- istration under President Miles not have mandatory ROTC. in the ghetto areas. Future flunking out and that they de- ner's Parsifal Symphony froin has the "well-oiled" machine Maybe the school would attract plans include an appearance ter personal growth. She con- the opera of the stame name; like Mayor Daley of Chicago.