WEDNESDAY .MARCH .Q 1977 ~ Sta Distributesmanyand Stony Brook, New York Volume 20 Number 53 Distributed free of charge every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Y< j -144.1 low-mmr I rr- -MM- Court Sets New Trial Date; Proposal To ; Seek Changes Extends Restraining Order In RCP Positiion Structure .$.s.of~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By ROBERT S. GATSOFF charges," said Mangineli. By THOMAS HILLGARDNER I The University yesterday secured an The Court set next Wednesday as the A proposal being drafted by the i extension to the temporary restraining date for deciding whether the 25 Residence Life Office will terminate the order against further protest by Polity students with court orders are in current Residential College Program, i, Ted Goldfarb, a I President Gerry Manginelli, Polity contempt of court and what penalties according to Professor ..' I Treasurer Mark Minasi, Former Polity should be leveled against those guilty. member of the Residence Advisory i Historian Bill Camarda and 22 others Manginelli said he believed that he Council. i The most dramatic effect that this act served with court orders at last month's would receive a "heavy" fine, the 22 have, is to eliminate the position of demonstration against the new academic served with court orders would receive will Coordinator, and to institute a calendar. lighter fines and. charges against Program to be In addition, the University filed Camarda and Minasi would be full time College Director. Also method of which thee i papers against the 25 students,named in dismissed, "since Mark [Minasil and Bill changed is the Legally, the court order, asking them to show cause [Camarda weren't in the people are to be hired. why they should not be held in Administration Building when the court University President John Toll has the the contempt of court for refusing to leave orders were served." last word on hiring, but in actuality, the Administration Building on the Manginelli indicated that a great deal system currently in effect leaves all orders of State Supreme Court Justice of money would be needed for defense interviewing and selection of Program Coordinators up to the individual Laurence Bracken. "They got the of the 25 students cited, since appeals -ROGER PHELPf temporary restraining order extended be made against any convictions. college, with approvals necessary from would arbitrator. "Somewhere there must be a and filed the contempt of court the Residence Life Office, and from Toll. letter of intent as to why this The College Director, on the other committee exists and what input it hand, would be hired by Residence Life should have in decisions," he said. But only with input from the students of the document is unclear and assigns no each collee. In addition, the draft will specific function other than to advise stipulate that these College Directors are the Residence Life people. to be selected from students from Comute later asked the council to Albany State Univerty, intering at provide Seity with master keys to all Stony Brook. dormitory rooms, an action which the At a meeting of the Residence Life council will consider at a later date. Advisory Council, held yesterday Goldfarb said that he felt that-the afternoon, students and Residence Life "council should go on record as personnel came to conflict in regard as informing [Vice President for Student to whether students should be given a Affairs] Elizabeth Wadsworth that we voice in the formation of the draft. would like to be on the formative part Public Safety Director Robert Cornute of the process. as opposed to the asked Residence Life Director, Roger approval process. The proposal must be Phelps, if he felt the council should have approved by Wadsworth before it goes input to the draft. Phelps responded, into effect. But Phelps indicated that it "No. No I don't." Cornute turned to was too late for the Advisory Council to the rest of the Council and asked, "Does be in on the formative process since the the council feel that they should have draft is scheduled to be ready by the ASSIb ANT VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT CHASON (left) serves Gershwin Senator next meeting of the Council on Ishai Bloch with a court order barring him from the Administration Building. input?" The overwhelming response was Looking on is Public Safety Director Robert Comute. yes. Cornute continued in his role of Tuesday. - r , . I .. -I - I------------ -- I h i. ,,- , ............................. %L__ _ ·---~~~~~ ~ ~~~~ Campus Cards Discovered To BeLegitimate By DAVID M. RAZLER investigation by the Manhattan discounts. when paying for goods. distribution to cover the entire 'Between 200 and 500 Stony District Attorney's office. Connolly said that the card "Sometimes they might ask for country and that soon an Ohio Brook students have spent $3 Since that time, Statesman has was not just good in one a student ID," he said, noting college would adopt the each to purchase Campus Cards learned that Campus community. "A student living that if at any time a card was program. He said that aside which give them a discount of Enterprises is totally *in Huntington would be able to not honored at a participating from getting new merchants, between five percent and 50 unconnected and considered to avail himself of 57 stores merchant, then his company the work at Stony Brook was percent at over 500 stores be in good standing with the offering discounts [in that would deal with the now basically complete and it and services in the Long Long Island Better Business area] " he said, adding that the complainent and the problem. was up to the students to buy Iland/New York City area. Bureau. merchants were located in 79 Connolly said that he hopes and use the cards to obtain the The cards, which are "Campus Enterprises has not * Long Island communities. to expand Campus Card available discounts. available either by mail or at a been the subject of complaint Connolly explained that his $50 discount from the Polity from any source to this plan differed from several Ticket office are the product bureau," states a recent letter other buying cards available of Campus Enterprises, Inc. from Better Business Bureau because Campus Enterprises The Vice President of that Operations Manager Janice did not make the merchants cC company, James Connolly, Grassi, who added that the themselves pay any fees. He believes that the services which company had filed regular added that by not making the now are available only to reports with her agency since -merchant pay anything, he was Stony Brook and Farmingdale June, 1976. able to get more members and State College can soon be Students who buy the card additionally get contracts expanded nation wide. either through mail forms between the merchants and his P It was erroneously reported available from many sources on company binding them to their in the March 4 issue of campus or directly through the commitment of providing a .i Statesman that the Campus ticket office receive with it a discount to any student Enterprises had been linked to book listing over 500 showing a card. a different student card merchants in the Metropolitan He added that the card is l operation now ander area who will honor it with simply shown to the merchant " .-- DA O'Brien, Up for Reelection, Wages White Collar Crime War Statesnm n M recently gwnted three-homw Witness Charges Bribery nteriew ith Suffolk County Dstct Attorney JHenry O rimn. The follom i the first of a three Raeigh, N.C.-A witness who helped convict the "Wilmington 10 prt ,seis focumg on OBrien and his upcomabg of a 1971 fire bonngniper incident said yesterday that afterbe bid for reebction. re ted his testimony, * oa tor offered him $40,000 to leve By JOHN QUINN the state and not take the stand again. The prosecutor, District Attorney W. Allen Cobb of Wihnlmington, was in court and could not He leans back in the brown leather chair, be reached for immediate comment. directly under a golden plaque proclaiming him Allen Hall, 23, made the statement as he emerged from an "Irishman of the Year." A local fire deprtment apperance before a Federal grand jury invesgating the case, which gve it to him. t stands above all other awards, stems from one of the lest of the violent civil rights confrontations just as this time of the year reigns most eminently that rocked the nation's cities during the 1960s and early 1970s. The on the calendar. Ahead remains St. Patrick's Day, investiption was ordered by the U.S. Justice Department to the parde, and perhaps a chance to stroll with determine whether the defendants' civil rights were violated. Jimmy Carter along fifth Avenue. And for Suffolk Hal and another witness, Jerome Mitchell, 22, said they told County District Attorney Henry O'Brien, this is an grand jurors yesterday that they were coached by Cobb and election year. This past Saturday, O'Brien was then-Assistat District Attorney Jay Stroud to lie under oath at the nominated by the Suffolk County Democrats for a trial. Hall had recanted his orignal testimony last August. chance at a second term. From his modestly furnished fifth floor office Carter Meets With Rabin that overooks the County Center in Riverhead, O'Brien can scan the outer reaches of Suffolk HENRY County. The American flag stands tall next to his O'BRIEN Washington-President Jimmy Carter met for a third, originally desk, reminding one that the office is a direct presence of the District Attorney. The job unscheduled session with lrali Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today extension of the United States Constitution; a encompasses both day and night devotion.