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-- VOLUME 14 NUMBER 18 , STONY BROOK, N.Y. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1970 Second Class Postage _~~~~~~~~~~Pi at Stn Brok N.Y FBI^tJust Inquiring9

By BILL STOLLER

They were here last week asking about bomb threats and they've been here before asking about other incidents. And, according to one highly reliable source, they've inquired about some people, too. They are agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While they don't like to talk much about it, Administration officials don't hide the fact that the FBI has made inquiries about activities on campus, but, they said, the information the Bureau receives is purely "public record," information such as name, years at Stony Brook and arrest records, where they exist. However, according to one high-level source, The-Bureau does have jurisdiction to investigate with University officials occasionally drifts into bombings and bomb threats under Federal law casual talk about people and incidents, including passed October 15 as part of President Nixon's information that the University can not Anti-Crime Bill. Chief Walsh said agents discussed 'officially" release. with him the new laws regarding bombs, and he noted, "it's interesting as Hell." But Walsh Can't Geaze indicated that he didn't think the Federal government was going to prosecute T. Alexander Pond, executive vice-president, for bomb threats at Stony Brook, unless they are said that so far as he kr.o the Unversity suspected of being part of a _ ospicy. discloses only the nam, adde and years, -of residence oi any st.dent. Arr-t ,are on . public record, availabl to all with a plausib-W - ,.--Immnr,& WOTLln .as-r cwo a~gmrr _ _ lu _p~ -uwi reason to know, and Pond added, as far as any casual information that may be given, "B don't they-re coner ed iwdmweedongmore thanNiy * ' think you can generalize about it." wor -S3 Xt w riip~~zing that the Bureau couldn't get official information a student's political Vice-predent Pd mentioned that 44we nakeo actios, Pond said, "we do -ot ooUect political reports in certain area," including bomb- threats culty Senate activity records." and that "we have an obligation to o ate with law enforcement agencies-we will and we do. . . Wkeany other institution." Poor University Police Chief Richard W. Walsh attendiance characterized Wednesday's session of admitted speaking to FBI agents, both in person the Faculty ISenate, preventing the academic dar any and on the telephone, and Walsh said that Does the University ever ask the Beau for iion propo sad from ever reaching seriousconsideration. information he gave the Bureau was from his arrest information about some members of ie ed near the session'send resulted in its being files. Walsh said that in addition to inquiring about University Community? Answered Walsh. "They A quoam calle the bomb threats, the FBI has been interested in freely give it." dropped to awrait action at a later date. other matters over the years, "disruptive activities, Although IUniversity President John S. 'Toll had such desecration of the flag, national organizations National Security as SDS, any time someone says 'down the U.S., originally planmed to outline the Stony Brook University's down the President"' He did not elaborate. __ budget, he was prevented from doing so by a As far as questions the FBI might ask about budget .h State matters or national security, Pond said he was postponement in the release of the New York But, said a very reliable source, the FBI does. unaware of any and added that the only direct budget. Januaury was scheduled for its certain presentation. Among the Stony Brook people and activities in contact he has had with members of the Bureau Instead T

! __ Missing Girls Tarnish Brass Plan

(SAN DIEGO) - The "Brass civilian clothes-crowded in. But there are only about 100 is hamburger, pizza and tacos. Room" has made its debut in only a handful of girls were unmarried nurses in the area [35323E San Diego with hard rock music, there. under 30 and possibly 30 Waves Zumwalt had said the Navy hip wall-posters and plenty of One officer said, "It's groovy officers. must adjust to the young naval officers, just as the music, but how about some girls With others, Lieutenant contemporary social atmosphere chief of naval operations to dance?" Urban is visiting apartment to solve its critical shortage of planned it. Deanna Urban, who is on the buildings housing single girls. silled young officers. But there's one big problem: club's advisory board and a asking them to visit the club. is casual, and the food not enough girls. Lieutenant in the Waves, figures Te dress But at Miramar Naval Air- Station northeast of San Diego, The hard rock music club opened last night hard rock music permitted as the naval AWOL GI Is Charged recently in a special room for station on orders from Admiral In X_1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Elmo Zumwalt Junior. junior officers was finally halted. A senior He has directed that five such officer said, "It was In Apparent CarTheft driving us out of clubs be established on the east our gourds." and west coasts for officers Campus police managed to green Ford stationwagon that under 30 years old to encourage recover two apparently stolen had been sitting in a Tabler them to stay in the navy. The cars this week, one with the parking lot for what one PAW Planning "Brass Room" is the first. alleged thief still in it. Policeman said was at least three On the wall hung posters of Late Tuesday night, according weeks proved finally to be too Welfare Demo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~IS W. C. Fields and of the movie to police, Patrolman William suspicious for Patrolman Ron "Easy Rider." A five-man Hennessey spotted a car moving Keyes. He called the license combo played the top rock erratically as it left P lot by the plate number in to Security tunes, and navy men-all in railroad station He stopped the headquarters, and, according to By LARRY REMER People for Adequate Welfare Chevrolet, and police University police, a vehicle 1967 grey met Tuesday night said, when the driver failed to check with county authorities with a group of Stony Brook produce a license or registration, found it listed as a stolen car. students to organize support for ten welfare a& took him to headquarters for Suffolk police came on campus questioning to remove the automobile. mothers arrested in August at a Police said the man, Michael Meanwhile, vandalism against Sears store in Bayshore. Beane, 18, of Solon, Maine, was parked cars, especially at night, The PAW people are planning not only driving the car without has continued at the same high a demonstration on November I' 28 at the Bayshore store. The the owners authorization, but, rate. ten women were arrested in the they discovered, was also absent SEEK WINTER CLOTHES without leave from Fort Dix CLOTHES store during the summer when New Jersey. Beane was charged FOR FARM WORKERS they told cashiers to "charge it with unauthorized use of a to welfare," after picking up vehicle, a misdemeanor, and It's almost winter and the clothes for their children. The turned over to Suffolk police to temperature in Riverhead is store manager called Suffolk be held for military authorities. down to woolie weather. Many Social Services Commissioner. The car belonged to a Cardozo poor, especially migrant farm James Kirby, who said he had 197 ( College resident. workers are in desperate need of not authorized any credit. Police ... ^^^B?® then arrested the ten. =R~p^J~t.O.T.C Then, Wednesday, a 1967 clothing to last through the months ahead, reports the Long PAW said that Kirby had _''=_64 A I..J Island Farm Workers Service turned down their requests for Center which is running a funds for winter clothing for the clothing drive to provide the children, and they claim the migrant workers and other poor children cannot attend school if in Riverhead with warm clothes. they do not have adequate I Coats, socks, sweaters, pants clothing. They also said they had and hats are especially needed. appealed to Sears for help. The service center in Riverhead The ten mothers, who have 38- is a non-profit, non-government children among them, were - I~~~~~~~~~A lo; - affiliated organization and for charged with petty larceny and funds depends on private held in $500 bail each when ..__i.: - 14KT. GOLD EARRINGS contributions. arraigned at First District Court the rag crew The center hopes that the in Hauppauge. One woman was Exquisite miniatures for mtire University community only held on $50 bail however, pierced ears. What nicer will help by bringing clothing because her age qualified her for STATESMAN, student nawspdper of youthful offender status. Unable gift for any occasion? SUNY at Stony Brook, is published back after Thanksgiving Tuesdays and Fridays during the aca- vacation. A table will be set up to raise bail immediately, the ten C o ma'-,..... demic year and Wednesdays during spent a night in Riverhead See our new selection of the summer semester by Statesman in G quad lobby to collect =~, Association, an unincorporated, non- clothing on Monday, November County Jail. fine quality Krementz profit organization. Offices are loca- Since August, Paw leaders and ted in the Stony Brook Uniop Build- 30 through Wednesday Jewelry. Ing, lower level. Editorial and busi- December 2. For more Bayshore clergymen have asked ness phone: (516) 246-3690. Member that Sears drop the charges. 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call, if the person first dials 1-2-0 Bicycles Stolen In H and its for a second dial tone. By BILL STOLrE R It's supposed to be connected The spiraling campus crime rate hit home early only to office phones. But, the telephone company, Thursday for students of Langmuir College, as the adding new equipment to their student-run commissary was robbed and locked bicycles Setauket station, apparently got were stolen from racks outside the building. its wires crossed and added the Campus police gave this said he saw-several persons riding ability to pick up the tie line to version of the commisary the bikes off in the direction of quite a few dormitory phones. incident: At about 12:15 am., G quad, and he and others from In a little more than a week's five male students entered the Lnguir followed. time, many residents discovered basement store and when asked Arriving there, the student saw the bicycles being the tie line on their phones, and by the student manning it for said, they the night what they wanted, ridden around the halls and jammed the circuits to New they allegedly ordered him to lie lounge area of Washington Irving York with what must have been on the floor and close his eyes. College. The students from thousands of free calls. They reportedly took $50 from Ivring then reportedly chased The bill for the tie line is the cash drawer and a few the Langmuir students, some of picked up by the University, so dollars from the other student's whom then called campus the check from the business wallet. The student said police. office to the phone company cigarettes, candy and soda were The police said they went to will be a little bit bigger. also missing. ** Irving and recovered the bikes, The student said that he ran but no persons were arourd. MA - Now that the company has Iftim.ft after the five, but they fled in Shortly after, now about 3:50 The telephone company got Contnbutlng Jacoros were corrected the errors of its wires, the direction of G quad. a.m., according to a Langmuir misconnected. By itself what University officials call they've crossed their fingers, Later, the student said he was resident, 10 to 15 students, "the tie line" and the telephone hoping that that's all that gets in his room when be heard apparently from Iing, came to To the surprise and delight of company knows as "foreign crossed as they continue to someone shout from outside, the Langmuir mailroom, where apparently several hundred exchange lines," plus a small expand facilities to handle the :4they're stealing bicycles," and police had left the bikes. There, dormitory residents, the local mistake. campus' increased telephone he ran outside with others from a student said, one began hitting office of the phone company The so-called tie line allows needs. Ihis hall. a student from Langmuir, asking University police said that why he had insulted him. managed to give students almost phones in certain campus offices Meanwhile, local telephone two weeks of free calls into New to place calls to New York City -about five bikes had been taken Police were called, arrived, company officials aren't doing ,by persons who cut the chains and after questioning the Irving York City. without being billed for a toll too much talking about their fthat held them to the rack residents in what one police nistake, at least not on the outside the building. official later called a "tense elephone. -BILL STOLLER One of the Langmuir residents situation," did not attempt to *** ** -* . * stop t h e m when they left. One s |-| ^^ | ^| a ll "n A policeman said he could identify ,ir MON. NOV. 23- Spectator I A JJji. n the Iring student accused of hitting the Langmuir resident. Not Tuna * Ron Seigel, acting director of (Acoustic & Electric) -Jis Ute security, said that the campus 8 & 11:30 PM In Taxing .- ^A~l^"^^ policemen involved had to choose between "'twomistakes," ^SB Students-$1.00 Univ. Comm.-$3.00 Public-$4.( NEW YORK (CPS}-Despite tthe threat of the loss of its currently letting them go for the time and tax-exempt status, Columbia U TUES. NOV. 24 Jniversity's student newspaper, the enraging Langmuir students, o Spectator, has refused to sign a statement for the Internal Revenue perat pssting aoscuflem Trattic Service (IRS) agreeing to refirain from endorsing any political peraps Seig a cuffe- candidates. ***^>.A. - -aleast harmful mistake and I Although seldom applied to >the 73 year old publication said46 thi ^ they made the r4~ cat StevTns undergraduate newspapers, the 8& 11:30 P.-M. tax laws state that when an nbeb~f of or in opposition to any Ptuice ar cotniga candidate for public office," the e t e Students-S1.5o Univ. Comm.-$3.5b Public-S4 organization "attempts to f t e influence legislation byy, Spectator added in a footnote a S^ o ;_+a9l Mtoi.0 dmn-t itnsl mdent Ban r I SUN. DEC. 6 ,:propaganda or otherwise" or mnat 1Ws ewtlorau wmUmMCU 6 "participates or intervenes sometimes deals with1 directly or indirectly, in any "candidates for political office, Leonard Cohen political campaign," it does not and sometimes takes a stand i qualify for tax exemption with respect thereto." I n Dial ONE SHOW ONLY q:30 P.M. The Columbia Daily addition to examining the has tax-exempt returns of the SB Students-$1.50Unlv. Comm.-$3.00 Public - $4.00 Spectator, whose exemption ,. . I I .:...... f been under investigation by the Columbia Daily Spectator, IRS ..- ...... 1...... - , I. .:.... m.... ----. I -.,I .. Action; IRS since last May, revealed its investigators have been searching SAT. DEC. 12 . decision last Tuesday, terming through back issues for editions the service's action "'part of in which the newspaper has Richard Nixon's continuing taken stands on legislation or 3690 Miles Davis campaign to crush student endorsed political candidates. If you have a gripe or dissent" with the use of Among those articles the agents question which has been LeOn "economic sanctions on those have called attention to are an Thomas I bugging you, and want who disagree with the editorial supporting Governor results, write or call ONE SHOWV ONLY 8:30 P.M. cacophony which comes out of Rockefeller for re-election in I Statesman, Rm. 059 SB STUDENTS ONLY- FREE ADMISSION the White House." 1966, and another backing II Although in its 1966 Eldridge Cleaver for President in SB U. S UNY, Stony All Concerts in the SUSB Gymnasium application for tax-free status, 1968. 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- - ...... of the People Voice of the People Voice of thLe seltz Cthan Coia-Cola of Sprite. curriculum ttee of the College of Arts and agred with this. and G TTLum- TM After about two weeks of hunger p the students of G-Quad attended a sperilied as we1 that a cram section of meentin where they could voice their students - mjor and ye - e ted eompiaints. The a r of the cafeteria on the bysis of need and interest. and the infamous Monty Zulo were thee Students wexe not, as the editorial stated, to hear the students. chosen on a first-come basis. And the Some of the apaints were question of taking seniors first since "this ridiculous, but most were valid. For every is their onlv opportunity" is an academic complaint, the food service had an one: almost SO sen expressed a strong excuse. Almost everything w the state's desire to be admitted. fault. The students were told that it was Finally, the University does not have impossible to cook the chicken because it proper darkroom facilities to handle mnre would be too dry, and that they bad to than 25 busy students. If people thought use frozen egg because it would save egisration was a "bassle," wait until the precious cooking time! 25 seeced By to, sebedule darkroom Admittedly, the service has improved time! since the meeting. The sanitary If anyone is interested, the 25 finally conditions are better. There is now plastic chosen have 10 different majors. There wap to hopefully suffocate the flies are 10 seniors, 9 juniors, 4 sophomores, around the salads and a great hot and 2 freshmen - Wm than 20% of the chocolate machine. But the food is still students bothering to come to me or to bad. I have eaten mustard sandwiches or the art department office were freshmen rolls for two meals a day. I live on cake or sophomores. Deman and ice cream because at times Offering my apology to those turned An X I can't look at the food much away will not teach them photography Chason Director of Housing has not yet been completed: less eat it. Something must nor calm their ire. I do hope, though, To the Editor: 7. We have no cafeteria of our own. We be done about the are forced to go to other cafeterias, a big food served in the cafeterias. A reason that they do not lose heart, and will Inconvenience has pushed the many students sign up either try next year and/or pursue their borderline of our patience too far. Most nuisance especially when winter sets in. for the meal plan is to eat three meals a day and so interests on their own. of us 8. Many washrooms either have no parents who are new graduate students had do not worry about their children's Lester Lefkowitz expected to water, or have dirty water. eating be assigned to a dormitory habits.' As it stands now, most Colege of Engineering where we can at least sutdents have a modicum of In view of eat poorly whether on or off the meal comfort in order to have the hardships we suffered, Hitch-Hiker Station some peace of plan. Interest in Prophet Food should not To the Editor: irrnd to plough both mental and physical, we, the through our studies. On residents of Gruzen fall off until the quality of the food I would like to take the opportunity to one contrary, we have come to know a Building A, demand a reasonable rebate of the housing charges, improves. suggest the conversion of the information place called Gruzen which we believe is and also, the speedy installation and/or Name Withed on Request booth at the main entrance to the not typical of the habitat of students. repair of all incomplete Course campus, into a hitch-hiker station where Consider the following: or malfunctioning Intervs facilities. anyone leaving campus at any 1. We were surprised when muscular To the Editor: time may exhaustion was a necessary Residents of Stage X1I Building A A Statesman editorial of November 13 stop to offer free rides. A "destination" condition Stephen Guggenheim Shao-Jung listed complaints when we moved into Gruzen Building A Liu about registration. board could be placed outside the booth Edward Chan on the eventful 11 September 1970. Here G. Komoripe While I cannot comment on the majority so that drivers could, at a glance, find out is a list of furniture that we are Preur Narain John Lee of difficulties, I would like to present the if anyone is going their way. The booth, Dinesh Mital Ralph Nazarith facts concerning the photography course heated- in winter, could provide a more particularly proud of because of this and 138 others peculiar means by which they were alluded to (Art 126-Fundamentals of pleasant and reliable way to get local and transported into our rooms, i.e. by Poor Food -Student Starves Photography), which I will be teaching out-of-town rides for students who have ourselves. To the Editor: next semester. to rely on foot-power. A few weeks ago, many articles and in six days 116 students were Peter Guerrero Item - bed rack, bed legs, mattress, interested enough in that course to go to lamp post, lamp shade and bulb, acquired letters regarding Prophet Food appeared Bio-Med Communications in Statesman. There was a human interest the trouble of attempting to get 11 September; item - mirrors without To the Editor: / story telling of students cooking for "permission of the Art Department books, -waste can, bed pad, acquired 29 Chairman" - a prerequisite for the course In your article entitled "Health September; item - chair, acquired 24 themselves to insure eating well and reports of Prophet Food's plan to open a as indicated in the published class Sciences Programs to Admit Students in September; item - book shelf & schedule. The first two-and-a-half of '71," published in the October 27 issue, fluorescent lamp, acquired 6 October. snack bar. Recently, however, the there were number of artieles about Prophet Foods thoes-asix days -were completely taken up several errors of fact - 2. There were no fire extinguishers and interviewing, individually, the first 87 of specifically with reference to Biomedical firealarm system for two months, for this has declined. Communications. This is as usual those people to assess their interests in, a service division same period of time, our safety was not The food is still as bad ever. A in the health Sciences includes some form of Mystery and need for, the course. Since the course Center, not a guaranteed. dinner separate school. This division meat - one night it is called veal, the is being limited to 25 students, and since is planning 3. Telephones were not available until we felt we had more than 25 excellent an academic masters program which will 20 November. Many units are still next, pork. It all tastes the same. The until candidates within the group of 87, be operated through the School of Allied inoperative up to this time. vegetables are heated and re-heated Health Professions. they are so soft that even a person who interviews were terminated on Tuesday, The present plans 4. Still there are no washing machines, November 10. indicate that 12 students could be screens for windows and mirror hooks. will eat anything turns his nose up at them. A favorite dish was oxtails. The rise The limit of 25 students (not 45 as the accepted in September 1971 if the 5. Ditches, construction equipment is usually only partially cooked. The editorial indicated) was chosen so that appropriate approvals for the programs and scrap metal pieces are strewn all over chicken bleeds when you cut it. Some the individual attention, criticism, and are obtained. These approvals are the place, making it unsafe to go in and nights the cake is as hard as rocks. When critique of class work and special projects pending. out of the building. The absence of street it is fresh, the pieces are hard to see. The that I feel is necessary for a worthwhile, Malcolm Slkolnick lights near the building doubly endangers rolls could be used by the girls' field exciting course, could be given to each Director our safety if we venture out at night. hockey team. The soda tastes more like person on a one-to-one basis. The Biomedical Communications Labor Co Immittee Manipulates Students By MITCHEL COHEN .AL let me begin by saying that I hope and liberal support for a 4'Free repressed, so that they can build up their shakey FrasierBorgman get off. Now that that's out of Frasier-Borgman" national defense, yet they counter-revolutionary organization. And, to the- way, let's take a brief look at the have consistently turned their backs on the some extent, they are succeeding, because organization to which they belong. nationwide defense to free Bobby Seale, and people are unaware of what they are doing. Larry Freeman, of the National Caucus of scoffed at the nationwide demonstrations So when Labor Committee members hit you Labor Committees Suffolk Chapter, speaking for around theChicagoconspiracy trial. for money, or give you a leaflet, be aware of the Stony Brook Chapter of Labor Committee And now, they ask for the support of the what they are up to. I'll be damned if I allow my in Statesman, is suddenly crying about two of people. What have they done to promote the support for Frasier-Borgman to be used to build their members being framed. They shout out: welfare of the people that they have the Labor Committee. As I said, I hope they get off. "Everyone support us! We're not like those audacity to come crying to us? Where were they But when I see Labor Committee using the Trial crazies who blew up the draftboardcs. We don't when we picketed during the General Motors to build their organization and to attack go around setting up free breakfast programs. In strike? Where were they as a group during the left-wing groups, I'm not going to lose any sleep fact, we even got kicked out of the Long Island many demonstrations and sit-ins at Stony if thev don't. Service Center. Please, please Mr. Man, Mr. Pig, Brook? They were standing on the side, giving Mr. Boss, you've got the wrong guys! Can't you out leaflets against the demonstrations, as see? We are constructive revolutionaries. We observers. Wonderful. only want to tax you a little heavier, we don't Like PL, they use their opposition to the try to destroy you like thse other groups. Get tactics of Weatherman and Independent Caucus the Weathermen, get the Panthers, get PL, get and Yippies as a means to find common ground the Independent Caucus, get them all so that to begin to talk with reactionaries, be they we'll be the only ones left. Can't you see, my students or workers. They set up straw men, good friend Mr. Pig, you're only hurting shake them down over a beer or over a leaflet, yourselves by framing our members?" And so and in this manner find common ground in on. That's Labor Committee. attackinggroups on the Left, making allies which Not once did a single member of Labor they hope to win over at a later time. In the Committee come down and support Ira Wechsler mean time, people become pawns in their during his recent trial. Not once did Labor opportunistic concepts. Committee help organize people to support the Who do they think they are going to fool by Stony Brook 11 after their indictments. Not all this trial nonsense? Obviously - us, once did Labor Committee recognize the need manipulative liberals that- they are. They are to fight the repression against the Panthers by, trying to use the trial, and to use us, because we attending demonstrations in New York or New are progressive people whose sympathies Haven. Labor Committee expects to gain radical automatically go to those who are being November__ 20, 1970 STATESMAN Page 5 I -I n" Woman Cabbie Doesn t Fear City "What's a nice girt like you Huarle many times atight, she pieet them foAmaieifg any doing in a pla like tbis" is a I Poetry Place doe not feel afraid of the kind of independence and Ode I line Ingid Bengus encounters This why, 1hzrds inherent in her job and equality. i she noted, We did not like the Jun the inditaetnesi often as a light shift taxi lesbians are very pogse; has never, in fact, been bold up. of our inr parts operator in Mamisshata as they refuse to conform to a Many men expect her, a We could not be sure Bengus, an articulate advocate of woman, to be afraid and they woman's stereotype, they can be iWomen's Liberation, discuased seem happy to know that her more daing, creative, and what not fanged her views toward her job and the dog Sah, wbo is totally innovative in the fields of the blood clawed thing attitudes of society toward incompetent as any type of arts and social reform. migt wait there to exhilarate women Tuesday at the Benedict deterrent, is in the front seat stretch its sleek body attacking some delicate spot? College lounge. with her. A radical orgniation of family and social structure, Mis its virile vivid coat flagrant with naked superiority Bengus proposed was the only Driving a cab in New York Miss Bengus discussed the method for achieving equality of So we developed Methods (down to the last City. Miss Bengus has learned topic of Women's Lib and the the sexes. "Children by six," she Bengal tiger) much about people's attitudes mass-media effect of propagating noted, "are already fitted into and learned to cover our naked towards Women's Lib. When the stereotype of male their social-sexual roles. Oirs ame bodies with other people's skin men see a woman driving a taxi, dominance and female passivity. brought up to think highly of growing a bit more flaccid underneath some refuse to get in the same Women's shoes, she noted, for men's egos. Children's books and Trying dutifully to numb those embarrassing cab with her, or if they do, they example, are symbols of a other fonrms of media succeed in nerves we somehow found between our legs; magnanimously inform her male-dominated system, and portraying- women as passive and perfecting finally the art of the necktie whenever a red light or a car is were made to conform to the dependent and achievement- ahead. Miss Bengus felt she had passive stereotype of women. oriented. This is why, she to be a superlative driver to They are dainty, elegant, and explained, there is a strong need and of cutting and polishing lies to look like truths: justify herself as a cab driver and constructed to fall apart. for organization and a mutual Reaching at last this!. to receive a man's grudging Mini-skirts are likewise reinforcement of a woman's new the orgasm of civilization, on these acceptance. non-functional. Women, Miss role in society. Only when hallowed pavements Bengus remarked, are thought of everyone works on changing the Here, in this country of proud men, Even though Miss Bengus has in society only in terms of part of society that affect them sowers of concrete: this, meat sanitary picked up hookers, hustlers, physical characteristics. These most, Miss Bengus noted, will of hybrid peoples li h Feinman pimps, and other assorted social attitudes and behavioral role society be ideologically misfits, and has driven through patterns formed in women reorganized. Mind Gazing Some unseen spirits stir my soul as longing and freedom show their eyes, Ask aJc - SB's Sensuous Student The finger points to worlds beyond where I seem to feel in higher tones, By JOAN ARENA, Moment, he commented on my restaurant revue section. The Today's confusion can only lead to an answer to my calling, alias 64419 Gyromagnetic Ratio! Mother food was lousy. I gained four A calling I know and cannot explain and must follow through Dear "J", always warned me to never allow pounds at one meal because of unmarked forests. a fellow to use such talk in my all the starch. I was nauseous After reading your "How To I follow not of choice and not of escaping Guide for the Sensuous presence. I'm afraid that "P" from all the fat and grease, and I but of need to be Student" in the November 13th now thinks of me as cheap. It still have a piece of steel wool where I cannot yet see, issue of Statesman, my entire has always been a Magnetic stuck in between my teeth from With gaze raised outward I look with my mind for my eyes attitude toward life has Moment for me, but, I fear that the celery chow-mein. On my only see what they meant me to be. undergone a radical change for for "P", it is merely Mechanical. way down the stairs, I was Past lives I will shed like layers of dead skin until my senses the better. What a great source "J", can this romance be saved? attacked by two security guards are exposed to the light of the mysterious one who beckons. of inspiration you are to me, Sincerely, who took away my half-eaten As veils lift themselves to uncover newfound reaches more veils "J"! If only I had read your "In a Quantum Quandary" orange. Criminal charges are will appear to lead further on to ephemeral answers article just a few short years Tabler Quad being brought against me, and which soon become questions, ago .... But, thanks to you, I've my grandmother in Hobolken is The questions are answered but never quite really and after receiving threatening phone calls resolved to never again let a Dear "'Q.Q." each answer there's humanly peace, SPINNING ELECTRONS!! at the Home. golden opportunity pass me by. A peace that stirs itself from pleasant repose and leads Sincerely, It's never too late to save a My question is this: Do you ever onward to penetrate further inward. George Hamilton romance. Remember that an think I should accept the $2.98 Hollywood, California orbital electron produces a Prophet Foods offered me for a Answers are many for those who accept them but answers are MAGNETIC0 field- - YoW've ."4.Str" nating? also thetedx of the life plant *. -. . Dear"J", already got that little old single Sincerely, Which grows ever upward and strives for the sunlight, upwards I've fallen madly in love with electron revolving around your Graham Kracker to regerminate in new seeds which start out their a Physics instructor. Our circular orbit. Turn on your (Galloping Gourmet) cycle just a little bit truer. Jim WilCk relationship would be fine,but positive charge and pair off with New York City he insists on bringing his your axes parallel!! Even if you " · Quantum Mechanics book into and your Physics instructor are Dear Graham,_ bed with us every night. I in- opposite spin and orbit No. (Burp!) No. V wouldn't mind that so much, directions, you can reel him in Milton Berle, Spiro T. Agnew, but, one week-end, I had worked and close off your subshell. Just President Toll, tom Jones, Tiny U W W uO "P" into a really romantic mood sit back and wait for the normal Tim, Joe Namath, and John| w w l CI: (or so I thought). . . But, at that order of doublet energy levels to Zacherle are among the very few intimate Orbital Magnetic take its course. Then go out to left who have not yet gotten in l- k - ri. (_ . i klAt& _--S- an X rated movie and groove on their letters to "Just .Ask'J' !" If ARTI . V CAN IRC Plans the Zeeman Effect it's bound to you have a question of burning NOW NOW KITH - have on both of you! importance' to ask ... or, if HO O I Sensuously yours, you just want to see your name CAN PR tA«« Cultural in print . . send your letters to _ _ TA o OUT "J", The Sensuous Student, c/o in _ _ "M _w Lecture Series Dear"J", Statesman. 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I I - -I II ______JI November 20, 1970 STATESMAN Page 7 VQ^ sc\t^ ib\s t^Wa By HAROLD R. RUBENSTEIN A film that features a goldfish "Fantasia" was at least ten years mom action and revolution with sterile X the tropical white suits BEHOLD, BEWARE, AND that is sexier than Rita old at the time you were born! serious dedication render they wear. BELIEVE AS EDUCATION'S See if that don't wreck you. " Strawberry Statement" Hayworth doing the dance of of great importance OWN PYRAMID AT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY irrelevant and can drown with One man GIZA the seven veils in "Salome," that is Marion Brando, who stars in DARES US NOT TO 7:05, 9:10. Special show both passonate spirit. the stold GO has a hippo who can outdance this film as a result of his desire AGAPE UPON OBSERVING nights at 11:30 - Only $1 for all stosm of "Medium Cool." Ginger Rogers and an alligator for affiliation with the Black AN ABRACADABRIAN that could fill Fred's shoes, that those who spend their bread on Pcntocorvo's "Burn!" release TRANSFORMATION popcorn and other "treats" for his brash fury in color that revolution. He is leading a charge IF has a magician who can do what on a lame horse. Though THERE EVER the film. slashes the eye the way a native WAS ONE Mose did without God, that efficient in the role ot the BECAUSE whips through sugar cane. THE BUILDING could embarrass Charlie Chan BROOKHAVEN Kipli que white man, and THAT MUSSOLINI Surrounded by a score that WOULD with a mushroom that is more Move-starring Elliot Gould, even sometimes effective, HAVE seems to call the world to action CALLED TOO Chinese than he is, and that use Paula Prentiss; directed by Brando could do little with a SENTIMENTAL WILL HAVE three Tinkerbells has to be Stuart Rosenberg (R) "Burn!" moves with a realism THE ANGLES unlike any revolutionary film haracter as unrealized as the SOFTER, THE something special. And when The Sicilian Clen-Alain goal of the film. Besides playing RAZOR LINES around today. But unlike WILL BEND, they are woven into a film that Delon; directed by Henri against an unnourished idea, his THE "Algiers" the film lacks the HARDNESS WILL explodes into such color as to Verneuil foil Evaristo Marquez, who, AMEND spark to kindle the flames. ITSELF AND AS destroy the straight mind as it FRI AND SAT-Move 7:00 physically embodying the PYGMALION "Bum!" is smothered by a script while FASHIONED precisely counterpoints music of 10:30 romanticism and rage that one GALATEA SO DOES THE the { masters sending Clan 8:30 that displays but rarely explaim, CONCRETE showing us events but never the anes must have infused Che CLASSIC consciousness on a journey that PORT JEFFERSON ART Guevara, he has all the vibrant BECOME CUSHIONARY SOFT -has only been traveled in the connection between them. Once CINEMA can see the determination in fervor of a pop poster. "Bum!" AS AN INTIMATE ART worlds of "2001" and The Baby Maker-starring for all its sparks and hopes HOUSE JUST silent faces, but the gauze ot AS THE WILD "Satyricon" before and Barbara Hershey (R) restates the flatness and KINGDOM AUDIENCE ITSELF accomplish this feat though it is confusion that tihe story line Poor Co w-starring Carol makes it impossible to follow smolders in ashes before it ever WILL BECOME A 30 years since its debut, White got to crackle like thunder. SOPHISTICATED COVY OF "Fantasia" must be regarded as these men and they emerge as CULTURE FRI AND SAT-Baby 10:35 VULTURES AND something beyond the screen, a - TOGETHER THEY WILL BE work that flies higher than Cow 7:00, 8:50 CHIC AS A VICUNA SHOWER :anything Disney has ever done. wtoyinA VAYoua Foriote CURTAIN as Cinema 100 "Fantasia" is astonishing in unveils. how it predates "'2001." The UEmD FAISTS THEATRES Blow-up - a film by film need not be explained. It is -- visual collection InMI I n 2Tol O' LO'L0\ f Michelangelo Antonioni; starring a spectacularly 0 IUVw I nrU I Uts. NOV_ Z4 with I David Hemmings, Vanessa of tone poems emblazoned a film by Gillo Pontocorvo Redgrave, and Sarah Miles. A ingenious humor, peerless grace, starring Marion Brando and dazzling display of cinematic and a style that flows like the Evaristo Marquez tricks and imagery that leaves Danube on a spring morning. It "Burn!" tries to start a fire by one breathless and in dire need is funny, and brisk and at the rubbing two dry sticks together, of an Excedrin. Antonioni has same time just as much an achieving lots of provocatively always been a flashy director assault on the mind as Kubrick's curving patterns of smoke, but even in his disasters (Zabriskie classic because it refuses to let with the final result covered in in Point). But this time the bravado the senses rest. The horror sweat not flames. Pontocorvo, as is perfectly balanced by his "Night on Bald Mountain" is as evidenced in his last film "'The subject, swinging London, and terrifyingly real as the serenity Battle of Algiers" (which is as its children, who live lives as of Ave Maria. One is right after important to the Black Panthers cold and calculated as the the other. It is too much. So is as instant replays are to the camera click on a Nikon. the film. Disney probably wasn't Packers' practice on Monday), is Antonioni slides from a speed freak but his genius just unique among filmmakers hallucinationatory fantasy to might have been based on a because his aim is not directed at brash reality like Sonja Henie natural high. When you watch the box office but at the gut. made it on ice. Suffused into a the film, think about one thing. The brilliance in his constructing lo Mns - - W-Mill, photographer's discovery of a iw* asIew_ _t murder through his photographs is a devastating transference of | P MLS n COW -- _' w_ , man's sex drives into the I machines of the modern world. The guitar, the camera and neon DEI VO o VUT YOU UEs1 CIZE lights are now integral parts of sMCOUiff CARS AT YOUtOC9A-I-UATUeATIW our libido and we turn it all on a and off at will. Love is a definition and reality an Anntonioni' s undefined space. Antonioni lights the space up like Times Square on New Year's eve and the tension is just as piercing. THREE VILLAGE THEATRE Fantasia a film by Walt Disney

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Page 8 November 20, 1970 I.s*< tAfpemQ *&,,IG~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ang NIL--mm mS&~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Varsity And Frosh Clash Tonite In Red-White Game beginning of the 1970-71 According to Coach basketball season for the Massimino, the varsity coach, RED Patriots. "the Frosh need a lot of work By STEVE INGIS For the varsity, after and the varsity should have no Over the course of the past capturing the Knickerbocker trouble winning. Our main few weeks there has been great Conference title last year and objective, however, is to speculation concerning the going to the NCAA, it will just experiment." But Coach prospects of this year's be a warm-up for what will Covaleski has a different basketball teams. The varsity h o pe f ully be another opinion. "I think the Frosh team has many questions still championship year. For the could win if they don't panic." Frosh it's a different ball game. left unanswered causing critics Besides the height of Rick to wonder if it is capable of They're just beginning to learn the transition from high school Schrenberg, Steve Nastasiuk, and retaining the conference Chris Ryba, the Freshman have championship. In contrast to ball to college ball, and for them, it'll be a game "in the big good outside shooting threats in cautious attitudes towards the Bruce Thompson and Jim varsity, there seems to be great times." Even though the Freshman are underdogs this Murphy. In order for the Frosh optimism over the potential of to win they will have to stop last the freshmen, whose size and game, it should be a real thriller. The varsity has a tremendous year's varsity stars, Bill Myrick power have given fans great and Gene Willard, along with expectations. advantage because of their experience, but the Frosh are a being able to penetrate the tight Tonight at 8:00 students will Pat defense. have an opportunity to judge for taller team. The speed of the RED-GREY GAME: Mike Whelan will hope to star for the Grey themselves as the two teams varsity, however, should squad Saturday in their attempt to upset the heavily favored Red Predictions: Ingis, Varsity by clash in the first annual compensate for the lack of team booters. five; Schecter, Frosh by five; varsity-frosh basketball game. height. To one courtside observer, "The game should Shapiro, Varsity by twelve; The contest will match the Sarzynski, Varsity byeight. experience of the well-drilled become a contest of styles." The soccer season; yes, the same season that officially drew to a varsity against the superior close last weekend, will issue its last gasp this Saturday afternoon at height of the highly touted but 1 p.m. In a battle more important than, well, even the World Cup, still untested freshmen team. the Patriot second-liners (the Grey team) will try to humiliate the The game however, is an starting squad (the Red team). exhibition, and every effort will During the approximately 75 season practices the Grey team more be made to enable students to than held their own against the Met Conference Division II see all of the players in action. Champion Red team. Even the knowledge that the Grey squad Its purpose, according to varsity can not negate the coach Massimino, is to "provide boasts the talents of starting goalie Dave Tuttle an excellent opportunity for the fact that it was drive, hustle and determination that boosted the students to see the new groups bench warmers to many an evening of contentment. of players in a pre-season The Red team has proven itself all year long to be one of the special." finest soccer teams in New York State (eleventh rated in the final Those who followed last state poll). But a year of hard knocks will all go for naught if the year's team took great pride in first stringers can't put it t together one more time. This is when it the tremendous fan support that was observable at every Patriot counts-not for glory but for pride. The pressure resides with the game, home and away. Serious starters. efforts, in the form of a pep The soccer team's exceptionally loyal fans are all invited to club, are being made to promote witness this travesty. Over 300 strong, each game the fans turned out this enthusiasm. Although plans and were rewarded by the team in the only way they knew how-by are still tentaLive, arrangements posting a 7-0-1 home record. If you're strong enough to withstand are being made for a special the sight of grown men crying be there Saturday. Who knows, it may rooting section in the bleachers, even be fun? jerseys for the club, and buses to take the (pep) club to road WHITE-RED: " ... the Frosh could win if they aon't panic." games. Anyone interested in 0 I~~~~~ joining the pep club and ..i becoming involved in this season's team can contact Coach Intramurals delayed Massimino in his office for because of the further information. i nclement weekend RAPAND ROCK FESTIVAL weather. See Marc SUN.- FRI., JAN. 24-29 WHITE Jacob's column next By ALAN SCHECHTER week for final results. Tonight the first annual Red-White game ushers in the - -~~~~~~ The Concord Where its at. In iacttwhere^~~~~~ its all at.

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"Because adults take the school so much for granted, they fail to appreciate what grim, joyless places most American schools are, how oppressive and petty are the' rules by which they are governed, how intellectually sterile and aesthetically barren the atmosphere, what an appalling lack of civility obtains on the part of teachers and principals, what contempt they unconsciously display for children as children . .. "

-CHARLES SILBERMAN "Crisis in the Classroom'' Page 2S STATESMAN November 20, 1970 Pare 2S

High School Forever High school - solid or sprawling on the complexities grow, so do ironies, and so this lack outside, tension-ridden on the inside despite of understanding is institutionalized by teachers placid, acquiescent stares. High school is just and administrators and called "Failure", "Drug back at-the last intersection and high school is Addict.S "Dropout" or "Underachiever". The what: most of us would rather forget. students oftimes continue to fail to understand, 0 High school students, plodding through mazes but then it really doesn't matter any more .... of petty regulations, standardized tests, -and The lucky ones make it to some state censored publications, have long been aware of university where they are fortified by the the vague uncomfortable feeling that high school -introspection formed as a reaction to high is not meeting their needs. But, in recent school's insensitivity - an introspection that months, they have come forward to redefine even high school couldn't destroy. And the their expectations - and, using an awakening results of their introspection become their knowledge of their rights, to demand that high experiences, and our experiences, and the schools fulfill them. Furthermore, critics of experiences of the university .... current educational modes, ranging from radical If high school were truly limited to the politicos even to minority spokesmen on the blackboards of the classroom, the chalk-dusty Board of Education - are coming aboveground corridors, and the four imposing walls, then we and pressing for changes within the system itself. might be able to relegate high school to a niche High school students, like their predecessors, called "the buried past". But as long as are being molded to take their places among the bureaucratic rules, political pressure groups, and adult and established, but not without the authoritarian administrators exist within a rigid influences of swarming counter-pressures framework which proclaims who may go to Chicago, Kent State, Woodstock, and yes, you college, who may be a housewife, and who may and me and all of us just a few years removed be suspended to roam the streets, high school from what we were in high school. cannot be a tranquil etching engraved on High school students are caught up in a Memory Lane. As long as we are past the tangled web with teachers, parents, principals, intersection but still within its reach, high school and politicians, a web which no one understands is us. High school is here and now, and let us and which no one cares to understand. As never forget it. -Judy Horenstein

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By ROBERT THOMSON - printed obscenities seem to take on some kind "The high school underground is people Af great symbolicvalue."lt seems ridiculous, but educating each other ... educating each other One major interest of students and teachers was to the things that are relevant to their lives their tosee how many four-letter words we dared to culture." With these lines, John Birmingham pint."Since it is usually easy to avoid, most introduces the outside world to the mood, underground papers keep obscenities to a movement, and passion that has grown into the minimum: "Some of them even deliberately student free press. leave out all obscenities in order not to alienate An underground editor himself just a year or any readers who might otherwise benefit from two ago, he remains part of the sub-culture he content of the writing." media he describes in "Our Time Is Now." He, like those he writes about, got into the Style underground business simply to escape the There are more substantial points that must in determining stifling censorship that school administrators be taken into consideration Dianne Divoky notes that the impose on the official school papers. audience appeal. in the papers run from "The principal must deal with parents who ideologies expressed "polite liberalism to revolutionary dogma," but might be angered by articles. To this extent, the UNDERGROUND PRESS: Cooperative High School seem to be on the former. John school is a reflection of the adult world outside. the weight Independent Press Service, which uses the above can find few calls to violence and Yet, obviously it shouldn't be. It should be a emblem, acts as an information exchangefor high school Birmingham underground papers throughout the country. mad rambling. "High school revolutionaries healthy community of its own."' That younger little than college community has already adopted a new culture, tend to be less paranoid revolutionaries because they are younger and and with it a new way of communicating that On the other hand, reactions from readers have experienced less opposition." had no place on the sterile pages of the often encourage the editors to press on to overground press. "To obtain freedom within the greater heights. A confrontation with Miss Divoky sees the style of writing as, in the school so it can cater to the needs of their of administration can usually ignite some spark part, a reaction to today's depersonalized, times and not of their parents," Birmingham them unity among the students and impress on technological culture. What students seek most says, "students must obtain some measure of means of the need for a really free is feeling. "Gut-reactions, awareness, vibrations power on their own. In this case, the power of Sivoky, communication. According to Dianne are the surest signs of reality in a world where freedom of speech." to open "Once the students have been subjected rhetoric is phony and 'reason' and 'common A similar, though perhaps less spiritual and publishing of or subtle supression, the continued sense' become the weapons of the defenders of more cerebral view on the new-bom press is simply to expose the paper takes on a-new role: the status quo." This is coupled with a crusade expressed by Dianne Divoky, the editor of students have no the system that says the for a puritanic ideal society: "The students are "How Old Will You Be In 1984? - "Perhaps uncensored voice." uncompromising, and see all diplomacy as 500 underground papers have sprung up over the Broader Issues duplicity, ambivalence as weakness, and strategic year or two. Some last a year or more, his survey of the state of the art, John. past In maneuvering as a cop-out." others die after an issue. They range from slick, Birmingham noticed that "where it had had a well-designed products to slapdash chance to develop, the underground was dealing Culad Expremion eographed ventures." with issues that are more directly concerned It is obvious that the papers disegard Angry Authority with the schools than censorship." Student standard journalistic practices. They rarely Both writers report that, once a student paper power was the big issue; the students wanted investigate events to get both sides of the story gets off the ground, attempts will almost more control over the school of which they were (this, of course, would usually be difficult invariably be made to suppress it. The a part. The underground papers sought to considering their status), but often relate their distributors of John Birmingham's paper were educate students as to how their schools had own personal experiences and pet gripes. told by the principal that they could not failed them: "Through the press, students must Objectivity does not appear to be a goal and distribute the paper on school grounds. The make people aware of their lack of freedom and editorializing is constant. editors called the American Civil Liberties Union how it restricts their learning." of However, what does come through the news and were told that they should go ahead with The free press must make the majority four or five print is a dynamic expression of youth culture - their plans. If they were suspended, they would students aware of their condition, a culture that was being stifled in an overground have ACLU lawyers working them as soon as percent who are activist, Birmingham feels. Most press that had to conform to therequirementsof possible. papers that he came in contact with sought to wider a somewhat alien adult world. The "New York Not all papers are so fortunate. Distributors inform-and thus to convert-the to deal School Free Press" published an article of the Tuscon Mine were harassed by police on "redneck" audience rather than High Sometimes school grounds for "blocking the sidewalk" and exclusively with the hip community. stressing the importance of bringing students out being a "traffic hazard." Several of the students it's simply a matter of practicality. The hip of their institutional apathy through the were suspended. School administrators -usually community is so tiny in many areas that -it underground press. "The important thing is to just do their best to destroy the papers, viewing wouldn't be worthwhile to put out a paper cause a reaction ... Make people face their real them as a direct affront to their authority in the for them. emotions. Whether they accept or reject you is to school, or at least as a dangerous fad. If you do want to make the extra effort not the issue, they have been forced to react on John Birmingham found that the worst ' reach adults, teachers, and conservative students, a gut level and the more that happens, the met, reaction comes in rural communities areas thatt certain universal qualifications must be harder it is to program them into our alienated society." Students are at are removed from the modem world and would I according to Birmingham. Most of the computerized outside an inhibiting educational like to keep it that way. "Many adults seem to > uninitiated have strong objections to the use of last stepping seem a small point, structure to create their own freedom and offer favor a repression of ideas that don't agree withI obscenities. While this might that it to others. their way of thinking." Birmingham found in putting out his paper

- Page 4S in order to form gtif Soo^ a more perfect union asrw By CARLA WZISS 're e tolerance'. They would Eive A group numbering 275,000 New York the students freedom of speech and press ity residents has been gaining notoriety but again no power in determining the ,n the post year concerning its demand to content and form -of their education." exercise those same constitutional rights One student just retorted, "It's too that are granted any United States vague."' The general feeling is that citizen. Certainly, in their never-ending Lachman merely enumerated certain efforts to maina equality for all, rights and responsibilities without officials would not easily dismiss such-a providing channels through which serious charge by so large a group of reforms might be achieved within the people. But they could easily ignore a system. Ultimately, "the power is where group that wasn't even old enough to it always was, in the hands of the vote-the entire student body of the New principals who determine who's good and York City high school system, for what's in good taste." example. Lachman's resolution, although it Students have always been forced to frnally recognized those constitutionally yield to the strict rules of conduct protected rights of speech and assembly established by high school authorities. (as long as there is no interference with With the recent 'growing political operations of regular school programs), awareness and questioning of arbitrary does not diminish the legal authority of rules, the authority of high school fe the administrators. Its main stress is on principals has been greatly threatened. In students responsibilities and self-respect an attempt to quell any insubordinance, and respect for others. Toward the end ( students have been suspended for there is a stem admonition that "no possession and distribution of student has the right to interfere with the underground newspapers; college education of his fellow students." recommendations have been withheld for The document, itself, is a list of ten disobedience and any challenging of statements which are to be the guidelines certain archaic rules. At William Taft for maintaining discipline in each. high High School, each student had to sign a school. It provides for a declaration, pledging that he had not parent-faculty-student-consultative participated in any secret society, club or council which, through a complicated organization, and that membership in any process of subcommittees and agendas, secret organizations would deny him "will establish a continuing relationship QNlTtEf admittance to honor societies, scholastic with the principals," be informed on & a honors, holding of school or class offices administration, recommend improvement and participation in any school exercises, of school services and "promote Board of Education with their own list of students rather than to form complicated athletics or elections. implementation of agreed-upon demands, "The High School Bill of rules and structures for implementing Official Document innovations." Representatives of student Rights.' these rights. It would be sufficient if "Our "We wanted to develop a framework government, elected according to Bill of Rights is not meant to be -these rights were declared valid by the within which students might be treated as reasonable standards, are permitted to a legalistic document; rather, it is a Board of Education. Once they were young adults and as a legitimate interest meet at least monthly with the principal statement of basic rights that can be won established, students could then group in the total education process with to "exchange views" and "share in the by united action." The HSSRC centers its participate in those activities that are a share in the decision-making process." formulation of school-student policies." demands on the full freedom of political important to them, such as the anti-war This quote, ironically, was not initiated And, at the beginning of each school year activity and all that it would entail. effort or curriculum reform. Students should have the right to by a new breed of high school student parents and students will receive a Issues Unresolved concerned with major change, but by publication, setting forth rules and freedom of speech and press; the right to due process; the right to hold free Seymour Lachman, a member of the New regulations, the extent and definition of The issue, however, still remains York City Board of Education. In the fall elections; the right to end "high school unresolved. The movement to assure which are subject to discussion by the complicity with the war machine;" and of 1969, in reaction to the spring councils. students a "Bill of Rights," that would be consultative the right to determine the curriculum and relevant and workable, was interrupted offensives and the increasing disturbances Student Demands plaguing the city schools, a resolution was evaluate teachers. All this must be by the summer vacation. When students drawn up, entitled "The Rights and In February, the students retaliated; possible without any restrictions by. high- returned to school this fall, the "Rights Responsibilities of Senior High School they were dissatisfied with the limitations school authorities. and Responsibilities of Senior High Students." According to Lachman, who of the Board of Education's resolution The "High School Bill of Rights " is a School Students," the Board of prepared the document, it is "a step and highly critical of its very moderate revision of a larger document which went Education's attempt to pacify disruptive forward in the direction of peaceful stand. The High School Student Rights into more detail and which concerned students, was issued and put into effect. reform . . . formalizing viable and Coalition was formed, including such itself with the actual formation of The HSSRC plans to renew its pressures constructive behavior ... a clear groups as the General Organization student-parent-faculty represented liason on the Board for enactment of a students'. statement of student rights must be made Council, (the officially recognized boards having binding authority. A Bill of Rights. A contingent marched in by those of us in authority roles." student government body), the High spokesman from the HSSRC, which this the October 31 peace rally and According to an underground School Student Mobilization to End the fall is the main organization involved in conferences will be held this month to newspaper editorial, the document "gave War in Vietnam, the Afro-American the movement and which centers itself discuss strategy. Hopefully the movement no one the right to -do anything more Student Association, the A.C.L.U. and around the war issue, explained that the will attract major public attention and than talk. The Board of Education the Third World Committee. The HSSRC, purpose of the present demands is to the cry of "Free the New York 275,000" decided to enact the principle of together with the G.O., presented the outline the constitutional rights of will not go unheard. November 20. 1970 STATESMAN Page 5S

- - * -~~~~~~~~ Apathy Hampers Long Island Movement

By TOM MURNANE Island. One "demand," that has been If you're :ooking for a good, regularly met in some high schools, was the published underground paper on Long elimination of uniformed guards Island the best thing you can do is print patrolling school halls and the use of yoL-r own, which is just what several teachers instead. The guards were people have done. supposed to prevent students from The underground press on the Island is, cutting classes, but spent most of their for the most part, non-existent, having time hassling students. been buried by apathy. High school ' There were several attempts at students, while they have the money, lack publishing "underground papers" during the interest and initiative to regularly the student strike of last May and June, publish a paper devoted to their own and some of the most successful papers culture. were mimeographed at that time. The cost of putting out a fairly decent However, none have survived the summer, issue of an unprofessional underground and none have been re-established this "rag" is about $400, provided there are fall. enough people involved (about 4 or 5 One of the best attempts on the Island people who know what they're doing). to print a readable and intelligent Some of the best underground papers are underground press was the work of some put out at this minimal cost, but they are high school and college students in usually one-issue ventures that die out connection with Smithhaven Ministries at fromJack of interest, both on the part of the Smith-Haven Mall. But a lack of the paper's staff and its readership. financial backing limited the paper to one Students in Long Island high schools issue. Again, the paper was largely the are generally politically inactive. When of the school dropped its censorship. and how to avoid getting busted with drugs, result of the work and financial backing papers do come out they are usually now the regular school press is a true how to legally avoid the draft. etc. of one individual, although several people centered around a particular political student paper. Unfortunately, the Supposedly a monthly paper, the last did write articles for the issue. movement, which soon dies out - either possible growth of a good underground issue we could locate came out in May. A If you have no intentions of helping to from success or apathy, apathy winning rage was aborted at the same time. high school student who worked on the initiate an underground press paper, the out 99% of the time. Most high school student papers on the paper, predominantly staffed by best alternatives you have are to grab a A brilliant exception to this was Island are dull. It's the gung-ho "we like post-high school people, said that "unless, copy of "Dog Breath" and read it on "Alternate Culture," a one-issue our school" kids who put them out, and somebody suddenly comes up with the your way into the city where you might underground paper published by some- they are so satisf ied with their bread.. . " pick up a copy of the student-produced students at Sachem High School in comfortable environment that they don't Perhaps the only true underground "New York Herald-Tribune," or some protest of censorship of the irregular want to put out anything that would press on the Island is "Dog Breath," other true underground rag. school newspaper. The students who put upset the administration. which so far has published seven issues. out "Alternate Culture." in opposition to An honest attempt at an underground This paper is widely distributed, and its the "our new teacher" and "best-dressed press is (or was, for no one has seen a publishers claim a circulation of 20,000, senior" mentality, wrote about political recent issue for some time now) the Long although that claim may be just for issues, rock- culture records and Island Free Press, Ywhich attempted to advertising purposes. It contains articles interesting books that students were center on the draft, student rights and on political issues such as repression, and reading outside of school. Before the drugs. But it was actually more also has some good material on rock publication of "Alternate Culture," conservative than underground rags are groups and records. interest in the student press was at an all expected to be. It was a carefully The "Long Island Duck," which has time low. But when free copies of published paper, and extremely cautious been distributed here at Stony Brook, is "Alternate Culture," were distributed, in not advocating "'unlawful activities," an irregularly published rag that consists, students grabbed at a chance to look at i.e. taking drugs or evading the draft. mainly of listings of draft counseling the paper. As a result, the administration Instead it pointed out dangers of drugs, centers and drug centers. ' It occasionally has articles on "the movement," ranging from how to avoid Analysis: hassles with cops ("know your rights") to articles on famous rock singers. There are. seldom more than two significant (more than three paragraphs long) articles in an issue, and it fails as an underground Why Not Long Island? paper. -Much of the little activity there is is An apparently inactive Long Island By PAUL BOSCO High School Student Union was formed Somewhere there's a high school "wasted" on causes like Vietnam and the Panthers. A better rallying "point of about a year ago in an attempt to increase movement. In faci there are to o of and protect student rights. The in Illinois and a very recent one revolution" for young people would them:one focus on oppression since only what is "6organization," now primarily a one-man in Houston which is run by kids from operation, put out a monthly publication There's a bit of activity in the felt will lend itself to organizing. to Illinois. deterrent to a youth help serve its own interests. Its high still the prime But the biggest city, but the ACLU is movement is the most natural: you're point was reached during the nation-wide student strike mover for youth. only in high school for three years. Only of last May and June, but more coming off little has been done since then. During Why isn't something recently are people staying with this note that, I'm the strike, the Union's publication on Long Island? (Please movement after having graduated. This,. listed postulating the desirability of something and the fact that the greatest activism is several "demands" but few of them have coming off.) All these are contributing among the older Jr. High kids, are the been met in any high schools on the factors: most encouraging aspects of Island youth -These high schools are the world's C most students' politics. best. This obscures If you're curious as to what it would of the perception of the hostility take to get things rolling with the Island's l environment. to know! in their youth population, I happen -Most students are happy (idle boast? Not from the winner of the NMuch of what is taught is not They can dress sloppily, their school. Nassau-Suffolk HS Student Union's parents don't know what they're doing, Alinski Award.) and 80% of them are going to college. 1969-70 Saul -Not one girl in a thousand would Furthermore, it happens that Polity has participate in originating an quite adequate bearings from which to start the snowball downhill, if not to anti-establishment act. worth knowing as a child, let alone as -The tracking system is a bit of a caste oversee the whole process. Three inputs: 1. A corps of as few as five outside systemn -The smartest students, and all the agitators, skilled in organizing and in seniors, are given privileges if they are media, could train and aid young leaders, provided the workl isn't considered docile. and little will be remembered Hardly anything can be done about "seed-planting for the revolution." These an adult, these conditions. Some others could be older people are needed simply because it takes too long to learn from experience. alleviated or eliminated if there were an 2. A few thousand dollars-what Polity effecthia Island youth media. Uke these: -Wherever there are blacks and whites allocated for The People's Paper-would part of a county instead almost cover the printed in a school, they fight each other youth media, considering likely ad and The banality and triviality of the ot the man. subscription revenue. -The "most potentially revolutionary" 3. If WUSB were expanded to reach students, for whom the generic term is off-campus, it would bring together the channel -their efforts into "greasers," youth community of the broadcast area. vandalism, letting the man off with just a I note that next year four dollars of repair bill. Both the blacks and the every activity fee may be put into the curriculum in most schools has to be "greasers" would flock to a movement if outside community. If the interests of some medium educated them to its local high school students get half as possibilities. much money as will the Worker's League -Few high school-aged people are and Labor Committee (who sell literature capable of the kind of activities that in the Student Union lobby instead of would constitute a youth movement. The laying down ideas with the construction experienced to be believed..." few there are are spread thin and don't workers on campus) things will take off. know about each other's existence. Most schools are small (1000- 1500 pupils) that there are usually only two or three radical EDITOR'S NOTE: The author, a Stony kids enrolled. Five leaders per school are Brook undergraduate, has worked with not enough. Ten kids in two schools local high school students in developing -CHARLES SILBERMAN wouuld be enough, but boundary crossing the Long Island underground press is too hard to do with Island geography, movement and has helped coordinate the because: efforts of the Smithaven Ministries "Crisis in the Classrooms -There is no transportation out here *I toward this end -l ------but cars, which kids don't have. - Page 6S STATESMAN November 20. 1970

- w - : . The Stony- Brook Across The Track s

Iy MARSHA PRAVDER The committee system has also and ROBERT THOMSON reformed the dress code so as not to "What is Stony Brook? A Christian require ties worn in classes. Curriculum more school where relationships built on trust, changes were instituted to include than a concern and integrity are the necessary modem literature, rather ingredients for making Stony Brook be concentration on classics. it proposes to be." A major reversal of policy occured what to admit Sound familiar? No, because this is the when the committee suggestion preparatory school for boys, girl day students next year was accepted. Stony Brook this out across acres of wooded land Surprisingly, the boys' reactions to spread Some boys and colonial style mansions. It is the ideal proposal are mixed. of a boarding school or college. complained that they came to an all boy's picture prefer a The 235 boys, 65 of whom are day school by choice; others would seem to reflect the school's sister school instead of a directly coed students, come to appearance. Little of the turmoil school. The boys claim that girls tranquil the boys outside world penetrates their the school on weekends, so that of the from the well-defined boundaries. Rules permit are not completely isolated ideological or physical contact with opposite sex. little Mr. the University right across the tracks. Just In spite of the committee system, week, one of the boys from the Gaebelein terms the school "faculty-run." last vote preparatory school was suspended for The headmaster is not bound by the being in the Union building here. Tom of the committees. Luxen, a junior from Pennsylvania, Social Action commented, "The omnipresence of the Although the headmaster termed masters is unbelievable. The University is Stony Brook "not a rich man's school," an enforced off-bounds rule because they tuition for boarders is $3000 per year, you turn STONY BROOK: Will the graduates of this prep school really be ,"ancors" in their for day students. Mr. (the administration) think that communities? and $1650 into a freak if you go there." Some of Gaebelein commented that 35% of the this seems to have rubbed off on the curfew while he was working on a theater obscene." Those questioned, however, students receive financial aid, and "a students. They were surprised to see project. added that they could not justify building good portion come from underprivileged anyone from the University without a However, Ken is not totally satisfied. take-overs. areas." Junior high school counselors and huge mass of hair and full hippie regalia. He would like to see reforms in the car, Though there is no political activity in ministers recruit students from East Tom said he would "label them plastic," dress, and boundary rules. The good the school, students have noted limited Harlem and Newark to come to Stony conforming in their universal aspects of the school, in Ken's opinion, use of marijuana and pills. No students Brook. These students are not rated by nonconformity. must nevertheless outweigh the were familiar with hard drugs on campus. objective tests, but by interviews designed Code of Conduct disadvantages, because he concluded by Policy Changes to rate potential. The student handbook, received by all saying, "Most people are here by choice.. The boys and headmaster stressed that a very stringent code like it, they don't have to the school has instituted several reforms Mr. Gaebelein mentioned that the the boys, contains If they don't action as a result of recommendations emerging school participates in community stay." for of the economic factor from a committee system. The by drawing plans and collecting funds Tom took note children. to student regulations. He committees consist of faculty members a June camp for underprivileged relating with the explained that the school's financing and students, with a greater The camp is held in conjunction and tuition. of faculty, except in the Elmendorf Reformed Church in Harlem, comes from contributions representation Stony people donate, the financial honor committee. The honor committee, and is financed and staffed by Since so few is a tutoring upon the parents of the composed entirely of students, is Brook. In addition, there burden falls afternoons for The parents must therefore be responsible for the maintenance of the program on Wednesday students. children. assured that the school maintains "high the honor system to which the underprivileged moral standards," as well as provides for headmaster and boys point with pride. One of the school's publications the safety of the student. The tests at the school are not proctored, proclaims that, "In today's materialistic No Demonstrations but each boy must sign an oath saying world, boys desperately need something The boys have never held a serious that he did not cheat or witness another to which they may anchor their hopes demonstration. According to Mr. boy cheat. Any infraction -of this code is and dreams; something strong and sure Gaebelein, "in a school this small, there reportedto the honor committee. that does not vacillate with the whims of are plenty of avenues of According to one pupil, the first offense style in thinking and behanvior." Stony communication." He cited a poorly is dismissed; the second time, a letter is Brook graduates will undoubtedly be attended forum conducted every other written home. The third violation results "anchors" in their communities. One can Tuesday where the boys can discuss in suspension. The committee never has only hope that the dreams to which they grievances. Thus, if he were to walk into had to suspend anybody, which, have become attached in their country his office and find students occupying it, according to the boys, testifies to the sanctuary won't be nightmares of he would feel no sympathy and have no success of this system. disillusionment in the future. mercy. While Tom mentioned that students can speak with the headmaster and present him with their ideas and philosophies, day student Steve Sibbers countered that "You can't really relate to Underground Paper: the headmaster because you're sort of in awe of him. Relationships with the No" Shit" headmaster are reserved for the seniors." For the rest, Tom added, there's a certain amount of remoteness. All expressed By MIKE LEIMAN great respect for him, though, "I don't know if you could really call the "Pergamentum" an underground commenting that "he does the job of at newspaper," said the Connetquot high school paper's faculty adviser. "After all, I least five men" and "he's really got an don't think they've once used the word "shit" in the last twoyears." impossible job collecting money for the As if in response to their advisor's half-serious evaluation of them, the school. " "Pergamentum" did use the word "shit," once in the latest issue. but they used it by The only "demonstration" that the accident. boys can remember was the night of the "It was definitely a mistake," said editor Helene Spieler soon after she left the Jefferson Airplane concert. Since they principal's office where she had been called to explain the presence of the four-letter were not permitted to view the concert word. "We put a piece of paper over the word, but it must have slipped off at the from the University, they gathered in the printer." 4 preparatory school quad to demand that Despite their language problems, the "Pergamentum" has run into censorship the headmaster allow them to listen to restrictions mainly on words, not issues. For example, last year the administration the concert from the outside quads. pulled down an anti-American military painting that was hanging in the halls as part of Instead he ordered them to stay in their an art class project illustrating pain and agony. rooms after the curfew, whereupon they "It was an American flag with dead bodies falling from it," stated assistant editor rULi l-AL AC TlVIVT: neadmaster or disbanded and obeyed the order. Chuck Hammond. "When the administration took it down, they violated peoples' has the Stony Brook School states that it When asked about political rights to express an opinion in public; and we wrote an editorial saying that. But we recently become more "liberal". involvement on their campus, Ken never heard anything from the administration." for smoking (cigarettes or marijuana), commented that "the prevailing political On another controversial school issue, the "Pergamentum" took an editorial stand drinking, entering a car without written party is apathy." The boys and the which seems to have met with more success. It was on the question of hall guards. permission, carrying firearms, possessing a headmaster all seemed to think that the "At one time we needed passes to go through the halls," explained Helene, "but slingshot, leaving school bounds without. school has become more "liberal." The then they tried to appear liberal by stopping that. Instead, they put hall guards in the permission, stealing, or successive cutting headmaster noted that in the 1964 hall and we didn't need passes anymore. But in order to get past them you had to give they of chapel or classes. Presidential election, the majority of boys them your whole life's story. How stupid it was! After we wrote the editorial, The boys also must conform to a dress favored Goldwater, while in the 1968 didn't do it anymore.-' can't code. They are expected to wear slacks election they were evenly split between Still, one reason for this apparent freedom is that the editors know what they we get and a shirt, no crew-necked sweaters, Humphrey and Nixon. The headmaster, do. "We don't push, we know our limits," acknowledged Chuck. "Otherwise dungarees, or tee shirts. The boarding who is labeled a Democrat by the boys, called down to the principal's office." for the students must wear a tie and jacket at the mentioned that students have done a The "Pergamentum" was originally begun last year as a literary magazine The name evening meal. small amount of work for Buck ley or middle-class conservative, Suffolk high school, but it didn't go over too well. dictionary," As for hair length, the headmaster, Goodell, but little for Ottinger. In fact, itself means "garbage" in Latin. "We were looking through a Latin Donn Gaebelein, wants to see the ears the administration and students seem to explained one of the editors, "and it looked interesting." compliment to and the back of the neck." Ken Block, a agree that the students participation in The paper now has evolved into an opinion and news analysis The two papers co-exist senior from Illinois, commented "The political campaigns is almost nil. Connetquot's more established newspaper, the "Centurion." the "Centurion" once headmaster is hung up on hair. He sees it Mr. Gaebelein also termed the student with uneasy distrustful attitudes towards one another. In fact a claim denied by the as a symbol of revolution." body as apathetic. Time was set aside for accused its rival of stealing its master copy for an issue, Students reaction to the regulations discussions concerning the war last May, "Pergamentum." was mixed. According to Ken, "You can but these were "disappointingly attended. But "Pergamentum's" staff doesn't only find' it difficult to get along with the other have a good time here, but you have to be Most students just sat around or shot the newspaper. They have problems among themselves, too. For example, one writer pragmatic." Ken said that he can live breeze." refused to discuss a controversial story idea with her editor before she spoke to the without drinking and smoking, but the The students could not cite any radical paper's advisor, claiming: "I don't want my story censored in .advance." attitude behind the rules bother him. The elements in the school, but were assured Perhaps that's one of the major difficulties with the "Pergamentum." Although it is system is not that rigid; rules can be bent that any radical students would be a newspaper attempting to present the more controversial side of school news, it must for legitimate reasons. Ken recollected allowed to express their opinions and keep within the bounds of the administration. "Sometimes we feel tied down," that he was allowed to stay up past the wear any buttons "as long as it is not conceded a student editor. November 20, 1970 STATESMAN Page 7S

F- - The Class of '74 - Has It Already Earned Its Diploma?

Byt NED S ELE All of this was squeezed into their part of the search for something better. And If there really is a revolution happening in the consciousness, molding the minds of an entire until the generation finds its new heritage, it will high schools of America, the young activists who generation of Americans and propelling them, be frightened, alone, and restless - because it fought it, took their diplomas from the despite their diverse backgrounds, onto the same has disposed of an entire way of living that, if battlegrounds, and entered the nation's colleges psychic level - the only deviation being that nothing else, provided security, because and universities this fall are not yet elated, some might be aware of their location on that everyone believed in it, and rewarded most of its victorious and liberated. plane earlier than others. members who followed te rules. Unless the If anything, their experiences in the seas of The Stony Brook freshman of 1970 might generation ' finds a replacement for that social action, political protest, and drug have been the same person as today's senior was structure, it will drift, with nothing going for it. sub-cultures have left them not with a clear when he entered college. We'll never know, sense of purpose and understanding of life, but because he never had the option of deciding for All this, of course, hasn't happened to just the rather in the midst of an ocean of continuing himself what he was going to be like. people who entered college this fall. More or less social and emotional unrest that may or may not Strictly speaking, he didn't make a revolution simultaneously it was happening to the entire lead them to the new society they dream of. in music, high-school, life-style, or anything else. junior-high-through-college-graduate population. The freshman class of the State University of Something came along and made him make it But the process of discovery and frustration, New York at Stony Brook is not a class of happen. Rebellion in the precollege generation which hit half of Stony Brook while it was in revolutionaries. Nor is it a class of disillusioned, didn't spread because local college activists made college, hit the freshmen at a younger age. For embittered activists that has abandoned all it a point to carry their programs past the these people, and those still younger than them, contact with reality after too many frustrating campus and into the local high schools. Neither growing up will be that much more difficult. years of trying to change America. The freshman is it accurate to dismiss that movement by They come to Stony Brook assuming what their class at Stony Brook doesn't know yet what it saying it began with the younger set emulating predecessors had to leam. They've had two years is. their big brothers and the new values, as happens less of childhood than the students who have in many a generation. Vietnam, the CIA, Green been here for some time. Coming out of diverse high school Berets, the Democratic Convention of 1968, Although he may share the same frustrations experiences, Stony Brook's freshmen have Richard Nixon - all these made it inevitable with the American political and social systems as nevertheless stumbled, glided, flown, or that the earth would start quivering. his upperclass acquaintances, the Stony Brook staggered into college more or less sharing the All these elements were logical extensions of freshman, by virtue of his position, has a same wave-length. It doesn't matter that one the American Heritage. In the 1950's few different perspective on higher education as member of the Class-of '74 might have left perceived Richard Daley or the Green Berets as practiced on this campus. He draws a distinction behind him a high school where the kids kept disharmonious with the American dream, but in between society (alternately defined as the administrators on their toes with the the 1960's, certain threats to the American "real" and "outside world"), with all its Vietnam-ecology-students-rights bandwagon, government's well-being and prestige emerged. diseases, and the university, maintaining the and his roommate graduated from a place where The nation's systems in their hasty reaction, hope that somehow the campus setting will be the only time the principal worried about kids stepped over accepted limits of morality and for them while all the rest of society can't be. tearing apart the school was after a big football carried the American values of competitiveness Whether it will work out that way, freshmen game. It makes little difference, because the two and "only the strong survive" to the point where agree, is largely up to them; and so much of of them were there last November or May in entire segments of the population, nations and their energies are concentrated on attempting to Washington, just as they were there as Vietnam generations could conceivably be sacrificed so understand themselves and feeling their way unfolded across the 60's and came into the living that American Integrity might stand intact. through to deeper relationships with one rooms of America. It wasn't necessary to be Holding the basic comforts and security that another. physically there to be a part of something, and his parents struggled half a lifetime for as a given "We're up all night every night talking about so they were there when a beer-bellied American factor in their lives. Freshman 70's generation how to relate to each other and where we're at. I Man first slammed down his lunchpail and saw what many of its parents could not see: the don't think we've ever talked about politics." remarked to his buddy that those goddam kids American Heritage was a set of hollow, "I've done what I can as far as politics goes,' with the long hair and creepy outfits were just inhumane and harsh values. The generation felt a remarks a former high school activist, "and now another type of nigger - and, years later, they necessity to forge a new American Heritage. I've got to do something for myself." were there as the nightsticks of Richard Daley's Drugs, long hair, communal experiments, The matter of doing something for oneself, police force cracked open a million young skulls. return-to-nature, and the Woodstock spirit - all (Continued on page 18S) Page SS STATESMAN November 20, 1970 Page 8S - - Activism Awakens At X Ward Melville High fi I'm a senior at the high school in the petition drive, the sophomore caw | Three Village (Old Field, Stony Brook c demanded and got a revote in their cblas and Setauket) School Distinct. It'scalled election when irreguain ties beenm Ward Melville HighSchool, named after a apparent In the voting results. Academic local millionaire whose generosity led to requirements for student government the creation of this colonial monstrosity havng just been removed, the | then elected -w clam buta fewyear ago. sophomores t u d e n t w t h I'mao a part-time student at Stony predent a nonacademic s i * sto su o Brook, and quite aware of the goings-on hi ry of speni n. . at the university. Because of this dual Poltical Activism potion, I can often look a bit more The blossoming of a democratic left objctielyathe ighschol ndbecame apparent when in September obeciversiy atthan mhigh scho n atdds 1969 the new senior high building on Old Non-Controvesial - Town Road opened. Several years ago, Ward Melville High Mo A s the dated t h e SAAlobieSd School didn't exist. But population and Moratorium approached, theSSAlopbid economics soon forced the creation in the of r atewar-nta t h e s c hott o neteh t o sk mid-sixties of an entity named the of the war.on Oc.tobe 1 225 rejetedt " Setauket Jqnior-Senior High aidea.So, on October 15, 225 students SchooL.Composed of a renovated former, ad2 ecesmrhdfo h co elementary school and of red "portables"v grounds to the Setaukret greenwhbere tho. on Main Street, it was not exactly an heard speakersb inspiring sight.~ Such activities created abacklash, both Under Acting Principal Richard F. in the community and the student body, Bangs, athletics and music wereby far t Ah e a t tumuuou l t sand t e n s emeetin of focal point of non-academnic activity at 450conerned students, parnts, teachers the school. Hopes were high that our and administrators, heNew ]RIland MwOATORIUMA WARM ELVILLC: LaSt WW9s main lntliu oww Xwo newbor sports team and music groups Cisic Aoiati eestenteon snime aed hundred students and faculty. would blossom into greatnem Other. for debate: 1) the Studet-Fatculty his policies and carried the day. activities were equally non-controversial: Group. 2) the situation regarding speakers defended mass services were held May 8 on the pep on SDS, drugs etc., and therigt to have At the same time, less liberal-minded school lawn, attended by 300 to 400 a production of 'sThe King and I,"9a uninvolved, decided club, a ski club, an unheard of student equal time in presenting the oppoite students, previously students. The very same day, a mass A Conservative Club was and a school newspaper called point ofview. 3) the school newspaper to take action. meeting of high school students from council, On a rainy November 14 they- "'Green 'NGold" (named after the school and the fact that it is uncensored. 4) the formed. various parts of the Island was held at an Honor America March for colors). situation regarding a student lounge and sponsored SUSB with the hope of setting up a high "victory in Vietnam" from the school school union. But this soon became a "Green 'N Gold" was a great paper: coffee lounge. 5) Attendance regulations. to the green in Stony Brook, in 6) the way Mr. Cotten runs the school. In grounds farce as the university students attempted I've yet to meet a student who wouldn't which 45 students participated. They also agree that it made terrific book covers a dramatic 'confrontation, Mr. Cotten to direct the assembly of students. The sponsored right-wing speakers and pressed 25 participating Ward Melville students for a more "balanced" school paper. were bitterly disappointed. Together, the Conservative Club, SSA and Rights Gained S.O. planned with Mr. Cotten a Much has been gained by Ward Melville "balanced" Vietnam teach-in at the students. A School Senate, composed of school coinciding with the November students and faculty, has been approved. Moratorium. The S.O. hoped to have draft counseling The day following the teach-in at available soon. The SSA has campaigned school, some 20 Ward Melville students for State Senatorial peace candidate went to Washington, by way of Kwan Wu Lai and organized a Christmas -SDS-sponsored SUSB buses, to take part card project to obtain funds for the in the march against the war. They needy. The SEA has persuaded a local attended the gathering at the Washington supermarket to set up a display for Monument, watched the SDS-WSA Labor pdohi t, bI a e detergents and. Department rally, and were innocently hoped to bring court action against local tear-gassed while walking back to the polluters through the support of local buses.' The antics and confrontation at government agencies. Kaleidoscope has the Justice Department rally, however, increased its flexibility by running disgusted the students. caricatures, poems and any opinion A fight between a white teacher and a article a student wished to submit. And black student led indirectly to the the Black Student Union appears to be on creation of the Black Student Union at the verge of obtaining an academic course the school. Composed of most of the on black culture. school's 20 blacks, it set as its goals the However, different trends are emerging election of a black student to the S.O. this year. Administration reforms have and the obtaining of a black studies satisfied most students. The new class of course. In S.O. elections held at the end sophomores is not familiar with recent of the year, a black girl was elected activist history. It's almost as if a vice-president of the student body. post-revolutionary "Thermadorian Serious discussions on a black studies Reaction" (remember your French course at the school were begun. History?) has set in against student Then came Kent State. At a meeting of activism. 95 students and faculty, reason emerged It is not yet clear whether the changed victorious. Student leftist leaders, who climate of activism will remain this way previously hadn't publicly voiced- their for long. But, whatever the case, the now came out and condemned, Sometimes it was opinions, democratic left at Ward Melville is here to and paper airplanes. trends within the anti-war even useful in bad weather for wiping off all violent stay-if only to be reawakened. > movement. A committee was formed and boots. But it wasn't read. The highlights of the paper were enthusiastic articles on sports heroes, jokes stolen from "Readers Digest" without credit, pun-ful essays using Latin or chemistry terminology and vague introspective "editorials" that never ruffled a feather. Then, two years ago, in the turbulent year of 1968, Henry F. Cotten was imported from a "revolutionary" school in Massachusetts to become principal. "People talk about student dissent as if it were T.B. or a disease that had to be eliminated," would note the new principal. "The trouble with most, students," Mr. Cottenwould comment, "is that they are afraid to stand up for what they think." Such talk was unheard of at the time. Students welcomed the change. Activism Emerges Things now began to happen at the school. "Green 'N Gold" was replaced by a relatively censorship-free paper christened "Kaleidoscope." Editorials in the new paper were quick to criticize student government, and administrative or national policies when the need arose. A liberal discussion group at the school called Students for Social Action (SSA) helped to actively organize, with the StudentOrganization, a 25 mile march for Biafra on November 24 of that year. An estimated 700 Ward Melville students walked from Port Jefferson to Northport in order to dramatize the Biafran plight. Students began taking seriously the potential of the student government. A "Student Power" advocate was easily elected S.O. president, replacing a student who had been impeached for not being active enough. Through an unprecedented November 20. 1970 STATESMAN Paae 9S

I - -- Jw- my farhwr wont Idt im read subvcrsiv< I i~trcri urc. .. so i Write my cwr ) By RALPH COWINGS want. It's not like that phony excuse for a paper When I was a senior in the Bronx High School that the school puts out." Then Michael started of Science, through one of those ridiculous in on it too. It seemed so good to let off steam regulations that are so common in the New York at Cotter that even I got into the swing of it. City Board of Education, I found myself in a "Yeah," I said, "Just where do you get off <. freshman art class. It tumed out to be a stroke pulling us out of class like this? We wrote and of luck for me, though, because that is where I produced this paper on our own, outside the met a truly amazing soph (he got there the same school and your authority." s way I did) who shall anonymously be named Dave. Cotter was thunderstruck. He was used to pockets of protest, but this was open rebellion. I had written a story, (actually it was more of He couldn't handle it. He tried not to show it, an expose) about the teachers I had that year. I but he was really shook. He gave us a warning, filled it with caricatures about their mentioned something about calling our parents, personalities, and their personal habits, in an and we walked out. We had won our first battle. effort to make it as funny as possible. Dave It felt good. thought it was fairly good, and asked me if he Now that I think of it, I was really shanghaied could have it. I suppose i should have asked him into the underground newspaper business, but I what he wanted it for, but I figured it wasn't didn't think of that then. At the time, all I could much, besides I had an extra copy, so I let him remember was the look on Cotter's face, and the have it. good feeling in my stomach when we came out The next week I spotted Dave and some of that office. Dave and the others started others in front of the school circulating what meeting regularly to put out a new paper, and they called a new underground newspaper. He they asked me to come into this with them. I caught me and gave me a copy. Sure enough, on told them "sure," and there I was. page three, big as life and twice as incriminating, The new paper was called B.L.A.D.A.U.N., was the story I had given him. short for Birth Life and Death of an I went berserk. "Jesus H. Christ.. . WHAT Underground Newspaper, and we set out HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?" I yelled at him. I ' crusading. Dave wanted everything open and was a "good boy." I had gone through three above board, but the others and myself years of school without getting into any real convinced him it would be better to use pen trouble. And now this! I tried to explain to him names. I was Mr. Skitz and Dave was Wild that I had written the story as a goof, and that I Beatnik Pie. We did everything outside school, nkrD'wAr % &+AM !MnUhAX7 tIlllhcVkh it. RQmCM nf so we wouldn't be liable to school regulations. flevr expmwu c ny w H MoglsIt. obs - say about this," pointing to the papers. concerning periodicals. We typed it all ourselves the things I had put in that story were less than T Dave d meidlba theing I and ran it off on an old mimeograph that Mike kmd, to say the least. They were true, but not hav e didmy thein lifer h very flattering. I had learned a long time befoefr e h a v e e v e r s e e n m y l e - had. that the best way to get by in school is to shut H e stood up to Matthew Cotter. The paper had everything. Feature articles, up and not make waves. But now, HOLY SHIT. He leaned forwards pledhis palms on the like the one I wrote on how to cut classes and was I gonna get shafted. d e s k a n d l o o ke d Co t t e r straight in t h e eye a n d get away with it, crossword puzzles consisting said. "Nothing at all to you MISTER Cotter. We entirely of tthe names of teachers (with some The inevitable, Dave, me, and four other just about said it all in this. And we're going to pretty raunchy clues) and four letter words, and people connected with the paper, which was keep saying it, every two weeks to whoever will political cartoons. We were effective, too. We then called the Bronx Science Free Press, were listen." organized anti-war rallies, ran fund-raising called down to Cotter's office. Cotter looked perplexed. I suspect he half benefits for the Kent State Memorial Fund, and Fist, let me tell you a few things about expected Dave to talk to him that way. But generally got people thinking about the more messed up aspects of our school. We made a lot Matthew Cotter, the illustrious assistant before he could get a word out of rebuttal,Jake, principal and dean of boys of Bronx Science. He the guy on Dave's left, jumped in. "Right, t h is is of friends, and a lot of enemies, and even learned a little about ourselves. is what people call a disciplinarian. He has an * our pape a n d w e c an sayja i t w e office tucked away in a quiet comer of building where no one has to look at him ofl His favorite sport was castrating freshmen, a God, he was good at it. He could take a heal virile young student and turn him i whimpering jelly in one period. I suppose es school has a Matthew Cotter lurking about -hallways someplace, collecting program cE and generally making a nuisance of himself, .ours was actually proud of the reputation he among the students and faculty. Anyway, like I said, the six of us were ca down to the "dungeon" (Cotter's office) ar steeled myself for the worst. I wasn't worried, though. Because like I said, his fava food was freshmen, and I was a senior. He cc only make my life miserable for the next se or eight months, whereas the others had year go. I had a few really good, excuses ready don't know these guys, Mr. Cotter," "I had idea of what they were going to do with story, Mr. Cotter." If all else failed, I cc clutch at my heart for a second, roll my eye into my head, and pass out cold. He lined us while he continued writing something on desk. I guess he was trying to make us sweat a few minutes. He took his time opening attache case and producing a copy of the P He looked us over and then said in a voice seemed to come up from the floor and pi vOu in the chest, "Well boys what have yo .V'%'------F ------Page IOS STATESMAN November 20, 1970 Page 106 High- Sco-l C-terene Issues And Aftermath By MARSHA PRAVDZR gotten suspended for that" asserted that no pampetse given out at Stony Brook for' "We wanted to fight the Following the conference, him to distribute, and no system, and I gMu we ended up several students planned actions uakerwere sent to the schools fighting ourselves. What we need against the war. Ilene Feinman as fiiisTted by several of the. are ideas that work, ideas that recalled the following incident students. Simpson, as well as can produce change. We gotta which took place in Central Islip most of the interviewed tell people what's going on right High School: "One day, about students, would like to see the in front of them." 35% of the seniors were planning conferences continued this year. to walk out during the last However, no plans have been The high school student who period to talk about the war at a made so far this semester to made this comment, together peaceful rally outside. It never continue the meetings. with 200 others, gathered on the went off - the principal Stony Brook campus last year announced that any student who Richard Drew, formerly a for a series . of meetings left the building would be student at Smithtown High, organized by University students suspended and the seniors who commented that he thought the Yvonne Smith and Vincent left wouldn't graduate. I walked purpose of the meetings was to HIGH SCOOL ORGANIZING: Statesman editors distributed their Montalbano. They came to rap out, but only 10% instead of come up with ideas, go back to special anti-war issue to high school students during last year's about political and high school 35% came. Many of the Central the school and put thee-ideas moratorium. problems, hoping to gain ideas Islip adults were standing into actions, "without getting about how to mobilize students outside - they said they were our heads chopped off by the conferences to continue, with announcing meetings. around these issues. They left there to guard their school." He focused criticism on teaching the issues a high Following last year's sessions, Stony Brook with mixed children ...they were fly' his fellow students, as well as on priority. He does not feel that it Arcuri set up committees aimed reactions as to the effectiveness American flags and spread a the University. One reason for is possible for the high schools at ending such antiquated of the conference. rumor that we were going to the conference's ineffectiveness, to organize without college help: policies as required passes for burn them down. That was he thought, was that many of "They're (high school students) leaving the classroom, and nonsense. We had no such plans. the students weren't willing to afraid of parents, afraid of censorship of student According to Miss Smith, the got The police came and we all work. "'A lot of kids came down failing, and afraid of being publications. These committees sponsors of the conference were . AThenext week scared and left. 'cause they thought it was cool. suspended. They need someone did not work because "the divided on whether it should we had seminars in class about Just because they had long hair to run back to. If the school just ignored what we center around rap sessions or the war." lectures designed to educate and peace signs didn't make- administration threatens to said." students about the war, the them hip. Everybody has to expel them and they're scared, Panthers and DoD research. A Miss Feinman believes that work if we want to get they have to have someone to and conference symposium was held on the working with the University anywhere. " The second ask what to do." Both students three demands, and there were students helped reform certain problem, Drew felt, is that many leaders seemed to agree that the several workshops to discuss high school policies. After a of the high school students major setback was the difficulty both the demands and specific combined effort by Stony Brook weren't well informed on the in mobilizing other high school the first high school problems. high school students, her issues. He suggested that students. In addition, many of and the conference After the conference, Drew board granted the right to meeting of the students were frustrated that school explained specific set up a table in front of his circulate anti-war literature in should have even with organization, they Manv -of the University. political problems instead of school and distributed literature the high school. were unable to break through members"" found it difficult to centering around open on the Black Panthers and the the school hierarchy. grasp thatr-hhgh schools often discussion. After the students war in Vietnam. The stymie freedom of the press and Other students' comments were educated, speakers, administration did not hassle freedom of assembly. June were not as positive as Miss literature and open discussions him. Thus, several months, and Wittke, a graduate of Sachem Feinman's. Ken Simpson of could have been used to who knows how many hall High School, offered the Ward Melville High School said, broadcast this information to passes and censored publications following example: "I had some "Nothing was accomplished. the rest of the student body, as later, little has been visibly Things printed and hung up (in People should have come to the well as to teachers, parents and accomplished. However, the the high school) announcing conference equipped with administrators. Still, Drew was Ricci Arcuri of Patchogue possibility still exists that with future meetings for high school definite ideas about what they not quite sure if this policy High School found that a major organization, education as to the students at Stony Brook. I wanted to do." He felt that would work because, "You can't set-back of the conference was issues, and people willing to didn't ask for permission to because of lack of organization change people unless -they-want that not enouph high school work, high school students hand up these things, because if concrete suggestions, he had s tudents knew about it. . He might actually be able to play an and to change." their I asked, the administration nothing to report to his fellow suggested that mn the future, active role in changing would have said no. I could have high school students. Simpson Drew would like these leaflets be distributed environment.

Brentwood High Controversy And Censorship

Calling student control of the student A recent poll, originally intended as a Administration censorship of administrative, or parental favor when he newspaper Pow-Wow "an obvious vote by the student body on whether or Brentwood High's paper, the Pow-Wow, participated in moratorium activities, abrogation of the intent of the original not they would accept the Bill, was has been at least potentially in effect wore black armbands and taught about Bill of Rights." it asserted that students. reworded by the administration to state, since about 1956. In those days, however, the dangers of the radical right. An want "the right to do whatever they "Do you want a Bill of Rights?" Students since only "safe" issues were discussed English teacher, Mrs. Tobin, was also please without interference from adultl voted "yes" six to one, but the proposal editorially, no major problem presented considered a threat because she allowed authorities." According to the Brentwood was tabled. It will probably be redrawn itself. It wasn't until the 1969-70 school student-formulated curriculum, and t h e B il o f would "present and submitted later this year in a that the spirit of John Peter Zenger favored self-evaluation grading and News l Rights year an open door to radical left and watered-down form. reared its "subversive" head. sensitivity sessions. once again revolutionary groups to enter Brentwood High and turn- it into another SUNY at student activism, In conjunction with Last year, the administration agreed tc Stony Brook." the Pow-Wow began last year to turn out end its censorship under prre from a editorials. A number relatively "liberal" student group representing the Student In his second month of office,- of items were censored by the Principal Alfred Miller, who supported Council, Pow-Wow, and Muckraker (an The school board has also been administration. One such article was the the student Bill of Rights, was fired by underground paper which came into unanimous in its staunch opposition to Pow-Wow poll concerning the mandatory the Board of Education and replaced by being as the result- of Pow-Wow the student Bill of Rights. District nature of the salute to the flag. ("Should Assistant Principal. As a result of this .censorship). However, the administration Superintendant of the Brentwood School the the Pledge of Allegiance be Mandatory?") the censorship issue,: and the Board of Education are presently District, Dr. Louis Nanini, stated that the *action, coupled with Since most opinions from students and and the Board of Education's refusal to reimposing censorship on the Pow-Wow- school board takes a dim view of the faculty were negative on this issue, the accept or negotiate over the Bill of A major issue is their refusal to permit proposals. "I don't like the word results were not considered fit to be Rights, students considered several the printing or adoption of the student negotiate. I don't know where they got printed. Ironically, publication of this courses of action. These included a Bill of Rights. This document is hardly the idea of negotiation with the board - same poll was permitted by the walkout, sit-in, non-recognition of the radical, since it merely requests official this is not acceptable. Students will make administration of a junior high school in Board and new principal, and re cognition of already issue of this but this is the wrong the same district. In another instance of an condemnation of the Board. However, no constitutionally-guaranteed legal rights. approach. I don't approve of this kind of censorship, the student editor was such actions materialized because of The Bill of Rights includes freedom to poFture. Students and teachers ought to subjected to administrative questioning: disagreement among students over tactics. form political clubs and distribute work together. I don't want the regarding an article critical of a minority leaflets. It insures free press and speech, 'responsible students' to be of rent-a-cops (security guards) who were the right to due process, and the right to discredited . . I don't mean that students negligent in their duties. refrain from lag salutes. should obey us unquestioningly - We don't want a generation gUp issue." Nevertheless, students me, now aware Teachers Ousted of the legal recourses they have if their rights are violated. Muckraker the opp underground paper, will be distributed -In other developments last year, a despite administration opposition. well-respected, competent guidance Conservativ Community Students will have an ACLU lawyer on counselor, Mr. Cohen, had to face an hand to back them up if the A local weekly, the Brentwood News, embarrased school board and angry administration or school board attempts the Bill of Rights on the grounds parents, and almost lost his job, for. opposes to prevent distribution. In the future, which seeks to Comments such as these from the supporting the legalization of marijuana that it is a "document violation of newspaper distribution right, teachers, administrator and school people in power are not unexpected in in a Pow-Wow poll. Two other equally strip violation of freedom of the press or cases board of their authority, and grant more Brentwood. The community, which elects competent and "liberal" teachers actually of compelled flat-salutes may prompt the permissieness to a handful of students the Board of Education, is a conservative were ousted. One, a Mr. Bernstein from students to take the school board to who hope to control the student body area in which 55% voted for Buckley for the Social Studies Department, did not election day. court. and the operation of the school district." Senator this past exactly win the Board of Education November 20. 1970 STATESMAN Page 11S ------

"John Dewey High School 'a an experiment gn college. As thing stand, college acceptances will Perhaps the most education. which in concept and organization break* distinctive feature of Dewey largely be made on the basis of written radically from the traditional mold ... (It) is wholly is the total removal of grades. A student's committed to the pursuit of excellence in education. We recommendations and SAT and New York: want every student to we the world with a sense of performance is evaluated with an M (Mastery), Regents Scholarship Exams. wonder and abiding hope.' MC (Mastery with Condition), or R (Retention It is a difficult task to find two Dewey # -Introduction to John Dewey MS for Reinforcement). Passes or fails are unheard students who have the same things to say about 'This i the HS of yesterday. --. HS of. So are averages and Arista. Isidore Frucht, the school. Perhaps the only thing they have in through the years. -has maintained its original sound one of the school's assistant principals, and a common is that they are there because they philosophy of education despite the winds of change." very in-touch administrator, explained, "Tereis -Handbook of one New York City want to be. Few New York City high school high school :no fear of gades at John Dewey. In other students can make that claim. Some are there schools, kids are forced into hysteria about because they were fed up with the system that averages and we try to avoid it here." provided their first eight years of education, and By RPNNY HARTMAN Dewey was an alternative. Some did not want to Three years ago, there were two notable go to local high schools which are suffering from wastelands in Brooklyn. One was a garbage high crime rates and inadequate resources dump adjacent to the Coney Island subway (though Dewey is certainly not immune to these yards. The other was the system known as the -problems), and some came because they thought New York City Board of Education. A building it would be Cusier'Rrcut classes at Dewey. has since risen on the dump, known as John One eager 10th grader commented, "There's Dewey High School, New York's first large-scale -. not much bad about it. It's not like other educational experiment. The Board of schools where at 11:04 one shift goes out and Education is still there. another arrives." Another says, "I don't see Dewey HS is a radically different solution to a,) much difference between this and other the time-old problem of what to do with schools." He gestured to the room in which he children between the ages of 14 and 18. It is not sat, the English Resource Center, one of variour found in an Education 250 term paper or in resource centers around the building to aid in some yellowed master plan for the year 1990. It independent study. "'Theymake a big thing over is found in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood on this, the resource center. In another high school: Avenue X in Coney Island. they call it a library, but here it's a resource It is a school that believes that grades tend to (o center, so it's expernmental." One girl called the inhibit the learning process, that what are freedom at the school, "Great. We can go normally considered extra-curricular activities outside to the campus at any time. We don't can easily fit into the daily program, that even have up or down staircases," she went on. students can and must advance at their own rate, 00 0 0 Most students, however, will agree that that there must not be a distinction between Dewey is different from other schools. "I cut a major and minor subjects, and that students -lot last year," asserted one," but this year I saw. should study what they want, within certain that if people want Dewey to work, it can." guidelines, in a classroom situation or What she said is that high school works (or at independently. leastthis one does) for her. "Our principal from Approaching Dewey's gray brick walls, last year (who has since left the school to work periodically broken up by bright red slabs, it is on an experimental educational project in apparent that something is different here. Where Canada), explained another student, "used to at most schools, student guards patrol the get 0~ on the loudspeaker and talk about the sacred, cracked concrete "school grounds," here, Dewey family. He would almost sound like he kids casually dot the grassy mall "campus" that was preaching, but no one laughed. That is what surrounds the building. At most -times, is different here." "throughodtt the day, sttidents'can-bfe *tound, el t Dewey first opened its doors to 1000 students having left the building through its unguarded in September of 1969. This year finds 2000 doors, conversing with friends perched on a |enrolled and next year will see another thousand modernistic statue outside the main entrance, enter and the first graduates leave. Any student sprawled out on the grass studying, or perhaps from the surrounding school District 21 may ,crouched up against a crevice in the building, enter Dewey from junior high school. If passing a joint. The scene almost obscures the V40 additional places are available, students may be elevated subway trains which thunder by the admitted from other Brooklyn districts. building on four sides on a crisscrossed maze of Currently about 50% of the student population tracks. comes from the immediate area of Coney Dewey students go to school for eight hours a (-1 -sland-Gravesend-Bath Beach. The remaining, day divided into 22 periods or modules. About 50% travel buses and subways from further three-quarters of that time is spent in classes, reaches of the borough. The only requirement while the remaining hours are open for i for entrance is a willingness to attend an- independent study or merely free time. experiment in education. Interrupting her reading of "Thee Great Gatsby, Dewey students represent a cross-section of one curly headed Junior commented "I don't- 3a) the type of student found in any local high mind spending eight hours a day in school. My school. They come from upper-middle class friends at regular high school are much more Manhattan Beach homes, middle-clas Flatbush, -tired from the pressure of grades and apartments, and Bedford-Stuyvesant tenements. competition after a five-hour day than I am after Some read on a 6th grade level and some are eight hours, here." The beep marking the end of doing independent study in advanced the final module of the day sounded at that mathematical principles. point and she dashed for the door. As Dewey is no ordinary high school, so the A new semester begins every seven weeks at Dewey administration is no ordinary one. Many the school, with the student body choosing an appear to have an entirely different concept of entirely new program. Students, choose the their function than those in regular schools. courses they wish to take, within prescribed Having relegated the idea of "deans" to the boundaries. Course work may be taken in a class too-much-present world of hall passes and or in a DISK, a packet of material designed for -absence notes, Dewey has replaced these independent study. Departments approach their individuals with "student coordinators." curriculum thematically. For instance, the Co-ordinators working with other school English department offers 33 different courses officials are aware that every problem has a ranging from Introduction to Shakespeare to different solution and every question a different Modem Novel. A typical program might include answer. Says guidance counselor, Seymour Folk Guitar, Introduction to Film, One student admitted, "It was hard to get rid Rspp, "We don't have one specific way of dot Environmental Design, Marine Biology, and of marks. After being trained for so lotg to anything." Elementary Biology. A class may meet for a 20, compete in school, it was strange at fist not to The goals of the administration seem to be 40, 60 or 80-minute session, three, four, or five have to worry about them atall." Many students above the petty late pass and silent home room days a week. "Courses are taught differently agree. So do many colleges. period concerns that many high school here, "said a purple bell-bottomed and white While Dewey's first formal graduating class is administrators are swamped in and at the same tee-shirt clad 10th year girl. "There is much still some distance frotn the cap-and-gown stage, time thrive upon. An enthusiastic assistant more discussion of ideas." "The curriculum is Dewey's administrators are very concerned principal knows that "Much of what you learn 3asically the same as any other school," about getting "our kids into college." Most feel in school is learned outside of the classroom." 3ounters a young man wearing a Yale sweatshirt. that- the first meaningful evaluation of the "We know what teach' is, it's the learning "I don't see what's so different about classes, experiment in secondary education will come in process that confounds us," he continues. here." -their students" acceptance and performance in (Continued on page 18S) Pagel12S STATESMAN November 20. 1970 Page12S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -,' .&.r I %01 Bussing Brings Bad Pe-elin-g To Bayside

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By JUDY HORENSTEIN "Activism is no longer the issue here - it's survival." This statement refers not to an urban slum, as one might expect, but to an academic high school in Bayside, Queens. The assertion comes as a shock to those who are familiar with the liberal, education-oriented middle-class Bayside community of one and two family- homes; a community which prides itself on its aura of suburbia within the city limits, and has been "spared" a major influx of blacks or Puerto Ricans. Yet, in the past two years, the population of the high school has undergone a marked change, despite the relative stability of the neighborhood. The reason - a mandatory bussing program. The school is now 21% black, a trend which some fear is leading toward the "tipping point" of 25%, after which the school would be likely to become all black. Meanwhile, the already overcrowded school, unable to effectively deal student shooting heroin on the staircase tes e to what has happened in Bayside with the newcomers, is plagued by frustration, recently. There have, in fact, been at least two High, a- faculty member comments, "A lot of mistrust, and growing reports of crime and drug cases in which students have died from drug teachers don't even know there's a problem here use. "The black kids are killing the school," overdoses. Teachers report that earlier this yet." asserts a Bayside teacher. "Whatever good is in semester, a group of non-student heroin pushers No Action this school is being destroyed. You want to call would line up in cars across the street from the The Bayside Coalition, a body this racism - I call it facts." school with spray cans of mace and mug consisting of teachers, parents, administrators, Token Integration passersby. Although police seem to have chased held a recent meeting about the drug and crime Four years ago, Bayside High was indeed "one them away, they have, in actuality, merely problems. They agreed that both students and of the last bastions of the good academic high found a new turf at another local high school. parents were afraid to press charges against their schools in New York City." Run by a principal "It's a difficult problem - they could clear attackers and were unwilling to take action. The who thought of the institution in terms of "the the junkies out of the park but it would mean Coalition, however, is purely advisory and has highest number of Regents Scholarships and the making the school a police state," asserts Bob no power. "They don't decide anything - they greatest number of National Merit semi-finalists Goldstein, editor-in-chief of the school just talk a lot" was the appraisal offered by the of any non-specialized New York City high newspaper. A physics teacher suggests that the student editor. Besides, "If anyone knew what school," students were just beginning to progress "cops don't do their jobs - they just sit by the to do about it they would do it. " Another from newspaper editorials urging that teachers main entrance and expect teachers to stop the student commented that the Coalition ignores trouble." smile more during the holiday season, to the bussing problem because it is "too hot to opposition to the Vietnam War. For the most Today, even as locked bathrooms stand as handle." part, the pre-programmed motivation to get into Teachers agree that students are afraid to take college kept the students more concerned over strong action if they are attacked. Furthermore, getting good grades, defeating their football they are so aware of racial guilt that they tend, rivals, and building up "school spirit," than in writing school newspaper stories, to assume challenging mandatory hall passes, express that black students are being unjustly accused. stairways, or censored student publications. Some families are transferring their children to Except for a few activists who questioned such private schools as a result of the bussing. Others practices as civil defense shelter drills, little contemplate moving away. "Anyone with existed in the way of a "high school money is getting out," states a social studies movement." The school was considered teacher. They are "leaving to go to Great Neck "naturally integrated" because of the few so they can still consider themselves 'liberals'." middle-class black students who lived in the area Teachers and students alike see the school as a and because of a small number of other minority "political football" being tossed around by students who chose to attend Bayside under the various Board of Education bureaucrats. They open enrollment option. No "race" problem was point out how, by shuffling students from one then evident. school to another, the city is able to save Today, the stationary, carved-up wooden money. Some of the bussed students come from desks, caged stairways, and dimly-lit halls are the 14 miles away, and pass by several other high same as they always were. But the teacher aides schools on the way. "I wouldn't want to pass are perhaps a bit more anxious to comer four high schools and travel one and a half hours students in the hall to find out where they in order to get to Bayside High," a local student belong and where they should be going. comments. "Extortion" stories are rampant, and girls learn They point out, also, that real integration has to hold tightly to their pocketbooks. "Every day not occurred. In the L-shaped lunchroom, blacks you're approached for money," reports Nancy and whites segregate themselves into different Fliss, a senior. "I'm afraid to go into the LOCKED BATHROOMS: Schoo officals,dea with sections. In the park across the street from the m problems of crime and drugs by keepingstudents out of h*+hrm A ShRo PllI of how frho naxed a betwroons. Continuedon pawe13s Page 13S November 20, 1970 STATESMAN- STATESMAN - - Bayside Continued from page 12s school, blacks and whites congregate at different; ends. "I'm in all honors classes and don't have any black kids in my classes," reports a senior girl. Most whites probably agree with the boy who observed, "If they bussed me to an all-black school, I'd stick with my white friends." Teachers recall nostalgically the token! integration under the open enrollment plan. Many feel that forced bussing is the crux of the problem - if the students don't want to be bussed in, they shouldn't have to be. Some go so far as to suggest that the answer lies in "separate but equal" education. A frustrated physics- teacher who now must teach several sections' of general science, complains that the school is- "understaffed." Unprepared for the influx of students and lacking special guidance services, the school is unprepared to meet the needs of its new pupils. Not forseeing that such a situations ison the other, in a school in which no one claims real "intgration" is would occur, the physical sciences department taking place. G.O. gave its elementary textbooks to a local junior system. They are resentful of "Guys who come Goldstein. Now, many people felt that the problems. high school several years ago. The remaining to school holding basketballs instead of books." is trivial in the light of more pressing incidents, textbooks have a reading level above the ability Overwhelmed by the new character of students, Last year, during the Kent State there and voted of many students. The teacher complains that, those who have been at Bayside over the years reports a student, the G.O. "sat getting killed as a result, "We have baby-sitting courses, not recall the "good old days" and justify the fact on a budget when kids were remedial courses." Frustration with the school that they are becoming more conservative and outside." school-sponsored runs so high among faculty that many are less liberal with each passing day. However, last year a at Kent tempted to count the days till they can leave the Students Apathetic memorial service for the students killed Activism Student apathy is also at an all-time high. and Jackson State was well-attended. short while. Anti-war When asked whether this was due to racial was evident, if only for a and tension, student newspaper editor Bob Goldstein efforts centered around the moratorium, official replied, "It's not fear - it's more indifference." students led original lessons in every Students Fewer students than ever before are bothering to classroom as part of teach-in activities. on many of the pay their G.O. dues, and club membership has and faculty worked together draft board dropped. A number of students are opting to anti-war actions, including petitions, aimed graduate early and the January class is growing picketing, and a downtown counter-rally in size. An English teacher asserts that this is due at a spring hardhat demonstration. Clubs were the Student to racial animosity and fear; that the white more active as well. Last year, students don't want to stay in the school any Forum included such speakers as a South from the longer than necessary because they are afraid of African statesman, a representative Communist H. "incidents." Senior Nancy Fliss, who herself is Jewish Defense League, and graduating early, disagrees. "We're graduating Aptheker. to one social studies teacher, the early more because of what's going on inside the According activism at Bayside originated within classroom than what's going on outside. We're political school and was not the result of outside treated immaturely." She states that apathy has the agitators. The leaders were "not increased simply because "There's nothing to be college out to destroy the system," but a enthusiastic about." revolutionaries group," including one legendary The traditional strongholds of Bayside "6constructive who quit the football team because it !ootball and the G.O., are still being pushed, but student stressed violence and competition, and decided Largely unsuccessfully. "We had a football queen Continued on page 14s THROUGH THE FENCE: Does the answer Ue in but no one cared," recalls Bob "separate but equal" education? last year, Down With . . Architectural Stagnation By EBENZER HOWARD TYICAL I A Ward Melville High in Setauket is High schools provide the locale and But ;'; l O F( l physical space within which student life the scene of repressed student unrest, and TYPICAL HIGH SCHOML pseudo-colonial WE: creates itself. The architecture of the this is reflected in its ABCHTBUE:OF throw-back to the past, Jim Buckley-type school both influences and is tempered architecture. Modern architecture doesn't by the activities of the students. necessarily reflect a free and stable student body either. The austere but slick High schools such as George glass panels and modern brick at Bellport the past Washington in Manhattan provide the High in Suffolk fail to reveal and the violence scenario for architectural and social mixes student demonstrations that is rooted deep in the segregated to student revolts. Located in that lead layout of the town. The rich live south older deteriorating areas, many city near the water, and the poor live north schools like George Washington are near the scrub pines. Serving only as a architecturally regimented with cage-like symbol of technological progress, the staircases and overcrowded classrooms. modern Bellport High architecture separates them. The buildings are also philosophically and physically out of style. The High So it can be seen that the architectural School of Music and Art presents a design of the high school plays an sheltered yet aristocratic air on its cliff important role in providing a situation, a near City College, overlooking the houses Place for student activities and of Harlem. The building is old but philosophies to be formulated and acted elegant, a replica of the times when the upn sons and daughters of New York's cultural elite walked its 200 or so steps up from the subway to the entrance. Student life at M & A has recently gotten out of its old hold, but the school still AL PURPOSE CLINICAL JMEAPACKE retains an air of "Hill Aristocracy" that its architecture reveals. __^_ w mrrcTaTTm Ufc~iK rlf.3-Lf IGx~-Ai AM O-^^ -- - - Northport High on the other hand is built around an open forum area, allowing for a meeting place for students. The architectural freedom of Northport High's design reflects the liberal progressive attitude at the school. November 20. 1970 Page 14S STATESMAN -

Stu yvesant under~~ci w Stu dents Sare ns eilzize d" ontrl.AfeeamotC c r s reality. . under her control. After almost in school programs and priorities. r .especially in the fact that I was By ROBERT F. COHEN two After destined to create a chair Stuyvesant High School inMaata months, she has not yet learned to call the discussion among the < in a class known candidates, 250 students remained in the aas woodshop." slowly sinks into the earth- Its him by nanme. Students are identified by Traditionally, pOOra cards, wich they are required auditorium to bear an often-heated Stuyvesant has been cornerstoneS dated 1904, is newliy to known one-sixth carry around at all times. If a student discussion between black, Puerto Rican, 1 for its football team, not because submerged, and is expected to it was disappear in another teeand-half should be late for a class he would, in female, and white students, all demanding i especially good, but because of most cases, be sent to the dean's equal representation on the six-member iwhat had happened many years ago. The centuries. office to Stuyvesant get a late pas, despite any mitigating coalition. The group decided to hold the i Peglegs had scheduled a game Its basement gymnasium, acordin to against the widespread excusea Most students are identified by auditorium for as long a period as they i DeWitt Clinton football team, rumor, has been condemned and students at least four times by the New York City teace as a delaney card on one page of wanted, and were informed by the i had marched in front of the aistant principal- that they could. ischool down to Union Square Park and Board of Health. a deHney book. rioted. Ever But this is not what constitutes Co-education is a reality at Stuyvesant, However, the meeting degenerated i since that incident, there had a high been no games school - the physical aspects although the percentages of female and rapidly and broke up about noon. between the two teams, of a until this building merely create the setting in male students are far from being equal. Most students interviewed ridiculed the year. But attendance at any conception football game has which the true characteristics may come TFe first year of sexual integration was of giving ethnic groups power been low, despite the 1968, when one girt was admitted to the on demand. "Student representatives fact that Stuyvesant has had "one of the out. winningest As one of four "specialized" New school. More girls became members of the were nominated.. if any of those teams in the PSAL in the past York students City high schools (Brooklyn Technical student body in 1969; but it was in 1970 wanted a chance at running, few years.T' High that the numbers swelled tremendously. they should have gone through the Students Arrange Course School, the Bronx High School of A Science, There are now about 250 girls enrolled nomination procedure." student group called Students for and the High Scbool of Music Environmental and Art are the other three), Stiysant "I don't mind girls in my classes," saic Free the Students! Action has been fighting The students considered for a course High School's students areenel one male sophomore. *"I don't even the most in ecology, which has now pressing issue the question been instituted assumed to be among the brightest and notice them. They're just like any other of being and involves lectures, as most aware youngsters student" Writing for the monthly school allowed out of school for lunch. Since well as independent research. in the school this reporter system. Each applicant is required paper. The Spectator, Paula Marcus, a can recall, Stuyvesant has Grades- are still an issue at Stuyvesant, to take had the policy but a rigorous verbal and matematial freshman. explains that "Stuyvesant is of requiring students to to a lesser degree. "With open either bring their lunch or to buy lunch in enrollment at the City's colleges, grades the school cafeteria. The Board of no longer mean very much." But some Education had established a program students continue to strive for the whereby top a student, whose parents did not grades. An alumnus of Stuyvesant, now have the means to pay for lunch would be attending Stony Brook, thoughtfully able to obtain a free hot meal. recalls how he cut every class for a period of But the students wanted to go out to time, and was finally called down to the eat - to eat at Blimpie's one block away, dean's office. He was warned that he or in a pizza parlor in the neighborhood. should not have cut class and was told "It's all relevant," says a student, "to that his marks would be poor. "But, the at what schools are. Some people say they time I had a 96 average. It's like he are prisons, and this is one example." wanted me to have a 97." Students have planned a demonstration Stuyvesant High School is situated between demanding "free lunch" (being released First and Second Avenues in from school for that period) in which Manhattan between East 15th and 16th they will eat outside. Streets. It contains no school yard, and Stuyvesant continues to be known for all aspects of the curriculum are taught its science programs. Workshops in indoors, even drivers' education. Students wait physics and chemistry are maintained for outside the building for classes to those advanced in these fields,- and begin, and are often frowned upon by the workshops in the vocational fields are elderly residents who live in the requirements. Some students find this brownstones that line 15th Street. But discouraging, especially the female students don't mind the scorn that the members of the community. "'Me local residents have for them. "They're nebulous cloud that I had dreaaed up people too, and are entitled to their before school, has started to give way to opinion, just like students should be." SINKING CORNERSTONE:anv In thre a naw -. expected to disappear. teachers alike are beginning to settle into teachers alike are beginning not a closed system. to settle into examination before entering. It reflects to a great. Biyside Continued from paIge their unconscious rou tines, only extent the attitudes of the!^ American I3s half-felt Despite their participation in many instead to concentrate on- politial -ends. and halfrcarede about. They stressthe all enriched and advanced progiams, people toward the relationship of the while that"We don't sexes. Those prejudices produced and There's not much political animosity resent the blacks as Stuyvesant students share similar people, just the problems harbored by the society carried into the because there's not much politicalness they bring with concerns with all high school youths. In this year," asserts them." These "problems" have finally this day of increased school through everyone related to it." Nancy Fliss. Things political awareness, have quieted down been admitted. But their only"solutions" one would expect that The girls face some problems in the this fall not just in the students Bayside High School, are more repression - locked bathrooms, would focus their sights school, like having only one bathroom in but nationwide. and on the war. But This lull may also added police and teacher-aide hall this is not so. "The war is very the whole building, and having a gym be attributable to patrols. distant," changes in life-style among "survival in the jungle" has said one student. "Most of us period in which all that is taught is younger high are 16 or square-dancing. school students. pervaded their thought. younger and are not affected by the "It's a little silly," Nancy sees the present Perhaps draft sophomores as "hypo-hippies." if it were realized that more commented a 14-year-old freshman, "to "They try than personal yet.y to be cool and nonchalant survival was at stake, the Stuyvesant alumni can recall just do dancing. Girls are expected to be to be accepted question the into the mode they could emerge of the survival (or beginnings of a political movement nice and all, but this is not supposed to think everyone else is reform) in in." Junior Jon of an outmoded institution in a 1967, when students, very be a charm school." Copulsky states that rotting few in "School just doesn't school system. But, of course, number, distributed dittoed leaflets Nice, indeed. It was a girl who was one offer to students how could of the leaders what it once did. . . it's anyone begin to deal with calling for daffodil power. They handed of an assembly takeover on like a jail to many October 19. Students had listened, students and they just want to get out that. . out these flowers to teachers who were during of Editor's note: The the irtst and second periods, it." Teachers, who share student's aboue article could not opposed to the VieetamF War. hat April to speeches haue been written by candidates for an advisory body feelings, "transmit this apathy to the without the assistance was the first asve anti-wa of Bob Weisenfedd and Dave Friedrich, demonstration in New appropriately named "6-6-6" (six faculty, stu dents. " York, and 30 Excitement over the crime problem has who, like the author are graduates of students from Stuyvesant six parents, six students). The group's participated. purpooe begun to die down now, and students and Bayside High. "Oh, there's a committee against the is solely to recommend changes waa now, but all they're doing is

organizing toward demonstrations. w ; r < They're really not doing anything to let .^:^^P^!^^^, ^**k *^*"* * us know what the issues are." Students appear to be more concerned with the problems which affect everyday life - such as where to eat lunch, what to wear, how to socialize, how to cut a class without being caught, and how to go to sleep late at night without doing a bit of homework. The Stuyvesant principal, Leonard Fliedner, was never a stickler when it came to what students wanted to wear. All that he asked of the students was that they keep a neat appearance. Of course, he required the male members of the faculty to wear jackets and ties. If you were ever planning to revisit your high school, don't expect a very warm reception from the teachers' aides who work in the principal's office. After making my way to that office when I arrived at the school, I found out that I could not obtain official sanction to walk around the school and talk to students. "Dr. Fliedner is absent today, and besides, it's a bad day. You can speak to Mr. Wortman (the Assistant Principal) if you would wait, except I don't know when he'll be back." A typical bureaucracy.' I walked around anyway. Faceless Students Stuyvesant students, for the most part are faceless to the school's administration. Take for instance the youngster who works daffy as a monitoi in the Principal's'Monitor, office. takl a this e u ... says the AS MSELY TAS -OVER:s _at mooft's br

- Coffeehouse-A Place To Rap

Br TIM FERGUSON Ea!b Friday evening at 8 p.m. the doors to the Stony Brook Coffeehouse, located on Christian Avenue in Stony Brook, are opened. Enterg, the visitor approaches one of five distinctively decorated -rooms. Each room, being unique, is occupied by a different group of young people undertaking various activities. As the visitor enters the living room of the Coffeehouse, he seats himself on one of two couches. Across the room a stereo system plays"Fire and Rain" or the Woodstock album. The visitor is greeted by one of the self-appointed hosts and before he knows it, he is actively participating inCoffeehouse activities. After his initial introduction to the Coffeehouse, the visitor wanders into one or two of the rooms bordering on the living room. In one room a guitarist or, more often, a student striving to become a guitarist, strums a few bars for his audience. Again.before he knows it, the visitor joins in with a chorus of "House of the Rising Sun," or "Suzanne." The third room he enters is a quiet room. No record player, no guitarist is present; rather, a small group of students sit in a circle, and local gossip and ideas are shared. community. Many emotional participants play a role in its meantime, another group of The visitor is surprised that this arguments have occurred among upkeep. An observer would notice concerned students from SB small, seemingly closed group is students and with the chaperones that participants stand opposed to Community Church started eager to make his acquaintance on these topics. any member who breaks the rules working on another type of and to share with him their feelings which have been established, and meeting place for these people. This and ideas. However, not all'raps' are that a helping hand is offered to group felt that many students were uninterested in the noisy, crowded The preceding are typical scenes sophisticated, emotional those whose responsibility it is to at the Stony Brook Coffeehouse. discussions. Often a student wishes close the Coffeehouse up at the end atmosphere of a discotheque, that student or of each meeting. many wouldprefer a 'quiet' These are but representative of the to speak to a trusted coffeehouse, a place where students Friday night. On many occasions chaperone about a personal matter. atmosphere grew out of a could assemble for discussion, students have engaged in lengthy The coffeehouse The Coffeehouse guitar playing or general Horseplay. discussionscontinuinginto the early provides for small groups of two or need, the need for theprovision of a hours of the morning- Often three to seclude themselves in a place for junior high and high Thus, the Coffeehouse caters to a discussed are the problems of the comer in order to get things off school students to assemble. This .specific type of high school local high school politics of the their chests. need was first met by the group student, the college bound student. nation, and the current The Coffeehouse itself is an who founded the discotheque By simply being a place to go where misunderstandings between he autonomous unit. Basic needs such called "The Cellar." The Cellar at you can ak or listen, as you wish, generations. Behind most as cleanup, the handling of first progressed slowly, but later in a friendly social atmosphere, the discussions are questions finances, and the scheduling of became overcrowded as students Coffeehouse hopes to become a concerning the amount of chaperones are handled by from much of the North Shore in significant sociaf force among the SB Community responsibility students should have members of the Suffolk began attending it. in the young people of this community. in the home, the school and the Church's youth fellowship, but all

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"The city is our campus and our curriculum," claim tne directors or mLI Parkway Program, Philadelphia's answer to the stifling high school structure. The elimination of a school house building is seen as a logical step in viewing school as an activity rather than a place. "Lessons" may take place anywhere from museums, office buildings, and television studios to social service organizations or the business community. Through units called tutorial groups, consisting of about fifteen students, a faculty member, and a university intern, basic skills of language and mathematics are dealt with. This group also acts as a support group in which counseling can take place. The student body, selected at random from all applicants, represents an integrated-group from the districts within Philadelphia. Proponents of this method of education hope eventually to set up one hundred such units in Philadelphia, and claim that their operating costs are approximately the samq as those of an ordinary school.

TEAR DOWN THE WALLS!

- November 20, 1970 Page 16S STATESMAN Page 16S Institutionalizing Self-Destruction: Self-Destruction of the Institution By PROF. AARON LIPTON So we change some titles of courses, called the middle or average group, but a black coach is hired. Or easier, the Department of Education and even some of the content. After all, they are often resented or rejected by basketball team is allowed to be all black. and a former school administrator we now have: the New Math, the New their teachers because they don't appear This is in payment for the honor society \ote: The situations and conditions English, the New Physics. But we play to be trying hard enough. Among these being all white. So we cheer them all - described below are regrettably neither them on the same old phonograph. students are those whom teachers have on the gym floor and in the assembly fictitious nor accidental. They are too given up on because they never could (where the honor society is applauded). true and too real. Thev will continue to measure up to their peers. The term happen until some change somehow will Course Method: The Same Old Game "average," then, becomes a euphemism Guidance Counselling - Scheduling occur to stop the destruction of our for "just a little slow," or just a little School Choices, Scholarships vouth. lazy. As far as the teachers can determine, blue math or new these students will do well in many Walk into most new make good To carry ou t the goals ol pI petuating is the teacher? collar jobs and maybe even English classes. Where They are thus the rule of the elite, and the continued Where clerical workers. It is difficult to paint an optimistic ] Most often -in front of the room. think but to follow self-destruction of the high school, rows, trained-not to picture of the American High School are the students? They are seated in and to put the right headings ancillary personnel are appended to the Who is directions today. As we look around us, the scene of ' supposedly looking at the teacher. on the right side of the paper. There's not administrative hierarchy to do its bidding. the high school has lost even its Dorian t talking? Most likely the teacher. By the too much room for creativity in the their Gray quality. When once the halls and red t time students reach high school average student's program. Who knows The guidance counselors are hired to brick facade hid the destroyed soul of the ' opportunities for talking have diminished what kind of filing system a "creative" guide the "deprived" into deprived school, now the halls and the brick tto less than ten per cent of class time. clerk will keep, or where a "creative" courses, and the "gifted" into honors high class white are looking as horrible as the soul they AWhen and if the student is called upon, he mechanic will put a fuel pump. courses; to guide the middle were trying to hide. Theschoolsare being rmust answer some ofttimes student to a "good" college and the destroyed-physically, emotionally, and r non-thought-provoking question in a full "deprived" student to a "good" educationally. Like many of our hallowed institutions, the seeds of destruction are sown by the institutions themselves, and -ow the fruitless, mature plants are eroding away, inside and outside. This is slowly, but all happening-sometimes I always surely. I

I We need to look at the institution itself to find out how it happened, whether it can be saved-and maybe even ask-whether it should be saved.

How was its demise plotted by itselt, with no help from its "enemy," the students; but only with help from its friends-the economic, political and social framework of the status quo society.

Let us look at many of the poisoned branches that grew from the seeds of destruction.

Choosing a Principal: The Screening Committee - The Screening Committee's Screening Committee

No matter what format is suggested for selecting the top man of the high school, the Board of Education makes the choice, In typical political fashion, many Boards are "responding" to pressures to democratize procedures in choosing personnel. Some Boards still choose their principal all by thermselves with no questions asked. Still others "invite" in "experts" from universities to help the Board choose a man. Other Boards even lo %n- -* ,-&-. - .- -- I - appoint screening committees. These sentence that must not contain any more The Low Group: This group ot vocational choice, like carpentry or screening committees then meet a thought than the question. The students has for the most part dropped mechanics. If the "deprived" student number of candidates and send their authoritarianism that started with the out of school emotionally by fourth should want to go to college, there's choices to the Board. In all of the above Board's choice of the Principal quickly grade and is now biding its time till the always some small college in Tennessee ohr instances, the Board makes all of the filters down to the authoritarianism of age of 16. Their grouping arrangement is Maryland that will take "anybody." In decisions. They not only choose the the classroom. The teacher is the boss. He sold to angry and obnoxious parents with order to assure that the preconceived principal, they choose the committee that rules his roost, and he has ways of the statement: "Our grouping is flexible. directions of students will actualize, the chooses the principal. From the very controlling this power. Students move up and down very easily." guidance counselor helps out in beginning, then, the head man is rarely a Thus parents who question the fact of scheduling students into the right steering agent or change agent. He is a their child being in a low group are slots-with an occasional assist from a the needs, interests and mirror-reflecting Grouping- Tracking, Training, Tricking tricked into thinking that their child will parent (who happens to be a board attitudes of his selectors. The principal be moved up-if he tries a little harder. member, a PTA executive officer, or 6 then gathers unto himself personnel who The administration is right, of course. "good" taxpayer). So the students are will help him design, develop and carry Grouping procedures in the high school Students are moved within the groups. tracked in seventh grade and their goals ou t curriculum. have for many years served to perpetuate But, most often 85 to 90% are downward are predetermined, as well as their college the authority of the teacher and the moves and only 10 to 15% are upward choices-with room for a "safe" school ruling of the elite. The curriculum moves. left open. The Curriculum: designed by the Principal and his staff is a A question periodically raised about Pyramids, Pilgrims, Plantations or vehicle for training some students to go quidance counselors-do they guide or Cheops, Colonies and Corporations and to college, some to go into business, are counsel- is never quite answered by the are Thus, students in the high school some to drop out of school. Students with administration. They actually serve a tracked as follows: first grouped, then they are provided a curriculum. Instead of grouping growing useful function-for the administration. out of an instructional need, the kind of Counselors do the dirty work and keep Decisions regarding curriculum are not instruction is determined by the group many parents locked in combat with always hard to reach. M,4ost often we can The Top Group (chosen by grades of composition. them-away from the office ui the reach down into the file cabinet and pick the term before, by achievement tests, principal! up the curriculum that was thrown out and teacher judgment): These are last year, revise it, put a new cover on it students who will go to college, mostly The Administration - Passing the Buck. and send it to the Board or the because they learned how to play the Passing the Students, Passing the Time game of : answer the question, don't Racial Balance: A Black Basketball Team Superintendent for approval. Revisions for a White Honor Society But what about the administration? include some new topics: Corporate question the answer (or the question). students generally come from What is its role so nobly carthed by th.e Growth in the twentieth century instead These to their teachers; institution? An obvious part of the job of of, or in addition to, the Decline of the backgrounds similar they are middle or lower middle class In multi-racial schools the tracking the administrator is to learn how to pass Plantation in the nineteenth century The students, upwardly mobile, whose system resolves itself into a segregated the buck. It is not so much out of Korean Conflict and the Vietnam meanness and lack of concern that one to, aspiration level is determined by their educational system. Middle class Excursion instead of, or in addition curriculum for middle class students; learns this. It is more out of frustration even include family, their peers, and their teachers. the War of 1812. Revisions watered-down kitchen chemistry and created by the institution. There are few black studies, They are trained in many ways to take new courses: art history, students. opportunities left for the administrator to the family, tests, to pass tests, to respond to general math for the "deprived" psychology, marriage and and the teachers who really do something valuable and radically Democracy. authority and to cheat just a little bit It is the curriculum even Problems of American not their different. Thus, the administration can of these (not to get caught, 6ut to do well enough deprive the students, But what about the content backgrounds! To compensate for the only turn to protect itself by hiring new to justify their teacher's faith in them) courses; or the data we bring to the obvious discrimination, quilt pangs force buffers, otherwise known as business topics? In effect, it's the same old certain movies within tho ,flminist r;ation Group: These students are continued on page 17S curriculum, only in paperback, to allow The Middle hierarchy. 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continued from page 16S students selected The picture drawn of the high school is managers, curriculum coordinators, more (an occasional American Legion by the administration - to spy on the disrupters. Soon an aura one which shows almost complete administrative assistants, and guidance witch hunt to get rid of the too-liberal administrator - he wasn't strong enough may exist where turmoil is the order of disarray. Battle lines are not only drawn, directors. And so the buck gets passed the day and any event is turned into a Athey are already broken between hostile from in his opposition to student dissent!) one office to another. The holocaust. Supporting the holocaust are groups. The students are in the middle, administrator must also conspire to make the achieved tenure deal with the the Gremlins -the unseen and unheard .pushed by each other, their aspirations questions of discipline ,tatus s o mewhat tenuous and and promotion of situations which spark the riots or spark for a better future, their parents - and students. These questions uncomfortable. So administrators come are too often the police entry into the fracas. Many their aspirations for the past gone by - dealt with in haste and out of frustration. into their new positions with their bags half-packed, their new secretaries already times no one knows who started what, and pushed by society's demands to conform. Students are suspended because the typing up new vitae, and arrangements but repression becomes the order of the They are pushed to get an teducation in a setting school officials won't take time to figure worked out so that a good offer could day, suspensions abound, more guards are where an education is barely possible. out how to provide educational be acted upon easily and a departure to hired and education is the last thing that experiences that will prevent destructive "green" pastures facilitated after a few might go on at the high school. behaviour by students. If they're not tough years on the firing line -where suspended, they're passed on and handed much of the energy is spent ducking. Can anything be done to salvage wtild. general diplomas or attendance is left? Should we salvage a corrupted certificates to graduate them as soon as Discipline: Guards, Gestapos, and Report Cards, Regents, Religion institutionwhich causes its own downfall? possible. Gremlins The answers lie with the students of today and tomorrow. What are being passed do they want While all the problems for themselves as an from grade to grade, the administrator is During the tenure status of the As though these problems weren't education? Our generation of educators waiting and watching administrator, one of his major problems .enough for the embattled school has not shown passing time. He's much wisdom to our youth. for the propitious moment to move is discipline. It is a major problem population, a few other institutional We have been too tied onward. Administration officials in most because the education provided is conditions exist to add the final to the past, too unable to school systems play a version of musical unrelated to many of its students. destructive blow to the possibility of the break from our own rigid middle-class values. chairs. A glance at the vitae of any Discipline problems erupt when students existence of the high school. Report cards We seek a better life and number of school superintendents and are not reached by their teachers, the or Regents are the swords of Damocles education for our students, but we box high school principals will show how curriculum, the authorities, and even held over the heads of the survivors. They them into the same four walled classroom many have been in each other's positions. their parents. The behavior of the must still produce, respond and we built for them 300 years ago. If a -legitimate change is to be effected, if aspect of this is not the students is a message of desperation. The regurgitate if they are to win the game a The unfortunate viable educational direction and goal is to (though that sometimes students are at the end of their rooe of they chose to play. They must acquire basic mediocrity be attained, there must be established, is the case) of the individual, but the tolerance by the time they reach high the religion of the times to prove their school. Their message is met by newly' acceptability to the establishment. The and kept open, lines of contact and imposition of impossible conditions on communication between the teachers and the job of administrator. Lack of funds, hired guards (either teachers or religion takes many forms. Submission in paraprofessionals), acting as policemen the face of repression; studying in the the learners. It is time that the teachers political alliances in the community, became learners and began to are who patrol the halls and playgrounds to face of ennui and irrelevance; cheering listen to impossible demands by teachers (who their students. They could probably teach dealing with the same impossible keep the students in school and in class. the team on in the face of total apathy The school becomes a jail and the and defeat; and if not espousing the us a lot more than we realize. The time to demands that the administration is), and listen and learn is now - before it is toc to prisoners (the students) become current political dogma, at least not the inadequate education meted out late! the student-community at large, all-and scapegoats. Guards are joined by Gestapo dissenting and demonstrating. Pagel18S STATESMAN November 20. 1970 Page 185 - - than regular schools and discipline is still ai Class of '74 problem. A good deal of Dewey's faculty is" Continued from pare 7S) there because freshmen realize, b not a simple one. Many of they wanted to partake in thir the options they've explored -notably drug new attempt at high school education. One experiences and political activity - haven't led English teacher admitted, however, "I like the, them anywhere. The tensions and energies overtime pay for the extended day." I building up inside them during their search for a Dewey teachers participate in a six-week. new American heritae need a new outlet orientation, prior to the beginning of their' desperately - but none has been discovered. teaching appointment. During those summer "Something's got to happen here soon," seminars, the teachers meet with students and confessed a freshman midway through the parents and familiarize themselves with the aims. semester. "''m dying. and processes of the school. Also at that time, Some freshmen saw their summer orientation the departments write their own curriculum." as an opportunity to release their energies. Other schools get their curriculum from the Emphasizing "orienting the students to Board of Education. themselves and each other," as one orientation John Dewey High School, having barely leader described it, the three-day sessions, set in celebrated its first birthday, is just beginning to a nearly-idyllic Tabler quad at the greenest peak walk. Being too young for any true measure of of summer, gave the new freshmen a chance to its success, evaluation is merely hypothesis and explore themselves and their companions in a conjecture at this point. There is a noticeable" worry-free atmosphere. lack of vandalism at the school. One teacher'- The three days consisted largely of "free observed, "Students here are more concerned- time" and sensitivity sessions where, in with maintaining this building than other hight appropriately unstructured and structured school kids are. There is subtle pressure to keep fashion, they could open new relationships the building free of incidents. They want the based on new values. Most of the incoming experiment to succeed, even if only to avoid" students left summer orientation bouyant with being sent back to local schools." hopes that their social lives were about to enter The building is almost free of any security new dimensions. patrols. The doors and halls are unguarded at They returned to Stony Brook in September, -most times. So far, there has been no indication and it wasn't the same. that crime has been greater than patrolled "Everyone was reaching out for one another.' having evaluated their e' ectivee for schools, and it might even be less, some believe. during orientation,"' recalls one freshman, "I themselves before entering Stony Brook. 'Where I used to teach," commented one came here looking for Utopia and it wasn't "You can'thold a strike - everybody did that :teacher as he dismissed his noisy home-room there. I found I couldn't just walk up to last May and it's anticlimactic." class, "there were certain corridors where you someone, sit down, and start talking. What. "You can really get into the political thing, just didn't go. I don't think there's an unsafe. happened?" but you have to look at it first and decide if hallway at Dewey." ; Never mind the social awareness. Forget the, -you'regoing to be running into a brick wall.' John Dewey was a late 19th and early 20th Woodstock spirit. When Freshman 70 has a Freshmen, today, as freshmen always do, feel century educator who believed that no fact wasW Chemistry 101 test or a big paper that's due first hreed from years of regimentation in high school :true until empirically proven. He also felt that thing in the morning, or gets a nasty letter from and at home. Accordingly, as freshmen always every piece of data was subject to change. home, it still blows his mind. Realizing you're have and always will, they feel almost obligated, Nothing could afford to remain inflexible. The trying to find a new value system for yourself at one time or another, to: pull an all-nighter, school that bears his name lives up to that ideal. and your generation is an exciting thought. see a sunrise, cut a class, carry on a bull session When- students complained about not being Actually attempting to do it may be a long, instead of writing a paper, and take a weekend allowed outside of the campus during the day to frustrating, and bitter experience because no excursion to someplace without notifying their get pizza or coffee at lunchtime, the cafeteria matter how much it's desired, it won't happen parents. They will make their own conclusions promptly put those two items on overnight. its menu. A about -whether or not they do lead an -problem and a workable solution. Maybe Academic pressures it's still hang heavy over the. unregimented life, and fall into their own trival compared to other injustices, but it's a freshman quads of Stony Brook. The freshman patterns of living, just as all freshman classes do. start. still wants his four years at Stony Brook and his In the meantime, though, parental influences As thin{>stand now, the success or failure of degree - for much the same reason his and fears permeate the atmosphere, and another Dewey is irrelevant. What matters is that Dewey predecessors did - only he senses more than: conflict spring up. One set of values is pitted exists. For too many years we have been they did that the various stops along the way to: against the other. Changes in roles start- staggering under the weight of a school system the diploma such as academic matters, might becoming evident ("Im realizing that parents-: that does not work. If there is a chance that our very well be not the steppingstones to his are becoming secondary in my life. .also I see educational system can pick itself up, Dewey has development but roadblocks. Seeing themselves my parents as real people for the first timed")a crack at success. If the weight has been too develop through interpersonal relationships and Yet the freshman has just left behind a home great and we have fallen, then Dewey is too late. non-classroom learning experiences, they are and family that, as a source of comfort and But Dewey was begun in the hope that it is not probably more bothered at an earlier time than security, isn't replaced after a few months of too late. those before them about having to deal with college, so, despite conflicting life-styles and The outlook for Dewey may be very good but academic requirements they may consider values, feelings about "back home" are Dewey serves 2000 people, while the rest of the irrelevant and time-consuming. There's a ambivalent. system serves over a million. Most of New conflict, and until they can decide for "Everytime I do something 'wrong" Iexpect -York's young people will be spit -out of the themselves how to deal with it, Stony Brook to turn around and see my parents there. " city's high schools never feeling the effects of won't be any Utopia. "Dinnerbefore Stony Brook was a chance for independent study, or modules, or what it's like "Something drove me in high school to the family to be together and talk. Here it's a not to fight for grades. Probably, most of them achieve - the pressure for grades and college pinched mealcar&" will never even hear of Dewey and what goes on entrance. I'm not motivated here. I love it at And so it goes for the 1970 Stony Brook! there. Stony Brook, but I hate school. " Freshman, looking for a heritage, clinging to the John Dewey High School is the exception and "Everyone should have the opportunity to try comforts of what may be a distant era - his not the rule. It is apparent to anyone who has everything - but not to be forced, just to be childhood, reaching out for some love and been a victim of the New York City Public exposed." understanding along the way. He's experienced Education System that what we have now is The freshman class is more involved in drug much, but there's so much more in front of him, unworkable. However, instead of building 201. scenes than any previous group of new students, and as he feels his way into the future, he can be Deweys or other schools, each experimenting- but, if you listen to them, it has no bearing on burdened by and yet in awe of the realization with a different philosophy of education, we" anything and in no way makes them different that, as one member of his classsaid recently, have a dying system with one Dewey high from anybody else at Stony Brook. "I'm not yet half of what I can be." school. Another experimental high school within: "So what if everyone smokes? Three years the next five years looks almost impossible,: ago, maybe it was radical. At one point it was a within the next ten doubtful, and beyond that: common bond. Not anymore - we're still doing D e we y (Continued from page 1 IS) who knows? In this respect - John Dewey is a whatever the standard thing is for the time." Dewey's administration realizes that their job patch on a rapidly deteriorating set of What will the Stony Brook freshman do when is unique. They have no past experience with dungarees. the first major campus demonstration comes up? this type of school to draw upon. Each day is a One John Dewey teacher described his He won't run into it eager-beaver the way the sort of groping or searching process involving no profession as "having to rationalize in the last two freshman classes have, seeing it as test to gauge their success or failures, at least at classroom the absurdity of what's going on something that has to be done once one arrives this point. However, Frucht asserts, "There are outside of it." That is an impossibility. But yet at college. A new attitude has grown from the kids here who aren't making it but I don't think the absurdities increase and the rationalizations experiences with political activism in high that they will tell you it's our fault." Most become weaker. John Dewey High School is one schools. Although many freshmen will still be students won't. of those rationalizations. Whether the there, they'll think more in terms of good-or-bad For the 130 hand-picked faculty, though rationalization works does not depend on what tactics than did their predecessors. They'll also teaching at Dewey is somewhat unique, much is happens inside those classrooms, but outside of same.tthe Classes-.,e notsigpgi~icntty them. question the-viability of certain types of protests s aMe I . .- November 20, 1970 STATESMAN Page 19S

The Brick That Hides The HorizonII

By HAROLD R. RUBENSTEIN answer ... I need chalk . .. pass them up ... go, Several years ago an independent film was Student Teacher - Hauppauge High School to the office .". . stand, there are no shot in a middle-class Philadelphia high school, On a student questionnaire that was handed seats. . . make room ... make out a pass . .. with the complete cooperation of the school ,out in a class at Hauppauge High School, one of the codewords for their life. High school has board. Today, the film "High School" is banned the questions asked, "What do you hope to learn become A-1 training . for future urban from commercial showing by court order. The from this course." It was a 10th grade class in commuters. ~They should get in everything on film showed the school - unbiased, uncovered, a English. A fair percentage .answered thus: "I time in order to prove responsibility, don't talk la cinema verite. It was too much for the board would like to learn things so that I will know back to show respect; living to grab a seat, grab a to bear. how to live when I get out of here." book, grab an idea here and there. When amidst this babel of trivia do they grab for lifei High school students know too much and are There is something about a brick wall that too curious to crush. The mystique of college is cannot hold a nail from which to hang High schools are not hollow havens for a picture dead. Drugs are as prevalent as G.O. buttons. but will accommodate a keeping children off the blackboard laden with streets. Bless the These are the children of the Great Nursemaid chalk dust to blend with the teachers who have leapt the walls damp that enclose of the Air . .. television.* "Sesame Street" may air-conditioned air, that just thought and feeling for the students reach might make out to be worthy and fun, "That Girl" may be cute, someone feel them like Christ among that he is being -housed in a the lepers. Warmth, but the "Six o'clock News" ain't, and it's real. palace of sterility, satisfaction, awareness, joy and truth power, and neuterness of do squeeze But high school is very much Wonderland and spirit. Walls their way in everyday. But it must scale do not a prison make, yet many all those all the children are forced to play confused students bricks. The fences, feel that San Quentin would be as both metal and emotional Alices. The basic problem is that this looking restful that are built from discipline for them as a B'nai B'rith chapter making and fear have made glass world contains few roses, and it isn't a it on Miami Beach. it harder for children to get to the fields that dream. should be theirs, the knowledge they deserve, There is a leak in the life line that feeds into and the love they crave. today's high schools. Communication of Strangers give each other so little. Education students with other inhabitants of his temporary is a unique opportunity for exchange through daily domicile is governed by the sound On an IQ of a exam given in elementary school friendship. On a theme paper by a girl in that hoot that can set off students (but as in for class change high school lingo, "how does that same Hauppauge classroom, the final sentence doing a re-creation of the Great Cattle Drives. relate") the question asked was which of the read, "Love is being given a chance to belong.?' But where are these children running? four was the best building material: mud, brick, Her wisdom eclipses the textbooks and shines wood, or straw. A little girl responded, "Wood, with the radiance of hope, but the bricks will . . . Do you have a pass? . . . fill because brick is cold and ugly and wood is warm have to be knocked down to allow it to light the out . . . pass these back . . . circle and beautiful." She got the answer wrong. halls. . . Page 20S STATESMAN November 20. 1970 Page 20S - w-

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