OPO ,a',- M*441 A*,- '% WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 1976 IStatesmanl Stony Brook, New York ^_______, Volume 19 Number 46 10, Distributedfree of charge every Monday, Wednesday and Friday v - * - -.o 1% ~~~~~~~~~~~~-.- _ _ . wrlb f CAn _ ll AO i., .00 am N /I- dlV1AO"0 as Irotessor Ieturns to tPranar1 Gradwute Student Imprisoned for Political Reasons Co Founds Upsilsn By ILZE BETINS By"CUAEL KONBUI- and DAVID GILMAN A Stony Brook g te ata il h the Assistant Professor of discovery of the heaviest ar"y A amleobsved, In English Kofi Awoner, a an experiment conducted at the Fei AW y Ghanian poet who has been in Illinois. teaching here since 1968, was Daniel Kaplan, a second yea physs g tI t, placed under arrest by the collaborated with six Coubia Ub ity military police of Ghana at his scientists from the Fermi Lab in e OWN home on the campus of the called "Updlon," or the lofty one. University of Cape Coast where The Upsilon is obsered to be about six timesq eas he had gone to teach. He was proton and about as twice aenay as y My known arrested on December 31. pticle. lhe lifetime of the s & He was taken 100 miles bllUkmth of a billionth of a g * dwith away to the capital, Accra, nost prils allegedly for questioning. His The Upsilon TM obsdvd to be among the IIhe colleagues have heard nothing when a beam of protons of energy 400 b6 dcto v from him since. (400 Gev) was dimed at a awpte of a rysigma. The Coup Plot experimentbl the_ ofata Officials at the State pair of no Department in Washington said Assumng that wee the eq pdt of a that the Ghanaian government shoR t, me cm the sme -this had stated that arrests were parcle. .I made in connection with a The ps obered 27 sisaol in th e _M d- coup plot. According to an this e ad fm 5.6 to 10 Gev. Ho-wer, -h official, there are unconfirmed clustering of 11 eventss i the map= amp ft 6eft to 6.1 rumors that the Awooner is GeV uft that there is anarrow rsantsace or anew pwrtile under detention because he is witb anenergy of 6.97 Gev. suspected of having links with protestors. "I the expmeet is dok " sby Bra *hys TBe English Department tofessorM L. G "a am pftdahAa mbmdvdhi'h here learned of the arrest of way be a now memer of de fmil of the 40-year-old Awooner in a KOFI AWOONER recently discoveedLn- letter written on January 19 by "This rmy Wm to k fh iwsudl Norman Spencer, a Stony government has only Aftican literature. My second Fermi Lab Re S Jeffery A. Appel. InaWpoof Brook graduate student who is confirmed that the arrest has interest has been in poetry." the work presented to the a DuameeIng of h _0 also teaching at the University been made and has not Since the arrest of Awooner, Pbysical Society, Appel me, = d of Cape Coast. "I am writing to revealed the reason." memben of the Stony Brook inc ing number of tbae pre s e of inform you that on the Since joining the University, University community have wetl-deflmd man, and terepy m.On Po g |a morning of December 31, Awooner has served as the sent a mailgram to the deteie" 1975, our friend Kori Awooner following: Mater of Kelly E, Embassy of Ghana in However the dairy of the UIs -11 taithe was arrested in his home on the Chairman of the Comparative Washington stating that '&Me basic blocks of matter nay never bed campus of the University of Literature Program, Member of undersigned members of the Many physicists claim that the _keovery may saw ere Cape Coast by the military th e Committee on University Community at the are an infinite number of elementay within the police authorities of Ghana," International Education, State University of New York nucleus of the atmL said Spencer's letter. Member of the Blak Studies at Stony Brook wish to express Stony Brooklph are joining the sudy at FWW Lab. "Official Inquiry" Committee and Member of the their concern for the well-being Physics Profesor Good, Assitant Pbys Has The vice chancellor of the Departmental Committee on of their colleague Kofi ein, A ae R NO W r Kd n, University of Cape Coast has Minority Literature. Awooner, Assistant Professor Assistant Physics Profsor Robert carh, Ytg made an official inquiry in an A "Creative Writer" of English, and respectfully Professor, Horst Wahl, Risoe ite 1R. t ad attempt to leam the reason for "I am primarily a creative urge his prompt realease." Graduate Student R. Ffsk an joining the Ckhunbla-Fum a Kofi Awooner's arrest," writer," wrote Awooner. '?My Accompanying this are over gup to look for particles decaying into paWUe other than k Spencer wrote, "but the intial interest has been in 100 signatures. electrons. Y t -Ift ^ -- ----------------------------------- _ - Is F State Appeals Decision in Raftenberg Case 1 The State of New York is appealing the decision finding it negligent in the death of 19-year-old Stony Brook freshman Sherman Raftenberg, who died in February 1973 when he fell into an open manhole. $28,311 A state judge awarded Raftenberg's family $28,311 for compensation in a decision handed down last December. Assistant to the President John Bumess said he did not know the specifies of the situation. "I know that Stony Brook recommended to the Attorney General that the case be appealed," he said, "and I know that it was filed. But I just skimmed the piece of paper." "News to Me" "It's news to me," said Raftenberg's father, George, last night. "I didn't know they wve going to. If they are, they are and there's not much we can do." %. - In1nw V - L j -qmnnv AMR rave rummyw nuomb around mannoi into wmnuf smri Rmffsnk Add *%aftd ff x ~~~~~~~ ~ ~ 9.... ...Aa --.... i Wwwwwwa_ ow--w V *Ag aww wwN _n1Lwm" Twig AceYom "O. / /0,--- Academic Calendar for 1977: Test for Hypertension Free to SB Students PartI - Spring and Summer 1977 Sping Semester Monday, May 23-Final Examinations Wedneday Friday, January 19-21- inal Begin-Final Grades Due in Registrar's Office Registration and Payment of Fees (or property 72 Hours After Last Class Meeting, or after deferred) for Graduate, Undergraduate and Scheduled Examination or as Arranged CED Students not Previously Registered. Undergraduate Student Orientation Program Saturday, May 28- Final Examinations Available for New Students. End-Spring Semester Ends. All Residence Halls Close Sunday, January 23-All Residence Halls Open. Foreign Students Must Arrive. Sunday, May 29-Commencement Monday- Janunry 24-Casses Begin Final Tuesday, May 31-Last Day for Departments to Registration only for Those Students Residing Submit Completion Statements for May on Campus Unable to Register on January 19, Masters Candidates 20, or 21 1977 Summer Session I TIesday, January 25-Late Registration Period Begins with $20 Late Registration Fee Monday, May 30-Summer Session Residence Asssed. Payment of Fees and Pickup of Class Halls Open Schedules by Students Registered in Advance not Meeting Payment Deadlines, with $20 Late Tuesday, May 31-Final Registration and Payment Fee Assessed at Time of Payment. Payment of Fees of Summer Term I and/or Add/Drop or Section Change Period Begins. Summer Term II and Special Terms for All Students not Previously Registered except CED Friday, February 4-End of Late Registration Students (CED Students see Special Period for All Students Including CED Instructions Issued Separately) ,Students. Last Day for Undergraduate Students to Add a Course. Wednesday, June 1-lasses Begin-Late Registration Period Begins with $20 Late Fee Friday, February 11-Last Day for All Students Assessed (except CED) to F'e for May Graduation Who Have Not Previously Filed Friday, June 10-Last Day for Undergraduate Students to Change Courses to or from Phu/No Credit Statesman photo by Gary Adler Friday, February 18-Last Day for Graduate The first free hypertension screening program took place in Hendrix Students to Add or Drop a Course Lounge last Monday night. Friday, June 3-Late Registration Period Ends Tuesday, Februnry 22-Last Day for CED for All Students. Last Day to Add a Course Students to File for May Graduation By JEFF FRIEDMAN sustained. If it is, the person is Wednesday, June 22-Last Day for CED "I'm probably just a little given an appointment to see the Friday, February 25- Last Day for Students to File for August Graduation nervous," said one student who doctor in the informary. Normal Undergraduate Students to Drop Courses had just registered a blood blood pressure is about 20/70, Without Withdrawing from the University.Last Friday, June 24-Last Day to Drop a Course pressure reading of 150/70. "I or 20/80. The top number Day for Undrduate Students to Change Without Withdrawing from Summer Session I really felt my heart going. I've indicates the pressure level when Courses to or from Pau/No Credit. Last Day never had it this high. I get a the heart contracts, and thp for Graduate Students to File Degree Cards in Friday, July 1-Summer Term 1 Ends-Final checkup every year." bottom number is the pressure the Graduate School Office for May Graduation Grades Due in the Registrar's Office 72 Hours Although high blood pressure of the heart at rest. After Last Class Meeting or as Arranged. Last is usually associated with the Two undergraduate volunteer Frfdayq ,Ma 4-Lut Day for Final Payment Day for All Students (except CED) to File for oncoming of middle age, a free members of the Health Advisory of Fees for the Spring Semester August Graduation Who Have Not Previously hypertension screening program Board, Junior Shelley Uppman Filed.