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.000,00000 00*0000000*0049000 0 00 d L ^~~M 0 Statesman Sports s~~A vesman~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ m B~ubbe. Bubbe. oil and T rouble VOLUME 15 NUMBER 35 STONY BROOK, N.Y. ITUESDAY, FEBRUARY -22, 1972 pl- I . - - The floor is from Pratt's old armory court, e IBy GREG GUTES Stony Brook has run the gamut of road and it is old. Many cracks are evident, and arenas this year, from the high of the Macon heavy metal slugs protrude in abundance. Boy er Fresees Coliseum to the low of Bis ye. All of these After dribbling a few times, each player in the court, games had been played in more-or-less nora noticed the many "dead spots" where the ball takes a false arenas, though, -,until last Thursday. Last those'places Were several Ti 1itio ncrea~se Thursday the Patriots played in a bubble. bounce. The baskets themselves seemed even higher than The Polytechnic -Institute of Brooklyn inches, too high and By ROBERT TIERNAN Bubble, to be exact. It's made of heavy green that. events showed that the unexpected An increase in tuition for next year is a canvas and built by Birdair (it figures) Later be expected. Coach Don Coveleski's very likely possibility, according to Ernest Structures, Incorporated. Air is pumped mi was to "'confidential" instructions to the team Boyer; Chancellor of the State University from the outside (the coolness of the air led bounced off the opposite wall of the bubble of New York (SUNY). Jim Murphy to hypothesize that the bubble and were clearly audible to anyone interested. At a press conference in Albany last had. -broken away and risen into the The thuds each dribble made sounded, like Friday- Boyer stated that, in his judgement, stratosphere). That was good, "the odds are that there will be a. tuition Upon walking through the revolving doors, rip e melons hitting the floor. though. It was when the ball made a sound increase," however, he pointed out that a each of the Patriots went through the same like a fist punching the bubble that one knew final decision has not as yet been made by sequence of events., First their ears popped the dribble was going where it shouldn't. Bill Board of Trustees. from the pressure change. Next they elbd~wed Myrick lost the ball on a practice drive and Boyer said that there are three proposals the bubble -to see if it would explode.- Then, up. It's a hell of an organization." presently under consideration. One, involves confident that it wouldn't, they took a look broke no increase, the second is an 'increase across at -the 'court and the baskets and 'began to summed 'up Carl Kaiser. '(Continued on page 16) the board of $150, and the third is laugih. essentially a variation of the $700 rate, with a differential between the upper and lower divisions. Boyer indicated that. the last. proposal is probably the most preferential. In this instance juniors and seniors would be required to pay more per year than freshman and sophomores. This arrangement, Boyer observed, was fintel g ing,") as it would reflect the higher cost of educating upper division students as opposed to freshmen and sophomores. According to reliable Administration sources, figures of $650 for lower division and $850 for 'upper division students are. being most widely discussed as the possible rates for next year. (Continued on page4) SUNY Chancellor Ernest L-. Boyer. photo by Robert F. Cohen Got the number o1. that truck!: "Curt Blackmnore, Buffalo's answer to Art King comes out of nowhere to block Jim Murphy 'S shot. photo by Robert F. Cohen ,Rh.._______ _ ____ - I News Briefs Nixon , in Peking,: ;Ni~zxon s China Visit Sample Assessment President Nixon plunged into an immediate and unexpected By LARRY BOZMAN five days Nixon will be in China, meeting with Mao Tie-Tung early yesterday as the temperature of About 20 Chinese students some sort of contact, possibly his momentous visit to China warmed noticably. crowd a small room in Stage XII on a personal level, but not Within five hours of a frigid arriva ceremony at Peking Airport, and watch and listen intently to neesarly on a formal Nixon met with Mao for a 'Serious and Hank" 60 minutes of what is being flashed on the diplomatic level. convesation that seemed to dispel the chill of his low-key airport screen of the color t.v. set rented An Afterthought reception. for the occasion. Bill Gee, publications Then, at a banquet with PEnrChou -ELai,the correct coolness What the students watch, and chairman of the Chinese China is goig to help him finally yielded to a chat informality and warmth on both sides, have -watched since early that Students Association, who refers politically .... Thle U.S. goes to with Chou saying that the gate to friendly contacts had finally been evening, are live broadcasts from to himself as an "ABC" the moon - opened.- Peking. And, as they watch, they (American-born Chinese), Mao waits for the In a toast at the banquet, thePesdent called for a "'longmarch wonder if the President's trip cannot see any negative effects moon to come to him.' means together on different roads leading to the same goal - the goal of very much. of the trip. "It is goodin terms Not 'Good Time' building a world structure of peace and justice." of what can only be "I don't think it's a good time accomplished The reference to 'TheLong March," a 6,000 mile trek made by as an afterthought. for Nixon to visit China," says But I can't see Chinese Communist forces in 1935 to escape the army of Chaing it being bad." Wang, a graduate student born in Gee counters accstions by Kai-Shek,was regarded as a flattering one for the Chinese leadership mainland China. "I don't think some that China is being sold - andit showed that the President had it done his homework on China will do anypartcular good for out saying China's political lines in the days preceding his visit. Chinese people." Wang, speaking have always been consistent. softly The first-ever meeting between the leader of the world's most ard hesitantly, feels that 'They never said they would not powerful nation and the leoderof the most populous took place in Nixon wanted to go to China, speak to the U.S.; what they do Mao's yellow-tied onetry -home inP kng's forbidden city. but China did not ecessarily now is consistent with their Mao Tse Tung was not at the banquet but Nixon quoted a passage want Nixon there. policds." He. adds that China's from the Chairman's writing.'"So many deeds cry out 'Because things to be done, acceptance of Nixon's offer to are beginning and always urgently. to The world goes on. Time passes. Ten thousand visit was merely a polite gesture. stir politically with Chinese years are too long. Seize the day. Seize the hour." Also a graduate student, Q.H. oeseas," Gee thinks the time "Is just right The President's oratory was in contrast to Chou's businesslike Lao has a slightly different for this kind of speech, withits reference to the diMcultissue of diplomatic outlook toward the Nixon thing.- relations between the two long-hostile governments. journey. He. thinks it would be Nixon's trip to China has been I Chou said theresewere great differences between the two good, but cautions that little labeled ping-pong diplomacy, governments, and their social systems were fundamentally different, could be accomplished, saying, politicallyexpedient, and simply excited about Nixon's stupod But, in the words but this should not hinder them from establiing normal state "Nothing can be worked out in of Bill trp..... [Buti Premier Chou one trip.9 Gee, 'The trip is an relations on the bads of the five principles of peaceful coexistence. En-Lai may Lao, borm in Vietnam and Acknowledgement, overdue by come to the United But observers said Chou was not in fact offering to establish educated in China, believes that 23 years, of the reality that States before the issue of Tafwan diplomatic relations as such, because one of the five principles the leaders of the United States China does exist and is a world issettled. " r concerns mutual repsect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. and China can establish, in the power." -QM.HLao' This involves the question of Taiwan, one of the most vexed issues in relations between China and the United States for the past 22 years. ""I reat Wall" "GreatJuice , A0nyone?9ae Natotional MEKING, (Reuters)-One, participant and spectator beer, on the sunporch, remarked: two, three o'dock, four o'clock, pursuits ink the Chinese capital. "This is no place for a Senate leaders of botw parties said yesterday they thought the Rock..." The lyrics of Big The Soviet Embassy staffers bachelor." President's meetings with Chinese leaders were off to a good start. Haley's epic hit of the fifties play against a motley team of With more and more Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said, "While I do not drift out over the East and West Europeans and embassies openingin Pekin g, as expect anything of realsubstance to come out of the meetings, a low-grey-walled homes of Canadians - and always win. China emerges from isolation, first step has been made." Northern Peking. The foreign resident in many more young and single people The Montana Senator, spcialista in Asian affairs, told reporters The unfamiliar beat of what is Peking, downing a canned are arrivingin the condemned Chinese capital.