The_Rambler_1966-10-21

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L I . , N.Y.
Volume III No. 4 October 21, 1966
Student Senate Urges frosfc to Run, Vote T^^^zkttl rl T 1 1 Vfp'rf^l" ^
B Student Senate has an- appears to The care,'* There is of -M. i J L J L H/ - L f w l ^
nounced that the Fall Semester
Election Assembly will be held
Thursday, October 27th at 11:00
AJyl. in Allard Field House. All
freshmen should be there, as at-tendance
will be required by the
Senate. At this Assembly can-didates
for the ten Class of June
»68 Senate positions wifrdeliver
their campaign speeches. Bal-loting
will follow.
Ralph Richter, Student Senate
President, stated last week that
"The number of candidates for
freshman Senate seats is dis-turbingly
low."
At this time last year, twenty-one
candidates had submitted
their names. Richter added that,
"The largest class in our
College's history certainly de-serves
a voice in their student
government. Right now, no one
course, still time to run for the
Senate. Interested freshmen are
urged to submit their names to
any Senator or the Student Ac-tivities
Office, Roosevelt 116,
Candidates are especially urged
to attend the Senate meeting at
6:00 Monday evening, Oc-tober
24th, in Roosevelt 109.
The ten Senators from each
class, besides representing their
constituents in the Senate, also
serve as a Class Committee de-voted
to fund-raising and de-veloping
class spirit.
The election assembly has
proven highly successful over the
past few years. Elections using
campus polling stations draw be-tween
12% - 50% of the elector-ate.
The last two election as-semblies
draw up to 80% of eli-gible
voters.
John Zimmerman
The first assembly of this new
fall semester, we were fortunate
enough to have Mr, John Zim-merman
with us to talk about
aeronautics. The bulk of his talk
concerned Russia's progress as
contrasted to our own.
Russia has had the first man,
woman, and satellite in space
beginning in 1934-1935 with
rocket development backed with
government funds. The United
States followed eight years later
under direction of the army,
with some government funds also.
However, it wasn't until 1947
that the United States launched
their first satellite.
In Russia the men and women
go through similar training, and
it has been found that women
are better performers of cer-tain
functions than men.
The aims of both the United
States and Russia have been found
to be remarkably similar; these
being 1) political and military
gains, 2) scientific and technolo-gical
gains, 3) commercial gains.
As of June 30,1966, these facts
have been published contrasting
Russia's progress to that of the
United States'. There have been
11 UJS, space crafts launched
to only 8 Russian space crafts.
The United States has orbited
522 times around the earth to only
293 orbiting Russian circles.
There have been 18 men in orbit
for the United States and only
11 men for Russia. .The United
States has had 1,520 hours in
space while Russia has had only
507 hours.
Each time the United States
and Russia launch a flight, feed-backs
are given back when the
flight is over. Naturally, the
President Laffin is greeted by President Johnson in Salisbury Park on Oct. 12, 1966.
Doctor Laffin is a delegate for the State Constitutional Convention and was among
the other delegates from the Long Island area who were at the park to greet the Presi-dent.
Carleton Beals to Speak President's
United States always gives Rus-sia
more information than they
give us, but by translating their
pamphlets we do learn new 1-
deas. As of now, both the United
States and Russia are attempting
to combat the problems of
weightlessness in space, and
dizziness.
According to Mr. Zimmerman,
"By 1967 the space program
should be entirely our ball
game," The si^)port for this
statement lies in the fact that
there has been no Indication of
Russia progressing In the fields
of world-wide tracking, or of en-try
and removal entry technology.
With the United States'next lunar
program, Apollo, we will be the
first to try these principles out,
which will aid in our lunar ven-tures.
On Thursday, November 3rd,
at 11:00 A.M. in the Roosvelt
Little Theatre, the College Union
Board will present its second
attraction in the "Critcal Issues
of the Year" series. Mr. Carle-ton
Beals, expert on Latin Ameri-can
affairs, will attempt to
answer the question: "What has
Happened to U.S. Relations with
Latin America?"
Mr, Beals has traveled in forty
countries, published thirty-six
books, and has written articles
for almost every magazine and
the leading newspapers in our
country. He is also a contribu-tor
to the Encyclopedia Brlt-tanica.
World Encyclopedia, and
Book of Knowledge. He has been
a faculty lecturer at the Univer-sity
of California, the National
University of Mexico, and the
New York School for Social Re-search.
Last year he spoke
at fourteen universities in Latin
America.
Carleton Beals
The two most recent books
written by Mr. Beals will be
published this year. They are:
"Latin America: World In
Revolution" and "Eagles Of
The Andes: The Story Of South
American Independence."
College Unions to Meet
Homecoming to be Held Tomorrow
The annual Alumni Homecom-ing
will be held this year on
October 22, 1966 announced Den-nis
Acer, Alumni Executive Sec-retary.
For the first time, the an-nual
Campus Queen Contest will
be held on Homecoming Day.
The contest, sponsored by the
Student Senate and the Alumni
Association, will select the cam-pus
queen who will reign at Home-coming.
The contestants will lead
the float parade in open convert-ibles,
and the winner will be
announced at halftlme. All clubs
and organizations are eligible to
sponsor contestants in the con-test.
The highlight event of the af-ternoon
will be the annual float
parade to be held at halftlme
of the soccer game between the
Aggies and Orange County Com-munity
College. All clubs are
urged to enter the float parade
contest which will offer prizes
of $50.00, $35.00 and $25.00 for
first, second, and third places.
This year's theme for the float
will be the "BeautlficaUon of
America". Judges will Include
Bea Jones, Newsday Garden Edi-tor;
Otto Langhan, L.I. Press
Garden Editor; and Charles
ValenUne, N.Y. Times.
Farmingdale will play host to
the annual Region 3 conference
of the Association of College
Unions-International on October
28th and 29th in Roosevelt Hall.
Representatives from some 50
member colleges and universi-ties
In Long Island, New York
City, New Jersey, the Phlladel-
*phl area, Delaware, and Puerto
Rico will attend seminars and
workshops to discuss the cul-tural,
social, recreational, and
educational programs provided
by the College Unions, Farming-dale
is the first two-year college
ever to host a regional confer-ence
and the second Junior c(d-lege
In the nation to hold such
a conference on Its campus.
The Association, founded In
1914, is officially represented
on over 650 campuses througtw
out the world. The purpose of the
Association is to provide an op-portunity
for Unions to join in
studying and improving their ser-vices
and to assist in the de-velopment
of. new College Unions.
The College Union on each cam-pus
is regarded as an integral
part of the total education pro-gram
of the institution.
Special events included in this
year's Region 3 conference in-clude
welcoming remarks made
by Dr. Laffin and the keynote
address by Mr. John Orcutt, As-sistant
to the President at
Duchess Community College
(first two-year college in the
country to hold an ACU-1 region-al
conference), at the 1:00 P.M.
opening meetl^ on October 28th.
Also on the conference program
are sessions devoted to "The
Union as an Organisation" and
Luncheon
Knapp Hall Lounge was the
scene of the festivities as the
Fifth Annual President's Lunch-eon
was held on September 29.
Gathered here were members
of the Administration, Faculty
Advisers, student recipients of
the Aggie Spirit Awards, and
their guests.
The Aggie Spirit Award Is pre-sented
to members of the grad-uating
class who have made out-standing
contributions to student
organizations and to the entire
college.
Dean Wlllenbrock acted as-
Master of Ceremonies for this
event and the awards were pre-sented
by the President, Dr.
Charles W. Laffin, Jr., assisted
by Dean WUliam J. RieUy.
This year's recipients were:
Barbara Diamond, Drama Club;
Joseph Dolce, Administrative
Management Society; Cecelia Fl-gueras.
Student Nurses Associa-tion;
George Foley and James
Fox, Student Senate; Pauline
Marasco, Student Nurses As-sociation;
Jean Spencer, Psl
Theta Epsilon; and Ruth Stem-field,
Psi Dieta Epsilon.
"The Union as a Program", An.
unusual session will be "A Mar-ketplace
for Meas", consisting
of small discussion groups for
the purpose of e z c h a n i ^ Ideas
and discussing mutual concerns.
The conference banquet wlU be
held at 12:30 P.M. on October
29th and the ccmference will ad-journ
at 4:00 P.M. of that day
following a business meetli«.
Farmlngdale's Martin Wbuk
(AAD 4) Is the conference steer-ing
committee chairman and Mr,
McCUntock wlU senre as host
and director for the conference.
Mr. John Wong of Rutgers Uni-versity,
New Brunswick, Is the
Regional Representative.