The_Rambler_1966-01-18

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L. I„ N. y.
VOLUMI: XXXVI NO. 5 JANUARY 18, 1966
John Howard Griffin
Assembly Speaker
John Howard Griffin is an in-temationally>
known novelist, re-porter,
humanitarian, musicolo-gist,
student of primitive cul-tures,
who learned what It Is like
to live like a Negro by becoming
one. His latest book, BLACK
LIKE ME, tells that story.
John Howard Griffin, bom in
1920, has lived In Texas a good
part of his life, except for school
years in France, war years in the
Pacific, and the year in France
when he gradually lost his sight
as the result of a wartime in-jury.
In 1957 his sight was re-stored,
His next book, SCAT-TERED
SHAIX)WS, will cover the
ten years he was blind.
While blind he wrote two
novels, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT-SIDE
and NUNI. After articles
about his Southern trip appeared
In SEPIA magazine and he was
interviewed on television pro-grams,
he was burned in effigy
in his home town of Mansfield,
Texas. A cross was burned above
his house, and his family re-ceived
threatening letters. But
the South in general responded
differently — only one out of
every hundred letters he received
was abusive. A Saturday Evening
" Po'sirartrcie Eeils" infi aftermath
of his big experience.
We will all have the opportunity
to hear this great author and
speaker on Thursday, January
20, at Roosevelt Little Theater,
There will be two performances,
one at 11:00 a.m. and one at
8:00 p.m. Some tickets are still
available in Roosevelt Hall, Room
116 for both performances.
Civil Rights Institute
Hosted by SUATC
by James A, Trent
It was an all-day affair for law enforcement
officials from all over the country, and police
science students of S.U.A.T.C., on Friday, Janu-ary
7, 1966. From 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., the National
Institute on Civil Rights and Himian Relations met
in Roosevelt Hall.
It was opened by President Charles W. Laffin,
Jr. Professor William H. Hewitt was the host of
the meeting of close to 400 members of the Insti-tute.
Viet Nam Debate
On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock
in the Roosevelt Hall Theatre,
a Viet Nam debate was held.
The debate was attended by a-bout
200 students. Dean Reilly
served as judge and time-keeper.
The resolution of the debate was:
"Resolved, that the United States
should withdraw military support
from South Viet Nam,"
On the affirmative panel were
Robert Rohde, and Shelly Bort-nick.
On the negative side was
Ron Bucelli, The opening speech-es
were ten minutes long, and
the rebuttals were limit^ to
five minutes each speaker, Rob-e
n Rohde began the debate point-ing
out that the U.S. has no legal
right for involvement in the war.
He charged that Prime Minister
Diem was vinually a United
States appointee. He said fuither
that South Viet Nam was told
that they would not receive U.S.
aid unless they supported Diem.
He said also that this aid was in
violation of the Geneva agree-
Distinguished Films Series
DRUMS - England, 1936
(Friday night, January 21st at 6:30 P.M. and8:30 P.M. in the Little
Theatre, Roosevelt Hall)
Directed by Sir Alexander Korda, One of Korda classics that led
England's attempt during the 1930's to compete with Hollywood for
the world film market. The suspenseful Rudyard Kipling story deals
with the British Colonial Army's attempts to pacify the tribal terri-tory
of India's famed Northwest Frontier. Starring Sabu, Raymond
Massey, and Valerie Hobson. Photographed in color. (Running time:
96 minutes)
WILD STRAWBERRIES - Sweden, 1959
(Wednesday night, January 26th at 6:30 PJvl. and 8:30 P.M. in the
Litde Theatre, Roosevelt Hall)
Described by the New York Post as "One of the few great motion
pictures of our time." The film is generally considered to be the
masterpiece of Sweden's great director, Ingmar Bergman. It is not-able
for beautiful photography and composition, unusually effective
use of the flashback technique, and remarkably evocative dream se-quences.
winner of the Grand Prize, Berlin Film Festival, (Running
time: 90 minutes)
THE ENTIRE COLLEGE COMMUNITY IS CORDIALLY INVFTED
TO ATTEND ALL SHOWINGS.
- Please note carefully the time and place of each showing. Each
film will be shown twice. (Note especially the early starting time for
the first showing of "Magnificent Seven.")
- All foreign films are in original language with complete English
sub-titles.
-There is no admission charge.
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ment.
Ron Bucelli organized his
opening address into four main
points: They were: 1. We must
stop Communism, 2. South Viet
Nam asked for our aid, 3. We
are honor bound as per the SEATO
alliance treaty to aid any mem-ber
country in time of need, and
4, We must defeat this particular
war of National Subversion, often
referred to as the war of National
Liberation. Mr. Bucelli's argu-ments
were reinforced via visual
aids in the form of charts and
maps.
In the rebuttal s, Shelly Bortnick
pointed out that the U.S. promised
to refrain from the threat or use
of force, and furthermore, Dean
Rusk supponed Dulles' place-ment
of Diem. Ron returned this
first charge by saying that the
United States never signe4 the
Geneva Accord and therefore
couldn't violate an agreement it
never signed,
A question and answer period
followed with questions being al-ternated
from pro to con. In the
closing remarks made by each
team, Robert Rohde thanked the
students for attending and ex-pressed
the hope that more de-bates
would materialize In the
future.
The morning session was de-voted
to a panel of distinguished
personalities, using the topic of
"Preparing the Police Establish-ment
for the Problems Attendant
to the Civil Rights Movement"
as the theme of the discussions.
The panel consisted of Stanley
R. Schrotel, Chief of Police,
Cincinatl, Ohio; Herbert T. Jen-kins,
Chief of Police, Atlanta,
Georgia; Harry Smith, Chairman
of the Suffolk County C.O.R.E.
(in place of Lincoln Lynch of the
Long Island C.O.R.E., who was
ill); and Robert Carter, National
Legal Counsel fortheN.A.A.C.P.
Moderator of the mocning.
sion was Donald E.Clark,Sheriff
of Mulmomah County, Ponland,
Oregon.
Professor Hewitt's address
touched on such problems as the
brutal treatment of police, and
the population increase. He said
that In the U.S., In one year, 80
police were.killed, and one out
of every 10 police was attacked.
Mr. Hewitt characterized the po-lice
officers as the "minority
In blue".
Sheriff Donald E. Clark of
Mulmomah County, Oregon, is
an elected official and has served
as sheriff for three years. He
is a foremost administrator in
law enforcement. Clark's speech
touched on the policemen's re-action
to the public's attitude
toward them. He emphasized that
police feel this minority and
discriminated attitude.
After the moderator's speech
the discussion began. They were
delivered in the form of speeches,
each about 20 minutes long. Rob-ert
Carter of the NJV.A.C.P.
tried to impress upon the audi-ence
that there is a distinction
between lawlessness and crim-inality.
"Negroes are suspicious
of police," Mr. Carter pointed
out. He added that Negroes
have never to his knowledge been
starters of violence. Mr.
Carter's comments drew a num-ber
of questions from the floor
during the questions and answer
period. Also debated were the
issues of civilian review boards,
and the. lack of high-ranking Neg-ro
officials in the police forces.
The luncheon speaker was Dr.
A. Rodelet, Professor, School of
Police Administration, Michigan
State University, East Lansing,
and Direaor of the National Cen-ter
on Police and Community
Relations, His topic was "Im-plications
of Professionalism in
Law Enforcement for Police-
Community Relations",
The afternoon session resumed
at 3 PJS4. with a second panel.
The members were: George D.
Eastman, Chief Police Consul-tant,
Public Administrative Serv-ice,
Chicago, 111; Col. E. Wilson
Purdy, Commissioner, Pennsyl-vania
State Police, Harrisburg,
Pa.; John D. Gregory, Long Is-land
Regional Direaor
N.A.A,C.P,; and Herman Ebling,
Director New YorkareaN.C.C.J.
The moderator for the above
panel was Deputy Commissioner
John P. Finnerty, Suffolk County
Police Department, SuffolkCoun-ty,
L.I„ N.Y. The theme was
"The Civil Rights Law: Its Scope
and Limitations", and "Develop-ing
Outlines for Police Praaic-es"
Ice Skating
At SUATC
by James Y/hite
In the midst of all the long
range construction presently tak-ing
place on the campus, there
Is one project underway that will
bear fruit in the near future.
Until this year, the Inter-JDorm-itory
Council has supervised the
annual construaion of an ice
skating rink for students on
campus. This year, though, the
Faculty-Student Association, at a
cost of approximately fifty thou-sand
dollars, is sponsoring the
building of an artificially cooled
ice-skating rink, behind Allard
Field House, that, when finished,
will offer ice skating for student
entrance and exit to the ice
surfa^.
Plastic refrigeration colls,
sandwiched between layers of
gravel on the bottom and 4 Inches
of screened sand on top, will
connea to two 25-ton compres-sors,
that will artificially freeze
the ice. In layman's terms, this,
in effea. Is a giant over-sized
refrigerator, having the capabil-ity
of freezing about fifty toas
of water.
At the present time, the super-vision
of the ice skating rink,
after its completion, is still un-decided,
but the maintenance of
the freezing units will be handled
by the Power House authorities.
By the next winter season, the
ice skating rink, providing suf-ficient
funds are available, will
have a concrete base, and will be
open for skating from approxi-mately
the first of November to
the first of April.
Appoimo
Mr. Dennis Acer Is now the
new editor of ALUMNUS, the
alumni newspaper, and Mr. A1
Wltham has been named assist-ant
treasurer of the Faculty Stu-dent
Association. Mr, Acer re-places
Mr. Richard Warner, and
Mr. Wltham succeeds Mr. Acer.