U.S. Postage PAlt) VOL 57 NO. 27 Bronx, N.Y. Permit NO; 7608 Non-Profit Org. SPORTS SPECIAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1975 Citizens march in hospital vigil by Tom Maier Near the corner of Decatur Approximately 1000 people, a Avenue and Fordham Road, vast mixture of religious and Bronx Borough President Robert community leaders, student Abrams spoke to the crowd nurses and local residents, through an ambulance loud marched up and down Fordham speaker. "What this shows," his Road Thursday to protest the voice bellowed down Fordham decision by the Health and Road, "is that black, white and Hospitals Corporation to close Hispanic groups can work Fnrdham Hospital. together to get some basic In an area of over 400,000 human needs like proper health people served by Fordham care." Later, Abrams told The Hospital, almost half of whom Ram, "the size of this demon- live below poverty levels, "there stration is bound to have some must bo an institution where the effect on the decision to close indigent poor can be cared for," down the hospital." Assistant Director Harold Kcifetz stated. "A municipal The demonstration's colorful hospital, such as Fordham theatrics included a woman Hospital, does not turn patients dressed in black, waving a white Joe Spinosa away." he said. candle, and seated on top of a SAVE FORDHAM RALLY: an estimated 1,000 people inarched up and down Fordham Road to pro- hearse donated from a nearby test the decision by the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation to close Fordham Hospital. A. J. Felix, an emergency funeral home. Inside the hearse room director who participated was a grey coffin, adorned with in the rally, stressed the im- protest signs saying 'Save Our Reiss softens division stand portance of the hospital to the Hospital', and containing a community, stating that the ago his decision to restructure decision to a school" in a manner dummy personifying the com- Executive Vice President Paul the minority divisions into they felt was totally arbitrary. emergency room "receives munity's fear of decreased Reiss disclosed late yesterday he between 200 and 300 emergency separate institutes was "final, The vice president described the medical care. The crowd stood at would entertain new proposals although the LAC Council can patients a day." As Keifetz meeting as a productive one, attention, at one point, as a by the Liberal Arts College work out the remaining details" emphasized, "Five minutes can although he hinted at its at- Naval Cadets drum and bugle Council on Black and Puerto- involved in the reorganization. make a big difference in whether mosphere by reporting "there corps played taps. At the con- Rican Studies, an issue Reiss had Reiss' new position followed a was a very frank exchange of a person dies or not." Available clusion of the march, the crowd "decided" some weeks ago. meeting yesterday with the LAC medical care, without Fordham ideas." lighted white candles signifying The disclosure is a significant faculty caucus, which had voiced The major rift between the Hospital, is as much as ten to their solidarity and hope in their change of stance by the vice considerable opposition with the fifteen minutes away, he said. two sides concerns the ability of cause. president, who stated two weeks method of "handing down a the two small minority divisions With a bullhorned command to to function as self-governing "keep it moving" for the benefit faculty units. Under normal of television cameras, the crowd LAC-SABC allocates club fundsstatutes, a number of fully left the -area in front of the tenured faculty must make hospital and moved up Fordham After more than two and a half popular entertainment, films, vertising revenues increase that and lecture series. journal's operating monies by divisional decisions on tenure Road, blocking an array of buses months of deliberation, the and promotion, but this and cars behind it. The police Lincoln Center Student EVEX, a journal of opinion almost $1200. The Ram, For- edited by Liberal Arts College dham's University-Wide requirement cannot be met in were incensed, particularly one Activities Budget Committee the two small divisions. plainclothes officer, who refused apportioned $51,376 to intown evening students, received the Newspaper, received $216 of its second largest allocation of $4,000 request. However, a special precedure the offer to be identified. "They student clubs and organizations Reiss did not apply in this case (the hospital officials) said they after receiving requests for over $6,958, which will combine with This year's Common Ground the paper's advertising revenues festival of arts and music will be does exist for handling special wouldn't leave the grounds," he $107,000 from 39 activities. cases of small units, and the shouted while directing traffic in to form the final operating supported by a $5,000 SABC The Informal Education budget. The Review's request of allocation, and the Poetry Forum LACC is expected to concentrate a frenzied motion. "Look at this, on this aspect of the divisional Committee received the largest $9,562 was reduced to just under received over $1400 for its ac- they took all three goddamn dilemma. lanes." allocation, $10,960, for running $7,000, although added ad- tivities. Exploring the world through photography Vishniac: to celebrate life is his profession by Noreen Lupo during Hitler's rise to power and sup- This interest became paramount at the pression of the Jews, but wanted to age of ten when be began collecting the To simply describe Dr. Roman Vishniac preserve the memories of this time, so he masters. The collection today, he claims, of the Fine Arts Department as a 78-year- began to photograph the suffering Jews in would be worth $40 million if it hadn't old philosopher, photographer, biologist the small towns_ in Eastern Europe. been lost during the war. and doctor, would be like describing the He was imprisoned for photographing workings of the human body as simply a Presently teaching a course at Fordham the Jews and soon released, but the machine made of mechanized parts. There entitled, "Photography, The Wings of reality and harshness of this period has is much more to both. Vishniac seems to Hope and Concern," he explained his never left him, and is ingrained in his combine the character of a Renaissance reason for choosing this title. memory forever. "All my relatives were man blending a scientific mind with an "Photography, "he said, "can be used and killed then," he recalls, "102 of them, but artist's love for life. applied for everything, and its purpose is these photographs have preserved their This "love" is captured by Vishniac in to bring people together in one memories and the memories of the past." the thousands of photographs he has brotherhood." The expressions that Vishniac was able taken of microscopic organisms. to capture on these suffering people is It is exuberance and vitality keeps him "When I am photographing a bird in brought across so vividly and going strong even for his 78 years. Both flight or even an ameoba or a hydra, they, dramatically, that the photographs could he and his wife go mountain climbing cooperate with me, they trust me, they easily be mistaken for beautiful paintings. every summer, carrying not more than 25 know me," he said in a thick Russian Each of Vishniac's photographs is an in- pounds up the mountains of Switzerland.• accent. depth study of living examples, whether He is currently involved with the Center Vishniac's adeptness with cameras they are microscopic organisms, a piece of for International Photography and is dates back to the age of seven. Growing human skin, a mosquito head, a cross giving a lecture on Dante at New York University toward the end of November. up as a Jew in Moscow, he would collect section of a plant root, (all magnified small creatures and samplings from pond hundreds of times,) or a shivering Jew According to Vishniac, life is all around water for his own observation and became walking through the streets of Warsaw. us, but most of us do not possess the hypnotized by these microscopic When he pointed out a photograph he insight into nature to acknowledge it. organisms which are unseen by the naked had taken of a fish consuming a squid, he "Most people think that a rock is a dead eye. said, "This is life in its rare form, look at thing," he explains, "but a rock is alive At that time, he was able to indulge in, ,the illumination in the eyes and mouth, because it is covered with organic dust." his interests in both biology and nowhere can you capture an instant like ."This summer," he said, "we photography, he claims, because there photographed trees growing on rocks. VISHNIAC: lectured at the Tuesday this." ( weren't any restrictions placed on the Along with his other varied interests, Everywhere is life and life is something 'lub yesterday, accompanied by his that tells." t>hotos of the Warsaw ghetto before Jews in Russia. Vishniac holds a degree in Oriental Art. v>orld War II. He realized he was powerless to art CAB CALENDAR LSAT COURSES: Keating Third 5:30-10:30 P.M. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Fordham vs. St. Joseph's. KARATE CLUB: Karate lessons given every day bv WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 PSYCHOLOGY LECTURE SERIES: "The Modern black belt instructors. Open to all. Collins 4th, 12:30 P M Dilemma: Autonomy vs. Relatedness" Rolland Parker. 7 WOMEN'S CHORALE: Meetings on Monday amj CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING: Liturgy, 7:30 p.m., P.M.