Carr: COSEP Trailing In Black Talent Hunt CORNELL Cornells Committee on the "handful of black talent F~F1 Special Educational Projects available" to other Ivy league (COSEP) program is falling schools and other leading CHRONICLE Woefully behind in the institutions of higher education. competition for the nation's black "While Cornell was the pioneer talent, according to Carson Carr in enrolling financially disabled The official weekly of record for Cornell University J'-. Black assistant director of and culturally different students, admissions. it has not kept up with the times." Carr says Vol. 1 No. 12 Thursday, December 18, 1969 "Cornell's great contribution, however," he says, "has been to show that students with low Assembly Adopts Senate Plan; SAT scores are not academically inferior " "Most COSEP students are judged mainly on their Ratification Procedures Start academic record and their said, there is no timetable that degree of motivation, rather than The approval of a University over educational innovations, would hint when the ratification SATs which are culturally Senate constitution ended a faculty legislation. University procedures will be completed. biased," he said. "Many persons marathon meeting of Cornell budgetary matters. University in the Cornell University University's Constituent matters that have important According to the Senate community must realize that our Assembly Monday night. social or political implications, constitution, "Ratification shall black students have to enter and Tonight. procedures for and the choice of a University be by affirmative votes of the take the same classes with white ratification of the document will president. Constituent Assembly; a students during their first be set into motion by the "General responsibility for non- referendum of all enrolled semester freshman year. There Assembly's executive committee academic matters of campus students on campus, together are no remedial programs. Black The new Senate offers the life." would be put in the hands with all persons employed by students have proven that they University ten faculty and four of the Senate. Cornell University; the University are just as academically student representatives on the As specified by the Senate Faculty; and the Trustees." competitive as any other Board of Trustees, three of these constitution, the work of The Senate constitution that students." to be on the Board's executive obtaining formal ratification will was passed included some committee be the job of an interim election changes from the text that was This has not gone unnoticed by The Senate would "have sole committee. which will be printed in the Oct. 11 Cornell other schools and "everyone has legislative powers over campus appointed by the Constituent Chronicle. These changes were gotten into the act. " Carr says, codes of conduct, the campus Assembly's executive committee mainly to protect personal "and they are using far more judiciary system. ., and the today. The interim election freedoms and the civil liberties of aggressive and progressive academic calendar." committee will set up the means individuals, and the text as recruiting methods than we are." A statement on student for ratification during the spring changed by the drafting "For example." explains the six- academic freedom would be semester, Peter Auer. chairman committee was distributed to foot six-inch former college formulated by the body. Also, the of the Assembly's executive each delegate who attended the basketball star, "I interviewed Senate would have some powers committee, said. Presently, he meeting Tour beautiful black minds in Nearly 40 amendments to the Rochester the other day. They document were presented to the were already accepted by other delegates in printed form. Only a top colleges. All I could do was Merry Christmas from Cornell Chronicle few were passed by the promise them a decision by Assembly; about half of the April." amendments were considered Carr added that his problems before the final voting on the full are compounded because he CARSON CARR JR Senate constitution took place at does not have enough funds to COSEP Admissions Director 11 30 p.m. Monday provide needy COSEP Under the direction of In the three months since he candidates with transportation to Assembly Speaker W Donald joined the Cornell admissions Ithaca to see the campus, visit Cooke, dean of the graduate staff primarily to recruit COSEP classes, talk to students and school and vice president for students. Carr says he has seen participate in social and cultural research, the Assembly passed Counting evidence that Cornell activities. Nor are there any speedily through the '* losing more than its share of Continued on Page 3 amendments and the general discussion of the proposal. Judicial Proceedings Continue This final meeting on the Senate question drew a large In University Disruption Cases attendance of 245 delegates. Faculty representatives . which three others involved in the May Judicial proceedings are total 118 hit their peak in 1 incident. continuing in cases involving attendance for the semester with The judge ruled that there was disruptions of University 96 representatives, according to insufficient evidence and functions last spring and this fall. figures, compiled from dismissed cases against two In courts downtown, three of attendance lists in the Assembly students and against William A those who entered the Navy office Graduate student Siebert, 23, all charged with ROTC enclosure in Barton Hall attendance at Monday's meeting last May 1 have pleaded guilty in second-degree trespass was about average with 28 of 43 Ithaca City Court to reduced Judge Clynes noted in his possible representatives present. charges and been fined $50 decision which followed five days Fifty-five of 'some 96 each, with the understanding of hearings in late September, that all three would "engage in and the filing of briefs, that there Continued on Page 2 no further unlawful activity either was no testimony offered as to on the Cornell campus or in how the three entered the Tompkins County." restricted area, or whether they Chronicle The three were identified by remained after they were told to the court as Charles C leave There was evidence Goes On Marshall. 24. Joseph Kelly, 24. offered that they were within the Holiday and Jeffrey Dowd. 20. all of area, but no substantiation that Cornell Chronicle will Ithaca. They pleaded guilty to they entered unlawfully or not be published Thursday, charges of third-degree criminal . remained unlawfully in the area December 25. Christmas trespass, after having originally after they were told to leave. Day, nor Thursday. been charged with second- Also in City Court, two persons January 7, New Year's degree trespass They were fined were found guilty after hearings Day, The next regularly by City Judge James J. Clynes before Acting City Judge Michael scheduled edition of Jr. LoPinto of fourth-degree criminal Chronicle will be published In another City Court action trespass in the obstruction of the Thursday. January 8. presided over by Judge Clynes, a Navy ROTC review in Barton Hall Happy Holidays ruling was issued in the cases of Continued on Page 3 SMSKSWCttSS 2 CORNELL CHRONICLE Chronicle Comment How Christmas Trees Are Grown Chronicle Comment is a forum of opinion for students, staff, and employes. Comment may be addressed to Arthur W. Brodeur. editor, Cornell Chronicle. 110 Day Hall. Ithaca. NY. 14850. Editor: prohibited to "permit I. Section 7 of that same In the December 3 issue of unhampered snow removal." proposal explicitly defines a the Cornell Daily Sun there was a While there are undoubtedly function of the Senate to be to long article on CURW and on the good reasons for not permitting examine and act with authority so-called Konvitz report by Mark overnight parking on campus, on political and social issues Goldman and Ellen Kirk. In the this cannot be one of them relating to Cornell University last paragraph in the first column because the only kind of snow there can remain no doubt that of the article on page 9. it is removal done at Cornell is with representation must be on an stated that the report used "such tree-killing, car-rotting Cayuga equal basis. Only the ultimate in purple prose in places that a rock salt. The Cornell road hypocrisy could be responsible number of passages were maintenance department would for drafting such an expurgated when the report was not recognize a snow remover undemocratic document. published in the official (i.e. a SNOW PLOW) if it were We can predict after administration news-sheet." run over by one! ratification of the proposed SUNSHINE. RAINDROPS AND THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE — I would like to know if there is James M. Burlitch Senate that legislation and Producing full, well-shaped Christmas trees is a year-round job. (performed any factual basis for this Assistant Professor resolutions of the following mostly by some 2,000 hobbyists), culminating in a $10-$ 12 million retail business in New York State. Growers look to the foresters at the Department assertion, and I would appreciate of Chemistry nature will be forthcoming: a of Conservation in the College of Agriculture for the latest research your kindly giving this question vote to abolish ROTC, a information on fertilizing, weeding, treating for insects and diseases. shapin9 your attention at your earliest Editor: resolution demanding that all and shearing, to produce high-quality trees. A modern tree farm is managed opportunity The Constituent Assembly is a U.S. troop withdrawal tie as intensively as any other farm crop — except harvest is delayed 10 to 12 Mil ton R. Konvitz very unequally represented effected immediately, military years as in the case of the well-managed Scotch pine plantation shown here Professor of Industrial spokesman for the University. As spending be curtailed, and other and Labor Relations and such, in accepting its drafting resolutions that are intended to Professor of Law.