1iarella •s 11ute VALENTINE EDITION (DELAYED BY SNOW) Love: What's Your Definition Glenna Price'• Picture Poll - Page JJ Campus Lust A Revealing New Series By Laurie Brock.way Begins on Page 12 LaGuardia Lovers Find Them on Page 14 ===ALSO=== Who Was Fiorello The Second Installment - Page 9 LaG Administration· Pulls A Fast One By P• .I. Sander• - Page 3 Calendar of Events Four Weeks at LaGaardia - Back Page BROOKLYN MEDIA PHOTO Violence Over a Valentine What Happened In The Cafeteria On Valentine's Day Page 5 2 • FIORELLO'S FLUTE • FEBRUARY 1978 1iarella's 11ute LAURIE BROCKWAY - Editor-In-Chief Flotello'• Flute I• the offk:lal 1tudeni newspaper of LaGuardla Communtty P.J. SANDERS STAFF EUGENE CALAMARI JR. WAITERS College. It I• published monthly by an lndepencknt • 1uden1 staff and financed by Polltlcal Consultant Photographer Cynthia Kaan monies from student activity funds. Opinions nprHHCI In the paper are not L1H L9Y)' WILLIAM HEISE neceuartly thoee of the College admlnlatratlon. faculty, or the student body. GAIL HUNDLEY EdltOrltll Assistant Sandra Schubert Artis t Edltorlal opinion np,eued herein la determined by a ~IOrity vote of the Flut• PatOssa staff. Nol responsible for uneoHolted mat.-lala and all mtiterlal aubleet 10 edillng. BRUCE BROOKS GLENNA PRICE SUNDAY TYNER 1111 Fluta offices are IOeated In the Satelllte Building, In the back of the Student Spec/al ProJ«ta Cafeteria. at LaGuarcUa Community College, 31 .10 Thomaon Avenue. Long l• lancl Faculty Conmbutors City, New York 11101 . Telephone (212) 784-8881. Cornpcnltlon and printing by PATBAAOY ROBERT McVEIOH 81oot,Vn Media, 28 Court Street, Broolllyn, New YOik. Talephone (212) 834-9350. lllddleCOI,.,,.~ Faculty Athlsor The Sony Cafeteria Final Chapter FEEDBACK · In the last two issues of The Flute, we described the un­ Anonymous Gripe last issue or the Flute. We extend our certain future of the Sony Cafeteria, which was to be used sympathy to Malka: her courage in print..­ as an unlikely location for a coin operated game room. How­ To the Editor: ing her feeli ngs is both generous and ad­ mirable. We felt it was an important ever, two editorials and three months later, things have As a student preparing for final ex• aminations I was dismayed to learn that contribution to the quality of Li(e for all changed and it would seem that the game room idea tias on Thursday, December 1st, t.he library women at. the College to be able to s hare been put very much aside, if not totally abandoned. was closed for two hours between 12 and her experiences. 2 pm Too often, t he environment at La­ Somewhere along the line, someone discovered a techni­ Later I learned from a worker in the Guardia is tinged with lack of sympathy cality in the gameroom proposal and it was decided to hold library that it was closed so that they for female issues: wit ness a recent. off building until all problems were resolved. However, due could have a meeting. At the meeting cart90n in the H u.monist. for instance, to someone's unintentional, though rather lame, mistake, t.he important topic discussed was the which shows an ugly girl offering herseU Xmas party. Also lunch was served and eagerly to muggers and rapists. Your the maintenance department began to construct the wall I heard the school has no money for article provides a necessary antidote to one day early in January. The wall was just about halfway books and things in t he library. that all-too-prevalent att.it.ude, that rape up when someone discovered that it was a mistake. Print this in your next issue and let is a musing and its victims subjecLs of t.he library explain. humor. What had happened was, the maintenance men, comply­ - Anonymous .. Once again. thank you for running that ing with a work order that was not supposed to be filled, THE LIBRARY RESPONDS . story. We look forward to more articles began building. Though the game room plan had been can­ Dear A nonymous, that bring import.ant issues regarding celled, Mr. Pan forgot to tell the men who were starting to We regret that the Library's staff women into t he headlines a t Le.Guardia. meeting inconuenienced any student or You.rs Sincc,y{y, build it. That day, Mr. Pan, and his assistant were nowhere faculty m em ber at LaGuardia. We Cecilia Macheeki to be found and Dean Stapleton had to order the construc­ thought that the posted notices of our tion to be stopped and the work to be ripped down. And so it two hour meeting would allow our users goes. The game room is off. The Sony Cafeteria remains. to scheduk their study time around tM ciming. A lthough we did not close the Library A Uttle Color fo r two hours solely to plan o Christmas In Tlte Corridors party, thot issue did arise at the end of NYPIRG's Fate the meeting. We also serued a light To the Editor: lunch which was not charged to the I think a thank you is in order for all The fate of a future NYPIRG chapter at LaGuardia hangs Library's acquisition budget (i.e., money "for books and things'1. t hose in t.he Art Club and the Humani• precariously on the decision of a special NYPIRG commit­ ties Department who have started to Since this criticism was not directed make LaGuard.ia a li veable environment.. tee, which has yet to make its decision. The Committee, to me by the anonymous letter writer, I The murals which have been shifted to chaired by the Chairperson of Student Council and com­ wish to thank the editor of T he Flute for the lobby are colorful. interesting, and, this opportu.nity to respond to him/ her. posed of staff and students from various departments of the most importantly. a necessary part or College (Flute included), last met in early January. I am pleased to know that students are aware of the importance of the Library the school's growth as a community of people. One student painting decorating At this point, it seems that conflicting schedules and just GIid, as always, encourage them not only the walls of this school is worth a dozen plain inertia are hindering the committee's reg athering and to u.se ou.r services bu.t also to express their opinWns and concerns to me in OULside commisioned works, no matter how good t.hey are. final decision. Thus, the NYPIRG referendum has been person. hanging around for a couple of m.>nths and we hope a You. rs tnlly, I hope this project can be cont inued. definite decision will soon be reached. Ngozi P.Agbim The small amount of money it demands Chief Librarian from an admittedly strained budget seems well worth spending. There are A Word From Tlte plenty of blank walls still waiting to be filled. I hope The Flute and the student Saving Old Flutes Women's Committee government will legislate and agitate for more color and beauty in our lives. We've discovered that the library has been collecting Dear Ma. Brockw•y: Flutes for the last few years. Curiosity got us down there to On behalf of our Women's Committee, John Buckley the periodical room, searching through issues, sort of J would like to congratulate you on the Engllsh Department looking for our " roots." We went as far back as 1973, following the work of about six prior staffs, and found some really interesting articles. The Flute has been the College's main source for docu­ mentation of LaGuardia's history, and should continue to be COMMUMCATION so. Unfortunately, the collection was incomplete and many of the newspapers were turning yellow and getting cracked. All huMANiTy would -elEAR up We think it would be a good idea if the issues of The Flute were transferred to microfilm, so that they will remain an everlasting source. We'll be checking into the possibilities MANY MisuNdERSTANdiNqs. within the nex t few weeks. Al any rate, most of the 1974-75 issues could not be located. We'd like to ask any of you old­ - Julu VERNE timers who might have a copy or two to dig them up and loan it to us. Administrators, faculty and students-turned­ staff would be the most likely to find some. Please look. FEBRUARY 1978 • FIORELLO'S FLUTE • 3 LaGuardia Administration Pulls A Fast One By P.J. SANDERS and expense of the students and the facts to this action. Why was the members could discuss the issue of their rights to be informed of re tentative date of the calendar checks the delayed checks. This phone call On Wednesday, January 11th, arrangement in policy at a much changed at such short notice? Does was made by Mr. Conrad Stridiron. about 60 angry LaGuardia students earlier date. It was aJso thought that Administrative mismanagement in who stressed the grave importance of stormed up to the Business Office in the students should be consulted as the Business Office have any in• this matter and that certain of the the L & P building demanding an ex· to why this change was talcing place. fluence in this action? Who was the Dean's activities should be put aside planation and resolution to the Also, the fact that, for students who centraJ figure in the authorization of t.o allow time for this meeting. The sudden, week-long postponement of do not owe money to the school, this this action? Dean's office responded to the emer­ their much needed financial aid is a very unfair, arbitrary practice.