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Vol. LXXX - No. 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1973 �345 A Free Press 3,000 Attend Open House Tutori,n,g Avai,lable The purpose of th:is O'pen House Week is to bring Evening Session students back to the 1 Student Center and to acquaint the11i with the, various services, programs and amen1;ties_ _ the For Ma,n.y Courses newly rernovated Student Center has to offer. Specificany, during Open House Week we hope to bring students, faculty membe1·s cind administrators together· to dem,qnstrate that Baruch As the term progresses mamy students will find that they . need help in their subjects. Many will be quite willing to P,ay College - for the Evening Session Student - can be more than the class�oom �x'I?erience. It would be our hope that we might develop some small sense of community within Evening_ for this help. Other students will find that they are capable Session and believe that the Student Center could become a useful force to that end. of tt1toring and can use the extra pock�t money. Still others will heip for the satisfaction of knowing they have done a -The Evening Session Student Coune:il; good deed. Sigma Alpha, Delta Chapter, the By Brad Ferguson They displayed Italian travel lit way we will achieve our ends. It is the intention of Sigma service society of our school, is ernture and reading lists, and em The Reporter is a means of com Alpha to match students and I:I;, after Open House Week trying through its tutorial com phasize¢. that membership in the municating out needs 'to the ad tutors on the 'basis of when they Community does not appear in mittee to bring these students to Society was open to all interested. ministrators · whom we support are available for tutoring. It is Evening Diivision, it won't be from gether. U you wish to tutor a with our taxes." the responsibility of the student lack of trying. F°i·om Tuesday -Playrads, Baruch's o:wn· Dra student, you can 0btain an appli Also at a lobby table was Cyn who needs tutoring to contact the through Thursday of last week, matics Society. Al Heywood dis catio� tn Room 4U, Office of Stu t4ia Ja�kson, president of BLACK tutor to arrange a' mutually-con the students of Evening Session cussed Playrads' weekly workshop de11t Personnel Services, Student (Black Libei:;ation through Active venient time and place of meeting. ate, drank, taTh:ed, listened to live on Theater Techniques, which is Center. You may tutor in any sub ness, Collectiveness, and Know.l Students who obtain tutoring can music and enjoyed each other's conducted· every Friday by Bob ject in which you have achieved edge). BLACK is interested in all expect to pay a fee of $4 per hour company. What, is more impor Matthews; Matthews' credits h,ere an "A" ("B" is acceptable for Third World people; its aims a�·e or slightly higher. tant, they did it as students con include the recent Baruch pro Accounting and Math). You may to allieviate suffering, prejudice For those of you who need nected in a -fery vital way w'ith ductions of The Lion in Winter tutor at any time, so long as you and oppression. At present, there tutoring in any subject, you can Baruch College - a connection and The Boys in the Band. Play tutor a minimum of one hour per apply for tutoring now and which iin recent times seems to rads is interested in expanding its are 20 members in BLACK (15 week. Tutors are urgently needed active) and more are wanted; the throughout the semester in Room have grown less and less apparent. membership list. in Math, Accounting, Statistics, organization is based on the fourth 411, Office of Student Personnel But, just possibly, the Evening -Evening New Star, a new or Finance and ' Economics, but we floor of the Student Center. Services, Student Center. / Session Student Council has re ganization( based in Room 407 of are accepting applic1;tions in any The Oak Lounge was the sceBe 11,lARK FIRESTER, versed that trend. tlie Student CeBter. Elisa SiBdab other subject. Chairman, Tutorial Comm. foF live music, provided on Tues Between and atter classes, stu (President) said that her organiz day night by Murray Grand, Dawn dents cr0wded into the Center to ation is planning a beauty pa Hampton and Vaughn deForest; see what all the fuss was about; geant based on ta-lent, poise, and Wednesday night by Dee Dee quite a few stuck around longer (of course) beauty. The club is Bridgewater and trio; and Thurs Re ents To Introduce than they had planned. Bob Stol hoping to be able to give the g day night by China Davis and !insky, surveying the throBg, said, winner of the pageant a schol group. The easy intimacy of the "It's ve:rry successful. There's been arship to a modeling school; at · Oak Lounge added l:o the listen a lot of co0peration; I'm especial this writing they are soliciting External BA.� l)egree ers' enjoyment. ly happy to see so many deans contributions from industry for Next door, in the Marble Commissioner of Education, Ewald B. Nyquist an here." Dr. I. Greger, Associate this purpose. The only criterion is Lounge, food was served. On nounced receipt of a $300,000 grant from the Carnegie Cor Dean of Students, echoed these that an interested entrant must be Tuesday students had egg foo poration of New York to help�develop a Regents bachel'Or of sentiments and also said, "The over 18 years of age. young with rice; Wednesday was response is fin�. I look forward to arts degree. Tfae new degree will be the fourth in the Regents Jerry Adorno W:'!S manning the fried chicken night, and on Thars-_ Evening Sessi0n students taking Reporter table, which was stacked external' degree · program. day hamburgers were served. The Since Commissioner· Nyquist advantage of theh: student center, with copies of last week's issue. Examinations and the College food was . good enough for sec proposed the idea of an external and I'd like to give a res1l "thank Commenting on the fact that the Level Examinations of the College onds; however, seconds were im degree in 1970, 200 associate in you" to all those who helped carry Reporter needs volunteers, Adorno Entrance Examination Board. As possible for lack of quantity. Yet, arts degrees have been awarded this out." said, "The paper and the Stu , is the case in the other Regents there was enough of that famous by the Regents to students ,from Clubs and ·organizations set up dent Council are the only sources external degrees, formal study at Baruch Champagne Punch' to go New York and 30 other states. tables in the · Student Center of power for evening sh1dents, accredited colleges and courses around. Nearly 2,000 students are enrolled lobby, soliciting members and but there's 'nothing tp back them taken through the United States (Look for pictures in next in the program, working inde distributing information. Among up. students must show a sincere Armed Forces In titute and other week's issue.) pendently toward external de educational · programs offered by those organizations represented interest in their education. They grees in business administration, were: must demand the kind of resp'ect the military will be considered the ·arts, and nursing. The pro for credit. It is expected that the -The Dante Society, a, club that an /adult studying in the Ann,ou,ncem,ents gram received initial funding from first Regents bachelor of arts de formed to promot� interest in evening deserves. The administra Carnegie and the Ford Foundation gree wi'll be a�arded in mid-1974. Italian culture. Some of its mem tion must not tali:e us' 'for granted Fees Meeting in 1971. In an effort to increase the bers staffing the table were Carol or consider us a confused bunch The Student Council Fees "The · external baccalaureat," number of options for external. yn Lai (Vice-President); Mr. Ca-. of children. We're adults; we h;ive Commissioner Wyquist said, "will degree students, without increas lafiura (Faculty Advisor), assisted focused in on our aims in life Committee will meet Thurs provide one more option for stu ing costs, New York is cooperating by his wife; and Lugo Sanchez. and evening education is the only day, March 1, 1973 in the Oak Lounge at 9:30 P.M. All dents, young and old, who prefer with Thomas T. Edison College, clubs are asked to send a rep to study ori their own. Our ex a non-teaching institution estab resentative since allocations perience thus far confirms the lished last year by the New Jersey The Winners view that going to college isn't State Department of Higher Edu for the Spring 1973 semester the only way to get a good educa cation. will be made at this meeting. One of the features during Open House w�s the �ightly tion. It shouldn't be the only way Historically, the Regents ex raffle. What follows is the official list of pr1�es, 'wmners, to earn a degree." ternal degree is an outgrowth of and their ticket numbers; prizes may be claimed at the Dante Society Following the approach of the the College Proficiency Examina central treasurer's office, first flo@r, Student Center, after Da1<1te Society will hold a other degrees offered by the Re tion Program which was estab v:erification of the winner's cm,-rent evening undergraduate gerlts, the external bachelor of lished by the Regents in 1960. short business meeting on arts will be desigBed to recognize Faculty from colleges and univer status at Baruch. Wednesday, February 28th at learning that' takes place o/1tside sities, across the State participate FEBRUARY 20: 9:20 P.M. in Room 4tl2. Re the classroom as well as in col in the preparation of these tests First Prize: (Silver Pen) to Matthew Overko, #273818 freshments will be served and leges and universities. It will in which enable qualified individuals there will be an Italian Sing clude "majors'' in most traditional to earn credit for college level Second Prize: (Transistor Radio) to Al Webb! #274098 Thi.rd Prize: (Hi-Intensity Lamp) to Numcha1 Praphonpo, Along. All members and those fields and interdisciplinary stu knowledge which they possess, :f:/:274067 wishing to be members are dies, according to Donald J. Nolan, regardless of how they have ac urged to attend. coordinator of academic programs. quired that knowledge. FEBRUARY 21: The requirements for the degree Since 1963, independent learners First Prize: (Silver Pen) to Lorraine Farrell, #273890 will be established by a commit have earned more than 40,000 Second Prize: (Transistor Radio) to Virginia Albino, Storefront Accounting tee of distinguished educators and credits in over 30 college subjects -++-313791 The Accounting Society is citizens from New York and New through College Proficiency Ex Third Prize: (Hi-Intensity Lamp) to Mary O'Brien, :f:/:274002 sponsoring a lecture by Mr. Jersey, Nolan said. Candidates for aminations. Most popular have FEBRUARY 22: Jeff Gold, Director of Com the bac J • BATTLE OF THE BUDGETI Secret Plan For OEO 's Death Nixonomics Part II NEW YORK (LNS) - "I'm figming that I'll have to get another job by the end of Part II of a Series March," said a woman who works with an OEO Legal Services office here in New York. Washington, D.C. (CPS) - "The 1974 budget fulfills my So, although official sources have ·not let out the word, most people working for the Of pledge to hold down federal spending so that there will be no fice of Economic Opportunity (OEO) know that the program's days are numbered. need for a tax increase." Of course, OEO isn't the only program getting the axe. It is just one part of the massive With those words, President Richard M. Nixon presented cuts in social programs that have Congress with his proposed budget for fiscal 1974. · surfaced�with the announcement position to gather and develop a ica. For that alone, it should be To for/:!stall a tax increase, how of Nixon's projected 1974 budget legislative counterstrategy," said the first eliminated." In addition, ever, required the trimming of a the overall budget ceiling pro variety of programs, mostly do - cuts in spending for education the memo. the memo advises Phillips to push posed, but would like to see re The "battle plan" warns that for a program to channel legal mestic, and many of which were health, veterans benefits, public ductions in Defense and other "A constitutional confrontation aid money to "more traditional" the major initiatives of the Tru areas. housing and welfare. may be where the Administration private legal aid groups. man, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and As for a runaway; spendthrift In contrast, the Defense Depart is most vulnerable ... The opposi- "First, control of the traditional Johnson Administrations. More Congress, Andrew J. Glass writing ment's budget was increased, this . tion can claim that there ,is clear legal aid societies rests with ABA than 100 governmental programs in The New Leader observes, "In time by $4.2 billion, making it the law and intent that there be an (American Bar Assoc.) type law were either cut back or termi the course of acting on the last OEO and a Community Action yers, a group not noted for a nated entirel�. Nixon claims he highest in peacetime history and three Nixon budgets, Congress Program (the major OEO pro penchant for radical action. Sec can accomplish most of · the the second highest ever. actually voted $10.1 billion less gram)". ond the local groups are neces changes without Congressional ac than the amounts sought by the However, what sets the OEO The memo goes on to advise sarily fragmented, and with no tion or approval. President; it twice cut his budget demise apart from the drastic cuts avoiding that confrontation and special focus. Although national Abolished '(\'ere many federal by over $2 billion, and in fiscal in other aFeas is t�e speed and suggests that the administration coo1,dination by law reform social programs including the 1973 it pared off more than $5 mobilize support to have OEO pover:tyists is still possible, it is Community Action Agencies, be totality with which it is happen billion." Glass feels the real battle funds cut off in the House and made considerably more difficult." gun by President Johnson as part ing. Even though many of those is over priorities and not spend Senate Appropriations Committees Right now, there are several of the Office of Economic Oppor ing; not how much is _spent, but on whom the OEO was supposed to "whose interests most closely align alternative strategies being consi tunity war on poverty; the De what. with the President's and which dered by threatened Legal Serv pressed Areas Program, a Ken serve felt that it was doing a Whether Congress will rise to have few members with strong ices personnel. Some are looking nedy inner-city rehabilitation pro pretty poor job, the Administra the challenge is anybody's guess. feelings for OEO." for private funding to continue ject; and a series of education tion appa1-ently felt that it was Sources on Capitol Hill say ·anger Finally, the memo warns that their operations after the cut-off. measures initiated during the , doing too good a j,ob. As one OEO towards the President for his per Community Action Program work Others are hoping to get Legal years Nixon served as vice presi lawyer in New York put it, ceived usurpation of legislative ers and their community sup Services incorporated into an in dent under Eisenhower. The total "Though OEO has been wishy powers is running hig�er than any potters will probably mount pro dependent agency before the axe lists of cuts consumes seven-and washy in the past and generally time since Franklin Roosevelth test demonstrations. To deal with falls. And it would have to hap a-half pages in the new budget. weak-kneed it has been a voice occupied the White House. them, the memo advises that a pen quickly since Phillips has on the cabinet level for poor peo Caspar W. Weinberger, director Congress is still smarting from publicity campaign begin to stress been hiring $100-a.-day consultants ple and has raised some issues that of the Office of Management and Nixon s impoundment of funds "a r>icture of agitation, destructive to helr> pack up the OEO Legal ' the administration would rather Budget, outlined the President's authorized for fiscal 1973. The unrest, diversion of federal funds Services records, according to not face. What the administration rationale for the budget cuts. "He move to fight back is gaining bi to support partisan political ac Anderson. But hope for that plan is doing' is dismantling that voice." contends that many of the pro partisan support. tivity, administrative waste, crim is small considering that such a And they are in a hurry to do grams are outdated, poorly con Antagonism toward Nixon is inal misuse of funds, and a pro move would have to have the it too as recently revealed OEO ceived or unproductive." The Ad affecting even the most insigni gram structure which exacerbated approval of the very people who �emo;andums show. The admin ministration claims it is merely ficant acts on Capitol Hill. A leg rather than resolved racial. prob are wielding the axe- now. istFation is fearful that if the axe scraping- out the "pork barrel" to islative assistan{-"teld of. Senate lems.P It remains to be seen whether takes too long to fall, Congress, cut down on Congressional spend Republicans feeding embarrassing The paper also notes the "hy under pressure from constituents, those who will feel the loss of the ing which it considers "danger questions under the table to their perbole of this criticism" but dis Legal Services, OEO, and other might be forced to try to save it. ously high." The image trying to Democratic counterparts on a counts it in the face of the prob- ' social programs can make their As it is now, Nixon may be able be established is that of the Pres committee interviei.ving a "Nixon lems presented by the "strength feelings felt in time. to dismember it without a struggle. ident riding herd on a runaway appointee for confirmation to his of support" the OEO program has There are plans 'underway for Ever since-January, when Nixon Congress to prevent a tax increase post. with local leaders. lobbying and demonstrations by confirmed that he was oj)pGinting five times on one page during his On a more substantial level is Vice President Agnew has been veterans, welfare, and wom_en's Howard Phillips to be ·"acting di budget presentation and it was a court case in Missouri over quite active in planning th� hat groups to pressure Congress into rector of OEO," the handwriting the major theme of his radio ad Nixon's impound'ment of funds chet job on OEO. In his column acting against Nixon's budget on the wall became clearer and dress to the American people from th� Highway Trust. Not on February 1, columnist Jack plan. But if the "Congressional clearer. Phillips, former chairman where he urged support for his everyone· in Congress wants money Anderson revealed the content of Strategy" memorandum is any of the ultra-conservative Young plans._ from the trust spent on highway a memo prepared by Agnew's indication, the decision about OEO Congresspeople feel he is being Americans for Freedom (YAF) at construction. But there was voca\ office advising Phillips of where may never be in the hands of less than candid. The barrel scrap Harvard, wasn't . being posted to support and quiet approval in to strike at OEO first. people "o/ho can be affected by a ing is heavily one-sided, they say, OEO to help it expand,· that was Congress when Senate Dem0c:rats "Of all the OEO programs, public outcry. The Nixon admin and the net effect is a reordering for sure. filed an amicus curiae brief on Legal Services is the most capable istration may prefer to do in OEO of national priorities away from Phillips then confirmed that behalf of the Missouri Highway of fU11damentally altering Amer- in private. the social action.Many agree with· view in a series of recent inter Department which is seeking views and comments in which he money presently frozen by a Pres claimecl. that "to treat the pGOr as idential mandate. ll'his case should a class apart with interests separ be the key to the power struggle. ate and distinct from those of soc Congress is hoping the courts will iety as a whole" is "a Marxist deny Nixon the ability, already notion" and orie unsuitable as a exercised, to withhold authorized premise for the OEO to work on. funding. This would be a major Especially in the area of Legal defeat for the executive branch. Services, one of the more signifi While Congress may find unity cant programs that OEO has fund in i-ts dislike for Nixon's tactics, ed over its 8 year career, Phillips it will be difficult for it to reach was adamant. He subscribes to agreement on just what to -do Vice President Agnew's view that about the situation. most OEO lawyers are "ideological Charles Lee, an influential edu vigilantes" qut to bring about a cation lobbyist, explained that in revolution. against the American the past Congress depended on way through the courts. the President to honor certain un That's certainly an overstate spoken guidelines in submitting ment. But it is true that Legal new legislation and in preparing Services has made some inroads the budget. "An informal code in representing poor clients in was developed so that legislative legal actions against landlords, and executive interests would at employers, banks, -discriminatory least fall within certain limits." labor unions, and even state and Now this code has been shatter local governments - groups wlio ed. Nixon has presented a budget have more in common with the based solely on his own priorities. Nixon administration than the Congress may be mad, but · it poor do. stands without defenses. On February 16, the New York Disagreements over what pro Post revealed a n1erno, "Congres grams to fund are inevitable and sional Strategy on OEO," which further compounded by built in details the plan through which the conflicts and omissions in the Nixon administration could dis budget. For example, any funds mantle OEO before Congressional for the rehabilitation and recon action could save it. struction of Vietnam will have "The more delay, the more op to be chopped out of existing pro- portunity for Congressional op- ":X: iHINK iHE:Y CA\..L IT 'PEACE WITH HONOR!"' (Continued on Page 4) Page Four THE REPORTER . Monday, February 26, 1973 Help Wanted foreign Students So You Want To The Office of Career Cotm Sigma Alpha, Delta Cha;p N. V.C. seling and Placement is lo ter, announces that they will (Continued from Page 2) cated in Room 217, 24th St. Be a TV Star? hold an open meeting on F·ri Young, married couples will and Borough Presidents. All offices are open to election this Annex. It is open from 5 to day, March 2nd, at 6:30 15.m. have an opportunity to beat year. 8 P.M., 'Monday, Tuesday and in the Oak Lounge of the The Comptroller (presently Abe Beame) is -the city's Wednesday foT Evening Ses Student Center. Roreign stu inflation as a result of an exciting offer that is being chief financial officer, auditor and investigator. He (hope sion and Graduate Students. dents and students who have fully) has his eagle eye on all official city accounts, and he Call 725-3076 or 3077 for difficulty speaking English made by the producers of 1 the NBC-TV Netwol'k show, orders the methods of accounting and recording for all city appointment, are invited to attend this agencies. He also has the power to delve info any aind all meeting where they will be "Sale of the Century." The program is one of the most matters having to do with the city's finances. He has the HELP WANTED conveniently matched with a power to adjust and settle all claims for or against the city (The following are among the successful game shows on televi tutor who is capable of giv sion today. On it, contestants are except those involving nonproperty taxes, he is in charge of job openings currently on file in ing them remedial help. Any the city's employee pension funds1 the Office of Career Counseling afforded the chance t� P.urchase , and he is second in line to students who are interested fantastic merchandise at unbe and Placement). succeed to the office of Mayor. in tutoring· such students are lievable brrgain prices. The Borough Presidents don't do much at all. Borou.gh COMMODITY ANALYST. also welcome to attend. Heretofor� the contestants have Presidents used to be fairly important; they supervised bor MBA been la.·gely individual women ough services (such as sewage and garbage coUection, street and men. Now, the program will MBA student majoring in Fin repair and such) but these activities gradually became cen feature young, married couples, ance or .Economics, position with BCCC Meeting tralized in City Hall. But the 0ffice is still there and there and give them a once-in-a-life are plenty of out-of-work pe0ple who wou.hl love to have a major coffee broker in Wall The Baruch College Com time opportunity to obtain thin_gs Street area, prior commodity an munity Conference will meet they normally coulq not afford. crack at the job. However, they do manage to keep them alysis experience required. Start on Wednesday, February 28th This e�rniting TV game show. selves relatively busy with what seems like makew0rk: they ing salary $12,500 - $14,000. Refer, at 4:30 in the Faculty Lounge, which has been running for three are chairmen of their Bor0ugh Improvement Boai-ds (which to Code #2n-15. 5th f19or of the 24th St. and-a-half years, has offered over hold public hearings on borough programs - I don't know Building. All members please $8,000,000 worth · of mercl:J.andise of'any borough programs - and proposed cawital pr0jects). PRODUCTION MANAGER n@te the time and ]!)lace since to eager contestants at incredible The Boards report to the Board of Estimate, the City Cou.ncil, Position with a medium sized notice of meetings have not prices. E.or example, $4,000 cars the Mayor, and the City Planning Commission - which, as ad agency, ,l0eated in 42ad Street been s�nt to student members have sold for less than $400· va you may have guessed, plans things for the ci,ty. [email protected] and 5th Avenue area, specializ cation trips to Europe a�d Japan for previous meetings, and ,Presidents . alsq serve on something caUed a Site Selection ing in industrial clients and trade will probably not be sent in have gone for less than $300, and Board, which 1s an agency that (again, you've gu.essed it) publications. Prior ,ad agency ex the future. brand new livi,n_g rooms and bed selects sites for capital l')rojects {like our already-mentioned perience in production required. room� have been bought for less Starting salary $10,000. Refer to The subj ed matter of the than $100. hospital). They also appoint members to their Bor0uo-h C0m- Code #90-,12. meeting will be the @ffice of Jin addition to such exotic buys, ' m1rnity Planning Bol;trd, which advises whoever'll listen to Ombudsman. the show also features otl:J.er bar-' them on the community's welrare a:nd development. SECRETARY gains at ridiculously l0w prices, _ And that, in a very small nutshell, is our municipal gov Several position with FORTUNE such as: ernment. C0me N0vemli>er, all of us are sul')posed to fil1 i:N. the 500 firm located near Freshmen Transfer Students -$339 portable color TV f0�� slots with warm (or wa,rmed-over) bodies. Hopefully, alter Center. G0od typjng and steno ALL TRANSFER STU < $16.95. the last :flew hundred w0rds you'll have at least as vao-ute skills req_1.lll'ed. Starting salary -$414 · !:J.i-fi stereo c0ns0le for an idea as ] .do of what all those Ji>odies will be talkiN.g a,b;u.it. DENTS majoring in the $21.95. I $125-$160 per week depending up teaching of Stenography and (This columnist would especW/llY like to tJw,nk the League on skills and prior experience, if -$669 1-efrigerator-freezer for 'Typewriting or in Office $24.95. of -W:ori:i,en Voter-s of the City of New Y@rk, 817 Br@adway., any. for their literature_ - which served as the basis for thel above Refer to Code #240-37. Management and Secretarial -$784 piano for $29.95. Stwilies who have completed "We would like to give these - and their patiemce.) ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT the ENTIRE sequence in young couples starting out a real break," says Joe Garagiola, host Position with an advertising Shorthand and Tyriewriting of the show. "Just think, a couple researeh firm located near Penn at a community college can win enough money on the Statiom. Must type. Varied clerical should present themselves for show and take advantage of the duties. Starting salary $120-$125 EVALUATION EXAMINA OPEN HEARINGS terrific bargain prices of the me11- per week. Refer to Code #90-13.· TIONS to be held in Rooms cm.andise t0 wiad up furnishing 1323 and· 1324, 23rd Street a whole house, takip.g a great trip GSA BUDGE·T building, on Thursday, March and buying a new car." Education Ma,jors _ 1 (Shorthand), 12 noon, and Young, marrie