The_Rambler_1966-04-22

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COLLEGE OF
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STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N^Y.
Volume XXXVI No. 9 APRIL 21, 1966
Open House
Preparation
To Begin
It's that time again for sprucing
up the campus, building exhibits,
painting charts, and issuing press
releases.
On May 6th and 7th, Farming-dale
will host its 47th Annual
Open House. All curriculum swill
display the skills and activities
of its students during this gala
affair.
We had 19,000 visitors swarm-ing
about our campus last year,
and prospects are for an even
larger turnout this year. A pe -
rennial favorite for young and old
alike are the cows, chickens, and
pigs. The gardens will be open
to the public, and the technologi-cal
division will go all out with
elaborate demonstrations and
technical exhibits.
Sean O^Casey
Play^ Here
April 26
A colorful slice of the life
•of the Irish author-wit-play-
.,,"wr<gb.t, Sean O'Casey, will be
presented at the Roosevelt Hall
Little Theatre Tuesday night,
April 26th, It will come in the
form of the six-character play,
"Pictures In The Hallway," Cur-tain
is at 8:00 P.M.
"Pictures In The Hallway,"
which was fashioned into a stage
work by Paul Shyre, who adapted
it from the six volume autobio-graphy
written by O'Casey,
covers that portion of the Irish
rebel's life which ranges from
adolescence to young manhood.
In the play, which is performed
by the actors in the form of a
highly stylized reading, O'Casey
appears against the background
of the Irish rebellion and the
poverty which ruled his young
life, "in" it he has his first
brush with the writings of Shakes-peare,
as well as his first en-counter
with a member of the op-posite
sex.
The "Staged Reading" style of
a presentation is unique to the
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Hort Dep't
Exhib'its at L I.
Gorden Show
The Department of Ornamen-tal
Horticulture was represented
at the Long Island Nurserymen's
Garden Show (March 26-April 3,
1966) at Roosevelt Raceway,
Westbury, L, I,, with two sepa-rate
exhibits.
One display by the seniors In
floriculture consisted of about
40 floral arrangements, A foun-tain
and exotic foliage added to
the interest of the exhibit.
The seniors in landscape man-agement
designed five models
of homes and gardens in 1/4-
inch scale representing three
geographical regions of Long Is-land,
Ideal planting plans for
the homes and their grounds ac-companied
the models at the
exhibit.
Victor Riesel To Address Assembly
Farmingdale Delegation
Attends C.W. Post
Narcotics Worl(shop
The Nassau County Task Force on Narcotics held
a Narcotics Workshop at C, W. Post College, Long
Island University, Brookville, on March 19, 1966.
Educational leaders, civic leaders, police offi-cials,
students, and interested individuals were
invited to attend the all-day session.
Mr. B. D. Willenbrock, Dean of Students; Mr.
Andrew P. Abbinanti, Dean of Residence Halls;
James N. Fox, vice-president of the Student Senate;
and James A. Trent, acting editor-in-chief of the
RAMBLER represented Farmingdale College at the
conferences.
The purpose of the convention
was to develop a set of short-and
long-range plans in order
to launch a coordinated attack on
narcotics and drug addiction in
Nassau and Suffolk Counties,
Michael N, Petlto is chairman
of the Nassau County Task Forces
on Narcotics, The meeting was
addressed by H, Lee Dennison,
Suffolk County Executive; and Eu-gene
H.Nickerson.NassauCounty
Executive, The keynote address
on, "An Evaluation of the Nar-cotics
Problem," was delivered
by George H, Gaffney, Deputy
Commissioner of N a r c o t i cs
Treasury Department, Bureau of
Narcotics, Washington.
H i g h l i g h t s of the opening
speeches include the following
points:. Drug addiction is one
On Thursday, April 21st, at 11:00 A,M., and
again at 8:00 P,M„ the Distinguished Speakers
and Artists Series will present a lecture by the
famous labor columnist, Victor Riesel. His sub-ject
will be "Inside Labor: The Rackets and the
Racketeers,"
Tickets are available for both the morning and
evening performances in Roosevelt 116, and other
campus locations. Tickets are free.
Once or twice in a genera-tion
a columnist catches the pub-lic
imagination because his cour-age
has put him on top of a
big story at the big moment.
Victor Riesel is such a col-umnist.
Covering his far-flung b e a t -
labor—which in his lifetime has
grown to giant size and impor-tance,
Riesel exposed the
racketeers and Communists who
were milking legitimate unions,
businessmen, the public and the
government itself. He named
names and his facts were borne
out. Frequently threatened, he
continued to report the news of his
sprawling, dramatic beat.
Then his enemies endorsed
the truth and effectiveness of
his exposes. On April 5, 1956,
a hoodlum stepped up to the cru-sading
columnist and flung acid
into his eyes. But they didn't
silence him, or ease his punch.
Riesel's battle against the under-world—
in and but of labor-continues,
His accurate "ahead
-of-the-field" coverage of im-portant
labor, political and in-dustrial
developments goes on.
Speeding across continents,
Riesel has followed his beat a-round
the world. He has been
behind the Bamboo and Iron Cur-tains,
He has covered Zanzibar,
Singapore, Cuba, all of Latin
America, Hong Kong, the Malay
Peninsula, Thailand, India, Pak-istan,
Turkey, the Middle East,
Italy, France, Austria, Switz-erland,
Germany, Spain, Port-,
ugal, Britain and burgeoning A-frica,
where the "new" nations
of the world are beginning to ex-ert
tremendous influence on our
lives.
In the course of covering his
beat, Victor Riesel has inter-viewed
such world leaders as
President Lyndcm Johnson, John
Kennedy, Dwlght D. Eisenhower,
Franklin E)elano Roosevelt,
Harry Truman and Herbert Ho-over;
Sir Winst(»i Churchill, ex-
Prime Minister Earl Clement
Atlee, Harold Macmillan, Hugh
Gaitskell, Prime Minister Harold
Wilson; President Charles de
Gaulle of France, Chan-cellor
Konrad Adenauer of Ger-many,
Ludwig Erhard of Ger-many,
Prime Minister Kamp-mann
of Denmark, former Prime
Minister Fanfani of Italy, Pres-ident
Guiseppe Sangat, and of
course, labor leaders across the
world.
On a recent 2 month trip
through the interior of South A-merica,
he interviewed many
leaders, including President Be-tancourt
of Venezuela, President
Alessandri of Chile and Pres-ident
Chiari of Panama. During
a later trip through Africa he
saw virtually all the heads of
state there, including Halle Se-lassie.
He has covered inter-national
communist leaders, such
as Nlkita Khruschev and Fidel
Castro.
Appropriately, Victor Riesel's
"christening" as a reporter was
on March 6, 1930, atop a news-reel
truck in New York City's
turbulent Union Square, as he
watched 60,000 jobless, led by
Communists, riot through the
street until the police went into
aaion.
Riesel was bom on March 26,
1916, on New York's lower East
Side, where crime, sordid liv-ing
and sweatshops were com-monplace.
He graduated from
high school at 15 and went dl-realy
to work. Studying nights,
he managed to earn a degree
at City College of New York.
He went to work for a small
news wire service and later wrote
for a string of publications, in-cluding
British, Canadian, Aus-tralian
and New Zealand news-papers.
In 1943 he began h}s
syndicated labor column, now
distributed by the Hall Syndicate
to hundreds of newspapers.
He has his own r e ^ a r radio
news commentary and is a mem-ber
of the staff of 3 Star Ex-tra,
which has scores of out-lets
over the NBC network. He
has received eight major journ-alistic
awards including tele-vision's
Front Page prize.
of the oldest social problems.
Drug addiaion is a menace which
must not be allowed to expand
beyond the present limits - to
allow an exj^nsion would prove
dlsasterous. The withdrawn ad-dict
succumbs again and again.
Addicts are prisoners of their
bodies. We must discover the
roots of affliction before cures'
can begin. We point at parents
as the cause; parental guidance
is important—true but socio-economic
faaors have caused a
need for parents to leave home
to work second jobs. Spiritual
and social needs of people must
not be overlooked in the midst
of technological advancements.
Mr. Gaffney noted that 90%
of all narcotics problems today
are concentrated in five cities
—New York, Chicago, Los An-geles,
Washington, and Detroit.
Formerly the problem was scat-tered
throughout the country.
Gaffney said that in 1914, in a
population of 99 million, there
were 269,000 users in the U.S.
Today he states there are only
57,000 bona fide addicts. He
believes, therefore, that much
headway has been made in re-ducing
drug addiaion.
Gaffney went on to say that
it is the addict who breeds ad-dias,
not the people on street
comers selling to others. He
believes the role of the pusher
has been over-emphasized. Nar-cotics
users do not turn to crime
but rather the converse is true:
a minimum of 75% of users have
prior records for n w ^ r c o t l cs
offenses.
There were a number of work-shops
conducted simultaneously
after the main addresses were
over. The Farmingdale dele-gation
then split up to attend the
conferences its members were
most interested in. Some main
points established at some of
these discussions are noted here.
ProbUms and Approich
Morktbop
Experimentation And Use
Addiction is a symptom of so-cial
maladjustment. Families are
not sure of their role and re-lationship,
causing ccmfuslra in
all areas of home life; and this
affeas children.
Questions raised but which went,
uiumswered Include, what are tto