ii.nm.i-sf Page 2 Pandora's Box January 29, 1970 York Seeks Its Jamaica Doubtful For Fail The site situation is in a state for our use, however, the In- and that renovation will l)egin of flux at this time. DeanHorch- ternal Revenue Service still oc- then, with York College students Own Accreditation ler plans to have a college wide cupies the building. The Jam- using the building the folk wing A three man commission from ship developed between the com- report and discussion sometime aica Jewish Center will also September. the Middle States A ssociation of munity and the students. in February in the Bayside Oaks be used by York College, but Colleges and Secondary Schools only after the public school stu- The team is basically study- Jewish Center. The status of The Natural Sciences 3uzz will be visiting the York College the site will be discussed with dents have finished using the facilities, once thought to be campus on February 9th, from ing the organization, campus gov- building in June. York College ernance and administration, in- both students and faculty taking settled have not been settled. 9 A.M. to 5P.M. The Committee part in the proceedings. was in the process of receiving The property, owned by the will view the operation of the struction, purposes, program e- the building when a fire at the valuation and faculty. Instruc- Brooklyn Union Gas Company, college, having already read At the present time the Mont- public school nearby made it has not been condemned. The a 200 page report concerning tional aids, such as library and necessary for the public school advisement, Liberal Arts, gomery Ward building is in the facility will have to be con- the development of the college. process of starting the pro- students to occupy the building. structed, and will be an enti rely The purpose of the committee Teacher Education, and the SEEK It is expected that these students program. Our unique programs ceedings necessary for ren- new building. This facility i 3 the will be to evaluate the phase ovation. We have the building will vacate the building in June most difficult to build. value (the growth of the college) such as the Intensive Studies and to give the college an oppor- Program, the summer camp pro- tunity for self evaluation. Para- gram, and the Teacher's Edu- mount in the interests of the Com- cation Program. Student services mittee will be the student opinion and student life (in government, of the college, and the relation- athletics, and publications). City University Protests Cuts The 90% cut in City Univer- sity's construction program. sity's Capital Budget requests' "Unless the Planning Commis- for 1970-71 was vigorously pro- sion demonstrates a radically tested for its "utter insensitivity different approach than shown to the needs of public higher edu- in this Draft Capital Budget, it cation" by Deputy Chancellor will be impossible for the univer- Seymour C. Hyman at hearings sity to perform its mission." before the City Planning Com- Dr. Hyman continued, mission today (December 17). "Throughout the budget report, The City University of New appeals are made for greater York had requested $81 million state and federal support for including $46 million in city funds city capital needs. Yet there and $35 million in state funds for seems to be little recognition of community college buildings and the fact that every dollar of city for rehabilitation and computer funds spent for college construc- purchases on both community tion is matched by a dollar of college and senior college cam- state funds." puses. He said that federal funds were The Draft Capital Budget is- also jeopardized by inadequate sued by the City Planning Com- provisions in the budget. mission provides $13,176,130 in- Dr. Hyman pinpointed three the beat cluding $4,370,415 in city funds items for special attack, calling and $3,150,415 in state funds. for the restoration of funds for The commission proposed that senior college rehabilitation and another $5,655,300 for rehabili- computer purchases, for con- tation and computers at the sen-; struction of the Kingsborough ior colleges be financed by the Community College permanent City University Construction campus, and for project planning Fund, which has previously re- for Staten Island Community Col- goes on fused to fund such items. lege and Queensborough Com- Normal heart beat. "It is, to say the least, puz- munity College, contending that zling to us," Dr. Hyman said, plans would be sufficiently ad- "how a document which flatly vanced to require funds by 1970- states," Additional facilities must 71 for these projects. be built to relieve the already New construction at the senior overcrowded CUNY colleges and colleges of City University is meet future needs,' can then at- financed by the City University tempt to rationalize cuts in Construction Fund. Construction an order of magnitude certain at community colleges is shared to severely set back the univer- equally by city and state. Summer Session 70 Courses On the basis of the preliminary registration survey for the Summer Session 1970 the follow- ing courses will definitely be offered. Anthropology 101 Biology 201 Education 321,322,323 English 101, 102 Fine Arts 102 History 103, 106 Humanities 172, 272 Math 111 Music 102 you give Philosophy 201, 202 Feb. 9th and 24th In York College Physical Education 142 10AM-2PM Parking Lot Physical Science 101, 102, 201 Psychology 101, 224, 225, 271, 272 Sociology 101, 271 Spanish 105, 106, 272 BE A BLOOD DONOR A list of additional courses will soon be made available as a result of a survey that the Regis- trar's Office is planning to take in the spring. Community Blood Council • American Red Cross January 29, 1970 Pandora's Box Page 3 York Welcomes ON FACILITIES: 130 N Students Marc Cohen Addresses Student Body Like all appraisals-, this brief tal to stress that York must us are aware of our current phy- appraisal of the physical needs possess a campus which does, sical problems. It is also quite of our academic community are not have to share with or bor- evident that the future develop- derived from the outlook of the row facilities from another insti- ment of York depends on the ex- 10 w Teachers appraisers. This is particularly tution? Nevertheless, I am sure pansion rather than acceptance so because a judgement of needs our "dream" campus would of- of our present "adequate" facili- The enrollment for the Spring the Spring term. Of these, sixty is dependent upon a concept of fer us lots of space. ties. Term at York College will be are lower freshmen, forty are what is and what ought to be.. In spite of the many campus thirteen hundred students. At in the Seek program, and thirty To make this appraisal therefore present, there are twelve hun- hold advance standing. Seven stu- This brings us back to our pre- difficulties which confront us, I requires the creation of what the sent conditions of space, Today, have only referred to the obvious dred forty-seven students en- dents from foreign countries physical circumstances ofYork rolled. One hundred students are were admitted to York, one from our campus is comprised of a well physical problem. However, if College should be and to com- constructed classroom building, we secure only better facilities, dropping out or transferring, and Formosa, one from the Philli- pare them with what exists. And ten former students are being re- pines, three from Japan, one from an abused cafeteria - lounge, an then we have still a longer way if gaps appear, we will have ar- overcrowded faculty building* a to go on building a better York admitted this coming term. The Iran, and one from Costa Rica. rived at an indication of what we College. The future development original class admitted in Sep- Approximately one hundred leased private house, an abandon- need. ed Jewish Center, a "brain trust" of York also depends on the ef-' tember, 1967, had an enrollment twenty five faculty members were fectiveness of student participa- of three hundred seventy-one. employed at York in the Fall on Mt. Jewel, and an attractive, but inconvenient Urban Affairs tion and cooperation in the deci- Figures show that there are two term. There will be ten new sion making process of our com- hundred thirty-nine students people to replace those profes- We would almost agree that Center in beautiful downtown Ja- maica. munity. It is not as obvious as our' from the original class still en- sors who are leaving. first in our catalogue of what physical dilemma, but I feel it is rolled at York. The dropout and The administration will prob- ought to exist at York College just as essential for students to transfer rate is average in rela- ably not drop any students for Is the need to envision a mod- While our population has trip- become Involved in academic re- tion to the size of the original the Spring term because there ern, multi-acre campus, which led In size, our facilities have re- form as it is for them to fight for class. will not be sufficient time to re- serves the interests of all the mained the same since the first land reform. There will be one hundred view all the records during inter- members of the community. Per- academic year. thirty new students admitted in While the question of faculties new siuaencs aamiueu m session. (.«(N. j_,aigntLaight); haps, it would be even more vivi-- Yet*et,, tnthe trutnh is tnathat imost of is a problem which involves many people from outside the college and the York College decision making process involves many Radical Efforts Gain Support As people within the college, it seems that progress could at least make headway in the latter area.