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VOL XXIX — NO. 4 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, (975 232 BY SUBSCRIPTION Wall Street Demonstration Planned Task Force Examines As Part Of Cutback Mobilization CUNY Death Motions By JOHN TIFFANY City University Chancellor Robert J. Kibbee has re* A planned demonstration to disrupt "business as usual" for the major banks in jected a proposal that would have merged Bronx Commu-« the Wall Street area as well as the Stock Exchange is one of several actions being spon- nity College and Hostos Community, forming a new senior! sored by the University Student 'Senate in the next two weeks in response to the threat college. of major cutbacks in the City University of New York (CUNY). A march on Washing- The proposal, made public last Friday, was part of a? ton is also being scheduled. plan presented by City College The Wall Street action is President Robert Marshak to a remediation students and requir* slated to take place on Mon- CUNY task force studying ways ing uniform academic progress day, November 17, starting at of restructuring the university. rates that would force slow* noon. The proposed demonstra- Observers note that both the moving or non-achieving stu- tion, to a large degree, grew proposal and Dr. Kibbee's re- dents into non-matriculated tui- out of a meeting attended by jection are typical of the strong tion paying status. 250 people held at BCC on No- competition and antagonism ex- Other ideas on the table caU vember 6. The meeting, spon- isting among CUNY's various for firing 1,500 full time fac- sored by the "Fight the Cuts" campuses and interest groups as ulty members and closing thai committee of the BCC Day Stu- the university, in a near panic, entire university for two weeks dent Government, sent a resolu- braces itself for upcoming crip- next semester, placing all fac- tion favoring the Wall Street pling budget cutbacks. ulty on a two week payless fur« action to the University Student The Marshak plan called for lough. Senate, which agreed to serve economies to be achieved by as co-sponsor. The USS repre- the dissolution of six CUNY col- sents the student governments leges: Baruch and John Jay in Broncos Qinch of all 19 colleges in CUNY. Manhattan; Medgar Evers in Harry Tracey, President of Brooklyn; Richmond on Staten Met Honors the Day Student Government Island; LaGuardia Community in urged the students at the BCC Photo by Julio Pena Queens; and Hostos Community By RICHARD FEDDERMAN meeting "not to sit around when EMERGENCY MEETING: People interested in BCC's fu- in the Bronx. Each of the six BCC's Soccer team has* the time comes to take action." ture filled Nichols 104 to capacity to discuss action against colleges would be merged into clinched the 1975 Met-Con- Stating that a solution "would budget cuts. an existing college in its own feren.ce Championship end- borough, thus saving $11 million ing their regular season} not >be easy as ;the city and state have no money," Tracey a year in rental payments and November 4 with a 3-2 vic-« proposed no specific action him- $24.3 million in administrative tory over New York City self. However, he called upon and managerial costs. Community College. Thej students "to come to the Day Baruch would be merged with team, which finished with a) Student Government office to Manhattan Community; John 7-0-2 record, is now headed? work with elected officials." Jay with Hunter; Medgar Evers for the NJCAA (National with Kingsborough Community; Junior College Athletic As* Prof. Saul Birnbaum, of the sociation) Region XV play* Math Department called for LaGuardia Community with York; Richmond with Staten Is- offs at Westchester Commu- "action in the streets in re- nity College against Orangei sponse to the nonsense that land Community; and Hostos County Community College. there is no money. If we fight Community with BCC. Each of for it, we'll get it," he said to the merged colleges would offer Joe Constantini put the Bron- loud applause. He cited the four year degree programs. cos ahead early in the first hall3 struggles of the 30's when the Marshak's plan varies radical- of the game against New YorH city, state and federal govern- ly from the restructuring pro- Community. After the oppositionl ment all cried 'Broke.' "Working posal presented last month by put one past goalie Javier Uejbei people and students would not Dr. Kibbee. The Kibbee plan to tie the score, Alejandro Rod- and could not take this for an riguez gave BCC a 2-1 lead with] aims at reducing the scope of his first tally of the season. Rort answer and fought back for and COLSTON GIVES OKAY: President Colston talks with the university by cutting fac- won many benefits. We have to Barthelemy also scored a goal tol students after meeting, assuring no penalties for partici- ulty and students by 20 per cent. give Gary Woien's booters an al- do the same." He pointed out pants in Wall Street protest. Dr. Kibbee also called for con- that "if some militant action most insurmountable 3-1 first solidation of colleges and pro- half lead. was taken, President Ford would in splitting CUNY apart. At the the demonstration to go to Wall grams and for changes in the be sure to find money for the four year colleges, like Brook- Street. academic calendar in order to Fighting against time, dark- city." lyn or Queens, the BHE is try- Throughout the meeting, there speed up the time needed to ness, and cold, the Broncos rip- ing to win students to dump ped LaGuardia Community 6-0 Robert Paccione, a Building were charges and counter-charg- earn a degree. open admissions in order to keep in a home match at Ohio Field, and Grounds staff member, es made about the effectiveness Dr. Kibbee, over the weekend, called upon people "to move free tuition. They imply that of various groups on campus in Thursday, October 30. George minority students are the only disputed reports that the task Ycaza led the way, blasting fast because the situation we're fighting the cutbacks. The meet- force was seriously considering facing is coming to a head soon. ones to benefit from open ad- ing also became somewhat con- home three goals, including one missions and that it would be the Marshak plan. "The task on a penalty kick. Other marks- In a little while, unless we do fused as it was unclear exactly force has specifically refused to something, it will be too late." in, the interest of white students what role the sponsoring com- men for BCC were Michael to forget about it. We've got to consider it," Dr. Kibbee said. Brown, Barthelemy and Joey John Tiffany, editor of the mittee was performing with "The proposal has no standing Communicator, outlined some be sharp in exposing this type other anti-cutbacks groups on Costantini. Goalie Javier Uejbe of garbage." in the university community $4.5 million in cuts that BCC campus and what was its rela- other than as the personal views (Continued on Page 8) has suffered over the past Garcia made the Wall Street tionship to the Day Student of a single president." three semesters, as well as the demonstration proposal, which Government. over $100 million cut that was amended by student Luis "The meeting was held to The Professional Staff Con- Transfer Day CUNY has been put through Reyes to be "concentrated on plan local and city-wide action gress, CUNY's faculty union, de- Students who plan to transfer over the same time period. Tif- the several major banks which against the cuts," said Raul nounced the Marshak plan as to private colleges in this area fany pointed out that the latest now receive one-sixth, or $2.2 Colon, Senate delegate of the "a grandstand play for the great- will have an opportunity to meet round of cuts proposed "would, billion of the city budget." It Day Student Government and er glory of Robert Marshak." with representatives from, many in effect, end open admissions was also agreed to get as many member of the committee, which The PSC has also assailed of these colleges when the for all practical purposes." He colleges as possible to join with grew out of an October 16 Chancellor Kibbee's proposals. Student Development Transfer1 also stressed that free tuition the action and "to especially not meeting called by some mem- Though the Marshak plan may Department holds its Private "might be out the window but limit this call to students but bers of the Day Student Govern- not be under consideration, nu- College Transfer Day on Thurs- we mustn't fall for the trap of to get faculty and staff mem- ment. The group was formed to merous proposals are being day, November 13, from 9:30 eliminating open admissions to bers with us." "attempt to unite students, facul- studied by university officials in a.m. to 3 p.m., in rooms 207 and save free tuition." Denise Fazio, a committee ty and staff to stop the elimina- an effort to cut expenses. Among 208, Gould Student Center. Ari Garcia, a member of the member, stressed that the Day tion of free tuition and open ad- the ideas under scrutiny are The service desk in the lobby Committee Against Racism Student Government should pro- missions," according to Logic closing CUNY's doors to all new of the Student Center has a time (CAR), warned people "not to vide buses that would leave Jimenez, secretary of the BCC students this spring semester, schedule for individual colleges. underestimate the role of racism from BCC on the morning of (Continued on Page 2) denying immediate admission to T H 6 COMMUNICATOR Wednesday, November 12, 1975 Teach-In On Saturday Will Focus On the like. Even the "social science" courses are often nothing of the CAR Presents sort. Education And Cutbacks At University No wonder you"ll find so many technical courses (even though Conference they pretend to be something else by taking on jive names like Have you heard of the famous Duberman, Michael Harrington "Secretarial Science") and so few courses that encourage you tot The Committee Against Ra- teach-ins of the 1960's where, and Stanley Aronowitz, as well develop more than fourth-grade, machine-tendei skills. That's the cism's East Coast Regional Con- outside of the normal curricu- as dozens of others. way the system wants it. Puerto Ricans. blacks, and lower-income lum, thousands of students and ference will be held at Bronx The sponsors of the event whites are destined for the lower rungs of the economy, and they Community College on Saturday teachers held marathon forums have requested that the editors are to be given only an "appropriate" amount of education. and Sunday, November 15 and on issues like the Vietnam War? of CUNY student newspapers 16. The keynote speaker will be Well, they're not over. Many students, compelled by the logic of their situation, come acquaint everyone with a book- to consider a "business" proposition. You go to pick up the certifica» the CAR International co-chair- This Saturday, November 15, let called Crisis At Cuny, pub- 1 perscn, Prof. Finlay Campbell. tion required by the job market, because, in fact, the economy is a teach-in on the City Univer- lished a year ago by a group so structured that you have few options. So you play the game, The conference will feature a sity crisis will be held at Hunt- of CUNY faculty and students variety of workshops on such say the right thing, get your credentials, and get out. Like wage er College's Assembly Hall, be- called the Newt Davidson Col- earners on an assembly line, students fight for fewer reading as- issues as Racism and Sexism, ginning at noon. lective. Racism and Fascism, Racism signments, close notebooks in anticipation of the bell, and in general and the Law, Racist Academic The list of speakers includes As a service, we have de- struggle again.st an unhappy situation. Theories, Anti-Racist Struggles writers Jimmy Breslin, Tom cided to excerpt a part of this A Word About Open Admissions Wicker of the Times, and Jack 124 page booklet. Throughout an the Community, and Racism Open Admissions is in some ways a triumph. Low-income whites, and Medical Care. The work- Newfield of the Village Voice; the semester, as space permits, CUNY faculty members Martin we will try to bring you more. blacks, and Puerto Ricans have, to some extent, broadened their shops will stress group partici- oppoitunities. A larger number of them can choose the kind ofi pation. program and school they wish to attend even though the majority Tickets for the conference are Book Digest still cannot. Applications from vocational and "low" academic high $5 and are being sold at the schools are up 100 per cent. With all its limitations, this is the information desk in the lobby most open system presently in existence, and all its best features of the Student Center. CRISIS IN CUNY arc the result of struggle. After the workshops on Sat- But the infuriating truth is that those who run this system urday, CAR will sponsor a disco Who Are The Students? What is life like for a typical student at CUNY? While there have stolen some of the sweetness from the collective triumph. The dance in the Student Center powers that be have, despite promises of equal access, seen to it Cafeteria. Admission is free for is no "typical" CUNY student, let's consider some of the possibilities. Suppose you're olack, 18 years old, working class. that the tracking system that routes the poor and the minorities conference participants. Others into the lowest :ungs of the economy and society remains essen- will be charged $3. Chances are thai, you didn't go to Harlem Prep. That's an tially intact and in good working condition. Charles Clay academic;, college-oriented high school. Move likely, you went to Manhattan Vocational and Technical High School. Blacks and Puerto There are other problems. One has to do with the promise of Ricans made up over 60 per cent of such vocational schools in 1970. proper remediation services. The beneficiaries of Open Admissions, Wall Street. „, You made it through, though a lot of your friends didn't. Now as all know, have been among the most victimized by their pre- (Continued from Page 1) you're going to college, you're going to get some skills, ma/De some vious "education." They have not been taught the basic mathemati- cal, reading, and writing skills they need. All the colleges have in-- Day Student Government. new ideas, and make it. As a student said, "I didn't stituted some sort of remediation programs, but all of them suffer But which college? You apply to the University Application from a variety of ills. The BHE and the State Legislature have come here to listen to what Processing Center, put down your six choices, and get assigned to some group has or hasn't done. the Borough of Manhattan Community College. What is important is that this Why BMCC? Why not one of the other eighteen CUNY colleges? group at laast got 250 people The answer is that CUNY requires an 80 average, or a spot in ihere. Let's move from here." the top half of your high school class (you just missed), for admis- Several spokespersons for the sion to a senior college. Since space is limited, the more popular Fight the Cuts committee called schools can take only the "tetter" students. The result was de- for all- groups to coalesce around scribed by the staff of the Wagner Commission: "Although students "a principled unity against these are free to choose among programs and colleges, student prefer- oamn cuts." ence fo- the senior: colleges is such that the current allocation (For a run-down of all the process creates a stratified enrollment, in which the eenior colleg.es events happening, read the box tend to receive those students v/ith above-average academic skills on page four.) (as measured by graie-.pMnt average) while the community colleges Colston Reacts tend to receive the students with poorer academic records." After the meeting broke up, So it appears that the qualKy of the school you get into is members of th2 committee urged simr;ly n measure of your ow?i personal accomplishments. Except those present to go to President that the distribution of high grades is not an even one: it's related Colston's office and demand to how much money your family makes. Sixty-one per cent of the that .students, faculty and staff high school students whose fam:l:cs earned over- $15,000 had over an be allowed to go to the Wall 80 average but only 12 per cent of those with incomes under $3,700 Street action without being did. Grades are also related to race. Forty-five per cent of white penalized with cats or salary students graduate high school with over an 80 average; just 15 floss. A group of 30 students per cent of black and Latin students do. marched over to the President's Unless one accepts racist assertions, like for example, that never been willing to commit sufficient funding to allow a serious office and met briefly with Dr. blacks arc of inherently inferior intelligence (which does not ac- Colston outside his office. After effort to be made. Many of the courses themselves are deficient: count for white low-income student performance), then one must they divorce acquisition of skills from the acquisition, of knowledge. •being informed of the group's face the fact that the high schools, in some way, preserve and re- demand, President Colston prom- Students are asked to develop tools in a vacuum. It is the worst inforce the class and racial divisions of New York City. CUNY then sort of beinaviorism, and appropriately, the task is increasingly ised, "Any student who desires accepts and perpetuates the prior tracking, though — since Open to participate in these activi- being turned over to machines. And, as if to underline their lack Admissions •— bettering/it somewhat. of content, most remedial courses are not given credit, because they; ties will not be penalized for Consider these statistics: In 1973, 17.6 per cent of the freshman class cuts. We have done this are not up to standards (true enough, but hardly inevitable). "No class entering Queens College was Black or Puerto Rican or Latin; credit" courses that frequently relate to nothing are not an appeal- before, as with the city hall at BCC, the figure was 67.8 per cent. In 1971, 14.4 per cent of protest last May when we pro- ing proposition, and faculty hired to perform in such a context often Queens freshmen came fro?-n families with incomes under S6,000. face stubborn resistance. vided special pass slips. How- At BCC the figure was 38.6 per cent. ever, I will not cancel classes On to registration. Here you brave the long lines and computer Open Admissions right now represents a giant foot in the door. fcecause those students who de- cards and register for a vocational program, rather1 than the liberal It is up to us to keep the door from slamming again, and then force sire to attend classes that day arts program. If you'e female, likely as not y0u"ll be in what they it open all the way. should be able to do so." call Secretarial Science. If you're male, you might take Data Process- When questioned about staff ing. 4 and faculty members, he said And what kind of job are you likely to get when you graduate? Workshop To Offer Raisin In Sun' "that should be worked out Well, the. degree will give you a chance to avoid the lowest rungs within their own departments." of the working class (carwashing or janitorial work), and a chance Theatre Workshop will pre- Theatre Workshop will hold Dr. Colston stressed that vari- to avoid entering the ranks of the unemployed. It is certainly a sent Larraine Hansberry's A auditions for its next show, ous groups against the cuts worthwhile investiment of your time and money. But the jobs you Raisin In The Sun on Novem- Man of La Mancha, on Thurs- should unite and work coopera- are likely to gee are still working-class positions, some at lower ber 13, 14, and 15, at 8 p.m., day, November 20j 10 a.m. to 3 tively with each other and with rungs — keypunch operating, sales-clerking — some at slightly in the Hall of Fame Playhouse. p.m. in the theatre. Performers other colleges in the University higher rungs — typing, lab technicians. Most of your work will be "With the country celebrat- should be prepared to read a to obtain a common goal and rigidly defined, a small part of a larger process, and firmly under ing its bicentennial, the world short monologue and sing two joint decision. President Colston some higherups' control. is turning to American plays songs, one fast and one slow. told the Communicator that he Nor do community college graduates get paid very well. Stu- with new interest," said the di- would present the situation to dents graduating from La Guarclia Community College in 1973 had rector, Prof. Al Cosentino. "It the faculty and "urge their co- an average starting salary of just $7,300 with secretaries leading is in this spirit that we are operation with regards to stu- the way at $7,500. presenting this modern Ameri- Financial Aid dents who attend the activities There is another dimension to the problem. If you take Secre- can classic." The service desk in the lobby planned." tarial Science or Data Processing, you will be deprived of anything The cast includes Debra Hop- of Gould Student Center will The Fight the Cuts Commit- other than a few smatterings of a general education. You'll have kins, Jackie Robins, Edward host an exhibit on financial aid tee is calling for another gen- two years of technical training, and a handful of liberal arts courses. Sewer, Albert Jenkins, George during the first week in Decem- eral meeting on Thursday, No- But you'll have little chance to discover new things that interest Gccden, Alan Latyner, Albert ber. Informative posters and ma- vember 13, in Nichols Hall, you to develop your potential, to learn how the economy, the society, Young, Rubin Ruez, and Ed- terials will be on display to room 104, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. or the corporation that might hire y«u really ticks, much less wardo Da Jesus. Juan Fernan- help students discover what fi- The meeting will discuss specific learn how you might change things for the better. dez is assistant director. nancial aid is available and how plans for the Wall Street action, What little there is of liberal arts courses have severe limitations. Tickets are on sale at the to qualify for it. Manuel San- es well as the other protests. At Manhattan, many "Liberal Arts" courses are really trojaii horses desk in the lobby of the Stu- chez, of the Financial Aid Of- Students, faculty and staff are smuggled in from the vocational camp. They include Educational dent Center at $1 for BCC stu- fice, will coordinate the exhibit. urged to attend. Assistant Programs, Health and Recreation Worker Programs, and dents, $2 for all others. , Novetnbw (2, 1975 T H E C O M M U N I C A TO // New York City Defaults, Will Ther e Still Be A BCC? With New York City facing almost certain de- fault and eventual bank- ruptcy, students here are wondering how much longer there will be a Bronx Com- munity College. "Honestly," one student de- clared. "Every morning, as I Start oft for school, I wonder if the entrance to the college will be roped off." Another admitted, "I can't watch the news any- more. I keep expecting to hear there is no more New York City. And that means there is no more BCC." While city officials hope to avoid default this month, the redemption of $437.8 million in short-term notes due during the week of December 8 may very well hasten the arrival of the much dreaded Default Day. The absence of any precedent for default on such a large scale makes it almost impossible to accurately predict what New York City would be like after default. President Ford sees "temporary inconveniences" for New Yorkers. City officials are not as optimistic. GLUG, GLTJG: If New York City defaults, will BCC sink along with it? In Washington, Ford an- nounced that federal legislation of the month." willingness of BCC employees to already experienced "sporadic tion is whether there will -'be insures that essential services Many economists have pointed go along with delayed checks, trouble" with vendors demanding any students," one professor would continue to some degree. out that it is improbable that reduced checks or perhaps no cash or no sale. "Some vendors declared. "If default will do These include police, fire and the effects of a default would checks at all. who sell materials and equip- anything, it will provide the final sanitation services. Education is be seen on the day it occurs. "I can see it now. The faculty ment to the college—particular- push for the imposition of tuition not among them. In New York Providing that the city's treasury will be made the villain," one ly smaller vendors who depend at the City University. I hate City, a team of bankers, busi- is not totally depleted, city em- on steady cash flow—have told to see what tuition would do to nessmen and officials has re- instructor predicted. "We'll be ployees—among them BCC facul- condemned as greedy for not us 1hey will deal with us only the student ranks here." portedly been plotting how the ty and staff — would not face on a cash basis. We have no Another real possibility under city could operate after default. taking salary cuts or for not "payless paydays" immediately. keeping classes open. But will ability to deal with them on default, observers note, is a Their priorities £or expenditures those terms," the Dean said. place teachers, along with bond But the effects would soon be- the City pay my mortgage or major cutback in or furloughing This can mean that as supplies of faculty and staff. Significant holders, at the bottom of the come apparent. Even if the city give me a subway pass to get did not pay off a single note or to work?" run out, they will not be re- faculty cuts will mean larger list. placed, he stated. Does this mean that default bond for the next four months, For BCC and other municipal classes and, perhaps, force the would close down BCC? One the cash shortage would still employees, a default could mean "There ig also the problem of dismissal ol large numbers of administrator speculates that de- amount to $1.2 trillion. Making that their contracts would be fuel," Dean Rosenfeld continued. students. fault, if it should occur early matters bleaker is the possibility invalidated since all hiring is "Oil companies are reluctant to Dean Rosenfeld, however, re- in any particular month, would that default would trigger the contingent upon the city's ability deliver every time they think mains optimistic. "I don't expect not have any immediate effect loss of anticipated revenue, to pay salaries. For vendors, de- they won't be paid. Having no us to suffer the full potential on campus. "Faculty members mostly from unpaid taxes of fault could mean long waits for fuel is not the end of the world of the effects of default. Even are paid at the end of each creditors. payment. And this brings up —but it will be a cold world." if there is default, I think we month. My feeling is most would Under such conditions would another problem. Others say 'keeping classes—hot can overcome it and carry on. We continue working, waiting to see classes at BCC continue? Much Dean of Administration Paul or cold—is not going to be the will not see BCC go under. We what would happen at the end apparently would depend on the Rosenfeld admits that BCC has major problem. "The real ques- will not let it happen." CAMPUS SURVIVAL KIT

STUDENT RECITAL, Single event or series tickets case offering on Thursday, No- Lehman College (Bedford Park Loew for all Business curricula, Music majors will present a are available at the service desk vember 20. The movie will be Boulevard West) will hold its Secretarial Studies, Technol- recital on Thursday, November in the lobby of the Student Cen- screened at 12:30 and 7:30 p.m., open house on Friday, November ogies, Pre-Pharmacy, and Medi- 13, at 12:30 p.m. in Schwendler ter. Remaining Gala Series in room 208, Gould Student 14, noon to 2 p.m., in room B-04, cal Laboratory. Room 213, Loew Auditorium, Tech Two. Featured events are the Dayton Ballet Center. Adi-nission is 50 cents Carman Hall. Medgar Evers for all Education Associates and performers include James Con- Company on March 14, Ray Bar- with BCC ID; $1 without. College (1150 Carroll Street, Child Care majors. Room 208, roy, flutist; Randolph Noel, retto and Orchestra on April Brooklyn) will host visitors on Loew, for all evening students pianist; Thomas Bache, bassist; 25, and the Continental Theatre LECTURE Wednesday, November 19, 11:30 in the above curricula. and Nick Marinaro, guitarist. Company's production of the Prof. P. Lai of the University a.m. to 2 p.m., in room 208. And Remember, you can't register Prof. Sylvia Eversole will ac- Broadway hit 1776 on May 14. of Calcutta, will speak on "In- John Jay College (445 West 59 for next semester without an company Mr. Bache and Mr. dian Influences on Pop Music Street, Manhatan) may be visited advisement sheet. Conroy on the piano. A high- GHETTO TALK in America," on Tuesday, No- on Friday, November 21, 10 a.m. light of the mostly classical Author Piri Thomas will speak vember 25, at 1:30 p.m., in the to 3 p.m., in the second floor ART EXHIBIT program will be Mr. Noel play- in Schwendler Auditorium, Tech lounge at Stevenson Hall. Ad- cafeteria. Prints, drawings and paint- ing one of his compositions. Two, on Tuesday, November 18, mission is free and refreshments ings by BCC's art faculty are will be served. REGISTRATION on exhibit in Voorhes Lounge, GALA CONCERT at 10 a.m. Admission is free and the public is invited. Best known ADVISEMENT Silver Hall, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Heights Gala Performance as the author of Down These VISITING DAYS Monday through Friday, through Series will present the Dorian Before you can register for November 26. The exhibit is co- Mean Streets, an autobiographic- The CUNY senior colleges are next semester you must obtain Woodwind Quintet in concert at al tour of Spanish Harlem, Mr. ordinated by Profs. Ruby Har- Schwendler Auditorium, Tech continuing their open house ses- an advisement sheet. Now is Thomas will speak on "The Puer- kins, Frank Sharpe and Frank Two, on Sunday, November 16, sions to give BCC and other the time. First semester fresh- to Rican Experience: Being Heinz. at 3 p.m. Admission is $1 for community college students the men will receive their sheets in Raised in the Ghetto." The talk BCC students and $3 for the opportunity to visit the cam- their SPD class. All other stu- ART COMPETITION public. is part of BCC's Black and puses, speak with faculty mem- dents can obtain one at an Puerto Rican Lecture Series. The Communicator would like The program will include bers, and get full information on Advisement Workshop. These pen and ink line drawings works by Bach, Hector Villa course and other requirements Workshops are scheduled for BLACK LITERATURE (sketches) dealing with student Lobos, Luciano Berio, Elliott for transfer. every curriculum and at dif- life at BCC. This will give stu- Carter and Antonine Reicha. Poet Jayne Cortez will speak The open house at Queens Col- ferent times and days; but dent artists a chance to be dis- The Dorian Wind Quintet was on "200 Years of Creativity and lege (65-30 Kissena Boulevard), remember you always can see covered by their fellow students. organized under a Fromm Foun- Struggle Through Black Litera- is today, November 12, at 2 a counselor individually for ad- The sketches selected will be dation grant at Tanglewood in ture," on Wednesday, November p.m., in the College Union build- visement on a walk-in basis at printed in The Communicator. 1961, and has become a major 19, at noon, in room 310, Stu- ing, fourth floor. Brooklyn Col- Loew Hall. Please list your name, address, presence in the world of cham- dent Center. lege (Bedford Avenue and To sign up for a workshop phone number and student num- ber music. Quintet members are Avenue H) will open its doors that is convenient for you, report ber on the back of the sketches. John Solum on flute, Charles BOCK STAR LIVES to visitors tomorrow, Thursday, to the following locations: Room Contact The Communicator of- •Kuskin on oboe, Barry Benjamin Jimi Hendrix, the acclaimed November 13, from 11 a.m. to 406, Loew, for students in Liberal fice, Gould Student Center, room on horn, Jane Taylor on bassoon, documentary on the famous rock 3 p.m., in the University Lounge Arts and Sciences and Music and 309, extension 543, if you're and Jerry Kirkbride on clarinet. star, is the Feature Film Show- in the Student Union building. Performing Arts. Room ; 320, interested. Page 4 THE COMMUNICATOR Wednesday, November 12, 1975 Moving On the Communicator Published by the students of Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, West Strike To Win 181st Street and University Avenue, Bronx, New York 10453. By ARI GARCIA powers-that-be do not want to close down the EDITOR IN CHIEF: John Tiffany Many courses of action for faculty, students, University. Believe it or not, these institutions of ASSISTANT EDITOR: Tony Vega and campus workers to take are being proposed learning are needed. They are needed to train and discussed within the University. Tne target technicians, professionals, and teachers, to push EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Sol Winfrey Jr., Richard of these actions is, of course, the budget cuts. racism and distorted notions of society through Fedderman Basically, there are two proposals on the table: courses in sociology, psychology, political sciences, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Lenny Rinaldi. 1) we shouldn't do anything because the city is and history. If the Powers-That-Be did not need FACULTY ADVISOR: Prof James De Meiro broke and the cuts are coming no matter what; these academic institutions, CUNY would not have ASSISTANT: Jeff Youdelman and 21 let's do something to stop the cuts. existed to begin with. Therefore, the purpose of I don't want to deal too much with the first the budget cuts is not to do away with CUNY, one. By this time it is clear to most people that but to drastically reduce its size and to make us Rich Get Richer not doing anything means even more cuts. How- pay for it. ever. I'd like to ooint out that most of the benefits So. while it is good to demonstrate, march, The people now running New York are the big busi- we enioy today were won at a time when the and picket (we HAVE to do these things NOW) nessmen. That isn't to say that Beame or any of the other whole country was "broke." Benefits such as Social against the cuts, the University itself must be mayors we had didn't represent them. But now the big Security, the eight-hour working day, the right shut down by a strike. Otherwise, the "phasing bosses have, in a formal sense, taken over the day to day to unionize, unemployment benefits, etc., were won out" of students, faculty, and campus workers governance of the Big (rotten) Apple. The people sitting by people like you and me during the depression will continue. If this is allowed, very soon CUNY on Big Mac, the Emergency Financial Control Board, the of the 30's. These benefits were not hand-outs, will begin to look nothing like what it is today. but became a reality only because our ancestors Economic Development Council and the banks now have First, the elimination of free tuition or open direct, firm control over things such as union contracts, fought like hell to get them for themselves and for us. admissions or bcth will almost wipe out the opening or closing hospitals and funding CUNY. 1 minority enrollment in CUNY. Most minority stu- They, and the politicians, are telling us we must "bite The second proposal — let's do something to stop the cuts — is the most crucial and compli- dents couldn't afford tuition and the baby-sitting the bullet." As the figures below show, some people are institutions called high schools did not prepare still sitting pretty through the hard times. cated one. There is general agreement that some- thing most be clone. Where there is disagreement people to pass an entrance examination. But not Here are the bankers and executives, listed with their is on the question of what to do. Differences oF only minority students will he affected. About 65 annual salaries, who are running New York City and de- opinion on this very crucial question are healthy per cent of the students under open enrollment manding cuts and layoffs: as long as 1hos° differences are not used as an arc white working class students, and they too Members of Big Mac excuse for not doing anything. will be "phased out" of CUNY. The cuts are racist Felix Rohatyn, Lazurd Freres (financiers), $200,000 There are a few basic things which must be not only because minority students are being at- It ic hard Shinn, Metropolitan 'Life Ins. Co., $235,000 done in order for the struggle to develop. And it tacked (everybody is being attackedl but because Herbert Elish, Macy's, $200,000 will be during the course of the struggle that racism is being used to divide us. For example, Members of (lie Emergency Financial Control Board the. correct winning strategy will be developed. the main argument against open admissions is David Margolis, Colt Industries, $,'561,000 A few things are already taking place and other that it: allows "all those unqualified minority stu- William Ellinghaus, New York Telephone, $225,000 actions are being planned. p>vcryone on this cam- dents" who "can't learn anvway." into the Uni- Kenneth Axelson, new deputy mayor, J.C. Penney, $143.000 pus should get actively involved. versity. So, why pay for it when that money could Albeit Casey, American Airlines, $200,000 Activities su<'h as demonstrations, picket lines, bo used to maintain free tuition? The cuts are Members of the Economic Development Council rallies, meetings, marches, conferences, etc.. are also racist because minority students will be hit Walter Wmton, First National City Bank, $398,000 all well and good. However, we should not be led first and the hardest, and all the gains made William Moore, Banker's Trust. $271,000 into a blind alley. We must know where those during the 60's for equal rights to an education Donald Flatten, Chemical Bank, $183,000 actions will lead us. In other words, are these the will be wiped out. Charles Luce, Con Edison, $211,000 types of actions that will stop the budget cuts Our position must be that if in the near future Hamilton Mitchell, Dun and Bradstreet, $234,000 and win back the things that we have lost? My CUNY will be open only to those who can pay 1975 Profits—First Quarter answer is no. In my opinion, unless these actions and closed to minority and other working class First National City Bank: up 18 per cent from. 1974 are part of a strategy to shut down CUNY with students, then we must close it down with a Chase Manhattan: up 72 per cent from 1974 a STRIKE, wye could rally and march as much as strike while we can do it. Manufacturer's Hanover: up 25 per cent from 1974 we want to, and where ws want to and the cuts Chemical Bank: up 49 per cent from. 1974 will be implemented in January. P.8. Don't miss the CAR Conference on Banker's Trust: up 21 per cent from 1974 The people opposing the idea of a strike in Racism on Saturday and Sunday, November 15 Con Edison: up 64 per cent from 1974 CUNY claim that if we (students, faculty, and and 16 at Bronx Community College. The main (Every 1 per cent New York City pays in bank interest campus workers') close down the University we'd focus of the conference will be the cutbacks and costs $70 million or 4,000 jobs.) be doing exactly what the budget cutters want how to fight them more effectively by fighting Other Tidbits us to do. against the racism that divides us. For more The World Trade Towers cost $1 billion. Nothing could be further from the truth. The information call 749-20^2 or 733-^870. Rockefeller's Albany Mall cost $2 billion. Vietnam war cost $150 billion. The military budget is now $92 billion a year. The latest 20 per cent cut plan is a return to the Board of Higher Education's original 1968 proposal to let Protest Calendar only some non-elite students into CUNY. It is in all ways Tne following events are scheduled to take MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 a very real effort to turn the clock back ten years, before place either city-wide or locally at BCC. All are CUNY-wide Wall Street protest action, sponsor- the successful 1969 campaign led by Black and Latin stu- related to fighting the City University budget ed by the University Student Center. BCC stu- dents. cuts: dents, faculty and staff are expected to attend. Open Admissions was won in 1969 by student protests Buses will leave from the Gould Student Cen- in CUNY. It was no gift. Large numbers of students forced WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER T2 ter at 10:30 a.m. it from a reluctant BHE and city government. Let's not Rally at Lehman College to protest the budget cuts. People from BCC planning to attend should forget this fact now. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 assemble art 2 p.m. in front of Gould Student Center. The Lehman rally will be held from 3 New York State legislative hearings on CUNY to 5 p.m. will ""e held at the Graduate Center. Members Of i Base,, Ron of the University Senate will take part in the In the last issue of the Communicator, Evening Stu- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 hearings. A picket line of support will be set up dent President Ron Zodda issued an attack on our cover- Mass meeting at BCC called by the Fight the outside the building at 33 West 42 Street, New age of the gate I.D. check controversy. While it is the Cuts Committee. Students, faculty and staff York, all day. policy of the paper to open its editorial pages to commen- members are urged to attend 12:30 p.m. to 2 tary of all kinds, we feel we should reply to Ron Zodda. p.m., ir. room 104, Nichols. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Mr. Zodda contends that our initial article on I.D.'s was FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 CUNY-wide march on Washington to lobby funds "not a news story" but "an editorial." University Student Senate Steering Committee for CUNY. Contact the Office of the Day Stu- We may not be star reporters, but we think our staff meeting at the CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West dent Government, Student Center, room 301, for member- did a good job. His subject, as stated in the lead 42 Street, New York City. The meeting, to be more details as they are formalized. paragraph, was, "the storm of controversy" generated by held in the third floor lounge, at 6 p.m., will I.D. checks. He spends a total of 5 paragraphs giving the discuss specific plans for upcoming action. All MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 views of the Committee Against Racism, the group which are welcome to attend. Mass rally outside the offices of fche Board of publicly articulated aspects of the opposition to the checks, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15- Higher Education, 535 East 80 Street. New and the opposition is obviously what makes the thing into SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 York, during the Board's monthly meeting, start- a controversy. The reporter spends an equal number of ing at 3 p.m. paragraphs giving the reactions of the head of campus East Coast Regional Conference of the Com- security and the Day Student President who defends the mittee, Against Racism will be held at BCC in the Gould Student Center, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 checks and advance the arguments about security. There will be specific workshops dealing with Tentatively scheduled for 8:30 p.m., in the Gould If our reporter failed to give an all sided view of the the CUNY budget crisis. Memorial Auditorium, is a parents' meeting to controversy, it was in the failure to record opposing views discuss the crisis at BCC and CUNY. President other- than CAll's—of, for instance, those people who feel SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Colston, alumni and interested members of the that I.D. checks bar the people of the community from Teach-in on the crisis at CUNY will be held at community urge students to attend with their something called a community college. But since this op- Hunter College, Park Avenue at East 68 Street. parents, friends and relatives to support free position did not have a spokesman, it was difficult to re- New York. This event, sponsored by the Uni- tuition, open admissions and quality education. cord in a news story. versity Student Senate, will be held from 10 Public officials will attend. Watch campus bul- We hope to be even better reporters in the future, but a.m. to 6 p.m. Noted writers and educators will letin board for further developments on this all- if Mr. Zodda or anyone else thinks our news coverage will participate. important meeting. only quote "official" sources, he has another thing coming. Wednesday, November 12, 1975 THE COMMUNICATOR Page S

to shoot straight out when -hit about, like a trapped animal, a Open Forum with the electricity, and the straining of the straps as the back of their heads look like body lunges forward, and then someone sat on them with a slowly dies. As inmates, we like The Death House blow torch. This information was to think these men and women given to me by guards that I stood tall in the face of the By WILLIAM ALMSTEAD understand, the offenses that room. The one back to the knew, and also by inmates that executioner, and that they found The year was 1970. It was were committed against these Dance Floor, one to the right assisted at the autopsies. It is comfort in God's precious love winter. Me? I'm sitting in a 4x6 people as they waited to die. The of the chair through the autopsy no wonder pictures were never at the point of death. cell at Sing-Sing Prison doing six cells were large in contrast room, and the last, about ten allowed. If they were, electrocu- 12 and a half to 20 years. Why? to the average cell found in the feet in front of the chair, led To the right of the execution tions would have stopped a lot chamber sits an extension after Because there's too much crime general prison population. They to an alley that separated the sooner than they did. Cracked going around and somebody had were about 12x15, with a bowl, power-house rec from Green- death: "The Autopsy Room." eyeballs are not something the Standing inside this room leaves to go. How do I feel about it? sink, and bed the only reminders Haven Prison in Dutchess Coun- public is ready to deal with. I don't like the idea of the half; that a civilized world still ty. There was a model in its one in cold rage; at least that's Most electrocutions in New how it left me. The room was why not just 12 to 20. For the existed. place. In front of the model York State took place at eleven past five years I had been feeling Two of these cells left a were six rows of church pews o'clock at night, or shortly small, maybe 12x8. It had a pretty sorry for myself. That all profound imprint in my mind. high ceiling, grey walls, and a came to an end today, now, I'm The first was a heavily padded single 60 watt light-bulb. There mad. Why? I just spent the cell. Imbedde din the rear wall was a steel autopsy table in the afternoon in the "Death House." was a huge bolt with a ring, room along with a blood-stainecl For the most part Singling like a giant knocker on a door, scale. If a body is not claimed! sits atop a giant mountain over- entwined at its end. It was self- within a period of time, it is put looking the Hudson River. It is evident that this cell was used into a sack with lime and buriecl probably one of the most magnif- for any person that broke down in some accursed graveyard. Td icent views of the Hudson in in the face of death. This useless the right rear of the electric Westchester County, and espe- act of cruelty, and revenge under chair, directly in line with the cially so in summer, When there the guise of punishment ought autopsy room, sits the smallest are hundreds of colored sail- to be replaced by a decent re- room in the death house. The boats moving about on the water. spect for humanity and its fail- refrigeration and coffin room. The cell blocks A and B, which ings. To execute a person is a There are, sitting one on top oil house about six-hundred men moral crime in itself, but to the other, four high and two abreast, eight ice-boxes witli apiece, are situated on the torture that person before the 1 mountain top also, along with execution only compounds the compartiments above each for five block and seven block, the crime and brings into focus ice. They preserve the bodies in hospital, and some shops. man's raw nature. The second ice until it is decided what's to Leaving this mountain and cell outwardly looked like any be done with them. The melt walking through a maze of cold other, but there the resemblance that work in the ice plant pull ancient underground passages, ended. It was the last in a line the ice on the day of the execu- you arrive, in due time, at the of three and was separated from tion. The coffins were no more foot of the mountain. At this another line of three by a pas- than pine boxes put together point you are left standing in sageway that led to the Electric with a few nails. front of what used to be old Chair. The chair was about fif- As an instrument of punish- Sing-Sing, the old and new being teen feet away. The special ment, legal executions in an separated by a railroad track feature of this cell was a wall "enlightened" modern society are that slices through the heart of that slid away. I could' only as- outrageous. They are an insult the mountain. Beyond old Sing- sume that this cell was used to man's concept of decent re- Sing lie what used to be shops for people they expected to have straint, Capital punishment has for industry. They are now trouble with on their last day. been removed from most forward vacant. To the right of these In that event, the guards had thinking societies; an eye for an shops are the ballfield, handball another entrance into the cell, eye no more belongs in today's courts, and a gym that was one the condemned person didn't society, than do the torture racks donated by Paramount Pictures. know about. and oil baths of yesterday. This A plaque anounces that Holly- No one seems to know how useless act serves no purpose wood once tramped these soiled the term "Dance Floor" came other than to show man's dis- grounds. At the opposite end of about. Some seen to think, that regard for human values, as; well the yard sit the Green-House in some cases the condemned, as his disregard for human life. and Power House Recs. These person would fight with the If justice is to be tempered with are recreation areas for the men guards as he was being led to mercy, how then can the act <& when it rains. Sandwiched in the Electric Chair; the fight, retributive justice be justified?, between the two recreation though one-sided, was somehow In simple terms, it cannot. We areas, twenty feet from the construed to resemble a dance, all agree people should not go Hudson, lies the "Death House." and thus the name came about. around killing. But once it does It has manicured lawns, trees, Others feel that because it is which were reserved for people there-after. After being strapped happen, what is gaiued by fol- and flowers. A sign announces circular in shape, it is reminis- required by law to be in at- into the chair, another strap is lowing one murder with an- "NO HAND BALL FLAYING." cent of the old style dance floors, tendance at each execution, their secured across the condemned other? A lifetime of penal servi- Walking up a slated walk, you and thus got its name. In any number being, I believe, twenty- person's mouth, and a leather tude should be enough to> satisfy arrive at the entrance which is case, the name stuck. seven from different parts of law mask is dropped over his head. any crime, no matter how bold draped in heavy steel. Stepping Leaving the Dance Floor and enforcement. This mask hangs midway be- or vicious. If man's quest for through the entrance-way, and walking down a dimly lit cor- When they are ready to elec- tween the throat and chest. To peace is ever going to be a after going around an 'S' shaped ridor for fifteen feet, you are trocute a condemned person, they the right rear of the chair, set realization, man must take a bend, you are left standing on left standing in the execution turn on this giant fan that hangs into a recess of the wall, stands significant step forward and what is referred to as to the chamber. Stepping into this directly above the Electric Chair. the executioner, waiting- to col- abolish the death penalty once "Dance Floor." The condemned chamber, I had a sense of a ter- It draws out the smell of burn- lect society's pound of flesh, and and for all. But, in the mean- person is housed upstairs until rible feeling of permanence about ing flesh. This fan starts off his own two-hundred and~fifty time, in the rolling hills of his, or her, last day. Then he is it, one that is really hard to ex- with a weird whooshing sound dollars. One can only guess what Dutchess County, an eighteenth moved into one of six cells plain. It was a place where death that develops into a steady hum must go through the condemned century chair waits at Green- located on the "Dance Floor." lived pure and simple. There in a few seconds. The con- person's mind at this point. We Haven Prison to administer One can sense, but never really were three exits out of this demneds" teeth have been known do know there is a thrashing twentieth-century justice. CAMPUS MAIL city universities without feeling tion for tuition fees. A college was a rap session at the Student a chemical obsession. No Tuition he or she owes anyone anything. education is just another form Life Improvement Center. These These are only a few of the To the Editor: Taxes are paid by U.S. citi- of education and should be are a few of the things that I ideas I got from these sessions, * I feel that if we start pay- treated as such. People tend to got from the session: If you can contribute to these ing tuition, life would become zens. Part of the monies are used for education, whether you look at a college education as Hope instead of desperation, sessions drop by. We are located harder to live. Some of us have something beyond their reach, in Gould Hall, Room 210, and a family to support and all the profit from them or not. An ex- faith instead of despair, courage ample of non-profit would be a financially speaking, and an instead of fear, peace of mind we meet every Thursday from money we get goes to them. apathy for learning 'is later 1-2 p.m. Tuition would be so high that (person who never attended instead of confusion, self-respect school in the U.S. but pays for manifested because of it. The instead of self-contempt, self- B.LJT. it might force us to quit school knowledge or realization that because we couldn't afford it it through taxes. These taxes confidence instead of self-con- are deducted from a person's you can attend a free college tempt, the respect of others in- and a family. is a catalyst to a desire for i Matilda Maisonet pay for as long as he or she stead of their pity and contempt, CETA Thanks works. Many people will not at- learning. This alone vindicates a clean pattern of life instead To the Editor: a need for financial assistance To the Editor: tend colleges, but none of them of purposeless existence, real Thanks for the article on will be refunded their monies. to students for continuing edu- Many people think that the cation. friendship instead of loneliness, a CETA workers. As a CETA em- right to attend free and univer- People have the right to any- thing they pay for! Paul Hernandez clean conscience instead of a ployee I appreciate your giving sal colleges of our city state sense of guilt, the love and un- space to our situation. We want educational system is not a Public schools such as grade derstanding of our families in- right but a privilege. I find and high schools are free also, everyone to know that we're here these people wrong in their be- Just because college teaches a Rap Session stead of their doubts and pity, to help students and we will fight lief. I feel everyone, who wishes higher level of intellect of ra- To the Editor: and the freedom of a happy for them as well as for ourselves. to, should attend free state and tional thinking is no justifica- Thursday, November 6, there life instead of the bondage of Name Witheia Page -6 T*l-€..-..CO. M MilN I-C Wednesday, November 12, 1975 Poll Shows Confusion DEAR DOC By DR. ALLAN WOLK Dear Doc, Dear Dor, Clouded ERA Decision College Ombudsman A certain individual in the I'm in my sixth month and Dear Doc, bookstore is always giving me getting bigger by the minute. By CAROL LATHAM Because I registered late for a and my friends a hard time. It's You wouldn't believe my prob- A pre-Election Day poll conducted on campus indicated communications course I wasn't her attitude. She seems to treat lem. I can't fit into the desk that evening students were just as confused about the pro- able to attend class until two us as though we were below her. chair in my psych class and am posed Equal Rights Amendment to the State, Constitution weeks into the term. The instruc- What do you suggest? ashamed to tell the teacher as other New Yorkers. tor then told me that I couldn't Hurt about it. It's a painful situation The single-sentenced amendment, subsequently re- stay because I missed too much Dear Hurt, —mentally and physically. jected by the voters of this work. I need the course. What If the nastiness you describe Mrs. Smith state, proved to be one of the to be legally married to each other can I do? is a behavioral pattern then the Dear Mrs. Smith, most controversial issues on the JVte individual in the bookstore is ballot. 3. Women can be ftfrced to It sounds like your problem pay alimony and/or child sup- Dear Pete, working in the wrong place. This will expand during the next few The ERA requested that port Make an appointment to see is a place of learning where months. Your instructor must be "Equality of rights under the 4. Men will be as protected the instructor prhvately, where people are striving to get an concentrating very hard on his law shall not be denied or by this law as women will you can assure him that you education and not a mouthful lectures not to notice your dis- abridged by the Stete of New 5. Labor practices will have will make up the work missed of abuse. Meet with her private- comfort. Then again, perhaps he York or any subdivision thereof to apply equally to both men within a reasonable time. If this ly (with a few of your friends) has some ulterior motive in not on account of sex." and women, i.e., a practice re- doesn't work bring your case to and present your grievances. If recognizing your plight. Is there Despite the rather simple quiring: that men lift 50 Ibs. me. this doesn't work, I'll take over. something you're not telling me? wording of the amendment, an must have the same require- Deal- Doc, In all seriousness, just bounce understanding of its projected ment for women What has been done to help • Dear Doc-, your way to his office and re- ramifications was complicated by 6. Separate toilet facilities will us gals who are being ripped It's downright unfair not to quest that he have a special the barrage of both pro- and be illegal. off by male chauvinists on have names of teachers listed chair placed in the room. If he anti-ERA propaganda. The single-most befuddling is- campus ? next to class sections at registra- refuses, threaten him with a Surveyed students, after hav- sue was in regards to the draft. Ms. Liberation tion time. I wound up having a paternity suit. ing received the actual wording Students evidently confused the Dear Ms. Liberation, teacher I can't stand. Now he of the amendment, were asked state-proposed ERA with its fed- You'll have to be more specific and I have to look at each other Dear Doc, to indicate, based on their own eral counterpart. A mere 31 per about how you're being ripped- for the next fifteen weeks. Can I got a heavy crush on an off, However, if you have a understanding, whether the fol- cent knew that the state bill anything be done about it? English prof that's driving me lowing statements were true or would have no jurisdiction over genuine gripe, there are several Rosie false: the federal selective service laws. remedies that you can seek. BCC, Dear Rosie, wild. I'm nineteen and have won acting under Title IX of the 1972 some beauty contests. Please tell 1. Women will be eligible for The question of homosexuals Many other students have marrying each other also showed Education Amendments, is set- complained of the same situa- me what to do? the draft ting up a grievance procedure 2. Homosexuals will be allowed a misunderstanding of the ERA. tion. Many colleges in CUNY Anxious Fifty-four per cent of the stu- for both female and male stu- have instructors' names next to Dear Anxious, dents who believe they are being classes taught. In fact, BCC also dents polled thought the amend- Drop English and take politi- Phi Theta Kappa ment encompassed this issue discriminated against because of did this at one time. I am now sex. Dr. Donald Cancienne, a cal science—the subject I teach. All students with 32 credits when it did not. researching the matter and will * bright and sincere individual, is shortly present a recommenda- and a 3.50 or better index are Only 64 per cent of the wom- handling this. Or, you can tion to the Committee on (Send or bring- your problems invited to join Lambda Nu Chap- en polled knew that women could be liable for alimony and/ present your grievance to me, Academic Standing to bring this in to: Doc Wolk, Ombudsman, ter of Phi Theta Kappa, the Na- the College Ombudsman. system back to our college. national Junior Honor Frater- or child support payments while Gould Hall, 211). nity. Students may contact Pro- 88 per cent of the men were well fessors Brill (Loew 332), De- aware of this fact. (Leaire (Loetv 436), or McBain The most widely understood (Loew 400) for details. concept was that men would be Formal invitations were sent as protected as women. Ninety to students whose names ap- per cent of those polled bad THEATRE WORKSHOP presents peared on last semester's Dean's knowledge of this basic premise Last. However, if your name was of the ERA btnftted, contact the above- On the other hand, only 60 pet cent of the coeds knew that named sponsors of the fraternity labor practices would have to immediately. extend equally to both men and women. Health Transfer The question of future illegal- Students requesting transfer ity of separate toilet facilities for September 1976 to programs found that 71 per cent of the in the Hunter School of Health students knew this to be false. Science are required to have a New Yorkers, unsure of wheth- RAISIN personal interview at Hunter er women would gain rights or College, regardless of their lose them, defeated the ERA academic standing, by March 1, with no hope of returning it to 1976. Students must make their the 'ballot before 1977. own appointment for the inter- Past election results have view by calling the School of proven that people tend to vote Health Science. "no" on issues that are un- The results of the interview known or not understood. Is will be on a Pass/Fail 'basis. that what happened to the (This information will be forward- Equal Rights Amendment? ed by Hunter College to the Office" of Admission Services. a play by Lorraine Hansberry OAS will then make the evalua- tion for allocation based on the directed byAICosentino academic records of students who received passing certifica- tion at the interview. What is it? Hou> docs it work? How do you find a Printing competent therapist? 50% DISCOUNT - Wedding & Bar for IYCC brochure, write to Mltzvah Invitations & Engagements Free Gifts & Free Informals Tbeodor Reik AL's INVITATIONS (212)364-5161 Consultation Center, 2958 Jerome Avenue Bronx, N.Y. 10468 Bedford Pk. Blvd. Near All Trans. 150 W. n Street, WE LAMINATE DIPLOMAS ON. Ncu'York 100U. Or call .PLAQUES AT REDUCED PRICES. 924-7440.

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Nona is in top rave in England, Essex has your every mood. lyrical form, starting with the WBCC broadcasts weekdays managed to have had only one disco driver Messin With My Statesside hit called Bock On, from its studio on the third Mind, on to the passionate floor of the Student Center, which has just barely established Cosmic Dancer, and climaxing him as a name to watch for. under the supervision of three with Action Time. Labelle just individuals: Station Manager Opening night, the Bottom picks you up, keeps you up, Glen Lawson, Chief Engineer Line was packed with the rouge leaving you starving for more. Freddie Melendez, and Program and glitter groupies mixed in Like the bird, Phoenix rises Director Richie Roman. You can with every other type of person- fresh and beautiful for another pick up the vibes in the Stu- age. The warmup band was his long life of replay after replay. dent Center lounge and the backing group known as the cafeteria. Glady's Knight & The Pips Photo by Malcolm P. Real Thing, a tight discotizing 2nd Anniversary (Buddah) is a Programming gets underway tarantula who hustled in KC's lovely slow-paced, almost middle at noon on Mondays with George WBCC POWER TEAM: (Top, left to right): Richie Ro- his Get Down Tonight and of the road set, which sparkles Godfrey's Mighty G show, fea- man, George Godl'reo, Lenny 'Dynamite Diamond DogT boogied out with the old Tempta- with gems. It starts off with turing the "boss" voice mayor Rinaldi; (middle row): Henry Medina, Angel Rivera, La- tions' Cloud Nine leaving the their last single Money which is of radio with the best in sound mont Taylor, Alden Anderson, Luis Banana-, Al Jamison; crowd jumping. It won't be long an upbeat mover leftover from and rock. At 2 p.m. it's Stan before they'll get their gig to- "El Bulce" Rivera where good (bottom row): Nelsoa Savendera, De Smith, Ramona Fort, the grapevine days. Then Street Freddie Melendez, Monica Killebrew and Glen Lawson. .. gether and turn out winners for Brother shines out the Pips to music is the name of the game. themselves. After a short wait a Disco Express Ltd. goes on at their best advantage. The rest adition, there will be news the Declaration of Independence" rather large backuo band ap- of the L.P. is a mixture of slow 4 p.m., with 'Melvin Diaz to peared complete with calliopes, of a new submarine vessel to a tumultous crowd. This is lush moody !ove tunes. The best hustle your soul away. At 6 followed by a news analysis. horns and synthesizers and a p.m. it's Ramona, the lovely just invented that could be the title cut which is their new useful in attacks on British stage with lighting effects and rendition of Roberta Flack's Feel lady of soul, with strictly bad Each program will be aired smoke bombs. Introduced was a ships. These and other by WBCC Radio at 3:30 p.m« Like Making Love Avhich makes music. very exciting David Essex sing- events will be presented as and at 7:30-8 p.m. on November! you feel just that. Gladys also Tuesdays at noon it's WLIB's similated newscasts in a ing All The Fun Of The Fair, has some Jeft-over standar3i Al Jamison Boogie Sound to 17, November 18, November 19, the title cut of his new L.P., radio series entitled "Inde- November 20 and November 24 from the Try To Remember/Way put you in the groove. At 2 p.m. f and what fun it was. The fair- pendence: The Birth of. a and may be heard in the Gould We Were era, ccmplete with Victor Camilo brings you up to New America.." ground atmosphere was instantly prologues, the highlight being date on controversial campus is- Student Center Cafeteria aiyi recreated and Essex, playing You And Me Against The World. sues via interviews with local The series is a radio version second floor lounge. Barker, never once failed to let All in all, it rounds out as a rips. He also plays the best of Time Magazine's Bicentennial The series was produced by that high-fevered pitch decline. consistent sophisticated soul Las sounds from Latin America. At Issue, published last Spring, Cinema/Sound Ltd, and its Complete with new self-writ- Vegas style set. I miss your 4 p.m. you can get it on with which reported on events in the broadcast is made possible ten songs and using his past grapevine days but will settle sweet Lamont E. Taylor with first week of July 1776 as if through a grant from the Mobil theatrical anl movie- talents, for Gladys '76 just because the Love Experience. At 6 p.m. they had just occurred. Oil Corporation which was ob- Essex sang his way into the you're you. check cut Louie Banano and The final newscast of the five tained for WBCC Radio by Mr. hearts of the crowd accenting Alden Anderson, the dynamite half-hour broadcasts in the Carl Aylman, the station's fac- his songs with cute marionette- The Dolls have a new one out duo, bringing you the best in series centers on the reading of ulty adviser. —Rinal4i jjke gestures, sashaying up. and entitled Wo Got To Get Our mixed disc^ sound. Wljat else? (flown tKe stae;e making instant Thing Together (Mercury) and The K. "A. Love JDisco Jam Essox fp.ns. The i;and ancl the come side two, they finally do. begins the programming Wed- Real. Thing mingled with Essex The Dells, like Labelle and nesdays at noon, and the sur- perfectly, never once overpower- Gladys Knight, have been on the prise .is for you. At 2 p.m. ing him. Songs included his last rnene for many years, but they Roots Doctor Donald Morgan single RolliHg- Stone, his biggie deliver excellence rather sporad- brings the down home expres- Kacfc On, Circles, Watch Out ically and such is the case with sion in Caribbean, Reggae and Carplina and his latest number this newie. They start off with Steelband music direct from the one hit Hold Me Close. Each the tit.le cut which is their new islands. Je.ss Williams plays his song was its own little sideshow single and a nice mellow tune super music at 4 p.m. At 6 with Essex as the main attrac- showing off their smooth har- p.m., Henry Medina's Latin Di- monies and shuffling soul. But tion. I was particularly happy mensions and Diedre Smith's the rest of side one is not that Essex did not bring down super soul surprise come you his act by acting too cutesy and catchy. What's wrong is basical- way. ly the material which has not flashing his eat your heart out Thursdays at noon, chief an- been updated enough to come smile. This is his image in nouncer Nelson "Dash the Cu- England and may be a little too out sounding better than so-so. Side two is another case indeed. ban" Sauvedra is behind the hard to digest here in the more WBCC mike. At 2 p.m. Monica sophisticated U.S. Instead, he Starting with their last single UERVICLE Love Is Missing From Our Lives, Killebrew is around with mood combined his acting and singing music. At 4 p.m., Publicity Di- talents and leveled off his image suddenly the music comes alive with a cloudless blend of sweet rector Lenny Rdnaldi presents 1. Find someone who has a freezer. to encompass a superstar per- his Diamond Dogs Show, featur- formance. He is sure to rival soul and satisfaction. It carries 2. Put a bottle of Jose Cuervo Gold in it. on thi-ough to the finale, You ing the best in rock, soul, jazz Bruce Springsteen and Elton and Latin sounds. Rinaldi will 3. Go away. John for attention. Don't Care, a tenderhearted love testimony. Definitely worth a also keep you posted on con- 4. Come back later that same day. Soul Stoppers listen. cert happenings, entertainment 5. Open the bottle and-pour a shot of the news and media reviews. At 6 golden, viscous liquid. Labelle's Phoenix (Epic) is New on the soul scene is a p.m.,-Freddie Melendez does his not a Nifrhtbird and while Night- group called the Masqueraders Brother Freddie Show. He's the 6. Drink it with grace and dignity. birds soared, Phoenix, like the with their Everybody Wanna special jazz man with the best .^ Or other people, if they're not around. mythical bird, "burns itself out Live On (ABC) Protegees of in Latin and soul. on side one only to be res- Isaac Hayes (Hayes produceH, Fridays, are reserved at WBCC urrected on side two, giving little arranged and plays on various for special events. more than half of a great Labelle cuts), this group is a rehash of Bicentennial Series clcossic. It's hard to distinguish the hot buttered soul sound ,what's wrong with side one. The which can best be described as WBCC Radio, the College's girls are in excellent voice, Allen margarine spread. This is not to student run and managed Teussaint is once again pro- say that they are bad; quite the closed circuit radio station. ducing and arranging, and the contrary. Complete with honey- is set to cover the British band is spankling and exciting; sweet orchestrations, sensuous invasion of Staten Island, but Nona Hendryx, chief com- vocals and Isaac Hayes styled the Continental Congress de- poser, is out of synch. Her songs material, the Masqueraders have bates on Independence in are good, the lyrics strong and given us music to get it up with Philadelphia, and George HI and get it on with. Highlights of England vowing to crush .•somewhat complex, but they are include a remake of the Shirel- the rebels in the colonies. In not Labelle material. Maybe she le's classic Baby It's You slowed 'Should have saved the first four to a snail's pace but packed with PIANO INSTRUCTION songs for a sc4o L.P. where she love and a sexy sax played by Ruth Frcun»witz Ltichonok could interpret them her way. Isaac Hayes himself. Also lovely are Sweet Sweetening which Teachei of piano, theory, and Here, they start slowly and only sounds a lot like Hayes' last hit harmony gradually build to almost first It's Wonderful and the title cut CoM; 367-4739 .,„ JOSE CUERVO* TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. rate material. When we get to which is the token disco tune. Located Q«ar the BCC campuf fef, .IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY Z>'197J. HEUBLEIN. INC.. HERTFORD. CONN.' Page 8 THE COMMUNICATOR Wednesday, November 12, 1978 Student Athlete Sprints For World Speed Skating Record ErroU .pTaser is a young sponsor, I wasn't going to gdj dynamic athlete who knows what back till after college," Frasefl he wants and how to get it. He explained, adding that he would,, is a speed skater who is deter- however, go to Sapporo, Japan* mined to be a. world record in 1976 if invited to the work! holder because "you can't get sprint championships. "If I wertf any higher than that." to break a world record tomoiv Fraser is a sprinter which row, everyone would want me.** means that he races on the ice But the fact is that Fraser if in 500, 1,000 and 1,500 meter having trouble getting the finan* events, as opposed to the long cial backing he needs. distance skaters who participate Up to now, he's been financing in 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meter his trips by working at placet races. like Macy*s or Nabisco, ot "It's just racing on ice," he Manufacturers Hanover Trusti says. "It's two men on a track "White skaters — I'm not men* at the same time, each in his tioning any names because a lot own lane. When you get to one of the American skaters are mjj end of the track, you cross lanes. friends — do get money to g4 That way each man skates an away because they know some* equal distance." Then he adds, body and somebody sponsor* "To be a sprinter, it's not just them. I would like the same helfl all speed. Ifs technique; it's because I need it." endurance; it's strength; but it's Frasen says it takes about te< Photo by Gary Woien the mind too. If you don't have BCC's CHAMPIONS: (Back-Left to Right) Prof. Gus Constantine—Athletic Director, years to be a great skater. Hi it in mind, you'll never do it. has trained seriously for fodl Michael Murray, Ronald Barthelemy, Javier Uejbe—Captain Joe Costantini, Dennis Pet- I have it in the mind." erkon, Frank Leon, Gary Woien—Coach. (Front-Left to Right) Michael Brown, Donald years and lightly for two. Hi Craig, Stephen Lagakis, Marash Lucaj, George Ycaza, Frantz Victor, Alejandro Rodriguez. Speed skating is an Olympic needs about four more years an4 event and is very popular in $10,000 worth of sponsorship foS Europe which is where Fraser each of those years. "I've bee4 has been going- for the past four training on much less, but it hag Broncos Nab Conference Honors; winters to train and compete in drawbacks. If sponsored for foutl such places as Holland, Austria, years, I could be among the tog Bavaria, Germany and Italy. dogs because I have the strengtM Head For Junior College Playoffs How does a young Brooklyn and the mental power." born athlete get to take up In addition to speed skating^ (Continued from Page 1) in with five goals apiece. hours of practice, the bruises, Fraser is also an avid cyclists Coach Gary Woien must be sprains and the little hurts have speed skating? Fraser claims he had an easy time of it as he was was first inspired when he saw "Both give me the same high,* called upon for a few saves in credited with an incredible job paid off. It only goes to show he says. While he hasn't race^ of organization, fielding a repre- that whatever you do in life, "if Ted McDermott, an American, picking up his third shutout of win a gold medal on television bicycles competitively since thi the campaign. sentative squad with only a it don't hurt, you're not doing it 1972 Olympic trials, he was 1971 month's preparation. The long right." in the 1964 winter Olympics. The game started at 4 p.m. in-. "At the time, a Russian, New York state champion in thi stead of 3 p.m. because the visit- Evgeny Grishin, was the best in 'kilometer event and third ill ing La Guardia booters were held the world and he got second sprinting. Fraser claims hljf up by traffic on their way in Grapplers Name Co-Captains; because McDermott beat him finished first in the sprints by i from Queens. The delay foiteed T>y one tenth of * seeendv That few inches (which along'with bit the two teams to play abbrevi- Season Opens Against Yeshiva kind of inspired me. I liked the kilometer title would havt ated twenty-five irmrate halves, sport mentally." granted him expense money fat starting in 45 degree sunshine BCC's Wrestling team has el- weight class. He has been impres- fhe Nationals} <-1rat th> oHiciaijb ected the men who will serve as sive in opening scrimmages From then on it was band and ending in 35 degree twilight. work and sheer 'determination: saw it differently. Be a]f* captain and co-captain this sea- against City College and Lehman i. BCC and Westchester Commu- buying better skates, finding and blames poor officiating for coir^t nity played in a mud-ridden 2-2 son. The squad selected Ismael entries in his weight class. . ing him first place in the sprfntti Morales as captain, while Henry Both men are expected to lead firing a trainer, studying Euro- tie on October 25. Joey Costan- pean skaters, and trekking to at the 1971 Pan Am games i* Jackson will be co-captain. a rejuvenated wrestling team in L tini scored in the first half to Wisconsin in 1969 to •watch 8ie Michigan. tie the score 1-1 at intermission. Morales, a nineteen year old its campaign to improve on last Blacks are still having troutJi year's 0-7 record. The season Europeans in action in the Ron Barthelemy put the Broncos sophomore from the Bronx, was Women's World Championships earning recognition in theai ahead 2-1, only to have a scrappy. a bronze medal winner at last opener takes place on November sports. Blacks are not going int* 19 against Yeshiva University, and the Men's International Westchester team tie the score year's CUNY "B" champion- Sprint Championshijps. them because of the heavy eostB beginning at 7:30 p.m., in the of training. "When I first sai* on a late second period goal. ships. The 190-pounder was In 1971, Fraser went to Inzell, awarded the team's Sportsman- Alumni Gymnasium, the Black Panther salute at th* Final statistics show that the Coach Michael Steuerman is West Germany^ where he got an '68 Olympics I thought it wai Broncos outscored their opposi- ship Award at last year's Athlet- unexpected reception. "People ic Awards dinner. planning a workshop for spec- wrong. But now I'm older ancl tion 25 goaJs to 10. Behind the tators who may not know the looked at me like I had just Jackson, also a nineteen year can understand not paying goaltending of team captain Ja- rules of amateur wrestling. This come out of a spaceship from homage to the country that does vier Uejbe and solid defensive old sophomore, won the CUNY will be held prior fy> the match Mars. They had never seen a not recognize you." play of George Ycaza, Frank Le- "B" Championship in the heavy- and all students are invited. Black skater before. I was the Fraser is 25 years old. Afteil on, Don Craig and Frantz Vic- first one. I did interviews for college he wants to be a physical tor, the Broncos gave up the Norwegians, Austrians, West therapist and live half the yeaS least number of goals in::the Germans," Fraser says. "After in Bermuda and the other hall! team's history. No-Names Challenge Rams As a while it got out of hand. I in Europe. He wants to compete Joey Costantini led the team Intramurals Offer Flag-Football figured I was just being used. in skating till he's 35 or 37. H« with eight goals, a team record. They promised to give me du- says determinedly, "I still haV«l By WILUE MARTINEZ watched the game. Bonnie Barthelemy and George plicates of the films they took, time to achieve what I want." Ycaza also did nicely, chipping In viewing part of the spec- BCC students who are too but they never did. They were tacular battle between the No- busy in ttie Gould Student Cen- using me and I put a stop to it. Names and Rams, I realized that ter Cafeteria should look out It's okay to interview me if I Sports Schedule Tap-Off Tourney I didn't miss much except for the 7 by 15 foot window and had a world record,' but not just WRESMJNG BCC will host the 1975 the beating that the Rams ac- join me next Thursday to wit- because I was Black." City University Junior Col- cepted with due honor. BCC ness the marvels of a football The world record in the 500 Nov. 14: Manhattan Collegjf lege Basketball Tap-Off Flag-Football, which has been game at BCC. meter race is 38 flat, held by scrimmage, 5 p.m., at home. Tourney Friday through coordinated by Earl Duval, is Don't forget that on Novem- four skaters—Erhard Keller of Nov. 19: Yeshiva scrimmage^ 'Sunday, November 28 one of the many sports offered ber 20, 1975, Mr. Duval is co- West Germany, Leo Linkovesi 7:30 p.m., at home. through 30, in Alumni Gym. by BCC Intramurals. ordinating the "Turkey Trot." of Finland, Hasse Borjes of Nov. 26: Staten Island CC, 7:3fl Opening action will begin at The No-Names, who won the For further information call Mr. 'Sweden and Lasse Efskind of pjn., at home. 2 p.m. with Manhattan Commun- game 30-0, were very well or- (Duval, extension 214. Gobble. Norway. Eraser's best mark is Dec. 3: Queensboro and Berge» ity College facing the winner ganized as far as the game goes. Gobble. 41.38 in the 500 meter. The of- CC, 8 pjn., at home. of the BCC-FIT playoff on No- The Rams, I think they should ficial world mark in the 1,000 WOMEN'S VOLLETBAIA look up the definition of foot- vember 25. At 4 p.m., Staten meters, held by Russia's Alexan- Nov. 14-16: State Tournamewtr Island Community will play La- ball before attempting to play Health Club der Safronof, is 117.23. Fraser's the game again. Nov. 21-23: Eastern Tourney. Guardia. Kingsborough Commu- Interested in a Health and tops is 127.94 (The best times MEN'S BASKETCBAUL, nity will tangle with New York The games are played every Physical Education and Recrea- are usually achieved at high al- Thursday, 12-2 p.m. and on Nov. 25: Playoff F.I.T., 7:3f City Community at 6:30 p.m. tion Club? Some activities in- titudes, such as in Switzerland p.m., at home. Queensborough will go against Saturdays, but for some reason chide: hosting clinics for the or Russia, where l&e air is Which remains "confidential," college community in the area Nov. 28-30: Tap Off Hostos at 8:30 p.m. thinner). BCC host. Semi-final action will continue there hasn't been a game played of Health, Physical Education "If I was back in Europe this yet on a Saturday. and Recreation, attending Edu- Dec. 2: Rockland CC, 7:30 at 6:30 p.m. on November 29, year, I would be skating 39s," away. with the winners advancing to I would like to give special cational Clinics and Confer- Fraser figured. But instead he's the finals at 5 p.m. on Novem- thanks to the fans, like Rooky ences, and becoming aware of home doing what he calls "some- WOMEN'S BASKETBAIX ber 30. and his friendly BCC squirrels, job opportunities in the health what limited training" and at- Dec. 2: Hostos CC scrimmage, 8 The championship game will and the P.F.S. (Pigeon Flying area. Contact Prof. Ramona Sal- tending classes at BCC. "I pjn., at home. •be broadcast over WNYC Radio. Squadron). They were marvelous gado, room 420, Gould Hall, on decided if I wasn't going to get Dec. 4: Westchester CC, 5 p.nx, in battling the cold while they Mondays between 1-2 and 4-5 financial backing from a away.