Vol. VNo. 4 York College of tho City University of New York, Baysiae-Janaica, New York Thursday, November 19, 1970 Students Severly Criticize Teacher Preparation Program Student disappointment with The approximately 21 required York's Teacher Education pro- courses in Education, considered gram is many faceted. Com- a minor, almost qualified Educa- plaints concerning the required tion as a major (which consists courses, inaccessibility and dis- of 30 credits) and another 14 tance of education courses in credits of electives. A student in schools spread throughout the program suggested that the Queens, and the frustration over seven Curriculum and Methods the allotments of time actually courses be combined into three allowed for student teaching, are courses. Students should enter widespread among the students the Program in their freshman Dnx/iH N*»wron Dr Newton has an- ta the Teacher's Ed. program, year, one student said, so all UOVia Newron. ur. iNewTon nas an Teacher Ed. course require- requirements could be com- |ll|ll|| fMii | ,, J nounced his recommendation of fourteen instructors ments include seven courses in Pleted by the junior year, al- ^® ^"^ to be tenured. music, art, physical education, lowing time to teach all day or reading, math, the language arts spend half a day teaching and and science. One student called half a day taking classes. ^^^^^^^ the Curriculum and Methods "Administration is giving stu- ^^^^^^k jfcj courses a waste of time and dent teachers the run-around, ^^^^^^k W] energy, not delving into anything Communication between ad- ^^^^^^A • deeply or thoroughly. The ex- ministration and students Is ^^^^^^^» ~ perience of teaching in front of bad," said one student. "Ad- r\_ Wallace K Schoen- — a classroom is more necessary ministration, faculty, and stu- £ • Wa^" ^ £*" |A DarAmmanil TkrAA Alt I Set than the required courses, it was dents should get together in order oerg, /Associate uean 10 IIClUHIIIHJnil I niCC Ull LIM said- to make it a worthwhile pro- for Teacher Prepara- Class observation was criti- gram - now pandemonium tion Program has not Students Not Consulted in Move r^^^SS'oSi^ ^^^**££*Z me' tinn« wpr*» inn Qhnrt in rfnrnHnn miss6d registration for student f ' i . . Dr. David Newton has an- ciology; Dr. Emanuel P.Manche, onf sSt ftonsht Sat sh,dent teaching and were not allowed student annoyance with nounced that 14 York College assistant professor of chemis- £ to student . teach> Only ^ sec. transportation p r O b- s /aculty and staff members will try; Dr. Anna. Raitiere, assistant j tead of ft small tlme ^- tions of each Curriculum and I ems be recommended for reappoint- professor of French; Dr. Peter j t d ^ liy d ,t Methods course were given, both merit with ten-ore at the November Ranis, assistant professor of po- 3* ttmeto Jmowtte children at the same time. Board of Higher Education meet- litical science; Mr. Edward T. ^ theT ca^i't^t accustomed Signs in the cafeteria an- Use of a mailing list was sug- ing fortheapprovaloftheB.HE. Rogowsky, instructor in counsel- toyo^ on^ student Sed to nouncing Teacher Ed. activities nested fs the best means of Recommended are: Dr. Ar- ing and student development; Dr. rry ' w «,H u h have been few Dut UD far ahead communication of information to thur Bieler, associate professor Jane C. Schneider, assistantpro- ™ for^s^montts strateMwas of time, and disappearing a few students in the Teacher Ed. pro- months stra ht of French; Dr A medeo F. D'- fessor of anthropology; Dr. Jj^^ * was & ^ ^ HJ^f ^ gram. Adamo, associate professor of Gladys A. Seda-Rodriguez, as- ou68o"^' biology; Mr. Eugene Duncan, col- sistant professor of Spanish; Dr. f l-.J^,,!, f - ^^.I«««^«B« • •* DMUJ«H«'« lege laboratory technician in the Daniel Stern, assistant professor JlUDKllfS 3 CO IE L.OIIIII1I1 III T OllaOlfl S of psycho'ogy; Mr. Peter Wen- «*•«»%•»•••«# «#%WI «9 VVIWIIIII III I MIIMVI «• •» Threats of Reprisals Follow "Conversations" Column An th e laSt X* r^ceivT telre^re S T ««*• * h >"» ^ °" ""** " T^ Article Called M it th . , * 'T • of Pandora's Box has created a of white supremacy and a put- fii iiwic waiicu library; Mr. Ernest P. Garth- ^mattemLtks' Mr fM Raf great stir among several black down of blacks. "wasteof waite, assistant professor art; ~ rof^sor In hbr'ar "^ndD students in the York Community. . . WdSlBUI iJr» rC6Siui3i o» *^^nff. 3tssist2int _ _ . , ' * TIIGSC studGnts tcr*m©d Convcr~ iflvnllin TflllCn Carolyn Lewis, lecturer in so- (Continued on page 15) Hank Sheinkopf, as racist.'They SBliSitiVB 3re3 te artcl e eaves a a e Students Surveyed Reject -.-—— dX _ _ _^ ^ » thought that it would onl tne black man a^g. •• • _ • ^1 B|k • — be touching a sensi14— —•* EXISlinQ VOTG KGOUirGltiGntS t^rw^iteieo^e reactedlout of "oTastTor po"intV %0 U guilt, as they are accustomed The core requirements at York quired subjects. These are the i>Ve almost completed 58 of my SOdiB C3ll6Cl it f3 JT College are presently being Core requirements: Core requirements." An editorial COncern- questioned by the student popula- English 9 credits Roy Meyer - Psychology - ing this article appears Other students felt that the tion. Many feel that the Core re- History 6 credits "English and Math we need, but __ r article was completely impartial quirements are too stringent and Philosophy 6 credits Physical Science is irrelevant on P»ge °« and unbiased. On the whole there too numerous. They think there Music/Art 4 credits for most of the students' majors. were two opposite points of view. might be a possibility of changing Social Science 6 credits You're forced to learn what you t0 reacting. Black people who Students vowed to "get" Uncle the Core, to make the curriculum Mathematics 4-8 credits don't want to learn." are used to racial epithets thought Bob and the autor claiming both more suitable to each student. Natural Science....12-14credits Gary Falzone - Lib. Arts - that it was another one, and did to be perpetrators of racism. This can only be possible if stu- Language 6 credits "They're forcing irrelevant not understand the meaning of the Physical violence against the dents become interested and take Physical Education. . .2 credits things on us, at a time when they article. The attempts to coerce author was threatened, an active part in helping. 55-61 credits can least afford to be irrelevant." the paper into reacting out of fear Arthur Ruggiero is one of the In order to get an idea as to Neil Mlzrahi - Art - "By the must not work. Free press must Rpali+v ic caHdpninff first students to become totally how the students feel about the time you finish the requirements De free of pressure from any HCdlllj lo odUaClllllg involved in changing the core re- Core requirements at York Col- you don't have time to get into side, be it left, right, black or quirements. He is the repre- lege, mini-interviews were your major." white." "Uncle Bob may or may not sentative of the Social Science taken. Students were asked their Marc Cohen - Political be a real person," said one stu- Division to the College-Wide- names, majors and how they felt Science - "The Core concept Dnt*ie>m Ph-ir«oH dent, "but this is not important. Curriculum Committee. He feels about the Core. Here's some of is basically a good idea. How- tf aCISIfl UlldlgCU The reality is that a majority of that the students shouldn't be re- the answers- ever the Core requirements do the people in this country react quired to take certain courses Susan Horowitz-Sociology - "I not meet the needs of the The students further charged and believe the way Uncle Bob if they don't want to. "It can only think they're too stringent. Some individual student, since the core that the racism ln the article does- especially those of the lead to a lowering of the in- requirements must be cut out, but was designed for the entire was demonstrative of the alleged 'silent majority.' " tellectual atmosphere in a I'd keep at least one term of student population. The core racism that has existed in Pan- Most people realized the class." Arthur made this state- Physical Science." should be replaced by a cur- dora's Box in the past and is author's intent and recognized his ment based on his past expert- Mark Flayton-Ancient Greek- riculum that is tailored for each present now. point of view - condemnation of ences. Not everyone works and "If it wasn't for the core re- individual student." Various newspaper members, Uncle Bob and his ideas, and the the amount of knowledge to be quirements I wouldn't be leaving. Gary Nadler - Psychology - "I Including the author, spoke with institutions which gave birth to covered in a class is reduced. I think the core is bad. How can think the Core requirements the students, explaining that the his ideas and natures them even It's not fair to the students in- someone else decide what I stink. A College should offer a article was not intended to further today, terested in the course. should be made of." free choice of studies, without" racism, and was instead a com- People are still coming into Right now 59 of the 128 credits A. Ruggiero - "I think I'm having to bother to fulfill any re- ment on racism and those who Pandora's Box and are threaten- needed for a B.A. degree are re- majoring in the study of Yorkie. quirements." perpetuate it. ing the author or lauding him. Page 2 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970 Students Psyched on Psych. Senate: Psychology 490 is Dean Ros- with a "Good chunk of the area's research or mental health wards. enberg's new additive approach responsibility done in the after "We're always looking for good to teaching Psych majors their care center." There are eight therapists. There are so few pro- business. This new challenge for such satellite clinics in Queens fessionals because most of them Faculty Style the thirteen (mainly senior) stu- with one at a Far Rockaway get into the administration. That dents is a series of lectures church and it is run by the is one reason it is important for and an independent study pro- church. In the day hospital some me to teach." Mr. Peter Wengert, faculty by the standing committees. head of the York Senate, suggest- gram at Creedmore State Men- students are put in general There are elective courses The "Senate's survival will de- tal Hospital. "This is unusual psychiatric wards with physi- ed that a student having a prob- which students can take at Creed- lem should contact the student pend on student interest as well because our students aren't grad- cians and patients so that they more. One would be clerkship. as the community's. Outside P&B uate students," said Dean Ros- won't be strangers and won't get leader of the Senate, adding "The There are foreign residents on goals of the Senate are to get the Senate can take issue with enberg, "and Dr. Irwin Green- lost. One of the branches they the wards who cannot speak anything it likes. It can, for ex- berg (the "adjunct" professor of would work in is at Elmhurst. people what they want.'' The Per- English, students can help them sonnel and Budget Committee ample, bridge the gap between the course and is the Director of "Students relate to small groups with the language barrier, while people as well as improve com- Creedmore) is an excellent, and can apply stuff from previous cannot be touched by the Senate, they help with some Psych bar- as stipulated in the charter. In munications between different stimulating instructor." courses. There is student lead- riers. There are also courses parts of York College." ership in these groups. In family order to get student input into Dr. Greenberg described the in Education and Training, P&B, the President's as well as sections of the hospital and how occupational therapy students can Residency, some other Psych Faculty attitude toward the see depths of patients problems." The Board of Higher Education's the students and his course are courses and Nursing. permission would be necessary. Senate has been reserved. "Some involved in it. The first section Asked if this course contri- Nancy Harper, one of the stu- faculty have been very unhappy is Medical Illness (which con- butes to the graduate major in dents in this remarkable course Grading policy, he said, could because the Senate has been doing sists of about 1000 patients) 70% Psych, Dr. Greenberg answered, said that "working with Dr. be taken up in two sections - one housework." of which are elderly, may not be "Definitely, because they aren't Greenberg on the wards, we are section pertaining to marking Dr. Newton, chairman of the psychiatric. Dr. Greenberg conditioned to old concepts, so it turned loose." She added her practices during a strike, and the Senate, has the. first word, and would like to start a home therapy is easier to teach them." "The amazement at the wonderful second being normal semester has moved it along quickly. Mr. situation, where assistant physi- only drawback of the course is changes that took place at Creed- marking. Wengert feels that Dr. Newton cians and students from Q. C. C. some of the people which are more since Dr. Greenberg took Mr. Wengert- keeps an op- has filled his leadership role and York can work with these running the groups but otherwise, over, since the time she was a timistic point of view in regard well, and has not violated any people once they are out of the students see it as it is." nurse there, years ago. to the Senate, saying that there rules, and uses the Senate as medical hazards. The other three The students alternate on the are some unresolved problems a sounding board for his views. David Gilman, another en- from past years that would be sections are psychiatric wards wards. They may go on organic, thused student of Dr. Greenberg's The various committees might involved in the Senate's talks. be merged together to eliminate likes the meetings with Green- Among these could be a new grad- berg (on alternate weeks), where some of the red tape. So far, ing system, curriculum changes, almost 100% of the Senate has the student can select the topics student input in P&B. These mat- of discussions. For ex., General been in attendance at the meet- ters would be referred to the ap- ings. Systems and Theories; Differen- propriate committees in the Sen- tial Diagnosis; Psychopharmo- ate, Standing committees in the Tenure has not been dealt with chology; and Community Mental Senate as a whole, would then by the Senate because the Senate Health and Differential Treat- vote on proposals as advanced has no control over Personell MRAGNEW ment (Dave's favorite). "It's re- and Budget. lating myself to the real thing. ^WillMf - You have to come to real deci- ™ ^Wlif THE SECRET SERVICE WOULD sions. It's the first time I was ex- posed outside of the text and Why Go To College? yW\ LIKE TO HAVE A COPY OF classroom in this field." Dave Years ago college was solely Going beyond high school is k L 1 yOUR TRAVEL SCHEDULE FOR was asked about the work that is thought of as an "institution of necessary to reach a highly expected in the course, he re- higher learning." Only a select approved or ego lifting position, KKML ,WV THE NEXT 30 DAYS . . . plied that the students have to few went - the doctors, lawyers, such as doctor or lawyer, and make a presentation and a paper and people that were ambitious there is certainly more status in (but not from texts)." We have a enough to reach the higher healing or defending than there is graduate attitude, so that we can rungs of the career ladder. As in garbage collecting. realize the complexity of the a result, there weren't that Another reason for going to situation but not for practical many colleges. college is that a college gradu- reasons. All different levels of Nowadays the opposite situa- ate will make more money than it." tion is present. Almost everyone a non-graduate, sometimes Dean Rosenberg said that the thinks of attending college and working at the same job. How- course will continue until next more institutions are springing ever, a large bulk of students term. "Hopefully, we can get up all over the nation every year. never even thought of working independent student programs Why bother going to college? after high school. If the idea oc- like this for the other social Why not just finish with high curred at all, it was probably sciences!" he added. school? considered rattier absurd. There There are several appropriate is also the student who attends answers to the abo\ ^lestions. college in order to improve his To start with, irents in- social life. A person in need of wSm troduce the idea inb \e mind friends is bound to find them ALL CLASSES of the child when he h ; not yet where there is a large popula- I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT reached adolescence. A standard tion of others similar to him- SCHEDULED FOR quote, "I've had it hard all my self. In addition, college is a OF THE UNITED STATES life, I want my kid to have it good place for a girl to find a hus- band. NOT SOME easier." In other words, if the DEC. 24 kid goes beyond high school he'll Not neglecting another in- EFFETE OFFICE CLERK . . . receive that important piece of centive, there is the Draft. Boys, paper - the college diploma - stay in college and you're safe I DON'T GIVE OUT which will make for less sweat for four years. SCHEDULES PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN and strain in order to make a Finally there is the student that buck. has always thought of furthering It could be said that status is his education and is sincere in the CANCELLED , a reason for going to college. desire to expand his knowledge.

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I'LL CALL GREYHOUND DIRECT! "I've HOTHM& TO HIPE-tT$ LB&IT-WKE HOT OPERATING- IN THE WUtte ARBA<> m BOYS nut ONLY pumm DOPE IN tm BLACK COMMWITIES." Thursday November 19, 1970 Pandora's Box Page 3 Student Development Center Opens

Students and f acuity are cordi- about contemporary issues of in- ally invited to visit, and to dis- terest to all. cuss plans for the new and on- Some suggested topics have going programs, in student de- been on abortion, race relations, velopment. The student develop- dissent in a free society, etc. ment programs include sem- Students, faculty, and staff are inars, leadership training, sen- needed to plan and to implement sitivity groups, and issue forums. such a series. If you are inter- The student development office ested in helping please contact is also the campus center for in- Mr. Edward T. Rogowsky or Dr. formation and co-ordination of Peter Lawner at their new offices the student activities program. at 50-50 Cloverdale Blvd. (2nd Proposals have been made for house from the Bayside Oaks a series of discussions on campus Jewish Center.)

Mr. Rogowsky's secretary Mrs. Gibson has given Dr. Peter Lawner, Frances Anne Impellizzeri, Brigite Botip, Mr. Edward much time and aid to help with the opening of the Rogowsky, Mark Cohen and Dr. Alvin Snadowsky discuss the prospects for Student Development Center. the new Center. Newton Explains Tenure Procedure President Newton opened the The Chancellor's Report of- Nov. 11th faculty meeting with the fered some ideas for future gov- idea that it should not be the ernment of the colleges. It president against the faculty, but basically provides more auton- the academic community. He omy for the individual branches then told the faculty about the way of the City University. It also tenure is to be handled under the allows the Chancellor to dismiss new CUNY guidelines. He ex- a college president. Lastly the plained that some of the older department heads which were institutions in the City Univer- previously elected in a depart- sity were having a hard time mental election are now to be g-etting1 good faculty members appointed by the president. because all the tenured positions allowed in the budget were filled. Criticism of the report Is nom- This means that unless the ad- inal. Some faculty members ministration of these colleges felt that having president select were insured of the retirement department heads was less than or death of one of their col- democratic. It was brought out leagues, they could not offer that traditionally the democracy a permanent position to pros- shown in these elections was pective faculty members. It is more akin to that of the back obvious that few people would wards of Mayor Daley's Chicago, consider taking a job under those than to what is referred to as circumstances and even more democracy with a small "d." obvious of the caliber of the Students have criticized the idea Mrs. Vera Douthit speaks of her efforts and hopes type of person who would con- of the president appointing his for developing a tutorial program for poverty sider such a position. In order department heads on other agencies in Jamaica. for this not to happen, the chan- grounds. They feel that this cellor proposed several guide- should be done by a group fac- lines. The first was that no ulty-student search committee. more than seventy-five percent of the tenured lines should be filled at any time. In order to Hope For A Project do this it was suggested that Pre—Engineers only fifty percent of those fac- ulty members who are newly Dr. Levin and Dr. Jain, two During the last year, Mrs. eleven or twelve persons that However, there Is still hope hired should expect to be eventu- of York's engineering coun- Vera Douthit has worked at the responded were referred to for development. If the program ally tenured. The president con- selors, presented a program Jamaica York Center for two days the agencies. Response was does come about, there is a pos- tinually pointed out that it was in for all pre-engineering students, per week. From this it was un- poor due to the fact that students sibility to credit being given to no way a mark of professional on November 10, 1970. The guest derstood that she might be able were reluctant to go into the poor- those students enrolled in the incompetence to be refused speaker was Mr. P. Razelos of to help poverty agencies in the er areas, had schedules that Teacher Preparation Program. tenure. Richmond college, who spoke attempt to secure tutors for a wouldn't fit in or desired the Right now there is a tutorial about the opportunities Rich- tutorial program. professional support which the program at the Jamaica Y.M. mond College offers engineering In the effort to try to help program lacked. C.A. run by York students, Chris students. "This is a new pro- them, Mrs. Douthit had signs At any rate, Mrs. Douthit's Epifania and Angelo Valenti. gram," he stated, adding that posted around the campus. The program never materialized. The president also asked a "Today's engineers face a lot group of tenured faculty to help of problems, not only in one area him by acting as an advisory but in a good many areas." board in his own decisions in He went on to describe the sixty Pentagon - Internal Combustion? approving members of the fac- credits of core requirements America's gravest security tional" military policies. By in 1968), the number of Ameri- ulty that are up for tenure. needed to transfer. The core re- problem is not an external threat, the same token, in his opinion, cans suffering from hunger (10 quirements entail at least two but the existence and operation the pre-emption of key manpow- million in '68-'69,) or the fact terms of physics, one of chem- of the very body entrusted with er and material resources by that the U.S. ranks 18th among istry, and four terms of mathe- the nation's defense. Such is the the state-management isatrace- nations In infant mortality rate. Selection of those who are to matics. There are no de- provocative paradox set forth In able source of the progressive Designed to protect America receive tenure will begin at the partments within the engineering Dr. Seymour Melman's Pentagon (and otherwise inexplicable) de- from its external enemies and Divisional Personnel and Budget department, and math and sci- Capitalism. pletion of many areas of civilian to preserve the way of life of Committee. There the instruc- ences are under one director. According to the author life. a free society, the new state- tional competence, public serv- of Pentagon Capitalism, who is From 1946 to 1969, the author management has transcended this ice, and research will be used Questions were asked and a- professor of Industrial En- states, the U.S. government spent role, Melman declares. Further- to determine if a person is to mong them were some pertaining gineering at Columbia Univer- over $1,000 billion on defense, more, as he sees it, "the join- get tenure smd to rank him to jobs after college. Mr. Razelos sity, this new state-management and even this "sum of staggering ing of the economic-managerial amongst the other people who stated that the job market is very operates under the Office of the size . . . does not express the and top political power has been are up for tenure. This caused bad now, adding that most of the Secretary of Defense and per- cost of the military establishment done in an unannounced and, in a problem amongst people who students had either found jobs or •forms all the functions of the type to the nation as a whole." This effect, covert fashion." Con- did not like the idea of being gone on to do post graduate work. of central administrative office cost, Melman writes, is more sequently, the author contends, rated. This ranking is being "The figures have it that by 1972 found at the top of the principal accurately gauged in terms of we are witnessing "a trans- done in spite of the fact that the demand will be higher than U.S. industrial firms. what has been-foregone — ex- formation in the character of the the supply," he said. One hundred President Newton did not want It is to this propensity that pressible in such statistics as American government," and a the ratio idea to effect the de- fifty students are currently en- those of America's grossly sub- re-examination of its behavior rolled in the program. Melman attributes a series of liberations this year. otherwise inexplicable, "irra- standard dwellings (six million is in order. On November 5, 1970, at 6:30 P.M. in the student cafe- College Committee on York College Association Teacher Preparation Facilities and Campus teria, another York College Senate meeting was held. At Planning Committee the beginning of the meeting Dr. Newton announced that Faculty: Curriculum Committee Gertz of Jamaica is going to donate several hundred parking Illegal Drug Use Dean Lewis Bodi TEACHER PREPARATION Faculty: spaces to York College when it moves into Jamaica. Faculty: Mrs. Barbara Crystal Faculty: Prof. Alan Cooper The balance of the meeting was devoted to election of mem- Prof. Albert Dinnerstein Dean Richard Gruen Prof. Laura Bursuk Prof. Che-tsao Huang bers to the Standing Committees. The Senate broke up into Mrs. Mirian Schneider Dean Richard Horchler Prof. William Glenn Prof. Eric Karp student and faculty caucuses. The caucuses elected their Prof. Rudolph VonBurg Mr. Barney Levantino Prof. Margaret Green Prof. Emanuel Manche own members to the Committees. The following list is the Dean Gruen (Ex-officio) Mr. Edward Rogowsky Prof. Rozanne Knudson Prof. Hugh Nelms student & faculty members elected by the caucuses: Students: Director of Community Affairs Prof. Elizabeth Seittelman Prof. Max Prola Harry Kaplan Students: Prof. Marie Wittek Students: Susan Medvic Michael Anekstein Students: Ilosemarie Guiliano Peter Morra Jessica Crosby Agnes LoMonaco David Katzberg Mitchell Sziklay Christine Epigania Linda Scuderi Mark Roth Carlos Hernandez Patricia Smith Community: Susan Horowitz Dr. R. Ross Johnson Open Admissions and Jack Loobman Committee on 2 to be named Maureen Pierce Ex-officio: Master Plan Committee Academic Standards Dean Richard Horchler Faculty: Committee on Latin Mr. Barney Levantino Faculty: Prof. Bertrand Armstrong Mr. Milton Sussman Prof. Amedeo D'Adamo American Studies Prof. David Eckroth Prof. George Bailey Prof. Nancy Fischer Prof. Hilda Fortune Faculty: Prof. William Loughlin Prof. Hyman Gabai Mr. Benedetto DiRusso Prof. Peter Ranis Campus Facilities Officer Prof. Martin Spergel Dean Richard Gruen Prof. Richard Doty Mr. Milton Sussman (Ex-officio) Prof. Rozanne Knudson Mr. Hiram Masso Dean Richard Gruen Committee on Cultural Affairs Miss Jo C. Lewis Prof. Peter Ranis Prof. Edmund Willis Faculty: Mr. Venis Marsh Mr. Stanley Rustin Students: Prof. David Ignatow Mr. Hugh Nelms Prof. Gladys Seda o Prof. Judith Papachristou Students: Neal Haynes Prof. Helen Johnson m Mario Ficarola Prof. Sidney Kleinman Prof. Robert-Ryley Carlos Hernandez Gerald Sussman Prof. George McClancy, Jr. Prof; Daniel Stern Diana Mejias Students: Students: Campus Discipline Committee Margo Diamond Margo Diamond Library Committee Jan Grossberg George Leonard Faculty: Joseph Hayour Donna Ludgin Faculty: Prof. Arthur Bieler Lily Russo Mitchell Sziklay Prof. Lloyd Barnhart Mrs. Edvige Coleman Ex-officio: Prof. Marjorie Boyer Mr. Aldophus Frazier Committee on Community Services Dean Richard Horchler Prof. Melvin Kornfeld Students: Mr. Barney Levantino Mrs. Thelma Metz Anthony Caruso Dean Wallace Schoenberg Miss Kathryn Soltesz Howard Frey and Continuing Education. Mr. Milton Sussman Mr. James D. Wynne Faculty: Chairman of the College Students: Committee on Mr. Howard Geffner Curriculum Committee Lamont Singletary Prof. Abel Jacob Joel Hornstein Prof. Gladys Seda Ex-officio: Student Development Prof. Marie Wittek Committee on Prof. George Bailey Dean Richard Horchler Policy Committee of the York College Center for Orientation and Counseling a Faculty: Dean Richard Gruen Committee On Ceremonies Mr. Stuart Bailin Library Representative Faculty: Prof. Samuel Borenstein Students: Urban and Community Affairs Dean Richard Gruen (Ex-officio) And Commencements Prof. Beverly Houghton Louise Stella Faculty: Students: Prof. Adelaide Harmon Faculty: Mr. James W. Jones Gerald Sussman Mr. Phillip Dawes Evelyn Davis Prof. Leslie Lewis Prof. Elaine Baruch Dean Richard Gruen (Ex-officio) John Williams Mr. James Pope % Mrs. Vera Douthit Maureen Pierce Mrs. Muriel Davis CD Students: Community: Mr. Adolphus Frazier Angelo Valenti Mr. Alan Segal Prof. Helen Johnson >S Sue Gershenovich Mr. Richard L. Geist Dean Richard Gruen Community: Prof. Mildred Ware Prof. Michael Southwell CO Michael Horowitz Dr. R. Ross Johnson Dean Sidney Rosenberg Dr. R. Ross Johnson Students: Students: Peter Morra Mr. Robert She raid Dean Wallace Schoenberg Dr. James Curtis Carla Ambrosoli Susan Horowitz CO Kathy Niies Mrs. Arthur Wells Dr. John Gaynus f-11 1 _. Thursday, November 19, 1970 Pandora's Box Page 5 Pandora's Box Viewpoint We Must Not Yield to Coersion Altering P.T. Barnum's famous maxim, a news- paper's underlying motto is "You can't please all of the people all of the time." This thought is up- permost in all editor's minds and although recog- nized as a fact, there are certain times when a paper manages to insult an individual or a group of people. In this case, when the latter's reaction is noted, apologies are made. But, when that reaction appears in the form of hostile argument and attempted coercion, then a lack of communi- cation develops between the parties. Brandishing alan barry metrick, editor-in-chief; douglas kennedy, managing of charges and surrenders to despair fill the air. editor; (ranees anne impellizzeri, business manager, larry gar- In an incident two weeks ago, the above situation berr news; robin ginsburg, feature; alan groveman, photography; marie gannon, loyout; regina kizis, copy occurred concerning this newspaper. Although attempts were made to clear up confusion about a certain article, heated emotion and unjust de- lester arditty, joel barkan, glenn be I kin, don bleiwas, brigite s. botie, lorraine brooks, bonnie brudner, Joanne cannava, kim cascio, mands resulted in a lack of intelligent communi- mark cullen, rocco dirico, hy dubowsky, victor goodstone, bill hen- cation between those involved. Although an attempt nely, craig horowitz, elaine horimiotis, elliot james, linda katz, rich kurtzberg, richard lipsky, lloyd lunianski, ellen macdermaid to remove the misunderstanding appears in this susan medvec, michael pike, jack kantrowitz, joe raskin, paul ras-' issue, it is not because of the demands that were mussen, mark roth, mike satran, hank sheinkopf, Steven siegel, jerry smolen, neal sroka, mitchell sziklay, craig tulepan, craig made last week. Only, because we hope that through tulane, judy wattstein, margie weinberg, bernice weissbart, susan this way, the college community may understandably yager, marlene yanofsky. see our viewpoint, whether or not they agree with it. Despite what Mr. Agnew has to say about the slanting of news and the incident which occurred, PANDORA'S BOX is a community publication of York College of the City University of New York, 158—11 Jewel Avenue, Flushing, we will continue to report the news the way we see New York 11365. Telephone: 591-1200. Any editorial opinion ex- fit, and value our freedom to do so. We welcome a pressed herein is not necessarily the opinion of the entire staff, or each of the editors, but rather the majority of the editorial board. questioning of our policy and content, but we do not welcome demands, whether from the right or left.

Letters To The Editor Students Ignored Again For the second time the curse of tenure has besieged York College. The minds have been Pandora's Box welcomes your editorial comments in the form of letters to the editor. We will try to print as many differing rattled. The chain has shaken from the Di- opinions on different subjects as the requirements of space allow. visional Personnel and Budget Committees, to the Letters should be typed, and must be signed. Address your com- College Personnel and Budget Committee, to the ments to: Pandora's Box, 158-11 Jewel Avenue, Flushing, N.Y., 11365. President, to the Board of Higher Education, ending with those dismissed. The chain is broken November 16, 1970 society. and confused, a vital link has been left out. The Letter to the Editor We attack the old order, be- evaluation has been completed but without the most Pandora's Box cause we have a new order, but We live in an age of accelera- we have not yet been able to cope important component - the students. tion, - a world that is running with, or even to understand what Too long have these evaluations lacked the ahead of us, and we are, alas, this new order is all about. unable to cope with the pace of the opinions of those in daily contact, those most changes and new modes all around But, it is high time the au- effected, those very concerned about the teachers us. thority structure ceases to per- - the students. Some have even dared to say secute students for smoking pot, that we are in a Durkheimian when they themselves create the Too long rhetoric has been reiterated, the validity state of anomie, others that we climate in which pot is easily of the arguments hollow. Students should have a are ripe for the revolution which accessible, and, secondly, when tangible and forceful commitment in evaluation and Karl Marx predicted. All around they know in their hearts that us we hear such terms as free- the merits or demerits of this recommendations. Students in academic pursuit dom, liberation, disestablish- pastime are not known, but that have become either polished or tarnished links. ment, down with alienation; and the traditional stimulants and Students have either gained beneficial knowledge indeed some have even attempted depressants are positively harm- to act out these terms. ful, but legalised. or wasted credits. By "a world that is running We need to get to the cardinal It is the righteous duty of York College to permit ahead of us1' I mean that emo- issues, - to help the young to ad- students to be avital part of these evaluations. The tionally and psychologically we just to the new order in the have not been able to keep pace making, to give them a feeling of students have expressed their needs to impudent with, and adjust to the rapidity belonging to this new order. An ears. The validity of these requests cannot be of our intellectual and scientific admission that adults are fallible, further neglected. We propose: progress. sinful, and do not always know or Consequently, there is a duality do what is best, is one good way 1. the student segment of the Divisional Personnel of emphasis, leading to a kind of to begin. and Budget Committees be represented by a ambivalence and confusion, in HERON A. SAM, Chaplain major in each discipline elected from the the lives of today's man, in this student body at large. 2. student evaluation for all teachers be conducted after every semester, nc later than one month How About Some Courtesy after the beginning of the new semester. Before this year, one of the things that has made 3. the students on these committees should be York College so different from most other colleges, voting members. especially publicly supported colleges, was the This proposal should be taken with all serious- close association of the students and the staff. ness as the nature of tenure is most grave. We In the past, all services were open and easily charge the York College Senate with the responsi- accessable to students. Most of the personnel in the bility of structuring this committee. service-orientated offices were around most of the day, five days a week. In addition, they frequently impersonality should be placed on this year's great took that immeasurable extra step to help each, increase in enrollment. However, much of it, we individual student. feel, is due to the paid staff's lax, and sometimes However, with the start of this academic year, delinquent, completion of their jobs. there has been a general change of attitude in many We do not wish to see a return to the "good old of the college offices. Secretaries, once helpful and days," but neither do we wish to live in the total polite, have become in some cases, nasty, mean, lack of personalization which exists today. Rather, and rude. In the student service departments, waits we would like to remember the fine and dedicated as long as a week and a half are common. people at York College as we form our progressive Of course, some of the blame for this increased path to the future. ..I Page 6 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970 CUNY ROUNDUP C.C.N.Y. Brooklyn Puerto Rican Students Demands President Robert Marshak of In addition to that they demanded Student Government Money City College was presented this formation of an independent de- week with a demand by the Puer- partment of Puerto Rican studies Brooklyn College has been the proportion to the amount of sup- to Rican student union concern- as well as a major in that area. scene of a battle between the Stu- port the Mugwump party received ing the hiring of more Puerto In responding to these demands dent Government and the Kings- during its pre-election campaign. Rican faculty members in the President Marshak said that the men (one of the student news- The Brooklyn College radio sta- Romance Language department. session was a useful one for find- papers). In the recent elections tion and the Old-Stigot both which The Puerto Rican students want ing out the problems, and went for student government offices, supported the Mugwump party re- Latin American and Spanish to be on to say that some demands John the Mugwump Party led by Marty ceived the most generous allott- taught, which is conversational can be worked out. The next Orland, was victorious. One of the ments. The Kingsmen however Spanish as opposed to Castilian meeting has not been scheduled first orders of business was the was the apparent victim of' 'latent Spanish which is now being taught. at this time.. allotment of student money to the censorship." Bob Miller, the various groups on the campus. business manager of student Jay Much to the dismay of the Kings- government said, "If the Kings- "There is much talk about alienation among our nation's men, as well as. the other student men does not shape up this year, youth, but little discussion of what incites alienation. Here papers of the City University, they'll be cut even more next we are discussing what is essentially a psychological state, the amount of money allotted to year." a decision by the emotions to reject the values of society. Dump Dean Daniel the various groups was a direct This rejection is caused not by events nor by the action of bur older generation but by a poisoning of the mood of our James T. Daniell, Dean of youth by constant neurotic attacks on their emotions." Administration of the John Jay Strom Thurmond College School of Criminal Jus- On academicians: "It makes me sick at my stomach. They're U. S. Senator, South Carolina tice has been relieved of his a bunch of sidewalk diplomats that don't know the score." duties as dean by President Don- Martha Mitchell ald H. Riddle and by the Board of Higher Education. Seek Students at Alamac Among the reasons for his' removal was the state of af- There is presently a dispute lord business, and is studying fairs of John Jay's new build- between the SEEK Student Coun- ways of phasing out the Alamac." ing. The president stated that cil at City College and Vice- The Board plans to set up a com- "One of the reasons he was Hunter Chancellor, Julius Edelstein, of prehensive privately run dormi- hired was to straighten that build- the Eioard of Higher Education. tory. They are currently meeting ing out. He just couldn't do the The Board of Higher Education with foundations to try to secure job." Election for Senate is planning to phase out the money to implement this plan. Daniell in turn accused the Alamac Hotel. Dr. Edelstein said, The Board did say, however, they president of "mal-administra- Saturday, November 14, 1970, 2. Full time lecturers, part time "The Board of Higher Education would not throw the students out tion misfeasance," and a multi- at midnight, is the last time the lecturers, adjunct lecturers, does not want to be in the land- until they can find something else. tude of other faults. Daniell re- American Arbitration Associa- and all other teaching quested the Board of Higher Edu- tion will accept ballots for the members 13% cation to investigate the admin- governance plan at Hunter Col- 3. Undergraduate day students, "Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's istration of the college, in respect lege. The governance plan pro- other than the department cf catering to revolution. My family worked for everything we to mal-administration, kickbacks poses the formation of student- academic skills (SEEK) 37% on purchases, and the adminis- faculty Senate, rather than the 4. Undergratuate evening stu- had. . . . Now these jerks come along and try to give it to separate Student and Faculty Sen- c the Communists. I want you to crucify Fulbright." tration of student funds. He also dents n j requested the removal of the ates already in existance. The 5. SEEK 2% Martha Mitchell president for the good of the plan calls for two hundred voting 6. Graduate students 11% college pending the investigation. members. The breakdown is as 7. Administration 5% Dean Daniell is fighting his follows: In order for the balloting ts removal by making counter- 1. Professors, Associate profes- be legal, 30% of the eligible vot- Agents Bust 10 Pushers charges to the B.H.E. that student sors, assistant professors, ers must vote. funds were being spent for the and full time instructors 44% Ten CCNY students have been drug use there. personal travel and luncheon ex- arrested as alleged dope pushers Three young cops posed as penses of the faculty, and that on the college campus in upper students and bought dope in stu- student funds were being used to Manhattan by police undercover "I'll tell you who's not informed, though. It's these stupid kids, dent lounges, the cafeteria, hall- pay staff salaries. ... They pick the rhetoric that they want to hear right off the: agents. ways, and other places on the There have been no statements The arrests were made on campus. from the B.H.E. on the matter. top of an issue and never finish reading to the bottom. . . . Tuesday, Nov. 17 by members The ten arrested all sold dope And the professors are just as bad if not worse. They don'': of the Preventive Enforcement to the cops and were then ar- know anything. Nor do these stupid bastards who are ruining Patrol. The Patrol was assigned rested. Few if any, of the stu- Recess With Credit our educational institutions." to the campus after Assistant dents on campus were aware of John Mitchell Chief Inspector Eldridge Waith the arrests while they were hap- The two week election recess U. S. Attorney General received reports of widespread pening. has been the subject of much criticism from individuals claiming that the time is not "You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. used for the original reasons; Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are formulated by the Board of High- the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest uni- er Education; namely, campaign- versities, and here they are burning up the books, storming ing for candidates. Therefore, Queens around about this issue. You name it. Get rid of the war, Dr. Lorraine Colville of John there will be another one." Jay College, in an attempt to make the BHE's election recess Academic Senate Richard Nixon a "meaningful experience", de- President of the U. S. vised a series of projects for The Queens College Academic members who were part of the her government classes. Senate convened for the first school of General Studies. These Professor Colville has initi- time on November 12. The Aca- members had not received the ated, on a voluntary basis, the demic Senate is the new govern- required thirty per-cent of the excusal of term papers normally ing body replacing the Faculty vote. Doctor Eugene Fontinell required in her courses in ex- Council. It will be responsible for was elected permanent chair- change for active political cam- all campus matters including man of the Senate. The college paigning. curriculum and academic stand- president is an ex-officio non- Students who took advantage ards. President JosephMacMur- voting member. Attention Freshman and Sophomores: of the option gave Dr. Colville ray appointed twenty disputed the name of the party and the Applications for the newly liberalized Intensive Studies Program candidate they were working for. will be accepted through the end of November. Entering Freshman Students who did not participate may secure applications through critical issues seminars. For in the campaign were permitted others tliere will be a booth set up in the cafeteria. Students who PREGNANT? NEED HELP? think they know their academic goals are strongly advised to con- to submit a term paper, or at- sider the Intensive Studies Program. Applicants will be informed tend classes and a seminar. PREGNANT? NEED HELP? Abortions are now legal in New of acceptance (purely on a random basis by December 10). For York City up to 24 weeks. The Abortion Referral Service will further information, look for people in the cafeteria booth. provide a quick and inexpensive end to your pregnancy. We ALL CLASSES are a member of the National Organization to Legalize Abortion. CALL 1-215-878-5800 for totally confidential The York lacrosse team holds practice every Wednesday at 3:30 information. There are no shots or pills to terminate a at the field behind the cafeteria. Come out and watch. SCHEDULED FOR pregnancy. These medications are intended to induce a late period only. A good medical test is your best 1st action to Turkey trot will be held on Thursday November 19 at 1 P.M. insure your chance for choice. Get a test immediately. Our pregnancy counseling service will providetotally confidential Entry blanks will be handed out by November 4 in the faculty office DEC. 24 alternatives to your pregnancy. We have a long list of those we building and cafeteria. A turkey will be awarded to the winner of each have already assisted should you wish to verify this service. division. COPY OUR NUMBER FOR FUTURE REFERENCE HAVE BEEN 1-215-878-5800. Sexual Politics - Thurs., Nov. 19, 12:35-2 P.M., Student Develop- ment Center. Seminar on the "Changing Role of Women." All are welcome. CANCELLED Thursday, November 19, 1970 Pandora's Box Page 7 ajlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHI The Three R's Revisited I Conversations With IThere should be a general ture life. Unfortunately, many teracting with students on a hu- cause for alarm when we ask instructors are falling down on mane and personal level, it ap- ourselves the question: Are our the job. pears utterly impossible. What 1 My Uncle Bob II \ teachers doing their jobs or are we have here is a genuine "Edu- they merely "hustlin' and It is amazing to observe the cated Ass!" jiving?" It should be the instruc- strange transformation that takes There is a sorry belief that the tor's ultimate goal to impart place after an individual has ob- minds of students undergo a general or specific knowledge to tained several degrees of "know period of adjustment anddevel- the student, and in so doing, de- how." His mind seems to bulge opement and, therefore, are left Hank Sheinkopf veloping his powers of reasoning with the so-called priorities of to be molded like clay by the | and judgement, eventually pre- 'reading, riting and rithmetic,' hands of the instructor. Many paring him intellectually for ma- but when it comes down to in- teachers couldn't care less about i the student's welfare and this is manifested in their daily actions. PiiiiiiiiiiminiiiimiHiiiiiiiiiniiuiNimNi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiniiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJ The Princeton Plan Ploy To them the teaching profession There has been a large re- suffering the pain that was closed I really can't believe it. I really do exist and must be done is only a meal ticjcet and an escape sponse from all sides of the com- off from his mind as long as mean, I can't believe what's go- away with now, and that people for the bored and frustrated. A munity on my last column. White junk remained in the Black and ing down. Mickey Mouse Agnew are being denied their basic large percentage of instructors students seem to have found the Puerto Rican communities and and Tricky Dick's speeches are rights as human beings. do not, and will not, give of them- column to be an indictment those "people" were dehuman- pretty funny because they don't selves, but ask for R-E- against the racism of ou elders ized by vermin because the news- threaten my life (at least not From the discussion I've heard S-P-E-C-T in return. Teacher's and many Black students were papers did not report it nor look yet). They exist in that little at York about this particular are still teaching with the same very affected by certain word for any solutions then. Bob can box in my living room. But recess, I have noticed a lot of old antiquated methods of yester- usage and overall tone which understand that in April, 1969 on when my college gives me a students definitions of the word year, and not even stopping to appeared racist in nature. The a Spring afternoon three men fall recess so that I can sup- "political" are too narrow. This check out the changes of the word "racist" seems to bounce walked into his store and robbed posedly be exploited by the can- word can (and has to) mean times. off the walls of the hallways along him under threat of death. And didate of my choice, when in much more than the meaningless There are many teachers who with the leftist-melodramatic he, as a man, was ashamed at reality they consider me dan- campaigns that are carried out are the real things, and con- cliche thought that sometimes his fear, but he can never un- gerous and capable of burning every fall, which the candidates tribute in the most positive way makes me ashamed of my derstand why the same situa- down the school if I don't get it keep from becoming boring by toward the learning experience. political attitudes. Someone even tion occurs each and everyday a all out of my system somehow, calling each other names so they However, there are the plastic said they doubted the existence hundredfold in any community in it's almost unbelievable-and can get it on film in time to ones who consider teaching a task of an Uncle Bob. Rather, they our city, and in any big city. scary. make the 6 o'clock news. and nothing more. siad, this was a subterfuge to As much as he tries to know, he Let's face it- the only extent express my racism and the in- can never. to which the sy stein is concerned herent racism of Pandora's Box. Bob's vocabulary is not too fine about our political beliefs is in" I will porduce my Uncle Bob but he has been conditioned to how we can best be prevented Where Have All at any time and for all to see refer to people in the way he from expressing them. You and any precinct breakdown of the does. Anyone can remember the really can't believe they care recent Senatorial election would childlike rhyme "Eenie whether or not you want Buck- The Flowers Gone? be able to do the same. Uncle Bob meenie minie moe, catch a nigger ley, Goodell, Rockefeller, or the In the last five years, the mean- lack of a permanent campus is is over 40, has achieved much by the toe. . . ." And he's a Rubber Duckie to be in power - ing of that abstract phrase a major factor, me very presence of his middle class socio-econ- "racist" and a sexist like all because if they did, you would ''school spirit" has changed of two thousand students, aware omic desires, and can now look of us because we're all part of be able to vote. Even this basic radically, along with-other insti- of the situation, attests to the fact back and rest easy, knowledge- a culture and society that is right isn't much, judging by what tutions and ideas of society. Once that other attractive qualities able that his future is well in built on those institutions. there is to vote for - a bunch of a quality describing October foot- exist in the college. hand. He is a veteran of World robots with the correct socio- ball rallies, freshmen razing, Many of those who are now War II who ser in the Navy and Bob will try to get out of and senior proms, these two juniors and seniors at York have Crown Hts. soon, before he gets economic, cultural and sexual words have been transformed into say ships blown up while other killed. Before he dies, if it requirements to be worthy of gone through years of hopeless men slept. Uncle Bob is a public display. Those with the a new, meaningful participation promises and unfulfilled dreams. 'merchant in a community that comes to that, he'll never under- by students in their schools. Stu- But the younger members of this stand why so many junkies are label of "liberal" are no dif- dent-faculty councils, environ- all too suddenly went through Black and why so many crimes ferent from the fascists that academic community, in whom a change and has had to adapt are running because, essentially, mental awareness, and political our hopes should lie, should not his working life to a new people are committed by them. And involvement are all examples of have to bear the burden of upper- he may never understand many they are all the same. That is, this new definition. that he con't understand. After things. Marxist class theory they exist to perpetrate the cap- class pessimism. The re- all, Bob only wants to make a liv- makes no sense to him. Sim- italist system, and the people But, at York, excluding a sput- sponsibility lies heavy on these ing, and why do junkies have to plistic words like "nigger" and who vote for them don't know tering strike and an, as yet un- students to create a feeling of bother him. And he really doesn't "cullid" do. Anyone who doubts what they are voting for. Not tested, school senate, evidences optimism and chance for achieve- want to feel that he has to un- the reality of Uncle Bob as a one of these candidates has a of school spirit have been lack- ment in their fellow students. derstand. Bob wants to live afull sociological individual need only ghost of a solution to the real ing in both the old and new With new minds and new Jife in much the same way he refer to the 120,000 vote plural- problems of this country - the definitions. possibilities, buildings will not did as a child in Bushwick, as ity that carried Buckley into of- fact that racism and poverty Although some may say that the count in York College's path to he did during high school at fice. greatness. Franklin K. Lane. And today he ^IIIIIIIIHMIII Mil fMlllllllllfll lllllllllllimHMHtHttUUIIHHmHIHUIH UIIHIHHIIHIHIIUUIIIIIIII|y Another problem contributing can talk about the incidents at I've come to a new under- to the lack of school spirit exists Lane, the changes in Bushwick, standing about the basic lack oi in the logistics of a surburban and the robberies in his store. trust that exists between the dif- I Two school. Since the great majority Bob is not a bad man. He was ferent ethnic groups and polari- of students commute to school, asked to appear at the hearing zation that too often results in reasons for remaining after after the robbery, with his wife, violence and all too recently, classes must be great (or manda- and Aunt Lil cried. She saw the death. But Uncle Bob does ex- I Flights Up tory!). Most students, anxious to fifteen year old wife of the seven- ist and not everything can be get to work or home, create a teen year old gun man, dressed broken down into epithets and type of cerebral clearinghouse, in rags and tears. But Bobdoesn't an emotional response to them. | My Letter To whereby the total educational ex- My style revolves around the perience becomes a 9-3 com- understand the bankruptcy of our mutation ticket. Although it is a court system. Judges come and complete absorption of the author I The Editor ! go through the patronage of the in his character, and I willing- difficult problem to solve, new party in power. Jstice is pawned ly admit that I became too in- i emphasis must be placed on the volved. My own art failed me, I Elliott James student's participation, so that out to non-White through the both school and student will en- seizure of back rooms, and de- through not making the subtle jrnniiiiiiiiiniiHiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiHiiiiitiiiiiiinminiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiNiiNiiniiHiinmiiiiii cisions stained with power and line of necessity that must ex- gage in a benefiting mutual rela- greed. He doesn't comprehend ist between a character and I guess it never occurred to immediately limited insofar as tionship. Whether on a club, team the racist nature of,our pro- author. Thus people reason that most of you that the readers have his preceptions regarding the or committee level, any and all bationary and bail-bond systems I was Uncle Bob. Nothing an implied responsibility to con- contents of the publication will involvement must be engendered. and their relationships to the could be farther from the truth. structively criticize anything in be fallacious. Another problem lies in the rioting in the Tombs. He has The conversation was printed print. In each addition of Pan- There have been several in- proximity of our school to the never met a rat face to face in verbatim, as Bob said it. Only dora's Box several contentions stances where members of the campus of QCC. The encroach- a cell, or in the street. His time and experience can teach will arise, some of which will staff (maybe staff is too strong ment of our buildings on their garbage has always been.picked literary acumen and there is inevitably need clarification. To a word in this sense because of comparatively larger student up and his streets cleaned. His much that I must learn. I am date the majority of students on its connotation: alienation) have body threatens, ironically, to ex- neighbors do not piss in the hall- sorry for having been un-cla this campus have exhibited a met with undue agitation from tinguish any sense of identity ways and kill each other instead of sorry for having been un-clear. laxity in responding. irate readers. Intimidation, which once existed on the York fighting "the man." Bob can Someone else questioned purpose To say that the students are coercion, and other less than de- campus. never comprehend the nature and I'll respond by simply say- apathetic would be a demeaning sirable tactics have been em- A final, although minor prob- of rehabilitation centers pro- ing information, and not stereo- understatement. Most York stu- ployed by those who have felt lem, is that of York being a part claimed in their worthiness by type. dents haven't the audacity to be unjustly attacked. Well this is of the City College system. In Lord Nelson Rockefeller, that apathetic, for apathy is a reac- understandable if we are cog- schools where tuition fees, with I know Uncle Bob, and the men or without room and board, range they are really only time-para- who grew up in the generation with tion characterized by an inability nizant of the tension and para- dises because the streets never to act. Most York students have noia which plagues the society from $200 to $4000, students are him. This is how they speak and instilled with a feeling of 'getting change and the cops continue react, and so this is how I write been so stifled by routine that today. But in a college at- to allow junk to flow into the deviation from the norm is un- mosphere one sort of expects that all their worth.' In a City school, them, as they are. Intellectuals such as York, where fees are low communities unchecked. Uncle continually put them and their approachable. But my beef is not these pressures will not give way Bob can tell you the latest quo- with this group of benign cripples, to a provincial narrowminded- and room and board non-existent, existance down, and hop on the this feeling is lacking. Students tation from the Reader's Digest track of the Black community who use the philosophy of non- ness. 1 and recite the Pledge of Alleg- response as an excuse for their should be encouraged to take ad- calling them racists. Blacks have I do not take exception to vantage of every phase of this iance, and kiss the ground on the a reason to react and be sensi- sickening docility, but rather with criticism, for it illustrates an street, and his families' faces those few who use unorthodox low-cost education, both social tive. Young white intellectuals, honest interest in the develop- and academic. with love for a country that saw primarilly know-nothings, react methods to voice dissatisfaction. ment of printed thought. But the him through a Depression the in much the same way, aping like Through some illogical rea- manner in which criticism is It is unusual that in schools likes of which none of us have silly asses in a field. We even soning process, these individuals lodged is of paramount import. where the student bodies number ever seen. He'll sing America have some on our own campus have envisaged Pandora's Box If you differ with something that from 5,000 to 35,000, feverish for the men who died in the who are strictly in the movement to be the local bastion of the es- has been said don't back down, school spirit is evident whether Pacific and cry a little inside. to achieve their own selfish anti- tablishment. This is a miscon- bat don't feel that you have the for a protest march or a basket- He is a reasonable man who is human goals. They react towhat ception, for anyone who has taken right to use up against the wall ball game. But here at York, caught up in a world that has they know nothing about. I've the time to explore the mechanics tactics. Write a letter. If that where personal relationships changed so much and that he watched them in this situation of the paper will have no doubt doesn't get ir then organize a have always been emphasized, can't understand. He can compre- and my respect for these people as to the editorial policy. committee, but don't get the idea school spirit is severely lack- hend that white kids are now has dropped and my own anger Furthermore, in adopting the that you have the right to threaten ing. Do we need 2,000 more stu- shooting and dying and their folks heightened. aforementioned approach, one is and intimidate. dents or 2,000 new students? Page Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970 180,000 people are born every 24 hours. By the year 2,000 the population of the earth will b( 9,500 babies were born to 15 year old girls last year 10% of all U.S. births are illegitimate.

The National Planned Parenthood Federation the doctor has placed the IUD inside the womb, is located in New York City, and has two of its it can be left there for years, protecting the member organizations, Planned Parenthood user from unwanted pregnancy. It requires and Margaret Sanger Institute, located here in little attention. During sex, neither the man rior the city. woman detect its presence. Some women, how- Planned Parenthood operates seven clinics in ever, have cramps for a short while after the New York City, one of which is located in IUD has been inserted by thedoctor.Menstrual Jamaica, 88-35164 St., 526-8570. This is a non- periods may be heavier, and bleeding or profit organization which provides its patients spotting may occur between periods. Dis- not only with birth control information and de- comfort usually stops after a few months and vices, but also requires a breast and pelvic menstrual periods proceed normally. These examination and a pap test. devices are not generally recommended for Several different methods of birth control are women who have not had any children. offered to the patient and they include the pill, The rhythm method is based on the fact that a diaphragm and the intra-uterine devices (com- woman can become pregnant only during that monly called the coil, or loop), - along with part of her menstrual cycle when the egg is re- condoms, spermicidal creams, jellies and leased from the ovary - around ovulation time. foam. The rhythm methods are also discussed It is hard and time-consumingto determine the upon request. ovulation time each month for a particular The pill is the most reliable method, having woman. Only a very few women are regular an almost 100 percent record of preventing every month. A menstrual record must be kept pregnancy. Careful scientific studies over the for from eight to twelve months. An exact last ten years indicate that the pill is not safe record of her body temperature, taken each for all women, and it is too soon to be sure that morning before rising, is also usually needed. there are no long-term ill effects. The pill A series of these carefully kept monthly charts inhibits the release of an egg, by a chemical shows a slight rise in temperature after ovula- simulation of pregnancy. The first pill is taken tion and helps forecast when a woman will re- on the fifth day of the menstrual cycle and one lease an egg. Also, because the time of ovula- is taken daily for 21 days. The patient then tion is hard to learn in the menstrual cycle^ stops usage for one week during which time several days must be added before and after she will have her period. She resumes taking and counted as part of the unsafe period when the pill on the seventh day, and the cycle she cannot be sure that she can have sex starts again. relations without becoming pregnant. The fer- The diaphragm was considered the most tile or unsafe period may last from 7-21 effective method of birth control by doctors days. If a woman's period is irregular, her until the pill and IUD became available. It is safe and unsafe days will also be irregular. very effective when used correctly. A dia- For many women the rhythm method is not phragm is a thin sheet of soft rubber stretched generally considered reliable, and some com- over a metal ring that bends easily. It is bine the safe period method with other methods placed in the vagina and covers the cervix. of birth control. It does not interfere with sex relations and it Special contraceptive creams, jellies and will not hurt either partner. A doctor must first vaginal foams can be bought without a doc- examine you to find out what type and shape tor's prescription at drugstores. They are diaphragm you need, and will brief you on in- simple to use and no doctor's examination is sertion and usage. Diaphragms should always needed. Special applicators are included. Next be used with a contraceptive cream or jelly. to the condom, the contraceptive foams, creams These chemicals kill any male sperm which and jellies are the most effective birth control may get past the diaphragm, or are still alive methods available without a doctor's prescrip- after it is removed. The diaphragm should be tion. Because the foam is less noticeable, left in place for at least six hours after the last many women prefer it to jellies and creams. sex act. Chemicals in these products quickly kill the The intrauterine devices are small plastic sperm. Application should be not more than one or metal shapes which the doctor places inside hour before sex relations and are needed each a woman's uterus. They come in several time relations are repeated. shapes, but, having been tested since 1959, are The condom is placed over the penis just nol: considered to be 100 per cent effective. Once before sex relations and prevents the semen Thursday, November 19, 1970 Pandora's Box * Page 9

This article is the first in a series which will deal with contraceptives, abortions and venereal disease. Pandora's Box feels that information about these social concerns and a comprehensive survey of the different free and low cost services and clinics available to the student body has ) 7 billion. value. The sole.purpose of these articles is to inform our readers. It is your own decision whether or not you wish to obtain contraceptives, or termin- ate your pregnancy. We are only presenting several agencies that can help you.

from entering the vagina. Condoms can be to the low cost clinic nearest to you. They bought without a doctor's prescription at any will make referrals for birth control, in- drugstore, and are highly effective when used fertility, voluntary sterilization, venereal in conjunction with spermicidal creams, foams disease, and abortion and gynecological dis- or jellies. Although the Food and Drug Ad- orders. ministration inspects condoms and checks on This service was set up a year and a half their quality, there is a slight possibility of ago by Planned Parenthood in cooperation their breaking during use, or of spillage. with the city's Health Services Administra- AH the above method's are available at tion. The referrals they make are basically to Planned Parenthood. General procedure in- clinics and municipal hospitals. Anyone seek- cludes a consultation with a nurse who re- ing information or counseling is advised to cords the woman's medical history and ex- call the above number. plains the different methods that Planned There are several hospitals in the immediate Parenthood recommends and their effective- area that have birth control clinics attached ness when used faithfully. All the people con- to them. In Flushing, there is Booth Memorial nected with this agency are discreet and no Hospital which is located at Main Street and woman need worry. Booth Memorial Ave. (445-1000 Ext. 234) Patients are advised to return once a year and Flushing Hospital and Medical Center for a complete examination and women on at 45th Avenue and Parsons Blvd. (FL 9- the pill are required to return every 6 months. 2000). The Qualicap Family Planning Cen- These are considered safety precautions for ter is located at 42-15 Crescent St., First all women. The clinics also dispense supplies Floor, at 42nd Road in Long Island City, to their patients. The women are encouraged (937-0440). to call the clinic immediately if any problems All three of the above clinics as well as should arise. Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger The fees are nominal and they do have require you phone before you go, so that an special student rates. The exact fee depends appointment can be made for you. If needed, upon your means and which method of birth travel directions can be given at that time control you choose. A complete examination and it will give you an opportunity to inquire is required before you will be given any about the fees. There is usually a week to 10 supplies. There are also pamphlets avail- day wait at most agencies. able at the clinics which explain the dif- The Division of Counseling and Student ferent reliable methods available. Development will also make referrals upon The Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, request after appropriate evaluation. The founded by Margaret Sanger in 1923, is an counselors will discuss with you any prob- internationally renowned center for service, lems or questions you may have, and all dis- educatin and research in family planning cussions are confidential. Again, you should and human fertility. The Bureau, which is lo- make an appointment in advance with your cated at 17-19 West 16th Street in Man- counselor. hattan, offers basically the same services to There is a somewhat unique service deal- its patients. Th basic difference is that Mar- ing in contraceptives. It is a mail-order garet Sanger has a research center, and house which will send you non-prescriptive requires a much more intense type of exam- types of birth control for both men and wom- ination, including such things as blood tests. en. There are 8 different brands of condoms Due to the fact that this type of examination as well as foam kits for women. The sup- takes more time it also is more expensive. plies are sent in a plain package. Different The fee for the examination is $30.00, and then quantities can be "purchased and as usual, as the fee for the method you choose is added to the quantity goes up, the price goes down. it. They will also send you books and pamphlets Margaret Sanger offers services that Plan- on both contraceptive devices and the sex ned Parenthood does not. Among them is the act. The name of the organization is: vasectomy (male sterilization operation) as well as help with infertility problems. Population Services, Inc. Other agencies, as well as those mentioned 105 North Columbia Street above are available. The Family Planning Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Information Service, 777-4504, can refer you They too are a non-profit organization. Page 10 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970 Notes of Note

Craig Horowitz The Agony and Infrequent John I,ennon is back in London, rumor has her ready to say she after three months of rest in L.A., does with James Taylor. Before and is at work on an album with James, she was the lady of Pleasures of Watching Television Ringo Starr. George is in the Crosby, Stills and Nash, respec- same building working on his own tively and separately . . . Tay- Joe Raskin album but so far has only visited lor's got yet another singing the Lennon-Starr sessions. brother, this one is called Alex, * * * and he is recording in Macon, The most important word to is so bad it is ridiculous. On funniest moments have come from Canned Heat has added Joe Georgia with some assists from remember in regard to televi- his show, Mr. Conway is con- Mr. Wilson, who, as might oe Scott on guitar in the middle of brother James. Duane Allman sion this year is relevance. All stantly trying to satirize other expected, is its driving force. their British tour. The group is also expected to stop in for three networks junked older variety shows. Not only has he The Interns (CBS). No hospital had been working as a quartet a few licks . . . Brian Wilson shows, and put on newer shows failed, but he has succeeded in drama has ever gone for a sus- since the death of Al Wilson. and Van Dyke Parks are back in an attempt to take on a younger making Glen Campbell, The King tained time without becoming * * * together as a writing team . .. and more relevant image. Despite Family and Don Knotts look stale. Here is the show that will Drummer Tim Davis has split all of this, we have wound up tremendous. break precedence, "The Interns!" Eric Clapton, long-time ad- from Steve Miller to join Terry mirer of Duane Allman, has met with mediocraties like Tim Con- The Young Rebels (ABC). For has been fresh and topical. Tie Reid . . . Frosty, Lee Michaels way, "Nancy," and the "Young historical inadequacies, this is a acting is very good, and so is the another guitarist/idol - Buddy teammate for nearly two years, Guy. Eric plans to produce Guy's Rebels." show History majors shouldn't writing. Unless CBS performs has been replaced by Joel Lar- Because of the abundance of watch. For acting and writing a heart transplant, Broderick next album, which will also have sen, one of the original Grass Junior Wells on it. They all met new shows, there is an abundance inadequacies, this is a show that Crawford (who is tremendous) Roots . .. Jefferson Airplane is of bad shows this year. Sur- should be avoided at all costs. So should have to put the closest at a massive jam session with the picking out favorite cuts for Stones in Paris. Clapton's new prisingly, this year's crop of far, on this show, the Young thing to M.A.S.H. on tv for a a best-of-album. Working title is situation comedies (if you call Rebels have helped General Laf- long time. album should be out by the time "The Worst of the Jefferson we go to press. them that) contains only one ayette, almost rescued Nathan The Storefront lawyers (CBS) Airplane" . . . Watch for Derek widow, which is a total reverse Hale, and stole the Liberty Bell * * * and the Young Lawyers (ABC). and the Dominoes on The, Johnny of a growing trend. back from the British. In forth- Because of their similarities, the Record Releases: Judy Collins' Cash Show . . . Peter, Paul and Anyway, for what it's worth, coming shows, we can expect new album is ready for release shows will be reviewed jointly. Mary are going on vacation from here are some comments of the guest appearances from George Once upon a time, not so long ago, ... A ten year old folk song music for about a year . . . Paul new, relevant shows. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, written by ex-Papa John Phillips there was a very great show on McCartney and his family are Nancy (NBC). Although this show and Benedict Arnold. Now I know the air called "The Defenders." has been picked up and recorded here in New York. Paul is work- what the Brave New World quote, by the Grateful Dead. It's called should be banned because of the Despite the fact that many things ing on another solo album and cyclamate in it, here is an "History is Bunk" stood for. couldn't be discussed onTVwhon "Ben and Me" . . . Elton John backing him are none other than original idea. This is a show The Most Deadly Game (ABC) and Leon Russell both have al- Dino Danelli and Felix Cavaliere it was on, "The Defenders" bo- bums due out shortly . .. Dave everyone can identify with. Nancy This show is so tongue in cheek, came a very topical show, which of Rascals fame. Watch for pos- is the daughter of the President, it makes "I Spy look like may explain why this show is not Mason has a new single, "Satin sible Rascal's tour with Paul as and she's in love with a down- "Laugh-In." Ralph Bellamy is in and Red and Black Velvet Wom- a back-up musician . . . New on the air today. Now, in this an." . . . Country Joe and the home type animal doctor. Un- this show, and he ties the record "relevant" season, after othor Van Morrison album expected fortunately, I can't go any further previously mentioned. One must shows have failed, two new shows Fish have released "Fixin' to shortly . . . Crosby, Stills, Nash without stealing jokesfrom David wonder though, if Mr. Bellamy Die" as a single . . . Ten Years and Young will tour in the spring. have finally become heir to wh at After's new L.P. is called Watt. Steinberg, so it can suffice-to doesn't go around on the set "The Defenders" built up, and In Expected in New York around say that this show is a bigger reciting lines from "Sunrise at both cases, the products are vei*y * * * June . . . bomb that the one Nancy's father Campobello" in order to remind good. Both shows are equal, ex- 20/20 news: Led Zeppelin is * * * has at his command. himself and everyone else con- cept in acting, where the "Young taking no chances on getting boot- "I lean towards the legaliza- The Tim Conway Hour (CBS). cerned that he was once in a Lawyers" have the advantage, legged. Every night that their tion of marijuana," said apoliti- With this show, Mr. Conway production of excellence. All this because of the strong perform- third album was being mixed, cal figure who has drawn a lot of breaks the record jointly shared proves is that excellent actors ance by Lee J. Cobb. they locked up all the tapes in fire for his outspoken views. So by himself, Patricia Harty, Sally like Ralph Bellamy, and good ones a wooden crate and took them The Odd Couple (ABC). This Is what? The man is none other than Field and Jerry Van Dyke, for like George Maharis and Yvette not as good as the play or the back to their hotel room . . . Barry Goldwater. most bombs in career. This show Mimeux, could have their reputa- Latest Joni Mitchell marriage movie. Still, it is a very funny tions destroyed by a show like show, mainly because of the ex- this. cellence of the performance by The ImmortaI(A BC). This show Tony Randall. There are no- Last Sunset-Eurydite Descending is so bad, it will probably be ticeable weaknesses in the show, Steve Levy rejected by channel 11 after ABC but the potential for improvement herself to creating a gives it the pink slip, although Reck singers are like mari- During her concerts, her moving supreme is encouraging. The improve- emotional experience between one must remember that ABC is ments will be made if Mr. Neil- golds. They come to us in body was charged red neon going her and her audience. the network of "The Brady the springtime of our lives when full blast to dazzle the senses; sen doesn't get to it first. We loved her because she play- Bunch" and "Nanny and the There are no other shows th.it we need them mest. But spring only to flicker out after it was ed for us. We endowed the an- Professor," so they might stick, ends wha;i our senses grow so all over. Her left breast, like could be added onto the Five Best, thropomorphic qualities of a god- with it. To skip unpleasant re- but shows like "The Partridge dull thai we confuse them with a small grapefruit, squeezed a- dess. We excused her faults, marks, let's just say that in this the rest of the "yellow weeds," gainst the flower on her sequined Family," "Matt Lincoln," "Don forgot about her vulnerability, show, there is bad acting and Knotts," "The Silent Force," Rock singers instinctively know dress. Her singing- was a cele- and she became a deity, the Earth scripts, and no plot or premise. when we discard them and some- bration that demanded she put and "Make Room for Grand- mother, before our eyes. But the I wish the Immortal would just daddy," could be added veiy times take their leave of us by all of herself into a performance. most deadly mistake we ever drop dead. dying out. Now, at the end of When she sang, all the terri- made was when we allowed her to easily onto the Five Worst. The an era of Rock, a third victim ble energy inside of her was believe she would always be And now, the five best (al- risk is completely yours if you has been "weeded out" - Janis compressed into one moan or loved. We never realized that she though they were very hard to watch. Joplin. moment. Her voice was as raw needed us as much as we needed find).Flip Wilson (NBC). This is All that can be proven by the Like Hendrix, we became a- as horse radish. Her music her. Yet like fickle children, we the one really big hit this season. wave of new shows is that tele- forgot her - we found new altars Although at times this show is vision is in danger of the return to squat in front of. By 1970, labored and overdrawn (believe to dominance by radio and tie her popularity was gradually ' it or not, we can see too much return of the Lone Ranger, Howcy waning. And as the last applause of Oscar the Grump, Big Bird Doody, Davy Crockett, and Milton faded out, so did Joplin ... and Bob Darin), when this show Berle. Anytime you're ready, at the end of a needle. get's going, some of television's guys. Dynamic Derek and his Dynamite Dominoes Larry Flink Every once in awhile you hear ence, they walked off the stage could listen forever. Not wart- some band labeled as the new after a short set. ing to label but describe, the super group of the year. To Some quickies by Joe's Lights music was heavily flavored with avoid labels don't call it a super and Humble Pie took the stage. country, rooting back to Clapton group, because it isn't. Any- They played a good set. Any- and Whitlock's association with time talented musicians play to- thing after Ballin' Jack would be Delaney and Bonnie. Claptor's ware of, and got into Joplin's was "gut music", designed to gether for a gig, super group a relief, so people liked them. breaks were masterfully ac- kind of music (Blues Rock) a knock the hell out of you. Her Immediately antecedes it, be- Not new to the scene, Pie con- curate and polished. Flourishes pathetically short time ago. A- rhythm was steady, rattier than cause people assume those mu- sists of Peter Frampton from of jazz and blues dotted his rifi's. wareness came in June 1967 lilting perfectly aligned with the sicians will remain together as The Herd on guitar, Steve Mari- The simple form did sound rs- at the Monterey Pop Fes- pulsations of an electric guitar. a solid unit. (i.e. Crosby, Stills, ot on guitar from Small Faces, petitive after awhile but it was tival - it was there that Janis She pounded on you. You couldn't Nash, and Young). Greg Ridley on Bass from Spooky what the audience came to hear. belted out Mama Thornton's get away from her. You were Eric Clapton is Derek. The Tooth and Jerry Shirley from Clapton therefore sacrificed Us "Ball And Chain" with such pow- forced to feel her. Dominoes are Bobby Whitlock the Apostolic Intervention on inventive and imaginative style er that the audience nearly ripped Janis was possibility. She was from Delaney and Bonnie on or- drums. Mariot and Frampton for audience appreciation which their seats apart. Before Mon- living proof that anything was gan and piano. Carl Radle and play a double lead but Frampton could be called a cop-out, depend- terey, Joplin was only the solo- possible for those who wouldn't Jim Gordon played bass and takes control and seems more ing on what side you want to take. ist for the Avalon Ballroom's wait. Her own philosophy was drums, respectively, for Mad confident and capable, putting He finished his set with Bliig official band, Big Brother and that "Every moment is what she Dogs and Englishmen. The odd Mariot In the rhythm role. Rid- Faith's "In the Presence of the The Holding Company ( a San feels." Life to her was seven name spawned from a goof back- ley, not an exciting bass player Lord," and his own, "Captain Francisco group she joined in layer cake; she had to grab it stage at a benefit and carried to watch, was satisfied to prove Midnight" and "Let it Rain," 1966). Afterwards, her name by the teeth and rip off as much through when they were booked his ability by putting some really Standing ovations followed each linked with everything from Bes- as she could chew, even If it for concerts. fine riffs together, along with a and the encore was ample. He sie Smith to a steam engine, made her vomit. As she herself Also on the bill were Ballin' consistent solid backing holding had played for about two hours she was singled out as the fe- once said, "Baby, Fd rather rush Jack. Out of place on a concert the group together. Shirley had and the encore was not needed. male voice of her generation. through ten years of superhyper- stage, they'd be better off at a his solo and did a good job. It was late. The clock, turn<3d Whether she sang Blues Rock best living than exist to seventy discotheque or dance. Never- An encore of blues, English style back, read four o'clock. It wis or Rhythm And Blues, Janis had when all I'd be good for was theless, they tried to get the place and another standing ovation fol- Clapton's night and no one took more than songs to offer; she watching TV in a rocking chair." jumping and morbidly didn't. lowed. it from him. He played what had intimate contact. When Jan- Finally, Janis was Anti-Christ. They are a cross between Sly Bill Graham announced Eric he wrote, and it shone. The con- is performed, she was not only Contrary to Jesus who supposed- and Chicago but lacking the Clapton and the applause was fidence displayed by his per- giving you "apiece of her heart"- ly "died" for us, Janis lived only charisma or musicianship of met with an appreciative thank sonality seemed directly tied to she was turning her whole body for us. Her whole life was that either group. Poorly received you. Clapton looked at Whit- his ability on guitar. Very sure inside out, revealing all she had. hour on stage. She devoted and unappreciated by the audi- lock, stomped the beat, and you of himself, Clapton was gres.t. Thursday, November 19, 1970 ' Pandora's Box Page 11

Queens College.. Craig Tulepen Queens College is not just There Wheris no Utopia, and eun- sizeIt'. As closenes As betweet n stu- Baruch and a. co-educational institution of fortunately Queens College has dentsizes. Aan closenesd teachers sbet i\s of great •learning. Queens is not only an Its hang-ups. The classrooms importance in a school, and in environment for the exchange of are lined with wall to wall people, this aspect Queens may be lack- Liberal Arts ideas between faculty and stu- and to eat In the cafeteria at ing. dents. Queens College is a total noon, one must get on line at In talking with some of the Susan Yager and unique experience. 10. The 3400 entering freshmen students, I found the biggest has- Baruch College of the City It is a never-ending happening. under the City's Open Enroll- sles are parking and taking the University of New York, pre- The college is alive and breath- ment plan extended the college required courses. So what else viously a business college, has ing the air of reality. It is to its limit, causing a great deal is new? The CMC, or Student just, |his year, instituted a lib- everybody into everything. The of crowding and uneasiness. The Lounge, is the main gathering eral arts curriculum. school is a mass coalition of faculty and administrators seem place for the students. It is in heart and soul, where radicalism to be coping with the situation these hallowed halls where one The divisions of their core intercedes liberalism, and the can come in contact with a heavy requirements are as follows: with a great deal of optimism. social sciences - 9 credits quest for knowledge prevails. The choices of courses at rap about the major issues, some Queens College is always moving. Dead music or some grass. natural sciences and math - 9 Queens are numerous, extending credits - creative and per- Its heartbeat is steady and in- into all the various fields of Colden Auditorium is the con- tense, its breathing is heavy cert hall of Queens College, It forming arts - 3 credits (art education. The school seems to or music must be included, amd stable. It claims an atmos- be well staffed with experienced seats about 3000, but usually phere all its own, with the air holds anywhere from 5 to 10 behavioral sciences - 6 credits educators, although personal written English - 6 credits echoing the sounds of the Grate- contact between teacher and stu- thousand. The sound system is ful Dead. dent is hard, due to the school's fair and the acoustics annoying. Baruch's School of Liberal Purchasing a ticket for a concert Arts and Sciences offers ten ma- is about as easy as reciting jors, in the following subjects: Shakespeare s' complete works, Economics, Education, English, Community Draft totally wrecked. But the groups History, Political Science, Psy- H/ L. Dubowsky are big and the music is ap- chology, Sociology, Anthropol- pealing to the students, which ogy, Statistics, and Ad Hoc Under the current draft lot- Mr. Steve Szhiener, a counselor is the auditorium's primary (taken when student hasn't de- tery system, males 19 years of at Queens College, the Center purpose. cided on a major). has been very successful in ob- age and up are eligible for in- In essence, Queens College is The student council, better duction into the armed forces. taining deferments for students known as the "Baruch 26," is which they didn't realize that big, alive and together. It's a Many people are bewildered and safari through an educational elected each semester by the stu- confused as to Just what their they were eligible for. dents. It consists of 13 faculty The center is housed in the jungle, a swim in the waters of status is under the law. There complexity. It's strength in num- members and 13 students. Since are many loopholes and defer- college memorial center (C.- the election results have just M.C.)f and is founded by the stu- bers, a search for identity. ments which can be obtained, Queens College is the exchange been tallied, it is too soon to the law being very broad and dent association. There is no judge their capabilities. charge, and it is urgently ad- of ideas and concepts for peace sketchy. Draft counselors, and in a time of hate. It's a ray of Draft counseling services, have vised that, if you are having any problems with the draft, you hope amidst the darkness of de- been established with the goal pression. of helping eligible males who do don't call your draft board; in- not want to be inducted, beat stead, call a counseling serv- Brooklyn the draft. ice or counselor. popularity in recent years, they In September of 1969, Queens The center's hours are Tues- are still strong. The loss of College established a draft coun- day 1-4-6-8, Wednesday 1-4, Growing in popularity might be due to the seling service for use by stu- Thursday 12-4, Friday 10-12, and other parts of the system, has fact that today's late teenager and dents. It has been so successful its phone! number is 445-7500, had a role in the "open ad- early twentier is shunning away that is is now offering its serv- ask for the C.N.C. building. Draft missions" system. It has ad- from the clique sort of life. He ices to the community at large. Counseling Center. mitted a freshman class of about or she doesn't want to be tied Its name: is the Queens College 8000 students. down, but wants to meet as many Draft Counseling Center, headed The curriculum at Brooklyn people as possible. Also today's by David Haber, a graduate stu- does differ with the one we have college student usually doesn't dent. Under the supervision of at York. Like York the total have the narrow mindness Keeps credits needed for a degree is towards religion and nationality existing structures are under- 128 with a "C" average mini- that his or her forebearers had. way. The number of registered mum. The basic Core for a They usually judge a person for students in all sessions is about B.A. or B.S. degree involves what he or she is worth as a 33,000. Yet in a recent New York choosing a minimum of four fellow human being. If you hap- A College Times survey, there Is approxi- courses which must be taken pen to chance by Brooklyn Col- Established in 1930, Brooklyn mately 6 times more cubic space by all students in each of three lege on a Friday night you could College has been a mainstay of for a Brooklyn student than for divisions. Of the four courses, see many B.C. students (even the new 1961 City University one at beloved (2000 approx.) not more than two courses may a few Yorkies) in the Jolly Bowl system. Originally located in York. be counted in any one depart- Pub downing the spirits, or see office buildings in downtown Brocfklyn also has all the facil- ment except in integrated sci- many mingling outside the Su Brooklyn, the school was moved ities that any modern urban col- ence, where three continuing Bowl (student center) or going to Its permanent base in the lege could want. It has a well courses may count. Then there Into dance to a live rock band. Flatbush section of Brooklyn in equipped 500,000 volume library, is a division 4 where all listed Now don't everybody get on the 1937. Brooklyn has always been whose numbers increase at a rate courses must be taken. It is sort bandwagon, saying they want to a high ranking and prestigious in- of about 25,000 annually, and of a Chinese menu where certain split and transfer out of York. stitution. Many of its alumni student center building and com- things from each section are First, I know many students at have gone on to excel in the plex which offers everything chosen. The advantage of this Brooklyn and a few at Queens fields of the arts, sciences, and from chess tables to rock music. system is that the student is not College who say their schools especially, education. It gradu- But they don't have a 2x4 forced Into any particular sci- are factories and the students ates a highly proportionate num- student trailer. There are many ence (I'm thinking of you know are not close knit. True, there ber of people who go on to earn auxiliary enterprises too. It has what physical) or course. He is is no real social life, and not PhD's. Proportionately speak- Its own television center, a com- given a greater amount of free- enough extra-curricular activi- ing, too, it leads other insti- plex of major computer centers, dom to choose his course. Then, ties. But, that is because no- tuions in the number of students even a vast language laboratory. of course, there are specific body has really tried to get co- who win Woodrow Wilson, Dan- Brooklyn has it's own symphony areas of concentration which lead operation among the students. forth, and National Science orchestra (but they definitely to various degrees. Brooklyn also What we need is a dialogue on Foundation fellowships. More can't match Mr. Kleinman's has a vast teacher education pro- a one to one basis. I think than 90% of its recommended charges). It has two great thea- gram similar to York, but on a that the only really great and students get into medical and ters which include Whitman Hall much larger scale. beautiful thing about this school other professional schools. and the Gershwin theater. Dur- As for the social life of Brook- is the student body. There is a Today, Brooklyn is a vital ing April and May all Brooklyn lyn as compared to York - it is great deal of potential under the and constantly growing member high schools vie to have their like comparing the social life of surface about to burst. After all of the City University system. graduation ceremonies at these Hugh Heffner to thai of Tiny Tim w^ere's all the pioneering spirit, At this moment, the construction halls. And the list goes on and before his marriage. Although and blood? Everybody has to of a new classroom building, a on. the fraternity, house plan, and try a little more, I am, will you?^ plaza structure, and additions to Brooklyn College, like the sorority have lost some of their" Let's get together. Victor Goodstone Page 12 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970

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Located in the Science Building Basement Thursday, November 19, 1970 Pandora's Box Page 13 A Second Look At Old Cliches We'll do anything for peace, one alcoholic to another. even fight for it. Can't we end the war without, One of the main things wrong having peace ?....said one mem- with this world is that everybody ber of the Pentagon. is too apathetic. But who cares? Everybody is equal...... said Revelations II The workers will revolt as George Orwell's pig. soon as they realize how miser- "In G-d I trust." After all Paul A. Fine able they are. How will they who could afford to bribe him? find out? We'll tell them. "Synonyms are useful," said One, two, three what are we a certain vice-president, and also fighting for? ameliorate conditions which are Brother" to the south, India, be- ment would have, In retaliation, Cops are pigs—but who's the induced by the indubitable utiliza- sent an invading army into India;" first one you go to when your tion of ideophones consisting of Tales of monsters and freak came increasingly agitated by the proximity of Red Army troops the United States would have been car's been clipped? four characters. animals have always intrigued compelled to use atom bombs to Students should have an equal humanity. These creatures - for to Nepal, since India handles Ski weekends are terrific... the external affairs and military halt the Red Chinese forces; and voice with faculty. How about instance, the Loch Ness monster World Warm would have erupted. 75%-25% kid's favor? even if you feel like skiing. or the Abominable Snowman - trainingtof Nepal. In a top secret I'm as liberal as the next Money isn't everything, but have until recently eluded dispatch to Washington, the New In addition tp this clarification guy. (George Wallace?) it's way ahead of whatever's in scientific verification. Now, ac- Delhi government asked Presi- of diplomatic history and the There's a big demonstration second place.' cording to Dr. Elias Barnett, dent Truman for possible U.S. Abominable Snowman -yetienig- against pollution downtown. Let's Football is an easier game professor of international rela- surveillance of the Nepalese- ma, Dr. Barnett explained the all get in our cars and partic- to play than life. After all, tions at the Delaware College of Tibetan frontier. The Americans real existence of the African ipate. there isn't a referee on the Political and Social Affairs, these at first flatly refused. Already bear. As most people know, there street to yell "pass interfer- embroiled in a ferocious war in were thought to be no bears in That guy doesn't know how to conjectures have been resolved. Africa since the Romans exported teach and I can prove it. I didn't ence." Writing in the October issue Korea and becoming heavily in- I just split up with my girl- volved in the Indo-Chinese War, thousands for their gladitorial learn a thing all term. of the Journal of American Politi- games, thus fatally depleting the Let's do something about it. friends. She was looking at cal Science, Dr. Barnett ex- the United States assumed that rings, and I was looking at other American intervention in Central bear population. But in 1962, Who wants to start? amines the saga of the Abomin- three Sudanese soliders, on pa- Pot should be banned....said girls. able Snowman, or in Nepalese, Asia might instigate a Chinese the yeti. The first discovery of military thrust against India. trol near the Egyptian - Sudan- this beast occurred on May 28, This might have meant a two- ese border, discovered unmis- 1953, during the Sir Edmund front war in Asia, a possibility takable bearprints. Again in 1964 Hillary-Tenzing Norgay expedi- the U.S. considered intolerable. and 1967, many other sightings Censorship in Suburbia Then, a brilliant staff mem- were made throughout northeast tion to Mt. Everest. On the last Africa and the Near East. blacked in part in the table of con- two thousand feet of that world- ber of the Central Intelligence In reaction toa recent New York Agency suggested that American The explanation to this state .mandate that a health course tents. He told his mother. She famous climb, these intrepid ex- then got the ball rolling. By the plorers noticed grotesque foot- agents be air-dropped into" the phenomona is quite simple, said be given to all students, the book Himalayas to spy on Chinese the distinguished professor. This Health and Safety for you was next meeting of the Board of Ed- prints in the snow. Previously, ucation there was a complaint the Nepalese mountaineers had installations in Tibet. But only animal is none other than the purchased for the seventh under one condition, he added: Ursus rufis africanus, or African graders in Central High School registered. The meeting after whispered about a fabulous ani- that had petitions presented mal in the highlands that was that these espionage agents be Red - bear. This species, ori- District #3. In anticipation over totally disguised, so that their ginally from the Ural Mts., had possible parental disapproval, showing distress over what the half-bear, half-man, Sir Edmund, district had done. People com- a non-nonsense New Zealander, American identity would remain re-appeared after years of hiber- the district principle and his unknown. nating underground. Few outsid- assistant, had a chapter on human pared this with the book burning had listened politely to the of the Hitler era. The Board of stories, but in private discus- So, donning bear-suits, the ers have seen these creatures, sexuality ripped out of the books due to their belligerent, stand- and the table of contents had all Education took the "heroic" ac- sions with Mr. Norgay, dismissed C.I.A. undercover men para- tion of removing the books from them as folk myths. Yet, upon chuted to the frigid, isolated offish behavior. Those who have- mention of this chapter obliter- including Professor Barnett-- ated. Their ploy however, back- the curriculum entirely. After seeing these footprints and gol- wastes of northern Nepal. For all, sex education from the den-brown fur scattered on the three years they were undetected describe the bear in the following fired. . A n ac ute seventh grader manner; Before venturing on new noticed the missing pages and the streets is an old tradition. snow, Sir Edmund had second and diligently obtained data on thoughts. Eventually, he and his Chinese Army troop maneuvers. exploits or into unfamiliar ter- Glen Belkin comrade-guide spotted what they But then, in 1953, their activi- ritory, they scout around, sniff breathlessly described as a ties were almost revealed. As the air for hostile receptions, "largish humanoid, covered with one of the agents explained, note their adversary's attitudes, Another Whammy copper-gold hair, about six feet "When I saw these two wierd and if the countryside is free tall, and hunched over. We never figures approaching me, with of danger, they cautiously make Joe Raskin got close enough to it to make a backpacks, oxygen masks and their first move. Then, they ana- From York positive identification, but we're ropes, I thought they were lyse the move's effect on the ad- certain that it was the so-called Chinese commandos. I nearly versary. If it's ignored, they A few days ago, my mailbox trick in the book. Look, Raskin, 'yeti'." mowed them down with my make more and bolder advances, was graced by a very official all you have to do is get your Tommy gun. How should I know until the entire area is infested looking letter from York. Inside, doctor to write on a prescrip- Since 1953, other adventurers that they were mountain- with these Red-bears. there was a checked-off form let- tion sheet that you had your and Nepalese have viewed sev- ter telling me that I had not got- climbers trying to reach the top Other peculiarities are worth chest x-rayed on June 24th, and eral yetis in the Himalayas. Un- of Mt.. Everest, which we agents noting. For example, their growl ten a chest x-ray. Now this struck that the results of that test were til this month, however, no one climbed years ago when we first me as being very strange, negative." could explain what they were. is petrifying, and when they bite, because I remember getting an arrived here?" it is done with utter ruthlessness. "Listen, if I could get one of Here is where Dr Barnett en- Their favorite means of attack x-ray. If I hadn't, something those things from my doctor, ters the scene. He notes that in The spy also said that he fled very weird had happened. before the two' explorers could is a fast, paralyzing invasion of that isn't what I'd do with it." October, 1950, Chinese Com- the other animals territory. "Put your chin up on this KiLDARE! K1LDARE! You in- munist troops invaded and con- get a close look at him. If they brace." ZAP! had, the entire project would have The Ursus rufus africanus have competent *§#$%£&*(), get in quered Tibet, which shares a bor- another vexing habit. They are "Aha! Now that I have de- here! der with Nepal. Their "Big been exposed; the Peking govern- feated Buck Rogers, I, Killer never satisfied with remaining Kane, shall c:onquer the secret in one region and constantly in- City!" trude upon or annex the territory Anyway, I went over to the of weaker animals. medical office: at Queensboro to The third mystery rationalized investigate this obvious over- by Dr. Barnett is the sudden up- sight. Upon entering the office, surge of bald eagle sightings. however, 1 WE.S greeted by some Now, everyone assumes that other students: who were already Off Broadway these splendid birds are becom- there- ing extinct. In the last few years, "Chest x-ray?" one student however, naturalists have de- Robin J. Ginsbe tected hundreds of high-flying asked. creatures in the Annam-Khymer "Yeah." Jars plateau region. These birds "You're number five." The Beast of Yugoslavia dwells is going out, so he runs away think, more typical and even were seen swooping down on their Instantly, my rapier-like mind in heaven and plays shuffleboard. for a couple of hours. more cliched than they should prey (a form of dive-bombing, went to work. It was very ap- One of his companions in sport is The play is very good. Kevin have been. However, on the whole, actually) and destroying every- parent that I wasn't the only one Wanda June who was killed by McCarthy portrays Harold well. it was amusing, very witty and re- thing else in its path. in this situation. After a period (He's almost as good in this as an ice-cream truck (and isn't, freshing. Well, says the eminent scholar, of pondering the situation we were by the way, very upset about it) he was in "Invasion of the Body The Theatre DeLys is housing in, and exploring the equipment Snatchers" and he was, ser- these were not bald eagles, but on her tenth birthday and whose this play. Tickets aren't inex- rather, a mutated sub-species; in the office, we were finally birthday cake is sitting on a iously, very good in it.) William pensive but student rush seats greeted by the nurse. Hlckey makes Looseleaf . ..well the Guerri haukus. This bird, table in Harold Ryan's living are available for every perform- secretly bred and nurtured by Now the plot thickens - to the room. I" don't know what he makes him, ance. Off - Broadway theatres consistency o:: Jello. I was in- but he does something with the American warnithologists, is a It's okay though, because may have to close for a time be- terribly dangerous, predatory formed by the nurse that the author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. man- character. He's fantastic. cause of a possible Equity strike whole form was invalid because beast. Every country that it has ages to pull it all together In Vonnegut's play is not perfect. and I only hope that' 'Wanda June" flown over has been denuded of the chest x-ray notation said only his first play entitled "Happy His morality sometimes gets too will survive. '6/24/70 neg.'" its plants and animals. Nothing birthday Wanda June." Written heavy. Some of the lines are, I has halted the insane antics of tills "Wasn't thai: enough?' I asked. ten years ago, the play is in ravaging flyer - not monsoon "The doctor had to sign it." response to Odysseus and Ern- weather, not conferences and she replied. est Hemmingway as modern day protests from citizen's groups, "But he did sign the form!' heroes. He created Harold Ryan, Chelsea Theater not alleged reductions in the num- "Not on the chest x-ray line." the typical, super masculine, ber of prey in each region. Ef- "$%*0/" super courageous white hunter. The Chelsea Theater Center of the Chelsea Theater Center at forts to shoot down these aston- "This is absurd," I thought, He created Looseleaf Harper who Brooklyn, in residence at the the Brooklyn Academy, is one ishingly fast birds have been "Maybe I should settle this whole dropped the bomb on Nagasaki Brooklyn Academy of Music, an- block away from the IRT, BMT, mostily futile. thing by saying that I filled it out and brilliantly tortures himself nounces that its second major and IND subway lines and the myself because 1 had lung can- with the menyrfy of it. Off Broadway production will be LIRR station. For transportation Thus, Dr. Barnett suggests, cer, and 1 had only about one year TAROT, an Entertainment with information call 857-1575. the sure-fire method of crippling Harold's third wife, Penelope the birds' operation is curtailing or so to live. That should just has two boyfriends and a son Mime and Music, based on the about settle everything." characters in the Tarot cards. Special for TAROT: we are the activities of their breeders-- (by Harold). She plans on mar- putting aside a block of student the warnitholgoists. These nef- "But the TB test was negative, rying one of them because Harold TAROT will open on December 8th at 7:30 PM in the Third tickets for each performance arious geniuses are the chief and i don't have any of the symp- has been missing for eight years. from December 1st through Dec- cause for the Guerri haukus ram- toms of lung cancer, so doesn't So has Looseleaf who's wife Theater of the Brooklyn A- ember 6th. Admission $2.00 with cademy. There will be a week page. Hindering their work, he that corroborate what the form hasn't waited. And then there is I.D. added in conclusion, would re- says?" .the son Paul, who is quite dis- of previews beginning December 1st; the play will have a limited For any information call duce the destructfulness of the "Resorting to logic and evi- turbed because today Is his hawks. dence, huh? That's the oldest father's birthday and his mother run through December 20th, Monica Frakes at 783-5252,5110. Page 14 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, 1970

YORK

The Family and Others

On a wind-swept rainy after- standouts were: Sal Albanese at noon, flag football at York Col- defensive end, Pete Orlando at lege came to an end. F

Newton Makes Tenure Recommendations (Continued from page 1)

history. tinued participation on the part Dr. Newton, in announcing the of the students, and welcomed names of those reappointed with their good sense of judgment tenure expressed his desire that as had been demonstrated in those who did not receive theirs the teacher evaluations. will use the processes and means Dr. Newton hopes that for- of appeal that are open to them. malized teacher evaluations sub- Dr. Newton said he had gone be- mitted by the students will be part fore the Personnel and Budget of the Personnel and Budgetpro- Committee, asking them to re- cess. "I hope that next year consider various recommenda- each teacher of each course will tions they had made to him. be evaluated by the students in Dr. Newton also praised the work that course." Dr. Newton ex- of those students who had or- pressed pride in the fact that the ganized the teacher evaluations evaluations given by the students that were circulated in the school, were in no way a popularity and lauded those who filled them contest, and that the real teach- out for being objective and crit- ing abilities were being judged. ical in their appraisals of the "Beginning with the next spring teaching staff. semester, there will hopefully He called theirs a job well be a semester by semester eval- done and a credit to the college uation of each course," said Dr. community. He called for con- Newton.

what's a HEDGEHOG

Yes, somebody has won the contest, and the $5.00 offered by Pandora's Box was awarded to Everett Bonan. He solved the problem of what that new "structure" outside the Q.C.C. library. It's a "Linear Time Column," a futuristic clock de- signed by George Ladas, and relates the passage of time lin- early in five minute intervals utilizing eleven illuminated color positions. How To Use It you'll find one at 213-35 39th AVENUE Originating at the top, panels one through eleven represent BAYSIDE the hours one through eleven, and five minute intervals of five through fifty five. Noon and midnight are indicated in the sixth featuring panel by a unique color. The hour is indicated by the eliminated INCENSE red square, while the five minute interval is indicated by a blue- red square. FRINGED VESTS & BAGS POST*** .. and more Page 16 Pandora's Box Thursday, November 19, l:)70