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Vol. XL I No. 17 Febru The Divine Light 'SOUNDS 0-F_ BL_ACK-NESS' FACI.NG H_ARD TIMES ··., ..~- ·_ ..~ .- ;,,. e·y Sheldon Julius doesn't seem to realize that all Management's Reasoning "Rock _music today, whether of Ithaca isn't enthused with Questioned by the Rolling Stqnes, Curtis progressive rock. There are, Thus black programming was r. , , Mayfield or the Jefferson indeed, other forms of music reduced to 8 hours and 45 ·i-'."", SATQURU MAHARAJ ,i Airplane can trace most of its that are enjoyable to the ·-:::, ,.,;,.-- . minutes. These hours were form and content to the rhythm listening audience. Currently, spread over two days, Saturday ·· · <:.lJf.Tom-Threlkeld '· years old,. this God-energy and blues music that was bQrn since the · cutting of the and Sunday. After the Xmas :\!,Wbei'.the world needs reportedly entered the soul of and bred exclusively by the. Wednesday Sounds of Bl,.ckness vacation, Towle Tompkins told ;~~ Jq{d. will.~me. this ln<fian child, tel~ him that black m(ln during the first half show, WVl3R has 9¾ hours of tne Black Affairs Department of w· t~iit ,..,!3,~ ~eeds. it'was he, his body, that He had of tht, century.,, black programmµts a. w~ek- out W.IC.B that aU black ~ ~ Ufrd bas chosen to use as a material home ~Jeffrey.·E. rmch · Agr. •73 of a total broadcast time<-of 168 programming· would be on B·e· ~ii ·giving in"'"oider 'to reach us· ·material , ·. -f~--a~a·. WVBR Disk Jockey hours per week. This, · Black Sunday from 7 a.m, to 2 p.m:, it" · . .. t~ people." people on our material level, On Friday, February 1, 1973 Radio Ithac!l maintains, is an total of seven hours a week. The ;_. ;. .last week, devotees or' seeing as we could not reach up Black Radio Ithaca (BRI) held a insufficient amount of time in reasoning for this was that he · ... ~ .. (Tr:uth Leader) Maharaj to His level to receive the Light. rally at Willard Straight Hall to which to bring the community had 2 Middle of the Road jocks .-J1.. · g· of Kings), a 15-year old Thus, the same energy t!J.at wa_s protest the cutting of air time the total Black Experience. that he felt should be on the air. ·~-.".-Per(ect Master", began in Krishna and Christ has, they from the Sounds of Blackness Also, it should be understood It has been the understanding of ,sp:i'eading word of this argue, manifested itself in the radio show at WVBR. The rally that the rally was indirectly a the Black Affairs Department Knowledge to Ithaca and Cornell body of this previously normal. took the form of a trial, with the protest against WICB. The Black that weekends were for specialty students in discussions entitled Asian child. defendant being Glen Schiller, Affairs Department of WICB has shows. Black Radio Ithaca is still ' ' S a t s a n g s ' ' ( T r u t h Why has he chosen this time, the sophomore program director constantly had similar trouble in wondering "'.7hY MOR is a Cpmmunication). An Indian this person, to bring the ofWVBR.- terms oJ losing broadcast hours. specialty show when the format woman ·named Rheka and Knqwledge to us? For, the of WICB_ during the week is sei:reral other IOUO\Yt:I"S eXpJal.Ileel guru's followers say, we have Drop in Ratings In the beginning of the -primarily MQR- progressive. for_ the students wlto Maharaj Ji _!Cached the top of our WVBR had given the Sounds semester WICB had allotted 13 is ~d what .this Knowl~dge is. _ n1 .. L ... 1 .f 11 1 k n o w 1 e Cl g e of Blackness 12½ hours of air hours to black programming. Programming Extension Pending They explainea that Maharaj and if we go any turther we ·will time to bring to the listening When the football season came, Pending now with the faculty Ji_ is a "perfect master" as were "destroy ourselves". This is why, audience music which was WICB broadcasted the games is the idea of having WICB radio Buddha;Krishna and Jesµs. Each they claim, He has come to give primarily from Black artists and and black programming was extend its hours from 2 a.m.- 7 one of these religious figures us, any and all of. us, the informative to the community. preempted. When football a.m. on Friday, Saturday and were merely human housing for Knowledge of His being, so that When WVBR's rating went season was over, black Sunday mornings. this proposal the spirit, the power which is we all may have the chance to down, program director Schiller programming was not reinstated, was initiated so as not to normally, "materially" refeued save ourselves by putting our said it was due to the Wednesday but instead, a country show was interfere with MOR nr as God. However, these "feet on the path" to this "great Sounds of Blackness show which given the time slot along with programming during the week peopie conceive of God as a Knowledge" which is eternal and was heard from 10 p.m.- 1 a.m. another specialty show. A and existent specialty shows on "primordial energy..'.' from wbich assures all possessors of the To please the rating seekers, specialty show is a show which is the weekend. The outcome of every~hing · has. come from and Knowledge eternal existence, Schiller immediately took the not considered by Towle the proposal is still being wj.Jl )"etum to. This "energy" is eternal life. When he was in Sounds of Blackness Wednesday Tompkins, the WICB-FM awaited. in everything· that exists, they Krishna, only one disciple, show off the air and replaced it program director, to be ''Middle ~ert, and it is Maharaj Ji.who Arjuna, received this Knowledge. with progressive rock (which is of the Road". Middle of the Black Radio Ithaca tries to h o _l d s t h e . k ·e y , t h e When He was in Christ, only what the general format of road is the kind of music that bring to the community through Knbwledge,forthis"energy". twelve men received the WVBR is). one hears on WABC-AM in New the 3 st~tions that it broadcasts · .When: M~j Ji Was 7 1/2 Continued on page 3 According to BRI, Schiller York. Continued on page 7 system. No changes were to take normal procedure, these findings the faculty were in favor of this place until the Fall of 1973. would go to the Educational proposal. On the question of stem tere During registration for th~s Policies Committee for study, adding the grades of D and F to r,ad_iitg S Y_ Al d semester, the Faculty Council but due to __th_e ID3!~n of the the present grading system, 48% distributed a questionnaire to vote, the Fa(,ulty Council voted of the faculty and 75% of the Yehuda M~el Ben-Tzvi the addition of pluses and polJ student opinion on to implement this proposal students were against this minuses. proposals to change the then immediately. proposal. It appears that the ~e q1.1~on of grades again The- straight letter grade existing grading system. On Several other proposals were grade of NFT is preferable to F Provoked controversy this week. system came under attack by January 24th, the same listed on the questionnaire. The in the students' eyes. Tuesday_ night, the Faculty both students and faculty last questionnaire was distributed· to first of these- whether students The last question dealt with all faculty members. C,ouncil, . -with · only three semester. Opposition to the then were satisfied with the present the pass/NFT opt.ion. The dissen~rs, voted to reinstate existing system was spearheaded Large Number of Responses grading system- resulted in 80% question of retaining this option plilsses and minuses to the letter by William Scoones, Chairman A large number of responses of those polled voting met with positive response as grade option. Until this week, of the Ithaca College Faculty were garnered. 1224 students negatively. The same percentage 77% of the students and 66% of students had a· choice of. a Council and Student Body and 198 faculty answered the of faculty responded similarly. the faculty favored the proposal. pass/fail option or an A,B,C, or President Greg Davis. Last poll. On the question of adding The addition of the1D grade to These findings will be presented -~ot., for Transcript option. This semester, after a series of pluses and minuses, the majority the present system was the next to the Educational Policies ~~~ ~ge will effect only motions in the Faculty Council, was overwhelming. 84% of the question considered. Here the Committee for appraisal and will ,tlj.i{l~tter grade-plan: The grades .