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COLl£GE O f , TECHNOLOa
FARMINGDALE, NY
STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N. Y.
Volume XXXVI No. 8 MARCH 22, 1966
Rambler Wins First Place!
Broadway is
Coming
To SUATC
Broadway will come to Far-mingdale
on April 26th when
the College Union Board presents
Paul Shyre's "Pictures in the
Hallway", a staged reading based
upon the life of the great Irish
playwright, Sean O'Casey, The
production here, to be held in
the Roosevelt Little Theatre, at
8 P ^ . has been made possible
with the siQ)port of the New
York State Council on the Arts.
The cast of six will be headed
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The RAMBLER has just won first place in the
Columbia Scholastic P r e s s Association's nationwide
competition in the junior college, photo-offset
category. This marks a milestone in journalism
history at Farmingdalel This is also the fourth
consecutive year for the RAMBLER as a CSPA
winner.
The RAMBLER, now in its 36th
year of publication (formerly the
Ag-Gazette), got the momentous
news six days after the results
for the rest of the nation were
posted. Through error at Colum-bia
University, the RAMBLER
was not judged with the rest of
the entries. Inquiries by the
RAMBLER editors, surprised to
see the RAMBLER's name
not listed as a winner, revealed
this oversight. Anxiously the staff
waited for news of the results of
the special judging held, until
3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 17),
a 'phone call to Columbia brought
us the joyous tidings.
In 1963 the RAMBLER scored
2nd place, in 1964 we won third
place, in 1965 it was second
place again, and this year first
award. Judgings are self-com-petitive,
and each newspaper is
grouped with its peers. (Farming-
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Editor Trent inAlbany,
Pleads O.H.Ca8e To State U
Assemblyman Joins Fight
In a last ditch effort to prevent further destruction of the horticulture de-partment's
famous plant collection, James Trent, acting editor-in-chief of
the RAMBLER, journeyed to Albany on Monday March 7 to represent his
fellow students in the Ornamental Horticulture department and plead their
case to Dr. Gould, president of the State University of New York. Trent de-livered
a petition signed by students from all curriculums requesting that
future construction not be undertakenuntil the O.K. department has been asked
what should be done with the plants standing in the way of new construction.
Following is the statement of
grievance delivered by James
Trent and currently being in-vestigated
by Dr. Gould:
is a sad state of affairs
when it becomes necessary for
students to take time from their
studies and personal business
to fight to keep their department
from being run off campus by
bulldozers and other landscs^
ravaging equipment whose pres-ence
has been authorized by the
very institution professing to be
operating for the benefit of all.
"That institution, the State
University of New York, has
seen fit to provide buildings and
land for the technology depart-ments
at the expense of the
agriculture and ornamental hor-ticulture
curriculums at Far-mingdale.
These two curricu-lums,
Ag, and Hort. as they are
known, are the founder-curricu-lums
at Farmingdale. They are
among the finest of their kind
in the country. Now their very
existence, let alone the quality
of their instruction, is threatened
by the steady encroachment of
this "building plague."
"We do not propose that all
construction cease; all we ask
i s that the priceless plant col-lections
for which Farmingdale
i s nationally famous be pre-served.
Our nursery has been
paved under; our herbaceous test
garden, once a breathless sight
in the spring, is now Parking Lot
7; a "divided highway" slashed
through three rows of our New
Arboretum; and our specimen
plants located all over the campus
have been ruthlessly shoveled
under Uke common weeds to
make way for architecturally-tasteless
buildings and Juogle-like
landscaping.
Editor James A. Trent leaves executive offices of Dr. Samuel
B, Could, President of SUNY, Eugene Blaettler, RAMBLER
photographer accompanied Mr, Trent on the trip.
"Proposed construction
threatens all else that remains.
Agriculture students tell me that
160 acres of their land have been
confiscated. Furthermore, spec-imen
plants on the South Lawns
will be destroyed when the new
dormitories and infirmary are
constructed in the next few years.
"What we ask of the State
University is simple: Before any
more construction is undertaken,
the Department of Ornamental
Horticulture should be notified
as to where buildings are going
to be placed and what plants
Betty J. Rising, Editor-in-Chief, and James A. Trent, Assist-ant
Editor discuss RAMBLER layout with Mr, Rollin C.
Steinmetz, Acting Publications Director, Millersville (Penna)
State College. Place: The Casa Italiana Building at Colum-bia
U.
The Carradines Pleased
With Their Audience;
Promise Return in May
by James A. Trent
**They were a wonderful audience," exclaimed
Mrs. Jaclyn Lord Carradine, wife of Richard
Carradine, both performers at the March 10th
morning and evening assemblies. The actors were
delighted with the response they received from
the students at the assemblies, and the students
were equally thrilled by the brilliant performances
of this well-known stage couple.
IXu-ing the morning assembly. It was at the luncheon held in
two skits were presented: Laura
and Jim from "The Glass Mena-gerie,"
by Tennessee Williams
and Queen Elizabeth and Lord Es-sex
from the play by Maxwell
Anderson. In the evening, be-cause
of a freer schedule, they
enacted scenes from the "Bar-retts
of Wimpole Street," Queen
Elizabeth and Lord Essex, Joan
of Arc and Charles, from Shaw's
play, and a couple known as
"He and She." A total of about
300 students and faculty attended
the two performances.
Jaclyn and Richard Carradine
are very friendly and person-able
people. In a matter of min-utes,
all who meet them are
endeared to their affable charm.
their honor that the Carradines
(full name Dye-Carradine) ex-pressed
delight with the students'
spell-bound attention showed
right to the end. They had ex-pected
that at about 10 minutes
to twelve, the students would
have bolt^ out the doors, but
instead they remained motionless
and silent throughout the per-formance.
They are currently oo tour and
had to leave for Erie, Penn-sylvania
immediately after the
Thursday evening performances.
They promised to return to Farm-ingdale
in May, when they are
finished with their tour, to see
our school's drama club produc-tion
of "The FlowerDrumSong."
stand in the way. Agreement
should b^ reached between the
state planners and the horticul-ture
department as to which
plants are expendable, and which
plants should be relocated or
replacement provided for.
"We no longer conduct all
of our woody plant identifcation
classes on campus—there's little
left to identify. Now we Journey
the length and breadth of L(mg
Island and New York City to
private nurseries and public
arboretums (on the day Pve taken
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THE CARRADINES - Richard and Jaclyn in a comedy skit,
"He and She".