---- --- TUESDAY' APRL 1 1975 Statesman Stony Brook, New York Volume 18 Number 65 Distributed free of charge throughout campus and community every Monday, Wednesday, and Fridy - - - Student Lobbyists State Ad opts New Budget; The Student Association of the State Univprsitv (RfAf;TIJ lnhhipdl in Albany last week for pro-student SUNY Fees May In crease legislation and the restoration of cuts The possibility of State- University of in the budget for the State University New York (SUNY) students facing of New York. SASU also held a increased fees next semester ho not been meeting in which dues for member settled by the adoption of the state schools were raised from 60 cents to budget, according to SUNY spoesan 85 cents per student. As of now, all Russ Gugino and Student As aon of h..tI+ +,en OTT V C1t^ m^^1O__ _ _l- the State University (SASU) President of SASU. Danny Kohane. Although the $10.4 billion budget Stories on page 2 adopted last week by the State IMT'lf T t"I _rl _- Wl mM -i. Legislature cuts SUNY's allocation WU 6B Goes lVl $7,427,300 below the level peaed in Governor Hugh Carey's executive budfpt, Stony Brook radio station WUSB Gugino said that the question of whether will go FM one night a week until the tuition or room rent would be increased end of the spring semester, according has not been decided. to Station Manager Norman Prusslin. "Remote" This has resulted from the renting of "If the budget cuts are restored to the ERNEST BOYER broadcasting time from Sachem High level recommended by the governor in his supeeta bud~t and revte SUNY's original budget and School's radio station, WSHR 91.9 if no expenditure projected reve Addos ceilings are imposed on the State he said that Care would ban to FM, on Wednesday evenings from 5 University, then the chance of a tuition fr-om imposin epotu cinson p.m. to 12 a.m. Regular on-campus and/or a room rent inreade would be egislatve an s to -ume no programming will continue seven days remote," said Gugino yesterday. increase. lbe pmentl budget is a week on 820 AM. Previously, SUNY officials had ually the lst plece of eglation psed < i predicted that a room rent increase would before the Sate Legslaue adur s &.Story on page 3 i be necessary to fill what they had wen as Boyer De-ebded Hike a gap between their expected revenues About 300 students from seveas ,4An -w,-; . B ' I - I Intramural Playoffs and the revenue figures set by, Carey's outde the Board of Thotwa meetin . .^.. division & . of I1 .:.&.. the budget. However, A_.." .... Gugino With te close of the regular said that since the Febuary meeting of the Caneg BuD i od intramural basketball season, the the SUNY Board of Trustees there had February 27 to express thi mr playoffs have gotten underway. First been a "meeting of the minds" between of my increase in sudent fes. At Otk round games will continue through Carey's budget office and the SUNY time, SUNY 1Can l#lor Mod Myyw Thursday. Playoff favorites include administration which resulted in SUNY's defended a p ed st t _ by James C3 among the residential revised assessment of its revenues. saying that rents had not i w colleges and O.H.G. among the Gugino now says that the question of 1972 and that there wd be 1a ftad_ independent teams. increased student fees depends on for other stuient srdees ff th whether the State Legislature restores the hike was not impd. Story on page16 cuts to the executive budget in the (Contined on pap 5) 1% mosop, rCv- - 1> ICivil Service Workers Postpone cob3 Action3 Four Point Plan Adopted Stony Brook Takes Precautions By STEVEN P. ROSENFELD and while delegates hissed and booed, By RUTH BONAPACE had said that the Heat Plant would Albany (AP)-The union wpresenting Wenzl and some other CSEA officials i and DOUG FLEISHER have to be dozed in th evgot at. a most state workers put off a strike for left the meeting hall, as microphones University operations were strike. at least four weeks Monday in a were turned off. threatened yesterday by a possbk confusing and sometimes violent Strike Vote Nullified strike by Civil Service Employes meeting that revealed a deep split in the But virtually all the delegates Association (CSEA) members, but the heow will be making, (te -pAsem union's ranks. remained, and the strike vote was strike was averted when union enough to make te view man The 1,200 delegates of the Civil nullified as they resumed the meeting. representatives voted to continue con e 90 pepe who wat to pt; Service Employes Association (CSEA) Carey's administration had placed working while participating in further to work can,"' add Get He adde went through more than four hours of supervisory personnel on alert at dozens negotiations. that during a strike, an U%_navna fAn wrangling, raucous debate and shouting of mental hospitals, prisons and other Although amost 1,000 U rsity would have been losed exept for the matches that one delegate said sounded state facilities in preparation for a employes belong to the statewide union, main entrance in oade to to "like a bunch of babies" before strike, which would be illegal under University President John Tol said that Security eftforts. I pt Sc ety adopting a plan for action that New York's Taylor Law. the University would remain open in Diector Ken Sjokinaid Oat he dd not authorizes a strike only if fact-finding The state obtained a court order event of a strike. A nt Executive know of such plu, but thA in te and a "work-to-rule" job action fail. barring an immediate strike by the Vice President Sanford Gerntel, who event of a strike}, S8 I1 perannnr Some delegates said the indecision union, which represents about 147,000 supervised an extensive strike would be placed an 12-bow #hftto and in-fighting threatened to weaken state workers. contingency plan, aid that maintenance increaw surveilance. the CSEA's bargaining power. One At issue are wages, health insurance, of the dormitories would be the bgest delegate told colleagues state employe discipline and union power. problem caused by the threatened the PoUty Senat vobd to co Xo negotiators and Governor Hugh Carey During the weekend, the state's chief walkout following actions to be tota C "are laughing at us... they've got us negotiator declared an imps existed As part of the extensive plans made there is a CSEA st: a mW1 shWt fighting one another." and called for a fact-finding panel to be by the University, Gentd aid that boycott of dases, a _t a The split came shortly after the named to mediate the dispute. supervisory personnel would be used to and other non4;SM I so meeting opened on a voice vote to strike Reporters had been asked to leave operate the beating plant, which can be the strike, and a to 1 the state at midnight Monday. CSEA during one roll-call vote out of fears kept in 24-hour operation by dx against the A&- !ttto f _l" o bat President Theodore Wenzl ruled that the voiced by some delegates that they worker. water we cut off. Tbe numb AIoM I a vote was in favor of the strike. He then would be identified as supporting an However, a highly placed tor an eight nemr tokpa- alocaf announced the meeting was adoumned, illei strike. Achiimistra~oo source said that Gerstel (Contnued on pW 8) OF {vews Briefs Students Lobby for Students Albany-Over 160 students councils have limited policy Legislature last year and was the L __ from State University of New making responsibilities but are only one of 52 bills lowering the York (SUNY) campuses influencial on campus age of majority in New York to Mitchell May Be Disbarred gathered in Albany last week to presidents. be vetoed by former Governor lobby against cuts in the SUNY SUNY Chancellor Ernest Malcolm Wilson. Last year's bill Former Attorney General John Mitchell and fellow Watergate budget and for pro-student Boyer, who also spoke at the was opposed by the State Liquor cover-up defendant Robert Mardian yesterday lost at least legislation. conference, said that he "would Authority, but this year they temporarily the right to practice law before the Supreme Court. The The students met with many support the principle" of having support the amendment, court suspended them both and gave them 40 days to show why assemblymen and senators just a student on the Board of according to SASU Legislative they should not be disbarred. Court officials said it was the first time prior to the legislatures vote on Trustees but backed off on the Director Ray Glass. in history that an incumbent or former attorney general had been the state budget as part of the proposal to admit them to Other bills lobbied for were suspended from Supreme Court practice. Student Association of the State executive sessions of trustee an elimination of the sales tax Mitchell and Mardian were convicted by a federal court jury on University (SASU) Legislative meetings. He said he wasn't sure on college textbooks, and January 1 on charges arising from concealment of White House Conference. They tried to if a student representative liberalized absentee ballot involvement in the Watergate burglary. Mitchell, who headed former persuade legislators to allocate should be admitted to executive registration.