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The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1961-1970 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 1-9-1970 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1970-01-09 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1970-01-09" (1970). The Voice: 1961-1970. 210. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970/210 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1961-1970 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE "WHEN COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ...THEN NO COLLEGE IN THE I IS NO LONGER SAFE . COUNTRY IS." JACK PERKINS, i. The Huntley-Brinkle- y Report PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Volume Wf M . FV 1 T J LXXXVI 1 1 1 iv nncrpr i mm nriiav lonnirtr u i i i Number 10 I 1 " TV Nation's Viewers Told Mo For Shriek -Judgedd Danger T Yes There Is A Wooster Decency, Sobriety by Clint Morrison . and 'mi Wooster made its appearance on speaks frequendy about the drug by Alan Unger a substantial prejudice to public man. It was 0df Kaufman who the Huntley-Brinkle- y, Report last problem on this and other cam- went Shack Rats, hoping to be able decency, sobriety, and good order: to Columbus to the Coun- week, and the first appearance was puses, never uses a figure higher present to come out of hibernation for the hence, the Department is without cil's position a rather lengthy one. than half of the to the State Liquor student body for New Year, might have to wait authority to take such action." Board. those having Spread over four nights, the re- tried drugs, many until spring. The latest attempt to Commenting on the board's state- who heard of Obtaining a liquor permit in port included us in a study of the NBC treatment reopen the Shack with a 3.2 beer ment, Anna Syrios called it a five said that a figure 75 Wayne County is not a particularly life in colleges across the from to 90 permit, known as the D-- "slam against l permit, us and students of difficult Kee-ney- percent was task. In the case of 's country, and it came as a surprise mentioned. The mere on-premis- es carry-ou- t and sales, today . ... we don't know who and to most of the school's fans watch- suggestions of Wooster's no longer several establishments in was rejected on Dec. 24 by the stopped it." the ing and a shock to others. being considered a "safe" school area surrounding Wooster, no Ohio liquor control board. General consensus was that the is sure to arouse mutterings from one had any knowledge of their An estimated audience of 66 The sur- State would rejection came as a approve Sy's an-nouncem- request. applications ent parents and alumni of a more con- until the approval million, slightly bleary-eye- d from prise to many parties involved. Members of the College's adminis- servative nature. by the Liquor Board. watching post-seaso- n football and Sy, Inc., formed in August, 1969, tration pointed to the long co- What this A check with Al Martin of the New Year's parades, saw footage may point to is the has worked closely with the Col- operative relationship between the effect State Liquor Board in Columbus of the Wooster campus assembled of, as Dr. Schreiber put it, lege and community in setting the Syrios family and the COW. The "One saw revealed no recommendation in the and narrated by NBC's Jack Per- person it and liked it; ground work for the ap- two kept abreast of each permit other's referees report. The text of the kins. five others didn't see it . and plication. Sy's directors include position before and during the hearing and the report are passed The filming featured interviews didn't like it." In other words, Gus Syrios, president, and Anna time the application was submit- on to the Director of the Liquor with Dean Howard and Rev. those who actually saw the pro- Syrios, vice ted. Although King president. The Syrios not unanimiously, Board to make a decision. Ray Swartzback and a summary gram and knew the campus and family has owned the Shack over the Board of Trustees decided not its leaders were In attendance the hearing for the entire series including the more convinced of 50 years. The liquor board's state- to file or take any action against at the of were two members of Wooster's visages of Doug Hicks and Bob aptness the presentation ment clouded the reasoning sur- the license. than those far removed or relying City Council, representatives of Crabtree. Other colleges presented rounding the rejection. It states: Gus Syrios, president of Sy, on hearsay. Sy, Inc., and their lawyer. In such were Alabama, Minnesota, Miami "Reason for Inc., submitted the af- rejection: Depart- application cases, the city council is welcome (Fla.) and Texas. There were hitches reported, of mental investigation discloses ter consultation with Drushal. that "If to submit two articles within an Why, then, was Wooster the course. Due to front-offic- e confu- many young people involved he had objected," Syrios "we are said, amount of statute time; a resolu- fifth? The fact that Perkins, now sion, the word of the program's re- in activities and held would not have functions by gone any further. tion and a letter ennumerating an ace journalist, famed for his lease was delayed until two days the Westminster In essence I don't Presbyterian see any valid these points. Wooster's Council did interview with Sirhan Sirhan, before the first objection segment was Church which is located within to having a license not not submit a list of objections. grew up in the vicinity of the Col- shown; most students never knew 275 feet of the proposed permit issued. The facts appear to be dis- An unusually long period of 12 lege doubtless had much to do it had been shot, and some criti- premise and these children will be torted the College does not ... days elapsed between the time a with making Woo the unlikely cism of Perkins' techniques of ac- adversely affected by the issuance object, the students don't and it is decision was reached Di- companion of the four giants. And quiring information arose. of a permit. the college community that the by the rector and the many who saw the presentation The tone of the presentation of "The citizens in the immediate Shack effects." announcement. seemed The permit appeared to have felt that Wooster in many the new college campus was sum- are united in their opposition to Dallas Kaufman, former coun- run aground between the ways to outshine the others. marized best on the closing night the issuance of a permit to the cilman and chairman of the Laws hearing The NBC arrived on cam- by and the announcement by the team the President of the University captioned (Shack) location. and Ordinance Committee, expres- Liquor Control Board. pus incognito shortly before of Minnesota, remarking that if "The location has been a 'hang- sed no personal opinion; however, Indications Thanksgiving. (One rumor had it the of are that at this point Wooster's rest America thinks that out' for idle college students and he was "a little surprised they re- State Representative the that they were federal narcotics these kids will straighten out in the availability of beer would ad- jected it." The City Council had to General Assembly in Columbus, agents about to make a bust.) time, they are wrong because the versely effect the students, area gone on record as opposing the Ralph With Crabtree and Hicks working D-- Fisher, the powerful Chairman of new student of today will be re- residents, Wooster College, and l permit based on "the objec- his Perkins as- the Finance Committee stepped as confederates, placed by an even newer student Westminster Presbyterian Church. tions of the people," said Kauf- - in to squelch sembled a group of students for tomorrow. A change in college "In view of the above facts, the the approval. lunch and discussion at the Woos- life at present is not an aberration, department finds that the approval Fisher denied any connection ter Inn, then met with them the but a beginning. of this application would result in January Moratorium with the decision in a conversation following day in Lowry 119 and with the VOICE. He only noted brought his cameras. receiving letters from his con- The team also spent the follow- Raises Issues, Blasts stituents in opposition to the per- Fund-Raiser- s; ing days taking candid shots of Students Turn mit. the campus and its inhabitants, talking to students in small groups. Vietnamization Policy They stayed to document the Results For NOW Forthcoming Moratorium days, beginning in Section TV Theft school's reaction and participation January, will take a new approach. in the Ashland football game by David Douglas The Peace Action Day for this Fires Controversy quite a comparison with, say, month is the 15th which is Doctor Texas and then left for Miami. The only thing to date that is as shrouded in mystery as what Martin Luther King's birthday.